5 Key Republicans Drop Dead In Short Space

While coincidences are certainly possible, it’s awfully odd that so many Republican representatives and senators have died in unclear circumstances in just a week or two. Ever since the Church Committee hearings in 1975, the public has known about the development of weapons capable of inducing disease through aerosols and darts. The technology to depress or elevate blood pressure and thereby induce heart attacks and aneurisms has been around for decades.

The five “useful” deaths:

December 28: Nolan Metatal, 75, former State Senator and Representative, Mississippi

He did not file for reelection in 2020, but still remained a leader of higher eduction at the Capitol.

From Covid 19

December 29: Luke Letlow, 41 yrs. Congressman-elect, Louisiana.

Vocal Trump supporter who had appeared with him in a campaign video.

No known co-morbidities.

Heart attack following Covid-related procedure. Was on ventilator, needlessly.

January 1: Ben Chafin Jr., 60 yrs. State Senator, Virginia.

Ardent gun rights supporter with a very secure tenure in front of him.

From Covid 19.

January 2: Mike Reese, 42 yrs. State Representative, Pennsylvania. Republican House Caucus Chairman, 2020-21.

From a brain aneurism after testing positive and quarantining for Covid 19.

Pennsylvania was a hotly contested state in the Presidential election and Reese was a key figure because of the documented fraud at work there.

January 2: Dick Foley, former Connecticut GOP chairman, state representative, advisor to governors, major political operative and lobbyist, long-time friend of Paul Manafort. 71 years.

No cause of death given, but it was reported as stunning his friends and family.

 

 

 

 

Retracted HCQ Study Muddled Ventilator & HCQ Use

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.

Lancet, NEJM Retract Covid-19 Papers Over Data Source Concerns

Update (June 5, 2020, 12.45 PM IST):

The Lancet editor-in-chief Richard Horton won the 2015 Friendship award given by the Chinese Government

and here’s more about him  from the Lancet website:

“He now works to develop the idea of planetary health – the health of human civilizations and the ecosystems on which they depend.”

The Spectator points out that Horton has been an unrelenting critic of the British government, blaming it for not doing enough, but has attacked any criticism of the Chinese government.

ORIGINAL POST:

This house of cards is tumbling down fast:

From  Statnews.com:

“The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study that raised alarms about the safety of the experimental Covid-19 treatments chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine amid scrutiny of the data underlying the paper.

Just over an hour later, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a separate study, focused on blood pressure medications in Covid-19, that relied on data from the same company.

The retractions came at the request of the authors of the studies, published last month, who were not directly involved with the data collection and sources, the journals said.

“We can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources,” Mandeep Mehra of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Frank Ruschitzka of University Hospital Zurich, and Amit Patel of University of Utah said in a statement issued by the Lancet. “Due to this unfortunate development, the authors request that the paper be retracted.”

A company called Surgisphere was responsible for the primary data on which the papers were based:

“As scrutiny grew, the authors on the paper not affiliated with Surgisphere called for an independent audit. In their Lancet statement Thursday, they said that Surgisphere was not cooperating with the independent reviewers and would not provide the data.

“As such, our reviewers were not able to conduct an independent and private peer review and therefore notified us of their withdrawal from the peer-review process,” the researchers wrote.”
Who is Surgisphere?

The Guardian on June 3 had this report:

“Data it [Surgisphere] claims to have legitimately obtained from more than a thousand hospitals worldwide formed the basis of scientific articles that have led to changes in Covid-19 treatment policies in Latin American countries. It was also behind a decision by the WHO and research institutes around the world to halt trials of the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine. On Wednesday, the WHO announced those trials would now resume.

Two of the world’s leading medical journals – the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine – published studies based on Surgisphere data. The studies were co-authored by the firm’s chief executive, Sapan Desai……

…A search of publicly available material suggests several of Surgisphere’s employees have little or no data or scientific background. An employee listed as a science editor appears to be a science fiction author and fantasy artist whose professional profile suggests writing is her fulltime job. Another employee listed as a marketing executive is an adult model and events hostess, who also acts in videos for organisations…..Until Monday, the get in touch” link on Surgisphere’s homepage redirected to a WordPress template for a cryptocurrency website, raising questions about how hospitals could easily contact the company to join its database….

