Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. Photograph: Feifei Cui-Paoluzzo/Getty Images
A scientist who adapted his veterinary lab to test for disease among humans rather than salmon is being celebrated for helping the Faroe Islandsavoid coronavirus deaths, where a larger proportion of the population has been tested than anywhere in the world.
The north Atlantic archipelago currently has only one person in hospital with Covid-19 and it is one of three European countries, along with Georgia and Liechtenstein to so far not have any deaths from the virus. (See link for article)
This video is about a free webinar that was recorded on April 16, 2020. With Dr. Daniel Cameron, one of the foremost authorities on Lyme and tick-borne illness, and Jennifer Crystal, noted Lyme patient and writer, on COVID-19 and Lyme disease.
The webinar is moderated by GLA’s Director of Education & Outreach, Sara Tyghter. People had a chance to submit questions in advance to be answered by the panel. Brought to you by Global Lyme Alliance.
She also states she was on hydroxychloroquine at the time of testing which could have skewed the results, but clinically she had all the COVID-19 symptoms.
She initially had vomiting,fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Six days after being fever-free, the fever came back as well as the shortness of breath. At about week 3 she lost her sense of taste and smell. Her fever came and left 5 times. She is tracking an improvement of symptoms over time. Overall, she’s been fighting it about a month.
At about 9:00 Dr. Cameron speaks about testing. He states that it’s important where they take the swab as the virus can harbor in different locations. He also discusses until a good antibody test is available, COVID-19 patients, similarly to Lyme patients, need to be clinically diagnosed.
Dr. Cameron has not had any Lyme/MSIDS patient with COVID-19 be hospitalized. He states typically Lyme patients are ill with COVID-19 for 10-15 days. He has seen a range in severity within patients.
He is not convinced Lyme/MSIDS patients are more likely to get COVID-19.
Cameron also states that Lyme patients are ahead of the curve as they have already learned so much about health, isolation, the lack of answers by doctors, etc. while in the journey of Lyme/MSIDS.
At around 24:00 he expresses concerns about the potential of chronic issues with those who recover from COVID-19. He says to “stay tuned.”
C.D.C. Labs Were Contaminated, Delaying Coronavirus Testing, Officials Say
Fallout from the agency’s failed rollout of national coronavirus kits two months ago continues to haunt U.S. efforts to combat the spread of the highly infectious virus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta.Credit…Audra Melton for The New York Times
Sloppy laboratory practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caused contamination that rendered the nation’s first coronavirus tests ineffective, federal officials confirmed on Saturday.
Two of the three C.D.C. laboratories in Atlanta that created the coronavirus test kits violated their own manufacturing standards, resulting in the agency sending tests that did not work to nearly all of the 100 state and local public health labs, according to the Food and Drug Administration. (See link for article)
Since I checked over a month ago, this is what the actual CDC website states about its COVID-19 test – up to today:
International Reagent Resource (IRR) began distribution of the test kits to states, but shortly thereafter performance issues were identified related to a problem in the manufacturing of one of the reagents which led to laboratories not being able to verify the test performance. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/testing.html?
Now, does that sound like their very tests are contaminated with the virus they are looking for? No? I didn’t think so.
Key quote on the finding by a FDA expert on the CDC:
He found an astonishing lack of expertise in commercial manufacturing and learned that nobody was in charge of the entire process, they said.
No! Say it isn’t so!
This lack of scientific rigor to laboratory standards is rife within the CDC. The entire organization lacks any credibility as Lyme patients are well aware, due to their mishandling Lyme/MSIDS for over 40 years – along with everything else they touch.
In the article we learn that:
researchers came and went without changing their coats
tested ingredients in the same room where researchers were working on positive coronavirus samples
The only reason we learn of this debacle is after media outlets requested public disclosure.
CDC labs are currently embroiled in a federal investigation by the Department of HHS.
In recent weeks, some administration officials have become so concerned about the lack of agency coordination that the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council began convening his own meetings with agency leaders at HHS, including from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS.
So there you have it folks. More of the same from the HHS, from which the CDC stems.
The CDC’s abysmal handling of testing is directly behind our current plight. We can thank them for the stay at home orders which possibly could have been avoided all together or rationed to those who are immunocompromised.
BY ANY ESTIMATION, I have been reliably and consistently 30 to 45 days ahead of the curve on issues related to COVID-19. That’s the benefit of having done independent research leading to a book on Ebola. I called for social distancing before anyone knew why I was proposing that we not place our hands above our shoulders in public, stop shaking hands, and stop attending large gatherings. I nailed it in my revised hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 was likely a laboratory escape, but not man-made. I’ve recast “Immune Enhancement” more properly as “Pathogenic Priming” – a term all will get used to hearing when Phase I trials become Phase II trials and people start getting infected w/SARS-CoV-2 following vaccination and start dying at even higher rates due to disease enhancement caused by Pathogenic Priming from SARS-CoV-2 vaccination – something the vaccine developers SHOULD have tested for in animal studies, but skipped.
