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September 17, 2021
Covid-19 Resources: Medical, Legal, Forms, Jobs & Other Critical Information
Rights and Freedoms
September 15, 2021
To better guide your search for information on all things related to Covid-19, a list of resources has been compiled below for each of the following categories: Medical, Legal, Forms & Letters, Jobs, and Critical Information on the Bigger Agenda.
Medical ResourcesDoctor Consultations, Medications & Protocols
Physician List & Guide to Home-Based COVID Treatment – AAPSHow Do I Get COVID-19 Medication? – America’s Frontline DoctorsReducing Risk of COVID-19 Infection and Severity – C19 ProtocolsHow to Get Ivermectin – FLCCCDoctor Consults in All 50 States – My Free DoctorTenpenny Integrative Medical Center, OhioThe Zelenko Protocol – Dr. Zelenko MDMedical Information
Information on Covid-19 Treatments, Medicines, and Mandates – AAPSInformative Videos by America’s Frontline DoctorsExclusive Ongoing Updates: Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns – Sharyl AttkissonCOVID-19 Vaccine Emergency Use Authorization Fact Sheets – CDCMedical Ethics, Patient Safety and Human Rights in Response to Covid-19 – Doctors for Covid EthicsEmergency Use Authorization of Medical Products and Related Authorities – FDAInformation on Ivermectin and Covid-19 – FLCCCInformation on Covid-19 Tests and Vaccines – ICANA Doctor and a Voice of Reason About Vaccines and Current Events – Dr. TenpennyInformative Videos and News on Covid-19 and Vaccines by The HighwireMedical Research Databases
Peer Reviewed Published Articles Science Library – Children’s Health DefensePreliminary Reports Not Yet Peer Reviewed – MedRxivBiomedical Literature Library – PubMedAdverse Event Reporting Databases
Report a Covid-19 Vaccine Injury – ICANThe Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System – VAERS – CDCThe Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System – VAERS – HHSThe Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System – VAERS – MedAlerts“Red Boxes” Summary Page of VAERS dataCOVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Reactions Reports – UKCOVID-19 Yellow Card Reporting Site – UKLegal ResourcesLegal Advice
Get Legal Help Related to Covid-19 Mandates and Vaccines – America’s Frontline DoctorsFighting Mandatory Vaccines – COVID Legal USALegal Help for Religious Exemptions from Vaccinations – Liberty CounselHow to Get a Religious Exemption for Employer or College – The Healthy AmericanLaw Firms and List of Lawyers by State – Fight The MandatesLegal Actions
Covid-19 Related Lawsuits and Legal Matters Archives – AAPSBe A Part of a Broader Suit Related to Covid-19 Vaccines – America’s Frontline DoctorsEmail Congress Members Regarding a Vaccine Bill of Rights – America’s Frontline DoctorsMedical Freedom Related Lawsuits – Children’s Health DefenseEducation, Advocacy and Legal Challenges to Unjust Mandates – Health Freedom Defense FundLegal Actions Taken Regarding Covid-19 – ICANCovid-19 Vaccine Legal Resources and Research – Liberty Counsel
As of September 9, 2021, these states are fighting against mandates of the Covid jab and / or vaccine ID passports.
