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EXCLUSIVE Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of reporters, news outlets
Reuters
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) saw a surge in government demands worldwide in 2020 to take down content posted by journalists and news outlets, according to data released by the social media platform.
In its transparency report published on Wednesday, Twitter said verified accounts of 199 journalists and news outlets on its platform faced 361 legal demands from governments to remove content in the second half of 2020, up 26% from the first half of the year.
The biannual report on Twitter’s enforcement of policy rules and the information and removal requests it receives comes as social media companies including Facebook Inc(FB.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube face government scrutiny worldwide over the content allowed on their platforms.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-twitter-sees-jump-govt-demands-remove-content-journalists-news-outlets-2021-07-14/?rpc=401&
Spain’s Top Court Rules Pandemic Lockdown ‘Unconstitutional’
Last year’s stay-at-home lockdown order by the government under a state of emergency was unconstitutional, Spain’s constitutional court has ruled on Wednesday.
The court ruling was in response to a suit filed by the far-right Vox party.
It was a split decision according to a brief statement issued by the court. State broadcaster TVE said six magistrates voted in favour and five against.
According to the Spanish broadcaster, the ruling said that the limitations on movement violated citizens’ basic rights and therefore the state of emergency was insufficient to give them constitutional backing.
What Is the ‘Freedom Phone’? Candace Owens Backs Apple and Google Alternative [Interesting!]
Erik Finman, the self-proclaimed “Bitcoin millionaire,” has launched a new smartphone designed to fight back against Big Tech companies by promoting free speech and security.
The Freedom Phone comes with its own app store, which will feature apps that are blocked or banned by Apple and Google, although the details haven’t yet been given. It has already been endorsed by conservative commentator Candace Owens.
“I just did a live on Instagram taking everyone through the new FREEDOM PHONE which is now trending,” she tweeted on Wednesday night.
St. Jude will require employees to receive COVID-19 vaccine
Natural News
“As our mission states and as our St. Jude core values echo, we must ensure that advancing treatment for children with catastrophic diseases is at the center of everything we do. This means providing our patients and their families with the safest treatment environment possible.“
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is changing up its COVID requirements for employees.
Starting September 9, all St. Jude and Memphis-area ALSAC employees must be vaccinated against COVID-19.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/st-jude-will-require-employees-receive-covid-19-vaccine/SXU7JGL3HJBBZCYMIGSOA2LN24/
Alabama Military Base Is First in U.S. to Require Vaccination Proof Amid Rising COVID rates
An Alabama military base is taking increased actions to combat the ongoing prevalence of coronavirus infections, authorizing leaders to ask for proof of vaccination of service members not wearing a mask while on duty. It is the first military base in the continental United States to allow leaders to check the vaccination status of those in uniform.
The new guidance at Fort Rucker comes as the new delta variant of the virus continues to drive infection rates and now accounts for a majority of cases in the United States. The base is among facilities, including Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, Fort Sill in Oklahoma and Fort Jackson in South Carolina, where less than half of the surrounding populations have been vaccinated.
The order issued Tuesday by Maj. Gen. David Francis, commanding general of Fort Rucker, states that unmasked uniformed personnel “must be prepared to show proof of vaccination” when on the base.
Tennessee governor says ‘parents, not kids’ focus of vaccine outreach after firing of top health official
FOX News
Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pushing back against claims about his youth vaccination program days after the state’s top vaccination official was fired for allegedly sharing factual information with doctors about the legalities of vaccinating un-emancipated minors without parental consent.
The Tennessee Democratic Party has called for Dr. Michelle Fiscus to be reinstated, and for the governor “to recommit the Tennessee Department of Health to carrying out its mission to protect, promote and improve the health and prosperity of people in Tennessee,” WMC reported.
Despite what Lee’s office described as “misleading reporting,” the state’s Department of Health “has not halted the Vaccines for Children Program that provides information and vaccine access to Tennessee parents,” a spokesperson for the governor said in a statement to WMC.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-youth-vaccination-program-firing-top-health-official
Opinion: How the GOP crusade against vaccines could get even more dangerous
Washington Post
Until recently, whenever someone wanted to assert that susceptibility to anti-science conspiracy theories was not solely the province of the right, an example they could cite was the sort-of left-leaning embrace of the anti-vaccine crusade.
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the most prominent opponent of vaccination, the picture many people had of a vaccine opponent was a liberal parent from Santa Monica fighting with their school district over whether to get their kids immunized.
