Dr Bryan Ardis - Hospital Protocol Is What Is Murdering "Covid" Flu Patients https://t.co/d8HwLT9FK4 #LBRY via @OdyseeTeam
— Cwenhild (@JanHeb11) November 29, 2021
Texas COVID-19 Summit: Dr. Bryan Ardis ‘Vaccines, Treatment, and Covid-19’ https://t.co/IiorHdSmMf
— Bridget (@Bridgetdrrant) November 28, 2021
There's a complete media blackout on the OSHA decision to suspend the vaccination mandate. Imagine that. Is it that OSHA knew they couldn't pull this one off in court so they just climbed back down the ladder?
— Media Malpractice (@BlanktheMedia) November 17, 2021
"OSHA Suspends Implementation and Enforcement of Vaccine Mandate Pending Litigation" This is for all those employees who quit or who were threatened to be fired over the Federal Vaccine mandate. There is a media blackout so use Bing or DuckDuckGo.BREAKING: OSHA says it will comply with the 5th Circuit court order to suspend the implementation and enforcement of the Biden vaccine mandate.
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) November 17, 2021
"OSHA has suspended activities related to the implementation and enforcement of the ETS pending future developments in the litigation." pic.twitter.com/HmPbDO4ETd
UPDATE - Spike protein inside nucleus enhancing DNA damage?
— Merogenomics (@merogenomics) November 12, 2021
The study propose SARS-CoV-2 full length spike protein can enter human cell nuclei and interfere with fixing of broken DNA damage.
What could be the consequences?https://t.co/1ODePbeoHN
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00:00 Dr Mikolaj Raszek, Phd from Merogenomics
00:09 The latest widest news in Molecular Microbiology
00:33 WHO? Swedish research shows spike protein enters nucleus in human cells (in vitro)
00:57 this is of course, biologically verboten (*German for STRICTLY FORBIDDEN)
01:04 WHAT? *Discovery* Spike protein inhibits proper fixing of broken DNA
01:18 Specifics: double stranded breaks where both strands are broken
01:33 HOW? *Mechanism 1* suspected interference with BRCA1 gene product’s ability to repair DNA
01:48 Consequence: if BRCA1 is mutated though, then you have highest predisposition for Cancer development precisely because BRCA1 gene codes for proteins that fix DNA damage when sheared in half
02:14 Significance: Consequences are so great if true that it should be double checked, verified and reinvestigated
2:42 Call for a lot more studies: Revalidation
2:51 HOW? *Mechanism 2* Spike also interferes with mysterious nuclear protein 53BP1 which may serve to prevent DNA breaks from re-ligating to other DNA sources ensuring 2 chromosomes don’t link together that aren’t supposed to.
4:21 HOW? *Mechanism 3* Perhaps spike in Nuclei interferes with Immune cells’ mechanisms (eg.BRCA1 and 53BP1) and diversity of response to infections.
4:42 *TAKEAWAY* What if Spike protein evolved as a mutagen for DNA – what would implications be for a vaccine that’s primary focus was to produce Spike?
5:32 CONTEXT: Recent discovery that Spikes may circulate for months on end in Exosomes to different parts of the body and in theory enter cells well after the point of vaccination as COVID-19 mRNA vaccines update 16 discussed
06:15 CONTEXT: DNA gets 70k lesions/day /cell! But only 25 are double stranded shearing damages
07:25 IMPLICATIONS: So within this context, what are the chances circulating spike proteins could enter and damage DNA and predispose to cancer? In cancer, it takes months for damage to accumulate and cause symptoms. Therefore…
7:45 IMPLICATION: *Vaccine Safety* Are vaccines “SAFE”? What is vaccine “Safety”? Only Time can/will tell.
8:07 IMPLICATION: Yes, Vaccines don’t produce dangerous clinical symptoms in the first few months BUT we don’t know what they do in very long-term basis so can we call them safe?
8:34 HOW? *Mechanism 4* Vaccines use FULL length of spike protein thus produces whole protein in body. Prior to vaccinations some scientists mentioned that FULL protein length of Spike protein was dangerous
9:16 IMPLICATION: *Antibody Dependent Enhancement or ADE* could occur with use of full length of Spike protein
10:27: AUTHORS’ RECOMMENDATION: Not to use full length of spike protein but only the Receptor Binding Domain or RBD portion for vaccines
10:41 Explanation: RBD
11:29: *TAKE AWAY* *Vaccine Safety* This shows how Vaccines are still uncharacterized on what they might be doing at the molecular level once injected in us.
11:52 Spike protein also uncharacterized post-infection (but learning lots now).
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Hello Everyone! As many of my friends have requested that I write a newsletter on a more regular basis, this is an initial attempt to honor that request!
Due to my new reality as someone willing to bring truth to power, my wife Jill and I have been traveling extensively. This fall we have gone to Rome, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Maui, Alaska, Texas and Florida trying to save lives and expose what we believe to be an extremely corrupt situation with big pharma, world governments, big tech legacy media, and national and international public health organizations working together to make authoritarianism the new world reality through censorship, lockdowns, mandates, job loss and slander of people willing to share information outside of the “official” CDC and WHO positions. Through this process, I have been slandered and censored. This is the behavior of bullies, thugs, and third-tier intellects. One reporter recently referred to me as the “most vilified scientist in the world.”
This has been quite exhausting and yet also strangely rewarding. I believe that “we”, and I mean the collective “we” of myself and so many of my colleagues, are slowly making a difference. People from all walks of life and political spectrums are self-assembling and working together for the common good. Examples include:
the International Alliance of Physicians and Scientists (https://globalcovidsummit.org/)
EU-based group: Ippocrate (https://ippocrateorg.org/)
the Council of Nations United for Life and Truth (CONUVIVE) in Latin America
North American-based organizations:
FLCCC (https://covid19criticalcare.com/), AAPS (https://www.aaps.org/home)
Children’s Health Defense (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/)
Unity Project (https://unityprojectonline.com/)
All of these organizations are committed to coming up with new ways of thinking about organizational structure and bioethics. Bioethical standards and the laws that enforce them matter - that has become crystal clear in all of this. And whether or not one believes that SARS-CoV-2 is the result of a gain of function research, it is clear that it is time to revisit and update the international biowarfare treaty.
