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And this is what happens when you doze through science class because you think you will never need to know this stuff.

He was always a bit batty and spent most of his time hanging around with a child.

New report exposes a shady campaign to pay online influencers to spread lies about vaccines No matter how high the COVID-19 death count climbs — according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, it has passed 4.1 million worldwide — anti-vaxxers in different parts of the world are trying to discourage people from getting vaccinated. Some of these efforts include outright disinformation. But in some cases, internet users will aggressively push back against anti-vaxxer lies. According to BBC reporters Charlie Haynes and Flora Carmichael, two such internet users in Europe are German journalist and YouTuber Mirko Drotschmann and French YouTuber Léo Grasset, who reports on science. Hayes and Carmichael explain, "An influencer marketing agency called Fazze offered to pay (Drotschmann) to promote what it said was leaked information that suggested the death rate among people who had the Pfizer vaccine was almost three times that of the AstraZeneca jab. The information provided wasn't true. It quickly became apparent to Mirko that he was being asked to spread disinformation to undermine public confidence in vaccines in the middle of a pandemic." Meanwhile, in France, the BBC reporters add, Grasset "received a similar offer" from Fazze and was offered 2000 euros "if he would take part." "Both Léo and Mirko were appalled by the false claims," according to Hayes and Carmichael. "They pretended to be interested in order to try to find out more and were provided with detailed instructions about what they should say in their videos…. Fazze's brief told influencers to share a story in French newspaper Le Monde about a data leak from the European Medicines Agency. The story was genuine, but didn't include anything about vaccine deaths. But in this context, it would give the false impression that the death rate statistics had come from the leak." New report exposes a shady campaign to pay online influencers to spread lies about vaccines - Alternet.org

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The Olympics have lost their attraction for me. The whole enterprise is a private corporation run by Europe's former and current nobility, which is a minor complaint. The real gripe for me is the massive bribes paid to the Olympic organizers by the cities, states and countries in order for them to host the games and almost always lose massive amounts of money, which have to be borne by the taxpayers. The corporate sponsors ante up massive amounts of money and have large numbers of prime seats reserved for them and these seats are often empty, which is why the stands are rarely shown on TV. And lastly, the PEDS abuse is rampant and the masking of these is so sophisticated that they are rarely detected. Moreover, the Olympic organizers are often complicit in covering up the abuse, as the revelation of the extent of the abuse by the stars would tarnish the Olympic image and their income.

Michael Flynn Boasts Maybe He’ll ‘Find Somebody In Washington’ With His New AR-15 The disgraced Trump national security adviser “should be recalled to active duty and court-martialed,” said the wife of whistleblower Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. Disgraced Trump administration figure Michael Flynn boasted on Sunday that maybe he’ll “find somebody” in Washington with a new assault-style rifle a California church gave him. Flynn, the former national security adviser pardoned by Donald Trump for lying about his Russia contacts, made the jaw-dropping remark after he was gifted the gun at the “Church of Glad Tidings” in Yuba City, California. Church members roared with laughter and clapped when Flynn suggested hunting humans in the nation’s capital. “We were trying to come up with a rifle that we thought was appropriate for a general, so we went with an old-school Woodland camouflage ... one of our top-quality guns,” said Jason Parker, who works for a gun company. The weapon he presented to Flynn appeared to be a Woodland Camo AR-15. A smiling Flynn responded loudly: “Maybe I’ll find somebody in Washington, D.C." Michael Flynn Boasts Maybe He'll 'Find Somebody In Washington' With His New AR-15 | HuffPost

Anti-vaxxer warns doctors and nurses of execution by hanging for administering life-saving vaccines The conspiracy theories promoted by anti-vaccine activists reached a fevered pitch during a Saturday rally. Conspiracy theorist Kate Shemirani suggested there could be Nuremberg-like trials where doctors and nurses would be hanged for administering the coronavirus vaccines, which promoted one British doctor to alert London's Metropolitan Police Service. Conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer and struck-off nurse Kate Shemirani is here literally threatening NHS doctors with… https://t.co/DDBZRVUX5z — Rachel Clarke (@Rachel Clarke) 16271 Anti-vaxxer warns doctors and nurses of execution by hanging for administering life-saving vaccines - Alternet.org

Not time to break out the champagne yet, but very, very good news.

