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I'm thinking now that this was all a ploy to drive traffic to that site.
 
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I'm thinking now that this was all a ploy to drive traffic to that site.


I thought the same thing. Looks like it worked. Roll Eyes
Just going to their Twitter site made me feel cheap. Big Grin


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^^^Seriously, NO need to scroll on their Twitter page AT ALL! Roll Eyes


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^^^Seriously, NO need to scroll on their Twitter page AT ALL! Roll Eyes


Who said anything about scrolling?

No need. You'll get the big picture as soon as you arrive.


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California judge issues preliminary injunction blocking COVID ‘misinformation’ law: reports

Published January 25, 2023 9:47pm EST
By Greg Wehner | Fox News


A California judge issued a preliminary injunction against a state law that empowers the Medical Board of California to discipline physicians who support opinions about COVID-19 that are not in line with the "consensus," according to reports.

The law, known as Assembly Bill 2098, was set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2023. Under the law, the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California could discipline physicians who "disseminate" information about COVID that is not in line with the "contemporary scientific consensus."

But in November, a group of five California physicians filed a lawsuit against California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration, saying the law violates their First Amendment rights and constitutional right to due process.

Aaron Kheriaty, MD, is listed as one of the physicians in the lawsuit, and on Wednesday he posted on Twitter that a judge granted their request for a preliminary injunction against AB 2098.

The preliminary injunction temporarily halts the implementation of the law while the case is tried in court.

"The ruling bodes well for our case," Kheriaty tweeted. "It indicates that our arguments that this law is unconstitutional have strong pre-trial facial plausibility. Not to get ahead of ourselves, of course, or try to predict the final outcome of the case, but this is a very positive development.

"One more detail here," he added. "The preliminary injunction ruling also establishes that we five physicians have standing to challenge the law. This is important because a similar challenge filed against AB2098 was dismissed based on a ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing."

The New Civil Liberties Alliance represent the doctors, or NCLA, which is a nonpartisan civil rights firm.

In November, Jenin Younes, counsel for the NCLA said California’s new "misinformation" law is the result of the increasing censorious mentality that has gripped many lawmakers in America.

"That this shocking bill passed through the state legislature and was signed into law by Governor Newsom demonstrates that far too many Americans do not understand the First Amendment," Younes said.

Doctors said the law violates their First Amendment rights because it impedes their ability to communicate with their patients during treatment.

"In safeguarding Americans’ rights to free speech and expression, the First Amendment applies not only to expression of majority opinions, but to minority views as well," the complaint said.

Doctors also argue that "contemporary scientific consensus" is "undefined in the law and undefinable as a matter of logic."

One plaintiff, Dr. Tracy Hoeg, wrote in the lawsuit that she is "afraid of saying something to my patients that I know is consistent with the current scientific literature but may not yet be accepted by the California Medical Board." Physicians must "feel free to speak truthfully with their patients if they wish to gain and maintain their trust," she said.

Hoeg has been the first, or senior, author of nine epidemiological analyses, six of which have been published in peer-reviewed journals on topics like the effectiveness of mask mandates and risk-benefit analysis of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in children. She said the California law "puts physicians who are simply trying to give appropriate and individualized recommendations in a difficult position, particularly considering they may not know what the California Medical Board’s ‘consensus’ is at the moment or if it also evolves as our understanding evolves."


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Who the hell is Bill Gates to be the one determining who had an acceptable response to Covid and who did not? Oh yeah, the guy pandering to population reduction while spending money to attempt it. Fuck off Gates, you smug little asshole; you’re a rich guy, not a rich guy that gets to determine what’s best for humanity. POS.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/2...ndemic-response.html

Bill Gates says no country ‘gets an A’ for its Covid pandemic response—including the U.S.

Bill Gates says some of the world’s governments have handled the spread of Covid-19 better than others, but the billionaire won’t give any country a perfect mark.

“I wouldn’t say any country got it totally right,” Gates said in a recent interview at the Lowy Institute, a think tank in Sydney, Australia, adding: “Nobody ... gets an ‘A’ on this one.”

