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Students offered school credit toward graduation for getting vaccine

‘This feels coercive, like a form of bribery’

A columnist has revealed that a school in Washington state is offering a huge credit toward its graduation requirements to students if they take the COVID-19 vaccine.

“This feels coercive, like a form of bribery to push kids into a decision they may not want to make,” wrote Jason Rantz in his MyNorthwest.com commentary.

The issue developed in the Chimacum School District in Port Townsend, Washington, which earlier had made its multi-purpose room available for the Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management and Jefferson County Public Health to deliver COVID-19 vaccinations to members of the community.

Rantz explained the high school was “bribing” students into taking the vaccinations, “making a medical decision that should be left to the students and their families.”

At issue is Chimacum Junior/Senior High School requires students to finish 55 hours of community service in order to graduate.

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Denmark to cancel Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine rollout

Denmark will not include Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine in its Covid immunization program over blood-clot concerns, according to media reports. Authorities in Denmark are being extra cautious and excluding AstraZeneca’s vaccine too.

Multiple local media outlets reported the news on Monday, citing unnamed sources. 

Johnson & Johnson’s shot was temporarily suspended in the US and EU last month amid reports that a number of people developed rare blood clots after taking the jab. Deliveries on both sides of the Atlantic have since resumed, except for in the UK, which never approved the vaccine in the first place.

Danish authorities have opted for a more cautious path, even though Reuters reported that excluding J&J’s shot could significantly delay the country’s vaccination efforts.

Danish drug officials last month abandoned the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, also citing the risk of blood clots. In March, Denmark became the first country in the world to temporarily suspend the AstraZeneca shot, but unlike its European neighbors, the country made that suspension permanent.  

After the AstraZeneca ban, the World Health Organization said that Danish authorities were exploring shipping unused doses to poorer countries, despite flagging the vaccine as having a “real risk of severe side effects.”

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New Chinese Submarine Armed With Missiles Capable of Covering Entire US

China’s newly commissioned nuclear-powered submarine, dubbed the Type 094A, is equipped with ballistic missiles capable of hitting targets at a distance of 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) — the most powerful in the country, the South China Morning Post reported, citing a military source.

“The Type 094A is an upgraded version of the Type 094 that overcame one of the key problems – noise – by improving hydrokinetic and turbulent systems, allowing it to carry the more powerful JL-3”, the source was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Before the upgrade, the submarine was capable of firing the inferior JL-2 that could only hit the northeast United States, the source said, noting that currently, it is able to cover the whole American continent.

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Black Lives Matter Releases List Of Demands: Convict Trump, Ban From All Social Media

Black Lives Matter has released a new set of ‘demands’ which seem heavily focused on two things – shutting down both former President Trump and law enforcement in the country.

The list seeks to take down Donald Trump on several fronts, despite the fact that he currently holds no political office.

The first demand announces the group’s (BLM) partnership with members of the far-left members of Congress known as the ‘Squad,’ calling for the former President to “be immediately convicted in the United States Senate.”

Anybody want to let them know the trial ended already, and Trump was acquitted over two months ago?

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Ariz. Audit Chief Says Probe Of 2020 Fraud Is Gaining Momentum (Video)

Election audits for the 2020 U.S. election are moving forward despite continued attempts by Democrats to derail the process.

“Overnight we went from 20 counting locations on the floor to 46,” stated former Arizona secretary of state and audit director Ken Bennett. “Hopefully in the next day or two, they will be ready to fully staff that and then if we go to three shifts, which we are talking about, we will almost triple our throughput.”

During an interview Sunday, Bennett said he will not share any information about their findings… the audit is complete. He added, keeping the data and information secure is the main priority as the audit advances.

They are currently counting the ballots and evaluating them for irregularities such as folds or being marked with a Xerox machine as opposed to pen.

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Covid-19 lockdowns arguably hit kids harder than adults. And that wasn’t only unfair—it also put them in danger

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a disaster for children. Lockdowns and school closures have impacted far more than their education, as the record number of calls to a British child-abuse helpline have revealed.

Human beings are social creatures and most of us need contact with other people to thrive. Children are no different from adults in that regard. But at critical stages of their development, they especially need contact with their contemporaries. Parents and relatives can never be a substitute for friends of their own age.

As a teacher, I work with children every day. While I teach them science, they also learn from each other about what it means to be human. For much of the past year, that did not happen. 

