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gfp: A very frustrating drop for sure. The market appears to respond to anything the Fed SAYS, but the Fed never does what it says it might do....which is raise interest rates. And it can't. If they raise interest rates the US Budget gets blown to smithereens as they try to roll over that close to $30 Trillion debt, the largest portion of which is held in shorter term Treasury instruments. Raising rates would also stifle the housing market, hurt current bond investors, and tank the stock market rendering lots of pension funds (public and private) insolvent. So the Fed is paralyzed. They jawbone and change nothing. We are full blown into Modern Monetary Theory....we maintain our current level of consumption with money printed out of thin air. It's never worked before in recorded history. It won't work this time either. I have no doubt gold and silver will have their day in the sun when reality strikes. I anticipated that reality would intervene by now, but I have no choice but to hang tough. And Rinear has not mentioned the causes or causes of the drop last week. Maybe he will later today in the weekend issue of his newsletter.
Gold Will Go Down When This Happens…
Everyone says gold will go down when interest rates go up. I say, gold will go down when interest rates go up IF interest rates go up due to economic growth. However, IF interest rates go up due to inflation, gold will go up. Note mid 70s-80s when rates were 10%+, gold soared.
Vin, In addition to the cellular immunity/CTL topic, I'd be interested in your take on the anti-viral therapeutics landscape, especially as it relates to Covid.
One I've been following loosely for some years is a new 'biomimetic' approach that mimics the body's own innate defensin protein system. Currently in Phase 2 trial for Covid, with data due Aug/Sept timeframe.
Brilacidin not only works against bacteria like MRSA, but also as a broad spectrum anti-viral. A big plus is that by mimicking the body's defensin protein system, the odds of bacterial or viral resistance developing should be extremely small -
Brilacidin -
Backround -
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=165282745
Bigworld, A nasty smackdown for gold/silver today. Just curious if your sources like Bob Rinear reported any signs of central bank suppression? Thanks.
The dollar had a pretty big bounce today, but this drop in gold seemed suspicious imo. Every time gold starts to get some mojo back, there is a violent reversal. After the big April/May runup, it was threatening to move back to 2000, and got nailed in mid-June. Then the same thing in July, a recovery and now a smackdown. You could see the same pattern last Nov, and then in Jan this year.
Pretty demoralizing for longs, but I guess that's the point of active price suppression. The Fed/central banks want higher inflation, but they don't want it reflected in the gold price, at least not now/yet.
Axsome's PDUFA date with FDA is Aug 22 -
Fwiw, I went long with a modest position (50 shares). The odds look good for approval (Aug 22), and AXSM has a packed late stage pipeline, so stock seems cheap -
>>> 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Trading at Steep Discounts
TipRanks
August 2, 2021
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-strong-buy-stocks-trading-142616588.html
How do you define a stock market opportunity? Is it a windfall, a piece of luck, or the result of careful planning, a strategy to make the most of any opening? The savvy investor seeks out the latter, looking for stocks that offer inducements to entry, be it a high upside or a depressed share price or a recent positive analyst review – or better yet, a combination of all three.
So there’s a profile. We’ve used the TipRanks database to look up three stocks that fit it – stocks with Strong Buy consensus ratings, plenty of upside potential, and recent thumbs up from the analyst corps. And, while these stocks have plenty of positives in the profile, each one has also seen steep share price losses in recent weeks. Let's take a closer look.
Axsome Therapeutics (AXSM)
We’ll start with Axsome, a biopharma research company working on new medication therapies for diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). Axsome’s target conditions currently have limited treatment options – and also have a deep potential patient base. The company is researching medications with ‘novel mechanisms of action’ as a way to transform the approach to CNS treatment. The company is investigating treatments for a varied range of conditions, from Alzheimer’s, to fibromyalgia, to severe migraines, to depression.
Axsome currently has four drug candidates in the development pipeline. The leading candidate, AXS-05, is a multimodal treatment, developed to treat major depressive disorder, Alzheimer’s-related agitation, and smoking cessation. The depressive disorder track, for which AXS-05 has a breakthrough therapy designation, is farthest along – the New Drug Application has been submitted, and the FDA has given a PDUFA target date of August 22 this year. If approved, the company plans to launch commercially in 4Q21. On the Alzheimer’s track, AXS-05 is currently undergoing the Phase 3, double-blind ACCORD study. Enrollment is currently ongoing.
The next big update for the company is planned NDA submission for AXS-14, a new treatment for fibromyalgia. This drug candidate has completed two trials, a Phase 2 with 267 patients and a Phase 3 with 1,122 patients, both with positive results. Data from the trials will be included in the NDA submission, which is planned for Q4 of 2022.
Finally, Axsome has AXS-7 as a migraine treatment. This candidate has demonstrated effective pain relief in patients within two hours of dosing, and has a potential patient base of 37 million. The company has an NDA in preparation for this drug candidate, and hopes for approval next year.
The pipeline is the key point here, and Berenberg’s Esther Hong bases her Buy rating on the potential of AXS-05 as a treatment for major depressive disorder.
“We are bullish on the prospects and see a potential commercial launch in Q4 2021. Second, the company expects to submit a new drug application (NDA) with the FDA this quarter for a second product (AXS-07 for the treatment of migraine). Approval could come in 2022. We see opportunity for significant price appreciation over the remainder of the year driven by these key upcoming catalysts with longer-term upside from a robust pipeline,” Hong opined.
The analyst added, "We are bullish on the prospects for AXS-05 in MDD due to 1) its robust efficacy in treating depression as a result of its novel mechanism of action [MOA]; 2) the speed of efficacy compared to traditional antidepressants; and 3) a superior safety profile compared to other NMDA antagonist antidepressants..."
Hong puts a $112 price target on the stock, suggesting an upside of 123% for the year ahead. (To watch Hong’s track record, click here)
With a unanimous Strong Buy consensus rating, based on 8 recent reviews, it’s clear that Wall Street agrees with Hong on the potential of this stock. The shares fell in the past year, mainly due to regulator hurdles, but in the Street’s estimation, that has opened up an opportunity. The stock is selling for $50.27 and has an average target of $135.33, indicating room for ~170% upside potential this year. (See AXSM stock analysis on TipRanks)
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Rickards - >>> Stop the Lies
BY JAMES RICKARDS
AUGUST 3, 2021
https://dailyreckoning.com/stop-the-lies/
Stop the Lies
Health officials continue to lose credibility over COVID-19. They seem to change their minds daily based on whim rather than science. But that’s been the case since the pandemic started.
Going back to last January, official comments on COVID have been mostly wrong. The comments were either outright lies or were prescriptions based on politics, not medicine.
In January 2020, the World Health Organization said there was no human-to-human transmission of COVID. They knew better because of data from China, so that was a lie. Dr. Anthony Fauci said there was little risk of COVID coming from China to the U.S. Another lie.
Then, over the course of 15 months, Fauci said not to wear masks, then he said to wear them, then he said you could take them off. Now, he says it’s time to put them on again.
Fauci is an over-the-hill bureaucrat, not a true scientist. His greatest skill has been successfully navigating the Washington swamp for the past four decades. He’s heavily conflicted because he owns patents on inputs to the vaccines.
He also has a lot to hide, because he funded the Wuhan laboratory coronavirus research in the first place. The science is clear that masks don’t work (because the virus is far smaller than the mask weave), and lockdowns don’t work (because people indoors in confined spaces spread the virus faster than people outside who are in motion).
Masks are positively dangerous for children because they force you to breathe your own CO2, which causes dizziness, lethargy, inability to focus and can cause people to pass out. The latest lie is Biden’s call for vaccine mandates for federal workers or weekly testing, masking and distancing.
What Vaccine Mandate?
The White House had repeatedly said there would be no federal vaccine mandates. It’s true that there is no single mandate that applies to all Americans. But there are now hundreds of mini-mandates that add up to the same thing.
Biden’s federal worker mandate covers 4 million federal employees and as many as 4 million federal contractors.
Meanwhile, universities are imposing vaccine mandates on returning students. Large companies like Facebook and Google are imposing vaccine mandates on their workers. New York State has imposed a vaccine mandate on state workers. Sports and entertainment venues are barring anyone who cannot prove they have been vaccinated.
When you add it all up, we’re turning into a society of vaxxed and unvaxxed where the latter are denied the opportunity to work, attend school, go out for a show or sporting event and so on.
“There is no vaccine mandate,” they’ll say. But in reality, the unvaccinated will be treated as second-class citizens who can’t live regular lives or participate fully in society.
Why Are So Many Vaccinated People Getting Sick?
This is all over so-called vaccines that are really experimental gene modification treatments with dangerous side effects and limited efficacy since many vaccinated individuals are now being infected again. The vaccines won’t stop you from getting the virus or from spreading it.
In one Massachusetts town, for example, 74% of new cases have already been vaccinated. Data from overseas is even more revealing since many countries report new cases daily, which doesn’t allow for the type of data manipulation U.S. health agencies often engage in.
In Israel, about 85% of adults over 30 are fully vaccinated. Over 90% of those above 60 are fully vaccinated. But Israel is experiencing a dramatic rise in new cases. The number of serious cases has increased about 10 times since the beginning of July. Importantly, the vast majority are vaccinated.
The data reveal that rates of severe cases among the vaccinated are currently as high as the unvaccinated’s rate just two weeks ago.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, warns that cases may quadruple within three weeks and that authorities are preparing for new lockdowns (even though lockdowns have proven to be ineffective against stopping the virus).
Most Israelis have taken the Pfizer vaccine, incidentally.
Gene Therapy
But why should these vaccines stop you from getting the virus or from spreading it? Again, these aren’t vaccines in the traditional sense, which introduce weakened or inactive parts of a virus, against which your body produces antibodies.
Instead, these COVID vaccines introduce mRNA (messenger RNA) into your muscle cells. The cells then reproduce the spike protein. These vaccines are, therefore, a form of gene therapy.
Fauci has said that the recent surge in infections is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” that 99% of deaths were unvaccinated. But that’s another lie. The CDC’s own data indicated that 15% of fatalities occurred among the unvaccinated during the period in question. There’s reason to believe the actual figures are higher.
But the demands for universal vaccination continue. The American Medical Association (AMA) has reported that 96% of practicing physicians are fully vaccinated, based on a poll of 300 respondents.
The point is to try to convince those who aren’t vaccinated that if almost all doctors are vaccinated, you should be too. But a separate survey of 700 participants conducted by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) revealed that nearly 60% of respondents said they were not “fully vaccinated.”
Which numbers do you believe are more likely?
Cheap, Effective Therapeutics Are Suppressed
At the same time, health authorities have suppressed cheap, effective therapeutics like Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine that can significantly reduce COVID hospitalizations and deaths. These drugs have been around for decades and are extremely safe.
But the alphabet soup of health agencies says they need more testing before they can be approved. Yet these are the same people who are shoving experimental gene therapy down people’s throats, which were rushed through on an emergency basis without the usual testing that takes years.
Any health professional who cites the benefits of these therapeutics can be banned from social media, despite numerous clinical studies that demonstrate their effectiveness, especially if used in the early stages of illness. They aren’t magic bullets, but the data indicate they provide substantial benefit.
Why are public health authorities so determined to suppress these cheap but effective therapeutics? Well, you might want to follow the money.
The FDA granted emergency use approval for the vaccines. But for the FDA to grant that emergency approval, “no formally approved alternatives” can be available at the time.
If these other therapeutics were deemed effective, the vaccines couldn’t be rushed through on an emergency basis. And a lot of powerful interests stood to profit from the vaccines. They wouldn’t profit from off-patent therapeutic drugs that might cost pennies per pill.
Meanwhile, the push for new lockdowns, universal vaccination and vaccine passports continues.
It’s a Brave New World, and it’s not going away soon.
Regards,
Jim Rickards
for The Daily Reckoning
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Rickards - >>> A Disaster
BY JAMES RICKARDS
AUGUST 2, 2021
https://dailyreckoning.com/a-disaster/
A Disaster
Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department reported second-quarter GDP for the U.S. rose at a 6.5% annualized rate.
From 2009 to 2019 (the recovery from the 2008 global financial crisis), the average annual growth in GDP for the U.S. was 2.2%. So, in comparison with the previous recovery, 6.5% seems like exceptionally strong growth.
Of course, champagne corks were flying at The New York Times and other mainstream media outlets because Q2 output has regained 2019 levels. But the recession was over in April 2020. It’s now August 2021, and they’re celebrating that we’re back to 2019 levels? That’s a pathetic rebound and really nothing to celebrate.