The Microsoft co-founder and health care philanthropist has both praised and criticized multiple world governments’ responses to the pandemic since the coronavirus’s initial spread in late 2019.

As early as March 2020, Gates argued that the U.S. “did not act fast enough” to take extreme quarantining measures, like shutting down businesses and issuing stay-at-home orders. He also said the country’s rollout of effective and accessible Covid tests was too slow.

The U.S. has proceeded to log a higher rate of Covid deaths per capita than any other of the world’s wealthiest nations since the start of the pandemic.

“In the future, countries need to have dedicated personnel, and they need to practice how they connect up with the PCR diagnostic industry,” Gates said on Monday.

Gates, who published a book last year called “How to Prevent the Next Pandemic,” said he expects federal governments across the world to make those responses much easier before the next global viral outbreak. Poor Covid responses inspired government spending on future pandemic preparedness in multiple countries, he observed.

Some Covid responses have been better than others, Gates argued. He cited Australia “and about 7 other countries,” which he did not publicly name, noting that Australia’s rate of Covid deaths per capita is still among the lowest in the world. It’s currently just 21% of the U.S.’s coronavirus death rate, according to Johns Hopkins University’s data.

The countries that drew Gates’s praise “did population-scale diagnostics early on, and had quarantine policies associated with that [which] kept the level of infection low,” he explained. Gates also applauded Australia’s pandemic response last year, noting that the country quickly closed its international borders in March 2020.

The U.S. received high marks from Gates in one category: spending more than $30 billion to fund the research and development for coronavirus vaccines. The U.S. gave that money to companies in multiple countries, resulting in multiple effective Covid vaccines.

Gates’s advocacy for strong pandemic preparation isn’t new. In a 2015 TED Talk, he warned that an infectious virus could pose greater risk to the world’s population than nuclear war.

Yet on Monday, he said he wasn’t entirely surprised by the world’s relatively sluggish response to Covid’s spread: “Pandemics come along so rarely that it’s easy to be incompetent.”

Pandemic preparedness budgets in the U.S. were repeatedly cut in the decade leading up to 2020. In Gates’s ideal scenario, that won’t happen again in the U.S. or anywhere else.

Each five years, governments should run a “really comprehensive exercise at both country and regional levels” with groups like the World Health Organization to prepare for potential quarantining and diagnostics measures, Gates said.

“Epidemics, hopefully this will get us to take them seriously, at least for the next 20 or 30 years,” he added.




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Reuters taking a swing at fact-checking the IQFY article. They're saying it's an altered article and the author denies writing the piece:

https://www.reuters.com/articl...accine-idUSL1N3491WD

Reuters Fact Check
January 24, 202312:56 PMUpdated 2 days ago
Fact Check-Fake headline from The Conversation asks why the unvaccinated didn’t ‘warn’ the vaccinated

By Reuters Fact Check

4 Min Read

A screenshot purporting to show a future headline for an article published by The Conversation asks why the “unvaccinated did not do more to warn” people who were inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine, but it is fabricated.

The Conversation is a website that publishes articles written by academics and edited by journalists. The publication’s logo is visible at the top left corner of the fake screenshot, with a headline that reads: “THEY KNEW: Why didn’t the unvaccinated do more to warn us?”

The circulated screenshot is dated June 6, 2023, five months in the future at the time of this writing.

In the image, a cover graphic features cartoon figures, with two in medical attire holding vaccines while the other two figures can be seen holding hands toward the medical personnel in a gesture of rejection.

The opening paragraph visible across the lower third of the screenshot reads: “While well intending citizens lined up, did the right thing, and received their COVID19 vaccinations, now known to do more harm than good, their unvaccinated friends and family stood by and let them do it. Even though they knew what we didn’t. Some of them said too little. Some said nothing at all. Our blood is now on their hands.”

Examples of the screenshot can be viewed (here), (here).

No such headline is viewable, however, when searching through the website’s content (archive.is/wip/78kDA).

No such article has been produced for later publication either, according to the author named in the fake screenshot. Alessandro Siani, associate head of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Portsmouth in Britain, told Reuters that he has not penned any such headline or article, and the screenshot circulating online is fabricated.

