The Dose - 11-20-21

Submitted by studentofearth on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 5:00am
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The belief a visit with physician should result in a prescription or recommendation of a medication is strong in America. It subtly shapes the thought process about approaching medical challenges with chemicals from the lab or natural sources vs changes in habits and enviornment. The practice of medicine vs the practice of health. Add decades of advertising "Ask your doctor" and "Check with your doctor"; plus a requirement of a doctor's note to miss a day of school or work without consequences a power source of authority is created. It is not a grand conspiracy to create a sole authoritative source, but does create a convenient opportunity to project ultimate authority for obedience.

The beginning two paragraphs of the fictional book Washington Square introduces one of the main characters as a physician. First published 140 years ago our assumptions of a physician are not very different today.

During a portion of the first half of the present century, and more particularly during the latter part of it, there flourished and practised in the city of New York a physician who enjoyed perhaps an exceptional share of the consideration which, in the United States, has always been bestowed upon distinguished members of the medical profession. This profession in America has constantly been held in honor, and more successfully than elsewhere has put forward a claim to the epithet of "liberal." In a country in which, to play a social part, you must either earn your income or make believe that you earn it, the healing art has appeared in a high degree to combine two recognized sources of credit. It belongs to the realm of the practical, which in the United States is a great recommendation ; and it is touched by the light of science — a merit appreciated in a community in which the love of knowledge has not always been accompanied by leisure and opportunity.

It was an element in Doctor Sloper's reputation that his learning and his skill were very evenly balanced; he was what you might call a scholarly doctor, and yet there was nothing abstract in his remedies — he always ordered you to take something. Though he was felt to be extremely thorough, he was not uncomfortably theoretic ; and if he sometimes explained matters rather more minutely than might seem of use to the patient, he never went so far (like some practitioners one had heard of) as to trust to the explanation alone, but always left behind him an inscrutable prescription. There were some doctors that left the prescription without offering any explanation at all ; and he did not belong to that class either, which was after all the most vulgar. It will be seen that I am describing a clever man ; and this is really the reason why Doctor Sloper had become a local celebrity.

Washington Square by Henry James, 1880

A few articles of interest.

CDC decides to allow COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all adults

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding eligibility for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to all adults ages 18 and up. The agency published its new recommendations Friday, as health officials sound the alarm over rising cases around the country.

"Booster shots have demonstrated the ability to safely increase people's protection against infection and severe outcomes and are an important public health tool to strengthen our defenses against the virus as we enter the winter holidays. Based on the compelling evidence, all adults over 18 should now have equitable access to a COVID-19 booster dose," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a statement.

In its updated guidance, the agency says recipients of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines who are age 50 or older, or in long-term care settings, "should" receive a third dose six months after their second dose. All other adults "may" receive a booster shot after six months.
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Woodcock acknowledged the agency still does not "have full data on a third dose of the Moderna vaccine" and rates of myocarditis, but pointed to the lower dosage of Moderna's booster and longer interval since the second shot for easing the agency's concerns.

"We still have things to learn and we will be doing surveillance and have required the companies to also do surveillance to look at this side effect," added Woodcock.

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China stands firm on ‘dynamic zero case’ Covid policy

China will continue its “dynamic zero-case” policy to cut off virus transmission as early as possible, although most countries have adopted a “living with Covid-19 virus” strategy, health officials and infectious disease specialists say.

In the latest epidemic wave which started in China on October 16, more than 1,000 cases have been reported across 21 provinces, mainly in the northeastern region.

The number may seem insignificant when compared with those in Western countries, which have reported tens of thousands of cases daily, but top Chinese leaders said the country would not tolerate virus outbreaks as anti-epidemic work was an important political mission.
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Zhong said as Chinese vaccines, produced by Sinovac and Sinopharm, had an efficacy rate of about 70%, the country had to achieve a vaccination rate of 83.3% before it could reopen its borders and relax its epidemic rules.

He said it was necessary for people to have a booster shot every six months to maintain their antibody levels.

