Health
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Were conditions for high death rates at Care Homes created on purpose?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people in care homes have been dying in droves. Why is this happening? Is it simply because older adults are very vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 and therefore it’s not unexpected that many would succumb? Continue reading
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The Lowdown: What’s the limit on care now?
28 May 2020 — The Lowdown The NHS Support Federation This week we can reveal that almost a billion pounds worth of debt is weighing down local commissioners as they start to plan care for the next year – with 7 million patients now on growing waiting lists. This week, we also follow-up on the… Continue reading
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Poisons Mean Extinction: For Bees and Humanity
The choices before humanity are clear, a Poison Free Future to save Bees, Farmers, our Food and Humanity. Or continue to use poisons, threatening our common future by walking blindly to extinction through the arrogance that we can substitute bees with artificial intelligence and robots. Continue reading
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Why britain’s covid suffering is a crime against humanity
A rational person would question why Britain has fared so badly in the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a rich country with the sixth largest economy in the world, a proud history of public health and a National Health Service (NHS) arising from the ashes of World War II. This forms the central pillar of the… Continue reading
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Coronavirus Fact-Check #5: Infection-Fatality Ratio Update
The more data we gather, the more obvious it becomes that early fatality rate estimates were MASSIVELY exaggerated Continue reading
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Professor Sunetra Gupta: the epidemic is on its way out
We spoke to Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford and head of the team that released a study in March which speculated that as much as 50% of the population may already have been infected and the true Infection Fatality Rate could be as low as 0.1%. Continue reading
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‘Flying blind’: Scientists warn harmful biologic, health effects from 5G wireless radiation
New 5G cellular wireless technology is already rolling out in some states. But as a country, there is little to no research on the health effects of the new technology. As one United States’ senator put it, we are “flying blindly” and a group of scientists agreed calling for an immediate moratorium on the installation… Continue reading
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Profiting from Coronavirus
On 5 May, the British security services released to their pet media the claim that Russia, China and Iran were attempting to hack into British research institutes conducting coronavirus research. The BBC reported it. Britain’s shameful copy and paste media all, without exception, just copy and pasted the government press release. Continue reading
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Plans for post Covid NHS hatched behind the lockdown
Debates over relaxing the lockdown and whether or not the peak of the Covid-19 crisis may now be behind us have run alongside fleeting glimpses of the surreptitious plans being laid to exploit the continued lockdown on NHS public meetings and spring a succession of unpleasant surprises on the NHS as soon as any recovery… Continue reading
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BMJ lays out how the government response to Covid-19 got it so wrong
The British Medical Journal is one of the world’s oldest and most respected general medical journals. It has published a damning report that details the Boris Johnson government response to the COVID-19 crisis that can be distilled down to just a few words, – ‘too little, too late and too flawed’. Continue reading
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The ‘Battle’ Against COVID-19 in a Fragmented World, Has Ruined Billions of Lives
It is not only about physically surviving the pandemic. People miss people, and places, sometimes desperately. And they die, when separated. Continue reading
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Perspectives on the Pandemic | Professor Knut Wittkowski Update Interview | Episode 5
Perspectives on the Pandemic Episode 5: In this highly-charged follow-up interview, Knut Wittkowski says his initial claim has been vindicated: The lockdowns – always a dubious proposition for a respiratory virus – came too late in the U.S. and elsewhere, and were therefore even worse than useless. By turns emotional and darkly comic, Wittkowski ranges… Continue reading
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WATCH: UK Chief Medic confirms (again) covid19 harmless to vast majority
From the beginning of this crisis we have been pointing out that there are two mutually contradictory messages at the heart of the covid19 rollout, and, just as Orwell describes in 1984, a major point of the exercise seems to be to get people to believe both at the same time. Continue reading
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Revealed: UK government opposing patent-free Covid-19 vaccines
Last night BBC Newsnight revealed how the British government has been opposing patent-free coronavirus vaccines and treatments in the run up to a crucial World Health Organisation meeting on Monday.Despite government pledges to ensure vaccines are accessible to all, they are still not willing to take on big pharma and challenge their monopolies. Continue reading
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‘Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics’
Janine Jackson interviewed the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Ricardo Salvador about the coronavirus food crisis for the May 8, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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INTERVIEW: Debunking the COVID-19 Narrative with Prof. Dolores Cahill
Are public health officials and the mainstream media really telling the public scientific accurate and correct information about the Coronavirus and treatment for COVID-19? Was there any scientific or medical basis for governments to impose a lockdown? Are the government-media complex irresponsibly spreading misinformation about COVID-19? Is this misinformation harming the public and causing needless… Continue reading
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Putting provid before workers to reopen the economy
13 May 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom [I think this is a MUST-READ essay that gets to the heart of how and why capitalism is killing us in the so-called developed world. WB] Capitalism has and is making us sick. For three generations we have been besieged by pesticides, fungicides, preservatives and pollution. Our defences have been… Continue reading
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Disease capitalism and COVID-19: Hunger in the belly of the beast
We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish flu. It is forgotten that the third plague pandemic killed millions in South, South East and East Asia from the 1890s, and continued well after the Spanish flu, to the 1950s. That pandemic killed an estimated 10 million in India alone. I remember… Continue reading
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Covid19: A case for medical detectives Is medical malpractice causing the deaths of BAME patients?
13 May 2020 — OffGuardian Dr Wolfgang Wodarg The numerous and disproportionately frequent deaths of Covid19 patients with dark skin colour and from southern countries are apparently also the result of a drug-related mistreatment. Those affected are people with a specific enzyme deficiency, which occurs mainly in men whose families come from regions where malaria… Continue reading
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Is the chilling truth that the decision to impose lockdown was based on crude mathematical guesswork?
Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College “stepped back” from the Sage group advising ministers when his lockdown-busting romantic trysts were exposed. Perhaps he should have been dropped for a more consequential misstep. Details of the model his team built to predict the epidemic are emerging and they are not pretty. In the respective words of… Continue reading
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