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Long Covid very rare for children & teens, Delta variant just as harmless for young people as other strains - study

Nina Massey
Indepdent.ie
Fri, 17 Sep 2021 02:30 UTC
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A boy undergoes a Covid test.
Long Covid symptoms rarely persist beyond 12 weeks in children and adolescents, unlike adults, new research suggests.

The review found existing studies on the condition in children and adolescents have major limitations.

Some do not show a difference in symptoms between those who have been infected with the virus and those who have not.


Comment: As was found in a study of adults, over 50% of those claiming to suffer Long Covid were thought to be just suffering symptoms of ill health more generally, and not from Long Covid: More than half of people with long Covid might NOT have 'long Covid' after all


It comes as research from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) in Australia found that after 10 months in circulation, the Delta variant had not caused more serious disease in children than previous variants and most cases remained asymptomatic or mild.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Covid-19/11



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Mr. Potato

US South Com roasted online after USAF birthday tweet used RUSSIAN warplane images by mistake


RT
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:01 UTC
USAF tweet South Com
© Twitter / @Southcom
The official Twitter account of US Southern Command is facing mockery after it posted a picture featuring silhouettes of Russian Sukhoi fighter jets to mark the US Air Force's birthday.

The simple graphics, posted on the occasion of the 74th birthday of the USAF, featured three top-down views of warplanes. The silhouettes don't feature much detail, but their tail sections strongly implied that the aircraft are not from the fleet normally deployed by the American armed forces. Instead, they strongly resemble Sukhoi Su-27 twin-jet fighters.

The apparent gaffe was met with a strong reaction on social media that leaned heavily towards mockery.

Comment: This repeated bungling and bizarre behaviour seems to reflect the deterioration, incompetence, and corruption overwhelming US institutions: Also check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: How Psychopaths Infect and Destroy Hierarchies of Competence

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Bizarro Earth

Weekend of gun violence in Chicago: 7 killed, 41 injured including 3-year-old boy


NBC Chicago
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 11:27 UTC
Chicago

FILE PHOTO
Four people have died and 41 others have sustained injuries, including a 3-year-old boy, in shootings so far this weekend across Chicago, according to police.

The first fatal shooting happened early Saturday morning at approximately 12:14 a.m. in the 1900 block of South St. Louis when a 29-year-old man and a 34-year-old man were shot, according to police.

The 29-year-old man was shot in the eye and arm and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. The 34-year-old man was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene.

Comment: This is the kind of violence one might expect to see in a country at war:

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Propaganda

Afghanistan: Security barriers being removed, females attending university but some in government positions told to stay home for now

Kathy Gannon
Independent.ie
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:36 UTC
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Some exceptions were made in Afghanistan's capital including for toilet attendants for women. Women march to demand their rights under Taliban rule during a demonstration near the former Women's Affairs Ministry building in Kabul, Afghanistan (AP)
Female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home, with work only allowed for those who cannot be replaced by men, the interim mayor of Afghanistan's capital said, detailing the latest restrictions on women by the new Taliban rulers.

The decision to prevent most female city workers from returning to their jobs is another sign that the Taliban, who overran Kabul last month, are enforcing their harsh interpretation of Islam despite initial promises by some that they would be tolerant and inclusive.


Comment: The interim government has been in power for but a brief perid, and, whilst the country has been declared as much safer than it was before, clearly more time needs to be given before one can consider their promises broken.


In their previous rule in the 1990s, the Taliban had barred girls and women from schools, jobs and public life.


Comment: And when the US ruled Afghanistan it resulted in the deaths of nearly half a million civilians.


Comment: The original title of this article was Female employees for Kabul city government told to stay at home, but clearly there's more to the story, and this is yet another Western outlet oblivious to the real struggles that Afghanistan is currently facing.

That said, Afghanistan has agreed to numerous desperately needed deals with China and Russia and should it fail to abide by its commitments, it's unlikely they will go ahead and the Taliban will have to answer to its people for depriving them of those opportunities. However, clearly more time is needed before any judgement can be made: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Russian parliamentary elections exit polls: Ruling party expected to win but Communist Party may slash majority - Evidence of vote tampering appears online


RT
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 18:07 UTC
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© Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik
A woman votes in the general election in Moscow, September 19, 2021.
Russia's ruling party is expected to return to government after voting closed in the country's parliamentary elections but, with exit polls predicting gains for the opposition, it is unclear if it will retain its 'super-majority'.

As the final ballots were recorded in Kaliningrad, the country's westernmost region, a federal exit poll conducted by research agency INSOMAR found support in United Russia, which attracted more than half of votes in the 2016 election, may have waned. Sampling a total of 438,218 people across 1,455 polling stations, it estimates that the party of government has attracted around 45% of the vote, some 10% lower than last time round.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), however, appears to be set to make substantial gains, with pollsters predicting it may have secured just over 21% of the vote - up from 13% in the previous election. This could mean that United Russia is able to form a government without depending on other parties for support, but that it may lose its so-called super majority that has allowed it to pass constitutional reforms unopposed.