Zhong said there were four main epidemic strategies in the world, including strong control, suppression, containment and no measures at all. He said China’s strong control strategy had so far shown positive and effective results and should be maintained.

Sinovac and Sinopharm are inactivated whole virus vaccines. Link for description types of vaccines.

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Mask Up When Dressing Deer, State Health Officials Urge Hunters

WISCONSIN — The Wisconsin Department of Health Services recommended that hunters wear masks when indoors with other people during hunting season or when handling deer carcasses that may carry the coronavirus.

Two separate studies found that deer in Iowa and Ohio tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in people.

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Submitted by ovals49 on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 8:01am

Geert Vanden Bossche is repeating his plea to health system officials to recognize what he believes to be a looming “catastrophe” being caused by the global universal vaccination of all age and risk groups. I will not attempt to summarize the complex interplay between these three types of immunity because my understanding is not complete.

What I did clearly understand is Vanden Bossche’s concern that our Innate immunity, that which we are born with, is an essential element of any successful pandemic response plan. He maintains that the universal vaccination policy we are currently pursuing threatens this Innate immunity, particularly among children and infants, thereby setting the scene for the virus to learn how to escape human Innate immune protection across the entire population. He argues that without a viable Innate immune protection the virus will circulate freely and any possibility of achieving “herd immunity” will be lost for generations. In his words this would be a “catastrophe” far worse than anything we have seen to date.

The video of the interview (1 hour+) may be found HERE.
[video:https://thehighwire.com/videos/vaccine-expert-warns-of-covid-vaccination...

[I have been unsuccessful in the past linking Rumble videos directly. If anyone knows how to do this, I would appreciate if you would add it in a comment to this one]

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Submitted by CB on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 9:53am
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are well aware of how human interventions in the COVID-19 pandemic are driving immune viral escape. These people are not stupid. Some of the major funders such as Bill Gates have extraordinary financial control and influence over the WHO. The problem with how TPTB have approached the pandemic has been firstly and primarily focused on making profits.

Bill Gates had to finally admit the current vaccines do not work as he originally touted. He then falls back to the position of the vaccine being prophylactic to those that get infected. (You can see this in his defensive body language.) The vaccine manufacturers would have never got a EUA in this case.

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Submitted by NYCVG on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 5:35pm

@CB he sees that his position has had major flaws.

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Submitted by studentofearth on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 12:01pm
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@ovals49 in general suggest this video series Innate immunity is non-specific immune response at cellular and physical level to prevent or fight off an infection.

the 3rd video (22 min) discusses bodies physical methods of innate immunity. Vaccines work at the cellular level.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-G5QJwbw8k&list=PLwp4F9YlR_suK8-87i3DcI...

Don't have reference links at the moment. If memory serves me to optimize the mRna vaccine into body cells for replication of the proteins some of the cellular level innate system needs to be compromised. How long this effects occurs and if it effects immune response to other pathogens and cancers is one concern.

A concern for very young children and infants is if training the immune system to a patterned response will reduce the immune system general training for robust cellular level innate cellular immune response during their lifetime. A little like training to follow directions from Google map vs training multiple methods such as read a manual map, road signs, watch for temporary detours,necessary ask for directions from people and directions from various software applications.

This is a little intense, work through it slowly. Everybody medical literacy seems to have been increased this past 20 months.
Training the trainable cells of the immune system and beyond (Jan 2020)

These observations led to a new concept in immunology termed ‘innate immune memory’, or ‘trained immunity’ (Fig. 1). Innate immune memory differs from adaptive memory in many aspects, including the lack of gene rearrangements, the involvement of epigenetic reprogramming, the type of cells involved (innate cells versus T and B lymphocytes), and the receptors engaged in pathogen or antigen recognition (selective pattern-recognition receptors versus antigen-specific T cell and B cell receptors)1.

