AAPS Statement:
Mask Mandates Do Not Prevent Spread of Respiratory Viruses, They Cause
Harm, and Violate the Right to Informed Consent
The AAPS statement of patients’ freedoms
provides that patients have the right to be informed about the risks
and benefits of any medical intervention, and have the right to refuse
medical treatment.
The use of masks and other face coverings, as a public health measure
or otherwise, are a type of medical intervention to which the above
informed consent rights apply.
Government recommendations and mandates regarding face coverings have
been contradictory, provided to the public as authoritative without
evidence, are in conflict with the available data, and neglect to mention any potential harm from use of coverings or masks.
Concerning efficacy, in addition to the indisputable failure of mask mandates to prevent outbreaks of COVID, the Cochrane systematic review
of available empirical evidence concluded that studies “did not show a
clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of
medical/surgical masks,” and “[t]here were no clear differences between
the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in
healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral
infection.”
Concerning the potential for harm, there are at least 60 studies and reports
that illuminate downsides of masking and face-coverings in different
scenarios and among varied patient groups. Examples of harm found in the
peer-reviewed literature, include:
Prolonged use of mask is not a neutral event and in fact can cause harm.
“Prolonged use of N95 and surgical masks by healthcare professionals
during COVID-19 has caused adverse effects such as headaches, rash,
acne, skin breakdown, and impaired cognition in the majority of those
surveyed.”
Findings indicate that wearing
the N95 mask for 14 hours significantly affected the physiological,
biochemical, and perception parameters in a negative fashion.
The possibility that masks hinder the acquisition of speech and language
in children exists. “Overall, the research to date demonstrates that
the visible articulations that babies normally see when others are
talking play a key role in their acquisition of communication skills.
Research also shows that babies who lip-read more have better language skills when they’re older. If so, this suggests that masks probably hinder babies’ acquisition of speech and language.”
Experimental data has shown
“carbon dioxide content in inhaled air rises on average to 13,000 to
13,750 ppm no matter whether children wear a surgical or an FFP2 mask.
This is far beyond the level of 2,000 ppm considered the limit
of acceptability and beyond the 1,000 ppm that are normal for air in
closed rooms. This estimate is rather on the low side, as we only
measured this after a short time without physical exertion.”
Society requires facial recognition as a most basic component of
interaction and communication. Studies in individuals with age-related
macular degeneration (AMD) have shown that
“Poor face perception in AMD is an important domain contributing to
impaired social interactions and quality of life”. Voluntary masking
with no gain contributes to societal alienation.
Therefore, be it stated:
As mask mandates are contrary to the fundamental medical principle of
informed consent, all masking mandates currently in place must be
rescinded, and no future mandates should be imposed.
Furthermore, since mask mandates for viral illnesses provide no clear
benefits, while creating potential for harm, individuals should be
empowered to choose to not observe such mandates that are either
currently in existence or that may be imposed in the future.
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AAPS News August 2023 – Transitioning America
Volume 79, no. 8 August 2023
An attempt to transition America—to bring about Barack Obama’s
promised “fundamental transformation”—is well underway. The rainbow
“Pride” flag is replacing the Stars and Stripes in places like
schoolrooms, and even the cross in some churches. As our identity is
rooted in the past, change agents are tearing down monuments and banning
books to alter our memory of our past. Just as “transgender” people are
attempting to legally alter their birth certificates, some would like
to do away with our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution, or at least malign them and make them inoperative.
The destruction may be called “progressive,” but perhaps there really
is nothing new under the sun, and we are seeing a radical regression
into an ancient, pagan culture.
The Pride flag was designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a drag queen,
who said that Harvey Milk, one of the first openly homosexual elected
officials, urged him to create a symbol. Baker saw the rainbow as a
natural flag from the sky (https://tinyurl.com/2vu3caf4). Each color symbolizes something.
Jonathan Cahn, in his book The Return of the Gods, suggests a
deeper, unintended meaning, from a Mesopotamian myth (c. 1800 B.C.):
the goddess Inanna (Ishtar, Astarte, Ashtoreth) “stretched herself like a
rainbow across the sky and reached thereby as far as the earth” (https://tinyurl.com/4fkk4hr8). In another myth, she was given the power to transform herself into a rainbow.
Cahn’s thesis, from Matthew 12, is that if you cast out a demon and
leave the house empty, seven more demons will come to occupy it. Western
civilization (Christendom) had cast out human sacrifice and other
features common to many ancient civilizations, but what is happening now
as God is being banned from the public square? The spiritual vacuum is
being filled.
LGBTQ++ ideologies and practices are ancient. Of Ishtar, the
Transformer, it was said, “I am a woman. I am a man.” Her gala priests
were transvestites. An ancient inscription reads: “May Ishtar impress
feminine parts into his male parts.” The words and symbol “stone wall”
inscribed on clay tablets were used in connection with the goddess of
sexuality, of taverns, of prostitutes, of transsexuality. Thousands of
years later, the celebrated riot that launched the gay pride movement
took place at the Stonewall Inn. The annual commemorations with festal
parades resemble descriptions of processions through ancient Babylon, in
month-long celebrations beginning in the month of June, then and now.
Cahn also elaborates on the other two members of the “dark trinity”:
Baal (the Possessor) and Moloch (the Destroyer). Both were worshipped
with child sacrifice—to serve the good of the whole, very often to bring
good weather. The ancient Israelites were commanded to destroy their
temples, but often did not.
Today, we are seeing pagan or Satanic symbols and rituals, but in the
mainstream more secularism and veneration of “Science.” Behind either
façade, the transitioning America now accepts what it once rejected; now
sees as good what was once called immoral or evil; now venerates as
sacred what it once saw as shocking and abhorrent. The sign of the
rainbow is everywhere: a sign of a surgical conversion of the spirit,
Cahn writes.
The blockbuster movie Barbie has a radical feminist message,
Cahn states, aimed at indoctrinating children. Men are portrayed as
useless, inferior, evil, or dangerous. The story of Barbie and Ken has
parallels to that of Ishtar and her lover Tammuz, and one of the Barbies
is transsexual. The beginning of the film looks strikingly like the
scene with the apes at the start of 2001: a Space Odyssey. One little girl, who is playing with a baby doll, smashes the doll’s head (https://tinyurl.com/mv9syj4z).
Transitioning the World?
When Barack Obama became President, he tried to force Africa to
accept same-sex marriage, said an African leader, and when Africa
refused, he sanctioned them. Biden is doing the same thing. If they
don’t agree, “he would sanction them. Starve them.” Why does “men
knocking up men mean so much to America that you would use your power to
starve a baby, starve a woman, because a country wants to uphold God’s
law?” (https://tinyurl.com/mp64x973).
The World Bank is denying loans to Uganda in response to a new
anti-sodomy law. Ugandan lawmakers have also expressed growing concerns
over the recruitment of children into the LGBT lifestyle, as by
offering minors cash payments to participate in homosexual, X-rated
films (https://tinyurl.com/59s8tttp).
It’s about the Culture!
Politicians want to avoid the culture war—“It’s about the economy,
stupid!” Let’s just work on tax cuts, they say. However, as Andrew
Breitbart observed, “Politics is downstream from culture.” The culture
war is about the economy also, which requires a strong, immutable moral foundation.
John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any
other.” Moral virtues include charity, justice, courage, temperance,
reverence, prudence, and honesty.
Augusto del Noce (1910-1989), who anticipated the eventuality of
same-sex marriage when it was barely whispered by the avant-garde, saw
the sexual revolution as the face of a new, negative “totalitarianism of
disintegration” aimed at the perpetual destruction of antecedent order (https://tinyurl.com/ymsc4n58).
Sex Reassignment: a Growth Economy
The sex-reassignment surgery market was worth more than $623 million
in 2022, and is expected to reach a compound annual growth rate of 11.5%
from 2023–2032. Nearly 9,000 transgender surgeries are performed yearly
in the U.S. (tinyurl.com/ypeej9ea).
A Fatal Utopia
While most people in the 1970s were worried about resources running
out, the Universe 25 experiment sought to answer a different question:
what happens to society if all our appetites are catered for, and all
our needs are met? Researcher John B. Calhoun created an ideal
environment for mice: plenty of food and nesting material, ideal
temperature, predator-free, disease-free. The result was disaster. With
no needed social roles to fill, behavior deteriorated. There was extreme
aggressiveness, even cannibalism, or complete social withdrawal.
Mothers killed their babies; infant mortality got as high as 90%.
Eventually, the entire colony went extinct
(https://tinyurl.com/37385tbf). “We are currently witnessing direct
parallels in today’s society…weak, feminized men with little to no
skills and no protection instincts, and overly agitated and aggressive
females with no maternal instincts,” writes Ernie Centofanti
(tinyurl.com/23mu4v7b).
COVID Vaccine Propaganda Machine
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request by Maggie Thorp, J.D., revealed that the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is one of about 275
organizations listed by the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS)
as members of the COVID-19 Community Corps. These are “trusted
messengers” used to promote COVID-19 vaccines. ACOG received $11 million
in grants under a “Cooperative Agreement,” and suddenly changed its
position on vaccinating pregnant women from “freedom to choose” to a
strong endorsement—even though pregnant women were excluded from
clinical trials. If the vaccine was safe enough for unborn babies, this
should be a powerful argument for reaching the “vaccine hesitant” (tinyurl.com/24ez824h).
Impact of Dobbs
In the 6 months after Dobbs overturned Roe v. Wade,
a national reporting effort called #WeCount found that 32,000 fewer
women had abortions “within the formal U.S. health care system.” It is
thought that more women will be self-managing abortions as by ordering
mifepristone and misoprostol online. If mifepristone becomes unavailable
due to court action, a misoprostol-only regimen might be used.
“Obstacles to Care Mount,” reports the AMA (JAMA 7/11/23).
“Don’t you understand anything? Isn’t it absolutely essential to
keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right both on their toes and each
terrified of the other? That’s how we get things done. Any opposition to
the NICE is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a
Right racket in the Left papers. If it’s properly done, you get each
side outbidding the other in support of us–to refute the
enemy slander. Of course we’re non-political. The real power always
is.” —C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
It’s Not Just about Pronouns
“In an information war…, language is weaponized, and perversion of
pronoun usage in the English language has a particularly destructive
political purpose,” writes Linda Goudsmit in her book Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier–Reality Is.
Instead of singular pronouns, young children are
intentionally being taught to use third person plural pronouns they,
them, theirs, so that they identify themselves in terms of the
non-gendered collective. It is linguistic demolition of the individual.
“The switch to third-person plural gender-neutral language is a
weapon of mass psychological destruction, far more lethal than bullets
or bombs, which begins in early childhood.”
This is part of the globalist agenda to destroy the U.S. and merge it
into its own boundaryless planetary Unistate. Globalism’s tactical
strategy is to collapse our nation’s Judeo-Christian foundation, and
destroy the family structure that preserves and protects it. The attack
on children targets the facts of their most central identity, their
sexual identity. This is simultaneously an attack on a child’s identity,
and on the child’s ability to test reality.
The war on children “is a long-term, well-planned, well-funded,
well-executed mass casualty campaign. The attack on a child’s sexual
identity is a catastrophic assault on humanity itself.”
The real purpose of “gender-neutral” language is not to make people
feel respected and included, but to get them to accept the role of serfs
in the new feudalism (tinyurl.com/bdcx7tcb).
The incremental strategic objective is for globalist values to be
accepted as normative, then become social policy, and then become the
law of the land (ibid.). It seems to be working. Almost half of
millennials favor jail time for “misgendering” someone (https://tinyurl.com/4pbf2dd3).
The ‘Great Reset’ Towers in Babel
Flavius Josephus wrote in 93 A.D. that due to the tyrannical
influence of Noah’s great-grandson Nimrod, multitudes had come to doubt
God’s promise in His rainbow. Nimrod used exaggerated fears of a
catastrophic flood to harness his power and to build a tower “whose top
may reach to heaven.” Will Alexander writes that “the same rebel spirit
that inspired the tower in the ancient city of Babel (eventually
Babylon), thrives today.” Elite revolutionaries are working feverishly
to avert a flood of climate catastrophes. People with common sense see
them using a common woke language to create mass confusion, modern
towers of Babel: confusion over gender, borders, energy, climate, race,
history, the constitution, the legitimacy of the Judeo-Christian
ethic—and the once-settled meaning of things, such as the rainbow. Will
it take divine intervention to break up the cabal of false prophets
acting like gods (tinyurl.com/4jnrfvdr)?
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Doctors Sue California over Implicit Bias Training
AAPS past president Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D., ophthalmologist
Azadeh Khatibi, M.D., and the nonprofit Do No Harm filed suit asking the
U.S. District Court in the Central District of California to
permanently enjoin the medical board from implementing legislation that
requires inclusion of “implicit bias” training in continuing medical
education courses (https://tinyurl.com/5hfkre7m).
Dr. Singleton, who is black, doesn’t believe implicit bias training
will enlighten any physicians who harbor biases to change their ways.
Moreover, she added, it will waste valuable teaching time and will be
divisive. She does not plan to include it in CME courses she teaches, as
it is not relevant to the topics, such as choice of muscle relaxants in
anesthesia. Plaintiffs argue that the law violates their First
Amendment right to free speech. It is not known how many other states
mandate implicit bias training in CME as a condition of relicensure,
but Michigan also has a requirement and several healthcare institutions
have started requiring such training as a condition of employment. The
Federation of State Medical Boards has also begun to tackle the issue
with a task force.
Some Colleges Still Mandate COVID Vaccine
According to Children’s Health Defense, nearly 100 colleges still
require COVID vaccination for students to return to campus. CHD provides
a list of the colleges and information on how to contact their
president (https://tinyurl.com/4jv6tfrc).
Majority Disfavor the First Amendment
A majority of Americans—and an overwhelming number of Democrats—no
longer support First Amendment protections for free speech, according to
a Pew Research Center poll cited by former New York Tines reporter
Alex Berenson. The trend is unmistakable. In 2018,
Democrats supported free speech by a 57-40 margin, almost identical to
the Republican view. They now oppose it by 70-28, a massive shift over
the last five years, while Republican views have not changed. Overall,
55% of Americans responded that the government should restrict “false”
information online, even if doing so blocks people from “publishing or
accessing information.” Those who hoped failure of the mRNA vaccines
would end censorship apparently were sadly mistaken (https://tinyurl.com/y3nw39ps).
Tip of the Month: “DEA investigator” scams continue
to ambush good physicians. A physician’s office gets an unexpected
phone call from someone who claims to be a DEA investigator wanting to
interview the physician. The real DEA does not call physicians this
way. The scammer provides a DEA badge number, but it is fake. He knows
your NPI number (which is publicly accessible), and recites that number
to appear legitimate. He typically calls from a number associated with
scams. He may have a foreign accent while providing a common American
name, such as “Spencer.” Do not provide any information, and certainly
not your DEA number, to any caller like this. Instead, request his name,
phone number, and address, and terminate the call. You can then check
his phone number against internet listings of scams. Just as
importantly, warn your staff.
Motion to Dismiss Berenson v. Biden
In 2021, Alex Berenson filed a lawsuit seeking to hold the government
and Pfizer accountable for pressing Twitter to censor him over his
criticism of the mRNA COVID shots. Defendants include Andy Slavitt, the
former senior advisor to Biden’s COVID response, and Pfizer chairman
Albert Bourla and board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb (former FDA
commissioner). The massive Motion to Dismiss includes the government’s
claim that if Berenson is allowed to sue over censorship, “efforts to
combat misinformation would undoubtedly be hindered, to the detriment of
its foreign policy and national security objectives” (https://tinyurl.com/33v3sytv).
Aaron Siri Testifies to Arizona Legislature
In two hours of testimony before a panel of the Arizona state
legislature on our vaccine oversight system, attorney Aaron Siri cited
extensive evidence from government data, testimony from depositions of
leading vaccine scientists, and evidence from lawsuits brought by his
law firm. He states: “I challenge anyone to listen to the information
presented and not have their confidence shaken regarding vaccine safety
and the U.S. government’s ability to bring any vaccine to market
safely.” A video of the testimony and all the references are available (tinyurl.com/38nkbahk).
Inform, or Go to Prison
By a plea agreement to get felony charges reduced to a misdemeanor
charge of trespassing with no prison time, pro-life former rescuer
Caroline Davis is required to “cooperate fully” whenever the government
asks for information on pro-life activities. She has testified against
five fellow rescuers who face up to 11 years in prison under the Freedom
of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for their role in a pro-life
rescue at the Washington-Surgi Clinic on Oct 22, 2020. The obligation to
inform on any or all pro-life activities has no time limit. Davis, a
24-year-old paralegal, says she is still pro-life but has had “a change
of perspective” and now believes it is not right to disobey the law in
order to end abortion (https://tinyurl.com/mvh5f6an).
At the clinic in question, pro-life advocates
reportedly discovered the remains of roughly 100 aborted children,
including five extremely late-term babies, last year. Some may have been
killed after being born alive (tinyurl.com/35csmszf).
The defense is not allowed to speak the words “infanticide,” “abortion,”
and “innocent lives,” for they have been dubbed “inflammatory
language” (https://tinyurl.com/2s4ec45t).
No Freedom of Access to Information
A tangled web of private entities that mobilize to squelch “vaccine
hesitancy” or non-government-endorsed COVID therapy seems to emanate
from the CDC Foundation. These include the social media influencer Team
Halo, and Shots Heard, “a rapid response digital cavalry,” an initiative
under The Public Good Projects (PGP). The “cavalry” swarms licensing
agencies and hospitals with complaints about dissenters such as Mary
Talley Bowden, M.D., who treat COVID patients, and flags their social
media postings (https://tinyurl.com/4vehz23r).
Correspondence
‘Serious as a Heart Attack’? The FDA previously
admitted that myocarditis is an adverse effect caused by the COVID
vaccine, but told people it was only “mild and transient.” With this new
article published in Circulation (tinyurl.com/2p8v5xzz)
it is clear that myocarditis caused by the vaccine is neither mild nor
transient. Dr. Peter McCullough also points out that the incidence of
myocarditis during the COVID pandemic before the vaccine was developed was the same as the baseline level for myocarditis before COVID occurred (tinyurl.com/yc7eh6zw). This suggests, as he says, that COVID itself is not a cause of myocarditis.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
‘Sex’ No Longer Exists. Blue Cross/Blue Shield
updated my demographic profile, and I discovered that “sex” has now been
replaced with “sex assigned at birth,” and the options include
“unknown.” Our government has issued “guidelines” that require
hospitals, insurance companies, and electronic medical record (EMR)
providers to rewrite demographic fields to conform to transgender dogma.
Transgenderism is organized, led, and supported by professional
activist groups, corporations, and government agencies that work
together to promote its adoption at every level: social, educational,
academic, medical, legal, and financial. I find its rapid acceptance by
medical institutions and physicians to be alarming. It is medical
terrorism. As Dr. James Lindsay states, “The issue is never the issue.
The issue is always the revolution.” Transgenderism is the medical arm
of the revolution to remove all liberty from our lives.
The ‘Standard of Care.’ Though ultimately nothing
more than an indication for further study, the “standard of care” is
used as a weapon of dogma. Since more people are surviving previously
fatal conditions, there are likely increased numbers of individuals who
would be classified as outliers (typically, those that do not fit in 95%
of the idolized Bell Curve). When confronted with an outlier patient,
especially one who has failed the SOC approach, the logical next step is
to consider a therapeutic trial. Unfortunately, many authorities often
impose guidelines as though they were mandates, and may even apply
statistics, which apply only to a population, to an individual. When I
have pointed out the above, I not uncommonly get a response of, “Don’t
you want to be on the cutting edge?” But with a weapon such as a sword,
it is best that one have one’s hands on the handle and even better if
one is not on the opposite end, i.e., the cutting edge.
Roy Blackburn, M.D., Eugene, OR
Huxley More Prescient than Orwell. Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited
that the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert
to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite
appetite for distractions.” In 1984, people were controlled by inflicting pain; in Brave New World by inflicting pleasure.Orwell thought that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.
‘The Time Machine.’ In his novella, H.G. Wells has a
fellow in late Victorian England propel himself forward, where he
finds that humanity has divided into two: the Eloi, a small, soft,
passive, decadent, vegetarian elite among whom one can scarce tell the
boys from the girls, and the Morlocks, a dark, feral, subterranean
underclass. This is supposedly London in the year 802,701 A.D. The only
thing Wells got wrong was the date. If he’d set his time machine to nip
ahead just a hundred or so to the early 21st century, he’d have been
bang on target.
Post-vaccine Troponin Levels Up in 5%. In a
prospective active surveillance study, 40 of 777 (5%) employees of
University Hospital Basel had elevated high-sensitivity cardiac troponin
T on day 3 after an mRNA-1273 first booster vaccination, and associated
myocardial injury was adjudicated in 22 (2.8%). Interestingly, there
was a female preponderance. There were no major adverse cardiac events
confirmed at 30 days. “Potentially, such outcomes were averted by the
safety net provided by early detection and early implementation of
preventive measures for deterioration including avoidance of strenuous
exercise” (tinyurl.com/d8u23a8c).
Myocardial injury was much more common than previously thought, and if
regulators and hospitals ignore this, there should be criminal actions.
James Thorp, M.D., Gulf Breeze, FL
Is There a Depopulation Agenda? I have been
reluctant to wander down the rabbit hole relating to various
“depopulation agenda” theories involving the COVID crisis. However, the
odd concordance between a possible population reduction objective and
the dysfunctional “public health” policies is obvious to all open-minded
thinkers. Consider the formerly classified National Security Study
Memorandum (NSSM) 200 titled the “Kissinger Report” (https://tinyurl.com/msdfeuc5).
We all should make our own assessment of the probability that COVID
policy was influenced by this report. But the most obvious result of
lockdowns is the record number of people at risk of starvation.
If religion is defined as “ultimate concern,” then even committed
atheists have a religion. Our Founders were opposed to a federal
established church, but the “wall of separation” between church and
state is only being applied to recognized religion—not to totalitarian,
godless ideology.
Religions generally have a creed, scriptures, a hierarchy, a
priesthood, rituals, concepts of sin and judgment, a means of salvation,
and punishments for nonbelievers.
“Wokeism” seems to fit these criteria. As do Critical Race Theory,
DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), and radical environmentalism.
Sacraments or rituals include abortion, “anti-racism” struggle sessions,
vaccines, and obsessive recycling.
Three great dystopian novels of the early 20th century seem to be prophetic. As in 1984,
we have equivalents of the Memory Hole, the watchful telescreen,
children spying on parents, the Two-Minute Hate, and the Junior Anti-Sex
League meant to discourage romantic love and non-Party loyalty.
We don’t yet have decanted babies as in Brave New World ,
but they could be here in 15 years if ethical constraints were removed,
according to visionary filmmaker and “molecular biologist by trade”
Hashem Al-Ghaili. EctoLife facilities could grow 30,000 babies per year
in transparent pods, monitored by an artificial-intelligence-based
system, he claims. “An ‘Elite Package’ would allow people to choose
their baby’s level of intelligence, height, hair, eye colour, physical
strength and even skin tone.” Experts do not rule out the possibility (https://tinyurl.com/2dvzznak).
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis is about transhumanism, seeking immortality, and creating a god: a disembodied Head.
What is the underlying ideology?
Cultural Marxism
Wokeism, DEI, queer theory, radical feminism, post-colonialism, etc.,
are different species, but all of the same genus—Marxism, stated James
Lindsay, founder of New Discourses, in a talk to the European Parliament
(tinyurl.com/3mpa9wes). Classical economic Marxism has evolved, like the virus attributed to Wuhan, to adapt to the host.
Although considered an economist because he wrote about economics,
Marx was basically a theologian, Lindsay states. In his early writings,
Marx says that what makes human beings special is that man is a being
that is incomplete and knows that he is incomplete. Marx wanted to
create a religion that would supersede all religions and bring man back
to his true social nature. To do this, he sought to awaken the
underclass and make them the historical agents of change to foment
revolution and transform society.
At the end of history, we would have socialism, or equity.
Today’s definition of equity is an administered political economy in
which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal. The only
difference between equity and socialism is the type of property they
redistribute. The new species intend to redistribute social and cultural
capital as well as economic and material capital.
The working class did not rise up. As Herbert Marcuse pointed out in
the 1960s, capitalism gives people a good life. So, the working class is
irrelevant, and Marxists who are seeking power can make friends with
corporations. The energy for revolution is no longer with workers but in
racial minorities, sexual minorities, feminists, and other outsiders.
The formula for the genus of Marxism is to identify an elite class
that has access to a special kind of property (e.g., whiteness or
normality), and create underclass consciousness against it, to get
people to band together to channel resentment and gain power. Marxists
call everything they want to control bourgeois, or racist, or
homophobic, until they gain control of it.
For 30 years, Marxists studied what they called the culture industry,
which commodifies and packages culture and sells it back to
people—empty, abstract, stripped of what it actually is. They seized the
means of production of the culture industry and started to transform it
to sell racial, gender, sexuality-based agit prop as though it were
genuine culture.
Wokeness is identity-based Marxism, a constellation of species that
all work with the same operating premise, each located in a different
“Volk.” LGBTQ is a Volk, as is the Black community. They think of
themselves as nations—don’t they all have flags? They are bound together
like the various colonized nations around the world seeking liberation
from Western civilization.
Wokeism is a Maoist cultural revolution with Americanized identity
categories. The new program features “inclusion” and “sustainability.”
UN Agenda 2030 is the new socialist standard.
Our future looks like China, if we do not stop the Woke religions,
says Lindsay. It’s been successful so far because we cannot even name
the enemy. Education has been “redwashed.” Children are taught nothing
about Communism.
The Power of Words
In the best-selling novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, a
Jew who had been hidden in the basement of a German couple wrote a book
for their foster daughter. How did Hitler come to power? “The Führer
decided that he would rule the world with words…. He planted [the words]
and cultivated them…and also planted seeds to create symbols…. [People]
were placed on a conveyer belt…. Words were fed into them…. Next, they
were fitted with their symbols, and everyone was happy.”
The Importance of Public Opinion
In 2022, the WHO European office produced the Vaccine Crisis Communication Manual, to help countries respond to events that might “erode the public’s trust in vaccines and authorities that deliver them” (https://tinyurl.com/3wrcszym).
The overarching goal is to “rebuild trust in vaccines.” However, writes
Dr. John Day, “The ‘unsinkable’ control-narrative of global elites has
hit an iceberg of cold facts. The band…continues to play waltzes, but
not everybody is dancing” (tinyurl.com/2c6vdjd4).
A perspective: Whenever the government of the United States shall
break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction
having been given to public opinion. This is the weak point of our
defences, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct
all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to
seem true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best
interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment;
in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong, the right. In a country
where opinion has sway, to seize upon it, is to seize upon power. As it
is a rule of humanity that the upright and well-intentioned are
comparatively passive, while the designing, dishonest and selfish are
the most untiring in their efforts, the danger of public opinion’s
getting a false direction is four-fold, since few men think for
themselves.”
– James Fenimore Cooper (The American Democrat 1838)
Updates on COVID Shots
CDC’s VAERS safety signal analysis for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, based
on reports from Dec 14, 2020 – July 29, 2022, shows that there are more
than 500 adverse events with a safety signal stronger than for
myocarditis (tinyurl.com/3xa7v6r9).
Switzerland withdrew all COVID vaccine recommendations; doctors are now liable for harm (tinyurl.com/4msec2f5).
FDA has pulled the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the original Pfizer and Moderna products (https://tinyurl.com/ucr5b8sv),
and CDC has issued new guidance for use of the updated bivalent
products: “CDC recommends 1 updated COVID-19 vaccine dose for
everyone aged 6 months and older” (https://tinyurl.com/ydpvsx3b).
The FDA has, without citing data, lowered the total dose of mRNA to be administered (tinyurl.com/2p8n8f8a).
The “moderate increase in protection [from a bivalent booster]
against a probably generally mild disease will be short-lived,” writes
Paul Offit, M.D. (NEJM 2/9/23).
The first three people have received compensation from the
Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) for COVID-vaccine
injuries: $2,019 for severe allergic shock and $1,582 and $1,582 for
myocarditis. More than 8,000 applications have been filed (https://tinyurl.com/2p96dbta).
The vaccine dose-fatality rate (vaccine-related death/doses
delivered) increases dramatically with age, reaching 0.6% for persons
over 80 in Israel (https://tinyurl.com/3az4t2kd).
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it is
profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion
becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery,
they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs
out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the
theater.”
Frank Zappa
Nonbelievers ID’d
Another species in the Marxist genus is the cult of public health compliance and COVID vaccination.
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) system authored by
WHO has added a set of codes, not for a disease but for a decision—not
to take a COVID-19 shot—and for the reason for declining. Code Z28.3
indicates underimmunization status. Reasons immunization not carried
out: contraindication (Z28.0-); patient decision for other or
unspecified reason (Z28.2-); patient decision for reason of belief or
group pressure (Z28.1).
Once encoded and uploaded into a database, a person’s vaccination
status can be accessed by government and private health insurers alike
once the CDC classifies it as a reportable event (https://tinyurl.com/4f8sewwt).
The federal government is tracking unvaccinated people who go to the doctor or to the hospital (tinyurl.com/yhr6dwau).
The CDC has so far declined to answer questions by Republican
lawmakers, including Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), about why the CDC and
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) are gathering data on why
Americans decline the COVID shot and how they plan to use it (https://tinyurl.com/5zfr4nt2).
Unvaccinated New York City teachers are having “problem codes”
attached to their records, and their fingerprints are being sent to the
FBI. By having their biometric data sent to the FBI, “NYC educators
were being set up to be viewed as ‘right-wing extremists’ or even
‘terrorists,’” said Michael Kane, national grassroots organizer for
Children’s Health Defense and founder of Teachers For Choice (https://tinyurl.com/3bzp4cxc).
There are plenty of codes for symptoms experienced with COVID-19 disease, but not with COVID-19 vaccine injury (https://tinyurl.com/5bheymba).
How Much Harm Is Too Much?
Of course, we know that correlation does not prove causality, but
how do we establish causality? In 1965, Sir Austin Bradford Hill, a
medical statistician, established a set of nine “viewpoints” to
determine when data demonstrated causation. The nine criteria are:
strength, consistency, specificity, temporality, biological gradient,
plausibility, coherence, experiment, and analogy. These were used to
show that tobacco causes cancer. Satisfying any one criterion is enough
to suggest causality. Of course, temporality is essential (cause must
precede effect). Former pharmaceutical executive Sasha Latypova states
that all criteria show that the harms of COVID-19 vaccines exceed the
benefits (https://tinyurl.com/2p8w3ahs).
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Biden Nationalizes DEI Bureaucracy
By a Feb 16 Executive Order (tinyurl.com/36jcnuw9), President Biden
is overhauling the entire federal government along the principles of
diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The order will create cadres,
“Agency Equity Teams, ” to see that DEI ideology is embedded everywhere
in a patchwork fashion, explains Christopher F. Rufo
(https://tinyurl.com/yu3sknsm). Tens of thousands of DEI ideologues will
be subverting the constitutional order with a death-by-a-thousand-cuts
strategy. Persons who disagree will be filtered out. The culture will be
set by changing the meaning of language and bombarding employees with a
constant stream of ideological materials and “training.” Even the use
of artificial intelligence (AI) will be regulated. If people are
categorized by race, and there’s a difference in any outcome between the
groups, it is evidence of racial discrimination. This statistical
manipulation justifies the entire package. The initiative will fund
third-party political activism and weaponize civil-rights laws.
Advocates of Marxist-Leninist guerrilla warfare against the U.S.
government will be hired as outside diversity consultants to teach NASA
engineers about their “white fragility.”
Religious Exemptions Upheld
Families with religious objections can no longer be forced to
vaccinate their children in order to attend school, ruled the U.S.
District Court for the Southern Division of Mississippi in Bosarge v. Edney
(1:22-cv-00233). Attorneys for Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN),
led by Aaron Siri, argued that since from a public health perspective, a
medical exemption to vaccination has the same effect as a religious
exemption, the government cannot treat secular activity more favorably
than religious activity (https://tinyurl.com/bdfm23xx). According to Greg Glaser, general counsel for Physicians for Informed Consent, this could open a way to limit Jacobson v. Massachusetts (the 1905 decision legalizing mandatory vaccination without religious exemption).
Public Health Powers Curtailed
More than 1,000 legal decisions have been made at the local, state,
and federal level regarding public health protections since March 2020, a
quarter of which succeeded in weakening public health powers. “The
courts are leaving us vulnerable,” said Wendy Parmet, director of
Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law.
Additionally, at least 30 states, nearly all led by Republican
legislatures, have passed laws that restrict the imposition of mask
mandates, school closures, or other measures, or require permission from
legislatures to renew emergency orders.
“Big court wins” will prevent government overreach in the next
declared pandemic, said Peter Bisbee, executive director of the
Republican Attorneys General Association. “We’ll die with our rights
on,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of Georgetown University’s O’Neill
Institute for National and Global Health Law (Wash Post 3/8/23, https://tinyurl.com/ypcmmufj).
Tip of the Month: Beware of making humorous references to the word
“gun” in a hospital. Hospital administrators and nurses looking for
something to pin on a good physician have claimed that a mere mention of
a “gun,” whether as a joke or quoting popular culture, creates a safety
issue for the hospital. Of course, this is an absurd tactic of
retaliation. But in liberal regions where guns are considered by some
to be taboo, hospital administrators and nurses in a sham peer review
case distorted a joking reference to a gun. Physicians should conduct
themselves in a business-like fashion at all times. No jokes, no levity
of any kind, and no comments not directly related to the task at
hand. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a hospital
“kangaroo court.”
Sham Peer Review in South Africa
Dr. Shankara Chetty is being accused by the Health Professional
Council of South Africa of “unprofessional conduct” and contravening
ethical Rule 19, which requires practitioners to use only technologies
that have been proven by evidence-based medicine to fulfill claims made
about them. Dr. Chetty saw patients in person throughout the pandemic.
He treated 14,000 patients with COVID, including those with
comorbidities; zero (0) patients were hospitalized or died. He observed a
type 1 hypersensitivity reaction that occurred on day 8 in susceptible
patients, which required high-dose antihistamines and steroids. He
advised hundreds of specialists from around the world and received a
Malaysian award for saving thousands of lives. But he did not accept the
official narrative. Those who do not are “now the victims of this new
apartheid,” writes Nadya Swart (tinyurl.com/x5xsuts6).
Vaccination Incentives (≠ Kickbacks)
Reportedly, insurers offer substantial bonuses to pediatricians for vaccinations if most of the patients in the practice are fully vaccinated”—up to $400 per child (tinyurl.com/2xk2p268). These are “performance-based incentives” (https://tinyurl.com/3xay4h9t).
It is unlikely that anti-kickback statute penalties would apply to incentives to receive COVID-19 shots (https://tinyurl.com/jeecz9a4).
California Medicaid paid $350 million to providers between September
2021 to February 2022 for meeting performance criteria such as
increasing vaccination rates in certain groups by 75% (https://tinyurl.com/5xutvtds).
Chilling the Transgender Industry
Lawmakers propose expanding the statute of limitations for medical
malpractice suits related to treating minors with puberty blockers,
cross-sex hormones, or “sex change” surgery.
In most states, the statute of limitations is around two years,
making it impossible for some detransitioners to sue. It may take 4 or 5
years for patients to realize that they have made an irreparable
mistake. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of Do No Harm, stated that
creating a private right of action and expanding statutes of limitation
would sharply curtail the child “gender-affirming” industry. Most
pediatric gender clinics are part of large hospital institutions that
are highly sensitive to litigation. Most are self- insured, and would
not want to risk a trial that might be 20 years out, for example, for
not getting proper informed consent or not explaining potential
complications (tinyurl.com/2p8na43z).
The number of pediatric transgender clinics in the U.S. has grown from one in 2007 to 300 now, according to Abigail Shrier (https://tinyurl.com/bthm7j35).
Correspondence
No Gun Control for Federal Agents. Why do HHS and
FDA need military drones, hundreds of millions of rounds of hollow-point
bullets, shotguns, submachine guns, and assault rifles? “The number of
federal agents armed with guns, ammunition, and military-style
equipment, authorized to make arrests, and trained in military
tactics has nearly tripled over the past several decades.”
And “there are now more bureaucratic (nonmilitary) government agents armed with weapons than there are U.S. Marines. As Forbes reports, ‘The federal government has become one never-ending gun show’” (tinyurl.com/ynujznar). Whatever happened to the Posse Comitatus Act?
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Masks Don’t Work; Cochrane Reviews Compromised. The
Cochrane review found that wearing masks in the community probably makes
little or no difference to influenza-like or COVID-19-like
illness transmission—as many of us said two year prior. However,
Cochrane weakens the result. Once the premier resource, it has been
corrupted by pharma and academic scientists. It has lost its way and
destroyed itself over COVID funding money. In an interview with Maryanne
Demasi, the study’s lead author Tom Jefferson stated: Cochrane delayed
the release by 7 months, during which critical policy decisions were
made and some Cochrane scientists published unacceptable studies that
gave “the right answer.” Jefferson doesn’t think much of the “Swiss
cheese model,” which assumes that we know how respiratory viruses
transmit—but we don’t.
The End to the Exception? In his book Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age (2013), Joshua Mitchell writes that the business of gender is a permutation of the equity obsession.
In Democracy in America, deTocqueville invented the idea of
American exceptionalism because America was the first nation founded on
equal rights for citizens, in a world where aristocracy/oligarchy was
the rule. He warned, however, that equality could be the end of
democracy if equality of opportunity was distorted to mean equal
outcomes (“equity”), a nonsensical idea that requires totalitarian
management by a tyrant class of oligarchs.
Mitchell writes: “A new political religion has full command over the
hearts and minds of elect parishioners, who operate on the basis of an
intersectional debt-point scheme that gives them moral clarity about who
is pure and who is stained. This is identity politics, the spiritual
eugenics of our time…. I worry that the idea of original sin has
migrated…into politics,…[in] the form of… group-scapegoating, which
intends to purge…[the] irredeemably stained, along with all that they
have wrought in history, so that the world may be made pure (https://tinyurl.com/b5hxv6kh).
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
The Rest of the Story on Race and Poverty. A higher
percentage of Blacks (19.5%) live in poverty than non-Hispanic whites
(8.1%). But the absolute number of impoverished non-Hispanic whites is
higher (15.9 million vs. 8.5 million), showing the falsity of the claim
that all whites come from privilege. From 1970–2019, the poverty rate
for whites increased slightly, while decreasing for other ethnic groups.
With rising costs, the middle class—which keeps a nation from
bifurcating into a two-class society of the powerless poor and the
powerful wealthy—is under siege. Home ownership has declined; nearly
three in eight homes today are rentals. As Victor David Hanson says,
“The result is a new American peasantry,…who own little or no
property.” They are like medieval peasants dependent on propertied
overlords.
Craig Cantoni, Tucson, AZ
Death Down Under. Even Australia—the poster child
for COVID fascism—now recommends the shots only for the elderly and
those with health risks. Perhaps it’s because Australia is experiencing
worse excess mortality than at any point in 80 years, while neighboring
New Zealand is experiencing the worst mortality since the Spanish flu.
Officials won’t openly acknowledge the likely cause, but their policy
changes regarding boosters clearly demonstrate a quiet walk-back of the
needle idol, as Daniel Horowitz points out (https://tinyurl.com/syyaj7mr).
The Associated Press fact-check team has concluded that the surge in
deaths must be because of COVID itself. But that is a self-indictment of
the vaccine.
Stewart Tankersley, M.D., Montgomery, AL
The ‘Equity’ Agenda. The UN introduced Agenda 21
with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 1992. It has been adopted
in every country at all levels of government. The new target date is
2030 to bring equity to everyone on earth. The motivator—fear of climate
change—infiltrated public schools via student TV channels, video games,
movies, Saturday cartoons, and other mass media forms of indoctrination
(https://tinyurl.com/n2tda9fu). An Equity Pledge
proposed by the Racial and Social Justice Commission of Prince William
County, Virginia, promises to agree to the group’s norms by “monitoring
my thoughts for internal dialogue” and to “reflect on my…impact on
others before asking a question or making a comment.”
Divisiveness has reached such a point that some are actually
contemplating a divorce between “red” states and “blue” states, and Kurt
Schlichter writes novels about it. Given the power asymmetry between
leftist and conservative factions, it seems remarkable that so far the
Left has only achieved a stalemate.
While the Left is waging “5GW” (fifth generation warfare—not related
to cell towers), along with deploying the vast resources of the
administrative state to crush opponents, “Conservatism, Inc.” seems
content to be a graceful loser. It sends out messages to motivate its
base to send money, but without offending the really huge vested
interests. Ditto for most elected officials.
Note how circumspect “conservatives” are about the irreconcilable
issues: COVID vaccination and the LGBTQ++ agenda. As the serious adverse
effects of the COVID shots are becoming undeniable, some admit that
mistakes were made, but claim that millions of lives were saved—please
forgive us. But have conservatives fought unconstitutional emergency
powers? Prominent Republicans are courting LGBTQ++ activists—talking
about freedom, privacy, and compassion. Where is the outrage about the
industry that exploits disturbed patients, especially children, and the
fraudulent “science”?
What Will Be the Partitioning Issue?
Will the incremental moves to the Left, the constant shift of the
Overton Window, with endless compromise by the Right continue? Or will
one issue eventually provoke a sharp split?
To great applause, Daily Wire commentator Michael
Knowles told a CPAC audience that there “can be no middle way in dealing
with transgenderism. It is all or nothing…. Transgenderism must be
eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology” (https://tinyurl.com/ye4sm5ya).
“Genocidal!” was the leftist response. (Ironically, fully
“transitioned” people would genocide themselves.) Activists are worried
about nearly 300 bills “designed to discriminate against transgender
people” that have been introduced in state legislatures (ibid.). These
are most commonly aimed at banning “gender-affirming care” for minors.
Another unapologetic Daily Wire commentator, Matt Walsh
(@MattWalshBlog), tweeted: “The core difference between me and my
critics on the Right is that I aim to utterly defeat, humiliate and
demoralize those who castrate children, wage war on the foundations of
human society, and attack truth itself, while my critics hope to find
‘common ground’ with these people.”
For decades, scholarly conservatives have respectfully studied the
transgender issue, hoping to persuade with facts and logic. But
extremists will not be converted, nor will those whose objective is to
create chaos and destroy our culture. But what about the “swing voters”?
Walsh writes: “One of the key ways of swaying the middle is by making
gender ideology seem utterly repulsive and insane. Which it is” (https://tinyurl.com/4bz469ts).
Conservative consultants are appalled by such strong language. But
what about parents who see their children turned against them and
subjected to sterilizing and mutilating procedures? How will they
feel about physicians such as Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who justified
mastectomy in young girls: “If you want breasts at a later point in your
life, you can go and get them” (https://tinyurl.com/2bjhehj2).
“Transphobes” are portrayed as fascist aggressors, but as Walsh
points out, trans activists started the fight. A couple decades ago,
they could have had what they said they wanted: freedom to live their
lives in peace. Then they started demanding that “the rest of us abandon
everything we know about physical reality.” No others have ever had the
right, he said, to do whatever they want and then be “affirmed” and
celebrated for it, or to take possession of the English language. TG
activists now cry victim because some have said “no” to their demands,
e.g., the right to induct children into a “suicidal cult” (tinyurl.com/5effaa53).
Is this overstated? Some 6,000 schools nationwide have rules that
prevent faculty and staff from disclosing to parents a student’s gender
status without that student’s permission, according to Parents Defending
Education (tinyurl.com/yp5ezk3t).
Lack of legal support does not deter some trans activists. M2F Eli
Erlick, a Ph.D. candidate, writes on Twitter that he orders four times
more estrogen and testosterone blockers than he takes, and distributes
them illegally, for free, so that no minors need to go without
medication because of a state ban. He claims this activity puts him at
minimal risk, and that nothing has happened despite “tens of thousands”
of people reporting him to the DEA and FBI (https://tinyurl.com/pn4rrej7).
How Could Partitioning Work?
The late Justice Antonin Scalia concluded, “If there was any
constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no
right to secede.” Nevertheless, the Texas Nationalist Movement, more
than 400,000 strong, which wants “Texit,” has been growing since 2005 (tinyurl.com/msvzs4s8).
Instead, what about building parallel communities and institutions, with virtual walls, based on exclusion of irreconcilables. Exclude
all who want to kill you, take away your freedom, separate you from
your children, lie to you, destroy your history and your culture,
eliminate excellence, and impose cultural Marxism. “Inclusion” as in
“DEI” means exclusion of life and liberty.
AAPS Statement on ‘Gender-affirming Care’
The AAPS Board of Directors issued the following statement on “gender-affirming care” for minor children:
1. Physicians and medical professionals should refuse to be mandated
or coerced to participate in procedures to which they have ethical or
scientific objections or which they believe would harm a patient.
2. Reproduction requires a male gamete (sperm), which can only be
produced by a person of XY genotype, and a female gamete (egg), which
can only be produced by a person of XX genotype. Primordial germ cells
are present at birth.
3. Biological sex is determined at conception by genotype and apart
from rare anomalies, which result in ambiguous genitalia, sex is
correctly identified at birth—and is indeed obvious.
4. The construct of gender fluidity in the current cultural discourse is controversial.
5. Through medical, surgical, and other interventions, it is possible
to change the physical appearance of one’s body. Changing physical
appearance does not change biological sex.
6. There has been an explosive increase in persons who identify with
the construct of gender different from sex, at an age where identity is
easily malleable and brain development is not fully concluded.
7. Conflicting motivations have led to a growing industry dedicated
to providing “gender-affirming” procedures that are generally
irreversible and have a high probability of causing sterilization. These
include puberty “blockers,” sex hormones, and surgery, such as
castration, penectomy, and mastectomy. They commit a patient to a
lifelong need for medical, surgical, and psychological care.
8. “Gender-affirming care” in minors is medically and ethically
contraindicated because of a lack of informed consent. There are
inherently unknown and unknowable long-term risks, and the consequences
of removing normal, healthy organs are irreversible.
5th Generation Warfare
An extension of asymmetric and insurgent warfare, the goal of 5GW is
to disrupt and defeat opponents by creating new cognitive biases. The
most effective strategies mix truth with fiction, and act to increase
confusion and disorder so that the targets are not sure what or whom to
believe. Social media and the 24-hour news cycle are exploited.
Governments, corporations, organized or decentralized groups, even
individuals, can lead 5GW (tinyurl.com/c573tyn3).
Deleting ‘Woman’
The pro-transgender Irish government is trying to have the word
“woman” stripped from the constitution, according to the leader of a
populist party. The provision that protects women’s special right to
home life is said to support the idea that only women can bear children (https://tinyurl.com/ysbme5p6).
X X X
“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be forbidden to think, so as not to insult idiots.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Is Exclusion OK?
Trans activist (F2M nonbinary they/them) Massa Gessen told interviewer David Remnick in the Mar 11, 2023, New Yorker (https://tinyurl.com/46crxbu3):
“As journalists, we’re not under obligation to quote every single view
on an issue. I think we have the right to exclude the view that
somebody’s not who they say they are.” Gessen states, “Being trans is
not a medical condition, but it marries you for life to the medical
system.” Regarding Michael Knowles’s statement to CPAC, Gessen opined
that there was no distinction between eradicating transgenderism
ideology and eradicating trans people as such.” (Try substituting
“whiteness” and “white people.”) Bills to restrict “gender-affirming
care” are “are about signalling [sic], and what they’re signalling is the essence of past-oriented politics.”
Excluding the Unvaccinated
A study in 21 countries examined discriminatory attitudes that
COVID-vaccinated persons held against the unvaccinated. Exclusionary
attitudes toward the unvaccinated were 2.5 times higher than toward
Middle Eastern immigrants. The level of antipathy was higher toward the
unvaccinated than toward ex-convicts, atheists, or mentally ill persons,
and about the same as toward drug addicts. In the U.S. study,
respondents were also asked about restricting publicly recognized
rights. There was significant support for restricting unvaccinated
persons’ freedom of movement, place of residence, freedom of speech, and
access to unemployment and welfare benefits (Nature 1/26/23).
Transgender Updates
· Parental Rights. A Florida law requiring parental
notification about services for mental and physical health is a “gag
rule,” states Rachel Levine. She said some “LGBTQI+” children need to
replace their parents with “one supportive adult,” such as a teacher or
counselor (https://tinyurl.com/29x683ae).
· “Woke” Language in Preschool. Mandatory training
for early childhood educators in N.C. includes drills in pronoun usage.
One teacher, who identifies as a gay man, says that he wears a skirt to
school and tells the children that “I want to make sure that I feel safe
wearing a skirt in the classroom.” He fears that someone might laugh or
feel uncomfortable (tinyurl.com/5yv86ccx).
· Tide May Be Turning… against treating minors. A
coalition is building, states Scott Newgent, who transitioned F2M at age
50. “They promise you Candyland, but instead you get Vietnam”—a
constant fight to survive (https://tinyurl.com/2x5htx85).
AAPS Calendar
Mar 30. Webinar. Do No Harm. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb.
Oct 26-28. 80th Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX.
ACTION OF THE MONTH
The FTC has extended the comment period for a proposal to ban
non-compete clauses in employment contracts. Take action before April 19
at: https://bit.ly/ftcnoncompete.
Feds Resist Another COVID Remedy
A large, double-blind, randomized controlled trial (RCT)
concerning a xylitol-containing nasal spray as a possible COVID
preventive or treatment was published in October 2022. There were 62%
fewer infections in medical workers using the spray compared with
placebo. A comparable product, Xlear, is available in the U.S. The FDA
has failed to carry out requested clinical trials, and the FTC has filed
a lawsuit against Xlear for allegedly claiming usefulness against COVID
(tinyurl.com/55dnj55w).
Transparency Rules Disregarded
For 20 years, the U.S. government has urged researchers to post
results of clinical trials. A 2007 law made reporting mandatory as a
result of allegations that patients were being harmed because companies
withheld evidence that their drugs were ineffective or harmful. A widely
cited case involved paroxetine (Paxil™). A final rule was issued in
2018. Science examined more than 4,700 trials whose results
should have been posted on ClinicalTrials.gov, and found that sponsors
violated the reporting law 55% of the time (Science 1/17/20).
Stiff penalties were prescribed, but as of April 2022, only four notices
of noncompliance had been issued, and no civil monetary penalties
assessed (tinyurl.com/26uycfk3).
The Gender Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is the mythical area of the Atlantic Ocean
within which ships and aircraft have been known to vanish without a
trace. “With transgenderism, all reason and logic disappears within what
we might call the Gender Triangle,” writes Daniel Moody. “The Gender
Triangle is that area enclosed by the relationships between three
distinct models of gender—the social, medical and legal.” He concludes
that transgenderism is a legal fiction, a project of the state to
airbrush the biological reality of sex from the law. “Our body is
vanishing without a trace from the sea of law.” Whether an idea is valid
or not, it becomes the concern of society when it has the law behind it
(tinyurl.com/mz8898ek).
Tip of the Month: Avoid unnecessary or exaggerated admissions of
wrongdoing. It can be a mistake to think that admitting fault will cause
a problem to go away. The courts, medical boards, and sham peer review
systems prefer to base discipline on what a target himself has
admitted. While admitting fault can be helpful in interpersonal
relations, it can boomerang if included in an email or other written
form. Many criminal defendants end up regretting what they were forced
to admit as part of a plea bargain. Settlement agreements with medical
boards and anyone else should be carefully written to ensure that there
are no admissions of fault, to the extent these are possible to avoid.
Trusted News Initiative Sued under Antitrust Law
TrialSite Inc. and others have filed suit against TNI, which includes
legacy media and Big Tech companies that control 90% of social media
and search-engine markets, for their collusive censorship of online
health and political news publishers who question TNI’s reporting on
COVID and U.S. political issues (https://tinyurl.com/hmbzxjhf).
Juries Should Not Make Law
In an amicus brief filed by the AAPS Educational Foundation in United States vs. Tou Thao,
attorney Andrew Schlafly writes: “Just as courts do not properly
legislate from the bench, neither do juries.” Officer Thao, assigned to
do crowd control during the arrest of George Floyd, was criminally
convicted and is imprisoned because of failure to intervene when his
superior officer was restraining the suspect, who died.
