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Intellectuals for Sale: CDC Retaliates Against Its Own For ‘Wrong’ Mask Research

https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/cdc-warns-cdcs-own-scientists-that

CDC Warns CDC’s Own Scientists That Their Finding on Masks “Is Not Scientifically Correct”

During a congressional hearing, CDC Directory Mandy Cohen did not rule out mandating masks again for toddlers.

 
PAUL D. THACKER
FEB 8, 2024
 

In a congressional hearing last November on restoring trust in science, CDC Director Mandy Cohen kept evading questions on whether she would bring back mask mandates for toddlers.

“We have a lot of different tools to protect our children,” Dr. Cohen said during her cagey response.

Six days later, a BMJ journal published a study that found “mask recommendations for children are not supported by scientific evidence.”

Director Cohen’s scientific bumbling continued last week as her agency began fighting with CDC’s own researchers over another contentious declaration: N95 respirators work better than surgical masks. In recent years, mask advocates have shifted goalposts and demanded N95 respirators, which they claim perform better than surgical masks at stopping the COVID virus.

Not true say CDC’s own scientists, according to CDC documents I uncovered.

During a presentation last summer, a CDC expert stated there was no difference between N95 respirators and masks in stopping viruses. These findings have been supported by CDC scientists in a study CDC published on the agency’s website last November—just a few weeks before Director Cohen testified before Congress.

To shut down this controversy, CDC wrote a blog last week warning researchers that to suggest that facemasks and respirators are the same “is not scientifically correct.” (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Thacker drills down and finds a CDC meta-analysis comparing the effectiveness of surgical masks with N95 against viruses. Result: NO DIFFERENCE.

But truth simply does not matter in the CDC Twilight Zone.

A systemic review noted that N95 respirators filter particles better than surgical masks, but they are NOT any better at stopping viruses in real world conditions.

Thacker then calls out to whistleblowers inside the CDC to contact him privately to discuss what is going on inside the hopelessly corrupt CDC which is beyond all hope and rehabilitation.

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The Treason of Intellectuals

1/24

In this interview, Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, discusses his stunning essay “The Treason of the Intellectuals,” published in December 2023 in the Free Press.

Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich. ~ Dr. Niall Ferguson

The essay delves deeply into the changes Ferguson has observed in his 30-year career as an academic, especially over the past 10 years. He has witnessed the willingness of trustees, donors, and alumni to tolerate the politicization of American universities by an illiberal coalition of ‘woke’ progressives, who have betrayed their role by pursuing a specific political goal, but pretending they are engaged in an academic activity.

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/12/intellectuals-for-sale/

Intellectuals for Sale

BY JEFFREY A. TUCKER
12 FEBRUARY 2024
 

In the first week of March 2020, as news of a virus was everywhere, intellectuals associated with the Yale University School of Public Health penned a letter expressing the conventional wisdom of the moment: we should not lock down. That harms the poor and vulnerable populations. Travel restrictions achieve nothing. 

Quarantine, if it is deployed at all, said the letter, should only be for the very sick and only in the interest of the health of the community. Government should never abuse its powers but instead find “the least restrictive measure” that still protects community health. 

The letter writers gathered signatures. They found 800 others in their profession to sign it. Of course the whole text was discarded by governments at all levels everywhere in the world. 

Reading it now, we will find that it makes mostly the same points as the Great Barrington Declaration that came out seven months later. After that document, which was wrongly seen as partisan, many of the people who signed the original Yale letter then signed a new letter, this one called the John Snow Memorandum, calling for a zero-Covid policy and universal lockdowns. 

What happened?

(See link for article)

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Summary:

  • Academics, think tankers, authors and pundits all over the world who were initially against draconian measures changed suddenly once every nation in the world other than Sweden locked down.
  • When “Trump’s” COVID ‘vaccine’ came out, Anthony Fauci, Kamala Harris, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Dr. Eric Topol, Dr. Peter Hotez and Dr. Ashish Jha all said that the public should be extremely wary, but turned on a dime a few months later stating it should be mandated despite no data, no evidence, and no new information. 
  • Very few have apologized for anything despite the fact these measures not only did not have any positive impact on COVID, they actually killed people.
  • Currently, those of the professional intellectual class who are truth-tellers are mostly retired.
  • Those dependent upon an institution are less likely to speak the truth.
  • In order to ascend up the ranks in intellectual pursuits, you must be wise and that means not bucking the prevailing ideological trends.
  •  In hopes of rekindling apolitical science, Brownstone Institute began a series of retreats for experts free of back-stabbing faculty politics and bureaucracy, in which serious research and ideas are put on display and valued for what they are.  There is no unified message, no action items, and no hidden agenda.

