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[MSM] Mask-wearing becomes a new battleground in England as Covid rules are eased
CNBC News
Key Points
- Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, many countries have introduced rules and even laws forcing people to wear face masks.
- The face masks are seen as a way to help prevent the spread of the virus.
- While many people have adopted to masks without complaint, many have railed against the imposition.
- Now as countries loosen restrictions, the wearing of face masks remains a contentious issue.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/06/wearamask-mask-wearing-becomes-a-new-battleground-in-england.html
Privacy experts concerned about Canada’s forthcoming vaccine passport
TORONTO News
“This will create a global, digital infrastructure that will retain our personal information and this will introduce surveillance like we’ve never seen before,” Cavoukian said.
The federal government is working on a national vaccine passport — what that will look like and how it could be used is not yet known — but privacy experts are concerned about how the information would be gathered.
“It’s not just going to be used for travel. People are talking about vaccine passports to get into concerts, to get into baseball games, football games, I mean all kinds of activities globally,” said Ann Cavoukian, executive director of the Global Privacy and Security by Design Centre.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/privacy-experts-concerned-about-canada-s-forthcoming-vaccine-passport-1.5497856
England to scrap self-isolation for fully-vaccinated and children after COVID contact
LONDON, July 6 (Reuters)
Fully-vaccinated people and children will no longer have to self-isolate after a close contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19 after August 16 in England unless they also test positive, health minister Sajid Javid said on Tuesday.
“From the 16th of August … anyone who’s a close contact of a positive case will no longer have to self-isolate if they have been fully vaccinated,” Javid told parliament, adding that people who had their second shot around that date would have to wait two weeks.
“In line with the approach for adults, anyone under the age of 18 who is a close contact of a positive case will no longer have to self-isolate.”
[MSM] Out of luck — COVID-19 vaccination lotteries don’t work
Boston Globe
“The real long-term solution to addressing vaccination rates — and future pandemics — is to cultivate a sense of duty so that individuals get vaccinated.”
The United States has missed President Biden’s July 4 goal of vaccinating 70 percent of eligible Americans against COVID-19. This is no surprise. Vaccination rates have been declining for months. With the spread of the highly transmissible and deadly Delta variant, the situation is worrisome.
To counter this decline in vaccinations, Governor Mike DeWine of Ohioannounced, on May 12, a weekly $1 million lottery for people who got the vaccine. That day Ohio was administering about 15,000 COVID-19 vaccines daily. Two days later, the rate was nearly double, at 33,000 per day. This lottery-style incentive was celebrated as a huge success. NPR ran a podcast titled “Ohio’s Vaccine Lottery Proves an Effective Incentive.” Even President Biden described it as “creative” and highlighted other state lottery programs.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/06/opinion/out-luck-covid-19-vaccination-lotteries-dont-work/
Sentenced to get your COVID-19 shot: Judge adds a new term to probation
Daily News
Do the crime, get your shot.
As local governments continue to encourage their unvaccinated residents to get their COVID-19 shot, Common Pleas Judge Richard Frye from Franklin County, Ohio, is making getting a coronavirus vaccine a term of a defendant’s probation.
WATCH ABC 6 NEWS CLIP HERE > https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/franklin-county-judge-richard-frye-orders-covid-19-vaccines-probation-6-28-2021
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-ohio-richard-frye-judge-probation-coronavirus-20210702-s3pegynikve27n4evto2isplme-story.html
New York Prisons Offering Inmates Barbecues, Conjugal Visits to Get Them Vaccinated
State prisons in New York are finding ways to motivate inmates to get their COVID-19 vaccinations by offering incentives like barbecues, care packages and conjugal visits.
The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) told The New York Post they are doing “everything possible to encourage incarcerated individuals” to get vaccinated, and a total of 34,000 inmates have been given the chance to win certain prizes or rewards for being vaccinated.
MSU Community Reacts to University Decision Against Mandatory COVID Vaccines
The State News
Michigan State University announced that it will not make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for students, faculty or staff this fall which has produced polarizing opinions from the MSU community.
Michigan State alumna Janice Daverman said she disagrees with the university’s decision to not require the vaccine next semester. She said that keeping COVID-19 cases low is very important for students to gain the social interaction needed to learn at MSU.
“We are not at herd immunity in Michigan and especially I’m sure on campus,” Daverman said.
Daverman said she is also concerned with new variants of COVID-19 making its way through MSU.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://statenews.com/article/2021/07/msu-community-reacts-to-university-decision-against-mandatory-vaccines?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest
[MSM] Connecticut Children’s, Yale New Haven Health System requiring all employees to get COVID-19 vaccine
Hartford Courant
“To align with CHA’s decision, Connecticut Children’s will make the COVID-19 vaccine a condition of employment for all team members effective Sept. 30, 2021. It is particularly important for us to implement this requirement, as approximately, 66% of our patients are in the age group that is still vulnerable to COVID-19 — children under the age of 12.”
