📝 Stop Mask Bans Letter Campaign 📣 Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign.
Lockdown scapegoating is getting really old.
USA Letter Campaign: Stop Mask Bans. Defend our human right to mask protection.
By Mask Together America: Mask bans are disability injustice, discrimination, and violation of human rights. They could also be an ADA issue. No one should be required to disclose reasons they wear a mask. Harassing someone to unmask or justify wearing effective mitigation tools is an intrusion of privacy. And being forced to remove your mask even briefly creates a chance to get infected. Forcing people to get sick in public spaces is un-American, raises huge equity issues.
Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign.
🗞️ In the news
The New Republic - Los Angeles’s Mayor Was Contemplating a Mask Ban. She Just Got Covid. Karen Bass floated banning masks for protesters days before coming down with Covid-19. Edith Olmsted June 28, 2024 The incident came on the heels of other large protests across the country, which had left Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams eyeing the reinstatement of a mask ban for protesters, both saying they felt the anonymity masking provides had emboldened protesters to commit violence. Meanwhile, the city is undergoing a renewed wave of Covid-19, which neither politician deigned to consider.
AP - New York midwife pleads guilty to destroying 2,600 COVID-19 vaccines and issuing fraudulent cards - June 17, 2024 Kathleen Breault, 66, of Cambridge, admitted in Brooklyn federal court that she destroyed more than 2,600 coronavirus vaccines and issued a corresponding number of fraudulent vaccination record cards while working at Sage-Femme Midwifery from 2021 to 2022.
AP - IRS sues Ohio doctor whose views on COVID-19 vaccinations drew complaints Updated 4:25 PM EDT, June 3, 2024 An Ohio doctor who drew national attention when she claimed COVID-19 vaccines made people magnetic is being sued by the federal government over claims she hasn’t paid nearly $650,000 in federal taxes and late fees. The lawsuit, filed last month in federal court in Cleveland, claims Sherri Tenpenny didn’t pay taxes in 2001, 2012 and 2013.
Man, 32, became fully paralyzed days after getting COVID. This was his 1st symptom Dr. William Dugal experienced total paralysis after developing Guillain-Barre syndrome. After a year of rehabilitation, he's back to working as surgeon. June 13, 2024, 9:06 AM EDT / Source: TODAY By Meghan Holohan They attended a wedding, and after returning home, all three tested positive for COVID-19. Dugal’s wife and daughter had mild cases, but his symptoms were “strange,” such as foot numbness, Dugal recalls. Over the next several days, the numbness worsened, so he asked his wife to take him to the hospital. “I had to be wheeled in because I couldn’t walk at all,” he says. A neurologist ordered a spinal tap, which helped doctors quickly diagnosis Dugal with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare condition where the immune system attacks the layer around the nerves (myelin), causing nerve damage, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. “Unfortunately, my symptoms progressed over a period of month in the hospital with complication upon complication,” he says.
4 NYHETERNA - 18 June 2024 - Bebisar ska skyddas mot diabetes – genom att vaccineras mot covid-19 - Ny forskningsstudie (Google Translate to English: Babies must be protected against diabetes - by being vaccinated against covid-19 New research study) – När vi följde barn med ökad ärftlig risk för diabetes typ 1 så såg vi att en del barn som fick covid vid 12 till 18 månaders ålder sedan utvecklade den här autoimmuniteten som så småningom ger diabetes typ 1, säger Helena Elding som är professor i autoimmuna sjukdomar vid Lunds universitet och som arbetar med studien. – Om det är så att covid kan trigga i gång autoimmuniteten hos vissa barn så kanske vi kan skydda de barnen mot att få den här autoimmuniteten och det är ju positivt. (Google Translate to English: - When we followed children with an increased hereditary risk of diabetes type 1, we saw that some children who got covid at the age of 12 to 18 months then developed this autoimmunity which eventually causes diabetes type 1, says Helena Elding who is a professor of autoimmune diseases at Lund University and who is working on the study. - If it is the case that covid can trigger autoimmunity in some children, then maybe we can protect those children from getting this autoimmunity, and that is positive.)
