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A dead scientist, quarantines, and a plague lab: Here we go again?
A researcher at a Russian plague laboratory is dead, dozens of people have reportedly been quarantined, and several hospitals have been shut down.
Naturally, people are starting to ask questions.
And BlazeTV hosts Stu Burguiere and Dave Landau are a little concerned.
“Dozens have been quarantined after a researcher at a Russian plague laboratory dies of an unknown infection,” Stu says. “I will say, I don’t really want there to be Russian plague factories or observatories anymore.”
“No,” Dave agrees, “but what will be exciting is when we find out that our tax dollars have somehow been funding it.”
However, while dozens have been quarantined, Stu believes “it’s important to note, quarantine does not mean you have the virus or disease.”
“Being quarantined means they’re worried that you had contact with someone or contact with someone who had contact with this particular woman,” he says.
“So, it doesn’t mean all these people have the illness. However, it’s the freaking plague. So, we better be pretty careful,” he adds.
Meanwhile, Russia is saying it “had nothing to do with that.”
“It was just a normal illness. It’s no big deal. This is all out of a massive precaution,” Stu says, mimicking Russia. “Which may be true, but they did close down four different hospitals, three of which they have direct evidence of a contact tracing to those hospitals. The fourth one just kind of being out of extra, extra special security measures.”
The outbreak bears a striking resemblance to the Wuhan lab leak preceding the COVID pandemic, which Dave points out is “kind of terrifying.”
“Especially because this is, you know, a replay of things that have happened in the past,” he adds.
“You mean conspiracy theories about COVID-19?” Stu asks.
“Conspiracy theories about things that were proven correct. That’s what I mean,” Dave says.
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Gavin Newsom finally ADMITS the pandemic shutdown was 'insane' while fly-fishing with Jake Tapper
Years after defending California's response to the coronavirus pandemic, Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom listed some of the mistakes made.
Newsom made the admissions in a bizarre interview with Jake Tapper of CNN where both appeared to be trying to fly-fish in a river in Montana.
'I regret that, obviously.'
Tapper asserted that there needed to be a commission to understand the pandemic and what responses worked and which did not work.
"Yeah, look, everyone's a genius in hindsight, so, you know, coulda woulda," Newsom responded.
"What would you do differently?" Tapper asked.
"I had a whole chapter just about Purell. We were running around doing price-gouging legislation against Purell, and everyone was thinking it was a Purell-based crisis," referring to his book.
"People were scrubbing their groceries," Tapper recalled.
"Yeah! I mean, [Republican Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis was closing down his beaches before we closed ours. The idea that we closed beaches was insane. In hindsight," Newsom replied.
"Obviously the schools taking too long," he added. "A lot of districts were open, but the big ones weren't. L.A. refused. And I regret that, obviously."
Tapper noted that teachers said that reopening schools too soon would kill them. Then he pressed Newsom on the scandal when he was caught attending a dinner at a ritzy restaurant with little to no pandemic protections.
"What on earth were you thinking?" Tapper asked.
"Just a boneheaded decision, a stupid decision, I just ... dialing it in, we were exhausted, friend's birthday, it was a restaurant that was open the night before.
"And it was just against the spirit of the rules that I was promoting," he added.
"It was completely legit condemnation."
He said he had a mask when he walked in and when he walked out of the restaurant.
BlazeTV host Steve Deace lambasted the governor in comments to Blaze News.
"I don't think there's anything sincere about Gavin Newsom whatsoever except his political ambitions," said Deace. "So I suspect this is only being said as a means by which to triangulate as the Democrat nominee in 2028, when he'd likely be running against someone seen as an extension of Trump, who was president at the advent of the scamdemic."
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Newsom has admitted that he's looking at a possible campaign for the Democratic nomination for president in 2028.
The entire video of the fly-fishing interview can be viewed on CNN's YouTube channel.
