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Repeated COVID-19 Vaccination Weakens Immune System: Study, IN-DEPTH: How ‘Child-Friendly’ Drag Events Can Expose Children to Sex Offenders and more!
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Repeated COVID-19 Vaccination Weakens Immune System: Study
Repeated COVID-19 vaccination weakens the immune system, potentially making people susceptible to life-threatening conditions such as cancer, according to a new study.
Multiple doses of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines lead to higher levels of antibodies called IgG4, which can provide a protective effect. But a growing body of evidence indicates that the “abnormally high levels” of the immunoglobulin subclass actually make the immune system more susceptible to the COVID-19 spike protein in the vaccines, researchers said in the paper.
They pointed to experiments performed on mice that found multiple boosters on top of the initial COVID-19 vaccination “significantly decreased” protection against both the Delta and Omicron virus variants and testing that found a spike in IgG4 levels after repeat Pfizer vaccination, suggesting immune exhaustion.
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IN-DEPTH: Inquiries for Unvaccinated Donor Blood on the Rise, Contractor Says
The demand for unvaccinated blood is on the rise, a blood products and services provider said.
Kirby Winn, public relations manager of ImpactLife, says that while the hospitals his company serves have not expressed any interest in receiving unvaccinated blood, he has noticed the demand for “pure blood” rising from the general population.
According to its website, ImpactLife provides blood products and services to more than 120 hospitals in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin.
“We have a lot of conversations with people who have questions and concerns about this,” Winn told The Epoch Times.
However, he acknowledged that those who ask questions about receiving blood from vaccinated donors “might not be satisfied with the answers.”
In a joint statement (pdf) issued on Jan. 26, the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies, America’s Blood Centers, and the American Red Cross vouched for the safety of America’s blood supply, assuring the public that “vaccines do not pose a risk to patients receiving blood transfusions.”
As Winn explained, blood providers nationally “are confident that this is the right position” and they “continue to monitor blood transfusion-related incidents with the recipients of blood transfusions through a process called hemovigilance.”
“As far as the medical treatment goes, it’s not relevant if the donor is vaccinated or not vaccinated for COVID and we don’t track it,” Winn said. “When people come in to give blood we don’t ask the question, ‘Have you received a COVID vaccine or have you not received a COVID- vaccine.'”
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What if your body produced its own antimicrobial?
Hypochlorous Acid (HOCL), is an all-natural and non-toxic oxidant that kills 99.999% of the toughest pathogens. Hypochlorous acid naturally occurs in our immune system, created by white blood cells, or neutrophils, that fight against infection and disease. The neutrophils detect and attack infections by releasing a cocktail of biocidal chemicals, including their secret weapon, hypochlorous acid.
Imagine, if you will, a world in which the human body naturally produces a simple chemical compound by a chemical reaction requiring only pure water and pure salt to produce an anti-microbial which is toxic to a wide range of bacteria and viruses, but not toxic to humans. A short-lived natural product called Hypochlorous acid (HOCl)
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Over 300 COVID-19 Papers Withdrawn for Not Meeting Standards of Scientific Soundness
Research journals have withdrawn well over 300 articles on COVID-19 due to compromised ethical standards and concerns about the publications’ scientific validity.
Retraction Watch has provided a running list of withdrawn papers on COVID-19 ranging from “Acute kidney injury associated with COVID-19” to “Can Your AI Differentiate Cats from COVID-19?”
A total of 330 research papers have currently been retracted.
During the pandemic, researchers have compromised on ethical standards and tried to either get more publications approved or to take shortcuts around ethics, senior researcher Gunnveig Grødeland at the Institute of Immunology at the University of Oslo says, after going through the list of articles that have been withdrawn, and the reasons for some of them.
While it is quite natural for some articles to be updated or changed to be published in a different form, some have been retracted because the researchers did not obtain informed consent during the research.
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Kansas City emerges as a sanctuary city for transgender procedures
In a challenge to state authorities this Wednesday, a Kansas City Council committee passed a resolution to declare it a sanctuary city for people who want to make a gender transition. The proposal will now be discussed in the full council.
While the Missouri Legislature is attempting to ban transgender procedures on both children and adults, local LGTBQ advocates are focusing their efforts on making the state's largest city a protected zone for those seeking access to such treatments.
The proposal approved by the council asks the city not to prosecute or fine any person or organization that provides or receives gender transition care assistance involving puberty blockers, hormones and even surgeries. It also mentions that if a law or resolution is passed at the state level imposing criminal, civil, or professional penalties or fines, Kansas City staff would enforce those requirements as "their lowest priority."
