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US child deaths on the rise, partly blamed on ‘immune overreaction’

The CDC is reporting disturbing new statistics: deaths among US children rose in 2022.

That’s despite a record amount of money being spent on health care. The CDC doesn’t offer any thoughts as to why the increase.

Age-specific death rates from 2021 to 2022 increased for all groups aged 14 and under, according to the CDC.

For infants, the death rate increased 3.1% from 2021 to 2022.

In 2021, 543.6 infants died for every 100,000 live births. That rose to 560.4 deaths per 100,000 in 2022.

Put another way: In 2021, there were 19,920 deaths in babies under age one. In 2022, there were 20,553 deaths in babies under age one. That’s an increase of 633 deaths.

According to the CDC, there were “significant” increases in infant deaths due to “maternal complications and bacterial sepsis of newborns.”

“Bacterial sepsis” is defined as an immune system overreaction to an infection somewhere in the body, according to medical experts.

With fewer Covid-related deaths reported in 2022 than in 2020 and 2021, some experts expected death rates to improve across the board. Categories of adult deaths improved in 2022. But child death rates may not have improved because there is a near zero statistical chance of children dying of Covid in the first place, according to experts.

The CDC doesn’t discuss what could have happened in the 2021-2022 time period that might have resulted in more children dying, more newborns having immune system overreactions, and increased maternal complications.

In April of 2021, the CDC recommended Covid-19 shots for pregnant women, although there was no long term safety evidence.

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The Fall of Critical Thinking

The Covid panic and repression did not happen in a vacuum. A pattern of persecuting people rather than engaging those with dissenting opinions had already been well-established in the educational world and the mainstream mass media, making the oppressive treatment Covid dissenters experienced somewhat predictable. Likewise, there was an obvious, widespread failure to apply critical thinking.

Once upon a time, the educational world had a golden opportunity to improve itself dramatically. The critical thinking movement captured the attention of many in the university world and K-12 education in the 1980s and early 1990s. Richard Paul, a prominent figure in the movement, hosted an annual Conference on Critical Thinking in Sonoma, California, in which I participated several times and learned a lot from people such as Paul and Robert Ennis.

Exposure to the movement’s perspective and methods transformed my approach to teaching students and comprehending ideas and information. Until then I had often been perplexed in dealing with many of my Japanese junior college students, who had a tendency simply to parrot ideas they encountered in the mass media and books, rather than thinking for themselves.

In particular, I was shocked to find some student research papers echoing the anti-Semitic views of a Japanese journalist, who believes that the destruction of Israel is the only solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The students had uncritically accepted his radical opinions as unquestionable truths. 

“Critical thinking” is not so much an educational invention as it is a distillation of the intellectual tradition of rational, skeptical inquiry into concepts and claims. Famous for his probing questions about the assertions of those around him, the Greek philosopher Socrates was one prominent embodiment of that approach. Though I had never heard the term critical thinking (which I will abbreviate as “CT”) during my formal education, I immediately recognized what it was.

However, that opportunity to strengthen the role of CT in education has been lost. To a great degree, this promising development has been replaced by fashionable, irrational ideology and indoctrination into trendy causes. 

In general, the current outlook embraces a strong rejection of the concept of objective truth. One of the first blows to CT came with the popularity of cultural relativism. Once common mainly among cultural anthropologists, many in academia began to espouse the idea that it is out of bounds to claim to possess any knowledge of objective reality.

For instance, in 1993 this view was declared to be current orthodoxy for all language teachers by the plenary speaker at the annual meeting of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT). The speech, titled “How Not to Be a Fluent Fool,” explicitly denigrated those holding to the concept of objective truth. Subsequently, in a JALT publication I challenged cultural relativism as incoherent and self-contradictory, as others in the CT movement have observed.

Under the banner of postmodernism, similar thinking took hold of the international field of foreign language pedagogy, with the result that doing CT in the classroom was also questioned. As I understand it, postmodernism is basically cultural relativism with a collectivist bent.

