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The elderly and vulnerable were murdered in care homes and this Government convinced you Covid-19 was to blame

Democide is the murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide, senicide, and mass murder. Her Majesty’s Government, its scientific advisors, medical advisors, and NHS chiefs have committed all of these acts since March 2020, but they couldn’t do it without convincing you Covid-19 was to blame. Here’s how they did it…
Firstly they created mass hysteria. You were shown images such as this on programmes such as BBC News, or on the front pages of newspapers.
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Infamous images of Chinese medical officials in hazmat suits collecting bodies off the pavements of Wuhan, where we were told they had collapsed and died in the street because of a new strain of coronavirus, now known as COVID-19.
Have you ever seen anybody die in the street because of Covid-19?
It wasn’t until Covid allegedly hit the Lombardy region of Italy that people really started to pay attention though.
On the 19th March 2020, Sky News released a documentary entitled ‘The Shocking Centre of the Covid-19 crisis’.
Here’s some of the things they told you in that documentary –
“They’re fighting a war here and they’re losing.”
“The sheer numbers of people succumbing to the coronavirus is overwhelming every hospital in Northern Italy.”
“This killer pandemic is virtually out of control.”
“The doctors say they’ve seen nothing like it before, and are warning other countries – especially the United Kingdom that they will see it as well.”
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This is probably the point that millions fell for the con, allowing the Government to implement policies which would ensure thousands of elderly and disabled people were euthanised.
But some could see what was coming, the problem is their voices were not heard on what has become a pathetic, propaganda arm of the UK government – the mainstream media. 
Advocates spoke out prior to the debate of the coronavirus bill on March 29th 2020, insisting the bill would lead to the ‘genocide of disabled people’.
A statement from Greenwich Disabled People Against Cuts outlined the following concerns –
“Should this Bill pass as is, disabled people will be forced to rely on family or volunteers to provide the support that is currently provided by trained, paid, Personal Assistants, care agencies, or residential home workers.
“This will undo decades of campaigning for Independent Living and Disabled People’s rights – potentially causing virtual imprisonment of disabled people, harm or death (through neglect, self-harm, insufficient support and / or suicide).”
The bill passed, as you will know, but the actual outcome over the past year and a half was much worse than anyone could have predicted.
The following is everything the Government implemented in March 2020 that allowed them to commit democide –
The Government <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/877302/guidance-for-doctors-completing-medical-certificates-of-cause-of-death-covid-19.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">changed the law under the guise of the coronavirus act on certifying deaths</a>.
This change of law meant that any doctor could certify a death, even if they were not the attending doctor.
The law also stated, and still states that Covid-19 could be listed as a ‘direct’ or ‘underlying’ cause of death for the purposes of the medical certificate of cause of death (MCCD).
The law also stated, and still states that Covid-19 deaths do not need to be reported to the coroner, despite Covid-19 being listed as a notifiable disease.
Did the doctors need proof under the new law that Covid-19 was the official cause of death? Of course not. The law stated, and still states that –
Medical practitioners are required to certify causes of death “to the best of their knowledge and belief”. Without diagnostic proof, if appropriate and to avoid delay.
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The law also allowed, and still allows the cause of death to be verified remotely. The guidance explains that the person physically attending the body of the deceased need not be a medical professional but that they should ‘usually and normally’ be independent of family members. This is precisely what happened in care homes, as GP’s refused to visit.
The <a href="https://www.themdu.com/guidance-and-advice/latest-updates-and-advice/certifying-deaths-during-covid-19-outbreak" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">law on cremations also changed</a> –
The coronavirus act removed the need for a confirmatory medical certificate (form 5) for cremations. It also removed the need to examine the body after death as long as the deceased was either seen after death by a medical practitioner or attended within the last 28 days – in person or by video consultation.
The <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/7/part/1/enacted" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">law on indemnity for health service activity also changed</a> –
The new law meant that any person providing caring for or treating a person wo was just “suspected” of having Covid-19 would not be held liable for their death.
