With the exception of the individual choices we make to shape our own destinies,
the choices made by the leaders we interact with throughout our life journeys have the
most profound impact on every aspect of our existence. On the battlefield, the survival of
our soldiers, and, by proxy, our citizens and our society; in business, our job satisfaction,
our productivity, and our company’s, countries, and kinfolk’s potential to thrive; and over
time, the success or failure of our species in our on-going quest to evolve. “The way” we
choose to lead and organize ourselves irrevocably influences our potential to survive,
thrive, and evolve. Leadership Matters.
The time-line of the decisions leading up to the collapse of Afghanistan reveals
that the key leaders involved lack some of the most important qualities needed by those
who lead and govern: a common sense of shared purpose, the ability to make sense of
what’s going on around them, the ability to listen to their people and anticipate unfolding
events, the capacity to make sensible choices based on incomplete information, and the
flexibility and willingness to change their mind based on “the adaptive stimulus of what’s
going on around them.” Their collective incompetence not only changed world history, it
also changed our species evolutionary history by causing the deaths of at least 13
American freedom fighters along with thousands of freedom-loving Afghans, while
enabling hundreds of the world’s most despicable terrorists to survive, thrive, and evolve
into the future.
Note on Time-Line: This timeline is a living document, as key information continues to come out we will continuously update the time-line as appropriate)
The Gateway Pundit is pleased to announce its unveiling of www.AmericanGULAG.org, an informational site about the more than six hundred and thirty (630) people Joe Biden continues to imprison and persecute, largely for entering a public building on January 6, 2021.
The overwhelming majority of Biden’s January 6th political prisoners are peaceful patriots, mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, sisters and brothers whose crime was walking into a public building to protest. The emerging totalitarian uniparty decided to weaponize the Department of Injustice and persecute Donald Trump/America First/anti-oligarchy supporters.
The electorate itself is divided, but doesn’t necessarily view this issue as an either/or choice. Polling shows that a large majority of Americans support the idea of examining the causes of boththe 2020 summer riots in America’s cities and the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
It is clear, then, that many Americans see two sides to this story. In keeping with its mission to fill gaps in press coverage, RealClearInvestigations is launching a running compendium of data, with hyperlinked sourcing, comparing the damage done on Jan. 6, and the subsequent treatment of those accused of perpetrating it, with two other recent events: the summer 2020 riots and – in some ways a closer analogy – the all-but-forgotten riot in Washington on Inauguration Day 2017, as protesters challenged Donald Trump’s election and legitimacy much as Jan. 6 rioters challenged Joe Biden’s.
Many Democrats have called Jan. 6 a worse attack on America than 9/11, and Carlson shows how the government has linked the two, creating “Domestic War on Terror 2.0.”
The left, he says, is now using 1/6 “as a pretext to strip millions of Americans of their constitutional rights and defame them.”
Brown County Matters is a private Facebook Group requiring members to live, work, or own property in the county. Posts are intended to be of local (county) interests. It has general rules of expected behavior and the respective rule (s) are cited when a post is removed. Individuals are also blocked from the site when their contributions tend to be more disingenuous than constructive.
My perspective on the differences derived from the posts on the Election and Covid policy topics are provided below.
Left Perspective
From a “Left” perspective, the integrity of the 2020 Indiana and Presidential election should not be questioned and the Covid policy is not debatable or questionable. On Covid policy and vaccines, the conclusion from the Left is that “its settled science, shut up, get the shot (s), do what your told, and don’t question who we identify as the “experts.”
The First Amendment allows individuals to express their opinions. Any sources of information not approved by the government, local gatekeepers, or the “fact/bias” checkers (that claim to be non-partisan and independent) represents misinformation. It is interesting when the word “harmful” is associated with some information posted inferring adults are not capable of determining the quality of the information provided. And it begs the question: Who determines what information should be disseminated and how?
All original posts on BCM must align with the rules but replies to posts can include an alternative point of view regarding the message. Multiple sources of information are always helpful in validating information and identifying patterns. And, individuals do criticize the quality of a post to include posting counter information as to what they believe to be misinformation.
For example, in reply to the local school mask policy, I posted a video by Dr. Dan Stock to the Mt. Vernon school board advising against masks. This was considered “misinformation.” Other members posted criticisms by other doctors of Dr. Stocks position – all good. An online interview was then arranged by an independent party that allowed a discussion between Dr. Stock and one of his critics – very civil, professional, and informative. This type of discussion should be encourage – not suppressed. I would like to see follow-on discussions where viewers could ask questions and more detail can be discussed on the various aspects of the issue. For more info: Dr. Dan Stock addressed the Mt. Vernon School Board in Indiana.
Anyone (the messenger) questioning the Lefts narrative on many topics may be immediately attacked, cancelled, bullied, or labeled in a derogatory manner. The “message” that challenges the prevailing narrative is rarely discussed by the critics and would require a little more thought and analysis. It’s much easier to just attack the messenger, claim fake news or bias, question motives or just avoid the subject and debate. Critics are also subject to projection – projecting their own faults onto other people.
Another example of this is an article posted in the Brown County Democrat – Real threat to America isn’t Afghan refugees” that attacks anyone that disagrees with the left leaning author who also happens to be a director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism.
In addition to projection, another common attribute of the Left is “virtue signaling” defined as “the sharing of one’s point of view on a social or political issue, often on social media, in order to garner praise or acknowledgment of one’s righteousness from others who share that point of view, or to passively rebuke those who do not.”
On the integrity of the Indiana election issues, I included a link to an article that discussed similar issues on the national election – The big ‘known unknown’ of 2020 by J. E Dyer at Liberty Unyielding. The author is a retired Naval Intelligence officer and offers a unique, objective, and broad perspective on many issues. Liberty Unyielding and the author were labeled as representing the “right wing fringe.”
Right Perspective
From what is being labeled as a “Right” perspective, our system of government enables citizens to work together to achieve a more perfect Union. This can be achieved by developing more perfect (better) policies. This requires an open forum and ground rules to discuss all relevant information and perspectives.
In the case of Covid, medical professionals locally as well as throughout the word have diverse and often opposing points of view regarding causes, prevention, treatments and policies. Another subject of disagreement is on natural and herd immunity.
Many medical professionals that question the approved narrative are “canceled” and/or censored and accused of providing misleading information. What has been missing is an open forum that addresses questions, acknowledges the differences, identifies area of agreement and disagreement, and then identifies the information needed to continually develop and improve upon the best solutions. This process builds trust, confidence in leadership, and leads to the better solutions.
When working towards a solution, leaders can opt for a process where everyone can benefit, or choose a win/lose (zero-sum) approach which unfortunately, is the more common approach.
The position regarding national polices is often inferred by the Left as “We won the election and we’re doing things our way , go along or else.” This approach leads to opposition and suboptimal outcomes.
Conservative positions on elections raise issues on the capability of the respective systems and processes to ensure citizen that elections are fair and all legal votes are counted. This has led to the demand for forensic audits and legislative changes with the intent to improve the system for future elections. The American Society of Quality (ASQ) – Government Division has recently proposing an improved management system supporting election authorities to enhance trust and confidence in U.S. elections
Brown County Leader Network
In America by law, We the People are top management and are responsible for expecting and supporting changes that result in outcomes where everyone benefits or at least are not any worse off in the long-term. Unfortunately, this knowledge may not be commonly acknowledged due to the influence of the two-party system, lack of knowledge of history and civic education in the schools.
Thankfully, Brown County Schools do support civic education and student teams have won national competitions on their knowledge of Constitutional issues. More info: We the People – Brown County Schools.
Whereas, the League acknowledges painfully that America is a nation founded on racism. We must end white privilege and the myth of white supremacy if we are to become the nation we pledge to be …
We call for the end to racism in all forms. We call for a review of all county laws, directives and initiatives of all kinds by any agency or segment of county government to determine if any such laws, directives or initiatives have or could result in racism or inequality in any form. We call for the expeditious remediation of any such instances so found.
Jordan Peterson Debunks White Privilege “There’s nothing more racist than targeting an entire ethnic group with a collective crime regardless of the innocence or guilt of its individuals.”
On the banner image for Matters, there is a link to the Brown County Leader Network (BCLN). This site offers some principles, methods and tools in developing assessments and supporting improvements. In developing solutions that can lead to better outcomes, the stakeholder matrix is a useful tool. The matrix is used to identify everyone (stakeholders) effected by a change, the information or services they expect and the feedback they need and will use to assess results. This concept applied at a local or national level offers an alternative way of acknowledging differences and helping to develop support for solutions.
The BCLN site also provides an outline of a problem and decision-making process. This process aligns with the Justice system in helping to discover the truth and identify the best decisions. Facts and evidence are used to help identify a problem. The pros (prosecution), cons (defense) and risks are identified. Transparency along with the supporting documentation help develop support for the respective changes.
Civil War?
Regarding the ideologies of the Left and Right, Dennis Prager captures what he believes to be key attributes. “A Guide to Basic Differences Between Left and Right” Prager was also labeled as being part of the right wing fringe.
Prager makes a distinction between the traditionally defined “liberals” and the Left or Leftists. He consider the liberals and conservatives as natural allies. He also assesses that we are in the midst of a Civil War: “Either America survives and the left is defeated, or the left survives and America is defeated. It’s as simple as that. We are in a civil war; I pray it is not violent, although if it is, they have begun the violence. If you deny we are in a civil war, you’re having your head in the proverbial sand.”
The focus of the December 2019 issue o the Atlantic was on the topic of “How to Stop A Civil War. The August 13, 2021 issue includes a final article in series titled Will the U.S. Pass a Point of No Return? “Crossing the Rubicon: “If the United States, in recent years, has been tracking the decline and fall of Republican Rome, when do we pass the point of no return?”
“I have been predicting for years that something resembling a civil war will arise and something like Trumpists likely will carry the day in the short-term.”
As I have noted repeatedly, liberalism and leftism have virtually nothing in common. In fact, leftism is the enemy of liberalism – as a handful of liberals such as former New York Times writer Bari Weiss, former Young Turk Dave Rubin and others have come to recognize.
Context: Moral Authority – The Right Thing
An underlying basis for discussions is recognizing the moral authority that motivates ideology. What is the right thing, how is it determined, and by whom?
The secular design of the U.S. system of government was influenced by Judeo-Christian principles which accepts God as the moral authority. The Christian philosophy includes a belief that actions motivated by love lead to outcomes where everyone gains, or at least, are not any worse off in the long-term. The premise being that as more needs are met, there is less harm on people of needs that are not being met.
Governments also represents a “moral authority” in determining the right things where “Man” defines the moral code. For the U.S system of government, the intent of the founders was that the Power to identify the right things in working towards a more perfect Union, was to be managed on behalf of the citizens through a balance between the three branch of government, the federal government and the states. The length of the terms of office were staggered to help balance short term and long-term interests. Presidents are elected to 4 years, Senate 6, Congressman 2 and supreme court justices have lifetime appointments.
The Declaration of Independence identifies the commitment to the “self-evident truths” that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed …
Leftism (Marxism)
In contrast, political systems influenced by Marxist theory lead to a centralization of power inherent in socialist and communist based systems. Marx ‘s Communist Manifesto reinforced the strategy to divide people, exploit divisions and leverage their hate and rage to inspire revolutions that will lead to the Marx version of utopia – divide, conquer, terrorize, subjugate and control. Marx was raised in a Christian home but later abandoned God and associated with Satan. Marx declared: “I long to take vengeance on the One Who rules from above … We make war against all prevailing ideas of religion, of the state, of county, of patriotism.”
Another popular treatise of the Left for revolutionary change is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer – the “original radical that gained his own kingdom” – Hell.
As the newly elected atheist chaplain of Harvard University put it in The New York Times: “We don’t look to a god for answers. We are each other’s answers.” (1)
Mark Levin in his book American Marxism, makes the case that “the core elements of Marxist ideology are now pervasive in American society and culture” which includes critical race theory, and “escalation of repression and and censorship to silence opposing forces and enforce conformity.” Mathew Lohmeier, who recently resigned from the Air Force as a result of the fall-out from his book “Irresistible Revolutions – Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military” also reinforces the threats from Marxist inspired ideology in the military and in American society.
