Secretary of State Tony Blinken confirmed reports during a Senate hearing on Tuesday that young children were transported from Afghanistan with older men as child brides.
During the hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled Blinken about the numbers, citing data form the World Health Organization that over 50 percent of wives in Afghanistan were married as child brides.
Blinken said he did not know the exact number of underage girls who were evacuated with older men or how many were separated by officials after they landed.
Cruz cited reports of a State Department document seeking “urgent guidance” from other agencies about the issue after child brides were brought to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, noting that tens of thousands of Afghans were evacuated from the Kabul airport.
Blinken insisted the entire government was following the issue with “extreme vigilance” to uncover and separate child brides of older Afghan men, but he tried to downplay the numbers.
“To my knowledge, a limited number of cases where we have seperated people because we were concerned…” Blinken began.
“How many?” Cruz interrupted.
“The cases I’m aware of? A handful,” Blinken replied.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is also investigating reports of child brides, according to Yahoo News.
“The concern is, we’re seeing a lot of family units with very young girls. These girls are brought into the U.S. as wives,” a government official said to Yahoo News. “It’s not a small number.”
Fresh from an on-air feud with rapper Nicki Minaj, MSNBC host Joy Reid has drawn scorn and ridicule for accusing Republicans of trying to spread Covid-19 into schools, offices, and stores.
“A message to Republicans: Okay, we get it! Covid is the precious and you love it. You love Covid so much you want it to spread into schools, at the office, in the WalMart, on the cruise ships, and at the club,” Reid thundered during the opening monologue of Wednesday’s episode of ‘The ReidOut.’
This is how Joy Reid opened her show tonight — more rhetoric that will get conservatives hurt: "A message to Republicans: Okay, we get it! Covid is the precious & you love it. You love Covid so much you want it to spread…You want it pumping through your veins." pic.twitter.com/xOUkoZWfVZ
“That green spongy ball with the red spikes? You want it pumping through your veins with an ivermectin chaser,” she continued, referring to a medicine derided as “horse dewormer” by liberal commentators that has nonetheless been touted in some studies as a promising treatment for the disease.
But Reid was not concerned with nuance. She insisted Republicans who oppose the liberal consensus on the coronavirus – that it can be defeated with mandatory vaccinations and ‘health passports,’ and by masking schoolchildren – are “weirdos” who are “on the side of Covid,” and want to “threaten our safety and our kids.”
Joy Reid is such a poisonous human being it's safe to say she doesn't care about the lives of conservatives and Republicans. Here she is saying tens of millions of Americans ALL "love Covid so dadgum" much and are "weirdos" who want "Covid running wild."
Reid’s guests agreed with her that Republicans are “trying to get [Covid] into every school,”and want to “drink it in a Kool-Aid cup… it’s insane.”
Viewers, however, thought Reid was the one who came across as “insane” during her rant. “How is this appropriate for a major news organization that’s ostensibly there to inform its viewers on the news of the day in a direct and honest manner?” pundit Alicia Smith wondered. Others were more blunt, calling Reid “disgusting” and “a lunatic.”
I truly hope that @JoyAnnReid gets the professional mental health services she is seemingly in desperate need of https://t.co/6OCNp7bOnV
Whenever you’re down in the dumps and life feels like a dead end remember if someone this stupid can land a Primetime show, you can do ANYTHING. https://t.co/dJnnnsiGMb
Some joked that she had been “broke[n]” by rapper Nicki Minaj. Earlier this week, Reid gave Minaj an on-air finger-wagging for relaying a vaccine horror story supposedly experienced by a friend of her cousin in Trinidad, and encouraging her fans considering the vaccine to “pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with [your] decision, not bullied.”
Reid accused Minaj of using her “platform to put people in the position of dying from [the] disease,” but Minaj dug in her heels, calling Reid a “lying homophobic c**n,” referring to previous anti-gay blog posts by the MSNBC host, and accusing her of a desire to sell out to her white network bosses.