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Submitted by CB on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 8:23am
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Interview 1675 - The REAL Anthony Fauci with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  • The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
  • A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence
  • Government tested AIDS drugs on foster kids
  • U.S. knew of AIDS drug concerns in Africa
  • Guinea Pig Kids (BBC 2004)
  • The Annotated Rockefeller Foundation Lockstep 2010 (pdf)
  • Pandemic and the Road to Totalitarianism
  • Episode 220 - The Strange Case of Sirhan Sirhan
  • RFK Jr. Names RFK's Killer - #NewWorldNextWeek
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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 12:20pm

@CB exposing Fauci arrived today. I am going to take it on vacation, read a chapter, get pissed off, then sit on the balcony and look at the white sand,the blue water, and drink beer. Rinse, repeat.
My husband had an interesting thought about the vax passport, and cashless society coming soon.
How will politicians be able to conceal their bribe $? How will billionaires take their $ to off shore tax havens? Did TPTB think that through?

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Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 9:42am

previously. It talks about the inconsistency of the vaccine mandate.

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Submitted by studentofearth on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 2:00pm
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@randtntx the opportunity of a wider audience. Did not have time this week to view all the conversations - appreciate the posting even if possibly a duplicate.

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Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 9:49am

is a flawed strategy.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 10:01am
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via club de cordeliers on twitter (pinned tweet):

(Not a fan of bill gates nor AOC) ; )

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Submitted by studentofearth on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 1:40pm
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@wendy davis When attending events where Bill was the main speaker or on a panel, never found him to be the most original thinker in the room. Very tenacious on obtaining confirmation of his viewpoint on any subject. The Netflix 2019 program Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates was enlightening. It showed the importance of his Mother in setting his life course. Showcased him reading stacks of books as an indicator of his intelligence. Which surprised me, thought he would have went with the high tech answer: electronic books. The electronic medical record obsession was evident when I became involved in medical software in '87. Another viewpoint on the series - The Biggest Reveals From Netflix's Bill Gates Documentary.

I will start reading the Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health soon.

Recent critiques of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) acknowledge, to varying degrees, the malign effects of ‘philanthrocapitalism’ on the people’s health (Aschoff, 2016; McGoey, 2015). Yet these effects are typically portrayed as the unintentional consequences of misguided benevolence. The multi-billionaires mean well, it is suggested, but are somehow too naïve to recognise the inherent limitations of market-based solutions to health crises.

It is more realistic to assume that Bill Gates and his ilk are highly sophisticated capitalists who know what they want and how best to get it. While critics are correct in pointing out that BMGF has failed to deliver the public health miracles it promises, this line of argument may be missing the point. BMGF is only secondarily concerned, if at all, with saving lives; primarily, it is devoted to expanding worldwide markets and facilitating commerce on behalf of Western capitalism. The Foundation’s embrace of the practices and organisational norms of corporate capitalism is neither accidental nor misguided, but is central to a deliberate strategy for bringing ‘disruptive innovation’ to the public health field.

The concept of disruptive innovation entered management theory in the late 1990s at a time when global capital, liberated by the fall of the Soviet Union, had set about tearing down old monopolies in order to make room for new ones (Lepore, 2014). The term is flattering to entrepreneurs, because it connotes bold, original thinking, but in reality it describes a process as old as capitalism itself: the more or less ruthless restructuring of existing systems and norms to create space for even more profitable replacements.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 10:18am
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Are we healthier today with all the numerous prescriptions available to us now then we were before they were widely available? Maybe. On some diseases yes. On others not so much. What happened?

How Rockefeller founded modern medicine and killed natural cures

People these days look at you like a weirdo if you talk about the healing properties of plants or any other holistic practices. Much like anything else, there is a lot of politics and money behind our modern medical system.

It all starts with John D. Rockefeller (1839 – 1937) who was an oil magnate, a robber baron, America’s first billionaire, and a natural-born monopolist.

At the same time, around 1900, scientists discovered “petrochemicals” and the ability to create all kinds of chemicals from oil. For example, the first plastic — called Bakelite — was made from oil in 1907. Scientists were also discovering various vitamins and guessed that many pharmaceutical drugs could be made from oil.