The polarity between the left and the right is exacerbated by a lack of knowledge of history and civics. A counter to the belief that America’s founding started in 1619 vs 1776 is provided at the following: American Civics.
The American republic rests upon the foundation of “E Pluribus Unum” — out of many, one. Although the Founders knew from their own experience that a vast diversity in outlooks and opinions would be present among the country’s citizens, they understood that such diversity must rest upon principles and practices we hold in common. It is up to each generation to make sure that this foundational unity remains intact. This project on American Civics seeks to contribute to that worthy cause.
In summary, within Brown County, we have the same Left vs Right political divide that is prevalent throughout the country. We can choose the better approaches while acknowledging competing ideologies and philosophies in a respectful and constructive manner.
A Way Ahead. Raise awareness on the threats to our Republic, apply non-violent strategies proven successful by Martin Luther King and Gandhi, and apply the quality improvement principles, methods, tools.
He covers many of the key points – and “Massive Non-Compliance” is the counter. The threats include Leftism (against everything-isms), aka Marxism, enabled by government, media, big-tech, “woke” corporations and the anti-nationalists.
Lower levels of religious observance among Democratic Party activists — who are more likely to be atheists, agnostics or “nones” compared with their Republican counterparts — means that they must find meaning elsewhere. As the newly elected atheist chaplain of Harvard University put it in The New York Times: “We don’t look to a god for answers. We are each other’s answers.”
There is a certain freedom in letting go of the need to win an argument or claim victory over one’s opponents. Our fellow citizens do not need to be converted, and the world does not need to be made anew. …. This, I believe, is a better way to live, even as I admit that it is not so easy to hold one’s tongue (or tweets) when matters get contentious. But we can at least start by resisting that very human urge to make enemies of those who might otherwise become our friends.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. -Bonhoeffer
This post contains dissenting opinions from the prevailing narratives associated with Covid policies, vaccines, mandates, and treatments. Over time, multiple sources of reporting may help identify trends and validation of the various allegations. They also help identify “questions” to help get to the truth of the issues.
Reference for the above Table: Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) world wide – Dr. John Ioannidis, Stanford University “Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research), of Epidemiology and Population Health. “Extrapolating from confirmed cases, he concluded that, around the world, more than half a billion people have probably been infected with COVID. Using that metric, Dr. Ioannidis concluded that most locations around the world have an IFR that’s less than 0.20%.Additionally, protecting vulnerable populations and treating people with appropriate medicines may further reduce mortality rates.”
Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) world wide – Dr. John Ioannidis, Stanford University The infection fatality rate (IFR), the probability of dying for a person who is infected, is one of the most critical and most contested features of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The expected total mortality burden of COVID-19 is directly related to the IFR. Moreover, justification for various non-pharmacological public health interventions depends crucially on the IFR. Some aggressive interventions that potentially induce also more pronounced collateral harms1 may be considered appropriate, if IFR is high. Conversely, the same measures may fall short of acceptable risk-benefit thresholds, if the IFR is low
Mass Formation is a phenomenon where societal anxieties over a common threat lead to less-than-sober groupthink due to strong community desire to combat the threat. The phenomenon can occur in any number of species – from mega-flock behaviors in birds, to ideological and narrative acceptances in humans.
A huge new study has found the risk of serious heart problems called myocarditis in men under 40 soars with each dose of a Covid mRNA vaccine – and is sharply higher than the risk from a coronavirus infection itself.
The study, which British researchers released in late December, showed that the risk of myocarditis almost doubled after the first Pfizer shot in men under 40. Then it doubled again after the second and doubled again after the third – to almost eight times the baseline risk.
“Negative efficacy.” Get used to that term, because every day more data suggests we are already in the vaccination twilight zone of all pain and no gain – just as with the lockdowns.
Consider the fact that the CEO of Indiana-based life insurance company OneAmerica, which has been around since 1877, revealed last week that the death rate among 18- to 64-year-old Hoosiers is up 40% from pre-pandemic levels.
96% of all Omicron cases in Germany among vaccinated:
AT A MINIMUM, based on my reading, one has to conclude that if this report holds and is confirmed by others in the dry world of life insurance actuaries, we have both a huge human tragedy and a profound public policy failure of the US Government and US HHS system to serve and protect the citizens that pay for this “service”.
IF this holds true, then the genetic vaccines so aggressively promoted have failed, and the clear federal campaign to prevent early treatment with lifesaving drugs has contributed to a massive, avoidable loss of life.
I just left a voice message for my friend Joe Ladapo. He is the one guy in America who could end all this bullshit instantly by some action in his state. I’ll let you know what he says.
“Our government is out of control on this [Covid response] and they are lawless. They completely disregard bioethics. They completely disregard the federal common rule.
These mandates of an experimental vaccine are explicitly illegal. They are explicitly inconsistent with the Nuremberg code. They are explicitly inconsistent with the Bellmont Report. They are flat-out illegal and they don’t care.
Hopefully, we are going to stop them before they take our kids.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said in a separate interview that most children are not being hospitalized because of the virus. They are instead being hospitalized with separate health issues and are incidentally testing positive, she said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been sued by the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), which claims the agency is improperly withholding COVID-19 v-safe data from the American public.
As per the CDC, v-safe is an “active surveillance program to monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines during the period when the vaccines are authorized for use under Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and possibly early after vaccine licensure.”
First, everyone should appreciate that there was very little testing of the short- and long-term safety of this product, exactly what happened with COVID vaccines. Really good testing of a new drug should take many months or even years.
For example, how does the Pfizer drug compare with the Dr. George Fareed and Dr. Brian Tyson protocol? Well, Fareed and Tyson had many more patients (about 7,000) taking the drug combo and yet they had fewer hospitalizations (4) and the same number of deaths (0). So, you’re way better off with the Fareed and Tyson protocol. And the safety protocol of ivermectin after billions of uses globally is far better proven than for the Pfizer product.
Of importance, note that in the trials only 21% of people had a comorbidity, while in reality 94% of COVID deaths have at least one comorbidity, and the average number of underlying medical conditions is four.
According to the CDC, about 78% of people who have been hospitalized and needed a ventilator or died from COVID-19 have been overweight or obese.
When it comes to COVID in 2022, opt for prudence, not panic. Eat well, get enough vitamin D, exercise, wash your hands, engage with your friends, cough or sneeze in your elbow, and stay home if you are feeling unwell. If you do get sick, seek medical care immediately.
Live your life. After all, there are 14 more letters after omicron in the Greek alphabet.
The scientist who combined two widely available over-the-counter compounds that inhibited the novel coronavirus by 99% in early tests told WND he’s hopeful his treatment will be available “within months.”
“My prediction is that antiviral drug combinations, such as diphenhydramine and lactoferrin, will provide a similar level of benefit as Regeneron monoclonal antibodies, Pfizer and Merck antivirals, at less than 1/100 the cost of those therapies,” he told WND.
Hoffe decided to investigate the cause of their vaccine injuries and found that microscopic blood clots were the culprit. The doctor said that these blood clots occur in 50 percent of people who get a corona jab.
According to the doctor, the blood clots also explain his patients’ neurological disorders and lung problems. “These stings cause permanent damage. And the damage gets bigger after every shot.”
The reporting system for vaccine side effects of the American Centers for Disease Control, VAERS, counts almost one million confirmed side effects for the new Covid vaccines.
Doctor Malthouse explains that the number of cases registered with VAERS “has been shown only to represent 1% of what is happening in real life.”
In a letter addressed to Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra Tuesday, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo accused the Biden administration of “actively preventing the effective distribution of monoclonal antibody treatments,” undermining Florida’s strategy to handle the disease.
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up two vaccine mandate cases — the one involving OSHA and the one for health care workers (CMS).
It seems to me there are essentially two questions before the Court: Whether the federal government has the authority to mandate any vaccines, and if so, whether they have the authority to mandate these particular “vaccines” (hereafter referred to more accurately as “injections”).
Given these facts — and they are facts, which a highly paid team of lawyers ought to be able to dig up easily and document thoroughly — no rational argument exists for federal mandates.
See and hear a brilliant man expound on a subject that he has devoted himself to for an intense, almost two years — like a half a million other interested persons, take a look at the Rumble video of Joe Rogan’s interview of Peter McCullough MD of Dallas Texas—put up on December 15, 2021 here.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: “They are never going to market a vaccine, allow people access to a vaccine, an approved vaccine without getting liability protection. Now the emergency use authorization vaccines have liability protection under the PREP Act and under the CARES Act.
So as long as you take an emergency use vaccine, you can’t sue them. Once they get approved, now you can sue them, unless they can get it recommended for children. Because all vaccines that are recommended, officially recommended for children get liability protection, even if an adult gets that vaccine. That’s why they are going after the kids. They know this is going to kill and injure a huge number of children, but they need to do it for the liability protection.”
A study by Danish researchers finds that after 90 days, the COVID-19 vaccines will make you more likely to get infected from omicron, not less.
Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE), a mechanism in which antibodies are unable to neutralize a virus but instead increase its ability to infect cells, making the disease worse.
Long before the release of the COVID vaccines, Fauci was emphasizing the importance of safety trials to screen for possible unintended consequences such as ADE, which he said in March 2020 could take a year to a year and a half.
The vaccines are bad news. Fifteen bodies were examined (all died from 7 days to 6 months after vaccination; ages 28 to 95). The coroner or the public prosecutor didn’t associate the vaccine as the cause of death in any of the cases. However, further examination revealed that the vaccine was implicated in the deaths of 14 of the 15 cases. The most attacked organ was the heart (in all of the people who died), but other organs were attacked as well. The implications are potentially enormous resulting in millions of deaths. The vaccines should be immediately halted.
No need to worry. It is doubtful that anything will happen because the work wasn’t published in a peer-reviewed journal so will be ignored by the scientific community. That’s just the way it works.
My good friend Dr Sucharit Bhakdi, with whom we & others wrote a series of open letters to the European Medicines Agency, is utterly distraught. He & his colleague, a pathologist, have confirmed that, even in people who’ve died post-covid19 vaccination & where their death was not attributed to the adverse effects of vaccination, in almost all cases DID die as a result of vaccination.
Hundreds of millions of people are going to die of unrestrained tuberculosis, Epstein Barr virus, toxoplasmosis etc etc etc
AND on top of this, the daily accidental production of cancer cells, normally deleted swiftly by immune surveillance, before they can divide, ceases.
Rescue our civilization while there are innocents to save, ESPECIALLY our children & grandchildren.
Back in July of 2020, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he was banning all large gatherings in New York City except for Black Lives Matter protests. The month before, NPR featured a letter signed by dozens of health and public disease experts explaining that “white supremacy is a lethal public health issue” that needed to be dealt with as well as the coronavirus. Glenn Greenwald points to that nonsensical twist in lockdown history as the moment that “single-handedly destroyed trust in public health officials.”
This was a pivotal moment in the pandemic’s history: For 4 months, the message was clear and unrelenting: everyone must stay home. Those who leave – even to go to a deserted beach – are reckless sociopaths. It flipped overnight to endorse a mass protest movement liberals liked: https://t.co/SJUIz0dbOw — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 28, 2021
Vermont, with about 77% of the population vaccinated, has the nation’s highest rate, but local WCAX-TV reported Vermonters who take the rapid tests and test positive for COVID-19 are “clogging up emergency rooms.”
the World Health Organization officially acknowledged that the “gold standard” PCR test used to diagnose COVID-19 has a high rate of false-positives that make it unreliable.
A famous, widely cited Israeli study that showed “natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization” was recently replicated in an independent study. Nonetheless, there has been a stubborn refusal by the part of the media to acknowledge natural immunity exists, and the overwhelming majority of Democrat voters do not believe that it works against Covid.
There are more football players with heart-related issues this year than in many other years before according to the data recorded by Transfermarkt. If we were to assume that all excess is caused by vaccinations, it would yield to around a 1 out of 600 chance for footballers to get a heart condition after vaccination.
While it can be difficult to find a doctor who is willing to actually treat COVID-19 with the FLCCC protocol, many of those who are willing are making full use of telemedicine.