There was no fair notice of federal criminality concerning Officer
Thao’s conduct. If the draconian penalty of imprisonment is to be
applied to a bystander police officer when there is a death of an
allegedly drug-intoxicated suspect being taken into custody by another
officer, Schlafly writes that “this new public policy should be
considered and resolved based on legislative hearings and considerable
debate, not by a mere jury after viewing a disturbing video as played at
an emotional trial.”
The amicus states that the theory of “positional asphyxia,” asserted
to have caused Floyd’s death, is “doubtful medical science,” and “not
susceptible to a finding beyond reasonable doubt by a rational jury.”
Also, it is not for a jury to decide whether a bystander should have
suspected that a suspect might be fentanyl intoxicated and in immediate
danger of death. A rational jury cannot find sufficient mens rea to
convict a mere bystander of an unlawful killing when there is no way
under the Daubert standard even to hear testimony about the predictability of that death.
“The verdict must accordingly be reversed in adherence to the Rule of
Law that does not imprison people based on unscientific speculation by a
jury” (https://tinyurl.com/45k468fd).
COVID ‘Misinformation’ Cases
· Attorney Rick Jaffee provides a Mar 9 update on COVID cases in western states (https://tinyurl.com/ysf4hw3d). He reads the legislative history of AB 2098 as
an acknowledgment that the board can’t stop doctors from speaking out
in public about any matter of public interest. So, that part of the
Federation of State Medical Boards invitation to medical boards to
pursue doctors for “soapbox speech” appears to be blocked in California,
but not other states. The situation is complicated if treatment
decisions are involved. Høeg v. Newsom, Hoang v. Bonta, McDonald v. Lawson, and Couris v. Lawson will be affected by the action of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, expected later this year.
· Missouri v. Biden, also called the “Show
Me versus Shut Up” case, could be, according to some, the “most
important civil liberties case ever tried in a U.S. court.” It has
numerous plaintiffs and an expanding list of government agency and
individual government defendants, a “devil’s scorecard of weaponized
agencies and bad actors.” Plaintiffs claim that the government censored
Americans both directly and indirectly “through bullying, bribing,
hectoring, nagging, and setting up one-way ‘partnerships’ with big tech
companies like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.” The case has been to the
U.S. Supreme Court more than once on discovery issues. Plaintiffs’
investigators have unearthed evidence of government-sponsored censorship
starting well before the pandemic. One official described the
unprecedented “integrated, holistic partnership with social media” as
the “model of the future.” The case, filed May 5, 2022, has faced every
government effort to obstruct it (https://tinyurl.com/3rjhbjs5).
Correspondence
Tracking Your Brain Waves. The last bastion of
privacy is in one’s brain. However, technology has been developed which
will allow employers (and government) to track brain wave signals, and
algorithms exist to analyze what’s going on in your brain. China, for
instance, requires train drivers to wear special caps with
electrodes inside to determine whether they are focused on driving
the train or are fatigued. Some factories in China monitor the brain
waves of employees to determine who might be disruptive on the factory
floor. Just imagine what hospitals could do with that technology. At a
peer review hearing, the “prosecutor” projects the accused
physician’s EEG on the screen along with the analysis algorithm and says
“here is the proof” that this physician harbors disruptive
thoughts. According to an article in WSJ (tinyurl.com/mrx3p6zp),
such devices help determine whether you are conservative or liberal.
The abuse potential is very high, and there are no laws governing the
use of such data.
The term “thought police” has gained a whole new meaning.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Losing the Plot. Shortly before he became Pope
Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger observed that in Europe “there
is a strange lack of desire for a future….”
America has reached that moment in Blazing Saddles when Mel
Brooks throws away the script, and the brawling cowboys crash through
the wall into the next soundstage, where all parts are interchangeable:
Men become women, women become men, and then pregnant men, and then
threaten the hospital for the humiliation of having to give birth in a
“maternity ward”…. In today’s America, everything’s ablaze….
COVID fits naturally into such a world. What matters is to strike the
correct attitude and ignore your lyin’ eyes. As ex-Pope Benedict
observed, “Children, who are the future, are seen as a threat for the
present.” Elderly adults sacrifice their infants to ward off the evil
spirits of Omicron. The medical establishment is largely silent on this
and many things, and their administrative bosses have publicly gone
along with the notion that a child is “assigned” a “gender” at birth. We
have extended nihilism to our private parts, to human biology….
Woke America is for losers: it’s what fills the void when you have trashed your history….
So, at the dawn of another Year Zero, I renew my old credo: Unless
you’re prepared to surrender everything, surrender nothing —and don’t
waste your time with alleged rock-ribbed politicians who have
surrendered far too much already.
Mark Steyn, excerpted from https://tinyurl.com/mjudxjjj
Future-oriented Politics. The World Economic Forum’s
plan to save the world is to cram everyone into “smart” “15-minute
cities,” where a permit is needed to cross into the next zone. The only
way out of a meager existence will be the Metaverse, a virtual world
that will fulfill every need and desire. Even the ideas behind having a
physical partner and a family are becoming obsolete! Our youth are now
being trained to accept cybersex as the new normal. Reality doesn’t have
to enter into this new equation of life and sex. Sex will increasingly
replace love making. The nobility of being part of a family, a
culture, and something more important than one’s own narcissistic self
is being swept away in the remaking of modern society’s dystopian
future.
We need instead to create intentional communities, with commitment to traditional values and long-term human relations.
Robert W. Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/mr3tnrbt
Only PIC Members Protected. The court has not yet ruled on our First Amendment arguments in the Høeg v. Newsom challenge
to California’s AB 2098. The preliminary injunction against enforcement
applies only to plaintiffs and PIC members (see
https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/doctor-join).
Shira Miller, M.D., Oceanside, CA
‘Experts’ Deny Science.NEJM’s article
entitled “Protecting Transgender Health and Challenging Science
Denialism in Policy” uses denialism to denigrate any opinion contrary to
that of the latest set of experts to claim sovereignty over a
controversial subject. Denialism is another weapon in the rhetorical
armory of the Left to stifle debate and intimidate those opposing a
narrative that the socialist/sex deviancy army pushes. The preferred
method of challenging laws restricting transgender therapy is
litigation, not repeal. Doctors with an inherent conflict of
interest (those who are paid to provide “gender-affirming care”) may be
accepted as the sole authoritative voice in court (https://tinyurl.com/2p9tsd4n).
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
The Extreme Danger of Ideology. Seeing drawings from the Gulag reminded me of Solzhenitsyn’s reflections in Chapter 4 of The Gulag Archipelago:
“Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble—and his conscience devoured
him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and
spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen
corpses. Because they had no ideology…—that is what gives evildoing its
long-sought justification and…helps to make [the evildoer’s] acts seem
good instead of bad in his own and others’ eyes.”
The biostate was born, it is said, at the meeting of G20 leaders in Bali, Indonesia, Nov 15-16, 2022. Its declaration (https://tinyurl.com/4z7n5ktb)
called for the establishment of a global vaccine passport and digital
health ID scheme. “We acknowledge the importance of shared technical
standards and verification methods, under the framework of the IHR
(2005), to facilitate seamless international travel, interoperability,
and recognising digital…and non-digital solutions, including proof of
vaccinations.”
The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, which went into
force in 2007, are a legally binding agreement of 196 countries
developed under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO).
They require countries to strengthen surveillance capacities at border
crossings, and they introduced international certificates of
vaccination.
The Business 20 (B20) panel held ahead of the G20 summit urged
widespread adoption of digital COVID-19 certificates that would be part
of a “technology-enabled ‘always-on’ global health infrastructure.”
Their proposal, to be introduced at the World Health Assembly in May
2023, would revise the IHR to give WHO legally binding powers to
implement such measures in the future, potentially overriding national
sovereignty.
WHO would not have the power to force compliance, but peer pressure
works. So far, the only resistance has come from African countries, who
view it as neocolonialism.
The COVID passport is the gateway for all-encompassing digital ID,
stripping citizens of all rights and replacing them with a revocable
privilege to work, to travel, to obtain medical care, to be educated—to
live. The Indian Aadhaar system, the world’s largest biometric ID
system, which covers 92% of the population, “acts as a tool for social
exclusion and corporate influence.” Several cardless persons reportedly
starved to death because they could not access benefits to which they
were entitled.
At the G20, Klaus Schwab claimed that the current crises represent
an opportunity for “a deep systemic and structural restructuring of our
world,” with “the fusion of our physical, digital and biological
identities.” Digital IDs are essential in a “revolution” aimed at
blurring the line between our bodies and emerging technologies, e.g.,
robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and quantum computing
(tinyurl.com/yn9zwac7).
The Meaning of ‘Bio’
In today’s perversion of language, certain adjectives or prefixes
stealthily reverse the meaning of a word. “Social justice” means
injustice to individuals to benefit the collective. A biostate would
destroy the nation state and subject existing laws to a “global health
infrastructure.” Bioethics, according to the late Jeffrey Hall Dobken,
M.D., M.P.H., replaces the Oath of Hippocrates. It mainly involves
calculations of relative social value. Bioethicists consider themselves
guardians of social justice and stewards of correct thinking (https://tinyurl.com/brdt74ev).
Paradoxically, “bio” ultimately negates biology and strives to
transition through “transhuman” to “posthuman.” Instead of “cyborg,”
“augmented human” is becoming the preferred, less threatening term.
First, a direct human-to-computer interface—human/machine fusion—then
possibly augmented reality and virtual reality, including nerve
stimulation.
Medical possibilities include controlling prosthetic limbs with
thought, but the major impetus comes from the military. The newly
established Biotechnologies for Health and Human Performance Council
(BHPC) aims to enhance warfighting capability. Two-way data transfer
through neuro-silica interfaces could, for example, enhance target
acquisition for drone attacks. The military is also heavily invested in
gene-editing.
Propaganda is one of the BHPC Study Group’s functions: “Efforts
should be undertaken to reverse negative cultural narratives of
enhancement technologies” (tinyurl.com/2f3jvv98).
Human augmentation research is called “evolution” by the UK Ministry
of Defence (ibid.). The future of life will not be natural selection as
in the past, but intelligent design—by Homo deus, says World
Economic Forum advisor Yuval Noah Harari. We have the biotechnology to
hack the software of life. All we need is information. The products of
the future will be “bodies, brains, and minds,” Harari states (https://tinyurl.com/3z9ucbem).
In a Net Zero, decarbonized world (in which some even advocate
killing our cats and dogs to reduce our “carbon footprint”), will we
transition from carbon-based to silicon-based life—once the stuff of
science fiction (https://tinyurl.com/2zx35uce)?
Much research is now “in silico” (computer-based modeling) rather
than in vitro or in vivo. Some speculate that computers or robots, with
sufficiently complex artificial intelligence, might develop
consciousness . Some even speculate that they could achieve immortality
by downloading their “software” into a computer (would its consciousness be your consciousness?).
Let us not imagine that robots will follow Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics (see I, Robot):
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a
human being to come to harm.” Military robots are designed to kill.
Human-designed life forms might follow a WEF-defined “rules-based
order,” but Harari et al. make no mention of characteristics present
even in animals like dogs: displays of joy or sorrow, empathy, or
instinctive protection of their human.
The biostate is a biology denier—indeed, a life denier.
The Roots and Offspring of Transhumanism
The term “transhumanism” was coined in 1957 by Julian Huxley, brother
of Aldous and grandson of Thomas Huxley (“Darwin’s bulldog”). Julian
managed the post World War II eugenics movement. After the Nazi
atrocities, a radical eugenics policy became “for many years politically
and psychologically impossible,” but one goal of UNESCO, which Julian
founded, was to inform the public “so that much that is now unthinkable
may at least become thinkable.” Achieving UNESCO’s goals would require
“the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a world
organization” (tinyurl.com/5n8z5kcb).
“Cybernetics,” Norbert Wiener’s term, based on aeronautics and radar
systems, was envisioned as the tool for global information control. He
wrote that the ultra rapid computing machine that used consecutive
switching devices was a model of the nervous system. He assumed that
“metaphysical” concepts (such as purpose, free will, justice, and soul)
had no existence beyond the merely physical characteristics of the
measurable electrochemical properties of the brain (tinyurl.com/3ahr2rhd).
The growing cult of Artificial Intelligence is guided by a belief in
the inevitable merger of man and machine. To deal with the
“unpredictability” factor of human creativity, the Frankfurt School
developed new brainwashing tools such as “sensitivity training,” which
relies heavily on guilt complexes—the foundation of Critical Theory.
Leading psychiatrists from London’s Tavistock Clinic and the Frankfurt
School organized a concerted program to “eliminate the sickness of
national patriotism, belief in truth, and family love throughout the
Cold War period” (ibid.).
Neo-Malthusians gained great power when John Holdren, a protégé of
Paul Ehrlich, became Obama’s science czar. Now, Biden’s science czar
Eric Lander has overseen the re-activation of Obama-era science policy
in a technocratic overhaul conforming to the WEF’s Great Reset agenda,
using the vast power of the Emergency Authorization Act to
steamroll gene therapy technologies in the guise of “vaccines.” The
connection between yesterday’s eugenics organizations and the rise of
modern mRNA operations “should be kept firmly in mind,” writes Matthew
Ehret (https://tinyurl.com/5n8z5kcb).
Gene therapy and other modes of human “enhancement” do not fall
under ethical research guidelines because they are not intended to be
therapeutic (https://tinyurl.com/mrydrh23).
Jerry Arnett, M.D., R.I.P.
Jerry Arnett, M.D., a freedom fighter for 50 years, was well-known to
AAPS meeting attendees and to readers of our journal, for which he
wrote frequent book reviews. As a flight surgeon, Dr. Arnett flew 144
combat missions in Vietnam. In his pulmonology practice, he connected
directly with patients, not government or insurance companies. He
inspired his daughter Brenda Arnett, M.D., to open an independent
cash-based family practice. “He was West Virginia at its best,” writes
James Bovard (https://tinyurl.com/ynf2mrav).
“And thus I clothe my naked villany/ With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ/ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
William Shakespeare, Richard III (I, 3)
Is Pfizer Doing ‘Directed Evolution’?
In a Project Veritas (PV) video that has garnered some 20 million
views despite efforts to suppress it, a highly placed executive seemed
to be saying that Pfizer was “mutating” COVID so that it can produce new
vaccines. “Don’t tell anyone this!” This would be good for Pfizer but
not good for Americans, he said. He also remarked on the revolving door
between regulators and drug companies. When the interviewer asked
whether Pfizer was doing gain-of-function research, the answer was
laughingly no, but you might call it “directed evolution.”
The internet was quickly scrubbed of the credentials of Jordon
Trishton Walker, M.D., Pfizer Director of Research and
Development—Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning. In a
follow-up meeting with James O’Keefe of PV, Dr. Walker became extremely
agitated when he learned of the video, and asserted that it was all a
lie to impress a date.
Tucker Carlson discussed the mainstream news blackout (tinyurl.com/4ayr6rak).
Along with commentary on the PV video, Dr. Peter McCullough and Steve
Kirsch discussed the research that Pfizer and the government are not doing on COVID vaccine adverse reactions, especially possible cardiac effects in airline pilots (tinyurl.com/476b99ed).
According to French philosopher Michel Foucault, “Man is an invention
of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.” Adam Kirsch writes
in The Atlantic (tinyurl.com/mum4z79b)
that from Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural communes to academic
philosophy departments, a seemingly inconceivable idea is being
seriously discussed: The end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent,
and we should welcome it. While anti-humanists and transhumanists have
opposite views on many issues, they agree that human beings should
rightfully disappear. Transhumanists only worry that it might happen too
soon, before we have invented our successor to “secure the future of
the mind.”
Humanity’s purpose is “to transform the cosmic endowment—all the
matter and energy in the accessible universe—into computronium.” That
would correspond to Ray Kurzweil’s “singularity,” the ultimate destiny
of the universe.
The anti- and transhumanists’ destruction of civilization,
renunciation of childbearing, and replacing humans with machines sound
like a Great Reset. Is that where the biostate and the evolution of
bioethics is leading?
AAPS Calendar
Feb 18, 2023. Board of Directors meeting, virtual.
Comment in support of the FTC proposal to ban non-compete clauses in employment contracts at https://bit.ly/ftcnoncompete before March 10.
Anti-Free Speech Law (AB 2098) Enjoined
The California law that threatens physician with delicensure for
spreading COVID “misinformation” has been enjoined by Judge William B.
Shubb of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (Hoeg v. Newsom).
At first the proposed AB 2098 was aimed at those who question the
safety or efficacy of COVID vaccines in the media or social media,
thereby creating public mistrust. AB 2098 also characterizes advocacy
for use of repurposed FDA-approved drugs such as ivermectin as “COVID
misinformation.” As passed, the law refers to one-on-one communication
with patients.
The law bans doctors “from providing ‘treatment or advice’ ‘to a
patient’ ‘related to COVID-19’ when that treatment or advice includes
(1) ‘false information’ (2) ‘that is contradicted by contemporary
scientific consensus’ (3) ‘contrary to the standard of care.’”
Judge Shubb notes that terms in AB2098 are unconstitutionally vague,
putting physicians in the very difficult position of having to know what
the “consensus” is at any given moment. Moreover, “the First Amendment
applies not only to expression of majority opinions, but to minority
views as well.”
One issue is whether advice to patients is one of the seven
categories of speech that the U.S. Supreme Court finds to be unprotected
by the First Amendment.
Judge Shubb’s ruling prevents enforcement of AB 2098 pending
resolution of the lawsuit. Judge Shubb’s ruling technically is limited
only to “the plaintiffs, all persons represented by the plaintiffs, and
members of the organizations that filed the lawsuits” (https://tinyurl.com/bdfyhnwd).
In a reply memorandum in the merged case Hoang v. Bonta,
Attorneys Richard Jaffe and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., write: “Defendants
are effectively admitting that physicians can be punished for speaking
truth, as long as the government declines to recognize truth as truth” (tinyurl.com/2p99duwe).
Origin of Censorship in the U.S.
It formerly would have been unthinkable for the White House to send
e-mails to social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter directing
them to censor prominent public speakers such as Tucker Carlson and
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Aspiring dictators have always relished public emergencies because
they provide a rich opportunity for expanding their power, writes Peter
McCullough, M.D. The seeds for the current blooming garden of unchecked
federal power seem to have germinated in 2002 with the passage of the
Homeland Security Act and the Homeland Security Council, an entity
within the Executive Office of the President created by President Bush’s
Executive Order 13228. Since 2002, more laws and administrative actions
have enabled the state to deem you a “misinformation spreader” or
“domestic terrorist” and censor and even detain you, to quell a
purported emergency (https://tinyurl.com/y74xabcy).
Tip of the Month: Harassing state medical board complaints related to
COVID-19 are continuing to plague good physicians, but nearly all of
these complaints have been dismissed. The trick is to respond politely
before the deadline, and the substance of the response appears to be
less important than its timeliness. Extensions in the time to respond
are freely granted if requested.
Criminal Grand Jury on Vaccine Harm
With the approval of the Florida Supreme Court, Gov. Ron DeSantis is
empaneling a grand jury to “investigate criminal or wrongful activity in
Florida relating to the development, promotion, and distribution of
vaccines purported to prevent COVID19 infection, symptoms, and
transmission” (tinyurl.com/mr3s94uw).
The governor’s petition states: “The pharmaceutical industry has a
notorious history of misleading the public for financial gain.” It
includes a summary of the many times Pfizer, Moderna, the CDC, and high
government officials falsely claimed that the vaccines would safely and
effectively reduce the spread of the virus and that unvaccinated people
would be responsible for continuing the pandemic if they didn’t take the
jabs. It also lists studies showing a higher rate of myocarditis in
young persons who received the injections.
“Ron DeSantis just became the world’s political leader of the Covid
Accountability movement,” writes Jeff Childers in his Coffeeandcovid
Substack. The grand jury can issue indictments of people and companies,
issue criminal subpoenas, require witnesses to appear and testify under
oath, publish a final report summarizing its evidence, and also
recommend civil lawsuits.
Childers writes that while he is seeing people apologize for being
wrong about COVID lockdowns or mandates, he has not yet seen anyone
apologize for not trusting government during COVID (https://tinyurl.com/5bb8sd7e).
Possible Liability for Vaccine Administration?
According to a letter from the Australian Medical Professionals Society (tinyurl.com/yfv55yvx),
“Administering of COVID-19 vaccination is likely not an indemnified
action—this is notice of your obligations, rights, and potential risks.”
A proposed medical indemnity scheme for health professionals
administering the COVID-19 vaccines was never established. The letter
refers to the decision of the High Court of Australia in Rogers v Whittaker 1992 (https://jade.io/article/67721),
in which a patient was not told of the risk of sympathetic ophthalmia,
as a precedent and standard for informed consent obligations. “A doctor
has a duty to warn a patient of any material risk involved in a proposed
treatment, or else risk tortious liability from patients,” writes AMPS.
This might apply even if there is a body of expert opinion supporting
nondisclosure. The letter recognizes threats of regulatory action “for
anti-vaccination messages in professional health practice” or on social
media, but states that under the Good Medical Practice Code of
Conduct, doctors have a right not to provide or directly participate in
treatments to which they conscientiously object. These liability and
freedom issues also remain to be resolved in the U.S.
Mandate on Federal Contractors Blocked
A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to uphold a
decision that blocked the September 2021 Biden executive order requiring
worker vaccination as a requirement for federal contracts. The issue
could affect 20% of U.S. workers. Judge Kurt Engelhardt said a broad
interpretation of the Procurement Act could give Biden “nearly unlimited
authority to introduce requirements into federal contracts” (tinyurl.com/357z9vn9), such as requiring workers to reduce their BMI below a certain number.
Correspondence
Totalitarians Suppress Truth. The Marxist
totalitarians in medicine have claimed a monopoly on truth, facts and
science. As Dr. Aaron Kheriaty writes, quoting Italian philosopher
Augusto Del Noce: “[I]f people in a communist society contradict
communist doctrine, the party does not explain why they are wrong. The
authorities simply dismiss dissenting opinions as instances of
‘bourgeois rationality’ or ‘false consciousness’.… Authorities assume
that dissenting opinions must be motivated by
class interests (or racial characteristics, gender, or whatever), which dissidents are trying to defend” (tinyurl.com/4bf8reaf). This is precisely what we have seen with medical boards, specialty boards, hospitals, and certain medical associations.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Beyond Censorship. In a letter to Attorney General
Merrick Garland, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American
Medical Association, and the Children’s Hospital Association ask him to
investigate and prosecute individuals and entities that coordinate, provoke, and
carry out bomb threats and threats of personal violence. The concern
was about groups who re-posted information showing that Boston
Children’s Hospital was lying when it claimed it was not doing
“gender-affirming” surgery on minors. The online group was not
responsible for the threat (there was no bomb) and even offered a reward
to catch the guilty party. But the AMA and AAP want people who
“provoke” disagreement with them to go to jail.
Psyops Research. Even though the testing of COVID
vaccine products was highly abbreviated and did not meet regulatory
norms for either vaccines or genetic therapies, the development and
clinical testing of psyops and nudge messaging were carefully performed
using a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial structure
with short-term, three- and six-month follow-up. In July 2020, Yale
University initiated clinical trial #NCT04460703 to optimize means to
psychologically manipulate people to overcome “vaccine hesitancy.”
Twelve different messages were tried, including anger, embarrassment,
guilt, trust in science, personal freedom, economic benefit, and “not
bravery.” It was found that emphasizing vaccination as a pro-social
action not only increased uptake but also increased willingness to
pressure others to get the shot. These results were used to guide the
federal U.S. (and global) propaganda campaign to promote compliance. We
have been subjected to a focused and field-tested psyop.
At Odds with Reality. Recently, the idea has been
spreading that having the body of one sex but believing oneself to be
of another is part of the normal human experience. Organizations such as
the American Psychiatric Association have lent credence to the idea,
stating that it is not a mental disorder because “many transgender
people do not experience their gender as distressing or disabling.”
However, while distress is an important treatment consideration, it is
not a defining characteristic of medical pathology. Normal internal
experience has traditionally been distinguished from abnormal by whether
it is consistent with external reality. The mainstream psychiatric
press is not asking whether a person’s internal experience can be so
far from reality as to justify “sex reassignment” surgery and still be
called normal.
Rationing Promoted. The government is promoting
migration to privately administered corporate Medicare Advantage plans.
By design, these plans restrict patient access to “providers,” who then
ration medical care and prescription drugs. During the 2022 enrollment
period (10/15-12/7), MA plans touted dental, vision-care, and
prescription drug benefits, and, depending on ZIP code, reductions in
monthly Medicare deductions to boost one’s Social Security check. This
is an appealing sales pitch, and MA now represents 55% of total Medicare
spending. When asked, MA providers I’ve contacted will not say for what
or how they are paid. They have a pre-paid care guarantee arrangement;
patients have no say in it. How can a rational consumer compare MA with
generic Medicare benefits?
Lee Beecher, M.D., Maple Grove, MN
Rationing to Control Costs Is Theology That Failed. Cost
control through “health maintenance,” “quality care,” and
“accountability” is theological flim-flam. The word “incentive” has been
corrupted to mean bribery. The hot dragon breath of HMOs and ACOs has
burned up much of the money in medicine. Legalized corporate
profiteering to ration care is not a moral public policy. Empowering
American families is the only salvation to achieve affordable medical
care. For the poor, ownership of resources is the path to a decent life
free of poverty and dependency: a goal for all Americans.
Robert Geist, M.D., North Oaks, MN
Hippocrates Nullified. In the 21st century medicine
appears to be preoccupied more with biopolitics and biopower exerted by
the New World Order, and transgenderism and transhumanism, instead of
healing the sick and treating the suffering.
AAPS News January 2023 – FTX and the ‘Great Reset’
Volume 79, no. 1 January 2023
The world is experiencing many crises simultaneously: war, financial
instability, civil unrest, looming shortages of food and energy,
political chaos—and of course continued fear of COVID and predicted
future pandemics, as well as of imminent climate apocalypse. To some, a
grand “solution” appears to be inevitable: a “Great Reset” under a
totalitarian technocratic global government, with a global central
digital bank.
Are the crises somehow connected? The FTX scandal is possibly the
thread that could unravel the whole scheme, writes Mathew Crawford (tinyurl.com/4xmphcsy).
The magnitude of the FTX scam and the depth of corruption, money
laundering, and political influence peddling are beyond imagination,
writes Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the Brownstone Institute (tinyurl.com/3n78xuvh).
At rocket speed, FTX became the second-biggest crypto exchange on the
planet, with billions in venture funding and a million customers.
The timing is notable. FTX was founded in 2019, just soon enough to
enter the public realm concerning pandemic controls, and then it
disappeared just following the 2022 midterm elections, over which its
funding arm had a huge influence. Was it intended to have a short shelf
life, transferring billions and manipulating public opinion during
the Great Reset, then shutting down?
One might ask whether Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is just a geek with too
much success too fast, engaged in entirely heartfelt philanthropy. The New York Times and the Washington Post ran articles portraying SBF as a “more-or-less honest businessman with a big heart who got tangled up in a bad situation” (https://tinyurl.com/bdewyra7). In an interview hosted by the NYT, which cost $2,400 to attend, he said he was “deeply sorry” [about stealing people’s life savings] (tinyurl.com/bd3cm6b7).
But the FTX-Alameda story isn’t solely the SBF story. The pool of
players is far larger, writes Crawford. The company’s philanthropy arm,
which funded the pandemic planning industry, was a network of
astonishing complexity.
The “Effective Altruism” (EA) arm funded media outlets such as
ProPublica, Vox, Intercept, and Semafor, all of whom backed lockdowns
and mandates.
SBF funded the TOGETHER trial, which purportedly found that
ivermectin is ineffective in COVID. Principal investigator Ed Mills
stated that FTX became involved only after results were published,
according to Reuters Fact Check (https://tinyurl.com/59b9e5de).
“But smart people will understand that this does not demonstrate a lack
of influence,” states Crawford, as there are grants depending on
results. The study used a nonstandard dosage of IVM and is still under
scrutiny for a wide variety of statistical anomalies (tinyurl.com/2e929rdj).
The war against hydroxychloroquine needed a randomized controlled
trial to show that it was ineffective and harmful. This was supplied by
David Boulware—who headed up the ivermectin arm in the TOGETHER
trial—and many others. Though the study was called negative by NEJM (tinyurl.com/5n7f3yvb), independent analysts come to the opposite conclusion, Crawford points out (also see AAPS News, June and July 2020).
One of the funders was software entrepreneur David Baszucki, who is
best known as the co-founder and CEO of Roblox. With children out of
school during the pandemic, this computer game saw its user base explode
by tens of millions of users—including fully half the U.S. school
children under 16 and three-quarters of all those ages 9 to 12. In March
2021, Roblox’s initial public offering had a $41 billion valuation—“an
instant pandemic-pumped blowout valuation.”
“Video games are part of the concoction of digital drugs Yuval Noah
Harari [of the World Economic Forum] suggests is the method for dealing
with the useless people who might otherwise revolt against the status
quo powers.” And Roblox team members, notes Crawford, have been the
subject of an astounding number of pedophilia and child sexual abuse
claims.
“The pandemic is the fog of war intended to create the opportunity
and obscure the activities” involved in a “new global financial network
and currency,” Crawford writes. FTX might have been a failed attempt to
create this.
The endgame might be to create an intellectually (genetically)
superior human race, in which the mass gathering of genetic data and
gene-drive technology likely play a role.
“This plan connects a lot of stories, including the activities of
Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein. It weaves through MIT Media Labs along
the way, but goes to the heart of the powers who ultimately control the
military-intelligence-banking complex—and that includes the pedophile
elite,” Crawford states.
SBF is enmeshed in a very tangled web. Is it pure conspiracy theory?
How would Epstein fit in? Aside from his sexcapades with underage girls,
Epstein was a specialist in financial crime, Crawford notes, and “these
two crimes go hand-in-hand most closely in a world in which politicians
are hard to blackmail with a garden variety sex scandal.” Epstein seems
to have touched all the currently important power circles. It may not
be coincidence that his close friend Bill Clinton helped build the FTX
brand recognition.
Most FTX political contributions went to Democrats; however, Kevin
McCarthy allegedly used FTX cash to defeat conservative candidates (https://tinyurl.com/44wxmx5v).
It’s a huge thicket that might only be the tip of an iceberg. “The cover-ups have already begun,” Tucker writes.
COVID-19 and Global Debt
The global debt bubble began with the creation of the Federal Reserve
in 1913, writes financial analyst Edward Dowd. Central bank-enabled
financial fraud long preceded COVID-19. In the form of a dystopian movie
script concept, Dowd predicted the pandemic response with amazing
accuracy, all predicated on the thesis that COVID was the cover for the
end of the global debt bubble. Not one banker went to jail for the
crimes that led to Great Financial Crisis of 2008-2009. This marked the
rise of global central bank dominance, facilitated by unprecedented
cooperation between the U.S. Federal Reserve, the EU Central Bank, and
the Bank of Japan in the form of money printing and debt purchases.
World governments went into deficit spending to make up for the
catastrophic wealth destruction, job losses, and demand destruction.
With the COVID-19 crisis, central banks had an excuse to print huge
amounts, increasing M1 by 65% from 2019 to 2020. The U.S. government
now commands 40% of GDP, up from low double digits 40 years ago (tinyurl.com/5n6a57ke). Digital ID would enable total control.
Pandemic Only the First Step in a Global Coup
In a presentation to Doctors for Covid Ethics International on Nov
22, 2022, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò stated that we must not stop
with the pandemic but consider all events in their “full coherence and
inter-connectness.”
The existence of a very powerful private organization with enormous
economic means, which exercises undue power over world governments, is a
“fact is of unprecedented gravity.” Klaus Schwab said: “In the fourth
industrial revolution the winners will take it all.” The implication is
that those who do not adapt will lose everything, including their
freedom.
While the economic part cannot be disregarded, what is happening is
not solely the result of profit-seeking. There are unstated purposes
that stem from a “theological” vision—a rebellion against God, with the
desire to destroy the created order, Viganò said. The operations of
social engineering and mass manipulation have demonstrated that this
crime was premeditated. In this war, there can be no neutrality (tinyurl.com/3a6w6mux).
Phyllis Ann Orient, R.I.P.
“Ann,” the telephone voice of AAPS for nearly 30 years, took her last
breath on Dec 11, 2022, at age 97, surrounded by family at home. She
worked in her daughter Jane’s office every day from 1981 until she was
well into her 90s. She spoke with thousands of patients and physicians
from across the land. Until recently, she proofread every issue of AAPS
News. During her last hospital stay, she sang “America the Beautiful,”
then alternated it with the Lord’s Prayer, as the shades were open to
let in the sun. Her husband fought for our freedom in WWII, as she did
all her life.
“The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be
turned around on the American people, and no American would have any
privacy left…. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it
to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”
Senator Frank Church (1975)
Trapped in a Virtual Reality Show
In the 1998 movie The Truman Show, which prefigures today’s
reality television, the unsuspecting star Truman Burbank is filmed 24/7
by hidden cameras. He lives in the town of Seehaven Island, a complete
set built within a giant dome, populated by crew members and actors who
highlight the product placements that generate revenue for the show. To
prevent Truman from discovering the false reality, he is subjected to
constant fear messages about the dangers of traveling.
There are clues, such as a spotlight falling out of the sky, and Truman eventually manages to escape.
Jim Quinn compares Truman’s situation to that of the world population during the pandemic (tinyurl.com/vekamdff).
“The world seems to be scripted and directed by Machiavellian managers,
working behind a dark shroud, representing an invisible governing
authority, molding our minds, suggesting our ideas, dictating our
tastes, and creating fear.” Their goal, he writes, is to destroy our
civil society and common culture on behalf of globalists attempting to
implement their Great Reset agenda.
Christof, the show’s creator, declares that Truman could discover the
truth and leave at any time, while using every diabolical trick to keep
that from ever happening, because his show generated revenues exceeding
the GDP of a small country.
“The plot of the movie focuses on individuality versus conformity,
consumerism, voyeurism, reality versus manipulation, false narratives,
the truth about the American Dream, and the dangers of surveillance in a
technologically advanced society.”
The ending of the show is a tribute to the strength of an individual.
How can people today escape, as escape hatches are sealed off? Quinn
discusses “Irish Democracy,” where a silent dogged resistance, marked by
the withdrawal from society, belligerence to authority, and
non-compliance with government dictates by millions of ordinary people
would accomplish far more than rioting and armed revolution.
“Millions have already practiced a form of Irish Democracy by not
masking, not social distancing, not getting jabbed, and taking control
of their own health decisions.”
Quinn offers hope: “The beast isn’t as strong as it portrays. It’s
broke and its empire of debt is crumbling.” If enough patriots walk away
from this abnormal society, “our totalitarian Christofs” could “wallow
in their failure to control the truly awoken.”
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Do ESG Policies Violate the Law?
Companies that follow the goals of environmental, social, and
governance (ESG) criteria may be breaking antitrust, civil rights, and
Employee Retirement Income Security Agency (ERISA) laws, according to
former investment banker Kevin Stocklin. Hundreds of the world’s largest
corporations have signed joint pledges committing to “net zero” carbon
goals. This might constitute “coordinated action” against other
companies, in violation of antitrust laws, writes C. Boyden Gray (tinyurl.com/4tydvj9j). Preferences for certain racial or sexual minority groups are being challenged as discriminatory.
Fiduciary laws require corporate and public pension fund executives
to act in the best interests of investors and shareholders. Currently,
24 states forbid ideological investing, including ESG, for their public
pension funds (ibid.).
“It is inappropriate to require that candidates for promotion and
tenure demonstrate their commitment to a political ideology. Forcing
candidates to declare their support for DEI when many undoubtedly oppose
it would compel dishonesty,” writes Stanley Goldfarb of Do No Harm (https://tinyurl.com/5c8p3dc9).
A coalition of 19 state attorneys general have launched a formal
investigation into six major U.S. banks, citing legal concerns about
banks’ ESG investing and their involvement with a UN alliance fighting
carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The banks “appear to be
colluding with the UN to destroy American companies” and undermine the
nation’s best interests, one of the AGs said. Another said the policies
resulted in shipping jobs to China, as the regime there ensures low-cost
energy from coal. Missouri AG Eric Schmitt said the Net-Zero Banking
Alliance would keep Missouri farmers, oil leasing companies, and other
vital businesses from getting loans. Pensioners’ retirements would be
sacrificed to BlackRock’s climate agenda (https://tinyurl.com/5bxw2x75).
Worker’s Compensation for Vaccine Injuries?
Some lawyers think the employees who suffer an injury or disability
after receiving a mandated COVID-19 shot might be able to collect
benefits from worker’s compensation. While success is not assured, the
process is easier, more rapid, and more likely to succeed than the
government’s PREP system, and does not preclude receiving benefits from
another source. The “no-fault” system precludes blaming government
compulsion.
“The more people file claims…, the more employers—and their
insurers—may feel pressure to reconsider employer-mandated vaccines in
the future, attorneys suggest (https://tinyurl.com/3ej4zdv9).
Tip of the Month: The FDA wrongly disparages ivermectin and
hydroxychloroquine, despite being approved as safe for decades, but
meanwhile it just bypassed physicians by authorizing pharmacists to sell
an abortion drug directly to the public. Under new rules released by
the FDA the first week in January, the abortion medication mifepristone
may be sold directly by pharmacies that sign up for this program,
without a physician ever evaluating or advising the patient. States may
prohibit this, and some do. But California and New York, which just led
the country in having the biggest population decreases of the past year
according to the Census, welcome this new rule to bypass physicians.
ESG Demands for Patients
Mass General Brigham has enacted a Patient Code of Conduct, which it
claims is similar to that of many healthcare systems. It prohibits
“offensive comments about others’ race, accent, religion, gender, sexual
orientation, or other personal traits” and invites anyone who witnesses
such behavior to report it. Violators may be “asked” to make other
arrangements for care (https://tinyurl.com/2hnt762d). Officials refused to say whether “mis-gendering” would count as a violation (tinyurl.com/3v4u8eb7).
Double Standard for Disparities?
While discriminating against non-“Woke” persons, even to the extent
of denying treatment, may be required, permitting patients to purchase
better care is “ethically indefensible,” argue two young physicians in AMA Journal of Ethics.
“To allow VIP health care to exist condones the notion that some
people—namely, wealthy White people—deserve more care sooner and that
their well-being matters more” (https://tinyurl.com/yc5hchev).
FDA Sued over Abortion Pill
Four physicians, along with the American Association of Pro-Life
Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), the Alliance for Hippocratic
Medicine, the American College of Pediatricians, and the Christian
Medical & Dental Association, filed suit against the FDA over the
approval of the chemical abortion drug mifepristone (Mifeprex™).
Attorney Julie Marie Blake stated that FDA “has failed to protect the
safety of women and girls by exposing them to drugs that are dangerous
and never properly studied for safety, and that never, under the law,
were allowed to be approved in the first place” (https://tinyurl.com/35ezmnuw).
Plaintiffs ask that the Court issue a preliminary and permanent
injunction ordering the drug to be removed from the market. The
Complaint alleges that FDA “eliminated the few safeguards it initially
established to protect women and girls who go through the chemical
abortion drug regimen.” It “never required an assessment that evaluated
the safety and effectiveness of chemical abortion drugs on pregnant
girls under 18 years of age” even though “endocrine disruptors such as
mifepristone could have significant impacts on an adolescent girl’s
developing body and reproductive system.” It also eliminated the
requirement to report nonfatal adverse effects, allowed mail-order
prescriptions despite express prohibition under federal law, and
increased permitted gestational age, among other problems (https://tinyurl.com/366vrsen).
Rebuilding Jefferson’s ‘Wall of Separation’
Leftists agitating against Nativity scenes or prayer at a football
game completely misinterpret a sentence fragment from a letter by Thomas
Jefferson referring to a “wall of separation between the church and
state.” The letter was in response to a letter from Baptists concerning
the 150 years of persecution they had suffered in both New England and
southern colonies. They wrote: “What religious privileges we enjoy (as a
minor part of the State) we enjoy as favors granted, and not as
inalienable rights.” Jefferson’s “wall” was to protect people of faith
from government, not the other way around (https://tinyurl.com/26szn5ua).
Correspondence
Certification in Transgender Treatment. At age 24,
Prisha Mosley is telling her story about the “gender transition” therapy
she was subjected to, with testosterone therapy at age 17 and bilateral
mastectomy at age 18. She had been sexually assaulted and had several
mental health problems including anorexia. She discovered transgenderism
on line, and as soon as she mentioned it, a therapist rushed her into
“gender affirming” treatment. Her parents were told that she would die
without it (https://tinyurl.com/26rdam6j). There is an organization that “certifies” “providers” in various specialties to perform such abuse and mutilation (wpath.org/gei). The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) cites it in its section on “Treatment of Transgender Youth” on its website aap.org.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Hyperaggressive AAP Approach Not Supported. In
Sweden, the diagnosis of gender dysphoria has increased 20-fold over the
past 10 years in persons under the age of 20. The policy of “watchful
waiting” in many Western nations contrasts sharply with the “affirmation
and action” policy of the AAP. Four of the six members of AAP’s LGBT
Health & Wellness Committee are actively working in and promoting
gender-affirming therapies, an obvious conflict of interest. Their
policy paper fails to mention that the dysphoria may be transitory,
neglects to cite outcomes literature, and misrepresents the contents of
some citations.
‘I Can’t Recall.’ In a 7-hour deposition by
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri Attorney General
Eric Schmitt, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who once said “I am the science,” could
recall hardly anything about his COVID-19 response or social media
censorship of opposing views.
Who Is Telling the Truth? Seeing the stark opposing
positions between left and right on almost every issue, a person might
ask, how can one determine which position is right, and which one might
not only be wrong, but a lie? The intolerance of leftists reveals their
mendacious mindset—and the true believer’s inability to consider
evidence proving their ideas wrong. Dennis Prager writes: “With rare
exceptions, the party that calls for censorship is lying. People who
tell the truth can deal with dissent…. In fact, truth-tellers welcome
debate.” If correct, this means the Left is virtually always lying (tinyurl.com/5778h2j9).
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
Extreme Politicization of Science. Coronadoom research has reached new heights of asininity. Exhibit 1: A paper in The Lancet: Regional Health
claims to show that “exposure to conservatism,” reflected in voting
records of members of Congress, correlated with COVID mortality rates (tinyurl.com/4ubcp47v). Exhibit 2: A paper in Am J Med
claims to show that vaccine hesitancy increases the risk of involvement
in a traffic crash. Authors conclude that “a distrust of government or
belief in freedom…contributes to both vaccination preferences and
increased traffic risks” (https://tinyurl.com/yp74m466).
Why Do Doctors Push Mass Vaccination? In early 2021,
the HHS/CDC $13 billion “COVID-19 Community Corps” made undisclosed
individual payments to hundreds of organizations, including AMA, AAFP,
ACOG, AAP, and AMSA. Investigation will probably show a temporal link to
vaccine-promoting activities. Might this explain the AMA’s 2021
campaign to “abolish” the use of ivermectin? Or promoting vaccines for
children and pregnant women without safety trials?
‘We Own the Science.’ UN communications
representative Melissa Fleming, who spoke on a World Economic Forum
disinformation panel on Sept 28, 2022, stated that the UN had partnered
with big-tech search platforms such as Google to manipulate search
results, e.g., on climate change and COVID-19. The UN is in the process
of setting up the tools to censor ALL misinformation that the UN deems
unhelpful for a “stable, peaceful, harmonious and UNITED world.”
Why It Keeps Happening. Everything that’s happened
and is happening becomes much simpler and it all makes sense, only when
you force yourself to think the impossible. If you experimentally adopt
the position that our government is actively working to harm us, to
dismantle modern society and enslave all people in a digitally
controlled totalitarian world, it all fits. Nothing is surplus. Many
have asked why people didn’t resist tyrants in the past. Partly it is
fear. But it’s more than that. It’s that normal people, like you and me,
simply cannot imagine being so evil. Most people are good. Few are
truly terrifyingly horrible. But some are. It’s the inability to believe
it’s happening that really stopped people objecting when they should,
when the evidence was unmistakable but had not yet quite reached their
door, their family. But now they are coming for you and your children.
“Orwellian” is an apt term to describe the total surveillance in our
world. But the radical transformation from traditional culture and
morality (“Victorianism”) to modernism began decades before Orwell. The
starkest metaphor appeared in 1915 in one of the seminal works of the
20th century and Existentialism, Franz Kafka’s novella, “The
Metamorphosis” (Die Verwandlung).
The unforgettable opening sentence is: “Gregor Samsa awakened one
morning from troubled dreams to find himself transformed in his bed into
a gigantic cockroach (Ungeziefer).
Kafka does not suggest how or why this could have happened. The
absurdity is accepted matter-of-factly, as its effects are explored.
Gregor gets a different perspective as he creeps along the ceiling
upside down, and he can eat only spoiled food.
A more dramatic example of being trapped in the wrong body cannot be
imagined. Gregor tries to hold on to aspects of his humanity as he
adapts to his new form, and attempts to overcome alienation from his
family, despite their “transphobia.”
Aside from the rare case of lycanthropy, in which people believe
themselves to be animals (though not repulsive vermin), today’s
epidemic of “wrong” bodies concerns human bodies of the “wrong” gender.
This begs the question of what a human being “is” and how and why its
essence gets attached to a body. It seems to be a radical extension of
Cartesian mind-body dualism. How does science deal with this
non-material entity? We dare not question how people, even babes in the
womb, just “know.”
Transhumanism
Human beings have inherently no greater dignity than vermin in the
view of New World Order (NWO) architects, and in fact may be considered a
plague on the Planet.
“A systemic transformation of the world,” said Klaus Schwab (tinyurl.com/34wz4478, AAPS News, April 2021), will lead us to a fusion of our physical, our digital, and our biological identities” (tinyurl.com/3wh8bu63). We will use nanotechnology and a direct brain-computer interface to upgrade Homo sapiens into
beings who are much more different from us than we are from
animals—into gods. We will replace natural selection with intelligent
design—by us, explains Yuval Noah Harari, chief advisor to the World
Economic Forum (tinyurl.com/yw5sdnrh).
Biopolitics and Biopower
Coined in 1905 by Rudolf Kjellén, who viewed the state as a
quasi-biological organism, a “super-individual creature,” the term
biopolitics was used by certain Nazis to refer to their own organic
theory of the state and its people, as well as to the racist and
eugenicist political program they were developing. It signifies the
penetration of the political into human biology, enabling more refined
and precise control over the living bodies and populations.
People are blindly accepting a biopolitical surveillance regime, in
which “wearables” even monitor our emotions, for the prospect of
achieving public health or “equity”—safetyism and wokeism (https://tinyurl.com/bdnh6ck2).
The Transgender Agenda
So entrenched is transgenderism in established medicine that the
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) would not even allow the Society
for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine to set up an information booth at its
annual conference. SEGM’s members object to the widespread use of
“affirmative care” protocols, which frequently send young people along a
path of rapid “transition” via hormone treatments and surgery (https://tinyurl.com/4ad323yn).
To help achieve the “Triple Aim” for sexual and gender minorities
(SGMs), Michael Liu et al. of Harvard advocate requiring collection of
SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) data in electronic records
(NEJM 7/28/22). How many options would be needed? The
application for San Francisco’s transgender guaranteed income suggests
97 gender options (omnigender, xenogender, waria, neutrois, …) and 19
sexual orientations (https://tinyurl.com/bddmvran).
Transgenderism is “a new ideology that bears all the force of an
evangelizing religion, backed by activist billionaires, which has
captured all the high ground in our culture,” writes John Zmirak. “We
must think through clearly, even ruthlessly, the full implications of
the dogmas taught by the transgenderist cult, which public school
teachers are preaching to our children—and Democrats are enshrining into
law” (https://tinyurl.com/3nhvus83).
An addition to the LGBTQ++ orientations, “minor-attracted person”
(pedophile), is not only gaining prominence, but persons calling
attention to it might be punished, as by being sued into bankruptcy,
warns Tucker Carlson (https://tinyurl.com/9y736xe2).
NWO globalists are not concerned about the unhappiness of a few
transgendered people. The LGBTQ++ movement helps prevent reproduction,
and also undermines the traditional structure of society. It increases
the number of souls “lost in the cosmos,” as Walker Percy might say.
Perhaps most importantly, by requiring people to assent to and
ultimately believe that one sex can be transitioned into another, they
will accept any absurdity. The result is a society that is both
Orwellian and Kafkaesque.
As O’Brien said in 1984, “In our world…we shall
destroy—everything…. We have cut the links between child and parent…,
man and woman…. There will be no art, no literature, no science.”
Perspective: Typhus and the Holocaust
In trying to understand the “good German,” Filipe Rafaeli considers
how the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto managed to curb a massive typhus
epidemic, which killed 10%–40% of its victims (tinyurl.com/2y94bk5b).
The established scientific consensus was that “the Jews are
overwhelmingly the carriers and disseminators of typhus infection.” The
epidemic wall of the ghetto Seuchensperrgebiet (restricted
area, lockdown) was built to contain “these parasites.” Hans Frank, one
of the highest authorities of the General Government, “following
science,” stated that the murder of 3 million Jews in Poland “was
unavoidable for reasons of public health.”
Some say that censorship, propaganda, and public health authorities
taking action believed to be based on scientific consensus could lead
the population, in fear of a disease, even to approve of a Holocaust.
Rafaeli writes that this starts from a wrong assumption: that the
“well-educated German people were stupid enough to believe the gross lie
that Jews were guilty of the typhus pandemic.”
A mere dictatorship is not enough, he states, to attain the
complicity of almost a whole society. “It needs a totalitarian state
where the population is in harmony with the dictatorial government. It
needs a people that collaborates by denouncing, helping, and not caring
about the evil in front of them.” In such a state, evil is declared to
be good.
Rafaeli understood the “good German” when reading the current story
of a boy in Cyprus who was denied life-saving heart surgery in Germany,
the UK, and Israel because his parents were unvaccinated against COVID.
What is the difference between the doctors in those hospitals and those
who applauded Dr. Jost Walbaum? What they have in common, Rafaeli
states, is contempt for the lives of others (tinyurl.com/ybvtp5u2).
‘Social Justice’ over Science
The oath written by the University of Minnesota medical school class of 2026 (https://tinyurl.com/3dzvj2mj), which was quickly removed from the website, reads:
We commit to uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural
violence deeply embedded within the healthcare system. We recognize
inequities built by past and present traumas rooted in white supremacy,
colonialism, the gender binary, ableism, and all forms of oppression….
[W]e commit to promoting a culture of anti-racism, listening, and
amplifying voices for positive change. We pledge to honor all Indigenous
ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by Western
medicine. Knowing that health is intimately connected to our
environment, we commit to healing our planet and communities.
Quoting an article by OutKick, Luke Rexing writes: “In what is
supposed to be a factual, scientific, evidence-based profession with a
long-standing code of ethics, wokeness is winning.” He adds that this
ideology “has seeped into every crack of existence.”
“Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property.”
Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto
‘Transforming the Path to Health Equity’
The 2021-2022 annual report in Columbia Medicine details
efforts to lead the transformation of medical education with
“anti-racist curriculum development” and work toward “meaningful change
that will result in a health care system free of disparities.”
Grant-writing assistance is provided to health equity scholars who will
advance the investigation of health disparities, such as the
disproportionate impact of chronic disease in “communities of color.”
The death of George Floyd spurred a systemic effect by medical schools
to create a transformative, ongoing anti-racism strategy. First, people
need to understand what “anti-racist” means; then learning objectives
need to be included, “because if something isn’t assessed, then it’s not
taken seriously.”
Transforming (Destroying) Education & Science
“The publication of incorrect knowledge—including potentially entire
sub-branches of scientific literature, and including fabricated
results—can become accepted through the peer-reviewed system of
publication, making it economically harder to unwind and correct the
direction of science,” writes Mathew Crawford. The well is poisoned
early: “Schools are a breeding ground for cheaters,” and cheating has
become a “controlled feedback loop.” The method results in “brainwashing
specialists into a particular form of nihilism.” The use of artificial
intelligence in machine-learning algorithms (e.g., by Google) has driven
the situation “from catastrophic to worse.” Their use in such a flawed
educational system is “a recipe for the totalitarian destruction of
science” (https://tinyurl.com/3xtju8ta).
