Here’s a Great Idea… From the People that Brought the World Four Years of Economic Destruction, Social Polarization, and Global Hysteria! 

Rather than apologizing for all the misinformation and bad advice it has given the world re the COVID pandemic, the WHO is doubling down with a new set of proposals that will give it more power to mandate shutdowns, dispense unfounded safety protocols, promote drugs that don’t work and criticize those that do, and (most disturbing) control speech among all its members. The US is a member. Which means our free speech rights could be subordinated to the unnamed bureaucrats of this busybody international organization.

But wait! There’s more!

Besides giving themselves much more power, the new proposals will alter the fundamental mission of the WHO. In a draft of the proposal, the phrase “with full respect for the dignity, human rights, and fundamental freedoms of persons” has been deleted and replaced by “equity, coherence, and inclusivity.”

Where have we heard that before?

You can read more here.

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In the News This Week 

* Protection From the New COVID-19 Vaccines Is Weak and Short-Lived 

More evidence for this keeps coming in: The new bivalent vaccines are much less effective than advertised. When introduced, there were comments about their ability to protect against serious illness and hospitalization for a year or more. As it turns out, they offer only moderate protection. In the most recent study, the new vaccines initially increased protection against hospitalization by 52%, but that quickly dropped to 36% in 60 days.

Despite the bad results, US authorities are preparing to replace all the original Pfizer and Moderna vaccines with the bivalent, taking the position that some protection is better than none.

* From Meryl Nass’s COVID Newsletter… 

On March 14, the FDA authorized a 4th booster for babies – while data from the UK and Germany suggest you cause 22 serious injuries with the shot in order to prevent a single child’s hospitalization. Click here.

* Walking Back the Lie 

Click here for a montage of the CDC’s changing vaccine story over time.

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More on the Seriousness of the Vaccine Side Effects 

It’s now reasonably well documented that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines had side effects beyond the usual (aches, pains, fatigue) that are commonly reported for just about any medical intervention. Among the most common serious side effects are cardiovascular issues (myocarditis, pericarditis, transverse militis) and seizures. (See the Feb. 17 issue and the March 10 issue.)

And here’s another finding…

Scientists in Germany have found that the mRNA vaccination, not the COVID-19 infection itself, caused brain and heart damage in an older adult with underlying conditions. Click here.

This is by no means definitive. But I was interested to read that the FDA recently disclosed that two adults that received the Pfizer vaccine during the clinical trials were later diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder. Click here.

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The Lab-Leak Debate: What Is Gain-of-Function Research, Anyway? 

In response to the US Energy Department, the FBI, and several prominent scientists announcing that it was looking much, much more likely that COVID originated as the result of a lab leak, Fauci went on CNN and did his best to “walk back” his earlier insistence on the natural-origin theory:

“A lab leak could be that someone was out in the wild maybe looking for different types of viruses in bats, got infected, went into a lab, and was being studied in a lab, and then came out of the lab,” said Fauci. “The other possibility is someone takes a virus from the environment that doesn’t actually spread very well in humans, and manipulates it a bit, and accidentally it escapes or accidentally infects someone and then you get an outbreak.”

But that was early last week. Since then, Fauci (and the mainstream media) have decided to continue to argue for the natural-origin theory, correctly assuming that the American public will have no way of figuring out which story is true.

Meanwhile, you may be wondering, “What difference does it make?”

I’ll tell you the difference. It’s big. And it’s important. It’s about “gain-of-function” research – a kind of research that most people have never heard of. But it has been done, off and on, for decades. Because it is so risky, it is often conducted secretly to avoid public outrage, which could result in the termination of its funding.

In these experiments, scientists play around with the biological structure of various pathogens – making them more and less contagious, and more and less deadly – for the stated purpose of being better able to understand and control outbreaks in the future.

Needless to say, gain-of-function research is scary. It’s the stuff of horror movies. A dangerous virus becomes 100 times more deadly in a lab. Because of some minor mishap, it escapes into the outside world. And then… well, you know the rest of the story. We’ve just lived through it.

Now, here’s what you may not know. For the past two years, Fauci has been denying that the US has been supporting gain-of-function research by funding such research in, among other places, the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

And why has he been denying it? Well, he could be telling the truth. But I don’t think so. I think that if it is determined that COVID-19 came from a lab leak, and that lab leak took place in Wuhan, and the NIH, the CDC, or some other US government institution funded it… well, that would sound like… like the pandemic was, at least in part, US-created!

Oh, and by the way… 

For a moment, it looked like the lab-leak theory was going to be accepted by that gang that didn’t shoot straight and that they were going to walk back their natural-origin narrative (just as they’ve been walking back the other things they got wrong). In fact, just after the announcement by the FBI and Energy Department that a lab leak was looking more and more likely, John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, all but admitted to funding gain-of-function research, saying it was necessary “to help prevent future pandemics.”

