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Four Years on, COVID Damage Remains While Fauci & Co. Pay No Price
We just passed the fourth anniversary of “15 Days to Slow the Spread,” the start of the COVID lockdowns that did damage from which we still haven’t recovered.
I’m embarrassed to admit I fell for it. I was a COVID hawk in the early days. It seemed right at the time. Sure, Anthony Fauci, Nancy Pelosi and Bill de Blasio were telling us not to worry, to take cruises and go visit Chinatown, but I lacked confidence in them. (Hey, I was right about that.) They reversed course like a week later.
It turned out, of course, that COVID’s mortality rate was significantly less than one-tenth of those early reports, and those deaths were mostly concentrated among the obese, the elderly and those with heart failure and diabetes. (And the deaths often resulted from too-aggressive use of ventilators, which are themselves quite dangerous.)
Neither the lockdowns nor the masking requirements did any good, though they caused a lot of trauma, inconvenience and colossal economic destruction.
Louisiana House Committee OKs Bill to Expand Liability for COVID Vaccine Mandates
Louisiana Illuminator reported:
The Louisiana House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure advanced a bill Monday that would allow businesses and public entities that require the COVID-19 vaccine to be sued.
House Bill 87, by Rep. Mike Echols, R-Monroe, would allow those required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to attend school or work to sue if they are injured as a result of the vaccination.
The language in Echols’s bill is extremely broad and could be used to seek financial remedy for a variety of harms. Echols said this was by design, as he hoped the bill would discourage vaccine mandates.
In presenting his bill, Echols made multiple references to the “tyrannical government” during the COVID-19 pandemic. “For the last three years, there has been no consequence for people to jam government down our throats,” Echols said.
Powerful New AI Can Predict People’s Attitudes to Vaccines
University of Cincinnati reported:
A powerful new tool in artificial intelligence is able to predict whether someone is willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The predictive system uses a small set of data from demographics and personal judgments such as aversion to risk or loss.
The findings frame a new technology that could have broad applications for predicting mental health and result in more effective public health campaigns.
A team led by researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Northwestern University created a predictive model using an integrated system of mathematical equations describing the lawful patterns in reward and aversion judgment with machine learning.
“COVID-19 is unlikely to be the last pandemic we see in the next decades,” said lead author Nicole Vike, a senior research associate in UC’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. “Having a new form of AI for prediction in public health provides a valuable tool that could help prepare hospitals for predicting vaccination rates and consequential infection rates.”
The study was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research Public Health and Surveillance.
EU Passes the AI Act — a Law Accused of Legalizing Biometric Mass Surveillance in Europe
The European Parliament (EP) has passed the AI Act, a piece of legislation that started to be drafted back in 2021 as a way to prevent mass surveillance based on biometrics — but has now in fact promoted this practice into law.
And it’s a law that will enter into force this May after receiving a “blessing” from the Council of the EU, to then be implemented starting in 2025.
The EU for its part announced the adoption of the AI Act as a “landmark” event, and touts it as providing safeguards regarding AI’s “general purpose,” as well as “limiting the use of identification systems by law enforcement.”
However, members of the EP (MEPs) from the Pirate parties could not disagree more and have voted against it.
They assert that the drafting of the AI Act was accompanied by trilogue negotiations (between the EP, the European Commission, and the Council of the EU) that were not transparent enough, and resulted in changes to the original idea that now “effectively allows law enforcement the introduction of error-prone facial surveillance and facial recognition camera software in public spaces,” as MEP Patrick Breyer stated on his blog.
Technocracy Is Constructing AI-Powered Control Grid to End Freedom
Leo Hohmann explores censorship, banking, and AI, but it is much bigger than that. Technocracy seeks to take over the entire planet. The late Rosa Koire saw it as “the blueprint, the comprehensive plan of action for the 21st century to inventory and control all land, all water, all plants, all minerals, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all law enforcement, all health care, all food, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world.”
