Monthly Archives: June 2021

Lab analysis of face masks

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Interesting in its own depressing way: A Group Of Parents Sent Their Kids’ Face Masks to A Lab for Analysis. Here’s What They Found.

Via press release: Gainesville, FL (June 16, 2021) –

A group of parents in Gainesville, FL, concerned about potential harms from masks, submitted six face masks to a lab for analysis. The resulting report found that five masks were contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and fungi, including three with dangerous pathogenic and pneumonia-causing bacteria. No viruses were detected on the masks, although the test is capable of detecting viruses. The analysis detected the following 11 alarmingly dangerous pathogens on the masks:

• Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumonia)

• Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tuberculosis)

• Neisseria meningitidis (meningitis, sepsis) • Acanthamoeba polyphaga (keratitis and granulomatous amebic encephalitis)

• Acinetobacter baumanni (pneumonia, blood stream infections, meningitis, UTIs— resistant to antibiotics)

• Escherichia coli (food poisoning)

• Borrelia burgdorferi (causes Lyme disease)

• Corynebacterium diphtheriae (diphtheria)

• Legionella pneumophila (Legionnaires’ disease)

• Staphylococcus pyogenes serotype M3 (severe infections—high morbidity rates)

• Staphylococcus aureus (meningitis, sepsis) Half of the masks were contaminated with one or more strains of pneumonia-causing bacteria.

One-third were contaminated with one or more strains of meningitis-causing bacteria. One-third were contaminated with dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens. In addition, less dangerous pathogens were identified, including pathogens that can cause fever, ulcers, acne, yeast infections, strep throat, periodontal disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and more.

The face masks studied were new or freshly-laundered before wearing and had been worn for 5 to 8 hours, most during in-person schooling by children aged 6 through 11. One was worn by an adult.

A t-shirt worn by one of the children at school and unworn masks were tested as controls. No pathogens were found on the controls. Proteins found on the t-shirt, for example, are not pathogenic to humans and are commonly found in hair, skin, and soil.

A parent who participated in the study, Ms. Amanda Donoho, commented that this small sample points to a need for more research: “We need to know what we are putting on the faces of our children each day. Masks provide a warm, moist environment for bacteria to grow.”

And not just children, of course. The need for caution applies to everyone who wears a mask.

And as an added bonus there are alternatives:

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AND THEN I CAME ACROSS THIS: New studies: Plexiglass does nothing; masks carry diseases; lockdowns destroyed 40% of all small businesses which takes the story a bit farther.

QAnon

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An Introduction to Q is from an author at The American Thinker who has signed her(him)self in this way:

Deborah Franklin is the pen name of a writer who fears professional retribution.

Obviously not a positive feature to be saying anything positive about whatever it is. Since we know the left doesn’t like QAnon – see the ABC – there is at least that much in favour of what it is and what it stands for. From the article, which you should read for yourself. The article, btw, was published on 14 January 2020 so it’s more than a year old:

In the meantime, Q’s influence continues to spread. Protestors in Hong Kong, Iran, and France have held up Q signs and chanted Q quotes. Q’s revelations are uniting people all over the world who want freedom.

If you’re unfamiliar with Q or only know it through the media’s attacks, I’d like to provide a brief introduction to this extraordinary phenomenon. I’ve followed Q since the first drop, and I’ve grown increasingly impressed by the accuracy, breadth and depth of Q’s messages. Q followers were prepared long in advance for the easing of hostilities with North Korea, the deflation of the mullahs of Iran, and the discovery of Ukraine as a hotbed of corruption for American politicians. They knew a great deal about Jeffrey Epstein’s activities before the public did and anticipate even more shocking revelations to come. As Q likes to say, “Future proves past.” As Q’s predictions come true, they lend retroactive credibility to the entire enterprise.

It’s a risk to self-identify as on the right side of the political divide so I can understand the reluctance to step out into the light. I doubt there many who are worried about demon possession, but there are many who worry about socialist possession.

As for myself, I have not been anywhere near QAnon, but if what they stand for is what is found in the article, I agree with their mission. These are very dangerous times. Here to encourage you to read the article, are the various headings of what Q is concerned about.

The Great Awakening

Dark To Light

Where We Go One We Go All (WWG1WGA)

These people are sick

Trust the plan

They want you divided

They think you’re sheep – Bigger than you can imagine. Expand your thinking

Track resignations

Their need for symbols will be their downfall

Nothing can stop what is coming. Nothing. Now comes the pain

You are the news nowWe know what happens in the end. God wins.

Now you know everything I know about QAnon.

