A new poll found that 44% of Americans believe the coronavirus was developed in a laboratory, and more than half of those people think the virus was intentionally released from the lab.
TIPP poll results announced Tuesday added that of the people who believe coronavirus was human-made, 54% believe it was intentionally released from the lab, 32% think it was accidentally released, and 14% were not sure how it left the lab.
When asked about the virus’ origin, 22% think it came from animals, 11% think it’s a naturally occurring virus, and 8% think the virus resulted from human living habits. A total of 16% were unsure about its origins.
Not surprisingly, the TIPP poll found a difference in results based on the party to which respondents said they belonged.
Among Republicans:
63% believe it was developed in a lab.
12% think it came from animals.
8% think it’s a naturally occurring virus.
6% think the virus came to be as a result of human living habits.
12% were unsure about its origins.
Among Democrats:
32% believe it was developed in a lab.
30% think it came from animals.
13% think it’s a naturally occurring virus.
11% think the virus came to be as a result of human living habits.
14% were unsure about its origins.
Former President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were criticized widely by opponents and the mainstream media for claiming early on COVID-19 was the result of a virus that escaped a lab in Wuhan, China.
A speaker at an armed march in Tulsa, Oklahoma marked the Tulsa Race Massacre100th anniversary by telling the crowd that time is coming to “kill everything white in sight.”
The Black Panthers and a number of gun club members from across the U.S. gathered in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a series of protest events to mark the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, according to RT.
The event, called the “Second Amendment March for Reparations,” took place on Saturday afternoon in the northern part of Tulsa. Hundreds of participants carrying weapons and dressed in paramilitary black and khaki clothes marched through the city chanting slogans like “Whose streets? Our streets” and “Black Power.” The activists carried a large banner demanding “Reparations now,” also according to RT.
Groups marched through downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma to draw attention to “racism, inequality, wealth disparity, police brutality and the like.” “Tulsa will mark a new beginning in the upgraded fight for Reparations for Black people” according to a news release from organizers.
“The time is coming rat a tat tat…we will kill everything white in sight!” one man shouted from a bullhorn.
Antifa extremists shouted during a recent protest in Seattle, “I can’t wait until black people lynch white people.”
“I can't wait until black people lynch white people”
A person part of the #antifa black bloc at the protest against Billy Graham association event near Seattle shouted racist statements yesterday. They also chanted “death to America” & burned US flags. pic.twitter.com/Rlob8ynIlI
President Biden is scheduled to visit Tulsa on Tuesday, the day the city resumes its excavation of a mass grave in Oaklawn Cemetery that could be connected to the Tulsa massacre, according to The Washington Post.
Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.
Donald Trump released a Memorial Day statement on Monday, honoring those who have fallen in service of our country.
“On this Memorial Day, we remember the fallen heroes who took their last breaths in defense of our Nation, our families, our citizens, and our sacred freedoms,” Trump said. “The depth of their devotion, the steel of their resolve, and the purity of their patriotism has no equal in human history. On distant battlefields, in far-off oceans, and high in the skies above, they faced down our enemies and gave their lives so that America would prevail. They made the supreme sacrifice so that our people can live in safety and our Nation can thrive in peace. It is because of their gallantry that we can together, as one people, continue our pursuit of America’s glorious destiny.”
“America’s warriors are the single greatest force for justice, peace, liberty, and security among all the nations ever to exist on earth,” Trump said. “God bless our fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Coast Guardsmen, Airmen, and Marines. We honor them today, forever, and always.”
“We owe all that we are, and everything we ever hope to be, to these unrivaled heroes,” he continued. “Their memory and their legacy is immortal. Our loyalty to them and to their families is eternal and everlasting.”
President Donald Trump comforts the son of a fallen soldier. How much support can we get for this little guy this memorial day weekend. pic.twitter.com/Uo2O9ej4gi
A Wisconsin priest who has faced criticism for his defiance of COVID-19 restrictions and his vocal skepticism on the pandemic and vaccine told his congregants last weekend he has been asked to step down.
The Rev. James Altman told his flock at St. James the Less Catholic Church in La Crosse, Wisconsin on Pentecost Sunday that the Bishop of the La Crosse diocese, William Callahan, has asked him to resign — a request that Altman will be challenging with his canon lawyer.
