AKRON, Ohio — Fire departments across the county are reporting higher-than-normal wait times at local hospitals due to staffing shortages in emergency departments.
These delays are affecting the ability of emergency medical crews to respond to subsequent calls and increasing their response times when people call 911...
Cuyahoga Falls Chief Chris Martin said it's not uncommon for the department to have multiple units tied up for 1 to 2½ hours waiting to transfer care of a patient.
"It's killing operations," he said.
Dr. Sonny Bare, emergency medical director of Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, confirmed that a squad waited 55 minutes last week.
"While traditionally we have zero to minimal EMS wait times, we are facing similar challenges as our peers, finding recent wait times increasing to 20 minutes," he said.
About three weeks ago, at least one hospital, Summa Akron City, stopped providing EMS units estimated wait times without explanation, Martin said.
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[BBC] A Missouri man has been executed for murder despite pleas for clemency by advocates who said he had an intellectual disability. He's not being put down because he's stupid.
Ernest Johnson received a lethal injection on Tuesday after the US Supreme Court refused to consider a stay of execution earlier in the day.
The 61-year-old's pleas for leniency had received support from Pope Francis and two members of Congress.
Johnson killed three convenience store workers in a 1994 robbery. Y'see, we got a right to a speedy trial. Sez so right in the Constitution. It only took 27 years to dispose of Ernie.
Attorneys for Johnson argued he was ineligible for the death penalty because multiple IQ tests have shown he has the mental capacity of a child and still reads at a third-grade level. A brutal child, but still a child.
Johnson, a black man, was born with foetal alcohol syndrome after his mother drank heavily during her pregnancy. Y'see, it's all Mom's fault.
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Well he "had" the brains to:
* Acquire a firearm,
* Learn how to load and use it,
* Know it would hurt or kill people if shot,
* Make 3 trips to the store that day to plan the robbery,
* Knowledge to Acquire $$$ for illegal drugs,
* Rob the store after using drugs (cocaine), shooting, stabbing and bludgeoning Bratcher, Jones and Scruggs in the process.
* Then threaten and order persons to hide robbery evidence.
* Assist in his defense and 3+/- retrials and multiple escalating appeals.
So my figuring of 5 years to get to the SCOTUS, I think he played the system 22 years too long for any Justice to have been done.
[RedState] Over the 18 months of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, data and studies worldwide concerning children and COVID-19 have shown the chances of contracting and spreading COVID-19 are minimal compared to the adult population. Some have warned that forcing children to take a minimally tested vaccine would have its consequences. Even the World Health Organization recommends a measured process and further study before mandating the vaccination of children:
While the WHO did conclude that the Pfizer vaccine is "suitable for use by people aged 12 years and above," and that "children aged between 12 and 15 who are at high risk may be offered this vaccine alongside other priority groups for vaccination," it also said more evidence is needed on the use of coronavirus vaccines in this population before making general recommendations.
"Vaccine trials for children are ongoing and WHO will update its recommendations when the evidence or epidemiological situation warrants a change in policy," it said.
Why the need to proceed with caution? One reason is illustrated by what happened in Sonoma County, CA when an otherwise healthy 15-year-old teenager was found dead by his mother. The teenager had received his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine two days prior.
From the Death Investigation Synopsis Report, courtesy of Reopen California Schools:
The decedent was found unresponsive in his bedroom after his mother was checking on his welfare long after he was supposed to wake in the morning. The decedent was pronounced dead at the scene due to obvious death. The decedent had been in good health with no medical history and had received his second Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccination approximately two days before his death.
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The decedent was pronounced dead at the scene due to obvious death.
I would for greater details on the "...decedent had been in good health with no medical history..." and ask if the kid had had a physical done within the last year for cardio issues?
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Fair question; also as to height/weight, sports or other physical activities as this most recent crop of children tend to not get off their PEDs anyways, nevermind being locked in their house for 18 months.
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Any autopsy done? If not, this article is of little value.
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Report dates back about a month. Certainly suspicious.
Quip I heard, making fun of everything, "Say what you want about injecting myself with bleach, at least I know what bleach is and what it will do to me."
If indeed this death was due to the shot, it isn't the kid's fault, this would be Newsom, with his executive order, who coerced the mother into making her child receive an unnecessary medical procedure by threatening mental violence, putting him in isolation, which resulted in his death.
