Paradigms and Demographics: Coronavirus

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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Covid Lies and the Human Consequences

By Rich Kozlovich

When the covid scare emerged I said it was scare mongering, and the stats were being manipulated, and we know they were. There was no need for social distancing, masks, and a demand, .... demand mind you.... that everyone get the shots.

Shots that were not vaccines, since they changed the definition for vaccines. Heretofore forever a vaccine had to immunize you and prevent transmission. These compound do neither, and worse yet, they're having a deadly impact on humanity, and there can be no Forgiveness For Covid Tyrants? Not in This Lifetime! Part III.

I've stated over and over again the impact of these gene manipulating chemical compounds will be devastating to humanity for decades, and every week more information comes out to prove that to be true. All the while there were effective alternatives the medical, academic, pharmaceutical industry, and the government lied about, and vaccine skeptics are the true critical thinkers.

The Hydroxychloroquine Crime By Leo Goldstein July 20, 2024 - More than four years ago, Democrat leaders colluded with the WHO (as part of the wannabe global government) and Big Tech to perpetrate a horrific crime: the denial of access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and other lifesaving COVID-19 treatments. The primary purpose was to legalize fraud-ridden voting by mail and seize power following the 2020 elections. Once in power, the perpetrators were able to cover up this crime even though it is ongoing. The FDA continues to reject HCQ and the even less controversial ivermectin (IVM). Instead, it pushes the harmful and dangerous quasi-vaccine. The number of direct deaths from COVID-19 has exceeded one million in the U.S. alone. Almost all of these deaths could have been avoided using HCQ- or IVM-based treatment. If not for the unusually mild omicron variant, the death count could be tens of millions.

Actress Patricia Heaton Rips ‘Fear-Mongering’ Media Election Coverage We Need to Pray’ for Traumatized Head-Shaving Women -We must make public-health authorities accountable for their COVID lies . The “public health” response to COVID has been awful. Ever since cases first appeared in Wuhan, the reaction has been marked by mistakes, reversals, outright lying and even political manipulation. We need a thorough accounting.

Mistakes are forgivable. In the early days, everything we knew came from the Chinese government, and while we now know that Beijing lies about everything, we knew less then. In fact, it not only lied about the disease’s origins, its nature and its spread, it kept the Wuhan airport open for weeks, allowing (deliberately?) the disease to take hold all over the planet before anyone else knew it was coming.....mistakes are inevitable and.... forgivable......... reversals aren’t necessarily bad. You make a decision based on what you know. Later you know more.......But lies and political manipulation are different. Those are a betrayal of trust, and they’re especially serious because trust is the public-health community’s greatest asset. The record here has been terrible, and we need investigation and accountability.

Many years ago a worldwide outrage erupted over thalidomide, a drug given to pregnant women to help with morning sickness, however it caused birth defects. How many children were impacted. Less that 15,000, and it was a worldwide scandal. These false vaccine genetically manipulating compounds is our thalidomide era, only it will negatively impact millions, and for decades to come, and we need to be outraged.

Fraud and lies, and someone.... actually a lot of someones.... need to go to jail over this.

What's really behind all of this? Greed, financial corruption and a tyrannical worldwide system of governance under the auspices of the most corrupt and incompetent organization the world has ever known, the UN.

Monday, December 23, 2024

Absolute vs Relative Risk

An exceptionally important medical statistic

John Droz jr. Dec 20, 2024 @ Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues

In my last commentary, one of several key things I am recommending that RFKjr fix in the FDA, is how they portray effectiveness (of drugs, vaccines, etc.) to the public. Currently, the effectiveness that is almost exclusively shown is relative risk. I am advocating that absolute risk be shown. I cited two important examples where others have (so far unsuccessfully) made a case for the same thing:

Example 1: This position is stated in an important FDA advisory publication. A key conclusion (see page 60) is that the public is: “unduly influenced when risk information is presented using a relative risk approach; this can result in suboptimal decisions. Thus, an absolute risk format should be used.”
Example 2: The CONSORT 2010 Statement —Updated Guidelines for Reporting Parallel Group Randomized Trials states: “… presentation of both absolute and relative effect sizes is recommended…”

Since statistics is over most people’s heads, several readers asked me to explain the difference. OK, here goes…

I’ll use COVID-19 vaccines as a telling example. I put together three tables (below) based on two studies: here and here. (If you’d like further elaboration, here is an MD’s good discussion about those two studies.)

The first table shows the relative effectiveness of several popular COVID-19 vaccines:

Now most people would say that these are good numbers — and the ones above 90% are VERY good. That’s exactly what the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies want us to think… Now let’s fill out the next column: absolute risk…

Whoa! The absolute numbers are radically different — and MUCH less! What does this mean in the real world? A third variable might be the easiest to understand: how many people need to be treated (injected) to prevent ONE case of COVID-19?