Jim Shmerling
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and the Yale New Haven Health System will require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Children’s and the much larger Yale system are the first health care facilities to publicly say they will mandate vaccinations for employees. The decisions were made days after the Connecticut Hospital Association endorsed mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for health care workers on June 24.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.courant.com/health/hc-connecticut-childrens-vaccines-mandatory-20210706-tg6ljqivuffwveqhqb52zzr3fy-story.html
[MSM] We tried out the first statewide vaccine passport
MIT Technology Review
When we tested New York’s Excelsior Pass, we found privacy concerns, technical glitches, and questions over who it’s really for.
On June 20, about 20,000 fans gathered at Madison Square Garden in New York City for a Foo Fighters concert. The venue was at full capacity for the first time since the start of the pandemic, but it wasn’t a full return to normalcy: To get in, ticket holders needed to show proof that they’d been vaccinated—in the form of either a paper card or the state’s Excelsior Pass, a much-debated smartphone app that launched earlier this year.
The pass now has about 2 million downloads, which represents just 10% of fully vaccinated New Yorkers. Implementation has been rocky—marked by persistent glitches, privacy concerns, and outrage over the state government’s failure to prioritize the material needs of working-class communities of color—and businesses that require vaccination proof are already seeing backlash. Despite these concerns, though, it’s becoming more commonplace across the city to require such proof, and other states have expressed interest in launching similar passes. (You can read more about those with our vaccine passport tracker.)
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/06/1027770/vaccine-passport-new-york-excelsior-pass/
How College COVID Vaccine Mandates Put Students In Danger
The Federalist
The excessively narrow medical exemptions for COVID vaccine mandates at many colleges put students at unnecessary risk of serious complications, including hospitalization and death.
More than 520 of America’s 5,300 colleges and universities, approximately 10 percent, have announced students must be fully vaccinated against COVID before they return for fall classes. Among these institutions are the public universities of California and New York, pending full U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the vaccines. Together, these two systems enroll approximately 1.5 million students.
Other state universities that have enacted vaccine “mandates” include the universities of Michigan and Maryland, as well as Indiana University. Scores of private institutions have also mandated COVID vaccines, including Yale, Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Notre Dame, Emory, Brown, Syracuse, Boston University, and Princeton.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/05/how-college-covid-vaccine-mandates-put-students-in-danger/
COVID-19 Vaccine Patch In The Works, Won’t Require Injections
IBT
KEY POINTS
- A COVID-19 vaccine patch being developed in Australia would give people immunity against the virus without injections
- The patch would be easier to store and distribute than other vaccines, researchers say
- Scientists said the patch is effective in neutralizing multiple strains, including the U.K. and South Africa variants
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.ibtimes.com/covid-19-vaccine-patch-works-wont-require-injections-3244696
Experts question if WHO should lead pandemic origins probe
AP
“We will never find the origins relying on the World Health Organization”
Lawrence Gostin
BEIJING (AP) — As the World Health Organization draws up plans for the next phase of its probe of how the coronavirus pandemic started, an increasing number of scientists say the U.N. agency it isn’t up to the task and shouldn’t be the one to investigate.
Numerous experts, some with strong ties to WHO, say that political tensions between the U.S. and China make it impossible for an investigation by the agency to find credible answers.
They say what’s needed is a broad, independent analysis closer to what happened in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The first part of a joint WHO-China study of how COVID-19 started concluded in March that the virus probably jumped to humans from animals and that a lab leak was “extremely unlikely.” The next phase might try to examine the first human cases in more detail or pinpoint the animals responsible — possibly bats, perhaps by way of some intermediate creature.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-science-united-nations-coronavirus-pandemic-health-89c26f334f399f71fe5cace8663eb10f
[MSM] Israeli Study Finds Pfizer Vaccine Only 64 Percent Effective Against Delta Variant
Israel’s health ministry said Monday that the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine appears to be just 64 percent effective against preventing symptoms from the fast-spreading Delta COVID-19 variant, but remains highly effective at preventing serious illness and hospitalizations.
According to data released by the ministry, the vaccine’s ability to prevent symptomatic has dropped by roughly 30 percent over the past two months.
Previous studies in May showed the Pfizer vaccine to be over 94 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, while new data shows that number dropping to just 64 percent from June to July, The Times of Israel reported.
Animals at Oakland Zoo receive experimental COVID-19 vaccine
The Hill
A California zoo has administered some of the first doses of an experimental coronavirus vaccine to its animals, according to a statement posted by the zoo Friday.
Northern California’s Oakland Zoo administered the jab to tigers, bears, mountain lions and ferrets, the zoo announced in a press release Friday.