But someone in the gang must have realized that wasn’t going to work. So they doubled down on their original story and began inserting new experts into the discussion to get us back to the wet-market theory.

Strategically, it was a good move. Most people aren’t going to wade through the science to figure out the truth. And most don’t care. Which means the discussion will be ignored by the press and die out on its own. Naturally! (Unless, of course, something very awkward is discovered if and when the Congressional Committee follows the money!)

What gives?

David Zweig of The Free Press explains here.

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Walking It Back… Walking It Back… Walking It Back

DF sent in this article from The Atlantic, titled “Why Are We Still Arguing About Masks?”

It fits neatly with what I’ve been calling the “walking-back” strategy – a tactic now being used by all those that took part in promoting the misinformation about COVID that was so damaging to our culture, our economy, and our democracy.

As more and more facts are brought to light, they don’t want to be blamed for any of it. They want us to forgive and forget. But we shouldn’t, because what they did was unforgiveable.

They used the conceit of SCIENCE to abrogate our basic rights. To pass laws that inhibited freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, and freedom of speech. To put free-thinking doctors in jail, silence true investigative reporters, and to shut down our entire economy, putting thousands of small businesses out of business and causing what I believe will amount to about a trillion dollars of economic damage. Not to mention the untold number of deaths caused by “politically correct” health procedures: the use of respirators, the limitations on ameliorative drugs, and the widespread insistence on the vaccines.

Click here to read a Meryl Nass essay about a particularly offensive walking-back tactic used by Richard Baron, head of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

And for a welcome change of pace, click here. This is a doctor that has been publishing comments on COVID-19 since the beginning. For a long time, he promoted the use of masks. Now, quite admirably, he is admitting he was wrong.

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 New Questions, New Answers 

As some readers have noticed, I’ve been devoting an increasing amount of space to all the misinformation we were sold about COVID. That’s not because my interest level has increased. It’s because – now that the Congress is actually investigating what we were told vs. what happened – new discrepancies being revealed every day.

There is much more coming out than I could possibly follow in a few hundred words, twice a week. So, I’m going to cover several items in each issue over the next several weeks. Then I’ll publish one long bonus issue that summarizes everything.

In the meantime, here is some of what’s been going on…

* The Origin Debate: It is now all but confirmed that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, where they were conducting gain-of-function research on the virus. And it is becoming clear that much of the funding for this research came from the US. 

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, and Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, are leading the investigation. They are also seeking testimony and information from Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance; Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence; Dr. Francis Collins, acting science adviser to President Joe Biden; and Xavier Becerra, secretary of Health and Human Services. Click here.

* The WHO: Despite all the misinformation that came out of the WHO, member states are negotiating an accord that will give the WHO centralized authority in future pandemics. Republican senators are pushing back. 

The draft accord, which would be “legally binding” on all 194 member nations, gives the WHO the authority to declare pandemics and submits member countries to “the central role of the WHO as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work” once a pandemic is declared. Click here for Meryl Nass’s explanation of the key points.

This isn’t just stupidity, it’s evil. Almost every recommendation the WHO made in response to the pandemic was not just wrong. It was stupidly and completely wrong. The CDC and their Deep State supporters got behind those damaging stupidities to get Joe Biden elected. That makes sense to me. But why would they want to continue to do more harm by mandating that future WHO recommendations become US law? Click here and here.

* The Vaccine Risks: They knew. Why didn’t they tell us? 

Despite the now irrefutable evidence that COVID vaccines don’t work but do have potentially dire side effects, the CDC continues to recommend that everyone get the shots. Click here.

Contrary to what the mainstream press has been telling us, it’s now clear that the CDC knew about the cardio-vascular risks of the mRNA vaccines more than two years ago.

In December 2020, the CDC launched a service called V-Safe, which listed adverse reactions to the mRNA COVID vaccines. Included in that list were such symptoms as fever, chills, and pain. But some adverse reactions – e.g., pericarditis, myocarditis, transverse militis, and seizures – which are now being included in CDC literature, were not included.

You could theorize that the CDC did not include these scarier reactions to the vaccines because they didn’t know about them then. But that isn’t true. In October, two months before the V-Safe list was released, the CDC gave a presentation of “adverse effects of special interest.” And it included – yes – pericarditis, myocarditis, transverse militis, and seizures.

Click here for a short video about how the mRNA vaccines got FDA emergency use authorization, despite the fact that the studies said the risk of serious adverse events was greater than the reduction of hospitalization risk.

You can expect many more “shocking” revelations in the coming weeks and months.

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The Final Word on Wearing Masks

A friend of mine, whose spouse has COVID, has been told by his daughter that if he wants to see his granddaughter, he must wear a mask. Another friend insists that anyone who may have been near this woman, must mask up. Talking about this to K and her sister G last night, I said something like, “But everyone knows that masks don’t work.”

