thewakingtimes--2020-03-14--Bioweapons Expert Speaks Out About Novel Coronavirus

As you know , a novel coronavirus ( initially labeled 2019-nCOV before being renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization ) originating in Wuhan City , Hubei Province in China , is rapidly spreading across the world .
The first case was reported in Wuhan on December 21 , 2019 .
Symptoms include fever , shortness of breath , severe cough and pneumonia which , in more severe cases , can lead to impaired kidney and liver function and kidney failure .
On January 21 , 2020 , the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who had recently visited Wuhan .
Then , the first U.S. death was reported February 29 , 2020 , in Washington state .
Less than a week later , CBS News reported March 5 , 2020 , that the number of deaths had quickly risen to 11 nationwide in the U.S. — 10 in Washington state and one in California .
Not only that , but as of that day , “ The World Health Organization urged governments around the world to pull out ‘ all the stops ’ ” to fight the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China “ appeared to be over the worst ” of it , CBS said .
All told , as of March 5 , 2020 , there were 98,067 reported cases of novel coronavirus infections affecting 88 countries , 80,430 of which were in China .
Worldometer.info provides an easy overview of confirmed cases and deaths that you can check for the latest statistics .
In this interview , Francis Boyle — whose background includes an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago , a juris doctor ( lawyer ) degree from Harvard and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his theory of the origin of this novel coronavirus .
For decades , he ’ s advocated against the development and use of bioweapons , which he suspects COVID-19 is .
In fact , Boyle was the one who called for biowarfare legislation at the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 , and the one who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 , which was passed unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law by George Bush , Sr. At the time of this recording , February 14 , 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had been infected with the virus .
Certainly , it does not originate from infected bat soup .
As a result of Boyle ’ s antibiological warfare work , which goes back to the early days of the Reagan administration — a time in which they were using DNA genetic engineering to manufacture biological weapons — Boyle has carefully followed “ mysterious outbreaks of disease in both humans and animals around the world ” that have appeared since then .
The first reported case of COVID-19 infection was December 1 , 2019 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is still unknown , the initial lead , provided there was one , might have occurred anywhere in November .
The official estimate is a 14-day incubation period , but a British health expert believes it ’ s 24 days , and North Korean biological warfare experts believe it ’ s 30 days , Boyle says .
When asked about rumors the COVID-19 virus might have been stolen from a high-security laboratory in Winnipeg , Canada , Boyle says : “ It could have been .
I want to make it clear that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ working on that at the Wuhan BSL-4 facility .
They were working on a biological warfare weapon involving SARS , which is a coronavirus to begin with .
We do know that Dr. [ Yoshihiro ] Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin … resurrected the Spanish flu virus for the Pentagon , obviously for weapons purposes , and he specializes in mating the Spanish flu virus to all sorts of hideous biowarfare instrumentalities .
And there was a record of him shipping his products to Winnipeg .
Winnipeg is Canada ’ s equivalent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s a BSL-4 facility , and yes , they research , develop tests , manufacture and stockpile every type of hideous biological warfare weapon that we know of .
So , some of this technology could have been stolen from Winnipeg .
I don ’ t know about that but , as I said , the Wuhan BSL-4 was already working on this to begin with .
They had already developed SARS .
SARS had leaked out two to three times before this , and it seems they were turbocharging SARS , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be .
This is a brand-new generation of biowarfare weapons we haven ’ t seen before .
Its lethality goes from 15 % , as estimated by Lancet , up to 17 % to 18 % by a British health official and even Chinese statistics .
Its infectivity is 83 % .
It can infect maybe three to four people for every person infected .
It has gain of function properties , which means it travels through air at least 6 or 7 feet , and … there are reports that even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the human feces radiate off maybe 6 or 7 feet .
So , we ’ ve never seen anything like this before in the history of biological warfare , at least in the public record .
I want to make it clear : I have never worked for the United States government .
I ’ ve never had a security clearance .
I ’ ve never had access to any type of secret information .
I just read what is in the public record and the scientific record and try to draw @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s what I ’ m giving you today .
I could change my opinion if people can provide me reputable scientific evidence to the contrary .
Right now , I ’ m standing by my conclusion that it leaked out of the Wuhan BSL-4 , the highest level of the Chinese government has known about it , they ’ ve been covering it up from the get-go , until they informed the WHO at the end of December.
” Despite Laws , Biowarfare Experimentation Is Alive and Well As noted by Boyle , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ research lab , which may sound odd , considering these facilities specialize in developing and researching dangerous pathogens that can easily be turned into bioweapons .
According to Boyle , we should not be surprised however , as “ WHO is up to its eyeballs in this type of work and has been for quite some time.
” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the drug industry also appear to have had their hand in many of the outbreaks of what appear to be weaponized viruses .
According to Boyle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ billion on biological warfare programs since September 11 , 2011 , up until October 2015 , which is no small sum .
To put it into perspective , the U.S. spent $ 40 billion ( assuming a constant dollar value ) on the Manhattan Project , which developed the atomic bomb .
Boyle also estimates the U.S. has some 13,000 life scientists working within the biowarfare industry .
While there have so far only been a limited number of reported cases of COVID-19 infection in the U.S. , the U.S. military has designated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quarantine Americans , should the situation take a turn for the worse .
Historically speaking , however , government health officials have been vastly exaggerating the threat of pandemics in the U.S. , including the bird flu , the swine flu , anthrax and Ebola .
For example , as detailed in my 2009 New York Times bestseller “ The Great Bird Flu Hoax , ” then-President George Bush Jr. projected 2 million Americans would die from bird flu ; the best-case scenario taking only 200,000 lives .
The final death count in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It generated massive profits , though , as U.S. taxpayer dollars were used to purchase 20 million doses of Tamiflu .
One of the people who was able to line his pockets from that hoax was defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld , who was president of Gilead Sciences when the drug was created .
Whether or not COVID-19 will be similarly ineffective in its spread and lethality remains to be seen .
Judging by the statistics in China , “ it doesn ’ t look very good , ” Boyle says .
According @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a chimera , like the avian flu virus before it .
It includes SARS , an already weaponized coronavirus , along with HIV genetic material .
“ That was in a published article by Indian scientists .
You could see the pictures right there , [ but ] political pressure was brought to bear upon them so they withdrew [ the paper ] .
” This is why some scientists are now looking into using HIV drugs to treat it , Boyle says .
COVID-19 may also have a flu virus mixed in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that allow it to spread a greater distance than normal .
Pandemics Repeatedly Used to Further Police State Pandemics have also been used to chip away public freedoms .
For example , the anthrax scare of 2001 was used as the impetus for signing the Patriot Act , which was the first step in taking away many of our personal freedoms and rolling out a complete surveillance state .
To me , such outcomes are far more concerning than the risk of infection itself .
Boyle adds : As noted by Boyle , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1984 , ” has become reality .
Boyle has since lectured lawyers at DePaul Law School in Chicago about the totalitarian nature of the Patriot Act .
Bioweapons Are Developed To Be Used As noted by Boyle , the U.S. government has a large stockpile of Amerithrax — a super weapons-grade nanotechnology anthrax with 1 trillion spores per gram — and that ’ s just the tip of the iceberg of the biological weapons developed .
What ’ s more , Boyle has no doubt these weapons will eventually be put to use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He says : Indeed , Johns Hopkins University is the biggest recipient of research grants from federal agencies , including the National Institutes of Health , National Science Foundation and Department of Defense .
It has also received millions of dollars in research grants from the Gates Foundation .
In 2016 , Johns Hopkins spent more than $ 2 billion on research projects , leading all U.S. universities in research spending for the 38th year in a row .
How Can We Best Prevent or Treat COVID-19 Infection ?
While it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most effective , my guess is that Dr. Paul Marik ’ s intravenous vitamin C protocol for sepsis would be a good starting point , seeing how sepsis appears to be what kills those who succumb to a serious COVID-19 infection .
Marik ’ s retrospective before-after clinical study showed that giving patients IV vitamin C with hydrocortisone and vitamin B1 for two days reduced mortality from 40 % to 8.5 % .
The precise protocol used was 200 mg of thiamine every 12 hours , 1,500 mg of ascorbic acid every six @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every six hours .
Importantly , the treatment has no side effects and is inexpensive , readily available and simple to administer .
According to Marik , vitamin C and corticosteroids have a synergistic effect , which is part of why his combo protocol is so effective .
Still , simply using high-dose IV vitamin C exclusively has been shown to improve survival in patients with sepsis and acute respiratory failure , reducing mortality from 46 % to 30 % .
It also reduced the number of days they needed to remain hospitalized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vitamin C had by Day 28 spent three fewer days in the intensive care unit than the placebo group ( seven days compared to 10 ) .
By Day 60 , the treatment group had also spent seven fewer days in the hospital overall —15 days compared to 22 .
While there are no trials that look at integrating hyperbaric oxygen therapy ( HBOT ) , my suspicion is that this would provide a powerful synergy that could get the fatality rate from sepsis even closer to zero .
Sadly , HBOT is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even if it were , it is not approved for sepsis .
You can learn more about Marik ’ s sepsis protocol in “ Vitamin C — A Game Changer in Treatment of Deadly Sepsis , ” along with commonsense recommendations for how to lower your risk of sepsis in the first place .
You can also review Marik ’ s PowerPoint presentation , “ Hydrocortisone , Ascorbic Acid and Thiamine for the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock , ” presented at the 2020 Critical Care Reviews meeting in Australia .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ WHO , please see “ Novel Coronavirus — The Latest Pandemic Scare.
” One of the Most Powerful Videos I ’ ve Ever Seen The following video from Barbara Loe Fisher is one of the most powerful videos that I have ever seen .
I am hopeful that watching this video will inspire you to take up the cause and join the fight for vaccine freedom and independence .
There is a cultural war and collusion between many industries and federal regulatory agencies that results in a suppression of the truth about vital @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continues we will gradually and progressively erode our private individual rights that our ancestors fought so hard to achieve .
Please take a few minutes to watch this video .
Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines , it ’ s critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination .
It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and educate the leaders in your community .
National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level .
It is at the state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have the greatest impact .
It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trade associations and public health officials , who are trying to persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public health laws .
Signing up for NVIC ’ s free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate , easy access to your own state legislators on your smartphone or computer so you can make your voice heard .
You will be kept up to date on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and will get practical , useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine issues come up , you will have the up-to-date information and call-to-action items you need at your fingertips .
So , please , as your first step , sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal .
Share Your Story With the Media and People You Know If you or a family member has suffered a serious vaccine reaction , injury or death , please talk about it .
If we don ’ t share information and experiences with one another , everybody feels alone and afraid to speak up .
Write a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a different perspective on a vaccine story that appears in your local newspaper .
Make a call in to a radio talk show that is presenting only one side of the vaccine story .
I must be frank with you : You have to be brave because you might be strongly criticized for daring to talk about the “ other side ” of the vaccine story .
Be prepared for it and have the courage to not back down .
Only by sharing our perspective and what we know to be true about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ open up so people are not afraid to talk about it .
We can not allow the drug companies and medical trade associations funded by drug companies or public health officials promoting forced use of a growing list of vaccines to dominate the conversation about vaccination .
The vaccine injured can not be swept under the carpet and treated like nothing more than “ statistically acceptable collateral damage ” of national one-size-fits-all mandatory vaccination policies that put way too many people at risk for injury and death .
We shouldn ’ t be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human beings .
Internet Resources Where You Can Learn More I encourage you to visit the website of the nonprofit charity , the National Vaccine Information Center ( NVIC ) , at www.NVIC.org : • Vaccine Requirements and Exemptions by State — Vaccine laws vary from one U.S. state to another .
By knowing the specific policies where you live , you ’ ll learn how you can get exemptions and better protect your right to make informed vaccine choices .
• NVIC Memorial for Vaccine Victims — View descriptions and photos of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reactions , injuries and deaths .
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• Vaccine Freedom Wall — View or post descriptions of harassment and sanctions by doctors , employers and school and health officials for making independent vaccine choices .
• Vaccine Failure Wall — View or post descriptions about vaccines that have failed to work and protect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Your Doctor or Find a New One Who Will Listen and Care If your pediatrician or doctor refuses to provide medical care to you or your child unless you agree to get vaccines you don ’ t want , I strongly encourage you to have the courage to find another doctor .
Harassment , intimidation and refusal of medical care are becoming the modus operandi of the medical establishment in an effort to stop the change in attitude of many parents about vaccinations after they become truly educated about health and vaccination .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ least 15 % of young doctors recently polled admit that they ’ re starting to adopt a more individualized approach to vaccinations in direct response to the vaccine safety concerns of parents .
It is good news that there is a growing number of smart young doctors who prefer to work as partners with parents in making personalized vaccine decisions for children , including delaying vaccinations or giving children fewer vaccines on the same day , or continuing to provide medical care for those families who decline use of one or more vaccines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ locate a doctor who treats you with compassion and respect , and who is willing to work with you to do what is right for your child .

