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Joe Rogan on the rumors that Justin Trudeau is the son of Fidel Castro:
"That is wild. Hey bro, you need a 23andMe, right away sir. It's wild how close he looks. If it's not his dad, boy if I was the father I'd be f—ing suspicious as shit."
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The immortalist: Uploading the mind to a computer
14 March 2016
"If there is no immortality technology, I'll be dead in the next 35 years," he laments. Death is inevitable - currently at least - because as we get older the cells that make up our bodies lose their ability to repair themselves, making us vulnerable to cardiovascular disease and other age-related conditions that kill about two-thirds of us.
So Itskov is putting a slice of his fortune in to a bold plan he has devised to bypass ageing. He wants to use cutting-edge science to unlock the secrets of the human brain and then upload an individual's mind to a computer, freeing them from the biological constraints of the body.
"The ultimate goal of my plan is to transfer someone's personality into a completely new body," he says.
Itskov's interest in making the impossible possible began as a child in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. "My biggest dream was to be a cosmonaut, to fly in to outer space," he says. One science fiction novel made a lasting impression: "The hero took some immortality pill and he ended up flying the orbit of Earth. I remember myself questioning what I was going to do if I'm immortal."
But does his plan to allow us all to upload our minds to computers amount to anything more than sci-fi? The scientific director of Itskov's 2045 Initiative, Dr Randal Koene - a neuroscientist who worked as a research professor at Boston University's Center for Memory and Brain - laughs off any suggestion Itskov might have lost touch with reality.
"All of the evidence seems to say in theory it's possible - it's extremely difficult, but it's possible," he says. "So then you could say someone like that is visionary, but not mad because that implies you're thinking of something that's just impossible, and that's not the case."
The theoretical possibility Randal refers to is rooted in questions about how our brains work that neuroscience has yet to answer. Our brains are made up of about 86 billion neurons, connected cells that send information to each other by firing electrical charges that propagate through this organ in our skulls like waves.
But exactly how the brain generates our mind is a mystery like no other in science, according to the neurobiologist Prof Rafael Yuste of Columbia University. "The challenge is precisely how to go from a physical substrate of cells that are connected inside this organ, to our mental world, our thoughts, our memories, our feelings," he says.
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To try to unlock its workings, many neuroscientists approach the brain as if it were a computer. In this analogy the brain turns inputs, sensory data, into outputs, our behaviour, through computations. This is where the theoretical argument for mind uploading starts. If this process could be mapped, the brain could perhaps be copied in a computer, along with the individual mind it gives rise to.
That's the view of Dr Ken Hayworth, a neuroscientist who maps slivers of mouse brain at the Janelia Research Campus in Virginia by day, and by night grapples with the problem of how to upload his mind. Ken believes mapping the connectome - the complex connections of all the neurons in a brain - holds the key, because he believes it encodes all the information that makes us who we are, though this is not proven. "In the same sense that my computer is really just the ones and zeros on my hard drive, and I don't care what happens as long as those ones and zeros make it to the next computer it should be the same thing with me," he says, "I don't care if my connectome is implemented in this physical body or a computer simulation controlling a robotic body."
But Ken is a realist. "We are pitifully far away from mapping a human connectome," he acknowledges. "To put it in perspective, to image a whole fly brain it is going to take us approximately one to two years. The idea of mapping a whole human brain with the existing technology that we have today is simply impossible." And there's another theoretical challenge. Even if we could create the wiring diagram of a human brain, mind uploading would also most likely require reading the constant activity of all its neurons too.
Here Itskov might get some unexpected help, according to Yuste - who helped bring about the world's biggest neuroscience research project, the Brain Initiative. As part of this $6bn American programme aimed at solving the mysteries of brain disorders like Alzheimer's, he is hoping to map the continual interaction of neurons - the patterns of firing - in the brain over time, "We want to measure every spike from all the neurons at once simultaneously. Many people said it's just impossible."
It is an approach that does not rely on mapping the connectome first. In research yet to be published, Yuste has for the first time imaged over time the hypnotic electrical flashes that make up the activity of nearly all the neurons - up to several thousand - in one of the simplest nervous systems in evolution, a tiny invertebrate called a hydra. "It was very exciting," he says. But "today we just cannot tell you what these patterns mean. So it's a bit like listening in on a conversation in a foreign language that you don't understand."