War without End
Progressives never say where they want to go, observes Anthony
Esolen. Progress implies a destination, where one can find rest and
peace once one arrives—which implies the existence of a natural human
order. Progressives do not believe in a natural order, and are
disturbers of the peace. Evidence of their unrest abounds. Normal people
do not despise their ancestors, nor do they wish that there were one
sex, or 30, or none. And “normal people accept a statute of limitations
when it comes to past sins, and do not expect human purity around the
corner.”
Rejecting nature, the progressive reveres the state-made-god, to
which he cedes an ever more intrusive central control over as many
features of human life as possible. “Worry is the blood of the state’s
heart.” Peace and tranquility are the enemy (Chronicles 3/1/22, https://tinyurl.com/mrx44wwd).
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Eugenics: Falling and Rising Again?
California is poised to approve up to $25,000 for persons who were
forcibly sterilized without adequate informed consent because the state
decided they were unfit to have children. California was responsible for
about one-third of 60,000 such sterilization performed in the U.S. The
state has set aside $7.5 million for the reparations program for the few
hundred persons still living.
The promise of eugenics when it started around 1909 was that the
state could do away with prisons, hospitals, asylums, and orphanages
because after a while people who were in them just wouldn’t be born.
California’s law was so prominent that it inspired similar practices in
Nazi Germany (tinyurl.com/59jjcy39).
Most of the Nazi physicians who helped to legitimate and implement
“racial hygiene” policies were not called to account, and some were able
to continue their careers. Sterilization remained part of public policy
in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia into the 1970s (NEJM 7/29/2004).
Eugenics was “one of the defining ideas of the 20th century,” writes
Adam Rutherford of University College London. It was a political creed
that emanated from “racist, classist, ableist” beliefs. In 1938, J.B.S.
Haldane wrote, “I do not believe that our present knowledge of human
heredity justifies such steps” as taken in the U.S. and Nazi Germany.
Now, “we strive to change the culture of science to be more inclusive.”
Also, with precision gene editing, we have “unprecedented possibilities
for the control of human biology” (Science 9/24/21). What will define the 21st century?
Tavistock Centre Closing
While American doctors are advertising gender-affirming surgery for
children on TikTok, Britain’s National Health Service announced that it
was closing down the Gender and Identity Development Service (GIDS) at
the Tavistock Clinic in London, which has seen thousands of British
children for gender dysphoria. Previously, whistleblowers, a
detransitioned woman, psychologists, and parents had raised concerns.
The National Institute for Care and Excellence (NICE) found that the
link between transitioning and improved psychological function was, in
fact, very weak (https://tinyurl.com/5n8nmtsf). The coup de grâce was a report by pediatrician Hilary Cass.
Dr. Cass found that GIDS was administering potentially life-changing
treatments to often vulnerable children, sometimes involving drugs
whose effects it did not understand and often without adequate
record-keeping to track the welfare of those children. Puberty-blocking
drugs, rather than buying time to make a decision about gender, might
actually disrupt the decision-making process, she wrote. Moreover,
“brain maturation may be temporarily or permanently disrupted by puberty
blockers, which could have significant impact on the ability to make
complex risk-laden decisions, as well as possible longer-term
neuropsychological consequences. To date, there has been very limited
research on the short-, medium- or longer-term impact of puberty
blockers on neurocognitive development” (https://tinyurl.com/5hjrpmu9).
The clinic now faces a class action suit involving more than 1,000
individuals and families. The common theme in the stories told by
regretful young people is contempt for the medical “professionals” in
the field of gender transition, who hurried them along without informing
them of risks (tinyurl.com/ye243nwv).
FDA Sued for Interference in Medicine
Three physicians, Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Robert Apter, and Dr. Mary
Bowden, have sued the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for
Health and Human Services for interference with physicians’ ability to
treat COVID-19. Apter v. HHS highlights the FDA’s disparaging, misleading statements to many influential organizations about ivermectin.
The main point of the case is not that ivermectin could have saved
millions of lives, but that the FDA broke with both law and tradition by
interfering with the practice of medicine, i.e., with the authority to
prescribe drugs approved for human use for an “off-label” indication (https://tinyurl.com/3y9x4ubd).
In its amicus brief, AAPS writes: “Defendant FDA has improperly
exploited misunderstandings about the legality and prevalence of
off-label uses of medication, in order to mislead courts, state medical
boards, and the public into thinking there is anything improper about
off-label prescribing” (https://tinyurl.com/28ukattt).
“In ruling against patients seeking access to ivermectin to treat
Covid-19, as recommended by their physicians, multiple courts have
relied on the misinformation and improper interference by the FDA as a
basis for denying access now” (ibid.).
Pfizer Contract with EU Countries
From the 25-page contract that Pfizer has with Slovenia, and
presumably other EU countries: “The…State further acknowledges that the
long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known.”
Pfizer also states that vaccines are under rapid development, and that
the injections will not be the same as those used in the clinical
trials. The contract protects Pfizer from any claim of adverse effects (https://tinyurl.com/5n8xptrv).
Private Censorship
Two complaints by homosexuals about a cartoon in The European Conservative
led a newsstand to ban the publication permanently. The cartoon mocked
schools’ enforced indoctrination of young children in LGBTQ++ ideology.
“The main threat of censorship comes nowadays not from governments,”
writes Theodore Dalrymple, “but from an alliance, or at least a synergy,
of pressure groups and unscrupulous and pusillanimous corporations.”
“Freedom is not merely a matter of legal or constitutional
arrangements, but a habit of the heart…. Freedom cannot long survive
perpetual, chronic, and largely bogus outrage” (https://tinyurl.com/yejyx3zv).
Tip of the Month:
Beware of COVID Scapegoating. Although AAPS
physicians were heroically on the front lines saving hundreds of
thousands of lives during COVID, beware of some isolated scapegoating
attempts by disgruntled patients’ families who lost relatives due to
hospital protocols. Private physicians, of course, should not be blamed
for the denial of care by a hospital. Powerful hospital systems are
asserting in court that they determine the standard of care. They should
take full responsibility for the COVID deaths they caused with their
harmful protocols. Fortunately, most state medical boards recognize that
the hospital deaths from COVID were not due to care by private
physicians.
Correspondence
Former Trans Teen Calls out ‘Despicable’ AAP, AMA. In
a letter of intent to sue Kaiser Permanente, Chloe Cole accuses the
medical groups who performed, supervised, or advised transgender hormone
therapy and surgery for her when she was between 13 and 17 years old of
gross negligence. Cole recently formed Detrans United, to support
“detransitioners,” and sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick
Garland denouncing the AAP, the AMA, and the Children’s Hospital
Association for endorsing “gender-affirming care.” Harmeet Dhillon, CEO
of the Center for American Liberty, stated: “Through this legal action,
the ‘professionals’ involved will be held accountable for
their despicable plot to mutilate children and financially benefit from
it…. We will break the cycle of them breaking our children before it’s
too late.” Everything, including bilateral mastectomy, was covered by
insurance, as required by California law. With SB 107, California has
become a transgender sanctuary state. Parents who bring their children
to California for gender-affirming care are sheltered from prosecution
for child abuse in other states (https://tinyurl.com/rhpr6k3c).
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Ideology First. “Trust the experts” is the refrain
every time elected officials question life-altering “gender-affirming”
treatments in children. But Manhattan Institute scholar Leor Sapir
examined the transgender care guidelines released by prominent medical
associations, including the AAP, and supportive statements from the
AMA. None had done systematic reviews of the evidence, and they
misrepresented the research. Researchers in Europe contradict their
conclusions, and instead find that “there is no evidence that the
benefits of hormones for treating gender-related distress in youth
outweighs [sic] the risks.” Sweden, Finland, and the UK have all taken steps to limit such treatments.
Mexicans, Brazilians Defend Democracy. Whoever
would’ve thought that our southern neighbors have more patriotism and
guts than Americans, as they hold massive protests over election fraud.
They have national identity, common religion, and a shared nationality.
We have multiculturalism. Up to 500,000 Mexicans in 15 cities were in
the streets to protest far-left President López Obrador’s plan to
eliminate the National Electoral Institute (INE) and state-based
electoral authorities and possibly such safeguards as Voter ID (https://tinyurl.com/mtuxr7rz). Those pushing for the New World Order plan to control elections.
Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ
The Source of Anti-Semitism, Transhumanism, and More.
As I learned while teaching in Romania, one of the first things
Communists do to take over a country is bomb their historic statues and
museums and invent a new “history,” then change their language
using equivocal terms (same term, but different meaning). We need to
study connections between historical disruptors/agendas and today’s.
Transhumanism is the latest –ism grounded in ancient gnosticism. The
global gurus have been trying to teach us for the last few decades how
we can transfer our “brains” into computers to get rid of our evil
material bodies and become purely “spiritual.” Of course, as such, we
will be androgenous (transgender). The Law of Moses was a dangerous
threat to the gnostics of the time, so Jews were painted as a scourge
against humanity. Gnosticism is also the ancient foundation for
abortion, population control, bioethics, and eugenics. As a professor I
learned early on the immense influence gnosticism has today on our
students and on almost every area of the humanities in the academy and
every facet of our daily living. Yet it is not identified (https://tinyurl.com/y484hws4).
Dianne N. Irving, Ph.D.
Equality through Excellence. An 80-year history of
the Dept. of Urology at the Univ. of Minn. that I edited recounts the
openness to innovation challenging conventional wisdom that attracted a
bevy of bright young residents beginning in the 1970s—one called it a
“magic moment.” Their world-class accomplishments resulted from merit in
a place requiring excellence, not “equity.” A place not burdened by
bogus racial hate, memory holes, and bogus “equity” sloganeering. All
faculty and students aimed to best serve each patient equally well.
Robert W. Geist, M.D., North Oaks, MN
The Digital Gulag. The global vaccine passport,
approved by the G20, ostensibly for facilitating international travel
and tourism, uses technology easily adaptable for other purposes, such
as carbon tracking or eventual banishment of undesirables from society.
It’s not about health, but about total control.
Transcommunism Is Coming. Klaus Schwab saw in the
COVID crisis and the reactions to it not death, economic misery, and an
attack on fundamental human rights, but rather a “narrow window of
opportunity” to roll out the scenarios that have been ready since a few
years ago—such as digital ID and central bank currency. “You will own
nothing.” There is even a Transcommunist flag and LGBT Pride pin.
President Biden famously said: “For those brave right-wing
Americans…if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15.
You need something little more than a gun” (https://tinyurl.com/58mmvn5j).
A gun is also of no use against SWAT teams in riot gear, search
warrants, subpoenas, indictments, prison terms, and crushing fines.
At present, the FBI is concentrating on those who question the 2020
election results or who might strongly and effectively support
pro-Trump or anti-leftwing candidates in future elections.
In what Tucker Carlson called a “full-scale purge” of Trump
supporters, about 50 very broad search warrants and/or subpoenas from
the “Capitol Siege” section of the Department of Justice, demanding
communications relating to election irregularities, were served. Such
activities are, we thought, protected by the First Amendment (https://tinyurl.com/2jr3r2ye).
But it’s not just about electoral politics, and it’s not new. Melania
Trump’s wardrobe was searched for documents. Decades ago, agents
searched shoeboxes in a physician’s closet, looking for medical records
in a failed attempt to prove Medicaid fraud (AAPS News, June and November 1990, August 1992). Agents pointed a gun at an innocent physician’s 9-year-old son, while searching his home for records (AAPS News, July 1997).
Mike Lindell of MyPillow, prominent in alleging election fraud, had
his cell phone seized, keeping him from conducting his business. Two top
Trump advisors also had their phones seized, according to Judicial
Watch. Many physicians have had their computers and patient records
seized in the War on Drugs.
It’s forever war: on healthcare fraud, on drugs, on terrorism, on a
virus, on “climate change,” on “misinformation,” on “white supremacy,”
on “extremism.” An FBI whistleblower stated that agents are now
pressured to label cases as “domestic violent extremism.” The increasing
cases being identified throughout the country are all connected to Jan 6
(tinyurl.com/4m7wpnub).
When Did It Begin?
Some say it started in 2001 with 9/11. A quantum leap in federal
power and surveillance resulted when the PATRIOT Act quickly emerged
from somewhere full-grown. Americans were reminded of the horror,
again, in the 21st anniversary memorial.
Is the 9/11 Narrative a test of Americans’ credulity? We repeatedly
see planes crashing into WTC-1 and WTC-2, but not the late-afternoon
collapse of WTC-7, purportedly due to a few office fires. Yet an
enormous recent fire in China failed to bring down a 42-story skyscraper
(https://tinyurl.com/yhpzjk6h); indeed, WTC-7 is the only skyscraper ever collapsed by fire.
There are other questions, and conspiracy theories. Recall the
original conspiracy theory about the assassination of President Kennedy:
that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, did not kill JFK. A single
accomplice creates a conspiracy. Did Osama bin Laden, acting alone,
orchestrate 9/11 from a hospital bed in Pakistan (https://tinyurl.com/5dwy4fa3)?
If the official Narrative is true despite many contradictions and the
rapid destruction of evidence, it raises serious doubts about the
capability of U.S. F-15 and F-16 air defenses.
To the regime, the events of Jan 6 are comparable to those of 9/11,
except that the former was an “inside job” involving many
co-conspirators who are still being tracked down. One woman was awakened
by three armed FBI agents the day after Biden’s anti-MAGA speech, on
the basis of a false anonymous tip that she had been at the Capitol on
Jan 6 (tinyurl.com/36dmb25v).
Apocalyptic, “existential” threats, to Americans emotionally primed
by the image of the rapid destruction of two of the safest structures in
the world, have much of the population in a state of chronic terror,
longing for government-ensured safety. Perhaps that accounts for the
results of a Rasmussen poll. Asked about Biden’s assertion that “Donald
Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the
very foundations of our republic,” 48% of likely voters agree,
including 36% who strongly agree. Only 47% disagree, with 39%
disagreeing strongly, reports Paul Craig Roberts (https://tinyurl.com/576xf6dj).
The COVID-19 Test
COVID-19 measures are the test for compliance and “social
responsibility,” which billions of people passed, states Mridul Kaushik,
mission director for the Smart Cities Mission of the World Economic
Forum. Similar measures are being extrapolated into WEF “climate change”
protocols (tinyurl.com/39the9zm).
People will only be able to rent, not own, what the system permits—no
cash. Deprivation of access to food and energy could suppress dissent
with no need for prosecution (and due process).
As EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said prior to the
election of Giorgia Meloni as prime minister of Italy, “We will see the
results of the vote in Italy. If things go in a difficult direction, we
have tools” (https://tinyurl.com/bdzbfk92).
Germany is leading the way. Dissenters from COVID measures are not
just being stigmatized and demonized, but criminalized as dangerous
“extremists,” who are “anti-democratic and/or delegitimizing the state
in a way that endangers security.” For example, they protest
non-violently, or speak out against, or criticize, or satirize the
global ideology called the “New Normal” (https://tinyurl.com/ydss42sz).
Flashback
The COVID-19 pandemic response is eerily similar to the response to
smallpox 135 years ago, when vaccination mandates were accompanied by
increasingly harsh punitive measures, writes Steve Kirsch. “The solution
then was not trying to convince decision makers using rational
scientific arguments. It was a mass public protest that resulted in the
abandonment of what the ‘experts’ were saying to do and adoption of new
methods that worked that were opposed by the medical community” (https://tinyurl.com/mr2vtx9m). Vaccination still got the credit.
One example: By the end of 1868, more than 95% of the inhabitants of
Chicago had been vaccinated. After the Great Fire of 1871, vaccination
was made a condition of receiving relief supplies. A devastating
smallpox epidemic hit in 1872. More than 2,000 persons contracted
smallpox, of whom more than 25% died, with the fatality rate among
children under 5 being the highest ever recorded (https://tinyurl.com/yc2vw4s5).
Vaccination Updates
Denmark Bans COVID Jab under Age 50. The Danish
Health Authority, after previously banning COVID-19 shots for nearly
everyone under age 18, has expanded the prohibition to age 50, unless
patients are at “higher risk of becoming severely infected.” It said
that “the purpose of vaccination is not to prevent infection with
COVID-19,” and that there is already good immunity in the population (https://tinyurl.com/2txwembz).
EU May Mandate Shots. European Commission president
Ursula von der Leyen stated that we have a horrible pandemic, and
life-saving vaccines, but they are not being used adequately everywhere.
About one-third of the European population is not vaccinated.
Discussion is needed about making vaccination mandatory (https://tinyurl.com/4j9xwjv6).
Excess Mortality. The European country with the
second highest vaccination rate (Portugal) has the highest excess
mortality, and the country with the lowest vaccination rate (Bulgaria)
has the lowest excess mortality, but “correlation does not prove
causality,” and “there’s nothing to see here,” says Mark Steyn (https://tinyurl.com/5axe6fzh).
Death Rate Higher in Vaccinated. Based on data from
the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), Dr. Marian Laderoute
calculated that mortality from both COVID-19 and other causes was higher
in vaccinated persons (2.16 times and 11.41 times as high,
respectively, in December 2021). She states that rescinding the
emergency use authorizations (EUAs) in May 2021 would have prevented
nearly 400,000 deaths from all causes between Jun 1, 2021, and May 31,
2022 (https://tinyurl.com/mpnnr4y4).
Pregnancy Outcomes. In the thousands of pages of
Pfizer documents that a court has ordered released each month, it
appears that the outcome was known in only 32 of the 270 pregnancies
that occurred in vaccinated women. Only one normal outcome was reported.
Most of the fetuses or newborns died, writes Dr. Pierre Kory (https://tinyurl.com/ysaxrjv5).
“[T]he people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger.”
Hermann Goering
Threats to the State
Surveillance of “Extremists.” The Office for the
Protection of the Constitution, the German domestic intelligence
agency, set up a new department specifically tasked with handling cases
(such as coronavirus deniers) that “seek to delegitimize the state,”
since they do not fit the mold posed by the usual, politically driven
groups, including Islamic extremists. Psychologist and conspiracy expert
Pia Lamberty said: “The danger of Querdenken [lateral
thinking]” she said, “has long been underestimated.” When “deniers” drew
40,000 protesters to Berlin, a small number managed to jump police
lines and climb Parliament’s outside stairs. This was characterized as
an “attack on the heart of democracy” (NY Times 2/28/21, tinyurl.com/msfnwbxu).
California Senator Richard Pan. “These
[anti-vaccine] extremists have not yet been held accountable, so they
continue to escalate violence against the body public…. We must now
summon the political will to demand that domestic terrorists face
consequences for their words and actions. Our democracy and our lives
depend on it…. They’ve been building alliances with white supremacists,
conspiracy theorists and [others] on the far right” (Wash Post 2/28/21, https://tinyurl.com/4jhhkhhz).
Peter Hotez. “The [UN] and…governments must take
direct, even confrontational, approaches…, and move to dismantle
anti-vaccine groups…. Efforts…should include experts who have tackled
complex global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks and nuclear
armament, because anti-science is now approaching similar levels of
peril” (Nature 4/27/21, tinyurl.com/ya6bbe24).
Climate Police. The Ministry of Environment &
Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is building a new facility in Winnipeg that
will house a firearms armory, interrogation rooms, biological labs, and
intelligence facilities. The Impact Assessment Act (IAA), which was
quietly passed in the final days of Trudeau’s majority government,
empowers agents of the Ministry of Climate Change to enter premises
without a warrant to “verify compliance or prevent non-compliance with
[the Act].” Climate Police may also prohibit access to the location
entirely. Opponents say this has the potential to cripple the food
supply (tinyurl.com/nhzvkv3).
Power Shift to NGOs. An incestuous network of elites
was able to overwhelm governments and take control of the global COVID
response, without accountability. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
is the most powerful organization, and Gates is also involved in Gavi,
the Wellcome Trust, and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness
Innovations (CEPI). Bolstered by contacts at the highest levels of
Western nations and empowered by well-grooved relationships with drug
makers, they form a kind of global health monopoly (tinyurl.com/yc7fdn4u)—according to Woke mainstream Politico, which would have dismissed these ideas as right-wing conspiracy theory one month ago.
AAPS Calendar
AAPS 80th Annual Meeting: October 26-28, 2023, Ft. Worth, Texas.
ACTION OF THE MONTH
The AAPS Educational Foundation offers scholarships to medical
students and residents to attend our meetings. Have interested persons
contact us at aaps@aapsonline.org.
The Court Versus the Left
The U.S. Supreme Court is no longer a belligerent in the culture war, writes Wesley Stine. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization reversed 20th-century
liberalism’s biggest achievement, as accomplished in the Warren and
Burger Courts, which consisted of finding increasingly creative ways to
say, “The old separation of powers is abolished. We are the real
legislature now.”
The Court found itself playing the role that Octavian and his heirs
had played in first century Rome, Stine observes. Like early imperial
Rome, the U.S. was still nominally a Republic, but its the elected arm
had been relegated to the role that the senators, consuls, and tribunes
played under the principate—their power was limited to those issues on
which the emperor (in our case, the Supreme Court) did not have a strong
opinion.
The Left is now losing on abortion, on guns, on religious freedom,
and on the powers of regulatory agencies like the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
The ruling class is very angry. In Orwellian doublespeak, they insist
that allowing the abortion issue to be resolved “by citizens trying to
persuade one another and then voting” is an attack on
democracy. Progressive leaders are dropping their support for judicial
supremacy. The Court has lopped off one head of the many-headed hydra.
“But the state courts, the universities, the press, the administrative
state, and the major corporations are still lined up against the
American people, and they will continue to wield the bulk of real
power.” Restoring the Republic will be a hard struggle, with an
uncertain outcome, in Stine’s view (Chronicles, August 2022, https://tinyurl.com/ycxfywj3).
“The court has only just begun to reshape the country,” laments editorialist Maya Sen (“Save the Supreme Court and Democracy,” Science 8/11/22). But reform is “not impossible.”
Litigation Briefs
NYPD Union Members Ordered to Be Reinstated. New
York City police officers who were fired because of the COVID-19 vaccine
mandate must be reinstated, ruled Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle
Frank. The mandate imposed a new condition of employment and issued
enforcement beyond monetary sanctions prescribed in the law. The city
said it would appeal, likely freezing the judge’s ruling (https://tinyurl.com/2hyxjn9p).
Freedom of Conscience. Physicians cannot be forced
to do abortions or to provide transgender drugs or surgeries, ruled the
5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra.
The Biden Administration and the ACLU were attempting to compel
performance of these actions under §1557 of the Affordable Care Act (https://tinyurl.com/3cts2s4f).
Tip of the Month: The finest Supreme Court
Justice of the last century was Robert H. Jackson, who never attended
college and never graduated from law school. He presided in the 1940s
and 1950s, and yet is denied credit by leftist law professors. In ruling
for the religious liberty of a student, Jackson famously held,
“Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the
graveyard.” One of his comments can come in handy amid so many
tyrannical prosecutions today: “Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the
suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any
circumstances.”
FBI Invades Home of Pro-Life Activist
At 7 a.m., 25 to 30 heavily armed FBI agents entered the home of Mark
Houck, pointing their assault rifles throughout the house and
terrifying seven children. Houk was taken away in handcuffs on a charge
of assaulting an abortion clinic volunteer a year ago, a charge
dismissed by the Philadelphia District Court. Reportedly, Houck had
pushed back against the man, who was verbally abusing his son. Houck has
been indicted for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances
(FACE) Act, a felony charge that carries a prison sentence of up to 11
years, and fines of up to $350,000 (https://tinyurl.com/3kmnrbm8).
Pro-abortion activists that are attacking pregnancy resource centers are
also subject to FACE but are not being prosecuted, states Sen. Josh
Hawley (R-Mo.) (https://tinyurl.com/5vpukjdf).
JAMA Bemoans Constraints on Agencies
The Supreme Court’s action on vaccine mandates limits the federal
government’s ability to flexibly protect public health, write Lawrence
Gostin, J.D., et al. They cite justices dissenting in the OSHA case: it
“stymies the Federal Government’s ability to counter unparalleled”
threats (JAMA 2/22/22). Biden advisor Ashish Jha, M.D., is
“deeply worried” that people are going to start unwinding other vaccine
mandates. AMA president George Harmon, M.D., said the Court had “halted
one of the most effective tools in the fight against further
transmission and death from this aggressive virus.” AMA requires both
the primary COVID series and boosters of all 1,200 workers, even those
who never report to an office (Abbasi J, et al., JAMA 2/22/22).
Professional Civil Disobedience
According to the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, there may be times when
physicians must accept, en masse, fines, licensure suspension, even
imprisonment, rather than harm a patient. Past examples include Soviet
imprisonment of political prisoners in psychiatric facilities, South
Africans filing false reports on prisoners injured by police, and
participation in torture. In today’s America, Matthew Wynia, M.D.,
M.P.H., suggests that professional associations consider supporting
physicians who engage in civil disobedience on one issue:
participation in illegal abortions: “to repair the moral fabric of our
country and the integrity of our profession, which have been so
injudiciously ruptured by the Supreme Court” (NEJM 9/15/22, https://tinyurl.com/t596u95b).
The Scarlet ‘E’
The late Angelo Codevilla wrote: “Asking Americans to label one
another ‘extremists’ is the most ruinous thing that the woke oligarchy’s
malevolent morons are doing to our country. They mean to criminalize
insufficient deference to themselves.” Machiavelli recognized that
nothing destroys republics more surely than placing anonymous
accusations into the hands of rulers.
Codevilla cites the apocryphal story that when the Nazis demanded
that Jews in Denmark wear a yellow star, all Danes, starting with King
Christian X, put on the star. It is within our power to defang the
accusation of extremism in a similar way, he suggests (https://tinyurl.com/4ck3nz2v).
A Model. Chinese officials look at the UK as a
cautionary tale of a government placing “human rights above security.”
Instead, Xi Jinping encouraged implementing aspects of the U.S. “war on
terror” following the 9/11 attacks. He said to “show absolutely no
mercy” in the “struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism.”
The “organs of dictatorship” are needed to deal with extremism.
Prolonged isolation and detention of Uighurs for “vocational training”
is justified by the language of disease. “Freedom is only possible when
this ‘virus’ in their thinking is eradicated and they are in good
health.” There has been resistance from local officials. In 2017, there
were more than 12,000 investigations into party members for violations
related to the “fight against separatism” (https://tinyurl.com/mppkjvv7).
In the U.S., failure to support “ruling authorities” (hospital
administrations) can land a physician in a treatment center for
“disruptive” behavior that applies similar methods. The “patients” may
be on lockdown for months and not allowed to have any contact with
spouse or family—not even phone calls. Coercive drugging may occur. In
one case, we learned that a resident physician was threatened
with electroconvulsive shock therapy unless he altered his attitude
toward the ruling authorities (it was never actually administered).
Where are we headed?
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
It’s the Money. Here’s the secret to the explosion
of transgender surgeries. In 2014 Obama modified Medicare/Medicaid law
to pay for this. Then in 2016 Obamacare forced such coverage onto
private insurers. No wonder Johns Hopkins restarted its sex change
program in 2015, and so many other institutions have gotten on the
bandwagon. Just 3,256 gender transition procedures were performed in the
U.S. in 2016; the next year, the number surged by more than 150%, and
in 2020 surpassed 16,000 (https://tinyurl.com/4399cafr).
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
Shadowbanning Search Engines? If you search my
Substack for “rabbi,” “rabbis,” or a similar word, many articles come
up, but not the one about rabbis misleading people on COVID jabs’ effect
on fertility. Is it because Substack doesn’t want people to see my
discussion of a 82% miscarriage rate in women jabbed during the first
two trimesters of pregnancy, based on an article in NEJM (https://tinyurl.com/2tbazr53)?
James Hill, M.D., San Francisco, CA
“Science.” Dr. Paul Thomas is suing the Oregon Medical Board for $35 million (https://tinyurl.com/mu6cfc8t).
Apparently, he did a study, got it published in a journal, and the
state medical board suspended his license because they don’t like his
findings. Whatever happened to free speech, free scientific inquiry? A
plaque at the University of Wisconsin (1894) states: “Whatever may be
the limitations that trammel inquiry elsewhere we believe that the great
state University of Wisconsin should forever encourage the continual
and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be
found.”
Albert Fisher, M.D., Oshkosh, WI
Howling at the Moon. The administrative state and
its voice, the corporate media, are having a temper tantrum over Supreme
Court decisions—demanding that we “discipline” or ditch the “rogue”
Court. Or even the Constitution or the Union itself. One might think
that threatening justices and their wives would be more likely to
warrant the term “domestic terrorism” than discussing the merits of
early COVID treatment or the dangers of novel genetic vaccine
technology. What is causing the extreme anguish is the Court’s attempt
to leash the out-of-control Administrative State and bring it to heel.
And to force Congress to stop delegating responsibility to a bureaucracy
that has morphed into a corporatist inverted totalitarian state
Mastiff.
Thinking Points. CDC budget, $10.6 billion; FDA
budget, $6.1 billion; Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine revenue, $33 billion;
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine revenue, $21 billion; advance purchase order
for reformulated shots, $3.2 billion; efficacy trials for the rejiggered
boosters, 8 mice. The most expensive BALB mouse costs about $48.91. The
antibody tests cost $391.28. Add a bit for mouse food. No autopsies
were done.
Toby Rogers, Ph.D.
Misinformed Rabbis. I have read that two respected
Zionist rabbis said that the unvaccinated are not following rabbinical
law and should be barred from worshipping in temples. They are ignorant
of medical facts. Jewish law simply says that health should supersede
any Talmudic law.
Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ
Driven by Fear. World-wide bureaucrats learned from
this two-year experiment in lockdowns and mass vaccinations that
abject fear can be effective in population control but destroys the
world’s economies and irreparably alters people’s lives forever.
When Speaker Pelosi and other politicians warn about threats to “our democracy,” they mean threats to their position of power.
Yes, we have elections, but for the Left, only the outcome matters,
not a fair and honest process. In the Jan 6 so-called insurrection (tinyurl.com/5etr3rjz),
protesters were not calling for overturning an election, but for
delaying certification until states could investigate alleged
irregularities. In our constitutional Republic it is the states’
responsibility to certify results.
For contrast, consider the real 2014 insurrection in Maidan, Ukraine, with 20 killed and hundreds wounded (tinyurl.com/mrxv45ry).
This overturned a democratic election; deposed sitting President Viktor
Yanukovych, who fled the country; and “restructured” the government,
with advice from the U.S., including then-Vice President Joe Biden. This
was one of many U.S.-supported “color revolutions” that resulted in a
“regime change,” a.k.a. “putsch” or “coup d’etat” (tinyurl.com/yvba829t).
Before U.S. midterm elections can roll back some of the power the
Left gained in 2020, a “pre-emptive coup” is being attempted, with air
cover from the New York Times editorial board (https://tinyurl.com/2kt6ddm9). The message, writes Human Events
editor Jack Posobiec, is that “the only way to stop fascism and defend
democracy is to indict President Donald J. Trump [for as yet
undetermined crimes], to indict his supporters, to jail them, to
criminalize them and to make them otherwise unacceptable in polite
society” (https://tinyurl.com/ykmhaz5d).
No mens rea is needed. More than 850 Americans have already been
charged with crimes for their roles in the “Capitol attack,” states the NYT. “Well-meaning intentions did not shield them from the consequences of their actions.”
The NYT provided cover for the Holocaust and the
Holodomar—by not reporting, or outright denial. Without transparency,
checks and balances, or NYT scrutiny, Franklin Roosevelt
massively supported Stalin’s violent restructuring of Europe. Despite
overwhelming American anti-war sentiment and forceful opposition in
Congress, FDR funneled the equivalent of $1 trillion in resources to
Stalin. This included 0.75 tons of uranium-235, 1,100 grams of
deuterium, and 25,000 pounds of thorium (kept off the record at Harry
Hopkins’s request), which helped kick-start the Soviet atomic bomb
program (Sean McMeekin, Stalin’s War, discussed at https://tinyurl.com/3fcmhvhj).
Demonizing the Opposition
In a prime-time Sep 1 campaign speech in Philadelphia, President
“unity and healing” Biden said that Trump supporters’ “extremism
threatens the very foundations of our Republic” (https://tinyurl.com/y8ea2zks).
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stated that Biden’s labeling
Republicans as “semi-fascists” was an “act of aggression…against his own
people.” Gingrich also noted that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said
that the FBI asked him to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story for
the three or four weeks before the 2020 election (https://tinyurl.com/44f28kka).
According to the Washington Times, Biden framed the 2022
midterm elections as an eternal battle for “the soul of
America.” He said “democracy cannot survive” under the belief system of
the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement (https://tinyurl.com/4h66yxaj). In this view, Americans who hold the same beliefs as our Founders are extremist and fascist.
Since fascists are portrayed as subhuman and pure evil, the
accusation is an invitation to violence. Stalin was fighting
fascists—and there was no Nuremberg trial for Soviet atrocities.
The staging for Biden’s speech—blood-red lighting, the flag on a
red/black background, and Marines standing at attention behind the
President—was described as “Riefenstahlesque” [for the film producer who
played a seminal tole in producing Nazi propaganda such as Triumph of the Will]. It resembled the stage of dystopian British Nazi dictator Adam Sadler from V for Vendetta (https://tinyurl.com/2kt4bc8z).
The raised-fist gesturing by the speaker appears Hitleresque. The
speech occurred on the Sep 1 anniversary of the start of World War II.
Neither timing, content, nor backdrop is likely to be accidental. Are
our rulers accusing their opponents of what they themselves are doing?
Inverted Totalitarianism
The restructured U.S. government is a “managed democracy” under the
control of corporate oligarchs—an administrative state (“Deep State”),
which is by definition fascist, writes Robert Malone, M.D. The historic
Jefferson vs. Hamilton question was whether capitalism is a tool of
(representative constitutional) democracy or democracy is a tool of
capitalism. Corporate interests are now capturing control by exerting
financial power and influence over the political process. An alliance of
transnational corporations (“the party of Davos”) is bringing an
emerging system of inverted totalitarianism on a global scale (tinyurl.com/nhejzxhf). The Dept. of Health and Human Services is a leading branch of the administrative state (tinyurl.com/49kvzdn7).
To “protect Our Democracy,” opposition has to be wiped out. Quoting Washington Post “conservative”
columnist Jennifer Rubin, Mark Steyn writes: “It’s not only that
@realDonaldTrump has to lose, his enablers have to lose. We have to
collectively burn down the Republican Party. We have to level them.
Because if there are survivors….they will do it again” (tinyurl.com/22rvwaxc).
Flashback
“In 1943, the following directive was issued from Party headquarters
to all Communists in the United States. It read: ‘When certain
obstructionists become too irritating, label them, after suitable
buildups, as fascists or Nazi, or anti-Semitic, and use the prestige of
antifascist and tolerance organizations to discredit them. In the public
mind, constantly associate those who oppose us with those names which
already have a bad smell. The association will after enough repetition
become fact in the public mind’” (https://tinyurl.com/4xs9rved).
Illness and Death Spikes
Insurance Claims. Techniker Krankenkasse, the
largest German medical insurance company, reports a total of 437,593
insurance claims billed under the four diagnostic codes for vaccine
injury in 2021, compared with 13,777 in 2019 and 15,044 in 2020. This
suggests that 4.3% of TK’s 11 million insured had a medical treatment
for vaccine injury. This rate agrees closely with estimates based on
reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and the
EudraVigilance system, adjusted for under-reporting, writes Daniel
Horowitz (https://tinyurl.com/4s3w7bkz).
U.S. Life Insurance Payouts. Annual statements filed
by the five largest life insurers, obtained by the Informed Consent
Action Network, showed that they paid out from 19% to 43% more death
benefits in 2021 compared with 2017–2019 (https://tinyurl.com/mwdjszpk).
Cancers and Excess Deaths spiked in 2021 and 2022, writes Dr. Paul Alexander, after rollout of COVID-19 jabs and boosters (tinyurl.com/5cmjtusw). Unexplained mortality is noticeable in many countries, reports Tucker Carlson (tinyurl.com/2h4fds8p).
Early Post-vaccine Death. Based on a review of data
from the UK Office for National Statistics, one in 482 persons receiving
the COVID jab dies within one month. In every age group, the death rate
in the vaccinated is significantly higher than in the unvaccinated (The Exposé 8/13/22, tinyurl.com/yd75zaps). Caution: the analyst is unnamed; the publication is censored by Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Paypal.
Cardiac Effects. In a Thai study, nearly 30% of
adolescents had cardiac effects ranging from tachycardia to myocarditis,
after a COVID jab. Myopericarditis was confirmed in one of 301 patients
and suspected in six (https://tinyurl.com/zsen3f9n).
Deaths in Athletes. Between January 2021 and August
2022, more than 1,200 cardiac arrests and serious issues were reported
in athletes, with 849 dead, compared with previous incidence of sudden
deaths in athletes under age 35 of around 29 per year (https://tinyurl.com/2h6p8pyk).
No U.S. Billing Codes for Vaccine Injuries? Such injuries are said to be untracked and not billable (tinyurl.com/z3dkxjrk).
Funeral Business Thriving. Prime Caskets reports a
20% increase in orders for typical caskets, and a 400% increase in
orders for child-size. For the first time in 30 years, a family business
is getting bulk orders for child caskets (ibid.)
“Misinformation is what ‘they’ want you to miss! Disinformation is truth ‘they’ dismiss!” —Michelle Malkin
What about the Dissident German Scientists?
A preliminary report by the German Working Group for COVID Vaccine Analysis (https://tinyurl.com/mr4xr48y),
whose members choose to remain anonymous, is said to be “sending
shockwaves reverberating around the world.” The group claims to have
found “toxic substances” in all the COVID vaccine samples they analyzed.
Beware of reliance on this report.
Batch testing of all vaccines by government and private labs
independent of manufacturers is required in Europe and the UK, and they
were certified to contain no significant impurities or contaminants. To
check whether these labs are lying, the dissidents could have replicated
their analytical methods, and added other published, validated
methods—instead of relying on substandard, unvalidated, discredited, or
misinterpreted tests. Apparently they overlooked a plethora of readily
available forensic toxicology and pharmacology analytical protocols.
Enthusiastic comments have appeared, but also harsh criticism, e.g., https://9gag.com/gag/aYr8eVw.
One critic calls the report a “theatrical prop,” a “dilettante document
produced by amateurs” that could mislead physicians lacking scientific
training as well as the naïve public.
One ludicrous claim is to have “trained” artificial intelligence,
using only 14 pictures. Absolutely missing from this report are the
molecular genetic aspects of the “vaccines,” which are key.
Could it be a sophisticated attempt to poison the well?
The Psychology of Totalitarianism
In attempting to understand the abrupt pivot of nearly every country
to follow China’s repressive example, and the remarkable transfer of
power to “experts,” whom he compares to the pigs on Orwell’s Animal Farm,
Mattias Desmet draws on his knowledge of statistics, psychology, and
philosophy. Given the poor quality of academic research, “we can never
take ‘science’ for granted.”
He calls the COVID response “mass formation.” People become
radically blind to everything that goes against the group belief;
willing to radically sacrifice individual interest for the sake of the
collective; and radically intolerant for dissonant voices.
COVID fits into a series of desperate crises to which the only
response is increased control. Fear originates from the failure of the
Grand Narrative of our society: the narrative of mechanistic science, in
which man is reduced to a biological organism, which ignores the
psychological, spiritual, and ethical dimensions of human beings.
“Totalitarianism is a defining feature of the Enlightenment tradition,”
he states.
The solution to our fear and uncertainty does not lie in the increase
of (technological) control. It is essential to reclaim a timely human
capacity—Truth Speech (tinyurl.com/bd3hu5h5).
The AAPS Educational Foundation offers scholarships to medical
students and residents to attend our annual meeting. Have interested
persons contact us at aaps@aapsonline.org.
Doctors Sue over Online Censorship
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford and biostatistician Martin
Kulldorff, coauthors of the Great Barrington Declaration, among others,
have joined a lawsuit challenging government-directed social media
censorship (State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al.) (tinyurl.com/ycwemrph).
“Public statements, emails, and recent publicly released documents
establish that the president of the United States and other senior
officials…violated the First Amendment by directing social media
companies to censor viewpoints that conflict with the government’s
messaging on COVID-19,” stated the New Civil Liberties Alliance (tinyurl.com/yc6j4wmm).
“The government may not work through private entities to accomplish
censorship that the First Amendment forbids the government from doing
directly. Yet that is precisely what these federal defendants have been
up to,” stated Mark Chenoweth, NCLA General Counsel.
Named agencies include the White House, HHS, DHS, CDC, NIAID, FBI,
the Office of the Surgeon General, the Census Bureau, and the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (https://tinyurl.com/ye26tpf8).
According to emails obtained by state attorneys general, Facebook and
the Biden Administration arranged weekly or monthly calls to discuss
what to censor on the platform (https://tinyurl.com/4vwrhtrx).
Discovery documents have revealed more than 50 officials in the vast
federal censorship army colluding in secret with private companies.
How are so many recruited to serve as “Fauci’s Red Guards”? Michael
Senger describes the technique of forced preference falsification
perfected in Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.
When those who speak up in principled opposition to a policy are
punished and forced into silence, others are also silenced or even
forced to pretend to support the policy. Emboldened by this facade of
unanimity, supporters become convinced that the policies are just and
good, and that critics deserve punishment.
The method can operate outside of fully totalitarian societies, and
can cause any mass of people to support virtually any policy. Thus, free
speech is critical (tinyurl.com/2tn5fpv2).
Minitrue Shut Down—after Our Lawsuit Filed
On Aug 24, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that
it would be officially terminating its Disinformation Governance Board
(DGB) and rescinding its charter. The Homeland Security Advisory Council
stated that while DHS “must be able to address the disinformation
threat streams that can undermine the security of our homeland,” a
separate DGB is not needed (https://tinyurl.com/3v39x79z). The AAPS Educational Foundation lawsuit against the DGB as well as certain specialty boards was filed Jul 12 (tinyurl.com/y3arw78t).
Tip of the Month: The fastest growing American demographic is the
Amish, whose population is doubling every 20 years. They now live in 32
states. They are entirely free market and reject all insurance and
government programs. They dislike hospitals for restricting visits to
loved ones during COVID-19. They welcome modern medicine and house
calls, and can be driven to physicians’ offices. Some Amish communities
are even setting up their own medical clinics. At their current rate of
population growth, the Amish could be the majority in 200 years.
Moderna Sues Pfizer over Patent Infringement
Moderna has filed patent infringement lawsuits against Pfizer and
BioNTech, alleging that the two companies copied Moderna’s patented mRNA
technology and claiming that neither of the companies possessed the
necessary know-how to have produced the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19
vaccine on their own.
Moderna is not seeking damages for activities occurring before Mar 8,
2022, but is apparently concerned about asserting primacy in future
development of mRNA technology, such as new groundbreaking vaccines (https://tinyurl.com/2e9zetmj).
A platform is 10 times more valuable than a blockbuster drug, stated attorney Erik Gordon (tinyurl.com/3ckbp2w2).
The rush to sue over a patent happens to coincide with a preprint by
Qin et al. about how wonderfully effective a new mRNA-LNP formulation
for the flu vaccine is in a mouse model (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.16.484616v2).
The author’s summary states: “Mice pre-exposed to mRNA-LNPs can pass
down the acquired immune traits to their offspring.” Dr. Ah Kahn Syed
concludes: “The RNA injected into the original mice was incorporated
into the genome in the oocytes of the maternal line of mice.” Dr. Syed
(“Arkmedic”) speculates on patent implications (https://tinyurl.com/5n6hbpzp)
of the incorporation of synthetic genetic material into offspring. What
about the companies’ claim that COVID products cannot affect your DNA?
Pfizer Sued under False Claims Act
Whistleblower Brook Jackson, who worked as regional director at one
of the clinical trials used to develop the Pfizer vaccine, has filed
suit alleging that Pfizer and two of its subcontractors violated the
False Claims Act by providing bogus clinical trial results to garner the
FDA approval of its COVID-19 vaccine. The payout could exceed $3
trillion.
“Respondents claim fraudulent certifications, false statements,
doctored data, contaminated clinical trials, and firing of
whistleblowers can be ignored based on the theory that they contracted
their way around the fraud,” write Jackson’s lawyers. In their response
to Pfizer’s motion to dismiss, they argue: “A drug company cannot induce
the taxpayers to pay billions of dollars for a product that honest data
would show poses more risks than benefits to most Americans and that
ignores the actual contract and the law itself” (https://tinyurl.com/4njs53rz).
Biden Mandate Illegal, Tyrannical, AAPS Says
In an amicus brief on the challenge to the COVID vaccine mandate on federal workers, AAPS writes:
Elections may have consequences, but tyranny should never be one of
them. Biden does not properly have dictatorial powers over anyone. He is
restrained by the limited scope of federal power over anyone’s personal
life, including that of federal workers. He is confined to what
Congress has or has not authorized with respect to major questions such
as a broad vaccine mandate against millions of people. Biden is further
limited by fundamental principles of informed consent that are deeply
ingrained in our American legal system.
“Misinformation.” As President Joe Biden said: “This
is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Despite being vaccinated and
boosted, Dr. Fauci got COVID. Double vaxxed and double boosted and
treated with Paxlovid, Joe Biden got “rebound” COVID. Now, double
vaxxed, double boosted and Paxlovid treated Jill Biden also has
“rebound” Covid. Could it be that COVID shots increase the probability
of getting re-infected with COVID or infected with another Covid
variant?
The virus is clearly sending the “wrong message,” and is, therefore, spreading “misinformation.”
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Inevitable Viral Behavior. A coronavirus, which is a
common cold virus, “comes around” once or twice a year to infect and
reinfect people naturally. Every 10 years a particularly nasty variant
emerges as SARS, METS, and recently COVID-19. This is the nature of the
disease, quite like flu infections. The genetic and infection parameters
will continue to drift, and individual health plays a major role in
scope and outcomes.
Paul M. Kempen, M.D., Ph.D., Weirton, WV
The End of Limited Government. Asked to comment on
the FBI’s raid of former president Trump’s home, Victor Davis Hanson
writes: “We don’t have rule of law in Washington…. FBI is beyond
redemption” (https://tinyurl.com/y8bxfzju).
When President Obama weaponized federal agencies and politicized the
military, he created a true-believer leftist partisan administrative
state. Federal government agencies of import are acting
unconstitutionally against the populace. The FBI is the glaring example,
but you can’t name a department of the federal bureaucracy that
respects the idea of a constitutional republic.
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
Statistical Malpractice. I have been looking at
vaccine safety studies since 2015. These studies contain no biology, no
chemistry, and vanishingly little statistics. These people are doing
arithmetic, badly. The CDC fails to use proper statistical tools
(multivariate analysis and beyond) but relies upon crude bivariate
analysis that is categorically rejected by all other fields of scholarly
endeavor. The vulgarity of vaccine safety studies is covered up by the
PR machine for the most ruthless industry in the world (and a web of
financial relationships that has become “too big to fail”). Why do
scholars who could spot the errors in these studies in about 10 minutes
fail to call the CDC out on their chicanery?
770,000 Reports. In a CDC contract going up for
re-bid, the contractor would need to process 770,000 digital reports per
year related to COVID-19 vaccines alone. For the past 30 years, the
average number of adverse events reports to VAERS for all vaccines
combined was 39,000 per year.
Jessica Rose,https://tinyurl.com/bmjpxt3d
No Informed Consent. Vaccine-injured people need to
file official complaints, which may be the only way to hold vaccine
administrators accountable. A father whose child got severe myocarditis
recorded a phone call with the pharmacist, whom he asked why she didn’t
tell his wife about this risk: “We might scare the parents, and they
might not want to get their child vaccinated” (https://tinyurl.com/yc3a83kz).
Joseph Guarino, M.D., Reidsville, NC
Staff Shortages at NIH and CDC. Employees are
quitting in droves, owing to low morale over inconsistent messaging and
embarrassment over the bad science used to authorize vaccinating
children under five to please the White House. High officials met me
secretly on walks on the D.C. mall in fall 2020, telling me not to stop
warning about vaccine dangers and lockdowns. They are silent out of fear
for their careers and safety.
Corrupting Medicine. Over the last 30 or 40 years,
doctors and scientists have been silenced by the managerial methodology
of contracts—that sign over everything you know to the people who hired
you. The only way new doctors can get a job is to give up their
intellectual freedom. Regulatory and operational capture of hospitals,
health insurance, and physicians by government, big pharma, big tech,
and hospitalists working in consort is almost 100% complete now. We
must resist and take back our power.
What Is Democracy. As economist Michael Hudson
points out, “when President Biden describes this great world conflict
aimed at isolating China, Russia, India, Iran and their Eurasian trading
partners, he characterizes this as an existential struggle between
‘democracy’ and ‘autocracy.’ By ‘democracy’ he means oligarchy. And by
‘autocracy’ he means any government strong enough to prevent a financial
oligarchy from taking over government and society and imposing
neoliberal rules—by force.” He sees the world economy as controlled by
extractive, parasitic interests. Neoliberalism allows the inexorable
growth of debt, concentrating wealth in the One Percent, and reducing
the citizenry to bondage.
AAPS Foundation Sues Medical Dictators – AAPS News August 2022
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The AAPS Educational Foundation has filed suit against the American
Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the American Board of Obstetrics
& Gynecology (ABOG), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM),
and Alejandro Mayorkas, in his official capacity as the Secretary of the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The lawsuit concerns
defendants’ “unprecedented campaigns to censor speech that they falsely
disparage as ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’” (tinyurl.com/y3arw78t).
“Defendants wrongly misuse their authority in a politically partisan
manner to chill speech…. Defendants have acted in an apparently
coordinated manner, using similar timing and terminology, to censor
those who exercise their First Amendment rights on issues of public
concern,” the complaint states.
It notes that the Board Defendants have certification monopolies.
“Although only official state medical boards have the proper authority
to regulate the practice of medicine, certifications by the Board
Defendants constitute a de facto essential credential for
practicing in most hospitals or participating in most networks.” Threats
to revoke certification improperly chill speech, and Defendants, unlike
licensure boards, have no political accountability.
ABIM and ABFM have already sent letters to physicians threatening
them with revocation of their earned board certifications based on their
statements on issues of public concern. Board Defendants are apparently
retaliating against physicians who were praised by Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr., in his bestselling book The Real Anthony Fauci, in some cases expressly because of criticizing Dr. Fauci, who as a government official may be freely criticized.
ABOG has publicly warned physicians against making public statements
against abortion and contraception. ABOG stridently supports universal
access to abortion, with taxpayer funding, and ABOG sharply criticized
the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs.
ABOG also threatens physicians for warning pregnant women against
receiving the COVID vaccine, even though the World Health Organization
(WHO) issued a similar warning in 2021.
The Board Defendants’ threatening letters and the creation of the
Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board (“DGB”) by DHS Secretary
Mayorkas closely followed on the directive by President Joe Biden, which
states: “I make a special appeal to social media companies and media
outlets: Please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that’s
on your shows.”
Attorneys general from 20 states, led by Virginia and joined by
Texas, released a letter to Defendant Mayorkas, dated May 5, 2022,
which protested the unconstitutionality of the DGB. The letter repeated
what Justice Brandeis explained in 1927 in Whitney v. Californiathat the remedy for error is “more speech, not enforced silence.”
“The mere existence of DGB has the effect of
chilling speech by Plaintiff,” the complaint argues. Public remarks by
Dr. Fauci appear “to call implicitly for censorship of speech based on
content that one political party disfavors.”
The complaint notes that the Homeland Security Advisory Council
(HSAC), tasked to “most effectively and appropriately address
disinformation that poses a threat to the homeland, while protecting
free speech and other fundamental rights,” is subject to the
requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), but is
violating them with respect to the DGB.
Plaintiff asks that Defendant Boards be prohibited from retaliating
against physicians for speaking out on matters of public concern and
that Defendant Mayorkas be required to comply fully with FACA or to
abolish DGB altogether.
Information on Harm
Threatened physicians are the ones who are countering the official
disinformation narrative and telling the public about the harm of
denying early treatment, of lockdowns, and of COVID-19 vaccine adverse
effects.
Board threats are in themselves harmful. As dozens of physicians
write in an open letter to the American Board of Medical Specialties
(ABMS) and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), “actions
against the leading medical doctors, that have pioneered the development
and deployment of treatment protocols against COVID-19, and who are now
making similar efforts towards the treatment of patients that have been
injured by the COVID-19 vaccines, threatens the right to life and the
well-being of the American public” (https://tinyurl.com/ynpvkcc8).
Most of the “public health” narratives about COVID-19 have been
false—i.e., misinformation, argues former Pfizer vice-president Dr.
Michael Yeadon (https://tinyurl.com/mfjeu983).