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Activism, research, Viruses

The Climate Industrial Complex Building ‘Carbon Removal Plants”

For anyone paying attention, the players in this global cabal are all interrelated and are working in lockstep, which has rightly caused a crisis of trust.  While the unelected fully believe they need to dictate our every move due to our stupidity, they’ve been attempting to rebuild trust as they also attempt to ‘build back better,’ but the public is finally waking up to the fact nothing is back and nothing is better, as their freedoms are being removed one by one under the guise of ‘pandemics,’ ‘public health,’ ‘climate change,’ and ‘equity.’

Many are unaware that the climate narrative is part and parcel of this global endgame and that drastic and irreversible climate engineering worries real scientists who state the endeavor should be relegated to the fantasy realm and science fiction.

But it’s all big, big business.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/the-climate-industrial-complex?

The Climate-Industrial Complex

Foundations and journalists who channel public funds into “renewable energy”

JOHN LEAKE
FEB 14, 2024

Of all rackets, the so-called “renewable energy” racket may be the most fraudulent and nonsensical. What geologists call “Last Glacial Period” occurred between c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago. Pretty much ALL human development has occurred since the glaciers retreated. During the last Ice Age, glaciers advanced as far south as what is now the state of Missouri. They retreated at a time when human population is estimated to have number around 4 million.

The following chart is a visual representation of successive cooling and warming trends and the associated advance and retreat of glaciers.

The so-called greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone—comprise 0.04 percent of the earth’s atmosphere. Even scientists who pay lip service to the human induced global warming theory acknowledge that for most of the last 66 million years, Co2 levels in the earth’s atmosphere were much higher than they are today.

In the 1970s, climatologists were concerned that modern man would soon experience another cooling trend, resulting in yet another glacial advance that would bulldoze the cities of Canada and much of the United States. In the eighties, the theory of global warming—induced by human greenhouse gas emissions—became en vogue. What really ignited this intellectual, social, and political trend was the discovery that billions of public funds could be funneled into “renewable energy” industries through the mechanism of subsidies and tax credits.

This morning I stumbled across a notable investigative report titled Secret Partnership Fueling Climate Hawk Journalism. Note that many of the Foundations the are key players in the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex are also key players in the Climate-Industrial Complex.

Facts are facts. Science is science. But journalism should be journalism, too, not activism. When you have politically invested and motivated entities and activists driving an entire major policy area’s news coverage – or if not driving it, certainly attempting to have a hand on the wheel – you have to ask about the objectivity and mission. Journalism, reporting – our world increasingly treats them as commodities and platforms, and the public is growing more accustomed to it. Climate reporting is an area where it’s easy to see. But what about areas where it’s not so easy? That’s why the principle is so important. So you can trust it no matter how hot – or warm – the topic. ~ Caleb Howe, editor and writer

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Speaking of “renewable energy” industries….

https://www.weforum.org/videos/the-world-s-largest-carbon-removal-plant-is-being-built-in-the-us/  Video Here (Approx. 3 Min)

World’s Largest Carbon Removal Plant Being Built in Wyoming

“Direct air capture is a fairly energy-intensive process.”

“It’s a carbon removal credit, which is the actual financial product that we sell.“

Direct air capture (DAC) is a small but fast-growing sector, with 19 plants in operation worldwide today but with a further 30 in various stages of development.

  • Companies pay Carbon Capture to offset their emissions.
  • Those behind the scheme are convinced 10 gigatonnes of CO2 need to be removed every year by 2050.
  • It is prohibitively expensive costing $600 per ton of CO2 removed from the air.
  • It also snatches hundreds of acres of land from other uses such as growing food.  (Not to mention are quite ugly)
  • Two years in, Climeworks has yet to reveal how effective the technology actually is. 

This should jog the reader’s memory to another recent deployment of a highly popular technology promised to be ‘safe and effective,’ yet isn’t, and in fact has caused more adverse reaction and deaths that are continually being ignored for what is commonly known as “Hopium.”

We’ve already been warned that proposed green solutions are a gigantic scam being pushed for a much bigger agenda called The Great Reset, which if achieved will make the world unrecognizable.

In fact, 80% of carbon offset schemes are ‘likely junk or worthless.’
But controversial DAC got $1.2 BILLION from the Biden administration. Many claim it gives license to pollute.

And this is only the first round of funding in a bigger plan to dole out $3.5 billion to develop at least four DAC hubs across the US. In addition to the Texas and Louisiana projects, the DOE also selected 19 more proposed projects,  including the Gulf Coast, southwestern US, California, North Dakota, Wyoming, Illinois, and Kentucky.

