There has been a full-on media blackout of the new study outlining the ineffectiveness of lockdowns to prevent COVID deaths.

Johns Hopkins University economics professor Steve Hanke, Lund University economics professor Lars Jonung, and special advisor at Copenhagen’s Center for Political Studies Jonas Herby – analyzed the effects of lockdown measures such as school shutdowns, business closures, and mask mandates on COVID-19 deaths. “We find little to no evidence that mandated lockdowns in Europe and the United States had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality rates,” the researchers wrote.

The researchers also examined shelter-in-place orders, finding that they reduced COVID-19 mortality by 2.9%.
— Fox News, 2/4/22

It took a little while but when the relevance-starved attention-seekers continue to get the face time they crave, they eventually say too much and spill the beans. So, what were the lockdowns REALLY all about…?

The next appropriate questions would be, just who gave Fauci and other so-called health officials the right to recommend and implement lockdowns that killed thousands of small businesses nationwide, put millions of Americans out of work, and stunted the academic growth of children when it was really all about those who may have financial interests in a vaccine that didn’t work, thus requiring subsequent ineffective boosters whose only real purpose is to line the pockets of pharmaceuticals?

These arrogant taxpayer-funded employees believed they could use force to make the “naive” take an experimental drug where no side effects were disclosed (because it’s physically too early to know what they are), and also employed a blackmail tactic making Americans have to choose between employment and risking their permanent health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health and their media are doing everything possible to ignore the numerous stories of the previously healthy dropping dead shortly after taking the vaccine or booster and now the majority of those in hospitals from COVID-19 being the fully vaccinated.

Fauci’s cavalier admission should be a meme used so often that he can’t show his face in public without answering some very pertinent questions.

All one can do is ask who the hell is this 41%?

Those who hate all things Donald Trump is an obvious answer as it continues to this day, but what else can be attributed to the defiance of the left to admit all of the pain of the last year and the next three years is technically all on them?

Whether we’re talking Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, most anchors and pundits on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, the network news channels, academia, the entertainment industry, they got a significant amount of people to believe they had the answers to all that ailed them. And they got people to buy it; like, snake oil salesmen!

In popular culture, a particular kind of confidence trick is associated with the snake oil salesman, in which the travelling salesman purports to be a doctor (with dubious credentials), selling fake medicines with boisterous marketing hype, often supported by pseudo-scientific evidence. To increase sales, an accomplice in the crowd (a shill) will often attest to the value of the product in an effort to provoke buying enthusiasm. The “doctor” will leave town before his customers realize they have been cheated.
— Wikipedia

It doesn’t take much to be either the salesman or the shill nowadays because it’s lucrative to be able talk shit effectively and with conviction, and as long as it’s the opposite proposed by Donald Trump and/or Republicans, any obviously stupid remedy can be peddled and sold.

While during the first days of his administration, Joe Biden cancelled the contract for the Keystone XL pipeline resulting in almost immediate gas price jumps, who really thought this was a good thing? Obviously Biden was given a mandate from his supporters to undo anything and everything President Trump successfully enacted as punishment for years of mean Tweets.

While during the first days of his administration, Joe Biden rescinded Trump’s border wall that resulted in the lowest numbers of illegal alien entry into the United States ever and the subsequent spike in border crossings to historic new highs, who really thought this was a good thing?

When people across the world watched the thoroughly mismanaged withdrawal of the American presence in Afghanistan, complete with people trying to cling to Air Force cargo planes taking off and falling to their deaths, unprotected servicemembers blown to bits at the airport gate, the Taliban inheriting billions in state-of-the-art weaponry abandoned, and an unknown number of Americans left behind enemy lines, who really thought this was a good thing?

When Americans are seeing a momentous jump in gasoline prices that results in almost everything, from empty grocery aisles to clothing to heating oil (it IS still winter), approaching all-time records due government-induced inflation, who really thinks this is a good thing?

Now that we’re finding out (something many of us already knew) almost everything we were told for the last two years from the Centers for Disease Control, federal health officials, parroted by politicians and the media was either wrong or a lie, who still demands everyone “follow the science”?

The thing that angered most people who in many cases tarred-and-feathered predatory snake oil salesmen, was not just that they ripped people off from their hard-earned money, but they took advantage of those who were susceptible to the smooth talk. People were angered that they were made fools of. That also took a certain amount of honest retrospection for those people to admit they were suckered.

But today, we have millions who have the benefit of a education believing they are incapable of being duped, thus also being very wrong.

