I'm officially into the last year of my 40s. Gosh. I remember when I turned 21 and my friend, Mark, wailed, "We're halfway to 42!" and the two of us sat and thought about how old 42 was. Well, that boat has long since sailed.
I didn't tell my co-workers my birthday was coming up. I didn't want a fuss. If I worked with a bunch of women, I would have said something a few days beforehand, because if you don't, the women (if they like you) will feel guilty about somehow not knowing it beforehand and maybe a little angry that you didn't say something earlier because now they feel obligated to get you something (a cake? a card? a bouquet of flowers?) and they have to do it in a rush, which might also bring up feelings of resentment (if they don't like you). Being a woman is an emotionally complex thing.
I work with men, however. I said to Husband, "You're a guy, so tell me: if I just show up with some cheesecake and announce it's my birthday, they'll be fine with that, right?" He said, "Heck yeah!" So that's what I did: cheesecake with cherry topping, and they all thanked me for being born as I served out festive slices of dessert on paper plates. We had an enjoyable lunch break, and no one felt guilty about not buying me presents I don't need.
In other news, a very sad thing happened the other day to my fledgling garden.
A young man knocked on my door and asked if he could do any chores for some cash. I had $6 in my wallet, so I told him he could weed the planting bed under the tree, which is where my carefully tended herbs have thrived. I stepped outside, barefoot, to show him what I wanted done, and I forgot that the little pathway by the planting bed is absolutely littered with goatheads, which are the plants God was talking about when he told Adam and Eve, when they were getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden, that noxious weeds would now grow in the earth to make his life harder.
Evil incarnate, plant version
What I meant to say was, "This is rosemary, this is sage, and this is mint. Do not pull those. Everything else [and it wasn't very much] needs to go."
What I actually said was, "This is rosemary, this is--YARGH! Oh my gosh! I'm in so much pain right now. Stupid goatheads! I've got a million of them in my feet. Ouch!" After which combination of screeching and muttering while I pulled all the little beggers out of my skin, I hobbled like an old woman back into the house to get the kid the weeding gloves.
I gave the kid the gloves without further pointing out that the plants I had emphasized were not to be pulled. Instead, he thought I had pointed them out as the first plants to be yanked, which he did after I left him alone.
A moment of silence for my poor herbs, please. Thank you.
He did get paid. He did a good job weeding. Too good, of course.
As dismayed as I am about the overreaction to Covid, there are some good things that have come out of it.
For one, my extended family never would have become clued into Zoom, and now we have regular meetings so everyone can see my grandmother, who is bed-ridden and on hospice. Some of the family strains and hurts that developed over the decades between my mother and her sisters are quickly healing as they realize they have more beliefs in common than they originally thought.
Another good thing is that I've been able to reconnect to my sister, Adeal.
Adeal is the youngest of my two sisters and the fourth child of the six of us. She's had a hard life, and for many years, she wanted nothing to do with any of us unless we were willing to give her money. She has changed a great deal in the past five or six years, and now our relationship is growing strong again.
Adeal drowned when she was just one year old. It was a horrible accident, and, fortunately, she was revived and suffered no permanent injuries from the drowning. Someday soon, I'll go into detail about the near death experience that she had when she drowned. It is a profound story. Adeal says that even though she was so very young when it happened, she still feels the indescribable love and sense of being home like it happened just a moment ago.
When Adeal was five (and I remember this day very well), she was doing gymnastics in our living room. She was doing a backbend, but she had her face on the floor. This caused a blood vessel to pop in the back of her neck, and she ended up in the hospital with a brain hemorrhage. The doctors told us that the behavior center of her brain had been damaged, and that damage was obvious from the first day. Where Adeal had formerly been the sweetest little girl you could ever hope to meet, she was now an enraged harpy who flew off the handle at a moment's notice. We got used to the new normal, which was that you could never tell what was going to set her off. We walked on eggshells around her after that.
Unfortunately, though those of us who were older than Adeal knew what had happened, we never thought to talk about it with Adeal as she got older. It just never occurred to us that she didn't remember having that accident when she was five--or knew about the physical changes that had happened to her brain--and we got so in the habit of trying to never trigger her to fly completely off the handle (her tantrums were legendary and spectacular) that we were careful what subjects we brought up. Because of that, Adeal grew up wondering why she was so angry all the time and why she couldn't seem to control her anger like normal people. She developed deeply ingrained thought habits of self-loathing even though that sweet, caring, giving soul was still intact inside her. When my mother mentioned the accident to Adeal when Adeal was in her teens, it was both relieving for her to realize that she wasn't simply an inherently flawed individual and enraging because no one had told her about it when she was younger.
When she was in her early twenties, Adeal latched onto the first boy who paid attention to her, and he, unfortunately, was dealing with his own mental illness. He blamed her for everything bad that happened to him (which was a lot because he is emotionally stunted and no one could stand him, even his own family), and she accepted the blame because she thought she deserved it. He convinced her that we all hated her and despised her, and she believed him and spat in our faces. If we weren't willing to give them money, they wanted nothing to do with us.
