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    • NYT – The U.S. May Be Losing the Fight Against Monkeypox, Scientists Say

      Longstanding weaknesses in the public health system are giving the virus a chance to become entrenched.

      As epidemics go, the monkeypox outbreak should have been relatively easy to snuff out. The virus does not spread efficiently except through intimate contact, and tests and vaccines were at hand even before the current outbreak.

      Yet the response in the United States has been sluggish and timid, reminiscent of the early days of the Covid pandemic, experts say, raising troubling questions about the nation’s preparedness for pandemic threats.

      The first cases of monkeypox were reported in May, but tests will not be readily available until sometime this month. Vaccines will be in short supply for months longer. Surveillance is spotty, and official case counts are likely a gross underestimate.

      There are already at least 700 cases in the United States, but experts say the real number is likely to be much higher. There probably will be many more infections before the outbreak can be controlled, if at this point it can be controlled at all.

      “Why is it so hard for something that’s even a known pathogen?” asked Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who first warned of monkeypox outbreaks more than a decade ago. “How many more times do we have to go through this?”

      With increasing travel and trade, new pathogens will emerge more frequently, Dr. Rimoin said: “We’ve been hitting the snooze button on emerging diseases for decades. The alarm is going off, and it’s time to wake up.”

      The obstacles to preparedness are systemic, at every level of government, rather than because of any one individual or agency, Dr. Rimoin and other experts said.

      Even as the coronavirus pandemic drags into its third year, the public health system in the United States remains a hamstrung patchwork, an underfunded bureaucracy seemingly incapable of swift and forceful action. Its shortcomings have persisted for decades, through many administrations.

      The United States estimated in 2010, for example, that in the event of a bioterrorist attack, 132 million doses of a vaccine for smallpox and monkeypox would be required for those who cannot safely take an older-generation vaccine with harsh side effects. Yet two months after the current outbreak began, the strategic national stockpile holds just 64,000 doses.

      The situation “reveals the failure in the U.S. to take public health seriously,” said Zain Rizvi, who studies access to medicines at the advocacy group Public Citizen. “Do we ever run out of fighter jets?”

      It’s often unclear which agency is ultimately responsible for a particular aspect of the response. The strategic national stockpile used to be under the purview of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example. The Trump administration handed it to a different agency, yet the C.D.C. still makes decisions about who should get the vaccine and when.

      State and county-level health departments often set their own rules and priorities, sometimes at odds with federal guidance. “The machine is just so ossified,” said Gregg Gonsalves, an activist and epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health. The “house is on fire, and it’s like everything is moving at sort of normal speed.”

      The global monkeypox toll has surpassed 8,100 cases, mostly men who have sex with men, and about as many potential cases are under investigation. Many of those patients cannot identify the source of their infections, suggesting that there is significant community transmission.

      In the United States, the C.D.C. has found at least two versions of the virus, indicating at least two parallel chains of transmission.

      “It’s pretty clear that we need to rapidly scale up the ability to diagnose this now,” said Jay Varma, director of the Cornell Center for Pandemic Prevention and Response.

      The first missteps in the U.S. response to monkeypox were in testing. As in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, samples from monkeypox patients are being funneled to the C.D.C. for final diagnosis, a process that can take days. Only recently have tests been shipped to commercial laboratories; one of them began offering testing on Wednesday.

      A network of about 70 public health labs set up by the C.D.C. has the capacity to identify orthopoxviruses, the family that includes smallpox and monkeypox. But local doctors must first get clearance from a state epidemiologist, then somehow get the samples to one of the labs, the same process used in early 2020 to identify coronavirus infections.

      Local health departments trace contacts only after a confirmed diagnosis, allowing the chain of transmission to continue in the meantime.

      “We clearly identified this as a major mistake that allowed Covid to get its footprint in the U.S. and spread undetected for a month, without any of us knowing,” said Angela Rasmussen, a research scientist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.

      “And now we’re just doing the same thing all over again, because that’s the way it’s done.”

      The C.D.C. should have made testing rapidly available to glean the extent of the outbreak early on, she added: “Our failure to do that has almost certainly allowed the outbreak to become much bigger than it could have been, and now I have serious doubts about whether it can even be contained.”

      In San Francisco, B, a 43-year-old medical writer who asked that his name be withheld for privacy reasons, found himself shivering uncontrollably with a high fever on June 14, eight days after he had multiple sexual encounters at a bathhouse in Chicago.

      When a blister appeared on B’s wrist on Friday afternoon, he suspected monkeypox. But his health care provider said the city’s health department would not be able to pick up his sample till Tuesday, June 21, after the Juneteenth holiday.