Let’s take a closer look at the numbers…
Less Than Meets the Eye
First, most analysts and media projected the Q2 number to be 7.5% or 8.0%, so it fell below expectations. Second, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta GDPNow tracker for Q2 GDP fell from 13% in April, to 10% in May, and then 7.5% in June.
With allowance for noise, this means that growth weakened considerably over the course of the quarter. It also means if growth was stronger in April and May, and if growth for the quarter overall was 6.5%, then June must have been well below 6.5%. It’s simple math.
That means Q3 is off to a weak start. With the Delta variant of the virus out there, the situation is even worse. Finally, there was some highly troubling data in the fine print that comes along with the headline number.
Imports were healthy because Americans have been on a bit of a buying binge, using government handout checks. But exports were awful, a reflection of the fact that the rest of the world is not doing nearly as well as the U.S. Simply put, foreigners are not buying our goods because they’re in bad shape themselves.
Most dramatically, personal income fell 30% on an annualized basis. This is a measure of private income that does not include government handouts. Most of this 30% drop was based on revisions to prior data, which had been updated by the Commerce Department using more reliable surveys.
Statistical adjustments aside, the bottom line is that private income (both wages and proprietor allocations) has been flat for eight months going back to October 2020.
Not a Recovery, But a Disaster
That’s not a recovery; that’s a disaster. It makes the forecast more dire because one-by-one the government subsidies are running out.
The U.S. economy fell about 35% (annualized) in the first half of 2020 and then staged a strong comeback, rising 33.4% in the third quarter of 2020 with a more modest 4.3% gain in the fourth quarter.
For the full-year 2020, the economy fell by the greatest amount since 1946, but the second-half recovery kept that from being far worse.
Why wasn’t the 2020 economy much worse? The answer is that a huge number of financial rescue programs were put in place, backed up by tens of trillions of dollars of either money printing or deficit spending.
The Fed expanded its balance sheet by over $4 trillion in the immediate aftermath of the collapse. Congress approved trillions of dollars of checks sent directly to the American people. Unemployment benefits were extended and increased. Student loan repayments were deferred. Payroll Protection Plan loans were made to small businesses (and most were later forgiven).
The Gravy Train Has Stopped
But expanded unemployment benefits are mostly done. The Payroll Protection Plan loans are over. No additional checks are going to be mass-mailed, as happened last February and December.
With government handouts mostly over, private income stagnant and exports falling, it’s not clear what will drive GDP growth at all in the second half of 2021. To top it all off, the rent eviction moratorium is over.
One of the most effective and least reported programs was the moratorium on evictions of renters. This was a federal program, although there were many local equivalents.
Once renters knew they could not be evicted, they stopped paying rent. The program was so widespread that 14.7% of all renters in America now owe back rent. That moratorium expired as of last Saturday. What happens next?
It would be one thing if the renters had put the monthly rent money in escrow so that it would be available when the moratorium expired. That’s unlikely to have happened for more than a few of the six million families covered by the program.
A three or four-month moratorium on eviction starting in April 2020 might have made some sense. But running the program for 15 months with no plan for a smooth exit has led to another crack-up for an economy still not up to speed.
Landlords Have Bills to Pay Too
People naturally sympathize with the renters who were affected by COVID. However, little consideration is given to landlords. Many landlords have mortgages and had to pay principal and interest to banks, plus maintenance and property taxes while their tenants were paying no rent.
Now those landlords want to collect the back rent in order to get caught up on their own obligations. Many tenants just don’t have the money. What comes next is a wave of evictions.
This will put an enormous number of Americans out on the street looking for new places to live without much money in their pockets. It could also lead to a depressed housing market in certain cities as a surge of rental properties comes on the market while people are fleeing the cities to move to suburbs or more attractive states like Florida.
This will be one more headwind for the economy, as both tenants struggle with housing costs and landlords struggle with a surplus of property for rent. It’s one more example of the unintended consequences of government intervention.
Of course, the stock market is still in bubble-land and in denial about all of this technical data. That won’t last. The stock market may continue to float for another month or two, but by October, a severe correction may be in the cards as new data make it impossible to ignore reality.
Regards,
Jim Rickards
for The Daily Reckoning
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Pathocracy - >>> A form of government interesting to ponerologists is one they have called pathocracy, in which individuals with personality disorders (especially psychopathy) occupy positions of power and influence.
The result is a totalitarian system characterized by a government turned against its own people. A pathocracy may emerge when a society is insufficiently guarded against the typical and inevitable minority of such abnormal pathology, which Lobaczewski asserts is caused by biology or genetics. He argues that in such cases these individuals infiltrate an institution or state, prevailing moral values are perverted into their opposite, and a coded language like Orwell's doublethink circulates into the mainstream, using paralogic and paramoralism in place of genuine logic and morality.
There are various identifiable stages of pathocracy described by Lobaczewski. Ultimately, each pathocracy is foredoomed because the root of healthy social morality, according to Lobaczewski, is contained in the congenital instinctive infrastructure in the vast majority of the population. While some in the normal population are more susceptible to pathocratic influence, and become its lackeys, the majority instinctively resist.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_ponerology
So -
Democracy - Rule by many
Oligarchy - Rule by few
Plutocracy - Rule by wealthy
Autocracy - Rule by one
Anarchy - Rule by none
Pathocracy - Rule by psychopaths
>>> Dynavax Announces Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results
Yahoo Finance
August 4, 2021
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dynavax-announces-second-quarter-2021-200200653.html
Explore the topics mentioned in this article
- Second quarter 2021 total revenue of $52.8 million, which includes HEPLISAV-B's highest quarterly revenue to date at $13.7 million
- Executed multiple commercial supply agreements for CpG 1018® adjuvant with our COVID-19 vaccine collaborators
- Conference call to be held today at 4:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. PT
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Aug. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynavax Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: DVAX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel vaccines, today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2021.
"Our successful execution in the second quarter of 2021 continued to build on the progress made in 2020. With the combined strength of opportunities from HEPLISAV-B and CpG 1018, we believe 2021 will be a transformational year for Dynavax," commented Ryan Spencer, Chief Executive Officer of Dynavax. "HEPLISAV-B achieved its highest quarterly revenue at $13.7 million and continues to increase market share, which reinforces our belief that it will become the standard of care in the U.S. for adult hepatitis B vaccinations."
Mr. Spencer continued, "Dynavax is also making progress on numerous collaborations for its proven CpG 1018 vaccine adjuvant across multiple indications, including COVID-19, pertussis, and universal flu. Our COVID-19 collaborations have advanced significantly in recent months with the execution of commercial supply agreements with Biological E and Clover Biopharmaceuticals, in addition to the two previously executed agreements with Valneva and Medigen. Multiple partners have reported that they currently intend to apply for emergency or conditional authorization for their COVID-19 vaccines in the second half of 2021. Importantly, these collaborations are generating meaningful revenue for Dynavax, with second quarter CpG 1018 revenue of $39 million. We continue to be excited about each of our partners' clinical programs and believe that the emerging portfolio of product opportunities with CpG 1018 adjuvant has the potential to continue generating meaningful future value for Dynavax."
HEPLISAV-B® [Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant), Adjuvanted]
Net product revenue for HEPLISAV-B was $13.7 million during the second quarter 2021, representing the highest quarterly HEPLISAV-B net sales to date, compared to $2.4 million for the second quarter 2020. This increase was primarily driven by continued success in the field targeted accounts and ongoing progress in national accounts.
Market share in accounts targeted by the field sales team increased to 30%, up from 21% in the second quarter of 2020.
Dynavax and Bavarian Nordic entered into a commercialization agreement for the marketing and distribution of HEPLISAV B in Germany.
CpG 1018® (Advanced Vaccine Adjuvant)
Net product revenue for CpG 1018 adjuvant during the second quarter 2021 was $39.0 million.
Dynavax and Biological E (Bio E) entered into a commercial supply agreement for the use of CpG 1018 adjuvant in the commercial production of Bio E's subunit COVID-19 vaccine candidate, CORBEVAX™. Upon completion of their Phase 2/3 and subsequently emergency use authorization (EUA) India's Union Ministry of Health has reserved 300 million doses of CORBEVAX™.
Dynavax and Clover Biopharmaceuticals entered into a commercial supply agreement for the use of CpG 1018 adjuvant in the commercial production of Clover's COVID-19 vaccine candidate, SCB-2019 (CpG 1018/Alum). In parallel, Clover announced an advanced purchase agreement with GAVI to supply up to 414 million doses of SCB-2019 (CpG 1018/Alum) through 2022 for the COVAX Facility.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) expanded its agreement with Dynavax to provide funding to manufacture CpG 1018 for CEPI's COVID-19 vaccine grantees, increasing total funding under the loan agreement from $99.0 million to $176.4 million to support Dynavax's manufacturing costs.
Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corporation received EUA from the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration and received approval for inclusion in Taiwan's COVID-19 vaccination immunization program for MVC-COV1901, its COVID-19 vaccine adjuvanted with CpG 1018.
Valneva SE reported positive initial results for Part A of the Phase 1/2 clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001 adjuvanted with CpG 1018. Based on the positive results Valneva initiated a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial, which is now fully enrolled. Valneva is also participating in a UK government-funded clinical trial looking at various COVID-19 'booster' vaccines.
Convertible Debt Offering
In May 2020, we issued $225.5 million in aggregate principal amount of 2.50% convertible senior notes due 2026. As of June 30, 2021, the aggregate principal amount of our Convertible Notes was $225.5 million, excluding debt discount of $5.5 million.
A portion of the net proceeds from the offering were used to pay off an existing $190.2 million term loan in full, including the termination payment. In connection with the offering, we also entered into capped call transactions with certain financial institutions that are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution to common stock in certain circumstances, upon conversion of the notes.
This debt refinancing is expected to reduce interest expense by approximately $12.1 million on an annualized basis.
Upcoming Milestones
CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices expected to vote on a universal hepatitis b recommendation for all previously unvaccinated adults in October.
Multiple data readouts from our CpG 1018 COVID-19 collaboration partners with potential for emergency or conditional use authorization by the end of 2021.
Data from Tdap-1018 in the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial, for an improved tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis booster vaccine candidate adjuvanted with CpG 1018 expected in first quarter 2022.
Financial Results
Total Revenue. Total revenues for the second quarter of 2021 were $52.8 million, including $52.7 million of net product revenue, an increase from total revenue for the second quarter of 2020 of $2.7 million.
Product Revenue, Net. HEPLISAV-B product revenue, net was $13.7 million in the second quarter of 2021 compared to $2.4 million in the same period in 2020. CpG 1018 product revenue, net was $39.0 million in the second quarter of 2021 and there was no revenue in the same period in 2020. As CpG 1018 revenues are generally recorded upon shipment to a customer, there may be fluctuations in revenues between quarters as shipments often consist of large-sized batches.
Cost of Sales - Product. Cost of sales - product for the second quarter 2021 increased to $14.8 million, compared to $1.0 million for the second quarter of 2020. The increase was primarily due to manufacturing costs for increased volumes of CpG 1018 and HEPLISAV-B sold to customers.
Research and Development Expenses (R&D). R&D expenses for the second quarter of 2021 increased to $7.2 million, compared to $5.9 million for the second quarter of 2020. The increase is primarily associated with higher headcount and outside services to support vaccine clinical and development activities.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses (SG&A). SG&A expenses for the second quarter of 2021 increased to $21.6 million, compared to $19.0 million for the second quarter of 2020. This increase is primarily driven by compensation and related personnel costs, including non-cash stock-based compensation, associated with higher headcount.
Income (loss) from Operations and Net Income (loss). Income from operations for the second quarter of 2021 was $9.2 million compared to a loss from operations of $23.3 million in the second quarter of 2020. Net income for the second quarter of 2021 was $4.5 million compared to a net loss of $51.6 million for the second quarter of 2020.
Earnings per share. Basic and diluted net income per share were $0.04 and $0.02, respectively, for the second quarter of 2021, compared to basic and diluted net loss per share of ($0.53) and ($0.53), respectively, in the second quarter of 2020.
Cash Position. Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities totaled $345.8 million at June 30, 2021.
Conference Call and Webcast Information
Dynavax will hold a conference call today at 4:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. PT. The live audio webcast may be accessed through the "Events & Presentations" page on the "Investors" section of the Company's website at www.dynavax.com. Alternatively, participants may dial (866) 420-4066 or (409) 217-8237 and refer to conference ID 9970706. A replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days following the live event.
Please see Important Safety Information below.
For more information about HEPLISAV-B, visit http://heplisavb.com.
About Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B is a viral disease of the liver that can become chronic and lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer and death. The hepatitis B virus is 50 to 100 times more infectious than HIV,i and transmission is on the rise. There is no cure for hepatitis B, but effective vaccination can prevent the disease.