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The <a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/5747/documents/65438/default/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">final law change</a> that was critical in allowing the Government and it’s circle of scientific and medical advisors to get away with mass murder was the ban on visiting loved ones in care homes.
Family members—many of whom perform essential care giving roles—were either banned from visiting their loved ones or faced very significant limitations on their ability to be with them.
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Whilst all this was happening <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/911541/COVID-19_hospital_discharge_service_requirements_2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Matt Hancock and Chris Whitty instructed hospitals to discharge as many patients as possible into care homes</a>, the very place the patients loved ones were now banned from visiting, the very place a doctor was not required to visit to certify a death, the very place carers could not be held liable for a death as long as it was just suspected to be Covid-19.
The very place where care home managers refused to call out a doctor to treat an illness. The very place that care home managers refused to call an ambulance to take a resident to hospital. The very place that any patient with the first signs of just a sniffle were put on do not resuscitate orders without informing the patient or their family.
The very place where those do not resuscitate orders were used as permission to begin end of life care. End of life care which involved the refusal of medical treatment. End of life care which involved the withdrawal of existing medication. End of life care which involved the injection of lethal amounts of midazolam. End of life care which involved the deprivation of food and water, leading to the residents dying of drug overdose, starvation, and dehydration.
Is it just a coincidence that <a href="https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=d71724e5-0613-4e01-a589-433eb29a9bbb&audience=professional" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">midazolam causes the same symptoms as serious complications due to Covid-19?</a>
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Is it just a coincidence that <a href="https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/coronavirus-staff/clinical-info-pathways/clinical-info-pathways-downloads/End%20of%20Life%20Care%20for%20Patients%20with%20COVID-19.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">end of life care guidelines for Covid-19</a> involved the injection of lethal doses of midazolam?
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Is it just a coincidence that the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/02/14/34-of-nhs-staff-say-they-were-pressured-to-place-do-not-resuscitate-orders-on-disabled-covid-patients/" target="_blank">Care Quality Commission found that 34% of people</a> working in health and social care were pressured into placing ‘do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ (DNACPR) orders on Covid patients who suffered from disabilities and learning difficulties, without involving the patient or their families in the decision?
Is it just a coincidence that an <a href="https://www.amnesty.org.uk/files/2020-10/Care%20Homes%20Report.pdf?VersionId=kd5Z8eWzj8Q6ryzHkcaUnxfCtqe5Ddg6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">amnesty report</a> found more of the same?
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Is it just a coincidence that the <a href="https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news/supplies-of-sedative-used-for-covid-19-patients-diverted-from-france-to-avoid-potential-shortages" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">UK purchased a two-year supply of midazolam in March 2020</a>, and then went back to France for more?
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Is it just a coincidence that a two-year supply of midazolam was <a href="https://www.nottsapc.nhs.uk/media/1522/covid-_supply_issues.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">depleted by October 2021</a>?
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Is it just a coincidence that <a href="https://openprescribing.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">prescriptions for midazolam</a> doubled in April 2020 compared with April 2019?
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Is it just a coincidence that the amount of Midazolam solution produced each month match the spikes in alleged Covid deaths?
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Is it just a coincidence that the number of prescriptions for midazolam in 2020 and early 2021 precisely precede the number of deaths due to all causes in the over 65’s during 2020 and early 2021?
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That is an awful lot of coincidences, if you believe in them.
