Archive for the 'Health' Category
UK Allows Mixing COVID-19 Vaccines as Experts Warn of Risks
January 3rd, 2021Madness. Via: New York Post: British health officials will now allow people to mix COVID-19 vaccines as the pandemic rages on — but experts warn it could be risky. … The UK protocol now states that a person can receive their follow-up COVID-19 jab with a different vaccine candidate to their first dose, if necessary. […]
Mexican Doctor Hospitalized After Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine
January 3rd, 2021Via: Reuters: Mexican authorities said they are studying the case of a 32-year-old female doctor who was hospitalized after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The doctor, whose name has not been released, was admitted to the intensive care unit of a public hospital in the northern state of Nuevo Leon after she experienced seizures, difficulty […]
The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny
January 1st, 2021Via: Glenn Greenwald: Persecution is not typically doled out to those who recite mainstream pieties, or refrain from posing meaningful threats to those who wield institutional power, or obediently stay within the lines of permissible speech and activism imposed by the ruling class. Those who render themselves acquiescent and harmless that way will — in […]
California: Between 20% and 50% of Front Line Workers Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine
January 1st, 2021Via: Los Angeles Times: They are frontline workers with top-priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are refusing to take it. At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence […]
Five Times this Year the New York Times Accidentally Told the Truth
January 1st, 2021Via: AIER: The paper of record in 2020 shifted dramatically to the most illiberal stance possible on the virus, pushing for full lockdowns, and ignoring or burying any information that might contradict the case for this unprecedented experiment in social and economic control. This article highlights the exceptions.
UK Woman Arrested For Filming Inside Empty Hospital
December 31st, 2020Via: Summit News: A woman in the UK was arrested by police after she filmed a video inside an almost completely empty hospital and posted it online. The clip shows the woman walking through virtually empty corridors and filming empty wards at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. … According to reports, a 46-year-old woman was subsequently arrested […]
“Los Angeles Vaccine Recipients Can Put the Proof in Apple Wallet”
December 30th, 2020Here we go. Via: Bloomberg: Covid-19 vaccine recipients in Los Angeles County, a major virus hot spot, will be offered a digital record that will help ensure they get a second shot and could, eventually, be used to gain access to concert venues or airline flights. The offering is being provided starting this week through […]
Social Engineers Use Weaponized Psychology to Push Unproven Vaccines
December 30th, 2020Via: The Daily Bell: In a recent Gallup poll on Americans’ willingness to submit to a COVID-19 vaccine, a mere half of the respondents said they would be willing to receive the vaccine once it becomes available. This hesitancy on the part of the American public poses a potentially unforeseen dilemma for pharmaceutical firms and […]
The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump
December 30th, 2020Via: Glenn Greenwald: The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom. … The hysterical Trump-as-despot script was all melodrama, a ploy for profits and ratings, and, most of all, a potent instrument to distract from the neoliberal ideology that gave […]
U.S. Poverty Jumps the Most in 60 Years
December 30th, 2020The pandemic did this. The pandemic did that. Wrong. Governments caused this disaster. –A Communist Christmas Via: CBS: Of the various measures of the coronavirus pandemic’s comet strike on the U.S. economy, one especially reveals the size of the crater: Over a six-month period, nearly 8 million Americans have tumbled into poverty. The nation’s poverty […]