You can find a listing of doctors who can prescribe ivermectin and other necessary medicines on the FLCCC website.
There are a variety of “masks” and they have different characteristics. As OSHA has stated, neither cloth masks nor surgical masks are designed to protect wearers from airborne pathogens, particularly respiratory viruses. The confidence intervals for the efficacy of cloth masks and surgical masks to slow the spread of respiratory viruses are poor. N95 masks fare only slightly better.
“The World Health Organization, for example, does not recommend masks for children under age 6. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control recommends against the use of masks for any children in primary school.”
We are getting closer to reality now: Children are not at statistical risk from Covid-19. Full stop. The survival rate of healthy children is on the order of 99.99995% (the infection survival rate overall is at least 99.995%). Covid deaths are one percent of annual deaths for those under age 18.
But the Arizona study at the center of the CDC’s back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading. “You can’t learn anything about the effects of school mask mandates from this study,” Jonathan Ketcham, a public-health economist at Arizona State University,
But the biggest advance in treatment of COVID-19, he said, is an oral nasal treatment that long has been used by doctors to treat viral and bacterial sinusitis.
The lead agent, he said, is sold as Betadine, which is 10% povidone iodine. It can be purchased at a pharmacy or online for about $10.
A small amount of Betadine can be squirted into a shot-glass sized container – enough to cover the bottom – and the rest of the glass can be filled with water.
The solution is administered in the nose with a nasal bulb or spray syringe.
“Squirt it up the nose over the sink. Sniff it back and then spit it out,” McCullough advised. “Do that in both nostrils and then gargle with the rest, spit it out in the sink.
“I tell you, that has a tremendous effect. People should do that after their Christmas dinner, their congregant setting, [after] they’ve been around people.”
He explained that the virus takes three to five days to multiply in the nose.
“So we should actually zap it right there in the nose before it gets a head start,” he said.
A study of the nasal treatment for COVID-19 showed it knocked down the PCR positivity from 303 to less than 30 in a few days, McCullough said, and there were virtually no hospitalizations. This kind of “nasal decontamination” has been done in Bangladesh, he noted, where there is virtually no COVID.
Food-grade hydrogen peroxide would be a “second best” substitute for anyone who doesn’t tolerate Betadine.
The Great Barrington Declaration is an example of an “outsider” group of scientists that have managed to expand the COVID-19 Overton window by use of a successful social media campaign. This declaration, now with almost one million signatures, reiterates sound, scientific principles regarding pandemic response policies that basically state the following:
“The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection. “ -The Great Barrington Declaration
Natural immunity is providing good protection against Omicron
As the Gateway Pundit and several others have extensively reported, study after study shows that unvaccinated individuals also experience a robust immune response and high antibody levels – thanks to a little something called natural immunity – which predictably, is something the OHSU ‘experts’ conveniently and completely fail to mention in their research.
It’s no surprise that the OHSU researchers found out that recovering from Covid naturally after vaccination would be beneficial – just add their study to the list – but crediting the vaccine as having anything to do with it, is borderline laughable.
JOE BIDEN: “It’s here now, and it’s spreading and it’s going to increase. For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death if you’re unvaccinated. For themselves, their families and the hospital will soon overwhelm.” –
The unvaccinated pose no greater threat to the vaccine than the vaccine posed to them. And if they do, Joe Biden, why don’t you tell us how they do? But he can’t. No one can. That’s why they never explain it.
In fact, there’s quite a bit of evidence that the millions of Americans who’ve recovered from COVID and have natural immunity are safer than most people. They’ve relied on their own immune systems, and they’ve been rewarded for it. Joe Biden has never once acknowledged that these millions of people exist.
So what rational conclusions can we draw from what we’re seeing? At this point, none. CNN doesn’t want to talk about the COVID outbreak among vaccinated people in New York. They’d have to correct too many lies that they told. In any case, there are more Democratic voters in New York City than anywhere else in America, so there’s no reason to embarrass the base of their own party.
In the meantime, whatever personal decisions about the vaccine or COVID or how many masks you wear, if any, know what you’re watching here. This is not a public health campaign designed to save you from a variant that has not killed a single confirmed American. Sorry, it has not. No. So, what is this? These are the muscle spasms of a dying political party. The people in charge are on their way out. Unfortunately, they can still hurt you.
So that’s the official administration line: opened schools and businesses for the vaccinated and “severe illness and death” for the unvaccinated, who will overwhelm hospitals with the omicron variant and, by implication, bear responsibility for the pandemic from here on out.
It’s one of the most bizarre and appalling statements from a presidential administration in American history, breathtaking in its dishonest scapegoating and shocking in its callous disregard for the millions of Americans who have decided, for reasons of their own, not to get the Covid shots.
Bullying these people will not persuade them, and neither will lying about the omicron variant. There’s no evidence right now that omicron is going to bring “severe illness and death,” or that it’s even going to cause a surge in hospitalizations. The evidence so far suggests just the opposite.
So instead of freaking out about omicron, prognosticating death and doom for the unvaccinated, maybe it’s time to do what some states, like Florida and Texas, have been doing all along: work to protect the most vulnerable and prevent deaths, ensure hospitals don’t get overwhelmed, and keep schools and businesses open.
Never mind that many of the unvaccinated have already gotten and recovered from Covid, and have foregone the shot because they have natural immunity (a reality that never seems to factor into the Biden administration’s pandemic policies or messaging). Never mind that some people, having seen over the course of nearly two years that Covid is not as dangerous as the media and political elites have made it out to be and that Covid treatment has vastly improved, have assessed their risk and decided not to get the shots.
By Anthony Matoria, American Thinker, Dec 20, 2021
We are not inclined to hold that the statute establishes the absolute rule that an adult must be vaccinated if it be apparent or can be shown with reasonable certainty that he is not at the time a fit subject of vaccination […]
On December 14th, 2021, Nature Medicine released a study based on a broad population data set analyzed by researchers at Oxford University. The researchers examined the risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and cardiac arrhythmias associated with COVID-19 vaccination and infection.
The Oxford researchers reveal that 1 in 100 or 1% of all vaccinated individuals were admitted to the hospital or died with arrhythmia or irregular heartbeat.
From their inception, Dr. Monchy was very critical of the “experimental, never-before-used mRNA vaccines.” The Doctor disagreed with the vaccine’s “lack of a control group and long-term outcomes,” reports the Doctors Collective. Even more so, the Doctor is outraged that the injection is being promoted to children and pregnant women,
Standard ways of improving health are not encouraged, such as diet, exercise, and fresh air, but rather suppressed.
(LIFESITE NEWS) – A group that includes former Pfizer vice president Dr. Michael Yeadon filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on behalf of UK citizens against Boris Johnson and UK officials, Bill and Melinda Gates, chief executives of Big Pharma companies, World Economic Forum executive chairman Klaus Schwab, and others for crimes against humanity.
Everyone and their cousin were being categorized as dying from COVID – no matter what other conditions they had. Died of a heart attack – COVID death. Hit by a bus – COVID death. It really was that ridiculous. No matter what someone died of, if it was discovered they also had the coronavirus, his or her death was counted as a COVID statistic.
In fact the actual statistics developed earlier this year are that only 6% of people died from just contracting the virus. The other 94% of deaths had an average of over 2.5 co-morbidities – obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart failure.
Fauci, Biden and their band of merry varianteers began to see their fear narrative dissipating around Thanksgiving. Cases had fallen from 175,000 per day in mid-September to the 70,000 range in late November, down 60% and far below the 255,000 cases per day in January 2021. The Delta variant was losing its mojo, and something needed to be done. They couldn’t let the masses think they could get back to normal. That wasn’t going to work with the Build Back Better Great Reset master plan.
I can only appeal to those willing to be jabbed by offering a simple-to-understand analogy: If you go to buy a new car and you are offered a new and experimental model with no guarantees whatsoever – would you buy it? And if you did, and it failed and you returned it to the dealer – would buy another on the same basis? I am left speechless at the idiocy and ignorance of my fellow Brits.
I’m going to make one more point and that’s this. How many people here have heard of Event 201?
This year we saw the destruction of the American Constitution. That Constitution was written by a group of people who understood that there are worse things than dying. And they put their lives on the front line, their property, their careers, their livelihoods, to fight for freedom, and to fight for those rights that we have lost in the previous 20 months.
And now it’s our job now, it is the job of everybody in this crowd, to go out and fight back, to resist, resist, resist, resist, and to reclaim our government, to reclaim our lives, to reclaim our liberty, for our children, for our country, and for all future generations.
And I can tell you this. I will stand side by side with you, and if I have to die for this, I’m going to die with my boots on.
It is common knowledge that normal vaccine development takes nearly ten years and can be done in as little as five years in rare cases. The current COVID-19 shots were developed in one year, skipping many crucial steps. For example, scientists did not perform animal testing, phases II and III were combined, EUA occurred after just two months, the trials were unblinded, and phase III is ongoing until 2023.
CCCA Insists the Vaccines Be Withdrawn Immediately. The experts declare it is clear that Pfizer – and the agencies overseeing their trials – failed to follow established, high-quality safety and efficacy protocols right from the beginning. The group asserts, “We have presented Level 1 evidence of harm from Pfizer’s own trial data. Any government which has approved these inoculations, much less mandated them, knew or should have known from the available data that harm would be caused to its citizens.”
The panel will listen to presentations by CDC officials on thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), which U.S. drug regulators say has a “causal relationship” with the jab, according to a draft agenda for the meeting.
A former adviser to the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has compiled a list of more than 400 studies showing that COVID-19 lockdowns, shelter-in-place policies, school closures, masks and mask mandates have failed to curb virus transmission or reduce deaths.
If you do not have symptons, you can not pass on the virus.
We never needed to close down the schools or wear masks.
Once recovered from Covid-19, it’s one and done. Can’t get it again. No single case of re-infection. 41,000 vaccine failures – people died. Natural immunity is how we end the pandemic.
Illness is Treatable! Early treatment is key – day 1. Oral and Nasal spay and wash proving to be an effective preventive measure. Virus is in the nose. Vitamin, C, D, Zink, Ivermectin, HCL …. monoclonal anti-bodies …. infusion, predisone, aspirin (blood clotting) for 90 days, other…. Support: — Frontline Doctors …..
The vaccines we have …have not performed as expected. 90% was promise of effectivness, has not worked out. High rates of death with 48 hours, 80% within a week. Each shot is a gamble – too much spike protein causing injuries and death. VAERS results unacceptable. Agencies not protecting us. FOCUS – Protect our children. Vaccines are not enough to bring us out of the pandemic. NO MANDATES. Need Herd Immunity.
Immunity people enjoy after recovering from COVID-19 is better than the protection bestowed from vaccination, according to a new study from Israel.
Researchers analyzing data from the county’s health database from August to September found both COVID-19 infections and severe disease were higher among the vaccinated than those who recovered from the illness, also known as people with natural immunity.
Mass Formation Psychosis can account for the strange phenomenon of about 20-30% of the population in the western world becoming entranced with the Noble Lies and dominant narrative concerning the safety and effectiveness of the genetic vaccines, and both propagated and enforced by politicians, science bureaucrats, pharmaceutical companies and legacy media.
Just last week, July 21, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) made an announcement that destroys the entire COVID-19 narrative.
The CDC stated it was withdrawing the Emergency Use Authorization for the PCR tests after Dec. 31. The reason, explicitly stated, is the PCR test does not differentiate between the flu and COVID-19. This is the same test used since February of 2020.
“CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses,” the announcement states.
Great German research provides unequivocal medical evidence that the government should be strongly advocating two actions: 1) Taking vitamin D supplements, and 2) Having your blood tested for vitamin D.
The title for this October 2021 journal article says it all: “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.” (25(OH)D3 refers to metabolite of the vitamin in blood.)
In other words, there is clear evidence that the lower your vitamin D level the greater your risk of dying from COVID infection. Moreover, the data clearly show that you should have a blood level of at least 50 ng/mL.