Legal Information
How to Obtain Religious Exemption – America’s Frontline DoctorsLegal Resources – Children’s Health DefenseResources About Legal Rights and Information on Cases – Children’s Health DefenseMandates Toolbox – Children’s Health DefenseThe PREP Act and COVID-19: Limiting Liability for Medical Countermeasures – Congressional Research ServiceThe FDA Bait-and-Switch on Pfizer Covid-19 Jab – Corey’s DigsAuthorization for Medical Products for Use in Emergencies – Cornell Law SchoolCovered Vaccines – HRSAWhat laws exist to protect employees and adults from vaccine mandates? – National Vaccine Information CenterEmployee Rights – The Healthy AmericanGet Your State Laws – The Healthy AmericanForms & LettersEmployees
Exemption Forms, Letters and Information for Employees – Children’s Health DefenseForm for Employees Whose Employers Are Requiring Covid-19 Injections – Corey’s DigsSupporting Documentation for Vaccine Exemption – GabLegal Memo on COVID Vaccination Mandates – Liberty CounselEmployer Letter Example Religious Exemption – No Vax MandateFinancial Planning
Family Financial Disclosure Form for COVID-19 Injections – Solari ReportFirefighters
AFLDS Firefighter Form – America’s Frontline DoctorsHospital Workers
Exemption form Hospital Vaccine Mandate – AAPSMilitary
Vaccine Exemption Sample Letter for Military – GabNotices for Covid-19 Test Mandates
Notice for Employers, Universities and Other Institutions Mandating Covid-19 Tests – Children’s Health DefenseNotice for Employers Regarding Covid-19 Testing – Health Freedom DefenseNotices for Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates
Notice of Liability to Schools Regarding Vaccine Mandates – America’s Frontline DoctorsNotice for Employers, Universities and Other Institutions Mandating Covid-19 Vaccines – Children’s Health DefenseNotices for Vaccine Administrators
Notice of Potential Liability to Vaccinator – America’s Frontline DoctorsOther Forms
Other Forms Related to the Covid-19 Vaccine – America’s Frontline DoctorsParents
Notice of Parental Authority Requirement of Disclosure & Safety of Medical Treatments – Solari ReportReligious Exemption Letters and Documentation
Religious Exemption for Covid-19 Vaccine Documents – GabReligious Exemption Supporting Documentation – GabHow to Get a Religious Exemption for Employer or College – The Healthy AmericanStudents
Letter to Academic Institutions Regarding Vaccine Mandates – America’s Frontline DoctorsOpen Letter from Physicians to Universities Regarding Vaccine Mandates – AAPSExemption Forms, Letters and Information for Students – Children’s Health DefenseExemption Forms, Letters and Information for K-12 Students – Children’s Health DefenseForm for Students Attending Colleges or Universities Requiring Covid-19 Injections – Corey’s DigsReligious Exemption Template For College Students – GabSample Forms for Notices to Schools – Take Action CanadaUnited Airlines Employees
United Airlines Employee Form – America’s Frontline DoctorsVaccine ID Card
The FBI doesn’t want you to use these Vax ID Card templates – Montana Daily GazetteJob BoardsNo Vax Mandate Job Board – GabNo Vax Jobs USA – No Vax Jobs USANo Vax Mandate Job Listings – No Vax MandateEmployers & Employees Who Value Freedom – Red BalloonDo Not Require Vax – Freedom Job Network[…]
Watergate Finale: Nixon’s Impeachment and Resignation
Watergate Episode 6
The History Channel (2016)
Film Review
On July 17, 1974, four Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee joined the Democratic majority to call (27 to 11) for a full House vote to impeach Nixon. Initially intending to fight the impeachment, Nixon deferred to the Republican Party leadership. They were fearful impeachment proceedings would seriously jeopardize the outcome of the November 1974 elections.
Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. Ford immediately assumed the presidency and pardoned him. The grand jury investigating the CIA role in Watergate was furious. In Chapter 11 of Family of Secrets (“Downing Nixon”), Russ Baker suggests the true purpose of the pardon was to prevent the truth about CIA involvement in the Watergate burglary and coverup from coming out in open court.
Baker also reveals that John Dean, who seems to have masterminded both the Watergate burglary and coverup,* served only four months (two months in a government safe house) on a obstruction of justice charge.
*See Was Nixon Set Up? and Did John Dean Instigate the Watergate Coup?
The film can be viewed free at Kanopy
September 16, 2021
Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Is Unconstitutional
Adam Freedman
City Journal
On September 9, President Joe Biden unveiled his Covid-19 Action Plan, “a six-pronged, comprehensive national strategy” to combat the pandemic. The most controversial provision, covering some 80 million Americans, mandates that all employers with 100 or more employees must ensure that each worker is either fully vaccinated or provides weekly negative Covid test results.
Republican governors were quick to condemn the mandate, with some vowing legal challenges. “@JoeBiden see you in court,” South Dakota governor Kristi Noem tweeted. Governor Henry McMaster of South Carolina wrote that he would fight Biden “to the gates of hell.” He won’t have to go that far: the courts are likely to strike down Biden’s mandate as a clear violation of the Constitution’s principles of federalism and separation of powers.