..Desai has been named in three medical malpractice suits, unrelated to the Surgisphere database. In an interview with the Scientist, Desai previously described the allegations as “unfounded”..
…In 2008, Desai launched a crowdfunding campaign on the website Indiegogo promoting a wearable “next generation human augmentation device that can help you achieve what you never thought was possible”. The device never came to fruition…
…Desai’s Wikipedia page has been deleted following questions about Surgisphere and his history, first raised in 2010…..
…The Guardian has since contacted five hospitals in Melbourne and two in Sydney, whose cooperation would have been essential for the Australian patient numbers in the database to be reached. All denied any role in such a database, and said they had never heard of Surgisphere. Desai did not respond to requests to comment on their statements.
…Another study using the Surgisphere database, again co-authored by Desai, found the anti-parasite drug ivermectin reduced death rates in severely ill Covid-19 patients. It was published online in the Social Science Research Network e-library, before peer-review or publication in a medical journal, and prompted the Peruvian government to add ivermectin to its national Covid-19 therapeutic strategy…
…The New England Journal of Medicine also published a peer-reviewed Desai study based on Surgisphere data, which included data from Covid-19 patients from 169 hospitals in 11 countries in Asia, Europe and North America. It found common heart medications known as angiotensin-converting–enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin-receptor blockers were not associated with a higher risk of harm in Covid-19 patients.”

The Guardian report picked up the analysis from James Todaro at Medicine Uncensored.

Todaro shows that Surgisphere does not appear anywhere in Internet Archive records, and its portfolio of past cases is thin to non-existent, made up mostly testimonials and PR releases.

Errors in Surgisphere’s database that Todaro points out include:

Reporting 73 deaths from in Australia, when Australia had only a total of 67 deaths by April 21.

Claiming to have detailed patient records for 63,315 patients in the USA, when the total number of Covd-19 patients in the USA was 66,000.

Providing  specific African data that would mean that over 40% of all patient deaths in Africa took place in Surgisphere-related hospitals with the sophisticated cardiac monitoring technology needed to collect such data.

What is amazing is not how this Desai shyster conned the world, but how these supposedly top-notch science journals and brilliant research scientists never bothered to check their sources for research that would have such a monumental impact.

We had the fraud Neil Ferguson. Now this.

On second thoughts, Desai almost deserves a medal for showing up how flimsy and pretentious the whole academic publishing industry is.

Added (June 5, 12.36 PM):

I have added an excerpt from  Surgisphere’s response below:

“Our studies, including that published in The Lancet, use a registry, with data obtained from electronic health records (EHR). In our hydroxychloroquine analysis, we studied a very specific group of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and have clearly stated that the results of our analyses should not be over-interpreted to those that have yet to develop such disease or those that have not been hospitalized. We also clearly outlined the limitations of an observational study that cannot fully control for unobservable confounding measures, and we concluded that off-label use of the drug regimens outside of the context of a clinical trial should not be recommended.

In so doing, we join agencies including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as well as several other observational studies reported in the NEJM, JAMA and the BMJ, each of which have pointed to either no benefit of the drug regimens using hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine or even a signal of potential harm (also see this paper). The Brazilian CloroCovid-19 Study on chloroquine diphosphate was recently stopped in Brazil due to the noted safety hazards associated with this drug.

Our COVID-19 research was not funded by any drug company, private or public donor, or political organization. Our research collaborators on the piece for The Lancet devoted their time through personal funds and resources because they saw the urgent humanitarian need and opportunity to inform rapidly-evolving pandemic responses.”

Floyd Tested Positive for Covid-19 & Other Oddities

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.

 

Ferguson Forecasts Versus Swedish Reality

From Sanjeev Sabhlok’s blog:

“This chart below is the final nail on the covid panic (and yet, this is a serious disease – I don’t mean to downplay its seriousness – see my text below).
This chart was created by someone who used Neil Ferguson’s model, applied it to Sweden, and then plotted actual deaths (see tweet).
And btw, my research (a couple of hours of googling) confirms that for the world as a whole, there’s been virtually no virus that has ever infected more than 25% per cent of the population. Spanish flu infected only 25% or so (see my tweet thread) – that that was without any vaccination; H1N1 (2009) infected 24%, As a general rule, pandemic influenzas only infect a quarter of the people (see New York government’s website).
This confirms the validity of Anne Marie Knott’s analysis. Not more than 20-30% persons in the average country are likely to get this coronavirus, no matter how hard they try.”