Siani did author an article published by The Conversation on Jan. 6, 2023, which features identical illustration, but whose real headline reads: “COVID: unvaccinated people may be seen as ‘free riders’ and face discrimination” (here).

“As a scientist, I firmly believe that vaccinations (including those against COVID-19) are an essential preventive measure, and that their effectiveness in preventing transmissible diseases largely outweighs any rare unwanted effects associated with their use,” Siani told Reuters.

Siani has also flagged the fake headline via his LinkedIn feed (bit.ly/3R5bYr6).

The authentic article published in The Conversation discussed discrimination and attitudes toward unvaccinated people in various countries, based on a study published in the journal Nature in early December (here).

Siani’s own research publications can be viewed (here), (here).

The Conversation also tweeted to confirm that the circulating screenshot is fabricated, and provided a link to the authentic January article by Siani (here), archived (archive.is/wip/pU6Lz).
VERDICT

Altered. An article penned by an academic at the University of Portsmouth on potential discrimination faced by unvaccinated people was altered to include a fake headline, text and date.

This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here.





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This is a reasonably balanced article. It is too long to copy and paste.


The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly

Why is the public turning to a single, ominous explanation for tragedies like Damar Hamlin’s collapse? Two doctors explain.

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-epidemic-of-diedsuddenly


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Pfizer exec admits they are engineering viruses so they can have the vaccine ready when their virus becomes the dominant strain. Pfizer makes a lot of money and America loses.

Finally, an honest Pfizer executive admits to Project Veritas what the game plan is:

Pfizer Exposed For Exploring "Mutating" COVID-19 Virus For New Vaccines Via 'Directed Evolution'



https://stevekirsch.substack.c...roject-veritas-video

Or... it could be an elaborate hoax/prank...

Of course, as with his Linked-In profile, the Apollo information was all entered by Walker. So those profiles are evidence but not proof. It would be helpful to see when the profiles were created — but we can’t, since they’ve already been completely scrubbed.

Many of Walker’s entries are quickly vanishing from the web. In addition to his Apollo page, his LinkedIn and Facebook pages are gone — even from the Wayback machine. And Google’s disinformation team is already obscuring the story:

Project Veritas staffers also disclosed a shot purportedly from an internal Pfizer chat application confirming Walker’s face and title:

Walker’s handful of publications appear to confirm that he has worked in the space. For example, Walker co-wrote this 2020 article while apparently working for the Boston Consulting Group:

Boston Consulting Group often lends or places professionals with Fortune-100 companies like Pfizer, so that would make sense. Walker’s now-deleted Apollo profile confirms his work for BCG and indicates he started working for Pfizer in 2021:

Independent investigator Brian O’Shea published a Substack roundup of just about everything available online about Jordan Walker. Brian’s research seems to confirm Walker’s bio, but it’s not completely conclusive, either, as Brian appears to acknowledge. Especially suspicious is the absence of any publicly-available information confirming Walker’s employment at Pfizer.

Link: https://brianoshea.substack.co...rdon-trishton-walker

Walker’s interview comments confirmed just about everything we’ve long suspected about pharma. In fact, his claims are so believable that it is also unbelievable. It’s an explosive story tailor-made for conservative conspiracy television. In fact, it’s SO believably unbelievable that some people literally don’t believe it and think Project Veritas — and the rest of rightwing media — are being set up to be totally discredited.

In other words, it seems too good to be true. If I were suing Pfizer and someone sent me all these materials, I would be EXTREMELY cautious about running straight to court with it. I would want to triple-check it first. You could lose the lawsuit if it turned out to be fake.

After a quick internet search, investigative journalist George Webb claimed he readily found stuff suggesting Jordan Trishton Walker is actually a failed Yale student slash woke activist known for his pranks and hoaxes. Webb says he found Walker on a federal watchlist, so Walker could easily be a stool pigeon. Webb also notes — confirmed by others — that Yale University’s website does not include Walker in its list of 2013 graduates, which is when Walker’s various profiles claim he graduated.

