The New Yorker has published a disturbing article by Emma Green (’The Case For Wearing Masks Forever’) on the political activists in America demanding we lockdown forever in the name of racial justice. They sound like textbook left-wing loons, but we know from bitter experience that these post-Christian, quasi-religious cults have a nasty habit of infecting state bureaucracies, particularly in public health – and that already appears to be happening with respect to this cult. Here how the article begins:
Last December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it was shortening the recommended isolation period for those with covid-19 to five days. Getting exposed to the virus no longer meant that people needed to quarantine, either, as long as they were fully vaccinated and wore a mask. It was a big moment, and it occurred just as the Omicron variant was surging. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a Professor of Urban Policy and Health at the New School, was livid.
Fullilove, who is Black, has spent her career studying epidemics: first aids, then crack, then multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. She has seen how disease can ravage cities, especially in Black and working-class communities. From the beginning, Fullilove was skeptical of how the federal government handled the coronavirus pandemic. But these new recommendations from the C.D.C., she said, were “flying in the face of the science”. Not long after the announcement, she sent an e-mail to a Listserv called The Spirit of 1848, for progressive public-health practitioners. “Can we have a people’s CDC and give people good advice?” she asked. A flurry of responses came back.
What emerged was the People’s C.D.C.: a ragtag coalition of academics, doctors, activists, and artists who believe that the Government has left them to fend for themselves against COVID-19. As governments, schools, and businesses have scaled back their covid precautions, the members of the People’s C.D.C. have made it their mission to distribute information about the pandemic – what they see as real information, as opposed to what’s circulated by the actual C.D.C. They believe the C.D.C.’s data and guidelines have been distorted by powerful forces with vested interests in keeping people at work and keeping anxieties about the pandemic down. “The public has a right to a sound reading of the data that’s not influenced by politics and big business,” Fullilove said.
No one is in charge of the People’s C.D.C., and no one’s expertise is valued more than anyone else’s. The problems of “the pandemic and its response are rooted in hierarchical organisations”, Mary Jirmanus Saba, a filmmaker and one of the volunteers, told me. Roughly 40 people come to each weekly meeting, but many more are involved. (This spring, after a few of the group’s organisers published a manifesto of sorts in the Guardian, several thousand interested people reached out, Fullilove said.) The group sends out a weekly Weather Report – put together by a team composed, in part, of doctors and epidemiologists – summarising data about transmission rates, new variants, and death rates. They’ve published explainers on testing, masks, and ventilation, among other topics, typically with a call to action: call the White House, call your congressperson, demand free tests and treatment for all. On their Web site, they recently posted a guide for safer gatherings, which recommends that all events be held outdoors with universal, high-grade masking. The organisation has nearly 20,000 followers on Instagram, and it prides itself as a resource for various groups, including people who are immunocompromised and want to find a way to protect themselves and activists who are trying to lobby their local government for more covid restrictions.
Although the group has been scathing in its critiques of the C.D.C., it has received support from respected institutions in the public-health world. It has also received blue-chip funding from organisations such as the Kresge Foundation, which focusses on expanding opportunities in American cities, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one of the most influential health-focussed philanthropies in America, which gave the group a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. As it happens, Robert Wood Johnson’s C.E.O., Richard E. Besser, is a former Acting Director of the C.D.C.
Fullilove would neither confirm nor deny whether there are any current C.D.C. employees involved with the People’s C.D.C., but, in a recent Webinar, Edgar Rivera Colón, who often serves as the group’s meeting facilitator, claimed that there has at least been some moral support: “We have comrades that are within the C.D.C. who are saying to us, ‘Go ahead with your bad selves.’” The volunteers don’t necessarily agree among their bad selves about what, exactly, their larger goal is – whether their project is a protest, an act of mutual aid, or an exercise in shadow governance. What’s clear is that the People’s C.D.C. interprets evidence about this stage of the pandemic, and what we should do about it, differently than the C.D.C. and the White House. Their goal is to provide the public with an alternative source of information. The organisation is part of a much broader ecosystem of left-wing public-health groups that advocate more persistent mitigations: there are support communities for those experiencing long covid, including Survivor Corps, which has almost two hundred thousand members on Facebook; research groups like the U.K.’s Independent sage, which reviews the British government’s pandemic policies; and nonprofit activist groups such as Public Health Connected, which provides resources to health-care professionals. This constituency is loud on Twitter, and they are influential in the press.
Influential in the press. Just let that sink in.
