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Is Biden preparing to pay ransom to the Taliban? September 5, 2021 Ryan Green Latest News, Politics 0 Comments
Is Biden preparing to pay ransom to the Taliban?
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During a recent briefing in Washington, U.S. Central Command leader Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie told reporters that the Americans who wanted to leave and who were not evacuated number in the “very low hundreds.” So between 100 and 200 Americans who wanted to leave Afghanistan now remain in the country following the final U.S. military withdrawal and evacuation efforts from Afghanistan. Some might question these numbers and could be much higher.
At the same time, on Good Morning America, host George Stephanopoulos asked National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan whether the U.S. is going to work with the Taliban – including the prospect of giving them aid?”
Sullivan’s response was, “Well, first of all, we do believe that there is an important dimension of humanitarian assistance that should go directly to the people of Afghanistan. They need help concerning health and food aid and other forms of subsistence, and we do intend to continue that.”
Vaccine ‘passports’ must give credit for natural immunity September 5, 2021 Ryan Green Latest News, Social 0 Comments
Vaccine ‘passports’ must give credit for natural immunity
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Anyone truly committed to following science should enthusiastically demand that any mandates for COVID vaccination give credit for natural immunity resulting from a prior infection. Indisputably, all medical research shows that natural immunity is even better than vaccine immunity.
Before reading some of the relevant medical data, consider that some countries are acting in a far better way than U.S. federal agencies like FDA, CDC and NIH.
Israel has a Green Pass program that provides access to public venues like museums, restaurants and gyms. It officially recognizes immunity from either vaccination or recovery from COVID infection – meaning natural immunity.
Similar to this wise government policy is that France, Germany and Italy advise just one dose of a COVID vaccine for those with prior infection. This is a clear recognition by these governments that natural immunity really has scientific merit.
MedPage Today editorial
In May, MedPage Today published an editorial titled “Quit Ignoring Natural COVID Immunity,” by two physicians. Here are some highlights from it.
“Those who have recovered have an astonishingly low frequency of repeat infection, disease, or death.”
NIH reported this: “The immune response of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection.” This is quite impressive considering that most data on breakthrough infections in vaccinated people indicate a loss of effective immunity after about six months.
“The range of reduction of re-infection from COVID-19 was between 82% to 95% among six studies that encompassed nearly 1 million people conducted in the U.S., the U.K., Denmark, Austria, Qatar and among U.S. Marines. The study in Austria also found that the frequency of reinfection from COVID-19 caused hospitalization in only five out of 14,840 (0.03%) people and death in one out of 14,840 (0.01%). In addition, newer U.S. data, released after the January NIH announcement, found protective antibodies lasting up to 10 months following infection.”
“There are multiple highly encouraging research reports showing that blood cells in our body, so called ‘B cells and T cells,’ contribute to the cellular immunity after COVID-19. If SARS-CoV-2 immunity is similar to other severe coronavirus infections like SARS-CoV-1 immunity, that protection could last at least 17 years. However, tests to measure cellular immunity are complex and expensive, making them hard to get and preventing their use in routine medical practice or in public health surveys of the population.”
“Given that 90% to 99% of people who recover from COVID-19 develop detectable neutralizing antibodies, doctors can use the correct test to inform people of their risk. We can counsel patients that those who have recovered from COVID-19 have a strong protective immunity, protecting them from repeat infection, disease, hospitalization, and death. In fact, that protection is similar to or better than vaccine-induced immunity. Putting that together, people who have recovered from prior infection or those with detectable antibodies should be considered protected, similarly to someone who is vaccinated.”
Natural immunity better than Pfizer vaccine immunity
This new definitive work from Israel shows how much inferior the immunity is from the Pfizer vaccine than the natural immunity obtained from being infected at some time by the COVID virus. It’s clear that informed, rational people with natural immunity should correctly question the wisdom of government-enforced mandates to get the jab.
Consider these results: “This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the Pfizer two-dose vaccine-induced immunity.” Over 700,000 people were included in the study.
The study examined the risk for additional infection – either a breakthrough infection in vaccinated individuals or reinfection in previously infected ones. The chief finding: “Our analysis demonstrates that SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13.06-fold increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected [with natural immunity].” Also, vaccinees were at a greater risk for COVID-19-related-hospitalizations compared to those that were previously infected. Even worse, after adjusting for comorbidities, the study found a 27.02-fold increased risk for symptomatic breakthrough infection in the vaccinated as opposed to symptomatic reinfection for those with natural immunity.
In other words, the Pfizer vaccine was greatly ineffective as a preventive tool compared to natural immunity.
Pandemic expert’s wisdom
Earlier this month the esteemed Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at John Hopkins School of Medicine, made news when he proclaimed “Natural Immunity Is More Effective Then Vaccine Immunity.” He said individuals formerly infected with COVID-19 are seven times more likely than vaccinated people to fight off the virus.
“It appears that natural immunity is better against the Delta variant. When you get infected with COVID, your body’s immune system develops antibodies to the entire surface of the virus,” Makary said. “Not just the spike protein that the vaccines gives you, but the entire surface. And so you get a more diverse antibody portfolio in your system.”
Most importantly he said: “One of the great failures of our medical leadership has been ignoring the half of America with natural immunity, which is the half of non-vaccinated folks.”
Are you listening Fauci?
Insights from Dr. Rand Paul
Senator and physician Rand Paul in May made a number of astute comments on natural immunity. The headline of the news story was: “The science proves people with natural immunity should skip COVID vaccines.”
Dr. Paul said: “To dictate that a person recovered from COVID-19 with natural immunity also submit to a vaccine – without scientific evidence – is nothing more than hubris.”
Referring to public health officials, he noted: “One thing they also admitted, while at first trying to hide it, was that there are no studies showing that getting the vaccine if you already have natural immunity is of any benefit at all. They can’t show that, because it has not yet been studied.”
As to his personal situation, he said “as a recovered COVID patient, I will not get a vaccine that is not proven to help me nor proved I even need – the science deniers, bureaucrats and media typically go nuts. But facts are facts. I’m no more likely to get or transmit COVID than someone who is vaccinated. We know this. Doctors know this. Scientists who design vaccines know this. Vaccines are created to attempt to replicate the immunity we get from having been infected with a disease. Vaccines are a replacement for natural immunity. They aren’t necessarily better. In fact, natural immunity from measles confers lifelong immunity and the [measles] vaccine immunity wanes over a few decades. I choose to follow the science with COVID, rather than submit to fear-mongering.”
“In a recent British study, David Wyllie and others found no symptomatic reinfections from COVID-19 after following 2,800 patients for several months. In fact, there have been no reports of significant numbers of reinfections after acquiring COVID-19 naturally.”
“Shane Crotty, a virologist at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, concludes from his experiments that, ‘The amount of (immune) memory (gained from natural infection) would likely prevent the vast majority of people from getting hospitalized disease, severe disease, for many years,’ he noted. “In this study which was published in Science, Crotty showed that antibody levels stayed relatively constant with only ‘modest declines at 6-8 months.’ In other words, Crotty found significant evidence of long-term immunity after COVID infection.”
Also noted was that, “In one extensive recent study in The Lancet, Dr. Florian Kramer of the Icahn School of Medicine noted: ‘The findings of the authors suggest that infection and the development of antibody response provides protection similar to or even better than current used SARS COV-2 vaccines.’”
New research paper
Very recent medical research examined natural immunity. It noted “a study of n = 12,541 healthcare workers in the United Kingdom, which reported a substantially reduced rate of reinfection over 6 months in persons previously antibody positive: for example, no symptomatic cases were detected in persons previously antibody positive … in the study period. Smaller studies in different contexts (e.g., a fishing vessel outbreak and elderly care homes) have also illustrated the highly protective effect of serum antibodies [from natural immunity].”
It also cited evidence that suggest natural immunity “wanes within a 2- to 3-year period in the majority of those previously infected, which represents a combination of lack of cross-protective immunity to mutating seasonal strains, rhythms in the circulation of different CoVs [COVID viruses], and loss of antibody-producing cells over time with aging.”
It concluded: “Some countries have therefore recommended that individuals with a documented prior SARS-CoV-2 infection only need one vaccine dose, and/or should wait an extended period before receiving the second dose. Antibodies induced by vaccination appear to a large extent to resemble those induced by natural infection.”
African virologist’s insights
A renowned African virologist, professor Sunday Omilabu, has cautioned against vaccinating people that have acquired natural immunity to the COVID-19 virus.
He said giving the COVID-19 vaccine to such people could jeopardize their natural immunity.
He warned that Nigeria and other African countries should handle the issue of vaccination cautiously because most Africans have an innate immunity that is playing down on the virulence of the virus. That advice should be considered for the U.S. and other nations. What produces innate natural immunity? It may result from years of exposure to various corona viruses.
“At present, the majority of us are carrying the virus without knowing that we carry it because the immunity in us is fighting the virus and playing it down so that the virulence will not show. We only see the virus’ effects in people with low level immunity,” he argued.
“My advice would be that before we jab anybody, we should make sure that they have low level immunity to SARS-COV2 virus, otherwise, the vaccine could jeopardise the natural immunity that we are enjoying right away.”
His good advice was: “You should do an antibody test first, so that we can know the level of natural immunity, which is our level of exposure to related coronaviruses that have been in the environment for years.” Yet the U.S. government has not promoted such testing.
Conclusions
Why are federal agencies and other government officials giving no credit for natural immunity when it comes to all forms of vaccine mandates? Or promoting testing for it? As with so many pandemic miscalculations the answer comes down to this: Nothing must diminish getting all Americans jabbed. This is needed as much to protect the profits of vaccine makers as to protect public health, and perhaps much more.
All the real, legitimate science supports honoring natural immunity. But this means acknowledging the superiority of natural immunity to COVID vaccines.
‘Take Some Time to Learn Their Stories’: Grieving Families Confront Biden September 5, 2021 Ryan Green Latest News, Politics, Social 0 Comments
‘Take Some Time to Learn Their Stories’: Grieving Families Confront Biden
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Grieving families who lost loved ones in the Kabul terrorist attack confronted President Joe Biden over their deaths.
Biden met with the families at Dover Air Force Base on Sunday.
Mark Schmitz and his ex-wife, whose son, Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, died in last week’s attack, showed Biden a photo of their son as they spoke with him, The Washington Post reported.
“I said, ‘Don’t you ever forget that name. Don’t you ever forget that face. Don’t you ever forget the names of the other 12,’” he told the Post.
“And take some time to learn their stories.”
Biden responded briefly, “I do know their stories,” Schmitz said.
During the meeting, the president spoke about his own son, Beau, who served in Iraq and died of brain cancer in 2015, the Post reported.
“When he just kept talking about his son so much it was just — my interest was lost in that. I was more focused on my own son than what happened with him and his son,” Schmitz said.
“I’m not trying to insult the president, but it just didn’t seem that appropriate to spend that much time on his own son,” he added.
Some families chose not to meet with Biden, according to the Post.
The widow of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, Jiennah, was the only member of the McCollum family who met with the president.
One of McCollum’s sisters, Roice, told the Post that Jiennah, who married Rylee six months ago and is due to give birth soon, wanted “to look him in the eye and hear him.”
She said Jiennah thought Biden showed a “total disregard to the loss of our Marine — our brother, son, husband and father.”
“He cannot possibly understand,” Roice said.
“My dad and I did not want to speak to him. You cannot kneel on our flag and pretend you care about our troops. You can’t f*** up as bad as he did and say you’re sorry. This did not need to happen, and every life is on his hands. The thousands of Afghans who will suffer and be tortured is a direct result of his incompetence.”
One woman shouted in Biden’s direction across the tarmac as the grieving families boarded a bus to leave, Schmitz recalled. “I hope you burn in hell! That was my brother!” Schmitz recalled her saying.
Schmitz did not want to make his meeting with Biden political, he told the Post.
In fact, he said that he appreciated seeing the president’s breast pocket card which shows the number of American service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“At the end of it, it had ‘Plus 13.’ I know it’s just a number, but it was a simple reflective thing that he looks at. I’ll give him kudos there,” Schmitz said.
via simplypatriot
The Biden Administration Just Got Sued by 20 States September 5, 2021 Ryan Green Latest News, Politics 0 Comments
The Biden Administration Just Got Sued by 20 States
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A group of 20 states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over a new policy that would extend federal sex discrimination protections to student-athletes who identify as transgender.
The complaint was filed on Monday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee in Knoxville. That state’s attorney general, Herbert Slatery, is leading the coalition of states that filed the lawsuit, Fox News reported on Tuesday.
The states are challenging the guidance issued on the day that President Joe Biden took office and later updated that, among other things, demands that men and boys who identify as female be allowed to participate in girls’ and women’s sports and use restrooms and locker rooms designated for women and girls.
Several Republican-led states, most notably Florida, have enacted legislation banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports.
In a statement on Monday afternoon, Slatery said the multistate coalition was challenging guidance from Biden’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Education on these issues.
“The guidance purports to resolve highly controversial and localized issues such as whether schools must allow biological males to compete on girls’ sports teams,” the statement read, also citing issues with locker rooms and pronoun usage.
The statement argued that the agencies involved in the decision had no authority to “unilaterally resolve” these issues and accused the agencies of not accepting public comment.
“This case is about two federal agencies changing law, which is Congress’ exclusive prerogative,” Slatery said, adding that the agencies failed to follow the Administrative Procedures Act.
The Tennessee attorney general’s statement also accused the EEOC and DOE of misconstruing the Bostock v. Clayton County Supreme Court decision to justify the changes under Title IX and VII laws.
“All of this, together with the threat of withholding educational funding in the midst of a pandemic, warrants this lawsuit,” Slatery concluded.
Tennessee was joined in the lawsuit by Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia.
The lawsuit names Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Attorney General Merrick Garland and EEOC Chairwoman Charlotte Burrows among the defendants.
It alleges that Biden’s directive to implement the transgender policies was the result of the administration “unreasonably” interpreting anti-discrimination laws.
“Enforcement of the Department’s Interpretation of Fact Sheet could cause Plaintiffs to lose significant federal funds,” the lawsuit reads, also stating it could subject the states to “significant liability.”
Litigation has been filed over various transgender issues in recent months, including a Virginia case that the Supreme Court declined to hear in June, effectively striking down a transgender bathroom ban.
Florida’s transgender sports law was hit with a lawsuit in June by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, with the group marking the legal offensive as “sending a message to [Governor Ron DeSantis] … that you cannot target our community without retribution.”
Also in June, a judge in Virginia ruled in favor of a teacher who had refused to use a transgender student’s “preferred” pronouns, leading to his suspension.
That same month, the Biden Department of Justice also launched legal offensives against West Virginia and Arkansas, declaring that laws that blocked physicians from prescribing puberty blockers or performing transition procedures on minors were unconstitutional.
Earlier this month, a Virginia school board rejected a mandate that included “LGBTQ+ cultural competency training” for staff, setting up a legal battle with state Democrats.
via patriotpowerline
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