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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

DATA ON MORTALITY IN ANY NATION SHOW NO EXCESS COVID DEATHS. PCR TEST RULED UNRELIABLE BY PORTUGAL.


These two charts are found on Global Research, <HERE>.


JUST AS MANY PHYSICIANS AND EXPERTS ARE SAYING, NO EXCESS COVID DEATHS. 
YES, MORE TESTS...TESTS THAT MAY BE FALSE POSITIVE, BUT NO CLIMB IN THE DEATH RATE FROM COVID.

THE DATA SHOWS THE LIES GOVERNMENTS AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA ARE USING TO CREATE A NEW ROUND OF UNNECESSARY LOCKDOWNS. 

WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS MEDICALLY UNETHICAL, ILLEGAL AND NATION-DESTROYING.

PCR TESTS RULED UNRELIABLE, ILLEGALLY USED FOR QUARANTINE. 
Nov 20, 2020

An appeals court in Portugal has ruled that the PCR process is not a reliable test for Sars-Cov-2, and therefore any enforced quarantine based on those test results is unlawful.  
Further, the ruling suggested that any forced quarantine applied to healthy people could be a violation of their fundamental right to liberty. 

This very important legal decision faces total media blackout in the Western world, especially in the U.S. where, since day 1, ANYONE who has gone against the acceptable narrative have been 

WHY NOT REPORT IT? IT'S BIG NEWS!  

In their ruling, judges Margarida Ramos de Almeida and Ana Paramés referred to several scientific studies. Most notably this study by Jaafar et al., which found that – when running PCR tests with 35 cycles or more – the accuracy dropped to 3%, meaning up to 97% of positive results could be false positives.

The ruling goes on to conclude that, based on the science they read, any PCR test using over 25 cycles is totally unreliable. 

Governments and private labs have been very tight-lipped about the exact number of cycles they run when PCR testing, but it is known to sometimes be as high as 45

Even fearmonger-in-chief Anthony Fauci has publicly stated anything over 35 is
 totally unusable.You can read the complete ruling in the original Portuguese here, and translated into English here

The media reaction to this case has been entirely predictable – they have not mentioned it. At all. Anywhere. 

The ruling was published on November 11th, and has been referenced by many "alt-news sites" since…but the mainstream outlets are maintaining a complete blackout on it. 

You can see a NON-GOOGLE search for headlines, articles that I did by clicking on the search link below. 
NOT ONE REPORT BY ANY MAINSTREAM MEDIA, ZERO, NONE.        
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=An+appeals+court+in+Portugal+has+ruled+that+the+PCR+process+is+not+a+reliable+test+for+Sars-Cov-2%2C&atb=v221-6rj&ia=web

NO COVID-19 EXCESS DEATHS. DAILY MORTALITY RATE DATA READS NORMAL, OR EVEN LOWER SOME MONTHS. 

Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., former 
vice-president and chief scientific adviser for 16 years of the drug company Pfizer, reveals the COVID-19 'scam' and challenges anyone who doesn't believe him to seek out any database on total mortality.

"If you do that, you will find that the daily death count is absolutely bang-on normal," Yeadon says. 

For some months, the death count is actually slightly lower than the average norm over the past five years. 

"So, what we're seeing now is a natural death rate — about 1,700 people die each day in the U.K. in any given year," Yeadon says — but many of these deaths are now falsely attributed to COVID-19. "I'm calling out the statistics, and even the claim that there is an ongoing pandemic, as false," he says.

And, he adds, "You cannot have a lethal pandemic stalking the land and not have excess deaths."

Yeadon currently is founder and CEO of the biotech company Ziarco, now owned by Novartis. 

In an open letter to the British health minister, Yeadon wrote:


"I have read the consultation document. I've rarely been as shocked and upset. All vaccines against the SARS-COV-2 virus are by definition novel. No candidate vaccine has been in development for more than a few months. If any such vaccine is approved for use under any circumstances that are not EXPLICITLY experimental, I believe that recipients are being misled to a criminal extent.

This is because there are precisely zero human volunteers for whom there could possibly be more than a few months past-dose safety information. My concern does not arise because I have negative views about vaccines (I don't).

Instead, it's the very principle that politicians seem ready to waive that new medical interventions at this, incomplete state of development, should not be made available to subjects on anything other than an explicitly experimental basis. That's my concern.

And the reason for that concern is that it is not known what the safety profile will be, six months or a year or longer after dosing. You have literally no data on this and neither does anyone else.

It isn't that I'm saying that unacceptable adverse effects will emerge after longer intervals after dosing. No: it is that you have no idea what will happen yet, despite this, you'll be creating the impression that you do …

I don't trust you. You've not been straightforward and have behaved appallingly throughout this crisis. You're still doing it now, misleading about infection risk from young children. Why should I believe you in relation to experimental vaccines?"
British journalist Anna Brees interviewed Yeadon and that is available online at 
https://youtu.be/vL1-oVMM8rk ."

In the interview, he discusses several concerns, including his belief that widespread PCR testing is creating the false idea that the pandemic is resurging, as the total mortality rate is completely normal. 

He also discusses his concerns about COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

There are currently no excess deaths in the daily mortality counts while Covid "cases" increase. 
MOST of those "cases" should NOT be listed as cases, since they are NOT hospitalized and many remain ASYMPTOMATIC.

Mortality data show many deaths are mainly due to heart disease, stroke and cancer, which suggests they are deaths caused by lack of routine medical care due to the pandemic restrictions


 The deaths we see are primarily people aged 45 to 65, with equal distribution between the sexes, who had pre-existing conditions. 

Yeadon reissued his challenge to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock regarding the coronavirus testing. 

Speaking with Julia Hartley-Brewer, Dr. Yeadon said the Government is "using a test with an undeclared false positive rate. That's dreadful. If you don't know what it is - shame on you."
Dr. Yeadon wants those who have tested positive for coronavirus to be tested again to eliminate the possibility of the test being a false positive. 

Dr. Carl Hennigan, professor of  Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford agrees with Yeadon. 

The Tea Room posted just yesterday that the FDA has finally admitted these tests are PRONE TO FALSE POSITIVE RESULTS
The New York Times Aug 29, 2020, wrote: "Tests authorized by the F.D.A. provide only a yes-no answer to infection, and will identify as positive patients with low amounts of virus in their bodies.


Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus.

Most of these people are not likely to be contagious, and identifying them may contribute to bottlenecks that prevent those who are contagious from being found in time. But similar PCR tests for other viruses do offer some sense of how contagious an infected patient may be: The results may include a rough estimate of the amount of virus in the patient’s body.

