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**Walleye Hunter** · March 9th, 2023, 09:11 AM

Reeducation camps are what they have in mind.

**PASE717** · March 9th, 2023, 12:23 PM

Do they mean "medical professionals" such as Fauci and the other POS that pushed, covered up, and financially gained from this covid bs?? Bwhahaha!!! Yeah, good luck with that and GFY's!

My religious beliefs and convictions are also between me, my maker, my family, and my pastor. This includes my children. Not some schmuck in a lab coat or anybody else for that matter.

**ImminentDanger** · March 18th, 2023, 08:40 PM

Twitter Files: Vast censor project unleashed against politically incorrect COVID-19 speech
By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times - Friday, March 17, 2023
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...eashed-agains/

The internet watchdog Stanford Internet Observatory launched a wide-scale effort during the pandemic to scrub social media platforms of disfavored COVID-related views regardless of whether the posts were true, according to the latest installment of the “Twitter Files.”

Internal emails unveiled on Friday by journalist Matt Taibbi show how the Stanford Internet Observatory’s Virality Project coordinated with several other academic institutions and government-funded non-profits to conduct a massive operation monitoring vaccine disinformation and shaping platform policy to rid the web of views that went against the liberal mainstream.

Mr. Taibbi said Twitter was one of six social media platforms that partnered with the Virality Project to monitor COVID-related posts during the pandemic.

In addition to a direct line to flag posts, the collaboration also included a periodic wrap-up of vaccine misinformation spreading across platforms, lists of repeat offenders and lists of “true content which might promote vaccine hesitancy.”

Included in the bucket of true information that the Virality Project wanted to be banned were “viral posts of individuals expressing vaccine hesitancy” and or “stories of true vaccine side effects.”

The watchdog also targeted discussions about vaccine passports, warning that such posts “have driven a larger anti-vaccination narrative about the loss of rights and freedoms.”

Mr. Taibbi said the project amounted to an “Orwellian proof-of-concept” that “accelerated the evolution of digital censorship, moving it from judging truth/untruth to a new, scarier model, openly focused on political narrative at the expense of fact.”

The Stanford Internet Observatory pushed back against the characterization, saying that the Virality Project “provided public factual findings to multiple entities, including government agencies and social media platforms, but had no control over content moderation, censorship, or labeling posts.”

“Emails released in the Twitter Files demonstrate that Twitter’s staff examined any reports sent to them to see if the content was violative of their policies and took no action in cases where they felt that Twitter’s existing policies were not violated,” the group said in a statement.

The Twitter Files is the product of Elon Musk opening up the company’s email vault to select journalists after he took over Twitter in October 2022. It has revealed the company’s politically biased conduct and partnership with federal officials during the 2020 presidential campaign and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

In February 2021, the Virality Project emailed Twitter executives announcing the newly formed partnership and to open up a conversation on “how we can best collaborate with the Twitter team in this work.”

“Our goal would be to have a line of communication with your team, by which we can raise vaccine-related disinformation narratives we are noting either on Twitter or across other platforms,” a representative from the Virality Project wrote in an email to company executives.

The Virality Project was given access to Twitter’s internal ticketing system to flag posts, and in a March 2021 email announced that it was “beginning to ramp” its notification process across other platforms.

Appearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government last week, Mr. Taibbi and fellow Twitter Files journalist Michael Shellenberger warned of a “censorship industrial complex” eroding Americans’ freedom of speech.

In December, the two journalists began exposing the extent to which the federal government worked with Twitter company executives to moderate content on the platform.

The Twitter files have also revealed what Mr. Taibbi describes as a vast web of censorship that included online speech monitoring programs spearheaded by nongovernmental organizations to squelch speech that fell outside the mainstream.

“This is a grave threat to people of all political persuasions,” Mr. Taibbi said. “The First Amendment and the American population accustomed to the right to speak is the best defense left against the censorship industrial complex. If there’s anything that Twitter Files show is that we’re in danger of losing this most precious right, without which all democratic rights are impossible.”

We are seeing the Orwellian dystopia created right before our eyes. In this instance, the media conspired with Big Government to broadcast reports that only acknowledged positively the distorted perceptions of the Elite Medical Minds & Big Pharma. All other perceptions were eliminated, derided or asserted to be dangerous.

