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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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Right now Israel and the UK have very low deaths. So is this hype?
No, Israel and the UK have high vaccination rates, with the more vulnerable having been vaccinated. So either only un-vaccinated people are getting infected (i.e. the vaccinations are working), or vaccinated people are being affected but the disease is less severe (i.e. the vaccinations are working).Bob O'H
July 15, 2021
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How effective are vaccines?
Vaccines, reasons for concern, part 3 I hope it is clear by now that to know for sure just how quickly the vaccines lose their effectiveness will require very careful AND HONEST statistical analysis of complex data. Instead of offering that, however, American public health authorities are doubling down on their promise of vaccine effectiveness. They trumpet unverified statistics that appear increasingly implausible in the light of the more granular data coming from Israel and especially Britain (which has excellent data from a national health care system and a commitment to publishing weekly reports that cannot be easily manipulated). For now, the United States has not seen the big increases in cases that have hit Britain and Israel since May. But the mRNA vaccines work the same everywhere. So it is hard to see why America will not, unless natural infection-generated immunity is so much higher here that it blunts the impact of vaccine failure. Over the next few weeks, the data will bear very close watching. But we already know this much. As public health authorities and the media press vaccinations ever harder on young people - who are at almost no risk from Covid anyway - their unwillingness to face difficult realities will only feed conspiracy theories and resistance.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccines-reasons-for-concern-part It’s not very clear. Right now Israel and the UK have very low deaths. So is this hype? https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/jerry
July 14, 2021
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                Science Who should be vaccinated?
Does it make sense to vaccinate those who have had covid? One of the strangest things about the last few months on planet Earth has been the relentless drive to vaccinate everyone, regardless of what their individual risk from the virus is, and whether or not they’ve already had the disease. It was well known long before covid came along that people who have had an infection are usually at least as well protected as those who get vaccinated. The whole point of vaccination is, after all, to mimic infection so as to stimulate immunity. If you’ve had measles, you don’t need to take the measles vaccine. If you’ve had hepatitis A, you don’t need to take the hepatitis A vaccine. If you’ve had chickenpox, you don’t need to take the chickenpox vaccine. Yet if you’ve had covid, you should supposedly still take the covid vaccine. Strange.
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/07/13/does-it-make-sense-to-vaccinate-those-who-have-had-covid/ Conclusion
2,579 participants had already had covid at the start of the study. Not a single one of them developed covid during the five month period. This includes both the 1,229 with prior infection who were vaccinated, and the 1,359 who weren’t. What that means is that prior infection was associated with a 100% reduction in the relative risk of infection. That was true regardless of whether the person with prior infection was vaccinated or not. Vaccination did not provide any additional benefit to those who had already had covid. What can we conclude? Prior infection is highly effective at protecting against covid. There is thus no need for people who have already had covid to get vaccinated. When governments do vaccinate people who have already had covid, they are wasting taxpayers money and putting people at risk of side effects for no good reason.
jerry
July 14, 2021
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A tweet summary
20 Things I've Learned (Or Had Confirmed) About Humanity During The 'Pandemic'
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1412012537986568193.html All prescient. A few.
5/ Anything and everything can and will be politicised by the media, government, and those who trust them. 6/ Many politicians and large corporations will gladly sacrifice human lives if it is conducive to their political and financial aspirations. 15/ 'The Science' has evolved into a secular pseudo-religion for millions of people in the West. This religion has little to do with science itself. 16/ Most people care more about looking like they are doing the right thing, rather than actually doing the right thing. 17/ Politics, the media, science, and the healthcare industries are all corrupt, to varying degrees. Scientists and doctors can be bought as easily as politicians.
It went viral
5 million+ impressions and a whole segment on The Joe Rogan Experience on this thread.