So, a few weeks ago, Jill and I found ourselves in Maui. It was most definitely not a vacation! We were there to spread the word that mandates do not have a place in a free society (particularly for experimental drugs and vaccines), that a wide range of drugs works to save lives from COVID-19 if administered early during the infection, that children with their very low risk of disease do not need to be vaccinated unless they are high risk and/or have co-morbidities and that physicians, including physicians on Maui, must be able to practice medicine without interference from government, hospitals or insurance companies.
That trip was very successful. We were able to meet and educate many politicians and physicians on Maui and on other islands. There was a successful medical professional teaching workshop and a rally attended by 4,000 people. In this, I need to specifically acknowledge Dr. Ryan Cole, Steve Kirsch and Dr. Richard Urso, who were also in Maui to help share their knowledge and to spread the word.
While Jill and I were in Maui, we were approached by some amazing thought leaders on the island, by the names of Andrew Aken, Edward Dowd, Thomas Lewis, and Barry O'Keefe. These men came to us with a document they had written entitled “The Malone Doctrine”. This doctrine, regarding integrity in organizations, is fundamentally important.
We believe that “The Malone Doctrine” should become a central component of the core values and guiding principles for any ethical organization involved in health and wellness oversight, delivery, policy and/or medical research. Every physician that I have asked to review this document has agreed - this gets right to the heart of the problem which has resulted in this amazingly dysfunctional global public health response to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. A pervasive lack of integrity.
We will be writing and discussing this concept in more detail for weeks, months and years to come.
Please join me in our quest to build out “the Malone Doctrine” as a new way to bring integrity to organizations.
For those that need further convincing, I suggest the following peer-reviewed paper:
COVID-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status, and a Mortality Rate Close to Zero Could Theoretically Be Achieved at 50 ng/mL 25(OH)D3: Results of a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Abstract
Background: Much research shows that blood calcidiol (25(OH)D3) levels correlate strongly with SARS-CoV-2 infection severity. There is an open discussion regarding whether low D3 is caused by the infection or if deficiency negatively affects the immune defense. The aim of this study was to collect further evidence on this topic.
Methods: Systematic literature search was performed to identify retrospective cohort as well as clinical studies on COVID-19 mortality rates versus D3 blood levels. Mortality rates from clinical studies were corrected for age, sex, and diabetes. Data were analyzed using correlation and linear regression.
Results: One population study and seven clinical studies were identified, which reported D3 blood levels preinfection or on the day of hospital admission. The two independent datasets showed a negative Pearson correlation of D3 levels and mortality risk (r(17) = -0.4154, p = 0.0770/r(13) = -0.4886, p = 0.0646). For the combined data, median (IQR) D3 levels were 23.2 ng/mL (17.4-26.8), and a significant Pearson correlation was observed (r(32) = -0.3989, p = 0.0194). Regression suggested a theoretical point of zero mortality at approximately 50 ng/mL D3.
Conclusions: The datasets provide strong evidence that low D3 is a predictor rather than just a side effect of the infection. Despite ongoing vaccinations, we recommend raising serum 25(OH)D levels to above 50 ng/mL to prevent or mitigate new outbreaks due to escape mutations or decreasing antibody activity.
Interviews, podcasts, and shows have also become my new daily reality. I enjoy doing these, as they are a great tool to educate and bring awareness to the issues of stopping the mandates, allowing physicians to practice medicine, administer lifesaving drugs and limit untested COVID-19 vaccines to children. It is also the way we can work to break the censorship that is overtaking the internet.
In this capacity, “The New American” recently interviewed me at the farm and produced a quality video on many topics regarding COVID-19. This interview captures much of my current thinking on the COVID-19 public health response. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend this video. It is also a good one to share to friends and family. Click on the button below to view:
New American Interview: “Dr. Robert Malone: “This is the Largest Experiment Performed on Human Beings in the History of the World.””
To wrap this newsletter up. I wish the best to all of you and us in our fight to do what is right. My big takeaway in all of this today is that integrity matters.
Integrity in governments.
Integrity in organizations.
Integrity in nonprofit organizations.
Integrity in communities.
Integrity in our families.
…and most importantly, it starts with each of us.
Integrity within ourselves.
That is it for now!
Sincerely, Robert (and Jill)
We predict that the failure of the Biden vax mandates will eventually lead to huge legal liability for companies and academic institutions- illegal termination, vaccine damages, etc. This will also be a major financial windfall for independent lawyers.
I predict that the failure of the Biden vax mandates will eventually lead to huge legal liability for companies and academic institutions- illegal termination, vaccine damages, etc. This will also be a major financial windfall for independent lawyers.
— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) November 13, 2021
"It Raises Serious Constitutional Concerns" - Appeals Court Re-Affirms Stay On Biden Vaccine Mandate
One wouldn't know it by scanning the front pages of say WaPo, NYT or Bloomberg where it wasn't even mentioned, but late on Friday a bad week, month, and year for the scrambling Biden administration - which in addition to the recent disaster in Virginia where a public referendum on "wokeness" saw the public overwhelmingly vote down the Democrats' attempt to subvert social norms, is also facing the worst inflationary inferno since Nixon ended the gold standard - after a U.S. appeals court upheld its decision to put on hold Joe Biden's unconstitutional order for companies with 100 workers or more to demand COVID-19 vaccines, rejecting a challenge by his administration.
A three-member panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans affirmed its ruling despite the Biden administration's position that halting implementation of the vaccine mandate could lead to dozens or even hundreds of deaths. No Nov 6, the Fifth Circuit granted a temporary stay on enforcement of the federal mandate, one day after the rule was announced. In its reaffirmation Friday, the court said the mandate "exposes [petitioners] to severe financial risk" and "threatens to decimate their workforces (and business prospects)."
"The mandate is staggeringly overbroad," the opinion said adding that the vaccine mandate "raises serious constitutional concerns" and "likely exceeds the federal government’s authority."
"The mandate is a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer that makes hardly any attempt to account for differences in workplaces (and workers)," Circuit Court Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote for the panel.
5th Circuit affirms OSHA stay applies nationwide. @POTUS can’t mandate vaccines on private companies. #lagov #lalege
— AG Jeff Landry (@AGJeffLandry) November 13, 2021
In its ruling, the Fifth Circuit judges agreed with opponents of vaccine mandates, which have become a deeply controversial topic in the United States (as if the country needed any more of those) - supporters say they are a must to put an end to the nearly two-year coronavirus pandemic, while opponents argue they violate the Constitution and curb individual liberty.
"The public interest is also served by maintaining our constitutional structure and maintaining the liberty of individuals to make intensely personal decisions according to their own convictions - even, or perhaps particularly, when those decisions frustrate government officials," Engelhardt wrote.