George Webb - Investigative Journalist @RealGeorgeWebb1
We are watching a journalistic Hindenburg with #ProjectVeritas and #JordonTrishtonWalker.


Walker’s missing Yale graduation entry could be nothing. He could have lied on his resume about graduating from Yale. Or Yale’s list of graduates might be wrong. Or Walker could have graduated late because he had a missing credit hour or something.

But it raises questions.

We will learn a lot more today. Pfizer will respond at some point. Either they’ll say he’s been fired, in which case they’ll have some pretty serious questions to answer, or Pfizer will deny this guy ever worked for the pharmaceutical giant. Corporate media will either run stories “debunking” Project Veritas and calling for more internet controls on “misinformation,” or else they will run defense for Pfizer and say Walker is emotionally disturbed or something.

Let’s wait and see what happens next.

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One plaintiff, Dr. Tracy Hoeg, wrote in the lawsuit that she is "afraid of saying something to my patients that I know is consistent with the current scientific literature but may not yet be accepted by the California Medical Board." Physicians must "feel free to speak truthfully with their patients if they wish to gain and maintain their trust," she said.


I can guarantee you she is not alone in this feeling. Many feel they must tow the party line that the jab is "good" or face consequences.

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The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly

Why is the public turning to a single, ominous explanation for tragedies like Damar Hamlin’s collapse? Two doctors explain.

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-epidemic-of-diedsuddenly


This is an excellent article. Well studied, balanced and truthful in my experience.

Thank you for taking the time to post it.

RMD




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Trust, once lost, is hard to regain. People feel that their medical leaders are withholding basic facts, denying reality, disregarding new information, or worse, causing them harm.

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-epidemic-of-diedsuddenly

THIS, is where we are...I'll NEVER trust ANYTHING they say, EVER again!


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THIS, is where we are...I'll NEVER trust ANYTHING they say, EVER again!


Luckily when sleepy joe and kamala went from don't get it before DT "lost" to get it when they were in power, I became mega cynical.
 
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Luckily when sleepy joe and kamala went from don't get it before DT "lost" to get it when they were in power, I became mega cynical.

That's another thing...
DJT was promising everyone, during the 2020 campaign that the "vaccine" was coming. So DJT was pushing big Pharma to get it out. 'Operation Warp Speed'.
Well, there is some evidence that it was intentionally withheld, until after the November election, because it would be perceived as a HUGE victory for Trump and would help him get re-elected.



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Remember when we were told to get a covid booster and a flu shot at the same time. "That is why God made two arms" These unscientific bastards make this shit up and then get people killed. So go ahead and take the MRNA flu vaccine when they develop it. Best thing since sliced bread. You can trust what they say.


Getting Pfizer's Covid booster and flu vaccine on the same day may raise the risk of a STROKE, FDA says

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/he...ise-risk-STROKE.html

Getting Pfizer's Covid bivalent booster and a flu shot on the same day may raise the risk of a stroke, a small official analysis suggests.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the preliminary link while scouring vaccine injury databases after a separate safety concern was raised about Pfizer's jab.

Earlier this month, one of the country's vaccine surveillance systems flagged a possible link between the Omicron-specific shot and a higher risk of an ischemic stroke among seniors over 65.

FDA officials who have been probing the link said most of the patients had also received their flu shot on the same day, which might be a factor.

Millions of Americans got both shots at the same time this winter following a major public health push by the White House. In September, Dr Ashish Jha, White House Covid Response Coordinator, said: 'I believe this is why God gave us two arms — one for the flu shot and the other for the Covid shot.'

More at link


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'I believe this is why God gave us two arms — one for the flu shot and the other for the Covid shot.'


What a dumb fucking thing to say!




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The latest excess death data reviewed by Dr John Campbell. Non covid excess deaths are increasing.



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OK, this is disturbing, from Project Veritas..."directed evolution"

 
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He wasn't too happy when he found out...

 
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'I believe this is why God gave us two arms — one for the flu shot and the other for the Covid shot.'
What a dumb fucking thing to say!
Truly, a stupid thing to say, especially from a supposed official.
 
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