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Retracted HCQ Study Muddled Ventilator & HCQ Use

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Apart from the unverifiability of the data used, Dr. Steven Quay has pointed out a high-school-level error in the HCQ study co-authored by Dr. Sapan Desai (India’s answer to Neil Ferguson). The lead author is Mandeep Mehra, a Harvard professor.

The Mehra study has two variable inputs in it: Hydroxychloroquine and intubation with a ventilator.

The fact is buried in the paper and was likely missed by most readers.

What this means is that the increase in patient deaths could have been caused just as well by ventilator use. Actually, that has been the clinical experience of many physicians, given the nature of the hypoxia in Covid19, which seems to be a result of clotting in the lung. Ventilators are counter-productive.

Controlling for that mistake, HCQ, even in this unreliable study, is somewhat helpful.

Here, I should add something of which Dr. Quay is apparently not aware: HCQ is a zinc ionophore and should be used with zinc to get the excellent results that have been reported from all over the world.

No zinc was given in the Lancet study.

Wuhan Denialism

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From Tablet:

“Media sources that claim to refute the lab source hypothesis often refer to the public comments of zoologist Peter Daszak, the flawed correspondence of Andersen et al., or the emotional Lancet letter in which some scientists basically expressed their support and compassion with their Chinese peers. While there are some virus hunters like Peter Daszak who assert zoonotic transfer and discount the possibility of a lab leak, there are also leading microbiologists like professor Richard Ebright who assert that a lab or lab-related accident is a possible cause of the outbreak.

Notably, virus ecologists like Peter Daszak and Jonna Mazet have an inherent conflict of interest as they are involved in similar bat and wildlife sampling activity—and, in Daszak and Mazet’s case, in research with the Wuhan labs. As an example of such activity, Daszak and collaborators sampled 12,333 bats for viruses in a big wildlife surveillance project. A lab-related accident in China involving similar research would likely affect the funding for their work as it would demonstrate the risks involved. As it happens, the NIH recently cut the funding to Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance after realizing the risks involved in that research.

Daszak’s relentless and heavily amplified public assertions that the outbreak must have originated due to a zoonotic jump, and his denial of the possibility of a lab accident involving a natural virus, even long before the SARS-CoV-2 genome was published, would appear to be motivated by the apparent conflict of interest that he has denied. Daszak’s denial of his conflict of interest raised concerns of many scientists and experts, with many explicitly describing that denial as a bold lie. Daszak has presented no direct evidence that the outbreak started as a result of a zoonotic jump outside of a laboratory. In case the outbreak is a result of a natural zoonotic jump, that would underscore the importance of Daszak’s risky wildlife sampling and “early outbreak warning” work and increase their research funding. It is important to consider conflicts of interest when assessing anyone’s claims.”

Genetic-Manipulation Origin For SARS-CoV-2?

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Is considering a genetic-manipulation origin for SARS-CoV-2 a conspiracy theory that must be censored?

Here is a new research paper  that considers the lab-origin of the virus the most likely explanation and suggests that it is being censored by scientific journals. The paper includes this telling paragraph on funding:

“In recent years, the field of corona-virology had been focused on pan-coronavirus therapies and vaccines, as evident from research conducted in the past five years,as well as from media reports. Synthetically generating diverse panels of potential pre-emergent coronaviruses was declared as a goal of active grants for EcoHealth Alliance which funded some of such research at WIV.”
Unfortunately, various intelligence/ex-intelligence operatives, some of them China hawks, have ignored the multiple ties the WIV has to Western public health bodies, private foundations, and agencies, and have tried to shift the blame solely to the Chinese government/lab.
Thus, the ex-chief of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove has raised the possibility of demanding reparations from China.  But Dearlove’s support for the invasion of Iraq and his involvement in the Steele dossier (in the Russiagate hoax) diminish his credibility.
Very likely, some of these public statements are either limited hang-outs or red herrings.
The truth is Zhengli Shi the “Bat Woman” at WIV was not working in isolation. She was a French-trained scientist with research experience in the US; she was at the center of a web of scientific partnerships and networks extending to leading labs in France and the USA. Her research has ties to the entire scientific community and its funders, and to the climate-change-public-health nexus that drives projects like OneHealth and the EcoHealth Alliance.
If this network was not fully implicated in what happened, we would not be seeing the kind of coverage…and coverup…from the global media. This level of media subterfuge  suggests a transnational crime, originating from  the highest levels of money and power. At that level, it is not China, or America, or Russia.
It is the transnational power-elite, driven by the dangerously utopian environmental ideology with which they mask their lust for power.