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July 10, 2021
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I’m listening to a discussion with Dr Richard Tyson on C19. He said something very interesting. The so called vaccines everyone is getting are not vaccines but are gene therapy treatments. Namely, a vaccine is the injection of a low intensity version of the virus or another virus similar to the target virus that is harmless. The mRNA vaccines are different in that a small piece of the virus, actually a part of the spiked protein is injected hopefully into the muscles but could easily get into the bloodstream and go anywhere in body. I understand that both prod the immune system to create antibodies but found the distinction interesting. Tyson said a main issue has always been the safety of such approaches but this was by-passed for these treatments. https://www.bitchute.com/video/6yCRz5ZRv2yU/jerry
July 6, 2021
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The original Lancet paper https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(21)00089-9/fulltextjerry
June 30, 2021
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How C19 and AIDS are similar? An article by Alex Berenson.
Why COVID is like AIDS
It’s not about the mechanism of each disease but about the reporting on each For example, nearly all the risk for younger people is due to obesity.
So the researchers divided the patients into four age ranges: 20-39, 40-59, 60-79, and over 80. They found that in the two younger groups - including adults up to age 60 - being obese was associated with nearly ALL the risk that Covid would lead to intensive care or death. The findings held even after they adjusted for many different potential confounding factors, like smoking, non-weight-related illnesses, and wealth. The excess risk was extremely high even for people who weren’t morbidly obese - defined as a body-mass index of 40 or more. A person between 40 and 60 with a BMI of 35 - someone who is 230 pounds and 5’8” - had about five times the risk of dying of Covid of a person of normal weight. For younger adults, the excess risk was even higher, and for morbidly obese people even higher still.
But this is not what has been reported. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/why-covid-is-like-aids Closing line from article.
It’s long past time to tell the truth.
We live in an extremely corrupt society.jerry
June 30, 2021
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This could be symptomatic of nearly everything in our world today. It refers to the effects of vaccines but could be just as easily applied to evolution or poverty etc.
People keep asking me why they’re lying - in ways so easy to catch. The truth is: I don’t know. And I have to focus on the data - on catching the lies. And people usually lie incrementally, rather than in some grand plan. But yes, sooner or later the question needs an answer.
A quote from Alex Berenson. Based on his article https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccines-reasons-for-concern-569 Along that same line of hypocrisy, here is an article on why people are woke. The answer is not because they care. https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/23/why-are-they-woke/ And another
The Extreme Left Can't Sell Their Ideas, So They Have to Pervert Yours
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2021/06/17/the-extreme-left-cant-sell-their-ideas-so-they-have-to-pervert-yours-n398153jerry
June 25, 2021
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I used to comment on another site but about two years ago most of my comments were being suppressed despite being very polite and accurate. The site then said any comment about being censored would be censored and would lead to the commenter’s ban So I became extra polite and cautious about any comments I made. Eventually they banned me over a year ago because I suggested there was a possible effective treatment for C19. It seems the site was way ahead of its time as Google has been doing that for the last several months. One of these Google suppression narratives is playing itself out with Bret Weinstein and the DarkHorse channel. https://mobile.twitter.com/BretWeinstein
The DarkHorse Clips Channel now has 2 YouTube strikes. 3 and the channel is gone--along with much of our family income. The cost is acceptable if it brings attn to medical mismanagement of COVID, & the deadly danger of censorship.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1405234596820643840 Jordan Peterson on this
Stunning. Wouldn't it be better @YouTube to leave the highly educated and their large following who want the knowledge that the Weinstein's possess and share alone? Quit censoring! The Weinstein's are not misinforming.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1405521521058123778 Essentially it’s about Ivermectin which is the new HCQ. Or the current drug which shall not be mentioned. https://twitter.com/AndreasShrugged/status/1405496083275472902 https://twitter.com/AndreasShrugged/status/1405496083275472902/photo/2 Scott Adams comment
Warning: If a future large, randomized, controlled study (the gold standard kind) shows Ivermectin works, you can get kicked off of YouTube for mentioning it. That's literally in their terms of service.
In other words, saving lives is against Google’s philosophy.jerry
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What do you call someone/people who allows hundreds of thousand to die in the defense of a false narrative? Is malevolent too nice a term? Read
Why I spoke out against lockdowns Martin Kulldorff on the necessity of challenging the Covid consensus.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/04/why-i-spoke-out-against-lockdowns/ Then there is this
YouTube suspends GOP Sen. Ron Johnson's account, says he violated Covid-19 policy
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/youtube-suspends-gop-sen-ron-johnson-s-account-says-he-n1270569
“We removed the video in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies, which don’t allow content that encourages people to use Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement.