Call it a crystal ball, call it the product of insight of thirty-five years of non-stop learning in all areas of Science that I find merit my attention…
Today, 4/19/2020, I’m publishing that a major battle is brewing that neither side is yet aware of. It’s probably the most controversial aspect of COVID-19 public health policy, personal choice and the urge to “return to normalcy”. People who pick one side will see clearly why they are on one side; people who choose the other side will either be (a) bent on securing a massive revenue stream for allopathy and continuation of the centralization of faux authority on public health at CDC, or (b) so deeply conditioned and already convinced that even while they call for their personal, human, and constitional rights to be secured and defending, that they have already given up to their oppressors as all-mighty, all-powerful, and they will fight against their own best interest thinking they are defending their freedoms.
I’m talking about Private vs. Mandatory testing.
Private. As in SECRET. As in EYES ONLY. YOUR EYES ONLY.
Oh, you may think you have an opinion about this already. If you are against private COVID-19 testing, and you’re new to the topic, trust me, you won’t agree with yourself in a week. It will be a weird week for you. Your mind will feel closed, under attack. It will hurt, a little. That’s cognitive disequilibrium, and it is state of mind in which you are about to learn something.
For me, it’s been a weird two weeks, since I first brought up Private, Non-Compulsory In-Home Antibody Testing in the #IPAKBacktoWork Plan. Why interesting? Because everywhere I discuss it, I get kicked in the ass. For wanting the choice for all. It is me? Is this thing one? CHOICE. FOR ALL. BETTER YET – PRIVATE CHOICE. Not Bill Gate’s option. The IPAK option.
Evidently, post-COVID, major portions of freedom-loving America have already conceded, in their subconcious, the right of the government to test them for COVID-19, at any time, and to report those results to CDC. This portion – who in other settings spend 18 hours a day fighting an increasingly unwinnable fight to preserve the right to determine what we inject into our bodies – are evidently so deeply conditioned on the fallacy that “Testing Means Reporting” that they cannot read the word “Private” without reading “Mandatory”.
I have set up interviews to educate people on Private vs. Compulsory testing. That helped a little.
I’ve spent hours and hours answering questions online with hundreds of people. To little effect.
I’ve written articles explaining in great detail the differences between Private and Clinical testing.
And here I am, again, 12 something AM in the morning, writing another article, fighting the urge to explain yet again.
I won’t win that fight. I’ll give in. Let me try not to, because I’ve already explained it so many other times, so many other articles.
So let me try to unprogram you.
Read this sentence:
“Private (Non-Compulsory) Immunity vs. Mandatory Clinical, Reported Vaccination”
Now read it again, out loud:
“Private (Non-Compulsory) Immunity vs. Mandatory Clinical, Reported Vaccination”
And, take breath, and close your eyes and think of that sentence, and what it means to you for 10 seconds.
Now read this one:
“Private (Non-Compulsory) Testing vs. Mandatory Clinical, Reported Testing”
I hope that help you liberate yourself.
You of course can, and should choose which side of the Private vs. Bill Gates testing you are on. Those who want “NO TESTING!” are covered by the #IPAKBack2Work plan because no one will know if you are testing, or not testing. You’re good. It’s included. For real.
To all, good luck when the battle comes. Because those who want to perpetuate massive profits in allopathy and centralized authority in the CDC are hell-bent and already working to
(1) Force you to test in your home and report.
(2) Force you to carry some proof of immunity.
(3) Restrict your rights to participate in societyw/out presenting such proof of immunity (Vaccine Cards, Quantum Dot Tatoos, RFID Nose Rings, whatever).
(4) Transfer all of their new authority – which you gave them because you did not win the decisive battle that will win the war – to all other vaccines.
DEMAND YOUR RIGHT TO SELF-TESTING W/ZERO REPORTING. WHERE THIS GOES DEPENDS 100% ON YOUR ACTIONS. TELL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPS NOW – EMAIL, PHONE AND TELEPHONE CALLS – THAT YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND ABOUT WHEN YOU GO BACK TO WORK BASED ON YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION FROM YOUR PRIVATE TEST.
To those still skeptical if it’s even POSSIBLE to know your own COVID-19 status w/out reporting: That’s Clinical Testing, not Private Testing.
Ever take your own temperature? In the privacy of your own home? Did you report it? Were you compelled to report it? Did you take your temperature “voluntarily”? Or did you just take your temperature.
Non-Compulsory is Not “Voluntary” Voluntary implies participation in a program.
The #IPAKBacktoWork Program defends your personal liberties and rights to #KnowYourStatus without ever having to report it – to anyone.
Do you think Big Pharma and Big Medicine and CDC want you to have that level of autonomy? That level of freedom?