 

Floyd Tested Positive for Covid-19 & Other Oddities

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It always pays to wait a little before pouncing on highly charged “racial” stories. There’s inevitably a back-story. And here it is:

According to news reports, the newly released  full autopsy report of George Floyd shows he tested positive for Covid-19 on April 3. So the “I can’t breathe” T-shirts work every way.

See the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office Autopsy Report.

The report claims that Covid-19 had nothing to do with Floyd’s death, since he was asymptomatic.

Hmm. He did have trouble breathing, even before the cops knelt on his neck and pressed down on his back, didn’t he?

According to an additional earlier (Monday) report released by the Medical Examiner’s office,

He also had arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease.

He had multiple blunt force injuries to the head and upper body, none life-threatening.

He was intoxicated on Fentanyl.

And had recently used methamphetamines and cannabis.

The manner of death is listed as “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression.”  It’s dubbed a homicide.

There are just too many coincidences and oddities for me to accept that this was a random case of police brutality.

The perpetrator cop, accused of racism, is surnamed Chauvin.…as in chauvin-ist.

Chauvin has a long history of  complaints over his hair-trigger temper and shoot-first temperament.

Floyd has a long history of petty and serious crime.

The cop and Floyd are former colleagues from working security at the  Nuevo Rodeo Club at the same period of time.

The “racist” cop is married to a “model minority” Asian (Laotian) woman.

Two out of the four cops involved in the death are of Asian origin.

Chauvin’s wife is a former Mrs. Minnesota. Floyd is a former high-school foot-ball star.

She once wrote a bad check. Just like George Floyd.

In May, only 3 days after Floyd’s death, another black man was pinned down by the neck by police in an incident that got widespread attention in France. In May in Hongkong, a man was killed after being immobilized face down by the police. There is a universal use of dangerous choke-holds by the police and it is a universal problem that lawmakers want to address.

Floyd has a criminal history from Houston, involving home invasion and violent threats to a single woman (conviction in 2009 and then 5 years in jail). He was arrested before that for drug possession and theft with a firearm.

[Note:  Floyd’s criminal history, not known to the arresting officers, does not justify in any form their treatment of him.  However, it most certainly helps to explain why he resisted arrest, which is what made them act more aggressively to him. They were not racially but situationally motivated.]

Home invasion is the crime most feared by the middle-class, because it destroys the English common-law notion of security and full entitlement in one’s own house. An Englishman’s home is his castle….as they say.

Houston  was the site of massive gentrification after the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

The post-Floyd looting and arson by anarchists belonging to antifa (and possibly other groups) has been described as a kind of violent gentrification, by anti-BLM observers..

Masks were worn by the anarchists, who also sported T-shirts with the slogan “I can’t breathe.”

This was a slogan that became popular after the police killing of another “gentle giant” black man, Eric Garner, a few years back.

“I can’t breathe,” is what a lot of Covid-19 patients say as the disease creates hypoxia.

Governments have either urged or mandated mask-wearing to the general population, along with so-called social distancing.

While the anarchists wore masks, they did not “social distance.”

In the media or among various social justice warriors and Covid snitches no one objected to this violation of social distancing.

But when peaceful lockdown sceptics stepped out, even alone, on beaches, without a soul around, or in pursuit of their livelihood, police threatened them with fines and jail time and in some cases arrested them. They shot them in the Philippines, confiscated their cars and autorickshaws in India, shuttered their shops, and shamed them on social media in the West.