Adeal and JP spent the next twelve years being mostly homeless and miserable. To add to the emotional abuse, JP physically assaulted Adeal, and even though she left him twice, she went back both times within a matter of days. She still bears the pain from one of those assaults, which has caused permanent damage to her neck and spine. She can't work, and she has days when she can't even get out of bed.
In 2012, Adeal began to do some deep meditation, and it finally occurred to her that she deserved love and kindness. At that time, JP had somehow become concussed (I can't remember how--probably someone punched him, because even I wanted to punch him all the time and I am not a violent person), but he was sleeping a lot, and this gave her time to really think. They now owned a little dog, who was Adeal's favorite "person" in the world, and Adeal poured all of her love onto this dog, who returned it in spades. (Still does. He's adorable, and his name is Stewie.) Having such a sweet, innocent being love her so fiercely sparked the idea in Adeal that maybe she was worthy of and deserving of love. When JP treated Stewie poorly, she began to wonder about the way he was treating her and began questioning whether or not she was actually to blame for all of his hardships.
JP qualified for medical marijuana and started using it all the time, which mellowed him. Adeal asked if he wanted to go on a healing journey with her. He declined. So she finally left him for good and moved across the country to get as far away as possible and start a new life.
I've talked to Adeal twice this week. It has been a joyful thing for me, and my joy comes from seeing Adeal finally accept herself as a worthy person deserving of love and kindness. That sweet, giving, caring soul that she has always been has been set free. She's shedding the guilt and shame and the self-loathing that she has clung to for nearly 40 years. She's changing the way she thinks, becoming conscious of and halting the negative thought spirals that used to be habits. We have had some amazing conversations. Despite her physical pain, Adeal feels hope and excitement about her life.
From my personal photo album. This is one of the very, very few photos of Adeal as a baby that still exist, as most of the family photos were tragically lost in a house-moving incident that still makes my mother's blood boil to this day. In this photo, Adeal is two or three years old and I am probably around nine.
I'm not sure we would have re-connected quite so well had this Covid thing not happened. So, for that, I am grateful. God can take even the darkest of times and create beauty and joy.
The high school and the seminary where I work went to the "online learning model" for the next two weeks, meaning that all students will be doing their learning 100% online and not coming into the buildings.
Last Wednesday and Thursday, I was kept busy producing seating charts for the high school for the purpose of contact tracing, and I fielded call after call from parents excusing their students for voluntary or compelled quarantine. Fortunately, we'd been anticipating something like this happening since before school actually started, so we at the seminary are in a good position to have students take their seminary classes online. All the work I've been doing to get kids into their online classes has really paid off. At least 98% of the over 700 students we have are able to access their Canvas seminary classes.
The utter travesty is that all of this is based on absolute bunk.
All of this is a farce. All of it is meant to produce fear. All of this is meant to produce profits and power for a small, select group of people and economic devastation, dependance, and serfdom for the vast majority of the world's population. I know most people think I'm crazy to say that, but if you are convinced that this is real, then you are not doing your research. You are not looking deeper. You are not listening to the doctors and scientists and investigative journalists who are defying and rebutting the media narrative with credible, scientific evidence that this is all a lie and is causing far, far more harm than good. Yes, there is something that is affecting a small group of the population, but the vast, vast majority of people are not going to get sick or, if they do, they are going to recover nicely. The removal of our fundamental rights is criminal.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a war on the human population. What is happening are literal crimes against humanity.
This video is long but it contains vital facts and evidence that people need to know about this farce. Dr. Fuellmich, a licensed trial lawyer in both Germany and the United States, lays out the major class action lawsuit he is preparing against the perpetrators of this crime. This guy is not some small-time lawyer hoping for fame and recognition. He has won cases of fraud and deception against Deutsche Bank, VW, and Kuehne & Nagel, the largest shipping company in the world. Listen to this video while driving, if you need to. Listen to it while you eat. Sit and listen to it. This might be the most eye-opening information you'll get that the MSM and politicians will never tell you. Most people have never heard any of this information.
Whether this class action will actually go anywhere is the question. But the evidence Dr. Fuellmich and his team have collected is impressive in scope. It is absolutely infuriating that all of this is being completely ignored by politicians and the complicit media.
In case this video gets taken down by YouTube, I am also including part of the transcript below, which I have edited for clarity and punctuation. I have also taken the liberty of adding some of my own emphasis and some bolded headings so you can easily find the information you are interested in.
Why This Should be Called a Corona Scandal, Not a Corona Crisis
"All the above mentioned cases of corruption and fraud committed by the German corporations pale in comparison in view of the extent of the damage that the Corona crisis has caused and continues to cause. This Corona crisis, according to all we know today, must be renamed a Corona scandal, and those responsible for it must be criminally prosecuted and sued for civil law damages...
"And for this reason I will now explain to you how and where an international network of lawyers will argue this biggest tort case ever, the Corona Fraud Scandal, which has, meanwhile, unfolded into probably the greatest Crime against Humanity ever committed. The anti-corona measures, whose only bases are the PCR test results, which are, in turn, all based on the Drosten Test, have, in the meantime, caused the loss of innumerable human lives and have destroyed the economic existence of countless companies and individuals worldwide.
"Summary of the facts as they present themselves today:
"1. What happened in May 2019--and then in early 2020--and what happened 12 years earlier with the swine flu?
