This is now about a year into the pandemic and there have still been no debates, no public roundtables and no referendums. Nothing. Just decrees by the government. I honestly have given up trying to make sense of statistics, really. But a couple of things have not changed; the fatality rate if you catch Covid…
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IJVTPR report “Plan B Public Health Infrastructure and Operations Oversight Reform for America”
It’s not the public that needs more monitoring and oversight: it is the US regulatory agency of public health network and the pharmaceutical companies that run them. In this paper, I provide a blueprint for a bona fide public health infrastructure based on independence of freedom from corporatism. Since the US CDC was founded, an…
David Icke reports “Brandy Vaughan, Big Pharma whistleblower and outspoken critic of vaccines at Learntherisk.org found dead by her ten-year-old son”
Another pharmaceutical whistleblower and activist has been found dead, Brandy Vaughan, the founder of the Learn The Risk has died , according to a statement posted online on December 8. 2020. She was found dead this morning by her 10 yr old child. She was a former Merck pharmaceutical employee turned whistleblower. She started the non profit group…
Organic Consumers Association reports “Vaccine Fundamentalism―War Metaphors in the COVID-19 Response, Vaccine Policy and Public Health”
The metaphor of war has long been a part of public health. In responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s public health agencies mobilized and shut down entire parts of society under the utilitarian goal of stopping the spread of COVID-19. In America, entire states were locked-down, public schools were dismissed, government public services halted…
Rolling Stone reports “Big Pharma’s Covid-19 Profiteers”
How the race to develop treatments and a vaccine will create a historic windfall for the industry — and everyone else will pay the price On June 29th, 2020, while America remained transfixed by anti-police protests, the chairman and CEO of the pharmaceutical company Gilead issued a much-anticipated announcement. In a breezy open letter, Daniel O’Day…
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick reports “COVID – why terminology really, really matters”
When is a case not a case? Since the start of the COVID pandemic I have watched almost everyone get mission critical things wrong. In some ways this is not surprising. Medical terminology is horribly imprecise, and often poorly understood. In calmer times such things are only of interest to research geeks like me. Were…
USA Today reports “‘We’re not your slaves’: Alternative health providers bristle at warning letters about their coronavirus treatments”
Operation Quack Hack, the federal government’s initiative to clamp down on fake coronavirus medications and cures, has exposed a health underground in America brimming with distrust not only of mainstream medicine but the government itself. It’s a Tea Party for COVID-times. Its members are angry at government warning letters that many perceive as an infringement on…
The Failed Experiment of Covid Lockdowns
New data suggest that social distancing and reopening haven’t determined the spread. Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public health—first, in March and April, the lockdown of the economy to arrest the spread of the virus, and second, since mid-April, the reopening of the economy….
Children’s Health Defense reports “Vaccine Fundamentalism—War Metaphors in the Covid-19 Response, Vaccine Policy, and Public Health”
Public health officials themselves disseminate the war mentality with the repeated message: We are at war with an invisible enemy that must be eradicated. War mentality emphasizes the need for self-sacrifice in order to stop Covid-19 spread. And the weapons of war are glorified; public health authorities glorify its chief weapon of vaccination. A further examination of the…
NPR reports “CDC Employees Call Out Agency’s ‘Toxic Culture Of Racial Aggressions'”
More than 1,200 current employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have signed a letter calling for the federal agency to address “ongoing and recurring acts of racism and discrimination” against Black employees, NPR has learned. In the letter, addressed to CDC Director Robert Redfield and dated June 30, the authors put their…