No matter how much damage they see all around them (and may even be personally experiencing), they believe they are too intellectually superior to have done something now so evidently stupid as to have supported and voted for Joe Biden. To spare themselves the indignity of enduring dirty looks, some may have removed the Biden-Harris bumper stickers off their cars, but that’s as far as they’ll allow their pride to be harmed.

We’re now seeing the self-righteous sanctimonious who clogged our televisions, lecturing us on the need for vaccinations, boosters, mask mandates, remote learning, shutdowns, now backtracking, telling us the coast is clear and now THEY are allowing us to carefully ease back to normal while hoping never to address all the demands they made of Americans we now know were either unnecessary or just plain wrong. And the world knows the dozens of examples of those in power who inflicted restrictions on their constituents while breaking those same restrictions behind closed doors over booze or a really good meal.

The problem is these same people will continue to given themselves ego boosts by voting for Democrats like Biden again, if given the chance. It won’t matter how clearly bad for the nation this person may be; as long as it’s not a Republican, they’ll support those who STILL want police defunded, energy-killing climate change policies advanced, more of the world’s poor (and fentanyl) to cross into our country, foreign adversaries happily awaiting the next “strongly worded letter” coming from our State Department, and keep children masked and negatively affected.

Let’s never forget what the nation would look like today if Donald Trump had been allow to have a second term. Aside from a stable, if not record-breaking economy, liberals would still be protesting in the streets and snake oil salesmen and women would be telling us not to believe the low gas prices and inexpensive food, etc. They’d be telling us all how horrible the country is, hoping to say it loud enough to get a response from  the president.

Tarring and feathering the snake oil class might be considered a form of assault today but it’s not listed as a specific crime.

That says a lot of how much swindlers were despised by the unwilling duped. The willing and self-excused are another problem all together.

This applies not to just those on social media. You can also apply this to the elected and unelected bureaucrats in local, state, and federal government; specifically those who have direct control over our Constitutionally-protected freedoms. More dangerous are those who have their taxpayer-funded jobs (with no legislative oversight or accountability) for life.

During oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court regarding vaccine mandates in businesses, Justice Sonya Sotomayor showed all just how perilous our freedoms are it this time.

One would think Sotomayor would be a tad more prepared before opening her “wise Latina” mouth.

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It kinda’ makes you wonder how many SCOTUS decisions were botched due to the arrogant ignorance of some of the justices….

While millions of Americans are removed from social media and or harassed by the intellectually intolerant because of their views, Sotomayor is allowed to spew clearly incorrect information she probably consumed from MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, and maybe even Democracy Now! One would think her opinions would be guided by an even-tempered approach, but we also know she’s also led by a “wise Latina” arrogance where what she believes is truth can be used to inflict generational damage to the country.

Obviously the difference between March 2020 and now are power-mad Democrats, a Dr. Fauci who (after Biden was elected) blew off all safety protocols when it comes to “voluntary” vaccine trials and utilizing mass-bullying to coerce the unsuspected into Phase 3, and a greedy pharmaceutical industry that put political, globalist, monetary interests before the overall health of the world.

News outlets like CNN were more than willing to share those moments with their audience. But now that the shoe is on the other foot, let the pitiful whining begin.

This time from Dr. Anthony Fauci; an unelected federal official whose very words can lead to national mask mandates he and other progressive elites selectively observe, shutdowns, and other policies that negatively affect hundreds of millions of America on a whim. When suggested the same tactics used by liberals be used against him, cue the violins.

Well, we went in another direction….

And it got even more scary.

This is a systematic attempt by the leadership of Fox News to target not only the science, not only to discredit vaccines, but to put a target on the back of scientists — prominent U.S. scientists. And it’s not only Fox News. This is coming from all of the major conservative news outlets … and it’s coming from members of the United States Congress, who say things to incite violence against scientists.

Oh, really…?

It’s coming from the conservative news outlets. It’s coming from a group of contrarian intellectuals from far-right-wing think tanks. This is a coordinated effort as part of an authoritarian attempt to discredit science, discredit scientists. And it’s a very scary time for a number of us.
— Dr. Peter Hotez on CNN

Let’s not forget on several occasions, California Congresswoman Maxine Waters made direct threats of violence against President Trump and called for increased bullying of Trump officials in public places. A Republican congressman was shot at a baseball practice by a Bernie Sanders supporter, a Republican senator was attacked and beaten by a rabid Democrat on his own lawn, and protesters shouted with bullhorns in front of cabinet members’ homes. To date, NO Democrat elected or official has been physically attacked by a conservative, that is if you don’t count the January 6 drama that was peaceful until left wing agitators and Deep State law enforcement informants and instigators arrived at the Capitol.

