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That's always dangerous.” ― Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown]]></description><link>https://khmezek.substack.com/s/health-and-safety</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o4Cd!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30667643-145c-4df7-8f01-0750cc2c5480_528x528.png</url><title>Break Free Media: Health &amp; Safety</title><link>https://khmezek.substack.com/s/health-and-safety</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:29:43 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://khmezek.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Karen Alaine Hunt]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[khmezek@gmail.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[khmezek@gmail.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[khmezek@gmail.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[khmezek@gmail.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[2025: Derailing Trump with Bird Flu & the Resurrection of the mRNA Vaccine]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;In order to tame people into the desired pattern, victims must be brought to a point where they have lost their alert consciousness and mental awareness." ~Joost Meerloo]]></description><link>https://khmezek.substack.com/p/2025-derailing-trump-with-bird-flu</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://khmezek.substack.com/p/2025-derailing-trump-with-bird-flu</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 21:12:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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Karen, couldn&#8217;t you have picked a more positive topic for the last day of the year? </p><p>Maybe tomorrow. </p><p>We need to remind ourselves about mRNA vaccines and that pesky bird flu and a few of the crazy things that we&#8217;ve been subjected to so we can better face the crazy things to come.</p><h4>So, let&#8217;s start with Magical mRNA. </h4><p>&#8220;<em>You can basically do anything with synthetic RNA/DNA. It&#8217;s like a computer program&#8230;. You could probably stop aging, reverse it if you want. You could turn someone into a frigging butterfly if you want with the right sequence. I mean, caterpillars do it.</em>&#8221; ~ <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/trevsayers/status/1603186995744100352?t=6Gs8Q6CE27ojADvljCeoTA&amp;s=19">Elon Musk</a></strong></p><p>As we go through this short piece, remember Musk&#8217;s words and remind yourself that it isn&#8217;t just about disease or even money, our conditioned obsession with heath and curing it with drugs is the most critical method transhumanists have to convince he masses to allow themselves to be experimented on. </p><p>Just yesterday, <em><strong><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/bird-flu-update-cdc-red-flags-2007711">Newsweek warned:</a></strong></em></p><blockquote><p>The<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/bird-flu-outbreak-update-amid-first-human-case-los-angeles-2005500"> first severe human</a> <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/bird-flu">bird flu</a> case in the United States was reported in Louisiana earlier this month.</p><p>Genetic analysis found the virus had <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/cdc-update-bird-flu-mutations-humans-2006519">mutated, making it more easily transmissible to humans</a>, the CDC said.</p><p>The agency called the mutations "concerning' and "a reminder that A(H5N1) viruses can develop changes during the clinical course of a human infection."</p></blockquote><h4>For President Trump, this could be like Groundhog Day. Not only will he be expected to stop World War III; he might just need to save us from another pandemic. </h4><p>Only this time, half the population isn&#8217;t going to believe any of it. </p><ul><li><p>Will he order another &#8220;Operation Warp Speed?&#8221; </p></li><li><p>What if people really do start dying, not just the elderly, but young people. Children. Will he be blamed for how unprepared we are? </p></li><li><p>All those middle America folks who voted for Trump, all the farmers and laborers, how much will they suffer? </p></li><li><p>And if Trump starts deporting the illegals who work on the farms, will the farmers suddenly decide illegals aren&#8217;t so bad after all and turn against Trump? </p></li><li><p>Who will be willing to take the place of desperate illegal workers who work for low wages and are willing to put their health in danger?</p></li><li><p>Which experts will Trump choose to advise him? It won&#8217;t be Dr. Fauci. What will Robert Kennedy Jr recommend, will he suddenly start supporting vaccines? </p></li></ul><p>A second pandemic doesn&#8217;t bode well for a nation so divided, especially when it was the first pandemic that made us this way. A pandemic that our government says it still doesn&#8217;t know where it came from.  </p><h4>&#8220;The Pandemic clock is ticking.&#8221;</h4><p>So <strong><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/27/health/cdc-bird-flu-virus-mutations-analysis/index.html">says</a></strong> Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, urging officials to examine what they learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and use it to prepare for the next pandemic. That should set off all sorts of alarm bells. </p><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2024/12/29/how-america-lost-control-bird-flu/">The Salt Lake Tribune </a></strong></em></p><blockquote><p>&#8220;We are in a terrible situation and going into a worse situation,&#8221; said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.&#8221;</p><p>Far more bird flu damage is inevitable, but the extent of it will be left to the Trump administration and Mother Nature. </p><p>And the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/m1218-h5n1-flu.html">recent news</a> of a person critically ill in Louisiana with the bird flu shows that the virus can be dangerous.</p><p>&#8220;Apparently, the conjunctivitis that this is causing is not a mild one, but rather ruptured blood vessels and bleeding conjunctiva,&#8221; wrote Sean Roberts, an emergency services specialist at the Tulare County, California health department in an email to colleagues in May</p><p>Over the past 30 years, half of around 900 people diagnosed with bird flu around the world have died. </p></blockquote><h4><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehignett/2024/12/03/what-is-bird-flu-governments-buy-shots-as-risk-to-humans-grows/">Get ready for bird flu vaccines</a><strong>:</strong></h4><blockquote><p>Governments around the world are stocking up on vaccines as bird flu cases continue to rise in animals and people.</p><p>The U.K. on Tuesday said it had ordered more than five million shots &#8220;to boost the country&#8217;s resilience&#8221; in case of a pandemic.</p><p>The U.S., which has recorded <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html">57 human cases</a> across seven states since April, has announced it will <a href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/10/04/emergency-bird-flu-vaccines-stockpile-h5n1-infection/75511111007/">double its stockpile of bird flu (H5) vaccines</a> to 10 million by spring.</p></blockquote><h4>Half the country believes masks, lockdowns and vaccines worked and half believe it didn&#8217;t. Which stance will become the government&#8217;s policy?</h4><p><strong><a href="https://iea.org.uk/publications/did-lockdowns-work-the-verdict-on-covid-restrictions/">According to the Institute of Economic Affairs</a></strong>: </p><blockquote><p>COVID-19 lockdowns were &#8220;a global policy failure of gigantic proportions.&#8221; The draconian policy failed to significantly reduce deaths while imposing substantial social, cultural, and economic costs.</p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8228489/">While the National Library of Medicine says</a></strong>: </p><blockquote><p>Non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs), such as social distancing, lockdown and the use of masks, have been one of the most effective measures worldwide to reduce the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 during the 2020 pandemic.</p></blockquote><p>Could lockdowns, testing, masking and mandatory vaccines really happen all over again? Will people actually comply? Yes, if they are scared enough, they will. </p><p>And, once again, who would benefit? The tech billionaires and Big Pharma, of course. Now that Covid has faded into the background, companies like Pfizer are suffering and CEOs like Bourla are under pressure from shareholders to find a new disease to refill the dwindling coffers.</p><p>There is something horribly wrong with a nation where power is maintained by keeping the populace diseased instead of healthy. </p><p>The global <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=HsMm0imCtsi2YJ-FZ7MhI5cGEIMpM9rPqdTGSJ6cm_Hfu-3_m6qXIrI_Njzu0oIOvtNqDeYvORz7gQQA8VtVy2sbzaKXL0ixPeHfKY2EzApgcDUbEduRJiOZqMpuHFdtR9g3QCfzN7pjhAGopHBSYA==">animal vaccine market</a> is approximated at $ 15.62 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $ 37.42 billion by 2034. How about humans? Bird Flu just might tide these companies over until cancer vaccines take off. </p><p>"1 in 3 people in the world are going to have cancer," says Albert Bourla, and you can just imagine him rubbing his hands together in glee. Oncology is described as the &#8220;<strong><a href="https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20230317_1/">main prize</a>&#8221; </strong>with the potential to bring in billions upon billions of dollars. </p><p>Until that potential is fulfilled, bird flu is an RNA virus, just perfect for an mRNA vaccine!</p><h4>In July 2024, the WHO <strong><a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/29-07-2024-new-initiative-launched-to-advance-mrna-vaccine-development-against-human-avian-influenza-(h5n1)">announced</a></strong> the launch of the mRNA Technology Transfer Programme, a <strong>new initiative to advance mRNA vaccine development against human avian influenza (H5N1).</strong></h4><p><strong>But it all started in 2021, at the height of Covid. As I wrote in Dec 2022 in</strong> <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/mrna-madness-its-only-just-begun?utm_source=publication-search">mRNA Madness--it's only just begun</a>:</strong></p><blockquote><p>The WHO is building a series of &#8220;mRNA global hubs&#8221; around the world. So far, the WHO has announced that fifteen manufacturers (the spokes) will receive technology through the mRNA hub. They are <strong><a href="https://covid19response.org/mrna-hub/">located</a></strong> in Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, Pakistan, India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Serbia and Ukraine.</p><p>A consortium of biotech companies, universities and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are driving forward an initiative to mass produce mRNA vaccines for Africa.</p></blockquote><p><strong>And as I wrote in April 2023 in <a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/building-the-mrna-empire?utm_source=publication-search">Building the mRNA Empire</a></strong>:</p><blockquote><p>In partnership with Pfizer, BioNTech is building factories in Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa. They also plan to set up BioNTainer-based manufacturing facilities in <a href="https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-and-australias-state-victoria-form-strategic">Australia</a> and <a href="https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-announces-establishment-interdisciplinary-mrna">Israel</a>.</p><p>At Davos 2023, Moderna chief executive Stephane Bancel <strong><a href="https://public.com/posts/davos-2023-moderna-ceo-says-he-wants-to-have-mrna-factory-on-every-461765043">said </a></strong>he would like to build mRNA factories on every continent.</p><p>The company is already building plants in Canada, Australia, Britain and Kenya. </p></blockquote><h4><strong>&#8220;For the next pandemic, we&#8217;ll have gigantic mRNA factories in India,&#8221; <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/for-the-next-pandemic-well-have-gigantic-mrna-factories-in-india/articleshow/86223792.cms">says</a> Bill Gates.</strong></h4><p>Over the past three years, I&#8217;ve been reporting on this massive production being set up across the world.  </p><p><strong>As far back as 2019, <a href="https://electrek.co/2020/07/03/tesla-joint-patent-curevac-revolutionary-bioreactor-for-rna/">Tesla had filed a joint patent with CureVac on a revolutionary &#8216;bioreactor for RNA&#8217;.</a> </strong></p><blockquote><p><strong>In 2020, Elon Musk<a href="https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-shares-tesla-mrna-microfactories-details/"> announced</a> that Tesla would be &#8220;building RNA micro-factories for CureVac.&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.curevac.com/en/technology/production/">Curvac describes itself </a></strong>as a &#8220;one-stop shop for mRNA therapeutics&#8221; and their production philosophy as <strong>&#8220;biopharma meets IT.&#8221;</strong> </p></blockquote><h4>In my essay from April, <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/not-again-why-is-the-us-funding-dangerous?utm_source=publication-search">Why is the US funding dangerous bird flu experiments in China</a>, I wrote about how nothing has changed: </strong></h4><blockquote><p>Senator Joni Ernst was <strong><a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/15/us-news/sen-joni-ernst-demands-answers-on-bidens-usda-spending-1m-on-dangerous-bird-flu-experiments-with-china/">demanding answers</a></strong> from the Biden administration that no one ever got, as to why the &#8220;Department of Agriculture is spending $1 million in US taxpayer funding experiments on highly pathogenic bird flu viruses in cooperation with the Chinese government and a researcher connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.</p></blockquote><p><strong>They just won&#8217;t stop messing with nature. And because of that, nature might just come and bite us back, if not this time, then next time. </strong></p><p>As a result, we have to put up with maniacal plans of men like Bill Gates.</p><h4>I guess because he thinks we&#8217;ve been so successful stopping wars (seriously), Gates wants <strong><a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/Shattuck-Lecture">the world to prepare for pandemics the way the military prepares for war</a>:</strong></h4><blockquote><p>This includes simulations and other preparedness exercises so we can better understand how diseases will spread and how to deal with things like quarantine and communications to minimize panic.</p><p>We need better coordination with military forces to ensure we can draw on their mobilization capacity to transport people, equipment, and supplies on a mass scale.</p><p>We need a reserve corps of trained personnel and volunteers, ready to go at a moment&#8217;s notice. And we need manufacturing and indemnification agreements in place with pharmaceutical companies &#8211;with expedited review processes for government approval of new treatments.</p></blockquote><h4>Gates wants to get back to testing but using CRISPR:</h4><blockquote><p>&#8230;to hunt for specific pieces of RNA. Using paper strips similar to a pregnancy test &#8211; and with minimal sample processing &#8211; the diagnostic can check a patient&#8217;s blood, saliva, or urine for evidence of a pathogen.</p></blockquote><p>If you want to find out more about CRISPR you can read my essay <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/techno-eugenics?utm_source=publication-search">Techno Eugenics</a>, </strong>but be careful, it might give you nightmares. </p><h4><strong>Way back in 2015, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/08/10/bill-gates-and-13-other-investors-pour-120-million-into-revolutionary-gene-editing-startup/?sh=5ae27d1b6369">Bill Gates and 13 Other Investors Poured $120 Million into a company called </a><a href="https://www.editasmedicine.com/">Editas Medicine.</a></strong></h4><blockquote><p>Editas is focused on using viruses or other methods to deliver the CRISPR-Cas9 protein into the cells of sick patients and <strong>edit the very DNA that is making them ill.</strong></p></blockquote><p>Testing. Testing. Testing. In one of my most popular essays <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/the-nefarious-goal-behind-covid-testing">The Nefarious Goal Behind Covid Testing</a>, </strong>I wrote about the data collection behind Covid testing. Whoever has the most data from &#8220;verified humans&#8221; rules the world.</p><h4>Testing, lockdowns, masks, and more mRNA vaccines. It isn&#8217;t only war that will challenge Trump&#8217;s second term. It&#8217;s the war on our minds that will challenge us all.  </h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cibj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaaf866-63af-4d14-82f5-3dc35d660a91_867x650.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cibj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaaf866-63af-4d14-82f5-3dc35d660a91_867x650.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cibj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaaf866-63af-4d14-82f5-3dc35d660a91_867x650.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cibj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaaf866-63af-4d14-82f5-3dc35d660a91_867x650.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cibj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaaf866-63af-4d14-82f5-3dc35d660a91_867x650.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cibj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaaf866-63af-4d14-82f5-3dc35d660a91_867x650.jpeg" width="867" height="650" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cdaaf866-63af-4d14-82f5-3dc35d660a91_867x650.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:650,&quot;width&quot;:867,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cibj!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaaf866-63af-4d14-82f5-3dc35d660a91_867x650.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cibj!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaaf866-63af-4d14-82f5-3dc35d660a91_867x650.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cibj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaaf866-63af-4d14-82f5-3dc35d660a91_867x650.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cibj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdaaf866-63af-4d14-82f5-3dc35d660a91_867x650.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>It&#8217;s fitting that I end this essay, and this year, with one of the most important reminders I can give my readers. Considering everyone is accused of being Hitler these days:</p><p>&#8220;<em>There is another important weapon the totalitarians use in their campaign to frighten the world into submission. This is the weapon of psychological shock. Hitler kept his enemies in a state of constant confusion and diplomatic upheaval. They never knew what this unpredictable madman was going to do next. Hitler was never logical, because he knew that that was what he was expected to be. Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot&#8212;it confuses those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason. While the enemy is still searching for a reasonable counter-argument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault him with another.</em>&#8221; ~ Joost Meerloo</p><p>Knowledge is power. Not <em>information. </em>Knowledge. If I can give my readers any advice for the new year it is to do your own research. Think for yourself. Exercise your mind. Be a skeptic. Yes, it takes some effort, but it&#8217;s worth it. </p><p>Be like those in Thessalonica, of whom it was said in Acts 17:11, &#8220;&#8230;<strong>they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were true.</strong>&#8221;</p><p>And get some physical exercise, too! In fact, as soon as I finish recording this, I&#8217;m getting up and going to the gym. I&#8217;ll probably put on my gloves and punch the bag!</p><p><em>Below are some of the many essays I&#8217;ve written on mRNA vaccines, CRISPR, data collection and transhumanism. </em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/p/2025-derailing-trump-with-bird-flu/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/2025-derailing-trump-with-bird-flu/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/p/2025-derailing-trump-with-bird-flu?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/2025-derailing-trump-with-bird-flu?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/building-the-mrna-empire?utm_source=publication-search">Building the mRNA Empire</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/mrna-madness-its-only-just-begun?utm_source=publication-search">mRNA Madness--it's only just begun</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/killing-us-with-kindness?utm_source=publication-search">Killing Us with Kindness</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/the-new-self-amplifying-rna-vaccines?utm_source=publication-search">The New Self-Amplifying RNA Vaccines Promise to be Double, Triple, Quadruple the Fun!</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/beware-the-golden-age-of-vaccines?utm_source=publication-search">Beware the Golden Age of Vaccines</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/wildly-weird-rna-is-transmitting?utm_source=publication-search">"Wildly Weird" RNA is Transmitting Information Inside Our Bodies</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/war?utm_source=publication-search">WAR</a></strong></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making America Healthy Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[I just couldn't resist...]]></description><link>https://khmezek.substack.com/p/making-america-healthy-again</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://khmezek.substack.com/p/making-america-healthy-again</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 16:13:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xa0P!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Money makes the world go &#8216;round, the world go &#8216;round&#8230;</p><p>Happy Meals and Happy Deals. </p><p><strong>This is how we &#8220;Make America Healthy Again&#8221;! MAHA!</strong></p><p>During the campaign, Trump&#8217;s team spent a whopping $31,000 at McDonald&#8217;s. </p><p>RFK Jr looks terrified but then, he got himself into this pickle, didn't he.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xa0P!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xa0P!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xa0P!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xa0P!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xa0P!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xa0P!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg" width="1080" height="1497" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1497,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:291608,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xa0P!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xa0P!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xa0P!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xa0P!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3ae58b3-79d3-404e-956e-7bf44dff031d_1080x1497.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>It&#8217;s horrifying to think that 1 in 5 US children are obese. When will they start marketing Ozempic to children? Maybe they already have, I'm sure they want to.</p><p>Promoting bad habits by picturing America's top leaders eating fast food in their private jet isn't going to help &#8220;make America healthy again&#8221;. But what do I know?</p><p>A Happy Meal has never passed my grandsons&#8217; mouths. But my daughter and son-in-law are aware that the older they get, the harder it will be. Parents fight an uphill battle in a world where even toddlers are catered to and enticed to make unhealthy choices by constant indoctrination through advertising. </p><p>Is it about health or is it ALWAYS about profit. </p><p>Oh boy, I had to add one more thing. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IOZk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5e66f16-8ec8-4179-86c7-530d09bdc8f9_615x409.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IOZk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc5e66f16-8ec8-4179-86c7-530d09bdc8f9_615x409.jpeg 424w, 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Mpox declared a Global Health Emergency ]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;The evil genius of psychiatry means there's no conflict between the legitimate interests of the individual and the legitimate interests of the political class in charge of the state.&#8221; Dr Thomas Szasz]]></description><link>https://khmezek.substack.com/p/its-pandemic-season-mpox-declared</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://khmezek.substack.com/p/its-pandemic-season-mpox-declared</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:44:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!shCx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F281e1cfb-500e-4078-8436-2d5eccb96b4b_880x660.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!shCx!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F281e1cfb-500e-4078-8436-2d5eccb96b4b_880x660.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!shCx!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F281e1cfb-500e-4078-8436-2d5eccb96b4b_880x660.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!shCx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F281e1cfb-500e-4078-8436-2d5eccb96b4b_880x660.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!shCx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F281e1cfb-500e-4078-8436-2d5eccb96b4b_880x660.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!shCx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F281e1cfb-500e-4078-8436-2d5eccb96b4b_880x660.jpeg" width="880" height="660" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/281e1cfb-500e-4078-8436-2d5eccb96b4b_880x660.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:660,&quot;width&quot;:880,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;The palms of a patient with mpox during an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. The country is now seeing a dramatic spike in mpox &#8212; with a strain that is deadlier than the one that sparked the global outbreak in 2022.&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="The palms of a patient with mpox during an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. The country is now seeing a dramatic spike in mpox &#8212; with a strain that is deadlier than the one that sparked the global outbreak in 2022." title="The palms of a patient with mpox during an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. The country is now seeing a dramatic spike in mpox &#8212; with a strain that is deadlier than the one that sparked the global outbreak in 2022." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!shCx!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F281e1cfb-500e-4078-8436-2d5eccb96b4b_880x660.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!shCx!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F281e1cfb-500e-4078-8436-2d5eccb96b4b_880x660.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!shCx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F281e1cfb-500e-4078-8436-2d5eccb96b4b_880x660.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!shCx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F281e1cfb-500e-4078-8436-2d5eccb96b4b_880x660.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The palms of a patient with mpox during an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. The country is now seeing a dramatic spike in mpox &#8212; with a strain that is deadlier than the one that sparked the global outbreak in 2022. CDC/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.</figcaption></figure></div><p>You can listen to me read this essay here:</p><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;e0a2d18f-1864-45dd-9e20-df84aad0cd73&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:930.142,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>One-time or recurring donations can be made at <strong><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/khmezek8">Buy Me a Coffee</a></strong></p><h4>It&#8217;s pandemic season!!! Just in time for the presidential elections!</h4><p>Two years ago, Monkeypox was first introduced to the public. And now, lo and behold it should come as no surprise that the World Health Organization (WHO) has today<strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/vtrnoApNZyw?si=pZYpyWksduVV8XRj"> declared </a></strong>Monkeypox an international health emergency. Only they&#8217;re calling it Mpox now because that other name was racist and stigmatizing (don&#8217;t ask me to elaborate, it&#8217;s a waste of time).</p><div id="youtube2-JzMTOLWSvcY" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;JzMTOLWSvcY&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JzMTOLWSvcY?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>The <strong>World Health Organization </strong>is<strong><a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2024-DON522"> warning</a></strong> that the spread of mpox in Africa needs to be addressed urgently. A mutated version found in the Congo is said to be extremely dangerous with a fatality rate of around 5% in adults and 10% in children.