Bioweapons Expert Speaks Out About Novel Coronavirus
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
As you know, a novel coronavirus (initially labeled 2019-nCOV before being renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization) originating in Wuhan City, Hubei Province in China, is rapidly spreading across the world.
The first case was reported in Wuhan on December 21, 2019. Symptoms include fever, shortness of breath, severe cough and pneumonia which, in more severe cases, can lead to impaired kidney and liver function and kidney failure.
On January 21, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first U.S. case — a patient in Washington state who had recently visited Wuhan. Then, the first U.S. death was reported February 29, 2020, in Washington state.
Less than a week later, CBS News reported March 5, 2020, that the number of deaths had quickly risen to 11 nationwide in the U.S. — 10 in Washington state and one in California. Not only that, but as of that day, “The World Health Organization urged governments around the world to pull out ‘all the stops’” to fight the outbreak. On the up side, China “appeared to be over the worst” of it, CBS said.
All told, as of March 5, 2020, there were 98,067 reported cases of novel coronavirus infections affecting 88 countries, 80,430 of which were in China. Worldometer.info provides an easy overview of confirmed cases and deaths that you can check for the latest statistics.
COVID-19 — A Weaponized Coronavirus?
In this interview, Francis Boyle — whose background includes an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, a juris doctor (lawyer) degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science — shares his theory of the origin of this novel coronavirus.
For decades, he’s advocated against the development and use of bioweapons, which he suspects COVID-19 is. In fact, Boyle was the one who called for biowarfare legislation at the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, and the one who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, which was passed unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law by George Bush, Sr.
At the time of this recording, February 14, 2020, more than 50,000 people in China had been infected with the virus. Certainly, it does not originate from infected bat soup.
As a result of Boyle’s antibiological warfare work, which goes back to the early days of the Reagan administration — a time in which they were using DNA genetic engineering to manufacture biological weapons — Boyle has carefully followed “mysterious outbreaks of disease in both humans and animals around the world” that have appeared since then.
“My biowarfare antiterrorism act was specifically designed to not only to deal with regular biological weapons but also with DNA genetic engineering for biological weapons that was just coming into its infancy when the BWC was being drafted. Even though the BWC would cover DNA genetic engineering, I wanted to make it clear by name that it was covered. I also made it clear [that] it covered synthetic biology as well,” Boyle says. “So, when these unexplained mysterious illnesses break out, I monitor them a while and usually I just conclude they can be explained by normal reasons: lack of sanitation, poverty, things of that nature. But in Wuhan it seemed pretty suspicious to me. There is this Biosafety Level 4 facility there in Wuhan. It’s the first in China, and it was specifically set up to deal with the coronavirus and SARS. SARS is basically a weaponized version of the coronavirus. There have been leaks before of SARS out of this facility, and indeed the only reason for these BSL-4 facilities, based on my experience, is the research, development, testing and stockpiling of offensive biological weapons. For that reason, I stated my opinion: That this Wuhan coronavirus leaked out of that BSL-4 facility … maybe mid-November … and the Chinese government has been lying about it and covering up ever since.”
Many Unknowns Remain
The first reported case of COVID-19 infection was December 1, 2019. Depending on the incubation period, which is still unknown, the initial lead, provided there was one, might have occurred anywhere in November. The official estimate is a 14-day incubation period, but a British health expert believes it’s 24 days, and North Korean biological warfare experts believe it’s 30 days, Boyle says.
“As for Wuhan and Hubei Province, they’re basically under martial law. There’s no other word for it. If you read the statements by President Xi and his assistants, they’ve made it very clear they’re at war here, and that is correct. They’re at war with their own biological warfare agent. President Xi just fired the party apparatchiks in charge of this and has brought in trusted military personnel to handle it, as well as large numbers of PLA [People’s Liberation Army] forces saying they’re health care workers. They don’t look like health care workers to me. So, as of now, that’s my best reading of the situation.”
When asked about rumors the COVID-19 virus might have been stolen from a high-security laboratory in Winnipeg, Canada, Boyle says:
“It could have been. I want to make it clear that, in my opinion they were already working on that at the Wuhan BSL-4 facility. They were working on a biological warfare weapon involving SARS, which is a coronavirus to begin with. We do know that Dr. [Yoshihiro] Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin … resurrected the Spanish flu virus for the Pentagon, obviously for weapons purposes, and he specializes in mating the Spanish flu virus to all sorts of hideous biowarfare instrumentalities. And there was a record of him shipping his products to Winnipeg. Winnipeg is Canada’s equivalent of our own Fort Detrick. It’s a BSL-4 facility, and yes, they research, develop tests, manufacture and stockpile every type of hideous biological warfare weapon that we know of. So, some of this technology could have been stolen from Winnipeg. I don’t know about that but, as I said, the Wuhan BSL-4 was already working on this to begin with. They had already developed SARS. SARS had leaked out two to three times before this, and it seems they were turbocharging SARS, which is what [COVID-19] looks to be. This is a brand-new generation of biowarfare weapons we haven’t seen before. Its lethality goes from 15%, as estimated by Lancet, up to 17% to 18% by a British health official and even Chinese statistics. Its infectivity is 83%. It can infect maybe three to four people for every person infected. It has gain of function properties, which means it travels through air at least 6 or 7 feet, and … there are reports that even contaminated human feces give it off, that the human feces radiate off maybe 6 or 7 feet. So, we’ve never seen anything like this before in the history of biological warfare, at least in the public record. I want to make it clear: I have never worked for the United States government. I’ve never had a security clearance. I’ve never had access to any type of secret information. I just read what is in the public record and the scientific record and try to draw my own conclusions, and that’s what I’m giving you today. I could change my opinion if people can provide me reputable scientific evidence to the contrary. Right now, I’m standing by my conclusion that it leaked out of the Wuhan BSL-4, the highest level of the Chinese government has known about it, they’ve been covering it up from the get-go, until they informed the WHO at the end of December.”
Despite Laws, Biowarfare Experimentation Is Alive and Well
As noted by Boyle, the Wuhan lab is a designated WHO research lab, which may sound odd, considering these facilities specialize in developing and researching dangerous pathogens that can easily be turned into bioweapons.
According to Boyle, we should not be surprised however, as “WHO is up to its eyeballs in this type of work and has been for quite some time.” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the drug industry also appear to have had their hand in many of the outbreaks of what appear to be weaponized viruses.
“I won’t go through the long history of big pharma getting involved in this. There’s huge amounts of money here. I believe the West Africa Ebola pandemic originated out of the US BSL-4 facility in Sierra Leone, and [that] they were testing out a so-called vaccine that contained live Ebola and gave it to these poor people,” Boyle says. “As for the CDC, it has been involved in every … BSL-4 biological warfare death science you could possibly imagine … It’s a matter of public record that during the Reagan administration, the CDC and the American Type Culture Collection sent 40 shipments of weapons-grade biological warfare agents to Saddam Hussein in Iraq, in the hope and expectation that he would weaponize these agents and use them against Iran … Of course, the problem is that when that war was over … an order was given to U.S. military forces to blow up Saddam Hussein’s biological warfare facilities, and that’s not how you deal with biological warfare weapons … [It] contaminated our own troops, and that was a causative factor in the Gulf War Syndrome that … murdered about 11,000 U.S. troops and disabled about 100,000.”
According to Boyle, the U.S. government spent $100 billion on biological warfare programs since September 11, 2011, up until October 2015, which is no small sum. To put it into perspective, the U.S. spent $40 billion (assuming a constant dollar value) on the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Boyle also estimates the U.S. has some 13,000 life scientists working within the biowarfare industry.
“Clearly, the Reagan administration, under the influence of its neoconservatives who definitely believe in biological weapons and ethnic-specific biological weapons (you can see that in the PNAC report), were engaged in the use of DNA genetic engineering for the purpose of manufacturing biological weapons. That is why I gave a Congressional briefing in Washington, D.C. in 1985. I was asked to do that by the Council for Responsible Genetics that I work with, which involves the leading life scientists in the world from MIT and Harvard. I spent seven years at Harvard. I have three degrees and I knew all these people. They asked me to serve as their lawyer and give this Congressional briefing. I blew the whistle, and then they asked me to draft the implementing legislation, which I did … I want to make it clear I’m not here to speak in their name, I’m only speaking in my name, but if you look at my book, ‘Biological Warfare and Terrorism,’ professor Jonathan King wrote the foreword. So, I have the leading MIT professor of molecular biology supporting what I’m saying, if you don’t think I know enough science about it.”
US Prepares for COVID-19 Pandemic
While there have so far only been a limited number of reported cases of COVID-19 infection in the U.S., the U.S. military has designated several detention sites around the country to quarantine Americans, should the situation take a turn for the worse.
Historically speaking, however, government health officials have been vastly exaggerating the threat of pandemics in the U.S., including the bird flu, the swine flu, anthrax and Ebola.
For example, as detailed in my 2009 New York Times bestseller “The Great Bird Flu Hoax,” then-President George Bush Jr. projected 2 million Americans would die from bird flu; the best-case scenario taking only 200,000 lives. The final death count in the U.S. from that pandemic was zero.
It generated massive profits, though, as U.S. taxpayer dollars were used to purchase 20 million doses of Tamiflu. One of the people who was able to line his pockets from that hoax was defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was president of Gilead Sciences when the drug was created.
“[The bird flu] was another DNA, genetically engineered biological warfare weapon,” Boyle notes. “It was a chimera. It had three different elements in it and we were all lucky that somehow they attenuated the lethality and the infectiveness of the bird flu.”
Whether or not COVID-19 will be similarly ineffective in its spread and lethality remains to be seen. Judging by the statistics in China, “it doesn’t look very good,” Boyle says.
Understanding the COVID-19 Virus
According to Boyle, the COVID-19 virus is a chimera, like the avian flu virus before it. It includes SARS, an already weaponized coronavirus, along with HIV genetic material. “That was in a published article by Indian scientists. You could see the pictures right there, [but] political pressure was brought to bear upon them so they withdrew [the paper].”
This is why some scientists are now looking into using HIV drugs to treat it, Boyle says. COVID-19 may also have a flu virus mixed in, along with gain of function properties that allow it to spread a greater distance than normal.
Pandemics Repeatedly Used to Further Police State
Pandemics have also been used to chip away public freedoms. For example, the anthrax scare of 2001 was used as the impetus for signing the Patriot Act, which was the first step in taking away many of our personal freedoms and rolling out a complete surveillance state. To me, such outcomes are far more concerning than the risk of infection itself. Boyle adds:
“They used Amerithrax to ram the Patriot Act through, that is correct … We became a police state … And as I pointed out in ‘Biowarfare and Terrorism,’ I think the same people who were behind the 9/11 terrorist attack were also behind the Amerithrax, but I’m just connecting dots there … What’s called Amerithrax came out of a U.S. government biological warfare weapons lab and program, and I publicly blew the whistle on that the first weekend of November 2001. The Council for Responsible Genetics was having its convention at Harvard Business School and I was chairing a panel with King and other experts on biological warfare, on U.S. biological warfare programs. As I was walking into the Harvard Divinity School, Fox TV had a camera crew there and I said, ‘Obviously, this came out a U.S. biological weapons program and probably Fort Detrick.’ I conducted the session and made the same comment. Then I made a comment to a Washington, D.C., radio station to that effect [and to] the BBC, so everyone in the world heard me. At that point, someone gave an order that I was never to be interviewed again by any mainstream news about biological warfare programs. And that’s been the case since the first week of November 2001.”
As noted by Boyle, George Orwell’s book, “1984,” has become reality. Boyle has since lectured lawyers at DePaul Law School in Chicago about the totalitarian nature of the Patriot Act.
“Snowden has correctly pointed out the federal government is spying on everything we say, all of our electronic communications, you name it,” Boyle says. “And again, the proof is I’ve been completely blackballed out of U.S. media. Indeed, if you go back and look at the Amerithrax attacks, they also hit mainstream U.S. media to make it clear to them that if they covered this issue they will be killed too.”
Bioweapons Are Developed To Be Used
As noted by Boyle, the U.S. government has a large stockpile of Amerithrax — a super weapons-grade nanotechnology anthrax with 1 trillion spores per gram — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg of the biological weapons developed. What’s more, Boyle has no doubt these weapons will eventually be put to use, as they have in the past. He says:
“There was a tabletop exercise at John Hopkins University last fall … on coronavirus. Tabletop exercise, that’s a euphemism for a war game. Their estimate was that it killed 65 million people … John Hopkins is up to their eyeballs in this Nazi biological warfare dirty work. They have a BSL-3 facility there … that they proudly announce on their website … They justify it by saying they’re developing vaccines. OK … How do they do that? They go out around the world, and this is a matter of public record, and scour for every type of hideous disease, fungus, virus and bacteria you can possibly imagine. They then bring it back to these BSL-4 labs and develop an offensive, biological agent using DNA genetic engineering and synthetic biology … set up by the Pentagon under DARPA … Once they have this offensive agent, they then proceed to develop a vaccine, because the agent is no good unless you can have a vaccine to protect your own people. So, they’re developing vaccines to have biological weapons, because a biological weapon consists of two elements: the offensive biological warfare agent in the first place, and then, second, a vaccine to protect your own people, and that is what is being done at all these BSL-4 facilities, and many of the BSL-3s as well. John Hopkins has a BSL-3 and they admit they do dual use. That’s what dual use means. They first develop the offensive biological warfare agent and then they develop the supposed vaccine.”
Indeed, Johns Hopkins University is the biggest recipient of research grants from federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and Department of Defense. It has also received millions of dollars in research grants from the Gates Foundation. In 2016, Johns Hopkins spent more than $2 billion on research projects, leading all U.S. universities in research spending for the 38th year in a row.
How Can We Best Prevent or Treat COVID-19 Infection?
While it’s unclear exactly which treatment is the most effective, my guess is that Dr. Paul Marik’s intravenous vitamin C protocol for sepsis would be a good starting point, seeing how sepsis appears to be what kills those who succumb to a serious COVID-19 infection.
Marik’s retrospective before-after clinical study showed that giving patients IV vitamin C with hydrocortisone and vitamin B1 for two days reduced mortality from 40% to 8.5%. The precise protocol used was 200 mg of thiamine every 12 hours, 1,500 mg of ascorbic acid every six hours, and 50 mg of hydrocortisone every six hours. Importantly, the treatment has no side effects and is inexpensive, readily available and simple to administer.
According to Marik, vitamin C and corticosteroids have a synergistic effect, which is part of why his combo protocol is so effective. Still, simply using high-dose IV vitamin C exclusively has been shown to improve survival in patients with sepsis and acute respiratory failure, reducing mortality from 46% to 30%.
It also reduced the number of days they needed to remain hospitalized. On average, those who received vitamin C had by Day 28 spent three fewer days in the intensive care unit than the placebo group (seven days compared to 10). By Day 60, the treatment group had also spent seven fewer days in the hospital overall —15 days compared to 22.
While there are no trials that look at integrating hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), my suspicion is that this would provide a powerful synergy that could get the fatality rate from sepsis even closer to zero. Sadly, HBOT is not available at many hospitals, and even if it were, it is not approved for sepsis.
You can learn more about Marik’s sepsis protocol in “Vitamin C — A Game Changer in Treatment of Deadly Sepsis,” along with commonsense recommendations for how to lower your risk of sepsis in the first place.
You can also review Marik’s PowerPoint presentation, “Hydrocortisone, Ascorbic Acid and Thiamine for the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock,” presented at the 2020 Critical Care Reviews meeting in Australia. For COVID-19 at-home care advice from the WHO, please see “Novel Coronavirus — The Latest Pandemic Scare.”
One of the Most Powerful Videos I’ve Ever Seen
The following video from Barbara Loe Fisher is one of the most powerful videos that I have ever seen. I am hopeful that watching this video will inspire you to take up the cause and join the fight for vaccine freedom and independence.
There is a cultural war and collusion between many industries and federal regulatory agencies that results in a suppression of the truth about vital important health issues. If this suppression continues we will gradually and progressively erode our private individual rights that our ancestors fought so hard to achieve. Please take a few minutes to watch this video.
http://youtu.be/xEcYQydhY9E
Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions
With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines, it’s critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination. It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in state public health and employment laws. The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and educate the leaders in your community.
Think Globally, Act Locally
National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level. It is at the state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have the greatest impact.
It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies, medical trade associations and public health officials, who are trying to persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public health laws.
Signing up for NVIC’s free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate, easy access to your own state legislators on your smartphone or computer so you can make your voice heard. You will be kept up to date on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and will get practical, useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your own community.
Also, when national vaccine issues come up, you will have the up-to-date information and call-to-action items you need at your fingertips. So, please, as your first step, sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal.
Share Your Story With the Media and People You Know
If you or a family member has suffered a serious vaccine reaction, injury or death, please talk about it. If we don’t share information and experiences with one another, everybody feels alone and afraid to speak up. Write a letter to the editor if you have a different perspective on a vaccine story that appears in your local newspaper. Make a call in to a radio talk show that is presenting only one side of the vaccine story.
I must be frank with you: You have to be brave because you might be strongly criticized for daring to talk about the “other side” of the vaccine story. Be prepared for it and have the courage to not back down. Only by sharing our perspective and what we know to be true about vaccination will the public conversation about vaccination open up so people are not afraid to talk about it.
We cannot allow the drug companies and medical trade associations funded by drug companies or public health officials promoting forced use of a growing list of vaccines to dominate the conversation about vaccination.
The vaccine injured cannot be swept under the carpet and treated like nothing more than “statistically acceptable collateral damage” of national one-size-fits-all mandatory vaccination policies that put way too many people at risk for injury and death. We shouldn’t be treating people like guinea pigs instead of human beings.
Internet Resources Where You Can Learn More
I encourage you to visit the website of the nonprofit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), at www.NVIC.org:
Vaccine Requirements and Exemptions by State — Vaccine laws vary from one U.S. state to another. By knowing the specific policies where you live, you’ll learn how you can get exemptions and better protect your right to make informed vaccine choices.
— Vaccine laws vary from one U.S. state to another. By knowing the specific policies where you live, you’ll learn how you can get exemptions and better protect your right to make informed vaccine choices. NVIC Memorial for Vaccine Victims — View descriptions and photos of children and adults who have suffered vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths. If you or your child experiences an adverse vaccine event, please consider posting and sharing your story here.
— View descriptions and photos of children and adults who have suffered vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths. If you or your child experiences an adverse vaccine event, please consider posting and sharing your story here. If You Vaccinate, Ask 8 Questions — Learn how to recognize vaccine reaction symptoms and prevent vaccine injuries.
— Learn how to recognize vaccine reaction symptoms and prevent vaccine injuries. Vaccine Freedom Wall — View or post descriptions of harassment and sanctions by doctors, employers and school and health officials for making independent vaccine choices.
— View or post descriptions of harassment and sanctions by doctors, employers and school and health officials for making independent vaccine choices. Vaccine Failure Wall — View or post descriptions about vaccines that have failed to work and protect the vaccinated from disease.
Connect With Your Doctor or Find a New One Who Will Listen and Care
If your pediatrician or doctor refuses to provide medical care to you or your child unless you agree to get vaccines you don’t want, I strongly encourage you to have the courage to find another doctor.
Harassment, intimidation and refusal of medical care are becoming the modus operandi of the medical establishment in an effort to stop the change in attitude of many parents about vaccinations after they become truly educated about health and vaccination. However, there is hope.
At least 15% of young doctors recently polled admit that they’re starting to adopt a more individualized approach to vaccinations in direct response to the vaccine safety concerns of parents.
It is good news that there is a growing number of smart young doctors who prefer to work as partners with parents in making personalized vaccine decisions for children, including delaying vaccinations or giving children fewer vaccines on the same day, or continuing to provide medical care for those families who decline use of one or more vaccines.
So, take the time to locate a doctor who treats you with compassion and respect, and who is willing to work with you to do what is right for your child.