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Activism

When Lyme Causes Dysfunction of the Autonomic Nervous System

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-autonomic-nervous-system/

When Lyme causes dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system

By Nancy Dougherty

2/8/24

Infection-associated chronic illnesses such as Long COVID, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and chronic Lyme disease share similar symptoms and may share important biologic mechanisms, too.

Dysautonomia, or autonomic nervous system dysregulation, is widely accepted as an underlying contributor to long COVID and ME/CFS.

A multidisciplinary team at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has published a research review in Frontiers in Neurology that implicates dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system in post-treatment/persistent Lyme disease.

Common symptoms of these infection-associated chronic conditions include severe fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, cognitive and sleep difficulties.

Although not yet well-established in the medical literature, the Johns Hopkins team, by scrutinizing case reports, autopsy and primate studies, found compelling clinical and biologic bases for the association between dysautonomia and Lyme disease.

More research is warranted to better understand disease mechanisms and identify biomarkers to improve diagnostics and treatments.

POTS

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), the most common manifestation of dysautonomia, is reported to occur after an acute Lyme disease infection. POTS has been recognized by some clinicians as a contributor to post-treatment/persistent Lyme disease but has not been studied in depth.

POTS results from impaired regulation of blood flow, particularly when in an upright position. Symptoms can be debilitating and include brain fog, severe fatigue, profound weakness with standing, racing heart, exertional intolerance, light-headedness, and muscle aches. When properly evaluated with formal testing, POTS can be diagnosed and treated.

More research needed

There are gaps in knowledge that the Johns Hopkins researchers aim to address in prospective studies of Lyme disease-associated dysautonomia in order to:

  • Identify underlying abnormal biologic mechanisms causing Lyme disease-associated dysautonomia and to compare those with other infection-associated chronic illnesses
    • Investigate small-fiber neuropathy, endothelial dysfunction, mast-cell activation, autoantibodies, vagus nerve damage, gut microbiome disruption, neuroinflammation, neurotoxicity, genetic predeterminants and other factors
  • Determine the prevalence of small-fiber neuropathy and autonomic dysfunction in chronic Lyme disease using objective autonomic tests and skin biopsies
  • Understand the relationship between acute Borrelia burgdorferi infection and the development of small-fiber neuropathy and autonomic dysfunction
  • Understand the contribution of co-infections to chronic symptoms and dysautonomia
  • Expand prior autopsy and animal studies to better understand the mechanisms Borrelia burgdorferi utilizes to disrupt the autonomic nervous system

Investigating treatments

Treatment trials are also important to advancing patient care:

  • Randomized studies of IVIG treatments are needed
  • Vagus nerve stimulation treatment studies are in progress (at the Columbia University Alexandra and Steven Cohen Foundation Clinical Trial Network site)

Authors of this paper are renowned international authorities in ME/CFS, POTS, and Lyme disease. Research at the Johns Hopkins Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) Program is ongoing in ME/CFS and Long COVID, and Lyme disease POTS/dysautonomia research is now underway at the POTS Program as well.

To help address some of the gaps in knowledge, new prospective Lyme disease research studies at Johns Hopkins are utilizing transcranial doppler ultrasound, tilt table testing, and other objective tests to help elucidate the abnormalities and mechanisms of Lyme disease-associated dysautonomia. This is the first research program focusing on understanding POTS/dysautonomia in Lyme disease.

Please visit here for more background information on POTS and Lyme disease, including symptoms, diagnostic tests and treatments.

Nancy Dougherty is an education and communications consultant for the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center. Other research investigations at the Center include Pilot Treatment Trials and the SLICE Studies.

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**Comment**

Sadly, the study regurgitates the myth that only 10-20% go on to suffer chronic symptoms, when the truth is somewhere between 40-60% or even more.

Again, Lyme/MSIDS research has always been biased due to the extremely limited study design parameters. The sickest never test positive on the antiquated and unscientific CDC 2-tiered testing and most don’t have the EM rash – two parameters continually used despite their glaringly known flaws.

The study also uses the flawed Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS) moniker.

The study authors hope their work will lead to new treatments to improve the quality of life; however, the concern is that these treatments will focus solely on dysautonomia that will ignore pathogen involvement and the need for antimicrobials (i.e. long term antibiotics). 

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Lyme, research

Harvard Magazine: Deciphering Lyme Disease

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf

Harvard Magazine; Deciphering Lyme Disease

Carl Tuttle

Hudson, NH, United States

FEB 14, 2024 — 

This is the starting point for a criminal investigation (1979)… see email below to Jacob Lemieux, M.D., Ph.D. who successfully completed genome sequencing  of the spirochete responsible for Lyme disease.