Adverse events do follow COVID-19 injections: more than 1.3 million
have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
(VAERS), including nearly 30,000 deaths, as of July 1 (tinyurl.com/2xtfe8wx),
but certified physicians dare not mention them because that might
promote “vaccine hesitancy.” For the newly described Sudden Adult Death
Syndrome (SADS), the proposed explanations include: sleeping position,
drinking tea, eating eggs, cold weather, solar storms, climate change,
and too much or too little exercise (tinyurl.com/yc6uyudh).
Upon hearing of ABIM’s threat to remove Dr. Peter McCullough’s
certification, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) offered to have an open expert
panel on the scientific issues. ABIM declined. “What constitutes
‘misinformation’ shall be exclusively determined by a board of doctors
THEY appoint” (tinyurl.com/msunp6yj).
Prescience or Planning?
James Gruhl, Ph.D., summarizes the series of globalist-run pandemic simulations described in Robert F. Kennedy’s book The Real Doctor Fauci.
The series started with Topoff 2000. Dark Winter 2001 added vaccines,
the CDC, the U.S. Air Force, Big Pharma, and the CIA. Project Bioshield
2004 added the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, the FDA,
and ATF. Atlantic Storm added WHO. Global Mercury coordinated all
Western nations and added the Department of State. SLC Simulation 2005
added the Rockefeller Foundation and massive Orwellian surveillance.
MARS 2017 added the World Bank and the Koch Institute and planned how
to blame busy wet markets in Wuhan. SPARS 2017 was run by Bill Gates and
planned strategies for squashing therapeutics and keeping up interest
in the vaccine through social media death counts. CLADE X 2018 included a
healthcare collapse, stock market crash, FDA/CIA/CDC, total military
control, and a vaccine in which Gates and Fauci had already invested
enormous resources. Crimson Contagion 2019 specifically avoided
off-label therapeutic possibilities. Event 201 practiced
removal/canceling of vaccine critics from all social media platforms and
coordinated all parts of government, media, corporations, foundations,
and academies. This is a partial list (https://tinyurl.com/49baxd9k).
All aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including a shortage of masks and number of deaths, were predicted.
Unnatural Origin?
A 2015 book, The Unnatural Origins of SARS and Man-Made Genetic Weapons of New Human Viruses,
edited by Dezhong Xu and Feng Li, published by the Military Medical
Science Press (Beijing), provides extensive historical and scientific
background regarding the SARS-CoV-1 virus.
According to the translators’ 2021 foreword, “This book serves as a
framework and protocol to guide the PLA [People’s Liberation Army] to
create SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, which is a ‘contemporary genetic
bioweapon.’” They also state that another purpose is to “cover up its
earlier publication in Nature back in 2013 revealing the true origin of SARS-CoV and…to shift the blame to other countries, like the United States.”
The translators ask, but do not answer, whether the COVID vaccine is also a genetic weapon (ibid.).
Nominating Committee Report
The slate to be presented at the Springfield meeting is:
President-elect: Jane Hughes, M.D., San Antonio, TX
Secretary: Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake Eden, NY
Treasurer: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., Venice, FL
Directors: Richard Amerling, M.D., St. Augustine, FL; Janis Chester,
M.D., Dover, DE; Phil Eskew, D.O., J.D., M.B.A., Jonesborough, TN;
Albert Fisher, M.D., Oshkosh, WI; David Levine, M.D., Columbus, GA;
Vicki Wooll, M.D., Boise, ID.
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation
of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity;
both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and
economic opportunists.”
Ernest Hemingway
GAO Reports Political Interference on COVID
A 37-page report by the U.S. General Accounting Office warned that
American federal agencies that have managed the pandemic public policy
response (including vaccine and drug development) have no mechanism to
stop political interference in scientific decision-making and no
mechanisms for receiving whistleblower reports. These agencies include
the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Preparedness and Response (ASPR). A GAO investigation, involving
semi-structured interviews and a confidential hotline, found many
instances of such interference. Employees said they did not report
because they feared retaliation, were unsure about how to report issues,
or believed agency leaders were already aware (https://tinyurl.com/2d46emjn).
COVID: Crisis of the Administrative State
The administrative overreach, dishonesty, mismanagement, and ethical
breaches throughout the crisis result from a perverted bureaucratic
system of governance, which is completely insulated from functional
oversight by elected officials, writes Dr. Robert Malone. “The arc of
the history of the COVID crisis encompasses collusive planning between a
wide range of corporate interests, globalists, and the administrative
state (Event 201); subsequent efforts to cover up administrative state
culpability in creating the crisis; followed by gross mismanagement of
public health policies, decision making, and communication all acting in
lockstep with the preceding planning sessions” [see above].
Within the agencies, he explains, “In a Machiavellian sense, these
senior administrators function as The Prince, each federal health
institute functions as a semi-autonomous city-state, and the
administrators and their respective courtiers act accordingly. To
complete this analogy, congress functions [like] the Vatican during the
16th century, with each Prince vying for funding and power by currying
favor with influential archbishops.”
Dr. Malone examines the legal underpinnings and the history of these
developments. Since the 2001 anthrax spore incidents, “HHS has
increasingly been horizontally integrated with the intelligence
community as well as with the Department of Homeland Security to form a
health security state with enormous ability to shape and enforce
‘consensus’ through widespread propaganda, censorship, ‘nudge’
technology and intentional manipulation of the ‘Mass Formation’
hypnosis.”
Dr. Malone warns of “inverted totalitarianism” and the fusion of
mega-corporations with the administrative “deep state,” of which HHS is
the leading branch (tinyurl.com/4wasm2u9).
Not just our profession, but the American system of government is at stake.
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FDA Crusade against Ivermectin Illegal
The Food and Drug Administration’s relentless effort to cause doctors
to shun ivermectin appeared to be a misinformation campaign instituted
at the top of the agency. Dr. Ben Carson and attorney C. Boyden Gray
write that this violated “both fundamental ethics and the law.” Congress
was explicit in its intentions in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that
the FDA was not to “interfere in the practice of medicine, which
includes prescribing drugs off-label.” The FDA also pressured umbrella
boards and licensing organizations to, in turn, pressure their members
on a state-by-state basis to avoid the drug.
The agency displayed “insatiable arrogance,” refusing “to be
satisfied with its authority over market entry and labeling, and instead
tried to commandeer the role of doctors in treating their patients as
well” (https://tinyurl.com/4rj6tnjn).
FDA Empowers Pharmacists, Bans Doctors
“In 2021, we witnessed one of the most remarkable dynamics unfold in
the history of American medicine,” writes Daniel Horowitz. “An order
came down through the corporate pharmacy cartel to start illegally
practicing medicine by denying prescriptions written by doctors to treat
COVID patients…. It wasn’t just ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, but
doctors had prescriptions for antibiotics, steroids, and nebulizer
treatments denied because ‘there are no treatments for COVID’” (tinyurl.com/yrhysks5).
Then, in July 2022, the FDA approved any pharmacist to “prescribe” Pfizer’s Paxlovid on the spot without a prescription!
AMA president, Jack Resneck, Jr., M.D., writes: “Paxlovid is an
important treatment and critical tool in the fight against COVID-19.”
But, “whenever possible, prescribing decisions should be made by a
physician” (https://tinyurl.com/ymyh2dvj).
Horowitz notes that there are no long-term safety studies on
Paxlovid, and it contains an AIDS drug, ritonavir, which has an FDA
black-box warning for potential death when prescribed with several
fairly common drugs that seniors might be taking.
He concludes that “if a certain product becomes part of the ‘spirit
of the age,’ all laws, prudence, science, and medical norms are thrown
out the window in order to promote the new idol.” Pharmacists admitted
to him that they gave shots to patients in age cohorts not yet
authorized. However, if a product might challenge the idol of the age,
then no law or social, scientific, or medical norm will stop them from
banning the drug.
Doctors Sue Twitter over Censorship
Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough, and Dr. Bryan Tyson have
filed a lawsuit against Twitter, alleging that the social media giant
silenced them for posting truthful information about COVID-19. While
admitting that as a private company Twitter is not bound by the First
Amendment, it is bound to follow its own policies. Truthful tweets do
not violate those policies (https://tinyurl.com/ywrch2sk).
A letter from the doctors’ attorney states: “Twitter received express
and implied threats from government officials to censor certain
viewpoints and speakers, lest Twitter face the amendment or revocation
of Section 230, or antitrust enforcement. This was a financial decision
for Twitter” (https://tinyurl.com/2jhbzb82).
Tip of the Month: If you receive a letter from a specialty board
threatening to discipline your board certification, which many who have
publicly criticized the Covid vaccine have received, then compel the
specialty board to follow its own procedures. It should provide you with
all of the documentation that it has to show that any statements
against the vaccine were false. So far specialty boards have failed to
provide such documentation, even though their procedures require it.
Contact AAPS for our templates of responses. Consider citing statements
against Anthony Fauci by Sen. Rand Paul, M.D. All physicians have a
First Amendment right to speak about matters of public policy, including
criticizing government officials, and we are defending against this
unfair retaliation by specialty boards.
Court Rules: Canadians Can’t Have Private Care
British Columbia’s highest court has dismissed Dr. Brian Day’s appeal
of the decision that denied the right of Canadians to pay for private
care when waits for public care became too long (AAPS News, August 2021). The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled that the long waiting times in the public system did violate
the patient plaintiffs’ fundamental rights under the Canadian Charter
of Rights and Freedoms: “The risk of death has increased for an unknown
number of individuals suffering from life‑threatening conditions who
wait beyond the benchmark for certain procedures and who, but for the
impugned provisions, would otherwise have been able to access private
care and mitigate the wait.” But the breach of their rights is justified
to protect those who can’t afford private care, the justices found.
Dr. Day opened the Cambie Surgery Center in 1996, and the legal saga
began in 2009. He is expected to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada (https://tinyurl.com/29h4e839).
COVID-19 Rulings
Punishment of USAF Members Blocked. U.S. District
Court Judge Matthew McFarland issued a temporary restraining order
preventing the Biden administration from taking any action for at least
14 days against any Air Force member who submitted a verified request
for religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine since September 2021.
The ruling also grants “class status” to all the 12,000 airmen whose
requests for religious exemption were denied or not yet acted upon. Only
104 applications have been approved (https://tinyurl.com/485dwkbt).
New York Quarantine Rules Unconstitutional. Acting
Justice of the Supreme Court of Cattaraugus County (N.Y.) Ronald D.
Ploetz struck down the COVID-19 Isolation and Quarantine procedures,
known as Rule 2.13, enacted by the Hochul administration with no debate
or authorization from the legislature. Persons could be involuntarily
detained at home, or in residential or temporary housing, subject to
what the public health authority determined to be “appropriate”
conditions.
Judge Ploetz stated that the rule merely gives “lip service” to
constitutional due process: “Involuntary detention is a severe
deprivation of individual liberty…. [It] may have far-reaching
consequences such as loss of income (or employment) and isolation from
family.” He added that there was “no scientific data or expert
testimony” to back up the rule (tinyurl.com/49uamhty).
The Hochul administration has appealed the ruling.
Correspondence
“Flipping” Healthcare. Like people who “flip” houses
to make a big profit, some of private equity firms “flip” entities that
control the practice of medicine for profit. According to NBC News,
more than 40% of the country’s hospital emergency departments—the
biggest net generator and a huge profit center for most hospitals—are
overseen by for-profit care staffing companies owned by private equity
firms (tinyurl.com/4e9akwnd). These companies decide how many patients a
doctor must see, can direct some of the testing protocols, and can
determine what kind of “provider” will see a patient. To circumvent laws
in 33 states that require medical care to be provided by entities owned
by licensed practitioners, the firms simply pay a physician to put his
name on ownership documents. If a physician dares to complain that
patients are being harmed, he is summarily fired and told: “There is a
responsibility as the corporate representative to support the
corporation’s objectives.”
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Canadian Doctors Are Sorry, but…. they do not know
what to do as they will be cancelled and fired, and lose income and
their careers. Many met with me and said they feared for their safety.
They “had to go along.” Many doctors in Ontario use early treatment
themselves or for their families and have fake vaccine cards—perhaps at
least two on the College of Physicians and Surgeons Ontario board, who
took medical doctors’ licenses away for using early treatment and giving
medical exemptions.
Vaccine Skepticism Grows. Through the course of my
career, I never questioned vaccines. I assumed they were safe and
effective; it wasn’t my area of research. When I was asked to support a
vaccine, like the 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine in adult medicine, I
did so. But with what has happened with COVID, I have begun to question
other vaccines. I found that the efficacy for that pneumococcal vaccine
for protection against hospitalization and death is 9%! Standard
acceptance criteria would be at least 50% vaccine efficacy, and it
should last at least a year. Even the generally uncontroversial
pneumococcal and influenza vaccine are nowhere close to being
acceptable. I’m dropping them (https://tinyurl.com/4367tfrv).
Peter A. McCullough, M.D.
Progress. Medical care became insurance care became healthcare became government care, and then there was no care.
Craig M. Wax, D.O., Mullica Hill, NJ
Accessories by Silence. How many lives were lost because of bureaucratic medical and health system malfeasance? James Stansbury’s compelling analysis (tinyurl.com/4wz874fk)
mirrors the points made by Dr. Peter McCullough. Not only the actively
malignant CDC and NIH but also organized medicine and corporate medicine
were complicit. Consider the remarkable benefits of early treatment in
India. Despite poverty, an ethical medical profession serves patients
better than an affluent but corrupt system that censors and harasses
dissenters. At what point does the system’s conduct become criminal?
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
All Your Data. The Left’s latest strategy to bring
Marxism into medicine is via Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). I
learned from congressional staff that SDOH, which is advanced by the
American Recovery Act, is “popping up everywhere” in legislation. Every
detail of your life (education, housing, food, transportation, etc.) is
deemed part of SDOH and thus a target for government intervention and
intrusion.
Harmful Use of Data. The CIA has a secret bulk data
collection program, authorized under Executive Order 12333, without any
of the oversight that comes with Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA) data collection, write Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Martin
Heinrich (D-N.M.). The COVID crisis has been used to usher in new
surveillance measures, as well as new definitions as to what is a
domestic terrorist (such as being critical of the public health
response). And data—such as was collected when I obtained a security
clearance—has leaked and could be used by state-sponsored media,
hackers, and foreign governments for nefarious purposes (tinyurl.com/2p893h5x).
Robert W. Malone, M.D.
Access to Energy Saved—for Now. On Dec 31, 2021, the
UN Security Council moved to vote on a climate-change resolution that
would have significantly expanded the criteria for UN intervention in
armed conflicts. It is claimed that 100 countries support it. Members
who failed to take “drastic” measures recommended by “experts” to
“green” their economies immediately would have been considered
aggressors against global governance. Russia vetoed the measure. India
and China abstained. These three countries, with one-fifth of the
world’s land surface and almost half its population saved hydrocarbon
fuels. I am not sure who or what is going to save a weakened America
from its Marxist regime in control in Washington, D.C.
AAPS News July 2022: Am I Anti-Vax? Change My Mind
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Volume 78, no. 7 July 2022
These days being called an “anti-vaxxer” is likely an indelible
stain, which implies that one is anti-science and pro-disease. Anyone
who voices a concern about any vaccine is likely to be tarred with this
label. Almost everyone who writes about vaccine adverse effects prefaces
the remarks with “I am not an anti-vaxxer. I’ve had all my vaccines,
and so have my children, and my patients, and I firmly believe the creed
that vaccines are the greatest medical advance in history, that they
have saved millions of lives, and that without them we’d have vast
epidemics of horrible diseases.”
This profession of faith may be as effective as proclaiming that “I
am not a ***ist or ***phobe—I have friends who are black, ‘Latinx,’ gay,
trans, or Jewish.” But change could happen.
COVID-19 vaccines have made a hole in the dike.
“The Gish Gallop of the panicked pro-vaxxers,” as described by one physician, has appeared (NY Times Mag 5/25/2022).
(The Gish Gallop is a debate technique of overwhelming an opponent with
an excessive number of weak arguments and half truths.)
“A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation
to reject ordinary childhood immunizations—with potentially lethal
consequences.” Quoting Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of
Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, the article states that
the anti-vaccine movement is “so strong, so well organized, so well
funded, I doubt it will stop at Covid-19 vaccines…. I think it’s going
to extend to childhood vaccinations.” A few parents are declining baby
shots, and the number of fully vaccinated kindergartners has dropped
from 95% to 94% over a year (https://tinyurl.com/mamkk3nf).
Pro-vaxxers blame “grifters” who manage to raise some money,
conspiracy theorists, “right-wing” political leanings, and the strategy
of emphasizing personal freedom. They ask “how much autonomy any
individual should surrender for the greater good and how to apportion
risk between individuals and society” (ibid.). There are apparently no
inalienable rights.
Vaccines—Greatest Advance and Only Answer?
Sir William Osler wrote that the greatest medical advances were
cinchona (source of quinine, of which hydroxychloroquine is a
derivative), vaccination, and the principle of asepsis (surely he would
not under-rate sanitation). Very few vaccines (e.g., (smallpox,
tetanus, and rabies) had been developed in Osler’s time.
Smallpox is the only disease that vaccination is claimed to have
eradicated—and it took 100 years. The original attempt, variolation, was
based on the idea of causing a mild case so that the patient would be
resistant when encountering a larger inoculum. This was dangerous—if
even one organism evaded the immune system, a full-blown case might
result. Next, patients were inoculated with a related but less dangerous
disease, cowpox, which was observed anecdotally to be protective. Now,
live virus vaccines use an attenuated strain made by passage through
tissue culture. Since the immune response is generally not strong
enough, an adjuvant is added, usually an aluminum compound. Thimerosal, a
mercury-containing organic compound once used as a vaccine
preservative, has adjuvant as well as disinfecting properties. Adjuvants
have a nonspecific stimulating effect on the immune system—which is not
well studied and could provoke allergies or autoimmunity.
So what is in vaccines? Never mind “accidental contaminants” like
trace amounts of industrial chemicals or peculiar micro-debris. Vaccines
are prepared in living cells, which contain a huge number of viruses,
including retroviruses. We learned about SV-40 in polio vaccine—after
millions got it, but what about others? As to mRNA, exactly what does it
code for? And what if they change the formulation? It is impossible to
determine.
Even if the initial purpose is laudable and some vaccines achieve
that purpose, vaccination is a potential cover for injecting
who-knows-what into non-consenting people, directed by powerful
institutions that are known to be corrupted, tyrannical, and arrogantly
incompetent. The escalation from “individual choice of medical
procedure” into mandatory violation of bodily autonomy is built into the
mass vaccination concept. Potential sinister motives range from
undeserved profits to population control.
For those reasons, vaccine skeptics who are free to act might
consider saying, “Yes, I am openly anti-vax; how can anyone be pro-vax
after COVID vaccine tyranny? It is too prone to abuse.”
Questions to ask: Do ethical physicians and scientists oppose human
sacrifice? (And does that include imposing a risk on one person to
protect another?) How about experiments without adequate control groups
(such as the use of “placebos” that contain adjuvants)? Lack of rigorous
after-market surveillance for long-term effects such as infertility,
cancer, chronic disease, developmental disability, and birth defects?
Shielding malefactors from liability? Suppressing alternate modalities?
Calling dissent “misinformation” and “canceling” dissenters? Depriving
people of liberty or property without due process of law?
Anti-vaxxers need to challenge pro-vaxxers to change my mind. Are the above effects acceptable? Have they not occurred or can they not result from mass vaccination?
One public commenter to the NYT article writes: “The COVID
situation allowed regular people to realize that that the governments
and mainstream news outlets have lied to them, repeatedly and
relentlessly. The radical skepticism of the establishment was an
inevitable consequence of these sorts of deceptions, and is fully
warranted.”
What Vanquished Infectious Disease?
To credit vaccines or antibiotics for the precipitous decline in
infectious disease mortality is even worse than assuming that
correlation proves causality or falling into the Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc fallacy. Mortality was already in steep decline—in measles, diphtheria, and pertussis before vaccines (tinyurl.com/2s36y3vk),
and in tuberculosis, typhoid, scarlet fever, and pneumonia before
antibiotics. This was not because of the miracles of modern medicine,
but thanks to first-generation public health measures including slum
reforms, food and factory inspections, and most importantly, sanitary
engineering to safely remove and treat human waste and provide clean
water. We are indebted to plumbers, not doctors, for these wonderful
results.
Aggressive vaccination programs have failed to eradicate measles. What works better? Toilets (tinyurl.com/5vs6aj98).
This seems counterintuitive for a respiratory disease, but the Swachh
Bharat Mission (SBM), or “Clean India Campaign,” which had the lofty
goal of eliminating open defecation, found that for every 1% increase in
households in a district with toilets, there are 0.33 fewer measles
cases per 1,000 children under age 5. In a few short years, it appears
that getting toilets into homes has reduced the burden of measles more
than jabbing 80% of Indian children with two doses of measles vaccine in
the first two years of life.
Authors of a report in BMJ Open (tinyurl.com/mu2kr2ex)calculated
that about 12% of the decline in measles cases is due to a drop in
growth stunting caused by environmental enteropathy, which impairs
immune function. Availability of toilets may also have enhanced the
impact of vitamin A supplementation, which reduces the risk of death
from measles by 87% for children under two years of age.
Eradicating measles does not necessarily confer a net health benefit.
Getting childhood measles is associated with a lower risk of dying of
cancer at ages 15–60 years, acquiring lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic
leukemia, developing Parkinson disease, or having allergic disease or
asthma, among other possible benefits.
In terms of lives saved, vaccines cannot come close to the record of
vector control. DDT is estimated to have saved 500 million lives from
malaria alone (tinyurl.com/yckjmdhr).
The U.S. is conducting an uncontrolled experiment in bringing back
open defecation in homeless camps, and hampering vector control through
rigid environmental regulations.
Prenatal Tests: Chinese Gene Harvesting
One of the most popular prenatal tests in the world, called NIFTY for
Non-Invasive Fetal TrisomY, is the source of genetic and population
data for BGI, a company that works in cooperation with the Chinese
military. With the aid of artificial intelligence, data from millions of
women could be used not only to diagnose genetic diseases but to try to
“improve population quality.” Large data sets could expose genetic
vulnerabilities to disease in a population, which an adversary could
exploit in a targeted genetic attack. Some women prefer to use a
different test when they learn about the secondary research done with
their DNA—and their child’s (https://tinyurl.com/3j4yytcx).
“The object of persecution is persecution…. The object of power is power.” George Orwell, 1984
Data Related to Viral Origin Suppressed
Questions about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are unanswered,
but the National Institutes of Health restricted public access to
genetic sequencing data from the Wuhan Institute of Virology at the
lab’s request. The documents, obtained by Empower Oversight
Whistleblowers and Researchers (EO) through a Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) request, seem to suggest that the epidemic did not originate in
the Huanan market and thus to reinforce claims of some experts that the
virus likely escaped from the WIV. The EO report claims that NIH staff
members were using off-the-record emails to influence media coverage.
Dr. Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins were prominently
mentioned(tinyurl.com/3nhec3tu).
Immunofudging on Shots for Kids
In FDA advisory committee hearings on authorizing COVID shots for
children under age 5, Pfizer and Moderna used the “immunobridging”
statistical trick to compensate for lack of actual health benefits,
writes Toby Rogers, Ph.D. They compared antibody levels in 300 kids (10%
of the trial subjects) in each age group against antibody levels in 300
adults ages 18–25 from a previous clinical trial. Antibody levels being
similar, Moderna claims, “Therefore it will prevent disease in the
future in kids!”
Additional ways of rigging the game included releasing risk benefit
documents (190 pages, single-spaced) one to two days before the meeting.
“Endless layers of complexity [were added] to hide how bad the data
really is.” One “expert” after another acknowledged that there are no
“correlates of protection” for these vaccines: “You cannot use
antibodies (or B-cells, T-cells, or any other proxy) to predict whether
someone is immune or not.”
Eric Rubin, a committee member and the editor of the NEJM stated it bluntly, “We know what kind of antibody response can be generated, we just don’t know if it works.”
Since data were collected in mid-2021, the Omicron variant has
replaced the earlier strains, and neither Moderna nor Pfizer shots are
effective against the current variant.
By fall of 2021, 26 high-quality studies from outside the U.S.
showed a two- to seven-fold increased risk of myocarditis from mRNA
shots. FDA, CDC, and Kaiser-Permanente fixers massaged it down to 7% to
50% higher.
“The public health establishment has abandoned science, logic,
reason, rationality, empathy, health, and medicine. The FDA is more than
happy to sacrifice children in order to ingratiate themselves further
with the cartel,” Rogers concludes (https://tinyurl.com/2jrvxc9t).
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Medical Board Ordered to Void NPDB Entry
In a stunning 8-to-1 decision (tinyurl.com/5evhzna3),
the Texas Supreme Court held that the Texas Medical Board must issue a
Void Report to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), which it had
refused to do although Robert Van Boven, M.D., D.D.S., had been
exonerated on all accusations (AAPS News, September 2021). Dr. Van Boven has been fighting false accusations for nearly a decade.
“This decision by the Texas Supreme Court establishes a cause of
action for physicians to obtain justice for outdated and inaccurate
reports about accusations that were never proven,” stated AAPS general
counsel Andrew Schlafly.
Doctors Sue over Ivermectin Prohibition
Dr. Robert L. Apter, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, and Dr. Paul E. Marik,
represented by Boyden Gray, have sued the Dept. of HHS and the Food and
Drug Administration over the FDA’s unlawful attempts to prohibit the use
of ivermectin to treat COVID-19, in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division (Case 3:22-cv-00184).
Dr. Bowden stated: “I provided treatment when other doctors told my
patients to stay home. I have kept over 3,900 patients out of the
hospital, but it hasn’t been easy. Sadly, fighting the system has been a
much bigger challenge than fighting the disease.”
The FDA’s efforts to prevent use of ivermectin “ignore both statutory
limits on the FDA’s authority and the significant body of scientific
evidence from peer-reviewed research, over 80 medical trials, and
results from ivermectin’s use in medical settings worldwide, showing the
safe and effective use of the drug in fighting COVID-19,” said Dr.
Marik (https://tinyurl.com/4kdxvkvz).
Attempts by the FDA to influence or intervene in the
patient-physician relationship amount to interference with the practice
of medicine, and breach the critical boundary between federal and state
authority, the Complaint argues. As Dr. Apter notes, FDA statements,
even if FDA cannot legally enforce them, affect the practice of
medicine, which is now highly driven by standards and guidelines (https://tinyurl.com/yd8rp6wf).
Nurse Sentenced for Medical Error
Nurse RaDonda Vaught of Tennessee was sentenced to three years’
probation after being convicted of criminally negligent homicide and
impaired adult abuse. The charges stemmed from the death of a
75-year-old patient when the nurse inadvertently administered
vercuronium instead of Versed, having overridden several alerts. (Nurses
typically have to override alerts in the electronic medical record to
get anything done.) No mens rea needed to be demonstrated. Vaught could
have been sentenced to years in prison. The prospect of error in a
dangerous, high-pressure environment being criminalized is causing many
nurses to consider a career change (https://tinyurl.com/538ssbdu).
While Nurse Vaught reported her error immediately, though too late
for the patient, Vanderbilt University Medical Center failed to notify
the medical examiner or CMS as required. Serious system problems were
found only when an anonymous tip prompted an unannounced federal
inspection a year later (https://tinyurl.com/rdfdepur).
Vaccine Injury Claims
More than 10,000 Australians were planning to file claims for
COVID-10 vaccine injuries under the government’s no-fault indemnity
scheme last November (tinyurl.com/c3ys6jej), but so far only 861 have
done so, and only one has been paid. The scheme covers only clinical
conditions that are diagnosed by a treating doctor and are included in
the product information document. Patients reported that “there was
often resistance from doctors to link their symptoms to the vaccine”
(tinyurl.com/53vn3aey).
In the UK, a single tax-free payment of €120,000 is said to be
available to persons suffering from a vaccine injury
(https://tinyurl.com/6zpwwc8t). As of Feb 27, 920 compensation
applications linked with COVID-19 vaccination injury had already been
filed, compared with a usual 100 per year, but no payments have been
made yet. (https://tinyurl.com/5n8axxnk).
Missouri Protects Right to Prescribe
Despite the fact that it is perfectly lawful to prescribe
FDA-approved drugs off-label, many patients have been unable to obtain
hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin for COVID-19 because physicians and
pharmacists are intimidated by threats to their licensure. The Missouri
legislature passed, nearly unanimously, a law protecting the right to
prescribe and dispense these drugs (https://tinyurl.com/4wfvt64e).
Tip of the Month: Hospital mergers result in a loss in price
transparency. Decreased competition makes it more difficult for patients
to find out what services will cost. Despite hospitals’ complaints
about reduced business due to COVID-19, in an increasing percentage (now
16%) of mergers the acquired hospital had billion-dollar revenues.
Fortunately, some independent hospitals are refusing to be acquired by a
big hospital chain, so the number of mergers decreased despite their
increased size. Patients and physicians are better off with more
independent hospitals.
Hospital Monopolies Sued
Three giant hospital systems are being challenged for
anti-competitive behavior: HCA Healthcare, Hartford Healthcare Corp.,
and Advocate Aurora Health. Fairmark Partners LLP is bringing the
lawsuits, supported by funding from Arnold Ventures, a philanthropic
organization founded by the ex-energy trader John Arnold and his wife
Laura.
“I don’t think there’s really any enforcement failure that’s had a
larger negative economic impact for consumers than the failure to
enforce antitrust laws against hospitals,” said Fairmark’s Brennan
Bilberry. “Supporting employers and workers suing hospitals for price
gouging and anticompetitive contracting is one way to overcome the
imbalance of power in the market,” said Erica Socker, vice president of
health care for Arnold Ventures.
Since 2010, there have been 979 deals among hospitals, and by 2016,
90% of the nation’s metropolitan hospital markets were highly
concentrated. Formerly locally owned community institutions are now part
of vast networks.
Arnold has also announced that his philanthropy “will break the insulin oligopoly by bringing $30 insulin to market” (Wall St J 6/11/22, https://tinyurl.com/3bjjrhxp).
Correspondence
FDA: Ministry of Bias and Illogic. Yet another
generic drug to treat early COVID is rejected by the FDA—fluvoxamine.
One large randomized controlled trial in Brazil found that those who
stuck to the treatment regimen were 66% less likely to be hospitalized
and 91% less likely to die. Other drugs the FDA has approved for
emergency use authorization (EUA) haven’t done as well. The author of a WSJ
editorial writes that there is no evidence that regulators are trying
to protect drugmaker profits by limiting access to repurposed generics,
but her own op-ed reviews the evidence for this (https://tinyurl.com/wzneaae3).
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Pfizer Trials Stopped Early. When I was an employee
in the Trump HHS in August 2020, I wrote a letter to the FDA regarding
my concerns that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins were saying
they would stop the COVID-19 vaccine trials early and not collect the
safety data. I stated the need for at least 500 events to occur if a
vaccine trial was to be stopped for benefit. I said that stopping at an
event number of 150 or so was devastating and bogus and will be an
over-estimation of vaccine effect, and that safety surveillance long
term was critical. I sent this paper to high-level people in government
and was told that I had to find a way to withdraw it from circulation. I
did not do so, and resigned under threat of being fired (tinyurl.com/ms2ypum8).
[Pfizer based its analysis on 170 cases, 162 in the placebo group;
there were only 10 severe cases, nine in the placebo group (https://tinyurl.com/2p8v7hw4).]
Public-Private Censorship Partners. Information released
by Sen. Grassley’s office regarding a whistleblower document suggests
that the Department of Homeland Security has been planning to
“operationalize” its relationships with private social media companies
to implement its public policy goals. These are not restricted to
foreign disinformation but include “conspiracy theories about the
validity and security of elections” and “disinformation related to the
origins and effects of COVID-19 vaccines or the efficacy of masks.” The
Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) was to be much more than a simple
“working group” to develop guidelines and standards, but rather was
designed to be the Department’s central hub, clearinghouse, and
gatekeeper for Administration policy and response to whatever it
happened to decide constituted “disinformation” (https://tinyurl.com/55rrzfa5).
Jeremy Snavely, Tucson, AZ
Loss of Trust. No one believes public health
agencies any longer. That public health has acted for a century as if it
were entitled by a “noble lie” to its methods for manipulating the
public is now shown to be only a lie. There is nothing noble about
pandering to special interests over population health.
Evidence for benefit of early treatment need not be strong. What matters is strong evidence for safety. There is no
evidence of harm from hydroxychloroquine used in COVID outpatients, and
65 years of prior safe use. Yet there is a summary relative risk of a
five-fold mortality reduction with HCQ in a dozen or more studies of
40,000 subjects. If that isn’t a “striking effect,” then nothing is. But
no evidence will be good enough for the scoffers.
Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., New Haven, CT
A Tool for Intellectual Tyranny. In Plato’s Dialogues,
Socrates explains how the “Noble Lie” is useful for achieving political
harmony. It has been a constant feature of politics and is the
foundation of the administrative state, a way to control the populace
with the presumption that the elite knows what is best. The motive for
the thought police and groupthink mendacity is the thirst for power and
control (tinyurl.com/mu6u47b2).
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
No Thinking Allowed. When the U.S. Army, Navy, Air
Force, and Marines engage in war planning, they have a blue team that
presents a proposal, and then a red team that tries to tear that
proposal apart and search for any weaknesses. The U.S. Public Health
Service is officially part of the military, but eschews military best
practices and instead requires groupthink and censors unfavorable data.
So, we get all of the worst aspects of military hierarchy, but none of
the responsibility and commitment to excellence. Event 201 and pandemic
preparedness exercises conducted by Johns Hopkins University, Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, CIA, etc., did not include a red team to
identify deficiencies in their carefully prepared scripts.
Malfeasance in Blocking Early Treatment. Nebraska Attorney General Douglas Peterson’s Opinion (tinyurl.com/2yswskhp)
on the use of ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 is a
stunning exposé of official and medical misconduct. Political
commentator Joe Herring called it “one of the most comprehensive
summations of profit-driven malfeasance on the part of pharmaceutical
companies, public medicine officials and their media allies that I have
ever read coming from an official government source” (https://tinyurl.com/2ya54wcj).
Even if the majority of our population still believes in it, Paul
Ehrlich’s “population bomb” has not only fizzled but is imploding. If
something does not change, we will have a situation unprecedented in
world history, worse than even the Black Plague, Elon Musk pointed out
in 2018. A video based on Our World in Data concerning number of
children per woman from 1950 until 2020 shows fertility plummeting
everywhere. Almost all the places that exceed replacement level are in
Africa (https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay/status/1527722818053586950).
“Reproductive rights” championed by the AMA—and proposed as a
fundamental human right by progressive politicians—mean almost
exclusively the right not to reproduce. Sexual stimuli are
pervasive, promoted even in kindergarten by vendors of “comprehensive
sex education”—along with contraception, unlimited abortion, and forms
of gratification that cannot produce a child (but can transmit
infections that impair fertility).
Many young people do not want to have children, often because they
have no hope for the future. Climate change, or pollution, or nuclear
war will kill us all, they are told. Economic prospects are dismal. The
“smart” future is life in the pod—no self-owned cars, no wide open
spaces, every act or thought tracked.
And if there is no future, no frontier, and no opportunity to build
or create something new, why work more than necessary to subsist and be
entertained? And if there are no children? “Why do men work, says the
poet Charles Peguy, if not for their children? The father throws himself
away in hope,” writes Anthony Esolen (https://tinyurl.com/bdh2hwsp).
What if we do away with fatherhood, or “patriarchy,” as radical
feminists demand? “Think of the hopelessness of the secular world, which
has set its face in stubborn self-destruction against the figure of the
father,” writes Esolen. “It is not just a gray life without fathers. It
is a severely constricted life, bound to the present, not a culture but
a mirthless floating along with the suggestions of mass phenomena.”
The global elite desires immortality, not through children, but rather through transhumanism (AAPS News, April 2021). World Economic Forum advisor Yuval Noah Harari claims that humans can gain “divine powers” (https://tinyurl.com/jvk85spv). Would a human cyborg be like the Head in C.S. Lewis’s 1945 novel, That Hideous Strength?
The Inverted Pyramid
An inverted population pyramid will collapse, as Musk pointed out.
How will the shrinking number of workers support all the frail elderly?
Medicare is already paying out more than it takes in, and digital
dollars can’t answer call buttons or turn into bread.
Was it “culling the herd” to send COVID-infected residents back to
nursing homes? Age-related rationing in medical care is alive and well,
writes AAPS past president Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D. (tinyurl.com/2pn9kv99).
U.S. life expectancy is at its lowest in 25 years, having fallen by 1.5 years in 2020 (https://tinyurl.com/2p9ywwn6),
and continuing to fall in 2021. COVID is only part of the explanation
and does not account for an alarming increase in death rates of working
age people coinciding with COVID vaccine rollouts (AAPS News, March 2022).
In a CNN interview, FDA chief Robert Califf, M.D., said that American
lives are, on average, 5 years shorter than in other high-income
countries, and that “misinformation” is the leading cause of
death—regarding heart disease and other big killers as well as COVID. No
one who is completely up to date on injections and gets the new
antivirals should die of COVID, he claims (tinyurl.com/2s44eeck).
Dr. Califf is former head of medical strategy at Google parent
company Alphabet, and has worked closely with many pharmaceutical
companies, including Merck and AstraZeneca.
Global elitists are more concerned about absolute numbers, not age
distribution, and the total is about seven times more than our fragile
planet can sustain, they say. Either we cut carbon emissions (achievable
only by measures that will cut population) to prevent climate change,
or climate change will cause mass death.
Dennis Meadows of the Club of Rome says he hopes we can achieve the
needed depopulation (down to about 1 billion) by “civil (nonviolent)
means”—he hopes by slow and “relatively equal” means. We can have 8 or 9
billion only with a strong dictatorship and much reduced consumption (tinyurl.com/pwtran8j).
Anti-COVID and anti-“climate change” policies are surely making the
middle class more equal to government-dependent welfare recipients and
less able to resist. A huge wealth transfer from small business to
multinational corporations has occurred. The Woke professional
managerial class in government agencies, academia, media, and
corporations is doing fine—for now.
Will the “people rise up”? Yellow Vests were in the streets for 3
years, and Macron got re-elected. Canadian truckers and any who
supported them are being financially ruined by Trudeau.
Successful revolts, such as the American Revolution, don’t come from
the proles, but from elites with means, who fight on principle or
because their own interests are threatened. The greatest threat to the
global Left is men like Donald Trump or Elon Musk, who can afford the
fight and are too rich to be bought, at least not with money. Where are
our right-minded elites?
We may soon see massive depopulation from sickness, sudden death, infertility, and starvation. The result is the intention.
The ‘LGBTsQewing of America’
According to a February 2022 Gallup poll, about 20% of Generation Z
(born 1997–2003) now identify as LGBTQ, as do 7% of Americans as a
whole, double the rate in 2012. This is part of the solution to the
“mystery” of the declining birth rate.
This shows that, “as history and science convincingly demonstrate,”
sexuality is “highly malleable and amenable to social cues, norms, and
proscriptions”—not biologically determined as advocates insist, writes
attorney Alexander Zubatov. He states that what has occurred is a
predictable result of the “undermining of all erstwhile sources of
stability and meaning.” Self-centered individuals are on a “hedonic
treadmill,” with society degenerating into a “spinning centrifuge
unceremoniously hurling more and more of us outward toward
irreconcilable opposite poles.” To save our young, we must “re-enchant
our traditions…that the counterculture has done its utmost to uproot” (https://tinyurl.com/4wc7uwtc).
One commenter noted that we are witnessing deliberate social
engineering—not with graphene or nano-chips, but with the skewing of
education and culture. In a Christian culture, reproduction is naturally
robust. The culture of “uneducated bigoted hillbillies” is being
replaced by cosmopolitan modernism where people are self-absorbed and
detached from reality. Population control has been surreptitiously
achieved for “people of Pallor” who might be troublesome to the ruling
Woke elite.
Elon Musk Gets Mad
Words from the 1976 movie Network sound eerily prescient.
News anchor Howard Beale told his viewers: “I don’t have to tell you
things are bad…. Everybody’s out of work, or scared of losing their job.
The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers
keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild in the street…. I
don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the
Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you’ve
got to get mad!”
After making a buyout bid for Twitter, Elon Musk, reputedly the
world’s richest man, got the right to examine the books. Unhappy Twitter
employees started to out themselves as operatives of the Democratic
Party. Musk learned that the Left’s diversity sloganeering is a sham,
and that what he thought was the kindness party is the party of division
and hate. He suggested he might start voting Republican, and, as he
predicted, the far Left’s hatestream against him commenced (tinyurl.com/yckkhzhm).
FDA’s ‘Future Framework’ for COVID Vaccines
No more clinical trials will ever be needed for COVID vaccines if FDA
adopts the proposed framework, which is modeled on the procedure for
influenza vaccines. Every year a new formulation is approved and deemed
“safe and effective” because it is “biologically similar” to existing
shots. Toby Rogers, Ph.D., calls this “the most reckless idea in the
history of public health. It shows that the FDA has completely abandoned
science and its…duty to protect the public” (tinyurl.com/29ekp5yv).
“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.” —Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)
‘Mysterious’ Hepatitis
Spain’s Health Ministry sounded the alarm about 650 cases of acute
hepatitis worldwide, with no epidemiologic connection
(https://tinyurl.com/pdjnbx5u). In a letter to the editor of the Journal of Hepatology,
Hersh Shroff et al. report a case series of 16 patients with
post-COVID-vaccination liver injury. Authors write: “We emphasize that
our intent is not to promote vaccine hesitancy. The overwhelming
benefits of these and other highly efficacious vaccines in the setting
of a global pandemic greatly surpass any potential risk of liver injury
that may exist (https://tinyurl.com/ycku3f9k). (Also see p 4.)
“Hepato-symptom laundering?” asks Jessica Rose, Ph.D. She notes that
60,442 liver-related adverse events had been reported to the Vaccine
Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as of May 27 (https://tinyurl.com/ybayrs7y).
Consumers are warned to discard organic strawberries that may be
linked to cases of hepatitis A (so far, 12 hospitalizations and no
deaths or transplants) (https://tinyurl.com/pvs3c9nd).
Vaccine Efficacy
The FDA vaccine efficacy threshold should be lowered to below 50%,
proposes Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA’s Center for
Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) (https://tinyurl.com/m2daxaer).
Though the number is “fluid,” Pfizer and Moderna are claiming efficacy
of 80% in children under 5 years old, ahead of a Jun 15 meeting. “Is the
FDA seriously considering basing national policy, that impacts 18
million children, by relying on a study with only 10 cases?” asks Toby
Rogers, who also notes that nearly all children have natural immunity by
now (tinyurl.com/bp7268vm).
Vaccine efficacy falls rapidly with time (tinyurl.com/56rfnvuc), and some suggest that it reaches 0% or even negative efficacy (tinyurl.com/48nf99rs).
The “well-run” Pfizer trial used to claim 90+% efficacy is riddled with
flaws and alleged fraud, writes statistician Mathew Crawford: “the
house of cards shakes” (https://tinyurl.com/5cua89f2). The vaccine may impair long-term immunity by reducing neutralizing anti-nucleocapsid antibodies (https://tinyurl.com/yckhm9dt).
In the real world, Portugal, which has virtually no one left to
vaccinate, has had multiple waves of COVID; currently, about 30 people
(the equivalent of 1,000 Americans) die every day. In Oklahoma, about
half vaccinated, nearly 80% of COVID hospitalizations in mid-May were in
partly or fully vaccinated patients. Some health departments have
stopped breaking out COVID reports by vaccine status (tinyurl.com/27bmbjs4).
October 13-15. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO.
ACTION OF THE MONTH
Congress falsely claims that HR 6833 will reduce the cost of insulin.
Ask the Senate to reject this phony measure and instead end kickbacks,
the main culprit. https://p2a.co/9aO0Meq
Special Districts, Special Privileges
The Florida legislature, in response to Disney World’s criticism of
the state law to protect schoolchildren from LGBT indoctrination,
dissolved its unaccountable kingdom, the Reedy Creek Improvement
District, which was created in 1967 so Disney could control its affairs
without interference from voters.
In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt urged the formation of special
districts to skirt laws that limited local debt or required voter
referendums to issue debt. There are now more than 38,000. After the tax
revolt in the 1970s, they became a convenient way for government to
escape new limitations on taxes. They have increased spending faster
than other types of government because voters don’t know how to stop
them; collectively, they spend more than $200 billion a year. In Nassau
County, N.Y., 140 different special districts cost the average homeowner
$1,000 a year in property taxes. Such districts do almost everything a
city can do, but without most of the constraints. (Wall St J 4/25/33, https://tinyurl.com/2p9h3nax).
If the cancellation is fully implemented, Disney will be subject to
county zoning and regulatory agencies, such as building codes and
highway requirements.
Perhaps Reedy Creek won’t be the last to be brought to heel.
Administrative State Loses One
In Jarkasy v. SEC, “the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just
handed the administrative state its head on a platter,” states AAPS
secretary Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D. “No more can these
administrative agencies try cases in their own administrative tribunal
where they act as prosecutor, judge, and jury. The Court reapplied the
‘chains of the Constitution’ to bind them down.”
George Jaskasy, a hedge fund founder and investment adviser, was
accused, convicted, and sentenced for securities fraud for allegedly
inflating the value of assets. The Dodd-Frank Act allows the Securities
and Exchange Commission to use its own tribunal. The Court ruled that
this violates the right to a trial by jury and the separation of powers
doctrine. The ruling applies only to the SEC but could encourage
challenges to other independent agencies. If appealed to the U.S.
Supreme Court it might threaten the 1935 Humphrey’s Executor precedent that upheld limitations on the President’s ability to remove members of bipartisan independent agencies (WSJ 5/22/22, https://tinyurl.com/3webkbyu).
COVID Vaccine Litigation
Pfizer moves to dismiss lawsuit brought by whistleblower Brook Jackson concerning alleged clinical trial fraud (tinyurl.com/mr273p4z),
claiming that usual rules don’t apply in agreements executed under the
defense department’s Other Transaction Authority (OTA) (tinyurl.com/58fwx2dm).
FAA, DOT, and 18 airlines are to be sued over employee mandates that violate constitutional rights to medical and religious liberties (https://tinyurl.com/f82wrpkf).
More than 500 servicemembers filed suit in in the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas over the
government’s mandating a vaccine that was not FDA approved and could not
be administered legally: Wilson v. Austin, Case 4-22-cv-00438 (https://tinyurl.com/awz7knpd).
Tip of the Month: Some of the onerous COVID-19
vaccination requirements are quietly expiring, and it is worth checking
your own state regulations. For example, Rhode Island imposed a
mandatory COVID vaccination requirement on health care workers beginning
Oct 21, 2021. But that requirement expired in March, and the
left-leaning state replaced it with a masking requirement instead. This
enables physicians and others in Rhode Island who declined to be
vaccinated to begin working again, albeit while being told to wear an
N95 mask when in contact with patients.
‘Disinformation’ Patrols
The Biden Administration’s controversial “Minitrue,” the
Disinformation Governance Board (tinyurl.com/3v46e9pa), has been
“paused,” but organizations such as the American Board of Internal
Medicine (ABIM) are there to hold doctors accountable.
ABIM president Richard Baron stated: “We’re not regulating speech.
People can say whatever they want, but as the [ABIM], we have an
interest in being sure that our credential means something and that
people who hold it are differentiated from people who don’t hold it.” He
is apparently threatening to decredential doctors for statements made
in a legislative hearing or court proceeding, if ABIM somehow determines
them to be clearly false, egregious, or “crossing the line” (https://tinyurl.com/ycktjjzt).
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, YouTube CEO Susan
Wojcicki reassured the elites that BigTech will continue to control the
narrative. The weaponization of information has been going on for at
least 5 or 6 years. “I think we’ve come a long way,” she said. “If…you
do a search…,when it comes to sensitive topics, you’re going to see them
coming from more authoritative sources” (tinyurl.com/4saw69v8).
Disinformation Kills
The narrative is that vaccines are “safe and effective” but CO2 is deadly. The Dept. of Health and Human Services has asked “healthcare stakeholders” to take the pledge to “At a minimum, reduce
organizational emissions by 50% by 2030…and achieve net-zero by 2050,
publicly accounting for progress on this goal every year” (https://tinyurl.com/2p9ytmjz).
The result of this narrative is that millions of people are likely to
starve to death in the next year. “Inflation, particularly of fossil
fuels, and the crop failures caused by lack of fertilizers (again,
exacerbated by lack of fossil fuels), will mean mass starvation,” writes
Kurt Schlichter. Regime adherents are not willing to do “what it will
take to derail the death train roaring down the tracks.” He attributes
this to their “pagan climate religion” and the power they get from
denying others access to fuel. The result is “not happenstance but a
plan” (tinyurl.com/3vp8ecp3).
Big Pharma News
PharmaMar CEO José María Fernández Sousa-Faro, along with 2,200
others, was accused by Spanish police of buying fake COVID vaccine
passports (https://tinyurl.com/2p9casm8).
“A big demand problem” is causing Moderna to dump 30 million unwanted
COVID-19 vaccine doses. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told WEF of 7 billion
“surplus” doses in warehouses (https://tinyurl.com/yckzbm7r).
Correspondence
King Fauci? The Doctor Who Would Be King, reviewed in the Wall St J (https://tinyurl.com/3dva8zwk),
is likely the dream book of progressives/liberals/socialists. Dr. Jean
Joseph David became known as “King David” in French Cameroon in
1939–1944. His task was to “reinvent a new society based on healthy
foundations,” encapsulating the idea of a “civilizing mission,” a
“fundamental principle” of European colonialism. France was treating an
African tract as a laboratory where modern medicine could show “its
capacity to transform society and cultivate life.” David’s methods were
brutal. Dr. Fauci might envy his power.
The review notes that the French super-doctor ended his career in a
suburb of Paris as a medical sales rep for a drug company. Once a king
in a Conradian Heart of Darkness, “he petered out in the heart of
drabness.”
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
70 Years of Brainwashing. We already live in an
advanced cultural Marxist society even though half of the country is
still lulled in the false sense that we are still a Constitutional
Republic. The globalists have transformed young generations into pliable
communist drones. People whisper to their friends that they do not like
what is going on, but they are too afraid to speak out for fear of
losing their jobs or licenses, or of public shaming and ridicule.
Generations of children have been B.F. Skinner’s lumps of clay who have
been shaped into citizens who hate their own country. Today they fly the
Ukrainian flag in support of a country they know nothing about,
determined to defend its borders, language, and culture from afar while
they are content with their own American culture being destroyed from
within.
Excise Political Loserdom. Why do conservatives
always compromise their position to the point of surrender? Want to
lose an argument or a societal conflict? Just accept the loser position
and consider it to be more civilized or even-tempered. Allow the enemy
to decide the rules, the field of conflict, and the definition of terms (https://tinyurl.com/4wv6mhmp). Remember that the left never concedes and always fights to win.
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
The Mainspring of Disinformation. During my short
stay in D.C. I was told by high-level people at CDC, NIH, and FDA that
their aim with each announcement was to “make the U.S. unmanageable and
ungovernable under Trump.” They released bogus CDC reports on COVID
deaths, suppressed reports of daily suicides in children, and misled
Trump on the effects of lockdowns and of the fraud vaccine, which they
knew had huge problems of safety and effectiveness. It was all about
forcing every man, woman, and child on the globe to take the vaccine.
Almost all the media worked in unison with the insiders, the
politicians, and the deep-state bureaucracy. They hated Trump so much
and did not care about the U.S. There is no negotiating with these
people. Trump should have never ever played nice. They savaged him for
it; he did not know they repay decency in D.C. with more hate and
brutality. They win at all costs, and they will destroy the nation to
get their way—look around you.
Nothing on COVID by CDC, NIH, Health Canada, Public Health Agency of
Canada, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)—nothing was
based on data or science. So-called experts were corrupted, inept,
illogical, irrational, sloppy, and reckless. We need a proper public
legal inquiry, and if we find that any did wrong and that their
decisions cost lives, they must be held accountable. I want an acute
focus on vaccines in children. I think people know that children will
die, but they do not care. Their careers, grants, and fame are more
important.
A 1989 Inflection Point? According to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in an interview with Mike Tyson (https://tinyurl.com/sr7zfwuy),
if you were born before 1989, your chance of having a chronic disease
is 12%. If you were born after 1989, it’s 54%. In 1989, the CDC packed
multiple doses of several more vaccines into the childhood schedule.