At Biden’s orders, the OSHA issued a rule earlier this month requiring U.S. employers with 100 or more workers to ensure their workers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergoing weekly tests for the virus by Jan 4. Businesses that don’t comply face thousands of dollars in fines.
The rule prompted a slate of legal challenges from at least 27 states as well as business and religious groups who argue the mandate is unconstitutional. Biden and other federal officials argue the mandate is necessary to end the COVID-19 pandemic and fully reopen the economy.
White House officials had no immediate comment on the ruling, which was hailed as a victory by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Texas joined other U.S. states, as well as private employers and religious organizations, in legal challenges to the order.
"Citing Texas's "compelling argument[s]," the 5th Circuit has delayed OSHA's unconstitutional and illegal private-business vaccine mandate. WE WON! Litigation will continue, but this is a massive victory for Texas and for FREEDOM from Biden's tyranny and lawlessness," Paxton wrote.
🚨Citing Texas’s “compelling argument[s],” 5th Circuit has stayed OSHA’s unconstitutional & illegal private-business vaccine mandate. WE WON! Litigation will continue, but this is a massive victory for Texas & FREEDOM from Biden’s tyranny & lawlessness.https://t.co/w7MKyXs73L
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) November 13, 2021
See more of our articles on class actions.
The government not only failed to offer a carve-out exemption for naturally immune workers, or those who have recovered, but neither President Joe Biden’s executive order nor the guidance explaining it outlines why naturally acquired immunity isn’t an acceptable alternative to vaccination, the lawsuit states.
“Because they already have natural immunity, there is no coherent purpose for the federal government to require them to undertake a medical procedure to be vaccinated if they choose not to, or be terminated from their employment, their careers,” Robert Henneke, general counsel at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and one of the lawyers representing the government workers, told The Epoch Times.
Plaintiffs say the mandate violates the Administrative Procedure Act, which allows courts to overturn government actions deemed “arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of discretion.”
They quoted Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner who now sits on the board of Pfizer. During recent television appearances, Gottlieb described natural immunity as “durable” and “robust” and said that government officials should start assimilating it into policy discussions. They also cited Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, an immunologist who has said it is medically unnecessary for the recovered to get vaccinated.
Dozens of studies have shown that people who survived COVID-19 have strong immunity against re-infection from the virus that causes it, with some indicating the protection is similar to or higher than that provided by vaccines.
Workers tried communicating concerns about the mandate but those “have completely fallen on deaf ears, which is why we’ve turned to litigation,” Henneke said.
“I think it’s clear that the Biden administration, the federal government, is entrenched in their position on this. And so further negotiation would be pointless and instead we’re going to seek assistance from the courts,” he added.
The deadline for federal workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine was effectively Nov. 8, because people aren’t considered fully vaccinated until two weeks after they’ve received their final jab. Agencies were able to begin disciplining unvaccinated workers on Nov. 9, according to Kiran Ahuja, an administration official.
The suit asks the federal court in Galveston, Texas, to declare the mandate a violation of the plaintiffs’ rights and arbitrary and capricious and relieve workers from complying with it.
Defendants named include Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Jeffrey Zients, who coordinates the White House COVID-19 response team.
The institute and the White House did not respond to requests for comment. The centers declined to comment.
Federal health officials have recently acknowledged natural immunity exists but continue insisting it is inferior to the protection conferred by vaccines. They also say people who have recovered from COVID-19 can still benefit from vaccination.
Federal workers who have recovered from COVID-19 have filed a class-action lawsuit against Anthony Fauci, CDC Director Walensky, and other officials over the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate which still applies to those with natural immunity.https://t.co/RiV7M8XHjN
— Michael P Senger (@MichaelPSenger) November 12, 2021
Millions of people who have refused to get an experimental mRNA vaccine may soon be forced to consume the gene therapy in their food.
Researchers at the University of California were awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation developing technology that infuses experimental mRNA Covid-19 vaccines into spinach, lettuce and other edible plants.
The team of nanobiotechnology experts is currently working on successfully delivering DNA containing mRNA BioNTech technology into chloroplasts, the part of the plants that instruct its cells’ DNA to replicate the vaccine material.
The researchers are tasked with demonstrating the genetically modified plants can produce enough mRNA to replace Covid jabs and infuse the plants with the right dosage required to eat to replace vaccines.
Experimental mRNA vaccines will be edible, Juan Pablo Giraldo, an associate professor in UCR’s Department of Botany and Plant Sciences who is leading the research explained in a press release published by the university on Sept. 16.
“Ideally, a single plant would produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person,” Giraldo said. “We are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce and have long-term goals of people growing it in their own gardens,”
“Farmers could also eventually grow entire fields of it,” he added.
Effectively delivering the genetic material to a plant’s chloroplast, small organs in plant cells that convert sunlight into energy the plant can use, is critical to rolling out the vaccinated food.
“[Chloroplasts are] tiny, solar-powered factories that produce sugar and other molecules which allow the plant to grow,” Giraldo said. “They’re also an untapped source for making desirable molecules.”
Genetically modifying edible plants with experimental vaccines for public consumption is the culmination of a dream, the associate professor explained.
“One of the reasons I started working in nanotechnology was so I could apply it to plants and create new technology solutions. Not just for food, but for high-value products as well, like pharmaceuticals,” he said.
While previous studies have shown that chloroplasts are unable to express genes that are not a natural part of that plant, Giraldo’s team is sending genetic material inside of a protective casing into plant cells. To accomplish the unprecedented genetic therapy, Giraldo recruited Nicole Steinmetz, a UC San Diego professor of nanoengineering.
Steinmetz is working with Giraldo’s team to utilize nanotechnologies that allow a plant’s chloroplast to be infused with the mRNA vaccine.
“Our idea is to repurpose naturally occurring nanoparticles, namely plant viruses, for gene delivery to plants,” Steinmetz said. “Some engineering goes into this to make the nanoparticles go to the chloroplasts and also to render them non-infectious toward the plants.”
The National Science Foundation additionally granted Giraldo and his colleagues $1.6 million to develop “targeted nitrogen delivery,” technology that uses nanomaterials to deliver nitrogen, a fertilizer, directly to chloroplasts.
Meanwhile, more people are dying from the COVID-19 “vaccine” than any other vaccine in recorded history. According to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, 18,409 people have died from vaccination in 2021, while just 420 people died from vaccination prior to Covid inoculation mandates in 2020.