A chronic relapsing SERONEGATIVE disease does not fit the vaccine model. You cannot prove vaccine efficacy with a disease where we don’t know who has or does not have the infection so narrowly define the disease to fit the vaccine model, (fabricated two-tier case definition) deny the chronically infected and your patent royalties continue to reap benefits.

Email to Jacob Lemieux, M.D., Ph.D.

———- Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “jelemieux@partners.org” <jelemieux@partners.org>
Cc: “pardis@broadinstitute.org” <pardis@broadinstitute.org>, “asteere@partners.org” <asteere@partners.org>, “jon_shaw@harvard.edu” <jon_shaw@harvard.edu>, “john_rosenberg@harvard.edu” <john_rosenberg@harvard.edu>, “yourturn@harvard.edu” <yourturn@harvard.edu>, “lindsay_mitchell@harvard.edu” <lindsay_mitchell@harvard.edu>, “natalie_vinard@harvard.edu” <natalie_vinard@harvard.edu>
Date: 02/12/2024 1:14 PM EST
Subject: Harvard Magazine; Deciphering Lyme Disease

Harvard Magazine

Deciphering Lyme Disease

by Jonathan Shaw  JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2024

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/01/right-now-lyme-disease

Excerpt:

“It turned out that the genetic diversity of Lyme disease is orders of magnitude harder to handle than any other pathogen.” And that complexity is associated with the wide range of Lyme disease symptoms—from severe arthritis in children to fatigue and potentially debilitating joint, neurological, and cardiovascular symptoms in adults—that persist in some patients for months or even years after treatment.
 
Some of the genes encode lipoproteins [composed of fats and proteins] on the bacterial surface, which appear to armor the bacteria against immune assault in the bloodstream.”

Feb 12, 2024

Jacob Lemieux, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease, MGH

Dear Dr. Lemieux,

Thank you for investing the time into whole genome sequencing of the spirochete responsible for Lyme disease and recognizing the pathogen’s diversity as “harder to handle than any other pathogen.”

Allen Steere documented the severity of Lyme disease in 1979 in his article titled Neurologic abnormalities of Lyme disease with 18 case studies describing meningitis, encephalitis, chorea, cerebellar ataxia, cranial neuritis, bilateral facial palsy, motor and sensory reticuloceratids, mononeuritis multiplex, and myelitis. Eight patients continued to have residual disability with some unable to walk.

These are the same experiences exposed in the documentaries; Under our Skin and The Quiet Epidemic  as well as fourteen-year-old Lyme patient Evan White who testified in a 1993 hearing in Washington while in a wheelchair.

Additional reference:

Study detects tick-borne illness in teens hospitalized for depression
https://www.lymedisease.org/hospitalized-teens-lyme-depression/

-Ten patients were diagnosed with DSM-5 Major Depressive Disorder, seven were additionally diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and three had made serious suicide attempts.

-Ten adolescents picked at random with mental illness severe enough that they required institutionalization—nine of them had evidence of tick-borne infections and nine had evidence of autoimmune encephalitis.

So why was this disabling infection transformed into a low-risk and non-urgent health issue as reported in the 2001 New York Times article “Lyme Disease Is Hard to Catch And Easy to Halt” effectively eliminating Social Security Disability compensation for the hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions worldwide) who end up disabled from the disease?

Your study Dr. Lemieux should be the foundation for a Manhattan Project to find a cure for chronic Lyme disease as a mountain of evidence has been growing and ignored by the IDSA/CDC and NIH that we have been dealing with an antibiotic resistant/tolerant superbug.

Instead of finding a cure, all the eggs were put into the vaccine basket. (LYMErix)

Let us hope your findings move the research forward to find a cure and not used by our public health officials with a vaccine agenda to scare the public into submission.

Respectfully submitted,
Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

Cc: Jonathan Shaw,  Managing Editor, Harvard Magazine

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**Comment**

Don’t hold your breath.

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Activism, Lyme, research

WHO Overplays its Hand: It’s Always Been About the Money. 5 MILLION COVID Shot Reactions on its Website

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/09/the-who-overplays-its-hand-and-watches-support-drain-away/

The WHO Overplays its Hand and Watches Support Drain Away

BY BEN KINGSLEY AND MOLLY KINGSLEY
9 FEBRUARY 2024

Cracks are forming in the World Health Organisation’s plans to secure a vast expansion of its powers and resources. Presented as a necessarily urgent response to the empirically unsupported assertion that pandemics are increasing in frequency and severity, negotiations for a broad package of amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) and a new parallel Pandemic Treaty had been expected to be over by the end of 2023. Having missed that deadline, in late January the Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pleaded for WHO member states to give ground so that the negotiations could be completed at all. In the same comments he sought to apportion blame for the unexpected headwinds on those who had misconstrued, or misrepresented, the benign intentions of the WHO and its key supporters (which include China and some wealthy private organisations).

