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    New Movement by Physicians to Fight Medical Tyranny


    New Movement by Physicians to Fight Medical Tyranny
    Note that views expressed in this opinion article are the writer’s personal views and not necessarily those of TrialSite.Very, very few physicians are
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    Note that views expressed in this opinion article are the writer’s personal views and not necessarily those of TrialSite.


    Very, very few physicians are courageous enough to stand up against the vaccine-but-not-early treatment with generics tyranny pushing mass COVID vaccination. Few will prescribe ivermectin. Few acknowledge the many vaccine risks that, for most people, outweigh the benefits. Few accept the science that natural immunity is better than vaccine immunity, and people with it should not get the jab.


    When do Americans see the data on COVID deaths of over 600,000 who or what should they blame? The truth is this: Better than blaming the virus, they should blame hospitals and the vast majority of physicians. Why? Because the medical establishment has never had the courage to stand up to the medical tyranny engineered by Fauci and implemented by the CDC and FDA. People still are dying from COVID because their physicians refuse to genuinely follow the science and prescribe cheap, safe, and proven generics like ivermectin.


    Of course, there have always been a minority of doctors who have since March 2020 been curing their patients of COVID by using a variety of protocols that US hospitals and their doctors refuse to use.


    Why are so many nurses and physicians refusing to be vaccinated? Because they have seen on a daily basis large numbers of patients suffering and dying not from the virus but from the COVID vaccines.


    Now one of the most respected physicians and medical researchers, Dr. Robert Malone, has spearheaded a movement to combat medical tyranny by organizing physicians from all over the world and creating just days ago a Physicians Declaration. Here are some key highlights from this historic action.


    — There is an unprecedented assault on our ability to care for our patients.


    — Public policy [think Fauci] has chosen to ignore fundamental concepts of science, health, and wellness, instead of embracing a “one size fits all” treatment strategy [think COVID vaccines] that results in too much illness and death when the individualized, personalized approach to health care is safe and equally or more effective.


    –Thousands of physicians are being denied the right to provide treatment to their patients [think ivermectin] as a result of barriers put up by pharmacies, hospitals, and public health agencies, rendering the vast majority of healthcare providers helpless to protect their patients in the face of disease. Physicians are now advising their patients to simply go home (allowing the virus to incubate) and return when their disease worsens, resulting in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary patient deaths due to failure-to-treat [other than using vaccines].


    — Physicians must defend their right to prescribe treatment, observing the tenet FIRST, DO NO HARM. Physicians shall not be restricted from prescribing safe and effective treatments [other than vaccines]. These restrictions continue to cause unnecessary sickness and death. The rights of patients, after being fully informed about the risks and benefits of each option [especially vaccines], must be restored to receive those treatments [such as ivermectin].


    — We invite patients who believe in the importance of the physician-patient relationship and the ability to be active participants in their care to demand access to science-based medical care.


    That last point is where you, the reader, must join this revolt and demand from your physicians and hospitals your right to get access to generic medicines like ivermectin. Print the Declaration and give it to your doctor. If this Declaration simply remains words but not profound changes in the practice of medicine in this pandemic, then all hope for saving lives will be lost.


    We are rapidly approaching the point where more people will die from COVID vaccines than the virus. Fauci and his allies will not easily admit their many evil wrong actions. If you want to examine extensive medical science details on the emerging Vaccine Dystopia, then read this truth-telling article.


    COVID Vaccine Dystopia: A Manifesto by Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn | Principia Scientific Intl.
    The views of many distinguished medical experts paint a bleak view of COVID vaccines.
    principia-scientific.com


    JoelSHirschhorn

    That is like comparing somone who has never paid taxes in their life and is on record as sayong that all tax returns should be falsified as matter of principle with somone who pays taxes fairly but once put a $0.20 stamp used for personal reasons on as a business expense.


    Sure, they are both guilty of falsifying tax returns...

    Quote from JedRothwell

    I would not know about that. However, all deaths must be entered into VAERS, so there are no deaths unaccounted for:


    Quote from JedRothwell

    QUOTE:


    FDA requires healthcare providers to report any death after COVID-19 vaccination to VAERS, even if it’s unclear whether the vaccine was the cause.


    Yes Jed, you do "know about that". It has been mentioned multiple times. A Harvard Medical School study has made it clear that merely one in a hundred significant adverse vaccine reactions - over and above what is typically experienced from a vaccine - are reported to VAERS. Why not actually watch the video to comprehend how this could happen, rather that disbelieving the Harvard study and the whistleblower.

    Quote from JedRothwell

    Does this person also claim the doctor has never heard of the FDA? EVERY SINGLE TIME they vaccinate you for anything, they have to give you a form describing the VAERS. You, the patient, have to sign for it and acknowledge it. Is this whistleblower saying they have handed out this form thousands of times but they never read it? Or even glanced at it?

    It is a form the patient signs, not the health care provider. So why would such a provider think it is for their own instruction? Why would they be bothered to read print at the bottom of a form for patients that briefly mentions VAERS? This is the whole point : Hospitals are not informing or training staff about VAERS and who should be sitting at a computer and actually filling in VAERS reports. Are they paid for it? No! It's time consuming and tedious obtaining data for the patient and then entering it into a computer system that is not user friendly.


    Think on this : The CDC and FDA know full well that vaccine adverse events are massively underreported. They continually allow health care providers to technically break the law by not reporting. There is no enforcement. They don't want to enforce. They don't want the extent of vaccine injuries known. Bad for business.


    An aside : The whistleblower tells how it is that Covid vaccine injured people are often reported as unvaccinated : If they were vaccinated outside of the hospital system they were admitted to, the hospital often has no record of vaccination, by default they are considered unvaccinated until they chance to find out otherwise.

    Quote from Fm1

    Physicians are now advising their patients to simply go home (allowing the virus to incubate) and return when their disease worsens, resulting in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary patient deaths due to failure-to-treat [other than using vaccines].

    Most in US do this since 1.5 years now and most - as being members of FM/R/J/B - are ordered to do so. It's the biggest fascist mass killing event since Auschwitz!

    It's not a lack of education or knowledge. It's willful killing. Some supporters here enjoy it!

    Quote from Mark U

    A Harvard Medical School study has made it clear that merely one in a hundred significant adverse vaccine reactions - over and above what is typically experienced from a vaccine - are reported to VAERS.

    How do you know how many unreported reactions are serious? Suppose 99% of reactions are not reported. Suppose that 99.8% of all reactions are not serious, and not worth reporting. That would mean 80% of the reports on file are useless.


    The doctors filing these reports know what they are doing. They understand the purpose of the database. They know what serious adverse reaction is, and which reactions are mild and need not be reported. If 99% of reactions are not reported, that is not because doctors are lazy or irresponsible. It is because in their professional judgement, there is no need to report these events.


    Look at the numbers for other vaccines, and various papers on the subject, and you will find that less than 1% of adverse reactions are serious. Nearly all reactions cause no harm. Things like a low grade fever for one day are known to occur, and they cause no harm. There is no point to adding them to VAERS because you have no way of knowing how many unreported fevers there are. The incidence rate for mild reactions such as fever was already measured in 2020, with tens of thousands of patients in double-blind tests. The rate will not change significantly with millions of patients.

    Quote from Mark U

    So why would such a provider think it is for their own instruction?

    Because they can read. The form says the doctor must report certain incidents. It says the patient can also report them if he or she wishes to. It is a federal law that doctors must report many incidents to VAERS, not just deaths. If you think that any doctor, in any hospital, is not aware of federal laws governing their practice, you are living in cloud cuckoo land. Any doctor or nurse giving a vaccination at any hospital, clinic or pharmacy must know the regulations, and must give copies of them to the patients. Detailed regulations on what must be reported are here:


    https://vaers.hhs.gov/docs/VAERS_Table_of_Reportable_Events_Following_Vaccination.pdf


    VAERS Table of Reportable Events Following Vaccination*


    Tetanus in any combination; DTaP, DTP, DTP-Hib,
    DT, Td, TT, Tdap, DTaP-IPV, DTaP-IPV/Hib,
    DTaP-HepB-IPV


    A. Anaphylaxis or anaphylactic shock (7 days)
    B. Brachial neuritis (28 days)
    C. Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration (7 days)
    D. Vasovagal syncope (7 days)
    E. Any acute complications or sequelae (including death) of above events (interval - not applicable)
    F. Events described in manufacturer’s package insert as contraindications to additional doses of vaccine (interval - see package insert)


    etc.


    Quote from Mark U

    Think on this : The CDC and FDA know full well that vaccine adverse events are massively underreported.

    Bullshit. You made that up. There are no massively underreported events because massive number of people do not die and they are not disabled by vaccines. A handful are hurt every year. Less than 1 per million. What you describe would be an ongoing disaster that every doctor, nurse and patient would know about, like the obesity crisis or COVID. What you say it happening is not happening. Anyone would see it if it were.

    Quote from Mark U

    An aside : The whistleblower tells how it is that Covid vaccine injured people are often reported as unvaccinated : If they were vaccinated outside of the hospital system they were admitted to, the hospital often has no record of vaccination, by default they are considered unvaccinated until they chance to find out otherwise.

    More nonsense. They ask patients whether they have been vaccinated. They ask everyone who comes in the door at Atlanta hospitals (including me a few weeks ago). They do not always believe people who say they were vaccinated. Statistics for some hospitals show two categories of breakthrough cases: "self reported vaccination patients" and "known vaccinated patients."


    Doctors and hospital administrators are not idiots. They are not helpless fools who cannot think of way to find out if patients were vaccinated. They ask the patients. They ask dozens of other questions about your medical history when you come in for anything, even a routing checkup when they already have your history on file. They know perfectly well that some people lie about their medical history, leaving things out. (Other people invent fake diseases, in Munchausen's syndrome.)

    Quote from JedRothwell

    Bullshit. You made that up. There are no massively underreported events because massive number of people do not die and they are not disabled by vaccines. A handful are hurt every year. Less than 1 per million. What you describe would be an ongoing disaster that every doctor, nurse and patient would know about, like the obesity crisis or COVID. What you say it happening is not happening. Anyone would see it if it were.

    Have a look at https://www.icandecide.org/cdc…ly-prevents-fixing-vaers/


    The CDC knows they are massively under reporting vaccine injury, and want it to remain that way. From a typical doctor's perspective : why should he report a strange autoimmune reaction, or spasms, or paralysis, as being caused by a vaccine? It would probably not even occur to him unless he was specially primed for it. After all the CDC keeps saying vaccines are safe! After all only one in a million are seriously effected! And plus, who has time for sitting in front of a computer doing unpaid data entry for over half an hour over something that's probably just a coincidence!


    What the Harvard Medical School study did was circumvent this human fallibility and ignorance. They discovered that 99 percent of the conditions that should have been reported to VAERS were not being reported. The CDC knows this and willfully doesn't fix it, even when offered a fix by Harvard. That's a fact. Perhaps Jed you're projecting your mother's morality and competence in her government science-related work of yesteryear onto today's government 'health' system. Not wise.

    Quote from JedRothwell

    More nonsense. They ask patients whether they have been vaccinated. They ask everyone who comes in the door at Atlanta hospitals (including me a few weeks ago).

    That's a new phenomenon, asking for vaccination status, almost wherever you go. After all, if you're not vaccinated you're a threat to society and we must be careful.


    Someone who reports unusual, out of nowhere symptoms to a doctor is almost never going to hear the doctor say, "Oh that's interesting. I know you haven't had a change in medication, and you're eating and excising the same. By the way, when were you last vaccinated?" Who on this forum has ever heard of such a thing in their personal life? It would be a very rare event indeed.

    Quote from Mark U

    That's a new phenomenon, asking for vaccination status, almost wherever you go

    This is fascism. Ask for the "J" in your passport..


    UK Week 38 report is here : https://assets.publishing.serv…ance_report_-_week_38.pdf


    Changes are in the low % region.

    Still vaccinated age 40..80 have a much higher COV-19 rate. Why one is giving them vaccine passport for free access is a mystery. Or simply said fake facts based marketing.


    If we assume the lower bound of 50% in UK had a CoV-19 infection so far, then people age 40..80 with vaccine only protection get 3x more often a CoV-19 infection. The outcome still is better than among unvaccinated for age < 70. Above it's not clear as we don't have the exact pre-infection rate for the older ones that must be >>50 given that most care homes got a full blow.


    If we correct the UK death rate for the recovered ratio of >50% then overall vaccine protection for death is < 3x. If we take the correct recovered ratio of 60% then UK vaccine protection for death is only 2x. Does not exist for 80+.



    But the signs are now clear and constant. Pfizer/ASTRA-Oxford vaccines damage your immune system.


    Switzerland: Latest data for last 5 weeks shows 20% of all COV-19 deaths are among double vaccinated. But this data is not complete and does not include death after one vaccine dose and does not allow to derive the risk of unvaccinated. Here too most deaths > 90% are among age > 70.

    Prominent Research Scientists Suggest Plausibility of Lab-Created SARS-CoV-2


    Prominent Research Scientists Suggest Plausibility of Lab-Created SARS-CoV-2
    A well-known group of research scientists from France, Austria, and Australia strongly suggest the time is now to launch an objective, unbiased and
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    A well-known group of research scientists from France, Austria, and Australia strongly suggest the time is now to launch an objective, unbiased and apolitical probe into the origins of SARS-CoV-2. While other scientists send research letters to prominent medical journals strongly arguing for a natural origin, the strongest evidence now suggests no clear argument for a nature-based origin while a research-based human-engineered hypothesis becomes ever more plausible. The importance of getting to the truth cannot be underestimated. Given the magnitude, scope, and severity of COVID-19, the scientific and research community have a moral, ethical, and professional responsibility to investigate SARS-CoV-2 origins, unencumbered by political meddling. Too much is at stake, at least for those of us fortunate enough to live in democratic market-based societies.


    While much of the scientific world conveniently agreed with a push early on, supported by Dr. Anthony Fauci and certain colleagues at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and academia—that the pathogen originated directly from a bat while making its’ way to humans via some other animal at the Wuhan wet market, the authors herein ask frankly, where is the evidence?


    With the case for a human-engineered version recently published in prestigious The Lancet, corresponding author Jacques van Helden and team are no lightweights nor loony conspiracy theorists. van Helden, a Professor of bioinformatics at Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) in Marseille, and team possess the credentials for immediate attention. They put forth the argument that “so far no scientifically validated evidence that directly supports a natural origin” and that of all the references by proponents of the natural origin hypothesis, “all but one simply show that SARS-CoV-2 is phylogenetically related to other beta coronaviruses.”


    The authors point out that while previous coronavirus outbreaks were associated with evidence for natural origin, that simply isn’t the case with SARS-CoV-2. For example, “Neither the host pathway from bats to humans nor the geographical route from Yunnan (where the viruses most closely related to SRS-CoV-2 have been sampled) to Wuhan (where the pandemic emerged) has been identified.” They emphasize that even after the review of 80,000 samples collected in China, no evidence exists for a natural cause.


    A Plausible Explanation: Research Origin

    The authors first suggest that two questions become relevant in association with the research origin argument—which they declare is “plausible” or likely. They note that 1) “several peer-reviewed scientific papers have discussed the likelihood of research-related origin…” while the authors get closer to the heart of the matter, pointing out that “Some unusual features of the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence suggest that they may have resulted from genetic engineering” an approach “widely used in some virology labs.”


    Or conversely, the authors posit 2) the origin of SARS-CoV-2 may have resulted from “undirected laboratory selection during serial passage in cell cultures or laboratory animals including humanized mice.” For this latter scenario, ample examples exist as researchers such as those at University of North Carolina were involved with the modification of mice to “display the human receptor for entry of SARS-CoV-2 (ACE2)…to test the infectivity of different virus strains.”


