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The US should give away its extra vaccine doses. Now.

The contrast is growing more galling by the day.
In the US, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/4/19/22392234/fauci-biden-covid-vaccines-herd-immunity">more than half</a> of adults have received at least one vaccine dose, Covid-19 transmission is the lowest it’s been in <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/50477ce9-943b-4f0a-9630-5f2502f21be8">11 months</a>, and many Americans are partying and traveling and reveling in their new vaccinated status.
Meanwhile, thousands of unvaccinated people in less wealthy countries — from India to Brazil — are dying every day amid overwhelming surges of Covid-19. <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/india-crematorium-hangs-house-full-sign-outside-after-running-out-space-bodies-covid-deaths-1588222">Delhi</a>’s crematoriums have run out of room. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/sao-paulo-exhumes-old-graves-make-space-surging-covid-19-burials-2021-04-01/">Sao Paolo</a> has resorted to exhuming old graves to make space for new bodies.
“We have a split screen. The US is looking great — everyone can get a vaccine! At the same time, in India, Southeast Asia, everywhere, I have health care worker friends who may not see a vaccine until 2022 or 2023,” said Craig Spencer, a professor of emergency medicine at Columbia University. Nearly a dozen countries are “<a href="https://apnews.com/article/africa-coronavirus-vaccine-coronavirus-pandemic-business-government-and-politics-2d5eab50c1ef8bd63b1a48331f4c3025">vaccine deserts</a>” where nobody, not even doctors treating Covid-19 patients, has gotten a single shot.
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<figcaption>Visitors wait in line at a bar in front of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas on May 1. More than half of the adult population in the US has gotten at least one vaccine dose.</figcaption>
<cite>Roger Kisby/Bloomberg via Getty Images</cite></figure>
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<figcaption>Family members of someone who died of Covid-19 perform the last rites at a crematorium on May 9 in New Delhi. Many countries, like India, have had difficulties vaccinating their medical staffs, let alone their full populations.</figcaption>
<cite>Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images</cite></figure>
Against this backdrop comes the US decision to start offering vaccines to children ages 12 to 15. For some experts, many of whom have been calling on the Biden administration to send doses abroad for weeks, this latest development is almost unbearable to watch. It’s not that they think teenagers shouldn’t get the shot. It’s just that they think it shouldn’t be the priority right now.
Instead, they say, the US should donate doses to countries where the need is greater — immediately.
“Compared with children ages 5 to 17, people ages 75 to 84 are <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html">3,200 times more at risk</a> of dying from COVID-19,” three experts <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/vaccinate-adults-in-india-before-american-children/618849/">wrote</a> in an article in the Atlantic. “For children, the risk of disease is not zero, but the mortality risk is comparable to that from seasonal influenza, and hospitalizations occur in about only <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932e3.htm">0.008 percent</a> of diagnosed infections.”
Vinay Prasad, one of the authors of the article, told me that given these probabilities, it doesn’t make sense to vaccinate American children before vaccinating adults in India, where only 1 in 10 adults has received a dose. (The exception is American children with medical conditions that put them at risk.) “You will certainly save many more lives by diverting supply to older people globally.”
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It’s also in America’s best interest to vaccinate the world quickly, because the longer Covid-19 runs rampant, the greater the risk that new variants will emerge — some of which <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/13/vaccines-work-variants-complicated/">may partially evade vaccine protection</a>.
As pediatricians argued in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/12/pediatricians-we-say-please-dont-use-precious-coronavirus-vaccines-healthy-children/">a Washington Post op-ed</a>, “Ethical arguments aside, the fact remains that the greatest threat to children in countries with well-advanced vaccine programs comes from areas where Covid remains highly prevalent.”
Although there’s still important work to be done vaccinating Americans, we’ve now reached a point where <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/30/covid-vaccinations-in-us-are-slowing-as-supply-outstrips-demand.html">vaccination is slowing as supply outstrips demand</a>. The surplus in doses, combined with the fact that the remaining unvaccinated population is less at risk, means that the US sending doses abroad makes all the sense in the world.
The Biden administration has already sent <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/28/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-delivers-emergency-covid-19-assistance-for-india/">some relief</a> abroad, including shipments of oxygen cylinders, rapid tests, treatments, and personal protective equipment to India.
It also made headlines recently for agreeing to <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22419842/vaccine-patents-biden-pfizer-moderna-johnson-astrazeneca">waive vaccine patents</a>. But even with the recipe freely available, Covid-19 vaccines are incredibly complicated to make, requiring deep technical know-how and scarce raw materials. So, while waiving patents may be helpful in the long term, it doesn’t help people who are getting sick and dying right now.
What’s more helpful in the short term is simply donating doses.
Biden has promised to do that. In April, he pledged to send 60 million AstraZeneca doses to virus-ravaged countries. But it’s now mid-May, and doses are still sitting in a stockpile. Although they have to pass a federal safety review before being exported, and it’s obviously crucial to ensure safety, experts still say Biden’s plan to donate these doses <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/26/biden-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-484629">over the next several months</a> will be too little, too late.