In adults, hepatitis B is spread through contact with infected blood and through unprotected sex with an infected person. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends vaccination for those at high risk for infection due to their jobs, lifestyle, living situations and travel to certain areas.ii Because people with diabetes are particularly vulnerable to infection, the CDC recommends vaccination for adults age 19 to 59 with diabetes as soon as possible after their diagnosis, and for people age 60 and older with diabetes at their physician's discretion.iii Approximately 20 million U.S. adults have diabetes, and 1.5 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed each year.iv
About HEPLISAV-B
HEPLISAV-B is an adult hepatitis B vaccine that combines hepatitis B surface antigen with Dynavax's proprietary Toll-like Receptor (TLR) 9 agonist CpG 1018 to enhance the immune response. Dynavax has worldwide commercial rights to HEPLISAV-B.
Important U.S. Product Information
HEPLISAV-B is indicated for prevention of infection caused by all known subtypes of hepatitis B virus in adults age 18 years and older.
Safety and effectiveness of HEPLISAV-B have not been established in adults on hemodialysis.
For full U.S. Prescribing Information for HEPLISAV-B, click here.
Important U.S. Safety Information (ISI)
Do not administer HEPLISAV-B to individuals with a history of severe allergic reaction (e.g., anaphylaxis) after a previous dose of any hepatitis B vaccine or to any component of HEPLISAV-B, including yeast. Appropriate medical treatment and supervision must be available to manage possible anaphylactic reactions following administration of HEPLISAV-B. Immunocompromised persons, including individuals receiving immunosuppressant therapy, may have a diminished immune response to HEPLISAV-B. Hepatitis B has a long incubation period. HEPLISAV-B may not prevent hepatitis B infection in individuals who have an unrecognized hepatitis B infection at the time of vaccine administration. The most common patient reported adverse reactions reported within 7 days of vaccination were injection site pain (23% to 39%), fatigue (11% to 17%) and headache (8% to 17%).
Important EU/EEA Product Information
HEPLISAV B is indicated for active immunisation against hepatitis B virus infection (HBV) caused by all known subtypes of hepatitis B virus in adults 18 years of age and older.
The use of HEPLISAV B should be in accordance with official recommendations.
It can be expected that hepatitis D will also be prevented by immunization with HEPLISAV B as hepatitis D (caused by the delta agent) does not occur in the absence of hepatitis B infection.
For full EU/EEA. Prescribing Information for HEPLISAV-B, click here.
Important EU/EEA Safety information
Do not receive HEPLISAV B if you have had a sudden life-threatening, allergic reaction after receiving HEPLISAV B in the past, or if you are allergic to any of components of this vaccine, including yeast. Signs of an allergic reaction may include itchy skin, rash, shortness of breath and swelling of the face or tongue.
Appropriate medical treatment and supervision should be readily available in case of rare anaphylactic reactions following the administration of the vaccine.
The administration of HEPLISAV B should be postponed in subjects suffering from acute severe febrile illness.
Immunocompromised persons may have a diminished immune response to HEPLISAV B.
Because of the long incubation period of hepatitis B, it is possible for unrecognised HBV infection to be present at the time of immunisation. HEPLISAV B may not prevent HBV infection in such cases.
There are very limited data on the immune response to HEPLISAV B in individuals who did not mount a protective immune response to another hepatitis B vaccine.
As a precautionary measure, it is preferable to avoid the use of HEPLISAV B during pregnancy. Vaccination during pregnancy should only be performed if the risk-benefit ratio at the individual level outweighs possible risks for the fetus.
The most common patient-reported side effects reported within 7 days of vaccination were pain, swelling or redness at the injection site, feeling tired, headache, muscle aches, feeling unwell and fever.
About CpG 1018 Adjuvant
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Bigworld, On the anti-viral front, Brilacidin looks promising. It's a biomimetic that mimics the body's own innate defensin protein system. It not only works against bacteria like MRSA, but also as a broad spectrum anti-viral. A big plus is that by mimicking the body's defensin protein system, the odds of bacterial or viral resistance developing is extremely small.
Brilacidin -
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=165282745
I've been following Brilacidin loosely for over 10 years, when it was first developed at Univ of Penn (Dr. William DeGrado). It's currently in Phase 2 for Covid, with topline data due this month. In addition to some US trial sites, they are also using numerous sites in Russia, and this has the advantage of being out of the FDA's purview so they can't 'deep-six' it if the drug works. Sad that it comes to that, but with Covid, the anti-therapeutic bias is unbelievable, as described by Dr. Peter McCullough -
'For $1/Day'... Double-Blind Ivermectin Study Reveals COVID Patients Recover More Quickly, Are Less Infectious
BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, AUG 04, 2021 - 11:50 AM
A double-blind Israeli study has concluded that Ivermectin, an inexpensive anti-parasitic widely used since 1981, reduces both the duration and infectiousness of Covid-19, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The study, conducted by Prof. Eli Schwartz, founder of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Disease at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, looked at some 89 eligible volunteers over the age of 18 who had tested positive for coronavirus, and were living in state-run Covid-19 hotels. After being divided into two groups, 50% received ivermectin, and 50% received a placebo. Each patient was given the drug for three days in a row, an hour before eating.
83% of participants were symptomatic at recruitment. 13.5% of patients had comorbidities of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, hypertension or cancer. The median age of the patients was 35, ranging from 20 to 71-years-old.
Results
Treatment was discontinued on the third day, and patients were monitored every two days thereafter. By day six, 72% of those treated with ivermectin tested negative for the virus, vs. 50% of those who received the placebo. Meanwhile, just 13% of ivermectin patients were able to infect others after six days compared to 50% of the placebo group - nearly four times as many.
Hospitalizations
Three patients in the placebo group were admitted to hospitals for respiratory symptoms, while one ivermectin patient was hospitalized for shortness of breath the day the study began - only to be discharged a day later and "sent back to the hotel in good condition," according to the study.
"Our study shows first and foremost that ivermectin has antiviral activity," said Schwartz, adding "It also shows that there is almost a 100% chance that a person will be noninfectious in four to six days, which could lead to shortening isolation time for these people. This could have a huge economic and social impact."
The study, which appeared on the MedRxiv preprint server and has not yet been peer-reviewed. That said, Schwartz pointed out that similar studies - 'though not all of them conducted to the same double-blind and placebo standards as his' - also showed favorable results for the drug.
Ivermectin is incredibly cheap due to its widespread use across the world to treat malaria, scabies, lice and other parasitic infections. In Bangladesh, the cost of ivermectin is around $0.60 to $1.80 for a five-day course, according to the report. In Israel, it costs up to $10 per day.
While Schwartz's study showed efficacy among those who had already tested positive, it didn't determine whether ivermectin is an effective prophylactic which could prevent one from contracting Covid-19, nor does it show whether it reduces chances of hospitalization - however Schwartz noted that other studies have shown such evidence.
For example, the study published earlier this year in the American Journal of Therapeutics highlighted that “a review by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance summarized findings from 27 studies on the effects of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection, concluding that ivermectin ‘demonstrates a strong signal of therapeutic efficacy’ against COVID-19.”
“Another recent review found that ivermectin reduced deaths by 75%,” the report said. -Jerusalem Post
As the Post notes, Ivermectin has been actively opposed as a Covid treatment by the World Health Organization, the FDA, and pharmaceutical companies.
The “FDA has not approved ivermectin for use in treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans,” it said.
“Ivermectin tablets are approved at very specific doses for some parasitic worms, and there are topical (on the skin) formulations for head lice and skin conditions like rosacea. Ivermectin is not an antiviral (a drug for treating viruses). Taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.”
Mere discussion of the drug has resulted in big-tech censoring or deplatforming thought leaders in collaboration with the Biden administration.
Meanwhile, Merck Co. - which manufactured the drug in the 1980s, has come out big against the use of ivermectin to treat Covid-19. In February, the company's website read: "Company scientists continue to carefully examine the findings of all available and emerging studies of Ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 for evidence of efficacy and safety. It is important to note that, to date, our analysis has identified no scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies; no meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease, and a concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies."
As the Post points out - Merck has not launched a single study of its own on ivermectin.
"You would think Merck would be happy to hear that ivermectin might be helpful to corona patients and try to study it, but they are most loudly declaring the drug should not be used," said Schwartz.
"A billion people took it. They gave it to them. It’s a real shame."
In closing, the research team writes that "Developing new medications can take years; therefore, identifying existing drugs that can be re-purposed against COVID-19 [and] that already have an established safety profile through decades of use could play a critical role in suppressing or even ending the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic."
"Using re-purposed medications may be especially important because it could take months, possibly years, for much of the world’s population to get vaccinated, particularly among low- to middle-income populations."
gfp: Excellent video. The corruption and rot in this country between Wall Street and Washington DC is so pervasive that I'm not sure the nation can survive. Our best hope is still a national divorce and a decentralization of power away from Washington DC. The capital is not populated by our Representatives, but rather it is run and overrun by our enemies.
Corbett Report - 'Our Leaders are Psychopaths' -
History of how 'The Markets are Rigged' -
gfp: If you don't believe in multiple coincidences.
gfp: Probably a paid shill from the DNC or the President "Depends" administration.
Bigworld, Looks like the term 'Arkancide' will have to be updated and broadened -
>>> Four officers have died by suicide after U.S. Capitol attack
Police confirmed the latest deaths of Kyle DeFreytag, Gunther Hashida
By Tom Howell Jr.
The Washington Times
August 3, 2021
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/3/four-officers-have-died-suicide-after-us-capitol-a/
Four officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during and after the Jan. 6 attack have died by suicide.
D.C. Metropolitan Police on Monday confirmed the death of 26-year-old Officer Kyle DeFreytag on July 10, according to WUSA9.
The officer enforced curfews after attackers inspired by then-President Trump’s call to freeze the electoral vote count beat officers and smashed their way into the halls of Congress.
Police confirmed Officer DeFreytag’s death shortly after confirming that D.C. Officer Gunther Hashida died at his home on Thursday.
“Officer Hashida was a hero, who risked his life to save our Capitol, the congressional community and our very democracy,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday. “All Americans are indebted to him for his great valor and patriotism on January 6th and throughout his selfless service.”
Mrs. Pelosi offered condolences to the DeFreytag family on Tuesday, saying “the loss of fallen officers who defended our democracy that day is devastating, and each life lost is a tragedy that America mourns, deeply.”
The White House also honored the officers.
“Their deaths are a sad reminder of that shameful day in our country’s history and of the physical and mental scars left [on] the officers who risked their lives to protect our Capitol and our democracy,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said their deaths are a “stark reminder of the integral role that mental health plays in our police department.”
“I am grieving their deaths and sending prayers to their families, but most of all, committing to action and remaining steadfast as we continue to make the well-being of all of our officers a top priority,” the mayor said.
Capitol Police in January confirmed that Officer Howard “Howie” Liebengood, 51, died by suicide.
D.C. Officer Jeffrey Smith took his life weeks later.
A House select committee is investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
D.C. Officer Michael Fanone, who was beaten that day, slammed certain GOP members at the first session on July 27.
“The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful,” he said, raising his voice.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican serving on the panel over the objections of GOP leadership, said investigators will take a close look at Mr. Trump’s actions that day and conversations he had with GOP allies.
Another Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, died from a series of strokes the day after the attack.
He engaged with protesters and was pepper-sprayed. The D.C. Medical Examiner concluded the officer’s death was due to natural causes, and there was no evidence his death was a homicide, nor any indication that he suffered internal or external injuries.
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>>> David E. Martin - Covid-19, Vaccinations, and Other Mass Casualty Events <<<
https://kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-347-chatting-with-david-e-martin-about-covid-19-vaccinations-and-other-mass-casualty-events/
Vin, >> I will stop coming here <<
Thank you.
vinmantoo: Looking at the Delta breakout clusters and reports from other countries like Israel it seems to me that getting the mRNA Vaccine does not offer that much protection. Now for those in a high risk pool, like the elderly and the obese (particularly with Type 2 Diabetes) it probably makes logical sense to get vaccinated. For otherwise healthy adults, and especially children and young adults, avoiding the vaccine make sense. It offers little protection from variants. And vaccinated people can still be Covid carriers. There are too many credible reports of myocarditis, especially in young men. The vaccine is an unnecessary risk to that cohort. The death rate for younger people is barely measurable. Knowing what I know now I would avoid getting the Vaccine. And if I had kids I would certainly avoid getting them vaccinated.
