Author: Doug Santo

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1 week to go to CA recall. A good summary of the confused political field.

The Countdown to the Special Gavin Newsom Recall Election

There is too much information to summarize here. This is a good article with a lot of information. I rate the recall a toss up. I will vote for Larry Elder.

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On the wrong think and bureaucrat mediocrities that direct our Covid response

How remaining in the dark and turning in vicious circles inevitably leads to erroneous decisions

Geert Vanden Bossche:

“…Conducting mass vaccination campaigns on a background of high infection rates generates optimal conditions for breeding even more infectious Sars-CoV-2 variants. The combination of massive, spike-directed immune pressure combined with high infectious pressure rapidly allows these variants to reproduce more effectively such as to outcompete previously circulating variants/ strains. Mass vaccination, therefore, promotes viral evolution towards more infectious variants. The resulting enhancement of viral infectious pressure makes it more likely for everyone, including healthy, unvaccinated people to come in contact with the virus, especially in times where infection prevention measures are loosened. To the extent that high infection rates cause people to become re-exposed shortly after a previous asymptomatic infection, their innate Sars-CoV-binding antibodies (Abs) will be suppressed by short-lived, poorly functional anti-spike Abs, known to not be responsible for preventing the infection from becoming symptomatic. It is precisely the suppression of these broadly protective innate Abs that makes previously asymptomatically infected individuals more susceptible to disease. It is also precisely this phenomenon that explains why a first wave of a natural pandemic is followed by a second wave in younger age groups. The even bigger amplitude of that second wave merely reflects the overwhelming contribution of a population’s innate immunity to its overall immune protective capacity. So, this is why we’re now seeing more and more disease in younger age groups, and even children, although they were perfectly protected during previous waves. Extending mass vaccination campaigns to these younger age groups is the most irresponsible public health proposal (decision?) ever as

    1. it results in turning a huge cohort of naturally protected people into subjects who will soon become much more vulnerable because the virus is now becoming increasingly resistant to vaccinal Abs (which, despite poor functionality, are still able to suppress broadly protective innate Abs).

    2. it further augments pressure on viral infectiousness (i.e., on spike protein, which happens to be the target of all C-19 vaccines!) and, therefore, will only contribute to expediting viral evolution towards enhanced infectiousness (and eventually full resistance to anti-S Abs). As already mentioned, the higher viral infectivity rates grow, the more the incredibly precious innate immune capacity of the population gets eroded and the faster vaccine-mediated protection will wane as a result of enhanced evolution of the virus towards S-Ab-directed resistance. In the meantime – and for as long the C-19 vaccines protect against disease – mass vaccination is turning healthy people into asymptomatic breeding grounds and spreaders of evolving, more infectious variants, which is quite the opposite effect of what mass vaccination was supposed to do (i.e., to generate herd immunity). We only begin to see the early consequences of waning vaccine protection, erosion of innate immunity and fulminant expansion of steadily evolving, more infectious variants.

This is to say that it is the complete lack of understanding of why morbidity rates are now increasing in younger age groups that now prompts short-sighted experts and politicians, who typically have no long-term antennae, to advocate for mass vaccination of younger age groups and children. As they obviously lack any kind of insight into the evolutionary dynamics of a pandemic and how those are driven by the interplay between viral infectious pressure and host immune pressure in the population, they don’t understand that mass vaccination of the younger age groups is only throwing fuel to the devastating fire of a self-amplifying vicious circle. I challenge any expert, regardless of reputation or qualifications, to invalidate or oppose my arguments in a public debate on a mainstream broadcasting channel. If that debate doesn’t take place, it should be very straightforward for youngsters, parents, guardians, or even the children themselves, to draw their own conclusions and decide what is best for themselves or the children.

If we could only have politicians and short-sighted ‘experts’ hanging this sheet over their bed, we might finally be in a position where we could start cleaning up some of the mess they have made and put an end to all of the completely unacceptable and needless animosity it caused between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. Time has come to turn all this chaos into a constructive effort that is finally driven by ‘Science’ and ‘Solidarity’!…”

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Afghanistan was an American f___ up from day one. Every president that touched it made it worse. Except Trump.

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No matter how much they claim otherwise and how much they try to hide it, Democrats and media cannot fool Americans about Biden’s disaster in Afghanistan

Biden heckled about Afghanistan when touring NJ flood damage, told to ‘leave no American behind’

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Democrat governance and education – Baltimore style (total failure edition)

City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA

These are American children.

This is failure up and down the board. These kids have been failed by their parents. Failed by the local school boards. Failed by their teachers and principals. Failed by local politicians. Failed by state and federal politicians. Failed by the media. Failed by the media because Baltimore is a Democrat stronghold.

There is no explanation for this failure other than corruption in almost every level of local schools and politics. Nobody cares about the children. They care about paychecks and local power. Parents are either so ignorant as to be idiots or they simply don’t care about the education of their children.

This is an American disgrace.

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Green energy is a farce

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1435220117189693442

Politics destroys engineering the same as it destroys medicine.

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Israel vs. Sweden. The louder the government claims they know best, the stronger should be citizen resistance.

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If it doesn’t work, keep doing it over and over until it does work. That is Covid policy in Australia. Australians allow this?