This is called NNT (Number Needed to Treat = 1/ARR). Here is a study that delves into the merit of using NNT. The table below shows what NNT is for the same COVID-19 injections:

NOTE: The exact numbers here may be slightly different due to several variables, and are not important. What is significant is to see the extraordinary differences between Relative and Absolute Risk Reductions.

NNT Observation —

Let’s look at a real-world example… If citizens realized that roughly one hundred people had to be injected before ONE case of COVID-19 was prevented, would very many people have said:

“I’m willing to risk the known potentially serious side-effects of these injections, plus accept the fact that zero long-term studies have been completed, in the hopes that I’ll hit the jackpot and be the lucky one in 100± people who is prevented from getting COVID-19”?
The answer to that is why the FDA (and pharmaceutical companies) emphasize the Relative effectiveness number.

An Even Better Analysis —

Some very smart people said let’s take the NNT data one step further — and add the treatment cost to it! In other words, if two treatments have the same NNT, but one costs 10 times the other, shouldn’t we factor that in? Look at this fabulous COVID-19 table:

Compare two COVID-19 early oral treatment competitors: Ivermectin and Paxlovid. To get the same end result (save one life from COVID-19) we can spend $26 for Ivermectin or $206,705 for Paxlovid… Note also that cost and impacts of side-effects are not taken into account here. The side-effects for taking Ivermectin are very low, while the potential side-effects for Paxlovid are relatively high. In other words, the cost difference between Ivermectin and Paxlovid is likely MUCH more that what is shown in this table!

Takeaway —

My recommendation to RFKjr is that (as a minimum) BOTH Relative and Absolute numbers should be prominently displayed, as well as NNT. This is not some academic matter, as it has GREAT bearing on assuring that Americans are able to make an informed consent when they agree to an injection or to take a drug. Without the facts, we are severely handicapped in being a critical thinker.

PS — Here is an excellent two minute video that explains the difference between Absolute and Relative Risk reduction…

PPS — Just like here, there are more detailed explanations for each of the other 15± recommendations I made for RFKjr re the FDA and its EUA and Approval processes. Also just like here, the other recommendations make good medical and scientific sense.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

If I'd Known Then What I Know Now

By Rob Pue @ Wisconsin Christian News

I miss my father-in-law. He passed away in December of 2020, but he didn’t have to. I want to tell you what happened, but first, let me tell you about Bob. That was his name.

Bob had been somewhat hostile toward Christianity for most of the time I had known him.  He’d have nothing to do with church or the things of God, and then, when I went into full time ministry in April of 2000, he thought I’d lost my mind...and I’m pretty sure I lost any amount of respect he might have had for me.

This went on for many years, and I’m married to his daughter, Lisa.  But our ministry held a big Conference every year, with powerful, dynamic, courageous Christian speakers, teaching on the most vital issues of the day — relevant things. Urgent matters.  And we also did street ministry and stood up for righteousness wherever evil raised it’s ugly head.  Our conferences went on for many years, but Bob never came... until one year, he did.

He made it clear that this was not his kind of thing, and he really had no interest in anything we were doing, and he was only there for us.  He told us, “I’ll sit and listen to one of these guys, but I’m not going to be staying very long.”  But God had other plans for Bob.  He did sit and listen to one of our speakers, and was so intrigued, he actually stayed for the entire conference.

He came again the following year, and this time, he didn’t want to even give up his seat to use the restroom during breaks because he was afraid he’d miss something.  And the next year, HE asked ME when our conference would be so he could be sure to be there.  You see, he was hearing and learning things he’d never heard before.  Not in any church, not from any preacher... because our speakers were bold, courageous men of God and talked about issues that 99% of pastors will never dare speak of, for fear of being “politically incorrect.”  Bob found out that TRUE Christianity wasn’t for the wimpy or the weak.  It wasn’t about religion and it wasn’t a “crutch” for “girly-men.”  TRUE Christianity is powerful, relevant, vital and exciting...and definitely not for the weak.

He came to every event we put on after that first time.  I’d witnessed to him the best I could for years, but it was attending our conferences, meeting my true Christian friends and learning that real Christ-followers were some of the most sensible, knowledgeable, and again, COURAGEOUS people he’d ever met.  He was impressed and it changed him.  I’d earned back his respect.

After a couple of years of attending our events, when there was an altar call, Bob was the first one out of his seat, to receive Christ.  At another event, he was so moved that he did something we never thought we’d ever see: he went to his ex-wife, Lisa’s mom, and asked for her forgiveness for divorcing her, many years prior.