thewakingtimes--2020-03-13--This Artificial Sweetener Might Be Making You Fatter and Sicker

A study published in the journal Cell Metabolism by a group of Yale researchers found that the consumption of the common artificial sweetener sucralose ( found in Splenda , Zerocal , Sukrana , SucraPlus , and others ) in combination with carbohydrates can actually raise blood sugar and increase weight .
Sucralose is found in thousands of baked goods , condiments , syrups , and other consumer packaged goods—almost all of them containing carbohydrates .
The finding , which researchers expressed has yet to be replicated in other studies , raises new questions about the use of artificial sweeteners and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health .
Researchers of the study took 60 healthy individuals who weren ’ t overweight and separated them into three groups : One group that consumed a regular-size beverage containing the equivalent of two packets of sucralose sweetener , a second group that consumed a beverage sweetened with table sugar at an equivalent sweetness , and a third control group that had a beverage with the sucralose as well as a carbohydrate called maltodextrin .
The maltodextrin molecules don ’ t bind to taste receptors in our mouths and are impossible to detect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group ’ s beverage was identical to the sucralose-only group , only this group exhibited significant adverse health effects .
The artificial sweetener by itself seemed to be fine , but that changed when combined with a carbohydrate .
Seven beverages over two weeks and the previously healthy people in this group became glucose intolerant , a metabolic condition that results in elevated blood glucose levels and puts people at an increased risk for diabetes .
The experiment follows research that was published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine last year that found @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of artificially sweetened soft drinks a day increased a person ’ s chance of death from circulatory diseases .
While a 2008 study by scientists at Purdue University showed that artificial sweeteners alone could result in higher blood pressure , weight gain , and increased risk of diabetes , stroke , and heart disease in rats .
The scientists in the Purdue study fed yogurt sweetened with glucose to a group of rats .
A second group then was given yogurt sweetened with zero-calorie saccharin .
This group consumed more calories , gained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fat , and didn ’ t make up for it by cutting back later .
Dana Small , one of the researchers , wondered why the rats gained weight in Purdue ’ s experiment .
It was that yogurt , which was high in carbs , according to the study .
Small and her team state the carbs and sucralose work together to confuse the brain , which then miscommunicates with the rest of the body harming its ability to metabolize sugar .
However , Ali Webster , a director of research and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Council , said the study ’ s methodology is flawed , according to the Hour .
Small acknowledged to the news publication , “ We had no measure of food intake.
” But she said : “ The question is , ” Small asks , “ are artificial sweeteners bad for you ?
We need to figure out the mechanism , but the hypothesis is that this would work with any carbohydrate.
” Previous studies published by the Purdue University from Susan E. Swithers and colleagues show that frequent consumption of high-intensity sweeteners @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the body ’ s natural ability to manage calories based on tasting something the body perceives as sweet when it actually poisoning you .
According to a report published in General Dentistry , phosphoric acid in soda also causes tooth enamel erosion , even with just minimal exposure to the chemical .
Scientists at the Nicolaus Copernicus University and Professor Franciszek Lukaszczyk Memorial Hospital in Bydgoszcz in Poland have previously found that a sweetener in soda could damage arteries in the penis , resulting in restricted blood flow to the organ ( erectile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Other studies have revealed that artificial sweeteners like Splenda are dangerous and could cause cancer and Leukemia when scientists fed rats with Splenda until they died .
In another study it was announced that sugar is not good for your body and it could also cause cancer .
While yet another study has linked sugar to the growth of cancer .
Now we have a study that is suggesting that artificial sweetener may also be causing obesity and other health problems .