If The State can compel you to take a medical procedure, then is The State also responsible for examining the physical health of the patient to determine if there are underlying conditions which could lead to complications?
This young man, 15, likely never had a pulmonary exam on account of his age. Perhaps there could be a murmur, valve issue, whatever which the shot tipped the scale enough to be fatal. Maybe it is blood type? Diabetic? Birth Control, I've seen suggested?
My last point there, is that the data has been available for harvest, and the Do Everything Possible to Save Lives by Covid Protocol has been crickets, or even hostile, to the idea of discovering what, if any, connections or combination may make a person at risk for side effects.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Scandinavian authorities on Wednesday suspended or discouraged the use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in young people because of an increased risk of heart inflammation, a very rare side effect associated with the shot.
Sweden suspended the use of Moderna for those recipients under 30, Denmark said those under 18 won’t be offered the Swiss-made vaccine, and Norway urged those under 30 to get the Pfizer vaccine instead.
[…] In neighboring Finland, authorities are expected to announce their decision Thursday, according to Dr. Hanna Nohynek, chief physician at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, told local broadcaster YLE.
[…] All three countries based their decision on an unpublished study with Sweden’s Public Health Agency saying that it signals “an increased risk of side effects such as inflammation of the heart muscle or the pericardium” — the double-walled sac containing the heart and the roots of the main vessels. … The preliminary information from the Nordic study has been sent to the European Medicines Agency’s adverse reaction committee to be assessed.
Emphasis mine; interesting because this article mentions kid had the Pfizer Shot.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — As South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu turns 90, recent racist graffiti on a portrait of the Nobel winner highlights the continuing relevance of his work for equality.
Often hailed as the conscience of South Africa, Tutu was a key campaigner against South Africa’s previous brutal system of oppression against the country’s Black majority. After South Africa achieved democracy in 1994, he continued to be an outspoken proponent of reconciliation, justice and LBGT rights.
The racial insult sprayed last month on a mural of Tutu in Cape Town is "loathsome and sad," said Mamphela Ramphele, acting chairwoman of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Trust.
South Africans must continue Tutu’s work for racial equality, she told The Associated Press.
"Racism is a curse South Africa must escape," said Ramphele. "Archbishop Tutu’s legacy is huge. He fought against racism and fought for the humanity of us all."
Although frail, Tutu is expected to attend a service on Thursday, his birthday, at St. George’s Cathedral in central Cape Town, where as the country’s first Black Anglican archbishop he delivered sermons excoriating apartheid.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his campaign of nonviolent opposition to South Africa’s system of white minority rule.
After retiring as archbishop in 1996, Tutu was chairman of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission which investigated human rights abuses during the apartheid era.
Despite the serious nature of his work, Tutu brought an irrepressible humor to his frequent public appearances. Notably, he supported LBGT rights and same-sex marriage.
"I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this," he said in 2013. "I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say ’Sorry, I would much rather go to the other place.’"
Tutu said he was "as passionate about this campaign (for LGBT rights) as I ever was about apartheid. For me, it is at the same level."
He withdrew from public life in 2010 and issued statements through his foundation. He has been treated for prostate cancer and was hospitalized several times in 2015 and 2016, and underwent a surgical procedure to address recurring infections from past cancer treatment.
At the church service Thursday, fellow anti-apartheid campaigner Alan Boesak is to speak. There will also be an online seminar about Tutu’s life and values to be addressed by the Dalai Lama; the widow of Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel; former Irish Prime Minister Mary Robinson; and South African governance advocate Thuli Madonsela.
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so, I'm guessing the ones shot on Space Shuttle and the ISS don't count?
Is this one gonna have car chases and stuff?
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Russia has been putting out some good, unwoke films recently.
Peresild and Klimenko are to film segments of a new movie titled "Challenge," in which a surgeon played by Peresild rushes to the space station to save a crew member who suffers a heart condition.
Filming on location. Interesting, then someone asks the real question, will there be a, uhem, love scene?
"Humanity, move to the fast lane
With Damon and Mara and Chastain!
Leave statecraft and history
Behind, a big mystery,"
Confucius say, grooving to Love Train.
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[Rusvesna] In the DPR, a well-known battalion commander, colonel of the People's Militia Pyotr Ruchyov previously detained, was released.
The war correspondent Semyon Pegov reports this on his Telegram channel Wargonzo, citing sources in the security forces of the republic.