Freedom is being assaulted by distorting the available information upon which Free Choice might be made!

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**ImminentDanger** · March 23rd, 2023, 03:15 PM

Study links ‘long COVID’ to unhealthy life choices
By Sean Salai - The Washington Times - Thursday, March 23, 2023
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...-life-choices/

Older, heavier women who smoke and are unvaccinated are at significantly higher risk of developing so-called long COVID than people with healthier lifestyles, a study has found.

Nine public health researchers published the meta-analysis of 41 studies covering 860,783 patients Thursday in JAMA Internal Medicine. It is the first study to summarize all comorbidities identified in long COVID research published in leading medical journals as of Dec. 5.

Researchers found that while being female and over 40 were the top risk factors for contracting long COVID, also known as “Post-COVID-19 condition,” others involved preventable conditions for all patients — such as being unvaccinated, overweight and a smoker.

They noted that patients who received two doses of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccination were 43% less likely to develop the condition, which the World Health Organization defines as acute symptoms lasting at least three to five months after infection.

Symptoms include loss of taste and smell, shortness of breath, muscle weakness, lightheadedness and various psychological and behavioral issues.

“While there are things we cannot change, such as our age or sex, we can take some actions that can be beneficial for the prevention of long COVID,” lead researcher Vassilios Vassiliou, a professor of cardiac medicine at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain, told The Washington Times. “These would include having or maintaining normal body weight, avoiding or stopping smoking and being vaccinated for COVID-19.”

Another key risk factor for long COVID: being hospitalized for other illnesses at the time of infection.

Asthma, anxiety, depression, heart disease, immunosuppression diseases, chronic kidney disease and pulmonary obstructions were the most common afflictions mentioned in the research.

Healthy lifestyle changes are the best way to prevent and shorten long COVID because existing medications and new treatments like plasma apheresis and “mindfulness” have all proven inconclusive in treatment studies, said Mr. Vassiliou.

“As more studies emerge, we are getting closer to grasping the full picture and hopefully we will identify appropriate treatments,” he said. “Until then, prevention is better than cure, therefore optimizing all risk factors, including being vaccinated, is the only thing that we can do at the moment.”

The study provides a more comprehensive picture of a “poorly understood condition” that has evaded effective treatment, some medical experts said Thursday.

“We lack basic definitions, full understanding of causes, biomarkers or the ability to know if it is more than one condition,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease specialist and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “Until that basic knowledge is acquired it is nearly impossible to develop evidence-based treatment options.”

“Right now, we are still trying to understand long COVID, from the biological standpoint to the common symptoms to the risk factors,” said Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a physician at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “Knowing that the vaccine is protective will be one factor to assist in the prevention of long COVID, along with other modifiable risk factors like cigarette consumption.”

In an Aug. 3 column for the Journal of the American Medical Association, Rachel Levine, assistant secretary of health and human services, cited an April 5 Biden administration memo calling for “a whole-of-government response” to address the growing number of Americans whose symptoms outlast the coronavirus.

According to a 2022 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of 63.4 million health records, 1 in 5 adult COVID-19 survivors aged 18 to 64 years and 1 in 4 survivors 65 and older have lingering health problems “related to their previous COVID-19 illness,” Dr. Levine said.

Those problems often target the organs with new-onset heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, hematologic disorders, neurologic conditions and mental illnesses like anxiety and depression.

Dr. Levine also cited a parallel modeling study showing that 4.3 million to 9.7 million adults, especially women, “have new long-term symptoms that limit their daily activities after SARS-CoV-2 infection.”

In extreme cases, some long COVID sufferers have been unable to return to work up to six months after infection, and others still cannot taste or smell most food a year and a half after infection.

At the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a new Adult Post-acute COVID Clinic has experimented with some treatments for long COVID symptoms.

But vaccination is the best preventive measure and people without taste or smell just have to wait for it to come back, said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at the school.

“Treatments are empathetic supportive care along with some more specific therapies determined by prominent symptoms. For example, intellectual exercises for brain fog, physical therapy and graduated exercise for fatigue,” Dr. Schaffner said. “As I understand it, most folks with loss of taste and smell gradually recover at least some sensation over five to six months.”