“We’ve been using one type of data for everything, and that is just plus or minus — that’s all,” Dr. Mina said. “We’re using that for clinical diagnostics, for public health, for policy decision-making.” But yes-no isn’t good enough, he added. It’s the amount of virus that should dictate the infected patient’s next steps. “It’s really irresponsible, I think, to forgo the recognition that this is a quantitative issue,” Dr. Mina said.

The PCR test amplifies genetic matter from the virus in cycles; the fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus, or viral load, in the sample. The greater the viral load, the more likely the patient is to be contagious.

This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients, although it could tell them how infectious the patients are.

In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.

On one Thursday, the United States recorded 45,604 new coronavirus cases, according to a database maintained by The Times. If the rates of contagiousness in Massachusetts and New York were to apply nationwide, then perhaps only 4,500 of those people may actually need to isolate and submit to contact tracing.

One solution would be to adjust the cycle threshold used now to decide that a patient is infected. Most tests set the limit at 40, a few at 37. This means that you are positive for the coronavirus if the test process required up to 40 cycles, or 37, to detect the virus.

Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk — akin to finding a hair in a room long after a person has left, Dr. Mina said. Any test with a cycle threshold above 35 is too sensitive, agreed Juliet Morrison, a virologist at the University of California, Riverside. “I’m shocked that people would think that 40 could represent a positive,” she said.

A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35, she added. Dr. Mina said he would set the figure at 30, or even less. Those changes would mean the amount of genetic material in a patient’s sample would have to be 100-fold to 1,000-fold that of the current standard for the test to return a positive result — at least, one worth acting on.

“It’s just kind of mind-blowing to me that people are not recording the C.T. values from all these tests, that they’re just returning a positive or a negative,” Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University in New York said.

The C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles. Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share them with contact-tracing organizations.

Officials at the Wadsworth Center, New York’s state lab, have access to C.T. values from tests they have processed, and analyzed their numbers at The Times’s request. In July, the lab identified 872 positive tests, based on a threshold of 40 cycles.

With a cutoff of 35, about 43 percent of those tests would no longer qualify as positive. About 63 percent would no longer be judged positive if the cycles were limited to 30.

In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90 percent of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. “I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,” he said.

Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. “Boy, does it really change the way we need to be thinking about testing.”

Dr. Jha said he had thought of the PCR test as a problem because it cannot scale to the volume, frequency or speed of tests needed. “But what I am realizing is that a really substantial part of the problem is that we’re not even testing the people who we need to be testing,” he said.

But with 20 percent or more of people testing positive for the virus in some parts of the country, Dr. Mina and other researchers are questioning the use of PCR tests as a frontline diagnostic tool.

People infected with the virus are most infectious from a day or two before symptoms appear till about five days after. But at the current testing rates, “you’re not going to be doing it frequently enough to have any chance of really capturing somebody in that window,” Dr. Mina added.

These deaths may be characterized as being COVID related, but that's only because they have been falsely lumped into that category due to false positives being recorded within 28 days of death.

Again, people are being tested very regularly, and the rate of false positives is extremely high. All hospital patients are also tested upon admission, so when they die — regardless of the cause — they're likely to have a false positive on their record, which then lumps them into the death tally for COVID-19.

"The longer you stay in hospital, the more likely you are to die, obviously," Yeadon says. "You would be released if you were well and improving. So … long-stay patients are both more likely to die statistically, and much more likely to be tested so often that they'll have a false positive test.

That is what I think is happening … It's a convenience for someone playing some macabre game, because I don't think it's an error anymore … I've spoken to people in [public health] and they're embarrassed that they're not even being allowed to characterize and publish the information you would need to know to work out how useful the test is. That's not being done."

Since COVID-19 first began circulating within the United States, public health officials have known that those with underlying medical conditions face higher risks for severe illness and death if they contract the disease. A recent report from the CDC appears to drill down that point with striking numbers, showing that 94% of U.S. deaths involving COVID-19 since February were also associated with other conditions, or comorbidities.

As I have shown before, according to the CDC's own web page: "For 6% of [coronavirus disease 2019] deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death. The number of deaths with each condition or cause is shown for all deaths and by age groups."

In an interview last week Dr. Yeadon was asked:   
“we are basing a government policy, an economic policy, a civil liberties policy, in terms of limiting people to six people in a meeting…all based on, what may well be, completely fake data on this coronavirus?”

Dr. Yeadon answered with a simple “yes.”

Dr. Yeadon said in the interview that, given the “shape” of all important indicators in a worldwide pandemic, such as hospitalizations, ICU utilization, and deaths, “the pandemic is fundamentally over.”

Yeadon said in the interview:

“Were it not for the test data that you get from the TV all the time, you would rightly conclude that the pandemic was over, as nothing much has happened. Of course people go to the hospital, moving into the autumn flu season…but there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen.”

In a paper published this month, which was co-authored by Yeadon and two of his colleagues, “How Likely is a Second Wave?”, the scientists write:

“It has widely been observed that in all heavily infected countries in Europe and several of the US states likewise, that the shape of the daily deaths vs. time curves is similar to ours in the UK. Many of these curves are not just similar, but almost super imposable.”

In the data for UK, Sweden, the US, and the world, it can be seen that in all cases, deaths were on the rise in March through mid or late April, then began tapering off in a smooth slope which flattened around the end of June and continues to today. The case rates however, based on testing, rise and swing upwards and downwards wildly.       
(SEE CHARTS AT TOP OF PAGE.) 


More than 600 doctors signed a letter in May urging President Trump to end the nationwide coronavirus shutdowns and referred to orders issued by states that keep businesses closed as a “mass casualty incident” with devastating consequences.

The letter points out the negative consequences that doctors have observed since state governments started issuing their stay-at-home orders, including patients missing checkups with doctors, increases in substance abuse and alcohol abuse, and negative financial implications, according to Fox News.

WHAT DOCTORS AND MEDIA HAVE NOT POINTED OUT IS HOW MANY PROCEDURES AND TREATMENTS FOR THOSE WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED, 
AS A CANCER PATIENT WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, I HAVE HAD ALL OF MY VISITS PUT ON HOLD EXCEPT ONE ULTRASOUND LOOKING FOR BLOOD CLOTS. 

HOW MANY LIKE ME HAVEN'T BEEN AS FORTUNATE AND DIED WAITING FOR THESE TREATMENTS AND PROCEDURES? 

I HAD TO GO BY AMBULANCE TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM JUST TO BE SEEN FOR MY LOW OXYGEN SATURATION, 89%, OUTRAGEOUS HEART PALPITATIONS, INABILITY TO GET ONE GOOD, DEEP BREATH. 
HAD I NOT GONE WHEN I DID, I ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE I WOULD HAVE DIED WHILE WAITING TO SEE MY CARDIOLOGIST. 