This Artificial Sweetener Might Be Making You Fatter and Sicker
Aaron Kesel, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
A study published in the journal Cell Metabolism by a group of Yale researchers found that the consumption of the common artificial sweetener sucralose (found in Splenda, Zerocal, Sukrana, SucraPlus, and others) in combination with carbohydrates can actually raise blood sugar and increase weight.
Sucralose is found in thousands of baked goods, condiments, syrups, and other consumer packaged goods—almost all of them containing carbohydrates.
The finding, which researchers expressed has yet to be replicated in other studies, raises new questions about the use of artificial sweeteners and their effects on weight gain and overall health.
Researchers of the study took 60 healthy individuals who weren’t overweight and separated them into three groups:
One group that consumed a regular-size beverage containing the equivalent of two packets of sucralose sweetener, a second group that consumed a beverage sweetened with table sugar at an equivalent sweetness, and a third control group that had a beverage with the sucralose as well as a carbohydrate called maltodextrin.
The maltodextrin molecules don’t bind to taste receptors in our mouths and are impossible to detect. While the sensation of the third group’s beverage was identical to the sucralose-only group, only this group exhibited significant adverse health effects.
The artificial sweetener by itself seemed to be fine, but that changed when combined with a carbohydrate. Seven beverages over two weeks and the previously healthy people in this group became glucose intolerant, a metabolic condition that results in elevated blood glucose levels and puts people at an increased risk for diabetes.
The experiment follows research that was published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine last year that found that consumption of two or more glasses of artificially sweetened soft drinks a day increased a person’s chance of death from circulatory diseases. While a 2008 study by scientists at Purdue University showed that artificial sweeteners alone could result in higher blood pressure, weight gain, and increased risk of diabetes, stroke, and heart disease in rats.
The scientists in the Purdue study fed yogurt sweetened with glucose to a group of rats. A second group then was given yogurt sweetened with zero-calorie saccharin. This group consumed more calories, gained more weight, put on more body fat, and didn’t make up for it by cutting back later.
Dana Small, one of the researchers, wondered why the rats gained weight in Purdue’s experiment. It was that yogurt, which was high in carbs, according to the study.
Small and her team state the carbs and sucralose work together to confuse the brain, which then miscommunicates with the rest of the body harming its ability to metabolize sugar.
However, Ali Webster, a director of research and nutrition communications for the International Food Information Council, said the study’s methodology is flawed, according to the Hour.
“Take this study with a big grain of salt,” Webster told the Hour. “This had no measurement of food intake over the course of those two weeks. You’d want to keep track of everything else they are eating and drinking.”
Small acknowledged to the news publication, “We had no measure of food intake.” But she said:
“All three groups were exactly the same at pre-test and were randomly assigned to one of the groups. The chance that there was a systematic difference in eating only in those people assigned to the combo group would be statistically highly unlikely. In no study can you ever account for every factor-that is why we randomize.“
“The question is,” Small asks, “are artificial sweeteners bad for you? We need to figure out the mechanism, but the hypothesis is that this would work with any carbohydrate.”
Previous studies published by the Purdue University from Susan E. Swithers and colleagues show that frequent consumption of high-intensity sweeteners may have the opposite effect by confusing the body’s natural ability to manage calories based on tasting something the body perceives as sweet when it actually poisoning you.
According to a report published in General Dentistry, phosphoric acid in soda also causes tooth enamel erosion, even with just minimal exposure to the chemical.
Scientists at the Nicolaus Copernicus University and Professor Franciszek Lukaszczyk Memorial Hospital in Bydgoszcz in Poland have previously found that a sweetener in soda could damage arteries in the penis, resulting in restricted blood flow to the organ (erectile dysfunction), lowering sperm count.
Other studies have revealed that artificial sweeteners like Splenda are dangerous and could cause cancer and Leukemia when scientists fed rats with Splenda until they died. In another study it was announced that sugar is not good for your body and it could also cause cancer. While yet another study has linked sugar to the growth of cancer.
Now we have a study that is suggesting that artificial sweetener may also be causing obesity and other health problems.
By Aaron Kesel | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com


thewakingtimes--2020-03-13--Tom Hanks Says He and His Wife Have Coronavirus

Just as the COVID-19 Coronavirus was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson , also an accomplished actor and musician , announced that they have tested positive for the virus .
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are both 63 years old , which puts them at a much higher risk of having serious complications from the illness .
According to a statement published by a spokesperson for the Hanks family , the couple caught the virus in Australia where Hanks was in the middle of filming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Presley biopic in which Hanks is playing Presley ’ s manager , Colonel Tom Parker .
“ Hello , folks .
Rita and I are down here in Australia .
We felt a bit tired , like we had colds , and some body aches .
Rita had some chills that came and went .
Slight fevers too .
To play things right , as is needed in the world right now , we were tested for the Coronavirus , and were found to be positive .
Well , now .
What to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protocols that must be followed .
We Hanks ’ will be tested , observed , and isolated for as long as public health and safety requires .
Not much more to it than a one-day-at-a-time approach , no ?
We ’ ll keep the world posted and updated.
” Meanwhile , U.S. President Donald Trump has banned all travel from Europe , aside from the United Kingdom .
There was not any specific mention in Trump ’ s Wednesday night press conference about whether or not Australia , where Hanks and Wilson are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affected by the travel ban .
Also on Wednesday night , the NBA announced that the remainder of its season would be suspended following the conclusion of tonight ’ s games .
According to the numbers being published by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering ( CSSE ) at Johns Hopkins , there are currently 128 confirmed cases in Australia , but the actual number is likely far higher because testing has not become widespread in the country as it has in other places like South Korea .
Please continue to check @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the very latest news on Telegram .

Tom Hanks Says He and His Wife Have Coronavirus
John Vibes, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
Just as the COVID-19 Coronavirus was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson, also an accomplished actor and musician, announced that they have tested positive for the virus. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are both 63 years old, which puts them at a much higher risk of having serious complications from the illness.
According to a statement published by a spokesperson for the Hanks family, the couple caught the virus in Australia where Hanks was in the middle of filming for Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis Presley biopic in which Hanks is playing Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
The statement from Hanks reads:
“Hello, folks. Rita and I are down here in Australia. We felt a bit tired, like we had colds, and some body aches. Rita had some chills that came and went. Slight fevers too. To play things right, as is needed in the world right now, we were tested for the Coronavirus, and were found to be positive. Well, now. What to do next? The Medical Officials have protocols that must be followed. We Hanks’ will be tested, observed, and isolated for as long as public health and safety requires. Not much more to it than a one-day-at-a-time approach, no? We’ll keep the world posted and updated.”
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9nVasnBNF5/?utm_source=ig_embed
Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has banned all travel from Europe, aside from the United Kingdom. There was not any specific mention in Trump’s Wednesday night press conference about whether or not Australia, where Hanks and Wilson are currently in isolation, will also be affected by the travel ban.
Also on Wednesday night, the NBA announced that the remainder of its season would be suspended following the conclusion of tonight’s games.
According to the numbers being published by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins, there are currently 128 confirmed cases in Australia, but the actual number is likely far higher because testing has not become widespread in the country as it has in other places like South Korea.
Please continue to check TMU for important updates and follow along with the very latest news on Telegram.
By John Vibes | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com