“For the record, dear family, Bishop Callahan has asked me to resign as pastor as of this past Friday,” he told his congregants, “because I am ‘divisive’ and ‘ineffective.’”
Emphatic cries of “no!” and what sounded like more lengthily worded objections to the notion that their flock’s shepherd would be stepping down could be heard from the pews in a YouTube video of Sunday’s mass:
Authorities create home-treatment-kit for 22 million-strong population.
A citywide initiative in Mexico City to prescribe ivermectin to COVID-19 patients resulted in a plunge in hospitalizations and deaths, two studies found.
Hospitalizations were down by as much as 76%, according to research by the Mexican Digital Agency for Public Innovation, Mexico’s Ministry of Health and the Mexican Social Security Institute, according to a TrialSiteNews report highlighted by LifeSiteNews.
Earlier this month, as WND reported, a significant decrease in cases in India coincided with the national health ministry’s promotion of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine treatments.
In Mexico City, after a spike in cases in December, the city’s Ministry of Health created a home-treatment kit for residents. The city’s metro population is 22 million.
At the time, the head of the Mexico City Ministry of Health, Oliva López, said told reporters her agency had determined “that there is enough evidence to use in people positive for SARS-CoV-2, even without symptoms, some drugs such as ivermectin and azithromycin.”
Beginning Dec. 29, people who tested positive for COVID from an antigen test and who were experiencing at least mild symptoms began receiving one of the government’s ivermectin-based treatment kits, TrialSiteNews reported.
The Mexican government then began a study to track the impact of the early treatment of COVID with ivermectin on the city’s population.
The study tracked 200,000 people, dividing in two cohorts — those who received ivermectin and those who did not.
Through a phone-call-based monitoring system and hospital data on admissions for COVID-19, the researchers found a reduction of between 52% and 76% in hospitalizations for those who took ivermectin compared to those who did not.
The government’s findings were corroborated by Dr. Juan J. Chamie-Quintero, a senior data analyst at private Colombian university EAFIT.
He found that excess deaths in the city dropped sharply only a few weeks after the ivermectin treatments began.
Chamie-Quintero also conducted a study in Peru, where the government approved ivermectin as a treatment for the virus in May 2020.
In the 24 Peruvian states that adopted early use of ivermectin treatment, excess deaths plummeted on average by 59% just 30 days after the peak death rate. And it had dropped 75% after 45 days in those over 60 years old.
‘Large, statistically significant reductions in mortality’
Worldwide, more than 50 peer-reviewed studies have shown the effectiveness of ivermectin as a treatment and prophylaxis against COVID-19.
A study by the American Journal of Therapeutics that analyzed 18 randomized controlled treatment trials found ivermectin elicited “large, statistically significant reductions in mortality, time to clinical recovery, and time to viral clearance” in COVID patients.
The study concluded that “the many examples of ivermectin distribution campaigns leading to rapid population-wide decreases in morbidity and mortality indicate that an oral agent effective in all phases of COVID-19 has been identified.”
In February, a peer-reviewed study found that invermectin reduces coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths by about 75%.
Ivermectin, in more than 30 trials around the world, causes “repeated, consistent, large magnitude improvements in clinical outcomes’ at all stages of the disease,” according to the study, which was published in the U.S. journal Frontiers of Pharmacology.
The evidence is so strong, the researchers believe, the anti-parasitic drug should become a standard therapy everywhere, hastening global recovery.
“The data is overwhelming – we are in a pandemic, and this is an incredibly effective way to combat it. If we use ivermectin widely, our societies can open up,” said study co-author Professor Paul Marik, director of emergency and pulmonary care at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
A previous study by Professor Andrew Hill of Liverpool University also found ivermectin cuts death rates by about 75%.
Rising wealth in China and the number of millionaires and the middle class is set to increase through the midpoint of this decade as the country grows more affluent and smarter.
HSBC Holdings Plc’s new report “The rising wealth of China; Millionaires and the middle class lead the way” predicts a world where millionaires in the country are set to double in the next five years, and the middle class will increase by nearly half.
From an asset manager’s point of view, China could be the next hot spot for new clients mainly because the report shows 2 million high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), those with the equivalent of at least $1.55 million in investable assets, are set to more than double to at least 5 million by 2025.
The bank also estimated the middle-class number (currently at 340 million) would increase by more than 45% to over 500 million in the period.
“The middle class is expanding rapidly too, and the urban homeownership rate is the highest in the world, a remarkable 96%.1 We estimate that total household wealth will grow by more than 50% in the next five years, putting China on a very sound financial footing,” HSBC said.”
For asset managers overseeing their client’s portfolios, the goal is to grow business, and China could be the best region to do so in the period.
“An expanding middle class will underpin medium to long-term economic growth, and stronger consumer spending boosts domestic demand, business confidence, and capital expenditure,” wrote HSBC chief economist Qu Hongbin.
Hongbin said, “A rising middle class will also increase imports of goods and services, and attract foreign companies to invest in China.”
An increasing middle class is the backbone of the country that will help it avoid the “middle-income trap,” and the government will also support a new order to transition the economy to more of a consumption-led one. “It’s not an exaggeration to say that the middle class can be the backbone of China’s dual circulation strategy,” they said.
I keep wanting to write about something other than the woke revolution. Heaven knows there are other things happening right now. But, as Michael Corleone says, just when I thought I was out, it pulls me back in.
The latest insanity is the attack on scientific principles. Oxford University has hired a team of students to diversify and “decolonize” its STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering, and math.
What does this mean in practice? The usual: Digging around for women scientists in times and places in which they were rare, placing heavy emphasis on anything non-European, and reassessing the “history of modern measurement, which is tied deeply to the idea of the ‘Empire’ and Imperial standardization.”
That’s right, they’re coming after imperial measures, which is what the units of size and weight employed in the United States are called everywhere else. The U.S. is now almost alone in using ounces, yards, and so on. But they survive informally elsewhere, especially in Canada, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the Anglosphere.
The U.K. adopted the metric system in the 1970s when it harmonized its regulations with Europe’s. In theory, things are now sold in meters and liters. In practice, most people still mentally buy apples by the pound and milk by the pint.
I remember a Brussels official once explaining, with the air of a man letting an obstinate child win a game, that we Brits were still allowed to sell pints of beer, provided we didn’t call them that. He meant it, too. A market trader in Sunderland was prosecuted in 2001 for selling bananas with imperial scales — that is, in the units his customers preferred. He became a national cause célèbre. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that the so-called Metric Martyr’s travails contributed to what eventually became Brexit.
It is curious, on one level, that Oxford should thus line up with the bureaucracy against the little guy. But when absolutely everything is seen through the prism of anti-colonialism, the word “imperial” is fatal.
In fact, the truly imperialist project, the project spread with revolutionary fervor by French radicals and imposed with force of arms by Napoleon, was the metric system. Similar to all revolutionary ideals, it is abstract, inhuman, and rooted in theory rather than practice.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to release a book – Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward – on November 2nd, 2021.
The work, which will divulge to readers the “life philosophy” of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Director whose financial and personnel ties to the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology have come under increased scrutiny, describes itself as “centered around life lessons compiled from hours of interviews.”
Available for preorder at $18.00 per copy, a brief overview reveals how “in his own words, world-renowned infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci shares the lessons that have shaped his life philosophy, offering an intimate view of one of the world’s greatest medical minds as well as universal advice to live by” in the book. The summary continues:
“Before becoming the face of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and America’s most trusted doctor, Dr. Anthony Fauci had already devoted three decades to public service. Those looking to live a more compassionate and purposeful life will find inspiration in his unique perspective on leadership, expecting the unexpected, and finding joy in difficult times.
A mainstream television network has admitted that President Donald Trump was right to question the origins of COVID-19 all along. In a segment of “This Week” on ABC News on Sunday, correspondent Jon Karl had to admit Trump was right when he called for a probe into the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Karl said, “we should find out what happened. This is one of the greatest crises our country has ever faced, and the world has ever faced. We need to know how it started. This was an idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State of Donald Trump.”
Japanese authorities are set to slap a ban on cheering, eating and drinking in order to stop the spread of COVID at this summer’s Tokyo Olympics.
Mandatory proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test, along with mandatory mask mandates, are almost a given, but organizers are planning even more measures.
Additional security guards will be in place for when the event begins on July 23 and they may be tasked with enforcing blanket bans on behavior that would normally be routine for any similar occasion.
“Eating, drinking, loud cheering, and high-fives while watching are prohibited. Security guards are deployed, and measures such as refusal of entry and exit are also assumed for violations,” reports the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper.