    But a research-based origin points to other possible scenarios such as gain-of-function experiments testing the possibility of chimeric viruses’ crossing species barriers.


    Arguments for the Lab

    In Segreto et al. titled “The genetic structure of SARS-CoV-2 does not rule out a laboratory origin, “ An Austrian and a Canadian argues that the “furin cleavage site in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 confers to the virus the ability to cross species and tissue barriers, but was previously unseen in other SARS-CoV-2 like COVs.” Segreto et al. ask the uncomfortable question if “genetic manipulations” were performed as part of an effort to determine if specific animals, such as pangolins, could serve as potential “intermediate hosts for bat derived CoVs that were originally unable to bind to human receptors.”


    The authors educate the reader that laboratory personnel may have employed site-directed mutagenesis leading to both cleavage site and specific RBD in a way that doesn’t leave any trace.


    Enough of the Bias

    While for many months anyone that wrote about a research-based hypothesis was automatically categorized as a conspiracy theorist, often censored along the way, many research scientists suggest that such purges, for example, were more political than scientific-based. During the COVID-19 pandemic, often those in power censoring the “misinformation” were actually guilty of perpetuating misinformation themselves. That is, whoever has the money, power and influence gets to write the history.


    A Pathway Forward

    There just isn’t enough compelling evidence pointing one way or the other—that is a natural or research-based origin.


    So you want to get to the truth? The authors suggest “An evidence-based, independent, and prejudice-free evaluation”…necessitating “an international consultation of high-level experts with no conflicts of interest.” Multi-disciplined and multi-national, the team would establish the various rational scenarios and associated hypotheses, followed by protocols and methods to ultimately capture the true origin. Not undertaking this important research opens us all up another dangerous worldwide crisis.


    DEFINE_ME

    Quote from Mark U

    That's a new phenomenon, asking for vaccination status, almost wherever you go.

    The only place they have asked me was in the hospital.


    They ask that first thing, but as I said, they also ask if I have had a stroke, cancer, high blood pressure, and so on. You have to fill a form with all those questions. It is called a medical history. If you have been to see a doctor, you will know they always make you fill in that form.


    Quote from Mark U

    After all, if you're not vaccinated you're a threat to society and we must be careful.

    In a hospital, yes, you are definitely a threat. They also ask you if you have the flu or some other contagious disease. They ask you that when you make an appointment. They have ALWAYS ASKED THAT. This is not something new.


    For a suspected case of COVID, at this hospital, they have a separate entrance with a tent. That seems like a sensible precaution. Is that another reason to be paranoid? Or is that just common sense during a pandemic that is infecting thousands of people a day in Atlanta, and cramming our hospitals with desperately ill and dying people? Would you want to crammed into a waiting room with hundreds of COVID patients? I think you would rather the hospital ask people if they have COVID symptoms, and a vaccination, and then handle potential COVID patients separately. I do not understand why you think that is some sort of threat and "we must be careful."

    Quote from Mark U

    Someone who reports unusual, out of nowhere symptoms to a doctor is almost never going to hear the doctor say, "Oh that's interesting. I know you haven't had a change in medication, and you're eating and excising the same. By the way, when were you last vaccinated?"

    In a pandemic that is the first thing they ask. Obviously. COVID has a wide range of symptoms. It is also the first thing they will test for.


    When they suspect you might have influenza they ask you if you are vaccinated for that. Then they take a nasal swab and tell you whether you have the flu about ten minutes later.


    Perhaps you have not been to a doctor since March 2020. Perhaps you do not realize this, but not only will you definitely hear the doctor ask about vaccination status, but when you make an appointment for anything they ask "do you have any of the following COVID symptoms: stuffy nose, loss of taste . . ." And: "Have you been vaccinated?" When you walk in the door the receptionist goes through the same drill again. Same questions.


    In short, you are completely wrong.

    Study: COVID recovery gave Israelis longer-lasting Delta defense than vaccines
    The variant was 27 times more likely to break through Pfizer protection from January-February and cause symptoms than it was to penetrate natural immunity from…
    www.timesofisrael.com

    In addition, a sample of 16,215 who were infected during Israel’s third wave in January-February 2021 was compared to an equal number of people vaccinated during that period. The contrast for these two groups was even starker: It showed that Delta had a 27-fold higher chance of breaking through vaccine protection from January and February and causing symptoms than breaking through natural immunity acquired in the same period and causing symptoms.


    In the old study:: https://www.medrxiv.org/conten…08.24.21262415v1.full.pdf the data has been based on the gamma version.


    So what can we learn?? :: Pfizer crap protects you at least 4x less from CoV-19 Delta than from CoV-19 gamma.


    The study also says that a natural infection + vaccine just gives 2x more protection. So we can say vaccine (Pfizer,Astra-Oxford) protection against Delta is just a modest 2x factor .... Here protection is for serious disease

    Biden Administration Doles Out $250K to Wuhan Lab-Linked Group - Washington Free Beacon


    The Biden administration awarded more than $250,000 to an organization whose founder waged a secret campaign last year to undercut the theory that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab.


