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BREAKING: President Trump, Mrs Trump & Ms Hicks are Positive for CV-19

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Tonight, @ FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
— Donald J. Trump (@ realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

Hope Hicks, who has been working so hard without even taking a small break, has just tested positive for Covid 19. Terrible! The First Lady and I are waiting for our test results. In the meantime, we will begin our quarantine process!
— Donald J. Trump (@ realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

When you thought an extraordinarily chaotic year could not pull out another twist. Well, here it is. END

PS: As broad context

PPS: For reference on HCQ

Also:

PPPS: A sampler from a former CEO, Twitter (cf discussion at Forbes [also here]) commented on by Michelle Malkin, a few days ago:

See, now, that this is NOT a normal silly season cycle?

PPPPS: A summary on the U/L trajectory of CV19:

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello discus the logic of vaccines
Bud: I got my vaccination. I am now protected from the virus. Lou: Not me. No one’s gonna jab a needle in my arm. Bud: You must. Lou: Why? Bud: To protect me. Lou: From the virus? Bud: Yes. Lou: But I thought you said you were vaccinated
And so on illustrating the absurdities of why people are being forced to get the vaccine. https://spectator.org/abbott-costello-discuss-pandemic-covid-mandates/jerry
September 25, 2021
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Human history of Ivermectin https://techstartups.com/2021/09/03/real-truth-human-use-ivermectin-man-invented-nobel-prize-winner-satoshi-omura/ And a recent story of the effectiveness of IVM in treating C19. It’s not perfect but it’s cheap and works for many and harmless. So why not? https://techstartups.com/2021/08/04/israeli-scientist-says-covid-19-treated-1day-nobel-prize-winning-drug-ivermectin-new-double-blind-study-shows/jerry
September 22, 2021
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A newly published medical study found that infection from COVID-19 confers considerably longer-lasting and stronger protection against the Delta variant of the virus than vaccines.
Harvard Epidemiologist Says the Case for COVID Vaccine Passports Was Just Demolished vaccinated individuals were 27 times more likely to get a symptomatic COVID infection than those with natural immunity from COVID
https://fee.org/articles/harvard-epidemiologist-says-the-case-for-covid-vaccine-passports-was-just-demolished/jerry
September 16, 2021
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Looks at the risk of dying from various reasons by age group. Assume the data is accurate
Let’s discuss 3 facts: 1. You and your parents before you have been managing and balancing RISK v. DOING STUFF your whole life. 2. Over time your risk of dying of COVID will shrink beneath other risks. 3. We’ve been happily killing each other with infectious diseases forever.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1438131811960299525.htmljerry
September 16, 2021
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A series of tweets by a young woman who reads and thinks for herself Is she right But thinking for yourself is so rare these days. It was probably always rare.
I would be first in line to take the Covid vax if
this series of facts were not true
If it stopped infection/transmission thereby protecting others and could eliminate the virus off the planet. Unfortunately it doesn’t and it can’t If I was at risk of severe outcomes from the virus and had a high chance of requiring hospitalization If booster shots weren’t going to be a thing every 6-8 months indefinitely. If the shots and every future booster didn’t make you sick and leave many in bed for days with Covid-like symptoms. If there weren’t so many potential side effects from taking the shot like myocarditis, pericarditis, cardiac arrest, stroke, blood clots, allergies, Bell’s palsy, etc. If there was longitudinal data that proved the vax was safe in the long-term with no negative interactions with future variants and no other long-term health impacts. There is no such data, yet. Plus several more
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1435131594482667522.htmljerry
September 15, 2021
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Age justified excess deaths by states
Excess as % of natural all-cause death expected from average of 2017 to 2019: 20.0 Arizona 18.5% Texas 17.2% New York 15.4% California 11.3% Florida
https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/1435451347541790721 Then another analysis
Age-adjusted COVID deaths per 100k population through Sept. 1, 2021. Florida is #3 best among 12 largest states. California is #6. NY and NJ are #11 and #12 worse. If lockdowns protected people, this result is a puzzle.
https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1435362491316387843jerry
September 8, 2021
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A discussion on the effectiveness/non effectiveness of vaccines
Vaccine Failure and the Way Out These are bureaucratic processes of untold complexity, all of them steered in roughly the same direction by a loose system of Schelling points. The mysterious power of globalist organisations like the World Economic Forum is the coordination they provide, by acting as venues for the occupational elites to formulate policy schemes among themselves and to propagate these plans and ideals through loose networks of affiliated tycoons, journalists and NGOs. Until now, Corona policy in every western country has unfolded more or less according to the same script, devised by the World Health Organisation at the end of February 2020. The final act was supposed to be the wide-scale eradication of Corona after mass vaccination. It is now clear that this will never happen. For the first time since March 2020, there is no obvious international consensus on the way forward. A few countries, or perhaps even a few prominent politicians or public health pundits who do not have their heads up their asses, could change everything. Everyone who is not crazy needs to start insisting on the same simple message: We have to live with Corona, it will always be with us. Biannual boosters for the entire population will not solve anything. They will only reduce the effectiveness of vaccines by encouraging antigenic drift. The vaccines are, at best, a solution for the elderly and the vulnerable only. Everyone will get Corona, even the vaccinated, and children need to get it while they are still young and while it poses no risk to them. In this way, SARS-2 will become an unimportant virus in the coming years.