Leaving aside the merits of a vaccine mandate, such decisions properly belong to the states, not the federal government. Supreme Court precedents on the validity of vaccine mandates—Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905) and Zucht v. King (1922), both involving smallpox vaccination—involve state, not federal, laws. The Court has never suggested that Congress could adopt such a mandate, and for good reason. In our federal system, states enjoy broad “police powers” to enact laws designed to protect the health and safety of their citizens, whereas the central government has only those powers enumerated in the Constitution. The Tenth Amendment further guarantees that states retain the powers not specifically delegated to the federal government.
None of this was considered controversial a mere 17 months ago. When Donald Trump declared in April 2020 that the president possesses “total authority” over coronavirus restrictions, the mainstream media was quick to criticize him. An NPR “fact check” featured criticism of Trump by various legal scholars, including Cornell Law’s Kathleen Bergin, who observed that coronavirus measures such as social distancing or the decision to open schools or businesses are “matters for states to decide under their power to promote public health and welfare, a power guaranteed by the 10th Amendment to the Constitution.” A CNN fact check noted that “there is no legislation that explicitly gives the President the power to override states’ public health measures.” Democratic governors jealously guarded their prerogatives. Then-governor Andrew Cuomo of New York rebuked Trump: “We have a Constitution. We don’t have a king.”
Assertions of federal authority must be grounded in some constitutional grant of power. The most common basis for federal intervention in private affairs is the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, which empowers Congress “to regulate commerce . . . among the several states.” The administration, however, will not be able to shoehorn the vaccine mandate into the Commerce Clause. In NFIB v. Sebelius (2011), the Supreme Court held that the Commerce Clause cannot be used to compel individuals to engage in activity, even when such activity has an impact on interstate commerce. In NFIB, the compelled activity was purchasing health insurance, but the logic applies with equal force to a federal mandate to get an injection or submit to a weekly test. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected an interpretation of the Commerce Clause that would allow, for example, Congress to pass a law requiring individuals to buy vegetables to promote healthier eating habits.
Even if one could find a basis for a national vaccine mandate, Biden’s order would still fail to pass constitutional muster, because Congress has not enacted such a mandate. Article II of the Constitution empowers the president to ensure that the laws passed by Congress “be faithfully executed.” It does not allow the president to invent new laws. Time and again, the Supreme Court has held that there must be clear authorization from Congress for powers of “vast economic and political significance.”
In April 2021, a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service concluded that there is no existing federal law that clearly authorizes the imposition of a national vaccine mandate. The most plausible basis for a targeted mandate, the report speculated, would be a “broad construction” of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA). But four months later, the Supreme Court rejected a “broad construction” of the PHSA when it struck down the CDC’s eviction moratorium.
Biden’s plan relies on the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act, which grants the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) the power to issue “emergency test standards” (ETS) to protect workers against “grave danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or from new hazards.” But nothing in the law even hints at the sweeping powers the president has claimed. On the contrary, the law’s reference to “substances or agents” strongly suggests that the ETS power is meant to target workplace hazards like dangerous chemicals, not naturally occurring hazards like viruses.
In attempting to usurp the powers of Congress and the states, Biden is claiming the same king-like powers that Trump asserted in 2020. Yet 2020’s vigilant fact-checkers have fallen silent. On NPR’s All Things Considered, for example, host Scott Detrow noted the broad scope of the mandate and asked White House correspondent Tamara Keith, “Does the federal government have this power?” “It does,” replied Keith. “I spoke with Brett Coburn, a labor and employment attorney in Atlanta. He said companies do take orders from OSHA like this seriously.” In other words, the federal government has the authority to issue orders whenever the targets of such orders are likely to comply—a boot-strapping justification if ever there were one.
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Via https://www.city-journal.org/biden-vaccine-mandate-unconstitutional
Polls Show Americans Extremely Angry – They’re About To Get Even Angrier
Michael Snyder
Political Collapse Blog
This wasn’t supposed to happen. We were promised that once Joe Biden was in the White House that the tremendous anger that was building up in our country would start to subside, but that obviously is not happening. In fact, as you will see below, Americans have been getting even angrier. Needless to say, the stunt that Joe Biden pulled last week is certainly not helping matters. When he visited Boise on Monday, enormous crowds of extremely angry protesters were waiting for him. And everywhere I go on social media this week, I am seeing huge explosions of anger. What in the world is our country going to look like if all of this anger continues to grow?