      No one reached out to him to ask about his contacts, or to offer vaccines to his roommate or partner. It was Friday, a week later, before the sample was picked up, and the following Wednesday — nearly two weeks after he had contacted his health care provider — before he was told he had tested positive for an orthopoxvirus.

      By then, his lesions had healed, and he no longer needed to isolate. “The irony of this happening on the same day as receiving the first test result is not lost on me,” he said.

      Even then, the health department told him it would likely be another week before the C.D.C. could confirm that he had monkeypox.

      “Two blisters and a rash on my butt is not the worst I’ve had in my life,” B said. But given his experience, “I don’t think we’re prepared for another pandemic of something that’s actually serious.”

      A senior Biden administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, acknowledged that implementation of monkeypox testing had not been as convenient nor fast as it needed to be.

      Negotiations between government officials and commercial labs began in the third week of May, soon after the first cases were identified, he said. But it took time to settle contracts, scale up test supplies and train personnel to handle the virus.

      Still, the official noted, the C.D.C. published test procedures in early June, and the F.D.A. authorized additional test supplies to allow any interested lab to participate. The wait time for test results has dropped from 15 days to nine days from the start of symptoms, and is expected to drop further as lab capacity expands in July, he said.

      Another barrier to containing a disease like monkeypox is a dearth of sexual health clinics, as Dr. Varma noted in a recent opinion article in The New York Times.

      Monkeypox was thought to present as a body-wide rash, but in the current outbreak, most patients have developed only a few pox, primarily in the genital area. Patients with genital symptoms are much more likely to seek care at sexual health clinics, because they tend to offer confidentiality, convenience and free or low-cost care.

      But funding for these clinics has dropped by about 40 percent since 2003, after accounting for inflation. Partly as a result of the decline, about one in five Americans had a sexually transmitted infection in 2018, according to a C.D.C. report, and those numbers have surged during the pandemic.

      If monkeypox can’t be contained, it may become a permanent threat, especially among men who have sex with men. “The fear is that this will become entrenched as an S.T.I., you know, just like, say, syphilis is, or H.I.V. for that matter,” Dr. Varma said.

      “Without a lot of high quality sexual health services, you’re never going to be able to control it, because you won’t identify people fast enough,” he added.

      The National Coalition of STD Directors has called for a minimum of $30 million to strengthen sexual health clinics during the outbreak. “We still have no federal coordinated plan, and states and cities are largely on their own,” said David Harvey, the organization’s director.

      “I have one simple question for the administration: Where is the money, the resources, the training that is needed at the nation’s S.T.D. clinics to respond to what is already an out-of-control outbreak?” BILLION$

      Public health in the United States generally is woefully underfunded and understaffed, said Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.

      Although Covid brought more money into public health coffers, those funds cannot be used for anything else. “We cannot function at the level I think that the public needs and expects us to if we’re going to always be so categorically funded,” she said. “We’re not learning this lesson for the first time.”

      The experts did offer praise for one aspect of the administration’s response: the messaging to men who have sex with men, which hews to the “harm-reduction” approach, urging caution while recognizing people’s needs.

      Rather than “stigmatizing them for wanting to have sex and enjoy themselves, you meet them where they are,” Dr. Varma said of the C.D.C.’s monkeypox messaging. “In terms of things that have gone well, that is among the best sort of harm reduction advice I’ve seen.”

      https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/health/monkeypox-vaccine-treatment.html

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      French health authority urges wider monkeypox vaccination

  3. School children are told prostitution is a ‘rewarding job’ by sex education providers who promote ‘kinks’ to pupils including flogging, beating and locking people up in a cage
    Children were told prostitution is a ‘rewarding job’ by sex education providers
    Organisations introduced children to hardcore kinks including being flogged
    Kids were told to show where they liked to touch themselves by one organisation

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10996893/Children-told-prostitution-rewarding-job-sex-education-providers-promote-kinks.html

  8. Increasing SARS-CoV2 cases, hospitalizations and deaths among the vaccinated elderly populations during the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant surge in UK

    The vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the third dose was in negative since December 20, 2021, with a significantly increased proportion of SARS-CoV2 cases hospitalizations and deaths among the vaccinated; and a decreased proportion of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths among the unvaccinated
    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.28.22276926v1

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2bqKFlT_YM&ab_channel=WorldNews

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzv-wS23RI&ab_channel=WION

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACM9i3Xrss0&ab_channel=euronews

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      Global Aviation Advocacy Coalition

      Urgent! Euro Parliament Conference. Today 7PM CET: Identity and Democracy Group Conference – “POST-VACCINE FLIGHT RISKS – Are you safe on board a plane?”

