Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis
Abstract
Many countries across the globe utilized medical and non-medical facemasks as non-pharmaceutical intervention for reducing the transmission and infectivity of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Although, scientific evidence supporting facemasks’ efficacy is lacking, adverse physiological, psychological and health effects are established. Is has been hypothesized that facemasks have compromised safety and efficacy profile and should be avoided from use. The current article comprehensively summarizes scientific evidences with respect to wearing facemasks in the COVID-19 era, providing prosper information for public health and decisions making.
Why I Won’t Take the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine — a Scientist’s Perspective
Ken Biegeleisen, M.D., Ph.D., explains why he believes Johnson & Johnson cannot guarantee its COVID vaccine won’t alter your genetic code.
Seems that in many, perhaps most viral infections, integration of viral DNA into the host cells is a very real possibility. When this occurs, there is absolutely no way to “guarantee” that the genetic code of the host cell will not be re-written.
The question then arises: If this is the case, why do vaccine manufacturers “assure” us that their marginally tested products are genetically “safe?”
I would suggest three possible explanations, all equally reprehensible:
- It may be that the scientists in these companies simply do not know the history of this field. What can one say? “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
- It may be that anything in industry which does not improve the quarterly profit report is at great risk of being ignored.
- It may be that calling a new vaccine “safe,” in the pharmaceutical world, means little more than that the company has the legal resources to deal with any liability claims that arise.
Idaho Legislature Considers Absorbing Part Of Oregon
ZeroHedge – A group of Oregon residents want their rural counties to be absorbed by Idaho, to throw off the control Portland exerts on a very different area of the state. Two counties have already voiced majority support for the idea in ballot initiatives.
The latest step for the organizations Move Oregon’s Border and Citizens for a Greater Idaho, was to present the idea to House and Senate committees in the Idaho legislature.The former house speaker of Oregon, who lives in one of the counties that want out, joined the movement’s leader to help pitch the plan.
In order to move the border, both Oregon and Idaho legislatures would have to approve the plan, as would the US Congress. Even the groups’ leaders admit that’s a long shot, but said, “When the 13 colonies got together, it was a long shot.”
And that spirit of freedom is what the movement wants to capture— escaping what they see as a tyrannical state government which does not represent the interests of the rural sections of the state.
What this means:
Don’t count on this movement becoming a reality. But what’s interesting is that the reorganization of political jurisdictions is being taken more seriously. The Idaho legislature’s willingness to consider it certainly lends the movement some credibility.
Plenty of groups around the world are fighting for more political autonomy and independence from centralized governments that do not represent them.
If just one of these long shot groups has its way, the precedent could lead to a domino effect.
State Department To Put 80% of all Countries on Do Not Travel List Due to COVID-19
Truth Unmuted – The US State Department is planning to issue Level 4: Do Not Travel advisories to around 80% of all countries due to coronavirus.
The press release from the Office of the Spokesperson states:
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose unprecedented risks to travelers. In light of those risks, the Department of State strongly recommends US citizens reconsider all travel abroad.
The memo goes on to indicate that the updated advisory is due to increased reliance on epidemiological assessments from CDC, not the actual health situation of individual countries stating:
This does not imply a reassessment of the current health situation in a given country, but rather reflects an adjustment in the State Department’s Travel Advisory system to rely more on CDC’s existing epidemiological assessments.
Measures like this do not help instill confidence in COVID-19 “vaccines” and seem to demonstrate they are not worth their salt. If they adequately protected one from infection and transmission (which vaccines are supposed to do) then travel restrictions would be pointless. Instead, this Level 4 advisory seems like a convenient way to lock down the population right before the summer vacation season by strongly discouraging travel abroad.
“This is Martial Law”—US Soldiers Force Women from Car at Gunpoint for Pumping Gas Past Curfew
Free Thought Project – Minneapolis, MN — On April 11, 2021, just miles from where George Floyd took his last breaths on Earth as they were squeezed from his body by officer Derek Chauvin, Daunte Wright was targeted by police over an alleged expired tag. Because the American police state is a violent behemoth which knows no self-restraint, a few moments into the stop and Wright would be killed at the hands of those who claim to protect him.
