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"I believe in immunizations, "however I do legitimately have concerns about a bureaucrat making a decision that is very personal."Kennedy wrote in a Facebook post:
"We don't measure character or leadership by a commander's posture during moments of comfort, but by his willingness to stand against the tides and storms of collective opinion during eras of controversy and hysteria. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has just passed that test with his wise and sober opposition to a draconian proposal to forcibly vaccinate medically fragile children against the wishes of their parents and the medical advice of their physician.Newsom told reporters at the 2019 California Democratic Party convention in regards to a proposed bill to require the Department of Public Health to approve every request for a medical exemption to a child's immunization schedule:
"He expressed his concern about giving faceless government officials (with no medical training) veto power over vaccine exemptions deemed medically necessary by a child's doctor. Gavin argued that those decisions should be made between patients and doctors without government involvement."
"I like doctor-patient relationships. Bureaucratic relationships are more challenging for me. I'm a parent. I don't want someone that the governor appointed to make a decision for my family."
"This bill will give local control back to the districts — not mandating they do, not mandating they don't. They make the decision of what they think is best for their constituents in their communities."Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed portions of the bill, which gives local school boards the authority to make masking decisions, but was quickly overridden by the Republican-led legislature. The bill also affects childcare centers.
"This bill ... is really a life-and-death bill. If we eliminate mask mandates, then we are putting all children and all school personnel at severe risk."Republican Rep. John Blanton said the bill removes a "one-size-fits-all" approach:
"We are not taking masks away from your children today. Masks are still part of the tools that's provided for each and every school district across this state."The bill also aims to keep children in the classroom as much as possible by limiting remote instruction to a particular school or classroom - instead of the entire district - when there's an outbreak. Another bill passed Thursday night bans statewide mask mandates, also leaving that power to local governments and businesses.

Normal people must develop a level of patience beyond the ken of anyone living in a normal man's system just in order to explain what to do and how to do it to some obtuse mediocrity of a psychological deviant who has been placed in charge
of some project that he cannot even understand, much less manage. This special kind of pedagogy - instructing deviants
while avoiding their wrath - requires a great deal of time and effort, but it would otherwise not be possible to maintain tolerable
living conditions and necessary achievements in the economic area or intellectual life of a society.
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During the initial shock, the feeling of social links between normal people fade. After that has been survived, however, the
overwhelming majority of people begin to manifest their own phenomenon of psychological immunization. Society simultaneously starts collecting practical knowledge on the subject of this new reality and its psychological properties.
Normal people slowly learn to perceive the weak spots of such a system and utilize the possibilities of more expedient arrangement of their lives. They begin to give each other advice in these matters, thus slowly regenerating the feelings of social links and reciprocal trust. A new phenomenon occurs: separation between the pathocrats and the society of normal people. The latter have an advantage of talent, professional skills, and healthy common sense. They therefore hold certain very advantageous cards.

Comment: This is just the latest in a long list of fires and explosions to occur in recent months. Whilst the causes are unlikely to be the same in every case, with human error and shoddy construction to amongst them, the sheer number of incidents, at factories, at hospitals, and involving oxygen tanks and gas, does rouse one's curiosity:
- Huge explosion & fire underneath tube station in London (28th June)
- Fire at martial arts centre in China kills 18, mostly children (25th June)
- Scottish Dark Sky Observatory destroyed in suspicious fire (24th June)
- Fire at medical marijuana lab in Italy kills 1, injures 3 (8th May)
- Massive fire breaks out at Ambernath chemical factory, India (8th May)
- Fire rips through flat in Canary Wharf tower block which reportedly has same cladding as deadly Grenfell fire (7th May)
- 82 dead in fire after 'oxygen tanks explode' at Covid hospital in Iraq (25th April)
- Fire kills 55,000 animals at one of Germany's biggest pig farms (1st April)
- Massive explosion hits Balongan oil refinery in Indonesia (29th March)
See also: SOTT Exclusive: The growing threat of underground fires and explosions