humansarefree--2020-08-24--No Lockdown, No Masks, No Hysteria… NO PROBLEM: Sweden is Living in Glorious Normality

No lockdown , no masks , no hysteria… NO PROBLEM : Sweden didn ’ t go into a corona coma – and it ’ s living in glorious normality .
Now DOMINIC SANDBROOK asks : Is this proof we got it all terribly wrong ?
by Dominic Sandbrook for The Daily Mail A few days ago , I took a stroll to the shops .
It was a glorious morning and the parks and cafés were full of families enjoying the sunshine .
Perhaps the shops were a little quieter than they would have been a year ago ; but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were preparing for lunch ; the mood was relaxed and happy .
And nobody — yes , nobody — was wearing a mask .
That , of course , is the giveaway .
I wasn ’ t in Britain but in Sweden , a nation which stood alone in Europe in refusing to institute lockdown .
And as I queued to buy my son an ice cream , I was struck by the contrast with the situation back home .
Like most people , I never imagined that the lockdown would last so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be so calamitous .
Indeed , a few weeks after Boris Johnson announced the draconian restrictions on lives and livelihoods , I wrote on these pages that fears of a second Great Depression were overblown , and that with the right spirit , Britain would quickly bounce back .
But as the months went by and we sank into inertia , my optimism evaporated .
Recent figures suggest that our economy shrank by 20 per cent in the first three months of lockdown , a far worse decline than in other industrial countries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Most experts believe the worst is yet to come , with the Bank of England predicting that unemployment will hit 2.5 million by the end of the year .
And even that may be too optimistic .
Yet despite these dire projections and the need to get the nation up and running — and in spite of the good news on the dramatic fall in death rates and admissions to hospital — parts of Britain remain in the grip of near-terminal paralysis .
City centres are deserted , commuter trains empty and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ staff .
As a result , countless shops , pubs , restaurants and cafes have not bothered to reopen — and may never do so .
As for Boris Johnson , he appeared to have vanished without a trace — at least until the Mail tracked him down to a remote Scottish location this week .
The Government seems incapable of giving a lead and the public mood is characterised by bickering and bitter negativity .
There is little sign of the upbeat , can-do spirit we badly need to revive our national @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sense of relief that two weeks ago I boarded the plane to the Swedish capital Stockholm .
For in Sweden , leaders kept shops and offices open throughout , insisted that children went to school and still do not tell their citizens to wear masks .
Yet I can ’ t deny I felt a twinge of anxiety .
As fervent admirers of all things Scandinavian , we ’ d arranged our family holiday when the coronavirus was merely a glint in the eye of a Chinese bat .
Occasionally I wondered if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But my wife , a much braver person than me , would not hear of it .
And quite apart from the attractions of cinnamon buns , unspoiled forests and glittering Baltic waters , I was curious to see how the Swedes were getting on .
For months their country has been the great outlier , inspiring admiration and horror in equal measure .
Some reports claimed that ordinary life was unchanged .
Others , especially in Left-wing circles , attacked Sweden as a dystopian disaster zone , as if the streets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ author of the country ’ s coronavirus strategy , a mild-mannered state epidemiologist called Anders Tegnell , has become one of the most controversial men in Europe .
From the start , he insisted that mandatory lockdown was a waste of time .
Sweden had a long-established plan for a pandemic , Mr Tegnell said , and was going to stick to it .
People should be sensible , wash their hands , avoid public transport and keep a safe distance , but that was it .
Closing schools was ‘ meaningless ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Masks were , by and large , a waste of time .
Shops and restaurants should stay open .
And when interviewers asked why Sweden was not following Germany , France and Britain in locking down , Mr Tegnell had a robust answer .
Other countries , he said , had ‘ panicked ’ .
But panicking was not the Swedish way .
Even as the virus spread , death rates soared and hospitals in Italy and Spain were overwhelmed , Sweden stuck to its guns .
No lockdown .
The results @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Swedes failed to protect their care homes .
By the time I landed in Stockholm , their death rate stood at almost 57 per 100,000 people , far worse than in neighbouring Nordic countries .
In fairness , though , Sweden is in parts more densely populated than most of Norway , Denmark and Finland , with three large cities in Stockholm , Gothenburg and Malmo .
And Sweden ’ s death rate is still lower than those in Belgium ( 87 per 100,000 people ) , Spain ( 62 ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 58 ) — all of which did go into lockdown .
So what did I make of it ?
Well , that ’ s easy .
After the negativity , paranoia , moaning and squabbling of Britain , Sweden was paradise .
The contrast struck me almost immediately at the supermarket .
Usually the sky-high Scandinavian prices leave me wincing in anguish .
But this time I barely noticed them , too busy enjoying the lack of queues outside the shop , the absence of masks and the generally relaxed atmosphere .
Nobody @ @ @ @ @ @ @ within five metres of them .
Nor did people shrink in terror when another shopper appeared in the aisle , as is the norm in British supermarkets these days .
That set the tone for the next two weeks .
For the Swedes , summer life has carried on as normal .
Perhaps people give strangers a little more distance than they usually would — but so sensibly , so discreetly , that you barely noticed .
When we went kayaking in the gorgeous Stockholm archipelago , the guide told us that he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ though foreign tourist numbers had plummeted .
Similarly , when we visited the stunning Baltic island of Gotland , a kind of Scandinavian version of Cornwall , the holiday season was in full swing .
The restaurants were busy and we often needed a booking to get in .
Yes , we were offered hand sanitiser on arrival , but there was no great song and dance about it .
Since most Swedes speak excellent English , we often asked people what they made of it all .
And the answers were always @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sorry that the virus had got into their care homes .
But without exception , the Swedes were glad to have escaped lockdown .
By this time , with the A-level shambles beginning to unfold back home , I was feeling miserable about the prospect of returning .
But perhaps the Swedish experience was too good to be true ?
I had a look at the latest figures to find out .
On August 3 , the day we arrived in Stockholm , just one Swedish person was reported to have died of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death toll was three .
The following day ’ s was 13 ; then it was down to six .
According to Sebastian Rushworth , an American-born doctor in a Stockholm A & E department , he hasn ’ t seen a single Covid-19 patient in a month : ‘ Basically , ’ he writes , ‘ Covid is in all practical senses over and done with in Sweden.
’ So should Britain have followed the Swedish example ?
One obvious counter-argument is that Britain is even more densely populated , with almost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ten million .
Perhaps we were always going to need some sort of lockdown , if only temporarily .
In every other respect , though , I think the comparison shows us in an almost embarrassing light .
In the first three months , Sweden ’ s economy shrank by approximately 9 per cent — less than half the downturn in our own economy .
Our children stayed at home ; theirs went to school .
Our businesses closed ; theirs stayed open .
Our social and cultural life ground to a halt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ restrictions .
At the top , the difference could hardly be more glaring .
Sweden ’ s scientists drew up a plan , and their government calmly followed it .
Even as international criticism of his tactics mounted , Mr Tegnell remained calm .
Again and again he repeated that there was no point in panicking , no point in making crowd-pleasing gestures and no point in committing economic suicide .
Contrast that with Britain ’ s politicians , floundering around like drunkards at closing time , flip-flopping on policy and constantly being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appease the public hysteria .
But perhaps it ’ s too easy to blame Boris Johnson & Co — who are , after all , merely a reflection of the society they serve .
Mr Tegnell ’ s approach worked because the Swedes are a serious , sensible , law-abiding lot , who believe in individual responsibility and can be trusted to behave themselves .
Again , contrast that with the scenes here : first the panic-buying of toilet rolls ; then the punch-ups in supermarket aisles and car parks ; the absurd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mobs of ‘ anti-racist ’ anarchists who thought a pandemic was the ideal time to rant and rave .
All pretty miserable , I know .
And I can ’ t deny that when we flew back to face a fortnight ’ s quarantine , I felt distinctly depressed , not just at the thought of all those blasted masks , but at the prospect of all the Left-wing whining , Right-wing bickering , political incompetence and general irresponsibility ahead .
So in Scandinavian spirit , here ’ s a positive note @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the death toll in Britain has been , it has not come close to the 250,000 predicted by Professor Neil Ferguson ’ s apocalyptic model , which reportedly inspired Boris Johnson ’ s decision to impose a lockdown .
The death rate has been declining for months — a 95 per cent fall since the peak in April .
Coronavirus casualties are now six times lower than deaths from flu and pneumonia .
In the week to July 31 , just 2.2 per cent of deaths in England and Wales were caused by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to suffer from the virus , or spread it much .
Just one healthy child is known to have died from Covid in Britain [ IF the diagnostic was in fact correct ] , and there is not a single case recorded worldwide of a child giving the virus to a teacher .
We know who is at greatest risk ( the very old , the very fat , people with Caribbean and Asian backgrounds or with underlying problems such as diabetes and lung disease ) , and our clinicians have got much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There ’ s no reason , in other words , why Britain ’ s politicians can ’ t change the record — and they must do so fast , even if it disrupts their precious holidays .
For too long we ’ ve been ruled by paranoia .
But economic logic and sheer common sense dictate that we can ’ t remain paralysed for a minute longer .
The priority now must be to restart the engines of enterprise and rebuild the economy .
Life always involves an element of risk , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sensible , we need to get back to normal and free ourselves from our national funk .
So now is the time — albeit belatedly — for Boris Johnson to issue a call to arms .
He may fancy himself as the reincarnation of Churchill , but so far he has failed to match the great man ’ s courage at a time of national crisis .
Now , more than ever , he needs to throw off his caution and rally the nation .
The truth is that for many of us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one long holiday from reality .
But the summer is almost over and the economy is on life-support .
It ’ s time we got back to work .

