1. When it comes the semantics of what constitutes a pandemic, unfortunately they have been made important by the existence of the Pandemic Preparedness apparatus, including the WHO accord and IHR revisions. That’s the only context in which the definition of a pandemic is important. A very broad definition, which includes pathogens that are mild, is of no use to man or beast absent that context, and irremediably perilous within it. The Covid policy response has proven that.
2. Under a sensibly narrow definition, Covid was not a pandemic. Controlling for misattribution and iatrogenic harms, its fatality rate was negligible.
3. Under any definition, the excess mortality witnessed in a few places during the Covid phenomenon was not caused by a pandemic, but by policy. The real phenomenon was a mass casualty event, not a pandemic.
4. It is extremely unlikely that a pandemic, narrowly defined, can occur. In our integrated world we don’t encounter pathogens that are novel in the sense of immune naivety, because pathogens are related to one another, and we enjoy rich immune cross-reactivity from prior exposure to related endemic ones. Even the cleverest lab scientists can’t cook up entirely new ones.
The validity of points 1 to 3 above in no way depends upon point 4 being valid. So I reject the Pandemic Preparedness construct and view pandemics as not presenting a real threat. Preparation for them is akin to preparing for invasion by the flying spaghetti monster. I cannot prove that he doesn’t exist, but I think anyone who spends a cent on that project is a dangerous lunatic.
And for clarity, even if none of the above four points are valid, all of the mandates involved in the Covid policy response were moral obscenities never to be repeated under any circumstances whatsoever.
Tag: law
Ban on guns in post offices is unconstitutional, US judge rules
Jan 13 (Reuters) – A federal judge in Florida on Friday ruled that a U.S. law that bars people from possessing firearms in post offices is unconstitutional, citing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2022 that expanded gun rights.
Ayala, a U.S. Postal Service truck driver in Tampa, had a concealed weapons permit and kept a Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun in a fanny pack for self-defense, his lawyers said.
He was indicted after prosecutors said he brought the gun onto Postal Service property in 2012.
Mizelle said that while post offices have existed since the nation’s founding, federal law did not bar guns in government buildings until 1964 and post offices until 1972. No historical practice dating back to the 1700s justified the ban, she said.
Mizelle said allowing the federal government to restrict visitors from bringing guns into government facilities as a condition of admittance would allow it to “abridge the right to bear arms by regulating it into practical non-existence.”
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‘Every real estate developer everywhere does this’: Kevin O’Leary reacts to Trump civil fraud case
Stephen Miller on Illegals Voting
Surely you cannot be this obtuse. I hope your ignorance is feigned and not sincere.
In all 50 states in America — as a result of preposterous judicial rulings — illegal aliens and millions of other ineligible noncitizens — can register to vote merely by checking a box on a federal form declaring that they are citizens.
This attestation is not validated or verified in any way prior to voting, nor inspected or checked in any way subsequent to voting. It functions entirely on the honor system.
We are expecting the same people who dishonored our sovereign border to honor the integrity of a piece of paper.
In other words, we are to believe that millions of people who have collectively violated the law millions of times (illegal entry, smuggling, harboring, illegal overstay, social security fraud, identity theft, illegal work, failure to pay taxes, etc.) will not check a mere box on a form because that too is illegal! (Knowing full well their assertion will be accepted without any further scrutiny whatsoever).
We are truly the first society in all history with a completely open border combined with no citizenship verification for voting. (Not to mention the ability to vote remotely via mail or drop box for weeks at a time or, in several states, third party collection of mail ballots).
Can you honestly defend such a system?
You know full well these gaping vulnerabilities are all by design: hence the virulent opposition by progressives to any form of election integrity (and ruthless targeting of election integrity advocates).
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England and Wales ban on XL Bully dog breed to take effect Sunday
A controversial ban on XL Bully dogs is set to come into force in England and Wales on Sunday, following a September announcement by the UK government amid a rise in fatal attacks involving the breed in the country.
The breed was added in September to the list of dogs banned in England and Wales under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.
According to the UK government’s website, starting December 31 it will be against the law to sell, abandon or let stray, give away and breed from an XL Bully dog, as well as to have an XL Bully in public without a lead and muzzle.
Under the new law, owners will have until February 1 to register them, as it will be a criminal offense to own a dog of that breed in England and Wales without a certificate of exemption.
The ruling does not apply to Scotland and Northern Ireland, with local media in the two constituent countries reporting an increase of rescues of the breed from England and Wales as a result.