Pyotr Ruchyov is known in Donbass by the call sign "Diesel" and is in command of one of the tank units of the DPR.
Petya has been participating in the war with the Ukrainian Nazis since 2014, he is definitely one of the Heroes of the Russian Spring, together with Oleksandr Zakharchenko he liberated Shakhtyorsk, participated in the storming of Donetsk airport, played an important role during the Debaltsevo operation. Oleksandr Zakharchenko, former head of the Donetsk People's Republic, was assassinated in 2018 at a Donetsk restaurant.
"Diesel is known in the Donbass war as a brave and honest officer, we really hope that the detention of Petit Diesel is some kind of misunderstanding that will be cleared up in the near future," Pegov writes. Zakharchenko was killed at around the same time there was an internal struggle for control of the Donetsk security forces.
[TASS] An unidentified young woman who survived the Favorit shipwreck in the Kandalaksha Bay in the White Sea has died of hypothermia on the way to hospital, a source in the local emergencies service told TASS on Tuesday.
"The girl who survived the shipwreck has died of hypothermia on the way to hospital," the source said.
This information was confirmed by a spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee’s Western transport investigation department.
"Three persons are missing, one man is alive and a woman died in the ambulance," the spokesman told TASS.
According to earlier reports, rescuers were sent to the scene but the operation is complicated by the stormy weather with high waves and wind gusts of up to 16 m/s.
The privately-owned Favorit sent a distress signal from an area east of the Kandalaksha Bay in the White Sea on Tuesday afternoon.
According to Russia’s Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport, one of the ship’s passengers managed to contact emergencies services. The ship partially sank during the storm. People used a rescue raft, which was brought to the shore by tidal waves. However, when rescuers reached the site, there was no one on the raft.
[FoxNews] Beijing sent a record 145 fighter jets into Taiwan’s air defense zone for four consecutive days over the weekend and Taiwanese officials have warned of the possibility of a misfire or a war between the two countries, BBC News reported.
Biden was seemingly referring to the U.S.’ longstanding "one China" policy, meaning the White House doesn’t officially recognize Taiwan’s sovereignty and the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, which allows for non-diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Taiwan and obligates the U.S. to help the island maintain its self-defense against China.
The act is predicated on China being peaceful toward Taiwan, according to Reuters.
The U.S. also reportedly reassured the Taiwan Foreign Ministry that its commitment to the island was "rock solid" after Taiwan reached out for clarification.
Taiwan separated from mainland China in 1949 and considers itself a sovereign country while Beijing thinks of it as a breakaway province that could be annexed by force if necessary.
[EpochTimes] China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is facing growing opposition from participating countries as their debts associated with Chinese projects mount, according to a recent study.
Launched in 2013 by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the BRI might be losing its impetus due to a debt-based backlash, according to a study from AidData, a research lab at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute.
The study analyzed 13,427 projects backed by China in more than 165 countries over 18 years. The projects’ total value amounts to $843 billion.
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Has the Middle Kingdom over extended itself in such worldwide ambitions and expenses, and can it afford the worsening impact of taking on Taiwan at a time when it needs the foreign devils money more than ever? Or does Xi need a foreign war to quell internal disorders and meet his ego needs for matching Mao's legacy? Inquiring minds want to know!
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They are just further along in playing the Modern Monetary Theory game that says money comes from a printer at a central bank, there's no limit to how much you can spend.
Our politicians are feverishly racing to catch up.
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[YouTube] We explore our Chinese apartments, and how the downfall of Evergrande was written on the wall of every tofu building in China. This is only the beginning.
[NewsLax] According to Nikkei Asia sources, Fantasi Holdings Group was unable to buy back $205.7 million of corporate bonds that matured on October 4. At the same time, this Chinese real estate group also failed to repay a short-term loan of 700 million yuan ($108.56 million).
According to the bond offering prospectus, Fantasia has a 30-day grace period to arrange to buy back the bonds, to pay the bondholders or else it will be declared insolvent.
Reportedly, Fantasia Group, founded by the niece of former Vice President of China, Zeng Qinghong, has $762 million in international bond debt due this year and an additional $1.15 billion. worth of bonds maturing in 2022, not to mention 6.4 billion yuan of domestic bonds.