The US can afford to give much more, much faster. After all, roughly 73 million doses are already sitting in the US stockpile, <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations">according to CDC data</a>. By July, <a href="https://healthpolicy.duke.edu/sites/default/files/2021-04/US%20Leadership%20for%20Global%20Vaccines_1.pdf">Duke University researchers estimate</a>, the US will likely have at least 300 million excess doses — and that estimate is assuming that the US will retain enough doses to vaccinate the vast majority of children. In other words, every eligible or soon-to-be-eligible American could get vaccinated, and there would still be 300 million doses left over — practically enough to give an extra dose to every person in the country.
A surplus of that magnitude is so staggering that not sharing it with the world starts to look morally unjustifiable.
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William Moss, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said it would be “a very obvious decision” for the US to donate all its doses of AstraZeneca since that vaccine is not even authorized for use in the US. Another promising option would be to donate Johnson & Johnson’s doses in spades. “The advantage of getting that to countries like India is that it’s a single dose, and the cold-chain requirement is less stringent,” he said.
Moss, Prasad, and Spencer all argued that the US should also send Pfizer and Moderna doses to countries like India — even if contractual language says doses manufactured in the US have to be given to Americans. They want the Biden administration to ignore that language, given the scale of humanitarian crisis we’re witnessing.
“Sometimes you don’t ask for permission; you ask for forgiveness,” Prasad said, adding that the optics of Pfizer or Moderna suing the US government over such a move would be so horrible as to be unthinkable. “No one will ever dare question this. I don’t think the companies will fight it in court, and I don’t think anyone will seek retribution after the fact.”
Arguably, the bigger challenge for Biden would be justifying dose donations to the American people. A recent poll found that <a href="https://voxcom.cmail20.com/t/d-i-qikllld-l-q/">48 percent</a> of Americans surveyed believe the government shouldn’t donate vaccines at all. It’s worth noting that more middle-age and older Americans opposed donations, compared to members of Gen Z and millennials. And more Republicans than Democrats believed the US should keep a stockpile instead of donating — even though half the Republicans polled said they’re hesitant to get the shot or don’t plan on getting it.
All the experts I talked to said that the US is clearly engaged in “<a href="https://www.vox.com/21327487/covid-19-vaccine-coronavirus-trump-us-china-competition">vaccine nationalism</a>,” where every nation just looks out for itself, prioritizing its citizens without regard to what happens to the citizens of other countries, especially lower-income countries that can’t afford to buy doses.
“We are focusing on America First,” Spencer said. When it comes to Covid-19, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22408089/biden-trump-america-first-policy-immigration-vaccines">Biden still hasn’t quite broken with that Trumpian approach</a>.
Of course, Biden was elected to be president of the US, not of the world. It’s his responsibility to take care of US citizens first. And he is doing that. But we’ve now reached a point where the US has secured millions more doses than it needs to vaccinate Americans.
Experts acknowledge that it’s a totally natural impulse for American parents to want to protect their own kids and ease the emotional toll that pandemic restrictions have taken on them. “Some people say, ‘I want my 12-year-old to get back to life.’ And I think, ‘Of course, who wouldn’t! I think that’s right too!’” Prasad said.
But he wants parents to remember that many of the restrictions we put on kids were less about protecting them — they’re at low risk — and more about protecting older adults. With <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations">72 percent of Americans over age 65 now fully vaccinated</a> and case rates falling, he believes we can let kids resume most normal activities, unvaccinated. (Different experts, however, express differing levels of caution about various activities.)
In moral philosophy, there’s a classic dilemma known as the trolley problem: Should I make the active choice to divert a runaway trolley so that it kills one person if, by doing so, I can save five people along a different track from getting killed?
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<figcaption>An aerial view of open graves at Vila Formosa Cemetery in Sao Paulo on March 12. Vila Formosa, the biggest graveyard in Latin America, has seen burials rise due to the surge of deaths related to coronavirus.</figcaption>
<cite>Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images</cite></figure>
Prasad pointed out that in this classic formulation, we’re asked to weigh one life against five lives. Any deaths in the pandemic are tragic, but our current global situation is a trolley problem on a different order of magnitude. In this scenario, on one track are a small number of American kids who might get ill or die if they’re not vaccinated in the next couple of months; on the other are tens of thousands of Indians and Brazilians and others who are at greater risk of severe illness, many of whom will certainly die without the shot.
In the coming months, the US will be looking at <a href="https://www.aappublications.org/news/2021/05/04/pfizer-covid-vaccine-children-050421">vaccinating children ages 2 to 11</a>. Parents have a chance to weigh in on that, and in Prasad’s mind, the question they should ask themselves is this: Are we really willing to sit on millions of doses and prioritize Americans at much lower risk rather than stem the wave of devastation and death we’re seeing in other countries?
“If you’re one of the many people who opposed blind American nationalism and America First policy under Trump, this is the moment to put your words into action,” he said. “Now is your chance to really oppose Trump’s vision of the world. Stick it to what he stood for and what he represents.”
 