And then I got an earful.

“Save your conspiracy theories for your blog,” they told me.

So here I am.

I wrote about the ineffectiveness of masks in the Dec. 20 issue I provided further proof Feb. 10.At that time, I felt that the studies I cited were more than enough to embarrass the CDC, the Biden administration, and the media for promoting them as effective safeguards for so long. Instead, they’ve been walking back their misinformation, one step at a time.

Their narrative continues to be: “We were just reporting the science as we knew it then.”

Which is a bald-faced lie. The data and the analytics have been there since day one. And now, a newly released report – the most rigorous and extensive review of the scientific literature on masks – concludes that there was never any scientific evidence that masks reduced the spread of COVID. Neither surgical masks nor N-95s. Not even a little.

Click here.

If you don’t have time to hit the link and read the report, at least take a look at the following graph. It tracks the results of the experiment that occurred across the US in the first two years of the pandemic, when mask mandates were imposed and lifted at various times in 39 states.

The black line shows the weekly rate of COVID cases in states with mask mandates that week. The orange line shows the rate in states without mandates.

As you can see, the trajectories are virtually identical. And if you add up all those numbers, the cumulative rates of COVID cases are virtually identical, too. So are the cumulative rates of COVID mortality. (The mortality rate is actually a little lower in the states without mask mandates!)

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The Conspiracy Behind the Theory That Turned Out to Be a Fact 

You’ve probably read about the recent statements by the US Energy Department and FBI. They believe, they now say, that the COVID-19 virus originated, not naturally in a Wuhan wet market, but in a Wuhan laboratory that had been doing gain-of-function research on viruses with funds contributed by the CDC.

This is big news. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the question of how the virus came to be has been a political litmus test. If you believed in the natural theory, you were pro Biden. If you believed the virus came from a lab, you were MAGA.

I’m hardly MAGA. But in the Nov. 29, 2022 issue, I said that I was taking the lab leak theory seriously, because I was gradually realizing that almost all the “facts” about COVID published by the CDC, announced by Dr. Fauci, and promoted by the major media were turning out to be wrong. And not just wrong, but stupidly or maliciously wrong.

Ten weeks later, in the Feb. 14 issue, I further predicted that as the facts about COVID gradually came to light, the CDC, Fauci, and the Biden administration would attempt to exculpate themselves from the damage done by their reckless propaganda campaign by pretending that they were “operating on the best information available at the time.”

That is exactly what they did during the last two weeks of February, as study after study came out validating all the conspiracy theories they had spent more than two years denouncing.

And that is exactly what they did by calling the lab-leak theory a conspiracy and promoting the wet-market theory, which any virologist that wasn’t on the CDC payroll recognized as absurd.

As I will demonstrate in future issues, the wet-market narrative was created for financial purposes and then promoted for political purposes. And it was all a definite and purposeful lie. Not just a lie, but one that cost the US billions of dollars in wasted expenditures and who knows how many lives.

This is probably the most egregious act of political sabotage done on the American public in my lifetime. And yet, almost nobody is writing about it – and especially the CDC, which created the false narrative, the politicians that promoted it to put Biden in office, the mainstream media that promoted it simply because they thought it would hurt Trump’s chances of being reelected, and the social media giants that banned, cancelled, and outed anyone that promoted the theory that now, almost every scientist that has studied the facts, is admitting the truth: COVID began in a Wuhan lab that was conducting gain-of-function research, promoted by the US government.

Click here and here and here and here for some of the latest reports.

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More Bad News on Vaccines 

I’m sure you’ve read about it – the many reports confirming fears that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, which utilize messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, were causing heart inflammation, ranging from mild to dangerous to deadly. But until recently, Novavax was hoping that its vaccine, which does not use RNA technology, might be exempt from these unwanted side effects.

Alas, a new study suggests that this is not the case. Subjects that received the Novavax vaccine had a significantly higher chance of getting myocarditis, pericarditis, and both in the months following vaccination.

Click here, here, and here.

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A Quick Summary of Where We’re At… 

I’m not finished writing about what so many governments, health organizations, and media outlets got wrong in their reporting and recommendations about COVID-19. There is still much more to cover. But for today, I thought I’d send you two links that repeat some of the information I’ve already collected, as well as some that was new to me.

First, for a quick summary of the most notable acts of misinformation that the English people (and American people… and just about the rest of the world) were told during the first two years of the pandemic, click here.

Yes, they were wrong about the origin of the virus. They were wrong about the case mortality rate. They were wrong about the infection rate. They were wrong about closing schools. They were wrong about mask wearing. And they were wrong about the vaccines. And not just wrong, but historically and hatefully wrong. Click here for a short video on some of the idiocy.