On October 4, credit rating agency Fitch Ratings downgraded Fantasia's rating to "CCC". Previously, S&P shortened the score to "CCC" from "B" on September 29. Moody's also cut the rating to "B3" last month.
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Stories like the Evergrande one above and this one do give me comfort about China.
Much as the Biden crew is attacking America, the Xi crew is attacking China--and with much more disastrous results. I was alarmed at Biden's incompetence in facing off against China--but it does appear that in Xi he has a very, very weak opponent whose ignorance surpasses even his.
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^ Cateful what you wish for. The most dangerous time for a bad government is when a weak leader seeks to change it. All bets are off now
This appear to be a repudiation rather than an insolvency. It may have closed the market for new Chinese bond issues to international investors. It's an intriguing move. As I understand it, Evergrande is stiffing foreign creditors while paying Chinese ones. That may have dire implications for all foreign investors there, portfolio and direct.
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China has been patching over its issues with foreign currency for a long time. They are still finding suckers to sink their dollers and euros into their country and they won't pay shit back.
The second external currency dries up, China is done. I don't expect that to happy as there are a lot of morons that keep pumping billions into their economy.
[PJ] Three glistening new buildings in downtown Seattle with 165 studio apartments — originally to be rented at market rates — will instead house the homeless.
The Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) is buying the buildings with taxpayer dollars for about $50 million, with federal COVID-19 relief funds splitting the cost equally. Seattle City Hall is contributing about $25 million, while also using "American Rescue Plan Act" funds. A large portion comes from Washington State’s Department of Commerce.
Left-wing Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, so unpopular she can’t run for re-election, claims the deals will house people quickly and cheaply, compared to the time and cost required to develop similar projects from scratch. The three upscale buildings should be occupied by the end of the year.
Tent encampments in public spaces have grown in Seattle for decades, especially during the pandemic, due to poor leadership and unaffordable housing. Durkan recently extended Seattle’s so-called eviction moratoriums for the sixth time.
"The city and county have been enabling the homeless for a couple decades, and that’s what’s made the problem worse," a lifelong Seattle-area resident told PJ Media Wednesday. "They destroy the hotels they get put in and have turned the city into a place that rivals a third world country. The homeless are far more dangerous than the gangs are in Seattle, and yes, Seattle has a big gang problem."
[Free Beacon] Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) told attendees at a Federalist Society conference this week that he expects the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, given that a majority of its members profess to be textualists and originalists.
The senator this week delivered remarks at the University Club of Washington, D.C. The speech covered a range of legal topics, including a case the justices will hear in December that asks whether Roe should be overturned. The event was closed to the press, but a source in the room conveyed portions of Cotton's remarks to the Washington Free Beacon.
Cotton's comments come amid a budding influence campaign around the December case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Center. Judicial liberals have divided over strategies for protecting abortion rights before the conservative Court. Some pro-abortion activists, such as the 50-odd demonstrators who picketed Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home on Sept. 15, favor direct political action against the justices themselves. Others recommend a conciliatory approach.
"The only thing standing in the way of justices doing the right thing is the intense social pressure of liberal elites," Cotton told conference attendees.
"Now is the time for true friends of the Constitution to speak up," he added.
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I agree with Besoeker. SCROTUS wouldn't knock down Bath House Care because reasons. They will genuflect to the emanations of the penumbra once again. Cotton, whatever his good point might be, is either just saying this for public consumption, which is bad. Or he actually believes it, which is worse.
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The SCOTUS went to far with Abortion ON DEMAND and it needs to be toned down to As Medically Warranted.
Not the now "Opps how did that happen again, oh well back to PPH." type attitude it hold now.
Look its not the 1970's.
This generation understands the ramification of unprotected sex and has easy access to preventive measures.
There are so many Before Sex and immediately after Sex solutions (Plan B) available. That On Demand Abortions are no longer justified and we should be treating this as a serious Medical procedure and not Industry. Plus adjusting Sex Ed to teach more PERSONAL SEXUAL RESPONSIBILITY.
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As much as I would like to see Roe v Wade overturned, I fear it will never happen. Too many justices bow in fealty to stare decesis.
The only way it will happen is if there is a constitutional amendment.
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[GREATERKASHMIR] A 17-year-old-girl suffered burn injuries in her shoulder after she was attacked by a man with acid in Kral Check area of south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Shopian district on Tuesday, police said.