While Republicans are more likely than Democrats to be unvaccinated, vaccine takeup in the US is split along more lines than just the party one. African Americans, 92% of whom voted for Joe Biden last year, are less likely than white people to be vaccinated, and are often distrustful of receiving the shot at all.
Police treat them as if they were providing customer service.
Climate protesters who blocked a major road near London caused a dangerous pile-up, prompting one woman to be airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
Well done, clowns.
As we highlighted earlier, the demonstrators were from a group called ‘Insulate Britain’ – yet have succeeded on two separate occasions in blocking thermal insulation engineers from getting to work.
🚨 | NEW: Climate protestors walk into a road, again
However, their actions today caused a drastically more serious incident after they stopped traffic at two sections of Britain’s busiest motorway, the M25.
Woman airlifted to hospital after Extinction Rebellion criminals cause a multiple car crash. Throw them in jail. https://t.co/AvNqnPH6IB
“A crash involving four vehicles led to a woman in her 50s being airlifted to hospital with serious injuries, and witness Steve Glenn, who was commuting to work clockwise on the M25, told The Telegraph: “The cars ploughed into the back of each other. It was so blatantly obvious what had happened. The standstill traffic was caused by the protest.”
An image of one of the vehicles involved in the crash shows it crushed to half its size.
This is the car that’s covered in the article…. I really hope everyone is ok…. pic.twitter.com/d3Pcq001s3
Despite the dangerous activities of the protesters, the police behaved towards them as if they were providing customer service and only made arrests after the crash.
“If you have any questions at all, just ask, and if any of you are in any discomfort or need anything just let me know and we will try and sort you out in a nice way, I couldn’t phrase that any worse could I? [smiling] If you need any assistance at all then let me know,” a police officer said to the protesters.
I've never seen or heard such pathetic and selective policing in all my life.
Are the police running a five-star sodding hotel, or defending the laws of the land and ensuring hard-pressed British workers can get to and from work without some hippy sat in the middle of the road?! pic.twitter.com/uc1hU3O2SN
The demonstrators are an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, who routinely block roads in London, causing anger amongst ordinary people trying to get to work.
Last year, they infamously tried to stop a busy train setting off early in the morning, prompting irate commuters to drag one man down from the roof of the carriage.
(Star News Network) Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery joined 22 attorneys general from other states and issued a letter to leaders in Congress, calling on Congress to end its push to pass legislation giving more election power to the federal government.
Specifically, the leaders expressed concerns over H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would amend the Voting Rights Act (VRA).
Calling the legislation “misguided” and “clumsy,” the officials argued the move, which has already passed the House of Representatives, would take away power from states to control their own election process.
“States that create laws based on what works best for their jurisdiction to respond to a crisis of confidence in our elections systems will inevitably be targeted by the Department of Justice leading to more confusion, litigation, and concerns over the validity of elections going forward,” the group wrote.
Furthermore, Slatery argued that the move would only allow for the federal government to hold more power.
“Tennesseans, through their elected officials, have the right to create laws that safeguard secure, fair elections and prevent voter fraud. This partisan attempt to amend the Voting Rights Act, which is a very good law and already provides a remedy when discrimination occurs, would only serve to give the federal government control of our state elections,” he detailed.
The letter also describes that the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act could potentially circumvent several Supreme Court rulings.
However, if fully enacted, the nearly two dozen state officials promised to take legal action against the measure.
“If these provisions are enacted, rest assured that the undersigned will aggressively defend our citizens’ rights to participate in free and fair elections without unconstitutional federal intrusion,” the letter continues.
“I am and will continue to work on a daily basis to be antiracist and confront the innate racism within myself that is the reality and history of white people.”
An instructor at Virginia Tech has been criticised by students for issuing a bizarre apology for having white skin, contained within a course syllabus.
Campus Reform notes that Human Development and Family Science instructor Crystal Duncan Lane included the statement claiming she has inherited privileges because of her ‘whiteness’ and apologising to students of color for “inexcusable horrors within our shared history.”