That was a distortion — liberals were no more likely to be anti-vaxxers than conservatives — and it certainly didn’t rise up the political ladder to the point where Democratic politicians were waging fights against immunizations. (Never mind that the highest-profile purveyor of the lie that vaccines cause autism was Donald Trump.)
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/14/how-gop-crusade-against-vaccines-could-get-even-more-dangerous/
North Carolina county launches ‘doses to doors’ vaccine campaign
FOX News
Health department workers and community outreach groups have kicked off a “doses to doors” COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, where just 49% of residents have received at least one jab. The program, which officials say offer a convenient way for residents to get the shot without having to worry about travel, was met with mixed reaction on Twitter.
“They don’t move that fast to help people when they know a hurricane is coming,” one Twitter user wrote.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.foxnews.com/health/north-carolina-county-doses-to-doors-vaccine
Parents Sue City Of Washington D.C. For Vaccinating Minors Without Parental Consent
The Federalist
“The D.C. Act is an unconscionable intrusion on the rights and liberty of parents and children”
Mary Holland, CHD president and general counsel
A recent District of Columbia law, the D.C. Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2020, allows kids aged 11 and up to get any vaccine recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), including COVID shots, without parental consent or knowledge. Now, parents are fighting back.
The bill passed the D.C. Council on a 10-3 vote last November, and was signed into law by Mayor Muriel Bowser in December. It went into effect on March 19, 2021. On Monday, the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and the Parental Rights Foundation filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for D.C., seeking a court order to rule the law unconstitutional.
The plaintiffs are four parents who have minor children attending public school in D.C. and want a preliminary injunction to prohibit Bowser, the D.C. Department of Health, and the D.C. Public School System from enforcing the act.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/14/parents-sue-city-of-washington-d-c-for-vaccinating-minors-without-parental-consent/
Authoritarianism advances as world battles the pandemic
AP
LONDON (AP) — Here’s some of what happened while the world was distracted by the coronavirus: Hungary banned the public depiction of homosexuality. China shut Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper. Brazil’s government extolled dictatorship. And Belarus hijacked a passenger plane to arrest a journalist.
COVID-19 has absorbed the world’s energies and isolated countries from one another, which may have accelerated the creep of authoritarianism and extremism across the globe, some researchers and activists believe.
“COVID is a dictator’s dream opportunity,” said Theary Seng, a Cambodian-American human rights lawyer who has been indicted on charges including treason in the ostensibly democratic southeast Asian nation, where Prime Minister Hun Sen has been in power for more than three decades.
Human Rights Watch accuses Cambodia’s government of using the pandemic as cover to imprison political opponents without due process. Scores have been indicted and face mass trials.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-religion-government-and-politics-a127151d7208b79c02767b435355511d
CALL TO ACTION: Mobilization to Challenge the UN Food Systems Summit and Re-Claim Peoples’ Sovereignty over Food Systems
25 | 26 | 27 JULY 2021
ONLINE & OFFLINE CITIZEN MOBILIZATIONS
The Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems summit to be held in a hybrid format in Rome from 26 to 28 July will be decisive for the final direction and outcomes of the summit. The liaison group of the autonomous people’s response to the UN Food Systems Summit for transforming corporate food systems therefore invites you to be part of a colourful mobilization in parallel and in the run up to the Pre-Summit.
LEARN MORE BY DOWNLOADING THE PDF FLYER HERE > https://healthfreedomvirginia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Call-to-action-July-FSS-Pre-summit.pdf
READ ABOUT THE EVENT on MARION NESTLE’s BLOG HERE > https://www.foodpolitics.com/2021/07/the-un-summit-on-food-systems-2-the-critique/
READ the MEDIA LAUNCH on THE GLOBAL PEOPLE’S SUMMIT ON FOOD SYSTEMS HERE > https://feed.internationalcommunity.nu/index.php/campaigns/lo488ckf7t7a9/web-version/lt9165m1yl07e
Only 1 in 30,000 Unvaxxed Died of COVID in Pfizer Trial
Mercola
If the COVID vaccines work, why are highly vaccinated countries like Israel and the United Kingdom seeing spikes in caseloads? That’s the loaded question that blogger Alex Berenson asks.
In a detailed outline using Pfizer’s own vaccine trial data, Berenson goes on to explain how the company came up with its positive results for its COVID vaccine. First, “they enrolled only a handful of the older people most at risk for COVID,” Berenson says.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2021/07/13/only-1-in-30000-unvaxxed-died-of-covid-in-pfizer-trial.aspx
Double-Vaccinated COVID Patients Loading Up UK Hospital
Two cities in the United Kingdom are warning residents that they may end up in the hospital even if they’ve been double-vaccinated for COVID-19.