A police official told Greater Kashmir that the accused Waseem Ahmad Shah surfaced in the village of the victim at around 2 PM this afternoon and splashed the acid on her. The victim suffered burn injuries in her shoulder in the attack, the official said.
While Shah fled the spot immediately after the attack as per the official, the girl was shifted to hospital for the treatment.
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These attacks have been going on there since before 1985...also suicide bombers would attack police stations. But acid attacks have prevailed.
[GatewayPundit] Alex Jones of Infowars made a special broadcast on Monday night regarding an explosive video of Fauci with HHS officials and other health experts discussing how to enforce Universal Flu Vaccination in a summit organized by Milken Institute in Washington, DC last October 2019.
Alex Jones highlighted three clips from the hour-long video of the summit from C-SPAN which proved the COVID-19 pandemic was planned and the Big Pharma worked with the UN and other corrupt government officials to develop and release the COVID-19 virus ahead of ’Great Reset’.
The first clip featured Michael Specter, a journalist from The New Yorker and also an adjunct professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Rick Bright, the director of HHS Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
In this video, they conceptualized having a new outbreak of novel avian flu virus from China so they can bypass the method of FDA approval and enforce mRNA vaccine to the masses.
Here’s the transcript:
Michael Specter: Why don’t we blow the system up? I mean obviously, we can’t just turn off the spigot on the system. We have and then say, hey everyone in the world should get this new vaccine that we haven’t given to anyone yet. But there must be some way that we grow vaccines mostly in eggs the way we did in 1947.
Fauci: In order to make the transition from getting out of the tried-and-true egg growing which we know gives us results that can be beneficial, I mean we’ve done well with that. There must be something that has to be much better. You have to prove that this works and then you’ve got to go through all of the clinical trials: phase 1, phase 2, phase 3, and then show that this particular product is going to be good over a period of years. That alone, if it works perfectly, it’s going to take a decade.
Bright: There might be a need or even an urgent call for an entity of excitement out there that’s completely disruptive, that’s not beholden to bureaucratic strings and processes.
Fauci: So we really do have a problem of how the world perceives influenza and it’s going to be very difficult to change that unless you do it from within and save.. I don’t care what your perception is, we’re going to address the problem in a disruptive and in an iterative way because she does need both.
Bright: But it is not too crazy to think that an outbreak of novel avian virus could occur in China somewhere. We could get the RNA sequence from that.. to a number of regional centers if not local, if not even in your home at some point, and print those vaccines on a patch of self-administer.
Joining Fauci, Rick Bright, and Michael Specter at this event were: Margaret Hamburg, Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine, Bruce Gellin, President, Global Immunization, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Casey Wright, CEO, FluLab.
In short, this panel discussion focused on what they perceived as the need for a universal flu vaccine, but they admitted that the old way of producing vaccines was not sufficient for their purposes, and that they needed some kind of global event where many people were dying to be able to roll out a new mRNA vaccine to be tested on the public.
They all agreed that the annual flu virus was not scary enough to create an event that would convince people to get a universal vaccine. And as we now know today, about 2 years after this event, that "terrifying virus" that was introduced was the COVID-19 Sars virus.
And so now we know why the flu just "disappeared" in the 2020-21 flu season. It was simply replaced by COVID-19, in a worldwide cleverly planned "pandemic" to roll out the world’s first universal mRNA vaccines.
This was always the goal, and previous efforts through various influenzas, AIDS, Ebola, and other "viruses" were all unsuccessful in leading to the development of a universal vaccine to inject into the entire world’s population.
Margaret Hamburg stated regarding getting a "Universal Vaccine" into the market: "It’s time to stop talking, and it’s time to act... I think it is also because we haven’t had a sense of urgency."
Michael Specter asked: "Do we need lots of people to die for that sense of urgency to occur?"
Hamburg replied that: "There are already lots of people dying" from the flu each year.
Bruce Gellin stated that basically people just are not afraid enough of the term "the flu."
There are so many things that are revealed about how Big Pharma and government health authorities think in this panel discussion. For example, they bemoan the fact that if they do too good of a job in public health, then they lose funding to develop products that fight viruses.
Michael Specter states: "It seems to me that one of the curses of the public health world is, if you guys do your job well, everyone goes along well and healthy."
So now when you come down with the super-special version of viral pneumonia they don't do all the things that they did for viral pneumonia in the past... like z-packs and antihistamines...
Hamburg: "And they cut your funding."