The KuKluxKlan used to set fires on the lawns of black people, to threaten them. This was vehemently  condemned by all decent human beings.

Now supposedly pro-black groups, like antifa, burn property in black neighborhoods supposedly to threaten the white middle-class.

But it still terrorizes blacks.

And the media and the left approve.

There’s a lot more.

But this should be enough to show that the whole wretched story is yet another consciousness-raising exercise intended to mold us into the “New Man” required by the the new global order.

The global elites use these dreadful rampages to analyze our reactions and our networks, test our limits, and evaluate our ability to resist bait.

 

Proof That Wuhan Virus Was A Bioweapon

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A fascinating, very technical article at Nerd Has Power that explains why SARS-Co-V-2 has to have been engineered in a lab, and, given the nature and history of communist rule, was most likely a biological weapon.

Here’s the gist:

  1. In structure the Wuhan virus is 95% like 2 bat viruses (ZC45 and ZXC21), except that it has the proteins that allow it to bind to human ACE-2 proteins. The other two don’t and so cannot infect human beings. The binding proteins occur in the front half (S1) of the spike proteins that stud the surface of the coronavirus like a crown and give it its name. This kind of strong dissimilarity from other coronaviruses in only one part of the viral structure is very unusual, because it would normally take a long time for such a mutation, whereas  the similarity of the rest of the structure can only occur if the viruses aren’t far apart in time. This contradiction rules out natural development and suggests that the Wuhan virus is a chimera created in the lab. Furthermore, the sequence of proteins in S1 is exactly the same as the one which occurs in the SARS virus, which is infectious to human beings. Still odder, there is a piece in the spike protein that allows the protein to be cleaved by a host’s protease (protein-cleaving) enzyme, furin. This addition makes the Wuhan virus much more infectious, as the furin helps the virus divide faster.
  2. The only evolutionary event that could create such a striking mutation in only one part of the genome is something called recombination. But it would need a sequence of several highly unlikely-impossible events to occur. And there is not enough time for that to have happened, given that the Wuhan virus cannot have been around for very long, or it would be more markedly different than the other bat viruses (point 1).
  3. The evidence supporting a natural origin of the virus was most likely fabricated by Dr. Zhengli Shi of the WIV, in response to questions like that raised in point 1.  What was this evidence? Nothing physical, but simply the sequence – a string of letters – of a bat virus she claims to have come across years ago – RaTG13. But if she had indeed found such a virus with 95% similarity with the Wuhan virus, even to the spike protein, would she not have published something about it then, given the dangers it posed for human beings? But she didn’t. She didn’t even retain the physical evidence. That fact, as well as the fact that it is very easy to fabricate a sequence, and the fact that she, of all people, has a motivation to fabricate, suggests that indeed, RaTG13 is a fabrication.
  4. If we admit that the virus is a chimera, then it had to have been made by the CCP, because the 2 bat corona viruses ZC45 and ZXC 21 were both found by a military research lab of the Chinese Communist Party which published its findings in 2018. The CCP owns these viruses and no one else.
  5. Zhengli Shi co-authored a paper at the University of North Carolina in 2015 showing that replacing the spike protein so it could bind to ACE2 made coronaviruses infectious to humans. In 2006, there were experiments adding a furin-cleaving site to spike protein since such sites in influenza viruses make for greater infectiousness.

 

Independent Experts: Wuhan Virus Probably Came From Lab

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In a long, well-sourced article at Independent Science News Jonathan Latham and Alison Wilson, both PhD’s, demonstrate that the Wuhan virus most likely came from a lab and that the vociferous denunciations of the lab theory come from experts at institutions tied by funding, collaboration, or partnership to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including the W.H.O., the CDC, the NIH, the EcoHealth Alliance, and the Chinese Government.

Debunking the debunkers of the Gates Corona “conspiracy”

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According to Politifact (May 28), Facebook has the following post on the Covid 19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act:

“This is what Bill Gates and George Soros want to do – secretly stick you with a chip while testing you for the coronavirus… the Dems have a bill on the House floor ready to vote on it to require this …. House Bill 6666…. no bull…. look it up and WAKE UP!!!!”

