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Never mind 5G. This is what 6G could look like
C|NET
Carriers around the world have launched their 5G networks. Nationwide coverage is available in the US from the big three providers. Compatible smartphones are getting cheaper. The next-generation wireless technology is rapidly maturing.
So let’s talk about the next-next-generation wireless technology. Yes, 6G.
Each wireless generation lasts about a decade, so 6G is a long, long way from becoming reality. Maybe in 2029 we’ll get a hint of a deployment. Still, it’s worth considering the technology that will be around the next corner and looking at what wireless researchers are thinking about in terms of its potential.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.cnet.com/news/nevermind-5g-this-is-what-6g-could-look-like/
Facebook Probe by DC Official Targets Vaccine Misinformation
Bloomberg
Facebook Inc. is under investigation by the attorney general for the District of Columbia over whether it has taken adequate steps to curb the spread of misinformation about vaccines.
Attorney General Karl Racine is seeking internal documents that show how the social media giant penalizes users who violate its misinformation policies around vaccines, as well as materials related to a Facebook study about vaccine hesitancy among users, according to a copy of a subpoena issued by Racine’s office last month. The subpoena also demanded data on the total volume of content that has been removed or demoted by Facebook for violating its vaccine misinformation policies.
“Facebook has said it’s taking action to address the proliferation of Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on its site. But then when pressed to show its work, Facebook refused,” a spokeswoman for the attorney general said in a statement. “AG Racine’s investigation aims to make sure Facebook is truly taking all steps possible to minimize vaccine misinformation on its site and support public health.”
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-01/facebook-probe-by-dc-official-targets-vaccine-misinformation
Facebook tests extremist content warning messages
BBC News
Facebook is testing a feature in the US that asks users if they are worried somebody they know is becoming an extremist.
Other users may also receive an alert saying they may have been exposed to extremist content.
The trial messages are part of Facebook’s Redirect Initiative which aims to combat extremism.
The pop-ups redirect users to a support page.
“This test is part of our larger work to assess ways to provide resources and support to people on Facebook who may have engaged with or were exposed to extremist content or may know someone who is at risk,” a Facebook spokeswoman said.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57697779
Oregon coronavirus update, July 1: 1,790 breakthrough cases identified
Statesmen Journal
The Oregon Health Authority has identified 1,790 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases through June 30.
Breakthrough cases happen when an individual receives a positive COVID-19 test result at least 14 days after completing a COVID-19 vaccine series.
About 8% of the 7,241 cases of COVID-19 in Oregon in June were in people who were fully vaccinated.
One in 10 of the 63 COVID-19 deaths in June occurred in people who were fully vaccinated.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/coronavirus/2021/07/01/oregon-covid-19-update-1-790-breakthrough-cases-identified/7821185002/
Germany issues world’s strongest recommendation for mixing Covid-19 vaccines
CNN News
STIKO said that “current study results” show that the immune response generated after a mixed dose vaccination “is clearly superior.”
Germany has issued what appears to be the strongest recommendation anywhere for the mixing of Covid-19 vaccines on efficacy grounds. The German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) said Thursday that people who receive a first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine “should get an mRNA vaccine as their second dose, regardless of their age.” This makes Germany one of the first countries to strongly recommend that people who have received a first dose of AstraZeneca receive either a Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine as their second dose.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/02/health/germany-covid-vaccines-mixing-intl/index.html
COVID “experts” at symposium co-hosted by Johns Hopkins lay out benefits, risks of vaccines for young children
The Baltimore Sun
As more adults become vaccinated against COVID-19, the coronavirus has targeted more children not yet eligible for shots. But the first vaccine for those as young as 5 could be ready as soon as September.
A collection of experts laid out the benefits — and a few risks — of vaccinating kids during a symposium hosted by the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington.
“We should look at COVID-19 as a vaccine-preventable disease in children,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “In terms of preventable disease and death, COVID should rank high.”
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-hs-covid-shots-needed-in-children-20210701-2wbibyvuvngzbnk4n3emv5xkmm-story.html
Ontario is accelerating second COVID-19 vaccines for kids aged 12 to 17
Toronto Star
Ontario is accelerating second COVID-19 vaccines for kids aged 12-17, and will open booking slots for them Monday at 8 a.m.
Health Minister Christine Elliott said the move will help get more children fully vaccinated before school returns in September.
Appointments to get the Pfizer vaccine — the only shot approved for this age group — can be booked on the provincial booking system, through local health units with their own booking systems or with participating pharmacies.
Getting second shots is becoming increasingly important because of the highly contagious Delta strain that will dominate the province this summer and with the easing of restrictions under the second stage of Ontario’s reopening plan, Elliott said.
“Vaccines are the best defence against COVID-19 and variants, and I encourage everyone to get their first and second shots as soon as possible,” Elliott said in a statement Friday.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2021/07/02/ontario-is-accelerating-covid-19-shots-for-kids-aged-12-to-17.html
6 fully vaccinated people died of COVID-19 in the world’s most vaccinated nation, health officials said. All had underlying health conditions.