Rick Bright complains that the yearly distribution of flu vaccines is inefficient in terms of collecting data, and in the process actually admits that some vaccines just don’t work well:
"We distribute 150 million doses of the seasonal (flu) vaccines every year, we don’t even know how many people are being vaccinated from the doses that are delivered to the people, which doses they got, and what the real outcome was, so that we can learn from that knowledge base on how to optimize or improve our vaccine. So there are opportunities that we have today...
I think if we uncloaked the poorest performing vaccines in the market place today, it might be very revealing to tell us which of the technologies we have, and allow us to go deeper into those technologies to determine why they are more effective. There are vaccines licenses today that are more effective. I think that we’re just afraid to admit the truth."
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One of the things they are saying here is that the only reason for success is fear of prosecution.
What a nice blanket that must be. Its not that a physical condition wasn't detected, or that a resuscitation failed. Its covid related, you just don't understand, you weren't there (because covid protocals), and we are immune from prosecution.
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I want those in charge of medical research to be thinking about new ways to identify diseases, better ways to develop treatments and cures, and methods to manufacture and distribute them more quickly. That at some point a new, virulent pandemic was going to come down the pike has been the concern ever since the Spanish flu infected a third of the world population in 1918, killing 20-30 million people.
In short, this panel discussion focused on what they perceived as the need for a universal flu vaccine, but they admitted that the old way of producing vaccines was not sufficient for their purposes, and that they needed some kind of global event where many people were dying to be able to roll out a new mRNA vaccine to be tested on the public.
The FDA has become slower and more risk averse just over the decades that I’ve been paying attention, to the point that it did indeed take this overhyped pandemic to get them to take their collective foot off the brake for both tests for the thing and vaccines. We’d be better off if they did so more often.
As for the universal flu vaccine, that’s been a holy grail of vaccine research for decades, because it would end the need for developing new vaccines each year based on what each year is hoped were the variants that travelled round the world and prevent 300,000-600,000 deaths annually.
Rick Bright complains that the yearly distribution of flu vaccines is inefficient in terms of collecting data, and in the process actually admits that some vaccines just don’t work well:
Both points are true. Especially that some flu vaccines don’t work well — because the varieties for which the vaccines were made that year turned out not to be the varieties that spread.
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That at some point a new, virulent pandemic was going to come down the pike has been the concern ever since the Spanish flu infected a third of the world population in 1918, killing 20-30 million people.
I am given to understand that a lot of the deaths from the Spanish Flu were actually due to bacterial pneumonia. Let's see... the first link I find on google...
The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Instead, most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection. The pneumonia was caused when bacteria that normally inhabit the nose and throat invaded the lungs along a pathway created when the virus destroyed the cells that line the bronchial tubes and lungs.
A future influenza pandemic may unfold in a similar manner, say the NIAID authors, whose paper in the Oct. 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases is now available online. Therefore, the authors conclude, comprehensive pandemic preparations should include not only efforts to produce new or improved influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs but also provisions to stockpile antibiotics and bacterial vaccines as well.
The work presents complementary lines of evidence from the fields of pathology and history of medicine to support this conclusion. "The weight of evidence we examined from both historical and modern analyses of the 1918 influenza pandemic favors a scenario in which viral damage followed by bacterial pneumonia led to the vast majority of deaths," says co-author NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "In essence, the virus landed the first blow while bacteria delivered the knockout punch."
NIAID co-author and pathologist Jeffery Taubenberger, M.D., Ph.D., examined lung tissue samples from 58 soldiers who died of influenza at various U. S. military bases in 1918 and 1919. The samples, preserved in paraffin blocks, were re-cut and stained to allow microscopic evaluation. Examination revealed a spectrum of tissue damage "ranging from changes characteristic of the primary viral pneumonia and evidence of tissue repair to evidence of severe, acute, secondary bacterial pneumonia," says Dr. Taubenberger. In most cases, he adds, the predominant disease at the time of death appeared to have been bacterial pneumonia. There also was evidence that the virus destroyed the cells lining the bronchial tubes, including cells with protective hair-like projections, or cilia. This loss made other kinds of cells throughout the entire respiratory tract — including cells deep in the lungs — vulnerable to attack by bacteria that migrated down the newly created pathway from the nose and throat.
That was the first link. At the National Institute of Health.