"In May of 2019, the stronger one of the two parties which govern Germany as a grand coalition, the CDU [Christian Democratic Union], held a congress on Global Health, apparently at the instigation of important players from the pharmaceutical industry and the tech industry. At this congress, the usual suspects (you might say) gave their speeches. Angela Merkel was there, and the German secretary of health, Jens Spahn. But some other people, whom one would not necessarily expect to be present at such a gathering, were also there: Professor Drosten, virologist from the Charité hospital of Berlin; Professor Wieler, veterinarian and head of the RKI [the German equivalent of the CDC]; as well as Mr. Tedros, philosopher and head of the WHO.
"Also present and giving speeches were the chief lobbyist of the world's two largest health funds, namely the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. Less than a year later, these very people called the shots in the proclamation of the worldwide Corona pandemic, made sure that mass PCR tests were used to prove mass infections with Covid 19 all over the world; and are now pushing for vaccines to be invented and sold worldwide. These infections--or, rather, the positive test results that the PCR test delivered--in turn became the justification for worldwide lockdowns, social distancing, and mandatory face masks.
Definition of Pandemic Changed by the WHO Just Before the SARS Epidemic 12 Years Ago
"It is important to note at this point that the definition of a pandemic was changed 12 years earlier [by the WHO]. Until then, pandemic was considered to be a disease that spread worldwide and which led to many serious illnesses and deaths. Suddenly, for reasons never explained, it was supposed to be a worldwide disease only. Many serious illnesses and many deaths were not required anymore to announce a pandemic.
"Due to this change, the WHO, which is closely intertwined with the global pharmaceutical industry, was able to declare the swine flu pandemic in 2009, with the result that vaccines were produced and sold worldwide on the basis of contracts that have been kept secret until today. These vaccines proved to be completely unnecessary because the swine flu finally turned out to be a mild flu and never became the horrific plague that the pharmaceutical industry and its affiliated universities kept announcing it would turn into, with millions of deaths certain to happen if people did not get vaccinated.
The Dangers of the SARS Vaccines and the Rise of the Notorious Dr. Drosten in 2008-09
"These vaccines led to serious health problems: about 700 children in Europe fell incurably ill with narcolepsy and are now forever severely disabled.
"The vaccines bought with millions of tax payer's money had to be destroyed with even more tax payers' money. Already then, during the swine flu, the German virologist Drosten was one of those who stirred up panic in the population, repeating over and over again that the swine flu would claim many hundreds of thousands--even millions--of deaths all over the world.
"In the end, it was mainly thanks to Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg and his efforts as a member of the German Bundestag (and also a member of the Council of Europe) that this hoax was brought to an end before it could lead to even more serious consequences.
Germany Locked Down in 2020 Based Solely on Dr. Drosten's Wildly Faulty Predictions
"Fast foward to March of 2020, when the German Bundestag announced an epidemic situation of national importance (which is the equivalent of a pandemic) in March of 2020; and, based on this, the lockdown with the suspension of all essential constitutional rights for an unforeseeable time. There was only one single opinion on which the Federal Government based its decision. The only person listened to was Mr. Drosten, i.e. the very person whose horrific, panic-inducing prognoses had proved to be catastrophically false 12 years earlier.
"We know this because a whistleblower named David Siber, a member of the Green Party, told us about it. He did so first on Aug. 29, 2020, in Berlin in the context of an event at which Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., also took part, and at which both men gave speeches. And he did so afterwards in one of the sessions of our Corona Committee. The reason he did this is that he had become increasingly skeptical about the official narrative propagated by politicians and the mainstream media. He had, therefore, undertaken an effort to find out about other scientists' opinions and had found them on the Internet. There, he realized that there were a number of highly renowned scientists who held a completely different opinion which contradicted the horrific prognoses of Mr. Drosten.
The Opposition Scientists Begin to Speak Out in Germany
"They [the scientists who disagreed with Drosten] assumed--and still do assume--that there was no disease that went beyond the gravity of the seasonal flu; that the population had already acquired cross- or T-cell immunity against this allegedly new virus; and that there was, therefore, no reason for any special measures--and certainly not for vaccinations!
"These scientists included Professor John Ionnidis of Stanford University in California, a specialist in statistics and epidemiology, as well as public health; and, at the same time, the most quoted scientist in the world: Professor Michael Levitt, Nobel Prize winner for chemistry and, also, a biophysicist at Stanford University...
"At the end of March/beginning of April of 2020, Mr. Siber turned to the leadership of his Green Party with the knowledge he had accumulated and suggested that they present these other scientific opinions to the public and explain that, contrary to Mr. Drosten's doomsday prophecies, there was no reason for the public to panic.
"Incidentally, Lord Sumption, who served as a judge at the British Supreme Court from June 2012 to 2018, had done the very same thing at the very same time and had come to the very same conclusion: that there was no factual basis for panic and no legal basis for the Corona measures. Likewise, the former president of the German Federal Constitutional Court expressed (albeit more cautiously) serious doubts that the Corona measures were constitutional.
"But instead of taking note of these opinions and discussing them with David Siber, the Green Party leadership declared that Mr. Drosten's panic messages were good enough for the Green Party (remember, they are not a member of the ruling coalition, but they are the opposition!), just as it had been good enough for the federal government as a basis for its lockdown decision. They subsequently called David Siber a conspiracy theorist without ever having considered the content of his information and then stripped him of his mandates.