thewakingtimes--2020-03-13--The UN Looks to Protect Chimpanzee Culture

The United Nations famously protects cultural heritage sites , but for the first time it has recognized the unique culture of animals .
At the 13th Conference of Parties ( CoP ) to the United Nations Environment Program ’ s ( UNEP ) Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals ( CMS ) , which took place recently in India , the conference attendees agreed to protect the ability of West African chimpanzees to crack nuts , according to Down to Earth magazine .
The CMS recognized the unique learned ability of chimpanzees to use stone hammers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , making this the first time , it seems , that one species has formally recognized the value of another ’ s learned customs , according to The Times of London .
The proposal recognized that there are 39 cultural variations that are recognized in chimpanzees across various regions of Africa , but it said , “ [ a ] mong these , the clearest instance was nut-cracking , common in the West , yet absent elsewhere despite the availability of the necessary raw materials.
” The CMS is looking to create something @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where chimpanzee nut-cracking is protected .
The CMS said it highlights the chimpanzees ’ “ unique technological culture , ” as CNN reported .
The ability to use stone and wood as a hammer and anvil is only observed in chimpanzees in West Africa .
The CMS said that chimps in Guinea , Sierra Leone , Liberia and the Ivory Coast have the ability , but those in other parts of Africa do not , according to CNN .
“ In different parts of western Africa , scientists noted that chimpanzees interacted with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their behaviors are different from other animals .
It becomes apparent when you watch them for a while , ” said Ian Redmond , a CMS tropical field biologist and conservationist , to Down to Earth .
“ You can tell where a chimpanzee is from by looking at its behavior in a way similar to when you recognize which tribe a human comes from through her clothes , dancing and mannerisms.
” The need to protect chimpanzees is particularly pronounced now that their habitat is rapidly changing due to the climate crisis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We ] must expect [ nut cracking culture ] to suffer a high degree of threat , a situation that is reminiscent of cultural extinctions among humans , such as of relatively rare local languages and other customs , ” the CMS wrote in its proposal .
“ Alternatively , such behavioral plasticity could enhance survival prospects of chimpanzees in marginal habitat or subject to climate-induced changes to vegetation.
” Ian Redmond also touted the unique ability to crack nuts as fundamental to survival during the climate crisis .
Recognizing that ability and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conservation .
He told Down to Earth , “ The ability to crack nuts means chimpanzees can survive in forests which in dry seasons don ’ t have much other food .
So it becomes a survival skill .
Because of climate change , there are longer dry seasons .
So these chimpanzees have a better chance of survival .
We need to know which tribes behave like this .
It is also an issue of competition .
If local human communities harvest the same nuts or fell trees for timber , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a novel criterion for conservation.
” The CMS also noted that the primitive tools of the chimpanzees provide a window into our own evolution .
The CMS wrote in its proposal : Redmond also noted to Down to Earth that recognizing a learned , cultural behavior will change conservation moving forward , since the skills the elderly chimps teach the younger ones are critical to the survival of the culture .
“ So , one potential conservation implication might be that in populations of species that have cultural knowledge , you actually want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , contrary to usual practice which suggests that post-reproductive animals are not useful anymore , ” he said .

The UN Looks to Protect Chimpanzee Culture
Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch
Waking Times
The United Nations famously protects cultural heritage sites, but for the first time it has recognized the unique culture of animals.
At the 13th Conference of Parties (CoP) to the United Nations Environment Program’s (UNEP) Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), which took place recently in India, the conference attendees agreed to protect the ability of West African chimpanzees to crack nuts, according to Down to Earth magazine.
The CMS recognized the unique learned ability of chimpanzees to use stone hammers and bits of wood to crack nuts, making this the first time, it seems, that one species has formally recognized the value of another’s learned customs, according to The Times of London.
The proposal recognized that there are 39 cultural variations that are recognized in chimpanzees across various regions of Africa, but it said, “[a]mong these, the clearest instance was nut-cracking, common in the West, yet absent elsewhere despite the availability of the necessary raw materials.”
The CMS is looking to create something similar to a cultural heritage site, where chimpanzee nut-cracking is protected. The CMS said it highlights the chimpanzees’ “unique technological culture,” as CNN reported.
The ability to use stone and wood as a hammer and anvil is only observed in chimpanzees in West Africa. The CMS said that chimps in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Ivory Coast have the ability, but those in other parts of Africa do not, according to CNN.
“In different parts of western Africa, scientists noted that chimpanzees interacted with each other and used tools, so their behaviors are different from other animals. It becomes apparent when you watch them for a while,” said Ian Redmond, a CMS tropical field biologist and conservationist, to Down to Earth. “You can tell where a chimpanzee is from by looking at its behavior in a way similar to when you recognize which tribe a human comes from through her clothes, dancing and mannerisms.”
The need to protect chimpanzees is particularly pronounced now that their habitat is rapidly changing due to the climate crisis and industrial nut farming.
“[We] must expect [nut cracking culture] to suffer a high degree of threat, a situation that is reminiscent of cultural extinctions among humans, such as of relatively rare local languages and other customs,” the CMS wrote in its proposal. “Alternatively, such behavioral plasticity could enhance survival prospects of chimpanzees in marginal habitat or subject to climate-induced changes to vegetation.”
Ian Redmond also touted the unique ability to crack nuts as fundamental to survival during the climate crisis. Recognizing that ability and protecting it is a novel method of conservation. He told Down to Earth, “The ability to crack nuts means chimpanzees can survive in forests which in dry seasons don’t have much other food. So it becomes a survival skill. Because of climate change, there are longer dry seasons. So these chimpanzees have a better chance of survival. We need to know which tribes behave like this. It is also an issue of competition. If local human communities harvest the same nuts or fell trees for timber, we lose chimpanzee culture. So it becomes a novel criterion for conservation.”
The CMS also noted that the primitive tools of the chimpanzees provide a window into our own evolution. The CMS wrote in its proposal:
“Moreover, the culture of nut-cracking merits conservation for reasons beyond that focused only on the species and the activity itself. One major value is that it shares many features with percussive stone tool making that occupied over three million years of hominin evolution, and it has accordingly offered insights into potential evolutionary foundations of this aspect of our human past.”
Redmond also noted to Down to Earth that recognizing a learned, cultural behavior will change conservation moving forward, since the skills the elderly chimps teach the younger ones are critical to the survival of the culture.
“So, one potential conservation implication might be that in populations of species that have cultural knowledge, you actually want to target your conservation actions at elders, contrary to usual practice which suggests that post-reproductive animals are not useful anymore,” he said.
By Jordan Davidson | Creative Commons | EcoWatch


thewakingtimes--2020-03-13--Protecting Mangroves Can Prevent Billions of Dollars in Global Flooding Damage Every Year