I watched Bob’s heart and life change through the ministry of Wisconsin Christian News, the wonderful, insightful teachers we had at our events, who I’m honored to call my friends, and of course, the moving of the Holy Spirit.

In 2018, shortly after his wife passed away, Bob moved from Minnesota to Florida.  He had some health issues but was managing pretty well.  Then one day that summer, we got a call from a hospital in Florida.  The doctor told us he had fallen while out shopping and had been taken to the hospital and had been there for four days before they called us.  The doctor told us he was on a feeding tube, that he had (at best) two weeks to live and recommended we agree he be sent to a nursing home for his “final days.”

My wife and I were on the next plane to Florida to rescue her dad.  There was no way we were going to let him die in a nursing home, so far away from his family on the advice of one phone call from one doctor.  When we arrived, we discovered that he had been put on a feeding tube because he failed the “swallowing test” and had been aspirating food into his lungs.  On further examination, we discovered the reason he failed his “swallowing test” was that they had him on so many mind-numbing drugs, he was rarely even awake.

Instead of a nursing home, we brought him home to live with us at our home in Wisconsin.  And it was then that I became his “nurse.”  Because I work from home, I was able to care for his medical and physical needs, as well as his spiritual needs.  Within a week, he was eating regular food again.  He quickly regained his strength.  Within two weeks, we were able to have his feeding tube removed, and within three weeks, he was back to his old self.

His health continued to improve.  He was able to care for all his own personal needs, he was able to go out on his own, drive a car, go shopping, go on trips back to Minnesota and Florida — and go house hunting.  He eventually bought his own home near us, and through all of this, I was very blessed to get to know my father-in-law on a much deeper, personal level.  We got him off many of the prescription drugs that multiple doctors had prescribed for him like candy, and he felt much better.  He was even planning to buy a pontoon boat so he could go fishing again.

Then, in the fall of 2020, he had a pacemaker put in.  He’d been having trouble with his heart and everyone thought this would be a good solution.  Unfortunately, the pacemaker was installed incorrectly and things actually got worse for him.  The doctors’ solution was to put him on more prescription drugs, which made him disoriented and depressed, and he was again aspirating his food into his lungs, causing an infection.

In December of that year, I took him to his primary doctor because he was sure he had pneumonia.  He did have pneumonia and the doctor immediately placed him on antibiotics for it, and told him it would take a week or so before he started feeling better.  But that wasn’t fast enough for Bob.  That night, he walked into the emergency room on his own, looking for a faster solution.

Note that this was at the height of the planned-demic in 2020.  If only I’d known then what I know now, I never would have let him go there.  They immediately stated that he didn’t have bacterial pneumonia, but “COVID pneumonia,” and they admitted him to the hospital.  They had a “fish” on the line and the hook was set.  The first thing they did was take him off the antibiotics his primary doctor had placed him on that very same day.

The rest of that week is an odyssey I still find hard to comprehend.  Since there was a so-called “pandemic” going on, there were no visitors allowed.  I called the doctor every day, explaining that this all started shortly after he had a pacemaker put in and he was placed on more drugs, and that he’d been aspirating his food, which caused him to have bacterial pneumonia.  The doctor’s response was, “He had a pacemaker put in? When was that?”

Every day I would call and every day he had a different doctor, and every day I had to tell the same story over again.  He had a pacemaker put in. They put him on more drugs that caused him to be disoriented and he’d been aspirating his food.  His primary doctor gave him a prescription for antibiotics and he NEEDS those antibiotics to get better.  And every day, the new doctor would ask, incredulously, “He had a pacemaker put in?  When was that?”

I can’t describe the frustration.  It seemed no one knew or cared about Bob’s medical history, no one read any of his charts and no one was doing anything to help.  Furthermore, he was now a “hostage,” because no one was allowed in the hospital.  No visitors.  When I asked about getting him out of the hospital, I was told he couldn’t be released, and if we insisted, it would be “AMA” (Against Medical Advice), which would mean his insurance wouldn’t cover anything and he would be personally liable for enormous hospital bills.

This was the time when we were all told the hospitals were “overflowing” with COVID patients.  Patients were stacked up in hallways, because there weren’t enough rooms.  Hospital staff was working 24 hours a day and couldn’t keep up.  It was all a big lie.

On the fourth day of his incarceration at the hospital, I WAS allowed to see him, because the doctor told us he was near death.  I was only allowed to go see him because I had clergy credentials, and he was about to die.  That was the one and only time during the whole COVID scam that I wore a mask.  I checked in at the desk, had to be tested for COVID myself, and was finally allowed to go to his room, which was about a mile away.