<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/04/14/theyve-lied-to-you-the-nhs-had-a-holiday-during-the-year-of-covid-19-and-we-can-prove-it/" target="_blank">Hospitals beds in April 2020 were 30%</a><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/04/14/theyve-lied-to-you-the-nhs-had-a-holiday-during-the-year-of-covid-19-and-we-can-prove-it/" target="_blank">down compared to the previous year.</a>
<a href="https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/04/14/theyve-lied-to-you-the-nhs-had-a-holiday-during-the-year-of-covid-19-and-we-can-prove-it/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A&E attendance was 57% down in April 2020 compared to the previous year.</a>
<a href="https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/02/06/protect-nhs-100k-deaths/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Care home deaths were 205% up in April 2020 compared to April 2019.</a>
<a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=nation&areaName=England" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The vast majority of alleged Covid deaths are people over the age of 85.</a>
And
<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/04/01/do-not-resuscitate-scandal-led-to-disabled-people-accounting-for-3-in-5-covid-deaths-according-to-ons-figures/" target="_blank">And three in every five alleged Covid-19 deaths occurred in those who suffered learning difficulties and disabilities.</a>
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In relation to deaths of people with learning difficulties the ONS said – ‘the largest effect was associated with living in a care home or other communal establishment.‘
Can you not see a strong correlation here between the over prescribing of Midazolam and the seemingly premature ending of life, with the associated deaths being put down as Covid-19?
At the beginning of World War II, individuals with mental or physical disabilities were targeted for murder in what the Nazis called the “T-4,” or “euthanasia,” program.
The Euthanasia Program required the cooperation of many German doctors, who reviewed the medical files of patients in institutions to determine which individuals with disabilities should be killed. The doctors also supervised the actual killings. Doomed patients were transferred to six institutions in Germany and Austria, where they were killed in specially constructed gas chambers. Infants and small children with disabilities were also killed by injection with a deadly dose of drugs or by starvation. The bodies of the victims were burned in large ovens called crematoria.
Despite public protests in 1941, the Nazi leadership continued this program in secret throughout the war. About 200,000 people with disabilities were murdered between 1940 and 1945.
Certain people within the UK Government, certain scientific advisors, certain medical advisors, and certain NHS chiefs are complicit in orchestrating democide in the United Kingdom, just like the Nazi’s did during World War Two.
Except this time, they didn’t use gas chambers. They have instead used fear, deception, and Midazolam.
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The Suicide Squad puts its director on a path to become the Gen X Clint Eastwood

<a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/24/17599132/james-gunn-fired-gamergate-guardians-of-the-galaxy">James Gunn</a>’s The Suicide Squad, the recently released “standalone” sequel to the 2016 catastrophe Suicide Squad (which was, presumably, just a suicide squad), is a nasty piece of work.
Gory and gross, the movie revels in a blood-soaked aesthetic, which might come as a shock to fans of Gunn’s two Guardians of the Galaxy films, both of which are less gory and much cuddlier. The Suicide Squad is much closer to the work Gunn did at the start of his career, when he wrote films for Troma Entertainment, a company famous for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvrsRuceWJg">low-budget horror films</a>.
The Suicide Squad also crystallizes a theme that has been building in all five of Gunn’s films so far: a distrust of institutions. (He also directed the 2006 creature feature Slither and the 2010 superhero deconstruction Super.) The movie explicitly argues that if mad science existed, the US would be all too happy to fund its dark excesses, provided none of those transgressions played out on American shores.
The Suicide Squad follows Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Bloodshot (Idris Elba), and a variety of other supervillains as they undertake a deadly mission on the fictional island nation of Corto Maltese, after a political uprising there installs a government that is not particularly friendly to the United States.
In its mashup of America’s adventures on foreign soil, the movie nods to numerous things the US government has done, including its use of Nazi scientists to gain an advantage during the Cold War and the CIA’s fomenting of unrest in Central and South American countries. It even presents a pastiche of Guantanamo Bay. This commentary is all in the text of the film, which goes out of its way to say, “America? That’s the real bad guy!”
There are a number of natural comparison points one could draw to The Suicide Squad. Zack Snyder’s superhero films (particularly his cut of Justice League) are similarly anti-institutionalist, with many of the same qualms, though they have much more faith in superpowered cops to save us all. One might also nod to war movies such as The Dirty Dozen or samurai films like The Seven Samurai, which also fall under the umbrella of “one tiny group takes on an overwhelming onslaught of bad guys after the supposed good guys turn tail.”
What The Suicide Squad most strongly brings to mind for me, however, are the movies of Clint Eastwood, a director who’s similarly interested in the weight of violence and the grossness of American institutions (though he and Gunn come at those themes through different genres and different politics).