Do you want to know your status? Can you go to CVS or RiteAid and buy a COVID-19 in-home antibody test assay, like you can an EPT?
No.
That’s an option that you cannot exercise.
Because FDA won’t allow it.
I have ZERO financial stake in the game of COVID-19 testing.
No Quid Pro Quo. NADA.
If you do nothing, mandatory testing and all the rest will surely come.
Because FDA does allow that.
Simple. #IPAKBacktoWork.
For those wondering “will we even succeed it we try”?
The answer, of course, is you.Will you do your civic duty to participate in your own self-goverance,or will your fear prevent you from claiming that which is already yours?
It’s 100% up to you. I ask you to do all you can do every day. If you have already done so, thank you. Please share with others. Again and again.
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**Comment**
A “Must Read” for everyone, Weiler presents important civil liberty information regarding the importance of PRIVATE testing in the midst of fear of COVID-19. Please contact your representatives and senators regarding this matter or we may find every part of our lives tracked, recorded, and used against us. Please take the time. It’s your freedoms at stake.
I know Wisconsin Governor Evers has repeatedly stated how he does not want to lift restrictions until testing has been done and a vaccine is in place.
Google Will Track Cell Phone User Locations to Monitor “Social Distancing”
by Rishma Parpia
Published April 19, 2020
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Google has launched a new electronic surveillance initiative that collects location data from users of Google products and services, including cell phones, to track “social distancing” activity and publicly post “Community Mobility Reports” on a new Google website.
Google surveillance reports will track and publicly report on the movements and activity of electronic product users in six locations that include (1) retail and recreation; (2) grocery and pharmacies; (3) parks; (4) transit stations; (5) workplaces and (6) residential areas.
Google’s surveillance initiative has raised privacy concerns about collection of data on the movements of people within population areas.
Google has announced that it will use its storage of electronic data to track and publicly report on the movements of individuals at the population level during the COVID-19 pandemic. The electronic surveillance initiative utilizes information that Google has collected on users of Google cell phones and products, such as Google Maps, to create reports on the degree to which populations in different areas are conforming to government “social distancing” measures.1
Google maintains it has consulted with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the new surveillance tool.1 The “mobility reports” will be posted publicly on Google’s new website to show whether particular localities, states or countries are seeing more or less people gathering in different types of public spaces.1
According to Google’s website: “As global communities respond to COVID-19, we’ve heard from public health officials that the same type of aggregated, anonymized insights we use in products such as Google Maps could be helpful as they make critical decisions to combat COVID-19. These Community Mobility Reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. The reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.”2
Information Included in Google’s Electronic Surveillance Reports
According to Google, the company plans to publish a series of “Community Mobility Reports” to show the types of places people are visiting across 131 countries and regions.3 The reports contain data from two to three days earlier and will show trends in how populations in different areas are behaving and responding to government “social distancing” regulations, including how many people are still going to work or entering shops and grocery stores, pharmacies, parks and other public spaces.
The electronic surveillance reports will also show traffic comparisons in terms of how busy these places were before the pandemic.3 In the United States, the data will be drilled down to the county level.1
Google said the surveillance data will be collected in aggregate form rather than at an individual level and it will not report absolute numbers of people showing up at parks or grocery stores.4According to the company, the idea is to outline activity in percentages, which highlight potential surges in attendance.4 For example, in its first report, San Francisco County has seen a 75 percent drop in retail and recreation, a 55 percent decline in parks’ population and a 21 percent increase in residential population between February 16, 2020 and March 29, 2020.5
Data Will be Given to Government Officials
Google has said that this type of electronic surveillance data could be useful in alerting local health departments to identify the next potential COVID-19 hotspot combined with other forms of surveillance data routinely collected by government agencies on a local, state and federal level.5 The data will assist public health officials with targeting specific regions with messaging about the need to abide by social distancing rules and not enter parks or other public spaces where residents routinely gather.
Public health officials want to use the information to monitor populations in different countries as people start to return to school and work after COVID-19 quarantines are lifted to measure disease incidence in areas that are congested and heavily active.4
Google Denies Privacy Violations
Google’s new enterprise has prompted renewed privacy concerns about Google collecting information on the movements of users of Google cell phones and other electronic products.4Google maintains that the Community Mobility Reports are powered by the same “anonymization” technology that they use in their products every day.6
Google’s blog post states that for these mobility surveillance reports, the company will use differential privacy, which adds artificial noise to the datasets enabling high quality results without identifying any individual person.6 The blog post adds that Google product users have control over whether or not they want to be tracked by turning the Location History setting “on” or “off”: “The insights are created with aggregated, “anonymized” sets of data from users who have turned on the Location History setting, which is off by default. Users who have Location History turned on can choose to turn the setting off at any time from their Google Account, and can always delete Location History data directly from their Timeline.”6
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 