Normally, it is either one side of the political spectrum or the other that is angry at any given time.
But here in September 2021, both sides of the political spectrum are very angry. Just check out these stunning numbers from a brand new CNN poll…
A new CNN poll finds that 74% of U.S. adults now say they are “very or somewhat angry” about the way things are going in the U.S. today — that includes 88% of Republicans, 70% of independents and even 67% of Democrats. But wait, there’s more.
Another 69% of U.S. adults now say that things are going “pretty or very badly” in the country these days — that includes 91% of Republicans, 72% of independents and 49% of Democrats.
Those numbers are crazy. Just a few months ago, there was so much optimism, but now the mood of the nation has completely shifted.
Surprisingly, that same CNN poll asked a question about illegal immigration, and it found that even most Democrats are concerned about “the movement of undocumented immigrants”…
And by the way, illegal immigration is still a concern for many in this nation. The CNN survey also found that 77% of U.S. adults say that it is important that the federal government “stops the movement of undocumented immigrants into the United States.” And the partisan breakdown: 95% of Republicans, 76% of independents and 52% of Democrats agreed.
Ever since Joe Biden entered the White House, giant throngs of people have been surging to our southern border, and this has created an unprecedented immigration crisis.
Incredibly, even though Biden has decided to impose vaccine mandates on millions upon millions of American citizens, even the White House Press Secretary is admitting that there will be no such requirement for the illegal immigrants that are being let into this country.
Members of Congress and their staffs are exempt from Biden’s new requirements as well.
But the rest of us are apparently fair game. Today, my wife walked into a store where the employees were openly talking about how they might soon lose their jobs because of these new mandates. Biden is dragging us into full-blown tyranny, and lots of American citizens are going to lose good jobs because of this.
Another new poll asked Americans if they think that Biden’s tyrannical decrees are constitutional or not, and the results were absolutely overwhelming…
Asked in a new poll by Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group, whether Biden has the constitutional authority to impose that demand, 58.6% said no.
Only 29.7% said yes.
The poll, taken over the weekend of likely general election voters, has a margin of error of 2.96%.
If they get away with this round of mandates, they will undoubtedly try to impose even more.
In fact, Dr. Fauci is openly telling us that he is in favor of mandating vaccines for air travel.
Fauci does not care about you. The next time that you hear the corporate media heaping praise on him, just remember what he and his organization did to a bunch of beagles.
He sees you the same way, and he is going to keep pushing Biden to tighten the screws.
Already, we are seeing officials go door to door in some cities. In Washington D.C., there are times when workers will “go back to a house four or five, six times” until someone finally answers the door…
Patrick Ashley, with D.C. Health, said the city has a significant outreach program going door to door.
“And as a reminder, we knock on doors until we actually get someone to talk to us. And so they’ll go back to a house four or five, six times, if necessary, multiple times of the day,” he said.
That should chill you to the core.
And what came next in that same article is also extremely chilling…
Ashley also said the District is working with Medicare providers to make sure that they’re providing vaccination education.
“But you’re right, it is a choice of theirs to make,” Ashley said. “So we’ll continue to do that education through the —”
Silverman interrupted Ashley to say: “The president is saying it’s not a choice any more.”
The good news is that some red state governors are starting to fight back.
For example, Ron DeSantis just announced huge fines for any government entity in his state that attempts to mandate vaccines…
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The Meaning of the FDA Resignations – A Smoking Gun?
By Jeffrey A. Tucker | Brownstone Institute | September 14, 2021
How significant is it that the two top FDA officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in The Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters? This is a remarkable sign that the project of government-managed virus mitigation is in the final stages before falling apart.
The booster has already been promoted by top lockdown advocates Neil Ferguson of Imperial College and Anthony Fauci of NIH, even in the face of rising public incredulity toward their “expert” advice. For these two FDA officials to go on record with grave doubts – and their perspective is certainly backed by the unimpressive booster experience in Israel – introduces a major break in the narrative that the experts in charge deserve our trust and deference.
What’s at stake here? It’s about more than the boosters. It’s about the whole experience of taking away the control of health management from individuals and medical professionals and handing it over to modelers and government officials with coercive power.