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<figcaption>James Gunn (center) directs the cast of The Suicide Squad.</figcaption>
<cite>Warner Bros. Pictures</cite></figure>
Clint Eastwood rose to fame in the Western genre, sort of the superhero movies of their day. (This comparison isn’t exactly correct, but it’s close enough for purposes of this article.) Eastwood might still be best known for starring in the stripped-down films of Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, etc.), in which he played an archetypal gunslinger wandering an empty, forbidding landscape. Later, he directed several of his own Westerns, including High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, and (most famously) Unforgiven.
The five features Gunn has directed are almost all superhero movies, not Westerns. But at their most generic, the Western and the superhero film are having two sides of the same conversation: The Western is about the establishment of civilization, and the superhero movie is about upholding it at any cost. They’re mirror genres of each other.
In the most archetypal possible Western, a lawman comes to the frontier and protects a small town and its innocent (white) citizens from the bad guys (who might be criminals or might be Native Americans). In the most archetypal possible superhero movie, a superpowered individual embraces their truly heroic nature to preserve the world order after a superpowered villain threatens to destabilize it. At their core, Westerns are about the establishment of America as a superpower stretching across an entire continent, and superhero movies are about propping up that superpower against all who would collapse it.
You can surely point to Westerns and superhero movies that flout those generic descriptions (some of them directed by Eastwood and Gunn). The flouting of convention is good — we’d get awfully bored if every single movie adhered to established genre conventions.
In particular, Eastwood’s Westerns and Gunn’s superhero films both play with revisionism of genre tropes. Revisionist stories tend to pick apart one or all of the tropes that define a genre. The Suicide Squad, for instance, isn’t the first movie to suggest that supervillains might actually be the good guys, but it is one of just a handful of superhero films to hint that destabilizing the world order <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/10/17788022/summer-movies-2018-best-blockbusters-politics">might be a good thing</a>.
The revisionist Western is a rich tradition within that genre (1956’s The Searchers, 1962’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, etc.), but perhaps the Western that became most famous as “a revisionist Western” — what pretty much every critic described it in reviews — is 1992’s Unforgiven, for which Eastwood won his first Oscar for directing. Unforgiven looks directly at the legacies of violence that built the American West, and stars Eastwood himself as a retired gunslinger who’s pulled back in for one last job: working to bring to justice two cowboys who disfigured a sex worker.
The film directly tackles several of the underlying assumptions of the “classic” Western. Civilization is ultimately just as lawless as the frontier, in Unforgiven’s estimation. After all, the gunslinger is only recruited — by a group of women seeking justice — because local law enforcement simply didn’t care about the woman who was harmed.
Unforgiven also plays off a trope familiar in a genre that’s closely related to the Western: the revenge thriller. In revenge thrillers, violence can solve maybe one problem but also creates more. Eventually, a character becomes so stuck in a cycle of violence that they can never escape it. The gunslinger in Unforgiven just wanted to retire to the middle of nowhere and be a farmer, but his past keeps coming back to claim him.
Revisionist takes can open up new ground in genres that have become ossified and boring. They can also introduce new tropes that become clichés themselves. (“Violence only begets more violence” was, at one time, a pretty new idea in the revenge thriller. Now it’s almost a standard of the genre.)
Regardless, they do have a tendency toward cynicism, and they tend to attract filmmakers who have a distrust of the way things are usually done. Eastwood is one of those filmmakers — and doesn’t that description also sound a lot like James Gunn?
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<figcaption>Bradley Cooper played Chris Kyle in the Clint Eastwood-directed film American Sniper.</figcaption>
<cite>Warner Bros. Pictures</cite></figure>
At first, comparing these two directors might seem odd. Eastwood is a famous conservative who once <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933hKyKNPFQ">ranted at an empty chair</a> meant to represent Barack Obama, while Gunn is a solid lefty. But the more you examine the politics of both men’s films, the more a libertarian streak emerges, one that unites them across our current political divide.