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Maine State Medical Board exhibits total lack of brains or ethics — Dr Meryl Nass railroaded again
The doctor-patient relationship is the heart and soul of rational medicine and the legal foundation of American medicine. Apparently the Maine board—which has grossly overstepped its bounds—wants patients to be as ignorant as they are and do no research and make no effort to arrive at a reasonable decision in consultation with their physician. I hope Nass sues them into oblivion, not for the money but to annihilate this nonsense. ABN
Thread on January 6 Capitol Police Camera 0903
Mike Yeadon on Robert Malone ‘full fake mode’
Malone is in full on fake mode.
He knows these aren’t regulated pharmaceutical products at all but countermeasures under a public health emergency.
It’s not a side issue.
For proof, see Substacks of Katherine Watt and Sasha Latypova.
There is zero possibility that Malone doesn’t know this.
His articles are locked to paying subscribers. How very convenient.
If there are any such subscribers here, perhaps you would be so kind as to copy / paste this comment there?
Many thanks
Mike
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I am posting this because: 1) it appears to be from Mike Yeadon; 2) the message is correct, the vaxxes legally are countermeasures; 3) it is not just Malone who is doing this, many of the other critics of covid policy are doing it as well; 4) it is possible all of these critics are just saying what is easiest for people to hear, but it is also possible they have formed a ‘limited hangout’ to misdirect the public and other researchers away from the roles of DoD and NSA who bear ultimate responsibility for the US covid response and the vax countermeasure. Who among those people is doing it knowingly and who unknowingly? According to Yeadon, Malone knows. ABN
Ivor Cummins on Ireland’s new Hate-Speech Law
Texas sues Pfizer over vax inefficacy and censorship
Well and good, but ultimate responsibility for the entire US covid response, including the vaxxes, lies with NSA and DoD. Big Pharma and the CDC & FDA can legitimately claim they were following orders because they were. The covid vaxxes are legally ‘countermeasures’, which connotes they were designed to counter the covid virus bioweapon.
At some point the shroud of national security will fully obscure all of this, including the causes, the agency, and the thinking behind the covid vaxxes and the mandates which coerced their uptake. I do not believe we will ever know who in particular was responsible for the covid response just as we do not know, even today, who in particular is running the Biden administration or who in particular really controls USA. ABN
Derek Chauvin’s furious mother breaks her silence over his brutal prison stabbing which has left her ‘worried and scared’ as she slams wardens for keeping her in the dark
Derek Chauvin‘s mom has blast authorities for keeping her in the dark after the former Minneapolis police officer was stabbed by another inmate.
Carolyn Pawlenty, 75, said that she learnt her 47-year-old son had been left in need of ‘lifesaving measures’ through the media on Friday and condemned the Bureau of Prisons for failing to contact her.
Chauvin’s lawyer said the failure to inform them of his attack and update them on his condition was ‘completely unacceptable,’ describing it as a damning indictment of the state of the prison.
Chauvin is believed to be recovering in a Tucson hospital, although his attorney, Gregory M. Erickson, said they had no idea where he was.
‘I can’t even think what to say,’ Pawlenty added.
‘I haven’t been to bed and made a path in my kitchen and living room floor by pacing. I am worried and scared.’
Chauvin is not guilty of murder and should not be in jail and either the president or governor should pardon him immediately. ABN
NYPD cops leave force in alarming rate — over 2,500 turned in badges so far in 2023
New York’s Finest continue to bolt from the job at an alarming rate, according to new data obtained by The Post — and some cops worry the exodus will only get worse because the city plans to cancel the next five Police Academy classes, shrinking the nation’s largest police force to the smallest its been in decades.
A total of 2,516 NYPD cops have left so far this year, the fourth highest number in the past decade and 43% more than the 1,750 who hightailed it in 2018, before the pandemic and crime spikes hit the city, NYPD pension data show.
The number of cops quitting before they reach the 20 years required to receive their full pensions also skyrocketed from 509 in 2020 to 1,040 so far this year — an alarming 104% increase, the data show.
The years of departures and lack of replacements are now taking a toll, forcing the cops who remain on the job to work “inhumane amounts of forced overtime,” Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said.
Look what happened to Derek Chauvin. Would you keep the job? Military has similar problems. Why fight for an occupying government that acts like an enemy and is not representative of anyone’s interests but their own? ABN
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