As I walked there, I noticed something that didn’t match the narratives put forth by hospitals, Fauci & Co. and the mainstream media.  The hospital was definitely NOT “overflowing” with patients.  Staff was NOT overwhelmed.  In fact, during that mile-long walk to Bob’s room, I didn’t pass a single doctor, nurse or even anyone pushing a food cart.  The place was deserted.

He was in terrible shape, much worse than when he walked into the ER that first night.  And no one knew much of anything about his case.  I demanded he be released to our care.  The only way that could be accomplished was by sending him home on hospice care.  We agreed, and he was to be released at 10 am the next morning.

The next morning came and they didn’t release him.  Every hour, we called the unit he was in and no one had even checked on him yet, gotten him dressed or did anything to prepare for his release.  It was 8 pm that night, with freezing rain pouring down, that they finally pushed him out in a wheelchair, nearly dead, and returned him to us, like they were pushing a garbage bin to the dumpster. I had to literally lift him into my van to drive him home.

I had hopes of getting him back to health again, getting him back on the antibiotics he needed in the first place, giving him some food (of which he’d had NONE for an entire week).  But the hospice team wouldn’t allow it.  They began their “end of life” regimen with drugs to keep him sedated. Clearly, their only plan was for him to die. There was no option for him to get better.

If I’d only known then what I know now.  It was two years later that I learned what had happened to everyone who entered ANY hospital during that time.  It was the “official hospital protocols.”  Anyone with upper respiratory symptoms was immediately labeled a “COVID” patient.  Those who actually had COVID (which Bob did not), were forbidden from receiving life-saving treatments like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine.  These were banned nationwide. Some families went to court so their loved ones could be given these meds. Some won and survived. Most times, the hospitals won and people died.

And the official nation-wide hospital protocol — and the ONLY drug allowed for use in American hospitals for COVID — was Remdesivir.  I didn’t learn of this until two years after Bob died, when multiple doctors and scientists came out and blew the whistle on it. Remdesivir, they said, was actually a bio-weapon. It had been tested in Africa, but so many people died during the tests, that testing was halted.  Yet this is the ONLY drug Fauci allowed for use in our hospitals.

It has a long list of adverse effects on the human body, the first of which is upper respiratory distress, quickly followed by kidney failure, followed by “cascading organ failure.” This causes the lungs to fill with fluid; then the patient is placed on a ventilator and suffocated to death.

That’s what happened to Bob.  His kidneys, liver and other internal organs failed...all things he’d never had any problems with — until he was kidnapped by the hospital.  Remdesivir literally melts internal organs.  And in return, the hospitals all across this country received hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient in “incentives” to follow this deadly protocol.  Countless people died needlessly, including my father-in-law, Bob.

If only I knew then what I know now. I miss him, every day.

Thursday, March 7, 2024

More Deception from Once Reliable Medical Sources: Paxlovid, Part 2

If we can't trust Johns Hopkins, what established sources are left?

John Droz jr. March 7, 2024 @ Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues

Please read Part 1 here. As bad as the multiple failings in the Johns Hopkins article I outlined in Part 1 were, there is an even greater abdication of medical responsibility by Johns Hopkins.

Their Mission Statement says:

“The mission of Johns Hopkins Medicine is to improve the health of the community and the world by setting the standard of excellence in medical education, research, and clinical care.”

Maybe I don’t understand what “standard of excellence” means. It seems that it says that Johns Hopkins will objectively provide the public with the latest scientific health research as to what is in citizens’ best interest to do (or not do).

In other words, when Johns Hopkins discusses a pharmaceutical option for COVID — e.g., Paxlovid — (or anything else) they would objectively and thoroughly:

1) honestly describe the possible benefits,

2) accurately explain all the potential downsides, and

3) objectively identify reasonable alternatives.

As my original commentary outlined, they did a woeful job of both #1 and #2. Here I’d like to address #3, which was completely missing.

Well over two years ago (January 2022), after doing some research, I published a spreadsheet of the various pharmaceutical options for COVID-19 early treatment — as I was not able to find this posted elsewhere in a layman easy-to-understand format. I compared the official and non-official options on several key criteria. Since then I have updated this spreadsheet every month or so. (This info is one of many things to be found on my COVID website: C19Science.info). Here is the latest data.

Since this article is just about Paxlovid, I put together a very condensed version:

To see the links and more explanations refer to the uncondensed version. (Please pay attention to the note there clarifying that I am not a medical professional, etc.)