Duncan Lane’s ‘Who I am’ section added into the syllabus reads “I am a Caucasian cisgender female and first-generation college student from Appalachia who is of Scottish, British, and Norwegian heritage. I am married to a cisgender male, and we are middle class. While I did not ‘ask’ for the many privileges in my life: I have benefitted from them and will continue to benefit from them whether I like it or not.”
It continues, “This is injustice. I am and will continue to work on a daily basis to be antiracist and confront the innate racism within myself that is the reality and history of white people.”
Duncan Lane further claims “I want to be better: Every day. I will transform: Every day. This work terrifies me: Every day. I invite my white students to join me on this journey. And to my students of color: I apologize for the inexcusable horrors within our shared history.”
Speaking to Campus Reform, Virginia Tech student Natalie Rhodes commented on the instructor’s actions, noting “It is a class about disabilities, not political opinion, affiliation, nor judgment in any sort. If you are discussing disabilities, stick to your course.”
Another student, who asked to remain anonymous said “It hurts that someone says I was born with “innate racism” because of my skin color,” adding “[It] makes me feel like I should hide and worry about everything I say.”
As we have previously noted, education systems in Europe and America are riddled with the cancer that is Critical Race Theory as well as attempts to “decolonise” curriculums, which is a euphemism for making white people feel ashamed of their history.
No leader can make the promise Gen. Milley made and retain the support of the military personnel he oversees.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should resign. He went too far in preparing to resist Donald Trump’s orders in the closing days of an unstable presidency marked by an attempted coup.
Milley prepared his senior officers to slow walk any orders from Trump to use nuclear weapons or start a military confrontation with China, according to a new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of The Washington Post. That’s an appalling step toward shredding civilian control over the military, a bedrock constitutional value, the chairman is sworn to uphold.
However, it is an understandable step given that Trump was living in a fantasy world as he whipped his followers into a frenzy that led to terrorism at the U.S. Capitol in a crazed attempt to overturn an election.
May none of us ever face such a crisis where our values and the law come into such conflict.
But Milley went even further.
In reassuring his Chinese counterpart that no attack was coming from the United States, Milley promised to call and warn of an impending U.S. attack if Trump ordered one.
Such a call would have inevitably cost the lives of American troops tasked with following the orders of the lawful commander in chief. Milley’s effort to thwart the potential demands of an unhinged president became a betrayal of the men and women he commands.
No leader can make such a promise and retain the support of the military personnel he oversees. The Army knows this because this idea is at the center of its leadership training for officers. First among the “Army Values” is loyalty to the Constitution, your unit and other soldiers. Fourth is selfless service: “Put the welfare of … your subordinates before your own.”
The revelations about Milley’s actions come from “Peril,” a new book by Woodward and Costa.
Suggesting that the nation’s highest ranking military officer resign is not something I take lightly. The man deserves respect. Over 39 years in the Army, he has deployed to more countries than I have visited, including three tours in Afghanistan. He has more military medals than I have merit badges.
Even so, one thing a soldier can never betray and retain command is his fellow service members. Milley promised a communist dictatorship just that.
He must go. If he doesn’t resign on his own, President Joe Biden should show him the door.
(The Verge) The 20Gbps Free Space Optical Communications tech for Project Taara was originally part of Project Loon
In January, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, shut down Project Loon, an initiative exploring using stratospheric helium balloons to distribute wireless internet (an attempt to use solar-powered drones folded in 2017). However, some technology developed as a part of the Loon project remained in development, specifically the Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC) links that were originally meant to connect the high flying balloons — and now that technology is actively in use providing a high-speed broadband link for people in Africa.
