If you lock down before the horse has left the barn, you get a good outcome/Seattle Times

From Ashish Jha’s right hand girl, associate dean of the Brown School of Public Health: “The Delta variant is clearly more transmissible, but somehow, six months after its identification, we still don’t know whether it’s inherently more dangerous, particularly for children. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is not consistently tracking the many so-called “breakthrough”…

The Washington Post team of Dana Priest and William Arkin have again pushed the envelope on what the mainstream media report on US government surveillance of citizens.  I expect that, as happened congruent to Priest and Arkin’s stories on “Top Secret America” published last July, the Post will build a site with a linked set…

From the BBC: More than 1,200 church leaders have urged PM Boris Johnson not to introduce Covid vaccine certificates, saying they are an “unethical form of coercion”. In an open letter, the leaders – who include Anglican and Catholic ministers – warn passports could create a “surveillance state”. The government says it is reviewing whether…

 According to the April 9, 2010 Frederick NewsPost: An Army lab at Fort Detrick said Tuesday it did not follow proper procedures last November when a researcher infected herself with the tularemia bacteria. The researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases was exposed to the bacteria between Nov. 13 and 17,…

merylnass:The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is CDC’s advisory committee that determines which groups should receive vaccinations merylnass:Dr. Chen acknowledged his conflict, being paid by Emergent Biosolutions, which makes the J and J vaccine for the US and the anthrax, smallpox, typhoid and cholera vaccines. It is a famously crooked company. The FDA stopped them…

From the Jerusalem Post From the AP Excerpts from today’s Ha’aretz: Dr. Reuven Porat, who chaired the medical committee, told Haaretz the panel had not been presented with any official documentation that shows the decision to develop, test and produce the vaccine had been authorized by the government. Similarly, there was no authorization presented from…