Most people would regard this as harmless venting against two of the most powerful and wealthy men on the planet, both of whom influence/dominate health policies in nearly every country in the world. But because it does not carry a book-length appendix of footnotes backing its assertions, it earned the ire of the credentialed Brahmins running the media. They went after it as conspiracy mongering and fake news.

But Politifact’s so-called ‘rebuttal’ is nothing of the sort.

It uses technicalities and minor errors to gloss over the fact that the substance of the Facebook post is quite accurate.

Analysis of just one paragraph of the “rebuttal” will be enough to demonstrate how amiss it is:

“The resolution isn’t on the “House floor” as the Facebook post claims. No action has been taken on the so-called TRACE Act since Rep. Bobby Rush,D.-Ill., introduced it nearly a month ago. Bill Gates also was not involved in crafting the act (and USA Today has more on that in its fact-check).”

Only the first line of this rebuttal is really true:

Yes, this particular resolution isn’t on the House floor.

But another one exactly like it is.

So the claim that no action has been taken on  the bill is technically true but deeply misleading.

This particular bill has not reached the floor, but its substance – contact tracing legislation –  was snuck covertly  into the fine print of  a lengthy piece of legislation, Nancy Pelosi’s $3 trillion Covid relief package..

Dubbed the Heroes Act, the massive stimulus bill passed the House on June 1 and is now before the Senate. And it provides $75 billion for Coronavirus testing and contact tracing.

. “The bill would provide a total of $75 billion for the CONTACT Initiative. [Subtitle D—COVID-19 National Testing and Contact Tracing (CONTACT) Initiative].”

That’s just $25 billion less than what the TRACE Act proposed.

From “trace” to “contact,” the Democrats have nailed the PR value of  a catchy acronym to get legislation they want.

As for Bill Gates not being involved in crafting the TRACE Act, that too is disingenuous. While Gates may not have sat down and dictated the terms (and that isn’t how it usually works, is it?), there is ample evidence of his signature all over contact tracing legislation in the US and elsewhere.

Corey’s Digs has demonstrated that Gates subsidizes major players involved in contact tracing legislation everywhere.

As usual, USA Today, Politifact, Poynter’s, and the rest of the major media are engaging in misleading journalism in decrying criticism of Bill Gates’ domination of global health policy as conspiratorial:

“Bobby Rush has a long history of pay to play and disregarding paying taxes of any kind. Just last August, he traveled to Africa for an Aspen Institute congressional conference of approximately 45 individuals and spent time with Obama and Clinton award winners, Dr. Paul Farmer from Partners in Health who is currently running the contact tracing program in Massachusetts while his partner Jim Yong Kim is rounding up other states, Dr. Jonathan Epstein from EcoHealth Alliance who just had their NIH funding cut due to connections with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and two representatives from the Gates Foundation, while the Gates, Rockefellers, Democracy Fund, and others paid toward the $19,000 dollar expense Rush incurred for this sponsored event. Nine months later, he introduced a bill to dispense $100 billion dollars to NGOs and other organizations to carry out home-to-home contact tracing throughout the country.”

 

India Claims SARS-CoV-2 Came From Lab

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In its first official statement about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the Indian government, in the person of Union minister Nitin Gadkari, has called the virus man-made. Gadkari is both the Minister for Road Transport & Highways of India and the Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises He made the claim in an interview with NDTV on May 13, 2020.

Although  the larger number of scientists making public statements claim that SARSCoV-2 is natural, there are several important exceptions. Those exceptions warrant revisiting now that the Chinese government has retracted its original narrative of how the disease originated and is trying to  regulate investigation into that topic.

The first charges of a synthetic virus origin began with a non peer-reviewed preprint paper, “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp 120 and Gag,” written by a group of Indian scientists from IIT, Delhi.

The paper claimed that the virus might have been engineered using the AIDS virus, the HIV virus. Published on January 31 on preprint server bioRxiv, the paper was withdrawn on Feb 2, after vociferous  criticism from a number of scientists around the world.