“There are currently 15 patients in hospital with COVID across the Trust; last month there were none,” the Yorkshire Post reports. Some of the patients had been double-vaccinated against COVID, the paper said. One is in the ICU.
“The message I would like to share with you all is that some of their patients are double vaccinated,” Heather McNair, chief nurse at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals, told the Post. “This is a disease that can still affect you and still make you poorly when you are double vaccinated.
“We have got a ward at the moment full of COVID patients in our hospital and that is not going away anytime soon.”
SOURCE: Yorkshire Post July 9, 2021
Farmed Salmon ‘Likely’ Passed Virus to Wild Pacific Salmon
Mercola
Story at-a-glance
- Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) is a viral infection that likely spread to wild Pacific salmon from fish farms in the 1980s. It has caused substantial losses to the Norwegian farming industry, where it has been detected in 95% of farmed salmon
- PRV may have contributed to the declining numbers and diversity of wild Pacific salmon, which have been dropping for 30 years. Pacific salmon body size is also substantially smaller than fish from before 1990
- Farmed salmon are fed pellets made from highly polluted eel and fatty fish from the Baltic Sea and manufacturers add a pesticide to lengthen the shelf life
- Wild-caught salmon is high in omega-3 fat, essential for good brain health and helps lower all-cause mortality. Seek out wild-caught Alaskan salmon with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) logo, indicating it came from a responsible fishery using sustainable practices
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/07/14/piscine-orthoreovirus-in-salmon.aspx
Same Shady People Who Own Pharma and Media Want Your House
Mercola
Story at-a-glance
- In the first quarter of 2021, 15% of U.S. homes sold were purchased by corporate investors — not families looking to achieve their American dream
- The average American has virtually no chance of winning a home over an investment firm, which may pay 20% to 50% over asking price, in cash, sometimes scooping up entire neighborhoods at once
- BlackRock, one of the largest asset management firms, is among the firms buying up U.S. houses; they also control the media and Big Pharma
- If the average American is pushed out of the housing market, and most of the available housing is owned by investment groups and corporations, you become beholden to them as your landlord
- This fulfills part of the Great Reset’s “new normal” dictum — the part where you will own nothing and be happy; this isn’t a conspiracy theory — it’s part of WEF’s 2030 agenda
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/07/14/blackrock-buying-houses.aspx
Biden’s ‘Door-To-Door Vax Squads’ Evoke Thoughts Of ‘Medical Brown Shirts’ Pushing America Ever Closer To Medical Martial Law
All News Pipeline
While more and more proof keeps emerging that ‘Covid’ was a long-planned globalist operation to usher in a ‘new world order’, further enslave the free people of America and allow mass mail-in voting fraud across the country to ‘install’ Joe Biden as US president, this new story over at MedicalXPress reports there is growing pressure in place across the planet to make ‘the jab‘ mandatory, putting pressure on so-called ‘anti-vaxxers’ worldwide.
Reporting within that story that a growing number of countries and territories around the world are forcing people to be vaccinated against COVID-19, yup, against their wishes, the leftists favorite phrase while they’ve been murdering their own unborn babies the past several decades, ‘my body, my choice’, is about to take a whole new meaning in America.
As Christopher Langan, called ‘the smartest man in the world’ by the mainstream media, recently warned, should such a moment in time as forced vaccinations arrive in America:
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://allnewspipeline.com/Door_To_Door_Vax_Squads_Coming_To_America.php
Disaster prepping 101: Learn land navigation skills to get out of SHTF situations
Natural News
When SHTF and nowhere within your immediate vicinity is safe, you and your family need to bug out immediately. But to quickly and efficiently get somewhere safe, you need some land navigation skills.
During emergency situations, having a handy device to help guide you out of the disaster zone can be very handy. A GPS device, for example, will be extremely helpful.
GPS devices have been widely adopted around the world. But the problem with GPS is many people have become overly reliant on it. Many people even find it difficult to find their way across their own hometowns without the help of a GPS.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-14-disaster-prepping-land-navigation-skills-shtf.html
Google smart assistant records and stores your voice conversations – here’s how to delete voice history
Natural News
People who own a Google Home or Google Nest device in their residences may have been unnerved by the discovery that the smart assistant is recording them. The finding was proven true in 2019 when Google admitted that it allowed its employees access to Google Assistant voice clips from customers’ devices. While the Big Tech firm changed its stance following the fiasco, many have raised concerns about this invasion of privacy.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-14-google-smart-assistant-keeps-record-delete-history.html
Amazon can now monitor you while you sleep, thanks to the FCC
Natural News
On Friday, July 9, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave Amazon the green light for a new device that utilizes radar sensor technology that can monitor people’s sleep.
