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President Joe Biden just announced a plan to buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus shot to distribute around the world “with no strings attached,” simply “to save lives” and “to end this pandemic,” he said.
Isn’t that special. But when Joe Biden gives, it’s not from his own pockets. It’s from yours. Mine. All of ours. All of America’s taxpayers’, in fact.
“We’re a nation full of people who step up at times of need to help our fellow human beings, both at home and abroad,” Biden said, in making his announcement. “We’re not perfect, but we step up.”
It’s easy to spend other people’s money, isn’t it?
Biden didn’t elaborate this point, but let’s be clear: When he talks about purchasing 500 million doses of coronavirus vaccine, he’s talking about using U.S. tax dollars to make the purchase. Another way to look at it: If Peter is the American taxpayer and Paul, the Third World, Joe Biden is trying to play Jesus. Or rather, a skewed version of Jesus, the one who pushes socialism as biblical.
“US ‘to buy 500 million Covid vaccine doses for world,” the BBC headline of Biden’s announcement read. --->READ MORE HERE
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Gain of Fear
In the last few weeks, we’ve all learned a new phrase from the eerie realm of virology: “gain of function research.” Abbreviated as GOFR, it’s defined as “any field of medical research that alters an organism or disease in a way that increases pathogenesis, transmissibility, or host range (the types of hosts that a microorganism can infect).”
So yeah, just to hear about it, gain of function research sounds dangerous. And yet many experts say that it is a good idea, because that’s how we learn about viruses and how to counter them. One expert who has made this argument is Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); he’s the man who has, of course, during the Covid-19 pandemic, become a household name.
Fauci hasn’t mentioned gain of function research much in the last year, let alone his association with it, and yet now we are learning more about him and his associations—and it’s all scary.
On May 28, Sharri Markson published a piece in The Australian, recalling a 2012 article by Fauci, in which he acknowledged the risks of gain of function research and yet argued in favor of going ahead anyway. As he wrote nearly a decade ago, “In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” And yet, he continued, “the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.” --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to related stories and resources::
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