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Canadian military short thousands of troops due to COVID-19
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Lee Berthiaume
Publishing date:Feb 14, 2021 • 15 hours ago • 3 minute read
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces arrive to help at Pickering's Orchard Villa long-term care home on May 6, 2020. PHOTO BY VERONICA HENRI /TORONTO SUN
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OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is dealing with a shortfall of several thousand troops as COVID-19 has forced the military to curb the training of new recruits for most of the past year.
While the military says there has not been any immediate impact on its missions here and abroad as it manages the shortfall and training challenges, a spokesman acknowledged the potential for longer-term ramifications.
“It is too early to determine how the reduced number of recruitment files being processed during the pandemic will affect CAF operations in the medium to long term,” Maj. Travis Smyth said in an email.
The federal Liberal government has authorized the Armed Forces to have at least 68,000 regular-force members and 29,000 part-time reservists, which is based on available funding and the missions that the military is expected to undertake.
Yet the military was short of those targets by about 2,000 regular-force members and nearly 5,000 reservists at the end of December, according to figures provided to The Canadian Press.
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One reason: The military was able to provide basic training to only about a quarter the expected number of new hires since March as COVID-19 forced recruiting centres and training camps to close or otherwise curtail their operations.
“The pandemic has limited training for large parts of the year in order to meet provincial and federal health and safety guidelines,” Smyth said.
“The reduced training capacity, in addition to strict protocols that the recruiting centres are required to follow to ensure the safety and well-being of applicants and staff, has reduced the number of files being processed.”
The pandemic has exacerbated a long-standing problem for the military, which has struggled for years to attract new recruits.
Federal auditor general Michael Ferguson flagged personnel shortages as a real threat to the Forces in November 2016, warning that it put a heavier burden on those in uniform and hurt military operations.
The military at that time was dealing with roughly the same number of unfilled positions as today, which resulted in a number of issues including a lack of personnel to fly or maintain various aircraft.
The shortfalls have persisted despite a 2017 Liberal government promise to expand the size of the Armed Forces to defend against growing global instability and emerging threats in space and online.
The recruiting challenge has contributed to a push by senior commanders to make the Armed Forces more inclusive, with active efforts to attract women, visible minorities, Indigenous Canadians and members of the LGBTQ community.
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On the plus side, Smyth did indicate that the military had managed to make some progress on retaining more experienced members in 2019 and the first three months of 2020, though he did not have figures for the nine months of the pandemic.
Defence analyst David Perry of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute said the difficulties attracting and training recruits during the pandemic is not surprising given the restrictions that have been placed on society as a whole.
Yet he also noted that at a time of great economic uncertainty for large parts of the country, the military — and the federal government — represent stable employment, and that the military should at least be able to see better retention.
Either way, Perry said the continuing challenge getting new recruits in uniform underscores the importance of the military’s efforts to attract new recruits beyond what has been its traditional source: white men.
“The interest and the onus on the military organization to try and achieve some very longstanding goals … to broaden its recruiting base, to make it more representative of the country as a whole, take on increased importance,” Perry said.
He also worried that continued reports about hate and sexual misconduct in the ranks — including the recent allegations against former chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance — send the wrong message to potential recruits.
Global News has reported allegations that Vance had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate and made a sexual comment to a service member that he significantly outranked in 2012 before taking on the military’s top post.
Vance has not responded to The Canadian Press’s requests for comment, and the allegations against him have not been independently verified or tested in court. Global says Vance has denied any wrongdoing.
Military police are now investigating the allegations, while Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has promised an independent probe into the matter.
Military police confirmed last week that they opened an investigation into Vance’s conduct during his time as deputy commander of a NATO force in Naples, Italy, before he was named defence chief. No charges were ever laid.
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Lee Berthiaume
Publishing date:Feb 14, 2021 • 15 hours ago • 3 minute read
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces arrive to help at Pickering's Orchard Villa long-term care home on May 6, 2020. PHOTO BY VERONICA HENRI /TORONTO SUN
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OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is dealing with a shortfall of several thousand troops as COVID-19 has forced the military to curb the training of new recruits for most of the past year.
While the military says there has not been any immediate impact on its missions here and abroad as it manages the shortfall and training challenges, a spokesman acknowledged the potential for longer-term ramifications.
“It is too early to determine how the reduced number of recruitment files being processed during the pandemic will affect CAF operations in the medium to long term,” Maj. Travis Smyth said in an email.
The federal Liberal government has authorized the Armed Forces to have at least 68,000 regular-force members and 29,000 part-time reservists, which is based on available funding and the missions that the military is expected to undertake.
Yet the military was short of those targets by about 2,000 regular-force members and nearly 5,000 reservists at the end of December, according to figures provided to The Canadian Press.
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One reason: The military was able to provide basic training to only about a quarter the expected number of new hires since March as COVID-19 forced recruiting centres and training camps to close or otherwise curtail their operations.
“The pandemic has limited training for large parts of the year in order to meet provincial and federal health and safety guidelines,” Smyth said.
“The reduced training capacity, in addition to strict protocols that the recruiting centres are required to follow to ensure the safety and well-being of applicants and staff, has reduced the number of files being processed.”
The pandemic has exacerbated a long-standing problem for the military, which has struggled for years to attract new recruits.
Federal auditor general Michael Ferguson flagged personnel shortages as a real threat to the Forces in November 2016, warning that it put a heavier burden on those in uniform and hurt military operations.
The military at that time was dealing with roughly the same number of unfilled positions as today, which resulted in a number of issues including a lack of personnel to fly or maintain various aircraft.
The shortfalls have persisted despite a 2017 Liberal government promise to expand the size of the Armed Forces to defend against growing global instability and emerging threats in space and online.
The recruiting challenge has contributed to a push by senior commanders to make the Armed Forces more inclusive, with active efforts to attract women, visible minorities, Indigenous Canadians and members of the LGBTQ community.
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On the plus side, Smyth did indicate that the military had managed to make some progress on retaining more experienced members in 2019 and the first three months of 2020, though he did not have figures for the nine months of the pandemic.
Defence analyst David Perry of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute said the difficulties attracting and training recruits during the pandemic is not surprising given the restrictions that have been placed on society as a whole.
Yet he also noted that at a time of great economic uncertainty for large parts of the country, the military — and the federal government — represent stable employment, and that the military should at least be able to see better retention.
Either way, Perry said the continuing challenge getting new recruits in uniform underscores the importance of the military’s efforts to attract new recruits beyond what has been its traditional source: white men.
“The interest and the onus on the military organization to try and achieve some very longstanding goals … to broaden its recruiting base, to make it more representative of the country as a whole, take on increased importance,” Perry said.
He also worried that continued reports about hate and sexual misconduct in the ranks — including the recent allegations against former chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance — send the wrong message to potential recruits.
Global News has reported allegations that Vance had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate and made a sexual comment to a service member that he significantly outranked in 2012 before taking on the military’s top post.
Vance has not responded to The Canadian Press’s requests for comment, and the allegations against him have not been independently verified or tested in court. Global says Vance has denied any wrongdoing.
Military police are now investigating the allegations, while Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has promised an independent probe into the matter.
Military police confirmed last week that they opened an investigation into Vance’s conduct during his time as deputy commander of a NATO force in Naples, Italy, before he was named defence chief. No charges were ever laid.
Canadian military short thousands of troops due to COVID-19
OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is dealing with a shortfall of several thousand troops as COVID-19 has forced the military to curb the training of new recruits f…
Reports of domestic, intimate partner violence continue to rise during pandemic
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Nicole Thompson
Publishing date:Feb 15, 2021 • 5 minutes ago • 2 minute read
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The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic did not stop a rising tide of reports of domestic violence, experts say, warning that the stress of life in lockdown continues to put victims at risk.
Canada’s Assaulted Women’s Helpline fielded 20,334 calls between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, compared to 12,352 over the same period the previous year, said Yvonne Harding, manager of resource development at the organization.
“It’s very disturbing to know that there are so many women who are in this really precarious situation,” she said. “There may have been limited support for them beforehand, but at least they had outlets.”
Harding said opportunities to leave the house to get help — such as daily trips to and from school — have in many cases been eliminated during the pandemic.
Access to friends and family has also been cut off, she said, leaving victims with fewer options.
Call volumes spiked almost immediately when swaths of Canada first locked down, Harding said.
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Between April 1 and Sept. 30, the centre received 51,299 calls, compared to 24,010 in the same time in 2019.
“Everything closed overnight, and our crisis lines lit up,” she said.
“We saw a range of calls. We saw those who were feeling immediately threatened because their situation had escalated, and we saw those for whom fears were kicking in, because things were starting to change and they were used to being able to access community supports in person that were no longer available to them.”