 
source <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22432536/biden-donate-vaccine-doses-india-brazil">https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22432536/biden-donate-vaccine-doses-india-brazil</a>

vox The US should give away its extra vaccine doses. Now.

The contrast is growing more galling by the day. In the US, more than half of adults have received at least one vaccine dose, Covid-19 tra...

Trump: ‘We’d Have Republican President’ if Pence & ‘Weak’ McConnell Stood Up To ‘Greatest Election Fraud’ in U.S. History

President Trump tore into the Republican leadership, namely Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell, for refusing to stand up against the “greatest election fraud in the history of our country.”
In a statement released Saturday, Trump began by blasting the mainstream media’s “suppression polls” that predicted he would badly lose states he won.
“Wall Street Journal has reported (they finally got something right), that 2020 was the ‘Worst Presidential Poll Miss in 40 Years.’ The public opinion surveys ahead of the 2020 Presidential Election were the most inaccurate ever, according to a major polling panel. This was done purposely,” Trump wrote.
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“The polls were a joke. I won states in a landslide that I was predicted to lose days before the election. Other states had me purposely so far down that it would force people, even fans, to say ‘Let’s stay home, Darling. We love our president, but he can’t win.’ And then I would win those states are at least come very close.”
“In one state that I actually won, but the results were rigged, ABC and the Washington Post had be down by 17 points. Even the rigged final result was extremely close,” Trump continued. “It’s called SUPPRESSION POLLING and it should be illegal. These are crooked, disgusting, and very dishonest media outlets and they know exactly what they are doing.”
Trump then directed his ire at former Vice President Mike Pence and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s failure to stand up to the Democrats’ 2020 election fraud.
“The 2020 presidential election was, by far, the greatest Election Fraud in the history of our Country,” Trump stated. “The good news is, the American people get it and the truth is rapidly coming out!”
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“Had Mike Pence had the courage to send the Electoral College vote back to states for recertification, and had Mitch McConnell fought for us instead of a being the weak and pathetic leader he is, we would right now have a Republican President who would be VETOING the horrific Socialistic Bills that are rapidly going through Congress, including Open Borders, High Taxes, Massive Regulations, and so much else!”
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Joe Hoft of the Gateway Pundit joins The Alex Jones Show to break down the state of the <a href="https://cantcensortruth.com/watch?id=609ef3d1ffc2502c1a0d6fe8">Maricopa County vote audit</a>, and how the mounting evidence points to voter fraud.
 
 
source <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/trump-wed-have-republican-president-if-pence-weak-mcconnell-stood-up-to-greatest-election-fraud-in-u-s-history">https://www.infowars.com/posts/trump-wed-have-republican-president-if-pence-weak-mcconnell-stood-up-to-greatest-election-fraud-in-u-s-history</a>

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President Trump tore into the Republican leadership, namely Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell, for refusing to stand up against the “greatest e...