Green goes on to give a name to this cult – although the one she comes up with could equally apply to climate activists:
The People’s C.D.C. talks about ‘science’ as proof that the members’ position is correct, when in reality they’re making a case for how they wish the world to be, and selecting scientific evidence to build their narrative. It’s a kind of moralistic scientism – a belief that science infallibly validates lefty moral sensibilities.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The New York Times published a piece on Boxing Day entitled ’The Last Holdouts’ about the poor, benighted souls who still believe we’re in the midst of a dangerous pandemic and insist on wearing industrial grade masks on the rare occasions they come out from under their beds.
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“Doctor Who has degenerated into a right-on lecture”
More concerned about Dr WHO, to be honest. I like Jodie Whittaker. I think she’s a good actress, but the show went down the pan the moment she arrived. Her third episode, I think, with all of space and time to choose from, and they are on the bus with Rosa Parks.
It should be retitled “Dr Esops Fables”!
“Judy Blume bowed to trans activists and betrayed J.K. Rowling”
Courage Judy, courage.!
A Judas is a Judas.
More on the WHO treaty debate, and look who’s name crops up again…
I know the one thing shouldn’t affect or influence the other but I just think, going by the way British MPs have behaved surrounding the whole death jab fiasco, the disinterest in harms, the clinging to the narrative that they’re ”safe and effective” and ”saved millions of lives”, how they snubbed Bridgen by walking out on his speech twice and he lost the party whip due to his views, it doesn’t bode well really does it? They don’t give a flying fig about personal freedoms and what’s best for the people. Hope I’m wrong, let’s see how it evolves I guess..
”However, the most telling line, in conclusion, came from Minister Trevelyan, who confirmed that although the UK is “a Sovereign state in control of whether we enter international agreements,” once the amendments had been agreed, they would be “legally binding in international law.”
Which begs the question: If the WHO has a legally binding mandate (which is entirely in accordance with the current version of the text) and the UK signs up to that mandate, how can we at the same time retain Sovereignty? The two seem mutually exclusive.
Which is why the issue needs a full public debate and Parliamentary scrutiny in the House of Commons, especially as amendments to IHR do not need to be agreed by heads of state; rather they are nodded through by unelected delegates: representing the UK is Professor Sir Chris Whitty.”
https://uncut.substack.com/p/seismic-threat-to-your-future
Actually, from the comments section, I totally agree with this guy. I reckon this is how it’s going to play out;
”Be chary of being reassured that the feared resignation of sovereignty won’t go through. Our mendacious rulers developed a standard tactic during covid for soothing consternation about any feared plan, defusing foreboding. Relax: lockdown is just for a few weeks. Vaccine passports? Never. We won’t do it. Mandatory jabbing? Not a chance. Jab children and babies? You think we’re depraved?
The tactic is simply to lie about the intention. Terminate the current kerfuffle, and a little later just quietly do the thing you promised you wouldn’t.”
They will do it , it’s probably a done deal , don’t forget they have already had a get together to push this through ! Look kids another dodgy WEF foreigner ruining your life prospects ! If Rapeford gets replaced in Wales it will be a full set
Anna de Buisseret has an interesting take on the pandemic treaty and IHR amendments.
She states that MPs handing over U.K. sovereignty to the WHO are committing treason.
Interesting…
Anna de Buisseret is correct. Constitutionally our Sovereignty cannot be given away.
They couldn’t mandate bodily infringements ! However they did ! They can do what they like & they know it !!..
Which confirms my point about “legally binding” – only when it suits therefore not legally binding at all.
I have an inkling that if the sovereign signs away our sovereignty by signing the act that will bind (in the darkness bind them) us to this treaty then in fact HE is committing treason and must be held to account. He is bound to protect the nation otherwise what is the point? He must represent something. If the treaty goes ahead, without any regard to the wishes of the population, then we are indeed in a tyranny and if that is the case, then all their lawmaking means nothing and we are duty bound not to comply and to create massive civil disobedience – I am wary of using that term in that it implies we are not being obedient to laws that we are meant to be obedient to! In a tyranny, obedience goes out of the window and we must be obedient to the higher levels of natural and common law, not some tacky legislation that a treasonous government thinks we must all abide by.
With you completely Aethelred.
It’s all coming on Top now ! I’m wilting ! People say ignore all info, mainstream & alternative but once you know Sh1t is constantly going down with an end result planned which will F us up your subconscious antenna is alert to even the slightest encroachment on our so called rights !