No big deal. We've had mooning around for along time.

The prevailing thinking in the alt-right camp is that anyone who does not get vaccinated but still gets sick had weak genes and needed to be weeded out anyways. If this sounds suspiciously similar to Nazi eugenics, you are correct. After all the Trumpenfeurher gos sick and recovered miraculously all by himself, right? He had der korrect ubergenes, at least by his thinking. All those doctors were just hovering around him in awe as he healed himself.

Take a cold shower.

‘I’m at Breaking Point’: Radio Host Who Regrets Mocking Vaccines Is ‘Fighting for His Life’ A conservative radio host in Tennessee, who repeatedly spread misinformation about coronavirus and mocked vaccines but changed his tune after falling seriously ill, was still fighting for his life on Saturday, weeks after contracting the virus. Phil Valentine, who hosts a talk radio show on 99.7 WWTN-FM in Nashville, is hospitalized and is receiving supplemental oxygen while in critical care battling COVID pneumonia, his family said in a statement Friday. “They say he is still not getting well.. please pray for me,” his wife, Susan, told the station on Saturday morning, according to a tweet. “I am at a breaking point.” On Saturday afternoon, Julia Campbell Shirley declined to comment on her son-in-law’s condition before hurriedly telling The Daily Beast: “I certainly think people should be vaccinated.” Valentine had repeatedly downplayed COVID-19 and dismissed guidance from health officials about the seriousness of the virus and the importance of getting vaccinated. ‘I’m at Breaking Point’: Phil Valentine, Radio Host Who Regrets Mocking Vaccines, Is ‘Fighting for His Life’ (thedailybeast.com) Japanese Pharma Firm Joins Pfizer and Merck in Race to Develop COVID Pill Cure Reuters The race to develop an oral cure for COVID-19 has just heated up with the announcement that Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi has started human trials for its once-a day tablet meant to neutralize the virus in patients. Pfizer and Merck are already in later-stage trials for similar treatments, which are presently missing as a tool to battle the pandemic. Pfizer’s twice-daily treatment could be available by the end of 2021. The advent of a reliable cure would be especially important for those who cannot be vaccinated for health reasons, say medical experts.

So much for the macho Man.

Not just dumb, but a special kind of stooopid.

You sure that wasn't Alberta?

Ooooh... you have revealed yourself as into kinky stuff.

Only if you believe in reincarnation.

Usually better than the alternative, though.

That has never deterred Faux News or the GOP. Too profitable to quit stoking the fear and hatred of the ignorant.

You are forgiven.

I am aware of this and tried to make what I thought would be an innocuous joke, give the current climate.

Danger to the world": 1,200+ scientists denounce Boris Johnson's plan to end UK COVID restrictions This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely. More than 1,200 scientists from around the world have condemned British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to lift nearly all Covid restrictions in the United Kingdom on Monday, with some of the experts holding an emergency summit on Friday to warn that prematurely ending public health precautions in the country would lead to a surge in infections that could enable vaccine-resistant variants to develop and spread rapidly around the world. During Friday's summit, epidemiologists and physicians compared Johnson's decision to proceed with so-called Freedom Day on July 19th despite a sharp uptick in Covid-19 cases to the pursuit of "herd immunity by mass infection," The Independent reported. Forgoing almost every mandatory rule on mask-wearing and social distancing before the pandemic has been contained poses a "danger to the world," they warned. William Hasteltine, a leading AIDS researcher and chair of Access Health International, said that he was "extremely dismayed to see the very rapid rate of increasing infections in a population" that is as vaccinated as the U.K. Roughly two-thirds of the U.K.'s adult population has been fully inoculated, according to government figures, but cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have increased by 34.9%, 43.4%, and 57.4%, respectively, in the past week. "I believe that the strategy of herd immunity is actually murderous," Hasteltine continued. "I think that's a word we should use, because that is what it is. It is knowledge that you are doing something that will result in thousands, and in some cases tens of thousands of people dying." "It is a disastrous policy," he added. "It's been clear that that's been the case for some time, and to continue to espouse that policy is unconscionable." "Danger to the world": 1,200+ scientists denounce Boris Johnson's plan to end UK COVID restrictions | Salon.com

Many races are brown. Unclench your sphincter.

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