Saint John cardiologist and 'inspiring spirit' dies suddenly
A 52-year-old prominent New Brunswick cardiologist suddenly died in his sleep just two weeks after getting his 3rd Covid jab.
Over the summer Dr. Sohrab Lutchmedial attacked “selfish” people who choose not to take the Covid jab.
“For those that won’t get the shot for selfish reasons – whatever – I won’t cry at their funeral” Dr. Lutchmedial said in a July 2021 tweet.
The doctor unexpectedly died on November 8 – just two weeks after getting his 3rd jab on October 24.
Sohrab got his 3rd Covid vax on October 24, per a Facebook post.
According to Canadian media, Dr. Lutchmedial’s friends, family and colleagues are in shock over his sudden death.
A prominent New Brunswick cardiologist has died, leaving behind a large gap in the system and the community, colleagues say.
Dr. Sohrab Lutchmedial dedicated more than 20 years to the New Brunswick Heart Centre and the care of patients suffering from heart disease, said a statement from the staff of the New Brunswick Heart Centre.
"It is with profound sadness that we report the sudden and unexpected death of a colleague, friend, father, partner and inspiring spirit," the statement says.
Lutchmedial died Monday in his sleep at his Saint John home, said Jean-François Légaré, the head of cardiac surgery at the New Brunswick Heart Centre. He was 52.
N.B. Heart Centre offers new, less invasive alternative to open heart surgery
Légaré said family, friends and colleagues were shocked by the news of Lutchmedial's death.
"It was sudden, unexpected for all of us. He was actually on call yesterday morning," Légaré said in an interview.
"I think all of us are having a hard time just sort of grasping at the size of the loss ... We chatted with him on the weekend about plans and things we were going to do, you know, in the next few weeks, few months for the heart centre.
"That's the kind of person he was. He was always thinking ahead of those things."
Lutchmedial was part of performing Atlantic Canada's first MitraClip procedure, a minimally invasive repair procedure that gives new hope to patients who are too sick to withstand open heart surgery.
The New Brunswick Medical Society is "deeply saddened" to learn of Lutchmedial's sudden passing, president Dr. Mark MacMillan said in a statement.
"Dr. Lutchmedial was a valued member of the medical community in Saint John and across the province," MacMillan said. "We offer our condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, and patients."
He made New Brunswick his home
According to the heart centre website, Lutchmedial obtained his biology degree from Queen's University and then his medical degree from McGill University in 1993.
Légaré said his studies at McGill overlapped with Lutchmedial, who was already well respected.
"He did more than medicine," Légaré said. "[He] was an artist. He was a musician. He participated in filmmaking in the province. He was a hockey coach for his kids. He was participating in the community. He was an avid researcher."
He said Lutchmedial was kind and understanding, even when one night at the pub, a man bumped into him and was looking for a fight. In a few words, Lutchmedial was able to defuse the situation and get the man to calm down.
"This is the kind of person that really had a very, very, very good soul and a person that really was able to bring people together and not be competitive," Légaré said.
A prominent New Brunswick cardiologist has died, leaving behind a large gap in the system and the community, colleagues say.
Dr. Sohrab Lutchmedial dedicated more than 20 years to the New Brunswick Heart Centre and the care of patients suffering from heart disease, said a statement from the staff of the New Brunswick Heart Centre.
"It is with profound sadness that we report the sudden and unexpected death of a colleague, friend, father, partner and inspiring spirit," the statement says.
Lutchmedial died Monday in his sleep at his Saint John home, said Jean-François Légaré, the head of cardiac surgery at the New Brunswick Heart Centre. He was 52.
N.B. Heart Centre offers new, less invasive alternative to open heart surgery
Légaré said family, friends and colleagues were shocked by the news of Lutchmedial's death.
"It was sudden, unexpected for all of us. He was actually on call yesterday morning," Légaré said in an interview.
"I think all of us are having a hard time just sort of grasping at the size of the loss ... We chatted with him on the weekend about plans and things we were going to do, you know, in the next few weeks, few months for the heart centre.
"That's the kind of person he was. He was always thinking ahead of those things."
Lutchmedial was part of performing Atlantic Canada's first MitraClip procedure, a minimally invasive repair procedure that gives new hope to patients who are too sick to withstand open heart surgery.
The New Brunswick Medical Society is "deeply saddened" to learn of Lutchmedial's sudden passing, president Dr. Mark MacMillan said in a statement.
"Dr. Lutchmedial was a valued member of the medical community in Saint John and across the province," MacMillan said. "We offer our condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, and patients."
He made New Brunswick his home
According to the heart centre website, Lutchmedial obtained his biology degree from Queen's University and then his medical degree from McGill University in 1993.
Légaré said his studies at McGill overlapped with Lutchmedial, who was already well respected.
"He did more than medicine," Légaré said. "[He] was an artist. He was a musician. He participated in filmmaking in the province. He was a hockey coach for his kids. He was participating in the community. He was an avid researcher."
He said Lutchmedial was kind and understanding, even when one night at the pub, a man bumped into him and was looking for a fight. In a few words, Lutchmedial was able to defuse the situation and get the man to calm down.
"This is the kind of person that really had a very, very, very good soul and a person that really was able to bring people together and not be competitive," Légaré said.
"This is the kind of influence that he had on the heart centre. And I think he promoted that culture within our group that actually brings us all closer together and working together."
Lutchmedial was the director of the interventional cardiology program at the centre. He sat on the New Brunswick Heart and Stroke board and was the Atlantic representative with the Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiologists.
Légaré said Lutchmedial had made New Brunswick his home, and he raised three children here. He had just returned from visiting his daughter at university in Ontario last weekend.
Légaré said he and his colleagues are trying to find a way to immortalize his legacy, and are considering a lectureship or sponsoring someone in medicine or nursing.
You would assume that if the CDC was going to crush the civil and individual rights of those with natural immunity by having them expelled from school, fired from their jobs, separated from the military, and worse, the CDC would have proof of at least one instance of an unvaccinated, naturally immune individual transmitting the COVID-19 virus to another individual. If you thought this, you would be wrong.
“After formal demand, CDC concedes it does not have proof of a single instance of a naturally immune individual spreading the virus”
— Jess (@JessClarke007) November 11, 2021
CDC Admits Crushing Rights of Naturally Immune Without Proof They Transmit the Virus - by Aaron Siri - Injecting Freedom https://t.co/O8nWAH8xHH
Although states are allowed to set their own rules, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests universal indoor masking for all students above age two regardless of vaccination status.