Within 15 years Yuste hopes to map - and interpret - the activity of all the neurons in a mouse cortex. But the ultimate aim is to read the activity of the human brain.
"If the brain were a digital computer, if you wanted to upload the mind you need to be able to decipher it or download it first. So I think the Brain Initiative is a step that is necessary for this uploading to happen."
But Itskov is far from home and dry. At Duke University, one leading neuroscientist argues that the brain's dynamic complexity - from which the human condition emerges - cannot be replicated. "You cannot code intuition; you cannot code aesthetic beauty; you cannot code love or hate," says Dr Miguel Nicolelis, who is developing a mind-controlled exoskeleton aimed at helping the paralysed walk. "There is no way you will ever see a human brain reduced to a digital medium. It's simply impossible to reduce that complexity to the kind of algorithmic process that you will have to have to do that."
Yuste is also very far from certain the brain works like a computer and could ever be copied in a machine. But because neuroscience cannot yet explain how exactly the brain gives rise to us and prove that mind uploading is impossible, he believes society should start considering what the consequences might be if Itskov succeeded in his ambition.
"The pathway that leads with the new neural technologies to our understanding of the brain is the same pathway that could lead, theoretically, to the possibility of mind uploading," says Yuste. "Scientists that are involved in these methods have the responsibility to think ahead."
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Mind uploading would usher in a world fraught with risks.
"If you could replicate the mind and upload it into a different material, you can in principle clone minds," says Yuste. "These are complicated issues because they deal with the core of defining what is a person."
Itskov is more sanguine: "I will answer you to the question of ethics by the opinion which was given to me by his holiness the Dalai Llama when I visited him in 2013. His point was that you can do everything if your motivation is to help people."
But this assurance is not enough for Yuste, who sits on the Brain Initiative's ethics panel: "I would put mind uploading in the list of the topics that should be very carefully discussed and thought through."
Itskov is already planning his endless life. "For the next few centuries I envision having multiple bodies, one somewhere in space, another hologram-like, my consciousness just moving from one to another."
It is estimated that 107 billion people have died before us. As our understanding of the brain advances in the decades ahead it will become clear whether Itskov is really the momentous visionary he claims to be, or merely the latest dreamer of impossible dreams.
Tristan Quinn produced and directed Horizon: The Immortalist, which will be shown on BBC 2 Wednesday at 20:00 on 16 March 2016 - viewers in the UK can catch up later on the BBC iPlayer
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.03.22278233v1
Breakthrough infections after post-exposure vaccination against Monkeypox
Abstract
Background A third-generation smallpox vaccine was recommended in France for individuals who had a high-risk contact with a PCR-confirmed Monkeypox patient. We aimed to describe the outcomes of high-risk contacts receiving third-generation smallpox vaccine as an early post-exposure ring vaccination (EPRV) especially tolerance and potential breakthrough infections after the first dose.
Methods We performed an observational analysis of all consecutive individuals vaccinated with the IMVANEX® smallpox vaccine after a high-risk contact defined as close skin-to-skin or mucosal contact and/or indirect contact on textile or surface and/or droplets exposure defined by a contact at less than 2 meters during at least 3 hours with a PCR-confirmed Monkeypox patient.
Results Between May 27th and July 13th, 2022, 276 individuals received one dose of IMVANEX® with a median delay of 11 days [IQR 8-14] after exposure with a confirmed Monkeypox patient. Mode of exposure was droplets for 240 patients (91%), indirect contact for 189 (71%) and unprotected sexual intercourse for 146 (54%). Most of the patients were men (91%, n=250) and men who have sex with men (88%, n=233). The vaccine was well tolerated with no severe adverse event. Among the 276 vaccinated individuals, 12 (4%) had a confirmed Monkeypox breakthrough infection with no severe infection. Ten out of 12 patients developed a Monkeypox infection in the five days following vaccination and two had a breakthrough infection at 22 and 25 days.
Conclusion EPRV with a third-generation smallpox vaccine was well tolerated and effective against Monkeypox but did not completely prevent breakthrough infections.
