Around 1.3 billion people worldwide said that they will not get a COVID-19 vaccine if it became available at no cost, according to a Gallup poll taken in the last six months of 2020 and released Monday.
The 1.3 billion was a combination of 29 percent, or around three in 10 adults, worldwide who refused to be vaccinated, and another 3 percent who were undecided or refused to answer.
The rollout of the vaccines may be more challenging in certain countries, where more than 50 percent of people in 20 countries and areas said that they were unwilling to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
These countries are Gabon, Cameroon, Jordan, Hungary, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Senegal, Togo, Cyprus, Czech Republic, North Macedonia, Albania, Poland, Namibia, Lebanon, and Ukraine. Less than 2 percent of the population in eight of the countries have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Sub-Saharan African countries Cameroon and Gabon led the list with the highest percentage of its population refusing the vaccine at 66 percent and 65 percent, respectively.
Although vaccine refusal may be high in some of the sub-Saharan African countries, the low COVID-19 mortality rate has puzzled scientists. As of April 28, the cumulative death count for the entire 46 sub-Saharan African countries was 79,804 deaths, or a case fatality risk of 2.5 percent, according to healthasset.org, which is collecting data on COVID-19 in the area. More than half of the deaths occurred in South Africa.
Vaccine passports are dead on arrival, legally and scientifically. There is no scientific or legal basis to support such a discriminatory, coercive act of medical tyranny that segregates people who already have naturally acquired immunity or who are at no risk from a hypothetical infection.
A large group of doctors from thirty different countries all concur that there is no scientific basis to support so-called vaccine passports. These health care professionals are part of an upstanding group called Doctors for Covid Ethics. They are focused on the simple fact that vaccine passports discriminate against millions of people who already have naturally acquired immunity to SARS-CoV-2. The doctors report that people who acquired natural immunity to SARS in 2003 still have immunity to the virus, seventeen years later. SARS is the most closely related pathogen to the current virus of concern. It’s common knowledge that millions of people now have naturally acquired immunity to SARS-CoV-2 — immunity that lasts a lifetime and plays an important role in the theory of herd immunity.
Vaccine requirements also threaten the medical privacy and civil liberties of healthy, low-risk individuals who can prevent the infection altogether or easily acquire natural immunity in the future. Because of rapid mutations and host adaptation, SARS-CoV-2 presents only mild symptoms for the general population.
Vaccine Passports have no scientific standing, are an international human rights abuse
The idea behind vaccine passports is to punish, segregate and discriminate against people until they comply with public health orders and inoculation protocols. Under the vaccine passport tyranny, governments, corporations, and event planners are given indefinite power to put restrictions on people’s lives – how they can gather, where they can go, who they can see, etc. This system of tyranny forces people to comply with vaccinations to get their freedom back. Under this show me your papers system, individuals are required to carry proof of vaccination, whether in physical or digital form.
The European Union has instituted the Digital Green Pass system, which requires all citizens to show proof of vaccine compliance in order to travel, gather or access society. Citizens are required to update their Pass every six months, as people are coerced to seek permission just to go about their daily lives. The European Union now requires Digital Green Pass holders to get re-vaccinated every six months or submit their body to inaccurate antibody tests and DNA swabs every 48 hours in order to regain their freedoms.
Naturally-acquired T-cell immunity is not measured and is discriminated against
Antibody tests alone do not provide an accurate picture of immunity. “Antibodies aren’t the most important host defense mechanism in immunity to viruses,” the doctors wrote. The cytotoxic T-cell memory cells and helper T-cell lymphocytes are the most important part of the immunity process, but these facets are not measured to determine immunity. Therefore, “examining the time course of antibodies in blood samples is not a valid approach to the question of, ‘how long does immunity last?’” Moreover, antibody levels are not scientifically justified to confirm immunity to SARS-CoV-2, and these tests are being illegally used to compel vaccination.
Former Democratic Oregon House Speaker Dave Hunt is facing charges after being arrested in an April sex trafficking sting, the Portland Tribune reported.
Dave Hunt and seven other men were arrested after clicking on decoy advertisements, which Portland police posted on popular human trafficking websites, the Portland Tribune reported. The men were charged with commercial sexual solicitation after contacting undercover police officers to pay for sexual acts.
Hunt voted in favor of legislation that made commercial sexual solicitation illegal in 2011, according to the Portland Tribune. He sponsored a separate bill that was designed to combat sex trafficking in 2007.
‘The tyrants have created women who are ready to go like it’s 1776,’ group proclaims on their website.
Triggered leftists are reportedly threatening a group of moms opposed to mandatory vaccines in California who have formed a pro-Second Amendment group empowering women called the “Mamalitia.”