No lockdown, no masks, no hysteria… NO PROBLEM: Sweden didn’t go into a corona coma – and it’s living in glorious normality. Now DOMINIC SANDBROOK asks: Is this proof we got it all terribly wrong?
by Dominic Sandbrook for The Daily Mail
A few days ago, I took a stroll to the shops. It was a glorious morning and the parks and cafés were full of families enjoying the sunshine.
Perhaps the shops were a little quieter than they would have been a year ago; but they were busy enough.
The restaurants were preparing for lunch; the mood was relaxed and happy. And nobody — yes, nobody — was wearing a mask.
That, of course, is the giveaway.
I wasn’t in Britain but in Sweden, a nation which stood alone in Europe in refusing to institute lockdown.
And as I queued to buy my son an ice cream, I was struck by the contrast with the situation back home. Like most people, I never imagined that the lockdown would last so long, or that the consequences would be so calamitous.
Indeed, a few weeks after Boris Johnson announced the draconian restrictions on lives and livelihoods, I wrote on these pages that fears of a second Great Depression were overblown, and that with the right spirit, Britain would quickly bounce back.
But as the months went by and we sank into inertia, my optimism evaporated.
Recent figures suggest that our economy shrank by 20 per cent in the first three months of lockdown, a far worse decline than in other industrial countries such as the U.S. and Germany.
Most experts believe the worst is yet to come, with the Bank of England predicting that unemployment will hit 2.5 million by the end of the year. And even that may be too optimistic.
Yet despite these dire projections and the need to get the nation up and running — and in spite of the good news on the dramatic fall in death rates and admissions to hospital — parts of Britain remain in the grip of near-terminal paralysis.
City centres are deserted, commuter trains empty and the offices that are open operating with skeleton staff. As a result, countless shops, pubs, restaurants and cafes have not bothered to reopen — and may never do so.
As for Boris Johnson, he appeared to have vanished without a trace — at least until the Mail tracked him down to a remote Scottish location this week.
The Government seems incapable of giving a lead and the public mood is characterised by bickering and bitter negativity. There is little sign of the upbeat, can-do spirit we badly need to revive our national fortunes.
So it was with a sense of relief that two weeks ago I boarded the plane to the Swedish capital Stockholm.
For in Sweden, leaders kept shops and offices open throughout, insisted that children went to school and still do not tell their citizens to wear masks.
Yet I can’t deny I felt a twinge of anxiety. As fervent admirers of all things Scandinavian, we’d arranged our family holiday when the coronavirus was merely a glint in the eye of a Chinese bat.
Occasionally I wondered if we might be sensible to cancel it. But my wife, a much braver person than me, would not hear of it.
And quite apart from the attractions of cinnamon buns, unspoiled forests and glittering Baltic waters, I was curious to see how the Swedes were getting on.
For months their country has been the great outlier, inspiring admiration and horror in equal measure.
Some reports claimed that ordinary life was unchanged.
Others, especially in Left-wing circles, attacked Sweden as a dystopian disaster zone, as if the streets were littered with unburied bodies.
The author of the country’s coronavirus strategy, a mild-mannered state epidemiologist called Anders Tegnell, has become one of the most controversial men in Europe.
From the start, he insisted that mandatory lockdown was a waste of time. Sweden had a long-established plan for a pandemic, Mr Tegnell said, and was going to stick to it.
People should be sensible, wash their hands, avoid public transport and keep a safe distance, but that was it.
Closing schools was ‘meaningless’. Shutting borders was ‘ridiculous’. Masks were, by and large, a waste of time. Shops and restaurants should stay open.
And when interviewers asked why Sweden was not following Germany, France and Britain in locking down, Mr Tegnell had a robust answer.
Other countries, he said, had ‘panicked’. But panicking was not the Swedish way.
Even as the virus spread, death rates soared and hospitals in Italy and Spain were overwhelmed, Sweden stuck to its guns. No lockdown.
The results were not perfect. Like us, the Swedes failed to protect their care homes.
By the time I landed in Stockholm, their death rate stood at almost 57 per 100,000 people, far worse than in neighbouring Nordic countries.
In fairness, though, Sweden is in parts more densely populated than most of Norway, Denmark and Finland, with three large cities in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo.
And Sweden’s death rate is still lower than those in Belgium (87 per 100,000 people), Spain (62), Britain (62) and Italy (58) — all of which did go into lockdown.
So what did I make of it? Well, that’s easy. After the negativity, paranoia, moaning and squabbling of Britain, Sweden was paradise.
The contrast struck me almost immediately at the supermarket. Usually the sky-high Scandinavian prices leave me wincing in anguish.
But this time I barely noticed them, too busy enjoying the lack of queues outside the shop, the absence of masks and the generally relaxed atmosphere.
Nobody recoiled in horror when our trolley came within five metres of them. Nor did people shrink in terror when another shopper appeared in the aisle, as is the norm in British supermarkets these days.
That set the tone for the next two weeks. For the Swedes, summer life has carried on as normal.
Perhaps people give strangers a little more distance than they usually would — but so sensibly, so discreetly, that you barely noticed.
When we went kayaking in the gorgeous Stockholm archipelago, the guide told us that he was fully booked at weekends, even though foreign tourist numbers had plummeted.
Similarly, when we visited the stunning Baltic island of Gotland, a kind of Scandinavian version of Cornwall, the holiday season was in full swing.
The restaurants were busy and we often needed a booking to get in. Yes, we were offered hand sanitiser on arrival, but there was no great song and dance about it.
Since most Swedes speak excellent English, we often asked people what they made of it all. And the answers were always the same.
Yes, they were sorry that the virus had got into their care homes. But without exception, the Swedes were glad to have escaped lockdown.
By this time, with the A-level shambles beginning to unfold back home, I was feeling miserable about the prospect of returning.
But perhaps the Swedish experience was too good to be true? I had a look at the latest figures to find out.
On August 3, the day we arrived in Stockholm, just one Swedish person was reported to have died of Covid-19. The next day’s death toll was three. The following day’s was 13; then it was down to six.
According to Sebastian Rushworth, an American-born doctor in a Stockholm A&E department, he hasn’t seen a single Covid-19 patient in a month: ‘Basically,’ he writes, ‘Covid is in all practical senses over and done with in Sweden.’ So should Britain have followed the Swedish example?
One obvious counter-argument is that Britain is even more densely populated, with almost 70 million people to Sweden’s ten million. Perhaps we were always going to need some sort of lockdown, if only temporarily.
In every other respect, though, I think the comparison shows us in an almost embarrassing light.
In the first three months, Sweden’s economy shrank by approximately 9 per cent — less than half the downturn in our own economy.
Our children stayed at home; theirs went to school. Our businesses closed; theirs stayed open. Our social and cultural life ground to a halt; theirs continued — with some sensible restrictions.
At the top, the difference could hardly be more glaring. Sweden’s scientists drew up a plan, and their government calmly followed it.
Even as international criticism of his tactics mounted, Mr Tegnell remained calm. Again and again he repeated that there was no point in panicking, no point in making crowd-pleasing gestures and no point in committing economic suicide.
Contrast that with Britain’s politicians, floundering around like drunkards at closing time, flip-flopping on policy and constantly being dragged into ever more stringent measures to appease the public hysteria.
But perhaps it’s too easy to blame Boris Johnson & Co — who are, after all, merely a reflection of the society they serve.
Mr Tegnell’s approach worked because the Swedes are a serious, sensible, law-abiding lot, who believe in individual responsibility and can be trusted to behave themselves.
Again, contrast that with the scenes here: first the panic-buying of toilet rolls; then the punch-ups in supermarket aisles and car parks; the absurd crowds on South Coast beaches; even the mobs of ‘anti-racist’ anarchists who thought a pandemic was the ideal time to rant and rave. All pretty miserable, I know.
And I can’t deny that when we flew back to face a fortnight’s quarantine, I felt distinctly depressed, not just at the thought of all those blasted masks, but at the prospect of all the Left-wing whining, Right-wing bickering, political incompetence and general irresponsibility ahead.
So in Scandinavian spirit, here’s a positive note on which to end.
Tragic as the death toll in Britain has been, it has not come close to the 250,000 predicted by Professor Neil Ferguson’s apocalyptic model, which reportedly inspired Boris Johnson’s decision to impose a lockdown.
The death rate has been declining for months — a 95 per cent fall since the peak in April.
Coronavirus casualties are now six times lower than deaths from flu and pneumonia. In the week to July 31, just 2.2 per cent of deaths in England and Wales were caused by Covid.
Children don’t seem to suffer from the virus, or spread it much. Just one healthy child is known to have died from Covid in Britain [IF the diagnostic was in fact correct], and there is not a single case recorded worldwide of a child giving the virus to a teacher.
We know who is at greatest risk (the very old, the very fat, people with Caribbean and Asian backgrounds or with underlying problems such as diabetes and lung disease), and our clinicians have got much better at treating and managing the disease.
There’s no reason, in other words, why Britain’s politicians can’t change the record — and they must do so fast, even if it disrupts their precious holidays.
For too long we’ve been ruled by paranoia. But economic logic and sheer common sense dictate that we can’t remain paralysed for a minute longer.
The priority now must be to restart the engines of enterprise and rebuild the economy. Life always involves an element of risk, and as long as we’re sensible, we need to get back to normal and free ourselves from our national funk.
So now is the time — albeit belatedly — for Boris Johnson to issue a call to arms.
He may fancy himself as the reincarnation of Churchill, but so far he has failed to match the great man’s courage at a time of national crisis.
Now, more than ever, he needs to throw off his caution and rally the nation.
The truth is that for many of us, the last few months have been one long holiday from reality. But the summer is almost over and the economy is on life-support. It’s time we got back to work.