Comment: Notably, just five days ago Russia exposed attempts by Western agencies to meddle in the election: Russia demands answers from US ambassador over 'election interference,' as Moscow says it has proof of 'serious' sabotage efforts

And other footage of alleged election tampering and meddling has come to light:




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Propaganda

Biden admin ban drones to stop coverage of migrant crisis, Fox News hires helicopter to expose scenes of 11,000 migrants waiting for entry


RT
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:49 UTC
haiti migrants
© AP Photo / Eric Gay
FILE PHOTO. Haitian migrants use a dam to cross to and from the United States from Mexico in Del Rio, Texas.
With a little help from state law enforcement, a Fox News correspondent overcame federal hurdles and took to the air over a migrant-sheltering Texas bridge, which had become a symbol of the border crisis for viewers.

The international bridge in Del Rio, Texas attracted national attention after drone footage showed thousands of people, most of them migrants from Haiti, flocking underneath it while they waited to be processed. Adding to the furore was a Thursday decision by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to ground all drones in the area for two weeks, citing "special security reasons." Critics of the Biden administration took it as a blatant attempt to downplay the situation.

Whether true or not, taking spectacular images of migrant crowds from air remains quite possible in Del Rio, as a Fox News correspondent proved on Saturday. Bill Melugin and his crew were given a ride by the Texas Department of Public Safety. State authorities are among those accusing the federal government of mishandling the migration crisis.

Comment: More revealing footage:



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Georgia hospital refuses to honor pleas from gravely ill couple to be treated with effective COVID protocols

Patrick Delaney
Life Site News
Thu, 16 Sep 2021 02:19 UTC
Vliet
© LifeSite/Screenshot The BL/YouTube
Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet
Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, President and CEO of the Truth for Health Foundation, excoriated a Georgia hospital that refused to consider specific, known to be very effective treatment protocols for a married couple dangerously failing from severe COVID-19 in the hospital.

"This is medical tyranny," said the independent physician to LifeSiteNews, "[it is] a huge violation of every tenant of medical ethics and legal rights of patients."

Joseph and Beverly Rickels, both in their mid-60s, were admitted to Piedmont Hospital on Sunday with a diagnosis of COVID pneumonia, according to their daughter Courtney Rimmer. While not being allowed to be present with her parents, she is their off-premises advocate and power of attorney. Due to the lack of effective treatments for pneumonia, Joseph has been put on end-of-life care and is expected to pass away within 24 hours.

Based on reports of disastrous results, and despite the hospital pressing them to do so, Joseph and Beverly each stipulated very strenuously that they did not want to be put on a ventilator. Having read extensively on the success of alternative treatments, they requested a different protocol than the one involving the controversial, extremely expensive Remdesivir which the hospital had put them on.

Even the normally routine use of antibiotics for pneumonia is claimed to have been refused for the couple, but finally administered yesterday in response to repeated pleas. The family also solicited a second opinion from Dr. Vliet, whose organization considered the case and recommended a protocol involving hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).

The hospital refused.

Comment: More doctors need to stand up and fight the system. If they don't there is no turning back from dictatorial medical practice and protocol:
Dr. Vliet said her research turned up a 2005 report "that Anthony Fauci's own agency had published in their own journal of virology," demonstrating that "hydroxychloroquine [and] chloroquine were potent antivirals of then SARS COV-1."

Vliet observed that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin had no serious side effects in her patients. Furthermore, she learned about experimental mRNA jab adverse effects, which she claims were far more harmful than previously thought.

The doctor added that she began receiving reports that the "COVID jabs" were "affecting the testicle [in men] and the ovary in women."
"Because I saw immediately that if we had data to show the female ovaries were damaged by the spike protein that the mRNA vaccines tricked your body to make, and if male testicles were damaged by the spike protein, we didn't just have a fertility problem, we had a long term health problem affecting all the other organ systems: the brain, the heart, the lungs, the bones, the muscles, the immune system, the gut. Everything in the body is regulated with the metabolic effects of these critical reproductive hormones."
She also had to treat those who had developed complications as a result of the jab, saying:
"And the risk of the medicines I was using was miniscule. So I didn't have any serious effects with hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. I didn't have those problems with the patients for the treatment, but I sure was seeing it after people got this experimental jab."
Furthermore, Vliet claims that the "coordinated government-media-big tech collusion" lies about the COVID vaccine's effectiveness to "drive people" to take it.
"And the tragedy of it is that people are being totally lied to when they are using the Delta variant as a reason to rush out to get the experimental COVID shot, because the COVID shots don't protect against the Delta variant. And the Delta variant is the mildest of all of them. It's like a bad cold."
She says that as viruses get more transmissible, they become less harmful, which is "basic virology 101." When questioned if there was any precedent for the suppression of medical information, Vliet replied:
"Never in my career, never ever has there been this degree of censorship across the board: medical boards, governors, media outlets, government agencies, health systems, hospitals, medical schools, research institutions."
When asked why she believes medical knowledge is being censored and suppressed, Vliet replied,
"There are 3 things that tend to motivate decisions like this: Money, power, and control.