"2. The current, actual situation regarding the virus's danger, the complete uselessness of PCR tests for the detection of infections, and the lockdown based on non-existent infections:
"In the meantime, we know that the healthcare systems were never in danger of becoming overwhelmed by Covid-19. On the contrary: many hospitals remain empty to this day, and some are now facing bankruptcy. The hospital ship, Comfort, anchored in New York at the time, and [which] could have accommodated 1000 patients, never accommodated more than some 20 patients. Nowhere was there any excess mortality. Studies carried out by Professor Ionnidis and others have shown that mortality of Corona is equivalent to that of the seasonal flu.
"Even pictures from Bergamo and New York that were used to demonstrate to the world that panic was in order proved to be deliberately misleading.
"A word of clarification: in Bergamo, the vast majority of deaths--94%, to be exact--turned out to be the result not of Covid-19 but, rather, the consequences of the government deciding to transfer sick patients (sick with probably the cold or the seasonal flu--there was a very big flu epidemic up until February 9th, when suddenly everything was changed to Covid) from hospitals to nursing homes in order to make room at the hospitals for all the Covid patients, who never arrived. There, at the nursing homes, they then infected old people with severely weakened immune systems, usually as a result of pre-existing medical conditions. In addition, a flu vaccination, which had been previously administered, had further weakened the immune systems of people in the nursing homes.
"In New York, only some--but by far not all--of the hospitals were overwhelmed. Many people, most of whom were, again, elderly and had serious pre-existing medical conditions, and most of whom (had it not been for the panic-mongering) would have just stayed at home to recover, raced to the hospitals. There, many of them fell victim to healthcare-associated infections, or nosocomial infections on the one hand, and incidents of malpractice on the other hand, e.g., by being put on a respirator rather than receiving oxygen through an oxygen mask.
"Then the so-called 'Panic Paper' was leaked, which was written by the German Department of the Interior. Its classified content shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that, in fact, the population was deliberately driven to panic by politicians and mainstream media.
"The accompanying irresponsible statements of the head of the RKI, Mr. Wieler, who repeatedly and excitedly announced that the Corona measures must be followed unconditionally by the population without asking any questions shows that he followed this script verbatim. In his public statements, he kept announcing that the situation was very grave and threatening, although the figures compiled by his own institute proved the exact opposite.
Covid-19 Has a Mortality Rate Like a Mild Flu Season
"...to clarify: Covid-19 (this is the current state of affairs) is a dangerous disease just like the seasonal flu is a dangerous disease. And, of course, Covid-19, just like the seasonal flu, many times takes a severe clinical course and will sometimes kill patients.
"However, as autopsies have shown, which were carried out in Germany--in particular by the forensic scientist Professor Klaus Püschel--the fatalities he examined had almost all been caused by serious pre-exisiting conditions, and almost all of the people who had died had died at a very old age, just like in Italy. [This means] they had lived beyond their average life expectancy.
Autopsies Proved that Covid-19 Was Not the Cause of Death for the Vast Majority of So-Called Covid Deaths
"The Germany RKI had initially, strangely enough, recommended that no autopsies be performed. And there are numerous credible reports that doctors and hospitals worldwide had been paid money for declaring a deceased person a victim of Covid-19 rather than writing down the true cause of death on the death certificate...Without autopsies, we would never know that the overwhelming majority of the alleged Covid-19 victims had died of completely different diseases, but not of Covid-19.
Three Reasons the Lockdowns Were Completely Unnecessary
"The assertion that the lockdown was necessary because there were so many infections with SARS-CoV-2 and because the healthcare systems would be overwhelmed is wrong for three reasons, as we have learned from the hearings we conducted with the Corona Committee and from other data that has become available in the meantime:
"a. Lockdown was imposed when the virus was already retreating. By the time the lockdown was imposed, the alleged infection rates were already dropping again.
"b. There is already protection from the virus because of cross- or T-cell immunity. Apart from that, there is already cross- or T-cell immunity in the general population against the corona viruses contained in every flu or influenza wave. This is true even if this time around a slightly different strain of the corona virus was at work. And that is because the body's own immune system remembers every virus it has ever battled in the past; and from this experience, it also recognizes a supposedly new--but still similar strain--of the virus from the corona family.
How Dr. Drosten Created the PCR Test for Covid-19 Based on Garbage Data
"Incidentally, that's how the PCR test for the detection of an infection was invented by now infamous Professor Drosten. At the beginning of January of 2020, based on this very basic knowledge, Mr. Drosten developed his own PCR test, which supposedly detects an infection with SARS-CoV-2. Without ever having seen the real Wuhan virus from China, only having learned from social media reports that there was something going on in Wuhan, he started tinkering on his computer with what would become his Corona PCR test. For this, he used an old SARS virus, hoping it would be sufficiently similar to the allegedly new strain of the corona virus found in Wuhan. Then he sent the result of his computer tinkering to China to determine whether the victims of the alleged new corona virus tested positive. They did, and that was enough for the WHO to sound the pandemic alarm and to recommend the worldwide use of the Drosten PCR test for the detection of infections with the virus now called SARS-CoV-2.