Reading between the lines, it appears that Mr. Ghebreyesus and his supporters may finally have realised that the game could soon be up: the strength of opposition to the ambitions of this unelected technocratic administration has compounded rapidly in recent weeks. That opposition has become more evident not only in smaller less influential countries, but in countries which are major contributors to the WHO. Significantly this has included groups of politicians in the U.K. and the U.S. who are seriously alarmed by the vision of a WHO-centred ‘command and control’ public health system, and by the constitutional and public spending implications of these two proposed international agreements.  (See link for article)

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Important excerpt:

The current nature of the WHO’s funding, 85% of which now comes from private commercially-interested organisations, creates an additional imperative for rigorous, investigative scrutiny. In November 2023, Human Rights Watch wrote that:

The draft [treaty] reflects a process disproportionately guided by corporate demands and the policy positions of high-income governments seeking to protect the power of private actors in health including the pharmaceutical industry.

The WHO is now a symbol of all that is wrong with what has become a system of global public health patronage.
This shamelessly undemocratic and chaotic power grab is also indicative of an organisation which has reached the end of its useful life.

I couldn’t agree more.

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https://louiseroseingrave.substack.com/p/exclusive-gp-tells-leinster-house?

Exclusive: GP tells Leinster House of 5 million covid vaccine reactions listed on WHO website

WHO Pandemic Treaty: Know the Facts

LOUISE ROSEINGRAVE

FEB 12, 2024
(Dr. Ralph, who treats primarily an elderly population, lost ZERO patients to COVID due to early treatment, but like so many others is under investigation for it.)
Article Excerpts:

Wexford GP Dr Billy Ralph dropped a bombshell in a speech delivered at Leinster House last week. His presentation was part of an event organised by Independent Senator Sharon Keogan entitled, WHO Pandemic Treaty: Know The Facts.

In preparing for the presentation, the GP – who is one of six GP’s under investigation by the Irish Medical Council – checked out the World Health Organisation’s figures for adverse drug reactions to covid 19 vaccines.

The result? More than five million adverse reactions logged, a total of 5,286,822 in just three years of covid vaccine circulation. For comparison, the GP checked out results for Amoxicillin, a commonly used a penicillin antibiotic.

For comparison, the GP checked out results for Amoxicillin, a commonly used a penicillin antibiotic.

The website, an affiliate site to the World Health Organisation is vigiaccess.org.

“Everyone’s had amoxicillin, babies have it, dogs have it. If you look up amoxicillin, you’ll get 160,000 reported adverse events over 52 years.

The GP also mentions that the COVID shots have only been around for three years and only 1 in 100 vaccine adverse events get reported.

https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/follow-the-damn-money?

FOLLOW THE DAMN MONEY!

Whether the “Pandemic Treaty” or the amendments to the IHR are adopted or not, the massive investment of the Pharmaceutical Hospital Emergency Industrial Complex will continue. FOLLOW THE DAMN MONEY!

JAMES ROGUSKI
FEB 12, 2024

This is about money. It is always about money.

WE HAVE ALREADY LOST CONTROL OF OUR GOVERNMENTS TO THE PHARMACEUTICAL HOSPITAL EMERGENCY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the World Health Organization suffer from “fund envy.”

They, and the member nations of the WHO, want more money.

They want a lot more money.

They all want in on the Fascist organized crime and money laundering operation being perpetrated by the Pharmaceutical Hospital Emergency Industrial Complex that is working in tandem with our “regulatory” agencies and non-government organizations in the form of Public-Private Partnerships.

CRACK THE CODE: In finance, “equity” is an ownership interest.

EQUITY = MONEY.

The problem has always been, and probably always will be about money.

(See link for article and video)

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Indonesian Health Minister Told the Truth in 11/22

G20: Invest in Health Care

1.4 BILLION US dollars have been pledged from 24 institutions.  Globalists hope that this increases to 10 BILLION ANNUALLY in the next 5-10 years.

https://rumble.com/v4c9kei-the-covid-inquiry.html  Video Here (Approx. 11 Min)

The COVID “Inquiry”

Liz Gunn explains the impacts of the official government COVID “Inquiry” in New Zealand and that the Whistleblower data on excess deaths aligns with the UK data on the same.  She states the world is being reorganized (Agenda 2030) into an unrecognizable state that suits and serves the few she calls ‘parasites.’

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses