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We've reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect's consent. And these procedures aren't to nab kingpins or cartels, but people who at worst are hiding an amount of drugs that can fit into a body cavity. In most of these cases, they were suspected only of possession or ingestion. Many of them were innocent... But these tactics aren't about getting drugs off the street... These tactics are instead about degrading and humiliating a class of people that politicians and law enforcement have deemed the enemy. — Radley Balko, The Washington PostFreedom is never free.
If people want trustworthy rulers, honest politicians, they should always judge rulers, financial elites and politicians by their actions rather than by their words."By not giving space to top scientists in the field of vaccine technology, immunology or virology who express deep concerns, these outlets are in fact engaging in censorship as much as the mainstream media, Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube.
A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.And here, from the CDC's website:
Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.Encyclopedia Brittanica says more or less the same. As does dictionary.com. Cambridge University. Merriam Webster.
Comment: It was recently reported that Naegleria fowleri appears to be expanding its range northward, with 5 of 6 cases in the Midwest occurring after 2010.
Other concerning, and unusual, outbreaks reported in the news recently: