Canada #23 >>>/qresearch/14334128

“IT’S JUST…” – WHY I WON’T SUBMIT

It’s just two weeks. It’s just staying three feet apart. It’s just staying six feet apart. It’s just not going outside. It’s just not giving handshakes. It’s just working from home. It is just non-essential businesses that are closed.

It’s just bars. It’s just restaurants. It’s just theaters. It’s just concerts. It’s just dancing. It’s just intramural sports. It’s just choir.

It’s just non-essential medical services that you have to give up. It is just non-essential items that you are not allowed to buy. It’s just not being able to exercise. It’s just gyms. It is just the closure of your business for a while. It is just not making money for a while. It is just not being able to pay your bills for a little while.

It’s just a minor inconvenience. It’s just not being allowed to carpool. It’s just not socializing for a while. It’s just a mask. It’s just not traveling for a while. It’s just not hugging people for a while. It’s just missionary sex that is risky.

It is just not seeing your family and friends for a while. It’s just not visiting your grandparents temporarily. It’s just your grandparents not having visitors for their safety. It’s just one birthday you have to sacrifice. It’s just one Thanksgiving alone. It’s just one Christmas without your family. It’s just two birthdays you had to sacrifice. It is just not celebrating any milestones for a year and a half.

It’s just temporary. It’s just a safety measure. It is just your ability to pay cash. It is just contact tracing. It is just a health screening. It is just a temperature check. It is just a scan of your face. It’s just a minor loss of privacy.

It is just one semester. It is just two semesters. It is just one year out of your child’s life. It is just one more semester. It is just a high school graduation.

It’s just the birth of your grandchild that you missed. It is just not being able to be there for your relatives when they are ill or dying. It is just not having a funeral. It is just in person that you cannot grieve with your loved ones. It is just not getting to attend religious service. It is just not getting to practice some parts of your religion.

It is just misinformation that is being censored. It is just conservatives that are being censored. It is just some of the science that is being censored. It is just the people who have the opposing opinions that are banned online. It is just the opposition that the White House is targeting for censorship. It is just bad opinions that are being censored.

It’s just the economy. It is just small business owners who are suffering financially. It is just poor people who are suffering financially. It is just people of color who are suffering financially. It is just financial suffering. It is just a few small businesses that had to close permanently. It is just a few big businesses that closed.

It is just not going farther than a few kilometers from your house. It is just a curfew. It is just a permission slip. It is just being alone for two weeks. It is just being socially isolated for one year.

It is just one vaccine. It is just one set of booster shots. It is just regular booster shots every six months. It is just another two weeks. It is just one more lock-down. It is just once a week—twice tops—that you will have to prove that you are fit to participate in society. It is just the unvaccinated that will be segregated from society. It is just a medical test.

Pretty simple, no?

Just fucking do it.

But when you add up all the “justs,” it amounts to our entire lives.

For over a year and a half and counting, we have been robbed of the ability to live our lives fully, to make meaningful choices for ourselves, and to express our values the way we see fit.

It is “just” the inability to express our humanity and the total negation of our very selves. All of these measures have served as a prohibition of expressing outwardly one’s valid and complex internal reality. This kind of suppression of self does violence to one’s very soul.

All of these supposedly little and supposedly short-lived “justs” have transformed us into totalitarian states from which there appears to be no endpoint.

In New York City, California, Australia, etc., the people have permitted government such control over our daily lives that we have to ask it for permission to control our bodies, to move freely, to practice religion, to educate our children ourselves, to protest, etc.

Soon Biden, Trudeau, and other world leaders are going to clamp down on our ability to express ourselves and to associate with each other online so that we can no longer question, object to, or organize against government action. It is the destruction of democracy.

More:

https://www.wakingtimes.com/its-just-why-i-wont-submit/

Australia #17 >>>/qresearch/14332326

Scott Morrison vows to snuff out QAnon ‘rubbish’, Covid conspiracies

Authorities say they are intercepting pandemic conspiracy ‘extremists’ as the Prime Minister vows to stamp out QAnon ‘rubbish’ and misinformation spreading online.

Perry Duffin - August 12, 2021

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has vowed to fight the ­insidious spread of QAnon and Covid-19 conspiracy theorists after The Daily Telegraph’s revelations that families are being torn apart by dangerous misinformation.

It comes as NSW and Federal authorities warn they are witnessing growing “online extremism” leading to the ­arrests and charging of multiple people in recent weeks.

This week doctors and nurses spoke emotionally of internet conspiracy theory QAnon brainwashing their loved ones.

The pandemic frontline heroes are now returning home from Covid-filled wards to friends and family who ­believe Covid is a hoax or the pandemic is a plot by evil ­global “elites”.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison, on Wednesday, was asked what his government was doing to stop the online conspiracy theories that are threatening the crucial vaccine rollout.

“Crazy rubbish conspiracy theories have no place when it comes to the public health of this country and this government will have no association with it,” Mr Morrison told Question Time.

“Countering misinformation is a task for all of us, it is certainly a task for the government and one we are acting on.”

NSW Police said Covid-19 had “enlivened extremist views and conspiracy theories” which exploit the internet’s capacity to connect.

“This has seen an increase in online extremist commentary with mixed and often complementary ideologies,” a spokeswoman said, noting it was almost entirely online.

“The risk associated with this activity is a concern and the NSW Police Force closely monitors online activity and assesses online sentiment.”

The Fixated Persons Unit, which monitors the ideologically motivated potential threats inside the state, has charged three people for online threats since the start of July.

The Australian Federal Police said it had observed nationalist, racially motivated and religious extremists among those “exploiting public fear” during the pandemic.

“Ideologically motivated violent extremism (IVME) propaganda, and increased time spent online, has seen extremist narratives influencing a broad mainstream audience,” an AFP spokesman said.

“This comes in many forms including by spreading disinformation, conspiracy theories, and in some cases to incite violence.”

“Extremists do this for a range of reasons including to promote their ideology and recruit new members.”

Last week the AFP arrested a group for allegedly starting their own “strain of the AFP” using a fake video they circulated online.

In the video a man, masquerading as AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw, allegedly urges people to join them as they work to overthrow the Commonwealth Government.

The fake AFP had allegedly established its own commissioners and was issuing “arrest warrants” for high profile Australians as it planned to “dissolve” the government.

Such expressions are commonplace among the QAnon, Sovereign Citizen, anti-lockdown and other conspiracy movements.

Investigators allege the group is IVME motivated.

Joint Counter Terrorism Teams, the AFP’s specialist squads, say they have disrupted multiple IVME plots this year — and say they will continue to disrupt others.

“Our community and our families are going through some very testing and trying times right now,” the AFP spokesman said.

“Many Australians are doing it tough because of the pandemic and are being targeted while they are vulnerable. The Covid pandemic will not stop the work of JCTTs in ensuring the safety of the community.”

Since 2014 there have been nine terror attacks and 21 major disruptions, the AFP said — of these two were IVME plots.

The AFP spokesman urged the community to only get their information from trusted sources.

The Prime Minister said he was working with multicultural and faith leaders, particularly in South West Sydney, to have the trusted community figures encourage vaccines.

Regional neighbours Papua New Guinea, he said, were also fighting against a tide of misinformation and Australia was working to increase vaccine uptake there.

Health Minister Greg Hunt told Question Time his department was “mythbusting” across multiple languages.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-nsw/cops-reveal-battle-with-extremists-as-pm-pledges-to-snuff-out-qanon-rubbish/news-story/e4e3a98d51ddfb8e02a580a9576b6f72

>>92306

More sauce:

General Research #18137 >>>/qresearch/14335826

Texas Senate Passes Bill in Favor of Forensic Audit in 18-11 Vote Following Failed Democrat Filibuster

The Texas Senate passed the Republican election integrity bill after an unsuccessful Democrat filibuster ended after 15 hours.

Via the America First Audit Channel.

The vote passed by an 18-11 margin.

Democrats tried to shut this audit down too — IN TEXAS!