Insider
Six people have died from COVID-19 in Seychelles despite being fully vaccinated, the country’s public-health commissioner said on Thursday.
Jude Gedeon said that five of the people had received Covishield, a version of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in India, and that one had received China’s Sinopharm shot, Bloomberg reported.
All six people had underlying health conditions, he said. It wasn’t clear how long after vaccination the people died. In Seychelles, the Covishield shot has mostly been given to people older than 60, Gedeon said.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-vaccine-death-seychelles-covishield-sinopharm-fully-vaccinated-people-2021-7
Michigan boy dies 3 days after getting Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, CDC is investigating
Detroit Free Press
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the case of a 13-year-old Saginaw County boy who died in his sleep three days after getting his second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in mid-June.
The county health department confirmed the investigation, telling the Free Press that the medical examiner’s office conducted an autopsy and the death was reported to the state health department as well as the CDC.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.freep.com/story/news/2021/07/02/jacob-clynick-pfizer-covid-vaccine/5323095001/
Author of ‘Monsanto Papers’ Tells RFK, Jr.: EPA Puts Monsanto’s Interests Above Public Health
Organic Consumers Association
Investigative journalist Carey Gillam told RFK, Jr. on the “RFK Jr The Defender Podcast,” emails dating back to the 1980’s show the EPA “was working very hard to put Monsanto’s interests above the interests of public health.”
What Happens When You Eat Ultraprocessed Food for a Month?
Organic Consumers Association
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It likely comes as no surprise that eating a diet filled with ultraprocessed foods is unhealthy. Research has demonstrated ultraprocessed foods can increase your caloric intake and weight gain.1,2
Data3 gathered from 2009 to 2010 from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed ultraprocessed foods made up 57.9% of the energy intake of Americans and sugar contributed 89.7% of the energy intake.
By 2019, a study published in the journal Nutrients4 found 71% of packaged products in the grocery store were ultraprocessed. Researchers from Northwestern Medicine estimated nearly 80% of the total calories consumed by Americans is from store-bought food and beverages.5
The researchers also compared the food supply in the U.S. against other western countries like Australia, finding packaged foods Americans were eating had higher median amounts of sugar and salt. These foods contribute to the rising level of obesity across the world.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/what-happens-when-you-eat-ultraprocessed-food-month?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=OB+715&utm_content=OB+715
Google must face Voice Assistant privacy lawsuit -U.S. judge
Reuters
A federal judge said Google must face much of a lawsuit accusing the company of illegally recording and disseminating private conversations of people who accidentally trigger its voice-activated Voice Assistant on their smartphones.
In a Thursday night decision, U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman let plaintiffs in the proposed class action pursue claims that Google and its parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) violated California privacy laws, some claims that they violated federal privacy laws, and some breach of contract claims.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-must-face-voice-assistant-privacy-lawsuit-us-judge-2021-07-02/?rpc=401&
New York inmates offered food, conjugal visits, more to get COVID vaccine
New York Post
“To encourage you to do your part in this fight, the Department will implement an incentive program”
It’s Hot Vax Summer — for jailbirds.
State prison officials are so desperate to get inmates vaccinated against COVID-19 that they’re dangling care packages, barbecue parties and even conjugal visits, according to a memo issued this week to the nearly 34,000 jailbirds.
A mere 45 percent of New York’s incarcerated felons have been inoculated, compared to more than 70 percent of the law-abiding population, Acting Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Anthony Annucci wrote.
Meanwhile, “many other state prison populations have much higher vaccination rates,” Annucci lamented.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://nypost.com/2021/07/01/ny-inmates-offered-food-conjugal-visits-more-to-get-covid-vaccine/
White House to send ‘surge teams’ to delta variant hot spots
The Hill
“Looking across the country we have made incredible progress towards ending the pandemic. However, looking state by state and county by county, it is clear that communities where people remain unvaccinated are communities that remain vulnerable.”
The White House is readying COVID-19 “surge teams” to send to communities with low vaccination rates to help combat the rapidly spreading delta variant of the coronavirus, officials announced Thursday.
The teams will work with local public health authorities to conduct contact tracing, and will distribute supplies as needed or requested by states, such as therapeutics and additional tests.
The teams will also help augment staffing at local vaccination sites.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/561186-white-house-to-send-surge-teams-to-delta-variant-hot-spots
Reports of Some Getting Pfizer, Moderna ‘Boosters’ After J&J Vaccine Prompts Calls for More Guidance
US News & World Report
With the delta variant poised to become the dominant strain in the U.S., some Johnson & Johnson recipients are taking an additional shot from Pfizer or Moderna in the hopes of boosting their protection.