Biden Phones Netanyahu After Israel Flattens AP Offices In Gaza — Has Yet To Condemn Attack

update(12:49pm): So far the Biden administration has stopped short of condemning the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza offices of US-based Associated Press and other international media outlets, which flattened the 12-story Al-Jalaa tower, resulting in widespread outrage from journalists and media rights organizations across the globe. 
Hours after the attack Joe Biden as reportedly phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express Washington’s “concerns” and to convey the “paramount responsibility” to protect journalists.
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This also as the death toll continues to soar amid unrelenting airstrikes – also as Hamas rockets continue to fly toward Israel – at over 140 Gazans killed since Monday.
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Al Jazeera's office in Gaza destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. The building also housed residential apartments and the AP bureau. This is the 6th consecutive day Israel has been bombing Gaza. The Gaza death toll is at 140, including 39 children. <a href="https://t.co/2rNm9eMIaG">pic.twitter.com/2rNm9eMIaG</a>
— IMEU (@theIMEU) <a href="https://twitter.com/theIMEU/status/1393555781967126528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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update(12:30pm): The White House has said it communicated its “concerns” to Israel over the safety of journalists after IDF airstrikes obliterated the 12-story office building that housed international media headquarters in Gaza, most notably the AP and Al Jazeera…
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“We have communicated directly to the Israelis that ensuring the safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility,” White House press secretary Psaki wrote.
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We have communicated directly to the Israelis that ensuring the safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility.
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1393577210964058115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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AP CEO Gary Pruitt previously said <a href="https://blog.ap.org/announcements/ap-statement-on-destruction-of-gaza-bureau?utm_medium=AP_CorpComm&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter">in a statement</a>: “We are shocked and horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy the building housing AP’s bureau and other news organizations in Gaza. They have long known the location of our bureau and knew journalists were there. We received a warning that the building would be hit.”
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Israel has targeted yet another large office and residential tower in the Gaza Strip, but this time its warplanes have destroyed the 12-story building housing the media offices of the U.S.-based Associated Press and Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera, the AP itself as well as Reuters eyewitnesses confirm.
The outlets have said that Israel issued advanced warning of the airstrikes of up to one hour before the attack on Al-Jalaa tower. Representatives with the AP and the building owner had reportedly pleaded with IDF officials to give more time to enable a safe evacuation and also to take out crucial media equipment. 
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Oh my god. The building where al Jazeera’s office is housed has just been taken down by Israeli airstrikes. There was a warning and evacuated. It houses offices and private homes. I can’t believe it. <a href="https://t.co/Q4luRYk9H9">pic.twitter.com/Q4luRYk9H9</a>
— Stefanie Dekker (@StefanieDekker) <a href="https://twitter.com/StefanieDekker/status/1393541536755986445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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However, eyewitnesses say they were not given extra time, but merely made it out with whatever they had in hand and with their own lives.
The building can be seen essentially collapsing in its own footprint, the same way that three prior residential apartment buildings did during days past. “The building was hit approximately six times before collapsing in plumes of black smoke, which engulfed the entire neighborhood,” international press reports <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/15/israeli-strikes-destroy-gaza-jalaa-tower-media-al-jazeera-associated-press">noted</a>.
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⭕ LIVE footage of the moment an Israeli air raid bombed the offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press in Gaza City ⬇️
🔴 LIVE updates: <a href="https://t.co/RvtP1lEX1x">https://t.co/RvtP1lEX1x</a> <a href="https://t.co/RBO1ZiDAl0">pic.twitter.com/RBO1ZiDAl0</a>
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) <a href="https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1393548304852606977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The moment Israel bombed Al-Jalaa tower in Gaza housing international media outlets including Al Jazeera and AP. Reports and media personnel were not even allowed time to grab their equipment before evacuating the building <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GazaUnderAttack?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GazaUnderAttack</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://t.co/jR2oMDyr68">pic.twitter.com/jR2oMDyr68</a>
— Marwa Fatafta #SaveSheikhJarrah (@marwasf) <a href="https://twitter.com/marwasf/status/1393550595898892291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“The strike on the high-rise came nearly an hour after the military ordered people to evacuate the 12-story building, which also housed Al-Jazeera, other offices and residential apartments. The strike brought down the entire structure, which collapsed in a gigantic cloud of dust,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-west-bank-gaza-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-7974cc0c03897b8b21e5fc2f8c7d8a79">AP writes</a>. 
“There was no immediate explanation for why it was attacked,” AP adds.
The IDF in a later follow-up statement alleged the media offices contained Hamas military intelligence units…
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After providing advance warning to civilians & time to evacuate, IDF fighter jets struck a multi-story building containing Hamas military intelligence assets.
The building contained civilian media offices, which Hamas hides behind and deliberately uses as human shields. <a href="https://t.co/zeDjEquePD">pic.twitter.com/zeDjEquePD</a>
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1393565656621137920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The devastating attack brought swift condemnation by various international media organizations and advocates, with a number of prominent journalists expressing their shock, <a href="https://twitter.com/StefanieDekker/status/1393541536755986445">saying</a> they “can’t believe” the media building was so blatantly targeted by Israel’s military.
AP president Gary Pruitt issued a statement saying “we are shocked and horrified” at the “incredibly disturbing” attack wherein “we narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life.” 
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WATCH: The owner of al-Jalaa tower pleads with an Israeli officer on live TV to let journalists collect their gear before he bombs it.
Moments later, Israeli air strikes demolish the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> building that housed several international media offices used by AlJazeera and MEE <a href="https://t.co/a5PRzQNOkC">pic.twitter.com/a5PRzQNOkC</a>
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1393575855104925696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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“Journalists who worked there had been reporting on the Israeli attacks on Gaza,” Al Jazeera said in a social media statement. “Targeting journalists is a war crime.”
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An Israeli airstrike destroyed the Al Jazeera office in Gaza. The Israeli military warned they would hit the building that houses media organizations including the AP.
Journalists who worked there had been reporting on the Israeli attacks on Gaza. <a href="https://t.co/fZVo3TFEoO">pic.twitter.com/fZVo3TFEoO</a>
— AJ+ (@ajplus) <a href="https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1393547258008850432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Harrison and Robert talk about <a href="https://cantcensortruth.com/watch?id=609eaa3b6244dd2b0c118ba2">brewing Middle East war</a>: Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Hezbollah and Hamas.
 