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/vaccine-failure-and-the-way-out?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web An analysis of vaccine effectiveness using Israeli data by Gummi Bear. He has a more positive view. But limit who gets vaccinated and have young get virus for better immunity in society. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1434237628258344961.htmljerry
September 7, 2021
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Some recent studies on C19, infection rate and controversy over Ivermectin.
Across all countries, the median IFR was 0.0027%, 0.014%, 0.031%, 0.082%, 0.27%, and 0.59%, at 0-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, and 60-69 years
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.08.21260210v1.full.pdf Age - IFR - Survival rate 0-19     .0027%     99.9973% 20-29    .014%     99.986% 30-39    .031%     99.969% 40-49     .082%     99.918% 50-59    .27%     99.73% 60-69    .59%     99.41% A current evaluation of Ivermectin. It’s been under attack by the usual suspects.
Ivermectin: a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honoured distinction with indicated efficacy against a new global scourge, COVID-19
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297521000883 A review published last March by the inventor/discover of IVM.
Global trends in clinical studies of ivermectin
https://www.psychoactif.org/forum/uploads/documents/161/74-1_44-95.pdfjerry
September 4, 2021
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Black woman, PhD, trained in cellular and molecular biology eviscerates what is put out by the medical establishment and echoed in the press on the vaccine. https://rumble.com/vlq9h8-woman-gives-best-speech-i-have-ever-seen-exposing-the-vaxx.html?mref=lzerp&mc=3ifeq One of the critical issues is today with the most advanced methods of distributing information in history there is so much misinformation/disinformation.jerry
August 28, 2021
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Israeli study is making rounds
Conclusions: This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1jerry
August 27, 2021
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Never let a crisis end.
Keeping Fear Alive Reluctant to set the public free, policymakers and the public-health bureaucracy set unachievable and unnecessary goals.
What should be done
Explain to the public that the virus will never disappear but is no longer a mortal threat to the vast majority of Americans. Encourage the minority still at risk to get vaccinated by honestly discussing who is in jeopardy and what scientists have learned about infections. Promote treatments proven to prevent infection and speed recovery while avoiding unproven treatments and mandates that cause collateral damage and generate mistrust. Above all, make it clear to Americans that we finally have reason to celebrate: what once seemed an unprecedented danger is now just one of many pathogens that we know how to live with.
What is being done
But the nation’s crisismongers aren’t about to relinquish their hold over the public, so they’ve set new goals that are as unachievable as they are unnecessary and harmful. Making vaccines available to every American adult is no longer sufficient; now the crisis cannot end until the entire population has been vaccinated. Instead of focusing efforts on vaccinating the vulnerable, officials obsess on compelling universal obedience, even if that means squandering vaccines on people who already have acquired natural immunity or are at minimal risk of serious illness.
https://www.city-journal.org/will-policymakers-let-the-covid-crisis-end?wallit_nosession=1jerry
August 26, 2021
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An interview with Jay Battacharya.
Professor Jay Bhattacharya is one of the famous voices to have emerged out of the pandemic. A vocal critic of lockdowns, his name became synonymous with the controversial Great Barrington Declaration, which called for an “alternative approach to the pandemic” that would entail no lockdowns. Along with co-signatories Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldforff (who featured on UnHerd last year), the trio argued that public health strategies should instead centre on the ‘focused protection’ of at-risk groups while keeping society as open as possible so the healthy parts of the population could build herd immunity.
We’ve been vindicated. The lockdowns were the single biggest mistake in public health history. I don’t see how anyone can look at lockdown and say ‘that was successful policy’. We’ve had lockdowns in country after country after country. Would you call lockdown a success in the UK? Would you call the lockdown in Peru a success? The lockdown in India or the United States? I don’t think by any measure you could call them a success.
https://unherd.com/thepost/prof-jay-battacharya-i-stand-by-the-great-barrington-declaration/jerry
August 25, 2021
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An appropriate comment by Alex Berenson
How it started: fake news to panic you How it’s going: show me your papers please
Then there is the kinder/gentler Australian approach. I was just following orders. https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1429433945721032704jerry
August 22, 2021
