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CDC Lists 12 Most Vaxxed Countries as ‘High’ Travel Risk of COVID Infection

12 of 13 countries on Johns Hopkins list of most vaccinated also appear as “high” or “very high” on CDC Covid-19 travel risk chart.

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Dr. Drew: Vaccine Passports Are New Form of “Segregation” For Black Communities

Majority of African-Americans haven’t taken COVID shot, according to CDC.

Pointing out that the majority of black people in the United States have not yet had a COVID vaccine, Dr. Drew asserted that vaccine passports which ban the unvaccinated from venues like bars and restaurants are a new form of “segregation.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci said the United States could be “in trouble” if more unvaccinated people don’t take the shot, citing the threat of the delta and lambda variants.

“What we’re seeing, because of this increase in transmissibility, and because we have about 93 million people in this country who are eligible to get vaccinated who don’t get vaccinated — that you have a significant pool of vulnerable people,” said Fauci.

Health officials in the United States appear to be following the model of European countries by intimidating unvaccinated citizens into getting the jab by threatening them with the prospect of being ostracized from basic lifestyle activities.

However, as Dr. Drew noted on Twitter, this two tier society of the jabbed and the jabbed-not will disproportionately discriminate against African-Americans.

“The CDC reported today that only 28.4% of the black community have received the Covid vaccine,” wrote Drew. “With states like CA and NY mandating vaccine passports to enter restaurants and businesses, the black community would be most affected by this modern day segregation.”

Drew didn’t provide a link to the source of his claim that only 28.4% of black people have received the COVID vaccine.

The actual number appears to be higher according to the latest data, although it does confirm that, “As of August 2, less than half of Black and Hispanic people have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in the vast majority of states reporting data.”

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“The vaccination rate for Black people is less than 50% in 38 of 42 reporting states, including 7 states where less than a third of Black people have received one or more doses,” the report continues.

This means that a majority of the black population now faces discrimination as a result of refusing to take the vaccine.

Could vaccine passports be defeated on the basis that they are racist?

OC School Board Votes To Sue Newsom Over Mask Rule For Students

(CBS Los Angeles) The Orange County Board of Education voted Tuesday night to sue Gov. Gavin Newsom over the state’s mandate that K-12 students must wear masks indoors for the upcoming school year.

During a special meeting, the board voted to challenge the governor’s ongoing assertion of emergency rule-making powers due to the coronavirus pandemic, specifically the school mask mandate issued last month.

“When necessary, the board will fight to protect the health, safety and welfare of our county’s kids at school. Unfortunately, with the governor’s most recent action to force Orange County’s children, even those as young as 5 and 6 years old, to endure an academic year covering their faces for hours on end, the time to fight has come again,” the board said in a statement on its website.

“Putting aside for the moment the lack of a sound medical or scientific basis for the governor’s requirement to mask school children — who in general are neither at risk from COVID-19 nor likely to spread it — and also putting aside the lack of any thoughtful, well-considered and transparent balancing of the substantial harms of forced masking of juveniles against the purported benefits, the governor and his state-level executive agencies do not have the power to continue the state of emergency indefinitely, and to continue to suspend the Administrative Procedure Act to circumvent normal agency rule making requirements,” the statement continues. “Indeed, the California Emergency Services Act (Cal. Gov’t Code Sec. 8629) requires the governor to `proclaim the termination of a state of emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant.’”

“On June 11, 2021, the governor announced that actions of Californians over the prior 15 months ‘had successfully curbed the spread of COVID-19,’ and he rescinded his `stay-at-home’ order. But while conditions clearly warrant the end of the state of emergency, and the governor effectively has announced as much, the governor has refused to give up his emergency powers. And he has now misused that power in a way that threatens serious harm to Orange County’s children.”

Newsom’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.

Doctor Ken Williams was one of the board members that voted “yes.”

“We’re not saying not to wear masks, we’re just saying give options to parents,” Williams said. “These kids, if you look at the data, they are not the ones that are the vectors nor are they the ones that are dying from this disease.”

