Tuesday, May 26, 2020

500 Doctors Write To Trump Warning Lockdown Will Cause More Deaths

From ZeroHedge:




More than 500 doctors have added their names to a letter to President Trump urging him to end the lockdown, warning that it will cause more death than the coronavirus itself.
In the letter, sent last week, doctors described the lockdown as a “mass casualty incident”.

“We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients. The downstream health effects of deteriorating a level are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error,” it states.
Written by Simone Gold, a California emergency medical specialist, and further signed by hundreds of doctors, the letter adds “The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure.”
“In youths it will be called financial instability, unemployment, despair, drug addiction, unplanned pregnancies, poverty, and abuse,” the letter further urges.
It notes that “Suicide hotline phone calls have increased 600%,” while sales of alcohol have increased 300% to 600%.
“Because the harm is diffuse, there are those that hold it does not exist. We, the undersigned, know otherwise,” the letter concludes.

While globalists have urged that lockdowns need to continue, medical and economic experts across the board in multiple countries are warning that the loss of life will be much greater than that caused directly by the virus itself, if lockdowns are not scrapped.
A leaked study from inside the German Ministry of the Interior has found that the impact of the country’s lockdown could end up killing more people than the coronavirus due to victims of other serious illnesses not receiving treatment.
A Guardian analysis has found that there have been thousands of excess deaths of people at home in the UK due to the lockdown.


Professor Richard Sullivan also warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths in the UK than total coronavirus deaths due to people’s access to screenings and treatment being restricted as a result of the lockdown. Physicians in the US are issuing the same warnings over cancer screening.
Sullivan’s comments were echoed by Peter Nilsson, a professor of internal medicine and epidemiology at Lund University, who said, “It’s so important to understand that the deaths of COVID-19 will be far less than the deaths caused by societal lockdown when the economy is ruined.”
In addition, new figures from the UK’s Office of National Statistics show that the number of deaths from flu and pneumonia is three times higher than the total number of coronavirus deaths this year.
A data analyst consortium in South Africa asserts that the economic consequences of the country’s lockdown will lead to 29 times more people dying than the coronavirus itself.
Experts have also warned that there will be 1.4 million deaths from untreated TB infections due to the lockdown.

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Monday, May 25, 2020

Iron Maiden- Die With Your Boots On



Another prophet of disaster
Who says the ship is lost
Another prophet of disaster
Leaving you to count the cost
Taunting us with visions
Afflicting us with fear
Predicting war for millions
In the hope that one appears
No point asking when it is
No point asking who's to go
No point asking what's the game
No point asking who's to blame
'Cause if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die
if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die
if you're gonna die, if you're gonna die,
if you're gonna die
If you're gonna die, die with your boots on
If you're gonna try, well stick around
Gonna cry, just move along
If you're gonna die, you're gonna die

Corona Bologna


I'm sick of coronavirus "news."  On all the news sites, all that they post are coronavirus-related stories.  Over and over, the wringing of hands over the pandemic.  It's disgusting.  The media are like a lost dog, clamped onto the cuff of your pants, and unwilling to let go.  Enough already!  We know that there's a pandemic.  How could we not know?  We are bombarded with coronavirus "news" daily.  Stop the propaganda.  Report the news, please, and not all of these opinion pieces disguised as news.  I no longer trust any news media to report the truth.  It's all a game to hijack public opinion.  Fuck the lying pigs who aim to control society.  Left or right, fuck them all.

Japan insect enthusiast puts cricket ramen on the menu

In a steamy Tokyo kitchen, a roasted scent wafts through the air as Yuto Shinohara prepares soup stock for ramen, derived not from pork or chicken, but crickets (AFP Photo/Behrouz MEHRI)