The Suicide Squad spends most of its runtime attempting (badly) to burnish its lefty credentials. The movie’s cast is casually diverse, and it has a supreme distrust of law enforcement. It is rare for any big American studio movie, let alone a superhero movie, to so much as glance at the idea that US foreign policy might be making the world a worse place, and even if I think The Suicide Squad gets only about 75 percent of the way to making a point centered on this idea, I appreciate its attempts to have a larger political message.
After leaving The Suicide Squad, I couldn’t stop thinking about Eastwood’s 2014 film <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/1/21/7865145/american-sniper-review">American Sniper</a>. In that Iraq War-centered drama, Eastwood uses the life of sniper Chris Kyle (a real person who, I should note, said several things <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/06/real-american-sniper-hate-filled-killer-why-patriots-calling-hero-chris-kyle">that were horribly racist</a>) to ruminate on something he’s always been interested in: namely, the ways American institutions grind up the men they supposedly support in the name of spreading violence.
The politics of both American Sniper and The Suicide Squad are vague and confusing in many ways. American Sniper is furious that men like Kyle were abandoned by their government once they returned stateside, and it has supreme empathy for American soldiers struggling with combat-related PTSD. It’s not particularly interested in the Iraqis whom Kyle killed, and it creates a villain who might as well be a stereotype of an Arab terrorist. Simply by making Kyle its protagonist, American Sniper could be seen as endorsing some of his most horrifying views about Arab people. (<a href="https://www.avclub.com/american-sniper-fought-a-culture-war-on-the-box-office-1847138948">The A.V. Club’s Tom Breihan</a> has more on this point.)
Seen in the context of Eastwood’s career, though, American Sniper seems to lean slightly more toward “skepticism about America,” rather than toward an explosion of patriotic cheerleading. His 2006 films — Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima — look at World War II’s Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspectives of both the American and Japanese soldiers. The two films have supreme empathy for the men enmeshed in these wars, and a deep skepticism of the military apparatus that put them there. Eastwood is frequently interested in violence and what it does to someone who indulges in it. He’s also compelled by notions about what it means to be a “hero,” if such a thing can even be defined.
James Gunn is interested in all those things too. Like American Sniper, The Suicide Squad is a movie about how American institutions will grind people up in the name of spreading violence abroad, and the ways those chickens can come home to roost.
Also like American Sniper, the film is profoundly uninterested in the perspectives of anyone who’s not American. When thousands of corpses — few of which are members of the Suicide Squad itself — litter the capital city of the fictional Corto Maltese at the film’s end, the movie essentially shrugs. They were zombies controlled by a horrible, psychic starfish monster, so they don’t matter. But the Suicide Squad teammate who died in the final battle? Now there’s a death that is worthy enough to mourn.
That uneasy divide is what I refer to when I say The Suicide Squad doesn’t quite have a point to make. It has heard of American foreign policy skepticism, but it doesn’t know what to do with that concept because it’s so wedded to the idea that there have to be good guys somewhere, even if they’re convicted criminal supervillains like Harley Quinn and her friends.
A superhero movie must end with a big battle, and we haven’t yet reached the stage of superhero revisionism where such a battle can complicate the idea that the final foe might have the correct point of view. Hence a giant starfish monster who wants to take over the planet, rather than a more direct depiction of the US as … a giant monster that wants to take over the planet. (The movie can work as metaphor, but you have to stretch a bit.)
Like Eastwood, Gunn is interested in making movies about how everything is fucked and only your comrades in arms can save you. The antagonists in both Guardians of the Galaxy films include ineffectual governments that can’t accomplish what the Guardians can. Those governments might not be actively villainous, but they still get in the way. Meanwhile, The Suicide Squad is actively contemptuous of the idea that any government anywhere could want something good for its citizens; in its view, once you have power, all you want is more of it.