Hurricanes and tropical storms are estimated to cost the U.S. economy more than $ 50 billion yearly in damage from winds and flooding .
And as these storms travel across the Atlantic , they also ravage many Caribbean nations .
We study coastal ecosystems and how to value the natural coastal defenses provided by mangroves , marshes and coral reefs .
In a new study , we map flood risks along more than 435,000 miles ( 700,000 kilometers ) of subtropical shoreline in 59 countries around the world .
Along these coasts , we calculate that flood risks exceed $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ property .
Many government agencies and insurers estimate that indirect impacts to livelihoods and other economic activity are two to three times these direct flood costs .
We also estimate that across these 59 countries , mangroves – salt-tolerant trees that grow along tropical coastlines worldwide – reduce risk to more than 15 million people and prevent more than $ 65 billion in property damages every year .
Mangroves do this by blocking storm surge – the rise in sea level during storms – and dampening waves , which protect people and structures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a well-recognized hazard along many coasts .
In 2019 , which was an above-normal year for tropical storm activity , 90 named storms formed around the world , including 62 days with major tropical cyclones .
As one example , Hurricane Dorian devastated the northern Bahamas with sustained winds of some 185 miles per hour .
Throughout its life , Dorian ’ s path impacted more than 17 nations and 15 U.S. states and territories , from Grenada to Newfoundland .
And Dorian was not even the strongest cyclone of the year .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Western Pacific , which steered clear of land .
Many scientists predict that climate change will make these storms more intense , with a likely increase in the proportion of storms that reach Categories 4 and 5 .
It would be logical to assume that countries map the flood risks from these storms , since they have to protect residents who live near coasts , along with public infrastructure such as ports , airports , wastewater treatment centers and power plants .
These facilities often are built in low-lying areas around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governments and businesses only develop flood risk analyses for the shorelines of highly developed nations , where people have the resources to pay for or insure against these risks .
This excludes most tropical countries , where many of the world ’ s most vulnerable people live .
Our study was designed to quantify these flood risks worldwide and identify solutions for reducing them .
We used tools that are standard in the insurance and engineering industries , along with a five-step approach for calculating expected damage , to develop high-resolution estimates of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spatially explicit hydrodynamic flood models with economics to estimate impacts to people and property .
We focused on mangroves because they are large trees that grow quickly in salt water at the edge of the coastal zone , where they form a front line of defense .
Mangroves are also excellent at trapping sediments and building land .
On average , land around mangroves grows vertically by 1 to 10 millimeters per year .
We generated maps summarizing the benefits that mangroves provide in 20-kilometer coastal units around the world .
They show @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mangroves avert $ 100 million or more in property damages every year .
These are clearly priority zones where mangrove conservation and restoration will yield highly cost-effective benefits to people , property and national budgets .
According to our estimates , the U.S. , China and Taiwan receive the greatest economic benefits – protection of property – from mangroves .
Vietnam , India and Bangladesh receive the greatest social benefits – protection of people .
Mangrove destruction has been widespread , largely because of coastal development and aquaculture .
From 1980 through the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to 20 % of existing mangrove habitat .
The rate of loss has slowed but still continues , driven by urban expansion , pollution and agriculture .
Given our findings about how valuable mangroves are for coastal protection , we believe they should be viewed as national infrastructure and made eligible for funding from hazard mitigation and disaster recovery budgets , just like other coastal defense structures .
Paying for mangrove restoration can work through the same approaches that are currently used to fund engineered protective structures such as seawalls .
Several new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a leading insurance risk modeling firm , show that coastal marshes and mangroves provide significant storm reduction benefits .
These findings could underpin the development of innovative insurance options for natural systems .
Examples are already being developed for coral reefs in Mexico and across the Caribbean .
Conserving mangroves where they occur together with coral reefs can multiply the flood protection benefits from habitats .
Working with the World Bank , countries like the Philippines and Jamaica are assessing how the benefits of mangroves can be incorporated into national finances , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Green Climate Fund , which was created in 2010 to help developing countries mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change .
Our work was supported by the World Bank and Germany ’ s International Climate Initiative to help inform solutions for nations that are most at risk .
In many places , preserving and restoring mangrove forests can be an extremely economically effective strategy for protecting coasts from tropical storm damage .
As national governments and insurers grapple with disaster management costs that are growing nearly exponentially worldwide , we believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pay for mangrove conservation and restoration using climate adaptation , disaster risk reduction and insurance funds .
Reposted with permission from The Conversation .
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Protecting Mangroves Can Prevent Billions of Dollars in Global Flooding Damage Every Year
Michael Beck and Pelayo Menéndez, Guest
Waking Times
Hurricanes and tropical storms are estimated to cost the U.S. economy more than $50 billion yearly in damage from winds and flooding. And as these storms travel across the Atlantic, they also ravage many Caribbean nations.
We study coastal ecosystems and how to value the natural coastal defenses provided by mangroves, marshes and coral reefs. In a new study, we map flood risks along more than 435,000 miles (700,000 kilometers) of subtropical shoreline in 59 countries around the world.
Along these coasts, we calculate that flood risks exceed $730 billion annually in direct impacts to property. Many government agencies and insurers estimate that indirect impacts to livelihoods and other economic activity are two to three times these direct flood costs.
We also estimate that across these 59 countries, mangroves – salt-tolerant trees that grow along tropical coastlines worldwide – reduce risk to more than 15 million people and prevent more than $65 billion in property damages every year. Mangroves do this by blocking storm surge – the rise in sea level during storms – and dampening waves, which protect people and structures near the shore.
Battered Coastlines
Tropical storms are a well-recognized hazard along many coasts. In 2019, which was an above-normal year for tropical storm activity, 90 named storms formed around the world, including 62 days with major tropical cyclones.
As one example, Hurricane Dorian devastated the northern Bahamas with sustained winds of some 185 miles per hour. Throughout its life, Dorian’s path impacted more than 17 nations and 15 U.S. states and territories, from Grenada to Newfoundland.
And Dorian was not even the strongest cyclone of the year. That title went to Super Typhoon Halong in the Western Pacific, which steered clear of land. Many scientists predict that climate change will make these storms more intense, with a likely increase in the proportion of storms that reach Categories 4 and 5.
It would be logical to assume that countries map the flood risks from these storms, since they have to protect residents who live near coasts, along with public infrastructure such as ports, airports, wastewater treatment centers and power plants. These facilities often are built in low-lying areas around urban and suburban centers.
However, governments and businesses only develop flood risk analyses for the shorelines of highly developed nations, where people have the resources to pay for or insure against these risks. This excludes most tropical countries, where many of the world’s most vulnerable people live.
Defending Shorelines
Our study was designed to quantify these flood risks worldwide and identify solutions for reducing them. We used tools that are standard in the insurance and engineering industries, along with a five-step approach for calculating expected damage, to develop high-resolution estimates of flood risk globally. Then we coupled spatially explicit hydrodynamic flood models with economics to estimate impacts to people and property.
We focused on mangroves because they are large trees that grow quickly in salt water at the edge of the coastal zone, where they form a front line of defense. Mangroves are also excellent at trapping sediments and building land. On average, land around mangroves grows vertically by 1 to 10 millimeters per year.
We generated maps summarizing the benefits that mangroves provide in 20-kilometer coastal units around the world. They show that there are 100 coastal areas where mangroves avert $100 million or more in property damages every year. These are clearly priority zones where mangrove conservation and restoration will yield highly cost-effective benefits to people, property and national budgets.
According to our estimates, the U.S., China and Taiwan receive the greatest economic benefits – protection of property – from mangroves. Vietnam, India and Bangladesh receive the greatest social benefits – protection of people.
Mangroves as Green Infrastructure
Mangrove destruction has been widespread, largely because of coastal development and aquaculture. From 1980 through the early 2000s, the world lost up to 20% of existing mangrove habitat. The rate of loss has slowed but still continues, driven by urban expansion, pollution and agriculture.
Given our findings about how valuable mangroves are for coastal protection, we believe they should be viewed as national infrastructure and made eligible for funding from hazard mitigation and disaster recovery budgets, just like other coastal defense structures. Paying for mangrove restoration can work through the same approaches that are currently used to fund engineered protective structures such as seawalls.
Several new studies done collaboratively with Risk Management Solutions, a leading insurance risk modeling firm, show that coastal marshes and mangroves provide significant storm reduction benefits. These findings could underpin the development of innovative insurance options for natural systems.
Examples are already being developed for coral reefs in Mexico and across the Caribbean. Conserving mangroves where they occur together with coral reefs can multiply the flood protection benefits from habitats.
Working with the World Bank, countries like the Philippines and Jamaica are assessing how the benefits of mangroves can be incorporated into national finances, disaster management and proposals for the U.N. Green Climate Fund, which was created in 2010 to help developing countries mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. Our work was supported by the World Bank and Germany’s International Climate Initiative to help inform solutions for nations that are most at risk.
In many places, preserving and restoring mangrove forests can be an extremely economically effective strategy for protecting coasts from tropical storm damage. As national governments and insurers grapple with disaster management costs that are growing nearly exponentially worldwide, we believe our research can create new opportunities to pay for mangrove conservation and restoration using climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction and insurance funds.
Reposted with permission from The Conversation.


thewakingtimes--2020-03-12--Scientists Predict the Amazon Rainforest May Disappear Within the Next 50 Years

The Amazon rainforest is Earth ’ s largest rainforest .
2.72 million square miles in size , the Amazon basin is roughly the size of forty-eight contiguous United States and covers a whopping 40 % of the South American continent .
Due to fires and deforestation , however , the rainforest may go extinct within 50 years .
In the journal Nature Communications , a team of researchers shared their prediction that the Amazon rainforest will collapse and disappear far quicker than previously thought .
As IFLScience reports , the team used calculations based on real-world data to discern the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collapse .
“ Unfortunately , what our paper reveals is that humanity needs to prepare for changes far sooner than expected , ” said joint lead author Dr. Simon Willcock of Bangor University ’ s School of Natural Sciences in a statement .
“ These rapid changes to the world ’ s largest and most iconic ecosystems would impact the benefits which they provide us with , including everything from food and materials , to the oxygen and water we need for life.
” The team recalled that the Amazon rainforest was recently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hectares , or 2.2 million acres , of the forest .
Similar to the Australian bushfires , the event resulted in a massive loss to both carbon sinking forest habitats and wildlife diversity .
When an ecosystem is pushed to the point of no return , it is always replaced by another .
However , what comes after the Amazon rainforest may fail to provide the same balancing effects on the global environment as those of the previous landscape .
For example , the Amazon rainforest may be transformed into a savannah-type ecosystem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ We intuitively knew that big systems would collapse more slowly than small ones – due to the time it takes for impacts to diffuse across large distances , ” Prof John Dearing , from Southampton University , said .
“ But what was unexpected was the finding that big systems collapse much faster than you might expect – even the largest on Earth only taking possibly a few decades.
” At this point , you are probably wondering , “ What can we do to prevent this collapse ?
” In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through the use of reusable grocery bags , biking or walking when possible , and eating a plant-based diet , you can support the efforts to protect land and halt deforestation in the Amazon .
When a variety of species , versus one or just a few , inhabit an ecosystem , it is less likely to collapse .
By no means will it be simple , but maintaining diversity appears to be key .
Mandy Froelich is an RHN , plant-based chef , journalist , Reiki master therapist , world traveler and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rights , sustainability , cannabis and conscious living .
She share healthy recipes on my blog Life in Bloom .

