Archive for November, 2020

COVIDGATE: The Corruption of Clinical Trials (Part 1)

https://rightandfree.com/news/2020/11/17/covidgate-the-corruption-of-clinical-trials-part-one

COVIDGATE: The Corruption of Clinical Trials (Part One)

By Michelle Malkin

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“Truly striking.” “Tremendous.” “Extraordinary.” “Miraculous.” “A great day for science and humanity.” Those are just a few of the hyperbolic responses from government health officials and Big Pharma cheerleaders to preliminary COVID vaccine trial data released by Pfizer and Moderna this past week.

If it all sounds too good to be true, then congratulations: Your B.S. detector is fully charged and operational.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

This commentary is spot on.  And it’s never been more important to have your B.S. detector fully charged than now when logic and proper debate has left science.  We’ve entered the “spin zone.”

Malkin points out the issues:

  1. Fauci’s continual flip-flopping on everything from masks to testing
  2. Normalcy can supposedly only return when everyone gets a yet to be proven vaccine 
  3. Various industries are exploring vaccine status verification systems – all of which is based upon press released write-ups from vaccine manufacturers
  4. Despite NOT being peer-reviewed, Fauci states “it’s all good”
  5. No one knows length of protection of the vaccine
  6. No one knows how this affects children as schools prepare to mandate the vaccine to obtain an education
  7. No one knows the synergistic effects of this vaccine with others
  8. No one knows the long-term effects of this vaccine
  9. The Pfizer clinical data is explained here: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/14/pfizer-covid-vaccine-frenzy-high-volume-of-adverse-reactions-expected/
  10. The Moderna trial is also being tested on those with a low risk of COVID
  11. The question to ask is how did they define a positive COVID case?
  12. Malkin points to the BMJ which defined this as including those even with only mild symptoms to qualify.  So people with simply a cough and positive lab test qualify.  Please see:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/01/us-scientist-manufactured-pandemic-testing-people-for-any-strain-of-coronavirus-not-specifically-covid-19/  Many of these people don’t have COVID
  13. ZERO trials were designed to detect a reduction in any serious outcomes (hospital admission, intensive care, or death)
  14. ZERO trials are designed to determine if they interrupt viral transmission
  15. Moderna’s trial lacks adequate statistical power to assess severe COVID-19 outcomes.  The reason?  Hospital admissions and deaths are too uncommon in the study population of 30,000 people

Important excerpt:

Vaccinating billions of people to prevent a disease with a 99% survival rate for people under 70 — all based on clinical trial efficacy analysis of less than 200 COVID-19 cases involving patients with coughs and unreliable PCR tests with significant false positive rates — is not the triumph of science. It’s corruption and it’s the tip of the iceberg.

For more:  

There is a full-court press to get everyone to take the experimental DNA vaccine:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/18/who-taps-anti-conspiracy-crusader-to-sway-public-opinion-on-covid-vaccine/

For more on the COVID vaccine:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/21/inovio-covid-19-vaccine-uses-electricity-to-drive-dna-into-body-cells/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/05/covid-19-vaccine-explained/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/11/how-covid-19-vaccine-can-destroy-your-immune-system/

Excerpt:

  • According to a study that examined how informed consent is given to COVID-19 vaccine trial participants, disclosure forms fail to inform volunteers that the vaccine might make them susceptible to more severe disease if they’re exposed to the virus
  • Previous coronavirus vaccine efforts — including those for SARS, MERS and RSV — have revealed a serious concern: The vaccines have a tendency to trigger antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE)
  • ADE means that rather than enhance your immunity against the infection, the vaccine actually enhances the virus’ ability to enter and infect your cells, resulting in more severe disease than had you not been vaccinated

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research, vaccines, Viruses

“Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on an Unsuspecting Public” Says Medical Specialist

**UPDATE Jan. 2023**

Proving Dr. Hodkinson correct, Dr. David Martin exposes the names and faces of the people killing humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEo3rnU12jw  Approx. 5 Min

Source: Council Chambers – City of Edmonton, Community and Public Services Committee 11/13/2020.

Since Youtube censored this video, you can hear Hodkinson on Rumble here.

“This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.

