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Mask mandates: Do they work? Are there better ways to control covid-19 outbreaks?

Doug Badger and Norbert Michel
The Heritage Foundation
Sun, 27 Dec 2020 10:27 UTC
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A surge in COVID-19 cases in the United States and Europe has prompted calls for a national mask mandate here in America. Advocates of government edicts have asserted that these would bring the pandemic "under control" in a matter of weeks.

Public health officials here and throughout most of the world believe that mask-wearing has some value in reducing the rate at which the pandemic spreads. Accepting this premise, however, does not necessarily lead to the conclusion that government mask mandates will bring the contagion under control.

This Backgrounder examines the effects of mask mandates in the U.S. and Italy. While there is no national mask mandate in the U.S., many states and counties have imposed them. We (the authors) find that, of the 25 counties reporting the highest numbers of new cases during this latest surge, 21 had mask mandates in place since at least July.

Italy does have a national mask mandate that is backed by fines of up to 1,000 euros for non-compliance. We find that the mandate did not prevent a surge in cases in Italy that began in October, peaked in mid-November, and had not yet subsided in mid-December.

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Coronavirus "Jab & Go!" airline pushes vaccine gimmick to promote summer flights

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:01 UTC
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Ryanair leaves customers confused and angry.

Budget airline Ryanair is promoting the sale of summer flights with a "Jab & Go!" advertising gimmick despite having previously stated that it wouldn't require passengers to take a COVID vaccine before they fly.

Ryanair's website features a banner with the words 'BOOK SUMMER - VACCINES ARE COMING' alongside a generic image of a needle next to the words "Jab & Go!"

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Russian scientist working on COVID-19 vaccine plummets to death in St. Petersburg

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
New York Post
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 13:28 UTC
Alexander “Sasha” Kagansky

Alexander “Sasha” Kagansky
A prominent Russian scientist who was working on a COVID-19 vaccine was found dead with a stab wound after plummeting out his window in St. Petersburg, according to news reports.

Alexander "Sasha" Kagansky, 45, was in his underwear when he fell to his death from his 14th-floor apartment, according to the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets.

The scientist also suffered a stab wound, police said.

Comment: More from Mirror:

Scientist working on covid vaccine found dead with stab wounds after fall from building
Kelly-Ann Mills 22:21, 21 DEC 2020

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The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a murder probe and a 45-year-old male suspect has been detained.

Dr Kagansky - an assistant professor in Vladivostok - had been working in Edinburgh for 13 years until at least 2017.

He was Director of the Centre for Genomic and Regenerative Medicine at Russia's Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, where he continued research collaboration with the Scottish university.

MK reported that the academic had been "developing a vaccine against coronavirus " and that he died "under strange circumstances".

The report gave no further details about which of a number of international Covid-19 vaccines he was reported to have been working on.

He had gone to St Petersburg to visit the graves of his relatives, and had gone to see an old school friend, said one account.

Police believe there was a "scuffle" before Mr Kagansky fell, according to a report.

His body was found by a woman resident under a block on Saturday afternoon.

Law enforcement are investigating the circumstances of his death, say reports.

The committee said today a St Petersburg resident, aged 45, had been detained as a suspect, and a criminal case for murder had been opened following the discovery of the body "with signs of a violent death".

Between 2005 and 2012, he worked at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, as a postdoctoral research associate then a senior research associate.


The connection to Wellcome Trust indicates it was probably the AstraZeneca vaccine Kagansky was working on. See: Developers of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine tied to UK eugenics movement


He had recently received a Russian grant to study new ways of diagnosing and treating malignant brain tumours.

He was an advocate of research into the uses of herbs and mushrooms as potentially offering solutions in treating cancers.

Earlier he had studied and worked in the US.

In 1991 as the USSR collapsed he was the first Russian delegate to the European Youth Parliament.

He was also a member of Young Academy of Scotland.


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CDC issues new guidelines, launches probe after 1000s negatively-affected following COVID-19 vaccination


Zerohedge
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:45 UTC
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Thousands of people have been unable to work or perform daily activities, or required care from a healthcare professional, after getting the new COVID-19 vaccine, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

As of Dec. 18, 3,150 people reported what the agency terms "Health Impact Events" after getting vaccinated.

The definition of the term is: "unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to work, required care from doctor or health care professional."

As The Epoch Times' Zachary Stieber reports, the people reporting the negative effects reported them through V-safe, a smartphone application. The tool uses text messages and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins and allows users to quickly tell the CDC if they are experiencing side effects.

The CDC and Pfizer, which produces the vaccine with BioNTech, didn't respond to request for comments.

Comment: What should one expect from a super-rushed vaccine - that isn't even really a vaccine - but designed to ameliorate symptoms and not prevent the virus?!