The Assaulted Women’s Helpline has had to expand services, she said, and has received government funding to do so.
Police, too, are seeing a spike in domestic-related calls, albeit not as pronounced.
Data from 17 police forces across the country show that calls related to domestic disturbances — which could involve anything from a verbal quarrel to reports of violence“ — rose by nearly 12 per cent between March and June of 2020 compared to the same four months in 2019, according to a Statistics Canada analysis.
It also showed reports of assaults by family members dropped by 4.3 per cent and reports of sexual assaults by family dropped 17.7 per cent.
The Ontario Provincial Police did not provide data about domestic incidents, but Sgt. Julie Randall — who specializes in cases of domestic and intimate partner violence — said the force has seen a small uptick in calls.
Randall is part of a co-ordinating network of police services dealing with domestic violence, and she said other forces in the province are reporting similar increases.
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“Intimate partner violence and mental health are often closely connected, and from what’s been reported worldwide, the pandemic has had a profound effect on people’s mental health,” she said.
But Randall noted the pandemic can’t necessarily bear the entire blame for the spike, adding there may be another reason that calls to helplines far outpace calls to police.
“Statistics tell us that domestic violence goes on long before someone actually picks up the phone to call the police,” Randall said. “So anecdotally, I can say that often our calls are lower than what’s actually happening in the community.”
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Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Nicole Thompson
Publishing date:Feb 15, 2021 • 5 minutes ago • 2 minute read
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The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic did not stop a rising tide of reports of domestic violence, experts say, warning that the stress of life in lockdown continues to put victims at risk.
Canada’s Assaulted Women’s Helpline fielded 20,334 calls between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, compared to 12,352 over the same period the previous year, said Yvonne Harding, manager of resource development at the organization.
“It’s very disturbing to know that there are so many women who are in this really precarious situation,” she said. “There may have been limited support for them beforehand, but at least they had outlets.”
Harding said opportunities to leave the house to get help — such as daily trips to and from school — have in many cases been eliminated during the pandemic.
Access to friends and family has also been cut off, she said, leaving victims with fewer options.
Call volumes spiked almost immediately when swaths of Canada first locked down, Harding said.
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Between April 1 and Sept. 30, the centre received 51,299 calls, compared to 24,010 in the same time in 2019.
“Everything closed overnight, and our crisis lines lit up,” she said.
“We saw a range of calls. We saw those who were feeling immediately threatened because their situation had escalated, and we saw those for whom fears were kicking in, because things were starting to change and they were used to being able to access community supports in person that were no longer available to them.”
The Assaulted Women’s Helpline has had to expand services, she said, and has received government funding to do so.
Police, too, are seeing a spike in domestic-related calls, albeit not as pronounced.
Data from 17 police forces across the country show that calls related to domestic disturbances — which could involve anything from a verbal quarrel to reports of violence“ — rose by nearly 12 per cent between March and June of 2020 compared to the same four months in 2019, according to a Statistics Canada analysis.
It also showed reports of assaults by family members dropped by 4.3 per cent and reports of sexual assaults by family dropped 17.7 per cent.
The Ontario Provincial Police did not provide data about domestic incidents, but Sgt. Julie Randall — who specializes in cases of domestic and intimate partner violence — said the force has seen a small uptick in calls.
Randall is part of a co-ordinating network of police services dealing with domestic violence, and she said other forces in the province are reporting similar increases.
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“Intimate partner violence and mental health are often closely connected, and from what’s been reported worldwide, the pandemic has had a profound effect on people’s mental health,” she said.
But Randall noted the pandemic can’t necessarily bear the entire blame for the spike, adding there may be another reason that calls to helplines far outpace calls to police.
“Statistics tell us that domestic violence goes on long before someone actually picks up the phone to call the police,” Randall said. “So anecdotally, I can say that often our calls are lower than what’s actually happening in the community.”
Reports of domestic, intimate partner violence continue to rise during pandemic
The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic did not stop a rising tide of reports of domestic violence, experts say, warning that the stress of life in lockdown contin…
Pretty sad when you consider lockdowns don't work - the politicians should all donate their whole paychecks to domestic violence prevention because they are causing it.
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Fear porn kills though. So let's have more of that.
Lockdowns Don't Work. That's What The Science Says.
To provide more evidence, The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) took a look at three studies that say the countries that put the most severe lockdowns in place didn't impact their COVID mortality rates.Lockdowns Don't Work. That's What The Science Says. | News Talk 550 KFYI
Three studies have found no significant drop in COVID mortality rates in countries that had lockdowns. Follow the science the say.