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Part of the socialist imposition of authoritarian rule is the national directives on what doctors can and cannot do with the virus. Doctors are being prevented from treating their patients by large chain pharmacies not fulfilling prescriptions. https://rumble.com/vlhvef-pharmacies-told-not-to-distribute-medications-that-combat-covid.htmljerry
August 22, 2021
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Being fit in late adolescence and early adulthood helps prevent severity of C19.
Conclusions: Physical fitness at a young age is associated with severity of COVID-19 many years later. This underscores the necessity to increase the general physical fitness of the population to offer protection against future viral pandemics. Moreover, lower muscle strength in late adolescence showed a linear association with a higher risk of all three outcomes when controlled for BMI and height. (Hospitalisation, intensive care or death due to COVID-19 from March to September 2020, )
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34226237/ We could have fought this pandemic easily, and come out healthier, happier and richer than when we started. Alas, there is no money to be made in simple solutions: the money is in death, darkness (quite literally), despair and blind submission.
COVID-19 and sunlight: Impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility, morbidity, and mortality • Ultraviolet radiation was found to have an important role in determining the spread of SARS-CoV-2. • Sunlight can affect the stability of SARS-CoV-2 present in the aerosols generated during coughing and sneezing. • Solar radiation might play an important role in inactivating SARS-CoV-2 that persists in different surfaces and the environment. • There exists an interesting link between sunlight exposure, latitude, and vitamin D status with COVID-19 incidence, fatality and recovery rates.
https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1427116366054653956 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2049080121003691 An analysis by Gummi Bear
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT COVID-19 THREAD SARS-CoV-2 is a respiratory virus So it will be with us forever…there is no plausible Zero Covid scenario Like other respiratory viruses, it mutates and comes back as a different variant each year
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1424480365943660545.htmljerry
August 16, 2021
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Published yesterday on mask usage.
In sum, of the 14 RCTs that have tested the effectiveness of masks in preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses, three suggest, but do not provide any statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis, that masks might be useful. The other eleven suggest that masks are either useless—whether compared with no masks or because they appear not to add to good hand hygiene alone—or actually counterproductive. Of the three studies that provided statistically significant evidence in intention-to-treat analysis that was not contradicted within the same study, one found that the combination of surgical masks and hand hygiene was less effective than hand hygiene alone, one found that the combination of surgical masks and hand hygiene was less effective than nothing, and one found that cloth masks were less effective than surgical masks.
https://www.city-journal.org/do-masks-work-a-review-of-the-evidence?wallit_nosession=1jerry
August 12, 2021
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Dr. Dan Stock's Presentation to the Mt. Vernon School Board in Indiana Over The Futility of Mask Mandates and Covid-19 Protocols
https://hancockcountypatriots.blogspot.com/2021/08/dr-dan-stocks-presentation-to-mt-vernon.html?m=1 Contains transcript and links to studies.jerry
August 10, 2021
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Gummi Bear on vaccines. Will they protect or not. Is the Spanish Flu still around but just as a typical virus that causes a common cold? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1421167798198411269.htmljerry
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Sweden is apparently doing well with C19
Sweden: Despite Variants, No Lockdowns, No Daily Covid Deaths
https://www.aier.org/article/sweden-despite-variants-no-lockdowns-no-daily-covid-deaths/
Media Enraged That More Swedes Aren't Dying
https://www.fumento.com/articles/media-enraged-that-more-swedes-aren-t-dying/ The current 7 day moving average of deaths in Sweden is zero. And the total deaths per million ranks it 39th in the world. Deaths in the last two months have been 87 or a little over 1 a day. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/jerry
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Adverse reactions to COVID vaccineLieutenant Commander Data
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An attempt to explain vaccine hesitancy by analyzing all the fake news in the last 5 years.
You’re struggling to understand why some people are vaccine hesitant. The “let me help you” megathread:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1422181544161128450.html A long post by William Briggs on the misinformation on the virus
Dreaded Delta Bows To Alpha; Cult of Certain Death; Cult of the Mask; Vexxine Effectiveness; Propaganda Bots; Model Insanity; More! — Coronavirus Update LXXXII
https://wmbriggs.com/post/36809/ Data from the UK which shows the alpha variant much more deadly than the delta version. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005517/Technical_Briefing_19.pdf Alpha - 226,000 cases - 4265 deaths Delta - 229,000 cases - 461 deathsjerry
August 3, 2021
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Another thorough discussion on the pluses/minuses of vaccines for C19.