Every one of the injuries that have become an epidemic is listed as a
side effect on the manufacturer’s inserts of the 72 vaccine doses that
are now mandated for our children.
Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ
Autoimmune Hepatitis. Yet another scientific article
points to the danger of current COVID vaccines given to children, and
is another reason I believe mandates for these vaccines for children
should be criminal. Just a few weeks after the rollout of this vaccine
for children, WHO issued a global alert about higher than usual rates of
hepatitis in previously healthy children, after ruling out the common
viral causes. Many cases were so severe the patients required a liver
transplant or died. The Journal of Hepatology (tinyurl.com/2p98twab)
reported a case showing that “COVID-19 vaccination can elicit a
distinct T cell-dominant immune-mediated hepatitis.” The American
Academy of Pediatrics, CDC, FDA, et al. are going to create
ever-increasing mistrust (justifiably), the longer they ignore a rising
mountain of evidence.
AAPS News May 2022 – The Narrative in Organized Medicine
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Many (most?) Americans are apparently becoming NPCs.
A feature of video games, the non-player character says whatever the
computer algorithm directs. The NPC meme, based on the Wojak meme,
appeared on 4chan in July 2016, with this description of the type of
person the meme represents: “If you get in a discussion with them it’s
always the same buzzwords and hackneyed arguments. They’re the kind of
people who make a show of discomfort when you break the status quo like
by breaking the normie barrier to invoke a real discussion. It’s like in
a when you accidentally talk to somebody twice and they give you the
exact lines word for word once more.”
The meme is a gray head with a blank stare and a triangular nose. One
Twitter post depicted the robot head being opened and the old chip
(such as COVID pandemic) being replaced by the latest Current Thing (at
this moment Ukraine). Other chips are for climate crisis, systemic
racism, LGBTQ rights, unrestricted abortion (“reproductive health”), and
disparities.
Having attended nearly every House of Delegates meeting of the
Arizona Medical Association (ArMA) for about 30 years, your editor has
observed the progression described by Minnesota physicians (p 4). At
this year’s meeting, held by Zoom for the third time, the NPCs seemed
to me to be clearly in the majority.
The 22 resolutions, mostly Woke, came primarily from the Medical
Students Section. No individual claimed authorship; they were likely
lifted from the AMA, with lengthy, referenced “whereas” clauses. The
reference committee recommended adoption. The few extracted from the
consent agenda passed 80 to 20.
Unanswered questions: What will the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Committee do with $5,000 (the only fiscal note in the resolutions)? What
is its measure of success? [No, there will not be discrimination
against straight white men, and it is not like the old Jewish quotas.]
Does “gender affirmation” include surgery or off-label use of dangerous
drugs like puberty blockers in minors?
ArMA has, with few objections, changed its “aggressively neutral”
position on abortion. Now it can simply say abortion is “essential to
reproductive health” when opposing any legislation that might decrease
the number of abortions, instead of contriving a reason such as
“interference with the patient-physician relationship.” If it loses
members, so what; it may gain more.
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) was the most contentious issue.
Dedicated physicians have been fighting valiantly to prevent the AMA
from dropping its opposition and taking a neutral position. ArMA
committees have also been debating this for years, and the division of
opinion has been about 50:50 (AAPS News, August 2018). Proponents may acknowledge the potential slippery slope, but deny the existence of problems in Oregon, Canada, or Europe (AAPS News, August 2019).
They do not see a red line, an absolute moral prohibition against
prescribing lethal medicines to end a patient’s life, but only a
discussion of the acceptable conditions. As with abortion, what is
permissible may become “essential,” and supposed conscience protections
may prove meaningless. The ArMA resolution was referred to a task force
to be appointed by the incoming president and instructed to report
within 6 months.
No Right to Dissent
Only one resolution received a “do not pass” recommendation: one that
the AAPS board of directors will present at our upcoming annual meeting
(p 2). One discussant said it was like saying “the sky is blue,” as
doctors already have freedom. Another said that freedom has limits—we
need to protect against “harmful misinformation.” It was “referred,”
likely to be memory holed.
The takeover by cultural Marxists is virtually complete. They have
discovered that they only need a small majority to rule. In Western
democracies convincing 51% is as good as convincing 99%. But the
Narrative can be implemented without a majority; all that is needed is
to convince the brainwashed college graduates whose connections and
status will propel them into leadership positions in academia and
industry. They will be selected, not elected. They cannot be voted out
and can choose not to follow the orders of elected officials—and can
cancel people who do not obey them. So far the right-wing upper middle
class is going along.
In 1924 American billionaire James B. Duke established the Duke
University Endowment and virtually built from scratch a brand new
conservative university on par with the Northern Ivy League Sisters.
This plan worked until the 1960s when cultural Marxists imported from
Europe cannibalized academia from the inside. Since then conservatives
abandoned academia and professional managerial institutions. Duke
University like others fell into the hands of the enemy. While important
smaller institutions have been founded, no one has undertaken to
challenge Harvard and other established elites (https://tinyurl.com/bddzfyns).
The average middle-class conservative employed in a relatively secure
industry, living in a sheltered conservative community, is
content—until he has to go to a university hospital and be treated as a
“bigot” by Woke students and residents, or finds out that his daughter
is scheduled for an “affirming mastectomy.”
Conservatives are cheering that Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44
billion, and leftists are in a panic about the possibility that free
speech might be allowed, even in 240 characters.
Will that suffice to destroy false Narratives? As the late Nino Camardese, M.D., said: “Truth + 1 = a majority.”
Slippery Slope—or Moral Cliff?
Proponents of medical aid in dying generally reject the
slippery-slope argument by claiming that safeguards work or that one
should not deny some patients this relief just because abuse might
happen (tinyurl.com/5fhvsbwp).
But once the premise is accepted that physicians may ethically kill
their patients, medicine is fundamentally changed. Then, “the
progression from death-on-demand to death-at-doctors’-discretion makes a
grim kind of sense.” As Justice Neil Gorsuch pointed out,
“physician-assisted suicide always relies on the physician to make the
fatal decision.”
“Compassionate motives don’t make something morally right, nor can
they prevent horrifying abuses of human dignity.” It’s a drop off a
moral cliff. “Once death is a treatment option, patients can no longer
trust their doctors, their insurance companies, or even their families
to have their best interests at heart” (https://tinyurl.com/4frkwpeu).
COVID Shots Suppress Immunity
The safety signals for COVID jabs are “out of sight,” write Stephanie
Seneff, Ph.D., Peter McCullough, M.D., and others. An Indian study
suggested that the shots might suppress the innate immune system by
inhibiting type-1 interferon. The mRNA in the shot is modified to look
more like human RNA rather than viral, so it persists longer and does
not trigger the interferon pathway. Worse, the pathway is actively
suppressed by the large number of spike proteins produced and by the
microRNAs in the exosomes released by the stressed immune cells. Peptide
sequences in antibodies produced by the jab may result in autoimmune
disease through molecular mimicry. Associated neurologic problems
include tremors, tinnitus, Bell palsy, and migraines related to
trigeminal nerve inflammation. We might see an explosion in Parkinson
disease, demyelinating disease, Alzheimer’s, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease (https://tinyurl.com/muyymnmk).
A detailed description of the mechanisms emphasizes their importance in cancer suppression (tinyurl.com/mt6w7m5h).
Florida Warning on Transgender Therapy
In a Department of Health statement, Florida Surgeon General Dr.
Joseph Ladapo said: “Current evidence does not support the use of
puberty blockers, hormone treatments or surgical procedures for children
and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria.” The statement notes
such treatments have “an unacceptably high risk of doing harm” to
minors, and that 80% of children seeking clinical care lose their desire
to identify with the “non-birth sex” (https://tinyurl.com/5epa7656).
DOH guidance was praised by Liberty Council, which cited FDA reports
of 25,645 “serious” reactions to leuprolide acetate (Lupron), including
6,379 deaths (tinyurl.com/yc8y8yzx). The drug is FDA approved for
advanced prostate cancer and precocious puberty, but is being used
off-label in children diagnosed with gender dysphoria, despite the
absence of peer-reviewed studies on its long-term effects (tinyurl.com/2p9ck3st).
“In the main it will be found that a power over a man’s support (salary) is a power over his will.”
Alexander Hamilton
Free Debate and Physician Prescribing
Resolution to be presented at AAPS annual meeting:
WHEREAS:
Science is a method for seeking truth, not a dogmatic creed handed down by approved experts;
Experts have been proved wrong, and what was a minority or individual opinion proved correct many times;
Science requires free, open debate;
There are enormous conflicts of interest involving experts and the pharmaceutical industry;
Physicians undergo rigorous training that equips them to independently evaluate evidence;
The randomized controlled trial is not the only kind of evidence; is
itself subject to bias and other flaws; and is often unavailable,
especially for a newly recognized disease;
[Under the Hippocratic ethic, the physician] has pledged to “prescribe
regimen for the good of my patients according to my ability and my
judgment and never do harm to anyone”;
The ethical physician places patients first;
Physicians may be subject to severe pressure from employers,
hospitals, insurers or others to conform to a protocol that may not be
in the best interest of an individual patient;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT:
AAPS supports the right and duty of physicians to prescribe according
to their own best judgment, with the commitment to do no harm to
anyone, and defends this right in its positions on legislation,
regulation, hospital medical staff bylaws, or licensure board actions.
Students for Total Transformation
No fringe organization, White Coats for Black Lives (WC4BL) has more
than 70 chapters at U.S. medical schools. It claims that “dominant
medical practice in the United States has been built on the
dehumanization and exploitation of Black people.” Ridding the medical
system of this allegedly pervasive racism requires “dismantling
anti-Black racism, white supremacy, capitalism, imperialism,
colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy,” and also “dismantling fatphobia,”
embracing “Black queer feminist praxis,” and “unlearning toxic medical
knowledge.” WC4BL blames “the professionalization of the medical field”
for the utilization of “violence” to “oust women and femme healers.” The
Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) recent guide to
anti-racism planning highlights WC4BL by name, and many medical schools
approve of WC4BL’s demands and incorporate them in their curriculum (https://tinyurl.com/2ts4v9c2).
October 13-15. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO.
Does the Nuremberg Code Apply?
While often referred to in the context of vaccine mandates, the
Nuremberg Code has never been codified in U.S. law. In the years
immediately following the Nuremberg war crimes trials, most commentators
believe the influence of the Code in the U.S. was imperceptible. The
prevailing view was that the medical defendants were Nazis first and
last; by definition nothing they did was relevant to the U.S. Their
conduct was so extreme “as to have little or no bearing on civilized
people who conducted scientific research according to their
consciences.” The longstanding tradition of medical ethics embodied in
the Oath of Hippocrates was regarded as a generally adequate basis upon
which the medical profession could police itself (tinyurl.com/9ddrcbdf).
In 1952, a Pentagon lawyer recognized the Code as good law that
applied to the U.S. Department of Defense. However, courts have viewed
it as being superseded by national security concerns. In 1966, Dr. Henry
Beecher published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
contending that there were numerous examples of the abuse of human
subjects in the published medical literature. The Tuskegee study in the
1960s and 1970s forcefully showed the need for concern. The Code was
influential and has contributed to a “growth in moral perception”
(ibid.).
In the case of Abdullahi v. Pfizer, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit wrote in 2009 that “states throughout the
world have shown through international accords and domestic law-making
that they consider the prohibition on nonconsensual medical
experimentation identified at Nuremberg as a norm of customary
international law.” The case concerned Pfizer’s testing an antibiotic
in Nigerian children, resulting in many deaths and serious injuries. The
court concluded in a 2-to-1 decision that jurisdiction existed under
the Alien Tort Statute (tinyurl.com/yrz2vzwj), and Pfizer eventually
settled for $75 million.
The opinion noted: “As Justices of the Supreme Court have recognized [in U.S. v. Stanley],
‘[t]he medical trials at Nuremberg in 1947 deeply impressed upon the
world that experimentation with unknowing human subjects is morally and
legally unacceptable.’”
Also, “the fact that the prohibition on medical experimentation on
humans without consent has been consciously embedded by Congress in our
law and reaffirmed on numerous occasions by the FDA demonstrates that
the United States government views the norm as the source of a binding
legal obligation.”
Federal Judge Strikes Down CDC Mask Mandate
Citing violations of the Administrative Procedure Act, federal
district court judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the Center for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mandate requiring travelers to wear
masks on airplanes and other forms of public transportation in Health Freedom Defense Fund v. Biden (https://tinyurl.com/mr33rtm4).
The CDC failed to give the required notice-and-comment period. “At
the time when the CDC issued the mandate, the COVID-19 pandemic had been
ongoing for almost a year and COVID-19 cases were decreasing,” Judge
Mizelle wrote. “This timing undercuts the CDC’s suggestion that its
action was so urgent that a thirty-day comment period was contrary to
the public interest.” Moreover, she wrote that the mandate exceeds the
agency’s statutory authority, for which it cites the Public Health
Services Act of 1944. Forcing individuals to wear a face mask does not
meet any reasonable definition of “sanitation.”
“Before COVID, the CDC had really played more of…[an] advise and
consent role to the state public health authorities. It had never
before…said we’re going to…directly dictate how people can conduct
themselves and…use their property,” said Brant Hadaway, an attorney for
the plaintiffs (tinyurl.com/ymmdsf54).
The Dept. of Justice has appealed the ruling, even though the mandate
has expired, “to preserve the government’s public health authorities” (https://tinyurl.com/4tuemu7d).
Airlines are offering refunds to some passengers who don’t want to be
on a flight with an unmasked person. So far, few requests have been
received (https://tinyurl.com/y66j2pz8).
Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D., writes that “We’re Toying with a Ruinous
End to COVID Travel Masking” and “CDC’s powers to protect the public
during health emergencies hangs in the balance.” He compares the
unprecedented power to force healthy people to wear a mask to the
long-held power to detain persons infected with smallpox, tuberculosis,
or Ebola. “The judge’s opinion literally handcuffs the CDC” (tinyurl.com/ycks47ew).
Conscience Rights Hang in the Balance
The Biden administration is preparing to scrap a Trump-era rule that
allows medical workers to refuse to provide services that conflict with
their religious or moral beliefs. A spokesperson for the Department of
Health and Human Services said: “HHS has made clear through the unified
regulatory agenda that we are in the rulemaking process.” The conscience
rule, unveiled in 2018 and finalized in 2019, was blocked by federal
courts and has never been implemented. It would have allowed doctors,
nurses, medical students, pharmacists, and other medical workers to
refuse to provide abortions, contraception, “gender-affirming” care,
vasectomies or any procedure to which they object
(https://tinyurl.com/ykc746ay). Refusal to do an abortion or to treat a
minor with off-label hormones might be called “discrimination.”
The Law on Off-Label Prescribing
Off-label prescribing is perfectly lawful. In general office-based
practice, 21% of prescriptions are off-label, and 40% to 80% of
recipients of commonly prescribed psychotropic medications are receiving
these medications off-label. With antidepressants, more than 80% of
off-label prescriptions had no strong evidence of efficacy for the
indication, and there is significant risk of adverse drug events. The
statutory and regulatory framework affecting off-label prescription and
especially anything that might be construed as “promotion” is very
complex. Physicians need to familiarize themselves with the rules (tinyurl.com/zstnkujz).
Tip of the Month: Hospitals exploit employment
contracts to impose sham peer review, thereby circumventing the
bylaws. Sometimes hospitals enter into a one-sided contract with a group
of physicians, and the group contracts with individual physicians
including a termination-without-cause provision. When the hospital wants
to exclude a physician who stands up for patients, the hospital CEO
merely calls the group CEO and tells him to terminate the physician.
Avoiding employment contracts, particularly ones that allow termination
without cause, is preferable.
Correspondence
Scarred Hearts. The CDC reassured the public that
sufficient time had passed to conclude that there are no significant
long-term adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccine. “Long-term” had not
occurred yet, and they knew it. Just another lie. Now, young healthy
boys are scarred and injured for life. A follow-up study (tinyurl.com/3struzhc)
of patients 18 or younger, who had been treated for cardiac
inflammation within a week of the second dose of the Pfizer jab, showed
that nearly 70% had persistent late gadolinium enhancement on MRI three
to eight months after they were first examined—even though most patients
appeared to respond to treatment (https://tinyurl.com/3pc3f6nw).
A Nordic cohort study (JAMA, tinyurl.com/zmd85fp7)
showed that the rate of myocarditis/pericarditis in persons receiving
Comirnaty™ was 5 times that of the unvaccinated; for Spikevax™, the
risk was 15 times higher. Nordic countries have halted the use of the
Moderna product (Spikevax), but researchers write that benefits outweigh
the risks (tinyurl.com/2p8men9k).
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Record Deaths in Young Athletes. Tragic events are
hampering the joy of spectator sports. Even the media can’t hide players
suffering cardiac arrest on the game field, shortly after receiving a
COVID jab. Football giants, soccer stars, tennis pros—hundreds of them
are being forced to end their careers because they took the shot (https://tinyurl.com/bdzfur63).
Steve LaTulippe, M.D., Salem, OR
Who Is to Blame for Price Hikes? The Biden
administration is blaming Vladimir Putin for March’s 8.5% year-over-year
increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). But prices were surging
long before Russian troops entered Ukraine. The previous excuse was
“greedy corporations.” The main culprit is actually the Federal
Reserve’s unprecedented spree of money creation. The
welfare-warfare-fiat money system will end. We don’t know when, or
whether it will be replaced by an even more authoritarian government or
by a return to limited, constitutional government.
Wokeness. How did “monolithic
theology,” the mixture of morality with consumerism that favors
preferred business and political interests, get into medicine? How and
why did the Minnesota Medical Association convert from representative
physician advocacy to woke corporate ideology? As Vivek Ramaswamy,
author of Woke, Inc., writes: “The modern woke-industrial
complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism,
America’s elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really
are. They sell us cheap social causes and skin-deep identities to
satisfy our hunger for a cause and our search for meaning, at a moment
when we as Americans lack both.” Most American physicians are now at
risk as employees of woke corporations. As such they are enmeshed
without power in the politics of a woke-industrial complex. A final
solution for MMA was to disband the House of Delegates.
Lee Beecher, M.D., Maple Grove, MN
The Source. I think that the genesis of medicine’s
adopting the “woke” ideology comes from the World Health Organization
final report that came out in 2008: “Closing the gap in a generation:
health equity through action on the social determinants of health,”
narratives constantly cited by the AMA and MMA. The assumption is
that all health outcome differences are created by the doctors or the
system. It is racist to believe otherwise. Not only the usual suspect
institutions, but science and medicine too, are in the grip of a
monolithic theology. Woke medical students believe that only government
can overcome the inequities. I expect our federal constitutional
republic to become an authoritarian non-democratic government within my
lifetime.
Robert Koshnick, M.D., Detroit Lakes, MN
The Way We Were. Until the time of COVID, I thought that free speech was a fundamental right. Having been assigned core texts like 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, and The Trial and Death of Socrates in
fifth grade in the California school system, I believed there was no
way anything like that could happen in the U.S. Internet censorship and
government-controlled propaganda were unfortunate things that happened
to those who lived in China. I believed that physicians were deeply
committed to upholding the Oath of Hippocrates, and that doctors had
freedom and responsibility to diagnose and treat patients as individuals
and were guided by ethical principles codified after WWII in federal
law as the “common rule.” Patients had medical autonomy, and informed
consent for any medical procedure was ethically critical. Dissent and
discussion was a time-honored tradition with a long history of leading
to improvements in medical care. Then everything changed.
Tyranny of Ideology. Unlike philosophy, which
recognizes reality, ideology rejects common sense in favor of
unyielding belief in the perfectibility of man, explains
Thadeus McCotter (tinyurl.com/4p2uf5sv). The first casualty of ideology is truth.
We know that both soldiers and civilians are tragically dying in
Ukraine. War propaganda being what it is, we don’t know the accurate
casualty count, but we know the general mechanism of death (explosion,
gunshot wound, etc.), and how it might be stopped (make peace). But
while people watch the exciting war footage on television, young,
healthy people outside the war zone are silently dropping dead, one by
one. Why? What to do?
We do not know the number of persons who died from as opposed to with
COVID-19. We also don’t know the death count from “friendly fire.” How
many died because their social contacts were disrupted or their
businesses destroyed? Was any real person’s life actually saved because
you couldn’t get a haircut or doctor’s appointment, or is the trade-off
in lives purely a guess by self-interested authorities imposing the
lockdowns? How many died or will die because of COVID vaccine effects?
There’s a war on, so expect war propaganda. In war, it is unpatriotic or even treasonous to criticize the leaders.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), states Dr.
Peter McCullough, is sitting on reports of 24,000 deaths shortly after a
COVID injection (tinyurl.com/ms5trsyp).
Would deaths of these people be justified, in case mass vaccination
might save some other people who might catch the disease from an
unvaccinated person? Are they simply the collateral damage of war?
The “winter of severe illness and death” that Biden predicted in
December for the unvaccinated did not happen. Raw data from Public
Health Scotland show that over the 4-week period ending on Feb 4, deaths
per million population in the twice-vaccinated were three times as high
as in the unvaccinated, and in the once-boosted were twice as high as
in the unvaccinated. After this, PHS stopped releasing such data (https://tinyurl.com/38jeu3m9).
Most of the post-injection deaths have occurred in the first week.
However, a second wave of deaths peaking around 180 days in seven states
(KY, TN, GA, MI, MN, TX, and FL) is pointed out by researcher Craig
Paardekooper. These states have a many-fold higher death rate. In the
early peak, cardiac arrest is the most frequent cause of death; in the
later, “COVID-19” or possibly misdiagnosed similar illness. Late deaths
suggest that a toxin is persisting longer, say by evading the natural
immune system, or is being replaced. Paardekooper states that Pfizer
was developing three different types of vaccine, using non-modified RNA,
nucleoside-modified RNA that contains pseudouridine (p 2), or
self-amplifying RNA (tinyurl.com/3dr2mrrs).
Different vaccine lots also differ greatly in the integrity of the
active ingredient, mRNA. In some, only 55% is intact, far below the
generally accepted manufacturing standard yet intentionally accepted by
regulators, states Sasha Latypova (ibid.).
The extreme variability in adverse event reports between batches,
with 1 in 200 lots having more than 1,000 reports in VAERS, suggests
that vaccine manufacturers are doing toxic dose range testing without
consent, writes James Hill, M.D., J.D.
“Paardekooper’s VAERS analysis should be replicated or refuted by
others, including government investigators, as soon as possible” (tinyurl.com/2p94evrm).
In a Pfizer contract with the EU, the section on labeling redacts the
phrase “shall not be serialized” from the public version. Making vials
untraceable would enable mixing increasing numbers from “hot lots” into
safe lots. Then an increasing incidence of heart attacks or strokes
could not be attributed to supposedly unchanging vaccines (tinyurl.com/tmwtescj).
The knowing distribution of adulterated or mislabeled products
signals intent. Establishing fraud would remove the manufacturers’
liability shield; thus, investigation must be suppressed.
Purging Dissent
U.S. military servicemembers who decline the COVID vaccine or apply
for a religious exemption are being terminated regardless of their skill
level or natural immune status. Yet commanders are issuing illegal
orders in violation of Army regulations issued in the Sept 14, 2021,
Fragmentary Order (FRAGO) number 5, which states: “Commanders will
ensure sufficient doses of Department of Defense approved vaccines are
on hand and available for their unit.” The Secretary of Defense himself
told every servicemember in his Aug 24, 2021, memo that the only
vaccines for use will “receive full licensure from the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), in accordance with FDA-approved labeling and
guidance.” To date, however, there are no FDA-approved fully licensed vaccines available on any U.S. military installation (https://tinyurl.com/yc5ycvs9). So, the order is ignored.
It is estimated that in these times of escalating world tensions, the U.S. Air Force is already short 2,000 pilots (https://tinyurl.com/mv6wdcax).
We do not know how many are or will be disabled by mandated injections.
We do know that Russian and Chinese soldiers are not given mRNA
vaccines.
Dissenting physicians are being purged (“disciplined”) for mentioning
possible adverse effects—as presented by America’s Frontline Doctors’
“Doc Tracy” (tinyurl.com/2p8sjy4r).
Biowarfare?
While there’s talk of biowarfare labs in Ukraine, half the world
population may harbor a biologic time bomb. “It’s beyond any shadow of a
doubt that the vaccines are causing a large number of deaths,” states
Dr. McCullough (tinyurl.com/2p92v2be).
History Lesson: Cause or Effect?
Angela Merkel may have decided that Russia could never be reconciled
with the West based on Putin’s “tirade against the decadence of
democracies, whose decay of values, he said, was exemplified by the
spread of ‘gay culture’” (tinyurl.com/54e2auz2).
Why is the LGBTQ agenda a litmus test for the Woke West?
Gay culture was a feature in the fall of Greece, the fall of Rome,
the French Revolution with Jacobins, and the Weimar Republic. Friedrich
Nietzsche, who was an outstanding historian specializing in the history
of the culture of ancient Rome and Greece, observed in Twilight of the Idols:
“Church and morality say: ‘A people or a society are destroyed by
vice and luxury.’ My revalued reason says: when a people degenerates…,
then the result is vice and luxury (that is, the craving for ever
stronger and more frequent stimulation necessary to arouse an exhausted
nature)…. The newspaper reader says: this party destroys itself by
making such a mistake. My higher politics says: a party that makes such a
mistake has already reached its end (it is finished)” [trans. by H.B.].
Not Really mRNA
Pfizer, Moderna, and BioNTech claim that the messenger RNA in their
products is quickly degraded. However, writes Dr. Robert Malone, it is
known to persist for at least 60 days in lymph nodes. In fact, the
vaccine mRNA differs from natural mRNA in having pseudouridine randomly
incorporated during the manufacturing process. Unlike uridine,
pseudouridine can pair with all other bases, not just adenine. This
could account for interference with the innate immune response and the
reactivation of latent DNA viruses. Failure of regulators to investigate
these effects before authorizing widespread use is “appropriately
classified as ‘willful ignorance’” (https://tinyurl.com/ycktp47f).
“I get asked all the time ‘what can I do to eliminate the RNA
vaccines from my body,’ to which I have to answer—nothing,” writes Dr.
Malone (ibid.).
Do Flu Shots Work?
As Alex Berenson pointed out, the number of flu shots increased from
12 million in 1980 to almost 200 million in 2020, but influenza deaths
did not decrease (tinyurl.com/2p84av2w).
Difficulties in interpretation include population increase and the
definition of an influenza death. Using additional data from Berenson (https://tinyurl.com/46ay923m):
In the 1980-1981 flu season, 12 million of the U.S. population of 227
million (5%) got flu shots, and about 20,000 people died from flu (80
per million). In the 2017-2018 flu season, 155 million of 327 million
people (47%) got flu shots, and 52,000 died from flu (about 160 per
million). This obviously doesn’t prove that flu shots kill people with
flu, but it certainly does not show them to be helpful.
“The symbols Russia values most are the Icon and the Axe: Faith
and Power…. Her revolution was the search for a new absolute…. In
1917… the Bolsheviks thought they were at the gates of heaven, but we
know now they were at the gates of hell. Evil is never more terrible
than when it wears the mask of goodness. Ideology without pity always
leads to crime.”
Phillip H. McMath, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/6fnthwvn
Tricking the Children
Children are often resistant to taking the COVID jabs. More than 70%
of COVID shots are received at pharmacies, as fewer people visit
doctors, states are permitting pharmacists to administer more shots, and
pharmacists have found ways to avoid having screaming children in their
aisles. One clinic directed children with colored armbands, identified
by their parents as potential screamers, to the “VIP lounge” so they
don’t frighten others. The clinic featured live music, jugglers, and
vaccinators wearing superhero capes. The post-shot waiting room had a
librarian reading stories, a magician, the chance to write a thank-you
note to vaccine developers, and a life-size cutout of high priest
Anthony Fauci (WSJ 11/23/21, tinyurl.com/3n8maebv).
Mandate Voted Down in Germany
With 76.6% of the country having received at least one jab, more than
200,00 daily new cases of COVID are still reported. The Bundestag
rejected a proposal to mandate vaccination for everyone over age 60 by a
378–296 vote. Chancellor Olaf Scholz was disappointed, saying the
government will try to persuade more people to get jabbed (https://tinyurl.com/43d299h9).
More Revelations from Pfizer Documents
After getting the EUA (Emergency Use Authorization), Pfizer hired 600
people within 3 months to process adverse event reports and expected to
need 1,800 more (tinyurl.com/24cudrbv).
No genotoxicity or carcinogenicity studies were done on RNA LNP-based products (tinyurl.com/yc32mcmy).
The rate of myocarditis was recognized to be as high as 1 in 1,000 in
an informed-consent document. A previous study on a smallpox vaccine
“suggested an incidence of possible subclinical myocarditis (based on
cardiac troponin T elevations) 60-times higher than the incidence rate
of overt clinical myocarditis” (https://tinyurl.com/2ayr3pcf).
Pfizer obscured the effects of natural immunity (0 severe cases in
either trial or placebo groups with previous infection) by combining
patients with and without previous infection in their efficacy analysis
(ibid.).
The second document dump reveals that Pfizer deliberately did not
tell people that in the initial days post shot they were susceptible to
infection—not just from COVID—and should not be out and about. Moreover,
in calculating efficacy Pfizer attributed infections during the first
14 days to the unvaccinated. Pfizer and government officials knew that
failure to account for the period of negative efficacy is fraud (tinyurl.com/yckhx4xf).
AAPS Calendar
October 13-15, 2022. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO.
It Might Take Just One
From my collection of videos, this one showing a lion attacked by a clan of hyenas (https://tinyurl.com/39r9yj37)
is emblematic of sham peer review attacks occurring in hospitals,
writes Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D. The attackers pounce on the victim
from all angles. But, as the attackers bite him repeatedly and tear at
his flesh, another of his kind (representing ethical physicians) enters
the scene, and the odds change. The video illustrates that sometimes all
it takes to save the victim being attacked by sham peer review is a
single person to come to his aid.
Tip of the Month: Increasingly, federal convictions are based on
allegations of false statements to federal agents, rather than
underlying conduct. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska was a charismatic,
popular congressman being investigated for a relatively small $30,000
in campaign contributions, supposedly made illegally by a foreigner. FBI
agents from California visited his home as he returned from working to
clean up after a big storm. The agents questioned him then and again in a
follow-up interview when his attorney was present. Similar
contributions by the same foreigner had been made to Mitt Romney’s 2012
presidential campaign and to other politicians. But only Fortenberry was
indicted, and then convicted on Mar 24, based on charges that he
allegedly made false statements to the federal agents. And his trial was
not in Nebraska but in Los Angeles based on the investigation
originating there, even though Fortenberry’s attorney repeatedly
objected to that venue. Speaking to a federal agent is not required, and
restarts the statute of limitations, so why take the risk of being
accused of misstating something? If approached by an agent, you might
say: “Submit your questions to me in writing so I can have an attorney
review them.” Strongly consider not answering questions orally, and
maybe not in writing either.
AAPS Files Amicus in United Airlines Case
United Airlines has required that its employees receive a COVID
vaccine or be placed on unpaid leave. It also demoted to unpaid leave
employees who obtained a religious exemption. Employees sued in Sambrano v. United Airlines.
United lost its appeal, and on March 10 filed an unusual motion to
vacate the panel opinion against it, or, in the alternative, rehear it
en banc. On the same day, United abruptly announced that it will allow
the employees who have religious exemptions to return to work, saying
that moots this lawsuit.
In its amicus brief supporting UA employees, AAPS writes: “The panel
opinion is a landmark ruling against abuse of power under the pretext of
public health, and this splendid opinion should be fully published
rather than vacated.”
AAPS counsel Andrew Schlafly calls this one of the “watershed
opinions” that “reject exploitation of a crisis to infringe on basic
rights.” Instead of being withdrawn, it “should become a foundational
precedent against similar future violations of individual rights,
particularly the unwanted injection of biological agents that have
irreversible life-changing effects.”
“By abruptly reversing its position in this case, United has done the
equivalent of a U-turn on the runway and this Court should have a
healthy skepticism about its explanation from its cockpit,” states
Andrew Schlafly. “Are we taking off or landing?” he asks about United’s
odd effort to erase an appellate panel’s opinion while also seeking to
get it reconsidered by the full court.
The brief notes that United is heavily dependent on Congress for
massive subsidies to the airline industry that totaled $54 billion for
COVID prior to this year, and thus United is hardly a mere independently
acting “private firm” as it claims.
Vaccine mandates are an alarming gateway to promote public allowance
of abortion (through use of fetal cells in mandated vaccines), infringe
on parental rights (the D.C. law at issue in Booth v. Bowser…),
violate the patient-physician relationship (by overriding physicians
who advise against the vaccine), erode private medicine (by revoking
medical licenses of physicians who speak publicly against a mandated
vaccine), control the right to assemble (through vaccine passports), and
limit the ability to earn a living (as shown in this case). In essence,
United booked a ticket on this flight to tyranny, whether intentionally
or not. Fortunately, United’s flight landed before its ill-fated
destination. Time to deboard….
D.C. Vaccine Mandate Enjoined
Minors aged 11 and up in Washington, D.C, are temporarily no longer
eligible to receive vaccines without parental knowledge or consent after
a federal court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary
injunction against the Minor Consent for Vaccination Act (MCA) in Booth v. Bowser, a case brought by Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) (tinyurl.com/ycksus9r).
In an amicus brief, AAPS writes: “The requirement of informed consent
is as fundamental to medical ethics as it is to law. A medical
procedure without informed consent constitutes battery, and minors are
generally incapable of making legal decisions or providing informed
consent (tinyurl.com/32mrh59b).
If this Act stands, AAPS argues, “there is no stopping point against
future infringements with other medical injections or treatments. The
Act is conceptually similar to the notorious mandatory sterilization of a
woman a century ago, pursuant to Virginia law, because she was
perceived not to be smart enough.”
The AMA’s amicus brief supports mandating the vaccine if authorities
were to speculate that its overall good was greater than its overall
harm, despite severe individual harm. It fails even to address the
possibility of COVID-19 vaccine “harm” to anyone.
A Fraud to Cancel Global Debt?
When COVID hit, Wall Street executive Edward Dowd had been worrying
about global debt. “If there’s a sovereign debt bubble, the people who
created it were not going to take the blame. So,…would they start a war
or something like that? They had to cause some distraction.” COVID could
be used as a “system of control to prevent riots when the current
bubble pops.” He writes: “If I can show that Pfizer committed fraud, the
house of cards has a better chance of coming down.” He observes that
Pfizer had failed the all-cause mortality endpoint in clinical trials:
21 in deaths in drug group vs. 17 in placebo. No drug with more deaths
than placebo can be approved. Also, a whistleblower showed that 1,000
participants had been unblinded—enough to destroy Pfizer’s claim of 95%
efficacy (tinyurl.com/y9e3jruv).
Correspondence
Maybe We Should Consider Risks. After 1,626 cases of
myocarditis had been reported, with average onset within two days of
receiving a COVID mRNA shot, Matthew Oster of CDC et al. concluded that
“this risk should be considered in the context of the benefits of
COVID-19 vaccination” (JAMA 1/25/22). The highest rate was in
adolescent males following the second shot. Many more cases have surely
occurred since August 2021.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Biological Warfare. Those who wanted to wage a
biological attack on a population or world should create a vaccine just
like the COVID vaccine, one that drives sub-optimal, non-sterilizing,
non-neutralizing immunity, and implement roll-out during a raging
pandemic. If the aim is to slowly harm the population and kill, not
massively at first, but increasingly over time, the COVID vaccine
strategy would be quite appropriate.
Legal Help. The COVID Resource Network (https://tinyurl.com/2p92c9cb)
may be able to help if you, a loved one, or a patient is trapped in a
hospital protocol. See their “Hospital COVID Guide 1.0” (tinyurl.com/2p9hen6w). You may submit a request for help to: vireslaw.group/covid-resource-network/.
Government and Private Misconduct. Pharmacologist
and ethicist David Gortler exposes unethical and tortious conduct by the
FDA, CDC, NIH, and many others in matters of COVID mRNA shot promotion
and efficacy/safety data. Because all of the FDA’s 18,000-plus employees
had access to the same data we have, he asks: Where are the “Dear
Doctor” and “Dear Pharmacist” letters with updated safety data;
recommendations for follow-up symptom tracking; and Data Safety
Monitoring Board? Is the $6.5 billion dollar funding not enough? “The
selective omission of public health information is more than clinical
malpractice; it is scientific fraud.” Gortler says that the professional
licenses of agency employees should be at risk (https://tinyurl.com/2czwwm68).
He links to a list of athlete deaths after mRNA shots. Informed consent
is out the window when tyrants are in control, clutching EUAs.
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
Infections Soar in Supervaxxed. Evidence keeps mounting of negative efficacy: jabs increase susceptibility (tinyurl.com/c7nvjdrz).
Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ
Corruption of American Medicine. In our interview with Dr. Mark McDonald, author of United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis
and adviser to Gov. Ron DeSantis, he speaks of how Dr. Anthony Fauci
built an empire based on lies, deliberately manipulating people and
causing countless deaths (www.sndup.net/sqf3/). Corruption in medical organizations is pervasive, Dr. McDonald says. His podcast is at informeddissentmedia.com.
W.J. and Alison Mencarow, The Paper Source
906 Studies. Informed Choice Australia has compiled
a list of peer-reviewed studies on adverse effects of COVID-19
vaccines submitted to medical journals (tinyurl.com/mdfaz6su).
Bose Ravenel, M.D., Winston-Salem, NC
Metamorphosis. In the 1950s, when I entered
practice, physicians were independent and paid by their patients. Many
facilities as well as physicians provided free care to those unable to
pay. During the 1960s, employers’ and government’s “free insurance”
programs turned a patient-driven enterprise into an investor-owned and
profit-driven business system. As always, bearers of gifts became the
masters of those receiving them. Free facilities closed. Medical
societies developed a self-serving agenda focused on third-party
reimbursement. The physician leadership vacuum was filed by government
and the insurance industry. Employed physicians are becoming the
sacrificial lambs, and their patients’ services will be rationed.
Lindsay Pratt, M.D., Myrtle Beach, SC
Scary Thought. Could the Feds take over a state
legislature and governorship? It has happened before. When it became
clear that Missouri was going to secede in 1861, as a “slave state,”
the Feds came in and chased out the legitimate state government, who had
to go into hiding, while the Federals put in a puppet government. I did
not learn this in public school; I was taught that Missouri was
“neutral.” Far from that! This is the state where brother literally
fought with brother, neighbor with neighbor, and with the border war
with Kansas still fresh, Missourians fought with Kansas jayhawkers, and
grew guerilla fighters from whence came Frank and Jesse James. It can
and may well happen again.
Jenny Powell, M.D., Osage Beach, MO
Is This Modern Science? We do not know whether
COVID-19 vaccines prevent infection in children. Pfizer did not check
for that in its trials in children. The company checked only whether the
subjects had developed antibody levels.
President Biden proclaimed his first State of the Union message to be
about setting a “unity agenda” for the nation. The nation is indeed
sharply divided—between those standing for freedom and those accepting
totalitarian measures on the pretext of fighting a virus. Biden did not
acknowledge this state of war on Americans and their guaranteed
Constitutional liberties. Instead, he led with the war in Ukraine (https://tinyurl.com/2p8u6x37).
Have our congressional representatives ever before waved foreign
flags at a presidential address? Sen. Chuck Schumer wore a blue jacket
with a yellow tie; one woman displayed a Ukrainian blue and yellow
scarf. “We stand with Ukraine” is the bipartisan message—without stating
just how far that goes, if say a Russian steps one inch over the border
of an Article 5 NATO country. Biden promises to defend every square
inch of NATO with “the full force of our collective power.” He listed
American ground forces, air squadrons, and ship deployments. He did not
mention nuclear weapons—but Putin did.
Anyone who dares to disturb unity by raising a question about the
Ukrainian narrative is likely to be accused of being pro-Putin—just as
those who question the COVID-19 narrative are for disease and death—and
is likely to be canceled.
Notably, those who have Ukrainian flags on their Twitter profiles and
seem willing to risk war for nationalism, borders, gun rights, civil
liberties, and free speech for Ukraine have no problem with sacrificing
these things for Americans.
Vladimir Putin has always been an oligarch and ruthless dictator,
like so many world leaders. This didn’t seem to bother most Americans
during the Obama “reset.” Russophobia was ginned up by Democrats’ and
media allegations that Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat
Hillary Clinton.
Putin is also a Russian nationalist who opposes Wokeism and its anti-Western civilization, pro-LGBTQ++ ideology.
Americans did not care about Ukraine when Stalin was starving kulaks
and seizing their land. Most gave no thought to any of the Captive
Nations before the Soviet empire fell, and probably even less to former
Warsaw Pact members afterward. Why now?
Is it moral sensibility about a bigger country invading a smaller country, as Kamala Harris explained (tinyurl.com/bdsrr9jd)?
There was no similar, apparently coordinated world outcry over Hong
Kong, Yugoslavia, Iraq, or Georgia, and one is unlikely over Taiwan, if
China invades that island.
Non-military Coercion
The Biden Administration is relying on economic sanctions. The threat
did not deter an invasion, but will increasingly severe pressure cause
Russia to surrender? As Biden said, “We are cutting off Russia’s largest
banks from the international financial system, preventing Russia’s
central bank from defending the Russian ruble.” He boasted that the
ruble has already lost 30% percent of its value, and the Russian stock
market, 40%.
This economic warfare may inconvenience the oligarchs but will
seriously harm the Russian people. If Russia is excluded from the
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) (https://tinyurl.com/4brv8s4r), retaliation will possibly end the reign of the petrodollar (p 2).
Other Crises
Ukraine has displaced the 24-hour scare coverage of COVID-19, as well
as the Pfizer documents revealing the adverse effects of its vaccine.
Dr. Anthony Fauci seems to have vanished from the limelight, likely
because of polling data showing that Americans are fed up (https://tinyurl.com/bddwm34w).
Some mandates are being rolled back, but Biden is not lifting the
declaration of emergency or the CMS vaccine mandate. Biden takes credit
for an alleged economic recovery, but no responsibility for the
destruction, saying that few pieces of legislation had “done more at a
critical moment in our history to lift us out of crisis” than his
American Rescue Plan. It provided economic relief and “fueled our
efforts to vaccinate the nation and combat Covid-19.”
If Congress will just pass his bills, he pleaded, we can revitalize
American manufacturing and fight inflation by “lowering costs.” He said
we can “cut energy costs for families an average of $500 a year by
combating climate change”—another existential crisis, in the name of
which, according to Sen. Ted Cruz, Biden imposes harsher restrictions
on American than on Russian oil.
What Are the Two Sides?
“In the battle between democracy and autocracies, democracies are
rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of
peace and security,” Biden said. Or is it the side of a global
totalitarian technocracy that rules by fear?
What is Ukraine? A free, independent, prosperous democracy? Or a
World Economic Forum/NATO puppet after a NATO-engineered putsch with
regime change in 2014 (tinyurl.com/yckpzkr8), and a money-laundering center for corrupt billionaires? Ukrainians have been fleeing since 2014 (tinyurl.com/3xr43snr),
becoming low-wage servants to less-impoverished people as in Poland.
Heroic Ukrainians are fighting for their homes, but what is the agenda
of those who are promoting war?
The real war is against Western civilization, sovereign nations, and
self-government that protects individual rights. Watch what the
magician’s other hand is doing behind a blue and yellow flag.
Financial Warfare
The Russian convoy slowly approaching Kyiv is getting more mainstream
media attention than the truck convoy to Washington, D.C., or the one
that converged on Ottawa. The latter is also, although entirely
peaceful, deemed a threat to the regime, triggering the Canadian
Emergencies Act (formerly the War Measures Act). This forbids
participation in, travel to, or hosting on private property assemblies
deemed “unlawful.” It also orders financial institutions to cease
dealing with anyone involved in funding these protests (https://tinyurl.com/2p8h3764).
While the government is unable to account for $600 billion in public
spending, Canada’s deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia
Freeland can find out who donated $20 to truckers and may freeze their
bank accounts. Trudeau’s government has shut down 39 trucking companies
in Ontario for participating on the convoy. The names of the companies
and proceedings are secret (https://tinyurl.com/2s35vzn3).
Total financial war on Russia has followed Western examples.
Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin was banned from Airbnb for speaking at an American Renaissance conference (tinyurl.com/bdh9z9fe).
Less than a month later, all Russians were booted. For years, social
media has banned conservative voices; now the whole of Russia is banned.
Why can’t Fox News be canceled too? Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal are
suspending operations in Russia—are Red States next?
What are the consequences—intended and unintended—of economic
warfare? Is it a great thing to destroy Russia’s economy and impoverish
her people? Overnight, Russia’s $630 billion in currency “reserves” were
declared worthless. If the dollar is revocable, whether it “belongs” to
someone who honked a horn in Ottawa, “enabled” an illegal protest, or
is defined as an “oligarch”—or to a bank in a sanctioned country, who
will hold American currency (tinyurl.com/mupxk85w)?
The dollar is hardly fighting from a position of strength. Its share
of trade settlements between Russia and China slipped from 90% in 2015
to 46% in 2020 (tinyurl.com/2p85ss66). Visa and Mastercard might be replaced with Russia’s Mir system and China’s UnionPay (https://tinyurl.com/2p8fsv4n).
The barrage of sanctions amounts to the “weaponization” of
dollar-based money, as described by former Société Générale strategist
Dylan Grice: “You only get to play the card once,” he tweeted. “China
will make it a priority to need no USD before going for Taiwan. It’s a
turning point in monetary history” (https://tinyurl.com/mr3stny9).
The collapse of the world banking system’s house of cards might usher
in a global digital currency. If people have one digitized account as
envisioned by the World Economic Forum, tied to their record of
vaccination, travel, and ESG (environmental, social, and governmental)
score, their spending could be minutely controlled, and they could even
be depersoned. They will own nothing—and will they be happy?
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by
his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for
the injury.”
John Stuart Mill
Not in the News
As of Mar 1, Pfizer has released 150 documents comprising 50,000
pages pertaining to its COVID-19 vaccine—which it had tried to keep
secret for 75 years. They are posted at https://phmpt.org/pfizers-documents/. Document 5.3.6, Cumulative Analysis of Post-authorization Adverse Event Reports (https://tinyurl.com/y6z4rvzp),
states that there were 42,086 case reports (25,379 medically confirmed
and 16,707 non-medically confirmed) containing 158,893 events. An
underreporting factor was not calculated but could be as high as 100.
Appendix 1 is a 9-page tightly packed list of “adverse events of special
interest.” Steve Kirsch in his preliminary analysis (tinyurl.com/3ujdeus8) writes that there is nothing that should surprise those who have read the VAERS reports, but this should be harder to ignore.
Checking Compliance
At the World Economic Forum, Albert Bourla discussed the “first
electronic pill” approved by the FDA. It contains an electronic chip
that sends a signal once the pill is dissolved in the stomach so that
one knows the patient has taken the drug (tinyurl.com/m68a6j9j). Much more reliable than pill counting!
Who’s Who
Albert Bourla, D.V.M., holds a Ph.D. in the
biotechnology of reproduction, worked with Pfizer for 25 years, holding
many senior global positions, and became CEO in 2019. He is an agenda
contributor to the World Economic Forum.
Chrystia Freeland is keeping some bank accounts
frozen even after Trudeau lifted the Emergencies Act. For years, she
misled Canadians about her Ukrainian grandfather’s work as a Nazi
propagandist. In 2014, while working in Moscow as a financial
journalist, she was blacklisted for advocating western sanctions against
Russia. Since 2019, she has been a member of the board of trustees of
the World Economic Forum, and she is working on an authorized biography
of George Soros (tinyurl.com/2p938da6).
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected president of Ukraine
in a landslide victory in 2019, on a promise to ease tensions with
Russia. He is lionized by the international press as a fearless hero
fighting for democracy, but some call him a NATO puppet and note that
tensions with Russia have only worsened steadily (tinyurl.com/5a4uwrbr). He admires Justin Trudeau (tinyurl.com/yckjh3brand). Zelenskyy proposed that the WEF become a stakeholder in the “new Ukraine” (tinyurl.com/3hnvxnsb).
Republicans are attacking Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) for calling
Zelensky a “thug” and the Ukraine regime “evil” and “corrupt” (tinyurl.com/2p92cyxm).
AAPS Calendar
October 13-15, 2022. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO.
‘Emergencies’ and the Rule of Law
In a remarkable coincidence, as the rationale for the emergency
powers to fight the COVID-19 pandemic started to wane, the government
started pushing for confrontation with Russia and assuming war powers.
Tucker Carlson noted that Biden immediately declared total economic war
on Russia without pausing for public debate or congressional
authorization. After destroying the ruble, he began seizing the private
property of persons affiliated with that country without a trial or due
process of any kind, or naming the crime that had supposedly been
committed. This is unprecedented; the U.S. has always stood for the rule
of law.
Instead of worrying about being declared an enemy of the state and having their
bank account confiscated, Americans are only thinking about Ukraine.
The other unprecedented development, Carlson stated, is the control that
the tech monopoly exerts over Americans’ emotions. They are changing
their social media avatars from BLM signs or mask-up slogans to
Ukrainian flags.
One topic cannot be hidden: inflation. Biden denies that government
spending has anything to do with it, but Carlson recalls that in the
2008 financial crisis the government assumed emergency powers to “save
the economy”—with measures that have continued for 14 years. The Fed
being out of tricks, as the allegedly roaring economy is based on asset
inflation, not production, government is trying two measures: denying
that it is happening, and blaming someone else: Vladimir Putin. [Note:
U.S. inflation is more than twice as severe as in peer European
countries.]
Attacking and destabilizing the global financial system will destroy the U.S.—not Putin. When the fog clears, the response
to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be seen as the most destructive
thing a President has ever done to America—and to the world, says
Carlson (https://tinyurl.com/5n8smesz). Worse than the response to COVID-19?
Tip of the Month: Surprise office visits by a
government agent are rare, but sometimes happen. It is important that
you or your staff first verify the visitor’s identity by requesting a
business card. Then it is typically unwise to answer questions without
invoking your right to have an attorney present for you. One effective
approach is to ask the visitor to email you any questions so that you
can review and respond to them thoroughly at a more convenient time. The
government agent will be insistent on asking “just a few questions”
immediately, but be aware that innocent people are prosecuted merely for
supposedly misleading a federal agent. There is no obligation to answer
questions by an investigator, particularly someone who failed to
schedule an appointment.
Doctors Sue California over Assisted Suicide
Legislation permitting assisted suicide, passed in 2016, promised an
opt out for conscientious objection. But the amended law, SB 380, signed
last fall, while claiming that “participating” in assisted suicide is
“voluntary,” defines “participation” very narrowly. Physicians could be
liable for civil, criminal, administrative, or other penalty for refusal
to take steps that authorize intentional killing. The Christian Medical
and Dental Associations (CMDA) have filed a lawsuit requesting
injunctive relief from SB 380’s provisions that violate medical
professionals’ right to refrain from speech or action to assist
intentional death (tinyurl.com/2p86xb33).
Information and Culture Wars
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been
collecting COVID data for 2 years, with specific information on age,
sex, vaccination status, race, hospitalizations, and deaths,
but has been deliberately withholding it from the public. When it
finally did release some data in February, it withheld figures on the
effectiveness of boosters in 18–49-year-olds.
CDC cited “fear that the information might be misinterpreted”—for
example, as showing “the vaccines being ineffective.” As Samuel Scarpino
of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute noted:
“The CDC is a political organization as much as it is a public health
organization.”
The American Academy of Pediatrics got an answer on the length of disease infectiousness from the New York Times. “[CDC has] known the answer for a year and a half, right, and they have not told us…. You can’t find out anything from them (NYT 2/21/22, https://tinyurl.com/2zxj2vps).
“By deliberately withholding data that did not support the
government-approved narrative, and simply continuing with the mantra of
wear masks and get vaccinated, the CDC has been one of the premier
spreaders of true misinformation,” writes AAPS past president Lawrence
R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D.
From CDC data, equity investment advisor Edward Dowd calculates that
Millennials, age 25 to 40, experienced an 84% excess mortality in the
fall of 2021, coinciding with vaccine mandates and boosters—a Vietnam
War-size event. Dowd also examined the Pfizer clinical trial data
obtained by whistleblower Brook Jackson, concluding that the data and
the attempt to hide it “point to clinical fraud” (https://tinyurl.com/2vkbph32).