</p><p>Researchers <strong><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.12.24305195v1">say the new strain</a></strong> has &#8220;pandemic potential&#8221;.</p><h3><a href="https://www.wwno.org/npr-news/2024-08-14/who-declares-2024-mpox-surge-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern">"We need to be ... aggressive"</a></h3><p>"What we're seeing is the tip of the iceberg" because of <strong>weaknesses in the surveillance system</strong>, says <a href="https://academicmedicaleducation.com/dimie-ogoina-mbbs-fwacp-fmcp-infectious-diseases-facp-fidsa">Dr. Dimie Ogoina</a>, chair of the emergency committee convened by WHO.</p><p>70% of cases in the DRC are in children under 18. Of the 14,000 reported cases in 2024, there have been 511 deaths so far. </p><p>&#8220;This one is a major alarm for the world,&#8221; says <a href="https://africacdc.org/people/dr-jean-kaseya/">Dr. Jean Kaseya</a>, director-general of Africa CDC. &#8220;We are losing the youth in Africa.&#8221;</p><p>Uh oh, you know that <strong>improving the surveillance system and focusing on our children </strong>will be a top priority. </p><p>In 2022, the media reported that a less severe strain was spreading largely through sexual contact among men who have sex with men. We are now being told that with this more lethal strain, <em><strong>everyone </strong></em>is at risk. And unlike Covid where it mainly affected the elderly, we aren&#8217;t hearing anything about old people at all. This time, it&#8217;s children and pregnant women that they are focusing on. </p><p>It&#8217;s been <strong><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/who-scientists-mpox-strain-dangerous-urgent-action-rcna158842">reported</a></strong> that there is &#8220;evidence of transmission at school and from caregiver to child. The disease also seems to be causing miscarriages among pregnant women as well as a longer-term rash and other lingering symptoms. This lethal new strain may be evading diagnostic tests. Cases are also reaching record highs, and vaccines are not widely accessible.&#8221;</p><p>Apparently, the reason the 2022 outbreak amongst gay men was contained was mainly because they changed their behavior, not because of vaccines. All good and much healthier. But this begs an ominous question. What behaviors will they insist everyone must change this time around? With Covid, it was lockdowns and masks and vaccines. What new ways will they find of invading our personal lives and punishing us if we refuse to comply?</p><p>This is the <strong>menticide</strong> that I keep reminding my readers about, all the way back to <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/utopian-madness?utm_source=publication-search">Utopian Madness</a></strong>. The psychological abuse that we have been subjected to for years now is escalating on every front. Not only do we have World War III to look forward to, but a scary disease that will attack our children. </p><p>In June 2022, I wrote a piece called <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/mindpox?utm_source=publication-search">MINDPOX</a>, </strong>because <strong>that&#8217;s what this is. </strong>It isn&#8217;t Monkeypox, or Mpox. It isn&#8217;t Bird Flu, another scare that I recently <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/bird-flu-blues-its-not-a-question?utm_source=publication-search">wrote about</a></strong>. It isn&#8217;t Covid, or AIDS, or depression, or anxiety.</p><p>Who cares which illness it is? They could pull one out of a hat. Identify an illness that they can then use a newly developed drug or perhaps one that has been lying around for a while and they need to find a use for. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FESu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc060316d-cbcc-4968-8953-70430a5b280f_1080x1076.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FESu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc060316d-cbcc-4968-8953-70430a5b280f_1080x1076.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FESu!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc060316d-cbcc-4968-8953-70430a5b280f_1080x1076.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FESu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc060316d-cbcc-4968-8953-70430a5b280f_1080x1076.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FESu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc060316d-cbcc-4968-8953-70430a5b280f_1080x1076.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FESu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc060316d-cbcc-4968-8953-70430a5b280f_1080x1076.png" width="577" height="574.8629629629629" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c060316d-cbcc-4968-8953-70430a5b280f_1080x1076.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1076,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:577,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FESu!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc060316d-cbcc-4968-8953-70430a5b280f_1080x1076.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FESu!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc060316d-cbcc-4968-8953-70430a5b280f_1080x1076.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FESu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc060316d-cbcc-4968-8953-70430a5b280f_1080x1076.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FESu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc060316d-cbcc-4968-8953-70430a5b280f_1080x1076.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>For the past two years they have been busy building mRNA vaccine hubs throughout Africa and now they will be able to start using them in earnest. However, just as happened with Covid, they are lamenting the fact that they don&#8217;t have enough money, and the vaccines aren&#8217;t ready yet to help poor Africa. Oh dear. Maybe Mpox will spread to Western nations. Yippee! If Mpox spreads to Western nations, that&#8217;s where the money is and that&#8217;s where the drug companies make their billions and satisfy their shareholders. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-0f7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F392edae6-d71b-4fe8-9fbe-612144307386_1240x826.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-0f7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F392edae6-d71b-4fe8-9fbe-612144307386_1240x826.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-0f7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F392edae6-d71b-4fe8-9fbe-612144307386_1240x826.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-0f7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F392edae6-d71b-4fe8-9fbe-612144307386_1240x826.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-0f7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F392edae6-d71b-4fe8-9fbe-612144307386_1240x826.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-0f7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F392edae6-d71b-4fe8-9fbe-612144307386_1240x826.webp" width="1240" height="826" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/392edae6-d71b-4fe8-9fbe-612144307386_1240x826.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:826,&quot;width&quot;:1240,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-0f7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F392edae6-d71b-4fe8-9fbe-612144307386_1240x826.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-0f7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F392edae6-d71b-4fe8-9fbe-612144307386_1240x826.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-0f7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F392edae6-d71b-4fe8-9fbe-612144307386_1240x826.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-0f7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F392edae6-d71b-4fe8-9fbe-612144307386_1240x826.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/acip-recs/hcp/vaccine-specific/smallpox-mpox.html">JYNNEOS vaccine</a></strong> is recommended for smallpox and mpox. Remember back in 2021, Bill Gates warned governments to prepare for smallpox terror attacks and future pandemics by investing billions into research and development. Gates <strong><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bill-gates-smallpox-terror-attack-b1958789.html">advised</a></strong>:</p><p>&#8220;It'll take probably about a billion a year for a pandemic Task Force at the WHO level, which is doing the surveillance and actually doing what I call &#8216;germ games&#8217; where you practice.&#8221;</p><h4>Germ games (modeled on the military&#8217;s war games). World War III. Mpox. Bioterrorism. And billions upon billions of dollars needed.</h4><p>It&#8217;s reassuring that Bill Gates has it all figured out. All we need to do to be ready for the next pandemic are things like &#8220;making vaccines cheap, having big factories, eradicating the flu, getting rid of the common cold, making vaccines just a little patch you put on your arm&#8230;&#8221;</p><h4>Do you ever feel like the inmates are in charge of the insane asylum? </h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vUno!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vUno!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vUno!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vUno!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vUno!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vUno!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png" width="1020" height="1104" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1104,&quot;width&quot;:1020,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vUno!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vUno!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vUno!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vUno!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97124d3c-bcef-4e37-9344-909736390e4b_1020x1104.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>It&#8217;s all about a pox on our minds. A manipulation of our psyche for the benefit of those in power. Never has a better weapon been developed to bring submission of the masses than psychiatry. In fact, none of this madness would have ever been possible without psychiatry and psychoanalysis. </p><p>It all can be traced back to psychiatry and the development of techniques for manipulation and control. Convincing everyone that they are sick mentally and physically&#8212;all the time&#8212;and the only solution is a drug, an injection, a pill, a surgical slice. Now, constant surveillance by AI will tell us if we are sick or well, it will remind us to take our meds and if we have an unhappy expression or an angry one, if we disobey the rules imposed upon us, we can be diagnosed with something more severe and placed under observation in a medical or mental facility. For our own good and the good of others. </p><p><em>Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science. The social style conforms to the political expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-liberal social movement that parodies the ideals of freedom and rationality. ~ </em>Dr. Thomas Szasz</p><p>Psychiatrists were first known as alienists, those who treated mental alienation. Psychiatry literally means the medical treatment of the soul. But no psychiatrist should ever meddle with another person&#8217;s soul. Especially when psychiatrists are no better off mentally than those they are treating&#8212;and often much worse off. </p><p>Freud developed psychoanalysis to treat "<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/neuroticism">neurotic</a>" patients. Based on what? It doesn&#8217;t take a psychiatrist to determine that his conclusions were a result of his own neurosis. How could his made-up mental diseases, especially in women, be deemed accurate when it was impossible for him to be impartial? An <strong><a href="https://www.pbs.org/youngdrfreud/pages/perspectives_women.htm">explanation </a></strong>of Freud&#8217;s view of women is that he &#8220;saw women's sexual development as an aborted development based on discovering that they didn't have penises, and therefore that they were thrown off course for the rest of life.&#8221; Wow, that could open a whole new conversation about transgenderism, couldn&#8217;t it? But it will have to wait for another day. </p><p><em>This is the man we call the &#8220;Father of Psychology.&#8221; And with good reason, since all his craziness was transferred to everyone else. </em></p><p>Psychoanalysis was built on the suppositions of men like Freud who were no doubt insane themselves. Someone should have psychoanalyzed Freud but who could do it? Any other man making a diagnosis was in the same boat, fulfilling his own fantasies by giving credence to them, creating terms and identifying them as &#8220;mental disorders.&#8221;</p><p>Most people give in to being experimented upon and they will give in to the Mpox or the Bird Flu craze, or whatever else it turns out to be, because they have been psychologically abused for so long that they are terrified to disobey the experts. </p><p>Mind you, there are bad diseases out there and we do have to be careful. That makes it even worse. Just as with &#8220;fake news&#8221; we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s true and what isn&#8217;t anymore. So, I&#8217;m not saying something real couldn&#8217;t come along. It&#8217;s all part of the mind games. We are kept in a constant state of unease.  </p><p>Experimentation on humans became the norm in the 1800s. Electric shock was applied to people&#8217;s brains. Lobotomies were performed as a &#8220;treatment.&#8221; <strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02963-6">C. L&#252;scher </a></strong><em><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02963-6">Nature</a></strong></em><strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02963-6"> 555, 306&#8211;307; 2018</a>)</strong>. Straightjackets were first introduced in the 18th century, along with hosing down, shackles, and holes being drilled into brains to relieve &#8220;brain pressure.&#8221; </p><p>German physicians gave birth to the idea of mental diseases of the brain, lending credence to the idea of treating it in the same way one might treat a physical disease. Psychiatry and the German State worked together to institutionalize those with &#8220;damaged minds,&#8221; which is really a form of the elite engineering eugenics on an unsuspecting public.</p><p>Dr. Thomas Szasz, author of&nbsp;<em><strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Mental-Illness-Foundations-Personal/dp/0061771228">The Myth of Mental Illness</a></strong></em>, says, &#8220;<em>The evil genius of psychiatry &#8230; continues to lie in its ability to convince itself, the legal system, and the public that &#8230; there is no conflict between the legitimate interests of the individual and the legitimate interests of the political class in charge of the state</em>.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sB3t!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd3a88271-3a16-452a-9bc2-a178111fa234_1123x918.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sB3t!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd3a88271-3a16-452a-9bc2-a178111fa234_1123x918.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 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WBEZ ChicagoWe</figcaption></figure></div><p>Carl Wernicke (1848-1905), a prominent 19th-century German neuropsychiatrist observed, &#8220;<em>The medical treatment of [mental] patients began with the infringement of their personal freedom.</em>&#8221;</p><h4>With each new crisis, we are giving up a little bit more of our freedoms to be &#8220;safe&#8221;. But safe from what? </h4><p>Is it just a coincidence that this is happening right before another presidential election in the United States? If you even ask that question, you are labeled a conspiracy theorist. You are the crazy one. Put on the straight jacket. Only the straight jacket isn&#8217;t something you can see anymore. It isn&#8217;t as obvious as that. It&#8217;s a drug, prescribed by the state psychiatrist, which could well end up being your personal AI assistant, that everyone will soon be required to have. Oops, I&#8217;m sounding too conspiratorial again. </p><p>But come on. You&#8217;d have to be crazy not to notice that the closer we get to this presidential election, the more we are being manipulated. The more we are finding ourselves on an emotional rollercoaster. The more out of control our world seems to be. The more terrified, angry and anxious our friends and family are becoming. Half the country is convinced that if Donald Trump is elected, we will descend into a nightmarish fascist dictatorship while the other half is terrified that Kamala Harris will do the same. </p><p>Here&#8217;s my suggestion. Turn off the machine. Take a deep breath. Go for a walk. Pet your dog. Laugh with your kids. Read your Bible. Or some other spiritual texts that offer wisdom. And I mean actually read, you know, the old-fashioned way. Listen to music&#8212;without headphones. Meet up with friends. Tell your children a bedtime story. Sing a song with them. Pray at their bedside. Teach them to be still. To listen to the sounds of nature. </p><p>And here is a little drawing of mine to counteract the darkness. It&#8217;s from a story I wrote called The Pool of Labrith. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjMj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7337492-7902-44ca-8890-de70fada9b37_461x603.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjMj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7337492-7902-44ca-8890-de70fada9b37_461x603.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjMj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7337492-7902-44ca-8890-de70fada9b37_461x603.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjMj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7337492-7902-44ca-8890-de70fada9b37_461x603.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjMj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7337492-7902-44ca-8890-de70fada9b37_461x603.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjMj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7337492-7902-44ca-8890-de70fada9b37_461x603.jpeg" width="461" height="603" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7337492-7902-44ca-8890-de70fada9b37_461x603.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:603,&quot;width&quot;:461,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;No photo description available.&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="No photo description available." title="No photo description available." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjMj!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7337492-7902-44ca-8890-de70fada9b37_461x603.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjMj!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7337492-7902-44ca-8890-de70fada9b37_461x603.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjMj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7337492-7902-44ca-8890-de70fada9b37_461x603.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjMj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7337492-7902-44ca-8890-de70fada9b37_461x603.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I&#8217;m thankful God gave me an active imagination. There&#8217;s a big difference between using your imagination and being used by AI in a virtual world. But that&#8217;s a subject for another day&#8230;</p><p><strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/the-new-self-amplifying-rna-vaccines?utm_source=publication-search">The New Self-Amplifying RNA Vaccines Promise to be Double, Triple, Quadruple the Fun!</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/building-the-mrna-empire?utm_source=publication-search">Building the mRNA Empire</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/get-ready-for-pfizers-turbo-charged?utm_source=publication-search">Get Ready for Pfizer's "TURBO-CHARGED GUIDED MISSILE" Cancer Drugs</a></strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/p/its-pandemic-season-mpox-declared/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/its-pandemic-season-mpox-declared/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/p/its-pandemic-season-mpox-declared?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/its-pandemic-season-mpox-declared?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Self-Amplifying RNA Vaccines Promise to be Double, Triple, Quadruple the Fun!]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's all part of a quest to discover the best ways to send messages through human bodies instructing those bodies to perform in whatever way they are ordered to do.]]></description><link>https://khmezek.substack.com/p/the-new-self-amplifying-rna-vaccines</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://khmezek.substack.com/p/the-new-self-amplifying-rna-vaccines</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:01:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc26e2db9-1763-48f5-96c6-45e36e19221c_640x427.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>One-time or recurring donations can be made at <strong><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/khmezek8">Ko-Fi</a></strong></p><p>You can listen to me read this article here:</p><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;85197a2b-6da6-4419-a4c6-86b598036d93&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:1323.5461,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p><em>Just when you thought you&#8217;d heard the last of the Covid vaccines&#8212;those mRNA vaccines you&#8217;ve come to &#8220;<strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/02/1087536/the-next-generation-of-mrna-vaccines-is-on-its-way/">know and love</a></strong>&#8221; as MIT so endearingly puts it&#8212; there&#8217;s a new version in town.</em> </p><h4>Welcome to the next generation of self-amplifying Covid vaccines, also known as replicons.</h4><p>No, they aren&#8217;t &#8220;replicants&#8221; like in my favorite movie, Blade Runner (the original from 1982). </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IIYm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc26e2db9-1763-48f5-96c6-45e36e19221c_640x427.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Except they&#8217;re replicating inside our bodies. Like a photocopy machine. Yeah, inside our bodies. </p><p>Whatever will they think of next?</p><h4>Japan just announced it&#8217;s become the first country in the world to <a href="https://newsroom.csl.com/2023-11-28-Japans-Ministry-of-Health,-Labour-and-Welfare-Approves-CSL-and-Arcturus-Therapeutics-ARCT-154,-the-first-Self-Amplifying-mRNA-vaccine-approved-for-COVID-in-adults">approve the new vaccine</a>, called <strong>LUNAR-COV19.</strong> </h4><p>FYI, I found it interesting that they named it LUNAR and introduced it at the same time as Japan&#8217;s <strong><a href="https://global.jaxa.jp/press/2024/01/20240125-3_e.html">LUNAR landing</a></strong> touched down on the Moon just days ago. Talk about synchronicity&#8212;or good marketing. </p><p>The collaborations on these vaccines get a little complicated but to <strong><a href="https://www.meiji-seika-pharma.co.jp/pressrelease/2023/detail/pdf/231128_01.pdf">break it down,</a></strong> Meiji Seika Pharma is the company that obtained exclusive rights to distribute Kostaive (LUNAR) from <strong><a href="https://www.csl.com/we-are-csl/our-businesses-and-products/csl-seqirus">CSL Seqirus</a></strong>. They are collaborating with <strong><a href="https://corp.arcalis.co.jp/en/">ARCALIS INC</a></strong>. to establish integrated mRNA vaccine manufacturing capabilities from drug substance to drug product. </p><p>Now, I know that&#8217;s a boring read. But I include the information to emphasize a point. If I were to list all the companies involved in this type of research, production and manufacture, the list would be almost endless&#8212;and even more endlessly boring. </p><p>That list would also be extremely incestuous. For example, Bill Gates invests billions of dollars in multiple rival companies, in anticipation that a few will stick. In this race, only the most powerful can enter and the stakes are high. Astronomical amounts of money, beyond what we can imagine, are invested into these technologies. Not to cure us of anything&#8212;how absurd! But to make even more astronomical amounts of money for the men behind the technology. None of these powerful players&#8212;I mean none of them&#8212;is going to let these vaccines fail. Even if they do fail&#8212;they won&#8217;t. Do you get what I&#8217;m saying? This is as obvious as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Those who dare dispute the wonder and magic of these vaccines are often discredited or worse. </p><p>Okay, with that out of the way, let&#8217;s continue. </p><p>This technology takes the mRNA vaccines to a new level. The vaccine contains not only the gene for the spike protein, but it has added the gene for a protein called replicase which allows the RNA to self-replicate. What is the end result? The cells have significantly more of this RNA inside of them. This leads to more production of the spike protein and, theoretically, more antibodies. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!djx_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc009bb17-82e1-4621-9232-8d307a53283e_716x536.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!djx_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc009bb17-82e1-4621-9232-8d307a53283e_716x536.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!djx_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc009bb17-82e1-4621-9232-8d307a53283e_716x536.jpeg 848w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Here&#8217;s how MIT<strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/02/1087536/the-next-generation-of-mrna-vaccines-is-on-its-way/"> explains</a> the advantages of saRNA vaccines</strong>:</p><blockquote><p>Because saRNA vaccines come with a built-in photocopier, the dose can be much lower&#8230;. researchers testing [both vaccines] in mice found that they could achieve equivalent levels of protection against influenza with just 1/64th the dose. Second, it&#8217;s possible that saRNA vaccines will induce a more durable immune response because the RNA keeps copying itself and sticks around longer. While mRNA might last a day or two, self-amplifying RNA can persist for a month.</p></blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s a break-down of the doses:</p><ul><li><p>saRNA: 5 micrograms</p></li><li><p>Pfizer: 30 micrograms</p></li><li><p>Moderna: 100 micrograms</p></li></ul><p>Yes, the dose is smaller. However, once inside the body, it <strong>keeps copying itself and sticks around longer</strong>. The claim is that since less RNA is injected it will make for less side effects. But it&#8217;s the spike protein that causes the problems. With saRNA vaccines more spike proteins will be encoded, and they stick around longer. Doesn&#8217;t that mean it will cause <em><strong>more</strong></em> side effects, not less. But what do I know? </p><h4><strong><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8965847/">NIH</a></strong> itself warned that the &#8220;SARS-CoV-2 spike protein causes cardiovascular disease independent of viral infection. <strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44161-023-00222-0">Nature</a></strong> reported that the &#8220;<strong>circulating spike protein may contribute to myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination&#8221;</strong>. </h4><p>This was found to be especially prevalent among youth and younger adults. Among those who developed post-vaccine myocarditis was &#8220;the presence of a surprisingly high level of full-length unbound spike protein that remained detectable for up to 3 weeks after vaccination and somehow eluded antibody recognition&#8221;. That was in the regular mRNA vaccines&#8212;where we were assured the spike protein only lasted a couple of days. Imagine what could happen with these spike proteins in the saRNA vaccines. </p><p>Considering that heart disease is already the leading cause of death worldwide and all <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/265089/deaths-caused-by-chronic-diseases-worldwide/">cardiovascular diseases</a> together cause around <strong><a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/2070/diseases/">17.9 million deaths annually,</a></strong> it seems the experts would want to avoid adding to that number with ever younger victims.</p><p>But as I said, what do I know? </p><h4><strong>They are working on multivalent vaccines</strong> or combined vaccines, which are designed to immunize against two or more strains of the same microorganism or against two or more microorganisms. </h4><p>Just with corona virus alone, there&#8217;s an ever-increasing number of sub variants. Instead of letting the disease play out naturally and become less virulent as it mutates, as well as allowing our natural immune systems to learn to fight it naturally, they are developing vaccines to fight as many of these subsets as possible. Now they want to make vaccines for multiple variants. It&#8217;s cheaper to produce. And it will bring in more profit.</p><p>However, a big problem when you start inputting all these antibodies into a person is <strong>antibody-dependent enhancement</strong> which leads to adverse effects.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety/antibody-dependent-enhancement-and-vaccines">ADE occurs </a>&#8220;</strong>when the antibodies generated during an immune response recognize and bind to a pathogen, but they are unable to prevent infection. Instead, these antibodies act as a &#8220;Trojan horse,&#8221; allowing the pathogen to get into cells and exacerbate the immune response&#8221;.