In fact, 68.2 percent of the 500 of the largest school districts in America still require masks, according to data analytics firm Burbio.
However, at least 14 countries, including the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, don’t require kids to wear face coverings
Aside from the U.S., DailyMail.com could only identify six other Western countries where masking is broadly required or recommended in schools: Canada, France, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain.
In Canada, America’s closest neighbor, provinces get to set their own rules just like states do in the U.S., with most instituting mask mandates.
Of the 10 provinces, two require masks for all K-12 students, one requires for grades 1-12, two require for grades 4-12 and three require masking across all students.
The remaining two provinces, Quebec and Newfoundland & Labrador, only don’t require masks if case rates in the surrounding areas are low.
In France, mandatory face masks had been lifted by the requirement is being reimposed for all elementary school students as of November 15 due to rising case rates.
Meanwhile, in Italy, Portugal, Spain and Romania, millions of children started of the school year wearing masks.
Recent studies have found that children are just as likely as adults to test positive for Covid, but about half are asymptomatic compared to 10 percent of over-18s.
The risk of being hospitalized and death is much smaller with less than 0.1 percent of kids falling severely ill or dying of Covid.
And because of this low risk, most Western nations have opted to ditch the masks and have kids return to ‘normalcy’ in classrooms.
In the UK, for example, millions of children returned to schools in early September with face coverings not required.
And while masks are a politically divisive issue in the U.S., members of both the Conservative and Labour Parties in the UK have stated that wearing masks prevent children from being able to communicate and socialize.
In Norway, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health advises against school-aged children wearing masks. Pictured: Third grade pupils at Nordstrand Steinerskole school in Oslo, Norway, April 2020
A recent DailyMail.com analysis found that kids in the U.S. are being hospitalized at a rate up to four times higher than kids in the UK.
In Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Norway and Sweden – almost all COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, including mask mandates.
In fact, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health advises against school-aged children wearing masks.
In Irelands, kids under age 13 are not required to wear masks and in Iceland and the Netherlands, middle and high school students are only required to do so when not seated in classrooms.
So why are Europeans less likely to mandate masks in schools? There are a few reasons.
Firstly, many European populations are more vaccinated than several U.S. states.
For example, West Virginia and Idaho have yet to vaccinate 50 percent of their populations compared to more than 70 percent in all Nordic countries, according to data from the U.S. CDC and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Secondly, trust in authority figures is higher in the European Union than in the U.S.
‘Because of this, parents and the policymakers representing them may feel less need to protect children from each other with masks,’ writes Anthony La Mesa in Medium.
Another reason could be that more testing occurs in Europe than in the U.S.
Currently the UK’s Department of Education requires all secondary school students, between ages 11 and 18, be tested at home twice a week using tests.
Additionally, Norway is mass testing students to phase out quarantining students amid Covid outbreaks.
Because there is no regular testing at many U.S. schools, kids are being sent to classrooms instead of being kept at home because tests aren’t detecting these cases.
This can lead to these children being hospitalized themselves or infecting other children who end up hospitalized.
More countries suspended Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for young people.
News breaking: This morning, the Moderna vaccine has been banned by another country. The German Vaccination Committee (STIKO) advises people under 30 not to use this COVID-19 vaccine because it is rare. Risk of heart disease!
And just yesterday, the French and Swedish governments have just announced that people under the age of 30 will stop using the Moderna vaccine.
The highest health advisory body in France officially announced yesterday that it would not recommend that people under the age of 30 in the country be vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine produced by the American Moderna Pharmaceutical Factory.
The reason is that the vaccine has a higher risk of side effects in people of this age group, which will cause Heart-related diseases.
Immediately, the Swedish health officer also quickly decided to suspend indefinitely the Moderna vaccine for people under 30.
At the same time, the Nordic countries Finland, Iceland and Denmark have also taken similar measures-Norway is encouraging men under the age of 30 not to get the vaccine, but it has not yet made mandatory requirements because the country already has data showing that it is vaccinated. Of young men are at increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis.
As of today, a total of six countries including France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark no longer recommend the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to people under the age of 30, because it will cause them to have a higher risk of developing myocarditis.
The following figure shows the number and proportion of deaths, injuries and various disabilities in the vaccine adverse reaction system as of October 8, 2021:
We must know that the German decision to stop the Moderna vaccine was made at a time when the number of new coronavirus cases reported in the country hit a record high. Because Moderna vaccine has caused myocarditis in young people in Germany one after another, the German permanent vaccination committee, therefore, only recommends Pfizer vaccine for people under 30 years old.
And just yesterday, the French and Swedish governments have just announced that people under the age of 30 will stop using the Moderna vaccine.
The highest health advisory body in France officially announced yesterday that it would not recommend that people under the age of 30 in the country be vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine produced by the American Moderna Pharmaceutical Factory.
However, for people over the age of 30, STIKO said that even if they were vaccinated with Moderna, the risk of heart disease did not increase. However, it is still recommended that pregnant women, regardless of whether they are above or below 30 years old, choose only to vaccinate Pfizer.
It is reported that these data are released by Paul Ehrlich Insitute, a government agency responsible for monitoring and evaluating vaccine side effects and complications.Not only these European countries, the United States is also delaying the approval of the Moderna childhood vaccine. The Pfizer vaccine is recommended for children 5-11 years old. According to the VAERS website, nearly 4,000 Americans in the United States have died after being vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Dr. McCullough, an American cardiologist and former deputy director of the Department of Internal Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center, said: The number of heart inflammation cases in the United States has increased by 21,000% within 4 months, mainly affecting young men. “In June 2021, the Centers for Disease Control said there were 200 Cases of myocarditis. But by October, we have 10,304 cases.”
YouTube has announced it will hide ‘dislikes’ from videos to curb “creator harassment,” with critics pointing out that this is merely a way of removing the huge amount of downvotes on videos posted by the Biden administration.
“YouTube has announced that it’ll be hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site, starting today,” reports The Verge.
“The company says the change is to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks or harassment, and to promote “respectful interactions between viewers and creators.” The dislike button will still be there, but it’ll be for private feedback, rather than public shaming.”
Quite how viewer feedback in the form of a thumbs down icon represents “harassment” is anyone’s guess, but the immediate response to the announcement from many was that the Google-owned company was merely moving to protect the Biden White House from ridicule.
“Is this the reason?” asked one respondent, highlighting how Biden speeches and White House press briefings receive massive dislike ratios, sometimes at a rate of ten to one.