Well, guess what? It has happened! Somehow we’re being told, in otherwise hushed tones, that the omicron variant of the original virus that causes COVID-19 (read China-Fauci flu) “may have picked up genetic material from another virus that causes the common cold,” the Washington Post reported Saturday
In a Friday press release by the Kyodo News Service, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare warned of myocarditis and pericarditis issues related to the mRNA COVID vaccines.
The Kyodo News Service is the Japanese equivalent of the AP or Reuters. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is the Japanese equivalent of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where the CDC is located.
This is a stunning development: the Japanese health services have determined that the mRNA vaccines may cause serious heart issues, and they are now alerted and gathering data on this issue. This follows many reports from small media outlets of athletes collapsing and some even dying after being vaccinated (see links to several such reports below). These reports were dismissed by the mainstream media, the administration, big business, and other leftists as unreliable. This announcement by Japan may now mainstream many of these reports, and those who have been vaccine averse may be vindicated by the science from a highly reliable source.
In a video interview with WND, he talks about a global “propaganda campaign” that includes the “hunting of physicians” to “try to delegitimize and damage the ability of physicians who are administering early, life-saving treatments.”
Among the many points he made (see the embedded video below) is the need to research why the tropical countries in Africa where HCQ and IVM are widely used have such minor death tolls from COVID. As you watch, examine the graph below:
He wrote on his Substack page: “The findings, in a nutshell: if you let your healthy child or teenager receive the mRNA Covid vaccine, you are insane.”
“By and large, it’s been a very selected pandemic, and predictable. It was very distinguished between young versus old, healthy versus chronic disease people. So we quickly learned who was at risk for the pandemic and who wasn’t,” he added.
“However, the fear was manufactured for everybody. And that’s what’s characterized the whole pandemic is that degree of fear and people’s response to the fear.”
“I’m looking at clinicians who have now treated more than 150,000 patients, with fewer than 2 dozen deaths, with #hydroxychloroquine.” Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine, #Ivermectin & other therapeutics.
Risch has authored over 300 original peer-reviewed publications and was formerly a member of the board of editors for the American Journal of Epidemiology.
“All-cause mortality is key,” she adds. “If there is no improvement in all-cause mortality, nothing else matters.” Let’s take a look at the findings.
“Excess mortality is a term used in epidemiology and public health that refers to the number of deaths from all causes during a crisis above and beyond what we would have expected to see under ‘normal’ conditions,” the authors note.
“Excess mortality is measured as the difference between the reported number of deaths in a given week or month (depending on the country) in 2020–2021 and an estimate of the expected number of deaths for that period had the COVID-19 pandemic not occurred,” the authors define the term. … Furthermore, the Our World in Data breaks down the excess mortality with p-scores, which weight the data with additional factors. … “To better enable comparisons across countries, we measure excess mortality as the percentage difference between the reported and projected number of deaths. This metric is called the P-score…”
The Covid therapeutic drugs being marketed as “vaccines” may have benefit to certain at-risk populations, such as the elderly. … However, this is a far cry from vaccine mandates and the one-size-fits all policies being advocated under the failing Public Health Expert model.
Malone said the reason he is speaking out, in spite of the considerable personal risks, is simple. … “It’s because I’m bloody well pissed off. It’s not right, it’s not fair, it’s hurting people, it is breaking the rules, left and right, people are lying continuously, they’re manipulating data,” he said. “It’s shocking.”
“My wife and I are Central Coast Californians by birth and youth, and we actually come from slightly center-left on the political spectrum,” he told WND. … “But I’ve got to say, what we’ve observed live the last two years has completely changed our point of view on politics in the United States.
The risk of death from the injection is about three times higher for children and adolescents than death from COVID.
Japanese medical magazine Med Check examined the coronavirus vaccine’s serious side effects and deaths. The publication’s editor-in-chief, Rokuro Hama, revealed that in the elderly and health care workers, a disproportionate number of people died of various cardiovascular causes after the Covid gene-therapy jab compared to the general population. Furthermore, people in their twenties have seven times higher risk of death from vaccination than from COVID-19.
Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, documents that show Pfizer and the FDA knew in early 2021 that mRNA vaccines were killing thousands of people and causing spontaneous abortions, as well as damaging three times more women than men.
FDA fought the court-ordered release of FDA files by arguing that its files should have been sealed for 55 years. The judge disagreed and ordered 500 documents a month to be released, and the first document included this bombshell titled, “Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports.“
The facts surrounding the Omicron variant are emerging day-by-day. CNN reported on November 30, 2021, “there is still a lot we don’t know about the Omicron variant, but scientists are racing to determine its severity, transmissibility and whether it evades current vaccines.”
High-risk patients who are vaccinated and the unvaccinated need protection in the form of therapeutics to treat symptoms.
Bill Gates’ Gavi Vaccine Alliance in 2018 published a paper on its INFUSE program that ought to be required reading for every parent of young children.
This document is guaranteed to give pause to any parent considering taking the advice of Dr. Anthony Fauci, their local public-school nurse or government-compliant pediatrician who insists they get their child jabbed.
Published more than a year before anyone had heard of Covid-19, the document explains why Fauci, Gates and the corrupt U.S. government are so intent on getting these “vaccines” into the bodies of younger and younger people.
The real purpose behind the historic, unprecedented push to vaccinate the very young, even against diseases like Covid that do not pose a threat to them, is to fold the current generation of children into the blossoming global digital identity system.
The great body of evidence (comparative research studies and high-quality pieces of evidence and reporting judged to be relevant to this analysis) shows that COVID-19 lockdowns, shelter-in-place policies, masks, school closures, and mask mandates have failed in their purpose of curbing transmission or reducing deaths. These restrictive policies were ineffective and devastating
Nearly all governments have attempted compulsory measures to control the virus, but no government can claim success. The research indicates that mask mandates, lockdowns, and school closures have had no discernible impact of virus trajectories.
Dr Alexander holds a PhD. He has experience in epidemiology and in the teaching clinical epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and research methodology.
The newly discovered omicron mutation of the novel coronavirus will likely be a “minor” variant, according to epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough.
He replied that with 99% of COVID cases now of the delta variant, “the vaccines are not keyed against delta, so they’re having a terrible time in terms of getting control.”
McCullough added that the omicron variant first reported last week arose among travelers in Botswana who were vaccinated.
“So I think it’s clear now that this variant is an evolutionary mistake that arose within the vaccinated.”
There are intense debates surrounding the vaccine, its efficacy, how long the immunity lasts — particularly as the virus evolves — its experimental nature, its “Emergency Use Authorization,” and its serious side effects and adverse reactions, including death, that have been well documented.
Further, the various vaccines are not “vaccines” as commonly understood but “gene therapy,” mRNA platforms that insert themselves into our DNA. They then harness our own cellular machinery to produce the infamous “spike protein” to be distributed throughout the body eliciting the immune response, but sometimes with devastating consequences, as we have learned. A vaccine generally takes four-six years of development before being released. The COVID vaccine coming out in just a few months meant bypassing the usual safeguards that serve to protect the public before a new drug or vaccine is brought to market.
People who have recovered from COVID-19 are at little risk of contracting the disease again, according to a study published last week. Researchers in Qatar examined a cohort of over 353,000 people using national databases that contain information about patients with polymerase-chain-reaction-confirmed infections.
The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It was funded by Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health, the Hamad Medical Corp., and Sidra Medicine.
We all owe Atlas an enormous debt of gratitude, for it was he who persuaded the Florida governor to choose the path of focussed protection as advocated by the Great Barrington Declaration, which Atlas cites as the “single document that will go down as one of the most important publications in the pandemic, as it lent undeniable credibility to focused protection and provided courage to thousands of additional medical scientists and public health leaders to come forward.”
Collins told Fauci the declaration came from three “fringe” epidemiologists, meaning Dr. Martin Kulldorf of Harvard, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford and Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford.
Malone told WND the email showed the “hubris” of Collins, who doesn’t have the training and experience in epidemiology that the three scholars possess.
A former Pfizer employee, now working as a pharmaceutical marketing expert and biotech analyst, has provided evidence in a public meeting in September suggesting that Pfizer is aware that these shots can cause those vaccinated to be more prone to contracting COVID-19 and infections.
In the United Kingdom, excess mortality is off the charts. Despite this, nobody is willing to consider the Covid-19 vaccines as responsible for the deaths.
Professor Carl Heneghan and Cancer Expert said that the current situation in the country is a “national scandal.” Over the past several months, a shocking 9,300 more people than usual have died in Great Britain, and officials are blaming everything else except the jabs.
Bill Gates and Adar Poonawalla, the partners in manufacturing the Covishield (AstraZeneca) vaccine are made accused for their involvement in conspiracy.
Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA vaccines, accused Dr. Faucistein and the CDC of lying about the effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. he estimates 500,000 people died because they were denied the use of these drugs.
McCullough added, “The pandemic could have been over by now, he says, if those who tested positive for covid had been immediately treated before they fell ill enough to be hospitalized. He also says that thousands could have been, and still could be saved if the treatment protocol he and other physicians use were not suppressed.”
Early in the pandemic, together with a team of practicing physicians across the United States, I developed a protocol for the use of corticosteroids to treat COVID-19. At the time our public health agencies recommended against the use of corticosteroids—but we were soon vindicated, and corticosteroids are now part of the CDC’s recommended protocol.
As the pandemic wore on, we pooled our experience treating patients on the frontlines, and based on emerging data from academic studies, including peer-reviewed randomized-controlled trials (RCTs), we expanded our treatment protocol to employ various FDA-approved medicines. This includes fluvoxamine, methylprednisolone, ascorbic acid, thiamine, heparin, vitamin D, zinc, melatonin, and ivermectin.
I’ve used this treatment protocol to reduce COVID-19 deaths in my intensive care unit by up to 50 percent.
I’m going to quote the final sentence of the abstract which appears at the beginning of the article. This is all I, you – or anyone else – needs to know.
`We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy and other vascular events following vaccination.’
That’s it. That’s the death bell for the covid-19 mRNA jabs.
he most up-to-date data by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which showed that children accounted for zero percent to 0.19% of all COVID-19 deaths, and 10 U.S. states reported zero child deaths.
He confirmed the data show the infection fatality rate for COVID is roughly similar to seasonal influenza. And he believes the COVID rate will be even lower once all the data are collected.
Further, Stanford University epidemiologist John P.A. Ioannidis, analyzing 36 studies along with an additional seven preliminary national estimates, has concluded the infection fatality rate around the world for those under 70 ranged from zero percent to 0.57%.
For children and young adults, the infection fatality rate is close to zero, pointed out Ioannidis, chairman at the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology at Stanford’s medical school.
`We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy and other vascular events following vaccination.’
> One of the most commonly used tricks to make a drug look more effective than it is in a real-world setting is to conflate absolute and relative risk reduction. While AstraZeneca boasted a relative reduction of 100%, the absolute reduction was 0.01%. For the Pfizer shot, the relative risk reduction was initially 95%, but the absolute risk reduction was only 0.84%
Last month, Merck and Ridgeback announced that molnupiravir could reduce by half the chances that a person infected by the coronavirus would need to be hospitalized. The drug was so overwhelmingly effective that an independent committee asked the researchers to stop their Phase III trial early—it would have been unethical to continue giving participants placebos. None of the nearly four hundred patients who received molnupiravir in the trial went on to die, and the drug had no major side effects. On November 4th, the U.K. became the first country to approve molnupiravir; many observers expect that an emergency-use authorization will come from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in December.
In most of the United Kingdom, the New York Times reported, elementary school children and their teachers were not required to wear masks during the delta surge there earlier this year. …. A study of masked German schoolchildren published June 30 in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics found carbon dioxide content in “inhaled air” was at least three-fold higher than German law allows.
… in August and immediately following approval of the vaccine, more than 30 academics, professors, and scientists from this country’s most prestigious universities requested the data and information submitted to the FDA by Pfizer to license its COVID-19 vaccine.
The FDA’s response? It produced nothing. So, in September, my firm filed a lawsuit against the FDA on behalf of this group to demand this information. To date, almost three months after it licensed Pfizer’s vaccine, the FDA still has not released a single page. Not one.
On Friday Dr. Fauci told The New York Times podcast that the vaccines did not work as advertised and that Americans are in danger due to their waning immunity.