The Defense Medical Epidemiological Database (DMED) has shown a
startling increase in conditions that have been observed to be adverse
effects of COVID-19 vaccines, but not in other conditions such as
trauma. Because the information was widely shared, Dr. Anthony Fauci and
the NIH must have known about it. Yet there was no mention of
it until whistleblowers Samuel Sigoloff, Peter Chambers, and Theresa
Long released unclassified raw data (https://tinyurl.com/24dd6ea3).
Only now has the Defense Health Agency’s Armed Forces Surveillance
Division reviewed data in the DMED “and found that the data was
incorrect for the years 2016-2020.”
Compared with 2020, reports of nervous system diseases, for example,
are up by 968% in 2021, Guillain-Barré syndrome up 520%, and myocarditis
up 184% (tinyurl.com/3xzk929c).
Just as with the war in Ukraine, there is an information war on the
COVID front, with intelligence and counter-intelligence, psy-ops,
censorship, and breakdown of the rule of law. What is the role of our
once-trusted agencies and institutions: FBI, CIA, Dept. of Defense, CDC,
NIH, FDA, organized medicine, and our once-great universities? Where do
all parties stand on culture and governance? Are they for traditional
Western civilization and ethics, or for radical Wokeism? For limited
government and respect for inalienable individual rights, or for a
totalitarian technocracy in the name of safety and security?
COVID-19 has allegedly claimed 9 million victims in the U.S. alone.
How many were lost to the lockdowns or to vaccines—or to treatment
denied? Was there mere incompetence—or also intent, and thus criminal
liability? Are innocent people dying in Ukraine or from COVID measures
due to a hidden agenda?
Correspondence
Denial at the CDC. There have been 57 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination. The two boys cited in this article (tinyurl.com/vh24fe3u)
were autopsy-proven cases of fatal myocarditis a few days following
vaccination. Both were healthy before getting the shot. How can a CDC
spokesman tell the Epoch Times that “we don’t have any confirmed deaths from myocarditis suffered post-vaccination at this time.”
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Heart Damage. As of Jan 16 there were 463 athlete
cardiac arrests, with 263 dead, post COVID vaccine. The media pretends
that this is not happening. There is no such thing as “mild”
myocarditis. The heart muscle cells that die are not replenished, and
the heart is scarred long-term.
The Status of Physicians. The U.S. Supreme Court
ruled that if you are a private citizen, working for a private company,
it is unconstitutional for you to have a medical treatment forced upon
you. But if you are a medical worker, you do not have that same
protection. The cancer of Medicare/Medicaid that our profession allowed
to metastasize throughout virtually all of medicine has now begun to
actively consume us. It apparent that the COVID panic/reaction was about
population control, not keeping people healthy, and that the public
health apparatus views patient and physician autonomy as dispensable as
the truth.
The decision is based on false information. Why should we believe any
claims from the factory that has produced an unbroken string of failure
and lies? It is not about “saving lives,” but rather using the bodies
of subject workers to offer to the public as trophies in the unending
War on COVID. We are the servant class, not to be trusted or respected,
and our value lies only in our obedience. We are living in a 1984 state
of medicine.
Get Prepared. The sanctions on Russia might have
only a modest impact there, especially if China does not join them. But
Americans had better prepare. Lumber, petroleum, precious metals, iron,
and cereal are all going to be affected by supply disruptions traceable
to Russia or Ukraine. Do not rely on the legacy media to tell you what
to think and how to respond. They cannot be trusted to tell the truth.
They will spin everything and say whatever the government (or the World
Economic Forum) wants them to say (https://tinyurl.com/3pz5red4).
Robert W. Malone, M.D.
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. Recent actions of the
Canadian government show that it is concerned only about protests
against its policies, not about COVID-19. Justice Minister David Lametti
dodged questions about the terms and conditions the government is using
to instruct financial institutions, but finally, after equating the
Trudeau order to the same principles around terrorism, he said: “If you
are a member of a pro-Trump movement who is donating hundreds of
thousands of dollars to this kind of thing, then you ought to be
worried” (tinyurl.com/mr36uz3a).
Canada’s dragnet will encompass every part of the financial system
(including securities dealers) in order to cut off the truckers from
funding. Trudeau has been accused of almost crashing the Canadian
economy of banking, insurance, and real estate, single-handedly in just a
few days.
Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ
The Great Reset. Diverse sources (tinyurl.com/5n7y82vz, tinyurl.com/2p8rvdd2, tinyurl.com/5a3w46hv)
lead to the conclusion that the Great Reset is the over-arching
background within which vaccine and other mandates must be understood.
Historic de facto dismissal of foundational personal rights and
draconian control of dissent and resistance are embedded into the entire
pandemic response and utilize the pandemic itself as a tool or weapon
to seize autocratic power. Big Government, Big Tech, Big Finance, Big
Pharma, and even organized medicine are either purposefully, or
unwittingly caught into the web of deception and are complicit in
allowing this all to happen.
Bose Ravenel, M.D., Winston-Salem, NC
Genetic Targeting? From a letter to Gov. Ron
DeSantis: The FDA should be aware of the racial specificity of the spike
protein of SARS-CoV-2 as potentially or actually causing racially
specific harm…. The spike protein…involves both furin and TMPRSS2
protease cleavage sites. Both…seem to be preferentially found in black,
brown and Native American populations…. [Also,]…the specific ACE2
receptor binding domain (RBD)…attracts black, brown, and Native
American…ACE2 receptors but repels the ACE2 receptors of K26R found in
[certain] others.
These findings suggest that not only should the Pfizer vaccine not be
approved for young children but that the Pfizer vaccine stop being
mandated in anyone until racially specific short-term and long-term
damage may be elucidated utilizing computer modeling rather than human
experimentation…. Please consider asking companies or intelligence units
that have done computer modeling of the spike protein…[to] turn over
their data to the FDA and unbiased physicians and others for review.
AAPS News February 2022 – If You Take Their Money….
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Volume 78, no. 2 February 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court split the baby on the vaccine mandates cases.
In both, the key issue is the power of the administrative state to force
people to accept an unwanted and potentially harmful medical
intervention as a condition of employment. The stay on the OSHA mandate
on employers of 100 or more workers to enforce vaccination or weekly
testing was upheld while the CMS mandate on healthcare workers
at Medicare- and Medicaid-certified facilities and suppliers (other than
physicians’ offices) was allowed to be enforced immediately. Why the
difference?
The Court stated that CMS has long imposed conditions on funding,
including the protection of the health and safety of beneficiaries as
the Secretary determines appropriate. But the government has less power
over workers paid by private industry.
In the 1950s, the debate was over federal aid to education. My sage 7th grade math teacher, W.R. Keith (WoRK),
told my mother, “If you take their money, they’ll tell you how wide to
make the door.” And eventually, as he probably could not imagine, tell
you to teach the children that they are an oppressor or victim based on
skin color, that they can and possibly should change their sex, and that
there are no right or wrong answers to math problems.
The decision on the CMS mandate implies that the federal government
thinks that it owns workers paid with federal money and can demand that
they take a product with no long-term safety data, unprecedented numbers
of reports of adverse effects including death or permanent disability
(which the Court did not even consider), disregard for natural immunity,
and no evidence that it reduces workplace transmission of disease.
As Justice Thomas wrote in his dissent, “These cases are not about
the efficacy or importance of COVID–19 vaccines. They are only about
whether CMS has the statutory authority to force healthcare workers, by
coercing their employers, to undergo a medical procedure they do not
want and cannot undo.” We presume, he states, that Congress does not
hide “fundamental details of a regulatory scheme in vague or ancillary
provisions.”
Justice Alito, also dissenting, wrote: “Today, however, most federal
law is not made by Congress. It comes in the form of rules issued by
unelected administrators. In order to give individuals and entities who
may be seriously impacted by agency rules at least some opportunity to
make their views heard and to have them given serious consideration,
Congress has clearly required that agencies comply with basic procedural
safeguards…. In these cases, the relevant agency did none of those
things, and the Court rewards this extraordinary departure from ordinary
principles of administrative procedure (https://tinyurl.com/ycku3fsy).
In the per curium ruling, the Court admitted that promises
made by President Lyndon Johnson are null and void: “Lastly, the rule
does not run afoul of the directive in §1395 that federal officials may
not ‘exercise any supervision or control over the… manner in which
medical services are provided, or over the selection [or] tenure…of any
officer or employee of’ any facility. That reading of section 1395 would
mean that nearly every condition of participation the Secretary has
long insisted upon is unlawful.”
As indeed it is.
The Impact on Medicine
AAPS surveys have long predicted an exodus of physicians. In 2003,
62% of respondents said they planned to retire at an earlier age than
expected 5 years previously, citing “increased government interference,”
followed by “increased regulatory burden.” Money ranked number six. (https://tinyurl.com/5v8yf9zz).
The AMA is now talking about the “great resignation,” stating that
“one in five physicians say it is likely they will leave their current
practice within two years” (tinyurl.com/2p89uz48). It suggests “making employees feel valued,” with no mention of mandates or Medicare constraints and threats.
The COVID vaccine mandate could cause the British National Health Service to lose 6% of its workforce or 80,000 workers (https://tinyurl.com/musa6nby).
As Lee Beecher, M.D., points out, mandates make the jobs of medical
workers even less desirable. We can expect the quality of workers as a
group to keep decreasing. Intelligent young people will try to avoid
this career path even more than now.
The Only Escape
Short of death or abandoning their profession, the last option
physicians have, to avoid constant pandering to their owners, is to opt
out of federal programs. “There’s only one ethical ‘single payer,’ here
or abroad,” writes a Minnesota internist, “our next patient!” Government
is the problem, never the answer.
Some are building a parallel private system, and there is a desperate
need for facilities willing to offer COVID-19 treatment outside the
Fauci/NIH lockstep protocol that is apparently de rigueur (with positive
and negative “incentives,” https://tinyurl.com/3zt3bu3f) in almost all American hospitals. There should be many physicians and nurses available to staff it.
It is human nature to endure adverse circumstances, as most Jewish
physicians did in Nazi Germany, hoping they will be temporary. It’s as
described in a horrifying clip from The Silence of the Lambs (https://tinyurl.com/mud5hw63). Clarice opened the gate to the pen. The lambs who were about to be slaughtered could have run—but didn’t.
We must nonetheless try to save as many as we can.
Vaccination Data
150,000. After a judge ruled that FDA and Pfizer
would have to answer their FOIA requests over a few months, not 55 to 75
years, Pfizer’s “Cumulative Analysis of Post-authorization Adverse
Event Reports” reveals that it received more than 150,000 serious
adverse event reports within 3 months of rolling out its COVID shot (https://tinyurl.com/562d7mxx).
10 RedFlags. FDA’s risk-benefit
analysis of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine in children aged 5–11 is “shoddy” and
“used tortured logic (that would be rejected by any proper academic
journal) in order to reach a predetermined result that is not based in
science,” writes Toby Rogers (https://tinyurl.com/2p8ane8x).
NNTV = 915,641. Using Pfizer and CDC data, the
number of children needed to be vaccinated to avert a single COVID death
is 915,641, or 1,831,282 per injection (tinyurl.com/bd86hm34).
50:50? Is it a pandemic of the unvaccinated? Some
say it’s 50:50; some say spread is worse from the vaccinated, writes Dr.
Paul Alexander (tinyurl.com/25xatzuy).
The CDC identifies four of the top five U.S. counties with the highest
percentage of fully vaccinated population (99.9–84.3%) as “high”
transmission counties (https://tinyurl.com/4nvmt8n7).
500,000 Deaths/year. This mortality from tobacco use
is not a high enough threshold to trigger a compelling government
interest in meaningfully curtailing use (https://tinyurl.com/bp7857n4).
150 Times. The mortality from COVID injections
appears to be more than 150 times the rate of 0.8 deaths/million doses
of smallpox vaccine, one of several ways in which mandates fail the
Jacobson test, write Harvey Risch and Gerard Bradley (ibid.).
30,000 Menstrual Irregularities. Although no menstrual problems have been acknowledged as a potential side effect, the UK flag system has >30,000 reports (tinyurl.com/4x2cbwk2).
International Dispatches
Germany. A nurse being fired for declining the jab
states that there are hardly any COVID patients in a large Berlin
hospital, but many young patients in the cardiac unit (tinyurl.com/2p8p7nkt).
UK. Official guidance has been published on “rare”
post-jab myocarditis. “Where appropriate the patient should be seen face
to face and this assessment should include their vital signs.” A
cardiac MRI may be indicated (https://tinyurl.com/y3etdszy).
EU. President Ursula von der Leyen, “one of those
figures most people have never heard of but who decides everything that
matters,” called for the compulsory vaccination of half-a-billion people
and the dumping of the Nuremberg Code on medical experimentation,
writes Mark Steyn (tinyurl.com/5xuucwu3).
“When we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we
not only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal
responsibility. There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and
ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations,
doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual
judgment. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness
of a mass movement, we find a new freedom—freedom to hate, bully, lie,
torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.”
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1954
FDA-Authorized or Approved COVID Drugs
Remdesivir (Veklury™). Fauci’s “standard of care” is now approved for out-patient use also. See NIH Table 2f for comparisons with non-approved drugs (tinyurl.com/pf63p2t2). WHO recommends against its use (tinyurl.com/ytv6sdcw). The risk of acute renal failure is 14 times the expected rate (https://tinyurl.com/ycktkavw).
Baricitinib (Olumiant™). Available under EUA for oxygen-requiring patients, it has a black-box warning for causing blood clots (https://tinyurl.com/46yukfz8).
Tofacitinib (Xeljanz™). This Janus kinase inhibitor, found to have unclear efficacy in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia (tinyurl.com/yckhjje9), has a black-box warning for “serious infections and malignancy” (tinyurl.com/mr248xt4).
Paxlovid™. Pfizer’s touted “wonder drug” is a
combination of a protease inhibitor and the HIV drug ritonavir,
which is needed to prevent its rapid breakdown but has many serious
adverse effects (tinyurl.com/45dhu98t).
Ivermectin, Daniel Horowitz points out, is a far more effective
protease inhibitor and has 19 additional mechanisms of action (tinyurl.com/ydzmuyef).
Molnupiravir. Merck’s nucleoside analog was
abandoned as an influenza treatment because of its mutagenic action and
the risk of mutant viruses. Even the FDA advisory
committee admitted that the drug poses a risk of birth defects (ibid.).
FDA is at least acknowledging the need for early treatment, but
despite the dubious effectiveness and poor safety of its green-lighted
products, the war against long-approved drugs, and the doctors who
prescribe them, continues (tinyurl.com/2s46a28k).
It’s about the Money
It’s not about ivermectin, writes Beth Brelie. “It’s about what
COVID-19 exposed in America’s health care system. The federal
government, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies hold the reins on
what care hospital administrators can offer. They never looked at your
chart, but have a say in your treatment, and doctors who stray from
administrative protocol can kiss their careers goodbye.” Culprits
include the shortfalls in Medicare and Medicaid payments; the
medical-loss-ratio provision in the Affordable Care Act; Accountable
Care Organizations and Pay for Performance, which require matching
diagnosis and treatment codes in the electronic record; and quality
improvement organizations that assign the equivalent of a social credit
score. For 15 years, “doctors have been unable to think on their own.”
Even what they must study for continuing medical education is determined
(tinyurl.com/3w6f8tav).
AAPS Calendar
February 11-12, 2022. Winter meeting, Venice, Florida.
October 13-15, 2022. 79th annual meeting, Springfield, MO.
ACTION OF THE MONTH
If you offer early treatment for COVID-19 by protocol similar to
those at c19protocols.com, please add your name to a list we are
compiling to help patients at bit.ly/covidearlytx.
Flashback
In 1974, in AAPS v. Weinberger, which challenged
Professional Standards Review Organizations, government attorneys
argued: “Patients whose medical care is provided by public funds have no constitutional right to
whatever care [their physicians] using the “highest standards of
medical practice” … may “judge necessary” … or to obtain that care “from
a physician *** of their choice” [emphasis added]. Moreover, they
stated that “Congress need not agree to pay for whatever care appellants
desire to provide” and can, §1801 notwithstanding, “influence both the
standard of care and the identity of its provider by prior review no
less than by review designed to achieve the same purpose” (https://tinyurl.com/33w5af7j). The Supreme Court declined an appeal.
AMA Strives to ‘Cement ACA’s Success’
Thrilled about the Affordable Care Act’s “legal status affirmed by
three Supreme Court decisions,” AMA president Gerald E. Harmon, M.D.,
writes that further refinements will enable ACA to “fulfill its mandate”
to get all Americans covered. He credits AMA’s Voice for the Uninsured
campaign, launched in 2007, with building momentum that culminated in
the adoption of the ACA just a few years later (tinyurl.com/yj78nvjd). Medical practice independent of control by the government/insurance/pharmaceutical/hospital complex becomes rarer still.
The latest case, brought by Texas and others (tinyurl.com/mrxz97ux), was dismissed for lack of standing without considering any of the substantial issues (tinyurl.com/n87vtka4).
SCOTUS Absent on Individual Rights
The Supreme Court’s decisions on both OSHA and CMS mandates were also
based on narrow technical grounds, with no findings of fact, no
reference to Jacobson, and no reference to individual rights.
Apparently, both sides agree that “experts” should decide health
questions, but differ on which experts or which level of government
should be involved. “Nothing in the Constitution supports this
approach,” writes Toby Rogers. “The Constitution did not envision a
society of technocrats making decisions on behalf of society. The
founders were well aware of the fact that power corrupts everyone and so
they returned decision-making on matters of fact to ordinary citizens” (tinyurl.com/2yf7xuxa).
Hospitals Block 90% of IVM Legal Actions
In the past year there have been more than 100 court cases trying to
get access to ivermectin for very ill patients believed to have little
chance of surviving. Only about 10% of these legal actions have been
successful. Hospitals file endless motions and sometimes go to appeals
courts to defeat or at least delay favorable decisions until the
deathbed patient succumbs—despite evidence that IVM sometimes saves
patients even very late in the course of the disease. Joel Hirschhorn
reviews cases from several states, concluding that the only consistency
is that hospitals invariably fight all attempts and are totally on the
side of government agencies. Most judges are stubbornly wed to the idea
that hospitals know what works best, despite the very high death rate
of late-stage COVID patients on their protocol (tinyurl.com/yrytne89).
They’ve Got a Little List
If you apply for a religious exemption to the COVID vaccine, which
may be the only way to avoid it if you want to keep your job, you are
likely to be on a list. Some 25 federal agencies are actively tracking
religious exemption requests from employees of federal agencies along
with any contractors, consultants, interns, and volunteers associated
with them. Notices of the new tracking system were only made public in
the Federal Register. The Department of Transportation’s database, in
particular, became effective on the day it was published, with no
opportunity for public comment (https://tinyurl.com/y4fuvswc).
If you request free home test kits, your information will be used to
provide company and product fulfillment information about that testing
kit to a federal executive agency. Collection is authorized by 39 U.S.C.
401, 403, 404, and 411. Information may be disclosed as required by
law, e.g., “to government agencies in connection with decisions as
necessary” (tinyurl.com/3s7c8yam).
Tip of the Month: We are hearing frightening reports
of what happens when a COVID patient is admitted to a hospital. A
hospital may claim that the patient is unable to make medical decisions
for himself, and then deny visitation by family while the hospital makes
improper decisions to further its own agenda. To overcome this,
everyone should designate in writing a trusted person to hold the
medical power of attorney, also called an advance directive. Rather than
attempt to specify all treatment instructions, which a hostile hospital
or court can misinterpret, the better approach is usually to designate a
trusted person who knows what the patient would want. Listing only one
person, and then a successor person if the first designee is
unavailable, might be best. Then the hospital, when presented with that
document, should abide by the person’s decisions. States vary in their
requirements of what should be in the document, so it is best to check
online about your own state.
Criminal Investigation Opened
On Dec 20, 2021, a group of activists and law firms lodged
complaints against UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency (MHRA), according to Unity News Network (UNN), which was founded
in 2018 as “an alternative to the old media in the UK” (https://tinyurl.com/mpecf43r).
The complaints allege numerous serious crimes including misfeasance and
misconduct in public office, which are the subject of Metropolitan
Police Crime Number 6029679/21 and International Criminal Court (The
Hague) case number OTP‐CR‐473/21.
Canadian Physician Detained, Drugged
Dr. Mel Bruchet, an 81-year-old retired family physician, was taken
from his home in handcuffs, detained in a psychiatric hospital, and
forcibly medicated with antipsychotics. He had called attention to an
increase in stillbirths in British Columbia in COVID-vaccinated mothers,
spoken out about the blocking of ivermectin, and together with Dr.
Daniel Nagase filed complaints against the Executive Board of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia alleging
financial conflicts of interest. He was interviewed by Sam Dubé (https://tinyurl.com/3jm35mw7).
Correspondence
Another Mandate Blocked. The Biden Administration
suffered another setback on Jan 21 when U.S. District Judge Jeffrey
Brown ruled that the jab-or-no-job mandate for federal employees was
“overbroad,” noting that even full-time remote workers were not exempt (tinyurl.com/2p867269). Like
hospitals that conduct sham peer review and ruin physicians’ careers
and reputations, authoritarians always appeal. As the Wall Street Journal points
out, with 98% of federal workers already vaccinated, Biden’s appeal
seems to be “more about punishing than protecting people.” Perhaps Biden
refuses to back down despite legal defeat because mandates and coercion
are popular with progressive voters. A Rasmussen poll reports that 59%
of Democrat voters would support confining the unvaccinated to their
homes, and nearly half also thought the government should be able to
fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of
vaccines on social media (WSJ Jan 22-23, 2022). Nikita
Khrushchev predicted in 1959 that “your children’s children will live
under Communism.” He may be proved correct.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Hospital Care Disaster. Ohio Governor DeWine has
deployed additional National Guard members as a response to shortages of
health workers, especially nurses, in a COVID-19 surge, bringing the
total to 2,300. Qualified skilled professionals are being removed and
replaced with clueless, untrained big-government national guards. I am
witnessing this all first-hand; it is worse than a third-world
country! The nurses are all outsourced and do 12-hour shifts and are off
to another state the next day. All patients are highly endangered by
the substandard care.
While hospitals still are not allowing loved ones in to see
patients, there is something that might be done. Each hospital has to
have an R.N. patient advocate who can get people ADA Life Partner Status
and bypass the nonsense. They can get one-on-one contact access any
time, any day, even if COVID lockdown mandates and no-visiting policies
are being enforced. The Americans with Disabilities Act is federal, so
it overrides state laws everywhere. Usually the nurse advocate will
inform the patients’ doctors that patients want to be with their loved
ones. It goes as an order in the patients’ medical record. ADA Contacts
are to stay in the rooms with the patients. See, for example, https://tinyurl.com/2vy435p2.
I have witnessed many cases of ADA violations, especially in prisons
and jails; cases can be won. §504 of the Rehabilitation Act and §1557 of
the Affordable Care Act (ACA) also apply.
Gina Reghetti, D.O., Warren, OH
The Cost of Mandates. Biden’s vaccine mandates would
put nearly 700,000 Kentucky workers (34% of the labor force) at risk of
losing their jobs. Using Biden’s figures, compliance would cost
Kentucky businesses $50 million (tinyurl.com/2p873fdf).
Sen. Rand Paul, M.D.
Slipped through Facebook Censor. An ER nurse posted
that 3 hours into her shift she had treated a 36-year-old with a heart
attack, a 44-year-old with a stroke, and a 29-year-old with a lower leg
blood clot (first two critical). All recently got a COVID shot.
Kathryn Serkes, Denver, CO
Facebook Censors BMJ. The
actions of Facebook, Twitter, CNN, et al., are not much different from
those of the Chinese Communist Party apparatus. Censorship is tolerance.
Bias is equality. Zuckerspeak is diversity. Unauthorized truth is
hate. Why did nothing get done when Republicans might have acted?
BMJ’s report, “Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on
data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial,” calls into question
the “science” behind Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Because the report
does not unquestioningly praise the jabs as “safe and
effective,” Facebook “fact-checked” it and deemed it as containing
“false information” (tinyurl.com/2bc6x88k).
Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ
CDC Misconduct. I have
personal knowledge of many non-forthcoming actions by the CDC,
comparable to what a former director told me about refusal to
discontinue a narrative about AIDS prevention that they knew to be false
but believed had to be maintained to avert a perceived negative.
Especially egregious is an MMWR article that cleverly
manipulates and obfuscates data to appear to support the position that
naturally immune people should be vaccinated. Attorneys have threatened
to file a formal complaint and “hold the authors of this study
individually accountable for the deprivation of millions of Americans of
their rights, including a number of previously infected individuals
whose employers directly relied on this deceptive study to terminate
their employment” (tinyurl.com/nhavb98j).
Bose Ravenel, M.D., Winston-Salem, NC
True Believers’ Self-Justification. The pathological
mechanism of projection prevails among leftists. As Victor Davis Hanson
notes, the privileged damn privilege, colluders invent collusion,
deniers scream denialist, and racists cry racism (tinyurl.com/muup5ys9). True believers see malice and evil in others who disagree, causing the current severe polarization.
AAPS News January 2022 – Overcoming the Great Divide
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Volume 78, no. 1 January 2022
It is clear that America is more divided than even before the War
Between the States. The Union and the Confederacy had a common language,
common fundamental principles, and constitutions that were alike in
most respects. They believed in the existence of right and wrong, good
and evil. They differed on one issue that split the country apart and
set brother against brother.
After the great bloodshed, the nation came together, and now
virtually everyone would claim to agree that slavery is evil, that it is
wrong for one person to own another, and that no one race is superior
or has more rights than another.
Today’s great divide is not cleanly geographic. It is not accurately
characterized as pro-Trump vs. anti-Trump, Democrat vs. Republican,
conservative vs. liberal. It is certainly not the bourgeoisie vs. the
proletariat or capital vs. labor as the Marxists classically portrayed
it. With increasingly aggressive efforts to create enmity between “Us”
and “Them,” we need to define these terms.
The Global Elite
The COVID-19 pandemic has starkly separated us. Millions had their
lives turned upside down, but others kept getting their paychecks, or
profited. Mandates are rewarding the compliant and punishing the
independent-minded. The cancel culture is destroying reputations and
careers of dissenters while hailing the promoters of
FDA/CDC/NIH/HHS/Pfizer et al. COVID-19 protocols.
The same culturally dominant forces are also (coincidentally?)
imposing Critical Race Theory, approval of or applause for the LGBTQxxx
agenda, support for the most important or only right (abortion), and
acceptance of politically correct lawlessness.
The results are appalling. The pandemic may by now be the longest
plague in history. The middle class is being destroyed; hundreds or
thousands have probably died unnecessarily; and medical services are
seriously damaged by the Great Resignation. Simultaneously, those who
hold traditional Western values and defend the Bill of Rights are
marginalized as “bigots” or even “domestic terrorists” by the
self-designated “mainstream.”
As has been true throughout history—with a few exceptions such as the
early days of the American Republic, the two classes have been the
rulers and the subjects. The rulers were previously identifiable. But
the Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Romanovs are gone, and British royalty
appears to be theater. Are American elected officials in charge? Joe
Biden? Donald Trump? He caused great consternation in the Deep State but
was constantly thwarted, and most of his policies have already been
erased. Does Congress represent the electorate—or donors? And who are
they?
If America is to be re-founded (AAPS News, July 2021), we need to know who “we” are, and who “they” are. Who is the foe?
Who are our few principled friends? Who are the opportunists, serving
the perceived winners in their own self-interest? They may pose as
friends but have struck a Faustian bargain that always ends in the same
way—after many innocent people are harmed. Against a determined foe, the
noble libertarian “live and let live” principle is as relevant as with
predator and prey.
Could the chaos, divisiveness, economic carnage, and destruction of
civil liberty wrought by lockstep COVID-19 policies in America, Europe,
Canada, and Australia be a result sought by the real global rulers in
the Great Reset strategy (AAPS News, November 2020 and October 2021)—unopposed by “friends”?
In their book COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey, reviewed by
Dr. Marilyn Singleton, Peter Breggin, M.D., and Ginger Breggin conclude
from vast research that “by a simple declaration of its own, a small
group of individuals led by Bill Gates establishes a new world
governance with which to deal with pandemics, thereby ultimately
creating an authority that can bulldoze civilization in the service of
its global predatory ambitions.”
Anthony Fauci, M.D., chief White House medical adviser and reputedly
“America’s Doctor,” is the most prominent face of the coalition of
forces described in The Real Anthony Fauciby
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: “intelligence agencies, pharmaceutical
companies, social media titans, medical bureaucracies, mainstream media
and the military—that are using a health crisis to impose totalitarian
control worldwide.” Kennedy concludes that the “Robber Barons” won in
the war of COVID, and that “we have to love our freedom more than we
fear a germ.” Roger Kimball comments that the book is part of a
“reshuffling of seemingly settled ideological alliances” (https://tinyurl.com/ychrbuus).
Unrestricted Warfare
Are the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the genetically engineered jabs, or both, a
Chinese Communist Party biowarfare program designed to “clear the
field” of Americans (https://tinyurl.com/3myj3dfw)?
Is the phenomenon of 20–30% of the population in the western world
becoming entranced with the Noble Lies and dominant narrative a mass
formation psychosis, asks Robert Malone, M.D., citing work of Dr.
Mattias Desmet (tinyurl.com/5n7ee23u)?
Who Are “We the People”?
Forces are acting, whether separately or in concert, that could
destroy our America. They are ruthless and full of guile. We need to
recognize allies, friends, collaborators, traitors, opportunists,
misguided distractions, and the Enemy by what they do or say—and, as
importantly, by what they do NOT do or say.
Acts and Omissions
FDA. The Food and Drug Administration has
slow-walked promising therapies such as favipiravir and aviptadil,
while rushing authorization of novel gene-therapy “vaccines”;
discouraged or suppressed “off-label” use of long-approved drugs, and
reportedly is seizing imported ivermectin (https://tinyurl.com/2jhb8jr3); attempted to make potentially helpful, widely used over-the-counter products such as N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) unavailable.
Conservatism, Inc. What have chambers of commerce,
the Republican Party, and conservative entities done about COVID
lockdowns, deference to Fauci et al., the Warp Speed mass vaccination
experiment, the war against life-saving treatment, rioting in 100
cities, and pervasive Wokeism? How much better off would we be if the
same-old GOP regime comes back to power (https://tinyurl.com/32kkz5p3)?
Patents
Since coronaviruses are problematic for humans and animals, and
people saw profit in developing remedies against them, they have been
widely studied. Military strategists all over the world saw them as a
potential weapon, but this does not negate the boring possibility that
the mundane cold virus evolved on its own to a more virulent one and
that this spontaneous event was used by Dark Forces as an excuse for
their sinister plans. It is perplexing that anyone would patent a
bioweapon, since this is not a good way to keep such a weapon secret.
A study by Liu et al. of the global landscape, involving 16,605 coronavirus-related patent documents (tinyurl.com/2p95ky7s), is said to form “a strong intellectual groundwork for the ongoing development of therapeutic agents and vaccines.”
The first coronavirus patent was granted in 1974. With the emergence
of SARS-CoV, the number of patent documents increased rapidly from
2002–2006, plateaued 2006–2019, and peaked in 2020. Academia and
government have played an increasing role. Strong collaborative
international relationships are diagrammed in the article. China and the
U.S. are major but not the only players. The top assignee, the Academy
of Military Medical Sciences, “shows the military’s growing role in
medical research in China, and partnerships between China’s People’s
Liberation Army and medical-science companies.”
‘New Normal’ Totalitarianism
Classic totalitarian features—e.g. revocation of basic rights,
centralization of power, rule by decree, oppressive policing,
censorship, etc.—are impossible to hide, but are recontextualized in a
pathologized official narrative. The Untermenschen become “the
Unvaccinated.” Swastika lapel pins become masks. Aryan ID papers become
“vaccination passes.” Senseless social restrictions and public-obedience
rituals become health protection measures. The world is entangled in a
total war against an internal, pathological enemy. The entire
global-capitalist apparatus has been put into service to achieve the
objective of totalitarian control in the name of health (https://tinyurl.com/4vjzh83a).
“It is usually futile to talk facts…to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
—Thomas Sowell
Left vs. Right
The sharp ideological divide, often characterized inaccurately, has been meticulously defined by actuary Gerry Smedinghoff (https://aapsonline.org/leftvsright.pdf). Some highlights:
Foundation: political tactics (left) vs. philosophical principles (right)
Outlook: secular, materialistic vs. philosophical, religious
Faith: evolutionary progress of man vs. universal power, order, and justice of a deity
Human nature: can be molded and changed by force vs. defined by original sin and unchangeable
Operating objective: undermine, attack, and destroy vs. build, defend, and preserve
Goverance: centralized control vs. decentralization, subsidiarity
Morality: value free vs. clear standards of right and wrong
Tragedy of man: indecision vs. hubris
Rights: apply differently by class with proliferation of protected classes vs. same for all regardless of outcome
Economic value of humans: liability vs. asset
Terror: celebrate as instrument of public policy vs. view as shameful with need for repentance
COVID Vaccination Updates
Reproductive Health. In Waterloo, Ontario, 86
stillbirths, all in vaccinated women, were reported between January and
July; there are normally five or six per year (tinyurl.com/2p85wbsm).
In vitro fertilization clinics noticed problems starting with vaccine
rollouts. Among other adverse events, the miscarriage rate jumped from
28% to 40%. The clinics do not track vaccination status (https://tinyurl.com/yckm4phc).
Epidemic Cardiovascular Death. In the UK, up to
300,000 British citizens are facing sudden heart-related illness and
cardiac arrest. Medical experts are blaming PPSD (post-pandemic stress
disorder). ERs and ICUs are overwhelmed. It is claimed that the U.S.
VAERS system is also overwhelmed; there may be 20,000–60,000 deaths
waiting to be processed (tinyurl.com/yc3s77wb).
Psychiatric Effects. Hallucinations, confusion,
insomnia, agitation, psychosis, and suicide are among the more than
100,000 reported cases of psychiatric disorders following COVID shots (https://tinyurl.com/5cvaufvn).
Blindness. The UK Yellow Card system contains about
22,000 reports of eye disorders following COVID-19 shots, including 461
cases of complete blindness (https://tinyurl.com/yckrwznu).
Cancer Progression. A week after a booster dose of
the Pfizer vaccine, CT/PET scan showed extremely rapid progression of an
angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (tinyurl.com/2p8uhpx4).
October 13-15, 2022. 79th annual meeting, Missouri, TBA
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Vaccine Liability Concerns
The liability protections enjoyed by COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers
are not yet absolute. Alix Mayer, president of the board of directors of
Children’s Health Defense, explains the rush to vaccinate children and
the reason why Comirnaty is not fully approved. COVID vaccines are
“covered countermeasures,” and the only compensation available to
injured persons is under the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program
(CICP)—as long as the emergency continues. To get protection from the
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, if the emergency ends, a
vaccine must be approved and recommended for children under age 18.
The convoluted language in FDA’s response to the Biologic License
Application (BLA) for Comirnaty preserves its Emergency Use
Authorization (EUA) status, and states that the product is “ready for
approval,” but does not say it is “approved” for actually being
administered to people. According to Mayer, Comirnaty is available in
the UK, New Zealand, and other places, but not the U.S., because the
company is “really scared of liability.”
If one fully approved product is available, she states that others could be at risk of losing their EUA (tinyurl.com/29y2j83w) and liability protection. Then they could not be used.
Note that Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s molnupiravir have been granted an EUA but are unapproved.
Lack of liability protection is the reason why millions of migrants
and country-less people are being denied COVID-19 vaccines. Gavi, the
vaccine alliance, has vaccine stockpiles, but can release deliveries
only if vaccine-makers accept liability, since no government or
nongovernmental organization (NGO) will do so
(https://tinyurl.com/yck52c29).
Stare Decisis
This term’s major abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is about stare decisis, namely the extent to which members of this Court should defer to their predecessors’ opinions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, writes Andy Smarick.
While stare decisis is meant to be a conservative principle “in the
sense of prizing continuity and predictability and preferring
incremental to dramatic change,” progressive justices are the ones
warning that overturning precedent due to political pressure would
subvert the Court’s legitimacy.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed out in oral argument that “taking the
history of stare decisis seriously requires acknowledging that many of
the Court’s finest moments came when it overruled precedent. He cited
cases related to ending racial discrimination, protecting voting rights,
strengthening the rights of the accused, and more.” All current
justices have voted to overturn precedents in recent terms.
Kavanaugh frames the issue as one of self-government, with the
people, not judges, determining the moral dimensions of policy.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued that Roe and Casey expand liberty and curtail state power. Chief Justice Roberts observed that many cases in the Roe
[rights-creating] era might be viewed as wrongly decided. “That is,”
Smarick writes, “Roberts likely meant that fixing that era’s mistakes
would be an extensive enterprise that could destabilize the law so the
Court should just let most of those mistakes be” (tinyurl.com/ycyzasnd).
Tip of the Month: Nearly a year later, the government is still
pursuing law-abiding citizens who went to the political rally in
Washington, D.C., on Jan 6, 2021. Even a few Americans who did not enter
the Capitol, a taxpayer-funded building that should be open to the
public, are being harassed. The government is searching the internet
looking for linkage between the rallies and individuals. It appears that
the Deep State has become the equivalent of internet trolls, engaging
in their investigations by merely surfing the internet. Is it time to
leave social media and become active in old-fashioned ways, such as
phone calls and private emails?
AAPS Files Amicus in Pain Doctor’s Case
On Dec 27, 2021, AAPS, along with Jeffrey Singer, M.D., filed an
amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to reverse
the unjust conviction of Dr. Xiulu Ruan.
“The question presented, on which the circuits are deeply divided, is
whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances
outside the usual course of professional practice may be convicted
without regard to whether, in good faith, he ‘reasonably believed’ or
‘subjectively intended’ that his prescriptions fall within that course
of professional practice.”
Dr. Ruan is serving a 21-year sentence in federal prison, based on a
small fraction of his prescriptions for pain patients. That he was
acting in good faith was shown by an unsuccessful undercover sting
operation against him, but that evidence and testimony by supportive
patients were all withheld from the jury. In addition, the jury was
misled that Dr. Ruan could have called anyone he wanted as a witness,
although he was only allowed to call patients used by the prosecution.
“Juries are not trained to establish the outer limits of a highly
skilled profession,” writes attorney Andrew Schlafly. “The proper task
for the jury is to determine whether defendant was acting in good faith,
rather than try to ascertain the boundaries of his skilled profession.
It is the ultimate injustice for a compassionate and dedicated physician
to be imprisoned for the rest of his active life for practicing
medicine in a manner he thought best, based on his extensive training,
for his patients” (tinyurl.com/2p86xe7z).
The Jury vs. the Politicians
Our Founders recognized the importance of the jury as a protection
for liberty and a mediating institution between the individual and the
state. “The judgment of the jury in the Rittenhouse trial represents the
antithesis of the comments of the politicians on its verdict,” writes
John O. McGinnis of Northwestern University (https://tinyurl.com/2jx73t29).
“It represents the decision of an informed group drawn together under
rules of evidence to encourage reasoned judgment. The comments of the
politicians are those of people uninformed by the evidence who have
reason to play to the crowd rather than exercise judgment.” Comments
by politicians, such as Joe Biden saying he was “angered” by the
verdict, remind us that “our Founders created the jury system in large
part to prevent powerful leaders from putting people in jail to satisfy
their own political imperatives.”
McGinnis is concerned that the current political culture and
irresponsible media reporting threaten the jury system. And as the Ruan
case shows, prosecutors and judges can prevent the jury from seeing
evidence needed to reach a just verdict.
Correspondence
‘Your Pain Is Not My Pain.’ The days when
politicians would routinely offer the “I feel your pain” proclamation in
an attempt to get your vote are apparently over. These days, your pain
is inconsequential. According to the Buffalo News, a patient’s
spine surgery was cancelled because of New York’s dictator Kathy
Hochul’s executive order to cancel nonessential surgery in facilities
with fewer than 10% of staffed acute-care beds available, in case a
COVID-19 surge occurred. The patient fired off emails to Erie County
Medical Center executives, or those whose email addresses she could
guess, and managed to persuade them that she was in intractable pain and
there was a high risk of harm from delay. Her work schedule would have
been upended, and she would have had to meet another deductible if the
procedure had been delayed past Dec 31 (tinyurl.com/44fwhyf6).
Radical “progressives” (socialists) in power are engaging in blatant
discrimination. Those who have the ability and means to advocate
for needed medical care may have a chance of getting it. Those who do not are run over by the tyrants like in Tiananmen Square.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Insurers Threatening Doctors. Amerihealth, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Independence Blue Cross, which insures people in New
Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania, sent a threat letter to
physicians about ivermectin. Not only did they say it was ineffective
and that they wanted their members vaccinated, but they threaten to cut
physicians who prescribe it out of the network. And worse yet, they
threaten to report termination of the participation contract to the
National Practitioner Data Bank.
Craig M. Wax D.O., Mullica Hill, NJ
The Source of Our Misery Is Obvious. When we sign
contracts with ANY third party payer (private or government) we are no
longer answering the call that drew us into what we thought was the
noblest of professions. The payer, not the patient, has become the
driving force behind every decision physicians make. It started under
the guise of managing the cost of care. The last three decades have
witnessed the net that once proud doctors find themselves caught in
growing tighter and tighter. Unfortunately, the vast majority of new
physicians have never known independence from corporate controls and
have dutifully learned to play their game. The few remaining independent
physicians are retiring or are already out of the arena. The
traditional physician’s spirit has for all practical purposes been
crushed. We need to renew the spirit of medicine (rsewell-independentsurgeon.com).
Robert Sewell, M.D., Decatur, TX
A German Schools Australians. In this video (https://tinyurl.com/23s3yjx7),
a German tells Australians that their once free country is descending
into a brutal totalitarianism. Will they, like Germans, be telling their
grandchildren that “we didn’t know” and “we were just following
orders”?
Joseph Guarino, M.D., Reidsville, NC
Words for Today from 1948. As C.S. Lewis wrote: “In
one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we
to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would
have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London
almost every year….’ Do not let us…exaggerat[e] the novelty of our
situation…. You and all whom you love were already sentenced to death
before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us
were going to die in unpleasant ways…. Death itself was not a chance at
all, but a certainty…. “The first action to be taken is to pull
ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic
bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human
things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing
the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a
game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking
about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they
need not dominate our minds.”
Comprehensive COVID-19 Summary. In my 2,100 hours of
study, the best single summary I have found is the extensively
referenced and hyperlinked commentary by Corey Mitchell, which everyone
on planet earth needs to see (tinyurl.com/2p94bm4k).
Bose Ravenel, M.D., Winston-Salem, NC
Oath Breakers. In a fine essay that focuses on
abuses by FBI agents, especially in intimidating citizens who simply
showed up at the Jan 6, 2021, demonstration in D.C. (https://tinyurl.com/yckw2hwp),
Jack Green quotes a retired FBI agent: “Current agents are just keeping
their heads down and following orders.” All law enforcement officers,
however, swear to uphold the Constitution, and there is nothing in the
oath about obedience to leadership. The oath is taken by the military,
by judges, by officials of all kinds, including members of Congress. I
took the oath to become a member of the Bar of Nebraska, Louisiana, and Texas.
Those who refuse to violate citizens’ constitutional rights in
service to a political agenda or to follow orders will pay a price. But
it is a sacrifice they agreed to make when they took the oath as a
requirement to exercise the power of the state.
A state of emergency, as from a tornado, flood, wildfire, civil
unrest, or even a plague, is temporary. Something that permanently
cancels traditions, civil rights, existing law, family ties,
friendships, and long-standing institutions is a revolution.
In 1665, the Black Plague killed up to 100,000 of London’s population
of about 460,000, about 20%. The 1918 pandemic influenza killed about
675,000 of 103 million Americans, about 0.66%. To date, nearly 800,000
U.S. deaths are attributed to COVID-19, or 0.26%. It is said to have
“become the deadliest pandemic in American history” (https://tinyurl.com/yu3nrk2n)—and the only one to threaten our way of life.
Alarming daily news reports about this respiratory virus continued,
even when the excess all-cause mortality rate had fallen to nearly
normal. The majority of adults responded by getting the COVID-19 jabs,
yet the mortality rate is now rising rapidly (tinyurl.com/5bf2vb83). In 24 countries and 16 states, cases reached all-time highs after vaccine rollouts (tinyurl.com/4avtnbwf).
The least vaccinated continent, Africa, with only 6% jabbed, is the
least affected by COVID-19. Yet the Biden regime is blaming the
unvaccinated and rushing to jab the one age group in which all-cause
mortality is less than baseline (ages 0–14).
Does “the science” tell us to assume that things would have been even worse without the jabs?
The question of vaccine-caused damage and mortality is so radioactive
that a press conference sponsored by U.S Senator Ron Johnson, featuring
testimony by vaccine-injured people or their parents (tinyurl.com/9kx7v974)
is suppressed. An edited version of a panel discussion with medical
experts and patients held by Sen. Johnson is available on YouTube (tinyurl.com/26nf9m7y).
If this testimony were on network television, vaccination centers
would be still emptier, even if Dr. Fauci followed with reassurances
about rarity and coincidences. To the “benefits greatly outweigh the
risks,” most people would reply that a one-in-a-million risk of that person’s horrible outcome is not worth it.
Civil Rights Emergency
The long tradition of liberty in Western countries is the target of
extremist government measures that treat the unvaccinated as
Untermenschen. Austria has become a dictatorship, stated Herbert Kickl
of the “far-Right” Freedom party, which has also advocated
“scientifically unproven” early treatment with drugs such as ivermectin.
Austria entered its fourth national lockdown on Nov 22, which is
supposed to be lifted for fully vaccinated people by Dec 12. (“Fully
vaccinated” status expires in 7 months.) In February, vaccination will
be mandatory for all, with certain medical exceptions. Austria,
said to be the least vaccinated country in Western Europe, will be the
first to implement a universal mandate. Persuasion has not worked in
34%, noted Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, so now there will be
fines, and prison for those who cannot or will not pay (https://tinyurl.com/wenyxwcr).
Throughout the world, millions were in the streets on Nov 20, protesting vaccine passports and COVID-19 vaccine mandates (tinyurl.com/949ezf89). U.S. mainstream media was only concerned about protests of the Rittenhouse not-guilty verdict.
In some places in India, persons with leprosy—formerly a lifelong,
incurable disease—still cannot get a driver’s license or ride on trains.
Otherwise, people have not, until now, been treated as pariahs because
of health status, certainly not because they might contract a
disease that would be contagious for 2 weeks. Recall the uproar about
briefly quarantining people who had been exposed to Ebola. AIDS-infected
victims were never subjected to government edicts barring them from
private businesses or from employment or from receiving their pensions
or needed goods and services. Today, there is outrage about the social
discrimination that did occur (tinyurl.com/yufebenv).
Washington Post columnist and former Planned Parenthood head
Leana Wen, M.D., said: “We need to start looking at the choice to
remain unvaccinated the same as we look at driving while intoxicated.”
Noam Chomsky said the unvaccinated should be isolated, and trouble
getting food was “their problem” (ibid.).
Medical Emergency
The healthcare sector has lost nearly half a million workers since
February 2020. Some 18% quit, and 12% were laid off. Vaccine mandates
are likely to result in the loss of many more.
An article in The Atlantic blames poor pay and working
conditions and the stress of dealing with COVID-19. “Most” patients, it
claims, are unvaccinated and may be “belligerent and vocal.” Some might
have “yelled for hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, neither of which has
any proven benefit for COVID-19.”
It is now much harder to get good medical care for anything, author Ed Jong notes. Workers suffer “moral distress” from being unable to do what they know is right (tinyurl.com/f8bkss78).
Moral Emergency
As stated by Jörg Hacker, former president of the Robert Koch
Institut (2008–2010), “Almost all have participated or remained silent.
For the violation of humanistic principles, for the breach of dignity
and bodily integrity, there has never been a justification, even when
the majority tolerates or actually demands it” [ed. translation] (tinyurl.com/sm6w5ude). As the current RKI head says there is an emergency, RKI might support a mandate.
Precedent
During World War II, 120,000 Japanese men, women, children were
hauled off without trial and imprisoned for 3 years or more in a hellish
camp, on the basis of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive
Order 9066. This was later legalized by Congress and upheld by the U.S.
Supreme Court in Korematsu v. U.S. The majority of the victims
were U.S. citizens, some World War I veterans. Not one was ever found
guilty of spying or sabotage for Tokyo, although 10 Caucasians were.
Meanwhile, 156,000 persons of Japanese descent remained free in Hawaii,
where only 4,000 leaders were imprisoned. The Supreme Court precedent
stands, and not one single official was ever held accountable for
up-ending the lives of innocent individuals (Richard Maybury’s Early Warning Report, December 2021).
‘A War Is Not Lost Until You Consider It Lost’
The attack on Pearl Harbor was based on the concept of Kantai Kessen,
or the Decisive Battle Doctrine, which holds that a nation-state may
hope to prevail over a much more powerful adversary only by bringing the
opponent to battle on a field of the weaker nation’s choosing. The
Pearl Harbor sneak attack was a brilliant tactical success for Japan,
but a strategic catastrophe in the long run. Admiral Yamamoto issued the
prophetic warning: “I fear that all we have done is awaken a sleeping
giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” Americans were furious,
but did not seek the decisive battle the Japanese hoped for. Instead,
they waited, building up their strength. The Imperial Japanese Navy lost
the war the second the Americans refused to follow the script the
Japanese had laid out for them (tinyurl.com/2p8u53xr).
Over the past year or two, all elements of the “Woke”
contingent—media, universities, nongovernmental organizations, tech
companies, radicals, the Democrat Party, “never-Trumper” Republicans,
the Deep State, upper echelons of big business—have come together like a
Japanese carrier group. The shock-and-awe campaign against the
Deplorables might appear to be a smashing success. But: “it is all well
and good to sink all the ships in Pearl Harbor, but what do you do if
the enemy then refuses to concede defeat? Well, you lose, that’s what, provided your enemy can hold onto his patience, his resolve, and his nerve long enough” (https://tinyurl.com/2p9a4yey).
In America’s current class war, the imbalance between the
credentialed classes with “email jobs” and the forgotten people who keep
the lights on and the garbage from piling up, or drive trucks or fly
planes, is even greater than that between America and Japan in World War
II. But how to direct this strength?
Neurologic Injury. In the 2.5 months after obtaining
an EUA, Pfizer received reports of 158,893 adverse events, with 25,957
being “nervous system disorders.” Attorney Adam Siri testified that 11
physicians had serious neurologic effects dismissed by the medical
system as psychogenic (https://tinyurl.com/393rb8zj).
PULS Cardiac Test. Protein biomarkers that predict
the 5-year risk of acute coronary syndrome increase dramatically after
mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Researchers conclude that inflammation on the
endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle may account for
increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events
following vaccination (Circulation, Nov 8, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/2p8nfrby).
Deadly Lots. An investigation of VAERS reports
showed that 100% of COVID-19 vaccine deaths with identified lot numbers
were associated with just 5% of batches produced. These lot numbers were
disproportionately sent to Republican-controlled states, researchers
said (tinyurl.com/yc8aakfj).
Unpublishable Observations. An informal review of
charts in a cardiology practice showed that 87 patients with previously
stable conditions who received vaccine at a retail pharmacy experienced
various cardiac complications including sudden death; all had elevated
troponins. Of 32 more privileged patients who received vaccine at an
elite academic center, none had worsening of cardiac status and no
troponin elevation. Generally, vaccination site is not used as a primary
variable in VAERS. Clearly, not all lots or vaccination sites are
equal.
UK Death Rates. According to the Office of National
Statistics (ONS), all-cause mortality in vaccinated people age 10–59 has
been double that in unvaccinated people (about 2.9 vs. 1.4/100,000)
since April 2021 (tinyurl.com/ytrnn5dk).
Heart Disease in Athletes. Since December 2020, 183
professional athletes, coaches, and college and youth athletes have
abruptly collapsed, and 108 have died, mainly of cardiac problems. There
were 21 cases of sudden unexpected death or sudden cardiac deaths in
FIFA athletes, five times the pre-vaccination annual average of 4.2.