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Covid vaccine boosters in older people are killing one person for every 800 doses administered and should be withdrawn from use immediately, a leading vaccine scientist has said.
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🇨🇷 Newly Elected President of Costa Rica: "As of today… any action taken against anyone who does not want to be vaccinated is an action that is against the law.”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a34100542/cia-considered-using-lightning-as-weapon-declassified-documents/
The CIA Once Considered Using Lightning to Assassinate People
The CIA once considered making a weapon out of artificial lightning.
The weapon could be used without directly implicating the CIA or the rest of the U.S. government.
Although the weapon was scientifically sound, the CIA ultimately never pursued it for reasons unknown.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once considered the idea of using lightning as a weapon system. In the late 1960s, an unknown scientist proposed the service use lightning strikes as a weapon that would leave behind “little or no evidence,” making it difficult to identify the U.S. government as the perpetrator. The CIA, despite always being interested in covert weapons, never developed the idea. Probably.
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The pitch, which Forbes discovered in declassified CIA files, involved using “artificial leaders” of thin metal wires to “cause discharges to occur where and when we desire them.” The wires, a few thousands of an inch in diameter, would unfurl from aircraft or rockets launched into the atmosphere.
Then, once lightning occurred, it would be drawn to the metal wire and strike the ground where the wire terminated. The idea seems to be that the wire would be close enough to fry whomever the CIA wanted to assassinate with 300 million volts of electricity.
There were some interesting upsides to the weapon unique to using natural weather phenomena. For one, it was cheap, since lightning is practically free. Second, it left behind no traces like bullet casings, missile fuselages, or other telltale signs of state-sponsored assassination. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the chances of being struck by lightning are only 1 in 500,000, and an observer would likely believe the target was simply a victim of bad luck.
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Obviously there are a few problems with using lightning as a weapon. The CIA could only use it during lightning storms, and the lightning-attracting wire would have to stay close enough to the target to be lethal. Everything would need to line up just right for the assassination to take place.
Today’s CIA has seemingly abandoned subtlety, with the sword-laden Hellfire R9X the preferred tool for targeted killings. Still, this is fascinating proof that the nation’s intelligence agency entertained some pretty unusual ideas.
The real question: Did anything as weirdly exotic as using lightning as an assassination tool ever become operational in CIA service, and could it be responsible for events we know about? We may never know.
https://mobile.twitter.com/WhatsUp_Canada/status/1556112529822289920
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This is disturbing,
like extremely disturbing if true.
Deep dive anyone?
DREDs - designer receptors that can be remotely controlled, aka human drones
Dr. Charles Morgan on Psycho-Neurobiology and War
Modern War Institute
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Dr. Charles Morgan speaks to cadets and faculty at West Point about a range of topics, including psychology, neurobiology, and the science of humans at war. Dr. Morgan's neurobiological and forensic research has established him as an international expert in post-traumatic stress disorder, eyewitness memory, and human performance under conditions of high stress.
The event was organized and hosted by the Modern War Institute at West Point.
Anons may recall the this as well. All connected.
Dr. James Giordano: The Brain is the Battlefield of the Future
Modern War Institute
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Dr. James Giordano, Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program and Scholar-in-Residence in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University, speaks to cadets and faculty about how advancements in neuroscience and neurotechnology will impact the future of war. This event was hosted by the Modern War Institute at West Point.
Dr Stanley Plotkin
"King of vaccines comes clean"
Deposition under oath
https://jme.bmj.com/content/48/4/240
Ethics of vaccine refusal
Abstract
Proponents of vaccine mandates typically claim that everyone who can be vaccinated has a moral or ethical obligation to do so for the sake of those who cannot be vaccinated, or in the interest of public health. I evaluate several previously undertheorised premises implicit to the ‘obligation to vaccinate’ type of arguments and show that the general conclusion is false: there is neither a moral obligation to vaccinate nor a sound ethical basis to mandate vaccination under any circumstances, even for hypothetical vaccines that are medically risk-free. Agent autonomy with respect to self-constitution has absolute normative priority over reduction or elimination of the associated risks to life. In practical terms, mandatory vaccination amounts to discrimination against healthy, innate biological characteristics, which goes against the established ethical norms and is also defeasible a priori.