Establishment: Covid-19 Is New Normal

Two establishment mouthpieces, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now and Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Coming Plague” and consultant to the predictive programming movie, “Contagion,” chat up our new Covid-19 normal and a future of vaccinations for all 7.5 billion members of our species:

LAURIE GARRETT: So, at a moment when a massive-scale collaboration is necessary — and let’s be clear, we’re going to have to vaccinate 7.5 billion human beings. It’ll be the largest vaccination effort ever even imagined, much less executed, in the history of our species. When that is being revved up in Europe, and there’s a desperate desire to see Asian countries, European countries, African countries, Latin American countries all collaborating with a common mission, the United States is saying, “Bye, guys.”

AMY GOODMAN: Astounding. You have people like — well, you have countries like Norway who are giving a billion dollars, and, as Juan pointed out, the United States is not giving anything to the vaccine effort. But, Laurie, in an interview you did with The New York Times, headlined “She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next?” you said that you see that the pandemic goes on for like 36 months. I think people are cringing all over who are hearing this right now. But if you can say — lay out the scenario. And what exactly does that mean? Do you stay in your home for that amount of time? What would be the most logical, safe reopening, if that can happen, and also dealing with this pandemic? Why do you say 36 months?

LAURIE GARRETT: Well, 36 months is my best-case scenario. Worst case is that it becomes a new permanent feature on the landscape for generations to come.

Note: Amazon reviewers find a major error in “The Coming Plague,” as well as undisguised political propaganda:

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.”

“It would be more than a year before the Reagan administration’s health leadership would accept the idea that AIDS in Africa was primarily heterosexual. The administration would never fully acknowledge that the virus might also be heterosexually transmitted in the United States. Indeed, disputes over heterosexual transmissibility of the virus and the applicability of the African (read: black) experience to the Euro-American (read: white) context would rage within the upper echelons of the U.S. government throughout the eight-year-long Reagan administration and well into the term of his successor, George Bush.”

Really? The author had to add in “(read: white)” and “(read: black)” to make the issue about whether AIDS was spreading heterosexually a racist issue?

Mossad disinfo on Covid-19 origin?

The story that SARS-CoV-2 first struck in the USA and was later disseminated at the Wuhan military games is being pushed by the Chinese state and related outlets, as well as by anti-NWO activists who see it as a creation of a transnational power-elite, represented in this instance by the Gates Foundation.

However, the identification of patient zero as Army Sergeant I Class Maatje Benassi from Fort Meade, Maryland, comes originally from an internet researcher/youtuber George Webb. Benassi, whom Webb fingers as part of a Benassi family plot extending to Italy, denies the allegation and says she has never had Covid-19 symptoms.

Webb turns out to be a colorful fellow. He claims to have known Julian Assange; has had a spy-versus-spy past, a room-mate with computer records of Trump in bed with two 14-year old girls, and a girl-friend who once accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of gang -raping her. Yes, Julie Swetnick, she of the “creepy porn lawyer.”

Most colorful of all, Webb seems to be a Mossad agent. Or something like it. Or a double agent. Make that triple.

Another Roger Stone type, pointing every way except one.

The Chinese state, like the American, is only another golem of the Kabal. While the two golem fight, Frankenstein laughs.

Wuhan Military Games: Ground Zero?

More and more athletes are claiming that they contracted a Covid-19-like illness at the World Military Games, held in Wuhan in October 2019, from the 18th to the 27th.

9308 military personnel from 103 countries, including India, participated.

The first Corona case was identified on November 17th. But it was only 45 days later, on December 31, that China reported the spread of a pneumonia-like illness to the WHO’s local office.