"Drosten's opinions and advice was--this must be emphasized again--the only source for the German government when it announced the lockdown as well as the rules for social distancing and the mandatory wearing of masks. And--this must also be emphasized again--Germany apparently became the center of especially massive lobbying by the pharmaceutical and tech industry because the world, with reference to the allegedly disciplined Germans, should do as the Germans do in order to survive the pandemic.
"c. The PCR test is being used on the basis of false statements, not based on scientific facts with respect to infections.
Why Drosten's PCR Test is Faulty and Why PCR Tests, in General, Cannot Be Used for Diagnosis
"In the meantime, we have learned that those PCR tests, contrary to the assertions of Mssrs. Drosten, Wieler, and the WHO, do not give any indication of an infection with any virus, let alone with SARS-cov-2.
"Not only are PCR tests expressly not approved for diagnostic purposes, as is correctly noted on leaflets coming with these tests, and as the inventor of the PCR test, Kary Mullis, has repeatedly emphasized, [but] instead, they are simply incapable of diagnosing any disease.
"That is--contrary to the assertions of Drosten, Wieler, and the WHO, which they have been making since the proclamation of the pandemic--a positive PCR test result does not mean that an infection is present. If someone tests positive, it does not mean that they are infected with anything, let alone with a contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus.
"Even the US CDC itself says this, and I quote directly from page 38 of one of its publications on the Corona virus and the PCR tests dated July 13, 2020: 'Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that of 2019-nCOv infection...This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.'"
"It is still not clear whether there has ever been a scientifically correct isolation of the Wuhan virus so that nobody knows exactly what we are looking for when we test--especially since this virus, just like the flu viruses, mutates quickly. The PCR swabs take on or two sequences of a molecule that are invisible to the human eye and, therefore, need to be amplified in many cycles to make it visible. Everything over 35 cycles is, as reported by the New York Times and others, considered completely unreliable and scientifically unjustifiable. However, the Drosten test, as well as the WHO-recommended tests that followed his example, are set to 45 cycles.
"Can that be because of the desire to produce as many positive results as possible and thereby provide the basis for the false assumption that a large number of infections have been detected?
"The test cannot distinguish inactive and reproductive matter. That means that a positive result might happen because the test detects a piece of debris--a fragment of a molecule--which may signal nothing else than that the immune system of the person tested won a battle with the common cold in the past. Even Drosten himself declared in an interview with a German business magazine in 2014 at the time concerning the alleged detection of an infection with the MERS virus (allegedly with the help of the PCR test) that these PCR tests are so highly sensitive that even very healthy and non-infectious people may test positive.
"At that time, he also became very much aware of the powerful role of the panic and fear-mongering media as you'll see at the end of the following quote. He said, 'If, for example, such a pathogen scurries over the nasal mucosa of a nurse for a day or so without her getting sick or noticing anything else, then she is suddenly a MERS case. This could also explain the explosion of case numbers in Saudi Arabia. In addition, the media there have made this into an incredible sensation.'
"Has he forgotten this, or is he deliberately concealing this in the corona context? Because Corona is a very lucrative business opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry as a whole, and for Mr. Olfert Landt, his coauthor in many studies, and also a PCR test producer. In my view, it is completely implausible that he forgot in 2020 what he knew about the PCR tests and told the business magazine in 2014.
"In short, this test cannot detect any infection, contrary to all false claims stating that it can. An infection, a so-called hot infection, requires that the virus, or, rather, a fragment of a molecule that may be a virus, is not just found somewhere (e.g. the throat of a person) without causing any damage. That would be a cold infection. Rather, a hot infection requires that the virus penetrates into the cells, replicates there, and causes symptoms such as headaches or a sore throat. Only then is a person really infected in the sense of a hot infection because only then is a person contagious--that is, able to infect others. Until then, it is completely harmless for both the host and all other people that the host comes into contact with.
"Once again, this means that positive test results--contrary to all other claims, e.g. by Drosten, Wieler, or the WHO--mean nothing with respect to infections, as even the CDC knows as quoted above. Meanwhile, a number of scientists worldwide assume that there has never been a Corona pandemic but only a PCR test pandemic.
"This is the conclusion reached by many German scientists such as Professors Bhakdi, Reiss, Mölling, Hockertz, Walach, and many others, including the above-mentioned Professor Ionnidis and the Nobel Laureate Professor Michael Levitt from Stanford University.
"The most recent such opinion is that of aforementioned Dr. Mike Yeadon, a former vice president and chief science officer at Pfizer, who held this position for 16 years. He and his coauthors--all well-known scientists--published a scientific paper in September, 2020, and he wrote a corresponding magazine article on September 20, 2020.
Statement by Dr. Mike Yeadon, Former Vice President and Chief Science Officer at Pfizer, and His Co-Authors: There Can Be No Talk of a Second Wave
"Among other things, they state, 'We are basing our government policy, our economic policy, and the policy of restricting fundamental rights presumable on completely wrong data and assumptions about the corona virus...If it weren't for the test results that are constantly reported in the media, the pandemic would be over because nothing really happened. Of course there are some serious individual cases of illness, but there are also some in every flu epidemic. There was a real wave of disease in March and April, but since then everything has gone back to normal. Only the positive test results rise and sink wildly again and again, depending how many tests are carried out again, but the real cases of illness are over. There can be no talk of a second wave.'