His mother didn’t have any problem with signing away our sovereignty so why should he?
There is no such thing anymore as “legally binding.” Over the last three years the law has been disregarded, abused, and blatantly misinterpreted such that legally binding is now a complete fiction.
Our Sovereignty cannot simply be given away and to suggest such shows once more how laws can be disregarded, abused and misinterpreted. If the starting point is legally binding then this applies across the board and hundreds of cases from the last three years will need to be reviewed in light of the above abuses, disregards and wilful misinterpretations.
Government seems to think that legally binding applies only as and when it suits them – it doesn’t.
Trouble is, there seems to be no such thing as ‘human rights’ anymore.
If this weren’t so then most of what occurred over the last few years would never have been allowed to happen. And I’m not just referring to all things scamdemic-related. Many of the woke nonsense, such as men in drag ( sex offenders, no less ) being allowed to do time in women’s prisons, is another example that springs to mind. Depressingly there are too many examples from the recent past to list. It’s all completely f*cked up, the modern world has gone to the dogs and there’s no such thing as a ‘free and democratic society’. Not very ‘glass half full’ but there you go. On we plod..
Human rights exist, the problem is that the vast majority of the world’s population don’t know their rights, don’t know that they each have the power to retain them & through fear willingly gave them away to their abusers.
We don’t ask for those rights to be returned, we take them back for ourselves. All those little acts of resistance do mount up & the more of us who stand for our rights the harder it is for the tyrannical governments to stamp us back into submission.
“Trouble is, there seems to be no such thing as ‘human rights’ anymore.”
The issue of ‘human rights’ has been dropped from the International Health Regulations currently under what I can only loosely describe as discussions.
So you are correct Mogs, ‘human rights’ have been done away with in all but name. And even when human rights are mentioned they are “rights” as defined by the Davos Deviants. A frightening development but perhaps indicative of their intention to enslave populations.
Good strong words, HP! Bravo!
Thanks Aethelred.
Gareth Eve, the husband of AstraZeneca victim Lisa Shaw, was surprisingly interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s World At One yesterday – one week after Elon Musk told the World:
“Does the BBC hold itself at all responsible for misinformation regarding masking and the side effects of vaccinations. And not reporting on that at all?”
Yet another coincidence?
Apparently Gareth Eve / Shaw “is no anti- vaxxer.” Well he damn well should be.
I have absolutely no time for this cretin.
Speak as you find.
I too am at a stage where I’m sick to the back teeth of anyone ( and I admit, I used to be one myself, until I became sufficiently informed ) stating that they aren’t “anti-vax” before they proceed to make their point. At this late stage *everyone* with a functioning brain, and especially anyone who’s not only lost a loved one ‘suddenly and unexpectedly’ but they actually know and admit the jab was the cause, should be questioning ALL vaccines/injectables. It’s absolutely insane not to! Embrace that label, I say. I’m now anti-vax and proud. 
Yup me too.
me too and I have never ever felt it was an insult anyway
Proud to stand with you Mogs.
I agree, I’ve spent two years feeling really quite sorry for him and the fact he was blatantly ignored by the msm and politicians when it came to getting answers for a full two years.
However there is so much wrong with this article I don’t know where to start. He is clearly being used but to what end? Flag AZ as the ‘bad’ vaccine so we ignore the mRNA issues? Who knows.
The degree of stupidity displayed by this chap is simply beyond comprehension. As Mogs states, for anyone with a functioning brain not to have done their research and realised how these injections are poisoning and killing people beggars belief. Perhaps he really is as stupid as he presents himself and is unwittingly allowing himself to be used. Something stinks with the story we are being given.
BBC News now reporting this today:
(Thank you Elon Musk!)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65321937
Anyone who follows Dr Claire Craig on Twitter (and some others) may have seen a tweet over the last few days saying ‘Perseus Report coming soon’…
Well it’s out today, and is being sent to all politicians….and also has a list of questions for the MHRA to answer….
I appreciate not everyone believes that writing letters, or signing petitions is useful..but with the debate in Government about the WHO, this might be the time to keep the pressure on and sign this one?
I’m not sure exactly who the Perseus group are, and I’ll put a couple of links in so you can have a look…but they have joined with #together, and are asking people to sign up to an open letter.
I’m going to do this one…and we will see…..
https://togetherdeclaration.org/MHRA/
https://perseus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Perseus_MHRA_Main-Report-1-1.pdf
I have signed also.
“Edred Whittingham is a PPE student”?