Sort of like fiber optic cables without the cable, FSOC can create a 20Gbps+ broadband link from two points that have a clear line of sight, and Alphabet’s moonshot lab X has built up Project Taara to give it a shot. They started by setting up links in India a few years ago as well as a few pilots in Kenya, and today X revealed what it has achieved by using its wireless optical link to connect service across the Congo River from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In 20 days, Project Taara lead Baris Erkmen says the link transmitted nearly 700TB of data, augmenting fiber connections used by local telecom partner Econet and its subsidiaries. The reason for testing the technology in this location is not only the climate, which the team admits is better suited to wireless optical communications than a foggy city like San Francisco but the obstacle created by the deep and fast-flowing river. The cities are only a few miles apart as the crow flies, but Taara says a fiber link to Kinshasa has to run nearly 250 miles (400 kilometers), making it five times as expensive to get online.
Despite sending its communications without the protection of a physical fiber, Taara says that during the test period, its link had 99.9 percent availability. The team tells The Verge that end users don’t know when their communications are using FSOC instead of fiber and that it aims to provide an indistinguishable experience. They also said that they hadn’t experienced any weather conditions in the Congo that affected the connection on this link so far. They credit its resilience in the face of haze, light rain, birds, and other obstacles to the ability to adjust laser power on the fly, as well as improved pointing and tracking.
Project Taara pointing and tracking system
Project Taara links are placed high up, naturally, since they need to be able to see each other, and as you can see in the GIF above, they’re capable of automatically adjusting their mirrors to connect “a light beam the width of a chopstick accurately enough to hit a 5-centimeter target that’s 10 kilometers away.” The system can adjust itself within +/-5 degree cone, and the team says that if that fails for some reason, they can attempt to remote control them into a connection before sending technicians out.
Another COVID whistleblower has come forward as exclusively reported by Gateway Pundit to allege that the statistics about ICU’s being overrun are wildly inflated, over-reported, and in many cases an outright LIE by political officials.
Josh Snider worked in facilities management at Missouri Baptist Medical Center or “MBMC”, “I watched our hospital administrators say in the media that our intensive care units were overflowing with COVID patients, at 98% capacity, knowing that it was a complete and utter lie.”
THIS MISSOURI HOSPITAL NEVER HAD 98% ICU OCCUPANCY, ADMINISTRATORS LIED TO UNCRITICAL MEDIA
HOSPITAL SHUT DOWN ICU FLOORS, DRAMATICALLY REDUCING CAPACITY
“And even after shutting down three-fourths of our ICU capacity, they were still never more than 50% full with that drastically reduced overall capacity. These medical systems that are saying they are overrun with COVID patients are likely LYING TO THE PUBLIC,” Snider said.
Snider says that three out of floor ICU floors were closed because there were no COVID patients to put in them. So when hospitals like theirs say they are at 98% of capacity, they are LYING.
COVID whistleblower Josh Snider took photos of 3 of 4 of the MBMC ICU wings SHUT DOWN because there were no COVID patients to admit during the pandemic.
MBMC has refused to comment for this story after repeated requests for comment.
Snider provided documentary proof of the COVID case load of the MBMC system, whose COVID patients do not track national trends, and where the number of COVID patients in ICU were, at many points, a single, solitary person.
“I would have to adjust the airflow in some of the rooms of people in the ICU with COVID, they were fine. I believe in COVID, I know it’s serious, but I also personally saw people who were fine, they had a terminal case of boredom. I spoke with these people and they weren’t sick at all, they felt fine but were told they had to stay there. Many brought their PlayStations with them to waste away the days with video games instead.”
WHISTLEBLOWER TALKED TO PATIENTS IN INTENSIVE CARE WHO WERE FINE, BORED, PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
The case charts published by the MBMC hospital chain also demonstrate that COVID hospitalizations were always very minor. Snider says their ICU COVID capacity was 60 patients.
Snider provided an INSIDER CHART from the hospital that shows VERY DIFFERENT NUMBERS than were being reported to the public and to the government.