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h4><strong><a href="https://www.cell.com/trends/biotechnology/fulltext/S0167-7799(23)00154-3">Safety hazards</a> of replicon vaccines:</strong></h4><ul><li><p>Replicon vaccines could persist in immunocompromised individuals as clearance may be less efficient. </p></li><li><p>Pregnant women are of concern, especially when using replicon vectors derived from viruses that cause congenital infections. </p></li><li><p>The ability of replicon vaccines to recombine with circulating viruses. This risk is based on reported genetic interactions between traditional live-attenuated vaccines and viruses in nature. <strong><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229153783_Attenuated_Vaccines_Can_Recombine_to_Form_Virulent_Field_Viruses">Attenuated Vaccines Can Recombine to Form Virulent Field Viruses</a></strong>. </p></li></ul><p>Yeah, yeah, okay. Read the label on any drug in your medicine cabinet and it has a list of side effects as long as your arm and written in very teeny, tiny script so it will fit on the bottle. </p><p>It&#8217;s not a big deal. Not when a uniform vaccine that can be used for multiple diseases to vaccinate people worldwide will make whoever develops it the richest and most powerful drug company in the world. That&#8217;s what matters!</p><p>As per the World Health Organization&#8217;s <strong><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/strategies/global-vaccine-action-plan">Global Vaccine Action Plan</a></strong>, to reach full potential of the replicon technology, registration as a <strong>vaccine platform</strong> is required. </p><h4>A vaccine platform consists of:</h4><ul><li><p>licensing a single replicon vector</p></li><li><p>a standardized delivery method</p></li><li><p>a well-defined process for inserting the transgene to generate different replicon vaccines which <strong>do not require extensive re-evaluation as part of the authorization procedure.</strong></p></li></ul><p><strong>In other words, a vaccine platform will enable them to vaccinate billions of people worldwide for multiple illnesses&#8212;over and over again&#8212;with little or no oversight or re-evaluation.</strong> This is exactly what happened with subsequent variations of the mRNA vaccines that t<strong><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-authorize-new-covid-boosters-data-tests-people-rcna45387">he FDA cleared without requiring safety trials first</a></strong>. </p><p>With all of the unknowns, not to mention the concerning side effects, why do they keep pushing these RNA vaccines for COVID, an illness that has been shown to be no worse than the flu. &#8220;<strong>Overall, COVID-19 tends to look more like a cold, with a sore throat, runny nose, and maybe a fever and aches,</strong>&#8221; <strong><a href="https://www.prevention.com/health/health-conditions/a46425261/current-covid-symptoms-2024/">says</a></strong> <a href="https://medicine.buffalo.edu/faculty/profile.html?ubit=trusso">Thomas Russo, M.D.,</a> professor and chief of infectious diseases at the University at Buffalo in New York.</p><p>Besides enormous profits, a more concerning consideration is that the military is using us as guinea pigs for other purposes. </p><h4><strong>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)</strong> has been working on RNA technology for years. <strong><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426978/">According to the NIH</a></strong>:</h4><blockquote><p>While the NIAID was funding these basic science innovations, the US Department of Defense was making high&#8208;risk investments in RNA vaccine technology through its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In 2011, DARPA awarded CureVac (a Sanofi&#8208;affiliated company) and In&#8208;Cell&#8208;Art $33.1 million to advance their vaccine platforms and test candidate products.<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426978/#cpt2344-bib-0006"> <sup>6</sup> </a>In 2017, CureVac researchers published the first phase I clinical trial demonstrating that an mRNA vaccine could induce functional antibodies against a viral antigen, the rabies virus.<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426978/#cpt2344-bib-0007"> <sup>7</sup> </a>In 2013, DARPA awarded Moderna $25 million toward developing RNA vaccines against the viral diseases Zika and Chikungunya, validating the concept that mRNA sequences could be used to produce a secreted human protein and potentially scale antibody responses against a specific target in the human body.<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426978/#cpt2344-bib-0006"> <sup>6</sup></a></p></blockquote><p><strong>Moderna, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230117111132/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/18/coronavirus-vaccine-first-results/?itid=lk_inline_manual_17">first company</a> to enter mRNA clinical trials, was funded by DARPA</strong>. <strong><a href="https://www.pfizer.com/b2b/suppliers/darpa">So was Pfizer</a></strong>. </p><p>The list of companies funded by DARPA is long. As just one example, Touchlight and Vanderbilt University Medical Center <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210728005115/en/Touchlight-and-Vanderbilt-University-Medical-Center-collaborate-on-DARPA-Pandemic-Prevention-Platform-programme-to-develop-synthetic-DNA-based-antibody-to-protect-against-emerging-threats">collaborated</a> on the DARPA Pandemic Prevention Platform program to develop synthetic DNA-based antibody to protect against emerging threats.</p><blockquote><p>Touchlight, based in London, UK, is the world&#8217;s leading manufacturer of synthetic DNA. The company is pioneering enzymatic DNA production to enable the revolution in genetic medicines, including DNA and mRNA vaccines and cell and gene therapies. Touchlight has developed a novel, synthetic DNA vector known as &#8220;doggybone&#8221; or dbDNA&#8482;</p></blockquote><p>By the way, remember when we were told if we talked about the Covid vaccines inserting DNA into our bodies we were derided as conspiracy theorists and banned from social media? Well, now it&#8217;s all about DNA and no one bats an eye. </p><h4>Why is DARPA, the central research and development organization for the US Department of Defense, behind the funding of RNA technology? </h4><p>Call me a crazy conspiracy theorist, but maybe because messenger RNA is a great way to take over a person&#8217;s body. Just imagine all the messages they could send through our bodies once they get that kind of control. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6GgX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2376a602-caa6-4cea-9807-ca571564a21c_1200x676.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6GgX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2376a602-caa6-4cea-9807-ca571564a21c_1200x676.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6GgX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2376a602-caa6-4cea-9807-ca571564a21c_1200x676.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6GgX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2376a602-caa6-4cea-9807-ca571564a21c_1200x676.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6GgX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2376a602-caa6-4cea-9807-ca571564a21c_1200x676.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6GgX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2376a602-caa6-4cea-9807-ca571564a21c_1200x676.jpeg" width="1200" height="676" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2376a602-caa6-4cea-9807-ca571564a21c_1200x676.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:676,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Super Cyborg Soldiers a Reality by 2050 Says DOD Report - Nerdist&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Super Cyborg Soldiers a Reality by 2050 Says DOD Report - Nerdist" title="Super Cyborg Soldiers a Reality by 2050 Says DOD Report - Nerdist" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6GgX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2376a602-caa6-4cea-9807-ca571564a21c_1200x676.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6GgX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2376a602-caa6-4cea-9807-ca571564a21c_1200x676.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6GgX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2376a602-caa6-4cea-9807-ca571564a21c_1200x676.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6GgX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2376a602-caa6-4cea-9807-ca571564a21c_1200x676.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>They&#8217;ve tried all kinds of approaches for all kinds of problems soldiers might face, like sending messages through the blood. </h4><p>Back in 2014, they were working on genetically engineered blood. They figured out how human red blood cells can be modified to produce and deliver&nbsp;protein antidotes and other antibody-based medicines throughout the body. With blood transfusions, these cells could theoretically neutralize&nbsp;biological toxins for soldiers on the battlefield.</p><p>As always, we were assured that &#8220;these innovations certainly have <a href="http://rt.com/news/169796-genetically-engineered-blood-cells/">greater medical implications</a> for civilians as well. For instance, instead of carrying antitoxin antibodies, <strong>red blood cells can be engineered to deliver drugs to organs, remove bad cholesterol, carry proteins to treat clots and thrombosis and more&#8221;. </strong>Blood is just one way to send messages through the body. </p><h4>DARPA intends to explore genetically editing soldiers to turn them into &#8216;antibody factories&#8217;; they would be made resistant to chemical or biological attacks. </h4><p>And some reports suggest that China would use <strong>CRISPR</strong> to &#8216;boost troops&#8217; combat effectiveness&#8217;. Well, if China's doing it you can be sure we're doing it too.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C3p7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89c1bafa-7442-4728-bc74-0cbc63368532_619x316.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C3p7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89c1bafa-7442-4728-bc74-0cbc63368532_619x316.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C3p7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89c1bafa-7442-4728-bc74-0cbc63368532_619x316.png 848w, 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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/89c1bafa-7442-4728-bc74-0cbc63368532_619x316.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:316,&quot;width&quot;:619,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:691,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Stefanie Tompkins&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Stefanie Tompkins" title="Stefanie Tompkins" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C3p7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89c1bafa-7442-4728-bc74-0cbc63368532_619x316.png 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Stefanie Tompkins is the DARPA Director</figcaption></figure></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/06/05/darpa-wants-cyborg-implant-to-make-soldiers-tougher/?sh=59bdcd046483">DARPA&#8217;s latest effort</a></strong>, &#8220;known as <a href="https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2020-04-06">ADAPTER</a> involves cyborg implants to toughen soldiers against two of the commonest health issues in modern warfare: limited access to safe food and water, and sleep disruption. Each implant will be a miniature factory full of bacteria producing therapeutic substances on demand&#8221;.</p><h4><strong><a href="https://www.biobasedpress.eu/2021/06/bioweapons-and-super-soldiers-genetic-technology-for-warfare/#:~:text=Darpa%20intends%20to%20explore%20genetically%20editing%20soldiers%20to,combat%20effectiveness%E2%80%99.%20No%20further%20details%20are%20given%2C%20however.">Bioweapons and super soldiers, genetic technology for warfare</a></strong></h4><blockquote><p>There are two main areas into which this technology could expand. The first is the <a href="https://theconversation.com/could-gene-editing-tools-such-as-crispr-be-used-as-a-biological-weapon-82187">weaponization of viruses or bacteria</a>. These include smallpox or tuberculosis and could be extremely destructive.</p><p>The production of deadly bacteria and viruses is easier and cheaper than ever before. Figuring out how to target certain groups of people without the ones using the bioweapon being affected is a challenge. </p></blockquote><h4>The military&#8217;s P3 program led to the world&#8217;s first <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230117111132/https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lilly-begins-worlds-first-study-potential-covid-19-antibody">study</a> in humans of a potential covid-19 antibody treatment. </h4><p>The U.S. Army Materiel Command&#8217;s <strong><a href="https://www.usar.army.mil/P3/">Public Private Partnership</a></strong> (P3) program is an agreement between an Army organization and one or more private industry entities to perform work or to use the Army&#8217;s facilities and equipment.</p><p>And don&#8217;t forget that the <strong><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426978/">National Institutes of Health (NIH)</a></strong> &#8220;has joint ownership of the Moderna vaccine patent because of its fundamental role in research and development, starting from the inception of that work and continuing to the present. This includes the nearly $6 billion from US public funds, which supported an enormous proportion of the development costs of the Moderna vaccine from bench to bedside&#8221;.</p><p><strong>The mRNA and now saRNA vaccines are part of a huge, interconnected web that extends from DARPA to other nations to private companies throughout the world. They have cleverly found a way to convince most of humanity to offer up their bodies as guinea pigs in this grand experiment. It is all part of a quest to find the best ways to send messages through human bodies and make those bodies perform in whatever way they are ordered to do.   </strong></p><h4>With all those profits&#8212;<strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/08/pfizer-covid-vaccine-pill-profits-sales">Pfizer made nearly $37 billion</a></strong> in sales from its Covid-19 vaccine last year making it one of the most lucrative products in history&#8212;why aren&#8217;t we THE PEOPLE being reimbursed? </h4><p>Are we expected to keep on funding these experiments on our bodies, suffering untold and unknown side effects? Those producing these drugs will continue to get richer and richer while those who are subjected to taking multiple vaccines for an ever-increasing list of illnesses will grow weaker and weaker as our immune systems stop working properly. Vaccines that are sending messages into our bodies, over which we have no consent or control, and no way of knowing what they are telling our bodies to do.  </p><h4>The US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Defense invest billions of dollars (our tax dollars) in this technology. As just two examples:</h4><ul><li><p>In August 2023 the DHHS <strong><a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/08/22/funding-1-billion-vaccine-clinical-trials-326-million-new-monoclonal-antibody-100-million-explore-novel-vaccine-therapeuti-technologies.html">announced</a></strong> Project NextGen Awards Over $1.4 Billion to Develop the Future of COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics. </p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2022/08/09/battelle-wins-10-billion-healthcare-contract-with-defense-department/">Battelle</a></strong>, one of the 100 largest defense companies in the world, and the prime contractor on a $10 billion contract to provide medical and health care services to the U.S. Department of Defense. You can look at some of those contracts <strong><a href="https://www.battelle.org/search/?query=mRNA%2520vaccines">here</a>, </strong>which<strong> </strong>include preparations for the next Covid pandemic or pandemics in general. </p></li></ul><p>I don&#8217;t see any of us getting richer as a result. We are the ones providing much of the money for these contracts, resulting in tragedies like a surge in myocarditis in teens and young adults. Meanwhile, celebrities like Dolly Parton (worth $650 million) who donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for Covid vaccine research, are lauded as heroes. </p><p>I wish I could say we, the taxpayers, were heroes, but we are more like suckers. </p><p>Pundits in &#8220;alternative media&#8221; would have you believe the Covid vaccines were not a success. But they did exactly what they set out to do. At the height of the Covid pandemic, <strong>more than <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html">5.55 billion people worldwide received a dose of a Covid-19 vaccin</a>e, equal to about 72.3 percent of the world population. More than 2.72 billion additional doses have been administered worldwide.</strong></p><p>See if you can wrap your head around those numbers for a moment. Nothing like this has ever happened before. The planning. The rollout. Yes, it&#8217;s true that the heady days of Big Pharma raking in billions upon billions of dollars for Covid vaccines is in decline. Most people aren&#8217;t interested in the <strong><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-12-20/why-arent-americans-getting-the-new-covid-19-vaccine">old vaccine</a></strong>. By the onslaught of winter, <strong><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/36m-american-adults-received-updated-covid-vaccine-cdc/story?id=104874582">just 14 percent of adults</a></strong> had received a pick-me-up shot. </p><p>That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s a new one. A novel one. New and improved. As good American consumers, we&#8217;ve been conditioned to respond to wanting the latest, the newest and most improved version of everything and anything. And it isn&#8217;t just about Covid, it never was.  </p><h4><strong>I</strong>n anticipation of the need to manufacture billions of vaccines against every disease imaginable, vaccine factories are being built all over the world. (Find out more in my essay <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/building-the-mrna-empire">Building the mRNA Empire</a>.)</strong></h4><p>CSL and the myriad investors in the LUNAR saRNA vaccine have high hopes that their vaccine will be the one to take over the world market. <strong>Below is <a href="https://www.csl.com/we-are-csl/vita-original-stories/2023/csl-named-fastest-growing-brand-in-biopharma-industry">CSL</a>&#8217;s new vaccine factory in Melbourne which promises to be the largest in the southern hemisphere. </strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NUn2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3aacb7aa-baef-4cd1-820d-2a3ed8405e28_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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It will be the largest vaccine factory in the southern hemisphere</figcaption></figure></div><p>CSL&#8217;s brand value has jumped more than 30% over the past year to make it the fastest growing brand in the biopharmaceutical industry. A Brand Finance <a href="https://static.brandirectory.com/reports/brand-finance-healthcare-2023-preview.pdf">report</a> lists CSL&#8217;s brand value at USD $1.3 billion, which is up 80% since 2020.</p><h4>Here are just a few other examples of how mass vaccination of the world&#8217;s population is being organized.</h4><ul><li><p>In partnership with Pfizer, BioNTech is building factories in Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa. They also plan to set up BioNTainer-based manufacturing facilities in&nbsp;<a href="https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-and-australias-state-victoria-form-strategic">Australia</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-announces-establishment-interdisciplinary-mrna">Israel</a>.</p></li><li><p>At Davos 2023, Moderna chief executive Stephane Bancel <strong><a href="https://public.com/posts/davos-2023-moderna-ceo-says-he-wants-to-have-mrna-factory-on-every-461765043">said </a></strong>he would like to build mRNA factories on every continent. The company is already building plants in Canada, Australia, Britain and Kenya. </p></li><li><p>We are constantly warned about China, but in November 2023 it was announced that <strong>Moderna began work on its <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-begins-work-china-mrna-manufacturing-site-2023-11-28/">China mRNA manufacturing site. </a>The facility in Shanghai will manufacture medicines for the domestic population, the world's second largest after India.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Bill Gates has <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/for-the-next-pandemic-well-have-gigantic-mrna-factories-in-india/articleshow/86223792.cms">promised,</a> &#8220;For the next pandemic, we&#8217;ll have gigantic mRNA factories in India.&#8221;</strong></p></li></ul><h4>India already has the world&#8217;s largest vaccine manufacturer. </h4><blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://www.seruminstitute.com/about_us.php">Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd</a></strong>. is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced and sold globally (more than 1.5 billion doses). &#8230;65% of the children in the world receive at least one vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute&#8221;. And yes, like all responsible drug companies, they test their products on African children first. Take a look at the stupefying scope of their contracts <strong><a href="https://www.cyruspoonawallagroup.com/news/">here</a>.</strong></p></blockquote><p>Big Pharma and the powerful forces behind it never thought the mRNA Covid vaccines would last forever. They were just a steppingstone. </p><p>Welcome to self-amplifying vaccines that replicate in your body. Welcome to your next dose. And your next. And your next. That is, if every single powerful drug lord, politician, military official and global health leader has their way. And trust me, they will settle for nothing less than total control. 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"We used to think our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes.&#8221; ~ Nobel Prize winner James Watson]]></description><link>https://khmezek.substack.com/p/disease-x-covid-19-and-bio-hacking</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://khmezek.substack.com/p/disease-x-covid-19-and-bio-hacking</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:01:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hIZk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff96c1096-36d6-4665-8d7c-3c574f5231b4_1200x776.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Credit: Erin Jarvis and Nipam Patel, UC Berkely</figcaption></figure></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><strong>One-time or recurring donations can also be made at <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/khmezek8">Ko-Fi</a>.</strong></p><p><strong>You can listen to me read this essay here:</strong></p><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;22fed0f6-f42c-4bc2-96e8-f4d05f426fe4&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:1545.9265,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>The next pandemic was on everybody&#8217;s minds as the elites gathered in Davos for the World Economic Forum&#8217;s yearly <strong><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/here-we-go-scientists-are-preparing-for-the-next-pandemic-called-disease-x/ar-AA1n5GPo">shmooze-fest</a></strong>. They&#8217;re calling it Disease X. Hm, where have I heard that before? Oh yes, that&#8217;s what Elon Musk renamed Twitter. X. It&#8217;s a little disconcerting that the next pandemic-causing disease has the same name. </p><p>But it&#8217;s fitting. It reminds us that the farther we travel down the road of &#8220;progress&#8221; the less we know about where we&#8217;re going. </p><p><strong><a href="https://www.who.int/activities/prioritizing-diseases-for-research-and-development-in-emergency-contexts">According to the World Health Organization, </a></strong>X "represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.&#8221; </p><p>They say Covid-19 killed almost 7 million people worldwide. This hypothetical virus would be 20 times deadlier.</p><p>"If we did so poorly with something like COVID-19, you can imagine how poorly we would do with something like a 1918-level event," said Dr. Amish Adalja, an expert on emerging diseases at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, referring to the <strong><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic">influenza pandemic of 1918</a></strong> that killed an estimated 50 million people around the world. </p><p>Of course, if you don&#8217;t believe viruses exist you will have a hard time swallowing that last bit of information. I have readers with many different opinions, which is as it should be. Please don&#8217;t be discouraged from reading on. This article isn&#8217;t about proving or disproving viruses, it&#8217;s about what will happen next, no matter what we call it. We simply don&#8217;t know&#8212;I mean, it&#8217;s &#8220;X&#8221;. And whatever disagreements we may have, we can all agree that <em><strong>something</strong></em> periodically sweeps across the earth, killing a whole lot of people, and <em><strong>something</strong></em> will surely do it again. The only question is whether it will be caused by humans or by nature. </p><p>Whatever theories you espouse to about Covid, whether it happened exactly as the government said it did, or whether you think it was the flu reimagined, or a bioweapon that escaped from a lab, or that it was no more than a money-making scheme for Big Pharma, we continue to be given conflicting information about it, resulting in continued confusion and division.  </p><p>So, let&#8217;s put all of that aside for a moment and focus on what we <em><strong>do </strong></em>know. Something called Covid happened that changed our lives forever. It&#8217;s doubtful that any of us fully comprehend how much Covid messed with us psychologically. A lot of people have turned into absolute hypochondriacs. Anyone coughing sets off alarm bells. More and more people are wearing masks again. Anything to feel safe in a dangerous world. </p><p>In the long gone pre Covid days, I remember saying to friends on occasion when I was sick, or hearing them say to me, &#8220;Wow, I&#8217;ve never been this sick in my life, I feel like I&#8217;m going to die.&#8221; But it was just an expression. We were young and strong, and we all got better and quickly forgot about it. </p><p>No more! People now read death into the slightest tickle in their throats. We are told the only way to combat illness is to treat it like a war. Oh, and we sure do have war on our minds now, every kind of war. How can we possibly combat all of the disease, death and destruction bombarding us at once? World Wars might be out of our control, but we can take drugs and vaccines and pills and remedies and maybe regain sort of control over our bodies that seem to be more and more <em>out of control</em> every day.</p><p>The <strong><a href="https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-wha-side-event-on-health-emergency-workforce-and-the-need-for-a-global-health-emergency-corps---21-may-2023">WHO warns</a></strong> us that the frequency and intensity of health emergencies is growing, due to evolving pathogen threats. &#8220;Climate change could <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2105482118">double the chances</a> of future COVID-scale pandemics occurring. Together with climate shocks, this worrying combination of disaster and disease heralds a perfect storm of devastation and disruption &#8212; and it means that COVID-19 could just be a taste of things to come.&#8221;</p><p>Hold on! Let me just pop a pill, put on some headphones and listen to my favorite pundit on YouTube pull me back from the brink of hysteria.  </p><p>There's no doubt the Covid vaccines have seen better days. Not many people are still interested in taking them. But that doesn&#8217;t mean the end of these types of vaccines. It is only the beginning. Drug giants like Pfizer and Moderna are always on the lookout for the next big disease&#8212;trying to predict which one is likely to make them the most money. In my essay <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/building-the-mrna-empire">Building the mRNA Empire</a>, I </strong>talk about how mRNA factories are being built all over the world in preparation for the next disaster. <strong>As just one example, BioNTech's BioNTainer are portable, shippable, modular and turnkey mRNA manufacturing facilities. Each container can produce 50 million doses of mRNA shots per year&#8212;or any other vaccine for any other disease, take your pick.</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;For the next pandemic, we&#8217;ll have gigantic mRNA factories in India,&#8221; <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/for-the-next-pandemic-well-have-gigantic-mrna-factories-in-india/articleshow/86223792.cms">says</a> Bill Gates.</strong></p><p>&#8220;<strong>The goal is to make all these applications we were hoping for, pushing for, become part of everyday life,&#8221;</strong> said Dr. Adalja. &#8220;<strong>When they write the history of vaccines, this will probably be a turning point.