Local moth Brittany Barney was worried at the possibility of children not wearing masks because her son is too young to get the vaccine. She is against the lawsuit.

“I kind of think it’s ridiculous,” she said. “I think everybody should be able to say whether they want to or they don’t want to, however, for me personally, I want to be as protected as possible.”

Meanwhile, another mother, Jacqueline Banholzer said, “I don’t like it. I don’t think [my son] needs it. I understand it for the teachers and stuff but not for the kids.”

Individual school districts across Orange County set the rules for masking on campus.

Santa Ana, Newport Mesa and Irvine Unified are just some of the school districts requiring masks indoors for students and staff.

Because the Orange County Board of Education has no jurisdiction over local schools, the outcome of a lawsuit won’t impact the current mask mandate.

Orange County taxpayers won’t have to foot the bill for the litigation brought by the board. Members found a lawyer to fight the mask mandate pro bono.

BBC Asks If There Should Be ‘Age-Appropriate Porn’ for Kids. The Answer Is ‘No.’

It’s a pretty good indicator the moral compass is broken when one of the world’s leading news agencies is asking its viewers if there should exist within the pornography industry an “age-appropriate” category to teach teenagers about “consent and what’s respectful and what’s not.”

BBC Woman’s Hour asked its viewers for the “best way to inform teenagers about porn” and whether there should “be age-appropriate porn, as has been suggested, so they can learn about consent and what’s respectful and what’s not.”

The query came just days after GQ journalist Flora Gill suggested in a since-deleted tweet that “someone needs to create porn for children,” because “young teens are already watching porn, but they’re finding hardcore, aggressive videos that give a terrible view of sex” and need “entry level porn” instead.

Much of this is in response to a very real problem: pornography is incredibly prolific these days and you’d be hard pressed to find anyone under the age of 13 years old who hasn’t been exposed to it, intentionally or by mistake.

It’s entirely reasonable — and even encouraging — to see society at least acknowledging the pervasiveness of pornography in our society. The problem, though, is we’re addressing it in the completely wrong way.

Flora, the BBC, and the numerous “porn literacy” courses cropping up around the country are operating from the flawed premise that there’s a way to “consume responsibly,” and that’s just not the case.

It should be noted the “porn literacy” curriculum in Boston, created by Emily Rothman, an associate professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, wielded some good results. A year after the first students completed the course in 2016, only 18% said in a follow-up survey they believed pornography was a good way to learn about sex. That was down from 45% at the beginning of the class.

Even still, such curricula don’t tell the whole story.

Pornography isn’t only deeply problematic because it distorts God’s perfect design for sexuality, which He created to be enjoyed within the context of a marriage between one man and one woman. It also does a great deal of psychological and even physical harm to those who consume it.

Setting aside the fact that mainstream pornography sites have been overrun with illegal content, such as child sexual abuse material and footage of abusive and coercive sex, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest its consumption creates neural pathways that cause cravings not unlike those addicted to drugs such as alcohol, nicotine, or even cocaine.

Just as is the case with addictive substances, when a user consumes pornography, the so-called reward center in her brain is flooded with dopamine and, over time, she’s conditioned to expect dopamine highs at ever-increasing intensities. As the pathways in her brain become worn down, she’ll need more extreme content to satisfy her cravings.

We should pause here to acknowledge we don’t enroll students in classes to teach them how to consume cocaine “responsibly.”

In addition to the problems pornography fosters within its consumers, it also wreaks havoc on relationships. Not only does it erode trust, damage self esteem, and negatively impact sexual function, it can also increase within its users a propensity for domineering and abusive behavior.

Pornography — yes, even the supposedly legal stuff — fuels sex trafficking, too. The creator of the nefarious “Girls Do Porn” enterprise, which once had its videos prominently featured on Pornhub, is a wanted fugitive for luring and coercing unwitting young women into performing explicit acts and uploading the footage online without their consent.

Then, in the fall of 2019, a man from Fort Lauderdale was arrested when investigators discovered nearly 60 explicit videos of a missing, underage teenage girl on the pornography site. 

In yet another instance, Serena Fleites, 19, testified before Canadian lawmakers earlier this year to tell her own story of abuse. Fleites gained international attention in the winter of 2020, when she shared details of her experience with The New York Times. She told politicians this February about the trauma she endured when Pornhub repeatedly failed to remove illegal footage of her from its website.

Fleites recalled sending ill-advised pictures and videos to her then-boyfriend when she was just 13 years old. Eventually, the content ended up on Pornhub with one video reportedly titled, “13-year-old brunette shows off for the camera.”

The once-straight-“A” student — who struggled to get the pornography site to remove the videos — said she experienced a “huge buildup of anxiety and depression” that caused her “to turn to drugs to try to forget about it” and eventually “to suicide to try to end it.”

The truth of the matter is there’s no way to verify with any level of certainty that the pornography one is consuming is either consensual or, in many cases, even legal. 

So while “porn literacy” classes might acknowledge there’s a problem, all it does is rearrange deck chairs on a sinking Titanic. 

The real solution is to expose people to the facts — the inescapable damage pornography does — and to present them with the real solution, which is a sexual ethic based on God’s perfect design for us.

The Apostle Paul tells us over and over again to run from the temptation toward sexual sin, because of its grave consequences.

“Run from sexual sin,” he wrote in 1 Corinthians 6:18. “No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does, for sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.”

We should heed his warning to us.

‘Stop The Shot’ Townhall Featuring Experts Reveals Dangers Of COVID Vaccines

A recent townhall titled “Stop the Shot…The Rest of the Story” was hosted by LifeSite and the Truth For Health Foundation, an organization that offers a “faith-based integrated [approach] to medical treatment, health, and healing services” and provides “truthful, balanced, medically sound, research-based information.” The conference was held virtually on August 4 and featured a number of health experts, physicians, attorneys, and religious leaders who came together to discuss the COVID vaccine, its clinical trials, and more.

According to WND, new breaking information was offered by the lead attorney in a case against the Health and Human Services Department of the Biden administration, which was accused of underreporting deaths and injuries related to COVID in its Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System or VAERS.

The “Stop the Shot” townhall, which was attended by Dr. Peter McCullough, Attorney Thomas Renz, Dr. Michael Yeadon, Sister Deidre Byrne, Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, Dr. Jose Trasancos, and more, also featured an update on the CDC’s whistleblower affidavit that alleged over 45,000 lives have been claimed by the COVID vaccine.

The “Stop the Shot” townhall that brought together these experts who are opposed to the vaccine shared “undisclosed data from both clinical trials and subsequent additional studies on the COVID vaccines related to serious long-term impacts on fertility in both men and women” and updates on international studies that contradict mainstream media reports.

Lastly, the “Stop the Shot” townhall from LifeSite also discussed new information about international lawsuits and theological implications of COVID all over the world. Mainstream media continues to downplay or refuse to report on the negative side effects of the COVID vaccine.

Watch the “Stop the Shot” townhall below. Note that the discussion starts at the 1:31:00 mark.

According to the CDC, there are only 39 confirmed cases of thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) among the 13 million people who have received the Johnson & JOhnson or Janssen COVID vaccines. There have also been 137 reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) among the 13 million who took the Janssen COVID vaccine. As for takers of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the CDC confirmed 1,194 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis among young people aged 30 years and below.

CDC also reported that the VAERS received 6,340 reports of death following the inoculation of COVID vaccines, but insists that “Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination, including deaths, do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem.” It added that “recent reports indicate a plausible causal relationship between the J&J/Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine and TTS, a rare and serious adverse event-blood clots with low platelets-which has caused deaths.”

In May, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson warned that the death toll from COVID vaccines have become increasingly high, as reported by Forbes. The host said, “What is happening now, for whatever reason, is not even close to normal. It’s not even close to what we see in previous years with previous vaccines. Most vaccines are not accused of killing large numbers of people.”