Conclusion
Proponents of the view that some or all people have a moral or ethical obligation to vaccinate are implicitly committed to a further moral obligation, to develop a comprehensive and consistent argument in favour of the obligation to vaccinate, grounded in objective facts or a priori reasoning. This has not been accomplished as a matter of principle (the argument from consistency). I have developed an argument to the contrary. Vaccine mandates involve a range of discriminatory measures intended to augment the natural state of our immune system in the interest of public health. This amounts to discrimination on the basis of innate biological characteristics. The strongest mandate of compulsory vaccination would essentially make our innate biological state unlawful. There are ethically analogous hypothetical situations that are intuitively repugnant, for example, mandatory physiological alteration of healthy infants in the interest of public health. This would imply that all humans are born in a defective, harmful state. If this ethically analogous situation is unethical, a premise I have defended a priori, then mandatory vaccination is also unethical. The principle holds as a matter of logical necessity, in virtue of the intrinsic value of human agency, and is therefore not defeated by circumstances such as emergencies or pandemics. Moreover, it permissively justifies vaccine refusal by healthcare workers, despite their unique professional obligations, even for hypothetical vaccines that are medically risk-free.
Nothing presented here is meant to imply that vaccination ought to be refused; I have argued only that there is neither a moral obligation to vaccinate nor a sound ethical basis to discriminate against the unvaccinated.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/08/whats-the-u-s-plan-for-updated-covid-vaccine-boosters.html
What’s Up With America’s COVID Booster Plan? Updated shots may be available to everyone this fall, but it’s complicated.
Tuberculosis vaccine passes safety test
No other infectious disease has killed more people than tuberculosis. Currently, only one vaccine is available to prevent severe courses: Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG). However, it is not equally effective against all types of tuberculosis. Especially infants and immunocompromised patients are therefore in urgent need for more effective tuberculosis vaccines. A clinical trial in South Africa has now shown that the new vaccine candidate VPM1002, developed by Max Planck researcher Stefan H.E. Kaufmann and his team, is equally safe for newborns with and without HIV exposure and has fewer side effects compared to BCG.
At least 20 million people worldwide suffer from tuberculosis, according to World Health Organization (WHO), with 10 million new cases every year and about 1.5 million deaths annually. The disease is caused by mycobacteria, which predominantly affect the lungs, but can also infect any other organ. Tuberculosis is particularly common in low income countries. Here, the WHO recommends that newborns be immunized against it as soon as possible.
First used 100 years ago, the BCG vaccine against the disease contains attenuated pathogens of cattle tuberculosis. "We know that BCG can prevent so-called tuberculous meningitis and miliary tuberculosis in infants with a 75 to 86 percent effectiveness rate. But this is not the case for the most common form of the disease, pulmonary tuberculosis, in all age groups. Here, BCG is only insufficiently effective," explains Kaufmann, Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin.
Since the 1990s, the infection biologist and his team have been working on an improved next-generation vaccine, called VPM1002. To achieve this, the researchers genetically modified the attenuated BCG vaccine strain so that immune cells can better recognize the pathogens. "We developed VPM1002 in no small part to combine increased safety with improved efficacy for immunocompromised children," the Max Planck researcher reports.
Vaccine candidate VPM1002 is safe
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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-tuberculosis-vaccine-safety.html
The group of immunocompromised children includes, for example, HIV-exposed infants born to HIV-positive mothers. In a clinical trial in South Africa, an international research consortium including Kaufmann has now compared VPM1002 with BCG in HIV-exposed and non-HIV-exposed newborns. The study examined both the safety and the immune response induced—called immunogenicity—associated with the formation of immune cells and immunostimulatory proteins. The conclusion of the study: VPM1002 is safe in both HIV-exposed and non-HIV-exposed newborns, has fewer side effects than BCG, and elicits a similar immune response.
In the randomized phase II double-blind study in South Africa, 416 eligible newborns were randomly selected and vaccinated before day 12 of life. 312 of them received VPM1002, and 104 received the BCG vaccine. As the study showed, VPM1002 triggered fewer vaccine-related adverse reactions than BCG. This was true for reactions occurring at the injection site, such as scarring and abscess formation, as well as enlargement of lymph nodes. This finding is important because local and regional reactions after vaccination are among the limitations of the BCG vaccine, Kaufmann points out.