This was a wonderful opportunity for Rockefeller who saw the ability to monopolize the oil, chemical and the medical industries at the same time!

The best thing about petrochemicals was that everything could be patented and sold for high profits.

But there was one problem with Rockefeller’s plan for the medical industry: natural/herbal medicines were very popular in America at that time. Almost half the doctors and medical colleges in the U.S. were practicing holistic medicine, using knowledge from Europe and Native Americans.

Rockefeller, the monopolist, had to figure out a way to get rid of his biggest competition. So he used the classic strategy of “problem-reaction-solution.” That is, create a problem and scare people, and then offer a (pre-planned) solution. (Similar to terrorism scare, followed by the “Patriot Act”).

Homeopathy and natural medicines were mocked and demonized; and doctors were even jailed.

To help with the transition and to change the minds of other doctors and scientists, Rockefeller gave more than $100 million to colleges and hospitals, and founded a philanthropic front group called “General Education Board” (GEB). This is the classic carrot and stick approach.

In a very short time, medical colleges were all streamlined and homogenized. All the students were learning the same thing, and medicine was all about using patented drugs.

Scientists received huge grants to study how plants cured diseases, but their goal was to first identify which chemicals in the plant were effective, and then recreate a similar chemical –but not identical — in the lab that could be patented.

A pill for an ill became the mantra for modern medicine.

And you thought Koch brothers were evil?

Guess who created the world health organization? Rockefeller. Why? Money. So all those wonderful endowments for colleges aren’t just so people can learn stuff. It’s so they learn only the right stuff.

The Corbett report has many videos on Rockefeller who if you didn’t know was a big proponent of eugenics and population control. Who else fits that shoe? Bill Gates' dad. Who has called for the culling of 15% of the population? Bill Gates.

Thanks everyone for posting the various videos. I spend mornings catching up on them.

One thing about the Rona virus being found in deer. It’s just one animal that can carry it and one of the biggest reasons why we can’t vaccinate our way out of the epidemic. Scientists know that. Sure they do.

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Submitted by QMS on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 11:47am
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First it was deer ticks causing Lyme and other disorders.
For the longest time the AMA ignored the disease.
Insurance wouldn't cover tests and all the docs prescribed
were heavy duty antibiotics. There was some weaponized
tick borne illness the labs run by the CIA and DoD tried to
shower on Cuba.

Now it seems Bambii and friends are carrying the Covidis.
Maybe just a coinkydink, but who to trust anymore?
Ticks me off!

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 11:35am
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FDA Produces the First 91+ pages of Documents from Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine File

Only 54 years, 11 months to go… You can download them here.

While it is for the scientists to properly analyze, let me share one observation. One of the documents produced is a Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports of [the Vaccine] Received Through 28-Feb-2021, which is a mere 2 ½ months after the vaccine received emergency use authorization (EUA). This document reflects adverse events following vaccination that have completed Pfizer’s “workflow cycle,” both in and outside the U.S., up to February 28, 2021.

Pfizer explains, on page 6, that “Due to the large numbers of spontaneous adverse event reports received for the product, [Pfizer] has prioritised the processing of serious cases…” and that Pfizer “has also taken a [sic] multiple actions to help alleviate the large increase of adverse event reports” including “increasing the number of data entry and case processing colleagues” and “has onboarded approximately [REDACTED] additional fulltime employees (FTEs).” Query why it is proprietary to share how many people Pfizer had to hire to track all of the adverse events being reported shortly after launching its product.

As for the volume of reports, in the 2 ½ months following EUA, Pfizer received a total of 42,086 reports containing 158,893 “events.” Most of these reports were from the U.S. and disproportionately involved women (29,914 vs. 9,182 provided by men) and those between 31 and 50 years old (13,886 vs 21,325 for all other age groups combined, with another 6,876 whose ages were unknown). Also, 25,957 of the events were classified as “Nervous system disorders”

The grand conclusion by Pfizer to the FDA: “The data do not reveal any novel safety concerns or risks requiring label changes and support a favorable benefit risk profile of to the BNT162b2 vaccine.”