WAS I ADMITTED? NO.
EVEN THOUGH I WAS RECENTLY RELEASED FROM QUARANTINE AFTER A SECOND POSITIVE TEST, MAKING TWO QUARANTINES SINCE MAY FOR COVID-19, I WAS SENT HOME, TOLD I'D BE SAFER THERE. 

THIS WHOLE THING HAS BEEN CHAOS AND CONFUSION, MAYBE PURPOSELY SO. 
THE CDC FAILED, THE WHO FAILED, THE FDA FAILED, MAINSTREAM MEDIA FED THE MASS HYSTERIA AND HERE WE ARE, LOOKING AT THE SECOND TRY TO BRING AMERICA AND OTHER NATIONS DOWN, TO REDUCE US ALL TO TERRIFIED, UNQUESTIONING, COMPLIANT SHEEP, FOLLOWING THE CALL OF THE WOLF-SHEPHERDS. 
"HEAR AND OBEY! DO AS WE SAY! ...OR ELSE..."

MEANWHILE, ECONOMIES LIE IN RUIN, MORE SUICIDES, FAMILIES LOSING EVERYTHING, BUSINESSES CLOSING FOREVER...THE BLEAKNESS OF OUR FUTURE IS TORMENTING. 

IT IS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2020, THE DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING IN AMERICA AND MILLIONS ARE TOO DAMNED SCARED TO HAVE THANKSGIVING MEALS WITH LOVED ONES. 

"HIDE, HIDE IN FEAR! BE AFRAID, SAVE YOURSELVES!" WE'RE TOLD REPEATEDLY. 

WHAT WILL WE DO?
HEAR AND OBEY?

NOT MY HOUSE! 

I AM SET ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. 


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MUTATION D614G OF SARS-CoV2 PREVALENT IN NEWER CASES. SOME INFECTED WITH 2 MUTATIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY.




A mutation, known as D614G, was discovered which affects the spike protein on the novel coronavirus' surface. The mutation is not new. It appears in low levels in samples taken from COVID-19 patients as far back as February.

Below diagram: Distribution of A23403G (D614G) Mutation and Other Mutations on an Approximate Phylogenetic Tree Using Parsimony
See larger image in the study at  https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2820%2930820-5#%20


 But this variation of the virus (nicknamed the "G" variation) seems to show up in more and more of the virus samples taken from people infected recently compared to early in the pandemic.

A new paper, published July 2 in the journal Cell, argues that the rise in the "G" variation of the new coronavirus is due to natural selection.

The study finds that virus particles with this mutation have an easier time making their way into cells, suggesting that it is out-competing other strains of the virus to become the dominant version of SARS-CoV-2.

Other, not-yet-published experiments have found similar results. However, some researchers are not yet convinced that the mutation has any real-world impact on coronavirus transmission at all. Instead, it's possible that the G variant's spread is due to chance, said Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Medicine who co-authored a commentary accompanying the paper's publication.

G versus D   

Original samples of the novel coronavirus out of Wuhan, China, were a variation that scientists now call the "D" clade.

Before March 1, more than 90% of viral samples taken from patients were from this D variation.
Over the course of March, G began to predominate. 

This mutation is caused by the swapping of an adenine (A) nucleotide to a guanine (G) nucleotide at a particular spot in the coronavirus genome. It always appears alongside three other mutations that similarly swap one building block of RNA for another. (The letters in RNA help code for the proteins the virus makes once inside a cell.)

The G variant represented 67% of global samples taken in March, and 78% of those taken between April 1 and May 18. During this time, the locus of the outbreaks shifted away from China into Europe and the United States.

The mutation piqued interest because it seemed to take over even in areas were the D variation had initially held sway, said Bette Korber, the lead author of the new Cell paper and a computational biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. She and her colleagues at Duke University and the La Jolla Institute of Immunology in California inserted the G mutation and D mutations into pseudoviruses, which are viruses engineered to display the surface proteins of other viruses. Pseudoviruses are useful, Korber told Live Science, because they can't spread disease and because they contain molecular tags that researchers can use to track their movement into cells.

The researchers then exposed cell cultures to pseudoviruses with either the G or D variants of the coronavirus spike protein to track which was more infectious. 

They found that the G variations led to much higher amounts of virus in the cell culture, indicating increased infection and replication. The viral loads found from G variations of the spike protein were 2.6 to 9.3 times larger than from the D variations of the spike protein.


The pseudoviruses and cells used in the experiment were neither real coronavirus nor human lung cells, but another study that used infectious SARS-CoV-2 virions reached similar findings. That study, which was published July 7 to the preprint server bioRxiv and has not yet been peer-reviewed, was spearheaded by biologist Neville Sanjana at New York University. He and his colleagues tested the G and D versions of SARS-CoV-2 in cell cultures, including human lung cells, and found that the G variant infected up to eight times more cells than the D variant.


Some clinical work has suggested that the G variant's apparent advantage might hold outside of the Petri dish. A study, posted May 26 to the pre-print database medRxiv, also not yet peer-reviewed, led by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researchers Dr. Egon Ozer, Judd Hultquist found three distinct versions of SARS-CoV-2 circulating in Chicago in mid-March. 
Some matched the dominant version circulating in New York City, some matched the predominant version from the West Coast, and some seemed most closely related to the original samples from China.

"The virus kind of came both ways around the globe and smacked into Chicago and we got virus originally from China, we think, thanks to O'Hare being such a transportation hub," Hultquist told Live Science.

The New York clade, which contained the G mutation, was linked to a higher viral load in the upper airways than the virus that was closer to the original China strain, the researchers found. 

Researchers in Washington state have released similar findings. If the results hold up, they could hint at increased transmission, because higher levels of virus in the upper airways might translate to more virus emitted when people breathe and talk, Ozer told Live Science.
But it's impossible to say for sure, he said. Scientists don't even know how many virions a person needs to come into contact with to get infected, so it's not clear if the extra viral load makes a difference.

The outbreak in New York seeded many of the outbreaks in the rest of the United States, including many places where the virus is now running essentially unchecked.

"What's going to be important now is to continue to monitor in these places," Grubaugh said. If the G variant continues to dominate even in places where both the G and D versions are present, that might be a sign that the G mutation does provide the virus a transmission advantage.

The G614 mutation is part of a cluster of four mutations that appear together, Korber said, so more work needs to be done on what the other three mutations might do. 

Another important line of work will be testing the genetic variants in animal models that better mimic human transmission. Scientists are working with a number of animals, from ferrets to Syrian hamsters to macaques, to study the coronavirus, but they haven't yet established which animals best represent how the disease spreads from human to human. (Hamsters and ferrets catch influenza much like humans, so scientists hope that they might also be a good animal model for coronavirus spread.)