(The second link? Reuters, "Fact check: Fauci study did not attribute 1918 Spanish flu deaths..." and then it cuts off. If I follow the link they're arguing about masks.)
But anyway. This is the ONLY viral pneumonia where if you're bad enough to go to the hospital_they won't give you azithromycin just to be sure. (Unless you're allergic, of course.)
This is why I think the Spanish Nursing Home protocol's supression, azithromycin and all, is even more damning than the stuff with the HCQ and IVM (as damning as it is). Because AFAICT
they used a slightly adjusted standard treatment protocol for pneumonia from the year 2016.
And y'know, I don't think the guys who made the decision to supress that are the same people you can count on to actually get the universal flu shot right.
[C4ISRnet] WASHINGTON — The Army has awarded Palantir an $823 million contract to enable an intelligence data fabric and analytics as part of an effort to modernize legacy battlefield intelligence systems, the Army announced Wednesday.
The award is specifically for capability drop 2 for the Distributed Common Ground System and will deliver a data fabric for intelligence across the world. The Army said capability drop 2 software will serve as the base data platform supporting and enabling enterprise intelligence data management and operations.
The Army in recent years has adopted a capability drop approach, incrementally adding software to previous builds to ensure the service is harnessing the latest technological advancements.
This particular program is a next-generation version of the Distributed Common Ground System, which disseminated intelligence data to forces on the battlefield. It’s meant to help the Army be better postured to fight and win against near-peer adversaries.
Palantir will provide users with a globally federated intelligence data fabric and analytics platform spanning multiple security classifications, the company said in a release. The system will enable data integration, correlation, fusion and analytic capabilities.
In future battles, soldiers will need access to timely intelligence collected from an exponential number of sensors as well as national intelligence agencies. This data fabric is meant to create a central repository for that data to be analyzed and shared.
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So who do we have to {REDACTED} to get an evaluation copy of Palantir? Seems like a fun thing to play with. Maybe if we pretend to be a think tank...
[9to5mac] Yesterday’s Facebook outage – which took down Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp as well as the main service – resulted from a mistake by the company’s own network engineers.
The mistake led to all of Facebook’s services being inaccessible, with one analogy likening it to a failure in the “air traffic control” services for network traffic …
We reported yesterday on the massive failure.
It’s not just you: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all currently down for users around the world. We’re seeing error messages on all three services across iOS applications as well as on the web. Users are being greeted with error messages such as: “Sorry, something went wrong,” “5xx Server Error,” and more.
The outage is affecting every Facebook-owned platform, according to data on Downdetector and Twitter. This includes Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger […] While some Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages only affect certain geographic regions, the services are down worldwide today.
It gradually appeared that the problem might relate to DNS – the domain name servers that tell devices which IP addresses to use to access services – but it was unclear what exactly had happened, and whether this was an external hack, malicious action by an insider, or a catastrophic mistake.
Facebook has now admitted in a blog post that it was a mistake.
Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.
It took a long time to resolve the problem because the inaccessible systems included the servers and tools engineers would normally use to solve the problem remotely. Reports suggest that lower-level employees had to gain physical access to the data centers, and then rely on step-by-step instructions from more senior engineers in order to undo the mistake. Complicating this, the networks being unavailable meant that Facebook’s door access systems were also offline, physically preventing access. Read the rest at the link
After an almost unprecedented six-hour global outage, Facebook restored its services and those of WhatsApp and Instagram on Monday and blamed the fiasco on configuration changes it made to the routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers.
“This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt,” Facebook vice president of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan said in a post.
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Yeah, DNS is the glue that holds everything together. But nobody pays any attention to it. People let domain names lapse all the time. "Who knew we had to renew it!"
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[BBC] A Missouri man has been executed for murder despite pleas for clemency by advocates who said he had an intellectual disability.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — As South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu turns 90, recent racist graffiti on a portrait of the Nobel winner highlights the continuing relevance of his work for equality.
But, but, but wat will we do when the cheap Made in China stuff stops coming? We really are DOOMED ! 
[Free Beacon] Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) told attendees at a Federalist Society conference this week that he expects the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, given that a majority of its members profess to be textualists and originalists.
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[C4ISRnet] WASHINGTON — The Army has awarded Palantir an $823 million contract to enable an intelligence data fabric and analytics as part of an effort to modernize legacy battlefield intelligence systems, the Army announced Wednesday.
