It was a timely investigation: A contract research organization that took part in running Pfizer’s global Covid-19 vaccine trials had been accused of sloppy practices by several former employees, and their evidence was published Nov. 2, 2021, in the BMJ (formerly known as the British Medical Journal).
Joe Rogan is one of the most popular content creators of all time. He is the darling of the wrestling world, and has since become a thought leader as a self-made curator of current events.
Rogan doesn’t endorse politicians outright; but he is fearless in his invitation of alternative points of view to his platform. He has discussed the various vaccines being used around the world, stopping short of making a definitive statement on them. More recently and more prominently, Rogan hosted biologist Bret Weinstein, who resigned from his position at Evergreen College in Olympia, Wash., in the wake of the 2016 election after which some students of color wanted to protest without white professors or students on campus.
By Tatiana Prophet
Last Monday morning, ABC News, NPR and numerous other elite-friendly outlets hit us hard with their lead story: Children with Covid are being admitted to the ICU in droves. But if you look closely, the ABC7 article put out numbers of cases only, and not hospitalizations.
And where the anecdotal stories pierced us in the ribs, they pivot to numbers that don’t apply to the original anecdote.
Take this New York Times article, “The Delta Variant Is Sending More Children to the Hospital. Are They Sicker, Too?” The “lede” is a soft one, the kind that begins with someone’s name, signaling this will be an intimate look. They focus on Sophia Gomez, a healthy 12-year-old who got Covid-19 and developed pneumonia, whereupon she was hospitalized (she is home now). Pneumonia is a common progression of the disease. It merely means an infection of the air sacs in the lungs (i.e. the lower respiratory tract). In terms of Covid, it can occur in the vulnerable, or in healthy people if it is not treated early. In fact wh,en we first heard about the novel coronavirus, global health authorities referred to it as atypical pneumonia.
It turns out that the Times article does not answer its own question whether the Delta variant is making children sicker; and like most articles on Covid, the experts quoted always say the same thing: Covid is spreading, people are dying, and it’s the fault of the unvaccinated. Many of those experts also have conflicts of interest.
On June, 29, 2021, the Associated Press published an analysis of CDC data with the headline, “.Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated.” How did they get this information? By looking at half the picture. Instead of looking for data on how many unvaccinated patients died, they merely looked at recorded “breakthrough” deaths that were reported. In other words, they’re assuming that any death not recorded as due to a “breathrough” case is automatically a death for an unvaccinated person.
In the AP article, writers Carla K. Johnson and Mike Stobbe took the amount of Covid-19 hospitalizations recorded in May, 107,000, stating that less than 1,200 cases had occurred among the fully vaccinated. And among the 18,000 Covid-19 deaths recorded in May 2021, the AP reported that 150 of those deaths had been in fully vaccinated people.
That methodology would work quite well if we actually knew who among the remaining deaths were among the vaccinated. (I can’t actually believe that I am talking about this — sounds like the 13th Century). But there is absolutely no way to tell this information. It is not publicly available because the data sent to the CDC from state and local governments are currently voluntary and incomplete. Further, what data there is, is oversimplified and relies on vaccine effectiveness clinical trials that are also incomplete (and in some cases, flawed).
Ever since the novel coronavirus entered our head space, the collective nightmare has become even more surreal with the breathless pre-emptive debunkings of “dangerous theories” by the mainstream media. Things have gotten so bizarre that the pre-denials by those in charge were reminiscent of soccer players falling down in agony when someone breathes on them. Instead of useful information and solutions, we got a million media prat falls.
The novel coronavirus had barely reached the United States when the barrage began.
On January 29, 2020, Washington Post writer Adam Taylor debunked the “fringe” theory that the virus was linked to weapons research while confirming in the same article that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was specifically studying bat-derived coronaviruses. And it wasn’t even labeled opinion.
For more than 15 months, the loudest voices on Earth worked very hard to distance Covid-19 from China’s only Level-4 Bio-Safety Lab in Wuhan. It turns out the actual distance between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the area’s “wet market” – where local authorities reported that the outbreak began -- is roughly 23 kilometers.
In fact, in spite of China christening the lab in 2017 to literally research the world’s most dangerous pathogens – including bat-derived coronaviruses like SARS-1 – the global media machine quickly tamped down any suggestion – from the few voices asking questions – that the lab might need to be investigated on the grounds of public health concern or that the virus had come from anywhere besides the wet market.
Some of our readers who have followed this site from the beginning already know that we have discussed anonymous sources extensively — the right way and the wrong way to use them. When we say “right” and “wrong,” we mean “how not to look like an idiot eventually.”
In fact, The New York Times and Washington Post’s own guidelines caution against using unnamed sources more than very rarely. One of the biggest no-no’s is directly quoting the anonymous source, or further, using direct quotes allegedly by another person that were conveyed by a third party in the article because doing so could involve some embellishment or other distortion that may reflect someone’s vendetta.
OPINION:
If the reports of crowded Tanzania hospitals and a rise in funerals are in any way like those in California, then perhaps some more digging would be necessary.
Either way, at this point we can merely conclude that in addition to heart disease, President Magufuli died of pneumonia, influenza, or Covid, which the CDC groups together when testing has not been performed. Most people are unaware that not all Covid-involved deaths in the United States are determined from laboratory tests — for a variety of reasons. Each state (and hospital) varies in budget and authorization, so the CDC groups these uncertain deaths together under PIC: pneumonia-like, influenza-like and Covid-like.
For the week ending March 13, 2021 since the start of the pandemic, the CDC labeled more total deaths as due to pneumonia, influenza OR Covid-19 (725,000+) than total number of Covid-related deaths (520,000+).
It takes a while to digest that information because it’s not definitive information. There’s uncertainty baked in.
PHOTO: This was a photo taken from the mobile phones of Kenneth Walker and Breonna Taylor, shared between them during their relationship. NOTE: Photographing one’s self with a weapon is not an admission of guilt or evidence of illegal activity. Nor is it any excuse, justification or reason why someone may have deserved to die in police custody. The photograph is ONLY being used here to show that the media narrative about Breonna Taylor is decidedly incomplete.
LOUISVILLE — Two young men connected in some way to the Breonna Taylor case have died within four days of each other, both shot and killed in different areas of Louisville.
Adrian Walker, 28, was shot and killed in the early afternoon of Nov. 19, a mere two blocks away from the “trap house” where he and his partner, Taylor’s ex-boyfriend Jamarcus Glover stashed drugs, money and guns — a house that was raided in the same March 13 operation as was Taylor’s apartment. The place where Walker was killed is part of the most troubled area of Louisville, the West End, in the Russell neighborhood. Police reportedly do not have a suspect in the killing.
Photo: First Lady Melania Trump in April 2018. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
Former aide portrays First Lady Melania Trump as powerless before her ‘dictatorial’ husband
By TATIANA PROPHET
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff was an aide to Melania Trump and has leaked tapes of their phone calls to CNN. In this recording from July 2018, Melania discusses the zero tolerance policy at the border, and the contrast of that with her being "required" to design the Christmas decorations at the White House.She sounds genuinely upset — expressing concern for the situation at the border. As commentary, Wolkoff tells Anderson Cooper that Melania fell in line on zero tolerance due to being part of a dictatorship. This is so deceptive. Zero tolerance, as most people remember, resulted in the separation of parents from their children after crossing the border illegally and then asking for asylum if they were caught. (If they went to a port of entry, they would not be charged with a crime).