"The allegedly new strain of the Corona virus is, Dr. Yeadon continues, only new in that it is a new type of the long-known corona virus. There are at least four corona viruses that are endemic and cause some of the common colds we experience, especially in winter. They all have a striking sequence similarity to the Corona virus. And because the human immune system recognizes the similarity to the virus that has now allegedly been newly discovered, a T-cell immunity has long existed in this respect. 30% of the population had this before the allegedly new virus even appeared. Therefore, it is sufficient for the so-called herd immunity that the 15-25% of the population are infected with the allegedly new Corona virus to stop further spread of the virus, and this has long been the case.
"Regarding the all-important PCR tests, Yeadon writes in a piece called 'Lies, Damned Lies and Health Statistics--the Deadly Danger of False Positives,' dated September 20, 2020: 'The likelihood of an apparently positive case being a false positive is between 89-94%, or near certainty.'
What the PCR Test Actually Measures
"Dr. Yeadon (in agreement with the professors of immunology Kaemmerer from Germany, Capel from the Netherlands, and Cahill from Ireland, as well as the microbiologist Dr. Avery from Austria--all of whom testified before the German Corona Committee) explicitly points out that a positive test does not mean that an intact virus has been found. The authors explain that what the PCR test actually measures is 'simply the presence of partial RNA sequences present in the intact virus which could be a piece of dead virus which cannot make the subject sick and cannot be transmitted and cannot make anyone else sick.'
"Because of the completely unsuitability of the test for the detection of infectious diseases (it tested positive with goats, sheep, papayas, and even chicken wings), Oxford Professor Carl Heneghan, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, writes that the Covid-19 virus would never disappear if this test practice were to be continued but would always be--falsely--detected in much of what is tested.
Evidence that Lockdowns Do Nothing to Lower Mortality Rate
"Lockdowns, as Yeadon and his colleagues found out, do not work. Sweden, with its laissez-faire approach, and Great Britain, with its strict lockdown, for example, have completely comparable disease and mortality statistics. The same was found by the U.S. scientists concerning the different U.S. states: it makes no difference whether a state implements a lockdown or not.
"With regard to the Imperial College of London's Professor Neil Ferguson and his completely false computer models warning of millions of deaths, he [Yeadon] says that, 'No serious scientist gives any validity to Ferguson's model.' He points out, with thinly veiled contempt, 'It's important that you know most scientists don't accept that it (Ferguson's model) was even faintly right...but the government is still wedded to the model.' Ferguson predicted 40,000 corona deaths in Sweden by May and 100,000 by June, but it remained at 5,800, which, according to the Swedish authorities, is equivalent to a mild flu.
"If the PCR test had not been used as a diagnostic tool for Corona virus infections, there would not be a pandemic and there would be no lockdowns, but everything would have been perceived as just a medium or light wave of influenza, these scientists conclude. Dr. Yeadon, in his piece 'Lies, Damned Lies and Health Statistics--the Deadly Danger of False Positives,' writes, 'This test is fatally flawed and MUST immediately be withdrawn and never used again in this setting unless shown to be fixed.' And, towards the end of the article: 'I have explained how a hopelessly-performing diagnostic test has been and continues to be used not for diagnosis of disease but, it seems, solely to create fear.'
"3. The current, actual situation regarding the severe damage caused by the lockdowns and other measures.
"Another detailed paper written by a German official in the Department of the Interior, who is responsible for risk assessment and the protection of the population against risks, was leaked recently. It is now called the 'False Alarm Paper.'
"This paper comes to the conclusion that there was and is no sufficient evidence for serious health risks for the population as claimed by Drosten, Wieler, and the WHO. But, the author says, there is very much evidence of the Corona measures causing gigantic health and economic damage to the population, which he then describes in detail in this paper. This, he concludes, will lead to very high claims for damages, which the government will be held responsible for.
"This has now become reality, but the paper's author was suspended.
"In Germany alone, 500,000 to 800,000 bankruptcies are expected in the fall to strike small- and medium-sized businesses, which form the backbone of the economy. This will result in incalculable tax losses and incalculably high and long-term social security money transfers for, among other things, unemployment benefits.
What the German Constitution Says about the Excessive Corona Virus Measures [Which Is Also What the U.S. Constitution Says about These Measures]
"1. Unconstitutionality of the measures.
"A number of German law professors, including Professors Kingreen, Murswieck, Jungbluth, and Vosgerau, have stated either in written expert opinions or in interviews--in line with the serious doubts expressed by the former president of the Federal Constitutional Court with respect to the constitutionality of the Corona measures--that these measures are without sufficient legal basis and are, therefore, unconstitutional and must be repealed immediately.
"Very recently, a judge, Thorsten Shlief, declared publicly that the German judiciary, just like the general public, has been so panic-stricken that it was no longer able to administer justice properly. He says that the courts of law 'have all too quickly waved through coercive measures, which, for millions of people all over Germany, represent massive suspensions of their constitutional rights.' He points out that German citizens 'are currently experiencing the most serious encroachment on their constitutional rights since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949.'