The unjust nature of Wright’s death sparked massive backlash in the form of protests and riots leading to Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis declaring a state of emergency.
With the curfew implemented and hundreds of protesters arrested for simply being outside too late, the unrest tapered off last week. However, videos have surfaced showing some rather shocking scenes unfold as Minneapolis and the surrounding areas turned into an outright militarized police state.
Even folks who were not involved in the protests have been rounded up under what many are saying appears to be martial law. Over the weekend, video surfaced of the heavy handed militarized tactics being used by both police and military who were called in to quell the unrest. It is nothing short of shocking.
According to the person who posted the video, several women, not affiliated with the protests, were attempting to gas up their vehicle — apparently after curfew — when heavily armed soldiers surrounded their car. The soldiers then ordered the women from the car with AR-15 rifles pointed at their heads.
As the completely harmless women, one of them in yoga pants, are ordered out of the vehicle, they are then forced to kneel on the ground with their hands on their heads. The scene was akin to a raid on the Taliban in Kabul, but happened in Minneapolis, and instead of the Taliban, it was innocent women in yoga pants.
Naturally, the footage has sparked criticism online with many comparing the scene to martial law.
“Whoever ordered this idiocy shld be unceremoniously & summarily removed from office. Arresting ppl at a MN gas station—pointing military grade assault rifles in their faces—is just outrageous. No elected official shld ever get away w this,” one Twitter user wrote.
“When there is widespread civil unrest, a state basically has 2 options: 1 – make a few concessions to public demands, or 2 – use tyrannical force to quell the unrest. And it’s quite obvious the direction our ruling class wants to go as public anger and despair continues to grow,” another tweet read.
Predictably, the debate online devolved into Twitter users blaming Donald Trump or Joe Biden — depending on which side of the political trough they choose to feed. Unfortunately both of them miss the point as this militarized police state is bipartisan. It was here long before Trump and began ramping up under George W. Bush during antiwar protests and came to a head under Obama during the Ferguson unrest.
There was one difference, however and some folks pointed out how the mainstream media didn’t even pick this story up at all now that Trump is out of office.
“This is the “return to normalcy” people were wanting. Because last year….whats happening in Minnesota, Portland, and Chicago right now would be on every news station and would be the top topics on Twitter. But now that the orange man is gone….we can talk about Cats again,” wrote one Twitter user.
Though this person is likely pro-Trump, his point holds merit. The national guard ordering women out of their car at gunpoint for pumping gas after curfew is most assuredly a national story — yet we couldn’t find a single mainstream media outlet who covered it.
When you watch the video , remember as the mainstream media fills the airwaves with divisive propaganda, they are choosing not to show Americans the massive police state being constructed around them.
Still Believe Digital Vaccine Passports Are Something Made Up By Conspiracy Theorists?
Organic Prepper – In my past articles I wrote about Digital Vaccine Passport pilot programs in New York, global announcements and along the same lines, health passports and vaccine passport apps in which a traveler (or event goer, employee, or shopper) uploads their COVID-19 test results or vaccination status.
Unless the EU Parliament suddenly became enamored with conspiracy theorists, that is exactly what is going to happen.
The EU announces the Digital Vaccine Passport proposal
In March, the European Commission opened a proposal to create a “Digital Green Certificate” to allow travel inside the EU during the “pandemic.”
This Digital Green Certificate would serve as a documentation that a person has been vaccinated for COVID, received a negative test for COVID, or has recovered from it. It will include a QR Code to ensure the authenticity and security of the certificate and will be made free of charge in paper or digital form.
The Digital Green Certificate will have three certificates included within it including:
- Vaccination certificates, stating brand of the vaccine used, data and place of inoculation and number of doses administered.
- Negative test certificates (either a NAAT/RT-PCR test or a rapid antigen test). Self-tests will be excluded for the time being.
- Medical certificates for people who have recovered from COVID-19 in the last 180 days.
According to Euro News,
“Where member states accept proof of vaccination to waive certain public health restrictions such as testing or quarantine, they would be required to accept, under the same conditions, vaccination certificates issued under the Digital Green Certificate system,” the Commission said in a statement.
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The instrument will be valid in all EU countries and will be open for Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway as well as Switzerland. It will be issued to EU citizens and their family members, regardless of their nationality.