Government Executive - Is the strategic national stockpile ready for the next emergency? GAO says no. A new GAO report says HHS hasn’t resolved issues that were exposed when states tried to request stockpile supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic. MAY 24, 2024 The stockpile contains drugs, vaccines and other medical supplies that can be provided to states, localities, territories and tribes during emergencies. But, as one example, the watchdog said the main guidance document for the SNS has not been updated since 2014 and does not reflect that the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response is the current agency responsible for it.
This is NOT fine
Who initiated and presided over this Pentagon anti-vax scheme?
A REUTERS INVESTIGATION - Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic - By CHRIS BING and JOEL SCHECTMAN Filed June 14, 2024, 9:45 a.m. GMT The military program started under former President Donald Trump and continued months into Joe Biden’s presidency, Reuters found – even after alarmed social media executives warned the new administration that the Pentagon had been trafficking in COVID misinformation. The Biden White House issued an edict in spring 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.
There was someone making the decisions on this, and more than an internal review is needed. It’s so inhumane that it needs to be explained how this could’ve happened, so it doesn’t happen again. Who came up with it? Who signed off on it? Who knew about it? President Joe Biden put the stops on it, but why the delay? And why is this same company, General Dynamics IT, still being given contracts, and for what exactly?
These are the questions I’m sending to my representatives. I hope others will join me.
He(a)rd Scuttlebutt… pandemic grapevine 🍇🌱
Excessive screen time was not caused by the pandemic, and lockdown scapegoating is getting really old.
An article in nature blames a myopia epidemic on pandemic mitigations. This is excessive.
NATURE 29 May 2024 A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe. Here’s how to stop it Time spent outdoors is the best defence against rising rates of short-sightedness, but scientists are searching for other ways to reverse the troubling trend. By Elie Dolgin The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just reshape how children learn and see the world. It transformed the shape of their eyeballs. As real-life classrooms and playgrounds gave way to virtual meetings and digital devices, the time that children spent focusing on screens and other nearby objects surged — and the time they spent outdoors dropped precipitously.
This doesn’t make any sense. Digital devices were not a result of the pandemic, the trend upwards in screen time was well established pre-pandemic. And many kids spent more time outside because it was considered safer, so in many parts of the world school was moved outside. Remote schooling wasn’t an extremely common norm for very long. But further than that - before the pandemic, kids have been given tablets TO USE IN THE IN-PERSON CLASSROOM because big tech got boondoggles with school districts to sell all these devices. Kids are using these devices at IN PERSON school, and tablets in schools are not new. That isn’t the fault of the pandemic. Kids spending time on screens has been a trend that started before the pandemic and will probably continue even with kids being stuffed back into covid laden classrooms even while sick.
The pandemic virus and all its horrid effects are terrible, and many of those real effects are largely ignored, while ridiculous claims keep being made about “lockdowns” that are not happening, and in many cases never happened, other than that lockdown revisionists include any public health mitigation to be called “lockdown” even if it had “little to no restriction on social mobility or interaction” (COVID-19 lockdown revisionism Blake Murdoch, Timothy Caulfield CMAJ Apr 2023, 195 (15) E552-E554; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.221543)
People who want to sweep the past under the rug will gaslight you about what happened.
I'm really tired of people saying not to worry about something because it's not happening, when it's already happened, and obviously it's not impossible, and it's legitimately reasonable to prepare for what very well may happen because it's happened before, and there's no way that someone can guarantee it won't happen again. The whole problem with modern society is that people expect everything to be set it and forget it, like a perpetual motion machine. But forgetting what’s happened before, and resting on laurels, is how we get into trouble. But it does seem always tend to take things for granted and assume they were always just a given. A big aspect of this is that prevention means the bad thing doesn’t happen and so things like effective public health are invisible.
“That’s a major reason why we have vaccines against certain pathogens – you really don’t want to put your body through the wringer just to mount an immune response so that you’ll have, in some cases, very short-term immunity against a particular virus. If experts really felt that infections were good for your immune system, then we wouldn’t spend the time, money and resources to develop vaccines.”
— Sabina Vohra-Miller - HealthyDebate - Mar 13, 2024