The government, which can't be trusted in regard to anything, especially our health, is pushing the vaccines too hard. A backlash is developing all over the globe. You have politicians all over the world imposing lockdowns and mask requirements and trying to pass laws mandated vaccine compliance, while consistently failing to follow the same rules they ant to impose on everyone else. Do you think the 700 or so people at Obama's birthday bash are going to be social distancing and wearing masks except for select photo ops? I'd bet against it. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightweight thinks imposing vaccine requirements and extending mask mandates is fine for the sheeple, but she can attend parties and Lalapalooza with thousands of other people and do it unmasked. Bottom line...if the government is pushing it....I'm doing the opposite,
Vin, We should just drop the topic since neither of us is going to change the other's way of thinking. I'm not obsessed with the vaccine subject, or biopharma in general, and have other sectors that I follow a lot more. I merely wanted to post over on Dew's board the Malone-Weinstein info since it seemed like it was new and important. I had no idea it would strike such a nerve.
A lot of people who grew up in the 1960/70s learned to distrust government agencies, large corporations, etc, and we view things through that lens. I remember the Swine Flu vaccine fiasco from the mid 1970's, learned about the tainted Polio vaccine of the 1950s (contaminated with the SV-40 cancer virus), and the first Hep-B vaccine (pre-Recombivax) which had potential HIV contamination, the Anthrax vaccine coverup, and on and on. Hence I will never trust the vaccine industry. The Covid vaccines are completely experimental, of a brand new type (gene therapy/modification), and did not go through the full clinical trial process. The liability risk has been removed from the pharma companies.
If you want to be their guinea pig, be my guest. I'll stick to minimizing public contact (being retired helps) and using KN-95 masks.
Bigworld, Thanks, Kunstler out-does himself in eloquence once again. Some of his latest gems -
'hebephrenic toxicosis'
'science talking out of its booty-hole'
'Woke-Jacobin derangement'
'Drag Queen Reading Hour'
Lol, except that the Twilight Zone we have entered is increasingly humorless and bleak. Oh well, I figure the hell with it, I'm going to try to enjoy myself anyway :o) Take pleasure in small things, enjoy a walk on the beach, etc.
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOG August 2, 2021
When Things Don’t Add Up
It was only a week ago that the American Medical Association (AMA) declared that the category formerly known as “sex” must be removed from US birth certificates — replaced, one supposes, by a tacit “to-be-determined” status in the great Progressive rush to extract the human race from the animal kingdom. Of course, that’s only one skirmish in the great Woke Jacobin war on the moiling masses who clutter up planet Earth, cramping the style of its transhuman-seeking ubermanagers, Bill Gates, Bezos, Daszak, Zuck, Jack, Elon, Klaus & Company, et al.
But this was the old redoubtable, white-coated AMA, you understand, not some claque of screeching, size-16, “body-positive,” gender-cryptic freshman hopping up and down outside the Yale faculty lounge at the sherry-sipping toffs within. Amateur diagnosticians out there might recognize it as another symptom of the hebephrenic toxicosis infecting America’s elites, especially those who work in realms supposedly based on facts, figures, and the general effort to make sense of life in our mysterious universe.
This national freak-show-of-the-mind might account for the many recent instances of science talking out of its booty-hole, led by its very personification, Dr. Anthony (“The Science”) Fauci, proud papa of SARS-CoV-2 (stage-name: Covid-19), with all its fabulous HIV and monkeypox gain-of-function bells and whistles. Dr. Fauci’s mighty, 20-year effort to bring forth this gift to mankind happens to coincide neatly with the collapse of advanced techno-industrial economies, a frightful condition that was already causing enough trouble in the world before Covid-19 marched in. Some suspect that Covid-19 is a contrived cover for all that, perhaps even an attempt to manage the journey down.
The Covid 19 panic, which has been driving formerly civilized societies crazy for eighteen months, prompted the bringing-forth of The Science’s follow-up project: vaccines to stop the spread of the virus. Enter the scene, these vaxes did, like, a day-and-a-half after Covid-19 pirouetted onstage. Hmmmm. Could someone have been working on those vaxes backstage before the dread virus even premiered? Were patents issued for them pre-dating January, 2020? Seems so. But never mind that for now. The vaxes were rolled out to fanfares over a year ago and those moiling masses of America, the superfluous holders of bachelor’s degrees in Oppression Studies — for whom, sadly, the world had run-out of paying positions — lined up like kids at Santa’s throne in Macy’s on Black Sunday for their Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson jabs. Whew…! That was a close call!
Or was it? Naw, not even close, actually. Since now it turns out that the jabs don’t seem to work that well. The official story got murkier last week when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported internally to staff (it leaked) that “fully vaccinated people might spread the Delta variant at the same rate as unvaccinated people.” Whoopsie…. In a Delta variant outbreak on Cape Cod last month, three-quarters of the infected were fully vaxed-up patients. The story got darker because The New York Times, the usually-reliable mouthpiece for The Science and his allies in “Joe Biden’s” public health bureaucracy, let slip that, “The Delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox and may be spread by vaccinated people as easily as the unvaccinated.”
Wuh-oh…! A worm the size of an Amtrak Acela train has turned in the myocarditic heart of our nation’s capital. Things have changed overnight — didn’t they see it coming? — and now the government is freaking out as it appears to have some serious ‘splainin’ to do — and right on the heels, too, of an hysterical month-long campaign to persuade the remaining unvaxed millions to submit to the needle, climaxed by threatening the obdurate “hesitants” with taking away their employment and ability to participate in commerce and social life. All that sound-and-fury for what? For vaccines that don’t work… and which, quite possibly, could leave you seriously ill, even dead?
There’s one beguiling explanation I’ve heard — from Brandon Smith of Alt-Markets.us, and others — for that hysterical campaign of recent days to jab every last hold-out: the need to eliminate what’s called the “control group,” the bunch of people who, in any drug trial, are given no drug, or a fake shot (like saline), or a placebo (mindfuck agent) to see if the real thing actually works. The desperate effort couldn’t have been more idiotic, since there was no realistic hope of gulling the remaining unvaxed into getting a shot, and the effort only made the “Joe Biden” admin look even more dishonest and despotic.
This could be the beginning of the end for POTUS 46 and the Woke-Jacobin derangement he stole in on. The CDC numbers look so bad now, that Ol’ White “Joe” himself will have to step up to the mic and say something like: “We made a mistake with these vaccines. I hope you will forgive us.” Of course, he absolutely won’t rise to the occasion and say that, no way… and, anyway, the government (and POTUS 46) will not be forgiven because they’ve destroyed millions of livelihoods and tens of thousands of going businesses, and allowed a bunch of cities to get burned and trashed, and city-dwellers to be harassed and attacked by their Antifa/ BLM shock troops, and enabled roughly half the US population not-insane to be terrorized, mau-maued, and insulted by every Woke jape from the Drag Queen Reading Hour to Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 “insurrection” circus — with the janky 2020 election right in the middle.
Speaking of which election, evidence is likely to emerge soon that the numbers really don’t add up. And in a big way. The max-vax campaign may have been an attempted smoke screen for all that trouble coming down the line, but the max-vax move is obviously flopping now. And, by the way, do you suppose that the not-insane half of the nation has failed to notice that upward of half-a million people from other lands (all over the world!), many carrying Covid-19, have been jumping our border with Mexico… and that the US government has deliberately assisted them… and distributed them by bus, and even on airplanes, to distant points all over the USA… and now these government rogues have the nerve to put the squeeze on American citizens to vax up against a virus they are seeding around the country! Is it really too much to declare that this regime has got to go, and go as soon as possible?
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gfp: Yes, to some degree. But SOME attempt to hinder absolute totalitarianism has to be attempted. What is going on now in the Western world and China is appalling. As bad as America is, and the powers that be wish to make it worse, many places in the world are worse. I just read a long but interesting article on Zero Hedge about the unfortunate Craig Murray over in the UK. A former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan he had the temerity to blow the whistle on the use of Uzbekistan by British and American operatives to conduct a regime of torture in our "war" on terror. He was ousted for having the courage to speak the truth. Then he went on to try his hand at independent journalism. He has a website and once again pissed off the USA/UK "intelligence" community by reporting on the weak case against Julian Assange and how our corrupt governments are trying to kill the guy in prison by holding him in inhumane conditions. Too much truth. Too much honesty. So off to jail with him for 19 months. For according to the Scottish courts there are 2 types of journalists. Corporate shills who are granted absolute truth immunity and independent journalists who can be jailed for writing anything the "state" disapproves of. That is totalitarianism. And believe me, if Bozo Biden's handlers (Obama, Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett) could get away with it they'd do the same thing here....in a heartbeat. The elites are losing the consent of the governed. So suppression will be attempted as a last gasp to retain power. It will get ugly.
Vinmantoo, You can continue buying into the mainstream BS vaccine narrative if you want, and I'll continue to be a skeptic.
But as a scientist, where is your scientific skepticism? You didn't try to refute the actual information of Malone-Weinstein-Kirsch or McCullough, but instead try to attack them personally. Resorting to the ad hominem approach indicates that since you can't refute their actual information, you go after their character.
That's weak, but is typical of the current headlong push for a 'vaccine jab in every arm'. Forget the truth or any contrary evidence, just keep jabbing the overpopulated world with the experimental gene modification therapy. Is it just a coincidence that the bioaccumulation data (Dr. Byram Bridle) shows that the cleaved off spike proteins (which aren't 'supposed' to cleave off) are accumulating heaviest in the ovaries? I don't know, but it sure would seem to justify a closer examination.
As a scientist you should know the importance of examining ALL the evidence and data, and not cherry picking and going into it with blinders on and brain in 'switched off' mode.
Vinmantoo, You're right about one thing - when it comes to Covid, a lot of people appear to be 'full of shit'. Like the CDC, FDA, and media. Why are they so afraid of an honest debate on the subject? Why such blatant censorship? 200,000 people were reportedly booted off Facebook. And how about Fauci and the NIH funding Wuhan research, including gain of function?
You can believe what you want, but approx 1/2 of the US population believes very little that comes off the mainstream news. I see you are a scientist, so what is your take on what Dr. Peter McCullough had to say? (link below) There definitely has been an organized suppression of therapeutics and any non-vaccine Covid treatments, and it's also happening in other countries -
>> still highly effective <<
If they're so effective, why did the CDC just reverse course on their mask recommendations? In case you haven't noticed, it's all over the news - vaccinated people are getting and spreading Covid.
I suspected that was the case for weeks from anecdotal evidence from people I know that were fully vaccinated but still getting sick. The vaccines that worked for the previous strains of Covid are losing their efficacy. They are reportedly working on newer vaccines for Delta.
This gfp927z person is flooding message boards with lies and distortions. He or she linked an absurd video where 3 people were trying to convince you that the Covid-19 vaccines are dangerous. There were 3 people. Steve Kirsch, Dr. Brett Weinstein and Dr. Malone.
The first guy, Kirsch knows nothing about biology, virology or vaccines. He is a venture capitalist.
Dr. Brett Weinstein knows nothing about virology or vaccines. He was a professor of biology at a small college.
Whenever these anti-vaxxers like gfp927z cite refer to Dr. Malone, they lie that he developed the mRNA vaccines when he did nothing of the sort. He did some pioneering work in gettin mRNA into mammalian cells. He has nothing to do with ANY of the mRNA vaccines. It has taken some 30 years of work to develop the mRNA vaccines, including altering the mRNA to stabilize it and make it less immunogenic, altering the mRNA motifs that help it bind ribosomes to make translation more efficient, developing new type as of lipids so that the vesicles encapsulating the mRNA are the right size, a small size that required membrane curvature that hadn't been developed before, vesicles efficiently entered cells. Malone wasn't involved in ANY of these essential developments. Saying Malone developed the mRNA vaccines is like saying the Wright Brothers developed supersonic jets because they flew the first powered aircraft.
As far as the wild claims of Malone about the dangers of the Covid-19 vaccines, he has presented ZERO data in any format that is subjected to critical peer review. If Malone has so much data to back up his claims, why hasn't he published it?
Anyone who claims that there has been an organized suppression of Covid therapeutics is full of shit.
Cape Cod - "three-quarters of the infected people had been vaccinated"
>>> Breakthrough cases in Cape Cod cluster raise questions at CDC
Bloomberg
By Travis Andersen and Naomi Martin
July 30, 2021
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/30/metro/provincetown-cluster-played-role-cdc-mask-decision-report-says/?p1=Article_Feed_ContentQuery
Scientists studying the massive COVID outbreak in Provincetown made a startling discovery that fueled the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new masking policy this week: that vaccinated people who become infected can carry as much of the virus as unvaccinated patients.