"In order to contain the Corona pandemic, federal and state governments have intervened 'massively, and, in part, threatening the very existence of the country' as it is guaranteed by the constitutional rights of the people.'
"2. Fraud, intentional inflictions of damage, and crimes against humanity.
"Based on the rules of criminal law, asserting false facts concerning the PCR tests or intentional misrepresentation as it was committed by Mssrs. Drosten and Wieler as well as the WHO, can only be assessed as fraud. Based on the rules of civil tort law, this translates into intentional infliction of damage.
"The German professor of civil law, Martin Schwab, supports this finding in public interviews. In a comprehensive legal opinion of around 180 pages, he has familiarized himself with the subject matter like no other legal scholar has done thus far, and, in particular, has provided a detailed account of the complete failure of the mainstream media to report on the true facts of this so-called pandemic. Mssrs. Drosten, Wieler, and Tedros of the WHO all knew, based on their own expertise--or the expertise of their institutions--that the PCR tests cannot provide any information about infections, but asserted over and over again to the general public that they can, with their counterparts all over the world repeating this. And they all knew and accepted that on the basis of their recommendations the governments of the world would decide on lockdowns, the rules for social distancing, and mandatory wearing of face masks--the latter representing a very serious health hazard as more and more independent studies and expert statements show.
Civil Tort Law and Class Action Lawsuits Against the Perpetrators of Damaging and Unnecessary Corona Virus Measures
"Under the rules of civil tort law, all those who have been harmed by these PCR test-induced lockdowns are entitled to receive full compensation for their losses. In particular, there is a duty to compensate--that is, a duty to pay damages for the loss of profits suffered by companies and self-employed persons as a result of the lockdown and other measures.
"3. Class action as the best route to compensatory damages and to political consequences.
"The so-called class action lawsuit is based on English law and exists today and in the USA and Canada. It enables a court of law to allow a complaint for damages to be tried as a class action lawsuit at the request of a plaintiff if, as a result of a damage-inducing event, a large number of people suffer the same type of damage.
"Phrased differently, a judge can allow a class action lawsuit to go forward if common questions of law and fact make up the vital component of the lawsuit. The advantage of a class action is that only one trial is needed, namely to try the complaint of a representative plaintiff who is affected in a manner typical of everyone in the class.
"This is, firstly, cheaper; and secondly, faster than hundreds of thousands or more individual lawsuits; and thirdly, it imposes less of a burden on the courts. Fourthly, as a rule, it allows much more precise examination of the accusations than would be possible in the context of hundreds of thousands or--more likely in this Corona setting--even millions of individual lawsuits.
In particular, the well-established and proven Anglo-American law of evidence, with its pre-trial discovery, is applicable. This requires that all evidence relevant for the determination of the lawsuit is put on the table. In contrast to the typical situation in German lawsuits with structured imbalance (i.e. lawsuits involving a consumer on the one hand and a powerful corporation on the other), the withholding--or even destruction of evidence--is not without consequences. Rather, the party withholding or even destroying evidence loses the case.
"Here in Germany, a group of tort lawyers banded together to help their clients with the recovery of damages. They have provided all relevant information and forms for German plaintiffs to both estimate how much damage they have suffered and [then] join the group or class of plaintiffs who will later join the class action when it goes forward either in Canada or the U.S."
The danger here is that if I speak of anything that is not family news, I start veering sharply into a rant against what I see happening around me in society. Just today, for instance, I have written and erased three separate drafts of this blog post.
But this is where I think out loud. Sometimes one must write and write and write in order to find out what one thinks and how to state it clearly, logically, and concisely. The alternative is to talk and talk and talk, and no one wants to listen to me long enough for me to clearly formulate my argument.
Before I go there, however, I wanted to share something I thought was funny at work.
It has taken a while, as I am a middle-aged woman in a faculty made up of young men, to really find my place in the group. (My boss just turned 35 a few days ago, and I'm literally old enough to be a couple of the other teachers' mother.) They are never unkind or dismissive of me, and they are always telling me how grateful they are to have me there because, fortunately, I am competent at my job; but I haven't been able to fully mesh with them socially yet. They are a different generation, and I am not all that interesting in their eyes. I get it, of course. I was young like them once, too, and old people weren't exactly fascinating to me, either.
But today, I think I found my place. I am the mom. It's now official.
What happened was this: this morning, I handed each of them lists of the students in each of their classes and noted which students were not yet enrolled in the online classes. For the two classes that had complete student enrollment in their online classes, I jokingly graded them like a test, with exclamation points and happy faces.
The guys got the joke. They started arguing with each other over who had the most exclamation points (they know that I don't believe in using more than one exclamation point, so using multiple exclamation points is a bit of an in-joke).
"Mom likes me best!" crowed Skyler, who got three exclamation points.
"No, Mom likes me best! I got a happy face!" retorted Neil.
There was much laughter.
At lunch, Skyler came to me with the mending kit and said, "Can you be my mom and sew on the button that came off my cuff? I can't do it." As I sewed it on, I explained what I was doing because he asked me questions about the process. When I was done, he was grateful. "Thanks, Mom," he said with a grin.