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https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1435230446116352010

Government gone insane. Government decides which citizens are good and which are bad. Reject this garbage. Citizens decide which government is good and which is bad.

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Fake information in furtherance of a preferred moral narrative is okay because everything is Democrat politics

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Biden Administration incompetence bordering on criminal negligence

Biden State Dept Says It Has No Resources To Rescue Trapped Flights In Afghanistan, No ‘Reliable Means’ To Confirm Details.

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“The medical community in the West is teetering on the edge of philosophical malpractice.”

As a doctor, here’s my message to anyone who thinks it’s OK to deny medical treatment to those unvaccinated against Covid

R. M. Huffman:

“…Some doctors are openly discussing refusal to treat patients who decline, for whatever reason, to get the jab. This would set a dangerous precedent and shatter fundamental tenets of medical practice.

An insidious sentiment has begun metastasizing throughout the United States and Britain, expressed by politicians, pundits, and – most disturbingly – by physicians themselves: that the unvaccinated who contract Covid-19 should be denied medical care.

It gets worse. A former US senator from Missouri, Claire McCaskill, also wants the unvaccinated to have their insurance rates raised. Piers Morgan, the British TV personality, demands to his nearly 8 million Twitter followers that the NHS must refuse them hospital beds. An emergency medical physician in Arizona responds to a video clip of people unmasked in a grocery store with a message, “Let ‘em die”. A liver surgeon at Massachusetts General suggests that declining a Covid vaccine should be treated by doctors as a functional Do Not Intubate/Do Not Resuscitate order.

These are neither private thoughts nor quiet conversations with overworked colleagues: these are calls to action, shared on social media, intended for public consumption.

This should terrify you…”

Covid is politics. Dirty Democrat politics.

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‘The Unvaccinated will be denied medical services in Australia’.

This is insanity as policy in a portion of Australia.

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There is growing field evidence and research that Ivermectin is effective against Covid

Exploring the binding efficacy of ivermectin against the key proteins of SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis: an in silico approach

“…COVID-19 is currently the biggest threat to mankind. Recently, ivermectin (a US FDA-approved antiparasitic drug) has been explored as an anti-SARS-CoV-2 agent. Herein, we have studied the possible mechanism of action of ivermectin using in silico approaches. Materials & methods: Interaction of ivermectin against the key proteins involved in SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis were investigated through molecular docking and molecular dynamic simulation. Results: Ivermectin was found as a blocker of viral replicase, protease and human TMPRSS2, which could be the biophysical basis behind its antiviral efficiency. The antiviral action and ADMET profile of ivermectin was on par with the currently used anticorona drugs such as hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir. Conclusion: Our study enlightens the candidature of ivermectin as an effective drug for treating COVID-19…”

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Fauci should be criminally investigated. Maybe he did nothing wrong, in which case he will be exonerated. Evidence mounts that he funded risky research at Wuhan lab and lied to congress about it.

NEW DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH AT CHINESE LAB

“…NEWLY RELEASED documents provide details of U.S.-funded research on several types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The Intercept has obtained more than nine hundred pages of documents detailing the work of the EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based health organization that used federal money to fund bat coronavirus research at the Chinese laboratory. The trove of documents includes two previously unpublished grant proposals that were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as well as project updates relating to the EcoHealth Alliance’s research, which has been scrutinized amid increased interest in the origins of the pandemic.

The documents were released in connection with ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation by The Intercept against the National Institutes of Health. The Intercept is making the full documents available to the public.

“This is a roadmap to the high-risk research that could have led to the current pandemic,” said Gary Ruskin, executive director of U.S. Right To Know, a group that has been investigating the origins of Covid-19.

One of the grants, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” outlines an ambitious effort led by EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak to screen thousands of bat samples for novel coronaviruses. The research also involved screening people who work with live animals. The documents contain several critical details about the research in Wuhan, including the fact that key experimental work with humanized mice was conducted at a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment — and not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as was previously assumed. The documents raise additional questions about the theory that the pandemic may have begun in a lab accident, an idea that Daszak has aggressively dismissed…”

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I don’t support this kind of thing for any U.S. president. I still think it’s pretty funny, especially after 4 years of insane liberal hysteria over Trump.

Hat tip to Kane

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Democrat governance – New York style (release violent offenders edition because violent criminals have rights, too)

Deaf woman, 59, on her way to church falls onto NYC subway tracks after being ‘hit in the head’ by homeless man who was arrested four days earlier for ‘sucker-punching’ another woman

    • Xing Zhou, 59, was on her way to church when a man hit her in the head at 10am Sunday morning at Union Square subway station
    • Zhou lost her balance during the attack and fell onto the subway tracks
    • Two bystander assisted Zhou off the tracks and waited with her until help arrived
    • Police eventually arrested Vladimir Pierre, 41, who is accused of sucker punching another woman four days ago at another subway station
    • Pierre, who is described as homeless, was only given a desk appearance ticket and released shortly after
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Biden 2006 vs. 2021

https://twitter.com/SCUBA2024/status/1433861249855631360

Forgot what he believes or not convenient to say what he believes or changed what he believes? You decide.

Doug Santo