In a steamy Tokyo kitchen, a roasted scent wafts through the air as Yuta Shinohara prepares soup stock for ramen, derived not from pork or chicken, but crickets.
"In this pan, we have 10,000 crickets, making stock for 100 bowls," Shinohara explained, as he stirred a large silver pot.
The bowls of ramen produced by Shinohara and his team look and smell like those at restaurants across Japan: fine white noodles sit in a savoury soup, topped with a juicy slice of pork and fat pieces of pickled bamboo shoots.
There's little to give away the fact that 26-year-old Shinohara uses crickets in the broth, oil, soy sauce and even noodles. Except, that is, for the deep-fried insect perched next to a mitsuba leaf garnish on the soup's surface.
Shinohara isn't a professional chef, in fact his preferred description of himself is "earth boy." And it's his love of all things nature-related that led to him insect-based food.
"I want to introduce the joy of insect eating, so that insects will be respected equally to animals and plants," he told AFP.
Shinohara's love affair with insects began as a child, when he spent most of his time in fields and bushes, catching grasshoppers and cicadas.
He was so fascinated by creepy-crawlies that he eventually even tasted them -- but only secretly.
"I couldn't tell anyone that I love insects or I eat insects until I was about 20 years old," he says shyly. "I was afraid of becoming the odd one out or being bullied for it."
- 'Like a delicate sweet' -
Humans have been eating insects for thousands of years and they remain a common food in many countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania.
But for many in the West and elsewhere, a cultural bias against insects as food remains strong.
Environmental and agriculture experts have been trying to break down those barriers, promoting insects as an environmentally friendly rich source of minerals and protein.

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Tracing The Origins Of COVID-19

From ZeroHedge:

On December 9, 2019, long before the world knew anything about it, a video interview took place with one of the key players in the COVID-19 drama, Dr Peter Daszak, President of the EcoHealth Alliance, who inadvertently may have provided indications of its true origin.
Much of that discussion centred around the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS) epidemic of 2002-2004, which was believed to have originated in bats, although civets may have acted as an intermediate host.
While circulating in animals, the SARS virus mutated, acquiring the ability to infect humans, which it was assumed to have done so, infecting workers in a Guangdong, China animal market.
That explanation became the narrative now being promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, the media and some Western scientists to convince the world that COVID-19 was a naturally-occurring outbreak.
Beginning at 27:49, Dr Daszak explains the basis of the naturally-occurring narrative and the collection of over one hundred bat coronaviruses capable of infecting humans, but untreatable with drugs or vaccines. Those coronaviruses are presumed to be stored in Chinese laboratories.
“So, we did a couple of things with it. So, one is around SARS. We focused on SARS coronavirus emerged from a wildlife market. And whilst the first pandemic of this century. So, it’s big event. And, so we started to trace back from the wildlife market, which species carried the virus, that came into those markets. We found that it was bats, not civets, was the original idea. So, we started looking where did they come from. And we went out to southern China. And did surveillance of bats across southern China. And we’ve now found, after six or seven years of doing this, over one hundred new SARS-related coronaviruses, very close to SARS. Some of them get into human cells in the lab. And some of them can cause SARS disease in humanized mouse models. And are untreatable with therapeutic monoclonals [antibodies] and you can’t vaccinate against them with a vaccine.”
At 29:51, Dr Daszak describes bioengineering of those viruses by inserting components of one coronavirus into another.
“Well, I think, coronavirus is a pretty good, I mean, you’re a virologist [the interviewer], you know all this stuff, but the, you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily. Spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus, zoonotic risk. So, you can get the sequence, you can build the protein, and we work with Ralph Baric at UNC [University of North Carolina] to do this. Insert it into a backbone of another virus, and do some work in the lab. So, you can get more predictive, when you find the sequence. You have this diversity. Now, the logical progression for vaccines is, if you are going to develop a vaccine for SARS, people are going to use pandemic SARS, but let’s try to insert these other related and get a better vaccine.”
In 2015, Ralph Baric from the University of North Carolina and Zheng-Li Shi, the “bat woman” from the Wuhan Institute of Virology jointly published a scientific article describing the combination of the receptor-binding spike protein from a newly isolated coronavirus (SHC014) and the “backbone” from SARS-CoV, the coronavirus responsible for the 2002-2003 pandemic.
That experiment produced a novel virus, chimera SHC014-MA15, which showed “robust viral replication both in vitro [cell cultures] and in vivo [animals],” using models adapted to test human infectivity.
The scientific consensus claims that COVID-19, like SARS, originated in bats.
There is conclusive scientific evidence, however, that COVID-19’s receptor binding domain within the spike protein is structurally closest to that of pangolins (scaly anteaters), not bats, and it was the result of a recombination, not convergent evolution.
Yet, pangolins have been ruled out as the intermediate host for COVID-19.
Even Dr Ralph Baric in a March 15, 2020 interview, beginning at the 27:40 time point, stated unequivocally, that pangolins were not the source of COVID-19:
“Pangolins have over 3,000 nucleotide changes - no way they are the reservoir species [for COVID-19], absolutely no chance.”
It is, therefore, logical to conclude that the recombinant event resulting in a pangolin receptor binding domain within a bat coronavirus backbone must have occurred in a laboratory, in a manner similar to the experiment conducted by Ralph Baric and Zheng-Li Shi in 2015.
Furthermore, COVID-19’s S1/S2 furin polybasic cleavage site, a distinctive feature widely known for its ability to enhance pathogenicity and transmissibility in coronaviruses, does not appear in any of 45 bat, 5 human SARS, 2 civet, 1 pangolin and 1 racoon dog coronaviruses, that have S1/S2 junction structures otherwise identical or nearly identical to COVID-19.
There is no credible scientific evidence that the furin polybasic cleavage site evolved naturally, although the methods for artificially inserting such cleavage sites are well-established.
It is important to note that the EcoHealth Alliance gets 80% of its funding from the U.S. government (9:22), has “been working in China for years” (19:40), and presumably uses U.S. taxpayer money to “hire technicians in labs or Ph.D. students” (12:08) in order to “teach people how to do it and give them the capacity and the tools” and “then you have really made a difference” (13:15).
Indeed. The EcoHealth Alliance may have really made a difference.