A “free” required PCR test in the Emergency Room or upon admission for every patient, with a fee to hospital by federal government.
Added bonus payment for each positive COVID-19 diagnosis.
Another bonus for a COVID-19 admission to the hospital.
A 20% “boost” bonus payment from Medicare on the entire hospital bill for the use of remdesivir instead of other medicines, such as ivermectin.
Another and larger bonus payment to the hospital if a COVID-19 patient is mechanically ventilated.
More money to the hospital if cause of death is listed as COVID-19, even if patient did not die directly of COVID-19.
A COVID-19 diagnosis also provides extra payments to coroners.
the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that the use of remdesivir in treating patients during the 2018 West African Ebola outbreak had to be discontinued ‘because mortality exceeded 50%.’ Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control published studies indicate a range of 71-75% adverse events caused by remdesivir (including liver and kidney damage), and many of the studies documented that remdesivir treatment had to be discontinued after 5-10 days because of adverse events or even worse, death.”
The federal government and health-care experts have denied that claim. But the president of Bayer’s Pharmaceuticals Division is on record describing the mRNA shots as “cell and gene therapy” and acknowledging public wariness of the technology.
“Dr. Joseph Mercola has been shunned by the mainstream for honestly calling the jabs what they are. In March, he wrote: “In short, they know labeling them as ‘gene therapies’ would be like slapping a skull and crossbones label on them. Most people have enough common sense to realize that gene therapy is a different ballgame from a regular vaccination, and might be a bad idea, especially for children and younger individuals.”
A New York attorney filed a FOIA request in September asking for “documents reflecting any documented case of an individual who (1) never received a Covid-19 vaccine; (2) was infected with Covid-19 once, recovered, and then later became infected again; and (3) transmitted SARS CoV-2 to another person when reinfected.” …. The CDC responded: “A search of our records failed to reveal any documents pertaining to your request. The CDC Emergency Operation Center (EOC) conveyed that this information is not collected.”
In comments to the paper, Memoli said that he supports COVID-19 vaccination in high-risk groups including obese people and the elderly. However, widespread vaccinations for people who have a low risk of death or severe illness from COVID-19 could hamper the U.S. population’s ability to develop more robust protection against the virus via previous infections, he said.
Facilitator – Margaret Menge. Told a story of an 18 year that contracted heart disease after the shot
Dr. Stock
Andrea Ford – concerned for child vaccininations – no justification, more risk than benefit. No inf on long-term consequences, but there will be an increase in certain illnesses
Lack of providing thorough information on informed consent
Refusal of treatment for the unvaccinated
Discrimination, harassment, hostile work environments, …. crimes against humanity
James Chrismore – Ge Aviation, Lafayette, IN 2:36 mark. Had his religious exemption accepted. Organizes resistance.
RN – Erin Berry – Medical Sales Rep. Fighting mandate. Religious exemption denied. Working on medical condition, natural immunity, denied exemption – may lose her job
DeAndra Dycus – sone shot – stray bullet – medical issues and care, was on a ventilator (no Covid), positive for flu, fight for your children, against mandates, did choose for her son to get vaccinated due to his heatlh issues. Be a momma bear
Bryan Ford – school teacher, special ed. Unvaxxed had to wear masks, Vaxed did not. 1,000 stipend for getting vaxed. quit. New School Superintendant. Bribe kids with new cars to get vaxed. Found new job. Everything great. No cases, no vax related stress. Do have to follow Fed and State requirements. Could sign a waiver against masks.
Thomas Michelor – Former IU student. IU Tyranny, mask mandate/wore Gas Mask in protest, felt humiliated, no student interaction, sense of fear, refused to wear mask, told to trust the experts, got suspended, hearing, no advocate, was suspended, left college. Was on a full-ride. Would not subit to tyranny.
Bailey. Rare brain cancer. Parents refused vaccinations. natural approach to medicine worked. Mother – 3yr old son. Divorced. Covid hit. Got a job working with children. Mask wear … incentives for vaccinated (time off), special recog on badges. Then vax was mandated for all or voluntary resigning. Filed medical exemption – was accepted. No accomodations. Suspended for 2 weeks – w/out pay. Received termination letter.Started new job – no mandates.
Ashley Grog. RN. Founder – Hoosiers for Medical Liberty. Collected thousands of stories for help with exemptions, and legislation, we are all grieving the lack of ethics and morals.
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Conspiracy? Defined as an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act
Techno-Tyranny: How The US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision. Last year, a government commission called for the US to adopt an AI-driven mass surveillance system far beyond that used in any other country in order to ensure American hegemony in artificial intelligence. Now, many of the “obstacles” they had cited as preventing its implementation are rapidly being removed under the guise of combating the coronavirus crisis. by BY WHITNEY WEBB
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla had an hour-long interview on Tuesday with Frederick Kemp of the Atlantic Council in which he calls mRNA shots a “gene editing,” which is an admission the mRNA jabs are not vaccines. Bourla also claims that scientists can “repair the mistakes” in DNA, or in other words they can play God.
By looking at the Atlantic Council’s website, it is a globalist and collectivist organization in the vein of the World Economic Forum.
One has to wonder what to think when the so-called “fact checkers,” like Reuters, has called anyone calling the jabs “gene editing” or “gene therapy” as spreading misinformation, yet you have the CEO of Pfizer calling it just that.
Dr. Joseph Mercola has been shunned by the mainstream for honestly calling the jabs what they are. In March, he wrote: “In short, they know labeling them as ‘gene therapies’ would be like slapping a skull and crossbones label on them. Most people have enough common sense to realize that gene therapy is a different ballgame from a regular vaccination, and might be a bad idea, especially for children and younger individuals.”
What should be noted is that Kemp’s statement that Pfizer’s jab is “approved” is misinformation itself. No shot on the market is approved with all those in use under emergency use authorization.
This is an anonymously posted document by someone who calls themselves Spartacus. Because it’s anonymous, I can’t contact them to ask for permission to publish. So I hesitated for a while, but it’s simply the best document I’ve seen on Covid, vaccines, etc. Whoever Spartacus is, they have a very elaborate knowledge in “the field”. If you want to know a lot more about the no. 1 issue in the world today, read it. And don’t worry if you don’t understand every single word, neither do I. But I learned a lot.
Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA technology employed by the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines: Inoculating 28 million children 5 to 11 years old could lead to “1,000 or more excess deaths” while the risk from COVID-19 for healthy children is “about zero” and appears to be lower than the seasonal flu.
Paul Alexander, a clinical epidemiologist and former senior adviser on pandemic policy in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: “We’ve been fed a lot of misleading information … children don’t get severely ill … children don’t die from this infection.”
Dr. Richard Urso, Texas ophthalmologist: In Sweden, where schools were kept open, there was “not a single death of a child from COVID.”
Nov 2, 2021. COVID-19 Vaccination for Children 5 through 11 Years Old
CDC now recommends that children between the ages of 5 and 11 years receive the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine. Get more information and read CDC’s media statement.
Smaller (less thant 100 employees) Companies. OSHA said Thursday that the mandate could be expanded to companies with fewer than 100 workers. The agency said it will make a decision after collecting public comment on that proposal for the next 30 days.
Kulldorf, noting both studies cannot be right, said he has never “never before seen such a large discrepancy between studies that are supposed to answer the same question.”
Kulldorff is an epidemiologist, biostatistician and professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the co-author, along with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford and Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford, of the Great Barrington Declaration, advocating a public policy of “focused protection” on the vulnerable while letting others go about their business. More than 860,000 people have signed the declaration, including 14,981 medical and public health scientists, and 44,167 medical practitioners.
“The evidence is in. Governors, journalists, scientists, university presidents, hospital administrators and business leaders can continue to follow Dr. Anthony Fauci or open their eyes. After 700,000-plus COVID deaths and the devastating effects of lockdowns, it is time to return to basic principles of public health.”
Right now, the medical establishment is doing the equivalent of a doctor who, when he concludes that you are in the early stages of a sinus infection, sends you home without any antibiotics and, instead, tells you to return when you’re septic. When it comes to COVID, we’re all told to go home and get back to the doctor when we’re on the verge of dying and interventional medicines will no longer work. Meanwhile, almost the entire American establishment (Democrats, doctors, Hollywood stars) hectors everyone to get vaccinated.
Delta Variant – early treatment (with available and safe drugs) the key for the vaxxed and unvaxxed.
Vaccination can’t be the only strategy
We have existing treatments independent of the variant
Too much fear and propaganda – IQ drop of 20 points for kids born after Jan 2020.
Of the approximate 32- kids that dies of Covid, all had comorbidities. This could be changing. Again, early treatment (with available drugs) can prevent deaths.
Prevention: Ivermectin is effective if taken regularly as is HDC or both – no deaths
Dr. Tyson – 6,000 patients – no deaths if treated day 1-7, (?) deaths if treated day 7-14.
Barriers – Financial interests – vaccines are profitable; Academia – last 10 yrs, “only proof of efficacy of a drug has to come from a large, double blind randomized control trial. Takes time, delayed, under-dosed.
Dr. Malone – safety of the mRNA has enormous promise. Safety of the underlug technology is not demonstrated yet. In the fog of war, rushed to market.
Spike Protein from the vaccine has caused more damage than any medical treatment in history. Most people will be fine.
Dr. Malone. Takes a decade or more to produce a vaccine that is safe and effective and to demonstrate it is safe. . FDA 2 years after phase 3 trials of 3,000 people (the more the better) and another two years to see if there are any autoimmune issues.
Short-cuts? Normally it takes three years to evaluate the data vs 6-8 months after phase 3 trails were completed. Didn’t have the data to identify and assess adverse effects. No testing on effect on pregnant women. Spike Protein causes inflammation in the ovaries – do not know effect or if is safe.
“The mandates are pointless. Now that we know that fully vaccinated individuals are getting infected, they can transmit the disease. Unfortunately, they are being hospitalized, they’re getting seriously ill, they’re dying. There’s no point to the mandate, whatsoever.“
On the dangers of the vaccines, Senator Johnson added, “They’re completely ignoring the vaccine injuries. And Maria, people really need to understand this because it’s not being reported. It’s being suppressed. But over 25 years with the flu vaccine there were a little less than 1,700 deaths reported on the Vaccine Adverse Reporting System (VAERS). That’s CDC’s early surveillance security system… With the COVID Vaccine, we’ve had 16,766 deaths in 10 months administering this vaccine.”
Dr. Peter McCullough has been a leader in working to help people build their immune system and to provide treatments that will prevent the need for people to be hospitalized. He is among the many of physicians that support building natural immunity and has expressed concerns with the vaccines. INTERVIEW WITH DR. PETER MCCULLOUGH –
Warning that the world is “in the middle of a major biological catastrophe,” renowned physician and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough charged in a recent address that fraudulent public health officials are pushing experimental “gene-transfer” COVID-19 vaccines that produce the “loaded weapon” of a toxic spike protein.
Dr. Dan Stock wants to warn people about the Covid-19 vaccines. Nine months to a year after getting them, many people are going to get sick and many will die, he says. The word he used to describe what is likely to happen is “holocaust.” Could he be right? Stock lists three reasons.
In a Highwire exclusive, Deborah Conrad, a hospitalist physician’s assistant on the frontlines of the pandemic, pulls back the curtain on the complete lack and disregard in her hospital for reporting Covid vaccine injury to VAERS, this country’s only mechanism to track the safety of these rushed-to-market, mandated products. In riveting detail, including emails & recorded phone conversations, Conrad exposes the internal push to turn a blind eye to injuries and “tow the company line” that this vaccine is safe.
Ventavia Research Group operated several of the trial sites in the fall of 2020. Brook Jackson worked for the company during this time. She told the British Medical Journal (BMJ) that the trial was riddled with issues, including the falsification of data.
Jackson said she alerted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the problems she witnessed and was fired within hours of doing so.
As testimonies of people being denied proper healthcare for COVID infection in America’s hospitals mount, attorneys are hitting back at the medical staff responsible for overseeing “death sentence” COVID treatment plans, promising justice to those responsible: “We’re going to hold you accountable.”
A “Physicians’ Declaration” produced by an international alliance of physicians and medical scientists strongly condemns the global strategy to treat COVID, accusing policy-makers of potential “crimes against humanity” for preventing physicians from providing life-saving treatments for their patients and suppressing open scientific discussion. … The document states that “one size fits all” treatment recommendations have resulted in needless illness and death.
Martin Kulldorf, professor of medicine at Harvard University, says we must acknowledge that 400 years of scientific enlightenment may be coming to end because there is no longer open and honest discourse, which is critical for science and public health.
Kulldorff calls his critics’ hand by demanding they engage in a scientific discussion about their position, rather than name-calling and threatening professional repercussions.
“If we are to be faulted for anything, it is that we failed to convince governments to implement focused protection instead of damaging lockdowns,” Kulldorff writes. “One place where we had some success was Florida, where the cumulative age-adjusted Covid mortality is lower than the US national average with less collateral damage. If we are wrong, then as scientists we would welcome a scientific discussion on how and where we are wrong.”
2. Apologize for the biggest public health fiasco in history
3. Rebuild public trust
The fact that the world is now 19 months into COVID demands that continue to defy science, ethics, and human and natural rights, with still no substantive response to the evidence- and reason-based critics of all these drastic impositions, suggests oppression is all the COVID authoritarians have. If they had science, reason, and humanity on their side, they would demonstrate it instead of twisting everyone’s arms.
Since they’re sticking with coercion and pressure tactics instead of informed and open debate, it’s safe to presume at this point that arm-twisting is all they have. And that they’re not going to stop until people make them.
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Modified Patterson early treatment protocol for COVID. Based on recommendation of Dr. Bruce Patterson with a few minor improvements. Patterson who treats thousands of long-haul COVID and vaccine cases so he knowns more than anyone else the drugs that in combination are the most effective in countering the inflammation caused by COVID. Take all drugs (that you can access) IMMEDIATELY after you suspect a COVID infection (except as indicated). They are all safe and do not interact with each other.
Viganò asserts that vaccines normally go through years of rigorous testing, and that the lack of such a process in the case of COVID-19 jabs represents public health authorities conducting “experimentation on the entire world population.”
The Archbishop referenced drug treatments that have proven effective in fighting COVID without the risks of vaccines, noting that such drugs have been discredited by global health bodies and the media.
“It must be reiterated that there are effective treatments which cure patients and allow them to develop permanent natural immune defenses, something that the vaccines do not do,” he wrote. “Furthermore, these treatments do not cause serious side effects, since the drugs that are used have been licensed for decades.”
“International standards specify that an experimental drug cannot be authorized for distribution except in the absence of an effective alternative treatment: this is why drug agencies in the USA and Europe have prevented the use of hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, hyper-immune plasma, and other therapies with proven effectiveness,” he added.
Viganò goes on to state that the vaccines proving ineffective in preventing people from getting and passing on the virus means they can’t even be called vaccines.
The Archbishop expressed his fury at other members of the clergy and Pope Francis himself for facilitating a “crime against humanity” and “satanic action against God.”
Finally, according to our Founding Fathers, “rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” This country isn’t run by tyrants – yet – but the current vaccination campaign bears unmistakable totalitarian undertones. “Get the vaccine or lose your job.” That’s the message of the government. You can be a healthy 30-year-old who already had COVID, but the government doesn’t care. It wants everyone vaccinated – facts be damned.
“We should not force COVID vaccines on anyone when the evidence shows that naturally acquired immunity is equal to or more robust and superior to existing vaccines. Instead, we should respect the right of the bodily integrity of individuals to decide for themselves,”
Natural Acquired COVID Immunity Passport. Our mission is to help all people to determine if they are immune to COVID-19 virus through their own immune system. This requires a blood test to see if you achieved natural virus immunity, without the “vaccine” shot. If you have natural immunity, you do not need the COVID shot. …. Whether you know or are unsure if you have had the virus and want to know if you have achieved the natural immunity this is for you.
Approximately twenty studies have now emerged regarding natural immunity to COVID. All of them point to the fact that natural immunity acquired through a COVID infection can be quite robust.
The answer is clear. Natural immunity provides greater than 99% protection against Covid-19 while vaccine immunity is well below this level of protection even directly after vaccination and from there rapidly wanes.
“In the entire history of mankind there has never been a political elite sincerely concerned about the wellbeing of regular people. What makes any of us think that it is different now.”
AGs in Missouri, Nebraska, Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming sued President Joe Biden and multiple federal agencies and officials over federal guidance and an executive order mandating Covid-19 vaccinations for all workers for employers that have covered contracts with the federal government.
“I believe the COVID vaccine is a greater threat to soldiers’ health and military readiness than the virus itself,” U.S. Army aerospace physician Lt. Col. Theresa Long said Tuesday.
Long, who is senior flight surgeon at the U.S. Army Flight School at Fort Rucker, Alabama, was addressing a roundtable discussion put together by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin). She said she was speaking under federal military whistleblower protection.
DOL and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers’ vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination at least through May 2022. We will reevaluate the agency’s position at that time to determine the best course of action moving forward.
1. Lack of a Public and Transparent Adverse Events Reporting System
2. Severe Impairments in Healthcare Professionals’ Adverse Events Reporting System
3. Data Distortion (including the deletion of thousands of citizen responses to a post by the Israeli Ministry of Health)
4. Legal and Ethical Violations in Data Collection Processes
The group told the FDA its conclusion is “reinforced by the significant doubts about the reliability of the data reported by Israel, as detailed above, and the consequent major concern that their use might be misleading and thus disrupt the decision-making processes pertaining to the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccines.”
I am not an anti-vaxxer, and plenty of my friends and colleagues have been vaccinated. … But these vindictive and punitive measures are outrageous and completely unjustifiable. In the end, they will do more harm than good, hurting lives more than saving lives while increasing our general mistrust of authority.
Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said in an interview with EpochTV that the risks outweigh any benefit.
I am not so insensitive to the voices of my colleagues in Infectious Disease and Pediatrics that I cannot hear them objecting. Loudly. One objection might be, “Why would you give ammunition for vaccine-hesitant parents and kids to avoid a societally-useful, individually-protective vaccine, all over a rare,1/6,600 reaction?” My inner Libertarian has a ready answer for that: I cannot endorse any policy that requires a substantial segment of the population to undergo a medical intervention in which the risk of harm might possibly exceed the benefit. In fact, I feel obliged to fight it.
It is Pfizer’s corporate duty to seek the broadest possible implementation of its vaccine, but even its most prominent board member is warning us: it’s too soon to mandate these vaccines to children. Our public health experts need to listen.
“Emergency use authorization of biological agents requires the existence of an emergency, and the non-existence of alternate treatments,” Dr. Rose said. “There is no emergency and Covid-19 is exceedingly treatable.”
Steve Kirsch: Jessica Rose, PhD just had her paper on VAERS analysis of myocarditis rejected after two rounds of review at “Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine.” NO REASON GIVEN. This is scientific misconduct at its finest by the peer reviewers (not the Journal). Jessica is first-rate.
The state attorney general in Nebraska has issued an opinion that physicians can prescribe hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin as treatments for COVID-19 without violating any of the state’s laws or regulations.” The request from the health department came because of the flood of conflicting and inaccurate information about the treatments.
Early treatment protocols such as those used by Fareed and Tyson have been shown to provide more than a 99% relative risk reduction, work for all variants, and the drugs don’t maim or harm the recipients.
Dr. Fareed: The earlier the treatment can be started after the start of the infection, the better and more rapid the recovery (as well as the reduction in the risk of spread/contagious period). This would mean that the patient should optimally start the treatment in the first 4 days of the infection and within five days of exposure. It usually is based on symptoms which start within 1-4 days of viral entry into the upper respiratory system. Even starting the multi-faceted treatment later (7-10 days after infection) is also very worthwhile if severe pneumonia necessitating hospitalization has not yet set in.
But it was the eight doctors—who represent many more—who were the focus of the event. It would be almost inappropriate to describe them as other than a cast of superheroes. I’ll mix the metaphors or universes or whatever as I try to explain just a piece of what just went down.
Website: Vladimirzelenkomd.com. In March 2020,Dr. Zelenko’s team was one of the first in the country to successfully treat thousands of Covid-19 patients in the prehospital setting. Dr. Zelenko developed his now famous “Zelenko Protocol,” which has saved countless lives worldwideIn March 2020, Dr. Zelenko’s team was one of the first in the country to successfully treat thousands of Covid-19 patients in the prehospital setting. Dr. Zelenko developed his now famous “Zelenko Protocol,” which has saved countless lives worldwide
– Zelenko Protocol innovator: 99% survival of high risk Covid-19 patients
– Nominated for the Presidential Medal of Freedom
– Recognized as a hero at U.S. Senate Homeland Security committee hearing
– Published in top peer reviewed journals with world renowned physicians
– Provided counsel to White House personnel, multiple governments, hospitals, physicians, public figures
– Board Certified Family Physician with over 20 years experience
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Any doctor who actually reads the studies, or follows any of the protocols published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, will see a lot of peer pressure to stop. The financial risks may be extreme. It takes a spine of steel to stand up to the authoritarian orthodoxy.
Dr. Jessica Rose: Assessment of the data reported in VAERS. She holds degrees in applied mathematics, immunology, computational biology, molecular biology and biochemistry. You can find her bio at this link. The presentation references the work of Steve Kirsch that contributed to FDAs decision to delay approval for vaccination of children (1). She also supports the early treatment protocols developed by Dr. Peter McCullough.
Presentation Conclusions:
Use Early Treatments
Stop injection roll-out until safety and efficacy can properly be assessed.
Development of treatment options for the injection-injured.
Presentation Recommendation. Early treatment with known efficacious and safe drugs.
The Great Barrington Declaration. Over 55,000 infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists recommended an approach referred to as Focused Protection. Over 800,00 concerned citizens have also signed. “The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection. “
… new scientific study out of Israel last week, the largest of its kind, compared natural immunity in individuals who were previously infected with Covid-19 against immunity in individuals who had received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
Those who had been vaccinated were 13 times more likely to be infected with the Delta variant (what has been called a “breakthrough” infection) than those with natural immunity, the study found
The study authors conclude: “This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer-lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant.”
And now the (Israeli) study says maybe even more protected than the vaccine alone. Should they also get the vaccine? How do you make the case to them?” Gupta asked. … “You know, that’s a really good point, Sanjay. I don’t have a really firm answer for you on that,” Fauci replied.
Military Servicemembers file a Class Action Lawsuit on behalf of the 220,000 membersthat have natural immunity. They are challenging the forced mandate for all. The lawsuit identifies the process that was used for approval of the vaccines and its deviation from the norm. Army Regulation 40-562 (“AR 40-562) “provides documented survivors of an infection a presumptive exemption from vaccination due to the natural immunity acquired as a result of having survived the infection. “ Lawsuit
The forced vaccination of all military personnel with the present COVID-19 vaccines may compromise U.S. national security due to the unknown extent of serious vaccine complications,” Furman wrote in his letter. “Further study is needed before committing the Total Force to one irreversible experimental group. Initial reports leave more concern for the COVID-19 vaccinations than the virus itself for the (at present) exceptionally healthy military population.”
In academia – Todd Zywicki of George Mason University School of Law sued over the mandate – he proved that he had natural immunity – and won an individual concession from the school but the policy remained unchanged. He is just one person but there are thousands of others, most of whom are quiet about their plight. They don’t have lawyers. They are considering just giving in. They wonder what the point of resistance really is. (The Purges have begun, Burning Platform)
Of the approximately 2,500 active duty Navy SEALs, each of whom cost Americans at least $500,000 to train, several hundred have sought an exemption from the Covid-19 vaccine mandate in the military—as many as a quarter of all active duty SEALs, according to R. Davis Younts, a JAG lawyer who is representing several of the special operators in his private capacity. JustTheNews reported that the SEALs—most of whom are shooters, not in senior leadership—have been told that, if they seek a religious accommodation, they will no longer be able to serve as active duty soldiers. In other words, their requests will almost certainly be denied.