The findings indicate that it's important for scientists to keep track of the virus' mutations as it spreads. As the virus interacts with more and more immune systems, it will experience more evolutionary pressure and may continue to change, Ozer said.

"We have seen that in the course of one month, a particular form of the virus can go from being very rare to the globally most common form," Korber said. "It could happen again."

"We can't even get a handle on testing, we don't have effective control measures really at all right now… If we keep allowing opportunities for the virus to have a new host, then it's going to keep on spreading, regardless of if it's a more fit variant or not," Grubaugh argued.


“It has been thought that there are at least six different strain types and this is the dominant one that has taken over," Dr. Ravina Kullar, an epidemiologist, told Fox News.

A virus typically starts out very virulent and deadly and slowly mutates so the host survives, Kullar said.

“This allows it to live in a dormant state in the host and potentially reappear at a later point," she explained.


Dr. Paul Tambyah, an infectious disease expert, told Reuters that data suggests the D614G mutation proliferation has coincided with a drop in death rates in some parts of the world.

“Maybe that’s a good thing to have a virus that is more infectious but less deadly," told Tambyah, also the president-elect of the International Society of Infectious Diseases and a senior consultant at the National University of Singapore, to the news outlet.

MAYBE IT ISN'T. 
THAT MIGHT MEAN THOSE WHO HAD THE FIRST STRAIN OUT OF CHINA CAN NOW BE INFECTED BY THIS MUTATION, OR OTHER MUTATIONS. 
CHINESE RESEARCHERS ARE SAYING THAT IS HIGHLY LIKELY. 

THAT WOULD MEAN THAT EACH MUTATION CAN REINFECT THOSE WHO HAD THE OLDER STRAINS. 

THERE IS ALREADY A WARNING ABOUT THE V483G MUTATION BEING ANTIBODY RESISTANT AND EVEN MORE INFECTIOUS. 

MEDICAL 'EXPERTS' HAVE ALSO WARNED THAT ONCE VACCINES AND ANTIBODIES ARE USED HEAVILY THAT NEWER MORE RESISTANT STRAINS OF SARS-CoV2 WILL EMERGE.  
IT'S THE ABILITY OF VIRUSES TO MUTATE QUICKLY AND OFTEN THAT MAKE THEM ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP. 

MUTATION N439K INITIALLY APPEARS TO BE ONE OF THOSE TROUBLESOME MUTANTS THAT CAN EVADE HUMAN IMMUNE RESPONSE.


BEING INFECTED WITH TWO STRAINS SIMULTANEOUSLY CAN PROVE FATAL 
Researchers from the UC Berkeley school of public health said variations of the pathogen circulating in Europe and the United States could be causing “serial infections” in some people, confusing the immune system and triggering an overreaction or even death.

“If one strain is still highly prevalent, the situation should be closely monitored, especially for severe disease occurrence, and social distancing should still be maintained to make sure the second strain doesn’t get introduced,” Lee Riley, professor and chair of the division of infectious disease and vaccinology at the school and lead author of the study, told the South China Morning Post on Thursday. 

The D614G strain has further evolved into two major subgroups, one with one extra mutation (C14408T), and the other with two (C14408T, G2556T).

“[The finding] raises a disturbing possibility that people living in places with high prevalence of co-circulating strains may get serially infected with each variant,” the researchers said in the paper.

For example, Germany had low mortality at the early stage of the pandemic but the American strain arrived in March and quickly spread, accounting for as many as half of the cases at one point. Three to four weeks later, the death rates in Germany peaked.

The California city of San Francisco had a low death rate of 1.6 percent, and it has been dominated by the American strain. But Santa Clara county in the same state suffered a co-circulation with the European strain and recorded a death rate three times higher.

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE FULL PDF OF THE BERKELEY STUDY <HERE>.  


Fauci: Early COVID-19 vaccines will only prevent symptoms, not block the virus.
October 26, 2020

“The primary thing you want to do is that if people get infected, prevent them from getting sick, and if you prevent them from getting sick, you will ultimately prevent them from getting seriously ill,” Fauci said at Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit Monday.

HUH? WHAT THE HELL IS HE SAYING? 

“What I would settle for, and all of my colleagues would settle for, is the primary endpoint to prevent clinically recognizable disease,” he said.

That level of protection would be the ultimate goal to diffusing the crisis, but is hard to do with companies facing an immediate demand for some sort of solution. While no vaccine is 100% effective, having a majority of the population inoculated and higher percentages of efficacy is the best to hope for."    

The U.K. is looking at challenge trials, which intentionally infect a smaller group of participants with the virus in an effort to test a vaccine’s or treatment’s efficacy.

Fauci said the U.S. is not anticipating such a move because the rate of spread is so high in the [U.S.] that it’s sufficient enough of an environment to test the vaccine. The daily case count for the U.S. in the past few days has reached a new record of more than 80,000 cases.

“So although you can get some good information from a challenge trial, the real-world information that you want is out in the field when someone is actually being exposed to natural infection, and to determine if the vaccine prevents against that,” Fauci said.

“So right now we're not planning any challenge studies because we have so much infection going on.”

FAUCI MADE FULL DISPLAY OF HIS IGNORANCE. 
WHO WRITES HIS MATERIAL, MICKEY MOUSE? 
HE WANTS A VACCINE THAT SIMPLY MASKS ("PREVENTS") THE SYMPTOMS? 

"The primary thing you want to do is that if people get infected, prevent them from getting sick..."  ???

WHAT DOES HE MEAN? 
INFECTED IS INFECTED, WHETHER THEY FEEL SICK OR NOT!

NO SILVER BULLET' AGAINST CORONAVIRUS, WARNS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CHIEF

"There is no magic cure for this virus at this time.
There is no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be."



RESEARCHERS FROM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKLEY HAVE FOUND THAT PEOPLE INFECTED WITH TWO STRAINS OF THE VIRUS SIMULTANEOUSLY SENDS A HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM INTO OVERDRIVE, MAY RENDER VACCINES AND TREATMENT USELESS AND PRESENTS A MORE DEADLY OUTCOME. 


Dangers of using adeno-associated virus vectors for Covid-19 vaccines.

For the Consumer. Applies to adenovirus vaccine:
Side effects include: Upper respiratory tract infection, headache, nasal congestion, pharyngolaryngeal pain (sore throat), cough, arthralgia (musculoskeletal pain), chills, GI effects (abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting).
Pyrexia (temperature of 100.5F or higher), pain in extremity.

SOUNDS SIMILAR TO COVID-19 SYMPTOMS, YES? 


AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, which made headlines recently when it was halted briefly due to an adverse event in a study volunteer, is built from a variation on a chimpanzee virus. (The Italian company ReiThera has its own vaccine candidate is made from a gorilla adenovirus.)

The leading "vaccine candidates" are viral vector vaccines, which means they use a bio-engineered version of another, milder virus—here it’s one that causes common colds, which is also a coronavirus—as a delivery system.
 But some people who could end up getting these vaccines will have immunity to the vector.
 If that’s the case—if their bodies have fought off the relevant cold virus in the past—then their preexisting antibodies may end up hampering (or even neutralizing) the new vaccines. 
More concerning, this potential problem isn’t evenly spread across global populations: It’s much more common in the poorer nations of the developing world.


From Reuters, FDA FINALLY ADMITS RAPID-TEST ANTIGEN SWABS ARE INACCURATE.
The U.S. government has signed agreements with several companies including Becton Dickinson and Quidel Corp. to supply antigen tests to U.S. nursing homes in an attempt to identify outbreaks faster and stem the tide of the virus.

Antigen tests detect proteins on the surface of the virus. They require an uncomfortable nasal or throat swab, and can produce results more quickly than molecular tests - which detect genetic material in the virus - but are considered less accurate.

In September, Becton Dickinson, which is supplying 750,000 of its SARS-CoV-2 antigen test to the U.S. government, said it is investigating reports from U.S. nursing homes that its rapid coronavirus testing equipment is producing false-positive results.

SAVE $$$ ON TESTS THAT DON'T WORK AND THEN SEND THE CRAP TESTS TO NURSING HOMES?
WHAT A PLAN, RIGHT?
OUR CONFINED ELDERLY DON'T STAND A CHANCE IN AMERICA! 

With rapid mutations, vaccines that were rushed into production, and poor dumb Fauci still in charge, what chance do any of us have in America? 

Let's have another round of lockdowns...forever?  






//WW


Tuesday, November 24, 2020

POSSIBLY MILLIONS OF BIRDS DEAD IN SOUTHWEST USA. UNPRECEDENTED DIE-OFFS WORLDWIDE.

 


Potentially hundreds of thousands of migratory birds will not make their annual trip this winter after a mysterious mass die-off that has alarmed biologists in the southwestern United States.

Many different species of birds have been found dead in New Mexico in recent weeks, sparking concern among researchers at New Mexico State University’s department of fish, wildlife and conservation ecology.   

             
“It’s just terrible,” NMSU biologist Martha Desmond told CNN. “The number is in the six figures. Just by looking at the scope of what we’re seeing, we know this is a very large event, hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions of dead birds, and we’re looking at the higher end of that.”

She also noted that the deaths could be related to the wildfires in the west in which it might have caused these birds to prematurely migrate because of the damage the fires [can] cause in their lungs.

On a Twitter post, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said that not much is known yet of the impacts of smoke and wildfires on birds. Scientists are now asking the public to report in their online database if ever they find dead birds. They also ask people to collect the birds so that experts can study them safely.

The dead birds include various insect-eating birds such as sparrows, blackbirds, goldfinches, wrens, warblers and bluebirds.

NMSU biologist Allison Salas says she sent some students around campus on Monday to search for birds. They came back with “several individuals of different species” within a few hours.

“The birds seem to be in relatively good condition, except that they are extremely emaciated,” she wrote on Twitter. “They have no fat reserves and barely any muscle mass. Almost as if they have been flying until they just couldn’t fly anymore.”

"If you start to see large numbers of dead birds in your area, especially the southwest (NM, AZ, even W. Texas) please report it to your state Game & Fish Agency or USFWS," Salas tweeted.

The birds have been seen acting strange before their deaths, according to experts at NMSU. Many species that typically perch in trees or bushes have been spotted hopping around on the ground. The birds have often appeared dazed, and many have been hit by cars because they’ve been too slow to get out of the way.

“People have been reporting that the birds look sleepy … they’re just really lethargic,” Trish Cutler, a biologist at the WSMR, told the Las Cruces Sun News.
"We have resident birds that live here, some of them migrate and some of them don’t, but we’re not getting birds like roadrunners or quail or doves.”

People in Colorado, Arizona and Texas are seeing similar deaths, according to an iNaturalist tracking project run by Desmond’s team. They’re encouraging people in the Southwest to report dead birds through the app so they can get a better picture of the problem.

Desmond and her team still don’t know why the birds are dying en masse. The state saw a cold snap last week but that happened after Desmond first noticed the die-off.

"I just recorded this up in Velarde, N.M. I've never seen anything like it. I'm told of other dead migratory birds found in Hernandez, Ojo Sarco and El Valle de Arroyo Seco."  

 "We've created an @inaturalist Project where you can submit photos of dead birds. We can use this data to fully understand the extent of this mass mortality. More info here: https://inaturalist.org/projects/southwest-avian-mortality-project      
   
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says it’s also looking into the issue.
"We had reports of migrating songbirds landing on fishing vessels all along the Pacific coast this weekend. Scientists investigating a large bird die-off in the SW want to know why and how widespread this is."  


IT ISN'T JUST IN AMERICA, NOR DOES IT OCCUR ANYWHERE NEAR WILDFIRES, COLD SNAPS OR AREAS VOID OF INSECTS.
AND IT ISN'T JUST BIRDS.  

BELOW ARE JUST A FEW SUCH "EVENTS" FROM OCTOBER/NOVEMBER THIS YEAR, A CONTINUATION OF SUCH EVENTS THAT THE TEA ROOM HAS BEEN TRACKING FOR 10 YEARS NOW, ALL "MYSTERIOUS", ALL "UNPRECEDENTED", ALL "SUDDEN MASS DIE-OFFS", ALL GONE NOW. 