Why are they so terrified of audits?

The Daily Mail reported:

The Texas Senate has passed a bill with new voting restrictions on Thursday morning, after a Democratic Texas lawmaker finished a roughly 15-hour filibuster where she had to speak constantly and not lean on her desk, eat, drink or use the restroom in protest of the state’s Republican-backed legislation.

Lawmakers in Texas’s upper house voted 18-11 in favor of the bill aimed at enhancing election security.

Debate on the measure began Wednesday evening before State Senator Carol Alvarado began speaking continuously and wrapped just before 9 a.m. local time on Thursday.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/breaking-texas-senate-passes-bill-favor-forensic-audit-18-11-vote-following-failed-democrat-filibuster/

More sauce:

General Research #18137 >>>/qresearch/14335847

Mike Lindell Opens Thursday Cyber Symposium with SHOCKING Developments: Another Home Raided, Credible Threats, Conference Infiltrated

Mike Lindell Opens Thursday Cyber Symposium with SHOCKING Developments: Another Home Raided, Credible Threats, Conference Infiltrated

Colonel Phil Waldren then came on stage and told the audience that the conference had been infiltrated.

Colonel Waldren: In addition the Red Team started receiving credible threats about two weeks ago… We detected disruptors inside trying to be people ejected. really radical folks outside trying to penetrate. We got folks exchanging badges in the parking lot, press badges. We’ve identified those agitators and provocateurs by photo imagery, validated by their social media platforms… The big end game is to discredit all of the legislators who are hear to listen… They are obviously trying to ruin the message that Mike is trying to get out. So this is typical insurrection activities. This is part of the Color Revolution.

Waldren then told the crowd someone tried to insert faulty data into their conference. And federal authorities were notified.

https://rumble.com/vl1snz-mike-lindell-opens-thursday-cyber-symposium-with-shocking-developments.html

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/mike-lindell-opens-thursday-cyber-symposium-shocking-developments-another-home-raided-credible-threats-conference-infiltrated/

VAXXINES FUCKERY

General Research #18137 >>>/qresearch/14335901

Fauci Confirms "Likely, Inevitable" Everyone Will Need COVID Vaccine Booster Shot

Within the space of a few days, the narrative has shifted from "if" booster shots are even necessary, to "only for immunocompromised", to "only for those who got vaccinations early on, due to fading efficacy", and now today, His Omniscience Anthony Fauci told 'CBS This Morning' that while it is imminent that immune compromised people will get Covid-19 vaccine booster shots, it is likely that at some point in the future everyone will need one.

“It’s likely that that will happen at some time in the future,” Fauci said, when asked if everyone will need a booster shot at some point.

That's "science" folks!

Fauci noted that this is data is being followed in real time, “literally on a weekly and monthly basis,” with cohorts of all different populations to determine if the level of protection is starting to attenuate.

“When it does get to a certain level, we will be prepared to give boosters to those people, but from what you just said a moment ago, it is imminent that we will be giving it to immune compromised,” he said.

As a reminder, the FDA is reportedly expected to announce soon that it will authorize COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for immunocompromised Americans.

Fauci also said during an interview on NBC News' "Today" show Thursday, that:

"Inevitably, there will be a time when we'll have to give boosts to the general population."

As far as furiously moving goalposts goes, Fauci admittred earlier in the week that the Delta variant presents the additional problem that vaccinated people can also transmit the virus to someone else. That has led to the CDC revising its mask guidelines recently. But, he stressed:

“The vaccines are still doing what you originally want them to do – to keep you out of the hospital to prevent you from getting seriously ill.”

Actually, what the CDC "originally" wanted the vaccines to do, was to prevent those who were jabbed from infecting others. Only later did we learn that too was a fabrication.

Perhaps the most 'new' science is the following…

"No vaccine, at least not within this category, is going to have an indefinite amount of protection."