The lawsuit alleges that the federal government’s mandate specifies only FDA-approved vaccines. It adds that the FDA’s approval specifies only Pfizer’s “Comirnaty” vaccine, and not the unnamed Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that has been available for nearly a year and remains under emergency use authorization.
The FDA has maintained that the existing Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is identical to the Comirnaty vaccine and considered interchangeable, and that the only difference is the legal name and the packaging.
Service members from all five branches of the military, federal employees, and federal civilian contractors have joined in a class action lawsuit against the Department of Defense over its COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
The 24 plaintiffs “face a deadline under the Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate to receive a COVID-19 vaccine that violates their sincerely held religious beliefs, and have been refused any religious exemption or accommodation,” according to Liberty Counsel, the Christian legal firm that filed the lawsuit.
The lawsuit (pdf), filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, lists President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as defendants.
The Guardian, a UK newspaper, has published a wonderfully informed, detailed list of key facts you should understand about COVID. I am going to give you the reader’s digest version, but here is the link to read the whole thing. Please do.
Sept 18, 2021. Brown County contracts with IU for ambulance service. “125 Staff Part Ways With Indiana’s Biggest Hospital System After Refusing Vaccine By Tom Ozimek
On Friday an FDA advisory panel declined to endorse authorization the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid booster shot for people aged 16 or older.
The panel voted 16-2 to reject extra doses of an experimental vaccine, citing insufficient data from incomplete clinical trials and the potential risk of heart inflammation – especially among young men.
The FDA hearing prior to the decision was stunning. The hearing was 8 hours long and it included SHOCKING testimony from American doctors.
Dr. Joseph Fraiman, MD told the FDA on Friday that government does not have data to show the vaccine was more beneficial than it is harmful for teenage boys.
Steve Kirsch, the Executive Director of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund was up next to testify before the FDA. Kirsch argued the vaccines kill more people than they save. … Kirsh pointed out that there patients were 71 times more likely to suffer a heart attack after taking the vaccine than those taking other vaccines. 20 died from the drug, 14 from the placebo. … Kirsh argued that the vaccine killed more people than saved lives.
Steve Kirsch also pointed out that early treatments are more successful than boosters, noting that cases in Israel are at an all-time high and cases in Uttar Pradesh, India where they administer Ivermectin, the cases are nearly non-existent today.
Some arguments are faulty, not necessarily because of the truth or falsity of the premises, but because they rely on psychological and emotional ploys. These are bad arguments because people shouldn’t accept your conclusion if you are using scare tactics or distracting and manipulating reasoning. Arguments that have this issue are called fallacies. There are a lot of fallacies, so, again, if you want to know more a web search will be useful. We are going to look at several that seem to be the most relevant for our day-to-day experiences.
Inappropriate Appeal to Authority: We are definitely going to use authority figures in our lives (e.g. doctors, lawyers, mechanics, financial advisors, etc.), but we need to make sure that the authority figure is a reliable one.
Things to look for here might include: reputation in the field, not holding widely controversial views, experience, education, and the like. So, if we take an authority figure’s word and they’re not legit, we’ve committed the fallacy of appeal to authority.
Example 5: I think I am going to take my investments to Voya. After all, Steven Adams advocates for Voya in an advertisement I recently saw.
If we look at the criteria for evaluating arguments that appeal to authority figures, it is pretty easy to see that Adams is not an expert in the finance field. Thus, this is an inappropropriate appeal to authority.
Slippery Slope Arguments: Slippery slope arguments are found everywhere it seems. The essential characteristic of a slippery slope argument is that it uses problematic premises to argue that doing ‘x’ will ultimately lead to other actions that are extreme, unlikely, and disastrous. You can think of this type of argument as a faulty chain of events or domino effect type of argument.
Example 6: If you don’t study for your philosophy exam you will not do well on the exam. This will lead to you failing the class. The next thing you know you will have lost your scholarship, dropped out of school, and will be living on the streets without any chance of getting a job.
While you should certainly study for your philosophy exam, if you don’t it is unlikely that this will lead to your full economic demise.
One challenge to evaluating slippery slope arguments is that they are predictions, so we cannot be certain about what will or will not actually happen. But this chain of events type of argument should be assessed in terms of whether the outcome will likely follow if action ‘x” is pursued.
Faulty Analogy: We often make arguments based on analogy and these can be good arguments. But we often use faulty reasoning with analogies and this is what we want to learn how to avoid.
When evaluating an argument that is based on an analogy here are a few things to keep in mind: you want to look at the relevant similarities and the relevant differences between the things that are being compared. As a general rule, if there are more differences than similarities the argument is likely weak.
Example 7: Alcohol is legal. Therefore, we should legalize marijuana too.
So, the first step here is to identify the two things being compared, which are alcohol and marijuana. Next, note relevant similarities and differences. These might include effects on health, community safety, economic factors, criminal justice factors, and the like.
This is probably not the best argument in support for marijuana legalization. It would seem that one could just as easily conclude that since marijuana is illegal, alcohol should be too. In fact, one might find that alcohol is an often abused and highly problematic drug for many people, so it is too risky to legalize marijuana if it is similar to alcohol.
Appeal to Emotion: Arguments should be based on reason and evidence, not emotional tactics. When we use an emotional tactic, we are essentially trying to manipulate someone into accepting our position by evoking pity or fear, when our positions should actually be backed by reasonable and justifiable evidence.
Example 8: Officer please don’t give me a speeding ticket. My girlfriend broke up with me last night, my alarm didn’t go off this morning, and I’m late for class.
While this is a really horrible start to one’s day, being broken up with and an alarm malfunctioning is not a justifiable reason for speeding.
Example 9: Professor, I’d like you to remember that my mother is a dean here at TCC. I’m sure that she will be very disappointed if I don’t receive an A in your class.
This is a scare tactic and is not a good way to make an argument. Scare tactics can come in the form of psychological or physical threats; both forms are to be avoided.
Appeal to Ignorance: This fallacy occurs when our argument relies on lack of evidence when evidence is actually needed to support a position.
Example 10: No one has proven that sasquatch doesn’t exist; therefore it does exist.
Example 11: No one has proven God exists; therefore God doesn’t exist.
The key here is that lack of evidence against something cannot be an argument for something. Lack of evidence can only show that we are ignorant of the facts.
Straw Man: A straw man argument is a specific type of argument that is intended to weaken an opponent’s position so that it is easier to refute. So, we create a weaker version of the original argument (i.e. a straw man argument), so when we present it everyone will agree with us and denounce the original position.
Example 12: Women are crazy arguing for equal treatment. No one wants women hanging around men’s locker rooms or saunas.
This is a misrepresentation of arguments for equal treatment. Women (and others arguing for equal treatment) are not trying to obtain equal access to men’s locker rooms or saunas.
The best way to avoid this fallacy is to make sure that you are not oversimplifying or misrepresenting others’ positions. Even if we don’t agree with a position, we want to make the strongest case against it and this can only be accomplished if we can refute the actual argument, not a weakened version of it. So, let’s all bring the strongest arguments we have to the table!
Red Herring: A red herring is a distraction or a change in subject matter. Sometimes this is subtle, but if you find yourself feeling lost in the argument, take a close look and make sure there is not an attempt to distract you.
Example 13: Can you believe that so many people are concerned with global warming? The real threat to our country is terrorism.
It could be the case that both global warming and terrorism are concerns for us. But the red herring fallacy is committed when someone tries to distract you from the argument at hand by bringing up another issue or side-stepping a question. Politicians are masters at this, by the way.
Appeal to the Person: This fallacy is also referred to as the ad hominem fallacy. We commit this fallacy when we dismiss someone’s argument or position by attacking them instead of refuting the premises or support for their argument.
Example 14: I am not going to listen to what Professor ‘X’ has to say about the history of religion. He told one of his previous classes he wasn’t religious.
The problem here is that the student is dismissing course material based on the professor’s religious views and not evaluating the course content on its own ground.
To avoid this fallacy, make sure that you target the argument or their claims and not the person making the argument in your rebuttal.
Hasty Generalization: We make and use generalizations on a regular basis and in all types of decisions. We rely on generalizations when trying to decide which schools to apply to, which phone is the best for us, which neighborhood we want to live in, what type of job we want, and so on. Generalizations can be strong and reliable, but they can also be fallacious. There are three main ways in which a generalization can commit a fallacy: your sample size is too small, your sample size is not representative of the group you are making a generalization about, or your data could be outdated.
Example 15: I had horrible customer service at the last Starbucks I was at. It is clear that Starbucks employees do not care about their customers. I will never visit another Starbucks again.
The problem with this generalization is that the claim made about all Starbucks is based on one experience. While it is tempting to not spend your money where people are rude to their customers, this is only one employee and presumably doesn’t reflect all employees or the company as a whole. So, to make this a stronger generalization we would want to have a larger sample size (multiple horrible experiences) to support the claim. Let’s look at a second hasty generalization:
Example 16: I had horrible customer service at the Starbucks on 81st street. It is clear that Starbucks employees do not care about their customers. I will never visit another Starbucks again.
The problem with this generalization mirrors the previous problem in that the claim is based on only one experience. But there’s an additional issue here as well, which is that the claim is based off of an experience at one location. To make a claim about the whole company, our sample group needs to be larger than one and it needs to come from a variety of locations.
Begging the Question: An argument begs the question when the argument’s premises assume the conclusion, instead of providing support for the conclusion. One common form of begging the question is referred to as circular reasoning.
Example 17: Of course, everyone wants to see the new Marvel movie is because it is the most popular movie right now!
The conclusion here is that everyone wants to see the new Marvel movie, but the premise simply assumes that is the case by claiming it is the most popular movie. Remember the premise should give reasons for the conclusion, not merely assume it to be true.
Equivocation: In the English language there are many words that have different meanings (e.g. bank, good, right, steal, etc.). When we use the same word but shift the meaning without explaining this move to your audience, we equivocate the word and this is a fallacy. So, if you must use the same word more than once and with more than one meaning you need to explain that you’re shifting the meaning you intend. Although, most of the time it is just easier to use a different word.
Example 18: Yes, philosophy helps people argue better, but should we really encourage people to argue? There is enough hostility in the world.
Here, argue is used in two different senses. The meaning of the first refers to the philosophical meaning of argument (i.e. premises and a conclusion), whereas the second sense is in line with the common use of argument (i.e. yelling between two or more people, etc.).
Commissioners, Council and BCMC management group pledged that NO county tax dollars would be used to subsidize this venue. if the venue was not successful, it would be sold and/or returned to the bank.
A $239K subsidy including some rent payments was provided to the BCMC by the county. Details associated with the transaction:
Feb 17, 2021. Letter: BCD. GUEST OPINION: What’s been happening with your county’s finances by Kevin Fleming. Includes the details regarding the lack of transparency and oversight of Commissioner Biddle’s actions regarding the $239,000 “Rent” payment to the BCMC. Commissioner Biddle also serves on the Music Center’s management group.
Revenue from the innkeeper’s tax was used as collateral for the loan to build the venue and can be used for operating expenses.
Questions:
What is the management relationship (roles and responsibilities) between the commissioners, council, BCMC management group, and the BCMC Building Corp?
What are the requirement for reporting revenues and expenses, assets and liabilities associated with the venue?
In addition to the Convention Visitors Commission (CVC) budget, what information does the council need to consider in reviewing the CVC budget as well as the efficient and effective use of the revenue from the innkeepers tax?
Balance Sheet?
Profit and Loss Statements?
Income Statements?
Cash Flow Analysis?
Budget Approved by Council?
Addendum to the loan agreement with the bank?
What are the policies and internal controls for ensuring the effective and efficient use of revenue from the innkeepers tax ? How often are these reviewed?
Are the BCMC Financial statements audited by an independent and objective company?
IC 6-9-14-4 Payment of expenses; budget; expenditures Sec. 4. All expenses of the commission shall be paid from the fund required by section 7 of this chapter. The commission shall annually prepare a budget taking into consideration the recommendations made by a not-for-profit corporation qualifying under section 3 of this chapter and shall submit it to the county council for its review and approval. No expenditure shall be made unless it is pursuant to an appropriation made by the county council in the manner provided by law. As added by Acts 1981, P.L.100, SEC.1.
