Twitter’s Covid-19 trolley problem: The censorship cost of its faulty conspiracy labels

Twitter has a trolley problem. Since its May 11 launch, its Covid-19 labeling system has misjudged content across its platform. How many wrongfully censored accounts are worth trading off for those rightly removed or labeled?

For those unaware, the trolley problem is a thought experiment in ethics that models a dilemma. One example of the dilemma would be turning a lever to move a train from a track destined to run over one individual onto a different track, making it run over five. Who do you save? Is one life worth more than five? You see the issue.

Twitter’s new policy for Covid-19 is raising similar concerns. In its attempts to protect its users from misinformation, many more innocent voices are being silenced and labeled as heinous and conspiratorial, when, in fact, much of the time they’re not.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/489825-twitter-conspiracy-labels-censorship-cost/

Cooking the Books on COVID-19 Deaths

Fox News, and other cable networks, run a COVID death count ticker on the side or bottom of the television screen just as they show the major stock indices during the business day. Why are they so obsessed with deaths from the Chinese virus?

Most peoples’ moods are already melancholic over the unending economic shutdown, along with social distancing, masks, and restrictions on movement and assembly not normally seen in free societies. Why don’t news networks show a tally of recovered patients rather than deaths?

Aside from the morbid, “If it bleeds, it leads” mantra that guides much news reporting, the media wants to pin each death on the tail of President Trump. Twitter has a #TrumpDeathCount hashtag to blame every single death on the president, the more the merrier. This is ahead of the fall presidential campaign where Democrats will attempt to blame the entire Wuhan virus mess on Trump, from the economic devastation to the total number of deaths.

If more deaths are better for the Democrat and media narrative, expect to see inflated death counts, erroneously blaming non-virus deaths on the virus. The left is practiced at this since every type of extreme weather, from rain to snow, heat to cold, hurricanes to tornadoes, is blamed on global warming or climate change, depending on which term fits the weather in question.

As states and cities reopen, expect each new death to be trumpeted by the media, with panel discussion by “experts” discussing Trump’s recklessness and disregard for American lives.

Dr. Deborah Birx, has already noticed and it’s no coincidence that major media outlets are in no hurry to interview her lest she let the death count cat out of the bag. At a meeting in early May the Washington Post reported,

"There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust," she told CDC Director Robert Redfield, two people familiar with the meeting told the newspaper.

The Post reported that Birx and others feared that the CDC's data-tracking system was inflating coronavirus statistics like mortality rates and case numbers by up to 25%.

That’s a deep state insider’s estimate. Want to bet it’s far more than 25 percent?

Aside from politics, one can also follow the money. Attaching COVID to a diagnosis taps into Uncle Sam’s money tree. As USAToday described,

Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/cooking_the_books_on_covid19_deaths.html

Despite the Hype, Gilead’s Remdesivir Will Do Nothing to End the Coronavirus Pandemic

Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir has been heralded as our best hope in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, the antiviral drug doesn’t seem of much help to patients with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. And while the company’s clever rollout has generated excitement among investors, politicians, and the public, a combination of generic drugs that appears to be more effective in fighting the coronavirus has flown under the radar.

Desperation for the limited supply of remdesivir is so great that Virginia will hold a lottery to determine which of the almost 1,500 severely ill patients in the state will be able to get its several hundred donated doses of the drug. In Minnesota, state officials have come up with an action plan to allocate their supply of the Covid-19 treatment, which calls for designating “triage officers” who will randomly choose among equally eligible patients. And in Alabama, physicians on a coronavirus task force set up by the governor will determine which patients get remdesivir.

Some hospitals there will receive just a single course of treatment. Still, Alabama’s state health officer, Dr. Scott Harris, recently offered his thanks to Gilead, the drug’s manufacturer, which donated some 940,000 vials of the drug to the federal government that are being distributed by state health departments. “Although the total supply of remdesivir is limited, we are grateful that hospitalized COVID-19 patients with severe disease in Alabama can receive this potentially lifesaving medication,” said Harris.

It is amid these feelings of scarcity and indebtedness that Gilead is setting the price for its antiviral medicine. The company, which has already arranged for distribution of remdesivir in 127 countries, is expected to begin selling it commercially as soon as June. And while a 10-day course of the drug, which was developed as a potential Ebola treatment with at least $79 million in U.S. government funding, costs only about $10 to produce, according to an estimate by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, its market price is expected to be several hundred times that amount.