The zoo said that it was one of the first recipients of a donation from veterinary pharmaceutical company Zoetis for 11,000 doses of its vaccine tested for animals.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/561484-animals-at-oakland-zoo-receive-experimental-covid-19-vaccine
Three in 10 US adults say they haven’t had Covid vaccine and likely won’t get it, poll shows
Independent
“…a sweeping 79 per cent said they believed they were at little to no risk of getting sick from Covid-19”
As the Biden administration seeks to propel its vaccination programme forward, vaccine hesitancy appears to remain a lingering issue, with more than a quarter of US adults saying in a new survey that they have not yet had a Covid jab and are unlikely to do so in the future.
In the new ABC News/Washington Post poll, three in 10 adults said they had not yet had a dose of a coronavirus vaccine and “definitely” or “probably will not” get one.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/covid-vaccine-america-delta-variant-b1878421.html
[MSM] Texas Man in ICU After Getting J&J COVID Vaccine in Rare Breakthrough Case
Texas man vaccinated against COVID with the Johnson & Johnson shot is in intensive care after he caught the Delta variant of the virus.
Isaac Cary, a 64-year-old Uber driver, received the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine in March, and started feeling ill in June, CBS Austin reported. At first, he thought he had allergies, and later said he has been in contact with a positive case, his friend Lisa Bovee told the news outlet. He is now on a ventilator.
[MSM] Why some vaccinated people are dying of COVID-19
Fox News
As the Delta variant of the coronavirus surges through the U.K., almost half of the country’s recent COVID-19 deaths are of people who have been vaccinated. But doctors and scientists aren’t sounding the alarm about the apparently high proportion of deaths among the vaccinated population.
On the contrary, they say the figures so far offer reassurance that vaccines offer substantial protection against the variant, particularly after two doses. Delta, first identified in India, has since spread to at least 85 countries, including the U.S., where it is now estimated to be the most common variant.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.foxnews.com/health/why-some-vaccinated-people-dying-covid-19
FDA reverses itself: rejects COVID antibody test results; insanity reigns
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety communication informing the public that results from SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests should not be used to evaluate immunity or protection from COVID-19 at any time, and especially after the person received a COVID-19 vaccinatio
WATCH: Dr. David Martin — The Illusion of Knowledge [I’m thinking we should ALL watch this! -CJD]
Forbidden Knowledge TV
… today, we can add another culprit, who the brilliant Dr Dave E Martin informs us, “For the last 145 years, they have done a wonderful job of making sure you never knew they’re behind it all. And by ‘all’, I mean ALL. And I don’t mean ‘some of all.’ I mean ‘All of All.’”
And who might that be?
The life insurance industry.
Dr David E Martin begins by saying, “I think every conversation about COVID and every conversation about SARS-Coronavirus is the wrong conversation for humanity to be having. And I think that we have been seduced into a distraction of epic proportions while a greater evil is being done.
“So I am not gonna fall for it! If you thought this was gonna be the ‘Find the Fauci’ moment, I’ve got a little teaser in there, you’ll get a little Fauci but that’s not what this is about. This is about the illusion of knowledge.
“And I have at the bottom of this slide, one of my favorite quotes from Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
ACCESS VIDEO HERE > https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/dr-david-martin-the-illusion-of-knowledge/
WATCH: Following the Science? [A very worthy watch – CJD]
Everyone from clergy to politicians have repeatedly said we must “follow the science”. But have lockdowns, social distancing, masking, testing, and vaccination actually been following the science? In this powerful documentary, you’ll hear renowned scientists explain how the path we’re on may not be “following the science” at all…
ACCESS VIDEO HERE > https://rumble.com/vitcgn-following-the-science.html
The Horrifying Rise Of Total Mass Media Blackouts On Inconvenient News Stories
CaitlinJohnstone.com
Two different media watchdog outlets, Media Lens and Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), have published articles on the complete blackout in mainstream news institutions on the revelation by Icelandic newspaper Stundin that a US superseding indictment in the case against Julian Assange was based on false testimony from diagnosed sociopath and convicted child molester Sigurdur Thordarson.
FAIR’s Alan MacLeod writes that “as of Friday, July 2, there has been literally zero coverage of it in corporate media; not one word in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, Fox News or NPR.”
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/07/03/the-horrifying-rise-of-total-mass-media-blackouts-on-inconvenient-news-stories/
Happy “Independence” Day: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
CaitlinJohnstone.com
Today America celebrates its hard-fought victory in its fight to free itself from the rule of British monarchs so it could be ruled by US oligarchs.
Hollywood trained us to fear psychopathic killers prowling around in the dark so we won’t notice the psychopathic killers who rule our world in broad daylight.
We’ve been trained to fear the serial killer covered in blood and wielding a chainsaw so we won’t notice the serial killer wearing a suit and wielding a pen.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/