(Bolding is mine)

Like always, the liberal leftists are mixing propaganda in with the facts to try to promote their control thru vaccine recommendations. They can't admit they were wrong about the masking & the vaccine mandates, so they continue to try to promote the vaccine (which requires regular boosters) as equal to the elimination of other risk factors.

Review the list of comorbidities - many are related to BAD lifestyle choices and buying into the sky-is-falling Coronavirus PANIC-19/20/21 mentality which causes anxiety and depression - which supresses the immune system.

Those who are the most vulnerable to the Coronavirus are those who haven't and continue to not take seriously the need to work at a healthy lifestyle throughout their lives. They have made BAD Lifestyle Choices That MAKE THEMSELVES VULNERABLE.

THE RELATED POINT: By creating Gun Free Zones people are MAKING THEMSELVES VULNERABLE to violent attacks by those who see the GFZs as target rich environments.

In both cases, the solutions proposed are to impose freedom restrictions on those who would not be vulnerable as if they were responsible for the BAD Choices of others.

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**JenniferG** · March 23rd, 2023, 04:45 PM

Bad lifestyle choice, woke.

**ImminentDanger** · March 30th, 2023, 03:13 AM

Senate votes to end three-year-old COVID-19 national emergency
By Haris Alic - March 29, 2023
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...-19-national-/

The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to scrap the federal government*s three-year-old COVID-19 national emergency.

In a bipartisan 69-23 vote, the Senate voted to immediately terminate the emergency. Overall, more than a dozen Senate Democrats voted with nearly every Republican to pass the measure.

*Emergency powers are given to the executive branch so the commander in chief has the flexibility to quickly act in the event of a crisis,* said Sen. Roger Marshall, the Kansas Republican who authored the measure. *That declaration was appropriate in 2020, but now it*s time for the proper Constitutional checks and balances to be restored.*

Democratic support was aided by a last-minute announcement that President Biden would not veto the bill. The White House said that while it opposed an immediate termination of the national emergency, Mr. Biden would sign the bill nonetheless.

*The administration will continue working with agencies to wind down the national emergency with as much notice as possible to Americans who could potentially be impacted,* the White House said in a statement.

Mr. Biden*s decision to sign the bill was, in part, a bow to reality.

Last November, 11 Senate Democrats crossed party lines last to back a similar resolution. The White House*s move likely swayed red-state Democrats, including Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who voted to end the emergency on Wednesday after having opposed it last year.

Then-President Trump first issued a national emergency declaration regarding the coronavirus in March 2020. The maneuver made it easier for Federal Emergency Management Agency to mobilize personnel and funding to help state governments combat the virus.

Earlier this year, Mr. Biden said that he would allow the emergency to expire on its own in early May without renewal. The administration still pushed House Democrats to oppose the termination legislation when it came up for a vote in February.

*If the [emergency declaration] were suddenly terminated, it would sow confusion and chaos into this critical wind-down,* the White House said in a memo. *Due to this uncertainty, tens of millions of Americans could be at risk of abruptly losing their health insurance, and states could be at risk of losing billions of dollars in funding.*

Despite Mr. Biden*s opposition, 11 House Democrats bucked their party to back ending the emergency anyway. The Senate passed two similar resolutions last Congress, but neither got a floor vote in the then-Democratic-controlled House.

Report: Biden Won't Veto GOP's COVID Emergency End Bill
By Charles Kim - 29 March 2023
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/bi...29/id/1114323/

President Joe Biden told Democrat leaders that he would not veto a Republican-led bill to immediately end the national COVID-19 emergency, in place for more than two years.

The Hill reported a Democrat source said Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told Democrat senators Wednesday that Biden decided not use his ability to veto legislation to stop a GOP bill immediately ending the COVID emergency instead of letting it expire in May.

"Today, we are in a different phase of the response to that pandemic than we were in March of 2020, and my Administration is planning for an end to the national emergency, but an orderly transition is critical to the health and safety of the nation," Biden said in a statement renewing the emergency in February. "For this reason, the national emergency declared on March 13, 2020, and beginning March 1, 2020, must continue in effect beyond March 1, 2023. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing the national emergency declared in Proclamation 9994 concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. I anticipate terminating the national emergency concerning the COVID-19 pandemic on May 11, 2023."

Former President Donald Trump made the declaration in March 2020, at the onset of the pandemic, and it has been extended 13 times since then, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The declaration allowed the federal government flexibility in making medical care available and cover the cost of treatment for the disease, it also allowed government funded healthcare through Medicare and Medicaid to expand in certain areas to battle the pandemic, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported in January.