Fauci comments come as debate grows over “breakthrough” infections among fully vaccinated people and whether approval should be given for booster shots. On Sunday, Israel, the first nation to roll out booster shots widely, said it had given more than 420,000 third shots to people 60 and over. At least 14 Israelis have already caught Covid-19 after having been injected with a booster shot, suggesting that the booster shot will be the first of many, and will likely last all the way through the mid-term elections because, well, mail-in ballots next November.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fauci-confirms-likely-inevitable-everyone-will-need-covid-vaccine-booster-shot

General Research #18137 >>>/qresearch/14335933

Danish WHO Chief Says COVID "Patient Zero" Was Likely Wuhan Lab Worker

One of the World Health Organization’s leading infectious diseases experts says that the first COVID ‘patient zero’ was “likely” a lab worker at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Peter Embarek, who spearheaded a WHO team sent to investigate the lab earlier this year, told Danish television that the likely source of the pandemic was someone infected by a bat during fieldwork or at one of the laboratories in Wuhan.

“This is where the virus jumps directly from a bat to a human,” reports Denmark’s TV 2 News.

“In that case, it would then be a laboratory worker instead of a random villager or other person who has regular contact with bats. So it is actually in the probable category.”

The report notes that the type of bat involved in passing on the infection, the horse shoe bat, was only present inside the Wuhan lab and does not live naturally in the general Wuhan area.

“An employee who was infected in the field by taking samples falls under one of the probable hypotheses,” said Embarek.

Embarek’s new assessment contradicts the results of the WHO investigation, which originally asserted that the lab leak origin was “extremely unlikely.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/danish-who-chief-says-covid-patient-zero-was-likely-wuhan-lab-worker

Well damn…again?

General Research #18137 >>>/qresearch/14336439

VA to Require COVID-19 Vaccine for All Health Care Workers and Hospital Volunteers

Starting Friday, the Department of Veterans Affairs will require nearly all health care personnel, support staff, volunteers and contractors in the Veterans Health Administration to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. That means almost every one of the 360,000 employees of the VHA will be required to get the vaccine by Oct. 8.

VA Secretary Denis McDonough announced Thursday that the employees who work under the designations "Hybrid Title 38" and "Title 5" must be vaccinated in the next eight weeks or face disciplinary action.

The personnel include psychologists, pharmacists, social workers, nursing assistants, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, peer specialists, medical support assistants, engineers, housekeepers and other clinical, administrative and infrastructure support employees, according to a VA press release.

In addition, volunteers and contractors who work in VA medical centers or clinics, "visit VHA facilities or otherwise come into contact with VA patients and healthcare workers" must be immunized, the release adds.

"We're now including most VHA employees and volunteers and contractors in the vaccine mandate because it remains the best way to keep veterans safe, especially as the Delta variant spreads across the country," McDonough explained in the release.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/12/va-require-covid-19-vaccine-all-health-care-workers-and-hospital-volunteers.html

>>92362 (me)

So when the housekeepers get fired or drop out with side effects, and the laundry staff are gone, are they going to call in the National Guard to do the cleaning like NYC did to public buildings or are we going to have rampant staph infections as part of the "new normal?"

General Research #18142 >>>/qresearch/14340630

Texas Tribune Issues HUGE Correction After ‘Mistakenly’ Reporting 5,800 Children Hospitalized with Covid in One Week

Isn’t it odd that the “mistakes” only go in one direction?

The Texas Tribune issued a MAJOR correction on Thursday after ‘mistakenly’ reporting 5,800 children were hospitalized with Covid in a 7 day period.

The report claimed there was a huge spike in Covid cases among children which led to 5,800 kids being hospitalized in one week.

The Texas Tribune corrected their false reporting after the lie made it around the world and caused unnecessary panic.

There was actually 783 hospitalizations in a 40-day period.