From the first week of March 2020, the US embarked on a wild experiment in virus mitigation, deploying a series of measures with a sweep and scope that had never previously been attempted, not in modern times and not even in ancient times. The litany of controls and tactics is long. Many of these measures survive in most parts of the US. The retail landscape is still filled with plexiglass. We are still invited to sanitize ourselves when going indoors. People still mask up in proximity to others. The “Karens” of the world are still actively shaming and denouncing anyone suspected of non-compliance.
The vaccine push has been particularly divisive, with President Biden actively encouraging “anger” at those who don’t get the jab, even as he refuses to acknowledge the existence of infection-induced immunities. In several cities, people who refuse vaccines are being denied active participation in civic life, and a populist movement is rising up that scapegoats the refuseniks as the only reason that the virus continues to be a problem.
All these measures were deployed in waves of controls. It all began with event cancellations and school closures. It continued with travel bans, most of which are still in place. Sanitization and plexiglass were next. Masks were rolled out and then mandated. The principle of forced human separation governed social interactions. Capacity limits indoors were a common feature. The US example inspired many governments around the world to adopt these NPIs (non-pharmaceutical interventions) and take away the liberties of the people.
At each stage of control, there were new claims that we’ve finally found the answer, the key technique that would finally slow and stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Nothing worked, as the virus seemed to follow its own course regardless of all these measures. Indeed there was no observable difference anywhere in the world based on whether and to what extent any of these measures were deployed.
Finally came the pharmaceutical interventions, voluntary at first but gradually mandatory, just as with each previous protocol began as a recommendation until it was mandated.
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The vaccine was the biggest gamble of all simply because the program was so expensive, so personal, and so wildly oversold. Even those of us who opposed every other mandate had hopes that the vaccines would finally end the public panic and provide governments a way to back out of all the other strategies that had failed.
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That of course turned out not to be the case. The vaccines appear to have been helpful in mitigating against some severe outcomes but it did not achieve victory over the virus. Israel’s surge in infections in August was among the fully vaccinated. The same happened in the UK and Scotland, and that precise result began to hit the US in September. Indeed, we all have vaccinated friends who caught the virus and were sick for days. Meanwhile, team natural immunity has received a huge boost from a large study in Israel that demonstrated that recovered Covid cases gain far more protection than is conferred by the vaccine.
The fallback position then became the booster. Surely this is the answer! Israel was first to mandate them. Here again, the problems began to show, as yet another magic bullet of disease mitigation failed. Then the inevitable headline came: Israel preparing for possible fourth COVID vaccine dose.
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Now to the striking resignation of two top officials at the FDA who were in charge of vaccine safety and administration. It was the Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Vaccines Research, Marion Gruber and Phillip Kause. They gave no reason for their departure, which is scheduled for October and November.
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The bombshell is called “Considerations in boosting COVID-19 vaccine immune responses.” It appears in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet. The two top officials are among the authors. The article recommends against the Covid booster shot that the Biden administration, following Fauci’s advice, is suggesting as the key to making the vaccines work better and finally fulfill their promise.
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The signed article . . . points out that boosters might seem necessary because “variants expressing new antigens have evolved to the point at which immune responses to the original vaccine antigens no longer protect adequately against currently circulating viruses.” At the same time, there are possible side effects that could discredit all vaccines for a generation or more. “There could be risks,” they write, “if boosters are widely introduced too soon, or too frequently, especially with vaccines that can have immune-mediated side-effects (such as myocarditis, which is more common after the second dose of some mRNA vaccines, or Guillain-Barre syndrome, which has been associated with adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccines.”)
Bringing up such side effects is essentially a taboo topic. That this was written by two top FDA officials is nothing short of remarkable, especially because it comes at a time when the Biden administration is going all in on vaccine mandates. Meanwhile, studies are showing that for teenage boys, the vaccine poses a greater risk to them than Covid itself. “For boys 16-17 without medical comorbidities, the rate of CAE is currently 2.1 to 3.5 times higher than their 120-day COVID-19 hospitalization risk, and 1.5 to 2.5 times higher at times of high weekly COVID-19 hospitalization.”
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Via https://alethonews.com/2021/09/16/the-meaning-of-the-fda-resignations/
Idaho doctor reports ‘20 times increase’ of cancer in vaccinated patients
Cancer consultation Chinnapong/Shutterstock
Jack Bingham
Life Site News
BOISE, Idaho (LifeSiteNews) — A doctor has found an increase in cancers since the COVID-19 inoculation rollout.