 
source <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/biden-phones-netanyahu-after-israel-flattens-ap-offices-in-gaza-has-yet-to-condemn-attack">https://www.infowars.com/posts/biden-phones-netanyahu-after-israel-flattens-ap-offices-in-gaza-has-yet-to-condemn-attack</a>

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Tucker Carlson: New CDC Mask Rules ‘a Troubling Development’ for Power-Hungry Democrats

Fox News host Tucker Carlson broke down how the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) new recommendations to lift mask mandates for vaccinated individuals spells trouble for Democrats vying for power.
In his opening monologue of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Friday, Carlson explained that the CDC’s easing of mask restrictions also means easing the newfound political powers the Democrats have gained during the COVID pandemic.
“So for the 151 million Americans who’ve already received the COVID vaccine, this would be good news,” Carlson said. “They can breathe freely for the first time in a year. They don’t need to be ashamed any longer to show their faces in public. They can be human. They can be Americans, and people like that are celebrating.”
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This is bad news for pro-lockdown Democrats who have enjoyed the ability to visibly identify Republicans, who tend not to heed to government recommendations as often as the left.
“But for others, people whose main interest is not public health, but whose main interest is power, this new guidance is, as we often say in the news business, a ‘troubling development,'” Carlson continued.
“For people like that, letting the vaccinated live without wearing masks raises all kinds of distressing questions beginning with: if people are permitted to dress any way they want to dress, how are we going to control them? And more to the point, if nobody has to wear a mask, how are we going to know who the Republicans are? How can we be certain who to scoff at? Who to feel morally superior to?”
Carlson then cited a British study revealing that not only were masks not effective against COVID-19 spread, but they actually became vectors for disease.
“Oh, so it turns out according to the study, people who wore the kinds of masks that MSNBC anchors plan to wear in airplanes when they fly commercial, those people were more likely to get the flu, to get infected than people who weren’t wearing the masks. That’s amazing. Why haven’t we heard about that study before?” Carlson asked.
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“You know, because it was a study with math and stuff, old school science where you test your hypotheses, and then don’t lie about the results of the tests. In other words, it was racism, and we can’t have that.”
Carlson then summed the messaging Democrats are sending by flouting the new CDC guidance that they’ve spent the last year obsessively adhering to.
“And then — and this is the key, so listen carefully — once you have all been thoroughly vaccinated, you must live as though you haven’t been vaccinated, because, although the vaccine is a hundred percent effective and therefore essential, actually it doesn’t work at all. It’s pretty much just saline solution, but with potentially fatal side effects,” Carlson said.
“So take the vaccine, but don’t trust the vaccine. Damn the CDC guidance,” he added, mocking Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, who asserted that masks will still be required in the House chamber despite the CDC’s new recommendations.
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Alex Jones breaks down the ridiculous medical tyranny cult praising Biden after he announced the federal government would now allow vaccinated people only the <a href="https://cantcensortruth.com/watch?id=609ef92dffc2502c1a0d8e39">right take off their masks and smile</a>.
 