Note that Paxlovid has two columns in the upper (Effectiveness) part:

a) the first column was the evidence used by the FDA (a single study done by Pfizer) to grant Pfizer an EUA (Emergency Use Authorization), and

b) the second column is the current number of scientific studies of Paxlovid done by numerous independent scientists. Compare the concluded ET effectiveness…

What this data indicates about these COVID early treatment options is:

1 - An alternative to Paxlovid is Vitamin D. Based on 11 scientific studies of 44,000± patients, it has about three times the effectiveness (60% vs 21%). (The results of Peer-reviewed early treatment studies = 57%. The results of early treatment Randomized Control Trials [RCTs], after exclusions = 65%.)* The data.

Safety & Cost — Vitamin D has: no serious medical side effects, no evidence of a rebound effect, and no usage restrictions. Further, it has long-term safety data, it does not require a prescription (OTC), and the cost is minuscule.

2 - Another alternative to Paxlovid is Ivermectin. Based on 38 scientific studies of 59,000± patients, it also has roughly three times the effectiveness (62% vs 21%). (The results of Peer-reviewed early treatment studies = 61%. The results of early treatment Randomized Control Trials [RCTs], after exclusions = 66%.)* The data.

Safety & Cost — Ivermectin has: only minor potential medical side effects, no evidence of a rebound effect, and no usage restrictions. Further, Ivermectin has long-term safety data and the cost is very low.

The question is: why didn’t the Johns Hopkins article say anything about alternatives to Paxlovid — since scientific data indicates that they may be superior options?

To be fair, the same question applies to the FDA, CDC, AMA, WHO, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx, the Mayo Clinic, the mainstream media, etc., etc. They have all shed their scientific suits, and have proudly dressed themselves in political correctness panoply.

Please watch this talk given by Dr. Scott Atlas, last week. It is chilling to hear what he observed going on at the highest levels of our country, regarding COVID policy.

As always, the most effective defense is Critical Thinking.

… PS: Still no response to the polite email I sent to the Johns Hopkins article author.

* This data is not on the above table, but can be found by following the links of the full version.

Here are other materials by this scientist that you might find interesting:

My Substack Commentaries for 2023 (arranged by topic)

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WiseEnergy.org: discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.

C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.

Election-Integrity.info: multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.

Media Balance Newsletter: a free, twice-a-month newsletter that covers what the mainstream media does not do, on issues from COVID to climate, elections to education, renewables to religion, etc. Here are the Newsletter’s 2023 Archives. Please send me an email to get your free copy. When emailing me at - aaprjohn@northnet.org - please make sure to include your full name and the state where you live. (Of course, you can cancel the Media Balance Newsletter at any time - but why would you?)

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Thursday, January 18, 2024

The Hidden Agenda Behind Lockdowns

Every aspect of our lives is monitored, and everything we do or consume is rationed

By Edward Ring September 20, 2023

You can call it a “road diet,” or “15 days to stop the spread,” or a “fifteen minute city,” or a “smart city,” a “central bank digital currency,” or just an EV that comes with a virtual leash attached in the form of limited range and limited recharging options. Or you can be more explicit and just call any one of these examples an assault on your mobility, i.e., a lockdown. Whatever you want to call them, they’ve arrived, and it’s just begun. Americans, along with their European brethren, are being turned into livestock, living in high-tech pens, where literally every aspect of our lives is monitored and everything we do or consume is rationed................. To Read More....

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Restoring trust in government by using the IQA

America deserves quality information that is accurate, objective, unbiased and reproducible

William L. Kovacs

The Federal government has left citizens living in information confusion, misinformation and conspiracy theories. Information clutter helps explain why only two in ten Americans trust Washington to do the right thing. But distinguishing between good and bad quality information should never be difficult when the information comes from our government.

There is a U.S. law that mandates that government-disseminated information be accurate and useful and have integrity. The federal government just refuses to abide by the Information Quality Act (IQA), section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act for FY 2001.

The Information Quality Act is designed to foster trust.

The IQA requires that the Office of Management of Budget (“OMB”) ensure and maximize “… the quality, objectivity, utility and integrity of information (including statistical information) disseminated by federal agencies.”

In 2002, OMB issued detailed guidelines defining the IQA terms. Information disseminated by the government was to be accurate (precise, complete and unbiased); useful to intended users; and possessing integrity (protected from manipulation). OMB also set forth a correction process for citizens, including experts, to challenge data inaccuracies.

For influential scientific information, there must be a "high degree of transparency about data and methods to facilitate the reproducibility of such information by qualified third parties." IQA procedures were designed to build trust in government information by following a modified scientific method of testing and reproducibility of data.