      Legal and aviation experts present to the European Parliament with Q&A

      Jul 5 At 7pm Central European Time, Lawyer Philipp Kruse and GAAC aviation partners from Navigants Libres (France) and Airliners for Humanity (Switzerland, Germany and Austria) will be presenting to the European Parliament “POST-VACCINE FLIGHT RISKS – Are you safe on board a plane?”, followed by a Q&A.

      Sponsored by Christine Anderson MEP.

      Please consider watching and sharing the session in your networks.

      Video livestream from the conference on this link.

      https://gaacoalition.substack.com/p/urgent-euro-parliament-conference
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      VIDEO – Identity and Democracy Group Conference – POST-VAC FLIGHT RISKS – Are you safe on board a plane

      video :

      https://www.europarl.europa.eu/streaming/?event=20220705-1930-SPECIAL-OTHER&rampActive=true

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      Identity and Democracy Group Conference POST VAC FLIGHT RISKS Are you safe on board a plane

      What in Gods name have they done with this its its its actually unbelievable, what i am going to say next I will say this to each and every elected representatives of the people in every western democracy.

      I am asking you, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE. You didn’t do your job. Do not tell me you didn’t know. Because anyone could have known and if you had bothered enough to care about the people if you had bothered enough to do your job you should have known, and moreover it is your DAMMED job to know.

      it is your job to protect the people you were elected by and that your job to represent, once again i’m asking WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.

      Ladies and Gentlemen there is so much coming to light all of the adverse side effects there is numerous studies now available on er, er, foetal disfigurements er er er genetic defects, babies born to women who got vaccinated.

      What in the hell is going on here? I do not know who is the beneficiary here, well i do know its the pharmaceutical companies of course but once again We as the elected representatives we need to do our jobs, i am really glad that there are Mep’s here today and er all i can say is we will do whatever it takes to bring all of this to light and to er make sure that the rights of the people will be protected. once again thankyou. (applause). Christine Anderson MEP Germany

  10. It’s another case of Democrats being Democrats.

    All 25 Ohio Republican State Senators were sent feces in the mail this week.

    Authorities assume the feces is human.

    The envelopes were intercepted before they reached the 25 GOP lawmakers.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/democrats-democrats-authorities-investigating-feces-sent-mail-25-ohio-gop-state-senators/

    Richard: This action as well as the public harassing of the Conservative Supreme Court Justices are the opening moves in the lefts attempt to turn the US into a one party dictatorship.

    The left is following the Nazi’s actions when they took over Germany. When their current actions don’t achieve their goal their next move will be to increase the violence.

  12. INCREDIBLE VIDEO of January 6th Political Prisoner From Inside Prison — Jake Lang From Documentary “The Truth About January 6th” Seen For First Time Since Detainment by Regime 17 Months Ago!
    By Cara Castronuova
    Published July 9, 2022 at 8:00am
    124 Comments
    an incredibly rare clip showing a January 6th political prisoner from inside jail, Jake Lang spoke via video about January 6th and his experience in solitary confident for the past 17 months.

    See Jane Lang for the first time in 17 months here:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/incredible-video-january-6th-political-prisoner-inside-prison-jake-lang-documentary-truth-january-6th-seen-first-time-since-detainment-regime-17-months-ago/

  13. YThe Biden Administration Hid A $177 Million No-Bid Contract To House Immigrants Violating Federal Regulation To Downplay Border Crisis
    By Michael Robison
    Published July 9, 2022 at 7:45am
    Comment

    According to a new report from the Washington Examiner, the Biden administration paid a for-profit company $177 million to begin housing more than 1,000 migrant children in a vacant Hebrew school in North Carolina, closing the deal without a public bidding process required by law.

    The Washington Examiner obtained government contract documents that show the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to house the children at a vacant Hebrew school, which The Gateway Pundit previously reported.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/biden-administration-hid-177-million-no-bid-contract-house-immigrants-violating-federal-regulation-downplay-border-crisis/

  16. Guitarist and Vocalist, Jeff Diamond has been preforming for four decades. He is his mother’s caregiver, so he decided to get the vaccine last year. On July 9, 2021, he got the J & J clot shot. Days later he was found in his apartment in a Coma. When he woke up 3 weeks later, Doctors informed they had to amputate 8 of his fingers and he had damage to his vocal cords because of blood clots.

    His kidneys had shut down, he had to wear a diaper and he had a feeding tube. Six weeks later he was moved to a nursing home for recovery.