I have clearly detailed every aspect of Technocracy and the Technocrat mind behind it. Why can’t people see this clear present danger? It is because of conditioning to look elsewhere and massive censorship of the truth. The result will see civilization cratering off the cliff like a herd of lemmings.
For more than five years now, journalists and citizen journalists alike have seen Big Tech censor and bury their work behind unfavorable algorithms. Some have even been banned or suspended from social media platforms.
But now the globalists are taking their war against the truth to a new level. They are going for the kill shots by having journalists and citizen truthtellers actually arrested and removed from society altogether.
New COVID-Like Outbreak ‘Matter of When, Not if,’ WHO Director Warns as Scientists Race to Prepare Using Artificial Intelligence
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus is sounding the alarm, warning that “the world is not prepared for a pandemic.” His argument that it’s a “matter of when not if” a new pandemic will strike sounds similar to billionaire Bill Gates’s recent public concerns that “we’re making the same mistakes again” by failing to adequately prepare.
No one can be sure what exactly the next pandemic will be caused by. “It may be caused by an influenza virus or a new coronavirus or a new pathogen we don’t even know about yet — what we call Disease X,” Ghebreyesus said.
While multiple companies were able to roll out vaccines at record speed during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are using breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) to further speed up future vaccine developments against Disease X.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations is providing up to $4.98 million to the Houston Methodist Research Institute to use AI to do just that. They aim to use AI to analyze the structures of potential viruses that may be the eventual Disease X and then identify specific parts of their proteins that cause an immune response. For now, their efforts focus on viruses such as Nipah and Lassa, but regardless, their goal is to get the time to develop a vaccine against a pandemic down to just 100 days.
Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Oral Arguments Over Social Media Censorship
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared deeply skeptical of arguments by two conservative states that the First Amendment bars the government from pressuring social media platforms to remove online misinformation.
In more than 90 minutes of oral arguments that occasionally veered into the justices’ personal frustrations with the press, several conservative justices sided with the liberal wing in appearing to doubt claims by two states that the Biden administration violated the Constitution with the practice.
Louisiana and Missouri accused the Biden administration of a sweeping censorship campaign conducted through emails and other communications with social media platforms.
In the communications, government officials routinely used expletives and other strong language to flag posts related to COVID-19 and the 2020 election that they believed violated the platforms’ terms and demanded the posts be removed. In some cases, platforms complied with the takedown requests. Others were ignored.
North Carolina Labor Chief Rejects Infectious Disease Rule Petitions for Workplaces
North Carolina’s elected labor commissioner has declined to adopt rules sought by worker and civil rights groups that would have set safety and masking directives in workplaces for future infectious disease outbreaks like COVID-19.
Commissioner Josh Dobson, a Republican, announced Wednesday that his refusal came “after carefully reviewing the rulemaking petitions, the record, public comments, listening to both sides and considering the North Carolina Department of Labor’s statutory authority.”
The rules would have applied to any airborne infectious disease designated as presenting a public health emergency by the governor, General Assembly or other state or federal agencies. Rules would have required some North Carolina employers to create a written exposure control plan. Some exposure controls include requiring employees to maintain physical distance — following public health agency recommendations — or to wear a face mask if that was not possible.
Gensler’s Warning: Unchecked AI Could Spark Future Financial Meltdown
A growing dependence on artificial intelligence could pose a danger to the U.S. financial system, and regulators need to rethink their siloed approach to rulemaking to minimize the risk, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler said.
The SEC and other Washington regulators are grappling with the rise of powerful AI systems that can augment or replace human decision-making. But in the financial industry — where banks, brokers and investment firms oversee trillions of dollars — the potential for economic disaster is especially acute, Gensler said.
In an interview on the POLITICO Tech podcast, Gensler described a doomsday scenario in which many of the country’s big financial institutions rely on a small number of AI algorithms to make investment decisions — creating a vulnerability that regulators could miss by focusing on only a sliver of the sector.