Newborns with or without HIV exposure showed similar immunogenicity with both vaccines. However, starting at six weeks of age, the BCG-triggered immune response was greater than in even younger infants.
Phase III study investigates protection
"Studies such as those described here examine a vaccine's immunogenicity, but not its protection. For the latter, we have already developed a larger phase III clinical trial and have successfully enrolled mothers with their newborns to participate. Now the clock is ticking," Kaufmann said. The infectious biologist expects initial results showing whether VPM1002 can provide comparable or better protection than existing BCG vaccines in about three years. In addition, the VPM1002 vaccine is currently evaluated in adults in two other phase III clinical trials in India for protection against tuberculosis. These trials are expected to be completed in 2023 and 2024, respectively.
The Max Planck Society licensed the VPM1002 vaccine to the company Vakzine Projekt Management (VPM) in 2004. Starting in 2012, the company continued to develop the vaccine in collaboration with the Serum Institute of India, one of the world's largest vaccine manufacturers. "Serum Institute of India is giving access to a unique solution for tuberculosis elimination by detect-treat-prevent strategy. VPM1002 is a unique component of this strategy, and it will help in preventing infection and disease. The ongoing phase III trial is one of the key trials in order to strengthen our scientific rationale. Pleased to see that we have completed recruitment of all infants in such an important trial," said Umesh Shaligram, Executive Director R&D of Serum Institute of India.
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https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.72354/title.wu-tang-clan-fan-fine-n-word-protect-ya-neck-uk#
A Wu-Tang Clan fan in the UK has been handed a £500 fine for using the n-word while rapping the lyrics to the group’s debut single “Protect Ya Neck.”
According to The National, Kyle Siegel, a 25-year-old white man from Norgaet, Lerwick, was recording himself rapping the 1993 song for TikTok while standing in a women’s bathroom stall.
What Siegel didn’t realize was there was a mixed race woman in the cubicle next to him who was left “severely shocked” by the incident, which took place at the Scalloway Boating Club around 1 a.m. on February 20, 2022.
Siegel admitted saying the word during a hearing at Lerwick Sheriff Court, but said he had no idea the complainant was in the stall next to him as he spit the lyrics to “Protect Ya Neck.” He also admitted conducting himself in a disorderly manner, entering the women’s bathroom in which there were a number of people present and uttering the word.
Procurator Fiscal Duncan Mackenzie told the court the singing was loud enough for the complainant to hear, which resulted in an argument developing between Siegel and the woman before the incident was reported to the police.
Siegel’s lawyer, Tommy Allan, said his client was “singing along to a TikTok on a friend’s phone.”
Allan then gave Sheriff Ian Cruickshank a brief breakdown of who the Wu-Tang Clan are, explaining how they’re a hugely pioneering group formed in Staten Island, New York City, and that all of its members come from an “ethnic background.”
While the defense said there were a few issues surrounding “artistic freedom,” he noted Siegel was not a “person of color.” He added that Siegel accepted “he crossed the line” but didn’t intend to harm anyone with his actions.
Siegel was fined £500 for the offense and also ordered to pay an additional victim surcharge of £20.
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Use of the n-word by non-Black people when it’s used in a song has long been a subject of debate. Earlier this summer, Roddy Ricch faced criticizm when he encouraged the crowd at London’s Wireless Festival to sing the lyrics to his diamond hit “The Box.”
In a video shared online, a largely white crowd can be seen singing every word to the 2019 track while Roddy tells them to “sing that shit.” The festival-goers keep the karaoke going into the chorus and even sing the lyric “suck a n-gga soul” which didn’t seem censored on the audio track.
People on social media were quick to comment on the moment, with many feeling uneasy about a large group of white people freely saying the n-word while others weren’t surprised at all.
“Many a n-gga was sung, nary a n-gga was seen,” someone tweeted while another said: “Ya’ll really thought all them white ppl in that Roddy Ricch performance weren’t gonna say ‘n-gga’? At this point i don’t even cringe when i hear stuff like that, it’s just expected…smmfbbh.”