On March 18, Dr. Ryan Cole, a board-certified pathologist and owner and operator of a diagnostics lab, reported to the public in a video produced by Idaho state government’s “Capitol Clarity” project, that he is seeing a massive ‘uptick’ in various autoimmune diseases and cancers in patients who have been vaccinated.
This doctor trained at the Mayo Clinic and runs the largest independent testing laboratory in Idaho.
Listen to what his lab testing is showing: pic.twitter.com/VtdjQMluzF
— ToTheLifeboats (@ToTheLifeboats) August 25, 2021
“Since January 1, in the laboratory, I’m seeing a 20 times increase of endometrial cancers over what I see on an annual basis,” reported Dr. Cole in the video clip shared on Twitter.
“I’m not exaggerating at all because I look at my numbers year over year, I’m like ‘Gosh, I’ve never seen this many endometrial cancers before’,” he continued.
Explaining his findings at the March 18 event, Cole told Idahoans that the vaccines seem to be causing serious autoimmune issues, in a way he described as a “reverse HIV” response.
Cole explained that two types of cells are required for adequate immune system function: “Helper T-cells,” also called “CD4 cells,” and “killer T-cells,” often known as “CD8 cells.”
According to Cole, in patients with HIV, there is a massive suppression of “helper T-cells” which cause immune system functions to plummet, and leave the patient susceptible to a variety of illnesses.
Similarly, Cole describes, “post-vaccine, what we are seeing is a drop in your killer T-cells, in your CD8 cells,”
“And what do CD8 cells do? They keep all other viruses in check,” he continued.
Much like HIV causes immune system disruption by suppressing CD4 “helper” cells, the same thing happens when CD8 “killer” cells are suppressed. In Dr. Cole’s expert view, this is what seems to be the case with the COVID-19 jabs.
Cole goes on to state that as a result of this vaccine-induced “killer T-cell” suppression, he is seeing an “uptick” of not only endometrial cancer, but also melanomas, as well as herpes, shingles, mono, and a “huge uptick” in HPV when “looking at the cervical biopsies of women.”
This is not the first time the COVID-19 vaccines have been linked to serious issues regarding women’s health.
According to a German research study, polyethylene glycol, an ingredient found in the Pfizer and Moderna jabs, has been found to pose a “potential toxicity risk” to women’s ovaries.
Dr. Michael Yeadon, a former vice president at Pfizer, has cited the German study as a possible explanation for the large number of menstrual irregularities and miscarriages being reported by vaccinated women.
Yeadon warns young women to avoid the vaccine for, in his expert opinion as a toxicologist, the shots will likely impede a woman’s ability to get pregnant and carry a baby to term.
Dr. Cole states in his video that, not only are melanomas showing up more frequently, like endometrial cancers, the melanomas are also developing more rapidly, and are more severe in younger people, than he has ever previously witnessed.
“Most concerning of all, there is a pattern of these types of immune cells in the body keeping cancer in check,” stated the doctor.
“I’m seeing invasive melanomas in younger patients; normally we catch those early, and they are thin melanomas, [but] I’m seeing thick melanomas skyrocketing in the last month or two,” he added.
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September 15, 2021
COVID Vaccine Mandates Wreak Havoc on Healthcare System, Workforce
By Children’s Health Defense Team
Draconian COVID policies and vaccine mandates are creating an uncertain future for a health care system that was already on shaky ground even before the terrible COVID policies took hold.
In January 2020 — pre-COVID — the Commonwealth Fund published a sobering report on the state of U.S. healthcare, comparing the U.S. to other high-income countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).The report shared a number of depressing findings. First, despite the U.S. spending twice as much on healthcare (as a share of the economy) as comparable wealthy nations, Americans have the lowest life expectancy and highest suicide rates. Nor is America’s poor bang for its healthcare buck anything sudden or new — a 30-year-old study that compared the U.S. to 15 OECD nations reached the same conclusions.
The Commonwealth Fund report also drew attention to the fact that, among peer nations, the U.S. has the highest chronic disease burden, the highest number of hospitalizations from “preventable causes” and the highest rate of “avoidable deaths.”
Restrictive COVID policies have worsened these health indicators, with mounting deaths of despair and a plummeting life expectancy that researchers predict will drop still further.