"They are directing the money expenditures to healthcare to the highest cost settings, which are hospitals. So the hospitals are making a fortune with the high cost of taking care of people in the hospital. They're benefiting, big time.

"So people are blindly going into one of the largest experiments in human history, asking no questions, and that's not what they do in any other aspects of their lives. So the common sense thing to me is, why wouldn't you be asking these questions? And why wouldn't we as doctors ask these questions? It's irresponsible to ignore them."


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Communists, observers report violations in Russian election

Jim Heintz
Yahoo News
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:19 UTC
Putin Zyuganov
© AP/duma.gov.ru
Russian President Vladimir Putin casts his ballot at a polling station in Moscow, Russia
Communist Party head Gennady Zyuganov (inset)
The head of Russia's second-largest political party is alleging widespread violations in the election for a new national parliament, in which his party is widely expected to gain seats.

Communist Party head Gennady Zyuganov said on Saturday — the second of three days of voting in the election — that police and the national elections commission must respond to reports of "a number of absolutely egregious facts" including ballot-stuffing in several regions. The Golos election-monitoring movement and independent media also reported violations including vote-buying and lax measures for guarding ballots at polling stations.

The United Russia party, which is diligently loyal to President Vladimir Putin appears certain to retain dominance in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, but some projections suggest it could lose its current two-thirds majority, which is enough to change the constitution. The Communists are expected to pick up the biggest share of any seats lost by United Russia.

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No Entry

The horror of the Haitian migrant camp in Texas shows why America MUST end its woke approach to immigration

Micah CUrtis
RT
Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:00 UTC
Migrant crowd
© Twitter/@tedcruz
Migrants at Texas Border
With Joe Biden halting deportation flights to Haiti, a massive camp has been created under a Texas bridge with over 10,000 migrants. More crises are sure to follow unless the administration starts to take immigration seriously.

Joe Biden's administration has lurched from one embarrassment to another on immigration policy. From the unedifying spectacle of another 'kids in cages' controversy to the Supreme Court forcing the reinstatement of the 'Stay in Mexico' policy, and the empty platitudes of Kamala Harris' "do not come" speech, this administration has been completely lost on what to do. Now, after canceling deportation flights to Haiti, it has another humanitarian crisis on its hands, with a migrant detention camp underneath a border bridge swelling to more than 10,000 people.

It gets worse. The Federal Aviation Administration has imposed a no-fly zone for drones in the area after shocking footage of the migrants under the Texas bridge emerged. The no-fly zone will last for two weeks, with the FAA citing "special security reasons." That's really a roundabout way of saying that the US government was praying that this would go under the radar somehow, and didn't want media coverage.

Breitbart has now reported a law enforcement source within US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as saying that the agency will be shutting down all sector checkpoints to allow full staff reallocation to the bridge crisis. The makeshift camp is receiving hundreds of migrants per hour, and photographs suggest it is unfit to actually house human beings.

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Smoking

Pfizer recalls anti-smoking drug due to high levels of ingredient tied to increased risk of cancer

Jordan Williams
The Hill
Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:28 UTC
Pfizer
© Getty Images/KJN
Pfizer recalled its anti-smoking drug Chantix due to high levels of an ingredient that is tied to an increased risk of cancer.

In a notice posted to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) website on Thursday, Pfizer said it was recalling Chantix 0.5 mg and 1 mg tablets to the consumer level due to the presence of N-nitroso-varenicline.

Long term ingestion of N-nitroso-varenicline can be associated with a "theoretical potential increased cancer risk in humans," the notice said. However, there is no immediate risk to patients taking the drug.

The company said it is undertaking the recall as a precautionary measure, adding that the benefits of stopping smoking "outweigh the theoretical potential cancer risk from the nitrosamine impurity."

The company is recalling all lots of the drug that were distributed to wholesalers and distributors in the U.S., US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico from May 2019 to September.

In a Friday update, the FDA said patients should continue taking their medicine until their pharmacists provides a replacement or their doctors prescribe a different treatment.

Comment: Smoking has multiple benefits that include a possible buffer to Covid. As for Pfizer's Chantix recall, nothing like curing an unsupported cancer risk with a proven one! In the meantime, the company profited until someone figured it out.

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