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‘Whole Thing Smacks of a Brave New World’: New AI Tool Predicts Vaccine Hesitancy

A team of researchers has developed a “powerful new tool in artificial intelligence” (AI) that can predict if someone is or isn’t likely to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

According to the University of Cincinnati, the new AI tool “uses a small set of data from demographics and personal judgments such as aversion to risk or loss” to identify “reward and aversion judgment” patterns in humans that may help explain one’s willingness to get vaccinated.

The researchers presented their findings in a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Medical Internet Research Public Health and Surveillance.

The study’s findings “could have broad applications for predicting mental health and result in more effective public health campaigns,” the university said.

According to the study, “Despite COVID-19 vaccine mandates, many chose to forgo vaccination, raising questions about the psychology underlying how judgment affects these choices.”

The researchers claim their findings “demonstrate the underlying importance of judgment variables for vaccine choice and uptake, suggesting that vaccine education and messaging might target varying judgment profiles to improve uptake.”

But critics like Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer for Children’s Health Defense, said that the new technology implies that those who question vaccines have mental health problems:

“The whole implication here is that nonconformity to the government propaganda machine’s standard of care makes one some type of mental case or extreme outlier. The whole thing smacks of a Brave New World where potentially non-compliant individuals are targeted with messaging based on fear and irrationality.”

Hooker said the new technology “is a prefabricated substitute to what Big Pharma and government health agencies avoid: rational discussions of science and medicine that might expose the truth about vaccine adverse events.”

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FDA Loses its War on Ivermectin: Agrees to Remove All Related Social Media Content and Consumer Advisories on Ivermectin Usage for COVID-19

In December 2021, the FDA warned Americans not to use Ivermectin, which “is intended for animals” to treat or prevent COVID-19.

“Never use medications intended for animals on yourself or other people. Animal ivermectin products are very different from those approved for humans. Use of animal ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in humans is dangerous,” FDA said at the time.

This was a very controversial statement at the time since the FDA pushed the drug on African migrants back in 2015, and the drug was praised in several scientific journals.

There have now been 101 Ivermectin COVID-19 controlled studies that show a 62% lower risk in early treatment in COVID-19 patients.

A group of brave doctors had filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the agencies’ unlawful attempts to block the use of ivermectin in treating COVID-19.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Southern District of Texas in Galveston, argues that the FDA has overstepped its authority and unjustifiably interfered with their medical practice.

The plaintiffs, Drs. Mary Talley Bowden, Paul E. Marik, and Robert L. Apter, are contesting the FDA’s portrayal of ivermectin as dangerous for human consumption. They note that the FDA has approved ivermectin for human use since 1996 for a variety of diseases. However, they allege that with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA began releasing documents and social media posts discouraging the use of the anti-viral drug for COVID-19 treatment.

“We’re suing the FDA for lying to the public about ivermectin,” said Dr. Bowden.

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Oxford University, CDC & UK Gov. confirm COVID Vaccination DOES NOT WORK & has Lethal & Fatal Consequences

Several scientific studies have emerged that call into question the safety and effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines, raising alarm bells about the potential harm they may cause and their ability to prevent infection and transmission.

The findings of these studies are disturbing and suggest that vaccinated individuals may be at higher risk of contracting and spreading the alleged Covid-19 virus.

They also suggest that the “vaccines” may increase susceptibility to infection.

These revelations have serious implications for the still ongoing vaccination efforts and call into question the wisdom of ever mandating the public to take these experimental injections.

Because the evidence is now clear.

According to three individual studies published by the US Centers for Disease Control, the UK Government, and Oxford University, Covid-19 vaccines are harmful and ineffective.

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New Study of mRNA Toxicity which Shows ‘Issues That Could Have Fatal Consequences’ was ‘Hidden.’