    The group's founder, Peter Daszak, secretly organized a group of scientists early in the pandemic to publicly undermine the theory that the pandemic sprung from a leak at the Wuhan lab. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency granted $253,279 to EcoHealth Alliance in July to conduct research to thwart the use of viruses as weapons of mass destruction. EcoHealth Alliance worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab that many U.S. officials believe was ground zero for the coronavirus outbreak.

    Intelligence agency assessed with moderate confidence that an accident at the Wuhan lab resulted in the first coronavirus infection, according to a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which operates within the Defense Department, has awarded $37 million to EcoHealth since 2013, though the July grant was the first given during the Biden administration.


    One watchdog group investigating the origins of the virus called on the government to cut its funding for EcoHealth Alliance, citing the group’s refusal to cooperate with congressional documents requests. "Taking tax dollars appropriated by Congress and thumbing your nose at oversight investigations into the origins of COVID-19 is unacceptable," said Jason Foster, a former investigative counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee and founder of Empower Oversight.


    I guess now it's almost sure, that leak of Wuhan virus has been organized and planned by Big Pharma circles, subsidized with DARPA as a paramilitary research and that true reason of Peter's Daszak presence in W.H.O. group "investigating" it was to cover it instead. See also:

    Chinese Embassy Calls For WHO Investigation of U.S. Lab


    The Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus documentary asserts Covid-19 virus resulted when SARs "S proteins" (spikes) were manipulated in lab to fit ACE2 receptors in human cells. This chimera was like providing the virus a key to unlock human cells. In her original paper published in 2015, Dr. Shi Zhengli stated the thing:


    “Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV".


    Interestingly, in a footnote Zhengli notes , “Cells were originally obtained from Fort Detrick.”


    Army's biodefense research center at Fort Detrick was closed in August 2019 due to sudden biosafety concern. Petition urges US gov’t to clarify army lab shutdown as doubts grow over COVID-19’s origin. It also noted that a large number of English news reports about the closure of Fort Detrick were deleted this month, displaying a “404 not found” page. On March 13, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian retweeted a website link that provided further evidence that the virus originated in the US. The website speculated that the virus had gone from Ft. Detrick to e-cigarettes to Hawaii then to Wuhan..


    Why Fort Detrick military lab was shut down? Why flu-season came earlier all of sudden? What caused vaping pneumonia?

    The Lab-Leak Debate Just Got Even Messier

    A new leaked document is stirring up another frenzy over the pandemic’s origins. What does it really tell us?


    The Lab-Leak Debate Just Got Even Messier
    A new leaked document is stirring up another frenzy over the pandemic’s origins. What does it really tell us?
    amp.theatlantic.com


    As the pandemic drags on into a bleak and indeterminate future, so does the question of its origins. The consensus view from 2020, that SARS-CoV-2 emerged naturally, through a jump from bats to humans (maybe with another animal between) persists unchanged. But suspicions that the outbreak started from a laboratory accident remain, shall we say, endemic. For months now, a steady drip of revelations have sustained an atmosphere of profound unease.

    The latest piece of evidence came out this week in the form of a set of murkily sourced PDFs, with their images a bit askew. The main one purports to be an unfunded research grant proposal from Peter Daszak, the president of the EcoHealth Alliance, a global nonprofit focused on emerging infectious diseases, that was allegedly submitted to DARPA in early 2018 (and subsequently rejected) for a $14.2 million project aimed at “defusing the threat of bat-borne coronaviruses.” Released earlier this week by a group of guerilla lab-leak snoops called DRASTIC, the proposal includes a plan to study potentially dangerous pathogens by generating full-length, infectious bat coronaviruses in a lab and inserting genetic features that could make coronaviruses better able to infect human cells. (Daszak and EcoHealth did not respond to requests for comment on this story.)

    The document seems almost tailor-made to buttress one specific theory of a laboratory origin: that SARS-CoV-2 wasn’t simply brought into a lab by scientists and then released by accident, but rather pieced together in deliberate fashion. In fact, the work described in the proposal fits so well into that narrative of a “gain-of-function experiment gone wrong” that some wondered if it might be too good to be true. Central figures in the coronavirus-origins debate were involved: Among Daszak’s listed partners on the grant were Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an American virologist known for doing coronavirus gain-of-function studies in his lab, and Shi Zhengli, the renowned virus hunter from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. (Shi Zhengli has not responded to a request for comment. A UNC spokesperson responded on behalf of Baric, noting that “the grant applicant and DARPA are best positioned to explain the proposal.”)

    There is good reason to believe the document is genuine. The Atlantic has confirmed that a grant proposal with the same identifying number and co-investigators was submitted to DARPA in 2018. The proposal that circulated online includes an ambitious scheme to inoculate wild bats against coronaviruses, carried out in concert with the National Wildlife Health Center, a research lab in Wisconsin. A spokesperson for the U.S. Geological Survey, which oversees the center, acknowledged this connection and affirmed the identifying number and co-investigators, noting that the agency’s involvement in the project ended with DARPA’s rejection of the grant proposal. “This is the proposal that was not funded,” USGS Acting Press Secretary Rachel Pawlitz said after reviewing the PDF. She could not, however, vouch for the document in its entirety.

    Jared Adams, DARPA’s chief of communications, said in an emailed statement that the agency was not at liberty to discuss proposals submitted as part of its emerging-pathogenic-threat program, which was launched in January 2018, and that DARPA has never funded “any activity or researcher associated with EcoHealth Alliance or Wuhan Institute of Virology.” An article about the proposal published yesterday in The Intercept points to a tweet by Daszak last weekend, before the PDF was widely shared, that refers obliquely to the release of unfunded grant proposals.