The CDC findings suggest that vaccinated people could just as easily spread the virus to others. Most of the infections are of the Delta variant, and in Provincetown, where the cluster is now approaching 900 cases, authorities said that three-quarters of the infected people had been vaccinated.
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Bigworld, That author said 'a mouthful'.
I'm checking out his reference to scientist Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel prize for the PCR test. Looks like an interesting character.
Yes, we are definitely living in the Twilight Zone these days. But best to keep things in perspective. In his later years, George Carlin talked about how he had largely disengaging from the world, and came to look at things with detached amusement as an impartial spectator. I guess when it comes to humanity, things have always been, and will always be, screwed up and dysfunctional. It was a miracle we didn't destroy ourselves during the Cold War. Now we have computerized everything, AI, genomics, but still the same beast-like humans, the aspect that will never change. So, try to 'make the best of things' is the logical conclusion.
CASCADE OF CONSEQUENCES
from the Website: The Burning Platform 7/31/2021
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” – George Orwell 1984
“People will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.” – Frank Zappa
Orwell and Zappa’s words of wisdom have never been truer than they are today. The level of untruth proliferated by the government, mainstream media, central bankers, military leaders, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Corp., and billionaire oligarchs has reached prolific heights. We are lost in a whirlwind of lies, destined to grow into a tornado of tragedy and ultimately result in a cascade of consequences.
Since the installation of the illegitimate dementia patient as president of this dying empire of debt by the Deep State (billionaire oligarchs, surveillance state agencies, military industrial complex, Silicon Valley censorship tyrants, corrupt bought off state politicians, Soros installed bureaucrats, and their propaganda arm – fake news media outlets), the country has further fractured into warring factions.
It has been driven by political party, moral vs. immoral, black vs. white, criminals vs. police, normal vs. abnormal, capitalists vs. communists, Federal Reserve vs. the people, vaxxer sheep vs. natural immunity realists, authoritarians vs. freedom fighters, critical thinkers vs. non-thinking believers, privileged elite vs. common men and women, citizens vs. traitors, powerful vs. powerless, and evil versus good.
As Zappa realized, people believe the narrative they have been conditioned to believe, and no quantity of facts, data or rational arguments will change their minds. Arguing on twitter or facebook is not going to change the mind of those you are arguing against. Our public education indoctrination centers have taught multiple generations to feel rather than think, believe rather than question, obey rather than challenge, and allow their minds to be molded by elitists to follow orders and do as they are told, no questions asked.
This organized effort by men constituting a true invisible government has been a conscious, decades long, manipulation of the minds of the masses, through media propaganda, government cultural indoctrination, and most recently through internet social media platforms.
Those in control have achieved astounding success in exploiting the psychological weaknesses of millions of Americans by inducing them to believe absurd falsities, consume on command, become dependent on government handouts, go into debt, work soul crushing jobs, become addicted to the very technology used to manipulate them and surveil them, and believe anything authority figures tell them to believe. The past seventeen months have proven this to be true.
They convinced an enormous portion of the world’s population a non-lethal virus, for anyone under 80 years old in decent health, was such a threat they agreed to be locked down and masked for a year, destroying the global economy, putting tens of millions out of work, bankrupting hundreds of thousands of small businesses, and benefiting authoritarian government tyrants, mega-corporations, and criminal cabal who stole the presidential election for a senile hair sniffing angry gaffe machine functioning as a Trojan donkey (ass) to implement the Build Back Better, new world order WEF plan.
The Davos elite and their henchmen have accomplished more than they probably thought possible, achieving almost universal compliance and obedience to rules and dictates which have proven to be pointless in controlling Covid, but remarkable in controlling the masses. The throngs have demonstrated their willful ignorance and sheeplike qualities by unquestioningly trusting anything their superiors told them and obeying orders like submissive slaves. Those controlling the narrative took the teachings of Edward Bernays to heart and realized repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.
The number of provable untruths conveyed by those running this global psy-op have reached colossal heights of deceit. When trusted medical “experts”, politicians, Hollywood stars, sports heroes, government health apparatchiks, and corporate media all relentlessly repeat the same lies, it is difficult for a dumbed down populace to not believe the official narrative. Anyone who presented factual data to counter the untruths has been immediately censored and disappeared by the Silicon Valley social media tyrants Zuckerberg and Dorsey.
When doctors and journalists, with opinions and views contrary to Saint Fauci and his fawning media minions, are banned from Facebook and Twitter, while a media conspiracy to cover up Hunter Biden’s laptop and documented voting fraud in multiple states is beyond doubt, and an unarmed selfie taking joke of an insurrection where a bunch of boobs were ushered into the Capital by the police has been portrayed as the worse attack than Pearl Harbor or 9/11, you realize your government is controlled by men who are actively working against your best interests. They are acting to make sure you remain enslaved in debt, beholden to token government handouts of money they have already taken from you, and locked down physically, mentally, and socially.
The blatant disregard for truth displayed by our overlords during the last two years is either a sign of utter disdain for the intelligence of the common man or an act of desperation as this global Ponzi scheme of debt, deception and delusion is teetering on the brink of collapse. I do know the Big Lie strategy has been utilized at a level of zeal monumental in scope and shameful in application against the citizens of this nation and the world.
I will try to document some of the more egregious falsehoods being perpetuated by those attempting to control the narrative and accomplish their goal of world domination, complete control over our lives, and accumulation of massive wealth, while we will own nothing and be happy. The execution of their plan has been virtually flawless until now.
I’ll address the numerous lies related to the plandemic, where the weaponization of relatively non-lethal flu to anyone under 80 years old not tipping the scales at 275 pounds has been used to steal a presidential election; destroy hundreds of thousands of small businesses while shifting the profits to mega-corps like Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target; created division and suspicion among the population making them easier to manipulate and control; effectively implemented authoritarian measures and mandates, putting a final nail in the coffin of our Constitutional rights; unleashed the power of a corporate fascist social media censorship regime designed to silence the truth and punish those who do not comply with the approved narrative; and creating perpetual unfounded fear among the masses in order to make them obey all orders from their oligarch controllers.
One of the biggest lies from the outset has been about masks. All guidance from renowned health organizations prior to 2020, and backed up with scientific studies, unequivocally stated masks DO NOT protect you from viruses. Fauci, the Surgeon General and head of the CDC were not lying in March 2020 when they told the American public masks do not stop the spread of the virus. They have been lying ever since. The manufacturers of the masks even put a warning on the box that they do not work in preventing the spread of Covid-19.
The two charts below prove the point, and I could present fifty more charts from around the world showing the same results. Japan, the most masked country on earth, even when there isn’t a pandemic, was widely lauded early in the pandemic for stopping the spread with masks. Somehow, with 96% mask compliance, they experienced a massive surge in cases in January, another surge in May/June, and now a new surge, just like everywhere. Masks prevented nothing. They are useless against all viruses.
That brings us to the left-wing media whipping boy – Sweden. As the only developed country on earth to not lockdown, close schools, or require masks, they are truly the control group. The NYT, Washington Post and every other left wing fake news outlet wrote numerous fear mongering articles about the disaster in Sweden. They experienced the same exact pattern of cases as every other country in the world, with a surge in April/May 2020 and January 2021.
Their death rate per million people is the 21st highest in the world, with the UK, U.S., Spain, France, and Mexico recording far worse rates despite lockdowns and mask mandates. What becomes self-evident from the graph is they are not experiencing a surge from the Delta variant. Their vaccination rate is in the mid 30% range and virtually no one wears a mask. They have had ZERO deaths “with” covid in the last week. Previously infected people are not catching the Delta variant, while vaccinated people are. It sure looks like Sweden has achieved herd immunity with no lockdowns, masks, or mass vaccinations. But don’t expect the left wing media or Fauci to applaud their undeniable success.
The powers that be are now invoking mask mandates once again. Data and facts are meaningless to these totalitarian tyrants. The masks have never been about safety or stopping the spread. We’ve never been in this together. The point of the masks has been control. They wanted to sow distrust among the masses as nothing but disease spreading parasites. They want to dehumanize us.
They don’t want like-minded people getting together and realizing they are being screwed by their leaders. They want you holed up in your basement, frightened of a flu with a 99.7% survival rate. Smiles don’t exist when you are masked. Giving miserable lonely cat lady Karens a purpose in life is designed to sow discontent, anger, and division. We all become faceless sheep being corralled, shorn, and ultimately sacrificed at the altar of the Build Back Better New World Order.
Again, I could use fifty other charts proving lockdowns did not and do not work, but this chart of the permanently locked down continent of Australia will suffice. The dictatorial lockdowns across Australia didn’t work last July and August, as cases soared, and they have been entirely unnecessary since. A country with 26 million people has recorded less than 5 deaths with Covid since last October. Because the 7- day average of cases (not sick people) in Sydney has “skyrocketed” to 100 (with 1 death of an 80-year-old), the entire city has been locked down.
The propaganda media supports this ridiculous overreach with hyperbolic headlines about super spreader events. At least a portion of their population is fed up and their protests have begun to get violent, clashing with police thugs ordered to silence the discontent. Lockdowns are not for the purpose of keeping you safe. Their purpose is to keep the authoritarian politicians safe, while enriching their corporate and banking benefactors. These politicians and bureaucrats are being bought off to do the bidding of the true masters of the universe – the billionaire class.
This brings us to the big lie about vaccines. It seems both the left and right are in on the vaccine lie. The first lie is this gene altering concoction is actually a vaccine. A vaccine is supposed to trigger your immune system and provide immunity from a disease. This supposed vaccine does nothing of the sort. The polio vaccine didn’t lessen the polio symptoms, it eliminated polio as a disease. The smallpox vaccine didn’t lessen smallpox symptoms, it eradicated smallpox. These covid vaccines were sold to the public as the cure for covid. The CDC’s own website says the vaccine was supposed to keep you from getting the virus. Fact Check – FALSE!!!
Despite the misinformation being promulgated by Dementia Joe and his White House sycophants, vaccinated people are getting covid, being hospitalized, and dying with covid. The vaccine worshipers declared that no one said it was full proof, because its effectiveness was 95%. Of course, there would be a few breakthrough cases. It appears we have a more than a few. The data from Israel, the most vaxxed country on the planet, is proving these “vaccines” to be virtually worthless.
Over 80% of new cases are among the vaxxed and the effectiveness of the vaccines are clocking in at 39%, just a smidge lower than the 95% from the doctored trials. The cognitive dissonance of the vaxxed, rationalizing their stupidity by flailing about with new reasons for why the vaxx works as advertised is fascinating to observe. Just like Zappa said, you cannot change people’s minds, even when their decisions have proven to be asinine.
Now the story-line has changed to it reduces the symptoms and keeps you from being hospitalized or dying. Another Big Lie. The narrative is now 99% of the cases are among the unvaccinated. Untrue once again. They are purposely not testing the vaxxed, but still the data is rolling in day after day of the vaxxed catching covid, being hospitalized and dying. In addition, all the paid off medical “experts”, sports figures, Hollywood stars, and social media influencers appear in the never-ending vaccine marketing blitz commercials, subsidized with your tax dollars, telling you how safe and effective these jabs are. Another huge lie. The VAERS database, which is likely under-counting by a factor of at least three, has recorded 500,000 adverse reactions, 50,000 serious injuries, and over 11,000 deaths from the vaccines.
When the swine flu vaccine killed several people, it was immediately pulled by the FDA as too dangerous. Despite this experimental gene therapy killing and maiming thousands, while not providing the advertised immunity, the powers that be are ramping up the fear volume to 11 in order to sell this Big Pharma profit bonanza (with zero liability for the deaths and injuries caused by this toxic brew) to the public. They have even bought off Republican governors, senators, and the Fox news shills through threats of de-funding or promises of compensation (aka bribes).
They are laboriously ramming the jab as essential for teenagers down out throats, with the assistance of woke leftist university administrators demanding compliance to attend classes. Virtually no one under the age of 19 has died “with” covid in the last 17 months, as the CDC’s own statistics show. The proliferation of myocarditis in young men after getting the jab is being suppressed by the media vaccine complex.
Teenagers have a greater risk of dying from the jab than covid, but their brainwashed willfully ignorant parents are sacrificing them up to the altar of Big Pharma profits. And none of this considers the unknown long-term effects from this emergency use authorized, non-FDA approved brew. World renowned doctors, including the inventor of the mRNA treatment, have declared young people should not get the jab. The risks far outweigh the benefits.
This leads us to the lies required to allow these EUA “vaccines” to be used in the first place. The FDA is only supposed to allow emergency use of non-approved drugs if there are no other treatments deemed capable of providing the same level of success in treating the disease. It was known very early in this scamdemic both ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, safe, cheap, and effective drugs, both drastically reduced the symptoms of this flu. Scientific studies and papers were issued.