A new study has been published regarding the “Strategies for reducing the risks of mRNA drug and vaccine toxicity.” but in contrast to other articles about “Covid” or the Covid jabs which have been open to the public, has been hidden from public reading. “Is this because there is something in it that may enrage people and make them want to hold those responsible accountable?” asks biomedical scientist, Dr Lidiya Angelova who has analysed the study after she was able to obtain it. Following her analysis she found that there is ‘no data to two major issues that could have fatal consequences” and as many of us have known from the outset, she says “Covid vaccines should never be given to a humans.”

Unfortunately, as the former President of the U.S. Barrack Obama recently admitted at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center “We’ve now essentially, clinically tested the vaccine on billions of people worldwide.” Obama, is also therefore admitting that world leaders and their minions who were and still are touting the “safe and effective” line, were lying, as many of us knew. Others, however, trusted their words resulting in 70% of people worldwide being coerced into taking these Covid mRNA products, a previously untested technology, becoming the lab rats in the” biggest human experiment ever.”

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CDC Finally Releases 148 Page Study on Myocarditis Following COVID Vaccine – And EVERY SINGLE WORD is Redacted!

Zachary Stieber, a reporter with the Epoch Times, released the CDC report on the frequency of myocarditis following the COVID vaccines.

Zachary posted the FOIAed documents here.

Every single page was redacted!

EVERY SINGLE WORD!

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Long Covid: even faker than you thought

The term “long Covid” should be dropped from use, because Covid has no more aftereffects than the flu or other mild respiratory illnesses, according to a major new study from Australia released yesterday.

The study showed that only 3 percent of people who had Covid had “moderate-to-severe” aftereffects a year later – numerically fewer than those infected with influenza or other mild respiratory diseases.

Researchers surveyed 5,112 Australians who had been infected with Covid, flu, or other respiratory illnesses. The study adds to similar work suggesting that – except for the tiny handful of people who require ventilators or intensive hospital care – nearly everyone who gets Covid recovers completely from it within months.

The study’s full findings will be presented at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in late April.

“We believe it is time to stop using terms like ‘long COVID,’” the study’s lead author, Dr. John Gerrard, said in a press release. “They wrongly imply there is something unique and exceptional about longer term symptoms associated with this virus. This terminology can cause unnecessary fear, and in some cases, hypervigilance to longer symptoms that can impede recovery.”

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Two weeks after the first “covid death” in China, 33 “vaccines” were already in development according to WHO document

Seventeen days after the first covid death worldwide was reported and before the first “covid death” outside China, the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) published a document that showed 33 covid “vaccines” were already under development.

On 11 January 2020, Chinese state media reported the first known death from an illness caused by a novel virus.  Seventeen days later, on 28 January, WHO published a document showing that 33 covid “vaccines” were in development.

According to WHO’s document, two of the vaccines were already in Phase 1 trials and were being tested in humans: a DNA vaccine developed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (“NIAID”) and an inactivated virus vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech, the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.

This was 5 days before the first reported covid death outside China.

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Alarming Revelation: Government Data Unveils Astounding 143,233% Spike in Deadly Cancer Cases Tied to COVID Vaccines

Cancer begins when genetic changes interfere with the normal replication and replacement of cells in the body. Cells start to grow uncontrollably and may form a tumour. It is the No. 2 leading cause of death in the United States.

Unfortunately, it appears the disease may be on the rise thanks to the experimental Covid-19 injections. Because official U.S. Government data confirms the risk of developing cancer following Covid-19 vaccination increases by a shocking 143,233%.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) hosts a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) which contains historical data on adverse reactions reported against every vaccine that has been administered in the United States of America.

A quick search of the CDC VAERS database on the number of cancer cases reported as adverse reactions to the Covid-19 injections since they were first rolled out in the USA, reveals that from December 2020 up to 5th August 2022, a total of 2,579 adverse events related to cancer were made in just 1 year and 8 months.

But performing a similar search of the VAERS database on the number of cancer cases reported as adverse events to all other available vaccines between 2008 and 2020, a period of 13 years, reveals there were just 791 adverse events related to cancer.

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