Too many people die “on days one, two and three after the vaccine” 

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Dr. Peter McCullough, a prominent cardiologist, believes that with increasing reports of adverse effects, it’s too risky for people who have a more than 99 percent survival rate to receive one of the experimental vaccines. “Based on the safety data now, I can no longer recommend it,” he said in an interview with journalist and author John Leake, which was predictably scrubbed on YouTube. Too many people die “on days one, two and three after the vaccine.”

Read that and let it sink in, from Regarding the Vaccines: Exercise Extreme Prudence by David Solway. He goes on:

McCullough has been attacked as a right-wing crank by the usual swarm of dubious “factcheckers” populating the Net. McCullough has 600 peer-reviewed publications to his name, many of which have appeared in top-tier journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet. He is also the president of the Cardiorenal Society of America, co-editor of Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine and associate editor of the American Journal of Cardiology and Cardiorenal Medicine. His credentials are impeccable and he should be taken seriously. Left-wing cranks should not.

Furthermore, the recent controversy surrounding prominent French virologist and Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier needs to be put in context. He did not say that all who had been vaccinated would die within two years, as was widely reported. What he did say was that the vaccines and viral variants go hand in hand, owing to a condition called antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), a phenomenon in which virus-specific antibodies enhance the entry of the virus and may also cause viral replication. Variants will continue to proliferate as a direct result of the vaccines themselves: in each country, he says, “the curve of vaccination is followed by the curve of deaths.” Because of the vaccines, “the virus is forced to find another solution, or die,” thus creating vaccine-resistant variants.

Naturally, Montagnier has been mocked, slandered, “factchecked,” refuted and misreported in a veritable Netblitz. Nonetheless, that one lockdown insensibly succeeds another, that new viral variants continue to appear irrespective of counter-measures, and that top-off injections will likely be administered at regular intervals add weight to his argument. (The French video interview between Montagnier and journalist Pierre Barnérias has been rendered exceedingly difficult to find, but the effort is worth it.)

Now go to the article and read it through from end to end.

“Criminally negligent”

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That’s how she describes those who fail to provide Ivermectin to Covid patients. This is a doctor in Zimbabwe. This is what the caption under the video is:

Reflecting on ivermectin use in Zimbabwe, Dr Jackie Stone describes how covid-19 is now under control and everyone has the drug in their home medicine cupboard.

The major issue is why Ivermectin is so verboten that no one is even allowed to discuss it, and in some places even allowed to prescribe it. If it actually works, and eventually is seen to work, criminal negligence will be exactly the right word to describe those who have stood in the way of prescribing Ivermectin to Covid patients.

Picked up at Small Dead Animals

AND THIS: Which provides an explanation, of sorts, of why Ivermectin is forbidden since it would make authorisation of experimental vaccines illegal!

As Bret says, we don’t even have a term as yet that would capture the depravity of withholding an effective (and very cheap) medication so that another product can be put on the market instead.

“They don’t know how hard it is to be free”

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The quote is from an article which is of great interest on its own: North Korean Defector After Attending Ivy League School: Even North Korea Was ‘Not This Nuts’. This is where the quoted lines are found.

Eventually, Park stopped arguing with her professors and “learned how to just shut up” so that she could graduate. She reserved her most pointed criticisms for the woke scolds who constantly lament about being oppressed.

“Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like,” she said. “These kids keep saying how they’re oppressed, how much injustice they’ve experienced. They don’t know how hard it is to be free.”

“I literally crossed through the middle of the Gobi Desert to be free. But what I did was nothing, so many people fought harder than me and didn’t make it,” she added.

She actually means none of her fellow students from their pampered backgrounds know how difficult it was for her to escape from North Korea and come to the United States. But I think there is a much more profound meaning in her words.

There are skills and personal attitudes that are necessary for the members of a truly free society to have and develop. Freedom requires that the overwhelming majority of the members of a society are not only self-reliant but demand that the institutions around themselves and everyone else are designed so that each person must work on their own to achieve their own goals and ambitions.

Freedom cannot just be handed down from one generation to another. What must be handed down instead are a series of personal values that are the essential elements that constitute a free society. When they go, so too does personal freedom.

How to translate from woke into English

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From Combatting Social Justice Rhetoric: A Cheat Sheet for Policy Makers. With these reminders to assist you.

When they say “Cultural Competence“, what they mean is: Cultural stereotyping, which is neo-racist indoctrination in Critical Race Theory, and an ineffective method with no basis is scientific evidence.

When they say “Environmental Justice“, what they mean is: Environmental issues are race issues, which is using environmental protection for unrelated political purposes, and an ineffective way to protect the environment.

When they say “Critical Race Theory“, what they mean is: Race-centered thinking, which is the view that racism is baked into the system and inescapable, that racism is present even if no one is racist, and the view that all disparities in group outcomes are due to racist systems.