It should be noted that Kansas City is a Democratic-leaning city, although it is located in a primarily Republican state.
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WHO Adopts European-Style COVID-19 Vaccine Passports as Part of New Global Digital Health Certificate
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it will take up the European Union’s digital COVID-19 vaccine passport framework as part of a new global network of digital health certificates.
The WHO said in a June 5 statement that it had entered into a “landmark digital health partnership” with the European Commission (EC), the European Union’s executive body.
As part of this new joint venture, Europe’s existing framework of digital vaccine passports will serve as the first building block of a global network of digital health products.
Dubbed the Global Digital Health Certification Network, the new vaccine passport framework has already drawn criticism, with Australian senator Alex Antic saying in a statement that the move is “just another conspiracy theory coming true.”
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DEADLY MYOCARDITIS CLUSTERS IN INFANTS: IS THE COVID VACCINE TO BLAME?
A recent unprecedented surge of deadly myocarditis in babies in England and Wales has been linked to enterovirus which is generally mild in infants. Del walks through mechanisms of the COVID-19 vaccines designed specifically to suppress toll-like receptors and why we should be looking into the possibility of this technology inadvertently turning once mild viruses into killers.
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Some Sudden Deaths Caused by COVID-19 Vaccines, Autopsies Confirm
Some sudden deaths were caused by COVID-19 vaccines, autopsies have confirmed.
Eight people who died suddenly after receiving a messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccine died due to a type of vaccine-induced heart inflammation called myocarditis, South Korean authorities said after reviewing the autopsies.
“Vaccine-related myocarditis was the only possible cause of death,” Dr. Kye Hun Kim of the Chonnam National University Hospital and other South Korean researchers said.
All of the sudden cardiac deaths (SCD) occurred in people aged 45 or younger, including a 33-year-old man who died just one day after receiving a second dose of Moderna’s vaccine and a 30-year-old woman who died three days after receiving a first dose of Pfizer’s shot.
Myocarditis wasn’t suspected as a clinical diagnosis or cause of death before the autopsies, researchers said.
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Jacinda Ardern awarded damehood for leading New Zealand through Covid
Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, has been awarded a damehood for leading the country through the Covid pandemic. The New Zealand government announced it would bestow the country's second-highest honour on Ms Ardern, who has been made a Dame Grand Companion, to mark the King's official birthday.
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IN-DEPTH: How ‘Child-Friendly’ Drag Events Can Expose Children to Sex Offenders
Drag events targeting children can be a hunting ground for sexual predators, according to a therapist with a long career in treating sexual predators.
A relatively recent phenomenon “Drag Queen Story Hour,” which first appeared in San Francisco, now is happening around the nation—at public libraries, in eateries, at performance venues, in parades, and even at schools.
These events often include men in women’s clothing performing erotic dances, wearing skimpy or suggestive costumes, and telling sexually charged jokes.
These shows sometimes mask sexual predators and facilitate the sexual grooming of children, experts told The Epoch Times.
‘Significant Risk to Women and Children’
Jon Uhler, a therapist who treats sex offenders, says that in his experience if a man feels comfortable performing sexual dance in a skimpy women’s outfit for children, he’s likely extremely sexually deviant and “poses a significant risk to women and children.”
Uhler told The Epoch Times that men who want to perform for kids in sexy women’s outfits have likely watched hundreds of hours of deviant pornography that reshapes the brain to become a sexual predator.
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Twenty Grim Realities Unearthed by Lockdowns
It’s common now to speak of the before times in contrast to the after times. The turning point was of course March 16, 2020, the day of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve, though authoritarian trends predate that. Rights were suddenly broadly throttled, even religious rights. We were told to conduct every aspect of our lives in accordance with the priorities of the bio-medical security state.
Very few people anticipated such a shocking development. It was the onset of a new state-conducted war and the enemy was something we could not see and hence could be anywhere. No one has ever doubted the omnipresence of potentially dangerous pathogens but now we were being told that life itself depended entirely on avoidance of them and the only guide going forward would be public-health authorities.
Everything changed. Nothing is the same. The trauma is real and lasting. The claim of “15 Days” was revealed to be a ruse. The emergency lasted three years and then some. The people and machinery that did this are still in power. The pick to head the CDC has a long track record of enabling and cheering the lockdowns and all that followed.
It’s a helpful exercise to summarize the new things we’ve all discovered in these years. Together they account for why the world seems different and why we all feel and think differently now than we did just a few years ago.
I’m glad the truth is finally coming out about vaccines, finally. There’s still hope to save people.
Sex offenders can be anywhere. Not just at drag shows. If they are wanting to offend, they’ll offend.