Gee, I wonder why they're about to hide dislikes.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) November 10, 2021
It's a total mystery. pic.twitter.com/tCEwDDVdBY
Matthew Memoli favors vaccinations in vulnerable populations but argues population-level vaccination could hinder the development of a natural, robust immunity gained through infection.
An unvaccinated doctor who heads a research team at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease is leading a debate within the National Institute of Health over the ethics of COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Matthew Memoli reportedly wrote in an email to NAID Director Anthony Fauci in July that he found mandated vaccinations “extraordinarily problematic.”
“I think the way we are using the vaccines is wrong,” he told Fauci.
An unvaccinated doctor who heads a research team at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) is leading a debate within the National Institute of Health (NIH) over the ethics of COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Matthew Memoli, a 16-year veteran at the NIH, will argue against vaccine mandates in a Dec. 1 live-streamed roundtable session over the ethics of mandates, which will be open for viewing within the agency, to patients and to the public, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“There’s a lot of debate within the NIH about whether [a vaccine mandate] is appropriate,” David Wendler, a senior NIH bioethicist in charge of planning the session, told WSJ. “It’s an important, hot topic.”
An appeals court on Saturday temporarily stopped President Biden’s mandate requiring employers to verify employee vaccination or ensure weekly testing.
Memoli reportedly wrote in an email to NIAID Director Anthony Fauci in July that he found mandated vaccinations “extraordinarily problematic.”
“I think the way we are using the vaccines is wrong,” he told Fauci.
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Memoli, who has reportedly applied for vaccine exemptions, favors vaccinations in vulnerable populations but argues population level vaccination could hinder the development of a natural, robust immunity gained through infection.
The 48-year-old has said his children have received their childhood vaccinations, and he will support the results of the ethics discussion regardless of the outcome.
“I do vaccine trials. I, in fact, help create vaccines,” he told WSJ. “Part of my career is to share my expert opinions, right or wrong.…I mean, if they all end up saying I’m wrong, that’s fine. I want to have the discussion.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published new findings last month that suggest vaccines are the most effective protection against the virus.
The data in the study “demonstrate that vaccination can provide a higher, more robust, and more consistent level of immunity to protect people from hospitalization for COVID-19 than infection alone for at least 6 months.”
The model of Marek’s disease (‘leaky’ non-sterilizing, non-neutralizing vaccines that reduce symptoms but do not stop infection or transmission) and the concept of the original antigenic sin (the initial priming of the immune system prejudices the immune response to the pathogen or similar pathogen life-long) may explain what we are potentially facing now with these mass mandates of COVID vaccines (immune escape, increased transmission, faster transmission, and potentially more ‘hotter’ variants).
In addition, such mandates result in the forced separation and segregation of society. They create hazards for people in their professional lives. For example, why would governments impose punitive career-altering vaccine mandates on an unvaccinated nurse who is most likely already immune due to natural exposure? Mandates also represent an encroachment on freedom and liberties and call into question the motives behind these mandates when the science shows no public benefit compared with the costs.
Links to all the scientific evidence that call into question COVID-19 vaccine mandates are below.
1) No Significant Difference in Viral Load Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Groups When Infected with SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant, Acharya, 2021 “Found no significant difference in cycle threshold values between vaccinated and unvaccinated, asymptomatic and symptomatic groups infected with SARS-CoV-2 Delta.”
2) Vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have similar viral loads in communities with a high prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant, Riemersma, 2021
Shedding of Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Despite Vaccination when the Delta Variant is Prevalent – Wisconsin, July 2021 “No difference in viral loads when comparing unvaccinated individuals to those who have vaccine “breakthrough” infections. Furthermore, individuals with vaccine breakthrough infections frequently test positive with viral loads consistent with the ability to shed infectious viruses…if vaccinated individuals become infected with the delta variant, they may be sources of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to others…data substantiate the idea that vaccinated individuals who become infected with the Delta variant may have the potential to transmit SARS-CoV-2 to others.”
3) Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections, Gazit, 2021 “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… SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccines had a 13.06-fold (95% CI, 8.08 to 21.11) increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected.”…para 27 fold increased risk of symptomatic COVID and 8 fold increased risk of hospitalization (vaccinated over unvaccinated).
4) Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccination Against Risk of Symptomatic Infection, Hospitalization, and Death Up to 9 Months: A Swedish Total-Population Cohort Study, Nordström, 2021
“Report on their study which shows that (cohort comprised 842,974 pairs (N=1,684,958), including individuals vaccinated with 2 doses of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, mRNA-1273, or BNT162b2, and matched unvaccinated individuals) “vaccine effectiveness of BNT162b2 against infection waned progressively from 92% (95% CI, 92-93, P<0·001) at day 15-30 to 47% (95% CI, 39-55, P<0·001) at day 121-180, and from day 211 and onwards no effectiveness could be detected (23%; 95% CI, -2-41, P=0·07)” …while the vaccine provides temporary protection against infection, the efficacy declines below zero and then to negative efficacy territory at approximately 7 months, underscoring that the vaccinated are highly susceptible to infection and eventually become highly infected (more so than the unvaccinated).
5) Waning of BNT162b2 vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection in Qatar, Chemaitelly, 2021 “Qatar study which showed that the vaccine efficacy (Pfizer) declined to near zero by 5 to 6-months and even immediate protection after one to two months were largely exaggerated… BNT162b2-induced protection against infection appears to wane rapidly after its peak right after the second dose.”
6) Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Among Vaccinated Healthcare Workers, Vietnam, Chao, 2021 Looks at the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant among vaccinated healthcare workers in Vietnam. 69 healthcare workers were tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. 62 participated in the clinical study. Researchers reported “23 complete-genome sequences were obtained. They all belonged to the Delta variant and were phylogenetically distinct from the contemporary Delta variant sequences obtained from community transmission cases, suggestive of ongoing transmission between the workers. Viral loads of breakthrough Delta variant infection cases were 251 times higher than those of cases infected with old strains detected between March-April 2020.”
7) Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings – Barnstable County, Massachusetts, July 2021, Brown, 2021 Barnstable, Massachusetts, July 2021 CDC MMWR study found that in 469 cases of COVID-19, there were 74% that occurred in fully vaccinated persons. “The vaccinated had on average more virus in their nose than the unvaccinated who were infected.”