How did so many educated people become so malevolent so quickly? More censorship of health professionals by Google that leads to people dying.
My June 1st discussion with Dr. Pierre Kory of @Covid19Critical on the DarkHorse Podcast has been removed by @YouTube for allegedly violating their Community Guideline against "Spam, deceptive practices and scams". The channel was given a warning, the first step toward removal. Eventually removed
https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1403561674792075264jerry
June 12, 2021
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Is this the discussion of how we got here? The origin of C19? https://twitter.com/mcm_ct/status/1403677362076762116 Daszak discussing how one creates a pandemicjerry
June 12, 2021
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A long thread on Ivermectin. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1398717229366235141.html This generally extols the virtues of using this drug. This thread also brings up the same litany of objections by the Anti-Ivermectin faction who seem very similar to the anti-HCQ posters. There seems to be a substantial group of people who don’t want a cure for C19.jerry
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Jerry “All of a sudden there is an avalanche of news articles on the C19 lab connection. This doesn’t happen with Democrats who tightly control the news media.” No it does not and is not happening by accident. Nothing comes out of the news media unless it is useful by the left. I think the left now sees Fauci as a liability and someone has to be made the scapegoat for the lies. Vivid .vividbleau
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"Time for conspiracy theory." What I suspect is that the lab connection angle is just the latest Act of the Covid-19 Saga Mythology Opera Theatre. On the whole, it's really gotten quite elaborate and colorful. There's various Heroes (Crying Nurses and Former Football Stars) and Villains (Trump), Rituals like the Masked Social Distance Dance, Whodunnits?, Deus Ex Machina with the Safe Vaccine, Million Dollar Prizes, Fast Food AND Food For A Year, Scholarships, Tickets to Amusement Parks etc for Audience Participation... It's really good! Andrewasauber
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not underestimate the mendacity of the people in charge and their media megaphones. They don’t rest.
Time for conspiracy theory. There was a 1951 Agatha Christie novel that curiously never got made into film or video. It was "They Came to Baghdad." I never heard of it till this morning. But for a recent interpretation of this relatively unknown Christie book see https://www.bookwormroom.com/2021/05/29/agatha-christie-and-the-nature-of-moral-corruption/
Agatha Christie and the nature of moral corruption When you strip away the Marxist gloss of 21st century Democrats and the simplistic Maguffin of Christie’s plot, you find the same thing: People who believe that they are imbued with the power to change reality, and they do not care how many lives ae destroyed in the process.
She nailed the elites 70 years ago. They are still at it today.             Are they playing God? jerry
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"Who is giving the orders?" "Time to bury Fauci? He always was a liar and a fraud." Happy Friday Jerry, and I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate to everyone to not underestimate the mendacity of the people in charge and their media megaphones. They don't rest. Andrewasauber
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Who is giving the orders? All of a sudden there is an avalanche of news articles on the C19 lab connection. This doesn’t happen with Democrats who tightly control the news media.