Most have to have the COVID jab to be allowed to play (https://tinyurl.com/2p987fub).
Tumors. There are no studies of
carcinogenicity of COVID vaccines. VigiAccess, a WHO database, reports
3,709 cases of “neoplasms”; the UK’s Yellow Card system, 731 neoplasms;
and VAERS, hundreds of brain, breast, oral, skin, and colon cancers that
appeared suddenly (tinyurl.com/2p9c87nx). Pathologist Ryan Cole pinpoints possible mechanisms (https://tinyurl.com/2p8fzavj) at an AAPS-sponsored Texas summit on COVID-19 vaccines (https://tinyurl.com/3hs583sj).
October 13-15, 2022. 79th annual meeting, Missouri, TBA
ACTION OF THE MONTH
If you offer early treatment for COVID-19 by protocol similar to
those at c19protocols.com, please add your name to a list we are
compiling to help patients at bit.ly/covidearlytx.
Can Patients Drop out of Medicare?
Only patients who pay Premium-Part A can drop Part A. To drop out of
Part B, patients need to send Social Security a signed written request.
Anyone who wants to get back in will have to wait until the next General
Enrollment Period (Jan 1–Mar 31), and coverage won’t start until July.
Also, a monthly late enrollment penalty based on the time without
coverage will be charged as long as the person has Part B (tinyurl.com/2ke9t4dj).
In 2022, Part B monthly premiums will increase by 14.5%, from $148.50
to $170.10, more if one’s modified adjusted gross income was $88,000 or
more (for single individual) 2 years ago.
Patients are asking about dropping out of Part B because they feel it
is not worth it. Also, they cannot get non-Medicare-approved services
except from an opted-out physician, though most are not yet aware of
this.
OK Bill Would Allow Suits for Vaccine Damage
Oklahoma Senate Bill 1106 would allow employees to sue their
employers for up to $1 million over medical issues connected to
treatments required as a condition for employment. Commenters noted that
this was not nearly enough to replace lifetime income and benefits but
would send a message. They asked who would decide whether a COVID-19
shot was responsible. A few said that those who agreed to take the shot
shared in the responsibility (https://tinyurl.com/3u6yw2n3).
OSHA Mandate Blocked in Fifth Circuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has reaffirmed its stay
on enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring all businesses with
100 or more employees to require COVID-19 vaccination or weekly testing.
It slammed this rule as “staggeringly overbroad” and “fatally flawed,”
and said it “grossly exceeds OSHA’s statutory authority” (tinyurl.com/yckwx9r4).
The vaccine mandate “threatens to substantially burden the liberty
interests of reluctant individual recipients,” wrote Judge Kurt D.
Engelhardt. “Likewise, the companies seeking a stay in this case will
also be irreparably harmed in the absence of a stay, whether by the
business and financial effects of a lost or suspended employee,
compliance and monitoring,… or stiff financial penalties on companies
that refuse to punish or test unwilling employees”
(https://tinyurl.com/ss9jrxy9).
The mandate does not allow consideration of natural immunity. Tests
must be performed by a laboratory or proctored. Extensive record-keeping
is required. Since OSHA has only 1,850 inspectors, enforcement would
have to rely on snitches.
“While OSHA remains confident in its authority to protect workers in
emergencies, OSHA has suspended activities related to the implementation
and enforcement of the ETS pending future developments in the
litigation,” according to its website
(https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/ets2).
Biden press secretary Jen Psaki, along with the AMA, told businesses
to implement the mandate anyway. The Administration is confident that it
has the authority to impose the rule and is still working under the
guise that businesses will meet the Jan 4 deadline, Psaki said (https://tinyurl.com/yanu8a2u).
Tip of the Month: The DEA fully accepts a home
address as the principal place of business of a physician. But guess
what? That subjects his home to unexpected inspections at any time,
based merely on an administrative subpoena rather than a real warrant
signed by a judge. The Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable
searches and seizures of one’s home are waived by anyone who uses a
home address on his DEA registration. Also, “an individual practitioner
or mid-level practitioner whose DEA-registered location is a home must
comply with the established recordkeeping requirements (see 21 CFR 1304
and 1305) and security requirements,” the DEA recently announced.
CMS Mandate Challenged
The CMS mandate requiring COVID-19 vaccination of everyone who works
in a healthcare facility that receives federal funding has been
challenged by at least three lawsuits.
A case brought by the attorneys general of Alabama, Arizona, Georgia,
Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, South
Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia alleges that the mandate violates the
Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by seeking “to commandeer
state-employee surveyors to become enforcers of CMS’s unlawful attempt
to federalize national vaccine policy and override the States’ police
power on matters of health and safety” (tinyurl.com/mrxbjmdx).
A case brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton states that “amid
a harrowing worker shortage, the Biden Administration
has prioritized this unlawful vaccine mandate over
the healthcare of all Americans” (tinyurl.com/2p8dax4e).
The Missouri suit, joined by Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, states
that CMS violated the Administrative Procedure Act and ignores
circumstances that “foreshadow an impending disaster in the healthcare
industry” (tinyurl.com/yckv5mrm).
Pending Litigation
Natural Immunity. Aaron Kheriaty, M.D., sued the
Univ. of California over COVID-19 vaccine mandates in recovered
patients. The CDC, stated attorney Adam Siri, cannot cite a single
instance in which a recovered patient has transmitted COVID, though
vaccinated persons have (tinyurl.com/5eayuset). Dr. Keriaty was placed on investigatory leave (tinyurl.com/9jt5hsnu).
FOIA Complaint. In Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency v. FDA, PHMPT seeks to obtain data relied upon by FDA to license the Pfizer Vaccine (tinyurl.com/48jacpdd).
FDA has asked the judge to give it until 2076 to release the 329,000+
pages of documents, at the rate of 500 pages/month. FDA purportedly
reviewed them all in 108 days (tinyurl.com/tvb2jv54).
Hospitals’ Treatment Bans. Lawsuits demanding that
hospitals allow ivermectin use in dying patients have mixed results.
DuPage County Circuit Judge Paul Fullerton ordered a hospital to step
aside and allow Alan Bain, D.O., to administer the drug; the patient is
recovering (tinyurl.com/2p93xm2b).
Chief Justice Bonnie Sudderth of the Texas Second Court of Appeals in
Fort Worth reversed a trial court decision, and Texas Health Hughely is
blocking administration of the drug (tinyurl.com/4yna667c). Mary Talley Bowden, M.D., who recommended it, had her privileges suspended by Houston Methodist (tinyurl.com/2p97bhnu).
Correspondence
Support the Jab—or Else. After a hospital complained
to the licensure board about a doctor’s writing medical exemptions for
its employees, the board suspended his license for 30 days, alleging
deceit, fraud, or unprofessional conduct. It is open season on doctors
who fail to bow down to the vaccine idol.
Doctors who reject the COVID-19 jab for themselves, for whatever
reason, often have their employment terminated, and this may not be the
end of the matter. The hospital or university may lure the doctor into
resigning, while withholding the fact that a peer review investigation
is underway. If the doctor has an automatic
termination-of-medical-staff-privileges provision in his contract, the
hospital can report to the National Practitioner Data Bank that he has
“resigned while under or to avoid investigation,” with no right to a
peer review hearing or appeal. AAPS has saved many careers by advising
doctors not to resign in these situations.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Notification. I received a notice in the monthly
electronic newsletter from the Maine licensure board citing the
Federation of State Medical Board’s statement about “COVID-19 vaccine
misinformation” (tinyurl.com/5ru7b968) and the joint supporting statement from the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics (tinyurl.com/4kj53fek).
The Maine Board “also applies this standard to all misinformation
regarding Covid-19, including non-verbal treatments and preventative
measures. Physicians…who spread Covid-19 misinformation, or practice
based on such misinformation, erode public trust in the medical
profession and may endanger patients.” Treatments and recommendations
that “fall below the standard of care as established by medical
experts,” or issuing a vaccine exemption without an “appropriate”
examination and without finding a “legitimate medical reason…within the
standard of care” may place a doctor’s license at risk.
Michael Ciampi, M.D., South Portland, ME
Non-vaccine Is Failing. Joe Biden’s own senior
health officials such as CDC Director Walensky have been telling us
since August that the COVID-19 shot does not prevent infection or
transmission of the virus. That’s why the CDC changed its official
definition of the term “vaccine” to exclude the term “immunity.” They
say you must take the shot because it may prevent serious illness, but
we know there are plenty of other things that may prevent serious
illness from the virus—such as ivermectin. On Nov 4, Nature
reported a study of 800,000 veterans 6 months after the shot. Between
March and November, the effectiveness of the Moderna shot fell from 85%
to 58%; Pfizer, from 85% to 45%; and J&J, from 86% to 15%. Factoring
in natural immunity, one could argue that the vaccines are nearly
worthless. Resistance to the mandate is growing, with thousands
preferring to be fired rather than taking the shot. With the country on
the edge of an economic abyss, Biden is doubling down. How far is he
willing to go to enforce this tyranny?
Will There Be Abortion Mandates? Hitler had them. China had them. The Biden Administration gave the UN $5 million for abortion drugs and devices (https://tinyurl.com/pskbj2c).
Joseph M. Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ
A Worst Disaster than Imagined. This devastating analysis of VAERS (tinyurl.com/2drzwbr5)
shows that the magnitude of adverse events to COVID-19 “vaccines” is
stunning. Myocarditis is acknowledged, but more than 200 symptoms occur
at an even higher rate relative to other vaccines. Female reproductive
issues top the list. This experiment may have killed more than 150,000
Americans and permanently disabled many more.
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
Marxism Comes to America. When I was growing up
under Soviet-style communism in Romania, we experienced tyranny and
deprivation. Now, in the U.S., there are looming shortages, falsified
data, bribes for a COVID diagnosis, indefinite detention of citizens
without charges, denial of life-saving drugs not on the NIH protocol,
strip-searches even without an arrest, and refusal of care to
noncompliant persons. Doctors’ visits have been transformed into virtual
pretend-care. American Marxists, who are both “D’s” and “R’s,” can
easily cut access to necessities and your bank account. The old
communists had to hire an army of informers and wiretappers to get a
fraction of the information that now resides with our techie
controllers. They had Pravda. America has an alphabet soup of fake media to spread propaganda. With technology, Marxism is much worse.
Medicare Ad Blitz. Celebrities such as Joe Namath
and William Shatner are on TV urging seniors to get benefits like dental
care, eyeglasses, and free rides to the clinic when they sign up for
Medicare Advantage plans—which are restricted-access networks.
Noncompliant physicians are terminated when they do not follow company
rules specifying access to them and the content and value of the medical
care they provide.
More and more businesses are going bankrupt, and more and more Americans are facing unemployment and poverty as coercive measures tighten. What is really going on? Is it just a virus with a 99.9+% survival rate? There are hints behind the impossible plot in David Baldacchi’s thriller Total Control. Reissued in 2019 but written 23 years ago (as one might guess from the starring role of a floppy disk), it portrays the power of the Federal Reserve and the technology industry—and its penetration into the FBI. Like the lead character, we must all ask, “Whom can we trust?”
The Digital-Financial Complex
The situation is unique in the history of the world, states German financial journalist Ernst Wolff in an Oct 19, 2019, essay (tinyurl.com/452vj3ry) and an August 2021 lecture on “Uncovering the Corona Narrative” (tinyurl.com/2x6kjwkr). Never before has the entire world been placed under such a coercive regime.
Wolff quotes Franklin Roosevelt, who said that nothing in politics happens by accident; you can bet that it was planned.
Government policies have not contained SARS-CoV-2, but they have wrecked the global economy. Supply chains are broken; harvests are being lost; essential semiconductors are scarce. The constant threat of new restrictions keeps problems from being solved. In China, the third largest port terminal in the world was shut down because of a single positive test in a worker.
Who can benefit from driving small and medium-size businesses to the wall by constant uncertainty and harsher regulation? These are the biggest source of jobs and tax revenue.
The principal profiteer and the most important string-puller, Wolff explains, is the digital-financial complex: the largest information technology (IT) concerns headed by the leading asset managers of our time. These include Apple, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. The market capitalization of these companies alone is $5.1 trillion; the combined GDP of Germany, France, and Italy is $8.6 trillion. The biggest asset managers—BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, and Fidelity are significantly involved in all IT companies. Together they manage $220.6 trillion; the combined GDP of all 28 countries of the EU amounted to $15.7 trillion. In addition, IT companies control hundreds of thousands of other companies because they organize the digital systems and thus have a constant overview of their data streams.
“The IT industry is nothing other than a tumor that over past years has metastasized into all other branches of the economy, to make them dependent on it and to completely dominate them,” Wolff states. Also, the asset managers are involved in every large undertaking and are able to influence every popular brand in the world. BlackRock’s Aladdin Data Cloud has the greatest accumulation of financial information that the world has ever seen, which it uses behind the scenes to influence the largest central banks, e.g. the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (EZB). So we have a unique historic mix of raw financial power and discretionary power over an unimaginably gigantic data pool. These companies had a huge business upswing in this crisis, gaining the largest profits in their entire history in a single quarter, and their advantage is continuously accelerating.
The digital-financial complex is the global power center, which drives everything. It stands far above all governments, and is in a position at any time to bring every government in the world to its knees, states Wolff. The perception that it is undermining the very system from which it profits misses the reality: the digital-financial complex has no choice but to continue its present course.
The current system can no longer be kept alive. It was very close to death in the world financial crisis of 2007-2008 and would have collapsed had central banks not created massive amounts of money out of nothing. Over the next 12 years, 700 decreases in interest rates have made the system ever more unstable. In March 2020, the threatened collapse was postponed only through the reduction of interest rates to zero and a final injection of billions of fiat currency. What now? Total collapse of the banking system through negative interest rates, or worthless money?
Wolff writes that the digital-financial complex is preparing a new system, while plundering the dying one. The new system will destroy cash and normal banking, and introduce digital money from central banks, which can be created in infinite amounts. It enables governments to oversee and control all transactions, easily impose differential taxes and fines, and cancel our ability to make any transactions. It enables an all-encompassing dictatorship accomplished through money. To prevent enormous social unrest resulting from gradual introduction, the digital-financial complex has apparently developed the brilliant strategy of turning the situation around: Cause social chaos first and introduce digital money as the answer in the form of the universal basic income (UBI). Out of maximum chaos, even to the extent of worldwide civil war, bring maximum control in the guise of humanitarian aid.
The situation in American medicine (see p 2) fits into the Wolff’s scenario for the general economy. COVID-19, or COVID-1984 as it was called at the AAPS 78th annual meeting, is a catalyst for the Great Reset (AAPS News, November 2020).
But desperation is forcing the globalists to cross ever more red lines. Their window of opportunity could be ours. By exposing their lies, we could use the crisis to turn the direction of human history and open the door to a new and better era.
Desperation and U.S. Medicine
Conveniently, COVID kills mainly the elderly, and mortality from delays in cancer screening or other forgone care disproportionately affect older patients. Also, there has been a massive increase in the number of Do Not Resuscitate Orders (DNRs), and hospitals have considered “universal DNRs” for any COVID-positive patient (https://tinyurl.com/yp4mkckn).
Since 1965, AAPS has warned that Medicare is unsustainable, as is Social Security. As the tsunami of retiring Baby Boomers hits, the 2020s are “the decade of fiscal reckoning,” writes David Stockman (https://tinyurl.com/377acsse). Between 2020 and 2030, under the Congressional Budget Office’s overly optimistic assumptions, Social Security spending will burgeon from $1.091 trillion to $1.835 trillion; federal civilian and military retirement benefits from $173 billion to $227 billion; and Medicare from $862 billion to $1.61 trillion.
U.S. corporate medicine and the pharmaceutical industry are giant stakeholders in the digital financial complex. Its corporate oligarchs pass through a revolving door into federal agencies such as CDC, NIH, and FDA, dominating the network that dictates conventional wisdom. The top three Pfizer shareholders are Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street (tinyurl.com/3ch43yrv).
“Beneficiaries” are unfunded liabilities of the government-digital-financial complex, which is desperate.
Excess COVID-Related Deaths
The press has called 2020 the UK’s deadliest year since World War II, ignoring the massive increase in population. By the Age-Standardised Mortality Rate (ASMR), 2020 isn’t even the worst year since 2000. In fact, since 1943 only 9 years have been better than 2020. In the U.S. the ASMR for 2020 is only at 2004 levels (tinyurl.com/2te9ksmb). Nearly everywhere, the median age of “COVID death” has exceeded life expectancy (ibid.).
How much morbidity and mortality is acceptable to combat a disease less lethal than many previous pandemics? VigiAccess, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) publicly accessible database, shows more than 2 million possible COVID vaccine injuries in 2021 alone, with 69% occurring in female patients and 39% in 18–44-year-olds (https://tinyurl.com/xjfeu7d7).
A VAERS under-reporting multiplier of 41 was calculated by Jessica Rose, Ph.D., based on the rate of anaphylaxis reported in JAMA, of 2.47/10,000 (tinyurl.com/3suy44br), compared with 583 cases/97.5 million reported to VAERS. Applying this multiplier and also using other methods, Rose calculated that more than 150,000 Americans, including 600 children, may have died because of COVID vaccines (tinyurl.com/4jwrbn9p).
In 2021, excess deaths in 29 EU countries are as great as in 2020, and trending upward, but the age distribution has shifted to younger groups (tinyurl.com/bkybjv4a). In England, most of the excess mortality is from cardiovascular disease. Could this be from the vaccination campaign (https://tinyurl.com/2crfnaaz)?
“The Berlin Wall didn’t fall because the East German government said, ‘Let’s pass a bill. We’ll finally tear down this wall. The people deserve freedom.’ The wall fell because people no longer gave their consent to live under tyranny. We have reason, logic, and science on our side. Weneed only courage, resolve, and hard work, and we will prevail.” —Marc Morano
Lessons from the Holocaust
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis established a “biocracy,” which ultimately murdered millions of innocent persons. Contrary to a prevalent myth, doctors were not forced to participate. Doctors and nurses had a peculiarly strong attraction to the Nazi philosophy. Nearly 50% of physicians had joined the Nazi party by 1945, much higher than any other profession, and were seven times more likely to join the SS than other employed German males. Why? To the Nazis, the Reich was a living body, and those who did not contribute were a “disease.” Euthanasia was “humane” and a “private matter” between patients and doctors. Moreover, it was “good science,” and science was god. Legality trumped morality. If medicine is to survive as a profession of healing, writes Ashley Fernandes (tinyurl.com/56r24t5j), physicians must affirm that the ultimate unit of value of human life is the individual person—not the collective.
COVID-19: the Great Reset
In his book by this title, World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab admits that “the corona crisis is (so far) one of the least deadly pandemics the world has experience [sic] over the last 2000 years.” However, it may compel us to “act faster by replacing failed ideas, institutions, processes and rules.” It is the globalists’ “greatest cause for hope”—of world government, central planning of all aspects of life, and leveling differences in standards of living.
Behind the noble-sounding ambitions, what is the real agenda, asks Joaquin Flores in “The Great Reset Morality: Euthanization of the Inessentials”? Genocide? Enslavement? A combination of the two? (https://tinyurl.com/2m5639bm).
Our great hope to preserve our freedom, our individual rights, and self-governance is that the pack of lies is collapsing, Wolff writes. The media’s vehemence testifies not to strength but to weakness. The credibility of those who led us into this disaster is being buried deeper day by day. We need a vast and comprehensive program of enlightenment.
Products of Human Vivisection
Controversy over COVID-19 “vaccines” has increased awareness of the market for “fresh” material from aborted human fetuses. Especially disturbing is Pamela Acker’s statement that “the babies are still alive when the researchers start extracting the tissue.” Fetal cell lines are involved in all U.S. COVID vaccines (tinyurl.com/9wbznx9z), and in testing Regeneron’s monoclonal antibodies (tinyurl.com/47d7mymk). The abortion industry confidently anticipates greater demand (tinyurl.com/5mrutt3z).
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Is Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Lawful?
Attorney Jonathan Emord writes that the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate on companies with 100 or more employees will “sink in a legal quagmire,” a “litigation maelstrom the likes of which the nation has not seen since employers sued in overwhelming numbers to invalidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s failed National Industrial Recovery Act.” Grounds for challenge include the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment; the Tenth Amendment; the Separation of Powers doctrine; the Americans with Disabilities Act; and Title VII of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, which protects against religious discrimination (https://tinyurl.com/kfuxt75x).
Some claim that the Biden mandate is a bluff, and point out that as of Oct 10 no rule had been issued by the enforcement agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Joy Pullman of The Federalist states that the Administration is imposing the public perception of a mandate by following an unusual rule-making process, an emergency temporary standard or ETS. But even through the ETS, it takes up to 6 months for a rule to go into effect after it is issued in the Federal Register. It isn’t there yet, but companies are telling reporters their vaccine mandates will have, at the latest, December deadlines.
Pullman observed that “using the ETS procedure…allows the Biden administration to push its demands faster and without any public input or requirement of responding to public input.”
“That is part of why ETS rules have been overwhelmingly overturned in courts,” she wrote. But because there is no mandate for them to bring to court, the nearly two dozen Republican attorneys general who have threatened to sue on constitutional grounds have not yet filed.
Companies comply because of potential sanctions, especially if they are dependent on federal contracts or regulators’ good will. Fines in the $3.5 trillion “infrastructure” bill run as high as $700,000 for willful or repeated violations (tinyurl.com/26ansfpz).
This back-door plan shows the “dark brilliance of administrative state authoritarians,” writes Alex Berenson.
Pending COVID-Related Litigation
Southwest Airlines Pilots Association: SWAPA claims that carrier has taken unilateral actions that violate terms of the Railway Labor Act, which governs relations between airlines and employee unions, in mandating the jab. In addition, it notes that pilots are at a unique risk because adverse reactions to a vaccine could affect their ability to pass periodic medical examinations required to maintain their license. The union wants to negotiate how such instances would be covered by long-term disability policies. (https://tinyurl.com/ywkmnsck).
Religious Discrimination in Colorado: The Thomas More Society is suing the University of Colorado’s Anschutz School of Medicine on behalf of a Catholic and a Buddhist student whose religious exemptions were denied. An exemption is available only to those whose religions oppose all immunizations (https://tinyurl.com/ywcc2whf).
Kaiser Permanente: This giant corporation has placed about 5,000 of its 200,000 employees on unpaid leave for not getting the jab, and has reneged on many religious exemptions. In United KP Freedom Alliance v. Kaiser Permanente, case 4-21-cv-07894 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Oakland Division, plaintiffs ask for injunctive relief and damages, including exemplary and punitive damages (https://tinyurl.com/74j23jts).
“Kaiser Permanente asserts that it is merely following CDC guidelines,” states America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS). But as the nation’s largest healthcare employer, Kaiser wields enormous power, and has an incestuous relationship with policymakers. The Complaint shows that Kaiser dominates both the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), which makes recommendations to the CDC, and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which makes recommendations to the FDA.
The Complaint distinguishes the case from the Jacobson v. Massachusetts precedent. First, Jacobson applied a small one-time financial penalty but not a severe penalty such as unemployment or unemployability. Second, COVID has a 0.1% infection fatality rate, which is not remotely similar to the 33% death rate in the 1905 smallpox outbreak (https://tinyurl.com/3kkn7dhd).
Sixth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of AAPS v. FDA
Without reaching the merits, the Court affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of the AAPS case against FDA for withholding millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine donated to the National Strategic Stockpile, citing lack of standing (https://tinyurl.com/5dwmek7c). AAPS “failed to plausibly plead that any member has been injured by the actions of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it criticizes,” the Court held. The Court ducked the issue of FDA’s intimidating statements that could have caused the preventable death of hundreds of thousands by denial of safe early COVID-19 treatment. “Much of the opinion is unjustified legal theorizing about the doctrine of legal standing, while lives are at stake,” states AAPS counsel Andrew Schlafly. “The Court did recognize that the FDA cannot interfere with off-label prescribing.” For a timeline of the litigation, see https://aapsonline.org/hcqsuit/.
Religious Liberty Upheld
New York must continue to allow healthcare workers to seek exemptions from a statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds as a lawsuit challenging the requirement proceeds. Judge David Hurd in Utica issued a preliminary injunction in a case brought by 17 plaintiffs. Unlike other judges ruling in similar cases, Hurd concluded “the public interest lies with enforcing the guarantees enshrined in the Constitution and federal anti-discrimination law” and not the wider public health. Plaintiffs oppose any medical cooperation in abortions. Their identities are kept private because they fear retaliation (tinyurl.com/2de65msh).
Judge Terry Doughty ruled that the vaccine mandate violates religious liberty and issued a temporary restraining order in Magliulo v. Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, No. 3:21-cv-2304 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. The Judge found that restrictions that would interfere with dissenting students’ right to graduate defeat the purpose of having a right to dissent. These included barring unvaccinated students from participating in Standardized Patient Examinations and Early Clinical Experiences. Doughty further ruled that the school is not allowed to retaliate or discriminate against the students for filing proceedings (https://tinyurl.com/2upwx2ek).
Correspondence
Bad Time to Get Sick in NY State. Gov. Kathy Hochul, New York’s new dictator, has ordered that all healthcare workers at all NYS hospitals must be vaccinated by Sept 27th, or placed on unpaid administrative leave or terminated. The royal proclamation did not include any exemptions. Thus, if a person has a known allergy to polyethylene glycol, best prepare to risk death so as to uphold the order. This dictatorial mandate also affects rehabilitation and long-term care facilities, where some employees are also refusing to submit to vaccines. That will create a “back-up effect” much like a clogged sewer line outside one’s home. Erie County Medical Center, the region’s only level-one trauma center, will not be able to transfer patients to these facilities because of lack of sufficient staff, and those patients will remain in ECMC occupying beds. ECMC could lock out 400 staff members (Buffalo News 9/25/21). The proposed solution to this pending massive shortage of workers, getting replacement staff from temp agencies, is pure fairy tale. The demand will far outstrip the supply.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Orwell’s Inspiration. This will probably be my last month at my federally qualified health clinic as I shall not comply with the vaccine mandate. I will “die on this hill.” This is 1932 Germany.
It is still the early phase of the “owners” resisting any change in their status. They seek to impose further losses on all non-owners as the system crumbles. The roots of the Great Reset agenda can be traced back 80 years, described in James Burnham’s book The Managerial Revolution. This ideology triggered Orwell to write 1984 (tinyurl.com/ejxy5jdb).
I believe we have only begun the most trying decade of our lives. I am doing what I can on the information front, treating patients while still permitted, and growing vegetables.
Academia Is a Lethal Toxin. After I earned two terminal degrees in professional schools and spent some time on a university medical faculty, I realized the universities were going to destroy us as a society and take us down as a civilization. Academic tyranny and totalitarian thinking, exemplifying Angelo Codevilla’s concept of the Ruling Class and their army of “experts,” has now invaded the professions, so now “consensus” thinking is dominant and eliminates good science. As Scott Forman writes, “universities are the key to the cultural and political domination of the country by progressive elites because they alone can grant credentials” (https://tinyurl.com/3h58w8m5).
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
No Safety Mechanism. I have chaired data safety monitoring boards (DSMBs) for more than two dozen therapeutic products, for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Big Pharma corporations. The threshold for shutting down a program is a few cases of unexplained serious adverse events. If we get to 50 unexplained deaths in a release of a product, it’s gone. The 1976 swine flu vaccine campaign was suspended after just 10 weeks due to 25 sudden deaths and 550 reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome following vaccination. In contrast, with our current COVID-19 gene-transfer vaccination campaign, we are far beyond that. There are no external advisory committees, no human ethics committee, no DSMB. A DSMB would have shut the program down in February. A person is more likely to die after the vaccine than after COVID itself. Yet coercion to take the vaccine is going on in lockstep worldwide. This can’t be about the virus, or about money. It’s about a totalitarian takeover that’s occurred all over the world. Something very dark is going on (tinyurl.com/yhjtt3ne).
Peter McCullough, M.D., Dallas, TX
Shutting Down Scientific Inquiry. A few days after journalist Alex Newman wrote an article about a paper on climate change by nearly two dozen experts in solar physics, a “fact-checker” website financially supported by Facebook, TikTok, Google News Initiative, and others declared the article to be “incorrect” and “misleading.” Facebook then began censoring any posts sharing the link. A “fact-check fact check” using the site’s own framework showed that its farcical “fact check” was guilty of 11 of the 14 classes of misinformation the website warns against, while Newman’s article contained none of them. Why is science reporting being subjected to fact checking by non-experts? A weaponized “fact check,” which apparently began with “climate change,” is nothing more than a narrative check (tinyurl.com/3mwarv9u).
Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA
Resisting the Reset. Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom has launched a “Don’t Be Bullied” campaign, with billboards already placed in several states. It advocates for the right of the individual to make an informed choice (https://tinyurl.com/r76aunah).
Hospitals Violate Rights.TruthforHealth.org shows how U.S. hospitals are denying life-saving medication for COVID-19, even antibiotics, corticosteroids, or anticoagulants; coercing patients into dangerous and expensive treatment plans; and forcibly secluding them. Some have even been denied the right to sign out (tinyurl.com/uztnd9af).
After decades of incrementalism, with surrender of rights in exchange
for promised safety or “benefits,” it is becoming plain that neither a
nation nor an individual can be half slave and half free. You either
have unalienable rights—or you don’t.
If you need an exemption to avoid an action that you believe immoral or potentially lethal, you have no right to liberty.
Medicine, it is said, is the keystone in the arch of socialism. But
what about in the structure of freedom? If we abolish the right to
bodily integrity, will all freedom collapse?
The elusive SARS-CoV-2 virus might kill fewer than one in a thousand
generally healthy people that it infects, but it might be the pretext
for completing the destruction of freedom.
Who’s in Charge?
KMED talk show host Bill Meyer asked this question, as have many others. Most of the time, the answer is NOT your doctor.
If you are in the hospital or seen by an employed or a contracted
physician, your treatment will be determined by protocol. Doctors who
deviate are likely to be fired. Hydroxychloroquine is generally not
allowed, but prohibitions go much further. One physician who works in a
physician-owned clinic was not allowed to order home oxygen or
prednisone. One hospital posted a sign in big red letters: NO vitamin D,
vitamin C, zinc, or ivermectin.
Physicians may be pressured to give remdesivir (Veklury™),
convalescent plasma, or baricitinib (Olumiant™) in combination with
remdesivir to unlock a potential bonus payment of up to $20,000 to the
hospital from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (https://tinyurl.com/4kspczaf).
Under the PrEP act, the hospital enjoys full liability protection when
using these “covered” treatments. Still, remdesivir is losing popularity
because of ineffectiveness and frequent renal and other organ failure.
The global war against hydroxychloroquine began very early, and
recently the attack on early treatment has added ivermectin as that drug
has gained attention. The FDA launched a Twitter campaign @US_FDA: “You
are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” The
message warns that use of this drug to treat COVID-19 “can be dangerous
and even lethal.”
The AMA and its constituent societies leapt into action, warning
about increasing calls to poison control centers. AMA, together with
American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and American Society of
Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) issued a press release stating that
they “strongly oppose the ordering, prescribing, or dispensing of
ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19 outside of a clinical trial” (https://tinyurl.com/py5jvt8a).
Physicians disagree. They have been writing about 88,000 prescriptions
weekly, and. the Chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association, Haruo Ozaki,
recommended that all doctors in Japan immediately begin using
ivermectin to treat COVID (https://tinyurl.com/292wbnsv). But many American pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions, telling the patient and the doctor that “we read the data.”
A Needle in Every Arm
The only permitted answer is the shot. Immunity doesn’t matter.
Having antibodies and T-cells does not get you a “green pass.” Having
the shot does not prevent infection. Vaccinated and unvaccinated shed
virus. Israel, the most vaccinated country in the world, is having a
massive outbreak, with more COVID-19 infections per capita than any
country in the world. But does the shot prevent hospitalization and
death? In the UK, a majority of the COVID-19 deaths last month were
among vaccinated people, with a death rate dramatically higher than a
year ago, when there was no vaccine (tinyurl.com/y3eszkpz).
Could the vaccine be worsening the situation? Dr. Robert Malone,
inventor of mRNA vaccines, suggests that the vaccine is leading to
escape mutants (tinyurl.com/9ppepjz3).
It might create a “monoculture” immunity, like monoculture agriculture.
A new strain might wipe out a population that had only very narrow
immunity.
In the U.S., authorities claim that we are having a “pandemic of the
unvaccinated.” Are almost all the hospitalized or dying patients
unvaccinated? Nurses on the frontlines who have access to patient charts
say no. Whom should we believe?
Denialism prevails on unexpected post-jab deaths. The CDC asserts
that the risk of death from [untreated] COVID is greater than vaccine
risk (https://tinyurl.com/st4fk34v).
However, in the period Jun 26-Jul 9, about 4,000 deaths following the
shots were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
(VAERS), while 3,000 U.S. COVID deaths were reported by Worldometer.
Statistics are problematic, especially because of diagnostic
uncertainties involving the cycle threshold of the polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) tests that have been used as the primary test to diagnose
millions of COVID cases (tinyurl.com/2rz82w9m).
If the virus were the threat, and saving lives the object, all
available weapons would be used, especially early treatment, and open
discussion and accurate reporting would be required. It appears instead
that the virus is the ally of those who want to destroy the keystone of
freedom, and to rule over a compliant population that dutifully shows up
for its periodic booster.
“There will be NO return to the old normal”—say Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and Dr. Tedros of the World Health Organization (tinyurl.com/55u4bvw). The anointed experts will rule, with the aid of the profiteers, once the keystone crumbles.
Showdown
A showdown is imminent for thousands or millions of once-“essential”
workers, who have been serving the public since the beginning of the
pandemic, if they decline to take the jab. “Once heroes, we’re now
zeroes.” Religious freedom is gone in Washington State, denied by Gov.
Inslee; 295 state troopers may be fired (tinyurl.com/efzype77). Health and privacy concerns are irrelevant; millions of veteran nurses may be lost (https://tinyurl.com/2dcxpypu). As many as half of front-line workers have declined the jab (https://tinyurl.com/mkvwpecz). No more free speech: Biden allies are instructing cell phone carriers to censor anti-vaccine texts (https://tinyurl.com/d8cfvknn).
COVID News
Disinfection by Light: Israel’s Ichilov Hospital is
the first to use the J. Protect system, made by Israeli start-up Juganu,
to disinfect spaces, starting in the imaging departments. Lower-level
UV-A can be used while people are present, and UV-C when the room is
empty, to deactivate all bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including
COVID-1, in less than one hour. The technology, called The Foam, goes
directly into pre-existing light fixtures and can be used in any
enclosed space (https://tinyurl.com/n8uk4r99).
HHS Disrupting Monoclonal Antibodies Use: After
demonizing nearly every medication with the potential to reduce the
severity of COVID-19 symptoms, the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
finally recommended monoclonal antibodies earlier this summer. Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis opened infusion centers, and hospitalizations declined
20%. Centers were able to order as much as they needed. But now a
federal commission will decide when, if, and how much a center can get (tinyurl.com/3xcfykvp).
Product Suspensions: Brazil suspended use of 12 million doses of Chinese-made vaccine that were produced in an unauthorized plant (tinyurl.com/yd2ev6x6). Japanese authorities suspended the use of 2.6 million doses of Moderna vaccine because of visible contamination (tinyurl.com/srhj5vfc). Black particles were found to be stainless steel (tinyurl.com/zuu2c8fd).
Vernon S. (“Bud”) Goltry, M.D., R.I.P.
America just lost a valiant warrior for freedom and ethical medicine
to COVID. At age 86, ENT surgeon Bud Goltry was still operating, and
fighting corporate medicine in Boise, Idaho, virtually single-handed. He
wrote to AAPS on Aug 8 about “The Deadly Politicization of America’s
Medical Care,” and on Aug 7 about “The Injection Fraud: a Sane Person’s
Guidebook to the Global Pandemic.” Dr. Goltry served as president of
AAPS in 1998. His introduction of Yuri Maltsev at the 1995 meeting in
Boise is preserved at https://tinyurl.com/5rwrkbpa.
“The FDA protects the big drug companies, and is subsequently
rewarded, and using the government’s police powers, they attack those
who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the FDA is
protecting them. It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public
thinks it is doing are as different as day and night.”
Herbert Ley, Jr., M.D., FDA Commissioner, 1968-1969
Informational Flooding
This pervasive new internet propaganda tool (https://tinyurl.com/xzy2c3kh)
is illustrated well in the reports on calls about ivermectin to poison
control centers. Suddenly we see hundreds of articles on so-called
“ivermectin poisoning.” Indeed, we see more articles published than
there were telephone calls in August on ivermectin to poison control
centers in the entire nation. We are asked to believe that six
telephone calls to poison control about ivermectin, none of which led to
hospitalization, are somehow newsworthy, yet more than 100,000 calls to
poison control on Tylenol each year are not. Moreover, no one dies of
ivermectin in a typical year, yet Tylenol accounts for 56,000 annual
emergency room visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and almost 500 deaths. Is
a new expensive drug about to be launched?
According to former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson,
now banned from social media, vaccine adverse reactions are grossly
underreported. Moderna received 300,000 reports of side effects over a
3-month period following the launch of its COVID-19 shot, according to
an internal report from IQVIA, a company that helps drugmakers manage
clinical trials. Its “Q2 2021 update” was labeled “Confidential – For
internal distribution only.”
In 2021, the number of COVID shots administered so far (309 million)
is roughly the same as all other vaccines administered in 2020 (316
million). But 36 times more deaths were reported this year from COVID
shots than were reported last year from all other vaccines combined.
Independent researcher Virginia Stoner suggests that death may be one of
the most underreported vaccine injuries of all—the victim may not have a
relative or doctor who knows about VAERS and is willing to go through
the onerous process of filing a report.
A letter from Doctors for COVID Ethics states that official sources
from the EU, UK, U.S., and Switzerland report a combined 34,052 COVID-19
injection-related deaths and more than 5.46 million injuries reported
as of Aug 1.
“The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line
with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors
for Covid Ethics demands that the ‘Covid’ vaccine programme be halted
immediately.”
Despite the dearth of negative media reports and the censorship on
social media, the public has become increasingly skeptical. States have
administered 52 million fewer doses than have been distributed to them (https://tinyurl.com/9hae5cv4).
AAPS Calendar
Sep 30. Board meeting; welcome reception
Oct 1-Oct 2. 78th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
FDA Approval Bait and Switch
The announcement that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is now “fully
approved” by the FDA was immediately followed by the Biden
Administration’s call for mandates—but in fact this product was instead
granted an extension of its EUA (https://tinyurl.com/ethr29j9).
Approval was granted to the “nearly identical” but legally different
BioNTech product labeled Comirnaty, which is not yet available.
Comirnaty is supposed to follow the “gene therapy” checklist of 5-year
follow-up studies, specifically for myocarditis, stated Dr. Robert
Malone in an interview with Steve Bannon (https://tinyurl.com/4rs2cmwm).
It is puzzling that FDA took this action despite the fact that the
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted for CDC to
recommend Pfizer at its Aug 30 meeting. They did so without considering
the CDC data on waning immunity and variants that were presented to the
panel AFTER the vote was taken. They did not discuss safety signals
showing 176 times the number of deaths/person vaccinated compared with
flu vaccines.
Oregon Police and Firefighters Sue: Challenging Gov.
Kate Brown’s Executive Order No. 21-29 requiring all executive branch
employees to be vaccinated, the Oregon Fraternal Order of Police and the
Kingsley Firefighters Association argue that it would result in
wrongful termination and conflicts with Oregon statutes (https://tinyurl.com/4uyahj6v).
AFLDS Sues to Stop the Shots:America’s Frontline Doctors v. Becerra, Civil Action No. 2:21-cv-00702-CLM in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (https://tinyurl.com/2deykmz7)
presents whistleblower testimony that at least 45,000 deaths have
resulted from COVID vaccines. In 1976, the swine flu vaccine was deemed
dangerous and removed from the market after 53 deaths.
Los Angeles Police and Firefighters: Firefighters
for Freedom and Roll Call 4 Freedom are planning to sue to stop the
mandate for all City employees. The mandate affects some 60,000 persons,
including 3,350 firefighters, of whom only about half have chosen to
take the shot. Roll Call 4 Freedom encourages members not to submit
anything, including a religious exemption, because it is “a form of
self-reporting.” Roll Call states that “we must be willing to die on
this hill, otherwise there won’t be another to fight on!” (https://tinyurl.com/4xevnxfj).
AG Sues over Employee Mandate: Texas Attorney Ken
Paxton has sued the San Antonio Independent School District after it
refused to follow Executive Order GA-38, which prohibits governmental
entities and officials from mandating COVID-19 vaccinations. Government
entities cannot impose mandates for vaccines having only an EUA (https://tinyurl.com/556zwdka).
Military Members Sue DOD: On Aug 18, Robert v. Austin (Civil
Action No. 21-CV-2228) was filed in U.S. District Court for the
District of Colorado, arguing that members of the military cannot be
forced to accept COVID vaccines under current military regulations. In
particular, Army Regulation 40-562 (AR 40-562) “provides documented
survivors of an infection, a presumptive medical exemption from
vaccination because of the natural immunity acquired as a result of
having survived the infection.” The action is a class action on behalf
of active-duty and reserve service members (https://tinyurl.com/pd5enrbn).
Methodist Health System Impermissibly Denies Exemptions: Employers are not allowed to judge validity of religious beliefs, argues Liberty Counsel (https://tinyurl.com/8nxavfyv).
Employees May Be Protected When Speaking Out
Hours after a newspaper published her 2017 letter criticizing
hospital executives for causing patient safety problems, Karen Jo Young
was fired. Now that the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has
unanimously upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision, the first
ruling on employee speech in 20 years, employers may not be able to
enforce a blanket ban on speaking to the media. (NLRB v. Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities, https://tinyurl.com/28b3fxnp).
“If you go to the media and say, ‘There are unsafe working conditions
impacting me and my colleagues,’ that’s protected concerted activity,”
said attorney Eric Meyer (https://tinyurl.com/e67ky4dw).
AAPS general counsel Andrew Schlafly said the ruling, which might in
some instances also help victims of sham peer review, is tremendously
significant.
AAPS Demands Withdrawal of NPDBReport
AAPS filed an amicus brief in the Texas Supreme Court in Van Boven v. Freshour (Case
No. 20-0117), asking the Court to demand that the Texas Medical Board
void its incorrect Adverse Action Report on Dr. van Boven in the
National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). Although Dr. van Boven prevailed
on every point in the complaints brought against him, the TMB refused
to withdraw its unjustified, disparaging adverse entry, which continues
to harm the doctor. “A Data Bank entry lasts forever, or until it is
voided,” writes AAPS. “Sovereign immunity does not apply when state
government officials misinterpret, misapply, or misrepresent their
powers Properly pleaded ultra vires suits do not implicate
sovereign immunity because they do not attempt to exert control over the
state but, instead, attempt to reassert control of the state over one
of its agents. (tinyurl.com/aw7zk7jh).
Vote with Governor—or Else?
If an elected official holds an occupational license, can he be threatened with loss of livelihood if he votes the wrong way?
Sports medicine physician Jeremy Henrichs, who is an elected member
of the Mahomet-Seymour Board of Education and is on the faculty of the
University of Illinois Carle College of Medicine, is being subjected to
an investigation by the medical licensure board for alleged
unprofessional conduct. The issue appears to be his opinion on a school
masking mandate. Illinois Sen. Chapin Rose filed a complaint with the
Office of the Executive Inspector General (OEIG) asking for an
investigation of the investigation.
Intimidating a public official is a potentially criminal activity,
“part of a pattern of abuse of power that the Pritzker administration is
undertaking to tamp out any dissent,” Rose said. “Who knows how many
others will have their licenses threatened” in fields such as insurance,
real estate, and banking “unless they vote with the governor?” (https://tinyurl.com/74m8wtn7).
Correspondence
“Time to End Excuses and Issue Mandates.” The
people who are so eager to impose their will on others are now using the
word “refusenik.” Liberal political commentator Eugene Robinson
declares that now that FDA has “fully authorized” Pfizer’s vaccine (sic),
“the last remotely plausible rationalization for refusing to get
vaccinated is gone.” If patriotism won’t convince reluctant Americans,
“maybe the threat of not being able to work, go to school or lead
anything like a normal life will do the trick.” Robinson writes that
some of the “refuseniks” are following “looney bin advice” to take
ivermectin. The acknowledged fact that vaccinated people can get
infected and transmit disease “is not a reason to conclude that the
vaccines don’t work.” To get a paycheck, “get the shot” (https://tinyurl.com/4u2wneta).
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
No Control. To give any young person a
coronavirus vaccine should be considered malpractice and a crime against
humanity, because they do not spread COVID significantly, are at almost
zero risk of serious disease or death from it, if sick can get early
effective treatment (in the face of determined opposition from organized
medicine and political forces because vaccines cannot get EUA if there
is an effective treatment)—and yet mandates are exploding all over the
country. Some suggest that what appears to be an irrational,
inexplicable phenomenon—a desperate push to get every single human
vaccinated—may be an effort to eliminate any large “control” group of
never vaccinated so their health can not be compared with the
vaccinated. The original control groups in the mRNA vaccine trials have
begun to be vaccinated, as the companies making them (and untold
billions of dollars) argue that it is “unethical” to leave some
unvaccinated and vulnerable.
Bose Ravenel, M.D., Winston-Salem, NC
Worse than the Disease? Increasingly, vaccine
manufacturers and government officials are following the sarcastic maxim
from Samuel Shem’s novel of medical residency, The House of God:
“If you don’t take a temperature you can’t find a fever.” In other
words, if we don’t critically look at the actual recorded patient
damage, we won’t find our products to be defective (tinyurl.com/m38p7ats). Before taking these genetic agents, do your research: see wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html.
Look for truth by looking at censorship. Resist all government and
business attempts to mandate. Do not be coaxed by false promises of more
freedom if you take the injections. If you don’t own the rights to your
own body, you are a slave.
Lee Merritt, M.D., Logan, IA
Gone “Woke.” At the end of a survey by the alumni of
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, I commented that the College began
to side with big government when it instituted a gowning ceremony in
which they told fledgling students that they needed to concern
themselves with societal needs, not just with the patient. That is a
clear conflict of interest. The practice of medicine is One on One—for
the patient. Since then the College’s philosophy has become still more
in tune with government dictates—a sad commentary on a once solidly
ethical medical school.
Joseph M. Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ
Good Germans. Dennis Prager writes that he is not so
quick to condemn Germans now that he sees how Americans are accepting
police-state restrictions (tinyurl.com/ym233mp4). It’s not just Germans. A “good Cuban” might have denounced a close relative or friend to Castro’s Comités del Barrio,
to alert the government of unapproved activities. What is the lesson?
Evil, if left unchecked, will grow and grow until it consumes the souls
of the individual and the society. The key to facing it is to snuff it
out the moment it rears its ugly head (tinyurl.com/n8zh2zrx).
Julio Gonzalez, M.D., J.D., Venice, FL
Jack-booted Thugs. After 30 years, it is time to
revive this term coined by Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) to refer to the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. ATF and DOJ/FBI performance at
Waco and Ruby Ridge proved Dingell right, didn’t it? Now we have a deep
state and American corporate army of zealots that fits the description
of Eric Hoffer: “The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred,
feel themselves born to ride us.”
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
Cuban Protests. As Cubans protest to gain freedom
from Communist tyranny, the Biden Administration’s spokesperson is
twisting herself into a verbal pretzel to present their message as
something else, “freedom from rising COVID cases.” American Marxists are
busy promoting Marxism in America, using invented constructs, i.e.
non-existent white supremacy and critical race theory, to convince the
American public that freedom from capitalism and installation of
Democrat socialism is what they want.
Censored. Facebook took down our Health Freedom
Minute titled “The Vaccinated Are Not Immune from COVID-19.” As
punishment for violating their “community standards,” we can’t invite
more people to our page for an unspecified length of time. FB is also
hiding our COVID-19 update videos from the public.
The basis of the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory, which have
invaded American education and the American Medical Association, hold
that America is founded on the unforgiveable sin of racism, and that our
unprecedented phenomenal progress and prosperity was built on the backs
of African slaves. American-style apartheid—Jim Crow laws—then left a
legacy that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and decades of Affirmative
Action did not repair.
America’s success in world history is unique. But what was a
“peculiar institution” early in our history was unexceptionable in most
of the world for most of human history. The Roman economy was built on
slavery. From 10 to 25 percent of the population was enslaved (Commentary, June 2021, tinyurl.com/36vvnxxc).
The Mayans, Incans, and Aztecs enslaved subjugated populations.
African rulers traded slaves with Muslims, other Africans, and later
Europeans. Only 9.7% of the Atlantic slave trade involved England’s
North American colonies; 90.3% of African slaves were shipped to South
America and the Caribbean. While 12 million West Africans were shipped
by Europeans to the Americas, more than 17 million East Africans were
shipped by Arabs into the Middle East (https://tinyurl.com/3y5c38c4).
This is irrelevant to CRT because slavery is not the issue—if it
were, we would hear about the slavery that still exists. CRT insists
that all problems within the black community were caused by whites, that
whites are responsible for solving them, and that virtually all white
people contribute to or benefit from racism (“white privilege”).
Cultural characteristics that have led to prosperity in all races and
ethnic groups—strong families, work ethic, individual responsibility,
respect for learning—are called “whiteness.”
“Inclusiveness” may exclude or demean whites. Segregation is fine on some campuses—as long it is whites who are kept out.
The 1619 premise is that every concept, document, and institution
that shapes and guides America was designed to promote slavery and
therefore must be eradicated to atone for centuries of racial
oppression, writes Scot Faulkner (ibid.).
What Happens after Apartheid?
In South Africa, apartheid officially ended in the early 1990s. An era of peace and equality did not follow.
The number of whites killed by blacks after Nelson Mandela and the
African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994—about
80,000—exceeds the number of blacks killed by whites during 48 years of
apartheid—around 20,000, mostly during revolutions and war. The number
of white farmers has decreased from around 60,000 to 30,000, mostly
because those who could flee, did so. Under ANC rule, about 400,000
blacks have been murdered, mostly by other blacks (tinyurl.com/8cwjwcpa).
When apartheid ended, unemployment was 5%. It is now closer to 45%.
With the continuing outmigration of skilled whites and Indians, there
will not be enough skilled manpower to run a modern economy (https://tinyurl.com/ysa7c9d5).
The country is “grappling with change,” writes Rachel Jones (National Geographic 4/26/19).
Riots erupted recently after former president Jacob Zuma, a Zulu, was
jailed for contempt of court. South-Africa-born columnist Ilana Mercer,
who warned of the evil consequences of the Afro-American progressive
multicultural society foisted on her native land by the West, writes on
July 17 that she sees a ray of hope. Unlike in America, South African
authorities are now arresting rioters, not “right-wingers,” and 25,000
soldiers were deployed to quell unrest. “Ruling elites came out with
powerful declarations of shared moral values. There was no…allusion
to systemic racism. The system of apartheid was not conjured from the
past as causality for criminality” (https://tinyurl.com/9hsrbd92).
Others are less optimistic. Revolver News writes that “the
specter of doom hangs over South Africa”—which it calls the first
country built on CRT. Acting on the assumption that if outcomes differ
between two racial groups, the cause must be racism, and the remedy
direct intervention to correct “injustice,” the result is Zimbabwe (https://tinyurl.com/7ssa38ef).
CRT will not achieve a thriving society with the former “oppressed”
trading places with the alleged “oppressors,” or a classless society
that achieves equality. In South Africa, there appear to be two worlds:
The commoners—the black, white, and Hindu middle and lower classes live
in cities like Verulam and Durban, where barbaric riots erupt, and the
residents have to fend for themselves against enraged black mobs. The
top elite live in fortified places like West Cape Town, from which they
warn against blaming looters or using words such as “right” and “wrong” (https://tinyurl.com/4ardmcwt).
The New Apartheid
Racial disharmony is increasing, and a new form of divisiveness has
arisen. One can’t be excluded for being black. One can, however, be
barred from normal living for not accepting a still-experimental jab—but
not for a lifelong HIV-positive status, or for being a hepatitis b
carrier, or for being an unscreened migrant from a country teeming with
exotic contagious diseases.
What is really going on, as the economy, the currency, the natural
hierarchy, meritocracy, and the middle class are being destroyed? Will
the ultimate apartheid be a dependent, compliant, culled underclass,
with factions warring against each other, while the 0.0001% re-engineer
the One World to serve their desires?