This chart was INTERNAL and distributed to employees of MBMC. In it, you can see that the number of COVID patients in critical care was always under 20. The hospital shut down 3 of 4 ICU wings, and in the remaining one had the capacity for 60 beds/patients. They never came close to being at capacity for COVID ICU patients.
These charts, provided by Snider, show that there was a relatively normal track for COVID infections at the MBMC Center, an acute care facility in St. Louis. Even during periods of infection spikes in the national population, those spikes are not found in the hospital data. As well, the bottom line showing serious cases of COVID requiring intensive care remain significantly small and reduced throughout the months of the pandemic.
INTERNAL: on August 18, 2021, MBMC said they had 19 COVID patients in ICU.
EXTERNAL: on August 20, 2021, MBMC told the public they had 35.3 COVID patients in ICU.
THE PUBLIC NUMBERS ARE OFF FROM THE INTERNAL REPORTS OF COVID PATIENTS IN THE ICU BY ALMOST 100%
Here is the chart generated from information submitted to the US Department of Health and Human Services, as published by the Gannett News Service:
The overstated COVID ICU statistics are visible here. Not only is this chart misrepresenting reality because it doesn’t account for the three ICU wings that were shut down, but the actual numbers presented are almost 100% off what they were reporting to employees internally.
The government reports this data very poorly on this site as well.
Snider has provided his personal statement, documentary evidence, and clear data discrepancies that all suggest that hospitals are not telling the public the truth about the COVID pandemic.
“The real flu season in the hospital was always more serious than COVID has been,” Snider said. “Flu season in a hospital is very challenging, and even the tamest flu season in years past was still worse than COVID has been so far. The people who have been suffering and sadly dying are clearly people who are hundreds of pounds overweight, and people with multiple other comorbidities like stage 4 cancer. I’m not a Doctor, but the response and panic to this virus is clearly wildly disproportionate to reality.”
Special counsel John Durham is seeking a grand jury indictment against Michael Sussmann, a lawyer aligned with the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton, for making false statements to the FBI, according to reports late Wednesday.
Mr. Sussmann, a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm, represented the DNC when Russia hacked its servers in 2016.
Perkins Coie also has ties to Fusion GPS, which hired British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who compiled a dossier of salacious, unverified allegations about former President Donald Trump and Russia.
The case against Mr. Sussman stems from an alleged false statement to the FBI about a client’s identity when he was pushing now-discredited claims about secret communications between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank ahead of the 2016 presidential election, according to The New York Times.During a meeting with former FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016, Mr. Sussmann relayed data and analysis from cybersecurity researchers who claimed that odd internet data was evidence of back-channel communications.
During the meeting, Mr. Sussmann reportedly claimed he was representing a cybersecurity expert, but investigators are probing whether he was secretly working for the Clinton campaign when he made the accusations.
The potential case against Mr. Sussmann is based on an “inconsistency” in the story he told Mr. Baker, The Times reported.
Mr. Baker told investigators he recalled the lawyer telling him that he was not meeting him on behalf of a client, but Mr. Sussmann testified to Congress in December 2017 that he met with the FBI on behalf of the cybersecurity expert.
Time is running out for Mr. Durham to charge Mr. Sussman, as the five-year statute of limitations expires this weekend. There is also no guarantee that a grand jury will return an indictment if asked.
Neither Mr. Durham nor the Justice Department responded to requests for comment from The Washington Times.
Mr. Sussmann’s lawyers denied any wrongdoing in a statement to The New York Times.
“Mr. Sussmann has committed no crime,” they told the outlet, insisting that their client was not meeting with the FBI on behalf of the Clinton campaign.
“’Any prosecution would be baseless, unprecedented and an unwarranted deviation from the apolitical and principled way in which the Department of Justice is supposed to do its work,” the lawyers’ statement said.
The FBI concluded there was no merit to the allegations of hush-hush communications between Trump and Alfa Bank. Special counsel Robert Mueller doesn’t mention the claims in his massive report.