An earlier version of this story overstated the number of children who have been hospitalized in Texas recently with COVID-19. The story said over 5,800 children had been hospitalized during a seven-day period in August, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number correctly referred to children hospitalized with COVID-19 since the pandemic began.In actuality, 783 children were admitted to Texas hospitals with COVID-19 between July 1 and Aug. 9 of this year.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/texas-tribune-issues-huge-correction-mistakenly-reporting-5800-children-hospitalized-covid-one-week/

Covid/Vaxxine Fuckery

General Research #18142 >>/qresearch/14340924

Yet Again, the Media's Covid Narrative Doesn't Add Up

If one were to go only on what one reads or sees in the media, one would think it’s the spring of 2020 all over again. The headlines are filled with stories of overcrowded hospitals, overwhelmed medical personnel, and predictions of people dying in parking lots waiting for medical care. The news articles generally quote a staffer of some kind at various hospitals and then leave it at that.

It’s difficult to know what to make of these stories. After all, we heard very much the same thing during March, April, and May of 2020. Local governments were building makeshift hospitals in conventions centers—yet they went unused. Memphis’s overflow hospital was closed down after an entire year of never housing a single patient. In late 2020, after months of media reports that New York hospitals were utterly overwhelmed, Andrew Cuomo announced New York hospitals “were never overwhelmed.” Colorado built a 2,200-patient overflow hospital. It was never used. Last spring, a $17 million overflow facility in Houston was dismantled without ever being used.

Now we’re being told that this time, they really mean it and hospitals are on the verge of overflowing.

Yet, according to data from Johns Hopkins, most of these cases may be overstated. In Texas, for example, where hospitals have been a subject of countless recent stories about overflowing ICUs, the state is a long way from reaching its earlier peaks of 2020. Moreover, Texas is now staffing fewer ICU beds overall. The story is the same in Georgia, that supposed home of an “experiment in human sacrifice” where officials were among the first to end stay-at-home orders in 2020. Indeed, it’s clear most of the country—regardless of the state’s use of mask mandates or stay-at-home orders—remains well behind previous peak levels.

One outlier in terms of hospitalizations, however, is the state of Florida. Numbers in Florida do appear to be closer to previous peaks that most other states, and ICU usage is now larger than what it was during the summer of 2020.

Why is this?

According to many reports from the corporate media, this must be because the state’s governor is Ron DeSantis. Because of his connection to the Trump movement, the media has predictably focused on DeSantis and his policies as alleged drivers of rising covid cases in Florida. The preponderance of media articles about Florida are careful to mention that the state’s governor Ron DeSantis has opposed mask mandates, vaccine passports, and stay-at-home orders.

The implication, of course, is that DeSantis’s opposition to these measures has somehow caused today’s rising number of hospitalizations.

https://mises.org/wire/yet-again-medias-covid-narrative-doesnt-add

>>92407

General Research #18142 >>/qresearch/14341044

AZ Sen. Rogers Announces Election Integrity Caucus Consisting of Legislators from All 50 States

An Election Integrity Caucus consisting of lawmakers from all 50 states has officially been formed.

Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers, who is one of the caucus founders, made the special announcement while attending Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium with other members of the newly formed caucus.

“I am one of the founding members of the Election Integrity Caucus that consists of legislators from all 50 states. Reminds me of the Continental Congress,” Sen. Rogers tweeted. “We will meet regularly and we will talk regularly to implement the securing our elections.”

I am one of the founding members of the newly formed Election Integrity Caucus that consists of legislators from all 50 states. Reminds me of the Continental Congress. We will meet regularly and we will talk regularly to implement the securing our elections. #AuditAll50States

— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) August 12, 2021

Moments after making the announcement, Sen. Rogers tweeted a picture of several of the caucus members, including herself, standing together in solidarity.

Election Integrity Caucus 2021. #AuditAll50States pic.twitter.com/0YxSUP4wd7

— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) August 12, 2021

The Arizona senator later delivered a statement at the symposium standing alongside fellow state lawmakers and vowed to “forensically audit every county that has used these machines, if possible.”

"We're going to forensically audit every county that has used these machines, if possible" – @WendyRogersAZ at Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium press conference pic.twitter.com/G6MvtfhRvm

— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) August 12, 2021

https://www.thefreedomtimes.com/2021/08/12/az-sen-rogers-announces-election-integrity-caucus-consisting-of-legislators-from-all-50-states/