    None of the doctors would say his trouble was from the vaccine. His lawyer filed a report of his injuries. He is speaking out about what happened to him, hoping it will not happen to others. He wants those responsible for this crime to be held accountable.

  17. sky news australia -British forces to begin training Ukrainian army recruits

    The British army has begun training close to 10,000 Ukrainian recruits into frontline soldiers at various locations across England.

    The troops are arriving from Ukraine daily to join a training program offered by British soldiers.

    + comments on the YT page

  18. sky news australia – Troops prepared for ‘massive attack’ on Norway-Russia border

    There are concerns in Norway about the risks of a “massive attack” from Russia, says FFI Research Director Espen Skjelland.

    Analysts suggest Finnmark would be in Moscow’s sights if Russia went to war with any NATO member.

    Mr Skjelland said there are strategic bases in the Kola Peninsula, just across the Norwegian border.

    “For Russia, they need to protect their bases, what we call the Bastion, so they have the Bastion defence so we think it may strengthen their defence, under certain circumstances, to attack north Norway,” Mr Skjelland said.

    “We have been very concerned about the risks for a massive attack from Russia.”

    + comments on the YT page

  19. YTrump in 2024? Bet on It!
    After another two years of the current disaster, people will be begging for someone to get things back to normal, and that someone will be Donald Trump.
    By Ned Ryun

    July 8, 2022
    We’re going to get a massive red wave this fall. The 2021 results in Virginia, out of control inflation, Joe Biden’s dismal approval ratings in recent polls (for perspective, Obama’s approval rating was 44.7 percent in October 2010, just before the midterm mauling Democrats got that year), soaring gas prices, and a porous southern border indicate that even places Biden won by 20 points in 2020 are in play this fall.

    Perhaps that sounds crazy at first, but it shouldn’t. Democrats are already spending millions to defend incumbent senators in states like Washington and Colorado—states Biden won by 19 and 14 points, respectively. Why? Because they’re seeing the same

    https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/08/trump-in-2024-bet-on-it/

  20. 92: Russia, China & Communism w/Jeff R Nyquist
    The Amber and Joe Show – July 5, 2022

  21. Republican Voters Want ‘Blood’—Will Their Leaders Deliver?
    After the much-hyped John Durham probe ends with a whimper and House Democrats ratchet up their public pursuit of Trump associates, the Republican base wants action, not more sternly worded letters.
    By Julie Kelly

    July 8, 2022
    The U.S. Department of Justice will soon decide whether to close down the investigation into the origins of Russiagate, a lie fabricated by Barack Obama’s FBI, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, and the Democratic National Committee among other bad actors seeking to ruin Donald Trump. U.S. Attorney John Durham, named special counsel by former Attorney General William Barr in October 2020 after more than 18 months of dawdling, has uncovered a damning trail of evidence to show “collusion” existed not between Trump and the Kremlin but between

    https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/08/republican-voters-want-blood-will-their-leaders-deliver/

    Richard: She is right, we want blood because we understand that if the Dems who are trying to seize control aren’t punished they will continue their attack on the ideas of freedom, rule of law and individual rights. In many ways the US is in greater danger then it was during the Civil War of the 1860s. We need a leader who will fight and energize others to fight. If we don’t get a fighter in 2024 we will end up with no way to restore our rights except a kinetic Civil War.

    I fear that no matter who we get the left will resort to the terror tactics of the left in the Third World.

    Buckle up it’s going to be a very bumpy ride over the coming years.

  22. Houston Man Charged For Making Terroristic Threat Against Senator Ted Cruz in Cryptic Phone Call is Now at Large After Being Released on Bond
    By Cristina Laila
    Published July 9, 2022 at 1:30pm
    149 Comments

    A Houston man who was charged for making a terrorist threat against GOP Senator Ted Cruz in a cryptic phone call is still at large.

    22-year-old Isaac A. Nformangum of Richmond, Texas called Ted Cruz’s office on June 26 and left a threatening voicemail

    Nformangum was angry about Cruz’s plans to ‘repeal’ the voting rights act (more lies from the media) and said every single Republican who supported his plan deserves to be found and killed.

    “Every last one of your republican colleagues to have signed off on that platform is to be found, and is to be found and killed, be it by a bullet to the face or by the smashing of a brick in your skull,” he said in a voicemail

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/houston-man-charged-making-terroristic-threat-senator-ted-cruz-cryptic-phone-call-now-large-released-bond/

  23. YHouston man who was charged for making a terrorist threat against GOP Senator Ted Cruz in a cryptic phone call is still at large.