Still, price gouging isn’t what has many scientists upset about remdesivir. It’s the fact that the coronavirus drug that has boosted hopes and sent Gilead’s stock price (and according to some analysts, the entire stock market) soaring doesn’t seem to do much for coronavirus patients.

https://theintercept.com/2020/05/26/coronavirus-gileand-remdesivir-treatment/

MICHIGAN MAIL IN BALLOT VOTING WILL WORK FLAWLESSLY

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/05/26/michigan-mail-in-ballot-voting-will-work-flawlessly/

JPMorgan's Dimon Admits "Fed Liquidity Is Propping Up Stocks"

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told the Deutsche Bank Global Financial Services Conference attendees (virtually) that he sees a "good chance" of a fairly rapid economic recovery and is hoping things pick up in 3Q after what will be weak GDP this quarter.

“I give it some pretty good odds,” Dimon said. “The government has been very responsive, the Federal Reserve has been very responsive. Large companies have a huge wherewithal, hopefully we’ll keep the small ones alive long enough that most of them get back into business.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jpmorgans-dimon-admits-fed-liquidity-propping-stocks

"A Moment Of Truth For The Euro": ECB Preparing To Run QE Without Bundesbank

The shape of Europe's massive monetary injection may change dramatically in the coming months. According to Reuters, citing four sources, the ECB has drafted contingency plans to carry out its multi-trillion QE programme without the Bundesbank in case Germany’s top court forces the main participant in the scheme to quit.

Not only is the European central bank planning on how to continue QE without German - mostly by having other European central banks step in although it is unclear just how effective this would be - but, in a worst-case scenario, the ECB would also launch an "unprecedented legal action against the German central bank, its biggest shareholder, to bring it back into the program."

According to Reuters, such a moves would mark "a moment of truth for the euro", testing Germany’s commitment to a currency it played the biggest role in creating (for a simple reason: Germany was the primary beneficiary for years as eliminating the chronically strong Deutsche Mark allowed German exports to flourish), and forcing it to tackle some deep-seated reservations within the country about ECB policies.

As reported earlier this month, Germany’s constitutional court gave the ECB an ultimatum until early August to justify its massive buying of government bonds or continue the scheme without the Bundesbank, which carries out more than a quarter of the bond purchases. Without the Bundesbank, the ECB's QE is effectively done.

While consensus remains optimistic, expecting the legal challenge from the court in Karlsruhe to be resolved by the Bundesbank itself by demonstrating that the policy was appropriate and addressing concerns about its side effects, staff at the ECB and the euro zone’s national central banks are preparing for what one source described as the “unbelievable”: a scenario in which the court bans the Bundesbank from taking part in the purchases.

In that case, the ECB, or less likely the other euro zone central banks, would take up the Bundesbank’s quota in the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) and buy German bonds, although with far fewer non-German bonds in private hands in Europe, the European QE program would have to be forcibly shrunk on very short notice.

There is one loophole: to allow other central banks to buy Bunds, Europe's “no risk sharing” principle - one which the Bundesbank itself insisted upon when the programme was launched in 2015 - would have to be broken. Until now each national central bank bought its own government’s bonds and the risk is shared over the limited amount of debt bought by the ECB itself.

The ECB has slowed down German bond purchases since the start of the coronavirus pandemic to focus its firepower on Italy, which has come under pressure in the bond market as the outbreak has savaged its already shaky public finances. Indeed, according to Reuters, Bundesbank purchases of German sovereign debt, or Bunds, totaled just 628 million euros ($688 million) in April, or just 2.3% of the government bonds bought under the PSPP that month.

There is a bigger problem: even if the Bundesbank quits the scheme, leaving Germany's Bunds out is "not an option" given that they serve as the de facto euro zone benchmark for private investors thanks to their top-notch credit rating and ample availability. Nobody would buy Italian debt just because German bonds were not available.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/moment-truth-euro-ecb-preparing-run-qe-without-bundesbank

Made in USA: The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Policy

Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn’t lock down almost the entire country in 1968/69, 1957, or 1949-1952, or even during 1918. But in a terrifying few days in March 2020, it happened to all of us, causing an avalanche of social, cultural, and economic destruction that will ring through the ages.

There was nothing normal about it all. We’ll be trying to figure out what happened to us for decades hence.

How did a temporary plan to preserve hospital capacity turn into two-to-three months of near-universal house arrest that ended up causing worker furloughs at 256 hospitals, a stoppage of international travel, a 40% job loss among people earning less than $40K per year, devastation of every economic sector, mass confusion and demoralization, a complete ignoring of all fundamental rights and liberties, not to mention the mass confiscation of private property with forced closures of millions of businesses?