There is absolutely nothing that can be done to contain this virus other than protecting older more vulnerable people.  It should be thought of as nothing more than a bad flu season. This is not Ebola, it’s not SARS.  It’s politics playing medicine and that’s a very dangerous game.

I’m absolutely outraged that this has reached this level.  It should all stop tomorrow.”  ~ Dr. Rodger Hodkinson

Dr. Rodger Hodkinson, a medical specialist in pathology which includes virology, chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Committee in Ottawa, and CEO of a large private medical laboratory in Edmonton, Alberta and chairman of a medical biotechnical company which is selling a COVID test.

Hodkinson reminds the listener that a positive test does NOT indicate clinical infection.

Hodkinson also supports The Great Barrington Declaration:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/10/06/covid-experts-there-is-another-way-please-sign-the-declaration/

Transcript found here: https://dryburgh.com/narrative-control/2020/11/coronavirus-hoax-roger-hodkinson/

Category:

Activism, Viruses

WHO Taps ‘Anti-Conspiracy’ Crusader to Sway Public Opinion on COVID Vaccine

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/who-anti-conspiracy-covid-vaccine/

OCTOBER 23, 2020

WHO Taps ‘Anti-Conspiracy’ Crusader to Sway Public Opinion on COVID Vaccine

By Jeremy Loffredo

An outspoken proponent of government-led tactics to influence public opinion on policy and to undermine the credibility of “conspiracy theorists” will lead the World Health Organization’s (WHO) efforts to encourage public acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine, Children’s Health Defense has learned.

Last week, WHO’s general director, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, tweeted that he was glad to speak with the organization’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health to “discuss vaccine acceptance and uptake in the context of COVID-19.”

In his next tweet Ghebreyesus announced that Cass Sunstein, founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School, will chair the advisory group, which was created in July.

Sunstein was former President Barack Obama’s head of Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where he was responsible for overseeing policies relating to information quality.

In 2008, Sunstein wrote a paper proposing that governments employ teams of covert agents to “cognitively infiltrate” online dissident groups and websites which advocate “false conspiracy theories” about the government. In the paper, Sunstein and his co-authors wrote:

“Our principal claim here involves the potential value of cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, designed to introduce informational diversity into such groups and to expose indefensible conspiracy theories as such.”

The government-led operations described in Sunstein’s paper would work to increase faith in government policy and policymakers and undermine the credibility of “conspiracists” who question their motives. They would also maintain a vigorous “counter misinformation establishment” to counter “conspiracy” groups opposed to government policies that aim to protect the common good.

Some of this would be accomplished by sending undercover agents, or government-paid third parties, into “online social networks or even real space groups.”

Sunstein also advocated in 2008 that the government pay “independent experts” to publicly advocate on the government’s behalf, whether on television or social media. He says this is effective because people don’t trust the government as much as they trust people they believe are “independent.”

WHO has already contracted the public relations firm, Hill + Knowlton. The PR giant, best known for its role in manufacturing false testimonies in support of the Gulf War, was hired by WHO  to “ensure the science and public health credibility of the WHO in order to ensure WHO’s advice and guidance is followed.”

WHO paid Hill + Knowlton $135,000 to identify micro-influencers, macro-influencers and “hidden heroes” who could covertly promote WHO’s advice and messaging on social media, and also protect and promote the organization’s image as a COVID-19 authority.

There’s no evidence that WHO has yet implemented any “cognitive infiltration” policies similar to what Sunstein advocated in 2008. If the organization were to adopt such a strategy, and use it to convince hesitant populations to take a COVID vaccine, it would raise questions of legality.

As put forward in a report by the Congressional Research Service, illegal “publicity or propaganda” is defined by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to mean either (1) self-aggrandizement by public officials; (2) purely partisan activity; or (3) “covert propaganda.” By covert propaganda, GAO means information which originates from the government but is unattributed and made to appear as though it came from a third party.

Because WHO is a multinational organization and not a U.S. Government agency, covert “cognitive infiltration” policies could fall into a gray area, or even be considered legal.

Dr. Margaret Chan, former general-director of WHO, once stated that the organization’s policies are “driven by what [she called] donor interests.”