Pfizer knows that they are harming people, but still say that the protection outweighs the risk. VAERS has over 18,000 deaths reported, but the Medicare system has 45,000. That seems like it’s a pretty high risk for many people. One thing no one talks about was how cases were going down before the vaccines were released on the country. Look at the charts for that time and see for yourself. Some say that we might have been done with the epidemic because it was dying out on its own because that’s how virus be viruses. Guess we’ll never know now.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 1:29pm
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might have ended if they hadn’t rolled out the vaccines because that’s how humans get to herd immunity. It’s how we did before with many other viruses. Polio and smallpox were more contagious and deadly but even those vaccines were studied long enough to understand the risk benefit ratio. Smallpox was studied for over a century.

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlgBEvboKL

Talks about it at around 1>06>00 mark.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 12:14pm
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Back in October 2020 the FDA said that products are not interchangeable, but now they are saying it’s okay to mix and match them? At the 2:45:00 mark. Plus Walensky says it is okay to get your flu shot at the same time as your booster. Let’s see the study on that. But here’s the news they buried.

At the 02:33:40 mark; it goes by quickly.

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FDA Safety Surveillance of COVID-19 Vaccines: DRAFT Working list of possible adverse event outcomes ***Subject to change***

-Guillain-Barré syndrome
-Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
-Transverse myelitis
-Encephalitis /myelitis/encephalomyelitis/meningoencephalitis/meningitis/encephalopathy
-Convulsions/seizures
-Stroke
-Narcolepsy and cataplexy
-Anaphylaxis
-Acute myocardial infarction
-Myocarditis/pericarditis
-Autoimmune disease
-Deaths
-Preganacy and birth outcomes
-Other acute demyelinating diseases
-Non-anaphylactic allergic reactions
-Thrombocytopenia
-Disseminated intervascular coagulation
-Venous thromboembolism
-Arthritis and arthralgia/joint pain
-Kawasaki disease
-Multisymptom Inflammatory Syndrome in Children
-Vaccine enhanced disease

It’s all right there folks. Everything we are seeing and these rat bastards are trying to gaslight you into believing isn’t happening or “isn’t related” was 100% anticipated by the FDA in October. All of the clotting and coagulation. All of the heart damage. All of the female reproductive issues. All of the people dropping dead, either from heart attack or stroking out. All of the sick children – “Multisymptom Inflammatory Syndrome in Children” is a completely new term. And if you don’t know what Kawasaki Disease is: “Kawasaki disease is an illness that causes inflammation (swelling and redness) in blood vessels throughout the body. It happens in three phases, and a lasting fever usually is the first sign. The condition most often affects kids younger than 5 years old.”

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Actually I believe that MIS-C and Kawasaki disease were known before they rolled out the vaccines and both disorders can be caused by Covid.

Adverse effects from Pfizer’s vaccine were known before the FDA gave them emergency authorization and it’s still in effect even though there are treatments available. Not only ivermectin, but now 2 drugs from Pfizer and Merck which means that the emergency authorization should be ended. It’s the rule. Or law. The guy talking about the adverse effects said that they have real time surveillance of them, but they sure seem very quiet about addressing them!

As for the mandates I think it’s just the OSHA one that is on hold. Biden’s executive order for hospitals and government employees and contractors are still in effect.

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Submitted by studentofearth on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 1:55pm
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@snoopydawg key information points. In 2020 not every presentation was done by a public relations specialist.

There were multiple assurance implied at the time real patient outcomes would be considered as vaccines were rushed for Emergency Use.

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Submitted by ggersh on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 12:44pm
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https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/qy28nl/so_the_first_three...

So, the first three photos are from Vienna, earlier today. The next three are taken some time in the 1940’s.