Whatever the answer, it’s got to be a bizarre tale. What’s truly surprising is just how recent the theory behind lockdown and forced distancing actually is. So far as anyone can tell, the intellectual machinery that made this mess was invented 14 years ago, and not by epidemiologists but by computer-simulation modelers. It was adopted not by experienced doctors – they warned ferociously against it – but by politicians.

Let’s start with the phrase social distancing, which has mutated into forced human separation. The first I had heard it was in the 2011 movie Contagion. The first time it appeared in the New York Times was February 12, 2006:

If the avian flu goes pandemic while Tamiflu and vaccines are still in short supply, experts say, the only protection most Americans will have is “social distancing,” which is the new politically correct way of saying “quarantine.”

But distancing also encompasses less drastic measures, like wearing face masks, staying out of elevators — and the [elbow] bump. Such stratagems, those experts say, will rewrite the ways we interact, at least during the weeks when the waves of influenza are washing over us.

Maybe you don’t remember that the avian flu of 2006 didn’t amount to much. It’s true, despite all the extreme warnings about its lethality, H5N1 didn’t turn into much at all. What it did do, however, was send the existing president, George W. Bush, to the library to read about the 1918 flu and its catastrophic results. He asked for some experts to submit some plans to him about what to do when the real thing comes along.

https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/05/26/made-in-usa-the-2006-origins-of-the-lockdown-policy/

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>>9321762

Thus, cancelling or postponing large meetings would not be likely to have any significant effect on the development of the epidemic. While local concerns may result in the closure of particular events for logical reasons, a policy directing communitywide closure of public events seems inadvisable. Quarantine. As experience shows, there is no basis for recommending quarantine either of groups or individuals. The problems in implementing such measures are formidable, and secondary effects of absenteeism and community disruption as well as possible adverse consequences, such as loss of public trust in government and stigmatization of quarantined people and groups, are likely to be considerable….

Finally, the remarkable conclusion:

Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted. Strong political and public health leadership to provide reassurance and to ensure that needed medical care services are provided are critical elements. If either is seen to be less than optimal, a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe.

Confronting a manageable epidemic and turning it into a catastrophe: that seems like a good description of everything that has happened in the COVID-19 crisis of 2020.

Thus did some of the most highly trained and experienced experts on epidemics warn with biting rhetoric against everything that the advocates of lockdown proposed. It was not even a real-world idea in the first place and showed no actual knowledge of viruses and disease mitigation. Again, the idea was born of a high-school science experiment using agent-based modelling techniques having nothing at all to do with real life, real science, or real medicine.

So the question becomes: how did the extreme view prevail?

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Race baiting FF

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8357713/Minneapolis-cop-seen-kneeling-neck-black-man-moments-died.html

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China Threat: General Paul Vallely: We Need to Take Use All Measures Possible to 'Defang' Them!!

https://youtu.be/aUGVOv3N1Cg

WHO report September 2019 A wrold at risk

https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf

Vulnerability is heightened by an increase in outbreaks occurring in complex humanitarian emergencies, as well as a novel convergence of ecological, political, economic and social trends including population growth, increased urbanization, a globally integrated economy, widespread and faster travel, conflict, migration and climate change (2). Specific risks are described below:The world is confronted by increasing infectious disease outbreaks. Between 2011 and 2018, WHO tracked 1483 epidemic events in 172 countries3. Epidemic-prone diseases such as influenza, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Ebola, Zika, plague, Yellow Fever and others, are harbingers of a new era of high-impact, potentially fast-spreading outbreaks that are more frequently detected and increasingly difficult to manage. Fig. 1 demonstrates the global emergence of selected pathogens over the past 50 years, including both those that naturally emerge/re-emerge and those that are deliberately released.

September 2019

https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf

DNI Ric Grenell Dumps a Slew of Russia Probe Documents on Way Out the Door Including Michael Flynn Transcripts

DNI Richard Grenell dumped a slew of Russia probe documents on his way out the door on Tuesday.

Former Rep. John Ratcliffe will take over as DNI today after his swearing in ceremony on Tuesday morning.

FOX News reported:

The documents include transcripts of phone calls that then-incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak had in December 2016, during the presidential transition period. Grenell said publicly last week that he was in the process of declassifying those files, after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., asked that he do so.

Fox News has learned that the declassification review of those transcripts is now complete, and it will be left up to Ratcliffe on whether to release them publicly.