While the US leadership has implied that a leak in October at the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Level 4 lab (only 20 kms from the venue of the Military Games) might have been the origin of the pandemic, Chinese officials have pointed instead to an admission by a top US health official that he found the virus in some deceased pneumonia patients before November 2019. The Chinese have suggested that Fort Detrick in Maryland, a top pathogen research facility, might be the culprit.

Covid19: China hand, plagiarist prof to investigate origins

Responding to world-wide demands to investigate the origin of the coronavirus Covid-19, US and Chinese experts have begun collaborating to find out what happened:

“American scientists are working with their Chinese counterparts to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus, a prime demand of US President Donald Trump and several other countries, an official media report here said on Wednesday. While there is no official announcement here, the state-run CGTN television reported on Wednesday that the China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention is facilitating the cooperation between Dr. Ian Lipikin (sic), Director for Centre for Infection and Immunity of Columbia University, and Prof Lu Jinhai of Sun-Yat-Sen University of Guangzhou to conduct the probe.”

Ian Lipkin has been one of the voices in favor of lock-downs. He is also a strong proponent of the notion that viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 are crossing the boundaries of species because of habitat encroachment and climate-change set off by human activity. He has an extensive record of collaborative work with the WHO, with the CDC, and with Homeland Security. He has a long history of working with Chinese experts and government officials and has received top awards from China. In short, he does not inspire confidence as an investigator of either Chinese or American errors or malfeasance.

That is not all. In 2017, Lipkin was sued by a long-term collaborator for sex-discrimination, plagiarism, fraud,misuse of funds, and the suppression of research into the causes of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.Mady Hornig, a physician and researcher at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and also Lipkin’s former lover, claims he put his name on her work, undermined her professional relationships, ruined her chance of tenure, and committed other misdeeds.

Hornig’s suit was dismissed in 2018.

Lipkin, whose undergraduate degree is in cultural anthropology not in biological science, took a medical degree, specialized in neurology, and then went on to become a “master virus hunter,” winning the praise of none other than Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. He advised the government during the Hong-Kong SARS outbreak, and then went on to establish the Institute Pasteur in Shanghai, national Centers for Disease Control in Beijing, and the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health.

A Guangzhou university expert, Lu Jinhai, is now being asked to join Lipkin in probing the origins of the virus.

Meanwhile, Fauci Gave $3.7 Million to the Wuhan Laboratory in 2014.

Honestly, this does not pass the smell test. Just too many conflicts of interest.

Top Indian Experts Were Against Extending Lock-down

“Two veteran infectious diseases experts — Jayaprakash Muliyal and T. Jacob John (both of the Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore) who were at the forefront of the leprosy eradication and pulse polio immunisation programmes, respectively — feel it’s time to end the lockdown, with one of them describing a long-term shutdown as akin to ‘burning the house to kill a rat’.

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/infectious-diseases-experts-divided-over-lockdown/articleshow/75362352.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Muliyal preferred cultivating herd immunity to a lock-down, while Jacob John supported a lock-down of no more than 2 weeks (March 24 until April 6-7). For him, a lock-down is less about containing the virus than it is about buying time to prepare, and, as he cogently points out, if one cannot prepare in 2 weeks, one is unlikely to prepare in 4.

Two other experts, M. Sivakami, chairman of the Center for Health and Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and Abdul Ghafar, an Apollo consultant in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology advocated a lock-down only until May 1 (a total of 5 weeks) and until April 15 respectively (a total of 3 weeks).

So, 4 of the most prominent infectious diseases experts, representing private hospitals geared to research, teaching, and mission/social service (CMC), research institutions (Tata), and private urban hospital chains (Apollo), supported 0, 2, 3, and 5 weeks of lock-down, at the most. That means, only the Tata Institute consultant advocated extending the March 24 lock-down at all, and then only by 2 weeks.

Notably, the Tata Institute is fully funded by the University Grants Commission of the Indian Government, possibly suggesting a desire to toe the government line.

The private sector recommendations conflict directly with those of the government’s panel of medical experts who wanted to extend the 21-day lock-down. Two who spoke to the press only on the condition of anonymity wanted the extension to mitigate the unforeseen migrant exodus. One wanted a 1-week extension, but the other wanted a full 2-month lock-down, that is, a 39-day (4 1/2 week) extension.