This is not to say rudeness is encouraged, but when it’s okay to humiliate government officials one day (free speech), it should also be considered fair game to confront Democrat taxpayer-funded officials and ask questions a biased media will not.

That goes for mini-tyrant Dr. Anthony Fauci whose NIH salary reached $434,312.00 in 2020.

The latest case in point….

Social media users are calling for the arrest of Dr. Anthony Fauci and his removal as the nation’s top infectious disease expert after his agency was found to have used taxpayer funds to finance cruel experiments on dogs. The hashtag #ArrestFauci was trending on Twitter over the weekend, amplifying the outrage over the experiments, including one which saw beagles trapped in cages so flies could eat them, and another where they were ‘debarked’ before being pumped with drugs and killed.

One of the most disturbing incidents funded by Fauci’s National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases  involved $375,000 given to a Tunisian research lab. There, puppies had their heads held in cages, before being left for sand flies to eat them alive for research purposes.
— Sky News Australia, 10/25/21

It must have been a slow news weekend as this story was shared in the SKIM early September.

In the Tunisia study, the researchers starved the flies to make them hungry and “the sand flies were then allowed to feed on the sedated dogs…” In a second part of the Fauci-funded experiments in Tunisia, experimenters locked beagles in cages alone in the desert for nine consecutive nights, using them as bait to attract infectious sand flies.
— The Federalist, 9/1/21

Now that Twitter is outraged, this is now the cause du jour!

Republican South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace released a letter, signed by Democrats and Republicans, calling for an investigation into the NIH after revelations a laboratory in Tunisia conducted cruel experiments on dogs.
— Sky News Australia, 10/25/21

Don’t get us wrong; this is horrendous and in every state in the U.S., the inhumane treatment of animals is a felony of varying severity. Dr. Fauci’s green-lighting of funding for gain-of-function research into deadly viruses are given a pass by our media despite him lying about his involvement during a hearing at the United States Senate. Despite the fact he’s received not one vote from the American people in any election, he’s become the voice and direction of science and medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic even though he may have had a big hand in the deaths of millions around the world.

The experiments in Tunisia aren’t the only beagle “research” the NIAID has funded.

The agency also spent a whopping $424,455 to fund experiments at the University of Georgia that infected beagles with parasite-carrying flies.
— Western Journal, 9/2/21

And after almost two years of misery inflicted on the world, what may finally bring Fauci down to Earth?

Forty-four dead puppies.

Meanwhile, let’s compare this to another taxpayer-funded outrage most on social media are all for: abortion on demand.

2019-2020 Planned Parenthood service numbers
Number of abortions (medical and surgical): 354,871
Total number of abortions per week: 6,824

Don’t expect any responses from those trendy #BlackLivesMatter hypocrites on these numbers….

Non-Hispanic Black Abortions by PP
According to the CDC 38% of abortions are done on non-Hispanic Black mothers. Using this data:
Per year estimate: 134,850
Per day estimate: 369
— American Life League

There is no hashtag for the over 61 millions babies who’ve been aborted, which does involve a bit of painful mutilation in the process, since Roe vs. Wade survived the Supreme Court.

While the Tunisia puppy torture will have millions thumping their collective chests in outrage, Dr. Fauci’s experimentation on animals are overshadowing the cost of human lives his COVID-19 pandemic has brought down on the world. But that’s also consistent because too many care more about their pets than they do about people so it’s fitting that this may be what finally rids the world of his unelected influence.

This same Twitter mob will soon shift their outrage of animal torture in favor of the killing of the unborn when abortion arrives, front and center, to the Supreme Court in November. Compare those hashtags with the ones you’ll see for the next couple days….

However, it’s clear the scientists are not on the same page as the politically motivated.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted against green-lighting COVID-19 booster shots Friday for most people — throwing up a major hurdle for President Biden’s plan to dole out a third dose to most Americans.

The FDA is not bound to follow the advice of the independent advisory panel but has followed its guidance so far on COVID-19 vaccinations. Overall, the panel voted 16-2 not to recommend a third dose for people 16 years and up while unanimously green-lighting it for people 65 years and older.
— New York Post, 9/17/21

The following was presented during that seven-plus hour virtual meeting of the FDA’s “Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee”….

I’m sure CNN’s Don Lemon, whose main goal today remains bullying the unvaccinated, will never share the following report.

There are no active cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in 33 districts of Uttar Pradesh, the state government informed on Friday. About 67 districts have not reported a single new case of the viral infection in the last 24 hours, the government said, noting the steady improvement of the Covid-19 situation in the state.