While teachers pulled out all the stops to set up online learning platforms – and make them work – the world that children experienced collapsed from three dimensions to two. Clubs and societies also suffered, but perhaps the biggest loss was ‘playing out’: hanging around with other children doing nothing in particular, apart from growing up in the company of their peers.

The irony, of course, is that the lockdowns were never imposed to protect children from Covid-19. The infection-fatality rate among young people is tiny, at below 0.01%. To put that into context, it is similar to the overall mortality from chickenpox, at 0.009%.

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Mystery Neurological Disease Pops Up Near American Border, And Scientists Can’t Figure It Out

This story might give you a sense of déjà vu you’d rather not experience.

Scientists are struggling to account for a mysterious cluster of an unidentified neurological disease in New Brunswick, Canada.

As of Friday, at least 47 people were recorded to have been affected by the mysterious illness, which causes rapid-onset dementia, muscle spasms, and atrophy, according to the Canadian Press.

Six victims had died, the agency reported.

The New Brunswick Health Department launched a website last week to update the public on its efforts to combat and identify the disease, according to the Canadian Press.

Health department spokesman Bruce Macfarlane described the disease as “a neurological syndrome of unknown cause,” the Canadian Broadcast Corp. reported Friday.

“At this time, the investigation is active and ongoing to determine if there are similarities among the reported cases that can identify potential causes for this syndrome, and to help identify possible strategies for prevention,” Macfarlane told the CBC.

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Leading Catholics Offer Grim Assessment of Joe Biden’s First 100 Days

Prominent Catholic thinkers have handed Joe Biden a failing report card following the president’s first hundred days in office.

Robert Royal, a well-known author and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C., has compared Biden to the Chinese Communist Party, noting that both talk a lot about the common good while their actions betray it at every turn.

“Catholic Social Doctrine doesn’t simply mean increased spending on progressive social programs,” Royal writes Monday in The Catholic Thing.

Along with urging solidarity, Royal notes, Catholic Social Doctrine “also warns of potential tyranny and demoralization of people and civic institutions when government seek to assume authority over everything – family, faith, morals, even personal attitudes.”

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Gov. DeSantis announces suspension of all local emergency COVID-19 orders

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday signed a bill that would ban COVID-19 vaccine passports in the state and also announced a new executive order suspending all local pandemic-related emergency orders.

Businesses, schools, and government agencies in the state are now prohibited by law from requiring people to show documentation proving that they’ve had COVID-19 vaccinations or have recovered from the virus before gaining entry to their buildings.

The bill also gives Gov. DeSantis the authority to override local health orders during a health emergency and directs state agencies to develop plans for future pandemics.

In his remarks before signing the bill, DeSantis also announced a new executive order that will terminate all local coronavirus emergency orders in the state on July 1. In the meantime, the governor said he will use his executive authority to suspend local COVID restrictions until his executive order goes into effect.

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Peter Schiff: The Fed Cheats To Avoid Getting An ‘F’ On The Economy (Video)

A lot of the economic data that came out last week looked pretty good. GDP growth came in big in the first quarter. Personal income rose by a record amount in March. The mainstream spun it all as positive, raving as if the economy is earning an ‘A.’

But in his podcast, Peter Schiff argues that the only reason the economy isn’t getting an F is because the Federal Reserve is cheating on the test.

Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan made some comments Friday that were widely viewed as somewhat hawkish. He warned about “excess imbalances” in the financial markets and warned about “historically” elevated stock prices, tight credit spreads, and surging home prices. And he said it’s time for the Fed to at least start talking about tapering bond purchases.

This was the exact opposite of what Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in his press conference after last week’s FOMC meeting.

Peter said it is probably safe to pretty much ignore what Kaplan said. But on one thing, Peter said he agrees with Kaplan – there are imbalances in the markets and in the economy more broadly.

They’re much bigger than what he’s letting on. It’s not only appropriate to start talking about shrinking the balance sheet. They should already be shrinking it. In fact, it was inappropriate to blow it up to the size that it’s already at. And they shouldn’t start raising rates in 2022. They should be raising them now. In fact, they should never have cut them this low in the first place. What they should have done is irrelevant to what they are going to do. And it doesn’t really matter what they say. The markets still haven’t grasped the idea that the Fed is in a box. Sure, it can talk about the need to taper its asset purchases. It could talk about normalizing interest rates. But that’s all it could do. Talk is cheap. Actions are expensive and they can’t afford to pay the price.”

The economy certainly can’t afford to pay that price. The US government can’t afford to pay the price.

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