Data shows that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe for the majority of people. The vaccines also induce a strong immune response, especially the mRNA based vaccines. In terms of best efficacy (efficacy meaning induction of an immune response), it looks like a wash between Pfizer and Moderna, while the J&J vaccine produces a weaker antibody response. The current data on COVID-19 related hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths show that the vaccines are protective against severe infections, since most people who now end up in the hospital are unvaccinated…. There are legitimate concerns about complications and considering the high COVID-19 survival rate in the under 29 years old age cohort, it is reasonable to question the risk vs benefit of vaccination. This is especially true when not much is known about the vaccinated people who have cardiac events. You should discuss your own vaccination risk-benefit with your physician.
https://www.cure-hub.com/post/questions-about-covid-19-vaccine-riskjerry
July 25, 2021
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This video was presented on another thread but no comments were allowed. There definitely should be clarification to Marik’s ideas. For example he trashes HCQ as a treatment. He’s a big Ivermectin fan. And most of what he says about cardiovascular issues was discussed on this site a year ago. But he’s right about the censorship. However, this censorship has nothing to do wit curing or curtailing deaths from the disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4gkLn-z4II&t=1sjerry
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Is this a prelude for massive forced behavior by governments declaring other emergencies
French citizens will be sentenced to 6 months in prison for entering a bar or restaurant without a vaccine passport Welcome to the post-covid world. Today, French President Macron issued a 6-month prison decree for any French citizen entering a bar or restaurant without a vaccine passport. Proprietors who allow the unvaccinated into their establishments face a 1-year prison sentence and a €45,000 fine, according to a report from The Guardian. The new decree is expected to effect on August 1st.
https://techstartups.com/2021/07/19/french-citizens-will-sentenced-6-months-prison-entering-bar-restaurant-without-vaccine-passport/ Will governments call climate emergencies next? Also
Did Covid-19 vaccines violate the World War II-era Nuremberg Code? Late last month, Dr. Robert Malone, one of the original inventors of mRNA vaccines, was banned and censored by YouTube and LinkedIn after he called spoke out about the risk of “experimental vaccines.” During a TV appearance, Dr. Malone said he was not discouraging the use of the vaccine but was providing people with as much fair information as he could about their risks. To add to the firestorm, Dr. Malone pointed out that the current covid-19 vaccines have not been formally approved by the but are instead being administered under the FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). He also added that the government is not being forthright about the risks of the current vaccines.
https://techstartups.com/2021/07/10/covid-19-vaccines-violate-world-war-ii-era-nuremberg-code/jerry
July 19, 2021
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A long article about the deadly uselessness of lockdowns.
The Panic Pandemic Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus.
https://www.city-journal.org/panic-pandemic?wallit_nosession=1 Florida with no lockdowns was one of best performing states in country. https://alachuachronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/image-2.png https://alachuachronicle.com/yes-the-covid-mortality-rate-is-higher-in-california-than-florida/jerry
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In Europe we are seeing surges at many places where most of the population has already been vaccinated.
The charts I posted from the CDC clearly indicate there is no connection between cases and deaths. Massive numbers of young people were getting C19 but only a very small few were dying. There is just hype by the press and government to scare people.jerry
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Something really odd is going on: In Europe we are seeing surges at many places where most of the population has already been vaccinated. At the same time, the 15 least vaccinated countries don‘t seem to face any problem.Lieutenant Commander Data
July 18, 2021
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The truth about C19 from the CDC. If you go to https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/?fbclid=IwAR2jxGPwBMaJasXY7oLTqpFn9EqTNH9PB2SzPSAC-WXuJDNeds7srazlT6I#demographicsovertime There will be a chart. This chart has 6 different views. Three for cases and three for deaths. The three views for each are by sex, age and then ethnic group.
COVID-19 Weekly Cases and Deaths per 100,000 Population by Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Sex
One can easily see the misinformation spread by the press. Compare the age chart for cases vs deaths and you will see the massive number of cases are for people that will not die from C19. These charts show the only people to be of concern are the two oldest age groups. People younger with comorbidities are not isolated.jerry
July 18, 2021
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No
I’m not sure what your point is. The article by Berenson indicates the vaccines are less effective than the published rhetoric. However, few people are dying in the most vaccinated countries even though there are high rates of new cases.
No one needs to be vaccinated.
I agree but my wife and I got vaccinated because of the low incidence of side effects and the convenience it would be. We have been using these prophylactic over the counter treatments and still do. We currently have one of the healthiest years of our lives. Hopefully, this continues. But we have found out you cannot discuss it because of politics.jerry
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Bob O'H, Millions of people have been infected and the disease wasn't severe. Those people were not vaccinated. And the best part is there is a very effective OTC prophylaxis! No one needs to be vaccinated.ET
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