Fox News has learned that Grenell also completed the declassification review of other documents related to the origins of the Russia probe — including one that a senior intelligence official told Fox News was “very significant in understanding how intelligence was manipulated to support launching the Russia investigation.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/breakig-dni-ric-grenell-dumps-slew-russia-probe-documents-way-door-including-michael-flynn-transcripts/

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Cheers man!

Love your work as always TY

Pompeo Blasted by Top Democrat for Thoughtless Threat to Cut off Australia From Intelligence Sharing

The US embassy in Australia sought to downplay the statement the top US diplomat made over the weekend, saying Washington had “absolute confidence” in Canberra’s ability to protect the security of its telecommunications networks and those of its intelligence partners.

Eliot Engel, Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, blasted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his "thoughtless" and "irresponsible" comment in which the top US diplomat threatened to cut off Australia from intelligence sharing. The statement was posted on the Twitter account of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The project the top diplomat referred to is China’s One Belt One Road initiative, a global infrastructure and investment project that Australia’s Victoria state might join. Pompeo said the US would "simply disconnect" Canberra from the alliance.

"I don’t know the nature of those projects precisely, but to the extent they have an adverse impact on our ability to protect telecommunications from our private citizens, or security networks for our defence and intelligence communities, we will simply disconnect, we will simply separate. We’re going to preserve trust in networks for important information. We hope our friends and partners and allies across the world, especially our Five Eyes partners like Australia, will do the same”, said the top US diplomat.

Australia’s PM Scott Morrison didn’t comment directly on Pompeo’s statement but said the federal government had never supported Victoria's involvement in the project.

The development comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and China over the coronavirus pandemic and China’s cooperation with key US allies.

Washington’s particular focus is on Chinese giant Huawei’s involvement in the development of 5G networks. The Trump administration has repeatedly pressured its allies to cease doing business with the telecom giant, citing security concerns. The US previously accused Huawei of conducting espionage at the behest of the Chinese government, a claim Beijing and Huawei categorically deny.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202005261079423375-pompeo-blasted-by-top-democrat-for-thoughtless-threat-to-cut-off-australia-from-intelligence/

FUNVAX: Globalist Plot to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine Exposes Shocking Satanic Conspiracy

Here’s the main reason why the NWO

globalist cabal is dead set on mandat-

ing a universal COVID-19 vaccination

program.

No, it has nothing to do with vaccine-

induced immunity being the only way

to control this wholly manufactured

pandemic and staged panic triggered

by their bioengineered novel corona

virus, which has been stealthily dis

seminated throughout 5G-intensive

urban areas around the world.

In 2005, a highly classified presentation was given to DoD officials and military brass at the Pentagon about the top-secret FunVax Program.

A video of a short segment of that Pentagon briefing was secretly taken by a whistleblower which can be found here: FUNVAXgate: A Pentagon Scheme to Totally Neutralize the God Gene (Video).

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

There are at least 3 essential takeaways from that extremely revealing and radioactive presentation made by an experienced bioweapon scientist who appeared to be the point man for the FunVax project. As follows:

(1) The U.S. Military biological weapons program has been creating a vaccine that is specifically formulated to immunize targeted individuals and populations against the expression of the God gene, also known as vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2). The suppression of VMAT2 has been a primary goal of US biological weapon laboratories for decades with the ostensible purpose of neutralizing terrorists who act on their religious fanaticism. However, the real goal is to inoculate people the world over against the inclination to have spiritual fervor or mystical experiences (see the screenshot below).

(2) The most practical form of a VMAT2 vaccine in light of the necessity for extreme secrecy is a respiratory virus, which could be covertly released throughout a nation or region of the world. This would eliminate the problem posed by those societies that are averse to vaccinations administered by injection. Religious cultures, in general, are increasingly fearful of the true intention behind immunization shots. Many folks have not only experienced and/or witnessed adverse vaccine side effects, they are also skeptical of their efficacy.

(3) The proposed FunVax vaccine would be aerosolized in a manner similar to the systematic, wide area and indiscriminate spraying of chemtrails over the unsuspecting population below. Because the U.S. Armed Forces have forever denied the existence of chemtrails, most citizenries have been conditioned to falsely believe they are contrails. In this way, aerosolized vaccines can be furtively administered to the citizenry of any nation that illicitly permits chemical geoengineering operations.

~~~ End of EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ~~~

*For an in-depth discussion of the FunVax vaccine, as well as the VMAT2 gene also known as the God gene, the following detailed investigation provides numerous scientific facts that lend a high degree of credence to the existence of this U.S. military bioweapon program: An In-depth Investigation of VMAT2 and the FunVax Vaccine

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