According to a 2012 article in Foreign Affairs, “few policy initiatives or normative standards set by the WHO are announced before they have been casually, unofficially vetted by Gates Foundation staff.” Or, as other sources told Politico in 2017, “Gates’ priorities have become the WHO’s.”

WHO’s current general director, Ghebreyesus, was previously on the board of two organizations that Gates founded, provided seed money for and continues to fund to this day: GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, a public–private global health partnership focused on increased access to vaccines in poor countries, and the Global Fund, which says it aims to accelerate the “development, production and equitable global access to safe, quality, effective, and affordable COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.”

If, as Politico put it, “Gates priorities have become the WHO’s,” and if WHO’s policies are driven by “donor interests,” this raises questions as to what online groups, people and websites would be targeted by such covert programs.

The idea of government agents carrying out psychological operations on social media is not far fetched. Earlier this year the head of editorial for Twitter’s Middle East and Africa office was outed as an active officer in the British Army’s psychological warfare unit, known as the 77th brigade, which specializes in online behavioral change operations.

Jeremy Loffredo is a reporter for Children’s Health Defense.

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**Comment**

Hopefully this makes it crystal clear that there is a concerted, full-frontal assault against those who even dare to question vaccine safety or the COVID narrative.  This attack has been going on since the beginning of medicine.  All those considered a threat or who defy the narrative are hunted down and bullied.  Practitioners lose their licenses, are fired, are investigated by the ‘powers that be’, and are attacked on every possible front.

Probably the worst of all is the smear campaigns:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/28/the-truth-never-stood-in-the-way-of-a-good-story-how-to-be-wakefielded/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/01/03/evidence-based-medicine-and-the-expulsion-of-peter-gotzsche/

This happened recently to an experienced epidemiologist who also authored The Great Barrington Declaration which simply takes a more focused approach regarding COVID measures:   https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/17/author-of-the-great-barrington-declaration-i-did-not-accept-payment/  Excerpts:

I was utterly unprepared for the onslaught of insults, personal criticism, intimidation and threats that met our proposal. The level of vitriol and hostility, not just from members of the public online but from journalists and academics, has horrified me.

Yet of all the criticisms flung at us, the one I find most upsetting is the accusation that we are indulging in ‘policy-based evidence-making’ — in other words, drumming up facts to fit our ideological agenda.

For more:

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Activism, vaccines

What You Need to Know About Borrelia Miyamotoi

https://igenex.com/tick-talk/what-you-need-to-know-about-borrelia-miyamotoi/

What You Need to Know About Borrelia Miyamotoi

Researchers are paying more and more attention to Borrelia miyamotoi, a spiral-shaped bacteria related to the types of Borrelia that cause Lyme disease. This bacteria is prevalent on both coasts of the US and is a known cause of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever, or TBRF.

What is Borrelia miyamotoi?

Borrelia miyamotoi is one of the most recently discovered species of Relapsing Fever-causing bacteria.  In fact, some experts consider it the causative agent of an “emerging” tick-borne disease, and it is not even reportable to the CDC yet.

As will be addressed in detail later in this blog, what makes B. miyamotoi different from other TBRF bacteria is that it is spread by a different type of tick. Whereas most TBRF cases in the US are spread by soft ticks, B. miyamotoi is spread by hard ticks – including the same species of ticks that spread Lyme disease.

Keep reading to learn more about B. miyamotoi and what it means for patients, doctors, and testing and diagnostics.

What you need to know about Borrelia miyamotoi

1. B. miyamotoi is closely related to other TBRF-causing bacteria.

B. miyamotoi is one of several closely related bacteria that cause Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever in the US. Like the bacteria that cause Lyme, these are spiral-shaped bacteria or “spirochetes” that cause serious symptoms, including rashes and fevers.

TBRF gets its name from the “relapsing” fevers that show up in some patients. According to the CDC, these are typically high fevers (e.g., 103 degrees) that last for about 3 days, followed by about 7 days without fever, then 3 days of fever again, and so on. Symptoms typically show up within 7 days of infection and can repeat several times if not treated with antibiotics.

However, it is important to note that not all patients experience fevers. Like Lyme disease, TBRF symptoms can vary widely among patients. The non-specific nature of these symptoms can lead to misdiagnosis, especially in the case of patients who think they have Lyme but test negative because the test is not designed to detect other types of bacteria, like those that cause TBRF.