16th November 2020 - Thousands of dead fish wash up in lake in Milton Keynes, England. Link

16th November 2020 - Hundreds of dead fish wash up in Valdegrana, Spain. Link

9th November 2020 - Thousands of animals dead due to flooding in Honduras. Link

5th November 2020 - 3,000+ mink dead 'from coronavirus' in Wisconsin, America. Link

2nd November 2020 - Thousands of dead fish and birds, 'an ecological disaster' on Lake Koroneia, Greece. Link

30th October 2020 - 50+ TONS of fish dead after storm in Lake Buhi, Philippines. Link

28th October 2020 - 100 TONS of fish suddenly die in Lake Toba, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Link

27th October 2020 - Tens of thousands of dead fish wash up in a river in North Carolina, America. Link

25th October 2020 - Schools of dead fish washing up in the Bronx, New York, America. Link

22nd October 2020 - 3 dead whales found on the coast of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Link

19th October 2020 - 19 whales dead after mass stranding in North Island, New Zealand. Link

18th October 2020 - Millions of small fish wash up on beach in Barmouth, Wales. Link

18th October 2020 - Mass die off of lobsters and fish in the waterways of Nashik, India. Link

18th October 2020 - Thousands of dead fish wash up on a lake in Southern Russia. Link

17th October 2020 - Thousands of dead seal pups wash up, 'a mystery' on coast of Namibia. Link

13th October 2020 - Another massive die off of marine creatures, 'a mystery', washes up on coast of Russia. Link

12th October 2020 - Thousands of dead fish wash up in a lagoon in Linhares, Brazil. Link

11th October 2020 - 11 dead dolphins wash up on a beach in Marsa Alam, Egypt. Link

11th October 2020 - Hundreds of dead sea creatures wash up on beach in Mumbai, India. Link

9th October 2020 - 12,000+ mink dead 'from coronavirus' in Utah and Wisconsin, America. Link

8th October 2020 - 48 TONS of fish die in a lake in Dong Thap, Vietnam. Link

7th October 2020 - Thousands of dead octopuses, starfish and other marine life wash up in Kamchatka, Russia. Link

7th October 2020 - Hundreds of dead fish found washed up at dam, 'never seen anything like it' in Evora, Portugal. Link

6th October 2020 - Thousands of dead fish appear at a dam in Chiapas, Mexico. Link

5th October 2020 - 10 dead turtles found washed up in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Link

2nd October 2020 - Thousands of dead fish wash up on beach in Beirut, Lebanon. Link

27th September 2020 - Die off of birds, 'a mystery' along the coast of Rome, Italy. Link



More than 450 long-finned pilot whales became stranded in harbour in Tasmania with rescuers managing to save about 50. 



BEES, those pollinators who keep humans alive by making sure food crops get the 100% necessary pollination to set fruits, feed the world, have been dying by the millions to half-billions for at least a decade now.
If bees 'go the way of the wind', so will many millions to billions of humans...by starvation. 



June 2020 - Tens of Millions of bees suddenly die in Croatia. Link

May 2020 - Millions of bees have died in Rivne, Ukraine. Link

April 2020 - Millions of bees drop dead across Spain. Link

Back in March, 2019 - HALF A BILLION Bees have died during 3 months in just 4 states in Brazil - Warning of 'collapse of agriculture' (Link)


AVIAN FLU

We've absolutely lost BILLIONS of birds to the influenza virus that keeps attacking flocks worldwide.
It's common to find articles like these every week:

27th August 2020 - Thousands of emus to be killed due to avian flu in Victoria, Australia. Link

5th October 2020 - 330,000 birds killed due to avian flu in Kazakhstan. Link

26th February 2020 - Hundreds of thousands of poultry killed due to avian flu in Vietnam. Link

4th February 2020 - Hundreds of thousands of poultry killed due to avian flu in Saudi Arabia. Link

10th April 2020 - 34,000 turkeys dead due to avian flu in South Carolina, America. Link


EVEN ELEPHANTS...
1st July 2020 - 350 dead elephants found, 'a mystery' in Botswana. Link


JULY WAS A BAD MONTH FOR FISH, GLOBALLY 

24th July 2020 - Thousands of dead fish 'suddenly die' in a river in Musi Banyuasin, Indonesia. Link

23rd July 2020 - Thousands of dead fish found washed up on beach in North Yorkshire, England. Link

18th July 2020 - Thousands of dead fish found in a lake in Guangzhou, China. Link

18th July 2020 - Thousands of fish found dead in a lagoon in Santa Rosa de Aguan, Honduras. Link

14th July 2020 - TONS of dead sea creatures wash up in the Elbe estuary, Germany. Link

13th July 2020 - Large die off of fish in lakes in Maine, America. Link

10th July 2020 - Thousands of dead fish appear in lakes in Kansas, America. Link

8th July 2020 - 60,000 fish dead due to 'never before seen bacteria' in California, America. Link

3rd July 2020 - Hundreds of dead Penguins wash up on the coast of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Link

3rd July 2020 - Hundreds of dead fish found floating in the Hudson River in New Jersey, America. Link

30th June 2020 - Thousands of dead starfish wash up on beaches in South Carolina, America. Link

30th June 2020 - Mass die off of fish in, a lake in New Jersey, America. Link   


Well, the planet's other denizens aren't doing well, but most still focus on "Orange man bad", "Elect Lyin' Biden", "Covid, Covid, Covid!"  

Mainstream media is really ramping up the big Covid scrae now that Trump is out. Talk about HYSTERIA! They're doing all they can to create the proper mindset n Americans to MINDLESSLY roll up sleeves and get that 'Savior Shot' along with whatever has been predetermined for that to include. 

Take the shot like good little boys and girls and never mind all this business of mass die-offs, signs that WE HUMANS are maybe next on the list. 

If the FISH are gone, the BIRDS (chickens, ducks, turkeys, quail, food birds) are gone, the BEES are gone, leaving little to pollinate our FOOD crops, if there's something seriously wrong in the air above us, in the oceans at our shores, in our rivers, lakes, streams, in the balance of Nature, surely we follow. 

Industry can't be bothered with facts from Nature.
Industry must NOT be slowed by imbalances of a global level.
Industry doesn't care about anything but profits, but Industry is STUPID, because once what sustains mankind is GONE, mankind is up next. 
Then, who will be left to run Industry? 

Viruses have FAILED to lower human populations sufficiently to suit the "experts" who have 'warned' and fear-mongered for decades that we MUST attain a "SUSTAINABLE POPULATION". 

The idiots in charge have yet to properly point out the handwriting on the wall, that when ENOUGH of our food supply is gone, STARVATION will accomplish what viruses failed to do. 

Not that viruses haven't played key roles...
Avian Flu, Swine Flu have culled our food supply tremendously, but lesser known viruses are out there.
 

--JAPANESE B-ENCEPHALITIS
This is a fatal disease of pigs, horses, sheep, birds and man. The infection is caused by a flavivirus, a single stranded RNA virus. It is transmitted by the bite of the Culex tritaeniorhynchus mosquito.--FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE

--Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) or hoof-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease of domestic animals such as cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats and pigs, as well as antelope, bison and deer. It is caused by foot-and-mouth disease virus. Seven main types of Foot and Mouth Virus are believed to exist

--Hantaviruses are spread to humans by rodents, particularly mice and rats. People can become infected with a hantavirus if they come into direct contact with the bodily secretions of these animals or if they breathe in virus-carrying particles from those secretions that have become aerosolized.

--Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
It's classified as a Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) -- caused by prions, not actual viruses-- transmissible because it can be spread from cattle to humans and spongiform because it causes a characteristic "spongy" degeneration of brain tissue.