When they say “Equity“, what they mean is: Equality of Outcomes, which is a violation of equality before the law, a dismantling of the foundations of a free society, and state management of society, including reparations.

When they say “Social Justice“, what they mean is: Group entitlements, which is a denial of social and cultural differences, of just rewards to individuals who follow the law and act fairly, and the reframing of particular political demands as universal moral imperatives.

When they say “Diversity“, what they mean is: An identity-based approach to society, which is a violation of individual identity, enforced political conformity, political quotas, an attack on merit and a form of soft bigotry.

When they say “White Privilege / Supremacy“, what they mean is: European moral culpability, which is racist scapegoating, especially against economically disadvantaged Europeans, neo-racist scapegoating reborn as “progressive” group stereotyping.

When they say “BIPOC Folx“, what they mean is: Non-European people, which is used for neo-racist policies and stereotypes, racism reborn as “progressive”.

When they say “Racial Justice“, what they mean is: Racial Favoritism, which is using anti-discrimination laws for unrelated political purposes, a violation of equality before the law, and neo-racist group stereotyping.

When they say “Inclusion“, what they mean is: Restricted speech and justification for purges, which is making people feel “welcomed” by banning anything they find offensive; an attack on freedoms of association and speech.

And every form of distortion is part of an agenda to eliminate freedom in the West.

The absolute void of any discussion on Ivermectin

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Bits and pieces just like this keep showing pouring through my inbox: ‘We Made a Big Mistake’ — COVID Vaccine Spike Protein Travels From Injection Site, Can Cause Organ Damage.

All this is beyond my expertise, but there are lots like it.

Meanwhile, no one in the media, no matter how supposedly on the conservative side of things, ever says a word about Ivermectin. And even though I am aware that the various “vaccines” were developed at the instigation of Donald Trump, whose judgment I normally trust, there are lots of issues that need to be raised and as many questions that need an answer.

But really, why does no one ask about Ivermectin or say a word in public even though there are article like this within easy reach? – A five-day course of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 may reduce the duration of illness, dated February 2021, [“Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Feb;103:214-216. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.11.191. Epub 2020 Dec 2.”]

There is only so much one can do and go on for only so long

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What the greatest problem that remains is that so many assume things will stay just as they were but with a new leader. DEMONIZATION IS WHAT THE LEFT DOES: The Demonization of Benjamin Netanyahu: He’s simply an Israeli patriot, but detractors called him an enemy of peace, even a Republican.

Opponents of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, have worked for more than a quarter-century to tarnish his image in the U.S. and around the world.

In 1996, when Israelis first elected him to put a brake on a dangerous Oslo process, Mr. Netanyahu was depicted as an enemy of peace. For three years, his opponents insisted that if only Israel were rid of Mr. Netanyahu, it could make peace with Yasser Arafat. They were wrong. Ehud Barak defeated Mr. Netanyahu in 1999 and offered Arafat sweeping concessions at Camp David a year later. Instead of peace, Israel got scores of suicide bombings and the worst wave of Palestinian terrorism in its history—the so-called second intifada in which more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered.

That was followed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s 2005 decision to withdraw from Gaza. Just as Mr. Netanyahu predicted, Israel’s unilateral concession led only to further aggression. Hamas, a genocidal terror organization committed to Israel’s destruction, took over Gaza and turned it into a base from which thousands of missiles have been fired at Israeli cities.

Mr. Netanyahu returned to the premiership in 2009. The preceding bloody decade should have made it obvious to all that Palestinian leaders didn’t want peace. But Mr. Netanyahu was scapegoated again. Now Mahmoud Abbas was cast as a peacemaker instead of Arafat, who died in 2004. While few Israelis believed such nonsense any longer, many foreign policy makers did, including key officials in the Obama White House.

This time, another element was added to the demonization of Mr. Netanyahu: American partisan politics. Not only was he cast as an enemy of peace; he was accused of being a Republican. His critics portrayed his legitimate opposition to a Democratic president’s dangerous Middle East policies as an illegitimate effort to intervene in American politics. . . .

The demonization of Mr. Netanyahu says more about his critics than about him. He was never an enemy of peace; he understood that his critics were dangerously naive. By rejecting their ideas and following a path of peace through strength, his policies not only brought Israel the safest decade in its history; they also brought peace agreements and normalization with four Arab states.

Mr. Netanyahu is neither a Republican nor a Democrat. He is an Israeli patriot who has opposed the policies of even our greatest friends when he thought those policies endangered Israel.

Things my yet turn around, but when I hear people worrying about whether women should be allowed to pray at the Wailing Wall when Iran is building nuclear weapons, I despair. The post is from Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.