Information was defined as “any communication or representation of knowledge such as facts or data, in any medium or form.” Dissemination of information to the public includes agency distribution of information to the public.

While opinions are not covered by the IQA, when it is presenting an opinion instead of information, the agency must clearly identify it as an opinion.

Had IQA guidelines been followed during Covid, for example, the federal government would have provided the public with more useful information.

By not following IQA guidelines during Covid briefings, misinformation and opinion were often presented as fact, without any supporting documentation or without the statement being noted as opinion.

As a result, citizens were forced to live in lockdowns, masks were mandated, schools were closed, causing massive learning losses, and natural immunity was deemed a conspiracy theory. Government agencies issued mandates, but provided little supporting information and never presented what levels of uncertainty were involved.

The Biden administration waffled between Presidential statements that it was seeking evidence-based information on Covid’s origins – and the unequivocal statements of leading scientist Dr. Anthony Fauci, who pronounced that it came from an animal. After several years of delay, the FBI and Energy Department finally informed the public that “the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a [Wuhan] laboratory leak,” not from animals.

This served yet again to highlight the difficulty of believing the federal government.

Federal public guidance consisted of Dr. Fauci communicating inconsistent health-related information. First he told the public, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” A few weeks later, he supported universal masking. Subsequently, he endorsed double masking.

Then, as independent scientists offered contrary views, Fauci and his boss, Francis Collins, formulated a press strategy to discredit the credibility of their leading critics, by labeling them conspiracy theorists.

Federal misinformation fostered a state of fear. Eventually, state Attorneys General brought a lawsuit over the legality of Fauci's mask mandates. In depositions, Fauci could not identify any study he relied upon to support his conflicting policy pronouncements. And when asked direct questions about his knowledge of the virus’s origins or tests supporting his conclusions, he said he “could not remember.”

Such misinformation harmed public health. Not surprisingly, a recent Lancet study found that public trust in government is vital to effectively implementing public health measures.

Since its enactment, the federal government refused to implement the IQA.

From the moment OMB issued the IQA guidelines, federal agencies fought to undermine its implementation. Agencies viewed OMB’s guidelines as discretionary. The Department of Justice supported the agencies in court filings.

The public filed lawsuits against agencies to implement the guidelines and correct inaccurate information. These efforts failed. The courts avoided interpreting the substance of the statute, holding that private parties lacked standing to enforce IQA requirements. The federal courts gave agencies complete discretion on the type of information disseminated to the public.

With strong resistance from the federal government, the IQA drifted into obscurity. It is amazing that on something as vital as public health issues, courts failed or refused to recognize that citizens can be directly injured by public health misinformation.

Imagine if federal agencies followed IQA.

If the IQA had been implemented during Covid, federal agencies would have been limited to disseminating only reliable, consistent, reproducible information – or disclose that the agencies did not have supporting data. Under the IQA, “Mr. Science,” Dr. Fauci, would have been required to inform the public that his daily statements were mere opinions. The public would have known the truth, which would have allowed people to seek guidance from knowledgeable health professionals.

Government health misinformation is propaganda. Fortunately, it can be immediately remedied.

Government information permeates all of our society, from healthcare to climate change, nutrition and labor statistics. Good quality information is essential for protecting government agencies themselves, as well as families, businesses, schools, hospitals and society as a whole.

When government presents misinformation or mere personal opinion as the truth, it harms the citizens it has sworn to protect. When agencies present computer models as evidence (or proof) that we face imminent manmade climate disasters, they likewise harm our economy and lives, unless the models’ results are confirmed by real-world observations, measurements or data.

Fortunately, the government misinformation can be immediately remedied. President Biden could today order OMB to implement the statute by reinstating and enforcing the original IQA Guidelines.

Moreover, Congress could codify the 2002 guidelines and clarify that citizens suffer injury when government misinformation harms their ability to protect their health, livelihoods and welfare.

William L. Kovacs is author of Reform the Kakistocracy, winner of the 2021 Independent Press Award for Political/Social Change. He served as senior vice president for environment, technology and regulatory affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

How Should We Regard the President’s Treason?

As an unmentionable subject or an existential threat?

March 7, 2023 by David Horowitz 59 Comments

In the four years of World War II, 300,000 American soldiers lost their lives, or 75,000 per year. In the last four years, the number of Americans poisoned by fentanyl, has approached that number. These poisons, deliberately designed to kill Americans and especially young Americans, are supplied by China and smuggled across our open southern border by Mexican drug cartels. These attacks have taken place without America’s commander-in-chief issuing a single protest or threat against the governments of Mexico and China, even though his primary responsibility is the protection of American lives.