Humans can get vCJD when they eat beef from cows with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a disease similar to vCJD that occurs in cattle.

As of 2018, there is no cure or effective treatment for CJD.  

--Marburg virus belongs to the Filovirus family of viruses, whose defining characteristic are the filamentous shapes of the viral particles. The disease it causes, Marburg virus disease (MVD), is spread from person to person through bodily fluids, much like Ebola. Marburg virus has other things in common with Ebola, as well. It's transferred to humans by fruit bats belonging to the Pteropodidae family, and it can cause viral hemorrhagic fever in some patients.


More than half of the infectious diseases that affect people come from animals.  
Now, for the first time, the government is releasing a list of the top eight illnesses spread from animals — called zoonotic diseases — in the United States. 

The list includes some strains of the flu, Salmonella infection, 
West Nile virus, the plague (bacterial), emerging coronaviruses such as Middle East respiratory syndrome, rabies, brucellosis (a bacterial infection) and Lyme disease, according to the list, released May 6 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The eight illnesses were chosen based on the potential for the disease to cause an epidemic or pandemic, the severity of the disease, the economic impact, the potential for the introduction or spread of the disease in the U.S., and the potential for bioterrorism. (An epidemic refers to when a disease affects more of a given population than expected; a pandemic refers to a worldwide epidemic.)

Even Viruses Catch Viruses

Among pathogens, viruses are unique in their collective ability to infect all types of organisms. There are plant viruses, insect viruses, fungal viruses, and even viruses that infect only amoeba and bacteria. Now a group of researchers at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France has made the startling discovery that even some viruses can have viruses.

In a paper in Nature in 2008, the group described how they identified a giant mimivirus in a cooling tower in France. Mimiviruses are the largest viruses known to exist — so big they are visible under a normal optical microscope (usually much higher resolution electron microscopes are needed to view them). The new virus, large even by mimivirus standards, was appropriately named "mamavirus."

In the same cooling tower, the French group also discovered a second, tiny virus that infects the giant mamavirus. This they named "Sputnik."

The group sequenced Sputnik's genetic code and discovered that a number of its gene sequences are similar to those found in a massive survey of genetic material taken from oceans all over the globe. This suggests that a whole class of viruses might exist that infect other viruses.

We explore space but know far too little about Planet Earth and what affects the species found here.

Seems to me, as it has for over 60 years, that it would better serve life on earth to know our own planet first, to spend all those billions we now spend on space exploration to secure the health and well-being of this little blue marble before we look beyond to places we can't know would sustain human life.

When the NATURAL WORLD collapses, all of Industry will just fall down. 

We are ALL connected. 
We ALL are sustained by very thin threads and will continue, or not, as a species depending on which and how many threads BREAK. 







//WW


Friday, November 20, 2020

10,000 UNCOUNTED CHILDREN's DEATHS PER MONTH DUE TO PANDEMIC RULES. HALF OF AMERICANS HAVE INCOME LOSS.




All around the world, the coronavirus and its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, cutting off meager farms from markets and isolating villages from food and medical aid.

Virus-linked hunger is leading to the deaths of 10,000 more children a month over the first year of the pandemic, according to an urgent call to action from the United Nations shared with The Associated Press ahead of its publication in the Lancet medical journal.

“The food security effects of the COVID crisis are going to reflect many years from now,” said Dr. Francesco Branca, the World Health Organization head of nutrition. “There is going to be a societal effect.”

The economic, food, and health systems disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic are expected to continue to exacerbate all forms of malnutrition. 

Estimates from the International Food Policy Research Institute suggest that because of the pandemic an additional 140 million people will be thrown into living in extreme poverty on less than $1.90 U.S. per day in 2020.

From Latin America to South Asia to sub-Saharan Africa to America, more families than ever are staring down a future without enough food. The analysis, published late July this year, found that about 128,000 more young children will have died over the first 12 months of the virus.

In April, World Food Program head David Beasley warned that the coronavirus economy would cause global famines “of biblical proportions” this year. 

"There's a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself," Beasley said.

There are different stages of what is known as food insecurity; famine is officially declared when, along with other measures, 30% of the population suffers from wasting.

The agency had estimated in February that one in every three people in Venezuela was already going hungry, as inflation rendered many salaries nearly worthless and forced millions to flee abroad. Then the virus arrived.

“The parents of the children are without work,” said Annelise Mirabal, who works with a foundation that helps malnourished children in Maracaibo, the city in Venezuela thus far hardest hit by the pandemic. “How are they going to feed their kids?”

These days, many new patients are the children of migrants who are making long journeys back to Venezuela from Peru, Ecuador or Colombia, where their families became jobless and unable to buy food during the pandemic. Others are the children of migrants who are still abroad and have not been able to send back money for more food.

[Who's caring for those children since obviously not their absent parents, I wonder.] 

Dr. Francisco Nieto, who works in a hospital in the Venezuelan border state of Tachira, said aid groups have provided some relief, but their work has been limited by COVID-19 quarantines.


Deaths of children younger than 5 had declined steadily since 1980, to 5.3 million around the world in 2018, according to a UNICEF report. About 45 percent of the deaths were due to under-nutrition.

The leaders of four international agencies — the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization — have called for at least $2.4 billion immediately to address hunger. 

Even more than the money, restrictions on movement need to be eased so that families can seek [help] treatment, said Victor Aguayo, the head of UNICEF’s nutrition program.

“By having schools closed (where many children got their ONLY meal of the day), by having primary health care services disrupted, by having nutritional programs dysfunctional, we are also creating harm,” Aguayo said. He cited as an example the near-global suspension of Vitamin A supplements, which are a crucial way to bolster developing immune systems.

In Afghanistan, restrictions on movement prevent many families from bringing their malnourished children to hospitals for food and aid just when they need it most.

Afghanistan is now in a red zone of hunger, with severe childhood malnutrition spiking from 690,000 in January to 780,000 — a 13% increase, according to UNICEF. Food prices have risen by more than 15%, and a recent study by Johns Hopkins University indicated an additional 13,000 Afghans younger than 5 could die.

Yemen is now on the brink of famine, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, which uses surveys, satellite data and weather mapping to pinpoint the places most in need. A UNICEF report predicted that the number of malnourished children could reach 2.4 million there by the end of the year, a 20% increase.

Fatma Nasser, a 34-year-old mother of seven, is among three million displaced people in Yemen who don’t have enough money to feed themselves or their children. She lives on one meal a day. Ibrahim Nasser, the father, lost his only source of income, fishing, after roads to the sea were closed because of the coronavirus.

The mother’s milk dried up, and the baby lived on formula. But doctors say families tend to use less milk powder to save money, and babies don’t usually get enough nutrition.