Fear porn kills though. So let's have more of that.
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Liberal MP emailed criticisms to own party over how feds are handling pandemic
Liberal MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski sent the complaint emails in March and June, 2020
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Feb 15, 2021 • 18 hours ago • 2 minute read
Marcus Powlowski, Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay-Rainy River. Photo by FACEBOOK /FACEBOOK
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No apologies.
Liberal MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski of Thunder Bay-Rainy River, Ont. has emailed criticism of the federal government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and he isn’t sorry he did so.
“Am I going to say something to my own government, to my own party, when I have health concerns of my constituents in mind? Damn right, I am,” said Powlowski, an emergency room doctor and former consultant to the World Health Organization said to the Commons health committee, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“And you know what? No one in the party has yet given me much grief over that,” said Powlowski. “Certainly, it would be a sad state of affairs if you can’t send emails to your colleagues and people within the party making suggestions. What was my criticism? My criticism is I think there’s a better way we can do things than the way we are.”
Powlowski, according to Blacklock’s Reporter, said he won’t stay quiet about how poorly he believes his own government has handled the COVID- 19 crisis. He sent a series of internal emails in March and June, claiming the federal government’s handling of the pandemic was bureaucratic and haphazard.
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“What are you supposed to do, not send such things to your own party?” said Powlowski.
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“You’re supposed to stay quiet when you see things happen? I don’t think that is in anybody’s best interests. I will continue to look after the interests of my constituents.”
In June, Powlowski wrote to the Department of Public Works to complain about a shortage of masks, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Is there no one mass-producing N95 masks yet in Canada?” he wrote.
“What can the relevant ministries tell me to reassure the health care workers that we are doing everything we can to get those masks?”
Powlowski also complained on March 22 to Deputy Government House Leader Kirsty Duncan that he was not pleased with the he lack of preparedness in distributing ventilators.
“It is hard to have faith we are addressing the issue of procuring ventilators as soon as we have to, because I spoke to the owners of the two companies that actually make things in Canada,” he wrote.
“We should have moved on this over a month ago. Over the weekend nothing has happened. Sorry, pandemics don’t take the weekend off,” he wrote.
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Liberal MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski sent the complaint emails in March and June, 2020
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Marcus Powlowski, Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay-Rainy River. Photo by FACEBOOK /FACEBOOK
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No apologies.
Liberal MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski of Thunder Bay-Rainy River, Ont. has emailed criticism of the federal government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and he isn’t sorry he did so.
“Am I going to say something to my own government, to my own party, when I have health concerns of my constituents in mind? Damn right, I am,” said Powlowski, an emergency room doctor and former consultant to the World Health Organization said to the Commons health committee, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“And you know what? No one in the party has yet given me much grief over that,” said Powlowski. “Certainly, it would be a sad state of affairs if you can’t send emails to your colleagues and people within the party making suggestions. What was my criticism? My criticism is I think there’s a better way we can do things than the way we are.”
Powlowski, according to Blacklock’s Reporter, said he won’t stay quiet about how poorly he believes his own government has handled the COVID- 19 crisis. He sent a series of internal emails in March and June, claiming the federal government’s handling of the pandemic was bureaucratic and haphazard.
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“What are you supposed to do, not send such things to your own party?” said Powlowski.
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“You’re supposed to stay quiet when you see things happen? I don’t think that is in anybody’s best interests. I will continue to look after the interests of my constituents.”
In June, Powlowski wrote to the Department of Public Works to complain about a shortage of masks, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Is there no one mass-producing N95 masks yet in Canada?” he wrote.
“What can the relevant ministries tell me to reassure the health care workers that we are doing everything we can to get those masks?”
Powlowski also complained on March 22 to Deputy Government House Leader Kirsty Duncan that he was not pleased with the he lack of preparedness in distributing ventilators.
“It is hard to have faith we are addressing the issue of procuring ventilators as soon as we have to, because I spoke to the owners of the two companies that actually make things in Canada,” he wrote.
“We should have moved on this over a month ago. Over the weekend nothing has happened. Sorry, pandemics don’t take the weekend off,” he wrote.
Liberal MP emailed criticisms to own party over how feds are handling pandemic
Liberal MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski sent the complaint emails in March and June, 2020.
Yeah well if dropping the ball means not noticing who is NOT allowing the UNTESTED vaccine in so their people are genocidally experimented on, I guess dropping the ball it is.
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These are the same hedge funds shortselling all the corporations suffering under the covid lockdown which doesn't stop the covid disease.
Seriously, You have to be very careful of the politics and financial strategies of who are supplying your "news" these days.
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These are the same hedge funds shortselling all the corporations suffering under the covid lockdown which doesn't stop the covid disease.
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Liberal MP emailed criticisms to own party over how feds are handling pandemic
Liberal MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski sent the complaint emails in March and June, 2020
Author of the article:
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Publishing date:
Feb 15, 2021 • 18 hours ago • 2 minute read
Marcus Powlowski, Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay-Rainy River. Photo by FACEBOOK /FACEBOOK
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No apologies.
Liberal MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski of Thunder Bay-Rainy River, Ont. has emailed criticism of the federal government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and he isn’t sorry he did so.
“Am I going to say something to my own government, to my own party, when I have health concerns of my constituents in mind? Damn right, I am,” said Powlowski, an emergency room doctor and former consultant to the World Health Organization said to the Commons health committee, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“And you know what? No one in the party has yet given me much grief over that,” said Powlowski. “Certainly, it would be a sad state of affairs if you can’t send emails to your colleagues and people within the party making suggestions. What was my criticism? My criticism is I think there’s a better way we can do things than the way we are.”
Powlowski, according to Blacklock’s Reporter, said he won’t stay quiet about how poorly he believes his own government has handled the COVID- 19 crisis. He sent a series of internal emails in March and June, claiming the federal government’s handling of the pandemic was bureaucratic and haphazard.
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“What are you supposed to do, not send such things to your own party?” said Powlowski.
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“You’re supposed to stay quiet when you see things happen? I don’t think that is in anybody’s best interests. I will continue to look after the interests of my constituents.”
In June, Powlowski wrote to the Department of Public Works to complain about a shortage of masks, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Is there no one mass-producing N95 masks yet in Canada?” he wrote.
“What can the relevant ministries tell me to reassure the health care workers that we are doing everything we can to get those masks?”
“We should have moved on this over a month ago. Over the weekend nothing has happened. Sorry, pandemics don’t take the weekend off,” he wrote.
Liberal MP emailed criticisms to own party over how feds are handling pandemic
Liberal MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski sent the complaint emails in March and June, 2020.
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That doesn't mean the ventilators caused harm, though.
I agree that Trudeau is not my favorite example of leadership, but:
Yes, the Biden/ US has two million mRNA "Vaccine" ( apparently they changed the definition of vaccines just to get legal immunity for adverse reactions) test subjects and 3 % of them have had adverse reactions and that doesn't include the fact that only between 1% and 10% of the adverse reactions are even reported.
They are saying if someone dies hours after the vaccine it's a perfectly natural death, but if you die three months after a fakenews PCR test says you have covid from a heart attack it's a covid death. It's like if BLM and antifa burn down your business, that was a perfectly natural fire.
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Yes, the Biden/ US has two million mRNA "Vaccine" ( apparently they changed the definition of vaccines just to get legal immunity for adverse reactions) test subjects and 3 % of them have had adverse reactions and that doesn't include the fact that only between 1% and 10% of the adverse reactions are even reported.
They are saying if someone dies hours after the vaccine it's a perfectly natural death, but if you die three months after a fakenews PCR test says you have covid from a heart attack it's a covid death. It's like if BLM and antifa burn down your business, that was a perfectly natural fire.
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Despite the unprecedented speed, mRNA vaccines are clinically unproven. No commercially available vaccines use the platform and, until now, it hasn’t been tested in large-scale human trials. With COVID-19, that’s all set to change. Experts said in interviews that if the technology pans out, the pandemic could help to usher in a new plug-and-play approach to vaccinology.
COVID-19 and mRNA Vaccines—First Large Test for a New Approach
This Medical News article discusses the leading vaccine candidates against the novel coronavirus.
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Shameless manipulation: Positive PCR tests drop after WHO instructs vendors to lower cycle thresholds. We have been played like a fiddle
By Meryl Nass, MDFirst Published on Dr. Nass’s website
Hospitalization rates associated with Covid have dropped from a high of 132,500 Americans on January 6 to 71,500 on February 12. The US had 920,000 staffed hospital beds in 2019, of which 14.4% harbored a Covid case last month, and 7.8% do now.