The Virus Lab Theory’s New Credibility President Biden on Wednesday ordered U.S. intelligence to dig deeper into the origins of Covid-19, a reversal after he reportedly ordered a State Department investigative unit shut down. Mr. Biden is trying to cover for his embarrassing closure of the investigation because the dam has finally broken on the evidence that the virus may have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The shame is that it took so long because the suspicious facts have been apparent from the start.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-virus-lab-theorys-new-credibility-11622066808?mod=e2two Behind a paywall Who is the man behind the curtain pulling Biden’s strings? Was the Nicholas Wade article too difficult to ignore? https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038 Too much evidence of intelligent design? Time to bury Fauci? He always was a liar and a fraud. After all he’s only 80 years old.jerry
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A Twitter thread from Gummi Bear with information about Fauci and his spending priorities. https://threader.app/thread/1315365796181356550jerry
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Dying from C19
You are not going to die from COVID-19' Good news (please see the accompanying table)! If you are under 65, in reasonably good health and do not have a vitamin D deficiency, you have only a tiny chance of dying from COVID-19. And if you are younger than 34, your chances of dying from the virus are so small as to be almost statistically undetectable. On the other hand, if you are 85 or older, are in a nursing home, have serious health problems and a vitamin D deficiency, you may be in real danger if you are exposed to the virus — but only a tiny portion of the population is in such a condition.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/25/you-are-not-going-to-die-from-covid-19/ https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1266034851917881345/photo/1jerry
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Crimes against humanity. Facebook- Twitter- Google - medical establishment- press https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfqxCkJw0Rk Watch it before it disappearsjerry
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There are lots of scare studies floating around about variants etc. that may cause new large scale outbreaks. It’s unclear just what protection having recovered from the virus or having been vaccinated will do against them. I don’t pretend to know the science behind the immune system but here is the final paragraph in a study on immunity to C19 and variants.
SARS-CoV-2 Human T cell Epitopes: adaptive immune response against COVID-19. Finally, the fact that already more than 1400 epitopes have been identified, also considering that many HLA alleles and regions of the SARS CoV2 proteome are relatively less studied, highlights that a large breadth of epitopes are recognized in human populations, making it unlikely that SARS CoV2 variants might escape T cell recognition at the population level.
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1931-3128%2821%2900238-9 Don’t ask me to explain what an epitope is. I never heard of it till a few minutes ago. But I bet it will be part of the discussions going forward. Comment by an academic internist & epidemiologist on study
Review of 25 studies of Tcell immunity, w/focus on C19 convalescent patients, by preeminent US Immunology/Virology Lab, highlights robust natural Tcell immunity, making it “unlikely SARS CoV2 variants might escape T cell recognition at population level"
https://twitter.com/andrewbostom/status/1396236733373632519jerry
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This is good. Video appointments when appropriate will be with us forever now.Viola Lee
May 22, 2021
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Telehealth blossomed during C19
Telephones played a key role in pandemic telehealth More than a quarter of all Medicare beneficiaries had a telehealth visit between the summer and fall of 2020 and, for more than half of them, that visit took place over an actual telephone
https://www.axios.com/telehealth-pandemic-telephones-covid-683c48ba-f5fa-4d6a-8507-1cc36fcf94bd.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitterjerry
May 22, 2021
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Video interview by Freddy Sayers of Nicholas Wade about origin of virus. https://unherd.com/thepost/nicholas-wade-the-case-for-the-covid-lab-leak-theory/jerry
May 21, 2021
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That seems like an appalling waste of resources. If they were paid for out of public funds then we should find out who bought them and who decided they should be trashed.Seversky
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A year ago the world was criticizing Trump because there was not enough ventilators and praising Cuomo for the man who did everything right. A tweet from Andrew Cuomo a year ago. Look at retweet’s and likes.
Andrew Cuomo @NYGovCuomo I hope NY doesn’t ultimately need 30,000 ventilators. But I don't operate on opinion and hope. I operate on facts and data and science. All the projections say we will need 30,000-40,000 ventilators. So that is what we will strive to have. 12:14 PM · Mar 27, 2020·Twitter Web App 21.7K Retweets 141.5K Likes
Then from last week.
Why are new ventilators being trashed in a Miami-Dade landfill?
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/04/19/why-are-new-ventilators-being-trashed-in-a-miami-dade-landfill/jerry
May 16, 2021
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Seversky? Seriously? Andrewasauber
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Tucker Carlson? Seriously?
Best endorsement for anybody on this thread!!! Thank you very much.jerry
May 12, 2021
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Tucker Carlson? Seriously?Seversky
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Tucker Carlson lays out in detail how Fauci and other US researchers are responsible for C19 research in China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANeFCFkTteQ&t=288s Is Fauci the most malevolent person in the US? He’s definitely part of an unholy trio of reckless US researchers who are responsible for why this virus exists. He’s also responsible for why there is no treatment for this virus as he has consistently lied about effective treatments.jerry
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