Federal dietary guidelines don’t reflect the evidence that eating fewer carbohydrates can help to reduce obesity, diabetes and heart disease. The coronavirus has added a brutal exclamation point to America’s pervasive ill health. Americans with obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other diet-related diseases are about three times more likely to suffer worsened outcomes from Covid-19,…
Month: May 2020
Zero Hedge reports “Trump Signs Executive Order Stripping Social Media Companies Of “Liability Shield”
Trump says tech internet companies function as a “public square” and their use of censorship is anti-American, anti-democracy. https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/white-house-plans-empower-fcc-regulate-american-social-media-giants?
Strategic Culture Foundation reports “German Official Leaks Report Denouncing Corona as ‘A Global False Alarm’”
Germany’s federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from the interior ministry. The dangerousness of Covid-19 was overestimated: probably at no point did the danger posed by the new virus go beyond the normal level. The people who die from Corona are essentially those…
Children’s Health Defense reports “The Risks vs. Benefits of Face Masks- Is There an Agenda?”
There has been a shifting of positions on the use of face masks with the COVID-19 outbreak. Initially it was not recommended, then we had different signals from the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams and representatives of the CDC, the NIH and other agencies. There are many important considerations including the risk versus the…
Business Insider reports “WHO says there is no need for healthy people to wear face masks, days after the CDC told all Americans to cover their faces”
There’s some evidence that caretakers of infected people can protect their health by wearing masks, the WHO guidance said, but “there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19.” https://www.businessinsider.com/who-no-need-for-healthy-people-to-wear-face-masks-2020-4
Lawfare Blog on “The Long History of Coercive Health Responses in American Law”
After examining more than a dozen varieties of preventive detention allowed by American law, we concluded that, despite the “civic myth” that preventive detention is disfavored and rare, it is neither prohibited nor “especially frowned upon in tradition or practice.” Surprisingly, American law allows quite a lot of it. One of the areas we examined…
Petition to White House: Hold Big Tech Responsible for Censorship
Censorship is Unconstitutional! We DEMAND our rights under the 1st Amendment be vigorously protected. Private companies acting as public utilities to disseminate information, take on the same social, ethical and fiduciary responsibilities applicable to any agency of the government. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/social-media-mainstream-media-must-be-held-financially-criminally-responsible-censorship-public-misinformation
IEEE reports on “Halting COVID-19: The Benefits and Risks of Digital Contact Tracing”
Digital contact tracing using mobile phones can help stop the spread of COVID-19, but could also put us all under surveillance As COVID-19 sweeps through the planet, a number of researchers have advocated the use of digital contact tracing to reduce the spread of the disease. The controversial technique can be effective, but can have disastrous consequences if not…
Nature reports “Ten reasons why immunity passports are a bad idea”
Restricting movement on the basis of biology threatens freedom, fairness and public health. Threats to freedom, fairness and public health are inherent to any platform that is designed to segregate society on the basis of biological data. All policies and practices must be guided by a commitment to social justice. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01451-0
NYPost reports “Lockdown-defiant NJ gym sues governor, state in federal court”
The defiant New Jersey gym that was repeatedly shuttered for violating the state’s coronavirus lockdown is suing the state in federal court. The owners of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr charged that Gov. Phil Murphy, state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and other New Jersey officials violated their constitutional rights by forcing them to close up shop for three…