Indeed, as The Suicide Squad ends, the members of the titular squad briefly toy with the idea of exposing everything the US government has done, but then decide to trade what intelligence they have for their lives and for the freedom of one of their daughters (who’s in danger of going to jail). In the end, everybody’s out for themselves, and no one can quite trust even their own motives. The world is a mean and dreadful place, and the best you can do is look out for you and yours.
But this is a theme that doesn’t really fall on either side of the political aisle. You can use that phrase to rally your leftist mutual-aid network or your conservative militia. Gunn can be a liberal; Eastwood can be a conservative. They can both believe the US government has profoundly failed us, and the only heroism to be found is on a smaller, more personal scale.
I do not think Gunn has yet made a movie as good as Eastwood’s best films, but The Suicide Squad shows that he’s growing ever more interested at subverting the conventions of the superhero genre. I hope he keeps plugging away at this task. Superhero films need someone like him, digging away at their underpinnings, trying to figure out the lies the genre would ask us to believe.
 
 
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We have to accept some risk of Covid-19

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There’s a growing consensus among health experts: Covid-19 may never go away. We’ll likely always have some coronavirus out there, infecting people and, hopefully only in rare cases, getting them seriously ill. The realistic goal is to defang the virus — make it less deadly — not eliminate it entirely.
This is not a surrender to the virus. For a long time, we’ve lived with the seasonal flu, a family of viruses that kills up to tens of thousands of Americans each year. While we can and should take steps to mitigate the risks of the flu (including getting vaccinated for it every year), we’ve never been willing to shut down society or close in-person schooling to fully eradicate it. Americans have accepted some level of risk to continue living normally.
The same will likely be true with Covid-19. The highly transmissible delta variant appears to have cemented this possibility, showing the coronavirus <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/breakthrough-covid-19-cases-may-be-a-bigger-problem.html">will continue to spread</a> even in states and countries with higher vaccination rates.
If you go back to the earlier days of the pandemic, the original hope with vaccines was more modest. Previously, the Food and Drug Administration set the standard for an acceptable Covid-19 vaccine at 50 percent efficacy. The expectation was that the vaccine wouldn’t stop all cases of Covid-19, but would at least reduce the severity of the disease. As Baylor College’s Peter Hotez <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-s-cutoff-covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness-50-percent-what-n1245506">put it at the time</a>, “Even if it’s not the best vaccine, it still could prevent me from going to the hospital or worse.”
Yet somewhere along the way — perhaps with the news the vaccines were far more effective than expected — that message has been lost. And now anything short of perfection is perceived as a failure.
Consider the recent <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm">study</a>, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on the outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/30/provincetown-covid-outbreak-vaccinated/">initial headlines</a> about the study focused on the fact that three-fourths of cases tracked in the study were among vaccinated people, showing the virus spread in a very vaccinated community. The implication, propped up by the CDC’s new guidance that vaccinated people should wear masks indoors in public, was that the delta variant can spread at a high level among even the people who got their shots.
But if you <a href="https://www.vox.com/22602039/breakthrough-cases-covid-19-delta-variant-masks-vaccines">dig into the details of the outbreak</a>, they revealed some very good news for vaccinated people. Among the more than 1,000 cases so far linked to Provincetown, there have only been seven reported hospitalizations (some unvaccinated) and no deaths.
If this was 2020, given overall hospitalization and death rates, the outbreak would have likely produced roughly 100 hospitalizations and 10 deaths.
The Provincetown outbreak, then, showed that the vaccines had worked to defang the coronavirus — to make it more like the flu.
“We should cheer,” Amesh Adalja at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security told me. “The Provincetown outbreak, contrary to what the press reported, was evidence not of the vaccines’ failure but of their smashing success.”
In short: Pay attention to hospitalizations and deaths, not just cases.
There are concerns about “long Covid” — lingering effects in those infected, like overwhelming fatigue. Still, experts say serious long-term symptoms after a Covid-19 infection seem to be fairly rare (though this issue is still being studied). And, at any rate, these kinds of long-term symptoms aren’t unique to the coronavirus; they happen, for one, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22298751/long-term-side-effects-covid-19-hauler-symptoms">with seasonal flu</a>.
