Convoy 2022 NZ
February 5th, 2022There is a truck (and any other vehicle) protest happening in New Zealand now.
Links:
convoy2022.nz, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram
This is mostly being ignored by the North Korean style state sponsored media in New Zealand.
Via: Daily Telegraph:
The focus of the protest is set out in its Mission Statement, which contains five points:
Stop all mandates and end all COVID-19 imposed restrictions.
Reverse COVID-19 introducted legislation and cease all proposed legislation.
The immediate restoration of inalienable human rights.
Medical professionals to follow the principles in the NZMA Code of Ethics.
All media to have freedom without censorship.
Everyone is welcome to join the convoy – trucks, cars, tractors and bikes.
There are two convoys – one in the North Island, one in the South Island, but within each island there’s different routes to ensure as much of the population has a chance to join as possible.
CDC Admits Natural Immunity Trumps Vaccine Immunity – 5 Months After Touting Vaccines as Superior
February 4th, 2022Via: The Defender:
A Jan. 19 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed natural immunity against COVID was at least three times as effective as vaccination alone at preventing people from becoming infected with the Delta variant.
Overall, the study showed natural immunity outperformed vaccine immunity when it came to preventing infection and hospitalization from Delta.
The results contradicted a previous CDC study, published in August 2021, which concluded vaccination was better than natural immunity. The CDC issued a media statement about the August study, which was widely covered by mainstream press.
When a much larger Israeli study was published two weeks later, finding the opposite, the CDC did not offer any comment or analysis on the new data.
“The CDC is now finally revising its position five months later,” said Dr. Madhava Setty, senior science editor for The Defender. “This is a major problem with the CDC and its data. They have been opaque and late to the game from the beginning.”
12 Countries Roll Back COVID Restrictions, Israel Scraps ‘Green Pass’
February 4th, 2022Via: The Defender:
Europe is accelerating steps to roll back COVID restrictions as efforts to control the spread of the virus have failed and countries downgrade the threat posed by SARS-CoV-2.
Sweden and Switzerland joined Denmark, Norway, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Italy, Lithuania, France and the UK in announcing they will lift COVID restrictions and open up their countries.
Top Israeli officials also announced this week they are abolishing the country’s “Green Pass” COVID vaccine passport for restaurants, hotels, gyms and theaters.
Coming Soon: Climate Lockdowns?
February 4th, 2022I’ll leave this here, just in case…
Via: The Hill:
The past two years have been a checklist for the worst impulses of government and public sentiment. COVID allowed for supposedly temporary measures to morph into two years of “emergency” restrictions. But what if COVID was only the opening act, and another proclaimed crisis is the main event? Implementing significant but partial restrictions, one by one, in the name of the common good can allow for encompassing government control that results in relatively little backlash. Fear over climate change could lead to long-term soft lockdowns, given the precedent of immense growth of government power and significant support for sweeping state actions.
Israeli Study Offers Strongest Proof Yet of Vitamin D’s Power to Fight COVID
February 4th, 2022One more for your herniating Told-You-So file folder…
Via: Times of Israel:
Israel scientists say they have gathered the most convincing evidence to date that increased vitamin D levels can help COVID-19 patients reduce the risk of serious illness or death.
Researchers from Bar Ilan University and the Galilee Medical Center say that the vitamin has such a strong impact on disease severity that they can predict how people would fare if infected based on nothing more than their ages and vitamin D levels.
Lacking vitamin D significantly increases danger levels, they concluded in newly peer-reviewed research published Thursday in the journal PLOS One.
Ottawa Police Chief May Call in the Military to Handle Protests
February 3rd, 2022Update: The Canadian Government Will Not Use Troops Against Truckers
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Via: Fox:
Ottawa’s chief of police suggested Wednesday that the Canadian Armed Forces might have to be called in to handle the lingering protesters in the Canadian capital.
“This is a national issue, not an Ottawa issue,” Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly said in a briefing to city councilors. “I am increasingly concerned there is no policing solution to this.”
Mysterious Aircraft Spotted At Area 51 In Unprecedented Satellite Image
February 3rd, 2022Via: The Warzone:
The aircraft in question measures roughly 65 feet long and 50 feet wide — about the size of a Su-27 Flanker — and has wings that are reminiscent of Concorde, with its elegantly curved ‘ogival’ leading edge. Even the mystery aircraft wing’s trailing edges are curved, leading to almost scimitar-like wingtips that may be turned upward. Overall, the wings have a flowing, almost organic appearance.
The aircraft has no discernable tail surfaces with what is likely its exhaust extending to the rear and blended with the curved trailing edges of the wings, providing something of a rear apex. Its forward fuselage tapers into what is most likely a pointed nose.
Facebook Stock Tanks
February 3rd, 2022Via: Daily Mail:
Facebook lost daily users for the first time in its 18-year history in the final quarter of 2021, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes was caused by the TikTok boom.
The social media giant’s devastating earnings report on Wednesday sent Facebook shares plunging more than 20 percent, wiping more than $200 billion off the company’s market cap and erasing $29 billion from Zuckerberg’s net worth.
Facebook reported a drop of nearly 500,000 in daily logins during the last three months of 2021.
Lockdowns Did Not Reduce COVID Mortality, But Did Impose, “Enormous Economic and Social Costs Where They Have Been Adopted”
February 2nd, 2022Via: Johns Hopkins University:
More specifically, stringency index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average. SIPOs were also ineffective, only reducing COVID-19 mortality by 2.9% on average. Specific NPI studies also find no broad-based evidence of noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality.
While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.
U.S. National Debt Hits $30 Trillion for First Time
February 1st, 2022Via: National Review:
The U.S. national debt hit and exceeded $30 trillion for the first time in the country’s history Tuesday, Treasury Department data confirmed.
The ballooning debt is largely attributed to the massive social spending prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Since the end of 2019, the national debt grew by an astonishing $7 trillion. The announcement comes as the Fed is expected to raise interest rates as early as March to curb inflation and an over-heating economy plagued by supply and demand imbalances. The Fed’s likely move will be the first series of hikes since 2015 and will, by default, increase borrowing costs for the U.S. to finance its debt.