According to the FCC’s approval document, Amazon’s description of its proposed device uses radar sensors “to enable touchless control of device features and functions.”
The document added that the device would be stationary, and Amazon “plans to use the radar’s capability of capturing motion in a three-dimensional space to enable contactless sleep tracing functionalities.”
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-14-amazon-monitoring-sleep-fcc.html
Fully vaccinated Americans are SPREADING covid’s delta variant, health expert warns
Natural News
“That could only be occurring if they’re transmitting amongst each other,” he said. There’s no doubt in my mind.” (Related: It’s the VACCINATED who are speeding up the evolution of variants and spreading them to others, including the Delta Variant.)
Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Public health experts are claiming that fully vaccinated Americans are helping spread the post-vaccine delta variant of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19).
Many states with high vaccination rates are reporting sharp surges in COVID-19 cases. The delta variant makes up around half of all active cases. Despite this, many so-called public health experts are still encouraging people to get vaccinated to curb transmission.
Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, believes one possible way the delta variant is spreading is being overlooked: with the help of vaccinated individuals.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-14-fully-vaccinated-americans-spreading-coronavirus-delta-variant.html
Big Pharma cashing in on the plandemic: $19 BILLION for Moderna in just one year
Natural News
Thanks to Donald Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” scheme, drug giant Moderna is slated to rake in record profits this year with a revenue forecast of a whopping $19.2 billion.
Tony Fauci also contributed by laundering gobs of taxpayer cash to Moderna through his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which also received $25 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) back in 2013 to develop messenger RNA (mRNA) technology.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-14-big-pharma-cashing-in-plandemic-19billion-moderna.html
Moderna representative ADMITS vaccine is experimental and everyone taking it is part of a clinical trial with unknown consequences
Natural News
A representative from Moderna has admitted that the company’s Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine is experimental, and everybody who takes it is part of a clinical trial.
This admission was recorded during the June 22, 2021 episode of The Stew Peters Show by the independent conservative reporter and political commentator Stew Peters.
During that day’s episode, Peters played an audio recording made by a woman who developed Guillain-Barre syndrome after receiving the Moderna vaccine.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-14-moderna-representative-admits-vaccine-experimental-clinical-trial.html
ETHNIC CLEANSING: Vaccine-pushing tyrant Fauci takes aim at Republican men, conservatives and Red states
Natural News
On a recent episode of CNN State of the Union, Dr. Anthony Fauci started blaming Republican men for “refusing” to take experimental spike protein injections. The serial perjurer, disgraced bioweapon developer, and coercive vaccine pusher has been extraordinarily arrogant as of recent, calling for local vaccine passports and door-to-door vaccine compliance initiatives that target the unvaccinated and lie about vaccine safety. This new vaccine protocol uses messenger RNA to subvert the natural protein synthesis of the cells to mass-produce lab-generated spike proteins. These spike proteins get in the bloodstream and cause inflammation, autoimmune reactions, and blood clots. Ever since these shots were released under emergency authorization, governments, corporations, medical facilities, banks, and educational institutions have segregated, coerced, bribed, lied to, and intimidated people to comply with this experiment.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-14-vaccine-pushing-tyrant-fauci-takes-aim-at-republican-men-red-states.html
Bad logic of vaccine zealots is like Nazis claiming Jews were “procrastinating” for failing to report to concentration death camps and gas chambers
Natural News
Have you noticed that “procrastination” and “hesitation” are to blame for low vaccination rates across America, instead of blaming vaccine-induced injuries and vaccine-induced deaths of pandemic proportion? Vaccine promoters and fanatics describe anyone who refuses the deadly China Flu jabs as experiencing “hesitancy” and guilty of “procrastination” because those fanatical vax-freaks don’t want to talk about all the injuries and deaths caused by the Covid vaccines, and vaccines in general, as the true cause.