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Submitted by studentofearth on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 2:24pm
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@ggersh It is worrisome to see increased intensity of controlling movements of a population in action. Some of the first Western countries of "papers please" have a dark past of behavior towards their citizens.

Austria is one of them.

With the economic crisis we know as the Great Depression (which swept the Nazis to power in Germany in 1933), Austria also got a fascist government complete with a dictator named Engelbert Dollfuss. He was as right-wing and anti-Semitic as the tyrant ruling Germany, but he was pro-Roman Catholic Church, pro-Habsburg, and anti-Nazi. When an Austrian Nazi assassinated Dollfuss in 1934, it was easy for the German Nazis to take over four years later. By that point, the Austrian fascists had already put down the leftists. The German Nazis just took over their Austrian counterparts’ file cabinets. And, Hitler promised greatness again…and jobs — something that has driven voters to support crazy political notions to this day.

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Submitted by ggersh on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 3:41pm
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@studentofearth And with the 5 eyes countries have been leading the way, Europe is now joining that club. It is unfathomable considering it wasn't that long ago they were destroyed by it.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 1:11pm
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to you still need to wear a mask to now if you want to stay safe you need to get a booster and wear a mask. What will they say next month?

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Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 7:11pm

@snoopydawg , in a sick way.

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Submitted by studentofearth on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 2:48pm
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Wuhan as the first location of infections.

Dissecting the early COVID-19 cases in Wuhan

Some key questions lie at the heart of investigations into the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, including what is known about the earliest COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, China, and what can be learned from them? Despite assertions to the contrary (1), it is now clear that live mammals susceptible to coronaviruses, including raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides), were sold at Huanan Market and three other live-animal markets in Wuhan before the pandemic (2, 3). Severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoVs) were found in raccoon dogs during the SARS outbreak, which was facilitated by animal-to-human contact in live-animal markets in China.
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Acknowledgments
Thanks to four anonymous reviewers and to A. Crits-Christoph, E. Holmes, D. Robertson, J. Wertheim, J. Pekar, K. Andersen, S. Goldstein, A. Rambaut, H. Mourant, D. Yang, L. Wang, S. Chen, C. Di, and Q. Jiang for assistance and discussions. The author is supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

There have also been several articles over the past months that do not fit with the hypothesis of first infections in Wuhan.

When Did The Coronavirus Outbreak Start? Italy Is Latest To Say Earlier Than Previously Thought (June 19, 2020)

Coronavirus traces found in March 2019 sewage sample, Spanish study shows (June 26, 2020)

How science demolishes the right-wing fiction of a Wuhan “lab leak” as the source of coronavirus (June 22, 2021)

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 4:27pm
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Earlier and not in China. I wonder if it’s the same gene as the one that hit China later. Plus we haven’t gotten an explanation of the weird lung disease in teenagers the spring of 2019 that just went away. Wonder if we ever will?

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Submitted by studentofearth on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 5:12pm
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@snoopydawg lung damage. Think information will be released after full access to the JFK papers or Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine File becomes available to the public.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 6:00pm
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Probably most definitely. I happen to have ‘Covid' lungs and no idea why I do. It was discovered by an X-ray when they were looking for why my heart was acting up. My oxygen levels drop below 90 at times but the test I had for breathing was normal. I had a stress test for my heart and passed with flying colors. I’m driving my doctor nuts because he can’t figure out what is happening.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 6:59pm

@snoopydawg Did you get an antibodies test? Maybe you had it, didn't know it.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 11/20/2021 - 7:31pm
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@on the cusp

I was going to say that I haven’t been sick, but I did have something a year ago but no fever, coughing or sneezing or anything else. Oh yeah I did get sick to my stomach but it always passed after relieving it of its contents. But I was coming off the morphine back then and I thought that’s all it was. I should get checked for it. If that’s what it was I’ve had flu worst than that. But I would think that if I had it bad enough to get the lung things I’d have had more trouble breathing. Or a cough. Never did. It’s a conundrum.

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