Other countries are following suit in the Digital Vaccine Passport scheme
But while the EU debates what sort of technology to use and what parameters will be included, various European countries are taking matters into their own hands, choosing instead to create their own versions of a vaccine passport, all varying between each country. For instance, Estonia is planning to launch its own pilot program at the end of April. France is doing the same.
In addition, the World Health Organization, who recently opposed the creation of a vaccine passport, is now working to do just that. And they are all working with the usual suspects – Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM and a host of other corporations. What is more likely is that European countries will all implement different versions of the passport and, in the midst of chaos, the EU will have to step and standardize the process. The WHO will likely lead the charge in implementing the process worldwide.
UK Border Force may link Covid-19 paperwork to ePassports to avoid airport overcrowding
RT – British airports are facing dangerous overcrowding when international travel is reopened next month, and one way to deal with it is to resume the use of e-gates, which can automatically check Covid-19 paperwork.
The ePassport gates were closed in Britain in February as part of a series of restrictive measures taken by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government to curb the coronavirus. There is a plan to reopen them within months, but it will require linking the health paperwork necessary to enter the country to travel documents, the Times reported on Tuesday.
Entering the UK will require a passenger locator form, a negative test for Covid-19 and proof of two more tests booked during quarantine. The proposed database integration will link those documents to a traveller’s passport so that they can be verified by automated border control.
RT – A representative of the UK’s immigration service has told MPs that border officials are spotting around 100 fake certificates, which are required as proof of testing negative for Covid-19, every day.
On Tuesday, Lucy Moreton of the Immigration Services Union (ISU), which represents border immigration and customs staff in the UK, told MPs of the practical challenges in implementing the government’s strategy for preventing people with Covid-19 from entering the country.
Moreton said that vaccine certificates were proving “very easy” to forge and that, in many cases, officers simply had no way of checking whether the documents were indeed real. Asked how agents verified the documents, she said “it’s predominantly taken on trust,” adding: “We do get 100 or more a day of fake Covid certificates – that we catch.”
Moreton said that of the 20,000 people entering the UK every day, most of them were hauliers.
Farmers Warn That A Megadrought In The Western U.S. Threatens To Cause Devastating Crop Failures In 2021
Activist Post – Throughout U.S. history, there have always been droughts in the western half of the country from time to time, but what we are dealing with now is truly alarming. Scientists tell us that a multi-year “megadrought” has developed in the southwestern portion of the country, and this is the worst year of that “megadrought” so far by a wide margin. If conditions do not radically improve soon, we are going to have a major agricultural disaster on our hands. Some farmers have already decided not to plant crops at all this year, but many others have decided to plant anyway knowing that if enough rain doesn’t come their crops will certainly fail.
As I have discussed previously, the epicenter of this “megadrought” is the Four Corners region in the Southwest, but this drought is so immense it is even causing nightmares for farmers as far away as North Dakota.
In fact, the first few months of this year were the driest that North Dakota has seen in 126 years…
The period of January to March 2021 was the driest in 126 years for North Dakota. Farmers are starting to make difficult decisions on planting and culling herds as the governor of the state declared a statewide drought disaster on April 8. Soil moistures across the state, particularly in western portions of North Dakota, are lacking sufficient moisture to sustain normal crop development growth. The first eight days of April 2021 offered little help as hot, summer-like temperatures, gusty winds, and low humidity across the state accelerated drying conditions.
Derek Chauvin trial judge warns that Maxine Waters’s comments ‘may result in this whole trial being overturned’
Marketwatch – Chauvin’s defense attorney argues Waters’s call to ‘get more confrontational’ intimidated the jury; judge suggests this could be used in an appeal
The jury in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began deliberating the case late Monday afternoon. But a California congresswoman’s comments over the weekend may have already opened the door for the defense to appeal if Chauvin is found guilty of killing George Floyd last year.
Rep. Maxine Waters was asked about the trial over the weekend, while she was with protestors at Brooklyn Center, Minn., where Daunte Wright was killed by a police officer last week. “I hope that we’re going to get a verdict that says guilty-guilty-guilty,” she said in comments that went viral. “And if we don’t, we cannot go away.”