Indian Medicos Vindicate Hydroxychloroquine, Aspirin for Covid-19

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On May 23, Medical researcher Alok Srivastava of the Christian Medical College, Vellore, reported his finding that blood clots in the lungs are a leading cause of Covid-19 mortality.

This validates the observation of Dr. Kyle Cameron-Sidell of Maimonides Hospital, NY, as early as March 27, that in Covid-19 patients suffering from hypoxia (reduced oxygen intake) intubation (using ventilators) was counter-productive, as the hypoxia was caused by haemoglobin pathology, not lung dysfunction. Ventilators were actually damaging patients’ lungs.

In that light, the establishment’s prescription of early intubation (ventilation) is bizarre, if not sinister.

Srivastava’s findings suggest a simple prophylactic – take aspirin in appropriate doses to thin the blood, if you suspect exposure to the virus. Or, better yet, take garlic, fish oil, or any other natural blood-thinner.

And, forget lockdown. Get out doors. Lack of exposure to sunlight means low Vitamin D levels and low immunity.

Here too the establishment’s prescriptions are not merely pointless, but downright damaging.

Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has tested and proved that in general hydroxychloroquine has no major side-effects that would prevent its therapeutic use for Covid-19.

 

 

“Coming Plague”: Error-riddled Elite Manifesto

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CFR-member and Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurie Garrett is the author of the 768-page “The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases In a World Out of Balance” (1994). In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been hailed as a prophetic work, especially as Garrett was also a consultant for the 2011 film “Contagion,” which many people see as an example of how the Hollywood-intelligence complex “preps” the public for future planned scenarios.

In my previous post, I mentioned an extraordinary error in the book, noted by an Amazon reviewer.

“She claims, in the chapter “Microbe Magnets” that there were 500,000 deaths from Cholera in NYC in 1832. Wow… that’s a horrifying number. Except it isn’t true. There were about 250,000 people living in NYC that summer, and 3215 of them succumbed to the disease. I was able to check it from multiple sources in mere moments, with the magic of the internet at my fingertips, and although I know she wouldn’t have had that in 1994, it is still an egregious error.” End Quote

If exaggerating something by nearly a 100 times wasn’t bad enough, she also made this whopper:

“The city of Strasbourg alone savagely slew 16,000 of its Jewish residents, blaming them for spreading the Black Death.”

Try as I might, I could not find any credible source for that high a figure, which gives the lie to the NY Times review that calls the book “prodigiously researched.” What Garrett seems to have done is skimmed a few articles and misread them in her haste. [Lila: I corrected a sentence referring to Garrett doing a hasty google search, which would be an anachronism.]

Thus:

” Those people of Strasbourg, who had thus far escaped the plague and who thought that by killing off the Jews they would insure themselves against it in the future, were doomed to disappointment, for the pest soon struck the city and, it is said, took a toll of sixteen thousand lives.“

The pestilence (the Black Death) killed 16,000 Strasbourg Christians, after the Christians eliminated the Jews living in the town, killing anywhere between a hundred or two (according to some sources) and two thousand odd (a figure which most scholars believe to be too high):

“Closener [Lila: a contemporary historian] also gave the number of executed as 2,000 (wol uffezwei tusent alse man ahtete). Königshofen agreed with that number (der worent uf zweitusent). This total was probably high because the population of the Jews in Strasbourg was likely only 250 to 300 as has been argued earlier. Possibly, more Jews had come to the community recently to escape potential or actual persecutions in other areas of Alsace and the Empire, but it was likely that the estimate of 2,000 victims was an exaggeration. This large number may be just another example of how Medieval chroniclers were unable to deal with large figures and responded by greatly expanding them…”

200-300 deaths becomes Garrett’s 16,000, which is really the number of gentile Strasbourgians killed by the Black Death.

How can sloppy research of this kind be passed off as prize-winning scholarship, unless the prize is a signalling device indicating a thesis the power-elite find useful to their agenda?