Many doctors began writing about their effectiveness and life-saving qualities. Even Trump was touting them. Suddenly, the Silicon Valley social media tyrants began censoring doctors, studies, or anyone daring to put forth facts about these cheap, plentiful, safe drugs. Trump stopped talking about them. Only the vaccines could save us. Doctors and hospitals were paid to shut up and deny writing prescriptions for these drugs. There was no money to be made prescribing these life-saving drugs.
How many lives could have been saved if these supposed “do no harm” physicians had not bowed down to Fauci and his Big Pharma co-conspirators. It’s always been about the Benjamins and Fauci has been the Liar-in-Chief during this plandemic, reaping the accolades from the vaccine rollout, keeping the fear flowing, and covering up his role in funding the creation of this virus in the Wuhan bioweapon lab. There are no coincidences when it comes to this engineered and weaponized pandemic. Was it a coincidence Gates, Fauci and Schwab conducted the Event 201 pandemic simulation in October 2019, three months before this bio-engineered virus was released into the world?
Why were Moderna patents for their vaccine obtained before the pandemic began? Why do Fauci and his NIH cronies have financial interests in Moderna? When will Fauci be brought to justice for funding the gain of function research at the Wuhan lab, as he continues to lie to Congress, despite documented proof of his guilt. This troll-like creature is a global mass murderer still lauded by the fake news media and treated like a holy figure by mindless liberal twits across the land. The sheep will bleatingly line up for their Pfizer booster shot, because three must be better than two. The only boost will be to Pfizer’s hundreds of billions of vaccine profits.
Now the latest Big Lie has been revealed, well after the damage has been done. Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of the PCR test, had this to say about its use and Fauci:
“The PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody. Those guys have got an agenda which is not what we would like them to have, being that we pay for them to take care of our health in some way. They have a personal kind of agenda. They make up their own rules as they go; they change them when they want to. And they (are smug)—like Tony Fauci does not mind going on television in front of the people who pay his salary and lie directly into the camera.”
His test was misused by Fauci and his financially motivated cohorts across the medical industrial complex to create a global casedemic, by measuring at greater than 35/40 cycles, creating the illusion of a pandemic by producing a huge number of false positives. As CNN and the rest of the propaganda spewing media outlets provided second by second case counts to frighten the masses into lockdown and mask compliance, only a tiny fraction of these cases were actual sicknesses.
There were critical thinking, rational medical professionals, journalists, and bloggers who argued the test was not accurately measuring the level of sickness in the world. The corporate media gave them no platform to speak, and the social media Big Brother entities censored and banned any discussion about the worthlessness of the PCR test and the level of false positives.
If the test had been conducted at 28 cycles, it would have ruined their agenda of removing Trump, destroying the economy, frightening the sheep into mass compliance, and furthering their Build Back Better New World Order. The moment Biden was installed as president, the guidance from the CDC on the PCR test was reduced from 35/40 to 28 cycles. They needed the case counts to drop to make it look like the vaccine was working. There was a narrative to peddle to the plebs.
Now, the vaccines are being revealed to be ineffective and dangerous. In a shocking development (not), late on a Friday night, the FDA put out a little alert that the PCR test is a complete failure and will be pulled from the market. It seems it accomplished its purpose of stoking mass global panic, and now that vaxxed people are testing positive in tremendous numbers, it has outlived its usefulness. And Fauci and his band of incompetent medical “professionals” won’t even blink or admit their devastatingly disastrous mistake of using a faulty test to shut down the entire planet.
Despite all these lies being revealed, the gullible, sheep-like masses breathlessly await the new proclamations and dictates from Fauci and the rest of the medical frauds dancing to the tune of Big Pharma, Gates, Soros, and Schwab. The narrative has devolved into renewed lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine passports, and blaming the unvaxxed healthy people for the “surge” in cases (still 80% below January and 30% below April).
Despite over a year of factual data proving lockdowns and masks do not work, they demand compliance. Despite the fact vaxxed zombies’ contract and spread the virus, they insist on vaccine passports, which would be useless other than as a further control mechanism over the masses.
And lastly if the PCR test is entirely useless, according to the FDA, the surge in “cases” proclaimed by the politicians and compliant media mouthpieces, is a worthless data point and means nothing. What we do know is the entire U.S. is experiencing about 250 deaths per day “with” covid and the vast majority are over 80 with five co-morbidities. This is 93% below the January peak, 60% below the level in May, and 20% below the level in June. For some perspective, 400 people die each day from strokes and 1,650 die each day from cancer in the U.S. This fading faux pandemic is a nothing burger, with a side of fear mongering, and a dessert of permanent lockdowns.
They have pushed their agenda too far and too fast. The UK, France, Italy and Australia have tried to cross a bridge too far. Their totalitarian lockdowns, mandatory vaccine passport schemes, and generally treating their citizens like cattle has begun to backfire. Violent protests are taking place around the globe against the despotic tyranny of their elected leaders. The psychological manipulation and mass media propaganda worked for over a year. They took their foot off the gas by relaxing lockdowns and mask mandates but think their diabolical heavy-handed schemes will work again amid this faux delta variant charade.
The controllers’ hubris has led them to believe their Bernaysian propaganda mind manipulation techniques will work just as well the 2nd time around. As the mass protests attest, there are millions not buying what they are selling anymore. They want their freedom back. It wasn’t a majority that threw the British tea into the Boston Harbor. It was an irate tireless minority who set the brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. The smell of revolution is in the air.
Orwell’s fiction has become an instruction manual for our Big Brother overlords. He understood what power meant to these evil men. They are trying to remake the world by tearing everything apart and remaking it to their benefit.
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your choosing.” – George Orwell
The cascade of consequences created by those wielding power across the globe have only just begun. Their boldness in implementing a plan of global control where we will own nothing, eat bugs, be electronically surveilled 24/7, depend on government for an electronically delivered living stipend, be stripped of our rights to free speech, armed defense, and privacy, while living under constant fear of armed government thugs busting down our doors because we committed thoughtcrime, has rendered them recklessly arrogant.
Despite all their efforts to censor and suppress the truth, the internet is too vast and uncontrollable to shut down – unless this was the true purpose of Schwab’s recent Cyber Polygon simulation. As truth tellers across the world have begun to gain some traction, Huxley’s quote becomes more pertinent.
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.” – Aldous Huxley
People are getting mad. Those in power want us to direct our anger at each other. They want the vaxxed fighting the non-vaxxed, blacks fighting whites, citizens fighting immigrants, men fighting women, young fighting old, and the country fighting Russia and China. What the oligarchs do not want is our ire to be focused on them. But they have pushed the people too far. The top 1% of Americans own $42 trillion of wealth, 16 times as much as the bottom 50%, with most of that wealth concentrated among a few hundred families. This is not accidental. It’s part of their plan. This pillaging campaign is aided and abetted by their puppets at the Federal Reserve. And this is not reserved for just America. Europe is equally controlled by the few.
The consequence of their traitorous deeds is pointing towards civil chaos and global conflict – as anticipated in the later stages of a Fourth Turning. The protests arising across the globe are just the beginning. The way to chip away at their power is mass non-compliance to their mandates and individual acts of heroism, which will inspire more people to resist. Mocking and ridiculing the oligarchs and their minions will contribute to their decline in status. Boycotting corporations and entities supporting the narrative weakens their sway. Shunning those supporting the establishment, whether they be family, friends, or coworkers, will be essential in shifting the balance of power.
Most people have proven to be followers. We need to shift the narrative to the point where they begin following the truth tellers. The enemy have the wealth, power of the media, and politicians in their pockets. They think they have the police and military, but videos of the police joining the protestors in Italy, offer hope they may turn on the oligarchs. They have families at risk too. Our freedom and our future hang in the balance. Critical independent thought, courage, and fortitude in the face of tremendous adversity will be essential in defeating these global tyrants who think of you as a parasite to be crushed under their boot. Remember Carlin’s first rule. Don’t believe anything your government tells you. It’s all lies.
Bigworld, Check out this May interview with Dr. Peter McCullough about the blatant organized suppression of Covid therapeutics, not just in the US but globally. Every treatment is being actively suppressed big time, except the experimental vaccines (which are actually a type of gene therapy/modification).
McCullough says numerous times that 'something is up', the inference being that something suspicious and/or nefarious is going on, and not just in the US -
When Society Collapses, Will The US Be One Of The Best Places To Be Located?
FRIDAY, JUL 30, 2021 - 08:20 PM
Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,
On some level, we all know that it is just a matter of time before our society implodes. When that day finally arrives, where will you want to be living? I know that most of you have thought about this at some point. Even if we don’t admit it to others, most of us have spent at least a little bit of time thinking about worst case scenarios. Our world is getting a little bit crazier with each passing day, and that was definitely true today. We are cruising down a highway that doesn’t lead anywhere good, and it won’t be too long before the wheels start coming off. When the music finally stops and everyone is scrambling to find a chair, where will you be located?
Earlier today, I was surprised to learn that a scientific study was recently conducted to determine the best place to live during a global societal collapse.
According to that study, the best place to live when our world goes completely haywire will be New Zealand…
New Zealand, Iceland, the UK, Tasmania and Ireland are the places best suited to survive a global collapse of society, according to a study.
In recent years, New Zealand has become extremely popular with the elite. Many wealthy individuals have gobbled up properties in prime locations in anticipation of what is coming.
I used to recommend New Zealand too, but after what I have witnessed during this pandemic I can no longer do that. The top politicians in New Zealand have shown that they are authoritarian control freaks, and at this point I am urging everyone to avoid the country.
One thing that you will notice about the top five names on the list is that they are all islands. Having the natural protection of the ocean is definitely a desirable thing, but being close to shore also makes you vulnerable to tsunamis and rising sea levels.
Of course no place is perfect. Wherever you live, there are going to be certain risks.
The researchers that conducted this study said that a number of different factors were used to come up with the final results…
To assess which nations would be most resilient to such a collapse, countries were ranked according to their ability to grow food for their population, protect their borders from unwanted mass migration, and maintain an electrical grid and some manufacturing ability. Islands in temperate regions and mostly with low population densities came out on top.
When they were asked about the United States, the researchers said that the inability of the U.S. to prevent mass migration pushes it just out of the top 5…
That’s because its giant land borders make it vulnerable to migration from people who would be trying to escape climate disasters in their own countries: Think streams of people pouring over the southern border from Mexico or the northern border from Canada, for instance.
Still, the U.S. would have fallen somewhere just out of the Top 5, the researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K. told DailyMail.com.
Unfortunately, I believe that there are other factors which need to be considered which should push the U.S. way down the list.
For example, during the riots of 2020 we clearly witnessed the potential for widespread civil unrest in this country. Major cities were burning from coast to coast last summer, and since that time we have been experiencing an unprecedented spike in violent crime.
So when things really start falling apart, I would strong recommend avoiding any of our core urban areas.
>>> COVID linked to cognitive decline, acceleration of Alzheimer’s-like symptoms, research finds
CNN
July 30, 2021
By Lauren Mascarenhas
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/29/covid-linked-to-cognitive-decline-acceleration-of-alzheimers-like-symptoms-research-finds/
Covid-19 may be associated with cognitive decline and acceleration of Alzheimer’s-like symptoms, researchers reported Thursday.
Researchers with an international consortium looking to understand the long-term consequences of Covid-19 on the central nervous system are finding memory issues and biological markers similar to those seen in Alzheimer’s disease patients. Both diseases have been marked by inflammation of the brain.
Dr. Gabriel de Erausquin, a professor of neurology at the University of Texas Health Science Center, and colleagues studied more than 200 adults 60 and older from Argentina who were infected with Covid-19.
Those who had a persistent loss of smell were more likely to experience cognitive issues, they told the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.
Three to six months after they were infected, more than half of the patients still struggled with forgetfulness and about a quarter experienced additional cognitive challenges. How sick a patient was with Covid-19 was not an indicator of whether they would experience cognitive decline.
“The severity of the initial disease does not predict who is going to get this,” Erausquin told CNN. “In fact, many of them had minimal symptoms — just a cold or loss of smell.”
The cognitive issues –including persistent forgetfulness, difficulty sequencing tasks, and forgetting words and phrases — are similar to those seen in Alzheimer’s patients. Erausquin noted that the parts of the brain responsible for sense of smell overlap with those impacted by Alzheimer’s disease.
He noted that the cognitive symptoms his team observed appear to be distinct from the “brain fog,” associated with long-term symptoms of Covid-19, sometimes seen in younger patients.
“Brain fog in younger individuals has a different flavor, if you will,” Erausquin said. “They have more attentional problems, more concentration problems, and frequently have more anxiety and depression.”
