Thank you, @SenRandPaul. Fight like hell, and @Heritage will be with you for every step. This thing is an abomination. https://t.co/PyAEFVV7ad
— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) December 20, 2022
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‘The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just granted Fast Track designation for Pfizer and BioNTech’s messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-based combination vaccine candidate against COVID-19 and influenza. This product, which is currently experimental, is supposed to prevent the two respiratory conditions via a single injection. Fast Track is a process designed to facilitate development and expedite the review of new drugs and vaccines intended to treat or prevent serious conditions and address unmet medical need. Importantly, there are only so many resources in the FDA to go around. With Pfizer and BioNTech securing access to such a program it’s to the detriment of some other biotech or pharma companies which may or may not be warranted based on the underlying details of what might be excluded. The current combined influenzas and SARS-coV-2 experimental vaccine is based on their existing Omicron bivalent vaccine that includes mRNA strands encoding the wild-type spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and the spike protein of the Omicron sublineages BA.4/BA.5. But those sublineages represent now under 15% of all U.S-based infections! BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have surged now, representing about 70% of cases. A few studies that TrialSite have tracked thus far suggest subpar performance of the current bivalent booster vaccine against these now predominant subvariants. The underlying strategy seems to benefit Pfizer’s convenience but not the safety of the public. It’s a simple game. Reuse and bundle the same technology—regardless of how good it really is—and make a lot of money.‘ for more of this article go to https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/the-game-exploit-fda-expedited-programs-the-public-in-bid-to-repurpose-bundle-increasingly-ineffective-covid-19-vaccine-with-flu-vaccine-to-monet-3e4d3501
‘The Central Bank of Nigeria announced it will begin, effective in January, restricting cash withdrawals from banks and ATMs to just $45 per day as part of a push to move the country toward a cashless economy.
If this were a one-off, I wouldn’t bother writing about it. But it comes on the heels of mega-banks announcing similarly creepy new policies in recent months in China, India, Russia, Brazil, Sweden, the U.S. and many other nations, all pointing to an imminent switch over to a global digital money system.’ To read the entire article go to https://leohohmann.com/2022/12/08/global-central-banks-racing-to-implement-digital-currencies-as-cities-convert-to-smart-infrastructure-track-and-control-grid-being-erected-right-under-our-noses/
The present American government is not a friend of the American people!
‘The top Republican on the Senate energy committee launched an inquiry on Wednesday into a Biden administration grant to a China-based battery company under scrutiny from U.S. financial regulators. The announcement came in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report about the Biden administration’s attempt to spin the grant as a boon for American-made clean energy.
Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.), the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said the Department of Energy’s grant to Microvast Holding “endangers our national security” and “undermine[s] the United States’ position in its race against China for technological supremacy,” in a letter to DOE secretary Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday.
The inquiry comes after the DOE gave the $200 million award to Microvast, a holding company that operates primarily in China, to build a lithium-ion battery separator facility in Tennessee, the Free Beacon reported on Tuesday. Granholm said the funding, which came from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, would help “supercharge the private sector to ensure our clean energy future is American-made.”‘https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/endangering-our-national-security-senator-launches-inquiry-into-bidens-200m-grant-to-china-based-battery-company/
‘The Flemish conservative party, Vlaams Belang, is pressuring the government to cancel its World Economic Forum (WEF) membership. This year, the Flemish government will pay a whopping EUR 200,000 in membership fees to the WEF and approximately EUR 27,000 as a participation fee in their annual meeting in Davos.’https://newspunch.com/dutch-government-preparing-to-cancel-world-economic-forum-membership-we-are-a-sovereign-nation/
‘For the second time in a week, top scientists have reported that “Omicron specific” Covid mRNA boosters are a $5 billion taxpayer-financed marketing gimmick.
The new shots work no better than the original mRNA shots to produce antibodies specifically targeting the Omicron variant.
And the Omicron shots are even WORSE than the original boosters in producing T-cells that target Omicron, according to the researchers, part of a group led by Dr. Dan Barouch, a highly respected virologist. This finding is of particular concern because T-cells, the second line of the immune system, keep infections from becoming too severe.
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Boosters using the original mRNA formulation have been largely phased out, because – as public health bureaucrats now admit – they stop working against Omicron infection within weeks. In fact, real-world data from many countries suggest they increase the risk of infection within months.
The “Omicron-specific” boosters were supposed to solve that problem. Regulators approved them in August, despite a lack of any clinical trial evidence they reduced coronavirus infections or serious cases of Covid in people. The Federal government agreed to pay Pfizer and Moderna $5 billion for 171 million doses of them.
But both Dr. Barouch’s study and another last week from Dr. David Ho, another top virologist, found that Omicron-specific boosters work no better than the original boosters against Omicron. Both studies showed the antibodies our immune systems produce after the Omicron shot are more effective against the original and now essentially extinct version of Sars-Cov-2 than against Omicron variants.
This phenomenon is called “original antigenic sin” or “immune imprinting,” and can occur after any vaccination – or infection. But the mRNA shots appear particularly likely to cause it, probably because they stimulate such high levels of anti-spike antibodies when they are first given.
The findings help explain why so many people, including Centers for Disease Control director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, have recently tested positive shortly after being boosted.
But Dr. Barouch’s group went further than Dr. Ho’s, examining T-cells as well. It found the same problem; following both the Omicron and the old booster, T-cells focused much more on the original Sars-Cov-2 than Omicron variants.
T-cells are a crucial second line of immune defense, helping the body keep infections from becoming too severe. Because Omicron is not very dangerous to most people, so a weak T-cell response does not matter much against it. But if a future Sars-Cov-2 variant is more dangerous, the relative lack of a T-cell response could put vaccinated people may be at serious risk.
(Bivalent is a fancy word for “Omicron-specific.” Except the Omicron-specific booster isn’t Omicron-specific at all, which is why T-cells targeting Omicron hardly rise at all following the bivalent booster, while they more than double after the original booster.)
As the researchers concluded:
Our findings suggest that immune imprinting by prior antigenic exposure may pose a greater challenge than currently appreciated for inducing robust immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants.
Such a polite way to say, we gave a billion-plus people mRNA shots that probably opened them to future Sars-Cov-2 infections forever.
No worries! Lessons learned and all that.’https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/another-new-study-yes-a-second-one/comments?publication_id=363080&post_id=81234239&isFreemail=true&comments=true
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