2. B. miyamotoi was first discovered in Japan in 1995.

In 1995, Masahito Fukunaga et al. discovered and named Borrelia miyamotoi after the researcher who had first isolated spirochetes from hard-bodied ticks in Japan. According to the CDC, it wasn’t until 2011 that the first human case of B. miyamotoi infection was found in Russia. The first North American human case was found in 2013, though some research shows the presence of the bacteria in ticks in Connecticut as far back as 2001.

3. Some experts consider Borrelia miyamotoi disease separate from TBRF.

The CDC and some other entities refer to the illness caused by B. miyamotoi as Borrelia miyamotoi disease. Though the CDC does not provide explicit reasoning for this, there are some similarities and differences between B. miyamotoi and other TBRF-causing bacteria that may be of interest to readers. One difference, which will be covered more in detail later, is that B. miyamotoi is spread by a different type of tick than other TBRF-causing bacteria in North America.

However, what CDC calls Borrelia miyamotoi disease causes very similar symptoms to those of TBRF, namely fever, chills, and headache. Additionally, infections caused by B. miyamotoi and other TBRF-causing bacteria can be detected with both PCR tests and serological tests, and both are treated by antibiotics, usually doxycycline (as with TBRF and Lyme) but sometimes amoxicillin or ceftriaxone. For children and pregnant women, erythromycin or penicillin can be successful.

4. Even baby ticks can be infected with B. miyamotoi.

As IGeneX has covered in numerous articles before, humans are most commonly infected by bites from ticks in the nymph stage of development. This is because ticks at this stage have previously fed on animal reservoirs in the larval stage – such as the white-footed mouse – and then move onto blood meals from larger animals, such as dogs or humans, where they are able to transmit pathogens without being noticed due to their small size.

However, research has shown that B. miyamotoi can actually be spread directly from adult female ticks to their offspring through something called transovarial transmission. In other words, baby ticks can be “born” already infected with B. miyamotoi, rather than having to feed on an infected host (as is the case with Lyme-causing bacteria). Larval ticks still make up a very small percentage of overall infected ticks, with a recent San Francisco State University study showing just 0.11% of larvae in the sample being infected with B. miyamotoi. However, the prevalence of infection increases at each stage of life, and transovarial transmission gives B. miyamotoi a head start.

5. B. miyamotoi is the only known TBRF bacteria spread by hard ticks.

One of the main differences between Lyme disease and TBRF is that most cases of TBRF in the US result from the bites of soft ticks. Soft ticks come from the Argasidae family, as opposed to the Ixodidae family of hard-bodied ticks. Soft ticks have more rounded bodies and are missing the hard shell around the mouthparts that is characteristic of hard-bodied ticks. What’s more, soft ticks can transmit disease – typically via the bacteria B. hermsii, the most common TBRF pathogen in the U.S. – in under 15 minutes.

However, B. miyamotoi is the only cause of TBRF that is known to be spread by hard ticks from the Ixodidae family. In the US, B. miyamotoi is found specifically in Eastern and Western blacklegged ticks (also known as deer ticks) – the main causes of Lyme disease in the US. This means that those living in blacklegged tick-endemic regions, including states along both coasts, are at risk of both Lyme disease and TBRF. It is also possible to be infected with both Lyme and TBRF from the same tick bite.

Doctor uses an in-ear thermometer to take the temperature of a patient.
6. Symptoms of a B. miyamotoi infection look a lot like Lyme symptoms.

It’s important to understand that symptoms of B. miyamotoi infections and TBRF, in general, can look just like Lyme symptoms. These include:

  • Fever – can be recurring in a pattern of 3 days with fever, 7 days without, and so on
  • Chills
  • Headaches
  • Muscle and joint pain

Again, not all patients experience fevers, and patients who do have fevers will not necessarily experience recurring fevers. And since the same hard-bodied ticks that carry Lyme disease can also carry B. miyamotoi, you can be infected with both diseases at once (among other tick-borne co-infections). This means it is extremely important for doctors to test patients for all possible disease-causing bacteria, including B. miyamotoi.

