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The end of the pandemic will not be televised Dashboards of pandemic statistics have dominated screens and helped to track covid-19, but  David Robertson  and  Peter Doshi  explain why they might not be enough to define its end As the year 2021 started, the covid-19 pandemic seemed to be receding. Discussions and predictions about “opening up,” a return to “normal,” and achieving herd immunity were in the air. 1 2 3 4  But for many, optimism receded as cases and deaths surged in India, Brazil, and elsewhere. Attention turned to SARS-CoV-2 virus variants—most recently, the emergence of omicron. Just as the end seemed to be on the horizon, it was interrupted by a foreboding that the pandemic could be a long way from over. 5 6 Unlike any previous pandemic, covid-19 has been closely tracked through dashboards that aim to show the real time movement and effect of coronavirus; they track laboratory testing metrics, hospital and intensive care admissions, transmission ...

FDA’s forced hand drops Pfizer’s Bombshell Safety Document SoniaElijah By Sonia Elijah The highly confidential Pfizer documents, which have been synonymous with the extreme lack of transparency revealed by the actions of pivotal governmental agencies, over the past 20 months, lead critics of the official narrative to demand “show us the data,” is finally being revealed–well sort of, the first few hundred redacted pages out of a trove of 451,000 . What led to the disclosure? The crack in Pfizer and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) iron dome-style data safeguarding, arrived in the form of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) release with the request filed on August 27, 2021, to access all the Pfizer documentation that the FDA had relied on to authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use authorization. An agency that has received a FOIA request is required to ‘ determine within 20 business days after the receipt of any such request whether to comply with such requ...

The American Third World: We’ll Soon Be Living in It 21 comments December 16, 2021 Featured Posts     Opinion by Fabian Ommar Author of  Street Survivalism: A Practical Training Guide To Life In The City It’s that time of the year, and instead of following tradition and making new predictions and forecasts (which we preppers do all the time anyways), I usually look back into the recent past, review my (and other’s) work and previous analyses, what transpired (or not), where my perspectives need adjustment and where, and so forth. I decided to review and expand on a few topics addressed previously here and see where we are on those. In April, I wrote about the  thirdworldization  of the United States, as both it, and the rest of the First World is gradually shifting towards the Third World. It’s not only happening, but accelerating. And the entire world is going that way, too – or soon it will, judging by the signs. These things have a delay and don’t happen...