While we still have to get more people vaccinated, at a certain point we’ll have to acknowledge we’ve done what we can. It might not be ideal, but we can learn to live with a vaccine-weakened version of Covid-19 — hopefully not too unlike how we’ve long dealt with the flu.
 
 
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Tesla Says CEO Elon Musk's 2020 Compensation Was Nil

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Tesla Inc said on Friday Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk's total compensation for 2020 was nil, compared to $23,760 in 2019.
The electric-car maker also said in a regulatory filing that finance chief Zachary Kirkhorn's total compensation was $46.6 million, versus the $21.2 million he got in 2019.
The pay package of Musk, who is also a major shareholder and CEO of rocket maker SpaceX, requires Tesla's market capitalization and financial growth to hit a series of rising targets.
As of April, Musk had qualified for Tesla options in his 2018 pay package that are now worth over $30 billion.
Tesla added "Technoking of Tesla" to Musk's list of official titles in a regulatory filing in March that also named Kirkhorn "Master of Coin."
Earlier this month, Reuters reported that Musk will be also subject of a biography by Walter Isaacson, the U.S. author who penned a best-selling tome on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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Canada To Accept 20,000 Vulnerable Afghans Such As Women Leaders, Human Rights Workers

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The Taliban have seized Afghanistan's second- and third-biggest cities
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Ottawa:
Canada plans to resettle more than 20,000 vulnerable Afghans including women leaders, human rights workers and reporters to protect them from Taliban reprisals, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said on Friday.
The effort is in addition to an earlier initiative to welcome thousands of Afghans who worked for the Canadian government, such as interpreters, embassy workers and their families, he told a news conference.
"As the Taliban continues to take over more of Afghanistan, many more Afghans' lives are under increasing threat," he said. He did not provide a timetable.
Canada's new plan would focus on those who are particularly vulnerable, including women leaders, human rights defenders, reporters, persecuted religious minorities and members of the gay and lesbian community, he said.
The Taliban have seized Afghanistan's second- and third-biggest cities as resistance from government forces crumbled.
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Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Case To Move Forward In California

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Los Angeles:
A nearly seven-year-old civil lawsuit alleging Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a teen girl will move forward, a judge ruled Friday.
The lawsuit, filed in December 2014, says the disgraced comedian -- who was freed from prison in Pennsylvania in June -- sexually assaulted Judy Huth in 1974 when she was 15 years old.
Huth alleges Cosby assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion and that she suffered "psychological damage and mental anguish" as a result.
The case had been on hold as Cosby, 84, was facing aggravated indecent assault charges in Pennsylvania.
After being convicted for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 17 years ago, Cosby was freed from his prison sentence after the state's supreme court ruled he had been denied a fair trial.
Now, a Los Angeles judge says the civil case against Cosby should proceed.
The court lifted the stay on Friday, except regarding whether Cosby must give a deposition, according to Huth's legal team.
The stay on the deposition will remain in effect until September 30, as lawyers wait to see if the US Supreme Court will review the Pennsylvania decision vacating Cosby's criminal conviction, attorney John West told AFP.
Huth's legal team said a trial date of April 18 had been set.
"We look forward to continuing battling for our very brave client," attorney Gloria Allred told reporters.
Cosby's legal team did not respond to an AFP request for comment.
The case is understood to be the last pending legislation against Cosby.
Dozens of women have said they suffered sexual assault at the hands of the celebrity, but only Constand's allegations were tried criminally, due to expiring statutes of limitations.
Cosby's release from prison -- he had served more than two years of his three-to-ten year sentence -- infuriated many advocates of the #MeToo movement.
His conviction was the first guilty verdict for sexual assault against a celebrity since the advent of the worldwide reckoning against sexual violence and abuse of power.
But the court did not exonerate him, rather overturning the conviction on a technicality.
Judges wrote that a non-prosecution agreement between a former district attorney and Cosby over evidence he gave in a different civil case meant the actor shouldn't have been criminally charged for the Constand case in the first place.
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