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SCOTUS Asked To Inject Dose Of Clarity Into Vaccine Mandate Jurisprudence
'Everybody should want to control their own medical decisions when it doesn't affect anyone else. The court should clarify that is the law as it now stands.'COVID-era FDA chief sounded internal alarm over calling mRNA shots 'safe and effective'
The claim that the synthetic mRNA-based COVID-19 genetic therapies were "safe and effective" was repeated ad nauseam not only by former President Joe Biden during the pandemic but by health officials in his administration — including former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, former National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky.
It may then come as a surprise that not all high-ranking federal health officials were keen on this particular characterization.
'Science doesn't tell you what your actions should be.'
When reached for comment about a new tranche of recently released emails of Anthony Fauci, former Biden administration acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock told Blaze News that she protested the "safe and effective" description.
But first let's rewind. On Sunday, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) published a May 27, 2021, email sent by Dr. Woodcock to Fauci and then-National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins regarding the perceived need to set aside scientific research funds to later investigate COVID-19 vaccine side effects.
"I have been contacted by a number of people who have experienced adverse events post COVID-19 vaccination (from all three of the current vaccines)," wrote Woodcock. "Many are healthcare professionals, some of whom I know. The symptoms do not fit together into a distinctive syndrome and most are not easily quantifiable or evaluated with standard laboratory testing."
Woodcock, who became acting FDA commissioner in January 2021 as the vaccines were being pushed on the nation, was sympathetic to the concerns of some apparent vaccine casualties that "no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them" and that there had been "no effort to study this."
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"I think it would be worthwhile to do a study and evaluate a cohort of these individuals," said Woodcock. "But of course $ need to be made available, and you would need an investigator who is interested in 'medical mysteries.' I doubt the industry would support, for obvious reasons."
Woodcock provided Blaze News with insights into her proposal.
"I was thinking, 'Could we find some kind of treatment to offer these folks?' But first, you have to understand what's going on, right? You can't just sort of go out and treat people," Woodcock told Blaze News. "So that was my objective in this. ... I don't think it's probably different than any other immune challenge, and I wouldn't want anyone to think that I felt the vaccine was dangerous or should not be used or anything. By no means. It was simply that if people were having this reaction, we could find a way to study it."
When pressed — in light of her concerns at the time — about the "safe and effective" description, Woodcock responded, "Well, look. I always told our press office, 'Don't call it safe and effective, because no medical intervention is 100% safe.' Even water. You could kill yourself by drinking too much water, literally."
The FDA noted in recent years that it was "confident in the safety and effectiveness" of the COVID-19 vaccines. While apparently hesitant herself to use that phrasing, Woodcock stated in 2021 that "the public can be very confident that this vaccine meets the high standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality the FDA requires of an approved product."
Woodcock offered Blaze News what she regards as a better pitch for the vaccine: "What it is is the benefits far outweigh the risks, and that's the standard for all drugs that are approved, all medicines that are approved, because none of them are free of side effects, which is the kind of ordinary, you know, meaning of the term 'safe.'"
While the former acting commissioner noted that many health experts suggested during the pandemic that the "benefits way outweigh the potential harms" of the vaccines, people nevertheless "do use the term 'safe and effective' a lot, which is a statutory term."
Woodcock emphasized that any intervention "that you do has to be pretty safe, right? But that doesn't mean it's totally without adverse events."
Adverse events were in some cases deadly.
The FDA admitted in an internal letter last year that FDA Office of Biostatistics and Pharmacovigilance career staff had "found that at least 10 children have died after and because of receiving COVID-19 vaccination."
Dr. Vinay Prasad, the former chief medical officer at the FDA and director at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in the letter that the OBPV performed an analysis of 96 deaths between 2021 and 2024 and concluded "that no fewer than 10 are related. If anything, this represents conservative coding, where vaccines are exculpated rather than indicated in cases of ambiguity. The real number is higher."
On the matter of takeaways from the handling of the pandemic, Woodcock told Blaze News that while the "development of the vaccines was a scientific triumph," "science doesn't tell you what to do. Scientists often forget that."
"Science just tells you the facts," she continued. "What do to do — especially about society, right — is a value judgement that should take into account the facts, but science doesn't tell you what your actions should be."
HHS and the FDA did not immediately respond to Blaze News' requests for comment.