The 2021/2022 State Budget – Schools. School funding increased to include teacher compensation. This did not prevent the perceived need to pass another referendum. Vouchers were expanded and the policy was made a local issue.
The last two Brown County Superintendents (David Shaffer, Laura Hammack) publically came out against voucher expansion as did the School Board.
The move was hailed by Republicans, who have supermajorities in both chambers, and assailed by Democrats, who were unable to stop it as it sailed through the House and then the Senate tucked inside the budget bill that will fund the state government for the next two years.
A decade ago, Indiana decided to be a school choice state and we followed that along,” said Sen. Jeff Raatz, R-Richmond, chairman of the Senate education committee, “We’re never going to agree on the concept, I suppose…but we have done a historic effort here…We fund students and not systems, essentially. That’s what the state decided a decade ago.”
Indiana was called a leader in school choice 10 years ago when it passed one of the strongest school choice laws in the country, introducing the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program – commonly known as the state’s “school voucher program.”
Under the new law, a family of four can have a total household income up to about $145,000. A family of three can have an income up to $120,500 and a single-parent, single-child household can have an income up to about $95,700 and still qualify.
The budget bill containing the school voucher language and ESAs passed the House 96-2 and the Senate 46-3, and is now headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, who is expected to sign it into law before the end of the month.
Indiana lawmakers plan to boost funding to K-12 schools to fulfill a recommendation to add $600 million by 2023 to increase teacher pay.
With about $2 billion more than they initially anticipated in the state revenue forecast, lawmakers proposed Tuesday to hike per-student spending by 4.6% in 2021-22 and 4.3% in 2022-23. Both increases exceed what legislators previously had planned.
April 8, 2021. SUPERINTENDENT’S CORNER: Why local school leaders oppose more voucher funding, By LAURA HAMMACK, guest columnist. One of our recent school board meetings realized the passing of a resolution authored by both our Brown County Schools Board of Trustees and the Brown County Educators’ Association. This resolution affirmed their position of opposing education savings accounts and voucher expansion bills currently being considered by the Indiana General Assembly.
Aug 20, 2021 Letter: GOP legislators shirking responsibility to education by David Shaffer, former superintendent, Brown County Schools. I read with interest Suzannah Couch’s article of April 7, 2021, on the Brown County school board’s Resolution to Oppose the Expansion of the Indiana Voucher Program and to Oppose the Creation of Education Savings Accounts, two actions currently being supported by the Republican supermajority in this session of the Indiana General Assembly. Both actions are likely to pass as a part of the new two-year budget for Indiana.
Mar 10, 2021. School boards push back against Indiana voucher expansions IBJ, — Local school leaders across Indiana are lining up against a Republican-backed school funding plan over concerns it would give private schools a big financial boost at the detriment of traditional public schools.
On Friday, August 7th, 2021 Dr. Dan Stock addressed the Mt. Vernon School Board in Indiana over the futility of mask mandates and Covid-19 protocols in most schools. In his presentation, he references a flash drive he gave the school board members to review with all of the scientific literature he referenced.
Nine months to a year after getting them, many people are going to get sick and many will die, he says. The word he used to describe what is likely to happen is “holocaust.” …. Could he be right? … Stock lists three reasons
Oct 13, 2021. CORRECTIONS to the article”
Dr. Stock: Bell’s Palsy isn’t an autoimmune disease, but rather a “disease of recurrent herpesvirus infection.”
Dr. Stock: measles vaccine do not cause ADE and that it’s the viral vaccine for Dengue that caused ADE in humans.
Dr. Dan Stock looked and sounded the part. He was well-dressed, well-spoken, credentialed and explained complicated medical terms with ease, so even the layperson could understand what he was saying. …. There was only one problem: what he was saying was largely false, contrary to the opinions of the medical establishment, and potentially dangerous.
Aug 9, 2021. Dr. Gabriel Bosslet, Hoosier Covid-19 Update. I am a Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician in Indianapolis who is sidelined from caring for COVID for family reasons. I do it to help myself cope with the pandemic and get rid of nervous energy and sometimes I write a little commentary about how things are going. … I know nothing more than anyone else about this whole thing; I’m just muddling through with everyone else.
Dr. Galvin’s Website: Vitality Medical Wellness Institute. Vitality Medical Wellness Institute is an executive medical boutique specializing in optimizing health and performance.
Dr. Dan Stock, a McCordsville resident and family medicine physician, said the measures Mt. Vernon has implemented and is considering adding are not useful. He added Indiana Department of Health and CDC recommendations are “contrary to the rules of science.” Coronavirus and other respiratory virus particles are small enough to go through masks, Stock continued, adding vaccines will not be effective against COVID-19. He noted the virus is on the rise in the middle of summer, a time when respiratory viral syndromes are typically at their lowest. Stock also pointed to the COVID-19 outbreak last month in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the majority of which included vaccinated individuals. Vaccines don’t prevent infection, just symptoms, Stock said. “So you cannot stop spread, you cannot make these numbers that you’ve planned on get better by doing any of the things that you’re doing,” he said. “Because that is the nature of viral respiratory pathogens. And you can’t prevent it with a vaccine because they don’t do the very thing you’re wanting them to do. And you will be chasing this through the remainder of your life until you recognize the Centers for Disease Control and the Indiana State Board of Health are giving you very bad scientific guidance.”
“Mt. Vernon schools officials tabled a proposed update to its health and safety protocols and will contemplate other parts of the existing plan after receiving feedback from parents and a physician.”
The next Mt. Vernon School Board meeting is Monday, August 16th at 7:00pm.
Dr. Dan Stock, owner of PureHealth Functional Medicine in Noblesville, told the board that masks don’t work to prevent the spread of COVID-19, a claim that contradicts the guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local health departments.
Click on the links below to access the following studies referenced by Dr. Stock:
7. Heritage Foundation Study – In fact, mask use during the pandemic has been recommended by The Heritage Foundation’s Coronavirus Commission guidelines. However, our findings do suggest that public health strategies relying predominantly on mask mandates are inadequate, and thus other initiatives, in addition to mask wearing, should have been a component of policies aimed to limit the spread of the disease.
8. Declaration of Great Barrington– The Great Barrington Declaration- As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection. Over 60,000 medical experts have signed this declaration.
The Challenge. Brown County has one-party monopoly (Republican) on political power. This results in decisions that can benefit the few with little to no consideration on the best interests of ALL county residents. In essence, less than a dozen people can make decisions that effect everyone. Little chance of repercussions at the ballot box for poor decisions.
Good Things. County has sustained development of a County Comprehensive Financial Plan. It It appears the new ambulance contract is less expensive with less risk than the previous contract. There is more interest expressed by the Commissioners for development and maintenance of a Capital Improvement Plan to better manage infrastructure related costs. Road Paving can also be considered a positive but the lack of a published plan is frustrating for citizens.
Tax Policy. Given the influx of retirees and people that could work from home, or chose to live in the county but commute to other counties for the better paying jobs, the decision was made by the county council to rely on income tax increases (vice property) to fund spending. The income tax rate doubled in 10 years and the county recently shifted to relying on increases in property taxes. (The county is primarily funded by income and property taxes).
Brown County has the 4th highest debt per capita in the State (See Debt Comparison Report, Indiana Gateway).
Brown County does have one of the lowest property tax rates that is expected to continually increase.
Music Center. A $12.5 million+ expense for a government owned and operated music venue. This project was driven by less than a dozen people. Commissioner Biddle recently provided a $239K subsidy for “rent” — no details on what exactly county taxpayers received in services. The Council approved the payment but were caught by surprise by the last minute request. No public meetings held to discuss the subsidy.
Indiana Hill Road. Commissioners approved closing the crossing without notifying ANY of the residents effected and allowing for public input. Hard to believe that negotiation with the Railroad would not have resulted in mitigating needed risks. What were the alternatives considered?
Overlook – Clear-Cut. Commissioner Biddle led the effort to conduct minor logging on the western side of the Overlook on 135 to allow for better views. A project that was well received by the community. She provided no oversight on the project to clear the view on the eastern side of the overlook that resulted in a devastation.
Salt Creek Trail. The commitment by the commissioners at the time for this project was no county tax money would be used nor would eminent domain. Commissioner Biddle was a commissioner when the commissioners voted to accept state money for this project. This granted the “State” the right to acquire property through the threat of eminent domain. Commissioner Biddle also led efforts to acquire “free bridges” without involving the community on how well these bridges fit within the historical culture and aesthetics of the county. The bridges were not “free” – state taxpayer money used to repair, paint and re-locate.
Perpetual loans. County renews a 2-3 million dollar loan ever 2-3 years to fund infrastructure projects and overspending that serves as a relatively expensive line of credit. Why not just make the tax increase (used to payoff the loan) permanent?
The state has limits on tax increases. Does a loan supplement the budget when we have reached our spending limit?
Brown County Regional Sewer District (BCRSD) and Bean Blossom Sewer Project. The BCRSD has spent $220,000 of the $270K provided by the county council to support a new plant in Bean Blossom. The project started in June 2018. No land has been acquired and less expensive options have been identified.
Septic Ordinance. A lack of justification for supporting county unique requirements. The two commissioners that voted for this ordinance (Biddle, Braden) refused to address citizens comments and questions. commissioner Pittman wrote two Letters in the Democrat opposing the ordinance.
Bigoted and racist post on Facebook by the local Republican Party. This issued was covered in the Brown County Democrat — “Post on GOP Facebook page prompts questions” by Sara Clifford. Community reaction in Letters to the Editor.
Health Insurance. County Health insurance is self-insured and has resulted in higher costs and risks. Despite attempts to improve, costs have continually exceeded budget. In contrast, Brown County Schools adopted a different model that results in savings and less risk. The county recently approved a three year contract for the high risk and cost option.
Ambulance Contract. After years of increasing costs, a new contract resulted in lowering cost without a loss of service. Time will tell if costs continue to be stable.
READI Grant. Stay tuned. 60% of funding for “projects” from the private sector, 20% from the county, 20% from the State (READI).
A special prosecutor from Jackson County has been appointed to investigate allegations that a county commissioner candidate and a member of the Brown County Election Board violated an election law during the May primary.
Biddle told the election board that the inspector had car trouble and she was making sure he had a way back to the courthouse that night. She also said that she had entered the polling place from the side and she didn’t see the first set of prohibition signs that were further from the building. If she had seen them, she wouldn’t have crossed them, she told the board.
Justin Schwenk … The idea is not so much to create a specific size but rather a specific price of home that is attainable by first-time homebuyers, younger families, and residents looking to move upward. The problem with the market is that over the last thirty years, the market has driven home prices up so dramatically that a specific and needed demographic (20-40 yr olds) is priced well out of the market. This plan would kill a few birds with one stone. Using properties that the market has largely left behind, we can mitigate distressed homes and support attainably priced homes without disturbing the natural market trends. The only people who stand to benefit financially are local business owners who would be doing the maintenance, demolition, and rebuilding of the homes on properties–largely after they have been resold back to private ownership.
QUESTIONS:
What would the the needed income level for the respective 20-40 year demographic?
Potential buyers cannot would have to include all age groups.
The Building Community Initiative is focused on the redevelopment and rehabilitation of underutilized areas of the county.
The Building Community Initiative is a three-phase project designed by the redevelopment commission to be a community-driven effort to identify vacant and abandoned homes, rehabilitate them, and return them to productive use — specifically as affordable starter homes that will be accessible to a greater number of people interested in locating to Brown County.
When the leaves drop, the Brown County Redevelopment Commission wants to be ready to load up and go for a drive with a specific purpose. …. Members are planning to survey all the land parcels they can see from public roads, recording certain details about them in a cellphone-based app. … The RDC discussed this concept at length during several public meetings in 2019.
The Challenge. Brown County has one-party monopoly (Republican) on political power. This results in decisions that can benefit the few with little to no consideration on the best interests of ALL county residents. In essence, less than a dozen people can make decisions that effect everyone. Little chance of repercussions at the ballot box for poor decisions.
Independent Voters of Brown County IN 