Meanwhile, Wu-Tang Clan’s debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), which features the aforementioned “Protect Ya Neck,” was inducted into the U.S. Library of Congress earlier this year.
Each year, the Registry adds 25 sound recordings it deems to be “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” to its growing list of audio treasures.
Also included in the 2022 class were A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, Alicia Keys’ Songs In A Minor, Duke Ellington’s Ellington at Newport and the Queen single “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/adult-illinois-day-care-tests-positive-monkeypox-children/story?id=88012064
Adult at Illinois day care tests positive for monkeypox, children potentially exposed
Adult at Illinois day care tests positive for monkeypox
Several children may have been exposed to the virus, according to health officials in Illinois.
An adult at an Illinois day care center has tested positive for monkeypox, and a number of children may have been exposed to the virus, health officials in Illinois announced on Friday.
At this time, officials did not disclose the number of children that may have been exposed to the virus. Screening of children and staff from the day care, which is located in the Rantoul area of Illinois, near Champaign, is currently underway, and no additional cases have been discovered as of yet.
"All available state, local and federal resources are being deployed to assist families," state officials said during a press conference on Friday afternoon. "Pediatricians are on site, as we speak, to screen children for cases and they're mobile testing and vaccines for their families. Health officials will continue to stay in contact with families and provide information and resources in the coming days."
The day care has been cleaned, and it is still open, officials said.
"The people who have been exposed, potentially, do not need to be in quarantine, so they are being screened and assessed. Anyone with even a tiny little suspicion, we will put them in isolation pending any type of results, but they have the guidance for cleaning and they have done that probably a lot more than is even necessary," officials said.
The individual with monkeypox "also works in a home health care," and health officials have been in contact with the one client who has been impacted.
"The person with monkeypox is in isolation, is being medically monitored, and is doing well," officials added.
The disease is typically spread through prolonged skin-to-skin contact with infected people's lesions or bodily fluids, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition to lesions, which can appear like pimples or blisters, the most common symptoms associated with monkeypox are swollen lymph nodes, fever, headache, fatigue and muscle aches.
Officials reported that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker had been in touch with the White House, and at the state's request, "the Food and Drug Administration has authorized use of the vaccine for anyone under 18, without jumping through the normal hoops in this process."
"That means that anyone with their guardian's approval will be vaccinated today," officials said.
ABC News has reached out to the FDA and the White House for clarity on whether a formal authorization has been made for children to receive the JYNNEOS vaccine.
On Tuesday, the FDA confirmed to ABC News that "numerous" children have been granted access through a special permission process that operates on a case-by-case basis.
If a doctor decides a person under 18 was exposed to monkeypox and the benefit of the vaccine is greater than any potential risk, they can submit a request to the FDA. In a statement, the FDA said numerous such requests have been granted, but did not say exactly how many.
At this time, the majority of monkeypox cases confirmed domestically and globally in the current outbreak have been detected in gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men. However, health officials have repeatedly stressed that the virus does not discriminate, and anyone exposed to monkeypox can contract the virus.
At least five children in the U.S. have now positive for monkeypox, according to state and local officials from across the country.
On Thursday, the Biden administration declared the current monkeypox outbreak to be a public health emergency in the U.S.
Globally, more than 28,000 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed across 88 countries, including 7,500 cases reported domestically.