Mr. Durham is said to have acquired Perkins Coie’s billing records and found that Mr. Sussmann reportedly charged the time he spent on the Alfa Bank allegations to the Clinton campaign, The Times reported.
However, the hours he spent with Mr. Baker were not part of those billing records, The Times said.
Lawyers for Mr. Sussmann said the billing records are misleading because he was not charging the cybersecurity expert for his work but needed to show the firm internally that he was working on something.
The cybersecurity expert who Mr. Sussmann said he was representing has also hired a lawyer, according to The Times.
Mr. Durham was appointed in May 2019 by then-Attorney General William P. Barr to look for wrongdoing by the FBI and others in the early stages of the Trump-Russia collusion probe.
Initially, Mr. Durham, once the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, was reviewing the case as a federal prosecutor. Mr. Barr elevated him to special counsel in late 2020 so his work could continue uninterrupted under President Biden.
The investigation initially was hailed by former President Donald Trump as critical to getting to the bottom of how the FBI made so many mistakes in its Russia investigation.
By the probe’s second anniversary in May, it became popular among conservatives to mock it. Mr. Trump and other conservatives accused Mr. Durham of disappearing without uncovering anything.
The Durham probe so far has produced a single criminal charge against former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, who admitted to altering an email related to the surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Clinestmith was sentenced to 12 months probation and 400 hours of jail time.
The ISIS leader behind the 2017 Niger attack that led to the deaths of four U.S. troops, was killed in an August drone strike, according to the French military.
Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, the leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, had been killed in a French drone strike. Sahrawi was killed near the border between Mali and Niger.
French President Emmanuel Macron first announced Sahrawi’s death in a Wednesday tweet. “Adnan Abou Walid al Sahrawi, leader of the terrorist group Islamic State in the Greater Sahara was neutralized by French forces. This is another major success in our fight against terrorist groups in the Sahel.”
French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly discussed the strike further in a Thursday press conference.
“His death deals a decisive blow to the leadership of the Islamic State in the Sahel,” Parly said.
Parly said the strike mission, which took place between Aug. 17 to Aug. 20, involved cooperation between France and local forces, as well as European U.S. military counterparts.
The Washington Post reported Gen. Thierry Burkhard, the French army’s chief of staff, described the attack in detail. French special forces chose their targets based on information from two captured Islamic State members who were close to Sahrawi. Drones and fighter jets killed around a dozen militants, while 20 soldiers stormed a hideout in a forest near the Mali-Niger border.
Reviewing the battlefield, French forces determined Sahrawi had been one of two people on the back of a motorcycle fleeing the site of the attack, who had been hit by a drone strike.
Sahrawi had previously associated with Al Qaeda affiliates in Africa but later changed loyalties to the Islamic State terrorist group. According to the Washington Post, Sahrawi founded the branch of ISIS in the Sahel region of West Africa, known as the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, or ISGS.
ISGS is primarily located in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, and has targeted U.S. and French troops in those countries.
In October 2017, a U.S. Special Forces team was carrying out reconnaissance in Niger when ISGS militants launched an ambush attack, resulting in the deaths of four U.S. service members. At least four more Nigerien troops were also killed and two more U.S. troops were injured. The U.S. State Department had offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to Sahrawi’s capture.
In addition to the 2017 ambush on U.S. troops, Sahrawi was also linked to the 2020 murder of six French aid workers and their local guides in a nature reserve in Niger. France has attributed the deaths of around 2,000 to 3,000 civilians in the region to Sahrawi’s militants since 2013.
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Hospitals Lying About COVID Stats: Whistleblower
Another COVID whistleblower has come forward as exclusively reported by Gateway Pundit to allege that the statistics about ICU’s being overrun are wildly inflated, over-reported, and in many cases an outright LIE by political officials.
Josh Snider worked in facilities management at Missouri Baptist Medical Center or “MBMC”, “I watched our hospital administrators say in the media that our intensive care units were overflowing with COVID patients, at 98% capacity, knowing that it was a complete and utter lie.”