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Yes, the Covid vaccines were a turning point. They showed that the majority of the world could be convinced to take an experimental drug, all at once, for the &#8220;common good&#8221;. If an even worse disaster strikes, the masses will be lining up and begging for their shot. They will be locking down and accusing their neighbor of causing death if they don&#8217;t comply. The grand Covid vaccine experiment might be waning. But we are being prepped for the next experiment. </p><p>Remember when we were told, Covid-19 mRNA vaccines do not enter your cells and they do not alter your DNA. Maybe that&#8217;s true and maybe it isn&#8217;t. Like with everything else, we receive conflicting information. So, let&#8217;s stick with facts. Let&#8217;s stick with what the experts tell us themselves. It will help us to see how these mRNA vaccines and the testing the masses were encouraged to do on themselves led to the acceptance of ever more invasive experiments. </p><p>The <strong><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/health-product-policy-and-standards/standards-and-specifications/vaccines-quality/dna">World Health Organization says</a></strong>:</p><blockquote><p>The field of DNA vaccination is developing rapidly. Vaccines currently being developed <strong>use not only DNA, but also include adjuncts that assist DNA to enter cells</strong>, target it towards specific cells, or that may act as adjuvants in stimulating or directing the immune response. Ultimately, the distinction between a sophisticated DNA vaccine and a simple viral vector may not be clear. <strong>Many aspects of the immune response generated by DNA vaccines are not understood. However, this has not impeded significant progress towards the use of this type of vaccine in humans, and clinical trials have begun</strong>.</p></blockquote><p>How many times are we told by scientists &#8220;<em><strong>we don&#8217;t understand what we&#8217;re doing</strong></em>&#8221;, but they keep doing it anyway. It&#8217;s all terribly exciting, they say, because it&#8217;s progress and you can&#8217;t stop progress. Be a good lab rat and jump into the petri dish&#8212;for the sake of progress. </p><p>With the next pandemic, we can be sure that more testing will be required. Data must be collected. And it will be done using <strong>CRISPR-Based technology. </strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Here is a simple chart that shows how CRISPR works: </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oKia!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F791e4fa3-4207-4f07-8581-442491314705_1200x1806.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Scientists are crazy for CRISPR. It means they can play God by messing around with our DNA. They can snip and stitch at a cellular level, altering everything from microbes to plants, to animals and yes, to you and me. Just think, says the skinny, bespeckled scientist, maybe we can turn everyone into Superman. Well, not everyone, not all those ordinary people we are experimenting on. But we&#8217;ll dazzle you by curing a few diseases, like the first CRISPR treatment being approved for Sickle Cell Anemia. Okay, it has a <strong><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-cure-sickle-cell-disease-first-treatment-use-gene-editing-rcna127979">price tag of $2.2 million per patient</a></strong>, but it&#8217;s a gamechanger! And yes, the process involves chemotherapy, another poison. Let&#8217;s see how it all plays out&#8230;</p><p>Showing they care about people with Sickle Cell Anemia, means they can keep on experimenting on everyone in order to cure us all. Because we are all sick with something, aren&#8217;t we? </p><p>The first step in this grand experiment is testing. Covid PCR tests prepared the masses to accept this invasion as normal and necessary. </p><h4>Let&#8217;s take a look at <strong><a href="https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/sherlock-biosciences-licenses-wyss-technology-to-create-affordable-molecular-diagnostics/#:~:text=SHERLOCK%2C%20which%20stands%20for%20%E2%80%9CSpecific%20High-sensitivity%20Enzymatic%20Reporter,molecule%20of%20DNA%20or%20RNA%20in%20a%20sample.">SHERLOCK</a> Biosciences. </strong></h4><p>In 2020 the company made history with the first FDA-authorized use of CRISPR technology. Their <strong>boast is that they are &#8220;engineering biology to test anywhere, </strong><em><strong>everywhere</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><blockquote><p>SHERLOCK, which stands for &#8220;<strong>Specific High-sensitivity Enzymatic Reporter unLOCKing</strong>,&#8221; is a CRISPR-based diagnostic tool that can detect genetic &#8220;fingerprints&#8221; across multiple organisms or sample types down to the single-digit attomolar scale, which could indicate the presence of a single molecule of DNA or RNA in a sample.</p></blockquote><p>It&#8217;s faster the PCR tests, can be completed in an hour, meaning thousands of tests can be added per day to a lab&#8217;s volume. Companies like SHERLOCK care about poor people, too. <strong>With its <a href="https://sherlock.bio/221b-foundation/">221B FOUNDATION</a>, Sherlock Biosciences is &#8220;committed to making a positive impact on global health&#8221;. Its mission is to &#8220;</strong><em><strong>b</strong>ring novel CRISPR based diagnostics to underserved populations around the world to maximize global impact and improve public health</em>&#8221;.</p><p>In November 2022, SHERLOCK Biosciences <strong><a href="https://sherlock.bio/sherlock-biosciences-receives-grant-to-advance-development-of-power-free-diagnostics/">announced</a></strong> that &#8220;technology developed with support from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation will Enable Testing in Remote Low- and Middle-income Environments, Expanding Healthcare Access and Improving Global Health&#8221;. </p><blockquote><p>Sherlock Biosciences is developing products that will empower people to access answers and have more control over their health decisions&#8230;. SHERLOCK and INSPECTR can be used in virtually any setting without complex instrumentation, making it well suited for use in the home and in low resource settings, opening up a wide range of potential applications in areas including infectious disease, early detection of cancer, treatment monitoring, and precision medicine. </p></blockquote><p>The day could well come when you will be tested for everything and anything and it will all go into a database controlled by the government. Such genetic databases are a goldmine. I&#8217;ve written more about this in essays like <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/the-nefarious-goal-behind-covid-testing">The Nefarious Goal Behind Covid Testing</a>. </strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Panel%20III_Ed%20You.pdf">Edward H You, Supervisory Special Agent, Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, Biological Countermeasures Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation </a></strong>is a former biochemist turned FBI investigator. This is what he has to <strong><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biodata-dna-china-collection-60-minutes-2021-01-31/">say</a></strong> about the dangers:</p><blockquote><p>They are building out a huge domestic database. And if they are now able to supplement that with data from all around the world, it's all about who gets the largest, most diverse data set. And so, the ticking time bomb is that once they're able to achieve true artificial intelligence, then they're off to the races in what they can do with that data.</p><p>Think about the dawn of-- the Internet of Things and the 5G networks and the-- and smart homes and smart cities. There are going to be sensors everywhere. It's gonna be tracking your movement, your behavior, your habits. And ultimately, it's gonna have a biological application, meaning that based on the data that gets collected, they'll be able to analyze that and look at improving your health. That data becomes incredibly relevant and very, very valuable.</p></blockquote><p>A government or a terrorist organization or a loner could take that data and target an individual or a group of people to infect with a disease. Experiments on figuring out ways to make this happen are regularly conducted in labs. We all remember the gain of function controversy surrounding Covid. We were assured by Dr. Fauci that the NIH never funded gain of function research at the Wuhan Lab. In 2020, President Donald Trump was laughed at for <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-wuhan-china-evidence-who-public-relations">suggesting</a> that the virus causing COVID-19 was either intentionally engineered or resulted from a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Just another one of his conspiracy theories.</p><p>By 2021, even mainstream news outlets like Newsweek admitted that Dr. Fauci was <strong><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-untruthful-congress-wuhan-lab-research-documents-show-gain-function-1627351">'Untruthful' to Congress About Wuhan Lab Research.</a></strong> Controversy continues over what really happened to this day. Somebody knows what&#8217;s true and what isn&#8217;t, but it&#8217;s unlikely they&#8217;ll let the masses they experiment on find out. </p><p>Whatever your opinion may be on Fauci&#8217;s truthfulness or lack thereof, it is no secret that the United States conducts experiments in China and other countries that are bad for its ethical, clean energy image. It makes sense that the &#8220;most powerful country in the world&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t want its rivals to get further than it does. That would be insane. Like every other war, battles rage between rivals that want to outsmart one another.  </p><h4><strong>Just last month it was reported that a <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/16/news/covid-19-strain-kills-100-of-infected-mice-in-chinese-lab-study/?utm_source=the_checkup&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_checkup.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_content=%2A%7Cdate%3Am-d-y%7C%2A&amp;mc_cid=94a4b97cd3&amp;mc_eid=b094cc63ca">Chinese lab crafted a mutant COVID-19 strain with a 100% kill rate in &#8216;humanized&#8217; mice resulting in a &#8216;surprisingly&#8217; rapid death</a>. </strong></h4><blockquote><p>In a Wuhan-esque study, Chinese scientists are experimenting with a mutant COVID-19 strain that is 100% lethal to &#8220;humanized&#8221; mice.</p><p>The deadly virus &#8212; known as GX_P2V &#8212; attacked the brains of mice that were engineered to reflect genetic makeup similar to people, according to a <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.03.574008v1.full">study shared last week out of Beijing.</a></p><p>All the mice that were infected with the virus died within just eight days, which researchers noted was a &#8220;surprisingly&#8221; rapid death rate.</p><p>GX_P2V had infected the lungs, bones, eyes, tracheas and brains of the dead mice, the last of which was severe enough to ultimately cause the death of the animals.</p><p>Most eerie of all, their eyes turned completely white the day before they died.</p><p>Francois Balloux, an epidemiology expert at University College London&#8217;s Genetics Institute, slammed the research as &#8220;terrible&#8221; and &#8220;scientifically totally pointless.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;The preprint does not specify the biosafety level and biosafety precautions used for the research,&#8221; he continued.</p><p>&#8220;The absence of this information raises the concerning possibility that part or all of this research, like the research in Wuhan in 2016-2019 that likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic, recklessly was performed without the minimal biosafety containment and practices essential for research with potential pandemic pathogens.&#8221;</p><p>Dr. Gennadi Glinsky, a retired professor of medicine at Stanford, <a href="https://twitter.com/gglinskii/status/1746798502603370731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1746798502603370731%7Ctwgr%5Efe8661a90ca4a4d59e850137dcde65b127f81e20%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoz.us%2Fchinese-scientists-created-a-new-mutation-of-covid-it-is-fatal-in-mice%2F%3Flang%3Den">wrote:</a> &#8220;<strong>This madness must be stopped before too late.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote><p>How many times have we heard that before. Of course, it won&#8217;t be stopped. Just like the race to make <strong><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/five-experts-explain-whether-ai-could-ever-become-as-intelligent-as-humans">Artificial General Intelligence</a></strong> won&#8217;t be stopped. Just like the use of <strong><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2023/01/30/us-defence-department-issues-new-directive-autonomy-in-weapons-systems-with-ai-policy-guidance/?sh=1b325c224308">Autonomous Weapons Systems</a> </strong>won&#8217;t be stopped. </p><p>You can&#8217;t stop progress!</p><p>CRISPR-Cas9 <a href="https://wyss.harvard.edu/media-post/crispr-cas9-gene-drives/">gene drive technology</a> can change the odds of inheriting a particular DNA sequence, and that can be a good thing. It can also be used to alter a virus, or a mosquito or a rat or whatever else some evil maniac wants to use to hurt people. </p><h4><strong><a href="https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2019/12/10/the-possible-dark-side-of-gene-editing-technologies/">The Dark Side to CRISPR technology, as Shelley Simona wrote about in Harvard Law&#8217;s Bill of Health, 2019 could far outweigh the good. </a></strong></h4><ul><li><p><strong>The Potential to Target&nbsp;</strong><em><strong>Groups</strong></em></p></li></ul><p><em>Over the past several decades, advances in genetic testing have led to the discovery that it is possible to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034383/#fn41">trace Jewish ancestry</a>&nbsp;and specific carriers of mutations that are more common among Jews (it should be emphasized that there is no such thing as a &#8220;Jewish gene&#8221;). Jews are perhaps not alone in this regard; many other populations may share genetic characteristics. Thus, gene editing technologies might intentionally be used as a &#8220;negative enhancement&#8221; tool against specific groups.</em></p><ul><li><p><strong>The Potential to Target&nbsp;</strong><em><strong>Individuals</strong></em></p></li></ul><p><em>The new developments in gene editing technologies might pave the way to an entirely new kind of &#8220;personal warfare.&#8221; It is not far-fetched to imagine a scenario where a prospective attacker would collect and grow live cells from a targeted person and, eventually, build a personally-targeted tool against him or her. Perhaps an easier way to collect genetic information would be through &#8220;gene-hacking.&#8221; It is likely that, in the future, there will be massive genetic databases. Like other databases, genetic databases will not be immune from cyber-attacks. Instead of trying to collect information from a tissue or a strand of hair that a particular person has left behind, gene-hackers will be able to collect genetic information by hacking into a database and then using it for illegitimate purposes.</em></p><ul><li><p><strong>Demographic Design</strong></p></li></ul><p><em>It is possible to think of a scenario in which governments will use gene editing technologies in order to control the population within their borders. This risk invokes Foucault&#8217;s concept of &#8220;biopolitics,&#8221; according to which states exercise power to allow life or death and to define and manage life itself. </em></p><p>What in the world have we gotten ourselves into? </p><h4>In February, the U.S. declared gene editing to be <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600774/top-us-intelligence-official-calls-gene-editing-a-wmd-threat/">a potential weapon of mass destruction</a>. </h4><p>At the same time, home kits to modify the genes of bacteria using CRISPR are <a href="http://www.the-odin.com/diy-bacterial-gene-engineering-crispr-kit/">on sale online for as little as $140</a>. The only restrictions I could find on these testing kits was in <strong><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/09/65433/dont-change-your-dna-at-home-says-americas-first-crispr-law/">California</a></strong> where a human biohacking bill makes it illegal to sell the kits&#8212;unless they carry a warning that says not to use them on yourself. What? So, you can&#8217;t use them on yourself, but you can use them on someone else? What about your cat? Or one of those cute little mice?   </p><h4>Companies like <strong><a href="https://www.creative-biolabs.com/stem-cell-therapy/crispr-service.htm?msclkid=717d53b451741a9eed98361c394e0123&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=ST-Service&amp;utm_term=crispr%20tool&amp;utm_content=ST-1-1-4-1%20CRISPR%20Service">Creative Biolabs</a></strong> are happy to sell you services including: </h4><p>1)&nbsp;gRNA Design and Vector Construction Service where either you can provide the target sequences, choose a vector and we construct the plasmid. Or for convenience, you can just provide genome sequence and we design the target sequences using our proprietary gRNA design tool.</p><p>2)&nbsp;CRISPR/Cas9 Cell Line Engineering that provides a variety of reliable CRISPR/Cas9 cell lines engineering services to produce a genetically modified cell using any mammalian cell line and targeting any gene.</p><p>3)&nbsp;CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Knockout Kits providing 2 gRNA vectors and donor DNA to help you modify the specific gene by yourself.</p><p>4)&nbsp;Transgenic Mice Services. </p><p>Yes, you can even order transgenic mice like the ones those Chinese scientists experimented on to create the mutant COVID-19 strain that was 100% lethal.</p><p>What are transgenic mice, you might ask. In 2007, <strong><a href="https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/science/transgenic/#:~:text=During%20the%201980s%2C%20Capecchi%20devised%20a%20way%20to,%22knockout%22%20mice%20have%20become%20commonplace%20in%20the%20laboratory.">Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., of the University of Uta</a></strong> won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for devising &#8220;a way to change or remove any single gene in the mouse genome, creating strains of mice that pass the altered gene from parent to offspring. In the years since, these &#8216;transgenic&#8217; and &#8216;knockout&#8217; mice have become commonplace in the laboratory&#8221;.</p><p>How about &#8216;transgenic&#8217; or &#8216;knockout&#8217; people? How long will it be before we accept them as commonplace in the laboratory?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h4>Biohackers are the cool rebels of the scientific world. Among them, Josiah Zayner is considered to be a legend. </h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRXS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F355b6123-a556-4693-9fd1-fec32d7d2f54_960x540.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRXS!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F355b6123-a556-4693-9fd1-fec32d7d2f54_960x540.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRXS!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F355b6123-a556-4693-9fd1-fec32d7d2f54_960x540.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRXS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F355b6123-a556-4693-9fd1-fec32d7d2f54_960x540.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRXS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F355b6123-a556-4693-9fd1-fec32d7d2f54_960x540.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRXS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F355b6123-a556-4693-9fd1-fec32d7d2f54_960x540.jpeg" width="960" height="540" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/355b6123-a556-4693-9fd1-fec32d7d2f54_960x540.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:540,&quot;width&quot;:960,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Meet Josiah Zayner, the Biohacker Next Door content piece image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Meet Josiah Zayner, the Biohacker Next Door content piece image" title="Meet Josiah Zayner, the Biohacker Next Door content piece image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRXS!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F355b6123-a556-4693-9fd1-fec32d7d2f54_960x540.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRXS!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F355b6123-a556-4693-9fd1-fec32d7d2f54_960x540.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRXS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F355b6123-a556-4693-9fd1-fec32d7d2f54_960x540.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vRXS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F355b6123-a556-4693-9fd1-fec32d7d2f54_960x540.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Josiah Zayner has a PhD in molecular biophysics and spent two years as a research fellow at NASA. To me, he&#8217;s like the Andy Warhol of the biohacker world. You could say he&#8217;s made it into a kind of performance art.</p><p>Zayner has his own company, <a href="http://www.the-odin.com/">The Odin</a>, and sells his biohacking kits to the general public. He believes everyone should have access to the technology that governments hide behind closed doors in their labs.</p><p>A 2016 article in <em>The Verge</em><strong><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/4/11581994/fmt-fecal-matter-transplant-josiah-zayner-microbiome-ibs-c-diff"> describes</a></strong> how Zayner sterilized his body to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/4/11581994/fmt-fecal-matter-transplant-josiah-zayner-microbiome-ibs-c-diff">&#8220;transplant&#8221; his entire microbiome</a> in front of a reporter. He documents all his experiments, like his attempts to <a href="http://www.ifyoudontknownowyaknow.com/2017/02/how-to-genetically-engineer-human-part.html">genetically engineer the color of his skin</a>. In an attempt to enhance his muscles, <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/this-biohacker-wants-to-edit-his-own-dna?utm_term=.rsJBR678M#.evELlvD9p">he injected himself with DNA encoding for CRISPR</a> and live-streamed it on YouTube. </p><p>According to the Odin website:</p><p>&#8220;&#8230;we believe the future is going to be dominated by genetic engineering and consumer genetic design will be a big part of that. We are making that happen by creating kits and tools that allow anyone to make unique and usable organisms at home or in a lab or anywhere.&#8221;</p><p>Here are examples of products that you can order:</p><p><strong>Cell Culture Lab Kit: </strong>$3,973.00</p><p><strong>Grow Your Own Penicillin Testing Kit: </strong>$79.99</p><p><strong>Glowmander - Fluorescent GFP Axolotl: </strong>$299.00</p><p><strong>Genetic Engineering Home Lab Kit: </strong><s>$2,500.00</s> $1,664.00</p><p>What do you think? If governments can do these things, if scientists can experiment on us with all these tests and vaccines and now the promise of altering our DNA, shouldn&#8217;t we be allowed to do it to ourselves? Or should we trustingly put our ourselves into the hands of the scientists employed by our government? Or should it all be stopped completely? </p><p>In his book <em>The Code Breaker</em>, author <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/10/06/353269811/how-the-cold-war-and-george-orwell-helped-make-the-internet-what-it-is">Walter Isaacson</a> likens CRISPR&#8217;s technological capabilities to "Prometheus snatching fire from the gods &#8212; or maybe Adam and Eve biting into the apple."</p><p>And we all know how that turned out. </p><p>"The very secrets of life &#8212; our DNA &#8212; is something that we can not only read these days, but we can write. We can rewrite it if we want to," Isaacson says. "Like any technology, [it] is only as good or bad as we are."</p><p>I guess the real question is, which part of us will prevail in the end, the good or the bad?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/p/disease-x-covid-19-and-bio-hacking?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" 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isPermaLink="false">https://khmezek.substack.com/p/how-your-dna-is-being-used-against</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 13:20:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xnxJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96146282-885c-4a27-803c-a47822f4396b_2051x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Just by breathing, you&#8217;re discarding DNA in a way that can be traced back to you.&#8221; ~ <a href="https://ethics.harvard.edu/people/anna-lewis">Anna </a> </p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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If you haven&#8217;t yet, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. It&#8217;s thanks to you that I am able to research, write and record these essays, articles and interviews. </strong></em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><strong>One-time or recurring donations can be made at <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/khmezek8">Ko-Fi</a>.</strong></p><p><strong>You can listen to me read this essay here</strong>:</p><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;c857879a-57f3-486f-955c-714a64d2fd8d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:1264.2482,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h4>This morning I <strong><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/other/pandemonium-as-horse-escapes-on-boeing-747-mid-flight/ar-AA1jZiPS">read</a></strong> about a horse escaping on a Boeing 747 mid-flight. </h4><p>The plane was already 30 minutes into its flight to Belgium when its unusual cargo broke free of its constraints and that was it&#8212;complete chaos at 30,000 feet. </p><p> "There's no issue with flying,&#8221; the pilot could be heard saying, &#8220;but we need to go back to New York as we can't resecure the horse."</p><p>Apparently, animals escaping on planes isn&#8217;t all that unusual. Last month, an <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/rat-otter-escape-plane-flight-b2425200.html">otter and a rat</a> caused mayhem on a flight from Thailand to Taiwan. Earlier this month, a young bear <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/bear-escapes-crate-planes-cargo-hold-causing-unbearable-delay-rcna98528">managed to escape</a> on a flight from Baghdad to Dubai. </p><p>Animals don&#8217;t belong on airplanes. They don&#8217;t feel at home high in the sky, it&#8217;s unnatural. They have to be heavily sedated to get them through the terrifying experience. I guess they didn&#8217;t give those animals enough drugs. </p><p>It made me think about what I&#8217;m writing today. The governments, corporations and scientists that invest <em><strong>our</strong></em> money (and pay themselves billions of <em><strong>our</strong></em> dollars in the process) to research and experiment on <em><strong>our</strong></em> bodies by altering the very language of life, <em><strong>our</strong></em> DNA, are sure they have everything under control. But what makes them think they can control life and mold it to their will when they don&#8217;t even know how it started or the mystery of that spark. </p><p>And perhaps one day we ordinary humans will regret giving ourselves over so naively to be analyzed and dissected by these greedy, short-sighted and power-hungry overlords. They promise that their experiments are for our own good, to make us safer, healthier and happier, when their real desire is to extract every bit of information from our DNA in order to create something new and improved&#8212;and synthetic. </p><p>It was exactly one year ago at the G20 Summit in Indonesia that world leaders signed a &#8220;<strong><a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/global-pulse/2022/02/24/who-vaccine-passports-00011144">Declaration to Introduce COVID Vaccine Passports&#8221;</a>, </strong>as well as amendments to its pandemic treaty that would &#8220;require swift action by countries and the WHO during an emergency and give the WHO greater powers to act during a crisis&#8221;. The plan was to &#8220;introduce vaccine passports for their respective jurisdictions, with the stated intention of creating a global verification system to facilitate safe international travel&#8221;.</p><p>The G20 promised that a Digital Health Certificate using World Health Organization (WHO) standards would be introduced during the next World Health Assembly in Geneva, in May of 2023.</p><p>&#8220;If you have been vaccinated or tested properly, you can move around. So, for the next pandemic, instead of stopping the movement of people 100%, you can still provide <em><strong>some</strong></em> <em><strong>movement of the people</strong></em>,&#8221; Mr. Sadikin said.</p><p>What exactly <em><strong>some movement of the people</strong></em> means remains to be seen. </p><p><a href="https://www.westernstandard.news/news/g20-leaders-sign-declaration-to-create-global-vaccine-passport-system/article_26d55dec-668c-11ed-a850-cb28a0316827.html">In a statement,</a> the leaders affirmed two goals:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Their respective countries&#8217; support of the WHO mRNA Vaccine Technology Transfer hub, which aims to build capacity in low- and middle-income countries to produce mRNA vaccines.