The draconian policies — and especially COVID vaccine mandates for healthcare workers (HCWs) — are also wreaking havoc on the U.S. healthcare system and health workforce. Astoundingly high percentages of HCWs have experienced adverse events after accepting the jabs, rendering some unfit for duty. And among HCWs who, having done their due diligence, have chosen to decline the injections, firings and resignations are growing increasingly commonplace. These kinds of handicaps portend an uncertain future for a healthcare system that was already on shaky ground even before the terrible COVID policies took hold.
Early guinea pigs
As soon as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Emergency Use Authorization for the COVID vaccines, HCWs began to find themselves in a catch-22: take an experimental injection (made by felonious pharma giants exempt from legal liability for injuries) or — egged on by hostile parties that now include no less than POTUS himself — risk ostracism or worse.
Many HCWs who dutifully did what they were told have not fared well. An online survey of 1,245 HCWs published in April (“representing various parts of the country during the early phase of COVID-19 vaccination”) furnishes one particularly hair-raising glimpse of the potential risks — for both provider and patient.
The study focused on roughly 800 HCWs (46% younger than age 41 and nearly all with doctoral, medical or Master’s degrees) who received the Pfizer vaccine and reported one or more symptoms. Almost all (93%) had received two doses.
Post-vaccination, about one in eight HCWs “temporarily” had trouble performing activities of daily living. In addition, the survey results highlighted the following:
Symptoms such as fatigue, headache, joint pain, nausea, muscle spasm, sweating, dizziness, flushing, brain fog, anorexia, sleep disruptions, tingling and palpitations were common.Grouped by organ system, large percentages of the Pfizer-injected HCWs reported symptoms that were “generalized” (76%) or musculoskeletal (53%). However, the injections also displayed the capacity to affect nearly every body system: gastrointestinal (21%), psychological/psychiatric (17%), neurological (13%), otolaryngological (12%), endocrine (10%), cardiovascular (6%), respiratory (3%), urinary (1%) and allergic (1%).The principal neurological symptom reported was brain fog or “reduced mental clarity” — a disabling symptom that can scarcely be reassuring to the affected individuals’ patients. This category also included reports of symptoms such as numbness, paralysis, vertigo and reactivation of herpes or shingles. These types of neurological symptoms are no joke; some HCWs have reported being denied health insurance and Workers’ Compensation despite symptoms so debilitating that they can no longer work.In the otolarnygological category, ear and eye symptoms predominated, included ear ringing, changes in hearing, ear/eye pain, blurred vision and “flashing lights.” The vision-related symptoms dovetail with data from the European drug monitoring agency, which has recorded tens of thousands of eye disorders following COVID vaccination.Oddly, 6% of Pfizer recipients reported upbeat feelings of joy, relief or gratitude in response to receiving the injections. The researchers characterized this as a “positive sign” of HCW willingness to “[take] the challenge to end the deadly pandemic, irrespective of side effects experienced.”[…]
Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccine-mandates-health-care-system-workforce/
Pandemic Triggered ‘Avalanche’ of Kids and Teens With Mental Health Problems — But They Have Nowhere to Go
Medical experts across the country say the mental health of children deteriorated during the pandemic — with a large number of children taking up beds in emergency rooms due to a shortage of placements, providers and resources to combat the crisis.
Since the onset of the pandemic, Children’s hospitals throughout the country have seen a “meteoric” rise in the number of children who need mental health help.To make matters worse, hospitals that struggled to meet the demand for mental health services before the pandemic are now dealing with even fewer resources — like hospital beds, providers, therapists and counseling — thanks to COVID.
Mental health among young people deteriorated during the pandemic when cabin fever increased family conflicts and closed schools left children isolated from activities and their peers.
According to The Washington Post, from June of last year to late spring 2021, an average of five children each week were admitted to the medical school’s teaching hospital at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, for overdoses of acetaminophen, opiates, antidepressants and Ritalin.
Normally, the hospital sees only five kids a month.
In May, Children’s Hospital in Colorado declared a “state of emergency” as kids being treated for anxiety doubled, depression numbers tripled and substance abuse and eating disorders increased compared to pre-pandemic levels.