Anyone who has not gone through with the gene therapy, blood-clotting, heart inflaming inoculations for China Flu are not “hesitant” or “procrastinating.” We’re not talking about crossing a busy street or putting off mowing the lawn here. We talking about deadly, invasive medical procedures where the risks far outweigh the benefits, if there even are any.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-14-bad-logic-of-vaccine-zealots-is-like-nazis-claiming-jews-procrastinating.html
Pushing vaccines while banning ivermectin is “global collusion” to cause as much harm and death as possible
Natural News
Those working on the frontlines of the so-called “pandemic” all last year were indicating from the beginning that early treatment was of utmost importance, recommending proven remedies like hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and ivermectin as therapeutic solutions. The medical deep state, however, was all the while engaged in a “global collusion” racket with Big Pharma, warns Dr. Peter McCullough, the goal of which was to “cause as much harm and death as conceivable.”
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-14-pushing-vaccines-banning-ivermectin-global-collusion-death.html
After 9 Years Including 21 Days in Solitary Confinement Canada Drops Charges Against Parents Charged with Failure to Vaccinate Child Who Died
Health Impact News
After 9 years of legal battles against the government of Canada, David Stephan announced on his Facebook Page this weekend that all charges had been dropped against him and his wife over the death of one of their children, where he and his wife were singled out by the Canadian government to be made an example of what happens when one dares to take on Big Pharma.
A champion of Health Freedom for years, when the young son of David and Collet Stephan died in what is now known as gross negligence by the medical system, the authorities tried to make an example of the Stephans for their way of life that included trusting God and generally not using pharmaceutical products when natural remedies were available.
They were charged with “failure to vaccinate” their child and blamed for his death, in the hopes of setting Canadian policy that failure to use Big Pharma sanctioned products by parents was the same thing as withholding the basic necessities of life from children, such as food, water, and air.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/after-9-years-including-21-days-in-solitary-confinement-canada-drops-charges-against-parents-charged-with-failure-to-vaccinate-child-who-died/
“France has Lost all her Freedom” Reader Laments as France Rolls Out Compulsory COVID-19 Vaccine Policies
Health Impact News
A distraught Health Impact News subscriber from France emailed me today regarding new COVID-19 mandatory vaccine policies that were just announced by the President of France, Emmanuel Macon.
The President has spoken and the vax is compulsory for people working in hospitals, medical center, with old people event at home, etc.
The sanitory pass is everywhere even in hospital and above a group of 50 people. He said that everybody will probably have to be vax. France has lost all her freedom and is worse than China. He also attacks and reforms the pension and unemployement.
Please help us, French People, the world must know what is happening!
Here is the livestream from YouTube in French.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/france-has-lost-all-her-freedom-reader-laments-as-france-rolls-out-compulsory-covid-19-vaccine-policies/
Google is Your Enemy: Why are You Still Using Their “Free” Products?
Health Impact News
Google is not the same company they used to be. The Luciferian Globalists have completely taken them over.
Here are two articles recently published on Off-Guardian that detail how much they want to control our lives, and not for our benefit.
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READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/google-is-your-enemy-why-are-you-still-using-their-free-products/
USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming
Health Impact News
The vast majority of the American population is completely ignorant about the United States militarized industrial corporate food system that feeds most of the population, and is used to topple governments worldwide. Less than 1% of our population is involved in agriculture today feeding the other 99%+ of our population, and very few people even know this, even in the alternative media.
For example, this is what one person in the alternative media wrote recently:
A food war is brewing and American farmers and ranchers are on the front lines. Family owned farms are the backbone of America. Ninety-eight percent of U.S. farms are operated by families. Eighty-six percent of all U.S. agricultural products are produced on family farms or ranches. In 2018, about $140 billion worth of agricultural products were exported to the world, making the U.S. a top food exporter. Their blood, sweat, and tears bring food to tables across America and the world.
I seriously doubt that the person who wrote this even knew that they were parroting corporate talking points to present a wholesome image of American agriculture. Because the truth is that these “family farms” are just a handful of corporate billionaires who control the world’s food supplies and can weaponize it at any time, by creating “food shortages.”
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/usda-attacks-amish-farmers-selling-real-food-to-protect-corporate-industrial-farming/
Can My Employer Tell Me to Take the Jab or Leave?
This is the question that many of our friends and readers are asking after reports from the Chronicle of Higher Education that 75 colleges across the U.S. and a growing number of employers are now implementing mandatory COVID vaccinations. But can your employer (or school) truly force you to get the jab or leave?
Pfizer’s Experimental Covid-19 Vaccine—What You’re Not Being Told [A very worthy read -CJD]
You shouldn’t let anybody put anything into your body until they can tell you if any long-term consequences could occur. This is a basic principle of self-preservation that trumps any risk of a virus, especially a virus that has proven to be just a little bit more deadly than the common flu.