Some of the worst hunger still occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. In Sudan, 9.6 million people are living from one meal to the next in acute food insecurity — a 65% increase from the same time last year.

Lockdowns across Sudanese provinces, as around the world, have dried up work and incomes for millions. 

The global economic downturn has brought supply chains to a standstill, and restrictions on public transport have disrupted agricultural production. With inflation hitting 136%, prices for basic goods have more than tripled.

“It has never been easy but now we are starving, eating grass, weeds, just plants from the earth,” said Ibrahim Youssef, director of the Kalma camp for internally displaced people in war-ravaged south Darfur.

Before the pandemic and lockdown, Zakaria Yehia Abdullah, 67, a farmer in the Krinding camp in West Darfur, said his family ate three meals a day, sometimes with bread, or they’d add butter to porridge. Now they are down to just one meal, in the morning, of “millet porridge” — just water mixed with grain. He said the hunger is showing “in my children’s faces.”


While malnutrition deaths routinely rise during the four-month wait for the next harvest in October, this year is worse than anyone can remember, according to physicians and aid workers. 

On the World Food Program’s hunger map, nearly all of Burkina Faso is a red zone of need.           

FROM BACK IN APRIL: 
The next global pandemic may very well be a hunger pandemic as a result of the fallout from coronavirus.

The new coronavirus has led to cratering economies, mass job losses and spiking food prices.

Quarantine regulations, shipping challenges, and overall supply chain issues are compounding and adding to previously existing starvation conditions," Ian Bradbury, CEO of the Canada-based humanitarian organization 1st NAEF, told Fox News.

"We can expect more global deaths due to secondary impacts of COVID-19 than the virus itself — the World Food Program currently estimates that 265 million will be on the brink of starvation by the end of the year."

At the beginning of 2020, some 130 million were already facing dire levels of hunger. That figure could now more than double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the end of this year.

Remember when American farmers/ranchers were having to let food crops rot in fields, piling mountains of potatoes in fields to spoil, pouring milk on the ground after schools restaurants closed and killing food animals and burying them in mass graves when there were no more restaurants ordering supplies and when processing plants were shut down? 

FARMS BECAME "NONESSENTIAL", farm workers had to be laid off. 

Then came all the wildfires, storms, flooding, droughts, etc, and Spring crops went unplanted or were ruined by weather. 

A nation doesn't recover quickly from such setbacks. 

Now, we're in Winter and the pandemic rules being enforced by state governments plus weather are still wreaking havoc in the USA, as elsewhere. 

Who hasn't seen prices soar in grocery stores?  

What will heating fuels, gasoline rise to, or electricity? 

Those in control have created their very own "PERFECT STORM" and we all are in the eye of that monster. 

Who in America would have imagined in 2018 that we'd see the National Guard helping to hand out food to families in New York, or that we'd see cars lined up for miles in Texas just to get food help? 


Members of the New York National Guard help to organize and distribute food to families on free or reduced school lunch programs in New Rochelle, N.Y., Thursday, March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)        



Thousands of people lined up in their cars in Dallas on Saturday to receive food from the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday next week. (CBS, Dallas) 


The same scene that was seen in San Antonio in April (below) can still be seen today across America. .


In Florida this week, in Detroit, Michigan and in California, coast-to-coast and border-to-border, the coronavirus pandemic has taken a hit in the paychecks of close to half of U.S. households just since March, the Census Bureau says.


[That article was written in MAY, so within TWO MONTHS, half of America was reeling.]

With the first of the month coming in less than two weeks, more than a fifth of adults report they have just slight or no confidence in their ability to make their next rent or mortgage payment on time.

The findings come from a new weekly survey the bureau rolled out last month to try to gauge how the outbreak is altering lives in the U.S.


For The First Time Since The Great Depression, Americans Must Wait In Line For The Most Basic Essential Items

Bloomberg points out that food banks in Vermont have to deal with "miles long" lines of cars and at Covid testing sites in Florida, people have to show up with full tanks of gas because of how long they have to wait.

People applying for unemployment have similar horror stories - as we have detailed - trying to pile onto an overwhelmed website to collect benefits and left with no one to call when the system doesn't function properly. The physical waits in unemployment lines are similarly distressing.    

J. Jeffrey Inman, a marketing professor and associate dean at the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business, said: “The U.S. is getting a dose of the scarcity economy, and we don’t like it. The U.S. has gotten spoiled where we’ve always had a plentiful, efficient supply chain. Now we’re seeing what can happen once it gets disrupted.”


U.S. job losses have reached Great Depression levels. Did it have to be that way?

Covid-19 has cost more than 33 million Americans their jobs in the last seven weeks – 10% of the entire US population. 


In conversations around the country this August — at kitchen tables, in living rooms and in cars during slow-moving food lines with rambunctious children in the back — Americans reflected on their new reality. 
The shame and embarrassment. 
The loss of choice in something as basic as what to eat. 
The worry over how to make sure their children get a healthy diet. 
The fear that their lives will never get back on track.

There was the family in Jackson, Miss., that relied on a local food bank over the summer, even though before the pandemic they had been making almost six figures a year.   

In one week in late July nearly 30 million Americans reported they did not have enough to buy food to eat, according to a government survey.  

Among households with children, one in three reported insufficient food, the highest level in the nearly two decades the government has tracked hunger in America, said Lauren Bauer, who studies food insecurity at the Brookings Institution.

“What’s happening with children right now is unprecedented in modern times,” Ms. Bauer said. 

AMERICA AT HUNGER'S EDGE

Whenever food deliveries came, in Cicero, just west of Chicago, Jennifer Villa’s kids would celebrate. “Oh, Mommy, we’re going to have food tonight,” they would tell her.

BAD SITUATIONS MADE WORSE

Manausha Russ, 28, a few days after George Floyd riots led to the closure of a nearby Family Dollar, where Russ used to get basics like milk, cereal and diapers. “The stores by my house were all looted,” she says.

Planting, harvesting and transporting food items has been dwindling, and there seems no end to that in sight as governments the world over REFUSE to acknowledge that more people ESPECIALLY children and the frail elderly, are suffering and dying, and will continue to do so, from their INSANE rules than from this over-hyped "KILLER VIRUS".

Maybe this news that there are hundreds of thousands of uncounted victims each week/month is exactly what they want?

If so, damn them.

When this is over, they should be tried for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!

"We lived in hardship before, and now it is even harder. It is hard for us to find food every day. If things go on like this, the people will erupt like a volcano — they will say, 'Better that we go back to work and die of coronavirus than that our children starve to death!'" -- A 22-year-old logistics worker from a village in Syria.







//WW