Archive for January, 2021
What Vaccine Trials?
January 5th, 2021Via: Off Guardian: COVID 19 vaccine trials appear to have caused some confusion. Hopefully, this article might help clear things up a bit. People genuinely appear to believe that the COVID 19 vaccines have undergone clinical trials and have been proven to be both safe and effective. That belief is simply wrong. The main point […]
Epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski: “Influenza Has Been Renamed COVID in Large Part”
January 5th, 2021Via: Just The News: Rates of influenza have remained persistently low through late 2020 and into 2021, cratering from levels a year ago and raising the puzzling specter of sharply reduced influenza transmission rates even as positive tests for COVID-19 have shattered numerous records over the last several weeks. Where have all the flu cases […]
Portuguese Health Worker, 41, Dies Two Days After Getting the Pfizer Covid Vaccine
January 5th, 2021Via: Daily Mail: A Portuguese health worker has died two days after getting the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. Sonia Acevedo, 41, suffered a ‘sudden death’ at home on New Year’s Day 48 hours after receiving the jab. An autopsy is expected to take place later today or tomorrow. The mother-of-two, who worked in paediatrics at the […]
U.K. Judge Rejects U.S. Request to Extradite WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on Spy Charges
January 4th, 2021Via: CBS: A British judge rejected on Monday the United States’ request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying it would be “oppressive” because of his mental health. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser said Assange was likely to commit suicide if sent to the U.S. The U.S. government said it would appeal […]
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 […]
Wrecked: Tesla Shorts Lost $38 Billion in 2020
January 1st, 2021Via: Electrek: Tesla’s stock (TSLA) is pushing a new all-time high as short sellers, people who bet against it, have lost $38 billion in 2020. That’s more than on any other stock by a wide margin. Related: Less than 1% of EV Owners Want to Go Back to Gas
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.