Scientists Predict the Amazon Rainforest May Disappear Within the Next 50 Years
Mandy Froelich, Truth Theory
Waking Times
The Amazon rainforest is Earth’s largest rainforest. 2.72 million square miles in size, the Amazon basin is roughly the size of forty-eight contiguous United States and covers a whopping 40% of the South American continent. Due to fires and deforestation, however, the rainforest may go extinct within 50 years.
In the journal Nature Communications, a team of researchers shared their prediction that the Amazon rainforest will collapse and disappear far quicker than previously thought. As IFLScience reports, the team used calculations based on real-world data to discern the speed at which the ecosystem could likely collapse.
“Unfortunately, what our paper reveals is that humanity needs to prepare for changes far sooner than expected,” said joint lead author Dr. Simon Willcock of Bangor University’s School of Natural Sciences in a statement. “These rapid changes to the world’s largest and most iconic ecosystems would impact the benefits which they provide us with, including everything from food and materials, to the oxygen and water we need for life.”
The team recalled that the Amazon rainforest was recently crippled by a wildfire that engulfed 906,000 hectares, or 2.2 million acres, of the forest. Similar to the Australian bushfires, the event resulted in a massive loss to both carbon sinking forest habitats and wildlife diversity.
When an ecosystem is pushed to the point of no return, it is always replaced by another. However, what comes after the Amazon rainforest may fail to provide the same balancing effects on the global environment as those of the previous landscape. For example, the Amazon rainforest may be transformed into a savannah-type ecosystem with a variety of trees and grass.
“We intuitively knew that big systems would collapse more slowly than small ones – due to the time it takes for impacts to diffuse across large distances,” Prof John Dearing, from Southampton University, said. “But what was unexpected was the finding that big systems collapse much faster than you might expect – even the largest on Earth only taking possibly a few decades.”
At this point, you are probably wondering, “What can we do to prevent this collapse?” In addition to continuing to support environmental efforts through the use of reusable grocery bags, biking or walking when possible, and eating a plant-based diet, you can support the efforts to protect land and halt deforestation in the Amazon. When a variety of species, versus one or just a few, inhabit an ecosystem, it is less likely to collapse. By no means will it be simple, but maintaining diversity appears to be key.
About the Author
Mandy Froelich is an RHN, plant-based chef, journalist, Reiki master therapist, world traveler and enthusiast of everything to do with animal rights, sustainability, cannabis and conscious living. She share healthy recipes on my blog Life in Bloom.


thewakingtimes--2020-03-12--Two Super-Rare White Giraffes, Including World’s Only Known Female, Killed by Poachers in Kenya

In the latest senseless crime against wildlife , two extremely rare white giraffes in Kenya have reportedly been killed by poachers .
Rangers at the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy discovered the carcasses of a female white giraffe and her calf in a village in Garissa County .
Conservancy manager Mohammed Ahmednoor on Tuesday said that after a long search , they were only able to recover the super-rare animals ’ skeletal remains .
In a statement , he said : “ This is a very sad day for the community of Ijara and Kenya as a whole .
We are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are custodians of the white giraffe .
It ’ s killing is a blow to the tremendous steps taken by the community to conserve rare and unique species and a wake-up call for continued support to conservation efforts .
This is a long-term loss given that genetics studies and research which were significant investment into the area by researchers , has now gone to the drain .
Also , the white giraffe was a big boost to tourism in the area.
” CGTN reports that because the carcasses were found in a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the animals were dead for a long time prior to being found .
The poachers remain unidentified and their motive remains unknown .
The incident is being investigated by the Kenya Wildlife Society .
According to conservationists , only one male white giraffe , a bull , remains and is believed to be the only one left in the world .
In 2017 , the discovery of the rare creature put the remote community conservancy on the world map , dazzling locals as well as scientists and wildlife enthusiasts across the globe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Conservation Programme said that the animals “ so close and extremely calm and seemed not disturbed by our presence.
” Continuing , the conservationists noted that “ the mother kept pacing back and forth a few yards in front of us while signalling the baby giraffe to hide behind the bushes.
” The extraordinary appearance of the giraffes was the result of a genetic condition called leucism , which halts blocks the pigmentation of some cells .
Unlike albino animals , leucistic creatures have some melanin as well as dark eyes .

Two Super-Rare White Giraffes, Including World’s Only Known Female, Killed by Poachers in Kenya
Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
In the latest senseless crime against wildlife, two extremely rare white giraffes in Kenya have reportedly been killed by poachers.
Rangers at the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy discovered the carcasses of a female white giraffe and her calf in a village in Garissa County.
Conservancy manager Mohammed Ahmednoor on Tuesday said that after a long search, they were only able to recover the super-rare animals’ skeletal remains. In a statement, he said:
“This is a very sad day for the community of Ijara and Kenya as a whole. We are the only community in the world who are custodians of the white giraffe. It’s killing is a blow to the tremendous steps taken by the community to conserve rare and unique species and a wake-up call for continued support to conservation efforts. This is a long-term loss given that genetics studies and research which were significant investment into the area by researchers, has now gone to the drain. Also, the white giraffe was a big boost to tourism in the area.”
Happy #WorldGiraffeDay! This white Reticulated #Giraffe has been a common sight in and around a protected area in Kenya that we helped establish with the @hirola_program. 🦒 📷Photo by Hirola Conservation Programme pic.twitter.com/PNXSca5vjr — Rainforest Trust (@RainforestTrust) June 21, 2019
CGTN reports that because the carcasses were found in a “skeletal state,” it is likely that the animals were dead for a long time prior to being found.
The poachers remain unidentified and their motive remains unknown. The incident is being investigated by the Kenya Wildlife Society.
According to conservationists, only one male white giraffe, a bull, remains and is believed to be the only one left in the world.
In 2017, the discovery of the rare creature put the remote community conservancy on the world map, dazzling locals as well as scientists and wildlife enthusiasts across the globe.
At the time, the Hirola Conservation Programme said that the animals “so close and extremely calm and seemed not disturbed by our presence.” Continuing, the conservationists noted that “the mother kept pacing back and forth a few yards in front of us while signalling the baby giraffe to hide behind the bushes.”
The extraordinary appearance of the giraffes was the result of a genetic condition called leucism, which halts blocks the pigmentation of some cells. Unlike albino animals, leucistic creatures have some melanin as well as dark eyes.
By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com


thewakingtimes--2020-03-16--Chinese Billionaire To Donate 500,000 Test Kits And 1 Million Masks To The U.S.

Jack Ma , the founder of Alibaba and the richest man in Asia , announced that he will be sending 500,000 testing kits and 1 million masks to the United States , as the country prepares for an exponential growth of cases in the coming weeks and months .
Ma will be donating the supplies through the Alibaba Foundation , which has also sent items to Japan , Korea , Italy , Iran , and Spain .
In a statement to the press , Ma said that it was important for medical professionals to have all of the necessary supplies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US have prevented the possibility of containing the virus , as it has now been proven that the illness has been spreading in communities all over the country , without any clear trace to a patient zero from the original epicenter .
“ The crisis presents a huge challenge to all humankind in a globalized world .
The pandemic we face today can no longer be resolved by any individual country .
Rather , we need to combat the virus by working hand-in-hand .
At this moment , we can ’ t beat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resources and share our know-how and hard-earned lessons , ” Ma said in the statement .
The donation is a massive gesture considering that Jack Ma and many of his companies have a close relationship with the Chinese government , which is currently at odds with the US government , both over trade policies and the coronavirus response .
In fact , China , which is one of the major global producers of medical supplies , has threatened to stop shipments to the United States , as US officials continue to blame the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the outbreak .
John Vibes is an author and journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture , and focuses solutions-oriented approaches to social problems .
He is also a host of The Free Your Mind Conference and The Free Thought Project Podcast .

Chinese Billionaire To Donate 500,000 Test Kits And 1 Million Masks To The U.S.
John Vibes, Truth Theory
Waking Times
Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba and the richest man in Asia, announced that he will be sending 500,000 testing kits and 1 million masks to the United States, as the country prepares for an exponential growth of cases in the coming weeks and months.
Ma will be donating the supplies through the Alibaba Foundation, which has also sent items to Japan, Korea, Italy, Iran, and Spain.
In a statement to the press, Ma said that it was important for medical professionals to have all of the necessary supplies.
“Drawing from my own country’s experience, speedy and accurate testing and adequate personal protective equipment for medical professionals are most effective in preventing the spread of the virus. We hope that our donation can help Americans fight against the pandemic!” the statement read.
Test shortages and delays in the US have prevented the possibility of containing the virus, as it has now been proven that the illness has been spreading in communities all over the country, without any clear trace to a patient zero from the original epicenter.
“The crisis presents a huge challenge to all humankind in a globalized world. The pandemic we face today can no longer be resolved by any individual country. Rather, we need to combat the virus by working hand-in-hand. At this moment, we can’t beat this virus unless we eliminate boundaries to resources and share our know-how and hard-earned lessons,” Ma said in the statement.
The donation is a massive gesture considering that Jack Ma and many of his companies have a close relationship with the Chinese government, which is currently at odds with the US government, both over trade policies and the coronavirus response. In fact, China, which is one of the major global producers of medical supplies, has threatened to stop shipments to the United States, as US officials continue to blame the Chinese government for their initial handling of the outbreak.
About the Author
John Vibes is an author and journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture, and focuses solutions-oriented approaches to social problems. He is also a host of The Free Your Mind Conference and The Free Thought Project Podcast.