Critical Theory
CRT derives from Critical Theory (CT), the Western-Marxist
philosophy developed in Germany in the 1930s and brought to the U.S. in
the 1970s in the Frankfurt School. It holds that ideology is the
principal obstacle to human liberation. CRT exchanges the two
traditional Marxist classes, capital and labor, for oppressive
structural racism and oppressed minorities, primarily blacks. This is
the classical Marxist strategy of fomenting class, or racial, warfare,
which creates “insuperable barriers to mutual understanding.” Its goals
include abolition of property in land and all rights of inheritance;
centralization of credit and the means of communication and transport;
and an educational dictatorship. CRT = Marxist racism (tinyurl.com/369vjxye).
NYC to Exclude Blacks by Vaccine Passport
On Sep 13, when New York City implements its vaccine passport, 72% of
young blacks may be denied both service and the right to work in gyms,
restaurants, and theaters. Only 28% of black New Yorkers aged 18 to 44
years are vaccinated, compared with 48% of Latino residents and 52% of
white residents in that age group (https://tinyurl.com/ssmdmwaj).
Jazmine Shavuo-Goodwin, a 31-year-old black clinic manager explained
her hesitancy, reaffirmed by the pause on the Johnson & Johnson
shot. “It just shows black lives don’t matter. You can test that on us
just like you tested syphilis on us.” One restaurant manager said he
expects businesses to ignore the rule en masse (https://tinyurl.com/47yd35ks).
Cancelled by CRT
“Culturally Responsive” learning and teaching in Rhode Island middle
schools has removed writings of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Diary of Anne Frank or any teaching about the Holocaust, The Crucible, poetry by Maya Angelou or Robert Frost, and any book or short story from the literary canon (https://tinyurl.com/4vvkb663).
Remember the Alamo?
Defenders of the Alamo, like warriors at Thermopylae and the Boers
who defended the line at Magersfontein, stood their ground since they
believed that they defended something worth defending, to the point of
dying for it. The Spartans under king Leonidas held the pass for only
three days—but the Persian invasion was repulsed within a year at
Salamis and Plataea. The Boers delivered a major defeat to the British
at Magersfontein, and though Britain won the Boer War, it marked the
beginning of questions about the power of the British Empire.
The Alamo has long been viewed as paving the way to the independence of Texas. Now, revisionist historians in Forget the Alamo
portray it as a myth, and the Texans’ battle as being about
colonialism, white supremacy, slavery, racism, and oppression of noble
Latinos (tinyurl.com/4fb8uk37)—not worth defending.
“Even if all hell breaks loose/And even if heaven falls down on us/
Stand your ground and hold your line! /It is here where we can stop them.”
Blood Donation: The spike protein coded for by
COVID-19 jabs is supposed to attach to receptors at the injection site,
travel to local lymph nodes, or be disposed of in the liver. It is,
however, found to be circulating in the blood (tinyurl.com/4bcjh4p3). Spike protein by itself is damaging, warns Dr. Byram Bridle and suggests that donated blood might be dangerous (https://tinyurl.com/3fcz9w46). Manufacturers state that their vaccine’s protein differs from the virus’s and is actually protective (tinyurl.com/6rmkcew).
The Red Cross is not restricting donations from those who know what
brand they received, but it will not accept convalescent plasma (tinyurl.com/4k2kfp6d).
Distribution of Lipid Nanoparticles: Pfizer data
obtained by Japanese regulators shows that vaccine components peak in
the blood in about 2 hours, are mostly gone in 48 hours, but accumulate
in bone marrow and ovaries ( (https://tinyurl.com/3tnztach, at around 36 minutes).
How Long Does Spike Protein Circulate? In 6 of 6
randomly selected patients, all still had circulating spike protein
after 5 months; one had it in 15% of his monocytes. It could last for
years; we don’t know (https://tinyurl.com/4pbydpw).
Dr. Anthony Kyriakopoulos told Dr. Peter McCullough that he believes
50-60% of vaccinated people will develop cancers, autoimmune disorders,
or viral illnesses because of persistent mRNA or incorporation into the
genome (tinyurl.com/28b392w2).
CRT: Not in China
China believes that unity, defined by harmonized language, race, and
coerced allegiance—not diversity—is strength. Its authoritarian
communist government suppresses any hint of unrest, unlike the American
airing of the rioting, looting, arson, and protests. Most consider China
a xenophobic and racist nation. Its colonizing and overseas emissaries
are about as welcome as the Soviet operatives of the 1950s. Africa is
tiring of both insidious and overt Chinese racism, both in its major
cities at home and among its corporate legionaries abroad, writes Victor
Davis Hanson. China has many weaknesses, and “as long as the U.S. Constitution is not tampered with, America enjoys the stability and resilience of the world’s oldest constitutional and consensual system [emphasis added]” (https://tinyurl.com/d69mnd34).
The Master Race is Han Chinese, in Beijing’s view, and Africans are portrayed as subhuman (tinyurl.com/ep8var25).
Hanson’s optimistic view ignores America’s dependence on China for
drugs, and the pandemic’s devastation. What are the prospects for the
required “return of financial solvency, a renewed national unity and
appreciation of American singularity?”
AAPS Calendar
Sep 30. Board meeting; welcome reception
Oct 1-Oct 2. 78th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
ACTION OF THE MONTH
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‘Animal Farm’ in Canada
Dr. Brian Day of Cambie Surgeries Corp. in British Columbia has been
in court since 2009 on the constitutionality of provisions in the
Medicare Protection Act restricting private care.
The date shows “how much politicking has occurred,” writes Ian Mulgrew (Vancouver Sun 6/23/21, tinyurl.com/767tkxs6).
“The B.C. Court of Appeal has an unenviable job of parsing the 880-page
decision” handed down by Judge John Steeves last September (AAPS News, November 2020).
The province besmirched the reputation of Dr. Day and colleagues as
greedy, money-grubbing doctors out to destroy medicare—despite the $200
million in support to public health and education that Cambie Surgeries
has provided.
Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, who won his similar case in the Supreme Court
of Canada, was so despondent about the minimalist response from the
Quebec government that he left the country and now practices in France.
He believes, Mulgrew writes, that Canada is controlled by lobby groups
and the ideology that it is socially unacceptable for those with more
money to have better access to care. Patient care in France is far
better than in Canada, Dr. Chaoulli told him, because the French system
is not monopolistic and has both public and private care.
The province’s response to Dr. Day’s appeal is “Animal Farm, not a
legal response to the complaints that Steeves made factual errors,
applied the wrong legal test, and confused the relevant jurisprudence.”
COVID-Related Litigation
Indiana University Students: A federal district judge denied the motion in Klaassen v. Trustees of Indiana University
to put IU’s vaccination mandate on hold while litigation proceeds
(https://tinyurl.com/sracsnke), as did the Seventh Circuit Court of
Appeals. Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined to consider the emergency
appeal to the Supreme Court (tinyurl.com/47hu2dhy).
Alberta Drops COVID Restrictions: After being fined
$1,200 dollars for protesting against the COVID restrictions, Patrick
King represented himself in court and issued a subpoena to the
Provincial Health Minister for proof that the COVID-19 virus exists.
Since the government did not respond, the court ruled that government
had no legal grounds to impose any such restrictions. On July 28,
Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw rescinded
them and officially treats COVID-19 in the same way as other respiratory
viruses (tinyurl.com/3s7dmdz9). Lockdown advocates quickly attacked
this decision. Other provinces are developing vaccine passports
(tinyurl.com/sr5jahau).
Law Professor Sues George Mason University: Todd
Zywicki is suing GMU over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing that
because he has recovered from the virus and has antibodies, the vaccine
is unnecessary and that he is at higher risk of serious adverse effects
(https://tinyurl.com/j8zvwyr2).
Dr. Stella Immanuel Sues CNN: After she spoke in
favor of early treatment of COVID-19 at a press conference called by
America’s Frontline Doctors, Anderson Cooper and CNN, according to the
complaint, “published a series of statements of fact about Dr. Immanuel
that injured her reputation and exposed her to public hatred.” Among
other things, they falsely attributed to her statements, e.g., about
“alien DNA,” that she never made. The lawsuit argues that CNN’s “false
and defamatory” statements exposed her to contempt, ridicule, and
financial injury, and asks for $100 million in damages. Additionally, it
declares that “by targeting and attacking Dr. Immanuel, CNN effectively
caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands whose lives would have been
spared if they had been treated early with HCQ [hydroxychloroquine]”
(tinyurl.com/u58fbsyw).
Minor Consent: Children’s Health Defense and
Parental Rights Foundation have filed a lawsuit on behalf of four
parents challenging the D.C. Minor Consent for Vaccination Act. The Act
allows children 11 years of age and older to consent to vaccinations
without the parents’ knowledge or consent and against the parents’
express written religious exemption. The Act contains multiple
provisions to deceive parents (tinyurl.com/ybu388rt).
Freedom of Speech under Attack
Dr. Peter McCullough Sued by Former Employer: In the context of his recommending early out-patient sequential multidrug therapy for COVID-19 (tinyurl.com/4thc6xut),
Dr. McCullough was sued for more than $1 million by his former employer
for alleged unauthorized mention of his previous affiliation. At this
time, nearly 8,000 have signed an AAPS letter supporting him (https://bit.ly/standwithpmc).
Criticism of Scientists Compared to a Hate Crime:
Baylor professor Peter Hotez is calling on Congress to criminalize
attacks on scientists—such as Anthony Fauci, not Peter McCullough: “We
must take steps to protect our scientists and take swift and positive
action to counter the growing wave of far-right antiscience aggression”
(tinyurl.com/akbcsh8w). Not a word about Big Tech censorship of clinical
trials or even repeating CDC statements on vaccines. In a Jul 28
article in PLOS Biology, Hotez writes: “Rep. Paul Tonko
(D-N.Y.) has introduced a bill known as the Scientific Integrity Act of
2021 (H.R. 849) to protect US Government scientists from political
interference, but this needs to be extended for scientists at private
research universities and institutes. Still another possibility is to
extend federal hate-crime protections” (https://tinyurl.com/xvm8nkb7).
No Consent Required, Says DOJ
In a memorandum opinion, Dawn Johnson, Acting Assistant Attorney
General, writes: “We conclude that section 564 of the FDCA [Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act] does not prohibit public or private entities from
imposing vaccination requirements, even when the only vaccines available
are those authorized under [Emergency Use Authorizations] EUAs” (tinyurl.com/v6dkcnx9).
“They tie themselves in knots to explain why the clear language of
the EUA statute doesn’t mean what it says,” comments AAPS business
manager Jeremy Snavely.
The Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) points out that federal
agencies have historically interpreted Section 564 as a prohibition on
mandates of EUA products. Long-settled legal precedent establishes that
it is not legal to coerce an individual to accept an experimental
product. “It would be illogical that Congress would require that
individuals be informed of a freedom of choice if that choice is
illusory at the whim of any public or private entity.” ICAN urges the
DOJ to revise its Slip Opinion (https://tinyurl.com/3mnup35w).
Correspondence
Socialism in New York. Even before socialist India
Walton won the mayoral primary in Buffalo, the socialism experiment had
begun in Albany, according to the Buffalo News. The six
democratic socialists, who are prodding the legislature further to the
left, “helped press major tax hikes” for “big funding increases ‘to be
distributed to the working class’ in the form of higher education and
health care spending.” The democratic socialists “are aligned with
working people and movements and don’t want to sell out our resources to
the richest people.” Also, they are proud to be part of the “Borg”:
they acknowledge that “we have to work together” and “we are not
individuals.” People who actually work for a living should be afraid.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
The New Memory Hole Age. As Roger Kimball points
out, “We used to think that the Taliban’s habit of destroying important
cultural artifacts was a mark of barbarism. Now, we’ve learned that it
is an avant-garde gesture, and is, therefore, commendable” (tinyurl.com/hs4tazku).
The Taliban, according to Sahil Mahtani, figured out that “public
statues are not politically neutral. They are statements about who and
what we honor as a society…. We’ve learned that our commitment to
liberalism and free speech was outmoded…. [and] that the Afghan
dogmatism that we wrote off as medieval was, in fact, the future” (https://tinyurl.com/5xcrps8r). The meme “it’s only property” did change, however, when a statue of George Floyd was defaced.
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
Americans Think They Want Socialism. In 1982, there
were only 6,000 members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). In
2017, a Gallup poll showed that 44% of millennials said they wanted to
live in a socialist nation. In 2018, 33% of Americans answering a Gallup
poll said that socialism is a “society with equal standing for
everybody, in which benefits and services were free for all.” In truth,
we certainly did not have equal standing in Romania; we were serfs to
the omnipotent government. There were no benefits at all, simply hard
work and a meal after standing in line for hours each day. There is a
vast difference between asking for more welfare in the Nordic model of
social welfare paid for by the private capitalist sector, and a
socialist republic where the means of production are owned by a
totalitarian government. Americans on the left are far too ignorant to
understand history and economics; they are too busy demolishing
monuments and installing statues of criminals as role models instead.
CME from UCSF. For $600, physicians can enroll in an
interactive webinar (11.25 hours, AMA PRA Category 1 credit) to learn
about white privilege, white supremacy, anti-blackness, and
anti-non-whiteness (https://tinyurl.com/f2d4x8nb). The
course is conducted by Dante King, whose only qualification, judging by
his website, is that he is black. He also conducts continuing education
courses for the California bar. Other potential markets might include
airline pilots, replacing courses on the latest aviation technology, or
Miami building inspectors, replacing seminars on judging whether a condo
is going to collapse. But when society collapses from people being
pitted against each other, we’ll have a video record of what caused the
breakdown.
Craig Cantoni, Sherwin-Williams color code 7512, pavilion beige
A French-style Revolution in America? Perhaps not
yet on the windowsill of the Overton Window, the French Revolution was
many things unfolding at once: inflation soaring to the point commoners
could no longer afford bread; replacing the state-religion nexus with
Enlightenment rationalism; fragmentation of the social and political
orders into warring factions; failure of the Monarchy’s institutions to
understand the potentially fatal challenges and institute reforms that
addressed the problems; and failure of the French economy. The parallels
to 2020 America are obvious.
Lysenkoist ‘Fake Science’ Police in Canada. In a hearing before the Canadian parliament (https://tinyurl.com/4w5wx9f3),
vaccinologist Byram Bridle recounts that after a 5-minute press
interview in which he said there might be a connection between COVID-19
vaccines and myocarditis, it was as if a nuclear bomb went off in his
life. He faced daily attacks from phone calls and social media, and
workplace harassment. Hundreds of Canadian physicians fear losing their
job or license if they speak out.
Jim Vanne, Aurora, IL
HCQ ‘Stress Test.’ In the RECOVERY trial [often
cited as showing “no benefit” from hydroxychloroquine in COVID-10], in
those patients whose doctors thought HCQ was safe and enrolled them,
with detailed monitoring and scrutiny, HCQ at very high doses was safe
even in this very ill population—the trial’s most important conclusion.
There should be no more regulatory warnings or concerns regarding HCQ
safety in those selected for COVID-19 therapy by doctors, although when
patients are that close to death HCQ and probably other drugs directed
against viral replication are far too late. Cytokine storm, thrombosis,
and complications are probably the determinants of death.
More than 100 residents were sleeping comfortably in their $600,000
apartments in the 12-story Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, when
the building suddenly collapsed, burying the residents in the rubble.
There had been indications of problems for a time—such as exposed rebar
in concrete columns, or a balcony that looked slanted (https://tinyurl.com/xxcjptd6).
The town is built on a barrier island, which is made of a loose mixture
of sand and mud. Geologists have long warned that these islands cannot
be developed responsibly (tinyurl.com/5yfvxjf2). The building was sinking at a rate of about 2 millimeters a year in the 1990s (https://tinyurl.com/32h74hvx).
We don’t know exactly why the collapse occurred when it did—or the risk
to the other $3 trillion worth of similar developments.
Is this a metaphor for the U.S., whose moral foundations, industry, and currency have been eroding and sinking for decades?
As the Fed is creating trillions of dollars out of nothing, and
people are beginning to notice rising prices and a declining standard of
living, the specter of Weimar hyperinflation looms. But there was much
more to Weimar—and we must not forget that it was Weimar that led to the
rise of Hitler.
Past Is Prologue
The American musical Cabaret portrays a highly sanitized
version of Weimar craziness and debauchery. The German public became fed
up with filth under the pretext of “sexual freedom” and voted for a
party that promised a return to moral sanity.
In the opinion of a German immigrant who has extensively read the
history of the era, most Americans never learned the truth
about Weimar because the American historians who wrote about it were the
refugees of the Weimar Regime or their descendants. Arguably, Cultural
Marxism, which has become the ruling ideology in academia and other
institutions, is Weimar’s toxic gift.
Weimar was not an enlightened pure democracy that was destroyed by
fascists. Paul Bookbinder is one of the few American historians to
acknowledge the bad choices made by Weimar politicians and elites (https://tinyurl.com/234ufrh8).
Although he was publishing in liberal post-war Germany, Karl Dietrich Bracher (Die Auflösung der Weimarer Republik: eine Studie zum Problem des Machtverfalls in der Demokratie)
was able to point out the inconvenient truth that the German people
were simply appalled by Weimar politicians who pushed fringe liberal
ideas (like degenerate arts and the normalization of perversions) while
promoting big liberal government as “solutions” to the many economic and
cultural crises. For instance, archetypal Weimar leader
Heinrich Bruning responded to increasing poverty by increasing taxes,
freeing violent offenders from prisons, and calling for legal protection
of pedophilia and transvestitism. These things had no mass support but
pleased the German liberal elites. One can argue that by enacting so
many fringe policies Bruning was an unwilling helper of Hitler’s rise to
power.
Historian Fritz Fischer gained popularity in early West Germany with a
theory that provided an excuse for Nazism as an “inevitable event
caused by fate” (Sonderweg). Even he presented the Weimar Republic as an asylum run by the inmates.
Hans-Ulrich Wehler, one of the founders of the Bielefeld School of Historical Analysis, aggressively promoted the Sonderweg theory,
but uniquely noted that Weimar was a Potemkin Village or façade from
behind which the Elites were ruling the “peasantry” mercilessly, while
pretending to embrace “modern ideas.”
Hans Mommsen and Fritz Stern, although Cultural Marxists, are good
sources of facts about the Weimar establishment. Both confirm the
existence of the movement within the Weimar penitentiary system to
literally coddle sexual predators, since they were considered to be
“true victims of society.”
Does any of this sound familiar?
If the American Republic collapses, will there be a Sonderweg theory to excuse those passive, well-off, open-minded persons who could have done something, but didn’t?
Phony War of the Elites
American “peasants” may be in the streets or at rallies, but are they truly represented by either political party?
It appears that Democrats want to change decorations (get new flag
and new anthem, destroy old monuments and possibly replace them with St.
George Floyd, etc.); change ideology (replace the American Way with
Critical Race Theory and LGBTQ cult); change religion (from
Christianity—when Islam didn’t work out, replace it with Wokeism);
expand entitlements but not work opportunities; and defund police.
Republicans would keep the decorations and possibly add trendy new ones;
replace ideology with hypocrisy (outwardly keep American Way but block
industry and upward mobility); maintain pseudoreligion (keep some
outward forms but abandon the faith and tolerate the intolerable, such
as seduction of children); cut entitlements without allowing work
opportunities to desperate people; and militarize the police.
The left-wing upper middle class, mostly the professional managerial
class, and the right-wing upper middle class both expect to preserve the
economic status quo for themselves. Those not in the commanding heights
are deeply divided: those who revere the old Republic vs. those who
oppose or are uninterested in its restoration. Angelo Codevilla asks,
“Is it possible to rescue and re-found our Republic?” (https://tinyurl.com/yy9ye2mp).
Re-founding a Nation
If a large enough proportion of a people is alienated, the body
politic loses the capacity to act as a whole. Resetting the country on
its original principles—or outright resuscitation—amounts to re-founding
a nation, and as Machiavelli wrote that is much more difficult than
founding one in the first place. Codevilla (ibid.) notes the enormity of
the problem:
“The changes that have taken place in the bipartisan ruling class
that controls nearly all our institutions have explicitly denied and
denigrated what had made America itself. Today’s ruling class leads and
even forces Americans to act, speak, and think as if all that they had
thought good were bad, and vice versa. Almost as if a vengeful power had
conquered the country.”
There are historical examples of nations rescued and re-founded, most
of which involve overthrowing the dominion of foreigners rather than of
mutated ruling classes. [Americans might recognize an external threat
even if the current Administration has deep ties to it. China, for
example, is apparently building 100 new ICBM silos (https://tinyurl.com/2k6w7xm5).]
But “rescuing disrespected constitutions has always required
…undoing any number of enemies.” And “lost civic virtue is almost as
unrecoverable as lost virginity.”
Silent secession by alienated individuals, the tacit hemorrhage of legitimacy, dooms regimes—but does not by itself re-found.
“Federalism as never before” is key to successful restoration.
The Fed’s ‘Doom Loop’
America is in the throes of virulent underlying inflation, writes David Stockman (tinyurl.com/5adpma3w).
In financial markets, it has already fostered huge asset bubbles and a
massive shift of wealth to the tippy-top of the economic ladder. Now,
soaring prices for everyday goods and services threaten main street
jobs, incomes, and hard-earned savings. With unbridled furious money
printing, the Fed’s balance sheet has ballooned from the historic 3-5%
of GDP and post-dotcom crash of 6.5% to 37%. There is roaring inflation
in stocks, bonds, housing prices, baseball cards, and other
collectibles. Through financial fraud, the Fed is the most profitable
private company in the world. Over three decades, the financial assets
of the top 1% increased 9.5 times, while that of the bottom 50% only 4.3
times, with most of the paper gains trapped in their homes.
Fed chairman Jerome Powell insists that the Fed’s money-pumping
madness has nothing to do with America’s rapidly metastasizing wealth
disparities, but that is blatant sophistry, Stockman says. The coming
inflation will hurt the poor far more.
“The Fed’s perverse redistribution of wealth to the top will also
elicit a populist revulsion against the rich, which, in turn, threatens
punitive taxation of the very producers and risk-takers who make
capitalist prosperity possible. Indeed, Washington is threatening the
golden goose like rarely before.”
“For several decades political arrests were distinguished in our
country precisely by the fact that people were guilty of nothing and
were therefore unprepared to put up any resistance whatsoever…. A person
who is not inwardly prepared for the use of violence against him is
always weaker than the person committing the violence.”
The Nominating Committee submits the following slate:
President-elect: Sheila Page, D.O., Aledo, TX
Secretary: Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Treasurer: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., Venice, FL
Directors: Richard Dolinar, M.D., Phoenix, AZ; Chandrasekhar
Doniparthi, M.D., Yuma, AZ; Martin Dubravec, M.D., Cadillac, MI;
Kristin Held, M.D., San Antonio, TX; and Erika LeBaron, D.O., Manassas,
VA.
Resolutions
To be considered at the annual meeting, resolutions must be received in writing by July 31. Send to aaps@aapsonline.org. Prior resolutions are found at: https://tinyurl.com/25a99fw2.
‘Even North Korea Was Not This Nuts’
Yeonmi Park, who fled North Korea at age 13, says that she found the
anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt, and suffocating political
correctness at Columbia University deeply disturbing. She points to the
lack of critical thinking and the erosion of the rule of law and
morality. She thinks that America’s progressive influencers want “to
destroy every single thing and rebuild into a communist paradise.” If we
continue on the current path, our future is “as bleak as North Korea” (tinyurl.com/2hcweu6b).
AMA’s Population Health Priorities
Gender Affirmation: Physicians need to create a
welcoming environment for LGBTQ patients. One suggestion is to
incorporate asking about pronouns as part of your greeting (https://tinyurl.com/ydss84fu).
Remove Sex from Public Part of Birth Certificates: Board
Report 15 recommends removing sex as a legal designation lest it lead
to “discrimination or unnecessary burden on individuals whose current
gender identity does not align with their designation at birth” (tinyurl.com/f4njrbwb).
Prioritizing “Health Equity.” AMA launched its
Center for Health Equity in April. It will embed equity throughout its
processes and actions. It celebrates “diversity” in its leadership,
including its first openly gay chair of the AMA Board of Trustees.
Initiatives will “shine a light on structural racism” and highlight
national efforts “using equity lens to curb the COVID-19 epidemic” (tinyurl.com/4sx7e5ad). AMA urges “appropriate placement of transgender prisoners” (tinyurl.com/2d5zcezx).
Interim final rules for the bipartisan No Surprises Act have
requirements for opting out of the balance billing ban, which is only
allowed in certain non-emergency situations, beginning at the bottom of
page 124 of 411 (tinyurl.com/m3j7kdkd). The rules go into effect in
2022.
HHS claims that it is “important that these consumer protections do
not present a barrier to obtaining out-of-network care, when an
individual knowingly seeks out such care.” However, the requirements are
quite detailed and must be presented at least three hours before a
service is rendered. Consumers must be made aware that “payment made by
the individual might not accrue toward meeting any limitation that the
plan or coverage places on cost sharing, including an explanation that
the payment might not apply to an in-network deductible or out-of-pocket maximum under the plan or coverage.”
Providers and facilities will need to translate the standard
notice-and-consent documents into the 15 languages most common in the
area. If the patient prefers oral communication, a qualified interpreter
must be provided.
As an article in the Buffalo News points out, the required
form tells patients, “If you sign this form, you may pay more because
you are giving up your protections under federal law.”
Dr. Lawrence Huntoon writes: “Regardless of the exact process that
will be used to determine a ‘fair’ price for services, fees will
undoubtedly be pegged to the Medicare Resource-Based Relative Value
Scale (RBRVS) system via some percentage, as HMOs do now. RBRVS, of
course, is based on Marxist labor theory.
“Insurers already discriminate against out-of-network physicians by
covering substantially less of the bill. Now that insurers will
essentially have complete control over all fees, this discrimination
will likely be enhanced.
“I strongly suspect that HHS will judge all patients who presents to
an ED as ‘emergencies’ so that the waiver will not apply. But its use
will cause undue delay in treatment or put the physician at high risk of
termination of privileges if he abides by the required delay of three
hours before treating the patient.
“This new law was absolutely designed to eliminate independent practice by out-of-network physicians.”
‘By Any Means Necessary’
The Florida law, SB 2006, which prevents companies and organizations
operating there from requiring “vaccine passports” also contains this
provision: “If the individual poses a danger to the public health, the
State Health Officer may subject the individual to isolation or
quarantine. If there is no practical method to isolate or quarantine the
individual, the State Health Officer may use any means necessary to
vaccinate or treat the individual.”
“Any order of the State Health Official given to effectuate this
paragraph is immediately enforceable by a law enforcement officer under
s. 381.0012” (https://tinyurl.com/ypkvtv77).
Canadian Physicians Persecuted
Physicians insisting on informed consent for giving COVID jabs to
children and adolescents are having their ability to work terminated by
organized medicine—despite the World Health Organization’s statement
that children under 18 should not get the shot. Five physicians are
interviewed by Dr. Sam Dubé (https://tinyurl.com/upnr5cf8).
Of special interest at the end of the video is a secret audio recording
of the inquisition of Dr. Francis Christian, who is being urged to take
advantage of “physician health” resources to cope with the distress he
must be feeling as his professional life is being destroyed. Remember
the history of Soviet psychiatric “hospitals.”
Tip of the Month: Granting multiple medical
exemptions from the COVID vaccine can result in unfair harassment by
medical boards, and the medical exemptions may not be accepted by
employers and universities. One state medical board is already harassing
a good physician about this, and demanding medical records about the
patients. This retaliation occurs despite reports that the second dose
of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s products has caused heart inflammation in
college-aged students. The religious exemption is more difficult for an
employer or college to reject.
Largest Healthcare Union Fights Mandatory Jab
The president of 1199SEIU, which represents hundreds of thousands,
announced that the organization would fight mandates for COVID-19
injections, whether by a legal or a purely organizational challenge. New
York-Presbyterian Hospital is mandating employee jabs. The New York
State Nurses Association also issued a statement opposing mandates (tinyurl.com/3vfrhdzp).
French, UK Groups Call for Stopping Jabs
A regional independent drug assessment center, the CTIAP (Centre
territorial d’Information indépendante et d’Avis pharmaceutiques), has
stated that COVID jabs were submitted to insufficient clinical testing,
and that the quality of the active substances, their excipients, and the
manufacturing processes are problematic.
“Prudence would even dictate that, in all countries where these
vaccines against COVID-19 have been marketed, all the batches thus
‘released’ should be withdrawn immediately; and that these [marketing
authorizations] that have been granted should be suspended, or even
canceled, …until further notice.”
All are “subject to further studies that reach as far as 2024 and
even beyond, and these will be almost impossible to be completed because
of the way the vaccines are now being distributed,” said the CTIAP
report. Releasing these products is like launching a car manufacturing
line without testing quality of the parts, such as the brakes (https://tinyurl.com/32s2tyys).
The Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy based in the UK, in a report
to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA),
states the MHRA now has more than enough evidence from the Yellow
Card system “to declare the COVID-19 vaccines unsafe for use in humans” (tinyurl.com/wdn25nt2).
Are Colleges, Employers Liable?
The William J. Olson law firm requests colleges to commit to assume
financial liability for death, disability, or illness of students being
required to take the COVID jab. While manufacturers are immune from
product liability, those who coerce students or employees to receive it
may not be (tinyurl.com/2jmjpefm).
Correspondence
Vaccine Pass. Originally supposed to be “optional
and voluntary,” to cost $2.4 million, and to become obsolete, New
York’s Excelsior Pass has already been used to restrict access to
sporting events. The highly secretive “Phase 2” has shocked even the
left-biased Buffalo News. Apparently, it will include “health
records, proof of age and driver’s licenses” and create a “new,
inescapable web of geolocation tracking, building out a map of our most
intimate moments.” The state’s 3-year contract with IBM requires IBM to
develop a road map to expand the pass to all 20 million New Yorkers. The
total cost could end up being $17 million.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Crit Theory and the Hate America Left. Reflecting on
the Frankfurt School, postmodernism, and crit theory, Michael Walsh
writes: “Wielding their pseudo-intellectual doctrine of
Critical Theory,” men who at first seemed like “a bunch of nutty
professors with Dr. Strangelove accents” undertook to “undermine every
legal and social American institution, from the family, to traditional
sexuality, to academe, pop culture, government, and even the military.”
Everything is seen as a “construct,” a plot by the “privileged” against
the “oppressed” (https://tinyurl.com/ddwtep9r).
Whenever you hear words like “systemic,” “struggle,” “structural,”
“change,” “fundamental transformation,” etc., you know you’re dealing
with Marxists.
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
A Foreign Enemy? According to a 2015 dossier
produced by the People’s Liberation Army, uncovered by the U.S. State
Dept., China was preparing for a Third World War with biological
weapons, including coronavirus, 6 years ago. Notably, China was the only
G20 member whose GDP showed growth in 2020, expanding by 2.3% (https://tinyurl.com/55jwm7d5).
Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA
Domestic Enemies. Branded and sold as Democratic
Socialism, American Marxism is the fight between corporate technocrats
and Americans who love their country. The former are aided by corrupt
congressmen and bureaucrats and the woke military, police, teachers,
professors, administrators, and media. At the bottom rung are activists
and useful idiots. Half of America bought the lie and empty promises of
“free stuff,” while the rest get lawlessness, protests, burning, and
looting. History shows that law and order disappear prior to the
complete societal takeover by tyrants, who present it as a necessity to
quell the lawlessness.
Government Buys ‘Fresh’ Flesh. The Food and Drug
Administration has been caught buying tissue from aborted babies who
could have survived as preemies. Recent emails uncovered by Judicial
Watch between FDA employees and Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR)
prove the agency spent tens of thousands of dollars between 2012 and
2018 buying aborted babies up to 24 weeks gestation. Body parts were
used to “humanize” mice and test biologic drugs (https://tinyurl.com/2yzkz858).
Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ
Dr. Fauci’s Agency Spends $61 Million on Baby Parts. Experiments
funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
(NIAID) include implanting fetal scalps onto mice at the Univ. of
Pittsburgh (https://tinyurl.com/5bp5xdxd).
Dianne Irving, Ph.D.
‘Mild’ Myocarditis. Give the risk of terrible
outcomes, we should have a low threshold to evaluate any young person
after COVID injections, with ECG and troponin values. See these
narratives (tinyurl.com/hzy296ww, tinyurl.com/5pvc46mb) from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Peter A. McCullough, M.D., Dallas, TX
Remdesivir v. HCQ. FDA has warned that concurrent
use of hydroxychloroquine might reduce the effectiveness of remdesivir
(RDV). In a study published by NEJM, 27% of the patients received HCQ, and had lower mortality than those who did not. (Table S-3, https://tinyurl.com/46brebv7). FDA officials and Gilead colluded to prevent the use of HCQ for COVID-19 in order to sell RDV (https://tinyurl.com/sttt7u7n).
Leo Goldstein
Open Letter to AMA. How dare you join
the…camouflaged communists who furtively…conflat[e] equity with
equality? Ours is a nation built on the premise of equal standing under
the law and only that…. Equity, on the other hand, is achieved by fiat,
by taking from some and giving it to others at the point of a gun. Few
better ruses exist for the state control of the means of production than
through the illusory promise of achieving equity.
Insolvency. Medicare Part A will be insolvent by
2024—2 years sooner than trustees predicted. To make up the shortfall,
$750 billion is needed. Suggestions include cutting Medicare Advantage
payments or increasing taxes on high earners (JAMA 1/26/21). By January, nearly $3 trillion had already been spent on COVID.
The best and perhaps only government oversight mechanism available to
the American people—the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)—has yielded
more than 3,000 emails sent and received by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has
headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)
for decades.
Dr. Fauci is the highest paid of 4 million federal employees including the President, (tinyurl.com/3jnx2jt5),
and probably the most revered. Howard Bauchner, M.D., then
editor-in-chief of JAMA Network, called him a “national treasure” in
September 2020 (https://tinyurl.com/4jp9eyuf).
Even after the email release, the Biden Administration press
secretary Jen Psaki said that Dr. Fauci has been an “undeniable asset in
our country’s pandemic response” and there was no intention to
“relitigate emails from 17 months ago.” She did not need to circle back
when asked whether there was any circumstance under which Biden would
fire Fauci: “No!” (https://tinyurl.com/2hdyfyka).
Chris Wallace of Fox News was quick to defend Dr. Fauci, claiming that
he sees no actual “smoking gun” in the emails and saying that it’s
important to “take the politics out of this” (https://tinyurl.com/24tf7rwf).
Donald Trump asserted that the emails show that the SARS-CoV-2 virus
came from the Wuhan lab and demanded that “China should pay Ten Trillion
Dollars to America, and the World, for the death and destruction they
have caused!” (https://tinyurl.com/jwfjfar8).
This misses the main point: what did Dr. Fauci and NIH know about
research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and did they help to
fund it?
China probably covered up early cases and destroyed evidence. But the
Chinese Communist Party was not in charge of the American pandemic
response. That would be the responsibility of American officials, acting
on NIH “guidance” supported unquestioningly by academics, medical
journals, organized medicine, media, Big Tech censors, and
corporate-owned hospitals. Firing the 80-year-old mouthpiece, who was
busily appearing on television or answering emails after midnight, would
accomplish little.
Laura Ingraham’s “Medicine Cabinet”—Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., Peter
McCullough, M.D., M.P.H., and Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D.—discussed
what Dr. Fauci and NIH got wrong on many issues, and the disastrous
results (tinyurl.com/2ba7wamh).
Their policies assured maximum casualties by suppressing early
at-home treatment with false claims about dangers of hydroxychloroquine,
and recommending therapeutic nihilism based on alleged lack of
“adequate” evidence. Meanwhile, Dr. Fauci threw evidence-based medicine
and cost-benefit analysis overboard in his gyrations on destructive
lockdowns and controversial masks, betting the country on an
unprecedented vaccine.
Natural or Laboratory Origin?
The idea that SARS-CoV-2 might have escaped from a laboratory was “strongly condemned” as a “conspiracy theory” in a letter to The Lancet
on Feb 19, 2020, drafted by a group of virologists led by Peter Daszak,
who declared that they had “no competing interests.” Daszak is,
however, president of EcoHealth Alliance, which funded research at WIV.
EHA received more than $123 million in grants from the federal
government from 2017 to 2020, some from NIAID. The Pentagon funneled
almost $39 million to the group since 2013 (tinyurl.com/64249kch).
For 20 years virologists have been creating viruses more dangerous
than found in nature. Genetic engineering and “gain of function”
research is what their laboratories do. Newer methods of cutting and
pasting viral genomes, called “no-see-um” or “seamless” approaches,
leave no tell-tale marks of manipulation.
At WIV, scientists led by Shi Zheng-li or “Bat Lady” were using
methods taught them by Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina
to engineer bat coronaviruses to attack other species, often under
Biosafety Level 2 conditions—about as stringent as in a U.S. dental
office. It is quite plausible to think that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from this
lab, although it can’t be proved because records of Dr. Shi’s work have
been sealed, writes Nicholas Wade (Bull Atomic Sci 5/5/21, https://tinyurl.com/4rbswx5d).
The most damning evidence for a laboratory origin is the presence of a
double CGG code for arginine in the cleavage site of the SARS CoV-2
spike protein. This coding sequence is rare in nature, but common in the
lab, and has not been found in any other coronaviruses (https://tinyurl.com/3xs6z7dt).
Emails showed that Dr. Fauci helped to “debunk” the lab leak theory (https://tinyurl.com/w4c5hbm). In 2012, Dr. Fauci said that the benefit of manipulating bat viruses was worth the risk of a pandemic (tinyurl.com/cj6c5rz7).
According to Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, NIH tried to block
his department’s investigation of WIV research. Then-acting
undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, Chris Ford,
reportedly was also hostile to an investigation. In a January 2021 memo
he wrote: “I would also caution you against suggesting that there is
anything inherently suspicious…about People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
involvement at WIV…. [I]t would be difficult to say that military
involvement in classified virus research is intrinsically problematic,
since the U.S. Army has been deeply involved in virus research in the
United States for many years” (Daily Mail 6/8/21, https://tinyurl.com/ver6urrn).
Dr. Fauci brands the furor over the emails as “nonsense” and told
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that “it’s really very much an attack on science” (https://tinyurl.com/32em8j3f).
Early Warning Signals
Early warning systems work only if they are turned on—and only if there is a response.
Vaccine Breakthrough: A total of 10,262 SARS-CoV-2
vaccine breakthrough infections had been reported to CDC as of Apr 30,
2021; among these, 995 patients were known to be hospitalized, and 160
died. Beginning May 1, CDC transitioned to monitoring only cases
involving hospitalization or death (https://tinyurl.com/3m2j4p8s). As of Jun 1, 2021, 3016 hospitalized or fatal vaccine breakthrough cases had been reported (tinyurl.com/2utarf79).
VAERS: Data entry into the Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System is severely backlogged. Over a few months, the number
of entries related to platelet problems increased 17-fold, from 370 to
6290 (jpands.org/vol26no2/merritt.pdf).
Data entry and retrieval in the antiquated system is very difficult and
time-consuming. One person working with the system estimates that
nonetheless 100,000 adverse events are being entered every month (https://tinyurl.com/yrnfddxm). Today, openvaers.com/covid-data lists 5,185 deaths, 571 miscarriages, 3,994 disabled.
Infertility: Infertility from vaccinating the
college-age population would not be seen for years. The earliest effect
would appear in infertility clinics. After a previously successful egg
donor got the COVID shot, zero of 30 embryos from her fourth donation
survived past 5 days, and sperm from vaccinated donors were also
nonviable (https://tinyurl.com/vk27vedj).
Precedent for Grooming
The term “grooming” is often used for victims of pedophiles. But one
member suggested that the Gleiwitz Sender (radio-station) incident
might be applied to compulsory vaccination.
German operatives needed dead bodies dressed in enemy (Polish)
uniforms as a prop in staging their false-flag Gleiwitz radio-station
attack. Those corpses were supposed to serve as “proof” that an enemy
assault had occurred and many attackers had been killed by the brave
defenders. The problem was how to procure so many dead bodies.
Historical accounts are contradictory and mixed with propaganda. Medical
details are buried in obscure, difficult-to-access German journals. The
corpses were prison inmates, who had reportedly been accustomed to
receiving periodic injections of vitamins mixed with low-dose
amphetamines and morphine. They learned that those injections didn’t
harm them and even made them feel better. On the day of the operation, a
toxin was added (likely a mixture of acetonitrile and acetone,
resulting in delayed production of hydrogen cyanide). Dead prisoners
(“canned goods”) dressed in enemy uniforms were shot to imitate combat
wounds. All was done quickly and efficiently with minimal personnel.
Children, parents, and physicians have experience with multiple
vaccinations that have (mostly) been harmless. They trust the government
and our scientific experts. We are not, after all, prison inmates in a
totalitarian country.
“Violence does not always and necessarily lunge straight for your
throat; more often than not it demands of its subjects only that they
pledge allegiance to lies, that they participate in falsehood.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Biodistribution of Vaccine Components
The mRNA vaccines contain mRNA coding for SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
enveloped in lipid nanoparticles. According to the European Medicines
Agency, (only) one biodistribution study, for a different (“surrogate”)
type of mRNA that produces luciferase protein, has been carried out in
male Sprague-Dawley rats. EMA reviewers stated that “No traditional
pharmacokinetic or biodistribution studies have been performed with the
[Pfizer] vaccine candidate BNT162b2” (tinyurl.com/5m3wj44m).
Low levels of surrogate mRNA were found in all examined tissues
except kidney, including brain, “indicating that the mRNA/LNP platform
crossed the blood/brain barrier, although to very low levels” (https://tinyurl.com/483686y3).
The virus itself cannot do this. One may ask, what is to stop the
immune system from attacking cells such as brain cells that express
spike protein? A substantial fraction of VAERS reports involve
neurological manifestations.
A FOI request showed that TGA (Therapeutic Good Administration), the
Australian drug regulator, did not even request Pfizer raw data (tinyurl.com/fbrph7xa).
Incentive to Diagnose and Treat
Medicare pays hospitals 20% more for patients with a COVID diagnosis.
This includes a 20% increase in the average Medicare payment for a
respiratory system diagnosis with ventilator support for greater than 96
hours, which was $40,218 (tinyurl.com/v49tpfum).
Additionally, hospitals get more money when they treat inpatients with
drugs (such as remdesivir) or biologicals approved by FDA for COVID-19 (tinyurl.com/pm4vdrb8).
The extra cash helps to sustain the big chains’ buying sprees as they
scoop up weakened competitors and physicians’ practices (https://tinyurl.com/4pr6n9s).
Connections
Fauci’s Wife: Christine Grady, M.S.N., Ph.D., chief
of bioethics and head of human subjects research at the NIH Clinical
Center, and her husband have been described as “a medical power couple
leading the fight against the virus” (tinyurl.com/u27t3xdj).
USAMRIID: China has infiltrated the U.S. military
biodefense program at Fort Detrick, long an espionage target. China
fuses military and civilian research (https://tinyurl.com/h23ejwdb).
Moderna: CEO Stéphane Bancel, now a billionaire, is
former CEO of bioMérieux, whose founder was instrumental in building the
Wuhan P4 lab (tinyurl.com/45t8vwj8).
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Citizens’ Petition to Block Premature Approval
On June 1, a number of prestigious physicians and scientists
petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require that
the vaccine manufacturers provide extensive safety data including “at least 2 years of follow-up of
participants originally enrolled in pivotal clinical trials, even if
the trials were unblinded and now lack a placebo control,” before
approval of any COVID-19 vaccine [emphasis added]. Also needed are:
· Thorough safety assessment of spike proteins produced in-situ by
the body, and their full biodistribution and pharmacokinetics;
Studies of vaccine biodistribution from the administration site;
Thorough investigation of all severe adverse reactions reported in the U.S. and global pharmacovigilance systems;
Inclusion of gene delivery and therapy experts in the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC);
Prominent signatories include Peter Doshi, Ph.D.; Peter Gøtzsche,
M.D.; Tom Jefferson, M.D.; Joseph Ladapo, M.D., Ph.D.; and Peter
McCullough, M.D. (tinyurl.com/s6ezvx8).
Employees Sue Houston Methodist
Houston Methodist, a seven-hospital system, is being charged with
wrongful discharge and violating a federal law dictating “that where a
medical product is ‘unapproved’ then no one may be mandated to take it.”
The 117 plaintiffs, including nurses, receptionists, technicians, and
administrators, are asking for a temporary injunction against the
firings. Employees can apply for religious or medical exemptions, but
none of the 12 requests were granted. “It is unfortunate,” said CEO
Marc Boom, “that the few remaining employees who refuse to get
vaccinated and put our patients first are responding in this way” (tinyurl.com/mc6dc9j8).
Plaintiffs include Jennifer Bridges, R.N., who has become the voice
of workers who object to mandatory vaccination, and Bob Nevens, the
hospital’s former director of corporate risk. Nevens says the hospital
was requiring him to be vaccinated even though he doesn’t treat patients
and has been working from home for most of the past year. “My right to
protect myself from unknown side effects of these vaccines has been
placed below the optics of ‘Leading Medicine’” (https://tinyurl.com/3rnj8aup).
TRO Requested to Stop Vax in Children under 16
America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), former Minnesota state senator
Scott Jensen, M.D., and others filed for a temporary restraining order
in federal court for the Northern District of Alabama against the
emergency use authorization (EUA) permitting use of the COVID-19
“vaccines” in children under the age of 16.
AFLDS founder Simone Gold, M.D., J.D., said that these products are
not vaccines but are experimental biological agents “whose harms are
well-documented (although suppressed and censored) and growing rapidly,
and we will not support using America’s children as guinea pigs.”
Plaintiffs will file suit arguing that EUAs should never have been
granted and should be revoked immediately, and that numerous laws have
been broken in the process of granting these EUAs and pushing the
injections on Americans (tinyurl.com/zsmfvyyw).
Indiana Univ Mandate Called Unconstitutional
In a press release and letter to The IU Family for Choice, Not
Mandates, the Bopp Law Firm of Terre Haute, IN, states that it believes
that IU’s mandate in an unconstitutional violation of students’ rights
to bodily integrity and is considering litigation. Students are invited
to see the “What Do I Do Now?” section on the group’s website (tinyurl.com/fd389bxm).
Duty to Snitch
Effective May 31, 2021, Ohio MDs, DOs, and DPMs will be required to
complete one hour of CME prior to license renewal on the topic of the
duty to report misconduct under section 4731.224 of the Revised Code.
“Examples of misconduct include, but are not limited to, sexual
misconduct, impairment, practice below the minimal standards of care,
and improper prescribing of controlled substances.” Failure to report a
colleague’s misconduct carries a fine of $20,000.
Italy Declares COVID Jab Mandatory for All
An administrative decree of Mario Draghi’s government has been
approved by the Sanitary Dictatorship and enacted into law by
parliament, making COVID jabs mandatory for all, regardless of religious
beliefs. Those who refuse will be denied all medical assistance, in all
hospitals and clinics, public and private. Poor people are being denied
welfare checks. Any resistance can be deemed violent, and violence
deemed a sign of insanity. In past weeks political dissidents have been
threatened with or received TSO’s (being taken to a mental asylum) for
refusing to comply with Sanitary Dictatorship decrees (tinyurl.com/6ynsw838).
Is Fauci a Distraction?
On May 28, Brian Gerrish, founder of UK Column, gave testimony before
the Stiftung Corona Ausschuss, the German-based extraparliamentary
inquiry into the medical establishment’s and public policymakers’
handling of the COVID crisis internationally. This was opened to
initiate an international class action lawsuit led by attorney Reiner
Füllmich.
Gerrish suggested that the Fauci story distracts attention from the
critical questions the public is beginning to ask about the fear-based
measures that are destroying the world’s middle class, and the dangers
of the vaccination campaign—along with the massive urgency to vaccinate
children who are at minimal risk from the disease (https://tinyurl.com/pp86p5t9).
Solzhenitsyn’s American Millstone
Millstones grind grain into flour, and the focus in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s book Between Two Millstones: Exile in America, 1978-1994 is
on how the two great political systems of the mid-20th century grind
the human soul into dust. The millstone of Western democracy, he warns,
simulates the Soviet tyranny. “Western apparatchiks sold their souls to
an ideology just as communists did—but without the cynicism” and with
confident sanctimoniousness (https://tinyurl.com/c486xetx).
Correspondence
Freedom Is Expendable. The very day we learned of
the Houston Methodist lawsuit, the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) came out with guidance telling employers they can
legally require their employees to get a COVID vaccination (WSJ
5/29/21). The article states: “And employers that are administering
vaccines to their employees may also offer incentives as long as the
incentives aren’t coercive.” The “incentive” being offered to the
plaintiffs is that if they submit to taking the vaccine, they will be
allowed to continue earning a living, paying their bills, and feeding
their families. How is that not coercive?
Minions at the FDA are currently working hard and fast to provide
formal FDA approval of the jabs. That will moot some of the plaintiffs’
arguments. Operation “warp approval” will cut corners and take shortcuts
like never seen before. In the meantime, this EEOC proclamation is
clearly designed to discourage the flood of lawsuits that they recognize
is coming, and to demoralize people to believe there is no hope.
In the lawsuit, David Bernard, CEO of Houston Methodist San Jacinto
Hospital is quoted as saying: “100% vaccination is more important than
your individual freedom. Every one of you is replaceable. If you don’t
like what you are doing you can leave and we will replace your spot.”
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY
Immunity. While vaccine advocates assert that only
the vaccines work in the end, the huge Israel study shows that previous
infection (average 7 months in the past) cuts infection rate by 90% just
like vaccination (https://tinyurl.com/89rey4c6). And
we know that plasma memory B cells generally last years. And just
because second cases of COVID can occur does not mean that they do occur
with any frequency. The constant misinformation being promulgated today
is overbearing.
Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., New Haven, CT
Fruitless Bat Search. China has tested more than
50,000 animals, including thousands of bats, to find evidence of
COVID-19’s origins—amid a renewed international focus on whether the
virus actually leaked from a laboratory (tinyurl.com/y74x9cny).
Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA
Boom for Billionaires. On Jan 21-24, 2020, the World
Economic Forum met in Davos, Switzerland, and Moderna representatives,
business leaders, and World Health Organization (WHO) director Dr.
Tedros were there, discussing the mRNA jab. On Jan 30, WHO declared a
public health emergency. A huge increase in wealth followed immediately.
Michel Chossudovsky, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Economics at the
University of Ottawa, explained how the “killer virus” fear campaign and
global lockdowns redistributed the losses of ordinary people from their
pension funds, mutual funds savings, and investments to the rich who
profited greatly from the “fore-knowledge.” The combined wealth increase
of the 15 billionaires with the greatest growth in absolute wealth was
$563 billion or 82%. Billionaires will buy out bankrupt assets for
pennies on the dollar. The “engineered destabilization of the global
economy” would not have been possible without the constant fear
promulgated by mainstream media, COVID-19 medical czars, and compliant
medical professionals.
Herd Immunity—Before and After. “Herd immunity is
the indirect protection from an infectious disease that happens when a
population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed
through previous infection.” Now the corrupt WHO has changed the
definition: “‘Herd immunity,’ also known as ‘population immunity,’ is a
concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected
from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached.”
Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ
It’s about Population Control. Socialism is
misanthropic to the core. The “Great Reset”—the Deep State Globalist
“destructionism” and power grab—is really just another iteration of
leftist tyrannical ambition. Thomas DiLorenzo (https://tinyurl.com/4er52wnc)
exposes the eugenicist totalitarians of the present like Bill Gates,
Jr., and Klaus Schwab, the ideological heirs of Frederick Engels and
Karl Marx. “Transhumanism,” strongly promoted and funded by Gates, is
the new name for eugenics. It would involve integration of
nanotechnology into the human body so that humans can be controlled
remotely by the state. Klaus Schwab’s books go into excruciating detail
about the digitalization of life—the Fourth Industrial
Revolution. Robert Ehrlich, one of their ideological forebears,
suggested putting sterilizing agents into food and water. Gates said
that if “we” do “a really great job on vaccines…, we could lower [world
population] by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.”
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX
Dr. Fauci a Key Player. Because there IS
effective COVID treatment, which Fauci opposes, the vaccine EUAs are
fraudulent. Most of his recommended and at times mandated interventions
are worse than futile. It’s the greatest medical disaster in history.