humansarefree--2020-08-24--Social Distancing Sign Applies Psychological Warfare: ‘Look Away When Passing Other People’

A coronavirus alert sign in the United Kingdom reminding people to maintain social distancing also tells them , “ Look away when passing other people.
” The sign was seen in the northern market town of Stockton-on-Tees .
“ CORONAVIRUS BE ALERT – NARROW WALKWAY AHEAD .
Please ensure you keep your distance , pass others quickly , look away when passing other people.
” The person who originally tweeted the image remarked , “ A prime example of psychological warfare and mind control.
” Author and commentator Peter Hitchens , a vehement critic of coronavirus lockdown laws , also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ placard from Stockton-on-Tees encourages human beings to treat each other as toxic hazards , ” tweeted Hitchens .
“ Leaving aside the disturbing philosophical and moral implications , surely such behaviour is incompatible with anything resembling a society , ” he added .
As we previously highlighted , the UK is home to some of the most draconian social distancing rules in the developed world , with one company telling staff that only 40 % of them will be able to return to work in January due to a rule that dictates cars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the parking lot .
As we document in the video below , the public ’ s perception of the threat of coronavirus is infinitely greater than its actual lethality .
A survey revealed in the UK for example that people on average think COVID-19 has killed 7 per cent of the population – around 5 million people .

A coronavirus alert sign in the United Kingdom reminding people to maintain social distancing also tells them, “Look away when passing other people.”
The sign was seen in the northern market town of Stockton-on-Tees.
It says:
“CORONAVIRUS BE ALERT – NARROW WALKWAY AHEAD. Please ensure you keep your distance, pass others quickly, look away when passing other people.”
The person who originally tweeted the image remarked, “A prime example of psychological warfare and mind control.”
A prime example of psychological war fare and mind control: pic.twitter.com/YObRpCKWGA — Loz (@newage91) August 20, 2020
Author and commentator Peter Hitchens, a vehement critic of coronavirus lockdown laws, also weighed in.
“This official tax-funded placard from Stockton-on-Tees encourages human beings to treat each other as toxic hazards,” tweeted Hitchens.
“Leaving aside the disturbing philosophical and moral implications, surely such behaviour is incompatible with anything resembling a society,” he added.
This official tax-funded placard from Stockton-on-Tees encourages human beings to treat each other as toxic hazards. Leaving aside the disturbing philosophical and moral implications, surely such behaviour is incompatible with anything resembling a society. https://t.co/nDM9nWWE8v — Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) August 21, 2020
As we previously highlighted, the UK is home to some of the most draconian social distancing rules in the developed world, with one company telling staff that only 40% of them will be able to return to work in January due to a rule that dictates cars must be “socially distanced” in the parking lot.
As we document in the video below, the public’s perception of the threat of coronavirus is infinitely greater than its actual lethality.
A survey revealed in the UK for example that people on average think COVID-19 has killed 7 per cent of the population – around 5 million people.
The actual number is 41,403.
Reference: Summit.news


humansarefree--2020-08-24--Governments Are Faking It, and Copying Each Other

A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have adopted the same or very similar preposterous policies , no matter the threat level of the virus , and without firm evidence that interventions had any hope of being effective .
In the course of two weeks , traditional freedoms were zapped away in nearly all developed countries .
In a seriously bizarre twist , even the silliest policies replicated themselves like a virus in country after country .
For example , you can ’ t try on clothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Melbourne , or in London or in Kalamazoo .
What ’ s with that ?
We know that the COVID bug is least likely to live on fabrics unless I have symptoms of it , sneeze on my handkerchief and then I stuff it in your mouth .
The whole thing is a ridiculous mysophobic overreach , like most of the rules under which we live .
Then there was the inside/outside confusion .
First everyone was forced indoors and people were arrested for being outdoors .
Later , once restaurants started opening @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eating establishments scrambled to make outdoor dining possible .
Are we supposed to believe that the virus lived outside for a while but then later moved inside ?
Or these curfews .
So many places have them despite a complete absence of evidence that COVID spread prefers the night to the day .
I guess the real point is to put a stop to revelry that might bring people together in a fun way ?
It ’ s like all our governments decided on the same day that COVID spreads through smiles and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both .
In Sydney and Los Angeles , and also in Detroit and Miami , you need to wear a mask when you walk in a restaurant but not when you sit .
And this 6-foot rule is highly suspect too .
It seems to imply that if you get too close to each other , COVID spontaneously appears .
At least people seem to believe that .
Australia , in its way , even created a slogan and a jingle to go with it .
“ Staying Apart Keeps Us Together , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Victoria .
The Meaning Of : “ War Is Peace , Freedom Is Slavery , Ignorance Is Strength ” ( George Orwell , 1984 ) Socially distance !
Don ’ t be a silent spreader !
Even though the largest study yet has shown that “ asymptomatic cases were least likely to infect their close contacts.
” Which is to say , this is mostly nonsense .
In most places too , you have to quarantine two weeks when you arrive from afar , even though it is rare that the virus incubation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ period is 6 days , perhaps , which is what one would expect from a coronavirus like the common cold .
Oh , and in department stores , you can ’ t spray perfume to try it out , because surely that spreads COVID – not .
Except that there is not one shred of evidence that there is any truth to this .
This one seems completely made up , though it is widely imposed .
The list goes on .
The bans of gatherings over 50 outdoors and 25 indoors , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when people need to be getting healthy , the shutting of theaters and bowling alleys but the keeping open of big-box stores – these policies are as ubiquitous as they are unsupported by any science .
And we ’ ve known this for many months , ever since the media meltdown over Florida Spring Break ended up in zero fatal cases contracted at the revelry .
The worst case is school closings .
They were shut down at the same time all over the world , despite evidence available since at least January @ @ @ @ @ @ @ zero .
Yes , they do get COVID almost entirely asymptomatically , which is to say they do not get “ sick ” in the old-fashioned sense of that term .
What ’ s more , they are highly unlikely to spread it to adults precisely because they do not have symptoms .
This is widely admitted .
Still governments decided to wreck kids ’ lives for an entire season .
Children Have 0.00 % Chance Of Dying From COVID But Are Harmed For Life By Social Distancing , Which Has Its Roots @ @ @ @ @ @ @ timing of it all seems strangely suspicious .
All these countries and states implemented this compulsory clown show at the same time , whether cases were everywhere or nowhere .
The Response to Coronavirus is the New World Order .
In the U.S. , this was fascinating to watch .
The shutdowns happened all over the country .
In the Northeast , the virus had already spread widely toward herd immunity .
The South shut down at the same time but the virus wasn ’ t even there .
By the time the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the South had already reopened .
The virus doesn ’ t seem to care either way .
Now , looking at this it is very easy to go to conspiracy as the explanation .
There is probably some secret hand at work somewhere that is guiding all of this , the thinking goes .
How can so many governments in the world have simultaneously lost their marbles and abolished the people ’ s liberties in such a cruel way , while trampling on all rights of property and association ?
I tend to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ simply because I seriously doubt that governments are smart enough to implement them .
From what I can see , these governors and statesmen seem to be making things up in a crazy panic and then sticking with them just to pretend that they know what they are doing .
Pete Earle ’ s theory of pot commitment seems to explain why the stringency persists even in the lack of evidence that they do anything to suppress the virus .
But how can we account for the imposition of so many similarly ridiculous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many parts of the globe ?
I invite you to examine a very interesting study published by the National Academy of Sciences : Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries .
A clearer title might be : how so many governments behaved so stupidly at once .
The theory they posit seems highly realistic to me : We analyze the adoption of nonpharmaceutical interventions in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) countries during the early phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ) pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decisions , governments are faced with the dilemma of how to act quickly when their core decision-making processes are based on deliberations balancing political considerations .
Our findings show that , in times of severe crisis , governments follow the lead of others and base their decisions on what other countries do .
Governments in countries with a stronger democratic structure are slower to react in the face of the pandemic but are more sensitive to the influence of other countries .
We provide insights for research on international policy diffusion and research @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic .
This seems to fit with what I ’ ve seen anecdotally .
These guys in charge are mostly attorneys with specializations in bamboozling voters .
And the “ public health authorities ” advising them can get credentials in the field without ever having studied much less practiced medicine .
So what do they do ?
They copy other governments , as a way of covering up their ignorance .
As the study says : While our paper can not judge what an “ optimal ” adoption timing would be for any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ findings of what appears to be international mimicry of intervention adoptions , that some countries may have adopted restrictive measures rather sooner than necessary .
If that is the case , such countries may have incurred excessively high social and economic costs , and may experience problems sustaining restrictions for as long as is necessary due to lockdown fatigue .
Which is to say : the closures , lockdowns , and imposed stringency measures were not science .
It was monkey see , monkey do .
The social psychology experiments on conformity help @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They see some governments doing things and decide to do them too , as a way of making sure they are avoiding political risk , regardless of the cost .
All of which only increases one ’ s respect for the governments around the world that did not lock down , did not close business , did not shut down schools , did not mandate masks , and did not push some crazy kabuki dance of social distancing in perpetuity .
South Dakota , Sweden , Taiwan , and Belarus come to mind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ level of incredulity to avoid this kind of herd mentality .
Why did so many governments go so nuts at once , disregarding their own laws , traditions , and values by bludgeoning their own people with the excuse of science that has turned out to be almost completely bogus ?
Some people claim conspiracy but a much simpler answer might be that , in their ignorance and stupor , they copied each other out of fear .