8) An outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) in a secondary care hospital in Finland, May 2021, Hetemäki, 2021 “In conclusion, this outbreak demonstrated that, despite full vaccination and universal masking of HCW, breakthrough infections by the Delta variant via symptomatic and asymptomatic HCW occurred, causing nosocomial infections…secondary transmission occurred from those with symptomatic infections despite use of personal protective equipment (PPE).”
9) Nosocomial outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a highly vaccinated population, Israel, July 2021, Shitrit, 2021 “The PPE and masks were essentially ineffective in the healthcare setting. The index cases were usually fully vaccinated and most (if not all transmission) tended to occur between patients and staff who were masked and fully vaccinated, underscoring the high transmission of the Delta variant among vaccinated and masked persons…this nosocomial outbreak exemplifies the high transmissibility of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant among twice vaccinated and masked individuals.”
10) COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report Week 42, PHE, 2021
Report # 44: PHE Information on page 23 raises serious concerns when it reported that “waning of the N antibody response over time and (iii) recent observations from UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) surveillance data that N antibody levels appear to be lower in individuals who acquire infection following 2 doses of vaccination.” Also shows a pronounced and very troubling trend, which is that the “double vaccinated persons are showing greater infection (per 100,000) than the unvaccinated, and especially in the older age groups e.g. 30 years and above.”
11) Waning Immune Humoral Response to BNT162b2 Covid-19 Vaccine over 6 Months, Levin, 2021 “Six months after receipt of the second dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine, humoral response was substantially decreased, especially among men, among persons 65 years of age or older, and among persons with immunosuppression.”
12) Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States, Subramanian, 2021 “Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States.”
13) Durability of immune responses to the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine, Suthar, 2021 “Examined the durability of immune responses to the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. They “analyzed antibody responses to the homologous Wu strain as well as several variants of concern, including the emerging Mu (B.1.621) variant, and T cell responses in a subset of these volunteers at six months (day 210 post-primary vaccination) after the second dose …“data demonstrate a substantial waning of antibody responses and T cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, at 6 months following the second immunization with the BNT162b2 vaccine.”
14) Infection-enhancing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize both the original Wuhan/D614G strain and Delta variants. A potential risk for mass vaccination?, Yahi, 2021 Reported that “in the case of the Delta variant, neutralizing antibodies have a decreased affinity for the spike protein, whereas facilitating antibodies display a strikingly increased affinity. Thus, ADE may be a concern for people receiving vaccines based on the original Wuhan strain spike sequence (either mRNA or viral vectors).”
15) Hospitalisation among vaccine breakthrough COVID-19 infections, Juthani, 2021 Identified 969 patients who were admitted to a Yale-New Haven Health System hospital with a confirmed positive PCR test for SARS-CoV-2… “Observed a higher number of patients with severe or critical illness in those who received the BNT162b2 vaccine than in those who received mRNA-1273 or Ad.26.COV2.S.”
16) The impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on Alpha & Delta variant transmission, Eyre, 2021 “Examined the impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on Alpha & Delta variant transmission. They reported that “while vaccination still lowers the risk of infection, similar viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals infected with Delta question how much vaccination prevents onward transmission… transmission reductions declined over time since second vaccination, for Delta reaching similar levels to unvaccinated individuals by 12 weeks for ChAdOx1 and attenuating substantially for BNT162b2. Protection from vaccination in contacts also declined in the 3 months after second vaccination…vaccination reduces transmission of Delta, but by less than the Alpha variant.”
17) SARS-CoV-2 Infection after Vaccination in Health Care Workers in California, Keehner, 2021 “Reported on the resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a highly vaccinated health system workforce. Vaccination with mRNA vaccines began in mid-December 2020; by March, 76% of the workforce had been fully vaccinated, and by July, the percentage had risen to 87%. Infections had decreased dramatically by early February 2021… “coincident with the end of California’s mask mandate on June 15 and the rapid dominance of the B.1.617.2 (delta) variant that first emerged in mid-April and accounted for over 95% of UCSDH isolates by the end of July, infections increased rapidly, including cases among fully vaccinated persons…researchers reported that the “dramatic change in vaccine effectiveness from June to July is likely to be due to both the emergence of the delta variant and waning immunity over time.”
18) Community transmission and viral load kinetics of the SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) variant in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in the UK: a prospective, longitudinal, cohort study, Singanayagam, 2021 “Examined the transmission and viral load kinetics in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals with mild delta variant infection in the community. They found that (in 602 community contacts (identified via the UK contract-tracing system) of 471 UK COVID-19 index cases were recruited to the Assessment of Transmission and Contagiousness of COVID-19 in Contacts cohort study and contributed 8145 upper respiratory tract samples from daily sampling for up to 20 days) “vaccination reduces the risk of delta variant infection and accelerates viral clearance. Nonetheless, fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts.”
19) Waning Immunity after the BNT162b2 Vaccine in Israel, Goldberg, 2021 “Immunity against the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 waned in all age groups a few months after receipt of the second dose of vaccine.”
20) Viral loads of Delta-variant SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections after vaccination and booster with BNT162b2, Levine-Tiefenbrun, 2021 The viral load reduction effectiveness declines with time after vaccination, “significantly decreasing at 3 months after vaccination and effectively vanishing after about 6 months.”
BY JEFFREY A. TUCKER NOVEMBER 9, 2021 PHILOSOPHY, POLICY, PUBLIC HEALTH
I was in Marshalls yesterday where dystopian vertical boards keep people in checkout lines separated like cattle at a feeding trough. Customers approach the checkout to encounter a masked person behind plexiglass, pay with “touchless” tech, and scamper away with the hope that we avoided a pathogenic enemy we cannot see. We can’t see it but we sure did institutionalize ways to avoid it, all codified by “the science” and imposed by force. And fear.
Like the “social distancing” stickers on the floor, all these apparatus are part of the surviving relics of a world gone mad. No trying on clothing. No sampling perfume. A full-time employee stood at the entrance to enforce mask-wearing (“Keep that mask over your nose!”). It was all part of “virus control,” which became a mystical liturgy that governed life for 20-some months after darkness fell in the Spring of 2020.
These signs and symbols of mass panic are gradually going away, leaving in their wake sadness, regret, shattered dreams, psychological trauma, bad health, ruined businesses, broken friendships and families, and a loss of confidence and trust in myriad institutions that once took our respect for them for granted.