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I didn’t know they did courses in personal protective equipment!!
(Also, He sounds like a character from game of thrones
Sounds like hes gathering all the relevant qualifications to first be a political researcher, and then a LibDem MP…
Relevant to the frequent discussions we have here about how folk reacted to the tyranny, the abuse, from our abusers over the last 3 years is a meeting I attended yesterday evening. Meredith Miller presented to MD4CE about psychological abuse & the human survival mechanism responses. Very illuminating & when behaviour over the last 3 years is viewed through that lens it explains how the desired response was manufactured ( the barstewards were researching how reliable fear messaging was at obtaining a desired outcome in 2017!!!).
There are basically 4 survival modes: Flight, fight, freeze & fawn.
Flight is to run away & ignore; fight is to rail against the threat; freeze is literally unable to do anything & fawn is to people please & comply. When viewed in the context of an abusive relationship – which we were & still are in – it is easier to see how & why the majority of folk chose the compliance response.
Folk who have suffered an abusive relationship whether via communist state, an abusive family relationship or personal relationship were better able to spot that the official response in the Spring of 2020 was an abusive one. The reaction to the abuse stems back to how one responds to an abusive situation & for the vast majority of folk standing up to the bully is something that they would never countenance, but appeasing the bully is how they dealt with it in the past & therefore the default response to the current threats.
She also talked about disconnect in relationships, how hard it is to fully connect & how we’ve been groomed by digital tech to attune ourselves to the frequency of the text, the alert rather than staying attuned to our fellow humans. When digital tech is around, there is a frequency of alertness waiting for the next interruption, so nobody truly connects, truly relaxes & thus the division of us is made far easier.
It’s why we all felt so alone until we found our tribe, why we feel safe talking here as we recognise our tribe, those who understand us & why even though we disagree on some topics, we listen, consider, respond & respect that even though we disagree we’re not going to fight & be divided.
Her talk is well worth the investment of your time as she has some insights which help at a personal level.
The presentation will be posted here in the next couple of days:
https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
Meredith recommends this free course to help one when facing great trials & tribulations, which is all of us given the past few years! Hillsdale is an independent Christian College & is one of only 4 further education establishments in the USA who imposed no mandates for bioweapon injections on their students or staff.
https://online.hillsdale.edu/landing/dantes-divine-comedy
Reg. Ramesh Thakur’s article on the safety signal issue, it is noteworthy, that the responsible German regulator PEI’s head of statistics has recently admitted in court, that over 100.000 reported and accepted Covid ‘vaccine’ deaths would be necessary to generate such an ‘early warning’ safety signal.
https://www.achgut.com/artikel/Corona_impfung_nebenwirkungen_dunkelziffer_leugner_im_paul_ehrlich_institut
Almost as many as the total ‘with Covid’ deaths during the last 3 years and double the total excess mortality during that time frame (which happened primarily in H2/22 in the old and the under 45s…).
https://reitschuster.de/post/massive-uebersterblichkeit-ab-dem-zweiten-halbjahr-2021/
Same observation and age distribution for the UK, btw:
https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/the-onset-of-doom-part-ii
Apparently death from sinus cerebral venous thrombosis and thrombotic thrombocytopenia [blood clot on brain] two weeks after the first jab are “natural causes” if you are 32 years old.
Update: coroner Andrew Harris has added vaccine to death certificate.
Own Goal in Marie Antoinette moment:
DailyMail Headline: Net Zero campaigner Lord Turner urges people to drop red meat to save the planet and says he has switched to VENISON
Let them eat cake!
Net Zero guru says he has switched from beef to VENISON to help save the planet | Daily Mail Online
This half-wit won’t even produce half decent compost when he corbles it.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/welcome-migrants-to-guardianistan/
Laura Perrins over at TCW giving the left a good kicking.
“There is nothing charitable about being completely irresponsible.”
What a fine turn of phrase and admirably summing up our Guardianistas.
Dr Mike Yeadon commenting on his Telegram account – the C1984 injections were effectively a trial run and were intended to provide Billy and his chums with the data required to calibrate the poisons. The introduction of CBDC’s will be a means of starving out the non-compliant.
The next round of syringes are going to kill in weeks and months.
The Deagel population figures for 2025 are looking more and more prescient.
“Money printing spree drove up inflation”
No 5h1t Sherlock
https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/18/robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-heal-the-great-divide/
An excellent look at one of the few heroes of our time, Robert F Kennedy Jnr and his aim to run for the US Presidency.
God bless him.