A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have adopted the same or very similar preposterous policies, no matter the threat level of the virus, and without firm evidence that interventions had any hope of being effective.
by Jeffrey A. Tucker
In the course of two weeks, traditional freedoms were zapped away in nearly all developed countries. In a seriously bizarre twist, even the silliest policies replicated themselves like a virus in country after country.
For example, you can’t try on clothing in a store in Texas or in Melbourne, or in London or in Kalamazoo. What’s with that?
We know that the COVID bug is least likely to live on fabrics unless I have symptoms of it, sneeze on my handkerchief and then I stuff it in your mouth. The whole thing is a ridiculous mysophobic overreach, like most of the rules under which we live.
Then there was the inside/outside confusion. First everyone was forced indoors and people were arrested for being outdoors.
Later, once restaurants started opening, people were not allowed indoors so eating establishments scrambled to make outdoor dining possible.
Are we supposed to believe that the virus lived outside for a while but then later moved inside?
Or these curfews. So many places have them despite a complete absence of evidence that COVID spread prefers the night to the day.
I guess the real point is to put a stop to revelry that might bring people together in a fun way? It’s like all our governments decided on the same day that COVID spreads through smiles and fun, so we have to banish both.
In Sydney and Los Angeles, and also in Detroit and Miami, you need to wear a mask when you walk in a restaurant but not when you sit. And this 6-foot rule is highly suspect too.
It seems to imply that if you get too close to each other, COVID spontaneously appears. At least people seem to believe that.
Australia, in its way, even created a slogan and a jingle to go with it. “Staying Apart Keeps Us Together,” says Orwell, I mean, Victoria.
The Meaning Of: “War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength” (George Orwell, 1984)
Socially distance! Don’t be a silent spreader! Even though the largest study yet has shown that “asymptomatic cases were least likely to infect their close contacts.” Which is to say, this is mostly nonsense.
In most places too, you have to quarantine two weeks when you arrive from afar, even though it is rare that the virus incubation period is that long. The mean period is 6 days, perhaps, which is what one would expect from a coronavirus like the common cold.
Oh, and in department stores, you can’t spray perfume to try it out, because surely that spreads COVID – not. Except that there is not one shred of evidence that there is any truth to this. This one seems completely made up, though it is widely imposed.
The list goes on. The bans of gatherings over 50 outdoors and 25 indoors, the closures of gyms at a time when people need to be getting healthy, the shutting of theaters and bowling alleys but the keeping open of big-box stores – these policies are as ubiquitous as they are unsupported by any science.
And we’ve known this for many months, ever since the media meltdown over Florida Spring Break ended up in zero fatal cases contracted at the revelry.
The worst case is school closings. They were shut down at the same time all over the world, despite evidence available since at least January that the threat to children is nearly zero.
Yes, they do get COVID almost entirely asymptomatically, which is to say they do not get “sick” in the old-fashioned sense of that term.
What’s more, they are highly unlikely to spread it to adults precisely because they do not have symptoms. This is widely admitted.
Still governments decided to wreck kids’ lives for an entire season.
Children Have 0.00% Chance Of Dying From COVID But Are Harmed For Life By Social Distancing, Which Has Its Roots In CIA Torture Techniques.
And the timing of it all seems strangely suspicious. All these countries and states implemented this compulsory clown show at the same time, whether cases were everywhere or nowhere.
The Response to Coronavirus is the New World Order.
In the U.S., this was fascinating to watch. The shutdowns happened all over the country. In the Northeast, the virus had already spread widely toward herd immunity.
The South shut down at the same time but the virus wasn’t even there. By the time the virus did arrive, most states in the South had already reopened. The virus doesn’t seem to care either way.
Now, looking at this it is very easy to go to conspiracy as the explanation. There is probably some secret hand at work somewhere that is guiding all of this, the thinking goes.
How can so many governments in the world have simultaneously lost their marbles and abolished the people’s liberties in such a cruel way, while trampling on all rights of property and association?
I tend to resist big conspiracy theories on this subject simply because I seriously doubt that governments are smart enough to implement them.
From what I can see, these governors and statesmen seem to be making things up in a crazy panic and then sticking with them just to pretend that they know what they are doing.
Pete Earle’s theory of pot commitment seems to explain why the stringency persists even in the lack of evidence that they do anything to suppress the virus.
But how can we account for the imposition of so many similarly ridiculous rules at the same time across so many parts of the globe?
I invite you to examine a very interesting study published by the National Academy of Sciences: Explaining the homogeneous diffusion of COVID-19 nonpharmaceutical interventions across heterogeneous countries.
A clearer title might be: how so many governments behaved so stupidly at once. The theory they posit seems highly realistic to me:
We analyze the adoption of nonpharmaceutical interventions in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries during the early phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Given the complexity associated with pandemic decisions, governments are faced with the dilemma of how to act quickly when their core decision-making processes are based on deliberations balancing political considerations.
Our findings show that, in times of severe crisis, governments follow the lead of others and base their decisions on what other countries do.
Governments in countries with a stronger democratic structure are slower to react in the face of the pandemic but are more sensitive to the influence of other countries.
We provide insights for research on international policy diffusion and research on the political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This seems to fit with what I’ve seen anecdotally.
These guys in charge are mostly attorneys with specializations in bamboozling voters.
And the “public health authorities” advising them can get credentials in the field without ever having studied much less practiced medicine. So what do they do? They copy other governments, as a way of covering up their ignorance.
As the study says:
While our paper cannot judge what an “optimal” adoption timing would be for any country, it follows, from our findings of what appears to be international mimicry of intervention adoptions, that some countries may have adopted restrictive measures rather sooner than necessary.
If that is the case, such countries may have incurred excessively high social and economic costs, and may experience problems sustaining restrictions for as long as is necessary due to lockdown fatigue.
Which is to say: the closures, lockdowns, and imposed stringency measures were not science. It was monkey see, monkey do. The social psychology experiments on conformity help explain this better than anything else.
They see some governments doing things and decide to do them too, as a way of making sure they are avoiding political risk, regardless of the cost.
All of which only increases one’s respect for the governments around the world that did not lock down, did not close business, did not shut down schools, did not mandate masks, and did not push some crazy kabuki dance of social distancing in perpetuity.
South Dakota, Sweden, Taiwan, and Belarus come to mind. It takes an unusual and rare level of incredulity to avoid this kind of herd mentality.
Why did so many governments go so nuts at once, disregarding their own laws, traditions, and values by bludgeoning their own people with the excuse of science that has turned out to be almost completely bogus?
Some people claim conspiracy but a much simpler answer might be that, in their ignorance and stupor, they copied each other out of fear.


humansarefree--2020-08-24--Australia: Authorities Give Themselves Power to Remove Children From Parents to Ensure COVID Complia

Australia: Authorities Give Themselves Power to Remove Children From Parents to Ensure COVID Compliance

Authorities in Australia have given themselves the power to have police remove children from the custody of their parents in order to ensure compliance with coronavirus rules .
Schedule 2 of the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020 amends the Emergency Response Act 2004 to create new powers during “ declared emergencies.
” Section 25 of the act states the following ; ( 1 ) Without derogating from section 25 , an authorised officer may , for the purpose of ensuring compliance with any direction under that section , remove a child from any premises , place , vehicle or vessel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ child or to a hospital or quarantine facility , as the authorised officer thinks fit ( and may , in doing so , use such force as is reasonably necessary ) .
A child is defined as anyone under the age of 18 .
As we have exhaustively documented , the state of Victoria ’ s coronavirus lockdown is one of the most draconian in the developed world .
Yesterday , authorities in Melbourne announced that they would be using surveillance drones to catch people who don ’ t wear masks and to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 5km from home .
Several videos have also emerged of police manhandling and choking women for not wearing masks .
Police have also been given the power to enter people ’ s homes without a warrant and perform quarantine spot checks .
Drivers are also being asked to show their papers at highway checkpoints simply to get to work .
Anyone caught outside without a mask or violating the 8pm-5am curfew also risks a massive fine .
Australia ’ s crackdown is rivaled by neighboring New Zealand , which announced last week @ @ @ @ @ @ @ members would be held inside quarantine camps against their will for at least 14 days .