IGeneX offers comprehensive tick-borne disease testing designed to detect all major tick-borne disease pathogens in the US, not just those that cause Lyme. Learn more about testing for TBRF with IGeneX today.

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**Comment**

Great information on a pathogen that isn’t reportable yet. This is a real problem. Prevalence is completely unknown due to this – which desperately needs to change. Borrelia Miyamotoi (Bm) could very well be a reason many are going undiagnosed. Since Lyme testing will not pick it up, many with legitimate symptoms are being sent home after testing negative for Lyme.

For more: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/?s=Borrelia+M

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Yale Scientists Identify Protein That Protects Against Lyme Disease

https://news.yale.edu/2020/11/11/yale-scientists-identify-protein-protects-against-lyme-disease

Yale scientists identify protein that protects against Lyme disease

By Bill Hathaway
November 11, 2020
Lyme tick
(© stock.adobe.com)

Yale researchers have discovered a protein that helps protect hosts from infection with the tick-borne spirochete that causes Lyme Disease, a finding that may help diagnose and treat this infection, they report Nov. 11 in the journal PLOS Pathogens.

Lyme Disease is the most common vector-borne disease in North America and is transmitted by ticks infected with the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. The course of the disease varies among individuals, with the majority experiencing mild symptoms easily treated by antibiotics. However, in some cases of untreated Lyme the infection can spread to the heart, joints, nervous system, and other organs.

For the study, the Yale team expressed more than 1,000 human genes in yeast and analyzed their interactions with 36 samples of B. burgdorferi. They found that one protein, Peptidoglycan Recognition Protein 1 (PGLYRP1), acts like an early warning signal to the immune system when exposed to the bacteria. When exposed to the Lyme spirochete, mice lacking PGLYRP1 had much higher levels of B. burgdorferi than mice with the protein and showed signs of immune system dysfunction, the researchers report.

“Stimulating the ability of people to make more of this protein could help fight infection,” said Yale’s Erol Fikrig, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases) and of microbial pathogenesis and co-corresponding author of the study.

Fikrig and his colleagues are also investigating whether people with higher levels of PGLYRP1 may be less susceptible to infection by B. burgdorferi, which would help explain why some infected individuals have better outcomes.

Yale’s Noah Palm and Aaron Ring are co-corresponding authors of the paper.  Akash Gupta, Gunjun Arora, and Connor Rosen of Yale are co-lead authors.

The work was primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, a nonprofit that supports Lyme and tick-borne disease research.

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**Comment**

A few points:

They state, “The course of the disease varies among individuals, with the majority experiencing mild symptoms easily treated by antibiotics. However, in some cases of untreated Lyme the infection can spread to the heart, joints, nervous system, and other organs.”

OK – this is FALSE.

No, a majority do NOT experience mild symptoms easily treated with antibiotics.
  • Current CDC 2-tiered testing is missing 70-86% of cases.  They have ZERO idea of prevalence due to all the people being misdiagnosed or undiagnosed.  Also, even the people who win the testing lotto and manage to test positive are told they have “false positives” and are sent home empty-handed to worsen.
  • As to being “easily treated with antibiotics,” how do you explain the 40-60% or more who go on with life-long symptoms?  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/02/25/medical-stalemate-what-causes-continuing-symptoms-after-lyme-treatment/ and the fact there has been treatment failure in nearly every antibiotics study ever done?  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/02/22/why-mainstream-lyme-msids-research-remains-in-the-dark-ages/
  • They state that only the “untreated Lyme” patients struggle with infection in the heart, joints, CNS, and other organs when this can happen WITH those who are treated as well.  In fact, in my experience ALL the patients I deal with have these severe symptoms.  ALL!
  • While I don’t want to appear to be a stick in the mud, I’m highly skeptical that lacking a certain protein is the sole reason for having lower levels of Bb.  I can think of numerous reasons for this – including being infected with numerous pathogens – suppressing the immune system.
  • Stay tuned.  These studies promise a lot but often deliver little, especially when the premise behind it all is that this complex illness is due to immune dysregulation NOT the underlying persistent infection. Again, in my experience it’s both that are a problem but by treating the underlying infection, the immune dysregulation is also treated.

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Lyme, research