    For anyone looking for the great, final vindication of the lab-leak hypothesis, this document will leave you wanting. Does the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic have an unnatural origin? The answer hasn’t changed: probably not. But we have learned something quite disturbing in the past few days, simply from how and when this information came to light

    The pandemic-origins debate is a big, confusing mess—but it’s an important mess, so bear with us. The hottest news in the leaked proposal concerns the researcher’s plan to sift through a large trove of genomic-sequence data drawn from samples of bat blood, feces, and other fluids, in search of (among other things) new kinds of “furin cleavage sites.” When these are encoded into just the right spot on the spike protein of a coronavirus, they allow that spike to be opened up by an enzyme found in human cells. According to the proposal, “high-risk” versions of these sites, once identified, would then be introduced via genetic engineering into SARS-like coronaviruses.

    Why does this matter? We’ve long known that the presence of such a site in SARS-CoV-2 increased its pathogenic power; and we also know that similar features have not been found in any other SARS-like coronavirus (though we may find them in the future). For lab-leak proponents, these facts—combined with certain details of the furin cleavage site’s structure—strongly hint at human intervention. As the science journalist Nicholas Wade argued in an influential lab-leak-theory brief last spring, this genetic insertion “lies at the heart of the puzzle of where the virus came from.” The virologist David Baltimore even told Wade that the structure of the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site was “the smoking gun for the origin of the virus.” (Baltimore later walked back his claim.)


    As many scientists have since pointed out, the mere presence of the furin cleavage site is not dispositive of a Frankenstein experiment gone wrong. For example, the same genetic feature has come about, quite naturally and independently, in plenty of other, more distantly related coronaviruses, including those that cause the common cold. According to a “critical review” co-authored by 21 experts on viruses and viral evolution that was posted as a preprint in July, “simple evolutionary mechanisms can readily explain” the site’s presence in SARS-CoV-2, and “there is no logical reason” why it would look the way it does if it had been engineered inside a lab. “Further,” the authors wrote, “there is no evidence of prior research at the [Wuhan Institute of Virology] involving the artificial insertion of complete furin cleavage sites into coronaviruses.”

    But the apparent DARPA grant proposal complicates these arguments, at the very least. The engineering work that it describes would indeed involve such an artificial insertion. We don’t know whether that work was ever carried out—remember, DARPA rejected this proposal. Even if it had been, several experts told us, the genetic engineering would have happened at Ralph Baric’s lab in Chapel Hill, about 8,000 miles away from where the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak started. Yet now we know that the idea of inserting these sites was very much of interest to these research groups in the lead-up to the pandemic. “This is the first time they reveal that they are looking for these sites,” said Alina Chan, a scientist in Boston and a co-author of the forthcoming book Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19.


    Stephen Goldstein, a postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary virology at the University of Utah and one of the co-authors of the pandemic-origins critical review, considers it “unlikely” that any such work would have gone forward in Wuhan. It would be unusual—even unethical—for a lab in China to pursue experiments that were originally proposed by one of its collaborators in the United States, he told us. Another co-author of the critical review, the Johns Hopkins University microbiology postdoc Alex Crits-Christoph, noted that the proposal doesn’t specify the virus into which any novel cleavage sites would be inserted. Unless the Wuhan lab had already isolated a SARS-CoV-2-like virus that could carry this insertion—which Crits-Christoph doubts, given the wording of the proposal—researchers at WIV would not have had enough time between early 2018 and the fall of 2019 to construct (and then mistakenly release) the virus at the root of the pandemic.

    Still, these scientists agree that the very fact that these experiments were even on the radar raises significant concerns. “I recognize this revelation opens up legitimate lines of questioning that are serious and need to be addressed by the people involved,” Goldstein told us via email. Crits-Christoph said it pushed the existing evidence “one step closer to the lab-engineering hypothesis”—but added that, given the improbable timeline, it moved things “one step further as well.”


    With discussions of the lab-leak hypothesis being how they are, other scientists took a different point of view—one less skeptical of the idea that the experiments could have been carried out in China. Jesse Bloom, a computational biologist and expert in viral evolution at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, called the timeline “plausible … certainly possible.” Chan pointed to other recent reports that the team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology had already been sampling very close relatives to SARS-CoV-2, and that it was testing, in humanized mice, genetically engineered SARS-like coronaviruses that were more infectious than natural strains. “WIV was fully outfitted to run all these experiments themselves,” she said.

    Like we said before, this is all a big, confusing mess. Even if it is authentic, as it appears to be, the DARPA proposal does not prove the lab-leak hypothesis, nor does it come close to changing the consensus view that the pandemic started from a natural source. Instead, what this week’s news really points to is how things got so messy in the first place—and they remind us that things didn’t need to be this way. Why did this proposal have to be leaked by an anonymous whistleblower, in the form of a wonky PDF, to a group of amateur sleuths?


    In May 2020, only a few months into the pandemic, EcoHealth’s Peter Daszak ridiculed discussions of the furin cleavage site and whether it might be bioengineered as the ranting of conspiracy theorists. Six months later, Daszak was involved in two major, international investigations into the pandemic’s origins, organized by the World Health Organization and the British medical journal The Lancet. Now it appears that, just a few years earlier, he’d delivered a detailed grant proposal to the U.S. government, with himself as principal investigator, that described doing exactly that bioengineering work. “It’s just shocking,” Chan said

    The pattern here is unmistakable: At every turn, what could be important information has been withheld. Two weeks ago, The Intercept published 528 pages of documents, obtained only after a litigated FOIA request to the National Institutes of Health and a 12-month delay, that describe experiments on hybrid coronaviruses that some experts consider risky, carried out in Wuhan with the support of EcoHealth and the U.S. government. (These experiments could not have led directly to the pandemic. A spokesperson for the NIH told The Intercept that the agency had reviewed data from the experiments and determined that they were not dangerous.) In June, Bloom, the Seattle computational biologist, discovered that several hundred genetic sequences drawn from very early COVID-19 patients had been mysteriously deleted from a public database. (They’ve since been restored.) Other facts that could be relevant to the origins debate have trickled out from obscure student work and other surprising sources.

    Even as a natural origin remains the most plausible explanation, these discoveries taken as a whole demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that good-faith investigations of these matters have proceeded in the face of a toxic shroud of secrecy. Vaughn Cooper, who studies pathogen evolution at the University of Pittsburgh, told us that he hasn’t changed his view that SARS-CoV-2 is extremely unlikely to have been created in a lab—but the lack of candor is “really concerning.” The DARPA proposal doesn’t “mean that much for our understanding of the origins of the pandemic,” he said, “but it does diminish the trustworthiness of the research groups involved.”


    “I find it disappointing and disturbing that something like this is coming out in the form of a leak,” Bloom told us. “If there’s information that is relevant or informative to this discussion—anything that people could conceivably think is relevant—it needs to be made available.”


    Until that happens, or unless that happens, the mess will only spread.

    Tucker Carlson: This is proof Biden and his lackeys in the media are lying about COVID

    Democrats aren't following the science when it comes to vaccine booster shots


    Tucker Carlson: This is proof Biden and his lackeys in the media are lying about COVID | Fox News


    Last month, for those of you keeping track, the Biden administration announced a plan to give additional shots of COVID vaccine — so-called boosters — to millions of Americans. Didn’t see that coming. But the administration never explained why it was necessary or scientifically justifiable. They never bothered. Instead, with characteristic aggression, they simply decreed it was going to happen. The new shots would go out, they informed us, no later than this week, the week of September 20, which is right now. That was the deadline.


    The weird thing is, it turned out, no one had told the scientists about this. Two leading vaccine experts at the FDA promptly resigned. Several more announced they were thinking of quitting. Then Biden's "COVID czar," a former Facebook board member with no medical background called Jeff Zients, assured the country "no problem, none of this is cause for alarm." People resigning in protest, no big deal.


    The decision to give extra COVID shots, Zeints said, was "made by and announced by the nation's leading public health officials."

    Really? Which leading public health officials exactly? Well, Zients didn't tell us. It’s clear something was going on here. Then last week, the entire lie unraveled completely. A panel of the FDA's vaccine experts — actual "leading public health officials" — blew up the whole idea in a single afternoon. By a vote of 16 to 2 – not close at all — they emphatically rejected Biden’s plan for more shots. For a moment, this seemed like a rare win for science, and for public safety. That decision said a former FDA official, quote, "put the FDA back in the driver’s seat" and "maintained the FDA's scientific independence" from politicians.


    But just for a minute. Because in Joe Biden’s America, there is no independence from politicians. Shortly after midnight on Thursday, the college professor who Biden appointed to run the CDC, Rochelle Wolensky, simply overruled the FDA panel. She didn't cite any scientific basis for her overruling actual scientists. She just did it. And she did it because she can do it, because she’s in power and you’re not.

    You wouldn’t call that - however you might describe it - following the science. You might instead call it total corruption of public health by a political party. That’s what it is. And if you doubt it, take a look at Joe Biden’s press conference today, in which he blamed the entire COVID pandemic on people who didn’t vote for him.


    BIDEN: The unvaccinated also put our economic recovery at risk, causing unease in the economy and causing unease around the kitchen table. I can imagine what's going on, the conversations this morning, a lot of parents wondering what's going to happen. What's going to happen, to those who have been vaccinated? What's going to happen? Potentially slowing economic growth, costing jobs. The refusal has cost all of us. Refusing to get vaccinated, it cost all of us. I'm moving forward to vaccination requirements wherever I can.


    Huh? So we don’t have enough workers because people aren’t getting vaccinated? We aren’t getting enough workers because you’re paying people not to work. Drive around America, the stores are closed because people aren’t working because the government is paying them not to work. So if you’re worried about the worker crisis, look in the mirror, pal.

    But let’s get to the core allegation here: The unvaccinated are somehow dangerous to the rest of the country. That’s what the president just said. Before we assess all of Biden’s claims, let’s take a quick trip back to reality. Unvaccinated people may theoretically be in danger of getting sick from COVID. Everybody’s got to make that decision personally based on your age and your health. But the unvaccinated pose precisely zero danger to anyone who has been vaccinated. None. Let’s repeat that because it’s the central point here and it’s almost ever made: If you are vaccinated against COVID-19, you face no conceivable danger whatsoever from people who have not been vaccinated. Unvaccinated people cannot hurt you. So calm down. That’s the science. If you don’t believe the science, you have embraced witchcraft and superstition. Please get a grip, and excuse yourself from any conversation about public policy. You’re too irrational to contribute to it. Again, the vaccinated face no health threat from the unvaccinated. And the fact the president is claiming otherwise is shocking and wrong.


    BIDEN SAYS HE WILL GET COVID-19 BOOSTER SHOT AFTER APPROVAL FROM FDA, CDC BOSS


    Now to Biden’s claim that the unvaccinated are somehow destroying our hospital system. Oh, the irony, one of many. This is the same president who's allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to enter our country every single month and promising them all free health care. So the next time you show up at the emergency room and can’t get in, the next time you’re injury or illness is ignored because there aren’t enough people to serve you in the hospital, you can rest assured it’s not unvaccinated Americans who are clogging the system. It’s not. It’s the rest of the world. In just eight months, Joe Biden has done more than any president in history to wreck the American healthcare system. And yet he’s blaming it, in one of the greatest acts of political diversion ever, on people who won’t take the shot:

    BIDEN: But this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. … The unvaccinated overcrowded our hospitals, overrunning emergency rooms and intensive care units, leaving no room for someone with a heart attack or a cancer operation needed to get the lifesaving care because the places where they would get that care are crowded. They are not available.


    Such an outrageous lie. It’s unbelievable. More than a million people coming in this year who he promised free health care. And he’s blaming it on people who didn’t get the shot. Many of whom have natural immunity and are less likely to get sick than a vaccinated person from COVID? What a lie.

    But let’s assume it’s true. Let’s assume emergency rooms and ICUs are overrun with the unvaccinated. Then why is the Biden administration forcing health care workers to quit with vaccine mandates? That’s happened across the country. Whole wards in hospitals have been shut down because of Joe Biden’s mandates. Might be nice to have more doctors and nurses around in an emergency.

    By the way, at this point, and it could change, emergency rooms are not overrun with COVID patients. More than 20% of inpatient beds in this country are open and available, according to HHS data from earlier this month. Intensive care units, which are supposed to be occupied as close to capacity as possible, aren't full anywhere in the country. What we do have, and it’s getting worse, is a severe staffing shortage at hospitals. And the mandates are making it much, much worse.


    Ask anyone in healthcare in the state of California. Or in any state. At one major hospital in Dallas -- the Parkland Health and Hospital System -- there's no one to bathe or turn patients anymore. They don’t have enough staff. At the University of Arkansas' medical center in Little Rock, officials have been offering $25,000 signing bonuses to new nurses -- and they're still short-staffed.


    So looking at that, that is a crisis. What’s Joe Biden’s answer? Fire as many nurses as possible. Because the unvaccinated, according to Joe Biden, are the root of all our problems. It’s a "pandemic of the unvaccinated."

    Think about that: blaming regular Americans for a virus that American bureaucrats funded and the Chinese military created. If you don’t follow his made-up laws, laws with no precedent in all of American history, you’re the reason we’re all suffering. It’s your fault middle America. Of course it is. It’s always middle America’s fault. What a lie.


    And, no, it’s not just a "pandemic of the unvaccinated." That’s a lie too, it’s just not true. Vaccines do appear to lower the death rate across the population from COVID, but they certainly don’t prevent death from COVID. They don’t. Look at the CDC numbers. According to the CDC, thousands of vaccinated Americans have died so far of COVID-19. According to the CDC, about 13,000 more have been hospitalized with life-threatening COVID symptoms. Vaccinated people. It doesn’t mean the vaccine is bad or not worth taking. We’re not making that case. We’re just making the obvious scientifically justifiable observation that, no, it’s not just the unvaccinated who get sick and die from COVID. It’s not. That’s a lie.

    The Biden administration knows they’re lying. And so do their lackeys. Here’s "The View" this morning.


    SARA HINES: It’s still these unvaccinated people that concern me the most.

    ANA NAVARRO: Look at the numbers! They are not lying, these are the facts. Get your vaccine.


    SUNNY HOSTIN: It is surprising to me that parents across the country are still anti-vaxxers, anti-mask, anti-mandate but they are not protecting their own children…You can't just say I’m not going to take the vaccine because it’s my choice it is no longer your choice when your decisions are impacting other people.


    Oh, impacting other people how exactly? Damn those people for dying of COVID. When are we going to start attacking other categories of people for making unwise health choices? Someone dies of diabetes, is "The View" going to attack them for eating too many potato chips? Are we going to start yelling at people with AIDS for their bad life choices? What about hepatitis or cancer?

    Normally we wouldn't air clips from "The View." They’re too stupid and predictable. But here’s what happened a few minutes later, which we didn’t predict:


    PRODUCER: I need two of you to step off for a second.

    JOY BEHAR: Ana and Sunny have to leave. We will tell you why in a couple of minutes. … Since this is going to be a major news story any minute now, what happened is that Sunny and Ana tested positive for COVID. No matter how hard we try, these things happen. They are a breakthrough case and they will be okay. They are vaccinated up the wazoo.

    It’s a tease when someone gets COVID. What narcissists. But here’s the bottom line: Two hosts on "The View," both of them vaccinated, get COVID at the same time. You’re supposed to believe, makes a powerful case for forcing millions of Americans with natural immunity to get the shot at gunpoint. Really? You have to wonder, is anyone convinced by this stuff anymore?

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