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Fauci never accurately and honestly communicated that at the time of his public statements on the vaccines' safety there were not studies to support his public declarations about safety. In fact, he privately had concerns about their safety. But he never voiced those.EXPOSED: Bill Maher calls out Fauci for trying to rewrite COVID history
Fauci thought we would forget; now he’s desperately trying to rewrite history.
The infectious disease “expert” has shifted his story on gain-of-function research and the lab leak theory — but longtime Democrat Bill Maher isn’t letting him off the hook.
“He was caught in actual lies,” Maher said. “He was telling people — and the big issue to me is the origin of this, which is very important. How did it start? And he was telling people up front when it first began, ‘It was from the wet markets. That’s a conspiracy theory if you say it escaped from the lab.’”
Maher pointed out that the release of Fauci’s diary by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has proven that he “knew better,” and he blames not only Fauci but the extremely partisan split on how to handle the pandemic.
“If we weren’t so partisan, we could just say gain-of-function research,” he said. “Obama told him not to do it. I would always have said don’t do it. But it’s a viable debate. It’s a reasonable debate. Should we soup up something that’s bad, this bacteria, to study it?”
“We could have had that debate in a rational way,” he continued. “We didn’t want to do that because why? Because we make everything about race.”
Maher recalled that during the pandemic, no one was allowed to say it “escaped from the lab because that was the racist point of view” and would mean “the entire Asian continent would have been somehow complicit in this because it escaped.”
“It was ridiculous, but that is where they went,” he added.
“Welcome to reality. Seriously, welcome to some common sense,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”
“He’s starting to see the Democrat Party for what it is,” he adds.
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Dana Bash’s Fauci fan-girl texts exposed after RFK Jr. torches her on CNN: ‘It was just beautiful’
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. turned the tables on his interviewer when she spoke over him and repeated empty COVID-era platitudes.
“It was just beautiful,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says.
“She brought on RFK to try and lecture him about measles and blame him for the measles outbreak in America. But the conversation quickly turned to the handling of the COVID pandemic and how much she helped contribute to the misinformation during that time,” she adds.
In the interview, Bash began by asking how RFK Jr. would prepare for the next pandemic, claiming that experts think it will happen in the next 10 years.
“Yeah, I mean, I think we did virtually everything wrong the last time,” RFK Jr. responded, pointing out that there were doctors who saw no COVID deaths by prescribing therapeutics. Instead, the country locked down and pushed a vaccine on the population.
RFK Jr. went on to say it's also important that we protect our constitutional rights, which were “completely dismantled” during COVID.
“We began censoring people in violation,” he said.
After interrupting him several times, Bash said, “I really want to move on.”
“You were part of the problem,” RFK Jr. said.
Bash then claimed that there is “data upon data upon data” that the “COVID vaccine prevented deaths,” but she could not produce a study that proved that the vaccine did more good than harm to children.
“I can tell you that when it comes to the vaccine, there have been studies that show that because of vaccine disinformation, there could have been 100 to 200,000 lives in the U.S. saved but because people didn’t get the vaccine,” Bash said, before RFK Jr. interrupted.
“You are saying nonsense,” RFK Jr. responded.
When Bash claimed that it was a “scary time” and mistakes were made, RFK Jr. fired back that she was scaring people.
“That was the job of CNN,” he said.
“Recall that she was trying to suck up to Anthony Fauci during the pandemic. Now, how do we know this? Well, his homosexual diary entries, of course,” Gonzales explains.
And sure enough, one diary entry from April 17, 2021, reads: “Dana Bash sent me a text: ‘I just watched the whole Jordan thing. Again, you’re a better man than I. As our friend Wolf Blitzer said to me yesterday — no one would have blamed you if you said simply, ‘Mr. Jordan, go f**k yourself.’”
Another from April 18, 2021, reads: “I received a text from Dana Bash pointing out that Vanity Fair recently had a headline that said: 'Jim Jordan trips over his own asshole trying to debate Anthony Fauci.'”
“Like, oh, OK. Yeah. No, you didn’t have any bias, Dana,” Gonzales mocks, repeating, “You didn’t have any bias.”
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