COVID-Period Mass Vaccination Campaign and Public Health Disaster in the USA From age/state-resolved all-cause mortality by time, age-resolved vaccine delivery by time, and socio-geo-economic data
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362427136_COVID-Period_Mass_Vaccination_Campaign_and_Public_Health_Disaster_in_the_USA_From_agestate-resolved_all-cause_mortality_by_time_age-resolved_vaccine_delivery_by_time_and_socio-geo-economic_data
Abstract and Figures
All-cause mortality by time is the most reliable data for detecting and epidemiologically characterizing events causing death, and for gauging the population-level impact of any surge or collapse in deaths from any cause. Such data is not susceptible to reporting bias or to any bias in attributing causes of death. We compare USA all-cause mortality by time (month, week), by age group and by state to number of vaccinated individuals by time (week), by injection sequence, by age group and by state, using consolidated data up to week-5 of 2022 (week ending on February 5, 2022), in order to detect temporal associations, which would imply beneficial or deleterious effects from the vaccination campaign. We also quantify total excess all-cause mortality (relative to historic trends) for the entire covid period (WHO 11 March 2020 announcement of a pandemic through week-5 of 2022, corresponding to a total of 100 weeks), for the covid period prior to the bulk of vaccine delivery (first 50 weeks of the defined 100-week covid period), and for the covid period when the bulk of vaccine delivery is accomplished (last 50 weeks of the defined 100-week covid period); by age group and by state. We find that the COVID-19 vaccination campaign did not reduce all-cause mortality during the covid period. No deaths, within the resolution of all-cause mortality, can be said to have been averted due to vaccination in the USA. The mass vaccination campaign was not justified in terms of reducing excess all-cause mortality. The large excess mortality of the covid period, far above the historic trend, was maintained throughout the entire covid period irrespective of the unprecedented vaccination campaign, and is very strongly correlated (r = +0.86) to poverty, by state; in fact, proportional to poverty. It is also correlated to several other socioeconomic and health factors, by state, but not correlated to population fractions (65+, 75+, 85+ years) of elderly state residents.
Conclsions
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Variety/status/1555616956795047938
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John Leguizamo took to Instagram to speak out against the recent casting of James Franco as Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro in the upcoming independent film, “Alina of Cuba.”
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“Boycott! This f’d up! Plus seriously difficult story to tell without aggrandizement, which would be wrong! I don’t got a [problem] with Franco but he ain’t Latino!”
https://mobile.twitter.com/dockaurG/status/1528808829533794304
Kulvinder Kaur MD
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This is absolutely heart-wrenching to watch. Esp knowing all these horrific lockdown harms/deaths were foreseen & preventable, & all our warnings were ignored
But pls don’t look away. Watch full 5mins: connect with your inner humanity and vow to never let this ever happen again
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· May 22
"We're documenting lockdown harms, but then in parallel rapidly pushing IHR amendments & WHO Treaty which will essentially make lockdowns a permanent feature of pandemic responses.. These lockdown harms are cumulative"
—Dr @bell00david
Public Health Physician
Former WHO-Scientist
Fourteen young Canadian docs die after getting the shot. Normally would be ~0 over 30 years.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/fourteen-young-canadian-docs-die
Gay nightclub allows child attendance at upcoming ‘all ages’ drag show
https://alphanews.org/gay-nightclub-allows-child-attendance-at-upcoming-all-ages-drag-show/
A gay nightclub in downtown Duluth is hosting an “all ages drag show” this Labor Day.
According to an event page posted to Facebook, The Flame Nightclub Duluth is partnering with Duluth Superior Pride to host the drag show on Monday afternoon, Sept. 5.
Entry for each adult is just $5, and all children get in free.
“Join us for this kid-friendly, sober, and exciting event. Princesses, villains, and many other characters are scheduled to perform,” the event description reads. “Refreshments and kiddie cocktails will be provided at no charge.”
The event is taking place as part of the “Duluth-Superior GLBTAQI+ Pride Festival,” a series of events taking place across Labor Day weekend, from Thursday, Sept. 1 through Monday, Sept. 5.
Other “pride” festival events include art exhibitions, drag queen story time, comedy and drag shows, parties, and a Sunday parade in Superior, Wis., right across the bay from Duluth.
In addition to the “all ages” drag show, The Flame Nightclub Duluth is also hosting its regular Saturday night drag show, which “will be taken over with PRIDE” for the festival.
This is not the first time The Flame has held a so-called “kid-friendly” drag show. Back in May, the nightclub held an event called “Mama’s Toybox” with eight different drag “performers.”
Video from that event showed “a man, dressed as a woman, with his buttocks completely exposed gyrating amidst a crowd of kids whose parents gave them money to offer as tips,” as Alpha News reported in June.
In an interview with local news station Fox 21, one of the drag queens made it clear that he wanted to “give the kids an opportunity to see what drag queen or drag queen life is like.”
The drag queen encouraged children to “dress up” and “don’t be shy,” while a Fox 21 news anchor referred to the event as “something special geared toward the youth.”
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