It’s too soon to tell whether the cognitive issues will worsen over time — as they would in Alzheimer’s patients — or if these patients will recover, Erausquin said.
Biological Markers linked to Alzheimer’s
In additional research presented at the conference, Dr. Thomas Wisniewski, a professor of neurology at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, and colleagues found that Covid-19 patients over the age of 60 had biological blood markers also found in Alzheimer’s patients.
Among 310 Covid-19 patients admitted to New York University Langone Health, the team found that those with neurological symptoms had higher levels of biomarkers linked to Alzheimer’s. Those biomarkers include a protein called tau that’s been linked with Alzheimer’s and other compounds known as neurofilament light — an indicator of damage to nerve cells — and others.
“These findings suggest that patients who had COVID-19 may have an acceleration of Alzheimer’s-related symptoms and pathology,” Wisniewski said in a statement.
Wisniewski said more research is needed to understand how those biomarkers affect long-term cognition in people who were infected with Covid-19.
“Those are the kinds of things that make you suspicious that indeed there may be an overlap with Alzheimer’s disease, of some sort,” Erausquin said. “But it’s very early in the game. We need a lot more data.”
Researchers have long been tuned in to the potential links between respiratory diseases and the brain, Heather Snyder, vice president of medical and scientific relations at the Alzheimer’s Association, told CNN. She noted that similar changes in cognition and behavior, like increased anxiety and sleep disturbances, were observed in people infected during outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS in 2003-2004 and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS.
Long-term questions
Snyder said researchers are working hard to understand the long-term consequences of these findings on Covid-19 and cognition.
“We also need to be really trying to understand the impact on the brain, overall, because we know that when our brains might be vulnerable for other reasons, it may also increase our risk of Alzheimer’s,” Snyder said.
Erausquin stressed that the research does not show that Covid-19 increases a person’s risk for Alzheimer’s, and there are some big questions that can only be answered with time.
“I’m trying to understand whether the virus accelerates a pre-existing condition, or if it causes a new Alzheimer’s-like process to begin and then progress, or if it behaves as a fixed problem that will completely recover,” he said. “We just don’t know that yet.”
What researchers do know is that older adults can take action to decrease their overall risk of cognitive impairment, like engaging in physical activity, staying socially connected and maintaining a healthy diet.
“I think that it’s important to remember that regardless of the reason for the cognitive decline, the brain is plastic, and a lot of these interventions are likely to reduce the risk of impairment or the risk of progression,” said Erausquin.
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Disband The FBI
FRIDAY, JUL 30, 2021 - 11:00 PM
Authored by Chris Farrell via The Gatestone Institute,
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) continues its downward spiral into terminal corruption. Sadly, the scandals, criminality and ethical abuses of the organization are largely ignored by the American public and by the institutions of government charged with oversight and correction. Outrage after outrage is reported, hearings are held, Inspector General reports are issued -- but the systemic corruption is never really tackled and dirty cops skate away virtually unscathed.
This situation is constitutionally unacceptable, corrosive to public trust in law enforcement, and a threat to the survival of the republic.
In the past few days alone, we have learned that the October 2020 Michigan governor kidnap plot was largely a creation of the FBI; a "senior FBI official" was on the take from media organizations; and another assistant director was in a "romantic relationship with a subordinate" and involved in "other misconduct."
The leadership failures documented by the Office of the Inspector General are now almost standard and part of a tiresome media drip-torture for the public to endure.
Meanwhile, the FBI had the audacity to issue a Stasi-like tweet urging "monitoring of 'family members and peers' for extremism."
Remember: what we learn about the FBI in the press are only the stories that are SO outrageous that the FBI cannot keep a lid on them and is forced to make disclosures via a toothless Inspector General report -- but never anything that results in a criminal indictment. Imagine what the ordinary day-to-day misconduct in FBI offices across the country could be. And these scandals don't just amount to "bad press" – in several of these, federal courts scourge the FBI for lawbreaking. Additionally, Inspector General report after report details FBI abuses such as whistleblowers being retaliated against and ignoring "high-risk" employees who fail polygraph tests.
There are still apologists for the FBI. Some seek to defend the organization with the rationalization that "it's always been that way." That sort of thinking is a cynical effort to inoculate and immunize real criminality as something normal and regular. "Get used to it kid, that's the way of the world," they offer with a shrug and a grin. Others, like Sean Hannity, cling to the "just a few bad apples" excuse. That sort of FBI cheerleading flies in the face of a litany of systemic abuses and pervasive abusers. The FBI ran a coup against President Trump. It failed. The following got away: Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Clinesmith, Pientka, Brower, Baker, et al. Any real consequences for attempting to overthrow the government of the United States? No.
In May 2018, veteran reporter Eric Lichtblau of Time magazine wrote an article titled, "The FBI Is in Crisis. It's Worse Than You Think," wherein he detailed:
"The bureau, which is used to making headlines for nabbing crooks, has been grabbing the spotlight for unwanted reasons: fired leaders, texts between lovers and, most of all, attacks by President Trump ... internal and external reports have found lapses throughout the agency, and longtime observers, looking past the partisan haze, see a troubling picture: something really is wrong at the FBI... other painful, more public failures as well: missed opportunities to prevent mass shootings that go beyond the much-publicized overlooked warnings in the Parkland, Fla., school killings; an anguishing delay in the sexual-molestation probe into Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar; and evidence of misconduct by agents in the aftermath of standoffs with armed militias in Nevada and Oregon. FBI agents are facing criminal charges ranging from obstruction to leaking classified material."
Four years later and the situation has not improved.
Let us go back to the Michigan governor "kidnap plot" for a moment. The entire operation was an anti-Trump political smear job -- and was called into question for being exactly that back when the story broke in October 2020. Now we find out that the FBI was running at least a dozen paid "confidential informants" in the plot. It was a plot they dreamed up. It was actually a rehash of an Obama-era 2010 FBI plot by the so-called "Hutarees" that fell apart in court.
The FBI worries about "entrapment" in these cases because the FBI must demonstrate that there is reasonable suspicion that the subject in a case is about to be or is engaging in criminal activity. The government then allows the criminal/terrorist the opportunity to commit the act. In these cases, the FBI has good reason to worry.
More disturbingly, this is nothing new. Look at the "Herald Square Bomber" case as another instance in which the FBI identifies, recruits, trains, dispatches and then arrests the very informant they recruited in the first place. The FBI appears to have fabricated plots and terrorists to advance their own agenda and statistics. It looks, walks, and talks like "entrapment." Are there really no other bad guys out there for the FBI to go after? They need to focus on this modus operandi?
Questions are now being raised as to whether the FBI had a role in the Capitol Hill protests of January 6, 2021. When one examines the FBI's involvement in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses; standing by idly while in possession of Hunter Biden's Ukraine and Burisma-laden laptops, while President Trump endured a second phony impeachment; and the frame-up of Trump's National Security Advisor, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn – it is not too difficult to imagine. And that is just the problem: It is not difficult to imagine. It should be an "impossibility."
The FBI needs to go away. It should happen in an orderly and thoughtful process, over a period of months. Congress should authorize and create an investigative division in the U.S. Marshals Service and open applications for law enforcement officer seeking to be rigorously screened, vetted and then accessed into the new organization. Similar action was taken before in the very creation of the FBI. It is now time to clean house and restore the public's trust in the "premier investigative agency" of federal law enforcement.
gfp: We hope so. I only have one more move left in me. If we have to move again we'll be selling almost everything we own before we do it. It is simply too much work. We are heading there in about 3 weeks. We have good friends that live in Fayetteville that we stay with. They've been down there about 10 years and really love it. They never tried to give us a hard sell to join them. And at various times we've considered South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Gulf Shores Alabama, several places in Arizona, Maryville Tennessee, Sand Point and Coeur D' Alene and Sandpoint Idaho, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico and Portugal. Bentonville and Fayetteville have everything we need. And plenty of access to outdoor activities. The less we spend on a house the more we have to buy a nice motor coach for camping. Or possibly a boat if we find a place on Beaver Lake. That would be ideal. On Beaver Lake but not too far from the town of Rogers. I'm really looking forward to their over 200 miles of paved bike paths. Once I have my back surgery the only exercises I will probably still be able to do are walking, swimming and biking. I've always loved riding my bike. On our upcoming trip we will have about 5 days for exploring different neighborhoods and possibly looking at some buildable property near the lake. My wife continues to get reports on the Ensenada Mexico ex-pat Facebook group. The crime is getting out of hand down there. Vehicle theft and catalytic converter theft are rampant. I'm glad my wife dug deep into the local ex-pat community down there. We would have been prisoners in our house. Not the way we want to live, even if the weather would have been perfect.
CDC to world - 'oops'.
So in their infinite wisdom, in May the CDC says to stop wearing masks and forget about social distancing. Don't worry that Delta is rapidly devastating the rest of the world and is already spreading in the US. Also don't worry that fully vaccinated people can still harbor the virus and be contagious.
No, we at the CDC are so un-worried that we will no longer be monitoring whether the vaccines are actually working or not ('breakthrough cases').
So was this an 'oops', or a deliberate ploy to keep Covid around long enough to get everyone 'jabbed'?
Just what's in those vaccines anyway?
>>> CDC Scaled Back Hunt for Breakthrough Cases Just as the Delta Variant Grew
Bloomberg identified more than 100,000 vaccine breakthroughs
Bloomberg
By Drew Armstrong, Rebecca Torrence, and Fiona Rutherford
July 30, 2021
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-30/cdc-scaled-back-hunt-for-breakthrough-cases-just-as-the-delta-variant-grew
The U.S. agency leading the fight against Covid-19 gave up a crucial surveillance tool tracking the effectiveness of vaccines just as a troublesome new variant of the virus was emerging.
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped comprehensively tracking what are known as vaccine breakthrough cases in May, the consequences of that choice are only now beginning to show.
At the time, the agency had identified only 10,262 cases across the U.S. where a fully vaccinated person had tested positive for Covid. Most people who got infected after vaccination showed few symptoms, and appeared to be at low risk of infecting others.
But in the months since, the number of vaccine breakthrough cases has grown, as has the risk that they present. And while the CDC has stopped tracking such cases, many states have not. Bloomberg gathered data from 35 states and identified 111,748 vaccine breakthrough cases through the end of July, more than 10 times the CDC’s end-of-April tally.
With more than 164 million Americans vaccinated, breakthrough cases are expected. The number of them should rise as more people are vaccinated, simply because there are more vaccinated people who could get infected. While a similarly small proportion of vaccine breakthroughs was seen in clinical trials of the shots, state health officials said it was important to know how many are happening, how severe they are, and if they’re getting more common.
The CDC said when it announced the change in May that it would continue to collect data on breakthrough cases if the infections resulted in hospitalization or death — a rare occurrence, since vaccines provide significant protection. The decision to stop tracking non-severe cases was made to “help maximize the quality of the data collected on cases of greatest clinical and public health importance,” the agency says on its website.
But that decision to follow not track mild or asymptomatic cases is now being questioned, including by state officials dealing with the virus on the front lines.
At the same time the CDC stopped tracking those cases, the delta variant began to spread in the U.S. Small numbers of delta-variant cases were identified in mid-April. The strain began to take over in some parts of the country in June, then exploded nationally in July.
It now makes up the vast majority of cases, in part because it is more contagious than prior strains. New waves of Covid cases have caused a surge in hospitalizations in the South among unvaccinated people, and led the Biden administration and states to push for vaccine mandates.
“When I saw CDC was going to stop tracking vaccinated people who get infected, my heart sank,” said Charity Dean, who helped lead California’s response to Covid as the state health department’s assistant director. “We lost our shot at being able to characterize how this variant is moving through the population and how new variants might emerge.”
U.S. Cases on the Rise Again
As the delta variant fuels a surge, vaccinations are curtailing severe cases
Not only is the delta variant more contagious, health officials now believe it more readily causes symptomatic — and contagious — illness in vaccinated people. That meant that unlike with previous variants, vaccinated people are more likely to spread the disease more easily to unvaccinated individuals or those who are vaccinated but vulnerable because of their age or health. It’s a new dynamic that punches a hole in the wall of immunity the U.S. had been building to cordon off and stamp out the virus.
The delta variant marked a crucial change in how the coronavirus behaved, and one with significant public health implications. Three months after the CDC stopped tracking milder breakthrough cases, the agency has reversed policy and said that even vaccinated Americans should put on masks again because of the risk that they can catch and spread the virus.
In a statement Friday, the CDC said it continued to follow trends in breakthrough cases using studies it has set up.