</strong> (I wrote about these hubs in <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/building-the-mrna-empire">Building the mRNA Empire</a>.) </strong></p></li><li><p>Their commitment to a globalized &#8216;vaccination passport&#8217;.</p></li></ul><h4>True to their promise one year ago, on June 2, 2023, the WHO <strong><a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/05-06-2023-the-european-commission-and-who-launch-landmark-digital-health-initiative-to-strengthen-global-health-security">announced</a></strong> the launch of a landmark digital health initiative to be rolled out in Europe:</h4><blockquote><p>WHO will take up the European Union (EU) system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish a global system that will help facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats, including pandemics.</p></blockquote><p>So far, the <strong><a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/global-pulse/2022/02/24/who-vaccine-passports-00011144">U.S. doesn&#8217;t have a national inoculation database.</a> </strong>However, there are many other ways that our DNA is collected, often without our knowledge or permission. As early as 1990, the FBI began building its treasure trove of DNA. Since then, it has amassed 21.7 million DNA profiles &#8212; equivalent to about 7 percent of the U.S. population &#8212; according to <a href="https://le.fbi.gov/science-and-lab/biometrics-and-fingerprints/codis/codis-ndis-statistics">Bureau data</a> reviewed by <strong><a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/08/29/fbi-dna-collection-surveillance/">The Intercept.</a></strong></p><blockquote><p>In an April 2023 statement submitted to Congress to explain the FBI&#8217;s request to nearly double its current $56.7 million budget, FBI Director Christopher Wray said the FBI collected around 90,000 samples a month &#8212; &#8220;over 10 times the historical sample volume&#8221; &#8212; and expected that number to swell to about 120,000 a month, totaling about 1.5 million new DNA samples a year.</p></blockquote><p>What started as a way to monitor violent criminals or sex offenders, is now a way to collect the DNA of any &#8220;person of interest&#8221;. </p><p>But that isn&#8217;t all. </p><h4>Over the years, scientists have been perfecting their methods for collecting DNA and have turned their attention to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/science/environmental-dna-ethics-privacy.html">environmental DNA</a>, or eDNA. </h4><p>An inexpensive tool for ecologists, eDNA is <em><strong>everywhere</strong></em> &#8212; floating in the air, water, snow, food, your last cup of coffee. The eDNA technology is used in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/health/covid-sewage-wastewater-data.html">wastewater surveillance systems</a> to monitor Covid and other pathogens. </p><p>A <strong><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875176822001068">study </a></strong>demonstrated that scientists could recover medical and ancestry information from minute fragments of human DNA lingering in the environment. DNA of specific individuals can be recovered from spaces such as office buildings, apartment buildings, airports, restaurants. </p><p>Recently, researchers descended on the small town of St. Augustine, Florida and, from a &#8220;soda-can-size sample of water from a creek&#8221;, recovered &#8220;enough mitochondrial DNA &#8212; passed directly from mother to child for thousands of generations &#8212; to generate a snapshot of the genetic ancestry of the population around the creek&#8230;. One mitochondrial sample was even complete enough to meet the requirements for the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/dna-fingerprint-act-of-2005-expungement-policy/codis-and-ndis-fact-sheet">federal missing persons database.</a> They also found key mutations shown to carry a higher risk of diabetes, cardiac issues or several eye diseases&#8221;.</p><p>Scientists assure us that such eDNA samples will only be used for good by helping to predict pandemics, or uncovering mutations that cause a disease within a community. </p><p>Yet, those same eDNA samples could equally be used to find and persecute ethnic minorities or people who are prone to certain illnesses. If you carry it a step further and into the realm of biowarfare, certain groups could purposely be infected with illnesses while the rest of the population would not. </p><p>&#8220;This gives a powerful new tool to authorities,&#8221; said <a href="https://ethics.harvard.edu/people/anna-lewis">Anna Lewis</a>, a Harvard researcher who studies the ethical, legal and social implications of genetics research. &#8220;There&#8217;s internationally plenty of reason, I think, to be concerned.&#8221; </p><p>Countries like China already conduct <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/business/china-dna-science-surveillance.html">extensive and explicit genetic tracking of minority populations</a>, including Tibetans and Uighurs. Tools like eDNA analysis could make it that much easier. </p><h4>Knowing the DNA of an ethnic group means that they could be targeted with biowarfare.</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZbSY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb1730f7-8efc-4509-a745-b72544dbacaa_2048x1367.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZbSY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb1730f7-8efc-4509-a745-b72544dbacaa_2048x1367.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZbSY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb1730f7-8efc-4509-a745-b72544dbacaa_2048x1367.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZbSY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb1730f7-8efc-4509-a745-b72544dbacaa_2048x1367.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZbSY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb1730f7-8efc-4509-a745-b72544dbacaa_2048x1367.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZbSY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb1730f7-8efc-4509-a745-b72544dbacaa_2048x1367.jpeg" width="1456" height="972" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/db1730f7-8efc-4509-a745-b72544dbacaa_2048x1367.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:972,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;In China, facial recognition is sharp end of a drive for total surveillance - Chicago Tribune&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="In China, facial recognition is sharp end of a drive for total surveillance - Chicago Tribune" title="In China, facial recognition is sharp end of a drive for total surveillance - Chicago Tribune" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZbSY!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb1730f7-8efc-4509-a745-b72544dbacaa_2048x1367.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZbSY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb1730f7-8efc-4509-a745-b72544dbacaa_2048x1367.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZbSY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb1730f7-8efc-4509-a745-b72544dbacaa_2048x1367.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZbSY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb1730f7-8efc-4509-a745-b72544dbacaa_2048x1367.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>An NIH article <strong><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150198/">Biological Warfare: Infectious Disease and Bioterrorism</a> puts it like this:</strong></p><blockquote><p>Although we rarely perceive it this way, infectious disease is just another manifestation of biological warfare that is ubiquitous throughout life. The evolutionary relationship between hosts and pathogens is essentially a never-ending arms race. When a pathogen evolves a new toxin, the host evolves a response to it. Humanity has taken this arms race one step further by utilizing technology such as vaccines and industrial-scale manufacturing of antibiotics. However, the microbes are fighting back.</p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/297/5579/174.2.long">Scientists</a></strong>&nbsp;think they can control nature. But they have no idea the long-term consequences of their actions. As humanity&#8217;s natural immune system is destroyed by toxic chemicals, drugs, and the very technology that we are promised will save us, experts aren&#8217;t suggesting we return to natural remedies and a healthier lifestyle, rather we must ingest more and more of the synthetic drugs perpetuating our illnesses.</p><p>Those who get richer and more powerful thanks to the drug and surveillance industries, know very well the dangers this course poses for humanity, yet they keep doing it anyway. It is a way to keep the populace docile and under their control. </p><h4>Any DNA floating around can be used by authorities to track the populace, to incriminate a person, or to biologically attack them. </h4><p>Recent developments in synthetic biology&#8212;which the National Academy of Sciences defines as &#8220;concepts, approaches, and tools which enable the modification or creation of biological organisms&#8221;&#8212;pose a profound threat. Synthetic bioweapons (SNBWs) can be engineered to target very specific populations or individuals.</p><p>Once your DNA leaves your body, it is no longer yours. What are the rules of privacy then? They do not exist. It is a free-for-all.</p><p> &#8220;Just by breathing, you&#8217;re discarding DNA in a way that can be traced back to you,&#8221; Lewis said.</p><p>If authorities collect your DNA, it doesn&#8217;t just affect you, it also affects &#8220;family members and, in some contexts, communities,&#8221; said <a href="https://www.mhe.cuimc.columbia.edu/profile/sandra-s-lee-phd">Sandra Soo-Jin Lee</a>, a biomedical ethicist at Columbia University.</p><p>&#8220;DNA tracks to your extended relatives, tracks forward in time to your children, tracks backward in time to your ancestors,&#8221; Ms. Murphy added. &#8220;In the future, who knows what DNA will tell us about people or how it might be used?&#8221;</p><h4><strong>Which leads us to the CDC&#8217;s announcement of its new <a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/travel-genomic-surveillance">Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program</a>. </strong></h4><p>International travelers arriving at participating airports can <strong>volunteer</strong> to self-collect nasal swab samples which are then shipped to a laboratory network. Samples that test positive for SARS-CoV-2 undergo whole genome sequencing to determine variants.</p><p>However, do not think this is in any way just about Covid. Covid was the excuse to set up a system tracking and monitoring ordinary citizens. </p><p><strong><a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/travel-genomic-surveillance">The CDC and Gingko Bioworks are leading the Future of Disease Surveillance</a>:</strong></p><p>According to <strong>Ginkgo&#8217;s press release:</strong></p><blockquote><p>Concentric by Ginkgo, the biosecurity and public health unit of Ginkgo Bioworks, and XpresCheck by XWELL, are partnering to expand their work with the CDC to monitor more than 30 new viruses, bacteria, and antimicrobial resistance targets including several seasonal respiratory pathogens, such as influenza A and B, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2. The partners continue to help the CDC grow TGS's capabilities to detect pathogens as early as possible, allowing for the best public health response.</p><p>The program expansion will launch at four of the program's seven major international airports (New York, JFK, San Francisco, Boston, and Washington DC, Dulles).&nbsp;</p><p>The TGS program has proven to be an agile and beneficial asset to public health officials in the United States&#8212;quickly adapting to an evolving pandemic in real time since it launched in 2021. As of October 2023, TGS has enlisted over 370,000 travelers and maintains an ongoing enrollment of around 6,000 volunteer travelers weekly. The program covers travelers from all World Health Organization regions and more than 135 countries. Since its inception, the program has sequenced more than 14,000 samples and made the genomic data available on several public health platforms to enable further analysis. The expansion will enhance the program's ability to monitor and change focus as needed to identify priority pathogens. The TGS program can augment global surveillance systems, especially as testing and sequencing information become limited as Covid-19 monitoring wanes.</p></blockquote><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;We thank the volunteers who elect to swab their noses in service to our national security and public health.&#8221; ~ ExpresCheck CEO Ezra Ernst</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h4><strong>So, what is <a href="https://www.ginkgobioworks.com/">GINKGO BIOWORKS</a>?</strong></h4><p>It&#8217;s a one-stop-shop that describes itself as &#8220;BIOLOGY BY DESIGN&#8221;. You can go on the website and &#8220;explore Ginkgo&#8217;s capabilities for therapeutics and vaccines, agriculture, nutrition and wellness, and more&#8221;. </p><p>Since 2015, when Gingko was the first biotech company to be accepted for seed funding by <strong><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-y-combinator-changed-the-world/">Y Combinator</a></strong>, Ginkgo has raised $429 million, which includes $275 million in <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/14/ginkgo-bioworks-raises-275-million/">funding</a> from Bill Gates&#8217; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Investment">Cascade Investment</a> and others. Ginkgo is reportedly now worth over $1 billion.</p><blockquote><p>Ginkgo Bioworks is the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, providing flexible, end-to-end services that solve challenges for organizations across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to pharmaceuticals to industrial and specialty chemicals. Ginkgo's biosecurity and public health unit, Concentric by Ginkgo, is building global infrastructure for biosecurity to empower governments, communities, and public health leaders to prevent, detect and respond to a wide variety of biological threats.</p></blockquote><p><strong>Here are some of the ways Gingko Bioworks is extending its reach:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Gingko Bioworks is <strong><a href="https://investors.ginkgobioworks.com/news/news-details/2023/Concentric-by-Ginkgo-Partners-with-Penn-State-University-on-Zoonotic-Disease-Biosurveillance-Research-Supported-by-USDA-Grant/default.aspx">partnering with Penn State University</a></strong> to &#8220;integrate its biosurveillance capabilities into the university's research of 58 wildlife species for SARS-CoV-2 to monitor potential spillover to humans&#8221;.</p></li><li><p>It is setting up a <strong><a href="https://investors.ginkgobioworks.com/news/news-details/2023/Government-of-Serbia-and-Ginkgo-Bioworks-Announce-Bioeconomy-Collaboration-in-BIO4-Campus/default.aspx">BIO4 campus in Serbia,</a></strong> an initiative that has already gathered &#8220;more than 1,000 PhD scientists from 17 scientific institutions, and the campus itself will open in 2026. BIO4 brings together the research centers of companies active in biomedicine, biotechnology, bioinformatics and biodiversity. Partnerships have already been signed with AstraZeneca, BGI, Merck, Pfizer, Roche, and more.</p></li><li><p>To feed a rapidly growing population on a warming planet, society needs to develop innovative new technologies to grow and distribute food. At Ginkgo, we are working towards a future where genetic engineering can help make foods that are sustainable, healthier, delicious, and accessible to everyone.</p></li><li><p>In 2017, Gingko acquired Gen9, where scientists &#8220;manipulate DNA&#8221; to create &#8220;new life forms that do things we tell them to do&#8221;. They are &#8220;building nanobot factories that will produce microscopic biological machines programmed to make things more efficient and effective&#8221;. They are &#8220;dissecting organisms and putting them back together to make biological nanobots that perform functions for their creator&#8221;.</p></li></ul><h4>One of these legendary creators, and a founder of Gen9, is George Church, who in 2018, co-founded <a href="https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/">Nebula Genomics</a>, a personal genomics company that offers a &#8220;whole-genome sequencing service&#8221;. </h4><p>In fact, the company is developing its own <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain">blockchain</a>. It claims it will help you &#8220;decode all your genes and identify mutations&#8221;, &#8220;learn about the genetics of your mind&#8221;, &#8220;use genetic information to extend your life&#8221;, and so on. All of this can be yours, in exchange for your &#8220;genomic and personal data&#8221; so that you can &#8220;contribute to future discoveries&#8221;.  </p><p>Yes, everyone wants your data, they are just salivating to get it. </p><h4><strong><a href="https://www.gatesphilanthropypartners.org/perspectives/2022-genomicsurveillance">Bill Gates is another one of those creators who is investing big in genomic surveillance and genomic sequencing</a>, along with Gingko, the US CDC and Africa CDC. </strong></h4><p><strong><a href="https://africacdc.org/institutes/ipg/#:~:text=Africa%20CDC%20Institute%20of%20Pathogen%20Genomics%2C%20through%20the,infrastructure%20to%20fully%20leverage%20critical%20genomic%20sequencing%20technologies.">Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative</a></strong>, which launched in 2020 as a joint initiative of the Africa CDC and member states of the African Union.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dw2K!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80fdb320-be15-45b3-965b-094f907fcb8e_1200x500.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dw2K!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80fdb320-be15-45b3-965b-094f907fcb8e_1200x500.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dw2K!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80fdb320-be15-45b3-965b-094f907fcb8e_1200x500.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dw2K!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80fdb320-be15-45b3-965b-094f907fcb8e_1200x500.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dw2K!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80fdb320-be15-45b3-965b-094f907fcb8e_1200x500.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dw2K!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80fdb320-be15-45b3-965b-094f907fcb8e_1200x500.jpeg" width="1200" height="500" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/80fdb320-be15-45b3-965b-094f907fcb8e_1200x500.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:500,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Institute of Pathogen Genomics (IPG) &#8211; 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For example, at the start of 2021 there were about 5,600 sequences of SARS-COV-2 in existence and by the end of 2021, there were over 60,000. The initial plan was to phase-in labs in 20 countries over four years, but the initiative has already expanded to 45 countries. </p><p>Short term goals involved Covid, but Covid was just the beginning. As Dr. Blazes explains, &#8220;In the medium-term, we hope that the initiative is able to also address cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis, and other diseases. Longer term plans include building links between genomic surveillance and local manufacturing of diagnostics, medicines and vaccines. We&#8217;ll also be eager to see the types of networks that are built between labs&#8212;as well as ministries of health and the Africa CDC.&#8221;</p><p>How far are we willing to go in giving up our data to the Vast Machine and those who are feeding it. We cannot even breathe without our DNA being collected and analyzed. But don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s all for the greater good, just like George Church assures us. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fZrg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff95ff2df-a149-41ed-9355-52ba4b1db375_1280x640.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fZrg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff95ff2df-a149-41ed-9355-52ba4b1db375_1280x640.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fZrg!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff95ff2df-a149-41ed-9355-52ba4b1db375_1280x640.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fZrg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff95ff2df-a149-41ed-9355-52ba4b1db375_1280x640.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fZrg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff95ff2df-a149-41ed-9355-52ba4b1db375_1280x640.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fZrg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff95ff2df-a149-41ed-9355-52ba4b1db375_1280x640.jpeg" width="1280" height="640" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f95ff2df-a149-41ed-9355-52ba4b1db375_1280x640.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:640,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Strange Biology &#8212; George Church on Mammoths George Church is a...&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Strange Biology &#8212; George Church on Mammoths George Church is a..." title="Strange Biology &#8212; George Church on Mammoths George Church is a..." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fZrg!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff95ff2df-a149-41ed-9355-52ba4b1db375_1280x640.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fZrg!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff95ff2df-a149-41ed-9355-52ba4b1db375_1280x640.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fZrg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff95ff2df-a149-41ed-9355-52ba4b1db375_1280x640.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fZrg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff95ff2df-a149-41ed-9355-52ba4b1db375_1280x640.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Prof. George Church&#8217;s the Human Genome Project-Write is developing technologies for large-scale engineering of human genomes. Thanks to advancements in synthetic biology, he dreams of reviving the woolly mammoth by inserting mammoth DNA into elephant skin cells which can then be turned into stem cells and used to produce embryos. </p><h4>This is called &#8220;creating the world of tomorrow&#8221;.  </h4><p>But it&#8217;s not really about making you or me healthier, it&#8217;s not really even about bringing woolly mammals back to life, although that&#8217;s a great selling point. Once again, all roads lead back to the elites wanting to live forever&#8212;and using us as lab rats to do so. </p><p>Here&#8217;s the scruffy, bearded, elderly Church telling Stephen Colbert how he expects to live forever. </p><div id="youtube2-4kuYQwfmUTc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;4kuYQwfmUTc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4kuYQwfmUTc?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Church excitedly tells Colbert how he&#8217;s demonstrated age reversal in animals and Colbert jokingly asks if he cuts a check could he maybe get on the list of folks who will be made younger? </p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s who you know, that&#8217;s how you live forever,&#8221; says Colbert. </p><p>It&#8217;s a joke, but it isn&#8217;t really. </p><p>Nope, your DNA isn&#8217;t being collected at the airport because the government cares about your health and safety and whether or not you have the flu and if you might pass it on to someone else. </p><p>It&#8217;s all about collecting masses of DNA from the populace, feeding it to the Vast Machine to read and interpret it, using CRISPR to edit it&#8212;which I didn&#8217;t go into here, but I have in other essays such as <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/techno-eugenics">Techno Eugenics</a>&#8212;</strong>so that a new race can be born that will live forever. </p><p>No matter which way we turn, all roads seem to lead to this unattainable destination. 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You say you&#8217;re healthy? So, what! Jump on the conveyor belt of these new gene therapies&#8212;or else. </p><p>Remember when we were told the <strong><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/covid-coronavirus-mrna-vaccines-human-dna-conspiracy-theory-fact-check-1558962">mRNA Covid vaccines do not alter our DNA</a>, </strong>as if such a crazy thing would never happen in a million years. Now, without skipping a beat, we are being told that a vaccine can &#8220;alter your DNA to provide life-long protection&#8221;. </p><p>Are we all supposed to be suffering from memory loss? Are we supposed to say, &#8220;Great&#8212;give it to me!&#8221; </p><p>Just like we&#8217;ve been told ever since the day we were born, that we should accept every drug the industry has pushed on us by everyone from our favorite celebrity to our local doctor. All of whom are either being paid for their compliance or blackmailed into silence, or both. </p><p>As Dr Tedros tells us: </p><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>&#8220;Our vision is not health for some. It&#8217;s not health for most. It&#8217;s health for all: rich and poor, able and disabled, old and young, urban and rural, citizen and refugee. Everyone, everywhere.&#8221;&nbsp;</strong></p></div><p>How lucky we are to have such kind masters. Not a single person on the planet is going escape their good graces. </p><p>Never forget what they already convinced people to do&#8212;even parents to their own children: </p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://twitter.com/AndersonAfDMdEP/status/1623366799432552457?t=gbW5FXdGYqzTn1XG4SR1zw&amp;s=09&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;&#127468;&#127463;|Warning! Disturbing video! &#129324;\n\nForgive and forget? - NEVER&#8252;&#65039;\n\nI don't know what to despise more: this monster of a \&quot;<span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>#mother</span>\&quot; or a government <span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>#propaganda</span> that mutates mothers into such monsters. <span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>#PCR</span>  <span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>#corona</span> <span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>#vaccineinjuries</span>  <span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>#Covid</span> <span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>#Covid19</span> &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;AndersonAfDMdEP&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Christine Anderson&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;Wed Feb 08 17:03:00 +0000 2023&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/upload/w_1028,c_limit,q_auto:best/l_twitter_play_button_rvaygk,w_88/ndmcelj3usopjqjiodm5&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/hVlNm2VbGg&quot;,&quot;alt_text&quot;:null}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:0,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:426,&quot;like_count&quot;:1032,&quot;impression_count&quot;:0,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:{},&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1623300031431208961/pu/vid/320x568/jwKJmgd_FIpxoUAB.mp4?tag=12&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>You can say, but that&#8217;s all behind us now. Nobody will do that again. People won&#8217;t accept it. We have moved on. What happens when the next pandemic creates even greater fear? Because we can be sure it&#8217;s being planned. Otherwise, what will they do with all those vaccines they have in the pipeline? A new pandemic is inevitable.  </p><p>Bill Gates <strong><a href="https://www.ibtimes.com/bill-gates-warns-next-pandemic-could-be-society-ending-3534608">believes</a></strong> the world got &#8220;lucky&#8221; with the <a href="https://www.ibtimes.com/why-are-covid-cases-rising-us-again-3513651">COVID-19 pandemic</a> and thinks the next one could be &#8220;society-ending&#8221; with a fatality rate that is much higher than the coronavirus death toll. You can dismiss Gates&#8217; doom and gloom prophecies if you want, but the fact is, he is the vaccine Czar and so far, unless someone stops him, his predictions have been coming true like clockwork. </p><p>A year ago, The Gates Foundation <a href="https://twitter.com/gatesfoundation/status/1483858986684194818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1483858986684194818%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetro.co.uk%2F2022%2F01%2F20%2Fbill-gates-warns-future-pandemics-could-be-even-worse-than-covid-15952695%2F">announced</a>: "In partnership with @wellcometrust, we're each committing $150M to @CEPIvaccines to advance vaccine research and delivery." Gates states: "To truly end Covid, and make sure we never have another disastrous pandemic, we need innovation, particularly innovation in vaccines."</p><p>The <strong><a href="https://wellcome.org/">Wellcome Trust</a></strong> is the world's biggest medical research charity. <strong><a href="https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/06/investigative-reports/a-leap-toward-humanitys-destruction/">Unlimited Hangout exposes</a></strong> Wellcome&#8217;s partnership with DARPA:</p><blockquote><p>This global health DARPA, known as Wellcome Leap, seeks to achieve &#8220;breakthrough scientific and technological solutions&#8221; by or before 2030, with a focus on &#8220;complex global health challenges.