The people who did this to the world are still clinging to the hope that they can make a dignified walk back from the disasters they created. That seems to be the major point of the vaccine mandate domestically and for foreigners traveling in. It’s the best hope, they believe, for providing them cover. They had to get everyone jabbed before we got our freedom back! We resisted their dictates, out of ignorance they said, so they had to impose them with ever more fines and threats.
Thus are we transitioning from the Covid kabuki dance to a system of overt segregation of the clean vs the unclean, a situation we’ve encountered before during the most morally egregious episodes in modern history. While the clean are granted freedom, the unclean cannot travel, cannot participate in public life, and sometimes cannot shop or get medical care.
Never mind that the data are not playing along: while the private benefit for the vulnerable from the vaccine exists, the public health benefit appears more dubious by the day, especially given the manner in which public-health authorities have obstinately denied what at least 106 studies have already affirmed.
What we’ve all been through is impossible to describe in a sentence because there are so many dimensions to it all. It affected and traumatized everything and everyone.
I once tried to imagine what the blowback would look like (this was late April 2020, writing with no clue that the frenzy would continue for another year and a half). I predicted an impending revolt against masks, against mainstream media, against politicians, against Zoom-only life, against distancing, against academia, against experts in general, and against public-health authorities in particular.
I was correct but far too early in my prediction. What began as a dreadful error in political and bureaucratic judgment became an entrenched policy and then a generalized practice of disregarding basic human rights in every area of life. The schools remained shut for the year, while the enforcement of absurdity became a national way of life. The point of exhaustion with the entirety of the antivirus theater happened in waves across the country and has only reached the whole country after 20 months.
The result was not only carnage but also learning and responding. The passage of time has highlighted that we are living amidst not only the death of institutions and expertise but also witnessing the glorious birth of new institutions and voices. This has been exciting to watch.
Covid restriction and cancel culture coincided, taking out some of the most intelligent and prescient intellectuals in the public space. They had their social media accounts deleted, their jobs threatened and sometimes taken away, their access to their audiences throttled. This is because legacy social-media platforms signed up to become mouthpieces for the regime. The result was an astonishing dreariness, not actual reporting at all. Anything that reinforced the lockdown/mandate line was allowed in and anything contradicting was blocked. The scientific journals weren’t much better.
But thanks to the will to survive, they canceled found other outlets that are now thriving. The stodgy and stultifying information blockades provided an opportunity for other institutions to be born and blossom in record time. There are new video platforms and social media channels that are doing a booming business.
I’ve found myself relying on Substack and other new venues for actual information at a time when the mainstream media has been marching in political lockstep with the lockdown regime. Substack, for example, was founded with a $2 million investment in 2017, and now it is on its series B funding round with $84 million along with 213 employees.
The business model of Substack sounds a bit like many others. It enabled publishing. Crucially, it allows its users to accept subscriptions which it then mails to users post by post. It permits its authors to make some content free and some paid and allows them to set the price. In other words, the platform enables authors to achieve pretty much what the New York Times does but without all the third-party plugins and setup required to set up a paid blogging platform.
The real business advantage: it refused to censor responsible material. In fact, it made itself a home to those who were being censored by others. Users and authors both began to trust the platform after its owners were hounded by the mainstream press and refused to budge. They would be a platform for free speech, period. It not only saved Alex Berenson from death by Twitter; it has inspired countless new intellectuals and writers who have been victimized by Covid cancel culture.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have reached new highs and record adoption in these times too, as the value of national currencies depreciates due to reckless monetary policies and lockdown-related breakages. Having never shut down even in the darkest days, or seen their operations throttled, they’ve taken on the role of a safe haven in dangerous times.
Brownstone Institute is also a case of new birth. The website went live only on August 1, 2021, but will soon have racked up 3 million page views, along with a global network of contacts. The growth has been phenomenal to behold, and why? We have yet to produce fancy videos or hire a marketing team and all the rest. We have all that is necessary for success in the post-lockdown world: outstanding content that provides light rather than propaganda.
In addition, there are already new universities being founded alongside new research institutes, activist organizations, and television shows and podcasts. We are looking at a probable political realignment.
Inevitably too, philanthropy will need to catch up to the new. Support will likely leave institutions that failed us so miserably during the lockdowns and refused to step up to defend human rights. To mention one obvious example among so many, the well-funded ACLU has enjoyed a long history of taking unpopular positions in defense of human liberties, until they decided to throw it all away in defense of a pandemic policy that had zero regards for rights and liberties. There are thousands of other institutions and individuals that completely flopped when their voices were most needed.
Every crisis in the history of modernity has produced a cultural and social realignment. Old institutions on the wrong side sink into the mire of their own disrepute, while new ones rise up to take their place, standing courageously on principle and inspiring students, customers, benefactors, and the general public. This was true after the Civil War in American history but also true all over the world following the 20th century’s two world wars along with the Vietnam War. What failed is washed away, and what stood steadfast gains new prominence.
What we have lived through has war-like features, and will have culture-shifting effects. Many people were tested. Many people failed. The failures made a bad bet that playing it safe and echoing regime priorities was the prudent path, but now they sit on a digital archive of cowardice, censorship, bad science, and disregard for humane values.
More inspiring to watch has been the emergence of a new movement that transverses political and ideological lines and is defined by its implacable commitment to enlightenment values, human freedom, and the determination to celebrate what’s true against all odds – what used to be called normal as recently as 2019.
This birth and growth of the new is a tribute to the reality that human beings will not be forced to live in cages and think only what our masters tell us to think. We are wired to be free, creative, and truth-telling, and cannot abide by systems that attempt to stamp out all those instincts and instead treat us all like lab rats or code in their models. No, never.
The crazy rules and practices governments and corporations adopted and imposed over the last 20 months will in time look ridiculous and embarrassing to nearly everyone. That we went along with such preposterous practices is a sad commentary on the human condition and its primitive ways.
Apparently, we as a society are only a step away from the abyss into which a well-timed campaign of fear can push us. I’m not sure any of us knew that until we lived it.
We will emerge on the other side of this wiser, stronger, more determined, and motivated by the new realization that the civilization we take for granted is not a given but might instead be held by a thread that must be reinforced daily by knowledge, wisdom, and moral courage.
We can never again allow a ruling class to exercise such brutality against the people. It has not ended well for the lockdowns and mandators. They are perhaps now beginning to realize that they are not the authors of history. We are. Everyone is.
No one is born, appointed, much less destined, to dictate to everyone else. That powerful conviction forged modernity and what it means to be civilized. There will be no turning back the clock, not at this late date in the course of human progress.
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. tucker@brownstone.org