This tremendous drop was predicted. Every hospitalized patient is tested for Covid, often repeatedly, using PCR tests with high false positive rates. False positives are due in considerable part to exhorbitant cycle thresholds. This refers to the maximum number of doublings that are allowed during the test. The problem caused by excessive cycle thresholds was well described in a NY Times article last August, but has otherwise been ignored by the mass media. Dr. Sin Hang Lee challenged the FDA’s reliance on exhorbitant cycle thresholds in its acceptance of efficacy claims for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in early December. He and FDA remain engaged in this debate.
The WHO instructed PCR test users and manufacturers on December 14 and again on January 20 that PCR cycle thresholds needed to come down. The December 14 guidance stated WHO’s concern regarding “an elevated risk for false SARS-CoV-2 results” and pointed to “background noise which may lead to a specimen with a high cycle threshold value result being [incorrectly] interpreted as a positive result.”
The first instruction has been superceded by the second, which additionally advises on clinical use of the test: If the “test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested…” While this implies that the test should only be performed in those with symptoms, and its results should be interpreted with the clinical context in mind, most PCR tests in the US are used very differently: to screen asymptomatics at work, at colleges and universities, to permit border crossings, etc. No caution is applied to the results. One single positive test defines someone as a Covid case. Yet it is well known, and was acknowledged in WHO’s January guidance, that screening in low Covid prevalence situations, such as in the screening of asymptomatics, increases the risk of false positives. And the risk increases as the prevalence of disease drops, such that in situations of low disease prevalence, it is common to find that most positives are actually false positives. For example, see this BMJ chart and then the real-life example in the comment below it.
Everyone in the field knew that the PCR test results were bogus. Even Tony Fauci admitted last July that cycle thresholds above 35 were not measuring virus, and furthermore that virus could not be cultured from samples that required a high number of cycles to show positivity.
But the drumbeat from the Coronavirus Task Force and some academics and others was “Test all, test often”—despite the inordinate numbers of false positives and negatives. Congress repeatedly allocated many billions of dollars for testing (often free for the person being tested) and so testing quickly mushroomed. Nearly two million Covid tests a day were recorded in the US over the last 3 months. Most of these have been PCR tests which, despite their problems, are still considered the most accurate. Most of the remaining tests performed were rapid antigen tests. These tests too suffer from high false positive rates, as the FDA warned last November.
Shameless manipulation: Positive PCR tests drop after WHO instructs vendors to lower cycle thresholds. We have been played like a fiddle - Informed Choice Washington | ICWA
By Meryl Nass, MD First Published on Dr. Nass’s website Hospitalization rates associated with Covid have dropped from a high of 132,500 Americans on January 6 to 71,500 on February 12. The US had 920,000 staffed hospital beds in 2019, of which 14.4% harbored a Covid case last month, and 7.8% do...
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OUTLAW PCR TESTS & PANDEMIC IS DONE TOMORROW - DR DAVID RASNICK PhD.
Interview with David Rasnick PhD Discussing PCR tests, Fauci, lack of debate.
OUTLAW PCR TESTS & PANDEMIC IS DONE TOMORROW - DR DAVID RASNICK PhD.
Interview with David Rasnick PhD Discussing PCR tests, Fauci, lack of debate. Mirror source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/wV9W9vDYM0b4/
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COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless
Though the whole world relies on the RT-PCR "test" to diagnose Sars-Cov-2 infection, the scientific proof is clear: They are not fit for purpose.
60 million people in the US have lost there jobs this year. This is a WAR on people precipitated by people Like GATES and FAUCI and the elite fktards that run the pharma military industrial industry and the crooked globalist banks, like the CEO of Phizer who won't even take his own "vaccine"...but who would b happy to KILL YOU to get the planet to themselves without all the people on it. You should just DIE to make them happy.
Wearing a mask is submission to their elitist CRIMINAL, greta reset, 2030 agenda genocide.
Though the whole world relies on the RT-PCR "test" to diagnose Sars-Cov-2 infection, the scientific proof is clear: They are not fit for purpose.
60 million people in the US have lost there jobs this year. This is a WAR on people precipitated by people Like GATES and FAUCI and the elite fktards that run the pharma military industrial industry and the crooked globalist banks, like the CEO of Phizer who won't even take his own "vaccine"...but who would b happy to KILL YOU to get the planet to themselves without all the people on it. You should just DIE to make them happy.
Wearing a mask is submission to their elitist CRIMINAL, greta reset, 2030 agenda genocide.