Overall, the state has a total of 199 active cases, while the positivity rate came down to less than 0.01 per cent. The recovery rate, meanwhile, has improved to 98.7 per cent. As per the state’s health bulletin, Uttar Pradesh reported only 11 new Covid-19 cases and zero deaths in the last 24 hours.
— Hindustan Times, 9/10/21

According to FDA Advisory Committee member Steve Kirsch, Uttar Pradesh is almost totally unvaccinated.

Much of the information shared amongst committee members were sentiments that would result in “fact checker” warnings on a social media post, if not worse. This was a committee meeting that networks should have interrupted regular programming so the American people could have heard the genuine concerns of doctors and scientists instead of the bloviating on cable news and spin from Fauci and the White House.

If President Trump said he went to the North Pole over the weekend, personally administered the Coronavirus vaccine to Santa Claus, and said this to children, we can all imagine the hysterics, outrage, condemnation and “fact checking” that would emanate from the news and social medias collectively.

But if your name is Dr. Anthony Fauci and you’re on CNN….

I took a trip up there to the North Pole. I went there and I vaccinated Santa Claus myself. I measured his level of immunity and he is good to go! He can come down the chimney, he can leave the presents, he can leave and you have nothing to worry about. Santa Claus is good to go!
— Dr. Anthony Fauci, CNN

The notion that 1,750-year-old Santa even needs a vaccine diminishes who he’s been to millions of children worldwide.

Father Christmas started life as a normal human. As he grew older, he became very well-known for helping others. Perhaps it was his generosity or kind heart that turned him into Saint Nick on December 6th, 343 AD. Because he looked old when he became Saint Nicholas, he never changed again.
— Email Santa

What’s even more sad are the parents who allowed their children to participate in CNN’s “ABCs of Covid-19: A Town Hall for Kids and Parents” propaganda on worldwide television.

  
Propaganda including segments titled, “Sing along for coronavirus safety”, “Should you share food with Cookie Monster?”, and “Olympic stars give advice on how to stay active”.

The Chinese must be laughing on a daily basis.

State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver told 8News on Friday that he plans to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for Virginians once one is made available to the public. Virginia state law gives the Commissioner of Health the authority to mandate immediate immunizations during a public health crisis if a vaccine is available. Health officials say an immunization could be released as early as 2021. Dr. Oliver says that, as long as he is still the Health Commissioner, he intends to mandate the coronavirus vaccine.
— ABC 8 WRIC, 8/21/20

Depending on where you live and/or send your children to school, flu shots may be mandatory. While you’re in the military, you will be required to take a vaccination depending on the potential threat in theater.

Military personnel deployed in particular military operations could potentially be exposed to a range of chemical, biological, and radiological weapons as well as diseases endemic to an area of operations. It is the policy of the United States Government to provide our military personnel with safe and effective vaccines, antidotes, and treatments that will negate or minimize the effects of these health threats.
— President Bill Clinton, Executive Order 13139, 9/30/99

Of course, the federal government made sure if any servicemember was harmed by a vaccine they were forced to take under threat of court martial, they would not be held liable.

This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the Federal Government. Nothing contained in this order shall create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any party against the United States, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any other person.
— William J. Clinton, The White House, September 30, 1999

When it comes to flu vaccinations, there have been profound side effects for many people, children, and even babies. Many Americans are unaware a mechanism was created to redress catastrophic injury caused by vaccinations.

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, as amended, created a unique mechanism for compensating persons injured by vaccinations. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (the “VICP” or the “Program”) (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-10 et seq.) is an alternative to traditional products liability and medical malpractice litigation for persons injured by their receipt of one or more of the standard childhood vaccines. The VICP is designed to encourage vaccination by providing a streamlined system for compensation in rare instances where an injury results from vaccination.
— Department of Justice, Civil Division

Why, you may ask, would the Department of Justice be involved with a vaccination injury claim? Because after you’d go through years of a “streamlined system”, thousands of out-of-pocket attorney fees, and receive a positive judgment, DOJ lawyers then pick apart the claims with what could hardly be described as a sympathetic bedside manner.

So, how does this all tie back to our current Coronavirus pandemic where politicians and public officials who are trial-ballooning COVID-19 vaccine mandates, people are all over the map regarding who will profit from a populace forced to take doses of a vaccine with a cost set by the manufacturer(s). The media is vigorously pushing back at the highly-insulting notion that anyone in the government would profit from a policy they’d advocate.

For example….

There is no evidence that Dr. Anthony Fauci is personally financially invested in a coronavirus vaccine.
— Politifact, 4/15/20

“No evidence” means just that: they have no proof either way. Fauci may have personally invested in a vaccine or he may not.