When reporters asked her what protesters should do if Chauvin is found not guilty in Floyd’s death, she responded: “We’ve got to stay on the street. And we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.”
Chauvin’s attorney, Eric Nelson, claimed that Waters’s remarks could be seen as jury intimidation while arguing for a mistrial, describing the congresswoman as “threatening acts of violence in relation to this specific case” and claiming that the Chauvin trial coverage has been so pervasive, it is impossible for the jurors not to have been “tainted” by it.
And while Judge Peter Cahill denied the motion for mistrial, he did say this: “I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned.”
The judge also called out politicians who have continued to publicly comment on the Chauvin trial in an “abhorrent” and “disrespectful” manner.
“I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function,” he said, putting emphasis on “talking.”
He called on politicians to “respect their coequal branch of government,” and called their failure to do so “abhorrent.”
U.S. Constitution Expired. California Exemptions Revoked. Natural Law Stands
Nature of Healing – No Shot No Public School
According to a notice from the State of California Department Health and Human Services, all medical exemptions for children attending state public schools are now revoked and no longer valid. Specifically, medical exemptions that meet two conditions under the amended law eliminates a parent’s ability to exempt their children from one, some, or all vaccines, at the start of coming school year, January 1, 2021-2022 (or September 1, 2021, for child care facilities).
In a shaming ritual some call a witch hunt, The California DPH “disciplined” a group of medical doctors and publicly black-listed them by name and license number. More than 8500 doctors are listed in a 92-page document found here. If a doctor who wrote a child’s exemption is on the list, or was disciplined in some small way, that child’s medical exemption will not be considered valid for the next school year.
Moreover, public health officials will have the power to call the shots in schools that have less than a 95% vaccination rate, and revoke exemptions they consider illegitimate. Why 95%? To achieve community immunity, the new herd immunity, as defined by government entities. Has Herd Immunity been redefined to favor mass vaccination programs?
In 2015, SB277 was the first of two California bills that led to the end of religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions in state public and private schools. Home School and medical exemption remained the only recourse for parents who chose not to vaccinate their children for any reason. In one fell swoop, the government system abolished both parental rights and informed consent for medical procedures, along with a respect for the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship.
Law 101
The trampling of natural rights by government entities represents the paradox of “government rights,” which do not exist.
Governments can only grant privileges, which can be altered or abolished, at the whim of government. Whether a government revokes exemptions or revokes a doctor’s medical license, government is regulating behavior. Are officials also practicing medicine without a license by interfering in healthcare decisions? According to Black’s Law Dictionary, a license is:
A permission, accorded by a competent authority, conferring the right to do some act which without such authorization would be illegal, or would be a trespass or a tort.
Natural rights do not come from government. Natural rights are inherent by birthright, granted by the Creator. Natural rights are embodied. To keep them they must be defended.
The Charters of Freedom that protect natural rights are documents written by men that fall under Man’s Law. They include The Declaration of Independence ad the U.S. Constitution. They are metaphorical shields that lay out the terms of how government is established to protect natural rights and freedoms. Government is not instituted to usurp rights and freedoms.
The Declaration of Independence holds that:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
The United States Constitution is another “Charter of Freedom,” written to ensure inherent rights of the people.
However, there are two problems with these documents, which explains why governments ignore their stated protections today.
- The Declaration of Independence contain five words … the consent of the governed… that means a government’s legitimacy to use state power is only justified and lawful when consented to by the people or society over which that political power is exercised. As long as the people do not call government officials out for their unlawful actions, those actions stand.
- The United States Constitution is not perpetual law. It is no longer binding, because it expired in 1808.
The U.S. Constitution is Null and Void
The Charters of Freedom were written with the intention of the authors for the time of their signing. They were not intended to be valid indefinitely.
In a letter written to James Madison from Paris after the French Revolution had broken out, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) wrote that any Constitution expires after 19 years and must be renewed if it is not to become “an act of force and not of right”:
The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water… (But) between society and society, or generation and generation there is no municipal obligation, no umpire but the law of nature. We seem not to have perceived that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independant nation to another… On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation… Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19. years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right.
Thus, the American Constitution lapsed and became null and void in 1808.
In Jefferson’s mind, “no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law”. The only “umpire” between the generations was the law of nature.”
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