Nor is this the first deadly assault on American citizens by the Chinese Communist Party – or enabling response by the Biden administration. Over one million Americans were killed by the coronavirus, a biological weapon funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci and America’s Centers for Disease Control, and created in a Chinese military lab in Wuhan.

The Chinese government lied about the contagious and deadly nature of the virus, and permitted millions of Wuhan inhabitants to travel abroad for the Lunar New Year and infect the globe. Immediately after the World Health Organization formally declared the spread a “pandemic,” President Trump barred Chinese travel to America, an act for which he was viciously attacked by the leaders of the Democrat Party including Joe Biden who described Trump’s precautionary travel ban as “hysterical and xenophobic,” “fear mongering” and “racist.”.............To Read More....

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Unanswered Covid questions

March 7, 2023 By Jonathan Cohen

As Covid 19 fades as a public health emergency into a more manageable nuisance like seasonal flu, lingering questions about the disease’s origin and our health officials’ response have come into play. Questions about the role of the Wuhan Lab, effectiveness of vaccines, lockdowns and masks and the question of the role of politics in our Covid response need to be explored. The recent revelation that both the FBI and the Department of Energy have now publicly stated that the theory that the virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan is the most likely explanation for the disease’s origin provide a good background for the beginning of House hearings on the origin of the pandemic.

Here are some questions that deserve exploration.......To Read More....Much More....

Aussie Investigative Reporter Eclipses GOP Covid Committee

Neither Markson, nor this author, can adjudicate whether a lab leak was accidental or intentional. But, the litany of events that began on September 12, 2019, suggest that the CCP knew, early on, what really happened at Wuhan. And kept it secret.

By Lee Cary ——Bio and Archives--March 6, 2023

Introduction: The following article appeared in the Canada Free Press website on November 20, 2021. It was originally entitled: “Aussie Investigative Reporter Eclipses GOP Covid Committee.” It is replicated here, with the permission of the CFP editor, because the pandemic narrative is shifting concerning the source of the virus. It is moving away from the Wuhan “wet market” or from nature, and toward the Wuhan lab. A recently released book by Sharri Markson, a widely heralded investigative reporter in Australia, surpasses the findings of a House Republican Committee tasked by GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 global pandemic. Dated September 20, 2021, the Committee’s “FINAL REPORT”.................To Read More....

Monday, February 27, 2023

Surprise: More Right-Wing 'Conspiracies' and 'Misinformation' Being Confirmed by Factual Evidence

Guy Benson February 27, 2023

Let's begin with the important point that dangerous misinformation and conspiracy theories are, in fact, real problems that seem to be gaining momentum in American politics. The Left flatters itself by pretending this phenomenon is, more or less, the sole or overwhelming province of the Right, all while indulging or embracing their own falsehoods.

But these things do exist, on both sides, and they really do threaten to warp our collective sense of reality by injecting poisonous forms of paranoia into our discourse and polity. But here's what also erodes trust in institutions, and degrades the importance of truth, within American society: Partisans and ideologues, posing as neutral arbiters, arrogantly declaring ideas or allegations with which they disagree to be "misinformation" and "conspiracy theories" -- not just debatable or controversial, mind you, but factually wrong, and dangerously so. This goes beyond dishonesty; it's irresponsible...........To Read More.....

Forgiveness For Covid Tyrants? Not in This Lifetime! Part III

By Rich Kozlovich

I've had an interesting life, and like most people it hasn't always been good and it hasn't always been bad, but it's been interesting, because I've had the privilege of knowing a great many interesting people. Some were prominent, some not so prominent and some just regular people who were interesting in many ways, but they were all good people that enriched my life and views of reality.

I was a member of the structural pest control industry for forty years, and was prominent in my industry's affairs, but I don't care how smart you are, how well read you may be, or how much experience in life you may have, we all need mentors. We need the balancing effect of other people's personalities in our lives. I made a point of having mentors. They help us avoid stupid in our lives. But people being people, I've nonetheless, over the course of my life, did my share of stupid things. So, I tried to pay attention to all those stupid things in order avoiding doing them over again.

But we're not alone in stupidity. A lot of people do a lot of stupid things, so, I've also tried to pay attention to the stupid things others have done in order to avoid making the mistakes they made. But are the stupid things people do in their lives done because they're stupid, or just ignorant? Or perhaps it's something worse? We'll come back to that.

But there's a difference between stupid and ignorant. Ignorant means we simply don't know, and that's fixable by learning, so the goal is to fix our level of ignorance as much as possible by learning. But we will never stop being ignorant, because there's just so much out there we will never know. We just can't absorb it all, so we need to focus.

Stupid can't be fixed, so that ends that line of discussion.