THIS MISSOURI HOSPITAL NEVER HAD 98% ICU OCCUPANCY, ADMINISTRATORS LIED TO UNCRITICAL MEDIA
Snider relates that the MBMC hospital, part of a larger $5.5 billion annual network within the Barnes Jewish hospital system in St. Louis, Missouri, actually shut down three out of four floors of intensive care during COVID because they were UNUSED.
HOSPITAL SHUT DOWN ICU FLOORS, DRAMATICALLY REDUCING CAPACITY
“And even after shutting down three-fourths of our ICU capacity, they were still never more than 50% full with that drastically reduced overall capacity. These medical systems that are saying they are overrun with COVID patients are likely LYING TO THE PUBLIC,” Snider said.
Snider says that three out of floor ICU floors were closed because there were no COVID patients to put in them. So when hospitals like theirs say they are at 98% of capacity, they are LYING.
COVID whistleblower Josh Snider took photos of 3 of 4 of the MBMC ICU wings SHUT DOWN because there were no COVID patients to admit during the pandemic.
MBMC has refused to comment for this story after repeated requests for comment.
Snider provided documentary proof of the COVID case load of the MBMC system, whose COVID patients do not track national trends, and where the number of COVID patients in ICU were, at many points, a single, solitary person.
“I would have to adjust the airflow in some of the rooms of people in the ICU with COVID, they were fine. I believe in COVID, I know it’s serious, but I also personally saw people who were fine, they had a terminal case of boredom. I spoke with these people and they weren’t sick at all, they felt fine but were told they had to stay there. Many brought their PlayStations with them to waste away the days with video games instead.”
WHISTLEBLOWER TALKED TO PATIENTS IN INTENSIVE CARE WHO WERE FINE, BORED, PLAYING VIDEO GAMES
This matches news today from World Net Daily that many COVID hospitalizations were for mild or non-existent cases.
The case charts published by the MBMC hospital chain also demonstrate that COVID hospitalizations were always very minor. Snider says their ICU COVID capacity was 60 patients.
Snider provided an INSIDER CHART from the hospital that shows VERY DIFFERENT NUMBERS than were being reported to the public and to the government.
This chart was INTERNAL and distributed to employees of MBMC. In it, you can see that the number of COVID patients in critical care was always under 20. The hospital shut down 3 of 4 ICU wings, and in the remaining one had the capacity for 60 beds/patients. They never came close to being at capacity for COVID ICU patients.
These charts, provided by Snider, show that there was a relatively normal track for COVID infections at the MBMC Center, an acute care facility in St. Louis. Even during periods of infection spikes in the national population, those spikes are not found in the hospital data. As well, the bottom line showing serious cases of COVID requiring intensive care remain significantly small and reduced throughout the months of the pandemic.
HERE IS THE CHART RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC, where the LIES CAN BE SEEN
THE PUBLIC NUMBERS ARE OFF FROM THE INTERNAL REPORTS OF COVID PATIENTS IN THE ICU BY ALMOST 100%
Here is the chart generated from information submitted to the US Department of Health and Human Services, as published by the Gannett News Service:
The overstated COVID ICU statistics are visible here. Not only is this chart misrepresenting reality because it doesn’t account for the three ICU wings that were shut down, but the actual numbers presented are almost 100% off what they were reporting to employees internally.
The government reports this data very poorly on this site as well.
Snider has provided his personal statement, documentary evidence, and clear data discrepancies that all suggest that hospitals are not telling the public the truth about the COVID pandemic.
“The real flu season in the hospital was always more serious than COVID has been,” Snider said. “Flu season in a hospital is very challenging, and even the tamest flu season in years past was still worse than COVID has been so far. The people who have been suffering and sadly dying are clearly people who are hundreds of pounds overweight, and people with multiple other comorbidities like stage 4 cancer. I’m not a Doctor, but the response and panic to this virus is clearly wildly disproportionate to reality.”