Authorities in Australia have given themselves the power to have police remove children from the custody of their parents in order to ensure compliance with coronavirus rules.
Schedule 2 of the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020 amends the Emergency Response Act 2004 to create new powers during “declared emergencies.”
Section 25 of the act states the following;
— Removal of children
(1) Without derogating from section 25, an authorised officer may, for the purpose of ensuring compliance with any direction under that section, remove a child from any premises, place, vehicle or vessel to a place of residence of the child or to a hospital or quarantine facility, as the authorised officer thinks fit (and may, in doing so, use such force as is reasonably necessary).
A child is defined as anyone under the age of 18.
As we have exhaustively documented, the state of Victoria’s coronavirus lockdown is one of the most draconian in the developed world.
Yesterday, authorities in Melbourne announced that they would be using surveillance drones to catch people who don’t wear masks and to keep track of cars that travel further than 5km from home.
Several videos have also emerged of police manhandling and choking women for not wearing masks.
Police have also been given the power to enter people’s homes without a warrant and perform quarantine spot checks.
Drivers are also being asked to show their papers at highway checkpoints simply to get to work.
Anyone caught outside without a mask or violating the 8pm-5am curfew also risks a massive fine.
Australia’s crackdown is rivaled by neighboring New Zealand, which announced last week that suspected COVID infectees and their family members would be held inside quarantine camps against their will for at least 14 days.
By Paul Joseph Watson


humansarefree--2020-08-24--Raising a Child in a World Obsessed With Transgender Contagion

In a column this week in The Washington Post headlined “ Advice to parents on how to raise a happy and healthy LGBTQ child , ” author Steven Petrow writes that only a small percentage of teenagers “ identify ” as lesbian , gay , or transgender .
At the same time , Petrow acknowledges examples of tweens and teenagers struggling with sexual orientation or gender identity .
Petrow , who is gay , portrays the phenomenon as urgent , yet at the same time points out that , statistically speaking , it ’ s actually rather small .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and it ’ s vital that conservatives understand why — and what to do about it .
The consequences of the LGBTQ movement will be detrimental to our young people if we don ’ t intervene and remain steadfast in truth and reality .
The progressive left is enamored with pushing the LGBTQ movement into the mainstream — particularly transgender issues — even though the number of young people struggling with their sexual orientation remains small .
Large organizations with generous donors and substantial financial backing , social media presence , and loud—often @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hold of LGBTQ ideology and helped infiltrate social media , the entertainment industry , and education .
Those are three places where these ideas dominate , despite the fact that they reflect only a tiny sliver of society .
The ideology has spread quickly and had a perverse , damaging effect on our young people because its omnipresence — the feeling that everyone is gay or transgender — makes it seem popular , even inevitable .
So , the percentage of young people , especially girls , reporting a struggle with gender dysphoria @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an obvious shift from the previously low number of young people identifying as transgender .
Transgender ideology is most disconcerting because it requires a young person to undertake a damaging metamorphosis — socially , hormonally , even surgically .
Most often , those changes and their effects are irreversible .
In her new book “ Irreversible Damage : The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters , ” journalist Abigail Shrier explains the contagion and how it is adversely affecting young women .
( We interviewed her here . )
Shrier recently engaged in an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public forum with Heather Heying , an evolutionary biologist .
A bit of their exchange is relevant here , although it ’ s worth reading in its entirety .
All across the West , adolescent girls are suddenly identifying as ‘ trans ’ with friends , clamoring for hormones and surgeries .
Teen girls who are struggling with anxiety and depression , but who had no childhood history of gender dysphoria at all .
Under the guidance of numberless trans social-media influencers , with the encouragement of peers , clusters of girls are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ toast of the virtual town .
I will leave you with this : newly published research finds that ‘ transgender and gender-diverse ’ individuals have high rates of autism , and other psychiatric diagnoses .
Given this , shouldn ’ t we consider the rapid rise of ‘ gender dysphoria ’ in young women as a symptom , rather than as its own syndrome ?
Why do we chastise teenage girls when they cut themselves , but celebrate them when they find a doctor to do it for them ?
When a teenage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we try to help the human being .
We do not sanctify the behavior .
Why are we now celebrating a symptom ?
Together , Shrier and Heying ’ s conversation raises an important point : Since when does something that begins in the mind and manifests physically become accepted as universal truth without question ?
What ’ s more , what are we doing to our daughters ( and our sons ) when we aid them in assisting with the “ cure ” to gender dysphoria via means that are irreversible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and policymakers on the left are taking this trend — which looks more like a disturbing contagion — seriously .
Twenty states now have laws in place that make it illegal to question a person ’ s gender identity or steer them away from significant , life-altering hormones and surgeries .
Conservatives and anyone else who cares about science , truth , and reality must rally against states adopting similar laws .
We must be vigilant about how transgender-related issues are being taught in school systems , what our young men and women @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what entertainment they are consuming .
The aim of parents should not be how to raise an LGBTQ child , as Petrow suggests , or how to help their children halt puberty and get life-changing surgery .
It should be how to love their children unconditionally while giving them truth , facts , science , and reality .

In a column this week in The Washington Post headlined “Advice to parents on how to raise a happy and healthy LGBTQ child,” author Steven Petrow writes that only a small percentage of teenagers “identify” as lesbian, gay, or transgender.
At the same time, Petrow acknowledges examples of tweens and teenagers struggling with sexual orientation or gender identity.
Petrow, who is gay, portrays the phenomenon as urgent, yet at the same time points out that, statistically speaking, it’s actually rather small.
He’s right on both counts, and it’s vital that conservatives understand why — and what to do about it. The consequences of the LGBTQ movement will be detrimental to our young people if we don’t intervene and remain steadfast in truth and reality.
The progressive left is enamored with pushing the LGBTQ movement into the mainstream — particularly transgender issues — even though the number of young people struggling with their sexual orientation remains small.
Large organizations with generous donors and substantial financial backing, social media presence, and loud—often famous or influential — advocates have taken hold of LGBTQ ideology and helped infiltrate social media, the entertainment industry, and education.
Those are three places where these ideas dominate, despite the fact that they reflect only a tiny sliver of society.
The ideology has spread quickly and had a perverse, damaging effect on our young people because its omnipresence — the feeling that everyone is gay or transgender — makes it seem popular, even inevitable.
So, the percentage of young people, especially girls, reporting a struggle with gender dysphoria has increased suddenly and dramatically, in an obvious shift from the previously low number of young people identifying as transgender.
Transgender ideology is most disconcerting because it requires a young person to undertake a damaging metamorphosis — socially, hormonally, even surgically. Most often, those changes and their effects are irreversible.
In her new book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” journalist Abigail Shrier explains the contagion and how it is adversely affecting young women. (We interviewed her here.)
Shrier recently engaged in an online dialogue on the subject in a public forum with Heather Heying, an evolutionary biologist. A bit of their exchange is relevant here, although it’s worth reading in its entirety.
Shrier writes:
All across the West, adolescent girls are suddenly identifying as ‘trans’ with friends, clamoring for hormones and surgeries. Teen girls who are struggling with anxiety and depression, but who had no childhood history of gender dysphoria at all.
Under the guidance of numberless trans social-media influencers, with the encouragement of peers, clusters of girls are transforming themselves from desperately unpopular to the toast of the virtual town.
Heying responded, in part:
I will leave you with this: newly published research finds that ‘transgender and gender-diverse’ individuals have high rates of autism, and other psychiatric diagnoses.
Given this, shouldn’t we consider the rapid rise of ‘gender dysphoria’ in young women as a symptom, rather than as its own syndrome?
Why do we chastise teenage girls when they cut themselves, but celebrate them when they find a doctor to do it for them?
When a teenage girl cuts herself, or starves herself, we try to help the human being. We do not sanctify the behavior. Why are we now celebrating a symptom?
Together, Shrier and Heying’s conversation raises an important point: Since when does something that begins in the mind and manifests physically become accepted as universal truth without question?
What’s more, what are we doing to our daughters (and our sons) when we aid them in assisting with the “cure” to gender dysphoria via means that are irreversible and have long-lasting adverse effects?
Politicians and policymakers on the left are taking this trend — which looks more like a disturbing contagion — seriously.
Twenty states now have laws in place that make it illegal to question a person’s gender identity or steer them away from significant, life-altering hormones and surgeries.
Conservatives and anyone else who cares about science, truth, and reality must rally against states adopting similar laws.
We must be vigilant about how transgender-related issues are being taught in school systems, what our young men and women are observing on social media, and what entertainment they are consuming.
The aim of parents should not be how to raise an LGBTQ child, as Petrow suggests, or how to help their children halt puberty and get life-changing surgery.
It should be how to love their children unconditionally while giving them truth, facts, science, and reality.


humansarefree--2020-08-25--Popular Hypertension Drug Found to Contain High Levels of a CANCER-CAUSING Ingredient

Blood pressure medication is meant to keep your blood pressure down , but the news that several popular hypertension drugs contain cancer-causing ingredients is enough to send anyone ’ s blood pressure through the roof – no matter what type of medication they take .
Torrent Pharmaceuticals withdrew the popular hypertension drug losartan last year after finding that the medication contained an unacceptably high level of a known carcinogen .
The drug is commonly used to treat people with high blood pressure as well as diabetes patients with nephropathy .
The firm originally withdrew a few batches of the drug @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they later expanded that recall from 2 to 10 lots and have since announced several additional expansion recalls .
The fifth expansion recall for losartan potassium tablets also included losartan potassium hydrochlorothiazide tablets because they were found to contain nitrosodiethylamine , or NDEA .
These tablets were sold across the nation at retailers such as Walmart .
This contaminant behind the recall is the same one that lead Novartis to stop distributing a generic version of the heartburn drug Zantac .
The recalls of losartan came among a wider string of recalls of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ valsartan .
The FDA said that the contaminants , which also included NDMA and NMBA , were likely the result of a manufacturing change adopted by the pharmaceutical factories in China and India that make the ingredients for the drugs .
This change could create the contaminants in the presence of specific chemicals and reaction conditions and may be the result of reusing materials like solvents .
NDEA can cause liver damage and has been ” reasonably anticipated ” to cause cancer in humans .
Nitrosamines are formed when nitrates or nitrites react @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are sometimes present in small amounts in foods such a smoked meats , certain vegetables and drinking water supplies , their presence in medications has been deemed a serious health concern because of their ability to cause cancer .
Meanwhile , NDMA is considered a probable human carcinogen because of its behavior in animals by both the Environmental Protection Agency and the International Agency for Research on Cancer .
The FDA ’ s maximum daily exposure level for NDMA is set at 96 nanograms , which is 600 times smaller than a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cancers that have been linked to exposure to NDMA include those of the bladder , esophagus , stomach , pharynx , uterus , liver and colon .
Last year , the FDA admitted that some versions of valsartan had trace amounts of a carcinogen for four years before the impurity was detected by regulators , and there could well be countless other medications that have been contaminated that have not yet come to light .
These problems have prompted consumer advocate groups to call on the FDA to ramp up its efforts to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the very least , they should be inspecting all medications across all manufacturers a lot more thoroughly than they currently are .
It ’ s all part of the Big Pharma racket Predictably , the FDA is encouraging people not to stop taking their medications , warning them that suddenly stopping hypertension drugs can be risky .
This is all part of the Big Pharma racket .
People who are concerned about their heart health are convinced to take high blood pressure medications by their doctors , and then they cause other side @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drugs – or in this case , cancer , which means they could end up needing very profitable chemotherapy .
It ’ s all part of a nightmarish pattern that keeps repeating itself .
If you take statins , you might develop a metabolism disorder .
If you take diabetes drugs , watch out for liver disease .
And no matter what you take , the drug companies win .
Pharmaceuticals are a business , and it ’ s a very profitable model that you could pay for with your life .