I've been an avid reader all of my adult life, and I love reading history books, some of which is drudgery because there are some really fantastic historians out there who just aren't great story tellers. But if you don't read them, you just can't get the information necessary to get the correct understanding. Even then, if you read all there is on a subject I keep finding there's one pattern that keeps reoccurring.

Ideology overrides intelligence, facts and common sense. It's absolutely true that ideology makes smart people dumb.

The natural function of the human mind is to find patterns. For me, my focus has always been on why people do what they do. So, the greatest fix for my ignorance came from history books. The patterns of life keep repeating over and over again, and history books expose us to those patterns. There really isn't anything new under the sun, but we must be willing to see them. And that's the problem.

We'll come back to that.

In my younger years I read history with little concern about dates. I wanted to know why people did the things they did, so, I thought it didn't matter when they did it? The more I read the more I realized how important dates were to understanding what they did, why they did what they did, and to whom. Time frames had a lot to do with all of that, and so I paid much closer attention.

Okay, so, where's all this going you ask? We're getting there.

We've discussed stupid, we've discussed ignorance, well, what's worse? How about corruption? Let's start with this quote:

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.” Lord Acton

Why is that? I think this quote from Frank Herbert, who wrote the Dune series of books, actually gives us part of the answer as to why power corrupts, and not just the corruptible, but those already corrupt.

"All government suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupt but this it is a magnet to the corruptible."

But there must be good and incorruptible people who are drawn to government? There are! So what goes wrong? I think I have the rest of the answer.

Time!

The longer good people remain in powerful positions it dilutes their courage and character. Let's not delude ourselves. When someone is in power they will have to make decisions they don't like or agree with because effective government requires a degree of compromise, and although they may be small compromises, all those small compromises become a large burden on their character that dilutes their level of incorruptibility, and that's true of the best of us.

As time goes by some degree of corruption of good and honest leaders is inevitable. That's why we need term limits for those who govern and judge.

Many years ago a friend told me of a minister who asked his congregation if sin was fun. And of course everyone went out of their way to proclaim how it wasn't. He smiled and said, "Of course sin is fun! If it wasn't fun so many people wouldn't be doing it." That's called clarity! We must define reality properly if we're to deal with it, otherwise we're incapable of navigating a correct course.

Definition leads to clarity and understanding, after that, we have a clearer vision for setting the correct course needed to be taken because understanding gives us a destination. Even if course corrections are needed, the destination, or goal if you will, is still fixed.

From the beginning of this "pandemic" I've taken the position the data predictions were false and based on computer modeling. That was true.
I've taken the position all these mortality rates they presented were lies. They were.
I took the position social distancing, lockdowns, and masks were not only absolutely unnecessary but damaging to society. They were.
While not being opposed to these "vaccines" originally, I took the position these vaccination mandates were unnecessary as naturally acquired herd immunity was more effective. That was true.
Although I've been a pro vaccination guy all of my life defending vaccines, we learned these were not legitimate vaccines, as they failed to immunize people and didn't prevent transmission.
These false vaccines are gene altering chemical compounds that made those who took them more receptive to these viruses. More importantly, they were seriously detrimental to the health of those who took them.

These "leaders" took stands that are killing people. We're now we're seeing people, healthy people, dropping dead all over the world as a result, and these people in powerful positions are still demanding mandates, and they not only lied about alternative treatments, they prevented others from talking about them through censorship and even threats of losing their jobs, their license to practice medicine and even being criminally charged.

They were not ignorant, and they're not stupid, and why they did what they did will be for history to unravel, but what they did we now know absolutely qualifies as criminal. That makes them corrupt.

These people must be exposed and charged with crimes against humanity, or at the very least, depraved indifference. Are we going to see that happen? We can only hope.

There must never be any amnesty for Fauci, the man who claimed he can defend everything he's said and done, and then demonstrated that when testifying ‘I don’t recall’ 174 times. And that includes the rest of his corrupt cabal, including medical institutions, and practitioners, big pharma, elected government officials, and the deep state bureaucrats.

Any previous protections Congress has passed for these people must be revoked, then let truth, justice and the American way expose the criminal realty they've perpetrated on humanity.

How long has the truth been available to everyone? As my readers know I save articles on every issue that confronts mankind, and this one is one of the worst.

The articles listed below substantiate everything I've said here, and everything I've said in the past, and some of them go back to 2021, so everyone needs to ask all these criminals:

"How could you not have known the truth? If you did know the truth, when did you know it? And if you knew the truth, why didn't you proclaim it?"

As for my former science friends who took umbrage with my views. Get over it! No Covid Amnesty! Ever!

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