&#8221; The Wellcome Trust is <a href="https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/our-work/wellcome-leap#more-information-6573">open about</a> how Wellcome Leap will apply the approaches of Silicon Valley and venture capital firms to the health and life science sector. Unsurprisingly, their three current programs are poised to develop incredibly invasive tech-focused, and in some cases overtly transhumanist, medical technologies, including a program exclusively focused on using artificial intelligence (AI), mobile sensors, and wearable brain-mapping tech for children three years old and younger.</p></blockquote><p>It is <strong><a href="https://www.scilife.io/blog/life-sciences-trends">predicted </a></strong>that &#8220;by 2025, most hospitals will be able to offer personalized medicine to their patients. In this way, doctors can identify patient groups based on their genetic makeup and prescribe medications based on that information. As more <strong>people gain access to their genome sequences over the next few years,</strong> this trend is expected to accelerate by 2027.&#8221;</p><p>What happens if a person doesn&#8217;t want to take their &#8220;personalized&#8221; medicine? If in the future, children from &#8220;as a young an age as three are hooked up to artificial intelligence, mobile sensors and wearable brain-mapping tech&#8221;, they will not be able to simply get rid of it. It will be a part of their normal lives that they wouldn&#8217;t know how to live without. How far are we from assigning children their own AI companion like <strong><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/19/world/moxie-robot-hnk-spc-intl/index.html">Moxie</a></strong> at birth that will monitor them constantly, while being their &#8220;friend&#8221;? I would imagine that the prospect of living without such oversite could even be terrifying for a person who has only ever known such invasive monitoring and control over their bodies and their minds.</p><p>There&#8217;s hardly a country in the world that isn&#8217;t taking advantage of the Golden Age of Vaccines. Take a look at Japan, where Daiichi Sankyo just announced that it is outfitting a plant to produce its mRNA Covid shot, just weeks after submitting an application for its approval: </p><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>&#8220;The Kitamoto facility would become the <a href="https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/shot-way-daiichi-sankyo-builds-japans-first-mrna-covid-vaccine-plant#:~:text=The%20Kitamoto%20facility%20would%20become,government%20funded%2C%20Nikkei%20Asia%20reported.">first mRNA vaccine plant</a> in the country and would be able to produce 20 million doses per year by 2024&#8221;.</strong></p></div><p>At the 2023 WEF meeting in Davos, St&#233;phane Bancel <strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/moderna-pfizers-new-race-the-rsv-vaccine-fda-approval-process.html">stated</a></strong> he'd "like to have mRNA capacity on every continent."</p><p>As of January 2023, Moderna has <strong><a href="https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/23/01/ac30329493/moderna-announces-advances-across-mrna-pipeline-and-provides-business-update">48 programs in development</a></strong>, including "36 programs in clinical trials encompassing investigational mRNA infectious disease vaccine candidates and mRNA therapeutic candidates spanning seven different modalities."</p><p>You can read Bancel&#8217;s promises <strong><a href="https://www.modernatx.com/media-center/all-media/blogs/Vaccines-Respiratory-Syncytial-virus">here</a>. </strong>More interesting than his promises is Moderna&#8217;s &#8220;Forward-Looking Statements&#8221; at the end of his exciting drug line-up.</p><blockquote><p>In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as &#8220;will,&#8221; &#8220;may,&#8221; &#8220;should,&#8221; &#8220;could,&#8221; &#8220;expects,&#8221; &#8220;intends,&#8221; &#8220;plans,&#8221; &#8220;aims,&#8221; &#8220;anticipates,&#8221; &#8220;believes,&#8221; &#8220;estimates,&#8221; &#8220;predicts,&#8221; &#8220;potential,&#8221; &#8220;continue,&#8221; or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. The forward-looking statements in this post are neither promises nor guarantees, and you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond Moderna&#8217;s control and which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.</p></blockquote><p>This should reassure us all, yes?</p><p>Yes, of course! Even the Pentagon's jumped on the bandwagon&#8212;or actually, they were the ones that started it all. </p><p>Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (<strong><a href="https://www.darpa.mil/program/pandemic-prevention-platform">DARPA) </a></strong>has been &#8220;working for years to develop an antibody to any virus within 60 days of collecting blood from a survivor&#8221;.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.darpa.mil/program/pandemic-prevention-platform">DARPA&#8217;s Pandemic Prevention Platform program, known as P3</a></strong>, "aims specifically to develop a scalable, adaptable, rapid response platform capable of producing relevant numbers of doses against any known or previously unknown infectious threat within 60 days of identification of such a threat in order to keep the outbreak from escalating and decrease disruptions to the military and homeland."</p><p>To that end, DARPA launched ADEPT:PROTECT (Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics: Prophylactic Options to Environmental and Contagious Threats) to develop technologies such as mRNA to be &#8220;deployed against emerging infectious diseases and biological weapons.&#8221;</p><p>The connection between DARPA and Moderna goes all the way back in 2013, when DARPA <strong><a href="https://www.genengnews.com/topics/translational-medicine/moderna-therapeutics-scores-up-to-25m-darpa-grant/">awarded Moderna</a></strong> &#8220;up to $25 million to research and develop its messenger RNA therapeutics&#8482; platform as a way to make &#8220;antibody-producing drugs to protect against a range of known and unknown emerging infectious diseases and engineered biological threats&#8221;.</p><p>Fast forward to <strong><a href="https://www.americanpharmaceuticalreview.com/1315-News/517638-Moderna-Announces-Positive-Results-Evaluating-mRNA-1944/">2019 when Moderna announced it had developed mRNA-1944</a></strong>, thanks to financial support from DARPA's ADEPT:PROTECT program. The Covid-19 pandemic hit only a few months later, and the convenient development of the mRNA vaccines resulted in billions of dollars in revenue for the drug companies, opening the floodgate for all the other mRNA drug treatments now in the pipeline. </p><p>It should be noted that Moderna received manufacturing support from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). In 2022, <strong>Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome <a href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2022/01/gates-foundation-wellcome-pledge-300-million-cepi-covid19-pandemic-response">Pledged US$300 Million to CEPI for COVID-19 Pandemic Response and to Accelerate Epidemic Preparedness</a></strong></p><p>In the 1960&#8217;s our favorite rock stars sang about the glories of illicit drugs and how they could take us to a higher consciousness. Millions if not billions of people believed it and drugs became cool. </p><p>Nothing has changed since then. Celebrities are just another type of drug pusher for the kingpins. </p><p>The below Tweet was posted in 2023, however, Steven Spielberg&#8217;s little pep talk was given back in 2021 in those heady days when we were told everyone must get the jab or else&#8212;but no one is forcing you! </p><p></p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1619373185283268608?t=xj_r1So83EIrygZGBVyPqA&amp;s=19&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Steven Spielberg on Covid19 vaccines: \&quot;Stay safe, get vaccinated as soon as you can\&quot; &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;backtolife_2023&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Wittgenstein&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;Sat Jan 28 16:33:48 +0000 2023&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/upload/w_1028,c_limit,q_auto:best/l_twitter_play_button_rvaygk,w_88/cfptefwmt6helc8pr2uc&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/YnpzJ8Ihqb&quot;,&quot;alt_text&quot;:null}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:0,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:250,&quot;like_count&quot;:785,&quot;impression_count&quot;:0,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:{},&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1619373095633952773/pu/vid/480x270/laYAh6qxxiFT9wfQ.mp4?tag=14&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>At that time, Steven Spielberg, Annie Lennox, Mick Jagger, Ajay Devgn &amp; Hrithik Roshan helped to raise $5M for a Covid relief fundraiser called <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/we-for-india/">We For India</a>. </p><p>In August 2021, <strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57774294">India approved the world's first DNA Covid vaccine, Zydus Cadila.</a></strong></p><p>In October 2021, I wrote<strong> <a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/mercks-molnupiravir-vs-the-peoples">The People's Medicine vs Merck's Billion $ Pill</a>, </strong>about how <strong>i</strong>n Bangladesh, they called ivermectin &#8220;the People&#8217;s Medicine&#8221; while in the United States, they were calling it horse paste&#8212;all so the Merck could manufacture a new pill that they could make money off of and destroy ivermectin&#8217;s reputation because they couldn&#8217;t make money off of it. India&#8217;s elite couldn&#8217;t resist jumping on the Covid money-making train. At the same time that the people were taking ivermectin, these celebrities were pushing vaccines. <strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57774294"> </a></strong></p><p>Just last month, India <strong><a href="https://www.medindia.net/news/inncovacc-indias-first-intranasal-covid-19-vaccine-launched-210241-1.htm">unleashed </a></strong>iNNCOVACC, the world's first intranasal COVID-19 vaccine.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSRl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0abb98dd-929e-4c6f-b8f6-a0ee66c1dea0_300x250.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSRl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0abb98dd-929e-4c6f-b8f6-a0ee66c1dea0_300x250.jpeg" width="300" height="250" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0abb98dd-929e-4c6f-b8f6-a0ee66c1dea0_300x250.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:250,&quot;width&quot;:300,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;iNNCOVACC: India's First Intranasal COVID-19 Vaccine Launched&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="iNNCOVACC: India's First Intranasal COVID-19 Vaccine 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Why not? It&#8217;s better than sniffing cocaine, isn&#8217;t it? </p><h4>If <strong><a href="https://cfah.org/drug-use-addiction-statistics/">the use of illegal drugs affects 64% of people</a></strong>, which is <strong>more than half of the global population, then why wouldn&#8217;t most people accept sticking a legal drug up their noses?</strong></h4><p>Spielberg was hocking the jab two years ago. And here&#8217;s a bunch of other celebrities, doing the same thing today. Except that now they have a cool show-and-tell prop&#8212;the Covid &#8220;spiked ball&#8221;. No doubt the most recognizable marketing tool in history&#8212;oh, besides the image of needles going into arms that we have been assaulted with day and night for the past three years. </p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://twitter.com/GillianMcKeith/status/1622386318478135297?t=b7OqtTe41Jt2w_wlWZ4Vdg&amp;s=09&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Now you know...Pink, Quest love, Jean Smart and even Michael Phelps...How much do you think $$$$ ? &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;GillianMcKeith&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Gillian McKeith&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;Mon Feb 06 00:06:55 +0000 2023&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/upload/w_1028,c_limit,q_auto:best/l_twitter_play_button_rvaygk,w_88/lertczqfqlkgwc85dljf&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/F1GqmXZtmO&quot;,&quot;alt_text&quot;:null}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:0,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:38,&quot;like_count&quot;:217,&quot;impression_count&quot;:0,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:{},&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1622378552795582464/vid/640x360/DlHe7nF-m3DDdpmO.mp4?tag=16&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>Once upon a time in the 1960s, drugs were introduced as the coolest thing ever by our favorite celebrities. Who didn&#8217;t sing along with the lyrics of Cocaine by Eric Clapton, or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, by The Beatles. </p><p>Now our celebrities are telling us to alter ourselves at a genetic level. You can take a gene editing vaccine and magically never worry again. You can do anything you want to your body and your mind; Big Pharma is there to see you through to the bitter end. Along that way, you will become a life-long slave of Big Pharma. </p><p>I don&#8217;t know. Sam Smith looks like he could do with an insertion of all-new chunks of DNA to fix his high cholesterol. Maybe that will be next with Big Pharma&#8217;s (read DARPA&#8217;s) advertisement campaign. Celebrities pushing jabs that inject entire genes into someone&#8217;s genome. Because remember,<em> the mRNA vaccines don&#8217;t do that. </em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r92W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1605a21-4f73-4169-a476-62045313fbfc_1024x682.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r92W!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1605a21-4f73-4169-a476-62045313fbfc_1024x682.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r92W!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1605a21-4f73-4169-a476-62045313fbfc_1024x682.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r92W!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1605a21-4f73-4169-a476-62045313fbfc_1024x682.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r92W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1605a21-4f73-4169-a476-62045313fbfc_1024x682.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r92W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1605a21-4f73-4169-a476-62045313fbfc_1024x682.jpeg" width="1024" height="682" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a1605a21-4f73-4169-a476-62045313fbfc_1024x682.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:682,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;The non-binary singer rocked red high-heeled boots and leather pants, a red shirt and a matching collar and later wore a top hat with horns and completed the look with a cane. &quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="The non-binary singer rocked red high-heeled boots and leather pants, a red shirt and a matching collar and later wore a top hat with horns and completed the look with a cane. 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It all comes full circle in the end. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing Us with Kindness]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;They Are Not Vaccines, They Are Poisons&#8221; &#8211; Luc Montagnier]]></description><link>https://khmezek.substack.com/p/killing-us-with-kindness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://khmezek.substack.com/p/killing-us-with-kindness</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 22:57:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/h_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a211cf2-d42a-4740-ada2-66e39d52af2c_1600x1126.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><strong>Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</strong></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><strong>One-time or recurring donations can now be made at <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/khmezek8">Ko-Fi</a></strong></p><p>You can listen to me read this essay here:</p><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;44c8af6e-1997-4445-9eb8-61bd5701a225&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:1145.234,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p><strong>&#8220;</strong><em><strong>These vaccines are poisons.&nbsp;They are not real vaccines. The mRNA allows its message to be transcribed throughout the body, uncontrollably.&nbsp;No one can say for each of us where these messages will go.&nbsp;This is therefore a terrible unknown.</strong></em>&#8221; </p><p>This was Nobel laureate Professor&nbsp;Luc Montagnier&#8217;s plea when he was invited&nbsp;to the Luxembourg Parliament&nbsp;to accompany petitioners speaking out against compulsory Covid vaccination. His plea was made&nbsp;on the 12th of January 2022. By February 8th, he was dead. </p><p>Anyone who asked questions like this has been systematically discredited and silenced. People think that now, because they are allowed to ask questions on Twitter, that they have their freedom back and their voices are being heard. The reality is that over the past three years, the authorities have managed to put everyone into separate boxes where alternative voice are allowed to spout off their &#8216;nonsense&#8221; without it ever getting anywhere beyond an echo chamber. </p><p>But in the big, wide world out there, the propaganda is just warming up. The photo below shows McDonalds promoting the Covid vaccine. What vaccine will be next on the agenda, I wonder.  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JYFJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c4b1d7-523f-483a-bdbd-60a198d848ad_636x382.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JYFJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c4b1d7-523f-483a-bdbd-60a198d848ad_636x382.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JYFJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c4b1d7-523f-483a-bdbd-60a198d848ad_636x382.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JYFJ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c4b1d7-523f-483a-bdbd-60a198d848ad_636x382.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JYFJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c4b1d7-523f-483a-bdbd-60a198d848ad_636x382.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JYFJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c4b1d7-523f-483a-bdbd-60a198d848ad_636x382.jpeg" width="636" height="382" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/51c4b1d7-523f-483a-bdbd-60a198d848ad_636x382.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:382,&quot;width&quot;:636,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;McDonald's will redesign their coffee cups promote the Covid-19 vaccine ...&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="McDonald's will redesign their coffee cups promote the Covid-19 vaccine ..." title="McDonald's will redesign their coffee cups promote the Covid-19 vaccine ..." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JYFJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c4b1d7-523f-483a-bdbd-60a198d848ad_636x382.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JYFJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c4b1d7-523f-483a-bdbd-60a198d848ad_636x382.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JYFJ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c4b1d7-523f-483a-bdbd-60a198d848ad_636x382.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JYFJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c4b1d7-523f-483a-bdbd-60a198d848ad_636x382.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This week saw the 41st annual <strong><a href="https://www.jpmorgan.com/solutions/cib/insights/health-care-conference">J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference</a></strong> in San Francisco. Not a big glitzy affair like the <strong><a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/01/11/Davos-world-economic-forum-global-risk-survey/8571673435261/">World Economic Forum&#8217;s Davos conference </a></strong>will surely be in a few days, from January 16-20. </p><p>For the drugs companies in attendance, they can move forward with a lot of confidence into the future. No one is protesting outside the conference grounds. No one is being rounded up and put in jail. </p><h3>The Covid-19 pandemic was the most successful propaganda campaign in history.</h3><p>It blanketed the entire world, with almost every world leader on board with the protocol. There were those few African leaders who didn&#8217;t bow to pressure, for example, but please don&#8217;t suggest their deaths were anything other than coincidences, because it&#8217;s been <strong><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-africa-leaders-idUSL2N2NP2SW">fact-checked</a></strong>. Maybe those leaders were assassinated, maybe they weren&#8217;t. But we will never know because questions like this are equal to dangerous disinformation. By writing this, I&#8217;m making myself worthy of reeducation, just like they are threatening to do to psychologist <strong>Jo<a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/05/jordan-peterson-could-lose-psychologist-license-if-he-refuses-social-media-re-education/">rdan Peterson.</a></strong> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sQCx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4750c3c-7c62-4bff-a3d4-339015747879_1600x900.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sQCx!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4750c3c-7c62-4bff-a3d4-339015747879_1600x900.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sQCx!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4750c3c-7c62-4bff-a3d4-339015747879_1600x900.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sQCx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4750c3c-7c62-4bff-a3d4-339015747879_1600x900.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sQCx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4750c3c-7c62-4bff-a3d4-339015747879_1600x900.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sQCx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4750c3c-7c62-4bff-a3d4-339015747879_1600x900.jpeg" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f4750c3c-7c62-4bff-a3d4-339015747879_1600x900.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;COVID vaccine ad campaign features former US Presidents Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton ...&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="COVID vaccine ad campaign features former US Presidents Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton ..." title="COVID vaccine ad campaign features former US Presidents Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton ..." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sQCx!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4750c3c-7c62-4bff-a3d4-339015747879_1600x900.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sQCx!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4750c3c-7c62-4bff-a3d4-339015747879_1600x900.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sQCx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4750c3c-7c62-4bff-a3d4-339015747879_1600x900.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sQCx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff4750c3c-7c62-4bff-a3d4-339015747879_1600x900.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div 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A lot of articles come up related to China&#8217;s propaganda campaign or <strong><a href="https://nonprofitquarterly.org/government-propaganda-spreads-like-a-virus-during-the-pandemic/">articles</a> </strong>comparing the Trump administration&#8217;s misinformation to China&#8217;s. </p><p>I&#8217;ve noticed that it is harder and harder to find alternative voices when I search on the internet. Most people who look at alternative media will not realize this because by now, they know where to go and they don&#8217;t need to search. But for some neutral person who wanted to research different points of view, they will never see anything except the state sanctioned narrative. </p><p>The propaganda campaign has worked, and it will continue to work as people become more dependent on drugs. It isn&#8217;t a conspiracy theory to surmise that as people are given more and more of these &#8216;vaccines&#8217;, they will lose their natural immunity and become ever more dependent on drugs for their survival. That survival won&#8217;t be pleasant.</p><h4>Excluding the pandemic, the UK is seeing in excess of <strong><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1aaf9062-9131-11ed-beb4-99fcdfa7645c?shareToken=75145c8a4a98aa693085554c06138e3c">one thousand deaths a week,</a></strong> the worst figures since 1951. </h4><p>&#8220;There were 1,600 more deaths than usual during Christmas week as long waits for ambulances, cold weather and surging flu infections increased mortality rates by a fifth.&#8221;</p><h4><strong>In the United States, an explosive increase in Cardiac Symptoms can be seen in high school students after the Second Covid Injection.</strong> </h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vtiD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90c92715-ecae-4d2e-9c98-025aab6d0d79_2081x1334.png" 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stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h6>Conducted by Chiu SN, Chen YS, Hsu CC, Hua YC, Tseng WC, Lu CW, Lin MT, Chen CA, Wu MH, Chen YT, Chien TH, Tseng CL, Wang JK. Changes of ECG parameters after BNT162b2 vaccine in the senior high school students. Eur J Pediatr. 2023 Jan 5:1&#8211;8. doi: 10.1007/s00431-022-04786-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36602621; PMCID: PMC9813456.</h6><p>Above is a report published on Dr. Peter A. McCullough&#8217;s <strong><a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/explosive-increase-in-cardiac-symptoms">Substack</a></strong>, where &#8220;<em>both cardiac symptoms and ECG changes were recorded after the first and second injections. The results are alarming. After the second injection of mRNA 17.1% of students reported cardiovascular symptoms</em>.&#8221;</p><p>But guess what? Dr. McCullough lives in the same echo chamber other discredited doctors and scientists live and his voice will never be heard except in derision by those outside the echo chamber. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h4>On Twitter, Elon Musk has made sure that dissenters feel empowered in ways they didn&#8217;t before&#8212;as if their voices are actually being heard. (I am still permanently banned from Twitter, by the way.) </h4><p>Another discredited doctor, Mike Yeadon, recently had over 200K views of this shared <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/_Janey_J/status/1609517865786286080?t=AYaFnhLNpfrQ1UYlcZLsxA&amp;s=09">video</a>, </strong>along with this statement: </p><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>&#8216;We declare that Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech, Jansen, AstraZeneca &amp; their enablers withheld and willfully omitted crucial safety &amp; effectiveness information from patients &amp; physicians &amp; should be immediately indicted for fraud.&#8217;</strong></p></div><p>They will be waiting a long time if they think their comments on Twitter will lead to indictments. </p><h4>Senator Ron Johnson is <strong><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/exclusive-senator-questions-cdc-on-why-it-expected-hundreds-of-safety-signals-for-covid-19-vaccines_4977690.html?utm_source=andshare">questioning </a></strong>the CDC as to why it denied the fact that it expected hundreds of safety signals for COVID-19 Vaccines. </h4><blockquote><p>Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), claimed in 2022 that safety monitoring revealed no &#8220;unexpected safety signals&#8221; for the vaccines.</p><p>But the results to which she was referring showed hundreds of safety signals, or adverse events potentially linked to the shots.</p><p>Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is now wondering why the CDC expected so many signals after vaccination.</p><p>In a Jan. 10 letter citing The Epoch Times article on the results, Johnson demanded the CDC explain how it determined what is and is not an &#8220;unexpected safety signal.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;The American people have a right to know the extent to which your agency was aware of and tracked COVID-19 vaccine adverse events. Your lack of transparency is unacceptable. Without immediately providing complete and reliable information about COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, you are obstructing Congressional oversight and leaving the public in the dark,&#8221; added Johnson, who was stonewalled when he requested the monitoring results.</p></blockquote><p>Search for Senator Ron Johnson and you will find <strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/us/politics/senator-ron-johnson-has-spread-misinformation-on-the-virus-the-election-the-capitol-riot-even-greenlands-greenness.html">article</a></strong> after article about his irresponsible spreading of misinformation online. In June of 2021 he dared to hold an event on the adverse reactions to Covid vaccines. As a result, he was accused of "promoting dangerous and unfounded claims" about the vaccine that contradict medical research and analysis.