The problem is those who work, or are hired by the federal government, have documented conflicts of interest.

There’s nothing to suggest this has been self-policed to a point the general public can be assured that state or national policy isn’t being shaped in ways that won’t financially enrich those currently on taxpayer-funded salaries. Financial incentives for government health officials with relative legal immunity and the Department of Justice as the pitbull, watchdog against any citizen seeking government redress from vaccine injury.

Hello…!

Lastly, we’re being assured any Coronavirus vaccine made available to the public will be safe.

NIH: Experimental coronavirus vaccine is safe and produces immune response

However, not all are buying it.

Telescoping testing timelines and approvals may expose all of us to unnecessary dangers related to the vaccine. While preclinical trials to evaluate the potential safety and efficacy of vaccine candidates are likely to include tens of thousands of patients, it is still unclear whether that number will be large enough and a trial will last long enough to evaluate safety for a drug that would be administered to so many. The US alone plans to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people with the first successful candidate. One serious adverse event per thousand of a vaccine given to 100 million people means harm to 100,000 otherwise healthy people.
— Scientific American, 6/22/20

isn’t it curious how we’re not hearing about any possible “long term effects” of a COVID vaccine? Since this is a “warp speed” rush job, there will be no warnings about what could happen if you take the vaccine because there hasn’t been enough time to document the adverse. This means those who jump to take the vaccines are essentially guinea pigs.

Something to think about.

At a time of national pandemic angst, it was supposed to sound so nice.

“We are in this together.”

But as some of us came to realize, that was not the case.

In retrospect, had President Trump known what was to become of the United States as we knew it, he may had referred to the first tenant of the 1994 Contract with America before obliging the suggestions of bureaucrats.

On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government: First: Require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress.
— U-S-History.com

The COVID-19 shutdown resulted in thousands of businesses and corporations around the nation being ordered shutdown for an undermined amount of time, thus resulting in millions of Americans losing their jobs. It became ironic that those who were in the position of locally determining who could reopen and how long were those whose personal paychecks were never in jeopardy: politicians, their staffs, federal and state employees, and unelected officials.

MARCH 30
More states issued stay-at-home directives.

Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., issued orders requiring their residents to stay home. Similar orders went into effect for Kansas and North Carolina. Other states had previously put strict measures in place. The new orders meant that least 265 million Americans were being urged to stay home.
— New York Times, Coronavirus timeline, 7/21/20

Had an Executive Order or Memo been issued by the president that required the suspension of all taxpayer-funded salaries on the federal and state level as long as private citizens were forced to stay home and not earn theirs, just how serious would the “advice” of  so-called health officials been taken given how all-over-the-map the models have been since the Coronavirus made landfall?

Would there have even been talk of a prolonged shutdown had the generous salaries of governors and mayors (some between $3000-4000 weekly!) been in the slightest way been threatened. How many on Capitol Hill would have told Dr. Fauci to go pound sand if their paychecks and that of their staff would have been cut off until some curve was flattened? How many of our federal and state employees would feel so cavalier to demand Americans on social media shut up and stay home if they weren’t receiving steady paychecks? We already know how quickly they squawk when there’s any kind of government shutdown that always results in their getting paid on the back end.

And given their specific First Amendment status, maybe the media could have been also included in a paycheck stoppage. The Freedom of the Press would not be halted; they just wouldn’t get paid for what they did and the professional media has enough rainy day cash lying around to last for a short duration.

How do you think their coverage of the “pandemic” would be if they weren’t receiving compensation for their time? Instead of telling us all to stay home and keep everyone else safe, do you think they might have introduced the term “herd immunity” into their daily action lines? Do you think this whole shutdown thing would be considered an policy that should be very, very temporary?

This has again turned out to be just another example of the “Do as I say, not as I do” two-tiered system of American government which calls into doubt the known seriousness of the pandemic when we’ve also seen the many examples of politicians and elites finding convenient justifications to go for a walk in the park, visit beauty salons, the gym, parties, fundraisers, and of course, #BlackLivesMatter protests… masks optional.

ObamaCare was good enough of us while federal politicians and their staffs wrote themselves a way around it, saving thousands of dollars we were mandated to pay. Now, the COVID-19 crisis has given us state and local politicians who play their constituents like an accordion, setting arbitrary phased reopening dates, just to yank them back in a manner that would make any garden variety sadist smile with envy.

The economy was the issue that would have seen President Trump sailing into a second term. Keeping it in the tank is a political no-brainer.

And until we’re really “in this together”, the political class will continue to inflict their political pain on all of us because it doesn’t hurt them at all.