On Sunday, the Mamalitia group announced it would cancel public meet-and-greet events after receiving terroristic threats following media hit pieces which mischaracterized the group as dangerous radical extremists.
“Mamalitia community has canceled all public meet and greet events due to media attacks, irresponsible reporting and false claims that have invited terrorist organizations to threaten our women and children,” reads a press release put out by the group.
“In a time where we should all be embracing and encouraging strong women with goals to protect their home and family, the media and politicians try to create a story that puts those same women and children in danger.”
Last week, the group was covered in a report by CBS Sacramento, which framed the organization as part of the January 6 event at the US Capitol, and accused them of using inflammatory language which could incite violence.
From CBS Sacramento:
Dr. Richard Carpiano is a professor of public policy and sociology at the University of California, Riverside who has followed the group and its movements on social media since its founding.
He says Aguilar was in Washington, D.C., in January when a violent coup stormed congress, though there’s no evidence she breached the building.
But she has been seen on social media alongside members of groups like the Proud Boys.
He’s concerned that with this rhetoric some group members could become violent.
“When you’re showing pictures of you with weapons, you are advertising services to train people in firearms. There’s no reason whatsoever to think they’re not pushing some extremist view,” he said.
The article also cited state Senator Richard Pan (also a former UC professor), who claimed the group had bullied and harassed lawmakers.
“Not only did they protest the public health measures but they then employed tactics to bully and intimidate people,” Pan told CBS Sacramento.
The group’s founder, Denise Aguilar, defended Mamalitia, saying, “We are not violent, we have not been on a watchlist. We are simply a group of women who are training each other and networking together.”
Mamalitia’s purpose, Aguilar says, is to arm women with guns, knowledge and survival skills.
The group says despite the attacks they’re still encouraging women to join their growing movement if they align with the following mission statement:
Mamalitia is a community of constitution loving women that recognize our empowerment comes from fully engaging in our children’s education, our wellness, food and financial sovereignty, and overall skills. We are committed to building the world we want to live in, getting back to our roots while empowering women from every walk of life.
“The tyrants have created women who are ready to go like it’s 1776,” the group proclaims on their website Mamalitia.org.
Indeed, dogecoin, the meme crypto which has become linked to an image of a Shiba Inu dog, has been enjoying one of the best years for cryptocurrency in recent memory, boasting year-to-date gains of more than 10,000% and putting it in the top 10 of the most-highly valued digital assets this year.
At last check, dogecoin DOGEUSD, 31.74% was changing hands at 57 cents, up more than 40% on the day and up around 11,210% so far in 2021, according to CoinDesk.
That parabolic rise is drawing both applause and apprehension as its supporters aim to drive the parody coin to a value near $1, with critics warning that the asset bears all the hallmarks of an asset bubble bound to pop and leave carnage in its wake.
Only, don’t tell that to those cheerleading the crypto or risk being met with this common refrain: “enjoy being poor.”
And once your dollar falls you'll be crying that you have no Dogecoin. Enjoy being poor.
So why is dogecoin, pronounced “dōj-coin,” on such a monumental tear that has outstripped crypto considered more serious representatives of the age of digital assets and blockchain? Here are a few reasons?
COVID’s grip on America is relaxing, not so the Left’s. The Left seized COVID as an unprecedented statist opportunity to advance their agenda. Unsurprisingly, they now resist relinquishing it. Since the Left refuse to let go of America, America must let go of the Left.
Last week the CDC relaxed its guidelines for outdoor mask-wearing by those fully vaccinated against COVID. It was more a rearguard action than a vanguard one, but at least it was a start. Several states are well ahead in their return to normalcy.
America’s virus statistics demonstrate the remission of the virus and validate accelerating relaxation of the lockdowns. On a seven-day moving average, active cases, daily new cases, and daily deaths have been plummeting since the beginning of the year. On the ledger’s other side, vaccinations began in the U.S. in December, averaging over two million a day since February; as a result, around 31 percent of the population is now fully vaccinated at this writing.
Beyond just the statistics, we have long known who the most vulnerable are — the elderly and those with preexisting conditions — and who are not: children. This understanding and the response to it have led to the U.S.’s overall 98 percent survival rate, which is far higher in the least vulnerable. Despite this, the lockdowns have overwhelmingly taken a one-size-fits-none approach, and nowhere more than in school closings. As of the end of April, only 14 states required in-person instruction with plentiful conditions (for all or some grades and either full or part time).
All evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, the Left have little interest in relaxing their COVID power grab. Only eight states have lifted restrictions. Oregon is considering extending its mask and social distancing mandates on businesses indefinitely.