End the Shutdown, Again

Sixteen months ago, in March 2020, we argued for an end to government-imposed shutdowns of businesses, schools, churches, restaurants, and events due to the covid virus:

The shutdown of the American economy by government decree should end. The lasting and far-reaching harms caused by this authoritarian precedent far outweigh those caused by the COVID-19 virus. The American people—individuals, families, businesses—must decide for themselves how and when to reopen society and return to their daily lives.

Our claim was straightforward: government officials are singularly unqualified to consider the tradeoffs, economic and otherwise, behind their blunt and heavy-handed actions. They cannot assess risk for millions of individuals, they cannot decide what activities are essential or nonessential, and they cannot pay Americans to stay home and not work.

Since then, Frédéric Bastiat’s admonition that we consider the “unseen” results of state action has proven exceptionally wise. The economic devastation from shutting down the US economy will take years to fully grasp, especially in terms of opportunity cost. Congress and the Federal Reserve colluded to pump trillions of new dollars into the economy, dollars which unsurprisingly benefited the richest Americans and the biggest businesses. What this portends for inflation and average people’s savings is almost certainly negative. And the human toll, in terms of physical and mental illness engendered by the shutdowns—especially with respect to psychologically vulnerable children—is already enormous.

Beyond America, an estimated 121 million people in Africa, Haiti, and Venezuela may face starvation due to reduced food production last year.

Even accepting official government statistics, covid-19 “cases” (often asymptomatic) in the US are at about 35 million, or slightly more than 10 percent of the population. The infection fatality rate is debated, but certainly the virus is less than lethal for the vast majority who contract it—probably about 99 percent. And those 1 percent deaths are heavily concentrated among the over-eighty elderly and those with existing comorbidities. This is to say nothing of the fact that this infection fatality rate is not uniform for the whole population—it too depends on age and other demographics. Both groups could have been made safer at home while the rest of America simply took standard flu precautions.

This means the risk of hospitalization or death from covid-19 is exaggerated by government officials and media. But even if 10 million people had died, the underlying principle would be the same: government has neither the authority nor the wisdom to force Americans to shut down their lives and stay home. 

Few imagined America would face new covid restrictions in fall 2021. Yet the Biden administration now contemplates new federal covid restrictions, while states and cities across America consider new mask mandates and vaccine requirements to enter public places and businesses. The mayor of New York City intends to prohibit unvaccinated people from engaging in many activities come September. Journalists call for the creation of a no-fly list for the unvaccinated, while social media companies deplatform alternative sources of information regarding covid, vaccines, and alternative treatments. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims the bizarre authority to extend a nationwide eviction moratorium, which represents a blatant regulatory taking without compensation to property owners. Vitiating private rental contracts is an especially disturbing precedent, and a laughable detour from the “rule of law.” 

We strongly oppose all of these measures as deeply illiberal and incompatible with a decent, free society. It is not the job nor the right of politicians or health officials to wield authority over our physical bodies, compel medical treatment, or create an underclass of Americans. Whether any of these measures are legal, under federal, state, or local law, is a separate question, however dubious. But it is important to stress there is no public health exception to the federal constitution’s due process requirements. 

“Public health” is undefined and undefinable, like any aggregate measure. Individuals value different things, and accordingly make different choices concerning their diet, lifestyle, and personal habits. If government and health officials really care about covid or delta risks, they should focus on obesity, exercise, diet, and sunshine to promote natural immunity. Now we are told the delta variant of the virus justifies new government action. But all viruses evolve, and new ones often present themselves during flu season. If every new virus or variation warrants shutdowns or new vaccines, we will face an unending dystopian hellscape of state intervention in our medical decisions.

Ultimately, we cannot outsource or delegate responsibility for our individual health to doctors, politicians, or medical officials. We cannot live without risk, and we certainly cannot force others to accept vaccinations or inhibit their natural exhalations with masks. Time and time again, politicians mislead us, creating alarmism to justify their own desire for political power and control. America can survive a virus, but we cannot survive lawless government which assumes new powers whenever a novel virus appears.

Good Americans can and must resist new shutdowns, mandates, or restrictions. The 2020 shutdowns were not “worth it,” and we should not make the same mistakes again in 2021.

Enough.

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