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In the Aug. 19 issue, I wrote briefly about Monkeypox, a virus that some health officials are predicting might spread as fast as COVID-19 but with a lethality rate 10 times as high.
There was a time – and not terribly long ago – when I would have considered such a news item to be a scary fact. But now, after researching so many of the early “facts” we were given about COVID, I’ve become suspicious of any sort of news or analysis that comes from the world’s major health organizations, and especially the WHO, the NIH, and the CDC.
Here is Meryl Nass, the astonishingly prolific scientist/researcher on viruses and vaccines, tracing the 20+ year history of the Monkeypox virus and the vaccine developed to combat it, and explaining why she calls it Monkeypok$.
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