</p><p>Asking questions is not allowed. And yet, isn&#8217;t this what doctors are supposed to do? Apparently not. I&#8217;m still appalled that my own state of California a<strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/technology/california-doctors-covid-misinformation.html">pproved a bill to punish doctors who spread false information</a>.</strong></p><h3>The billions of dollars in earnings from Covid are likely to lessen, but the illnesses will never go away. In fact, they will increase exponentially as the drugs to treat them hit the market.  </h3><p>CEOs like Albert Bourla of Pfizer would be fools if they didn&#8217;t take advantage of this successful propaganda campaign to expand their repertoire and see how many more billions they can make from marketing drugs, drugs, and more drugs on an increasingly vulnerable population. </p><p><strong><a href="https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/jpm23-pfizer-entering-most-important-18-month-stretch-company-history-ceo-says#:~:text=To%20reach%20those%202030%20revenue%20goals%2C%20the%20company,%2420%20billion%20in%20sales%20by%202030%2C%20Bourla%20said.">Speaking</a></strong> at the <strong><a href="https://www.jpmorgan.com/solutions/cib/insights/health-care-conference">J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference</a></strong>, Bourla &#8220;<strong><a href="https://s28.q4cdn.com/781576035/files/doc_downloads/2023/01/PFE-Fireside-Chat-Slides-(01.09.23).pdf">laid out scenarios</a></strong> that could take the drugmaker to $84 billion&#8221; from a slew of new drugs for burgeoning ailments. Pfizer&#8217;s earnings of $41 billion from their Covid jab in 2020 seemed staggering at the time. But now, they intend to double that amount.</p><p>Pfizer is entering the &#8220;18 most important months in its history,&#8221; says Bourla. The company is planning nineteen drug launches or label expansions over the next year and a half. &nbsp;</p><blockquote><p>Some of those products include an RSV vaccine, elranatamab in multiple myeloma, ritlecitinib in alopecia areata and a much-anticipated oral GLP-1 drug, a gene therapy portfolio and several vaccines.</p></blockquote><h3>Nobody can match Moderna in exciting new mRNA products. </h3><p>To offset the slow-down in Covid vaccines, Moderna is considering<strong><a href="https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/moderna-considers-price-of-110-130-for-covid-19-vaccine-11673289609"> raising the price </a></strong>of its COVID-19 vaccine by over 400 percent&#8212;from $26 per dose to between $110 and $130 per dose.<strong> </strong>This is in line with Pfizer&#8217;s 400% price rise. Bourla claims that the vaccines will be &#8220;free.&#8221; All this means is that insurance companies will pay&#8212;for those who have insurance&#8212; and premiums will go up. </p><p>Of course, the answer is, don&#8217;t take the vaccines. And many people aren&#8217;t. But what happens when more and more people find themselves ill with cancer, or autoimmune diseases like HIV, and new miraculous mRNA vaccines are provided? People will take them. Relentless marketing has already gone a long way toward normalizing it all. </p><p>Moderna&#8217;s Covid-19 jab was the first drug the company ever got approved by the FDA after years of getting nowhere. They now have their updated booster shot. However, even <strong><a href="https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/report-moderna-excluded-infection-data-fda-advisory-group-during">CNN felt obligated to report</a></strong> that Moderna failed to present important infection data to the FDA when its booster was up for approval. </p><blockquote><p>The data in question indicated that "1.9% of the study participants who received the original booster became infected," while "among those who got the updated bivalent vaccine &#8211; the one that scientists hoped would work better &#8211; a higher percentage, 3.2%, became infected."</p><p>Philip Krause, the former&nbsp;deputy director of the FDA&#8217;s Office of Vaccine Research and Review, told CNN that &#8220;The company&#8217;s failure to present this information at the [FDA advisers meeting] and the omission of discussion about the data at that meeting raises questions about the ability of the process to provide a full and transparent review of the data.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>What did the advisors do? They shrugged, oh well. <em><strong>Even if the data had been included, it wouldn&#8217;t have changed our minds</strong></em>, they said. </p><p>Of course, it wouldn&#8217;t. These approvals are decided well before the actual votes. There is too much money at stake for these drugs not to be approved. </p><p>Watch this deeply disturbing <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3gvqh2cxL8&amp;feature=youtu.be">video</a> </strong>of vaccine-injured Olivia Teseniar being gaslit when she tries to be heard: </p><blockquote><p>Olivia Teseniar was part of Moderna&#8217;s trial. After 2 years of serious adverse reactions, she now has T-cell lymphoma and leukemia. Her issues were omitted from Moderna&#8217;s submission to the FDA. She recorded her last meeting with the Principal Investigator of the trial.</p></blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t write much about myocarditis or sudden death syndrome. There are so many others who cover this topic. The thing is the drug companies have been so clever. Despite what you hear in alternative media, there is no way to prove one way or the other that the <em>vaccines</em> are causing this kind of harm. Perhaps it will become apparent in a few years&#8217; time, when it will be too late, as it so often is with the latest scientific &#8220;miracle cure&#8221;.  But of one thing we can be sure. People are getting sicker. Their immune systems are being compromised. </p><p>Big Pharma is there with new products to &#8220;kill you with kindness&#8221;. </p><h3>Moderna, for example, has quickly created a &#8220;program that involves&nbsp;injecting messenger RNA (mRNA) into people&#8217;s hearts following a heart attack.&#8221;  </h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rQgK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52957122-b1d4-4aad-9c09-89955be47fb4_1600x1126.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rQgK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52957122-b1d4-4aad-9c09-89955be47fb4_1600x1126.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rQgK!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52957122-b1d4-4aad-9c09-89955be47fb4_1600x1126.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rQgK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52957122-b1d4-4aad-9c09-89955be47fb4_1600x1126.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rQgK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52957122-b1d4-4aad-9c09-89955be47fb4_1600x1126.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rQgK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52957122-b1d4-4aad-9c09-89955be47fb4_1600x1126.jpeg" width="1456" height="1025" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/52957122-b1d4-4aad-9c09-89955be47fb4_1600x1126.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1025,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Doctor Drug Injected To Heart Stock Photo - 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Notice the company Moderna is everywhere. </h4><h3>Influenza vaccines:</h3><ul><li><p><strong>Sanofi/Translate Bio:</strong> These two companies are researching an <a href="https://www.sanofi.com/en/media-room/press-releases/2021/2021-06-22-07-00-00-2250633">mRNA flu vaccine</a> that targets one strain of the flu virus. </p></li><li><p><strong>Pfizer:</strong> Pfizer is researching a <a href="https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-starts-study-mrna-based-next-generation-flu-vaccine">single-dose mRNA flu vaccine</a> that targets four strains of the flu virus. </p></li><li><p><strong>Moderna: </strong>Moderna is also studying an <a href="https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-first-participant-dosed-phase-12-study-its">mRNA flu vaccine</a> that targets four strains of the flu virus. </p></li></ul><h4>Moderna is also researching a <strong><a href="https://www.modernatx.com/pipeline">combination mRNA COVID-19/flu vaccine</a>.</strong></h4><h3>Zika</h3><ul><li><p><strong>Moderna</strong> is studying the only Zika vaccine that uses mRNA. The company is <a href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04917861?term=mRNA-1893&amp;cond=Zika&amp;draw=2&amp;rank=2">currently recruiting</a> adults ages 18 to 65 for a phase 2 clinical trial. <em><strong>Volunteers, anyone?</strong></em></p></li></ul><h3><strong>Respiratory syncytial virus </strong>RSV</h3><ul><li><p><strong>Moderna</strong> is <strong><a href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04528719?term=mRNA-1345&amp;cond=Respiratory+Syncytial+Virus+%28RSV%29&amp;draw=2&amp;rank=1">currently studying</a></strong> an mRNA RSV vaccine in younger adults, older adults, and children. </p></li></ul><h3>HIV</h3><ul><li><p><strong>Moderna </strong>is researching two different mRNA HIV vaccines. The <strong><a href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05001373?term=mRNA+vaccine&amp;draw=2&amp;rank=2">first vaccine</a> </strong>is being developed in collaboration with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.</p></li></ul><h3><strong>Cytomegalovirus (CMV)</strong></h3><ul><li><p>Of all the mRNA vaccines being researched, <strong><a href="https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/moderna-cmv-vaccine-phasei-data/">Moderna&#8217;s CMV vaccine</a></strong> may be the furthest along.</p></li></ul><h3>Cancer</h3><ul><li><p><strong>Moderna</strong> is studying at least three cancer vaccines in clinical trials. Its personalized <strong><a href="https://www.verywellhealth.com/moderna-mrna-cancer-vaccine-for-melanoma-6944589">mRNA cancer vaccine</a></strong> was shown to reduce the risk of recurrence in patients with stage 3 or 4 melanoma .</p></li></ul><ul><li><p><strong>The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research</strong> is <strong><a href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03164772?term=mRNA+vaccine&amp;draw=2&amp;rank=6">collaborating</a> </strong>with Boehringer Ingelheim and CureVac on an mRNA cancer vaccine for non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). </p></li></ul><ul><li><p><strong>The University Medical Center Groningen</strong> is<strong> <a href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04163094?term=mRNA+vaccine&amp;draw=3&amp;rank=15">collaborating</a></strong> with BioNTech on an mRNA cancer vaccine for ovarian cancer. </p></li></ul><ul><li><p><strong>BioNTech </strong>is also <strong><a href="https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04526899">collaborating</a></strong> with <strong>Regeneron Pharmaceuticals</strong> on an mRNA cancer vaccine for advanced melanoma. </p></li></ul><h3>We need to also mention that mRNA vaccines are being created for animals and insects as well. I was disturbed to read about vaccines being created for honeybees. </h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JGD8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd539bba0-63a2-491e-a204-7e1a9fdbb36c_768x469.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JGD8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd539bba0-63a2-491e-a204-7e1a9fdbb36c_768x469.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JGD8!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd539bba0-63a2-491e-a204-7e1a9fdbb36c_768x469.jpeg 848w, 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Previously, as with many animals, beekeepers relied on antibiotics to control disease, but now that resistance has been built up, instead of realizing they are doing damage to the natural balance of our planet, they decide to turn to vaccines. </p><p>It&#8217;s the same with humans. Instead of correcting the mistake, they move on to the next horror. </p><h4>Here&#8217;s what the World Health Organization has to <strong><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/antibiotic-resistance-why-vaccination-is-important">say on the matter:</a></strong></h4><blockquote><p>The global increase in disease caused by drug-resistant bacteria, due to overuse and misuse of antibiotics, is a major public health concern. It is more difficult and costly to treat antibiotic-resistant infections and people do not always recover.</p><p>Vaccinating humans and animals is a very effective way to stop them from getting infected and thereby preventing the need for antibiotics.</p><p>Making better use of existing vaccines and developing new vaccines are important ways to tackle antibiotic resistance and reduce preventable illness and deaths.</p></blockquote><p>The WHO sites as an example an alarming spread of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The answer? </p><h3>Vaccines!!! </h3><p>Searching online for &#8220;Luc Montagnier&#8221; I managed to find this article warning that <strong><a href="https://telanganatoday.com/mass-vaccination-during-pandemic-historical-blunder-nobel-laureate">mass vaccination during a pandemic is an historical blunder</a>.</strong> </p><div class="pullquote"><p>"<strong>The history books will show that, because it is the vaccination that is creating the variants."</strong></p></div><h4><em>Except that the history books will never show this. </em></h4><p>Montagnier observed that many epidemiologists know it and are &#8220;silent&#8221; about the problem known as &#8220;antibody-dependent enhancement.&#8221; </p><p>Why would those involved ever admit that they had colluded in the biggest propaganda campaign in history in exchange for blood money? All while the people they had given a Hippocratic Oath to serve saw their natural immunity waste away as they became more and more dependent on the drugs that were pushed upon them. </p><p>Think about it. Perhaps hundreds of new mRNA vaccines will be produced over the next ten years or so. If Montagnier is right about the Covid jab&#8212;and it makes perfect sense that he is&#8212;it is terrifying to think what the consequences will be on the billions of people, not to mention animals and insects who are repeatedly injected with this poison over time. </p><h4>Speaking to my readers and listeners from the &#8220;Echo Chamber&#8221;.</h4><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hustling Humans]]></title><description><![CDATA[How Obamacare turned the Rehab Industry into the Biggest Insurance Scam of Them All and How COVID made it Worse]]></description><link>https://khmezek.substack.com/p/hustling-humans</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://khmezek.substack.com/p/hustling-humans</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2022 23:42:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYIQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6885bd5b-e0b4-4f30-bc2e-a1b6e9fef7bd_1280x853.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;0a24950d-d6a9-418d-ba54-c142837807de&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:1183.242,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>This is a continuation from my last essay, <strong><a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/p/so-you-wanna-be-a-kingpin">So You Wanna Be a Kingpin</a>? </strong>I have seen firsthand too much of the devastation caused by the drug industry, legal and illegal. More than anything else, I believe our growing dependence on drugs is what is causing our downfall. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYIQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6885bd5b-e0b4-4f30-bc2e-a1b6e9fef7bd_1280x853.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CYIQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6885bd5b-e0b4-4f30-bc2e-a1b6e9fef7bd_1280x853.jpeg 424w, 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They'll take extra insurance money and pay you to live there and just let you get high because the owner's making bank.</strong></em>" &#8212; Drew, a 21-year-old from West Virginia living in a sober home in Delray Beach, Florida.</p><h4>A &#8220;body broker&#8221; is known as someone who rents houses to operate as sober homes. </h4><p>Get the bodies in, any way you can. When they get out, even go so far as to give them drugs again, so you make sure they come back. It&#8217;s a despicable business and people need to get wise to it. </p><p>The rehab/recovery industry is one more con game that has the COVID-19 pandemic to thank for an even bigger boom than it ever had before. Of course, COVID is a scam, too, so you could say the recovery industry is a scam within a scam, surrounded by a lot of other health scams that we are all supposed to fall for or else we are the ones who are a danger to society&#8212;not the scammers. </p><p><strong>The</strong> <strong><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/6-3-billion-growth-in-addiction-therapeutics-market-during-2021-2025--featuring-alkermes-plc-and-emergent-biosolutions-inc-among-others--technavio-301234230.html">$6.3 Billion Growth in Addiction Therapeutics Market During 2021-2025</a> </strong>registered a Year Over Year (YOY) growth of 5.7% in 2020 and the market is estimated to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 6% from 2021 through 2025.</p><p>The thing is, just like the Covid &#8220;vaccines&#8221; and any number of drugs the health industry provides, the recovery industry has nothing to do with recovery and everything to do with relapse. If people really recovered, where would be the profit? </p><p>COVID increased the demand for drugs from billions of people who had already been led to believe that drugs were the only solution for their physical and mental health problems. </p><h4>According to the <strong><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/06/1094672">United Nations</a>:</strong></h4><blockquote><p>The <a href="https://www.un.org/coronavirus">COVID-19</a> crisis has pushed more than 100 million people into extreme poverty, and has greatly exacerbated unemployment and inequalities, as the world lost 255 million jobs in 2020.</p><p>Drug traffickers have quickly recovered from initial setbacks caused by lockdown restrictions and are operating at pre-pandemic levels once again, driven in part by a rise in the use of technology and cryptocurrency payments, operating outside the regular financial system.</p><p>Access to drugs has also become simpler than ever with online sales, and major drug markets on the dark web are now worth some $315 million annually.</p><p>Contactless drug transactions, such as through the mail, are also on the rise, a trend possibly accelerated by the pandemic.</p><p>Rapid technological innovation, combined with the agility and adaptability of drug traffickers who are using new online platforms to sell drugs and other substances, are likely to increase the availability of illicit drugs.</p></blockquote><p>If you think your kids are just surfing the web aimlessly, think again. Parents need to understand that their kids are no safer inside the house than they were on the streets. In fact, it has become easier to obtain illegal substances. All they have to do is order them online. Instead of hanging out on street corners, dealers now hang out inside your child&#8217;s phone, right inside your house, breathing down your neck, 24/7 but you are unlikely to even know they are there. </p><p>The distinction between legal and illegal drugs is becoming harder to define. In 2021, drug pushers Johnson &amp; Johnson and three of the largest drug distributers agreed to a $26 billion settlement over allegations that they were responsible for fueling the opioid epidemic. </p><p>&#8220;This epidemic was created by an army of pharmaceutical executives, who decided they wanted to put their profits above the health and well-being of the public,&#8221; <strong><a href="https://www.cnbctv18.com/healthcare/explained-opioid-epidemic-in-us-26-billion-dollar-settlement-with-johnson-johnson-mckesson-cardinal-health-amerisourcebergen-10072621.htm">observed</a></strong> Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.</p><h4>They say the $26 billion will be put to good use, funding the recovery industry. Great. I guess that means more scammers getting rich while more people move in and out of recovery centers. </h4><p>Create the problem, then create a solution, just like every other industry from computer viruses to the viruses we now are told we cannot fight off naturally, to the drugs we are told we need for depression and anxiety, which are now labeled as mental &#8220;diseases&#8221; just like heart disease or cancer. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>2017 was a year when everyone in the media seemed to be talking about corruption within the recovery industry. What did all those exposes accomplish? Absolutely nothing. The industry marched on.</p><p>It&#8217;s quite incredible the disconnect between truth and corruption. It doesn&#8217;t seem to matter what the truth is, the machine must continue making a profit, no matter how many lives it destroys in the process. </p><p>Humanity has developed a split personality. On the one hand, we have people like Naomi Wolf, Dr. Michael Yeadon, Dr. Robert Malone&#8212;the list goes on and on&#8212;bringing up their statistics on deaths and injuries as a result of the mRNA genetic therapies inflicted upon people and the insane protocols during the pandemic crisis such as lockdowns and masking. </p><p>On the other hand, this article was just published in NPR, a media outlet that the majority of people in the country would say they trust, stating:</p><h4><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/09/14/1123016479/global-pandemic-response-lessons-lancet-commission">4 ways the world messed up its pandemic response &#8212; and 3 fixes to do better next time</a></strong></h4><p><strong>Here are the four ways that countries messed up:</strong></p><ol><li><p>Countries failed to coordinate and cooperate.</p></li><li><p>Nations didn&#8217;t do their homework</p></li><li><p>Inequity was a &#8220;wicked accomplice&#8221; of the virus. In other words, we didn&#8217;t share!</p></li><li><p>The public was infected by a plague of resistance. </p></li></ol><p>Notice they do not say lockdowns and masking were failures. Nope, anyone suggesting such a thing is guilty of spreading mis/disinformation. Then they talk about how they didn&#8217;t do enough &#8220;sharing.&#8221; A country that had more deaths from COVID than any other country in the world&#8212;and more people vaccinated&#8212;saying &#8220;sorry&#8221; for not sharing their disastrous policies is the height of arrogance. Any country who did not implement the policies of the United States and the UK would be insane to implement them now. How have they turned such a massive failure into a success? </p><p><strong>Here are NPR&#8217;s three fixes:</strong></p><ol><li><p>People of the world let&#8217;s cooperate!</p></li><li><p>Create a combo-platter of preventive and curative measures: Vaccination-plus!</p></li><li><p>Expand the World Health Organization</p></li></ol><p>Wow, One World Government, here we come! The only answer: more drugs! </p><p>And if you don&#8217;t agree, you are spreading dangerous disinformation&#8212;which I am doing right now. </p><p>How much higher will the death toll go? We have all kinds of strange things happening. Mysterious things like the Epoch Times telling us that:</p><h4><strong><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/2022-excess-deaths-all-around-the-world-raise-an-alarm_4720697.html?utm_source=healthnoe&amp;utm_campaign=health-2022-09-17-2&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=VgA9CcDSLpN4vYWh%2BLqN6GTMSTuYjyG1QbJF8zCRNYu%2Bs%2FuyQdFgjvhBaFWR">2022 Excess Deaths All Around the World Raise an Alarm</a>. </strong></h4><p>As one example, <strong><a href="https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/committees/current-and-previous-committees/session-6-covid19-recovery-committee/business-items/excess-deaths-in-scotland-since-the-start-of-the-pandemic-inquiry">Scotland&#8217;s COVID-19 Recovery Committee</a></strong> is undertaking an inquiry into the cause of excess deaths in Scotland since the start of the pandemic. </p><blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://data.gov.scot/coronavirus-covid-19/detail.html#excess_deaths">Data from the Scottish Government</a></strong> shows that deaths in Scotland are 11% above the average for this time of year and have been above the average for the last 26 weeks.</p><p>What is unclear, is the extent to which this is being caused by the COVID-19 caseload, or the indirect health effects of the pandemic.</p></blockquote><p>You can read articles like <strong><a href="https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/sudden-adult-death-syndrome-baffles-doctors/#:~:text=Sudden%20Adult%20Death%20Syndrome%20%28SADS%29%20is%20on%20the,going%20to%20bed%2C%20or%20collapse%20during%20the%20day.">this </a></strong>from the Spectator, Australia, stating: </p><blockquote><p>A strange new medical anomaly has doctors baffled as it sweeps across the country. Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) is on the rise, and it&#8217;s tragically claiming the lives of healthy young adults, sometimes in their sleep.</p><p>Essentially, people are dying without displaying any prior sign of illness. They simply do not wake up after going to bed or collapse during the day.</p></blockquote><h4>It&#8217;s enough to send all of us running for the medicine cabinet, or maybe asking our kids for their dealer connection online. </h4><p>Rehab, get ready for an even bigger flood of addicts in the years to come. Especially when <strong>Bill <a href="https://www.ibtimes.com/bill-gates-warns-next-pandemic-could-be-society-ending-3534608">Gates</a> </strong>bombards us with dire warnings such as &#8220;the world got lucky with the <a href="https://www.ibtimes.com/why-are-covid-cases-rising-us-again-3513651">COVID-19 pandemic</a>&#8221; and how he thinks the next one could be &#8220;society-ending&#8221; with a &#8220;fatality rate that is much higher than the coronavirus death toll.&#8221;</p><p>Bigger than what we are experiencing now? Just let me pop another pill. </p><p>Who&#8217;s the biggest body broker of all? Bill Gates, maybe? It seems like he&#8217;s the top dog when it comes to overall scamming on just about everything to do with health&#8212;<em>in the entire world. </em></p><p>But if we stick to this one aspect of rehab/recovery, Barack Obama is our go-to man.</p><h4><strong>You could say that t<a href="http://healthoverprofit.org/2017/02/05/obamacare-the-biggest-insurance-scam-in-history/">he Affordable Care Act (ACA), also called &#8220;Obamacare,&#8221; may be the biggest insurance scam in history.</a></strong> </h4><blockquote><p>The industries that profit from our current health care system wrote the legislation, heavily influenced the regulations and have received waivers exempting them from provisions in the law. This has all been done to protect and enhance their profits.</p><p>In the meantime, the health care crisis continues. Fewer people, even those with health insurance, can afford the health care they need because of out-of-pocket costs. The ACA continues that trend by pushing skimpy health plans with low coverage and restricted networks.</p><p>This is what happens in a market-based system of health care. People get only the amount of health care they can afford, rather than what they need. The ACA takes our failed market-based system to a whole new level by forcing the uninsured to purchase private health plans and using the government to sell and subsidize them.</p></blockquote><p> The Affordable Care Act was signed in 2008, requiring every healthcare provider to cover substance abuse treatment. So began a path of greed and abuse, leading not to recovery, but to an increase of 170% in drug abuse and suicide between 2009 and 2019. Nearly 92,000 people died from drug overdoses overall in the U.S. in 2020. This represents the largest increase ever recorded in a calendar year and reflects a nearly five-fold increase in the rate of overdose deaths since 1999. <strong><a href="https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/suicides-drug-overdose-increased-among-young-people-elderly-people-black-women-despite-overall-downward-tren">(1)</a></strong></p><p>With money pouring in, unscrupulous scammers opened &#8220;treatment centers,&#8221; where desperate families are manipulated and deceived, and the most vulnerable, the young, pay the highest price&#8212;a never-ending cycle of drug addiction, recovery, relapse, that destroys any hope they may have once had to live happy, independent, clear-minded lives. </p><h4>What&#8217;s a scam anyway? A dishonest scheme, a fraud, a swindle, a racket. Everybody thinks they&#8217;re too smart to get scammed. </h4><p>But when you&#8217;re scammed, you don&#8217;t know it, do you? Or if you do, most people will be too embarrassed to admit it. They will convince themselves that it wasn&#8217;t bad at all. In fact, they might even congratulate themselves, twisting the lie to mean by losing money they actually saved <em>more</em>. Sort of like buying things on sale. You buy twice as much, adding things you don&#8217;t really need that you wouldn&#8217;t have bought otherwise, congratulating yourself that you saved money when you really spent more. These people will turn around and get scammed again, and again, just to prove how enjoyable it was.