Another crazy day/week/month in Paradise.
Many Democrats, liberals, Progressives have felt ambivalence toward our own party’s lackadaisical approaches, issuing strongly worded tweets and letters are not proving enough oversight (to say the least) nor holding anyone accountable. What is needed are subpoenas, arrests, impeachment all of which has been sadly lacking. Too many folks are obsessed with Trump every day, pro and con.
The Democratic National Convention Online
I cried watching singers from around the U.S. sing the national anthem to open the DNC.
Before I listened to Michelle Obama speak, I remembered how devastated and betrayed I felt by Obama for allowing Trump into the White House.
We women knew what was happening, we protested like never before, in the streets.
an old world is dying and a new world is being born... and there is a lot of pain, grief, sadness as well as hope, joy and excitement ...
Womens Rights, Voting Rights and Voter Suppression
100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment when suffragist women won the right to vote. Now, women are under attack by the GOP, fake pro-life crowd, Trump & right wing nuts in the media spreading lies about Kamala Harris and are trying to stop women, people of color and all Democrats from voting.
Kamala Harris is a 1st-generation American, bi-racial daughter of immigrants. Her father is from Jamaica, her mother is from India. She’s achieved what she’s achieved on her own merits & she doesn’t care much for corrupt, arrogant, middle-aged white guys.
Mask Apocalypse
In researching mandates for masks, I found that before COVID many countries and states have laws banning Face Coverings (burkas and face masks for protesters). No masks for some selected people but now suddenly mandated for everyone.
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Bulgaria
Austria
Denmark
There are signs at beaches in the Monterey bay peninsula in wealthy cities, Monterey, Carmel and Pacific Grove, that say $100 fines enforced. one Carmel beach said it was ONLY open for people to exercise. sure, wear a mask while exercising during a heat wave so you can fall, faint and get heat stroke or worse?
Also people were arrested in Costa Mesa, CA over the weekend at a health food store I used to love to shop at, Mother's nearby Newport Beach. The people were not wearing masks and the store manager locked them inside the store (seems counterproductive to say the least, if he was worried about them contaminating the store, why lock them inside?) He called the police and 15 police came and arrested 4 or 5 people? did he ask them to leave and they refused?
The point is that throughout this pandemic response, the most effected negatively have been poor and middle class working poor people in blue states. Orange county is VERY conservative, like in Carmel, Monterey and Pacific Grove, where the richest people live. Costa mesa is where poor/middle class people live but Newport is where the rich people live. Seems like poor folks get arrested for no reason other than being poor so that the rich people can feel safe.
They cannot put up signs that say Poor People Stay Out but if they charge $100 to people who cannot afford the fines and/or arrest folks, the message is sent.
Vaccines and Masks
July 22, 2020, Pfizer struck a $1.95 billion deal with the U.S. government (Trump administration) to provide Americans with 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, with an option for 500 million additional doses. Pfizer’s one of the Operation Warp Speed vaccine companies with rushed unproven vaccines with severe adverse side effects.
Trump's way of saying thank you to 2016 donation.
Pfizer’s vaccine, BNT162, requires 2 doses, the initial batch for the U.S. would cover 50 million people. The deal hinges on the vaccine clearing Phase 3 human trials. company is seeking a regulatory review by the FDA in Oct 2020, to allow them to manufacture 100 million doses.
mRNA vaccines have never before been licensed for use in humans. Inside your cells, mRNA activate DNA instructions. mRNA vaccines have potential safety issues, including local & systemic inflammation & stimulation of auto-reactive antibodies & autoimmunity, as well as development of edema (swelling) & blood clots.
Systemic inflammation, auto-reactive antibodies & autoimmune problems are why previous attempts to create a coronavirus vaccine have failed. Coronavirus vaccines create paradoxical immune enhancement. These vaccines create a robust antibody response, but subjects end up sicker than normal when exposed to wild virus. In one ferret study, all the vaccinated animals died.
A July 21, 2020, Wired article urges researchers & media to be upfront & transparent about the vaccines’ side effects right now. Wired points out that some trials are not using an inert placebo but rather injected meningococcal vaccine, which might hide certain symptoms or harms.
Medical experts have already expressed concerns that COVID-19 vaccine uptake might end up being low. Newsday June 21, 2020: “A recent national Washington Post/ABC poll, found that only 45% or fewer of respondents said they would get a coronavirus vaccine if one is developed.
Most states are now, months into the pandemic, which has long since been “flattened,” issuing mandatory mask mandates, even though the science clearly tell us masks cannot protect against or prevent the spread of viruses.
Forced mask wearing seems to be a way to manipulate us into taking the vaccine, once it becomes available.
Noel Brewer alludes to in the Newsday article. Enticement of normal life could lead some who now are leery about a coronavirus vaccine to get one once it is available, said Noel Brewer, a professor of health behavior at the Univ of NC who sits on World Health Organization committees on vaccine behavior and safety. ‘If a vaccine allows you to no longer wear a mask at work, or to visit your grandmother in a nursing home, or to shake hands with business colleagues, that could be very motivating,’ he said.”
Registering for Online Classes Now Require Vaccines
The state of Virginia has mandated that students must have all required vaccines to register for school even if they are learning online and not in physical contact with their classmates.
Maryland, Texas and the District of Columbia have also mandated vaccines for online learning. In the fall when school starts, most elementary, middle, high schools & colleges and universities will continue with the online learning approach they embraced when COVID-19 emerged. so why are some states requiring vaccinations for students to even register for school? Why should shots be mandated if school is totally online & conducted at home?
After directing people to stay home & isolate during the pandemic, parents are now being blamed for not vaccinating their children. 49 doses of 14 vaccines are required by age 6 & 69 doses of 16 vaccines are required by the time a child is 18. Vaccine makers & pediatricians enjoy great profits from these mandates.
Vaccine lobbies are steadily pushing mass vaccination & chipping away at informed consent. To induce parents to vaccinate, free shots have been offered in the past in certain Virginia counties.
All states in the U.S. & District of Columbia mandate vaccines for students to attend public schools. Exemptions are also permitted, mostly for medical reasons. The vaccine industry lobbyists try to incite public shaming against unvaccinated individuals.
Mainstream and social media use info to build public sentiment against schools and vaccine exemptions in general. Some news outlets are funded by the pro-vaccine foundations of billionaires. Texas Tribune: $1.7 million dollars received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Beware censorship of accurate information by these folks.
If you see inaccurate information in the media, please take the time to respond by making a constructive comment online. You can also email the journalist or call the media outlet and provide accurate, well-referenced diseases and vaccines info & accurate state vaccine law info