“We really have never seen anything like this rapid growth in kids presenting with mental health problems and the severity of those problems,” said Jenna Glover, director of psychology training at Children’s Hospital Colorado. “I’ve never seen this in my entire career.”
Other hospitals saw even bigger increases. In January, Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, saw a 300% increase in the number of behavioral health emergency admissions since April 2020.
In January through April 2021, behavioral health emergency department visits were up 72% over the same time period two years ago, the hospital said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts during February and March of 2021 were more than 50% higher for teen girls compared to 2019, and more than 4% higher for boys.
“In the last year, there’s been an avalanche of very severely depressed and anxious children and adolescents,” said San Francisco child psychiatrist Michelle Guchereau. It’s “heartbreaking” and “overwhelming” to have to turn some away, she said.
From April to October 2020, U.S. hospitals saw a 31% increase in 12- to 17-year-old kids seeking help for their mental health, and a 24% increase for kids ages 5 to 11.
In March of this year, Seattle Children’s Hospital reported seeing one or two patients every night for attempted suicide. The hospital boarded kids in the emergency department because there were no pediatric psychiatric beds available.
A Massachusetts state report showed 39% of pediatric patients who came to the ER for mental health issues in 2020 took up beds in the emergency department due to unavailability of pediatric beds.
During the pandemic, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago reached what Dr. Jennifer Hoffmann, an emergency medicine physician, called a “crisis point.” There were so many mental health-related emergency room visits it activated a response usually reserved for disaster management.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-pandemic-kids-teens-mental-health-problems/
NARRATIVE NUKED: NEARLY HALF OF “COVID-19 HOSPITALIZATIONS” IN 2021 HAVE BEEN MILD OR ASYMPTOMATIC CASES
“The study suggests that roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease.”
Source: John Titor
A brand new study is calling into question how reliable and meaningful of a number of “patients hospitalized with Covid-19” in the U.S. is.
Covid hospitalizations –the most common metric heard when discussing the seriousness of the pandemic– may not be nearly as meaningful of a number as many once thought. And don’t take it from us:The Atlantic published a stunning pieceon Tuesday citing a new study that suggests “almost half of those hospitalized with COVID-19 have mild or asymptomatic cases”.
The Atlantic hadformerlycalled Covid hospitalizations“the most reliable pandemic number,” last winter. Now, after anationwide study of hospitalization records was release, the publication is walking back its fervor on that statement.
Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Tufts Medical Center, and the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System took on the task of trying to figure out how serious Covid cases were in…
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Watergate: The Lead Up to Nixon’s Impeachment
Watergate Episode 5
History Channel (2016)
Film Review
This episode focuses on Spriro Agnew’s resignation and the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre.” Many analysts view as the turning point in Nixon’s battle to clear his name.
On October 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after pleading guilty to corruption charges. Two days later, Nixon nominates Congressman Gerald Ford as Vice President, and he’s confirmed by the Senate.
In the Saturday Night Massacre three weeks later (on Saturday October 20, 1973, Nixon orders Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns instead. Nixon then orders Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox; he, too, refuses and resigns. Nixon then orders the third-most-senior official at the Justice Department, Solicitor General Robert Bork, to fire Cox. Bork complies, stating he intends to resign afterwards. He’s persuaded by Richardson and Ruckelshaus to stay on for the good of the Justice Department
Although the Nixon administration seals off the special prosecutor’s office following Cox’s firing, they forget to fire the attorneys under Cox and they continued their investigation.
On July 24, 1974 the Supreme Court rules unanimously (8-0) that Nixon turn over the White House tapes. According to the new special prosecutor Leon Jaworski, three of the tapes were missing and one tape had an 18 1/2 minute gap. Nixon’s secretary blamed this on accidentally hitting the record button as she transcribed them.
The following week the House Judiciary Committee conducting impeachment hearings begins listening to the tapes. In one of the most publicized conversations, former White House counsel John Dean advises Nixon he needs another million dollars to continue payoffs to the burglars. Nixon indicates he will have no difficulty finding a million dollars. However as Russ Baker points out in Chapter 11 “Downing Nixon” of his 2009 book Family of Secrets, there is no evidence that he ever paid a million dollars (legally or legally) to the Watergate burglars or played any direct role in the Watergate payoffs.*
*See Was Nixon Set Up?
The film can be viewed free on Kanopy.
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