Blood pressure medication is meant to keep your blood pressure down, but the news that several popular hypertension drugs contain cancer-causing ingredients is enough to send anyone’s blood pressure through the roof – no matter what type of medication they take.
Torrent Pharmaceuticals withdrew the popular hypertension drug losartan last year after finding that the medication contained an unacceptably high level of a known carcinogen.
The drug is commonly used to treat people with high blood pressure as well as diabetes patients with nephropathy.
The firm originally withdrew a few batches of the drug after the impurity was revealed, but they later expanded that recall from 2 to 10 lots and have since announced several additional expansion recalls.
The fifth expansion recall for losartan potassium tablets also included losartan potassium hydrochlorothiazide tablets because they were found to contain nitrosodiethylamine, or NDEA.
These tablets were sold across the nation at retailers such as Walmart. This contaminant behind the recall is the same one that lead Novartis to stop distributing a generic version of the heartburn drug Zantac.
The recalls of losartan came among a wider string of recalls of blood pressure medications such as irbesartan and valsartan.
The FDA said that the contaminants, which also included NDMA and NMBA, were likely the result of a manufacturing change adopted by the pharmaceutical factories in China and India that make the ingredients for the drugs.
This change could create the contaminants in the presence of specific chemicals and reaction conditions and may be the result of reusing materials like solvents.
NDEA can cause liver damage and has been ”reasonably anticipated” to cause cancer in humans. Nitrosamines are formed when nitrates or nitrites react to secondary or tertiary amines.
Although they are sometimes present in small amounts in foods such a smoked meats, certain vegetables and drinking water supplies, their presence in medications has been deemed a serious health concern because of their ability to cause cancer.
Meanwhile, NDMA is considered a probable human carcinogen because of its behavior in animals by both the Environmental Protection Agency and the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
The FDA’s maximum daily exposure level for NDMA is set at 96 nanograms, which is 600 times smaller than a grain of salt. Some of the cancers that have been linked to exposure to NDMA include those of the bladder, esophagus, stomach, pharynx, uterus, liver and colon.
Last year, the FDA admitted that some versions of valsartan had trace amounts of a carcinogen for four years before the impurity was detected by regulators, and there could well be countless other medications that have been contaminated that have not yet come to light.
These problems have prompted consumer advocate groups to call on the FDA to ramp up its efforts to ensure that medications are safe. At the very least, they should be inspecting all medications across all manufacturers a lot more thoroughly than they currently are.
It’s all part of the Big Pharma racket
Predictably, the FDA is encouraging people not to stop taking their medications, warning them that suddenly stopping hypertension drugs can be risky.
This is all part of the Big Pharma racket. People who are concerned about their heart health are convinced to take high blood pressure medications by their doctors, and then they cause other side effects that make patients need even more drugs – or in this case, cancer, which means they could end up needing very profitable chemotherapy.
It’s all part of a nightmarish pattern that keeps repeating itself. If you take statins, you might develop a metabolism disorder.
If you take diabetes drugs, watch out for liver disease. And no matter what you take, the drug companies win. Pharmaceuticals are a business, and it’s a very profitable model that you could pay for with your life.
Reference: Clearnewswire.com


humansarefree--2020-08-25--As COVID-1984 Accelerates, Bill Gates Blames ‘Freedom’ for Spread of the Virus

Recently , Bill Gates gave an interview to the Rothschild partially owned Economist .
In this interview , Gates was asked about how he views the U.S. response to the outbreak .
His reply was… Aside from the high ‘ risk money ’ the US ponied up for vaccine research and development , he think the U.S. is doing a poor job overall .
Gates proceeded to directly blame the poor response on lack of preparation , but also freedom .
Yes , Bill Gates blamed our freedoms for the spread of the virus .
Bill Gates then went on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and said , despite the fact that people ’ s rights were violated , China ’ s response was really amazing !
This is right out of the 2010 Rockefeller Lock Step document that laid out a scenario for a world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership .
In this video report , we examine how we seem to be living out a scenario very similar to a Rockefeller Foundation document from a decade ago .
We also explore several examples of how what was initially considered to be basic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ response to this current crisis .
At the end of the day , one must always ask … who benefits ?

Recently, Billy Boy gave an interview to the Rothschild partially owned Economist. In this interview, Gates was asked about how he views the U.S. response to the outbreak. His reply was…
Aside from the high ‘risk money’ the US ponied up for jjab research and development, he think the U.S. is doing a poor job overall.
Gates proceeded to directly blame the poor response on lack of preparation, but also freedom. Yes, Billy Boy blamed our freedoms for the spread of the virus.
Billy Boy then went on to praise China’s authoritarian response and said, despite the fact that people’s rights were violated, China’s response was really amazing!
This is right out of the 2010 Rockefeller Lock Step document that laid out a scenario for a world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership.
In this video report, we examine how we seem to be living out a scenario very similar to a Rockefeller Foundation document from a decade ago.
We also explore several examples of how what was initially considered to be basic, fundamental freedoms are being erased in response to this current crisis.
At the end of the day, one must always ask … who benefits?
By Spiro Skouras


humansarefree--2020-08-25--Religious Freedom is Under Attack Nationwide from Big Pharma

Religious Freedom is Under Attack Nationwide from Big Pharma .
Ask Your Religious Leader to Rise Up .
Protect Your First Amendment Rights !
“ Out of love and zeal for clarifying the truth , ” * and the need to protect the sanctity of our religious beliefs , each religious community should discuss the following items prior to surrendering an important religious right to a Pharmaceutical Industry marketing campaign .
The Pharmaceutical Industry currently seeks to remove religious freedom in multiple states .
Ten items which should be discussed before surrendering religious freedoms : 1 .
Production for some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
2 .
Vaccine manufacturing production involves the use material from other species ( cows , pigs , chickens , monkeys , etc ) creating the potential for contamination with the DNA of other species .
3 .
The 6th Commandment is Thou shalt not kill .
Vaccines can kill .
More than 600 vaccine deaths have been compensated under Vaccine Injury Compensation Act .
The potential connection between vaccination and SIDS has never been adequately studied .
4 .
The 5th Commandment instructs society to honor thy father and thy mother .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” over the religious beliefs of parents dishonors them in violation of the 5th Commandment .
5 .
The 9th Commandment prohibits bearing false witness against your neighbors .
Drug companies , public health officials , and the media routinely bear false witness by exaggerating the benefits of vaccination and minimizing the risks .
6 .
Vaccines are legally classified as “ unavoidably unsafe ” .
Vaccine manufacturers have liability protection BECAUSE their products are unavoidably unsafe .
Yet the pharmaceutical industry and the government bear false witness , marketing vaccines as “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Measles is not a “ deadly ” disease in the United States .
No one has died in the US from measles since 2003 .
But pharmaceutical industry marketing campaigns create false media hysteria around “ deadly ” measles to scare legislators into taking away important religious freedom rights .
8 .
Evidence of vaccine safety is utterly lacking .
Five years ago CDC Whisteblower Dr William Thompson said that the culture of corruption at the CDC “ set ( vaccine ) research 10 years behind.
” In 2019 , the false witness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 15 years behind .
9 .
Vaccines cause regressive autism in an unknown number of children .
Vaccines can also cause seizure disorders , MS , brain damage , and autoimmune and cardiac injuries .
Omitting these risks bears false witness .
10 .
Mandatory vaccination violates the principles of The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights , which states that the individual takes priority over the state and that prior , free and informed consent are required before administering a vaccine .
[ No government can force anyone who has reached @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason – we are protected by the Nuremberg Code ] .
Drug companies bear false witness by omitting information about known side effects and biotheics standards in the pursuit of increased sales .
The First Amendment ’ s freedom of religion is sacred .
We should not easily surrender our existing religious freedoms to the state .
The word vaccine is from the Latin “ vacca ” , meaning cow .
The infant and child drug program , often called the vaccine program , has been a sacred cow for too long .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 76 Fetuses in vaccine production , ( Jan 2018 ) , https : //www.youtube.com/watch ?
v=bvBszdGBOxM • None Just How Deadly is Measles ?
by Dr. Bob Sears , http : //www.firstfreedoms.org/just-how-deadly-is-measles-by-dr-bob-sears.html • None Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights ( 2005 ) , unanimously adopted by 193 countries including the United States , http : //portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058 & URL_DO=DO_TOPIC & URL_SECTION=201.html • None Human dignity , human rights and fundamental freedoms are to be fully respected .
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The consent should , where appropriate , be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice .

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humansarefree--2020-08-27--UK Gov’t Scientist Admits: Lockdown Was a ‘Monumental Mistake on a Global Scale’

A scientific advisor to the UK government says the coronavirus lockdown was a “ panic measure ” and a “ monumental mistake on a global scale.
” Infectious diseases expert and University of Edinburgh professor Mark Woolhouse acknowledged that the decision to lockdown in March was a “ crude measure ” that was enacted because “ we couldn ’ t think of anything better to do.
” “ Lockdown was a panic measure and I believe history will say trying to control Covid-19 through lockdown was a monumental mistake on a global scale , the cure was worse than the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is now calling on the government to unlock society before more damage is done .
“ I never want to see national lockdown again , ” he added .
“ It was always a temporary measure that simply delayed the stage of the epidemic we see now .
It was never going to change anything fundamentally.
” The professor asserts that the impact of the response to coronavirus will be worse than the virus itself .
“ I believe the harm lockdown is doing to our education , health care access , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will turn out to be at least as great as the harm done by COVID-19 , ” said Woolhouse .
Richard Sullivan , professor of cancer at King ’ s College London , previously warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths over the next 5 years than the number of people who die from coronavirus in the UK due to the disruption caused by the coronavirus lockdown , which is preventing cancer victims from getting treatment .
Figures also show that there were more excess deaths during the 2017-18 flu season @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of people in the UK who have died from coronavirus ( 41,433 ) .
However , a survey conducted last month found that Brits thought around 7 per cent of the population , 5 million people , had been killed by COVID-19 .

A scientific advisor to the UK government says the coronavirus lockdown was a “panic measure” and a “monumental mistake on a global scale.”
Infectious diseases expert and University of Edinburgh professor Mark Woolhouse acknowledged that the decision to lockdown in March was a “crude measure” that was enacted because “we couldn’t think of anything better to do.”
“Lockdown was a panic measure and I believe history will say trying to control Covid-19 through lockdown was a monumental mistake on a global scale, the cure was worse than the disease,” said Woolhouse, who is now calling on the government to unlock society before more damage is done.
“I never want to see national lockdown again,” he added. “It was always a temporary measure that simply delayed the stage of the epidemic we see now. It was never going to change anything fundamentally.”
The professor asserts that the impact of the response to coronavirus will be worse than the virus itself.
“I believe the harm lockdown is doing to our education, health care access, and broader aspects of our economy and society will turn out to be at least as great as the harm done by COVID-19,” said Woolhouse.
Richard Sullivan, professor of cancer at King’s College London, previously warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths over the next 5 years than the number of people who die from coronavirus in the UK due to the disruption caused by the coronavirus lockdown, which is preventing cancer victims from getting treatment.
Figures also show that there were more excess deaths during the 2017-18 flu season (around 50,000) than the total number of people in the UK who have died from coronavirus (41,433).
However, a survey conducted last month found that Brits thought around 7 per cent of the population, 5 million people, had been killed by COVID-19.
Reference: Summit.news


humansarefree--2020-08-27--WHO is Monitoring Online Conversations and Emotions to Change COVID Narratives

Machine learning analysis is being used on people ’ s conversations .
The World Health Organization is collaborating with an analytics company to scan people ’ s social media conversations for “ coronavirus misinformation ; ” something the WHO calls “ social listening.
” The global health organization says that it ’ s not only fighting the pandemic but also the conversations people are having about it .
According to the WHO , there ’ s an “ infodemic ” – an overload and spread of misleading information , so much so that it decided that to tackle misinformation , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including social listening , with machine learning monitoring .
“ Countering fake news or rumors is actually only responding or mitigating when it ’ s too late , ” said Tim Nguyen , a technology expert helping the WHO ’ s unit titled Information Network for Epidemics ( EPI-WIN ) .
“ What we ’ ve put in place in the beginning of the pandemic is what we call a social listening approach.
” The company has been creepily scanning more than 1.6 million social media posts each week to monitor online conversation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ classify information into four topics : cause , illness , interventions , and treatments .
The WHO ’ s aim is to learn the coronavirus topics that are gaining popularity so that it can then create its own content to counteract and attempt to change the narrative .
The WHO ’ s “ social listening ” goes beyond analyzing people ’ s conversations for content , it also tries to analyze their emotions .
Through language analytics , the technology detects emotions such as sadness , acceptance , denial , and anxiety .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to come up with effective strategies to adjust coronavirus narratives .
“ What we ’ ve learned now , after two and a half months of doing this kind of analysis , is that there are recurring themes and topics that are coming back over and over again , ” Nguyen explained .
“ What that means to us is that we need to re-push information at different times .
People may not understand it the first time when we push it , but when the questions and issues come up later , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ push it out again.
” The health organization recognizes that not everyone has access to social media .
So , it is working with the UN Global Pulse to use AI and big data to apply social listening to radios , which are the most common source of information for people without access to the internet .
The UN Global Pulse is already applying social listening in Uganda , where they try to tackle rumors that coronavirus can be treated with natural remedies .
“ You need to have a certain degree of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so that they are inoculated and not susceptible to fake news or disinformation .
We believe we need to vaccinate 30 % of the population with ‘ good information ’ in order to have a certain degree of ‘ herd ’ immunity against misinformation , ” Nguyen said .

Machine learning analysis is being used on people’s conversations.
by Cindy Harper
The World Health Organization is collaborating with an analytics company to scan people’s social media conversations for “coronavirus misinformation;” something the WHO calls “social listening.”
The global health organization says that it’s not only fighting the pandemic but also the conversations people are having about it.
According to the WHO, there’s an “infodemic” – an overload and spread of misleading information, so much so that it decided that to tackle misinformation, it needs to employ various tools, including social listening, with machine learning monitoring.
“Countering fake news or rumors is actually only responding or mitigating when it’s too late,” said Tim Nguyen, a technology expert helping the WHO’s unit titled Information Network for Epidemics (EPI-WIN).
“What we’ve put in place in the beginning of the pandemic is what we call a social listening approach.”
The company has been creepily scanning more than 1.6 million social media posts each week to monitor online conversation. It then uses machine learning to classify information into four topics: cause, illness, interventions, and treatments.
The WHO’s aim is to learn the coronavirus topics that are gaining popularity so that it can then create its own content to counteract and attempt to change the narrative.
The WHO’s “social listening” goes beyond analyzing people’s conversations for content, it also tries to analyze their emotions.
Through language analytics, the technology detects emotions such as sadness, acceptance, denial, and anxiety. With such insights, the WHO hopes to come up with effective strategies to adjust coronavirus narratives.
“What we’ve learned now, after two and a half months of doing this kind of analysis, is that there are recurring themes and topics that are coming back over and over again,” Nguyen explained.
“What that means to us is that we need to re-push information at different times. People may not understand it the first time when we push it, but when the questions and issues come up later, it means it’s time to push it out again.”
The health organization recognizes that not everyone has access to social media.
So, it is working with the UN Global Pulse to use AI and big data to apply social listening to radios, which are the most common source of information for people without access to the internet.
The UN Global Pulse is already applying social listening in Uganda, where they try to tackle rumors that coronavirus can be treated with natural remedies.
“You need to have a certain degree of good information out there to reach populations so that they are inoculated and not susceptible to fake news or disinformation.
We believe we need to vaccinate 30% of the population with ‘good information’ in order to have a certain degree of ‘herd’ immunity against misinformation,” Nguyen said.


humansarefree--2020-08-27--Bill Gates Negotiated $100 Billion Contact Tracing Deal With Democratic Congressman Sponsor of Bill

Bill Gates Negotiated $100 Billion Contact Tracing Deal With Democratic Congressman Sponsor of Bill Six Months BEFORE Coronavirus Pandemic

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped negotiate who would score a $ 100 Billion government-backed contact tracing contract in August 2019 — six months before the ‘ pandemic ’ arrived in the United States and four months before it swept through China .
The shocking revelations were unveiled on the Thomas Paine Podcast and the Moore Paine Show on Patreon by the two investigators who blew the whistle on the massive Clinton Foundation tax fraud during a Congressional hearing in 2018 .
John Moynihan and Larry Doyle testified in Congress , detailing the fraud and schemes utilized by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to $ 2.5 BILLION in federal taxes .
The investigative duo , in their first interview since that bombshell Congressional testimony , revealed to Paine that representatives from the Gates Foundation met with U.S .
Congressman Bobby L. Rush at a sit down in Rwanda , East Africa in mid August 2019 to hash out who would score the windfall from a government contact tracing program .
And just last month — nine months after the meetings with the Gates Foundation in Rwanda — Rush , a Democrat from Illinois , introduced the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the COVID-19 Testing , Reaching and Contacting Everyone ( TRACE ) Act .
Rush ’ s bill would establish a program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) for national coronavirus testing and contact tracing .
Paine has since learned Congressman Rush traveled to Rwanda with his spouse from August 12th to 19th , 2019 to take part in talks and a week-long event underwritten by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund .
But how can you negotiate the byproducts of monitoring a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outbreak of the virus even happens ?

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped negotiate who would score a $100 Billion government-backed contact tracing contract in August 2019 — six months before the ‘pandemic’ arrived in the United States and four months before it swept through China.
The shocking revelations were unveiled on the Thomas Paine Podcast and the Moore Paine Show on Patreon by the two investigators who blew the whistle on the massive Clinton Foundation tax fraud during a Congressional hearing in 2018.
John Moynihan and Larry Doyle testified in Congress, detailing the fraud and schemes utilized by the Clinton’s to avoid paying up to $2.5 BILLION in federal taxes.
The investigative duo, in their first interview since that bombshell Congressional testimony, revealed to Paine that representatives from the Gates Foundation met with U.S. Congressman Bobby L. Rush at a sit down in Rwanda, East Africa in mid August 2019 to hash out who would score the windfall from a government contact tracing program.
And just last month — nine months after the meetings with the Gates Foundation in Rwanda — Rush, a Democrat from Illinois, introduced the $100 BILLION H.R. 6666, the COVID-19 Testing, Reaching and Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act.
Rush’s bill would establish a program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for national coronavirus testing and contact tracing.
Paine has since learned Congressman Rush traveled to Rwanda with his spouse from August 12th to 19th, 2019 to take part in talks and a week-long event underwritten by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
But how can you negotiate the byproducts of monitoring a pandemic six to seven months before the outbreak of the virus even happens?

Source: TruePundit.com


humansarefree--2020-08-27--Scrubbed from Internet: History of Gates Foundation Sterilizing Hundreds of Thousands of Young Girls

Scrubbed from Internet: History of Gates Foundation Sterilizing Hundreds of Thousands of Young Girls in India with HPV Vaccine

In this explosive interview independent journalist Ben Swann interviews filmmaker Mikki Willis , who just recently released Plandemic 2 .
Mikki Willis , in his research for producing Plandemic , looked into the scandal in years past that occurred in India with the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation , and other groups that they funded , in developing and testing the HPV vaccine , which resulted in up to a half million young girls in India becoming sterile .
Mr. Willis reveals that he began investigating this issue about 10 years ago , just prior to the birth of his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ history of vaccines .
He was shocked to find out that many of the videos documenting this scandal in India had been scrubbed from the Internet , forcing him to go directly to sources in India to interview about what actually happened .
Health Impact News has been publishing the crimes of Bill Gates and the HPV scandal for several years as well .
Here are some previous articles we have done in the past about this scandal in India , as well as other crimes committed against the children of India which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Confirmed : India ’ s Polio Eradication Campaign in 2011 Caused 47,500 Cases of Vaccine-Induced Polio Paralysis Bill Gates Funded Group Accused of Breaking Law in HPV Vaccine Trials in India Resulting in Fatalities Pediatrician predicts Bill Gates and the WHO will kill 3,125 babies with their 5-in-1 vaccine India Questions Efficacy and Safety of HPV Vaccine Amid Allegations of Ethical Violations Censored in U.S. Media , Killer Vaccines Exposed in India and Around the World Doctors and Scientists tell India Prime Minister to Stop Unnecessary Vaccines Supreme Court in India to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Deaths Will India be First Country to Revoke Marketing Licenses for HPV Vaccines ?
The Polio Vaccine Continues to Spread Polio and Harm People in Poor Countries After the Gardasil HPV scandal , according to Mr. Willis , India kicked Bill Gates and all of the organizations tied to him for vaccine research and development out of India .
But today , they are apparently back in India testing COVID vaccines on unsuspecting poor people .
Italian Member Of Parliament Demands Arrest Of Bill Gates As A “ Vaccine Criminal ” For Pursuing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of stories about Gardasil over the past few years , and not just personal stories of the vaccine ’ s effects , but also articles uncovering the corruption that allowed this vaccine to come to market , and published scientific studies , all outside the U.S. , showing how dangerous this vaccine really is .
Many countries , like Japan , do not recommend this vaccine any longer .

A Disney music executive is facing felony child sexual abuse charges for his alleged conduct with two underage girls who were 11 and 15 years old.
The Disney music executive whose Twitter bio reads, “Disney Concerts and living to glorify God in all things,” has been charged with felony child sexual abuse for his alleged conduct with two underage girls.
Jon Heely, 58, Disney’s director of music publishing, is charged with three counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child.
The abuse started nearly a decade ago with the first reported victim claiming that Heely abused her when she was 15 years old, and the second victim claiming that Heely abused her from the time she was 11 years old, until she was 15, according to a report from Variety.
While the report claims that Heely was first arrested on Nov. 16 by deputies from the Santa Clarita station of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and released on $150,000 bail, there does not appear to be much local coverage of his arrest, or his ties to Disney.
Heely pleaded “not guilty” to the charges, and his attorney, Robert Helfend, told Variety that Heely “vehemently denies these allegations and we will be fighting until the end to clear his name.”
Heely has worked for Disney since 1981. He oversees the licensing of music for Disney films, and has produced Disney concerts around the world. A spokesperson for Disney confirmed that Heely was suspended after executives learned that he had been charged.
“Immediately upon learning of this situation tonight, he has been suspended without pay until the matter is resolved by the courts,” the spokesman said.
While the Disney spokesperson made it sound as though the company was unaware that one of its executives was arrested on child sex crimes charges last month, and it chose not to suspend him until he was officially charged this week, it should be noted that this is not the first time Disney has made questionable choices regarding suspected child predators.
Pixar co-Founder John Lasseter is currently taking a six-month leave of absence after he was publicly accused of sexual misconduct. However, a report from Deadline claims that Disney was aware of Lasseter’s behavior, and often sent him to events and parties accompanies by a “handler” to make sure he behaved.
“There’s evidence Disney may well have been aware of troubling behavior on the part of the digital animation pioneer. Indeed the Pixar co-founder attended some wrap parties with a handler to ensure he would not engage in inappropriate conduct with women, say two people with direct knowledge of the situation. “Lasseter was observed passionately kissing a female subordinate at a 2010 Miramax party, according to an executive who witnessed the amorous display and another source who corroborated the account. The incident at the Oscar night celebration, attended by celebrities and Pixar and Disney executives, prompted high-level discussions about Lasseter’s conduct.”
A former Pixar executive told Deadline that Lasseter was obsessed with the young character actresses from Disney’s Fairies, and when they flew to New York for an event, Lasseter was forced to have an escort, in order to join them.
“He was inappropriate with the fairies. We had to have someone make sure he wasn’t alone with them,” the executive said.
As The Free Thought Project reported, Disney also hired a convicted child molester in 1993. Victor Salva admitted to sexually abusing a 6-year-old boy, but that did not stop Disney from hiring him as a director, funding the production of a movie he wrote while he was in prison for child sex crimes, and then giving him access to children on the set of that movie.
In the case of Disney music executive Jon Heely, he is due back in court on Jan. 10, and if he is convicted, he faces up to nine years and three months in prison. It remains to be seen what information will be released about his conduct with the two young children he is charged with sexually abusing.
By Rachel Blevins, TheFreeThoughtProject.com


humansarefree--2020-08-27--The Average American Thinks 30 Million People Died From Coronavirus in the US

From macing someone to carrying 6-foot canes to enforce social distancing to having melt-downs of every type imaginable , people terrified of coronavirus are taking it upon themselves to judge and police those they believe are not complying with coronavirus rules .
They may be “ off ” when it comes to the enforcement efforts , but when it comes to understanding the actual case and mortality rates , they are WAY off .
For example , when polled they said they believed that nearly 9 % of the U.S. population , or 30 million people , have died from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time the source video was done , the death count was at 155,000 .
They also overestimated the number of cases by a factor of 20 .
In Britain , people thought 5 million people had died from it when in fact fewer than 50,000 had died .
The ignorance of the real truths “ are nothing short of stunning , ” according to Franklin Templeton , who conducted a similar study for Franklin Templeton-Gallup .
For example , Americans believe people aged 44 and younger account for about 30 % of total @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % .
By Dr. Joseph Mercola , the author of Fat for Fuel : A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer , Boost Brain Power , and Increase Your Energy From the author : The existing medical establishment is responsible for killing and permanently injuring millions of Americans , but the surging numbers of visitors to Mercola.com since I began the site in 1997 – we are now routinely among the top 10 health sites on the Internet – convinces me that you , too , are fed up with their deception .
You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and that ’ s what I offer .

From macing someone to carrying 6-foot canes to enforce social distancing to having melt-downs of every type imaginable, people terrified of coronavirus are taking it upon themselves to judge and police those they believe are not complying with coronavirus rules.
They may be “off” when it comes to the enforcement efforts, but when it comes to understanding the actual case and mortality rates, they are WAY off.
For example, when polled they said they believed that nearly 9% of the U.S. population, or 30 million people, have died from COVID-19.
In reality, at the time the source video was done, the death count was at 155,000. They also overestimated the number of cases by a factor of 20.
In Britain, people thought 5 million people had died from it when in fact fewer than 50,000 had died.
The ignorance of the real truths “are nothing short of stunning,” according to Franklin Templeton, who conducted a similar study for Franklin Templeton-Gallup.
For example, Americans believe people aged 44 and younger account for about 30% of total deaths; the actual figure is 2.7%.
By Dr. Joseph Mercola, the author of Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy
From the author: The existing medical establishment is responsible for killing and permanently injuring millions of Americans, but the surging numbers of visitors to Mercola.com since I began the site in 1997 – we are now routinely among the top 10 health sites on the Internet – convinces me that you, too, are fed up with their deception. You want practical health solutions without the hype, and that’s what I offer.
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