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Six Covid facts we’re in danger of forgetting This article has been produced by  PANDA   a politically economic and independent organisation which stands for open science and rational debate. It aims to unravel the events that led us into deleterious lockdowns. WHILE citizens focus on the latest Covid issue to which the Government directs their attention, many have lost sight of the big picture and grown accustomed to severe limitations on their rights, like the proverbial frogs in hot water. As a number of countries now seek to concentrate the discussion on further coercive measures and even mandatory vaccination, PANDA is increasingly aware of the elephants in the room, the topics no one is talking about. So let’s examine them …  THE INFECTION FATALITY RATE   According to the  World Health Organisation , the mean infection fatality rate (IFR) for Covid-19 is less than 0.2 per cent. This is the percentage of people infected who die. That data has now been flesh...

Clearing up misinformation about the spike protein and COVID vaccines Joomi Kim What is the spike protein? The spike protein is a type of protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that helps the virus infect cells. The COVID vaccines available in the U.S. work by getting the body to produce this protein (with some modifications) so that the body will generate neutralizing antibodies to it.  There is evidence that the spike protein by itself, even without the rest of the virus present, can cause harm to the body.  In Part I of this article I’ll summarize some of the evidence for this. This is not really controversial at this point. However, what is controversial is that some people have asked: if spike is dangerous, might we be endangering people by giving them vaccines that make the body produce spike? Fact-checking articles that try to shoo away this concern usually refer to the fact that the spike encoded by the vaccines are different from “wild-type” spike (spike from ...