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Sunday, May 24, 2020

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Former dental student sues Marquette after he failed to achieve professional degree

From JSOnline:

, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A mold of teeth being examined by a dental student in Kentucky. (Photo: Scott Utterback/Courier Journal )

The son of dentists who always planned to join his parents' profession blames Marquette University for derailing his dream.
In a federal lawsuit, Cole Norton says Marquette misled him about the strength of its dental school, failed to accommodate his anxiety disorder, breached its contract and intentionally inflicted emotional distress, all resulting in his failure to pass a required board exam and his dismissal from the school.
Spokespersons for Marquette did not return emails seeking a response late Friday and early Saturday.
According to the lawsuit:
Norton, of Colorado, began researching dental schools in 2016 and, after a visit to Marquette that fall, accepted an offer of early admission for the next year's class. He says he was sold on a low faculty-to-student ratio, high graduation and board exam passage rates, and the early use of clinic-style training and simulation labs.
But after enrolling, Norton contends, he learned there weren't as many faculty or labs available. Worse, he says, a faculty member focused on giving students personalized preparation for board exams left the school in the summer of 2018 and wasn't replaced for more than a year.
That's the period when Norton began trying to pass a national board exam. He scored two points below passing in September 2018 and fell one point short the following March. He said he sought help in preparing for his third attempt and was advised to take a commercial prep class like those offered by the company Kaplan.
In July 2019, he took the exam a third time and again failed by one point. He was then suspended, per dental school policy. 
With the help of a lawyer, he was granted accommodations from the licensing board — accommodations he says Marquette failed to help him obtain for his first three tries.  But in December, he failed again, resulting in his formal dismissal from Marquette.
The lawsuit doesn't specify the nature of accommodations Norton was granted for his fourth attempt at the board exam.
His lawsuit accuses Marquette of acting in bad faith and in violation of Wisconsin's deceptive and unfair trade practices law and the National Rehabilitation Act.  It seeks unspecified damages.
Horton is represented by Nora E. Gierke of Wauwatosa.

Contact Bruce Vielmetti at (414) 224-2187 or bvielmetti@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter at @ProofHearsay.
From: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/05/23/lawsuit-claims-marquette-dental-school-misled-failed-student/5247601002/

Journal Times takes eight first-place honors in Wisconsin Newspaper Association contest

From The Journal Times.com:


MADISON — The Journal Times took home a total of 21 honors, including eight first-place awards, in the 2019 Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation Better Newspaper Contest.

Read more: https://journaltimes.com/news/local/journal-times-takes-eight-first-place-honors-in-wisconsin-newspaper-association-contest/article_4a9ac5a0-f3d4-581b-8167-0ddfa5dcc540.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1


The Journal Times is not allowing comments on this story.  I guess that previous such posts were commented on by those filled with vitriol.  I was one of them.  The fact of the matter is that these newspaper "contests" are just industry circle jerks.  You vote for mine and I'll vote for yours.  It's actually kind of pathetic.

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