📣 Campaign to recognize LC Awareness Day 🗓️ Disease denialism is cognitive warfare 🚩 Right-winger speaks at Supreme Court contrarian rally 👎
Denying children vaccination is inappropriate, cruel, and not based on science.
Contents:
- Events, Actions, & Campaigns
- Pandemic field notes & “Living with the virus”
- In the News (virus & adjacent media, science, news, and op-eds)
- This is NOT Fine section (gaslighting & other outrages)
- He(a)rd Scuttlebutt (the pandemic grapevine)
USA Letter Campaign - Support Senate Resolution 590 to Formally Recognize Long COVID Awareness Day!
by COVID-19 LONGHAULER ADVOCACY PROJECT, INC
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By Matthew Cortland
Denying children vaccination is inappropriate, cruel, and not based on science.
Australia is now only recommending covid vaccination for children with high risk conditions, meaning they will fail to prevent conditions that could’ve been prevented. Sweden and the UK also restrict the vaccine from the broad child population. In the U.S. where children can still get vaccinated, uptake is just 13.7%.
What are the implications for public health practice? MIS-C cases continue to occur but at low rates, making ongoing surveillance valuable. COVID-19 vaccination remains important for preventing MIS-C.
A wild-type measles virus in the brain develops one or more point mutations in its genome that initially halt the virus's replication and spread, but later cause chronic encephalitis, inflammation, and demyelination. In a typical SSPE patient, the latent period preceding symptoms is 7 to 10 years, but sometimes exceeds two decades. Final clinical findings include a poignant constellation of visual abnormalities, convulsions, myoclonic jerks, and cognitive decline eventually culminating in mutism, spasticity, coma, and death.
When diseases like covid and measles are able to spread in schools without much, if any, mitigation, or even adequate isolation requirements in too many places, at the same time children are not even being vaccinated, sounds an awful lot like a eugenics plan.
🗞️ In the news
Up to 5.8 million kids have long COVID, study says. One mother discusses the "heartbreaking" search for answers. healthwatch By Sara Moniuszko, Michael George Edited By Stephen Smith Updated on: March 15, 2024 / 3:47 PM EDT / CBS News "It's terrible, there's nothing worse than seeing your child go through something you can't fix," she says. The research also shows long COVID can raise the chances of a child developing type 1 diabetes. And it can even be deadly, leading to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.
Layoffs Target Remote Workers More Than In-Office Staff - BY PYMNTS | FEBRUARY 25, 2024 The report also noted that anxiety among workers may be misplaced, as the share of American companies requiring full-time, in-office attendance actually fell from 49% in the first quarter of 2023 to 35% in the first quarter of this year, according to the Flex Index by Scoop, which advises companies on how to deal with hybrid staff.
The Guardian - Scientists confirm first cases of bird flu on mainland Antarctica Fears for penguin colonies after the discovery of the highly contagious H5N1 virus in two dead skuas - Phoebe Weston Mon 26 Feb 2024 09.27 EST These are the first confirmed cases on the continent itself, which shows the virus is spreading in the region, most likely via migratory birds. This H5N1 outbreak is thought to have killed millions of wild birds globally since 2021, and has spread to every continent except Oceania.
FDA Authorizes Pemgarda for Pre-Exposure Prevention of COVID-19 in Certain Immunocompromised Individuals By IDSE News Staff MARCH 22, 2024 Pemivibart is authorized for individuals: are not infected with SARS-CoV-2 and who have not had a known recent exposure to an individual infected with SARS-CoV-2; and who are moderately to severely immunocomprised due to a medical condition or to taking immunosuppressive medications or treatments and are unlikely to mount an adequate immune response to COVID-19 vaccination.
This is NOT fine
Disease denialism is cognitive warfare.
I saw a disgusting amount of trolling on twitter.com in response to Long Covid Awareness Day posts by people like Julie Lam. A lot of anti-vax and covid denial rubbish. It’s really important to be aware, and make others aware, that the people who are pushing covid denial & anti-vax are getting enormous amounts of money to pay for hundreds of people working professional troll farms, running botnets, and running online groups that round up MAGA Qanon “digital warrior” volunteers, to go out and harass anything they’ve branded “woke” and stuff that might inconvenience corporations.
This is not a maybe - it’s real, and it’s well documented: The Internet of Fakes — PR Tactics, Troll Farms, Sock Puppets, Botnets, Influencers, Operatives, & Chaos Agents
This Man Helped Build The Trump Meme Army — Now He Wants To Reform It -Can the Peter Thiel associate behind the DeploraBall save the pro-Trump internet from itself? - Joseph Bernstein - BuzzFeed News Reporter Updated on January 18, 2017 at 11:25 pm Posted on December 30, 2016 at 1:16 pm “Giesea, a Washington, DC, entrepreneur and consultant, is one of the minds behind MAGA3X, a meme-happy social media organization that describes itself on Twitter as “a citizen grassroots movement that helped elect Trump” and on its website as “Freedom’s Secret Weapon.” He is also one of the organizers of the DeploraBall, now the site of a dispute threatening to destroy the alt-right — the nascent conservative alliance of hardcore trolls, white supremacists, anti-SJWs, Trumpian nationalists, and memelords — on the eve of its greatest triumph. “We just had a bad public breakup,” Giesea said. In short: Last week, Giesea, a startup veteran who has worked for Peter Thiel and the Koch brothers, and his co-organizer, the conservative internet personality Mike Cernovich, decided to remove a third co-organizer…”
He(a)rd Scuttlebutt… pandemic grapevine 🍇🌱
Jeffrey Tucker, covid contrarian and right-wing propagandist
For anyone who doesn't know this is called woke-washing DARVO. It's a tactic used a lot for years by climate contrarians, and now anti-maskers. Imagine if he said this about a woman and her clothes, like a Ferengi on Star Trek. Or made this remark about condoms. It makes no sense because it’s not an argument in good faith. He’s claiming to be the victim, but he’s the one who wants the “freedom” to infect his friends.
This is the guy now infamous for leaked emails revealing he supports child labor and youths smoking cigarettes from the anti-public health PR outlet, Brownstone Institute, handsomely funded by dark money and platforming anti-vaxxers like Robert Malone and Naomi Wolf, I’m pretty sure he knows what he’s doing.
And now Jeffrey Tucker was at some right-wing anti-vax rally outside the Supreme Court. He was complaining as if these rich right-wing elements haven’t already been catering to judges with expensive aspirations.
Jeffrey Tucker was promoting kooky Bill Gates rumours and also seemed to be invoking abortion buzzwords in a way that makes it seem like maybe his Supreme Court rally speech was written to try to game SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
Important Context - Concentration Camps, Transphobia, and Election Denial: Anti-Vaccine Groups Rally Outside Supreme Court In Defense of Misinformation. The groups are hoping the court’s right-wing justices deliver a crippling blow to government efforts to combat online misinformation. - WALKER BRAGMAN - MAR 18, 2024 Tucker, whose dark money outfit is overwhelmingly funded by a handful of opaque donations, closed by declaring that that the ruling class was “a little bit demoralized because they did not expect this level of their “citizen resistance.” “They had no Plan B,” he said. “It’s like, ‘Let’s control everybody.’ ‘What if that doesn’t work?’ ‘Oh, don’t worry, it’ll work fine. We’ll just be in constant lockdown forever and then Bill Gates will run the world, sell his potions to everybody.’
“Individual companies and entire industries have been playing and fine tuning this strategy for decades: disingenuously demanding proof over precaution in matters of public good.”
- Dr. David Michaels, The Triumph of Doubt (2020)