Rather than waiting for May, House Republicans used their new majority to pass legislation in January to end the emergency, U.S. News and World Report said in a Jan. 31 report.

"Rather than waiting until May 11, the Biden Administration should join us now in immediately ending this declaration," House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., Louisiana said in a statement at the time. "House Republicans are making it clear that the days of the Biden Administration being able to hide behind COVID to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on their unrelated, radical agenda are over."

According to The Hill's report Wednesday, Biden's decision to approve the bill once it gets through the Senate will likely free up some Democrats in that chamber to support the plan.

The fact that it took this long to end the PANIC INSANITY simply demonstrates the lack of commitment to our Constitutional Rights by any of the government bodies.

All emergency orders should require a full Congressional Vote every 90-days to authorized any continued enforcement. And every emergency order should automatically trigger a Supreme Court review that requires all justices to vote on the Constitutionality of that order!

At least then we would have a record of those who support any inappropriate 'emergency' order.

A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE & FOR THE PEOPLE requires transparency of ALL GOVERNMENT operations and the consent of the governed.

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**ImminentDanger** · April 4th, 2023, 09:11 PM

Monoclonal Antibodies Cut COVID Deaths
Tuesday, 04 April 2023
https://www.newsmax.com/health/healt...04/id/1114971/

Monoclonal antibodies have been an effective tool in the battle against COVID-19, reducing the risk of hospitalization or death by 39% for people who started the treatment within two days of a positive test, a new study finds.

These treatments were even more effective for immunocompromised people, regardless of age, according to the University of Pittsburgh researchers.

"The virus was a moving target, and, for two years, monoclonal antibodies were approved, revoked, sometimes reauthorized and sometimes scarce," said Kevin Kip, lead author of a new analysis and vice president of clinical analytics at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).

"Using UPMC's database of patients treated with monoclonal antibodies * one of the largest in the U.S. * we are finally able to conclude that pushing through all these challenges unequivocally saved lives and prevented hospitalizations," Kip said in a university news release.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to five monoclonal antibodies between 2020 and 2022. These human-made antibodies were designed to prevent the virus from entering human cells where they could replicate and cause serious illness.

Those used for COVID-19 were administered intravenously or through an injection. They were restricted to people aged 12 and older with risk factors that made them more susceptible to bad outcomes from the virus.

As the virus evolved, so did the antibodies, with new ones coming in and older ones removed from use after they lost effectiveness.

UPMC provided monoclonal antibodies to patients in Pennsylvania, New York and Maryland at clinics, in emergency departments and during home visits starting with the first authorization in late 2020.

The emergency use authorization for the last available monoclonal antibody was revoked in November 2022.

At that point, UPMC pulled anonymous clinical data on nearly 2,600 patients treated with monoclonal antibodies. The researchers matched them with data from just over 5,100 patients who had been infected with COVID-19 and were eligible for monoclonal antibodies but did not receive them.

In addition to data on effectiveness, the investigators found that patients treated when the alpha and delta variants of the virus were circulating experienced greater benefit than those untreated compared to those treated when the omicron variant was circulating.

This was likely because earlier variants were more deadly, the team suggested. People also had less prior immunity from previous infection or vaccination.

Risk of death and hospitalization had fallen in general by the time the omicron variants were spreading, so monoclonal antibody treatment had less overall benefit, the study authors said.

However, it still had clinically meaningful benefit, particularly in vulnerable patients, said study co-author Erin McCreary, director of infectious diseases improvement and clinical research innovation at the medical center.

"Right now, COVID-19 has a relatively low risk of death for the general population, but we have seen how quickly this virus can mutate and spread. Nobody can say with certainty that a future variant won't be more deadly," McCreary said. Should that happen, she said, these new findings give reassurance that quickly giving antibody treatments keeps people alive and out of the hospital.

The analysis was published April 3 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

YES - The same treatment that the Biden administration tried to suppress. By reducing effective treatments, they hoped to increase vaccinations & masking as preventatives. Neither of those preferred preventative solutions were valid treatment solutions, nor did they prove to be truly effective preventatives.

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**ImminentDanger** · April 21st, 2023, 12:24 AM