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"Lockdown kills": LBC radio host argues 'public is being scared into backing another lockdown'


RT
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 22:54 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: Protesters take part in a march against coronavirus lockdown restrictions, in London, Britain.
LBC radio host and anti-extremism activist Maajid Nawaz has urged Brits not to be "scared" into supporting another coronavirus lockdown, arguing they do more harm than good - and then received widespread praise online.

On his LBC show on Monday, Nawaz - better known in the UK as an anti-Islamism activist and counter-extremism adviser - declared:

"Lockdown kills. It's as simple as that."

Questioning why the UK government has refused to release data on how many lives lockdowns are responsible for taking versus how many they save, Nawaz complained that it's a "simple question that should be quite easy to respond to."

Comment: See also: Estimating the True Magnitude of the Pandemic and Lockdown Deaths

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Rare Russia-US collaboration cracks drug smuggling network


RFE/RL
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:24 UTC
Russia Federal Security

The headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (file photo)
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has cut off an international drug-smuggling network through a collaboration with the United States, culminating in the seizure of about 1 billion rubles ($13.6 million) worth of cocaine.

The FSB said in a statement on its website on December 29 that the drug network stretched from South America to Russia, before the drugs were trafficked around Europe.

Video released by the FSB to Russian media showed plainclothes agents dragging suspects from cars as well as boxes of confiscated cash and drugs.
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Are micro-aggressions really a human rights violation?

Calum Anderson
New Discourses
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:33 UTC
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The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has addressed a letter to the principals and presidents of universities and colleges across the province after reports of racism and other human rights violations. Service providers in Ontario have obligations to their patrons under the Ontario Human Rights Code, and the Chief Commissioner of the OHRC is concerned that these obligations are not being met on campus.

The Commissioner points to several trends, procured from media reports, which point to the need for "more respectful, equitable, and inclusive" learning environments. The examples which are given include threats of violence, "Zoom-bombing" online meetings hosted by racialized students, the posting of racist images and comments in chat rooms, gratuitous use of the "N-word", and faculty microaggressions towards students.

Many of these problems appear to be stimulated not by a toxic academic environment but rather by a toxic online environment. It is effortless to conceal one's online identity, and anonymity gives bullies the courage to do and say what they like without fear of reprisal. If there have indeed been threats of violence on campus, racially motivated or otherwise, universities and colleges should condemn those actions and work with the police to ensure perpetrators are punished accordingly. Universities and colleges are not, however, in a position to regulate the internet. "Zoom-bombings" occur because faulty security mechanisms are easily bypassed by internet trolls. Again, online anonymity allows pathetic bullies to disrupt virtual meetings which their cowardice would not allow for in person.
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Saudi women's rights activist sentenced to nearly 6 years

Aya Batrawy
Yahoo
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:52 UTC
Loujain al-Hathloul
© Loujain al-Hathloul via AP
In this Nov. 30, 2014 image made from video released by Loujain al-Hathloul, al-Hathloul drives towards the United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia border before her arrest on Dec. 1 in Saudi Arabia.
One of Saudi Arabia's most prominent women's rights activists was sentenced Monday to nearly six years in prison, according to state-linked media, under a vague and broadly worded counterterrorism law. The ruling nearly brings to a close a case that has drawn international criticism and the ire of U.S. lawmakers.

Loujain al-Hathloul has already been in pre-trial detention and has endured several stretches of solitary confinement. Her continued imprisonment was likely to be a point of contention in relations between the kingdom and the incoming presidency of Joe Biden, whose inauguration takes place in January — around two months before what is now expected to be al-Hathloul's release date.

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Oregon Governor 'threatens to seize woman's kids' for keeping salon open during lockdown; salon owner suing

Bob Unruh
WND
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:33 UTC
Lindsey Graham and family
© Lindsey Graham
An Oregon woman and her salon corporation have filed a lawsuit seeking $100,000 in damages against Gov. Kate Brown and various other state officials for the governor's decision to sic social services on her and allegedly threaten to remove her children from home because she kept her business open during the coronavirus-pandemic lockdown.

The case brought in Circuit Court in Marion County by Lindsey Graham and her Glamour! company explains that the government "imposed heavy burdens on certain sectors of the economy, while other sectors of the economy - especially those that receive a paycheck from the government - have been let largely economically unaffected."

The burdens were the officials' reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.

To that end, the case claims, "In Oregon, the government forced small businesses [to] shut their doors and 'ride out' the [coronavirus] pandemic. The government imposed irrational and random restrictions on which businesses could remain open and which businesses had to close."
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Pennsylvania's certified election result for presidential race is WAY off: The error is twice the size of the difference between Trump and Biden

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 03:45 UTC
Trump and FRAUD Penn.
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After nearly two months, the state of Pennsylvania is found to have certified votes that are in error. What a mess. Republican State Representative Russ Diamond uncovered and reported today that the results for President are way off in Pennsylvania. More ballots were cast than people voted by more than 200,000 votes. This is more than twice the difference between President Trump and Joe Biden.
PA voter deficit stats
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