    22-year-old Isaac A. Nformangum of Richmond, Texas called Ted Cruz’s office on June 26 and left a threatening voicemail.

    Nformangum was angry about Cruz’s plans to ‘repeal’ the voting rights act (more lies from the media) and said every single Republican who supported his plan deserves to be found and killed.

    “Every last one of your republican colleagues to have signed off on that platform is to be found, and is to be found and killed, be it by a bullet to the face or by the smashing of a brick in your skull,” he said in a voicemail.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/houston-man-charged-making-terroristic-threat-senator-ted-cruz-cryptic-phone-call-now-large-released-bond/

  24. Five Indicted For Scheme To Silence Critics Of China In United States – Two Of Them Worked For DHS
    By ProTrumpNews Staff
    Published July 9, 2022 at 11:10am
    130 Comments

    YyThe Department of Justice announced that a grand jury returned an indictment on five individuals who were involved in a scheme to silence critics of China in the United States.

    Two of the five indicted worked for the Department of Homeland Security at one time.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/five-people-indicted-scheme-silence-critics-china-united-states-two-worked-dhs/

  25. For Left-Wing Lawmakers, Only ‘Choice’ Permitted Is Abortion

    Are pro-choice” policymakers really interested in women having choices? A new bill from Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., shows they aren’t.

    Their target? Life-affirming, community-based pregnancy resource centers.

    Why target them? The abortion industry and its allies in Congress accuse pregnancy resource centers of being “fake clinics” that “deceive” pregnant women with disinformation and anti-abortion propaganda.

    The proposed bill instructs the Federal Trade Commission to issue regulations prohibiting “deceptive or misleading” advertising about abortion services and to assess penalties (up to $100,000 or 50% of a pregnancy center’s annual revenue) for violations.

    https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/07/08/for-left-wing-lawmakers-only-choice-permitted-is-abortion/

  26. NEWS
    Army Suspends Retired Three-Star General, Launches Investigation For Tweet Mocking Jill Biden’s Abortion Post
    “Glad to see you finally know what a woman is”

    The U.S. Army has indefinitely suspended a retired three-star general from a consulting position, pending the results of an investigation into a tweet mocking an abortion post from First Lady Jill Biden.

    USA TODAY confirmed that retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky, who was “advising senior military officers, staff and students participating in war games and other military activities,” has been suspended without pay from his $92 an hour contract over a reply tweet to FLOTUS.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/army-suspends-retired-three-star-general-launches-investigation-for-tweet-mocking-jill-bidens-abortion-post

  27. Group offers up to $250 for SCOTUS justices sightings after Kavanaugh protest

    ShutDownDC, a liberal advocacy group in Washington, D.C., said on Friday that it will offer up to $250 to service industry workers in the district for every sighting of the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade.

    Driving the news: This comes just days after Justice Brett Kavanaugh was forced to exit a restaurant in D.C. after abortion rights protesters showed up outside the premises.

    https://www.axios.com/2022/07/09/shutdowndc-supreme-court-abortion-roe-protest

  29. Tomorrow’s Democrat Party Leader: Young Demon Screams “We Love Killing Babies” at Pro-Abortion Rally in Front of White House
    By Jim Hoft
    Published July 9, 2022 at 5:25pm
    205 Comments

    Democrat Party faithful held a march and rally in Washington DC on Saturday in support of unrestricted abortions at any stage of a pregnancy.

    The left is furious that the US Supreme Court nullified Roe v Wade and now states get the right to decide their laws on the gruesome procedure adored by the left

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/tomorrows-democrat-party-leader-young-demon-screaming-love-killing-babies-pro-abortion-rally-front-white-house/

  31. REBEL NEWS – Locals in Dutch city of Drachten fear food insecurity caused by government nitrogen targets

  32. Blockade at German Dutch border by farmers and sympathizers A37 Zwartemeer

  34. MUST WATCH: Dr. Peter McCullough Discusses New Study That Shows Pfizer’s Covid mRNA Vaccines Can MODIFY DNA in the Human Genome (VIDEO)
    By Julian Conradson
    Published July 9, 2022 at 8:12pm
    248 Comments

    Researchers in Sweden recently published a new alarming study showing that Pfizer’s experimental mRNA Covid vaccine can modify DNA within the human genome.

    The study, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine (MDPI), found that the SARS-CoV-2 RNA within the Pfizer vaccine can reverse-transcribe itself and install itself within the DNA of the human genome within a matter of just six hours following exposure to the vaccine.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/must-watch-dr-peter-mccullough-discusses-new-study-shows-pfizers-covid-mrna-vaccines-can-modify-dna-human-genome-video/