Is it weird that this makes me more relaxed with them? I know how to be a mom. I do not know how to connect with them the way their generation connects with each other. But I can be more myself if I'm the mom.
Huh! Look at that! I have a Zoom meeting with my Relief Society presidency and I don't have time to rant. You're so lucky!
Things have calmed down so much at work that I am more frequently finding myself at a loss for what to do. While it's nice to be on top of things, I also have no desire to be bored to death, even if I'm getting paid for it. I figure that part of my job is to be spiritually fit, and, therefore, I don't have an ethical issue with studying the gospel at work. After all, the entire seminary is built around studying and teaching the good word of Christ for the purpose of helping the teens who come to class to develop their own relationship with their Savior. The teachers get paid for forty hours a week of reading, studying, pondering, and teaching the gospel, and I don't see how I can't also do that at work, given that I have some free time.
So the other day, I caught up with Griff and Skyler and said, "Hey, tell me what to read," knowing that they both have extensive gospel libraries in their offices (and into Skyler's library I have secretly inserted several extra books and am waiting to see when he notices). Griff thought about it for a moment and then handed me a slim volume from one of his shelves. The title was The Divine Gift of Forgiveness, by Neil L. Andersen. Somehow, I have never read this book.
"This is a great one," he said, "and it's not too long."
He was truly inspired. I have been devouring the book, and it has made a huge difference for my mental state.
You might have noticed that I've struggled quite a bit in the last few years regarding my feelings of inadequacy/bouts of crippling perfectionism/sense of worthlessness. It's so annoying, and I know none of those feelings is worthy of consideration except to help me work to improve myself, yet the pain has been sometimes unrelenting. While I rationally know better, sometimes you just can't logic your way out of depression--or, at least, you can't logic your way out of depression for long if you haven't resolved the underlying issues.
If you haven't read The Divine Gift of Forgiveness, I suggest you get yourself a copy. I don't care what religion you are--the doctrine taught in that book will help you see clearly your relationship with Jesus Christ, both how great our debt is to Him and how great His love is for each of us.
I plowed through half the book on the first day, and that evening, Prunella texted me.
Do you remember Prunella? A few months ago, she surprised me by telling me--out of the blue--some very unflattering things she thought about me as well as some incredibly unfair and wholly untrue things she thought about one of my dear friends. I've struggled with anger about what she said about Jill (though Jill, who is sweet and good and so very, very amazing, has long since fully forgiven her), and while I've been able to feel much less angry on my own behalf, the things Prunella said skewered me so hard in the painfully tender insecurities I have about myself that I've plumbed the very depths of my deepest fears of my own worthlessness. There have been some awful nights that have driven me to my knees in mental agony. She didn't cause that pain, but what she said did fan the flames.
Anyway, Prunella texted me to tell me she has recently remarried and is very happy. She also wished to apologize for being a moron (her word), and she realized fairly quickly, through the Spirit, after having spewed all her anger at me, that I really did love her and accept her. She explained that one of the reasons she was so angry is that she has a sister who never initiates contact, and I guess my own failure to frequently initiate contact with her was a pressure point, and she eventually boiled over.
Knowing Prunella (and that's an unflattering name I gave her when I was hurt and upset), I know she was sincerely apologizing. I also know that she doesn't have a deep empathetic capability, which is a character trait and not a personal flaw. Some people are less empathetic than others, and that's a fact. I admitted to her that she had thrown me a curve ball, but I didn't tell her how difficult it has been for me to let go of what she said to me. My feelings are not her responsibility, and, to be totally honest, I still don't have a desire to expose my vulnerable underbelly to her any more than I have to. We had a little text conversation, and she felt wonderful that she'd resolved our little disagreement as she moves on into the next phase of her life in another city with her new husband.
I'm not going to tell you that I have righteously forgiven Prunella and am living happily ever after. That would be a lie. I am not angry with her anymore, and I haven't been really angry with her for a long time--mostly because anger is so exhausting and negative and is my least favorite of all the emotions--and I truly wish her all the best in her new life; but I can't feel about her the way I used to. I don't know if I could ever fully trust her again after she turned some of my heartfelt and sincere confidences around and used them against me. Maybe, someday, the last vestige of that sense of betrayal will fade away and I will know that I have completely forgiven her. Or, maybe, forgiveness is not about expecting a relationship, once shattered, to be able to go back to what it was but about seeing her as Christ sees her and accepting that she is greatly loved by Him just as much as I am loved by Him, and that His love for her does not diminish His love for me. We are both imperfect, mortal beings full of faults and flaws and hurts and biases, and we're really not so different from each other. After all, I have hurt so many people myself, even if I didn't intend to, and that's only one of my many shortcomings. I am not above anyone in the righteousness department. I am right down here with the worms and the dust of the earth. What gives me hope is that the Atonement can make up for all my failures and shortcomings, and my true sin is in thinking I am somehow exempt from that blessing and not asking for its healing in my life so that I can be better to those around me and help others see how much they, too, are loved by Him.
I have no illusions about my future of total and continual mental bliss. That will never happen. I'll have to keep relearning the same lessons over and over, I think. But for today, I have hope. I struggle, and so does everyone, but today I also have so much hope, thanks to my Heavenly Father and my Savior.