Kacie Coats did exactly what all public health experts were telling her to do: She got the first coronavirus vaccine available to her.
he 30-year-old Texas resident was inoculated against COVID-19 with a single Johnson & Johnson shot on March 31, at the first appointment she could get.
“It was, like, when everybody was in the mad dash trying to get appointments and we were told just to get the first available vaccine. So I kind of trusted that it would be good enough,” she says. Then, she began to have doubts. She began reading studies on the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which uses similar technology to J&J’s vaccine, on the delta variant.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-07-01/reports-of-some-getting-pfizer-moderna-boosters-after-j-j-vaccine-prompts-calls-for-more-guidance
America’s largest teachers’ union to vote on mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, masks and testing for students
FOX News
The National Education Association, America’s largest teachers’ union, is holding a vote on requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, masks and testing for students before classes return in the fall.
The new business meeting action item submitted by 50 delegates is “awaiting debate” on the NEA’s website.
The action item calls for “mandatory safe and effective COVID-19 vaccinations and testing for all students and staff before returning to face-to-face instruction in the fall, subject to medical exceptions, in accordance with existing law, and will widely publicize this position via social media.” Corey DeAngelis, national director of research at School Choice Now, first highlighted the action item on Twitter.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.foxnews.com/us/national-education-association-vote-vaccines-masks-students
Let’s hold off vaccinating children and teens against COVID-19. Prioritising adults is our best shot for now
The Conversation
Eighteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, some countries that have achieved high vaccination coverage in adults have started vaccinating adolescents aged 12-15.
Drivers to vaccinate children and adolescents include building confidence to open schools, preventing severe disease, and reducing transmission in all ages to achieve “herd immunity”.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://theconversation.com/lets-hold-off-vaccinating-children-and-teens-against-covid-19-prioritising-adults-is-our-best-shot-for-now-162765.
Cowboys’ Dak Prescott won’t reveal vaccination status, says people should ‘educate themselves’ on what’s best
FOX News
“For me I think it’s important just for everybody to educate themselves on the reason of why to get vaccinated”
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott declined to say if he has received the COVID-19 vaccine this week, adding that he believes people should “educate themselves” on what’s best for them.
Prescott, 27, is the latest player in the league to take a similar approach toward the vaccine, telling KXAS in an interview on Tuesday that he doesn’t want to sway anyone either way.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://www.foxnews.com/sports/cowboys-dak-prescott-vaccination-status-educate-themselves
Follow the science: ‘Deadly’ Delta variant registers a 99.9+% recovery rate
The Dossier
You wouldn’t know it by following the corporate press and the usual suspects who traffic in endless amounts of COVID Mania fear mongering, but the actual data on the much hyped Delta variant (sometimes referred to as the Indian variant) that you keep hearing about doesn’t fit the “deadly” virus narrative that is being advertised to the public.
Don’t take it from me. Here’s the data straight from the U.K. government, which is tracking this mutation as sporting a case fatality rate of 0.1%.
Now, a case fatality rate (CFR) is many times higher than the actual death rate (infection fatality rate, or IFR), because the vast majority of COVID-19 cases go undetected. Through my previous reporting, I’ve found that the World Health Organization runs its numbers based on the estimate that 1 in 20 cases are detected, while the CDC bases its estimates on a 1 in 10 ratio.
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > https://dossier.substack.com/p/follow-the-science-deadly-delta-variant
‘Pro-Science’ Mom Enrolls Kids In Pfizer CV Vax Trial, 12-Yr-Old Daughter Suffers ‘Severe’ Reactions
Information Liberation
A “pro-vaccine and pro-science” mom who signed her kids up for Pfizer’s experimental mRNA covid vaccine trial in December told Senator Ron Johnson at a public hearing on Monday that her 12-year-old daughter suffered “severe” reactions to the shot and had to be hospitalized for months.
“On January 20th, Maddie received her second dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine as a participant in the clinical trial for 12 -and -15-year-olds,” Cincinnati mom Stephanie de Garay said. “All three of our kids volunteered and were excited to participate in the trial as a way to help us all return to normal life. My husband works in the medical field and I have a degree in electrical engineering. We are pro-vaccine and pro-science — which is why we agreed to let Maddie and her two older brothers volunteer for the trial.”
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE > http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62340
Dynamic Governance (aka Sociocracy) – A zoom session from RiseUpNH Featuring Paul Kervick [A worthy view -CJD]
RiseUpNH
Featuring Paul Kervick from Vermont (www.vitallivingvt.com), a Dynamic Governance (aka Sociocracy) advocate. Paul has many years of experience using this consent-style (not strictly “consensus”) decision-making process in real-world organizations. DG ensures everyone’s voice is heard, and that no majority or minority comes to dominate groups which are seeking to organize to meet the needs of their communities. This hearkens back to the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy and the way they engaged in group decisions, which had a profound impact on the development of our country’s founding documents.
VIEW VIDEO HERE > https://www.brighteon.com/f349e68c-be16-46af-94a2-5033f114f99f