 
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American People Reject US Army’s Woke Recruitment Ads

The US Army’s latest round of recruitment ads catering to Gen Z are being downvoted en masse, highlighting the American people’s outrage with the new “woke” messaging.
The “answer The Calling” ads, which focus on promoting “diversity” rather than producing a strong military force, are being roundly disliked by YouTube users.
The most downvoted video, “Emma,” features a girl raised by 2 moms who have a lesbian wedding, go to civil rights protests and “shatter stereotypes,” but the rest of the ads are also disproportionately disliked.
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The Army’s ads come on the heels of new woke recruitment ads from the CIA, which also promoted “diversity” rather than being skillful in a particular field.
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Meanwhile in China … <a href="https://t.co/XKQlIcxY1J">pic.twitter.com/XKQlIcxY1J</a>
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) <a href="https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1390824760494469123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://banned.video/watch?id=609f1369a6280f2c6e7dbecb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Liberals Panic As Masks Go Away And They Lose Their Top Vehicle Of Hate</a>
 
 
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Persecuted Anti-Lockdown Pastor Warns ‘Medical Tyranny’ Is Already Here

Canadian anti-lockdown pastor Artur Pawlowski spoke with Fox News on Friday to warn of fascism creeping into the free world under the guise of COVID public safety.
In an interview on “The Ingraham Angle”, Pawlowski, who was recently <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/shock-video-canadian-church-attacked-by-police-pastor-arrested-under-covid-tyranny/">arrested</a> and put in solitary confinement for holding a church service in defiance of Canadian lockdown rules, explained that the current COVID measures are producing a “hybrid” of fascism and communism.
“We have no rights whatsoever. What we have right now is some kind of a hybrid between fascism and communism: medical tyranny,” Pawlowski told host Laura Ingraham.
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“It looks like we have absolutely no rights whatsoever,” he continued. “The premier of Alberta right now declared that protesting is illegal. So when I opened my church in protest against the government overreach, I was taken into custody, I was manhandled – they really wanted me to be hurt – they threw me into a cell, they deprived me of sleep for two days.”
“I spent three days in jail for my crime of opening the church in a free and democratic society,” he added.
Pawlowski, a Polish immigrant to fled the Soviet bloc of communism, described the parallels between the Soviet authoritarianism and the oppression unfolding in Canada.
“I escaped tyranny. I escaped communist socialism,” he said. “I came to Canada only because Canada was offering me freedom. Here we are again in a repetition of history, and I decided I’m going to stand up and fight to the death.”
Pawlowski then insisted that the COVID-19 lockdown measures were a “sham” and a “big fat lie.”
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“When I grew up behind the Iron Curtain, that’s what we were receiving on a daily basis: lies, manipulation, misinformation. If you were looking for the truth you were arrested, sentenced to jail,” he said.
“If you were caught listening to European radio, you could face five years jail time. That’s why they’re de-platforming Christians, that’s why they’re de-platforming anyone that opposes them and brings forth the truth.”
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Pastor <a href="https://www.streetchurch.ca/">Artur Pawlowski</a> joins The Alex Jones Show to break down how the judge in his case ruled that it is <a href="https://cantcensortruth.com/watch?id=609c6738aff48124dcb9de24">illegal to protest the government</a>.
 
 
source <a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/persecuted-anti-lockdown-pastor-warns-medical-tyranny-is-already-here">https://www.infowars.com/posts/persecuted-anti-lockdown-pastor-warns-medical-tyranny-is-already-here</a>

news Persecuted Anti-Lockdown Pastor Warns ‘Medical Tyranny’ Is Already Here

Canadian anti-lockdown pastor Artur Pawlowski spoke with Fox News on Friday to warn of fascism creeping into the free world under the guise ...