“CDC is actively tracking breakthrough cases as part of what are called cohort studies, which often involve tens of thousands of people across the country,” agency spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said in an email. “We will continue to publish additional results from these cohort studies as they are available.”
Severe cases of disease in vaccinated people remain rare. Only 6,587 people in the U.S. have been hospitalized or died with Covid-19 after being fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
The CDC is not without other tools to track breakthroughs and variants. It gets reports on severe breakthrough cases that result in hospitalization and death. Many states have not followed the CDC’s lead, and still tally breakthrough cases themselves. And the Atlanta-based agency is running several studies in vaccinated people to see how vaccines perform. But it has given up the ability to have near real-time numbers about what is happening on the ground, which time and time again has proven crucial in the fast-moving regional and national waves of infection.
“The more data you have, the better decisions you can make. So why would they knowingly turn away data which historically has been really important to have?” said Michael Kinch, director of the Center for Research Innovation in Business at Washington University in St. Louis. “For an administration that said they’ll be driven by the science, it makes no scientific sense.”
State Officials
Bloomberg spoke to state health officials around the U.S., many of whom have continued to track all vaccine breakthrough cases despite the CDC’s decision. Many said that it was important to keep tracking breakthrough cases, especially in light of the delta variant.
New York state’s Department of Health has identified 11,025 vaccine breakthrough cases as of July 19. The proportion of breakthrough cases remains tiny — about 0.18% of vaccinated people. But department spokeswoman Samantha Fuld said that following the cases is a crucial part of public health vigilance.
“Data collection, such as tracking breakthrough infections, enables us to establish a complete, accurate, and real-time view to build our understanding of disease manifestations, vaccine efficacy, and efforts to inform public health intervention,” Fuld said.
Louisiana has likewise continued to track breakthroughs. When people test positive for Covid-19, the state cross references the tests against its vaccine registry, allowing it to identify people who were fully vaccinated but still got infected.
“Pre-delta, it probably made less sense for the CDC to track breakthrough infections,” said State Health Officer Joseph Kanter. “Now that it’s clear that a lot of these breakthroughs are delta, it’s more important to track that.”
New Jersey is also continuing to track the cases.
“It allows us to see if the vaccine is less effective over time, or if effectiveness is impacted by changes in virus variant,” said Edward Lifshitz, medical director of the state health department’s Communicable Disease Service.
Other states, however, have followed CDC’s lead and stopped.
South Carolina, Texas and Illinois all no longer track breakthrough infections unless they result in disease severe enough to hospitalize a patient or result in death. The states, on their websites or in response to questions from Bloomberg, said they were following the CDC’s lead.
Nevada has also stopped tracking all but severe breakthrough infections. Cassius Lockett is the director of disease surveillance and control in the Southern Nevada Health District. Lockett said that identifying all breakthrough cases is harder work, since many people with mild or asymptomatic illness may not get tested. But, he said, he thinks CDC should have considered continuing to track milder breakthrough cases.
“If there was something like delta raging through the communities at the time, if we would’ve seen evidence that Godzilla was coming, I think we would’ve had a different conversation,” he said. “We would’ve made a strong argument and pushed back on the CDC to require reports of everything.”
There’s also evidence that suggests breakthrough cases can happen at a higher rate. On Friday, CDC released a study of Covid cases in Massachusetts in July that found 274 symptomatic breakthrough cases, almost all related to the delta variant, among people on Cape Cod.
They got infected after attending “densely packed indoor and outdoor events at venues that included bars, restaurants, guest houses, and rental homes,” the CDC said — exactly the sort of socializing many vaccinated Americans are now doing. Preliminary study showed that many of them had levels of virus that were similar to unvaccinated people, meaning they could be just as contagious as somebody without a vaccine.
Following news of Massachusetts breakthrough cases, Senator Edward Markey, a Democrat who represents the state, said the CDC should resume collecting data on all such cases. In a July 22 letter to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, he asked her why the agency had stopped doing so and said that health officials and workers need “robust data and information to guide their decisions.”
Not All-Clear
With better understanding of how delta spreads, different public health measures or warnings could have been put in place for vaccinated people, said Rachael Piltch-Loeb, a Harvard Chan School of Public Health researcher on public health emergency responses.
It’s hard to know if more tracking could have prevented the current Provincetown cluster, said Piltch-Loeb, but “maybe what we could have understood is that it’s not an all-clear. I think we gave the perception that there was an all-clear, and there wasn’t.”
The CDC’s studies will likely offer future updates on how the vaccines do against current and future variants. But many of the results are only as recent as March, before the delta variant began spreading widely in the U.S. Much of the real-time information on Covid is gathered by state and local health departments dealing with the virus.
“We’re in a war on the front lines and we need to know how delta is moving through populations and what's about to happen,” said Dean, the former California official who is now chief executive officer of the Public Health Company Group Inc., which develops and sells services to monitor and fight outbreaks.
“Doing an academic study is valuable, but it’s going to take time to get that intelligence,” Dean said. “We cannot wait for certainty to act right now.”
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Carlos Santana rocks out with Billy Strings, as guest musicians in Bill Kreutzmann's (Grateful Dead) band -
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Bigworld, The Ozarks looks like a great place to retire, especially around the Beaver Lake area. My aunt lives in a tiny town called Jasper, which is ~ 60 miles east of Fayetteville.
That festival sounds like fun. One great bluegrass guy you might want to check out is 'Billy Strings'. He's at a different festival that weekend though, in Lexington, Kentucky -
https://www.railbirdfest.com/
At Redrocks -
gfp: Good thing you made it home and didn't get send to the Land of Oz. Luckily we get very little tornado activity in the Austin area. But the Panhandle and the northern part of Texas bordering on Oklahoma gets its fair share. And I know they hit NW Arkansas where we now plan to retire. Lot of houses have tornado shelters in their garages. Probably a good idea to have one when we move there. We head up there in 3 weeks for some vacation, some house hunting, and the Fayetteville Roots Music Festival. We're looking forward to it.
gfp: The old saying is there are 3 kinds of people. Those who make things happen. Those who watch what happens. And those that wondered what happened. I'm in the 2nd category. I don't enjoy learning about the treachery and corruption of our government. But I'll be damned if I'll keep my head in the sand and pray that my happy thoughts are never disturbed. There is an ill wind blowing this way, and it is going to knock a vast majority of the country on it's collective ass when that wind hits. We have been horribly mismanaged as a country. The leadership of this country has been short sighted and interested primarily in personal gain in one form or another. It's appalling. Absolute corruption to the core. We find ourselves in a time when the leaders of our country are not our Representatives, as the Constitution envisioned. The are OUR ENEMY. And they continue to act like our enemy. Destroying our history, our culture, our borders, our economy, our currency and the futures of all our young people and the generations not yet born. We inherited a great legacy and we burned it to the ground.
>>> Delta Spread in Vaccinated People on Cape Cod, CDC Says
Bloomberg
By Fiona Rutherford and Robert Langreth
July 30, 2021
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-30/delta-strain-spread-in-vaccinated-people-on-cape-cod-cdc-says?srnd=premium
Outbreak study contributed to CDC’s reversal on mask guidance
Four out of five with breakthrough infections had symptoms
The delta strain spread widely in a series of densely packed summer events and large public gatherings in Cape Cod’s Barnstable County in early July, raising further concerns about the highly transmissible variant.
The findings show just how difficult the strain will be to control as Americans return to normal activities including parties and big gatherings. In July, 469 cases of Covid, primarily caused by delta, were recorded during the Barnstable outbreak and 74% of the cases occurred in fully vaccinated individuals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in a study.
The findings contributed to the CDC’s recommendation that fully vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in areas of substantial and high transmission. Infections are soaring across the U.S., and the federal government and some localities are mandating masks and in some cases vaccines for workers.
The CDC abruptly relaxed its guidances on masks in May, citing growing evidence that vaccines are effective against variants and that fully vaccinated people were at low risk to spread the virus to someone else. But as the delta variant made its way to the U.S., public-health experts urged the agency to recommend that even fully vaccinated people wear face coverings in public.
Read More: What ‘Breakthrough’ Covid Means for Vaccinated People
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, warned Sunday that the U.S. was moving in the wrong direction in combating delta. Former surgeon general Jerome Adams said the CDC acted prematurely when it eased its guidance on masks.
Masks for many people remain a potent symbol of the darkest days of the pandemic, and became political flashpoints in an election year shaped by the virus. Despite the delta variant fueling a surge in Covid cases, states such as Arkansas, Iowa, Texas and Florida have prevented local governments from imposing mask mandates.
In the Massachusetts outbreak, almost four out of five vaccinated patients with breakthrough infections were symptomatic and four vaccinated patients were hospitalized. The findings were published in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The new data shows that the delta infection resulted in similarly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in a statement.
In the study, the CDC reported preliminary data suggesting people with breakthrough cases might have similar amounts of virus inside their bodies as unvaccinated people. In PCR diagnostic tests, a higher number of so-called “cycles” are needed to detect cases with lower levels of virus. But in the Cape Cod outbreak, there was no statistical difference in the number of PCR cycles needed to detect the virus between vaccinated and unvaccinated cases, suggesting the amounts of virus present in the patient samples wasn’t much different.
“High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus,” Walensky said in the statement. “This finding is concerning and was a pivotal discovery leading to CDC’s updated mask recommendation.”
The events took place among Massachusetts residents who had traveled to the Cape between July 3 and July 17. Many people with Covid had been in crowded indoor and outdoor events at venues, including bars, restaurants, guest houses, and rental homes.
While Provincetown wasn’t mentioned in the study, there were widespread reports of an outbreak at the popular vacation and party destination at the tip of Cape Cod.
When Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. produced results late last year showing their vaccines could more than 90% of symptomatic cases in the short term, the results were better than anyone expected.
But since then, its not only the virus that has changed with ever more transmissible variants: People’s behavior has changed as well, as more people attend parties and other large indoor social events where unmasked people might emit large quantities of virus. Those activities, along with variants, pose a much harder test for vaccines.
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Ombow, >> LWLG <<
Looks like this optical conference in Sept could be a catalyst for LWLG. The stock had the recent huge move, but to maintain the momentum may require some clear signs of interest from the industry. I'm gong to try to get up to speed on the stock since, as you said, it may have a 'platform' type technology that gets broadly adopted by the industry.
Near term the stock looks somewhat vulnerable, though that can easily change with news flow. Key support on the chart is the 7 area, and the rising 50 MA (7.21).
>>> Lightwave Logic Invited to Present at 2021 European Conference on Optical Communications
Yahoo Finance
July 29, 2021
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lightwave-logic-invited-present-2021-123100346.html
CEO Dr. Michael Lebby to Participate in World-Leading Market Focus Session on Integrated and Silicon Photonics, Further Broadening Company Awareness Amongst Tier-1 Industry Attendees
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., July 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTCQX: LWLG), a technology platform company leveraging its proprietary electro-optic polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power, today announced that it has been invited to present as part of the 2021 European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), which will be held September 13-15th, 2021 in Bordeaux, France.
CEO Dr. Michael Lebby, Chairman of the ECOC Market Focus Committee, will participate in the Market Focus Session, which will include his presentation on Lightwave's implementation of electro-optic polymer modular platforms into foundry PDKs (process development kits) for mass production with global foundries, to an audience of industry experts and other industry participants. In addition, Dr. Lebby will discuss the potential impact of the company's recently issued patents, and improvements and polymer stability and reliability which are expected to improve internet speeds and reduce power usage.
"We believe that our polymer-based silicon photonic modulators can double the speed of existing devices while using less power, which is revolutionary and could forever transform internet infrastructure," said Dr. Michael Lebby, Chief Executive Officer of Lightwave Logic. "We are well positioned to scale and enable increased internet traffic, providing significant value to all internet stakeholders. I look forward to providing a technical update and continuing to position Lightwave as a clear thought leader in this space with one of the hottest topics at this tier-1 industry conference."
About Lightwave Logic, Inc.
Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTCQX: LWLG) is developing a platform leveraging its proprietary engineered electro-optic (EO) polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power. The company's high-activity and high-stability organic polymers allow Lightwave Logic to create next-generation photonic EO devices, which convert data from electrical signals into optical signals, for applications in data communications and telecommunications markets. For more information, please visit the company's website at lightwavelogic.com.
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Bigworld, I had a close call with the grim reaper yesterday when a tornado came through this area. Unlike Texas, we almost never see tornados around here, but a big one with a fully formed 'funnel' hit a car dealership and destroyed the buildings, throwing cars all over the place. I had just driven by that place a few minutes earlier, so dodged a bullet. It was raining and wind gusting bigtime, but I had no idea a tornado was about to touch down.
Here's some aerial footage of the damage -
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