</p><p>It was like that with the Covid shot. After the first, came the second, and by then, you are in too deep, having invested too much of your health into this lie, so how ca you admit the truth that it didn&#8217;t work. Even after you get sick a couple of times, you justify it to yourself. Next thing you know, you&#8217;re taking a third, and a fourth. And by then, you are a diehard believer. And you just might die. But you will never admit you were wrong. </p><p>Sort of like&#8230;drug addiction. </p><p>Fauci with his feisty New York accent, intellectual glasses and down-home style. He sold the world the biggest lie in history. Obama was right there, behind the scenes, with his smooth-talking, Hollywood glamor and stylish class. He sure knows how to wear a suit and his smile is worth a billion bucks. </p><p>What a pair those two make. </p><h4>Did you ever know a scammer that wasn&#8217;t either cool or feisty or both? </h4><p>We&#8217;ve all watched the movies immortalizing scammers and either swooned over those guys or wished we could be them. Think of The Sting, Paper Moon, Catch Me If You Can, Ocean&#8217;s Eleven&#8212;it&#8217;s a long list. 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Truth is such a downer. Give me a good story and wrap it in a TikTok vibe. Please, don&#8217;t strain my mind with more information than it can handle. A three-minute blast of overstimulation&#8212;then on to the next three-minute blast. Don&#8217;t think on it too much. Move on. Move on. Then, take a pill to help with the anxiety. Did you ever consider what that is doing to your brain?</p><p>Snap out of it. It&#8217;s time Americans admit we are being scammed and get angry. If not for our own sakes, then for the sake of our children.</p><h4>In every possible way, our children have become food for the industrial complex. Get a kid to pee in a cup and one test can be worth $10,000. </h4><p>Besides juvenile hall, I used to teach my creative writing program in some of the most expensive rehab facilities in the country. I remember there was one way up in the Malibu hills, with a breathtaking view of the Pacific Ocean below. The place looked like a castle. In a lot of ways, the young people in these facilities seemed more lost than the ones in juvenile hall. At least the incarcerated poorer youth had identities that they could be somewhat proud of&#8212;their gangs. These rich kids were lost and rudderless. But both groups are perfect fodder for the drug/recovery industry. The revolving door is well-oiled. You can check out some luxury rehab facilities <strong><a href="https://luxury-rehabs.com/Malibu/">here. </a></strong></p><p>Juvenile hall is a nightmarish place that purposely takes away a child&#8217;s humanity. I will write about that more later. But these swank sober living homes, I used to joke that I wished I could check in there. They had a masseuse, acupuncture, yoga classes and surfing classes. There was a French Chef who made the most delicious meals. They had constant therapy in the most paradisal setting. </p><p>And yet, there was always some disaster happening. Kids going for a hike and finding hallucinogenic wildflowers, ingesting them and having to be rushed to the hospital. I remember arriving one afternoon to be told that one girl had thrown herself off the balcony the night before. She, too, had been rushed to the hospital. Thankfully, she was going to be okay, the balcony hadn&#8217;t been very high. </p><p>Back in 2017, one of those popular articles was by Megan Kelly, who did an excellent <strong><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/megyn-kelly/florida-s-billion-dollar-drug-treatment-industry-plagued-overdoses-fraud-n773376">expose</a> </strong>of Florida&#8217;s &#8220;billion-dollar drug treatment industry.</p><blockquote><p>Thousands of addicts arrive here each year from Ohio and West Virginia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, hoping that at one of South Florida's many drug treatment centers, they'll find recovery. And some do.</p><p>But an investigation by NBC News has found that many of these vulnerable patients have become grist in an insurance fraud mill. Crooked treatment centers partner with "body brokers" and operators of so-called "sober homes" to find patients with good health insurance. Brokers and sober home owners offer those trying to get clean free rent and grocery store gift cards, cigarettes and manicures in exchange for going to a specific treatment center, which pays kickbacks for every client.</p><p>Once they've reeled patients in, these treatment centers bill their insurance tens of thousands of dollars for often questionable counseling, costly and potentially unnecessary drug screens, and exotic laboratory tests. Some treatment centers not only overlook drug use &#8212; they encourage it. <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/moms-unleash-anger-corrupt-rehab-owner-sentenced-27-years-n761236">To Florida's worst operators, relapse doesn't mean failure</a>. It means profit.</p></blockquote><p>Kelly tells the story of Michelle Curran and her drug addicted daughter who she sent to rehab in Florida, called the Rehab Capital of America. Curran&#8217;s daughter was sent from home to home. Curran's insurance would be charged more than $600,000 by the seven treatment centers Mikaya attended between January and June of 2016. Below are some of the bills Michelle Curran received for her daughter&#8217;s rehab. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hz2f!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51b2c405-de17-40e3-a9fd-3e5d764cfe77_560x530.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Hz2f!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51b2c405-de17-40e3-a9fd-3e5d764cfe77_560x530.webp 424w, 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Her mother, Michelle Curran, provided NBC News with a copy of a bill showing the total charges submitted to Mikaya's insurer, Cigna.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Curran said that in May 2016, she learned a man named Kenny had allegedly provided her daughter drugs so she would relapse. When she overdosed, he allegedly left her on a sober home lawn for the first responders to find.</p><p>Kelly&#8217;s article continues:</p><blockquote><p>Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein estimates that his city of 66,000 has about 700 sober homes that house up to 7,000 people in recovery. </p><p>"These kids are just cycled through different houses," said Glickstein. "There's no supervision. Many times, they're supervised by convicted felons, people that are trafficking drugs while they're supposed to be supervising kids in recovery."</p></blockquote><h4>Body brokers. The actual definition of a body broker is a firm or an individual that buys and sells cadavers or human body parts. </h4><p>This is now a term used in the recovery industry for the pied pipers who go out luring youth into rehab. What have our children become, nothing more than body parts to be hustled for profit. </p><p>There is no limit to how angry a person should get over this. There is no excuse to remain complacent. </p><p><em>Thank you or reading. 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Hell]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are one world, we have one health, we are one WHO.&#8221; - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, on the topic of the Global Pandemic Treaty]]></description><link>https://khmezek.substack.com/p/the-whos-gates-of-hell</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://khmezek.substack.com/p/the-whos-gates-of-hell</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 10:39:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P9mZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea77e98d-7d72-4a42-bb01-3479847189b8_920x616.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The World Health Organization&#8217;s disturbing logo. </figcaption></figure></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>One-time or recurring donations can now be made at <strong><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/khmezek8">Ko-Fi</a></strong></p><p><em><strong>You can listen to me read this essay <a href="https://anchor.fm/kh-mezek/episodes/The-WHOs-Gates-of-Hell-e1iq627/a-a7vbd9l">HERE</a></strong></em></p><p></p><p>Everyone is talking about how on May 22, the <a href="https://globalhealth.org/world-health-assembly/">World Health Assembly</a>, the governing body of the World Health Organization, will <a href="https://apps.who.int/gb/e/e_wha75.html">meet</a> in Geneva, Switzerland, to map out their pandemic treaty with the goal of solidifying their global power monopoly under the guise of &#8220;health &amp; safety.&#8221;</p><p>But before we get into all of that, the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy democracies <strong><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/g7-agree-pact-to-better-prepare-for-future-pandemics/ar-AAXw8Zz?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=W089&amp;cvid=de695655cd864bccb4839179775676bd">announced plans</a></strong> Friday (today) to &#8220;strengthen epidemiological early-warning systems to detect infectious diseases with pandemic potential.&#8221; They want to &#8220;increase <strong>compulsory contributions to WHO by 50%</strong> in the long term to ensure the U.N. agency can perform fulfill its global leadership role.&#8221; </p><p>Who will pay for that? We will. They are intent on bleeding us dry. </p><p>Then, Friday (today) it has been <strong><a href="https://hindustannewshub.com/russia-ukraine-news/who-convenes-emergency-meeting-over-monkeypox-the-moscow-times/#:~:text=The%20World%20Health%20Organization%20%28WHO%29%20is%20convening%20an,with%20vaccines.%20Monkeypox%20cases%20found%20in%2010%20countries.">reported</a></strong> that the WHO is convening <strong>an emergency meeting to discuss the monkeypox outbreak.</strong> There is a good chance, we will be hearing more about monkeypox&#8212;along with a relentless and growing selection of disgusting illnesses to keep us in an ever-heightening state of anxiety, as we are entering another phase of of severe psychological warfare or &#8220;menticide.&#8221; </p><p>It&#8217;s interesting that <strong>the smallpox vaccine is said to be effective against the disease</strong>. <strong>Monkeypox has a mortality rate of 1% to 11%,</strong> experts say. And with all of this will come the inevitable tests. </p><p>Back to the Global Pandemic Treaty. </p><p>It&#8217;s important to understand that as <strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/28/1059025751/who-seeks-a-new-treaty-on-handling-future-pandemics-it-could-be-a-hard-sell">NPR explained</a></strong>: The global response to the crisis is led by an underfunded World Health Organization that has <em>no power to force any nation to do anything</em>.</p><p>I don&#8217;t know about the &#8220;underfunded&#8221; part, but it&#8217;s true that the WHO does not yet have the power it seeks. The purpose of this meeting, and perhaps subsequent ones, is to convince the 194 member nations, with Biden leading the charge, to give up their sovereignty if and when the WHO determines there is a national or global health crisis. </p><p>As NPR continues:</p><blockquote><p>The idea behind this upcoming session of the <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2021/11/29/default-calendar/second-special-session-of-the-world-health-assembly">World Health Assembly</a>, Tedros says, is to start sketching out a <strong>new world order</strong> to handle future health crises.</p><p>"We don't have rules of the game," Tedros says of the current situation. "To manage shared problems, like pandemics, you need <strong>laws and rules that bring obligations to countries</strong>. That's what we miss. And I hope <strong>countries will agree to a binding pact</strong> so that pandemics can be managed better."</p></blockquote><p>According to the WHO this treaty needs to be signed and implemented by 2024. Hmm, just in time for presidential elections. </p><p>Nations who sign on to the treaty will be saying they give full support to the world&#8217;s health czar, Bill Gates, when he <strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/bill-gates-australia-covid-blueprint-could-help-prevent-next-pandemic.html">said in February of 2022</a>:</strong></p><p>&#8220;<em><strong>If every country does what Australia did the world could prevent the next pandemic</strong></em>.&#8221;  </p><p>We know what Australia did. We watched in horror as they turned their country into a fascist state, imposed martial law and imprisoned their people in the name of &#8220;health &amp; safety.&#8221; All the horrible mask mandates, lockdowns, and drugging of the population&#8212;none of which worked&#8212;will become law.   </p><p>On Jan. 24, 2022, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, <a href="https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-150th-session-of-the-executive-board-24-january-2022">explained</a> the treaty was a &#8220;priority&#8221; to &#8220;urgently strengthen WHO as <em>the leading and directing authority</em> on global health, at the center of the global health architecture.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;We all want a world in which science triumphs over misinformation; solidarity triumphs over division; and equity is a reality, not an aspiration,&#8221; he added. </p><p>He concluded, &#8220;<strong>We are one world, we have one health, we are one WHO</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>In a May 18 Forbes article, Bruce Y Lee <strong><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/">describes</a></strong> how the world&#8217;s first response of Covid-19 was anything but united. It was chaotic, messy, disjointed. </p><p>Such inaction &#8220;<em>allowed the virus to kill over 6.27 million people and counting, leave potentially millions upon millions more with long Covid, and cost society boatloads of money. That&#8217;s why the World Health Organization (WHO) will be discussing a possible Global Pandemic Treaty at the upcoming 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, from May 22 to 28.</em>&#8221;</p><p>The WHO already has an international health regulation that has been in place since 2005. But at this meeting, several amendments that were presented by the Biden administration a few months ago will be considered. These amendments have only been made public in mid-April. </p><p>In a nutshell, what are these amendments? Here are a couple of them, as explained by <strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-states-must-pre-emptively-nullify-any-who-international-pandemic-regulations">Daniel Horowitz for Blaze Media</a></strong>: </p><ul><li><p>The director-general of the WHO will have the power to declare a public health emergency in a country and unilaterally coerce its citizens to take certain actions. The proposed amendment deletes a critical sentence from Article 9 of the 2005 International Health Regulations: &#8220;WHO shall consult with and attempt to obtain verification from the State Party in whose territory the event is allegedly occurring&#8230;&#8221;</p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjAs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc6965770-1a7c-4e2e-9c04-137877a1a209_980x297.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjAs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc6965770-1a7c-4e2e-9c04-137877a1a209_980x297.png 424w, 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role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>How did we get here? Let&#8217;s look at a few of the ways our Global Health Czar, Bill Gates, has led us down this poisoned path over the years.  </p><p><strong>In a 2015 Ted Talk</strong> Gates predicted that a pandemic would come along that would potentially kill millions of people. </p><p><em>Eh, voila! Covid! </em></p><p>During subsequent years, Gates kept busy. A 2017 Academic review by Sharmeen Ahmed, of Golden Gate University School of Law, titled <strong><a href="https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1205&amp;context=annlsurvey">Accountability of International NGOs: Human Rights Violations in Healthcare Provision in Developing Countries and the Effectiveness of Current Measures</a>,</strong> details what Gates was up to in Africa. </p><blockquote><p>Since the early 2000s, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (Gavi), Global Health Innovative Technology Fund and PATH, all heavily funded by the Gates Foundation, have been distributing vaccines and drugs to vulnerable populations in Africa and India. In 2010, the Gates Foundation funded experimental malaria and meningitis vaccine trials across Africa and HPV vaccine programs in India. All of these programs resulted in numerous deaths and injuries, with accounts of forced vaccinations and uninformed consent. Ultimately, these health campaigns, under the guise of saving lives, have relocated large scale clinical trials of untested or unapproved drugs to developing markets where administering drugs is less regulated and cheaper</p></blockquote><p>This is the man who is now pushing for control over the health of everyone on the planet. It is no wonder that <strong><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/why-many-africans-are-wary-of-covid-19-vaccines/a-56774599">Africans remain skeptical. </a></strong> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Whay!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc4f7080-45cd-42d6-af9e-9e30ab0e9f89_600x480.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Whay!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc4f7080-45cd-42d6-af9e-9e30ab0e9f89_600x480.jpeg 424w, 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bioterrorism.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>&#8220;Climate change will be a death toll greater than Covid,&#8221; said Gates during the interview.&nbsp;&#8220;Also, related to pandemics is something people don&#8217;t like to talk about much, which is bioterrorism, that somebody who wants to cause damage could engineer a virus. So that means the chance of running into this is more than just the naturally caused epidemics like the current one.&#8221; </p><p><strong>On November 4, 2021, Gates</strong> <strong><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-warns-smallpox-terror-000100099.html">warned</a></strong>:</p><blockquote><p>Governments must prepare for future pandemics and smallpox terror attacks by investing billions in research and development.</p><p>Mr. Gates made the warning during a <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/policy-exchange">Policy Exchange</a> interview with the chair of the Health Select Committee <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/jeremy-hunt">Jeremy Hunt</a>.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/microsoft">Microsoft</a> founder also called for the formation of a new billion-dollar World Health Organization Pandemic Task Force.</p><p>While the research may be expensive, he said that it could also lead to other innovations, such as eradicating flu and the common cold.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;ll take probably about a billion a year for a pandemic Task Force at the <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/who">WHO</a> level, which is doing the surveillance and actually doing what I call &#8216;germ games&#8217; where you practice.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Germ games. Biowarfare. </p><p><em><strong>And now we have a war in Ukraine, with talk of biolabs, and the Russians unleashing bioweapons. </strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Ius!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdf09370-8a4d-43d8-a6c2-26985dbf61a4_1160x629.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2Ius!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdf09370-8a4d-43d8-a6c2-26985dbf61a4_1160x629.jpeg 424w, 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Marco Rubio asked Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland for verification of what up until that moment had been another one of those silly conspiracy theories: &#8220;does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?&#8221;</p><p>To which she had no choice but to reply: &#8220;Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of. So, we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces, should they approach.&#8221;</p><p>And then, Rubio had to hastily clarify that of course it would be unthinkable for the United States to be working on biological weapons to unleash on the Russians. It had to be Russian propaganda groups putting out disinformation about &#8220;how they&#8217;ve uncovered a plot by the Ukrainians to release biological weapons in the country with NATO&#8217;s coordination.&#8221;</p><p>Because the United States would never stoop to such tactics, right? </p><p>But wait, the US has a history of not only conducting biowarfare against its enemies but conducting biowarfare experiments on <em>its own people.</em> </p><p>As just one example, in 1950, San Francisco was chosen as the perfect city, due to its famous fog, for <strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-military-tested-bacterial-weapons-in-san-francisco-2015-7">the US military to conduct a test </a></strong>to see whether fog could be used to help spread a biological weapon in a <strong>"simulated germ-warfare attack."</strong> <strong>This was one of at least 239 tests around the country that would go on in secret for years.</strong></p><p><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2015/06/28/san-fran-serratia/#.VZrUgxNVhBe">Rebecca Kreston at Discover Magazine</a> writes: </p><blockquote><p>The Nuremberg Code was drafted in 1947 following the appalling revelations of human experimentation committed in Nazi concentration camps. The overarching goal of the Code was to establish a set of rules for the ethical conduct of research using human subjects, guaranteeing that the rights and welfare of such participants would be protected. Two important principles guide and define this Code: the concept of voluntary, informed consent and that no experiment shall&nbsp;be conducted in which &#8220;<strong><a href="http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/archive/nurcode.html">there is an</a></strong><em><strong><a href="http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/archive/nurcode.html">&nbsp;a priori</a></strong></em><strong><a href="http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/archive/nurcode.html">&nbsp;reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur</a></strong>.&#8221;</p><p>Just four short years later, the government of the United States would violate the Code as it undertook one of the largest&nbsp;human experiments in history, spraying the city of San Francisco with a microbe,&nbsp;<em>Serratia marcescens,</em>&nbsp;in a simulated germ warfare attack.</p></blockquote><p>I could list many well-documented instances when the United States used bioweapons on its enemies and at home. Knowing this, it isn&#8217;t a stretch to consider that the Covid-19 pandemic was a diabolical experiment unleashed upon <em>the entire world</em>. Or that the mRNA gene therapy &#8220;vaccines&#8221; given to millions of people under duress without informed consent was the <em>continuation of that experiment</em>. </p><p>Whereas once such experiments were done in secret, now they are flaunted openly. The goal being to terrify the populace so thoroughly that they willingly give up all their freedoms and live under a tyranny of constant drugs and surveillance in exchange for &#8220;health and safety.&#8221; </p><p><em>Please</em>, the populace will say, <em>what are you waiting for? Sign that pandemic treaty so the WHO can save us!</em></p><p>Never fear. 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digitized manner and incentivizing the delivery of vaccines.&#8221;</p><p>The biometric digital identity platform Trust Stamp, which claims to &#8220;evolve as you evolve,&#8221; is <a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2020/07/africa-to-become-testing-ground-for-trust-stamp-vaccine-record-and-payment-system.html">to be introduced</a> in &#8220;low-income, remote communities&#8221; in West Africa as part of a partnership between the <strong><a href="https://www.gavi.org/investing-gavi/funding/donor-profiles/mastercard">Bill Gates-supported GAVI vaccine alliance and Mastercard.</a></strong></p><p>The new program, to be tested in West Africa, will see Trust Stamp&#8217;s technology integrated into the GAVI-Mastercard &#8220;Wellness Pass,&#8221; a digital vaccination record and identity system.</p><p>All of this brings us into the era of the <strong><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/internet-of-bodies-covid19-recovery-governance-health-data/">Internet of Bodies, which the World Economic Forum describes as</a></strong><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/internet-of-bodies-covid19-recovery-governance-health-data/"> &#8220;</a>collecting our physical data via a range of devices that can be implanted, swallowed or worn.&#8221;</p><p>Covid has been such a wonderful excuse to implement restrictions, policies, experimental drugs and devices that people would have balked at under ordinary circumstances. But it is still a challenge to surveil and control every person on the planet. The only way is with a stamp or a microchip.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_wyv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaf366ec-129d-4c45-9e8d-320ae30d2324_1800x1247.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_wyv!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faaf366ec-129d-4c45-9e8d-320ae30d2324_1800x1247.jpeg 424w, 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PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVID TALUKDAR/ALAMY</figcaption></figure></div><p>Of the 1.1 billion people who lack formal proof of identity, most live in Asia and Africa, and a third of them are children, <strong><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/10/12/11-billion-invisible-people-without-id-are-priority-for-new-high-level-advisory-council-on-identification-for-development">according to World Bank data</a></strong>. While our overlords say with grave concern that this isolates them from &#8220;systems of democracy and social welfare,&#8221; what they really mean is that they <em>cannot tolerate anyone being untraceable</em>. </p><p>It reminds me of the Eye of <strong><a href="https://www.sideshow.com/characters/sauron">Sauron</a> </strong>in The Lord of the Rings. The Eye seeks out whoever wears the Ring and once it finds you, it sets about controlling and manipulating you to forget all that is good and submit to all that is evil. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dIYE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F05ab8664-a0b5-448f-b5db-3975f5727b7c_990x495.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dIYE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F05ab8664-a0b5-448f-b5db-3975f5727b7c_990x495.jpeg 424w, 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surveillance of the Eye of Sauron. No one shall remain anonymous. </p><p>I wish I could be anonymous. In the late 1980s, before all of this digital monitoring, I returned to the United States after having lived for seven years between London and a village in what was then Yugoslavia. For the longest time after I arrived back in Los Angeles, I didn&#8217;t even want to open a bank account. I&#8217;d been out of the country for such a long time and the government had forgotten all about me. Nothing came for me in the mail. No one except for my family and a few close friends knew I existed. Eventually I rejoined society, but I always look back on that time with nostalgia. I do even more so now! </p><p>Perhaps the day will come when those of us who refuse to submit to the evil Eye will have no choice but to throw away all of our technological devices and disappear like those adventurous hobbits did, into the wilderness. </p><p><strong>Finally, we come to Bill Gates April 2022 Ted Talk</strong> where he said that &#8220;we now have the tools and strategies to make it possible to beat pandemics&#8212;we just have to fund them.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WgL2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38cfd65c-e280-42a1-aa72-b6def35de503_1200x564.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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By investing in disease monitoring, research and development as well as improved health systems, Gates believes we can create a world where everyone has a chance to live a healthy and productive life -- a life free from the fear of the next COVID-19."</p><p>I mean, GERM? Really? </p><p>I am tired of germs. I am fed up with being told I have to be afraid of every little thing. </p><p>I do not want a one-size-fits-all health plan for me and every other single person on the planet where we all must obey what some Artificial Intelligence tells us to do. I refuse to be chipped and stamped. </p><p>For five years before this pandemic, I traveled the world on my own, with a very small suitcase and a backpack containing my computer and my books. I trained with like-minded fighters in Sucre, Bolivia. I took the night bus over the Atlas Mountains to share stories and art between children in a village in the Sahara Desert and Hoopa Children in Northern California.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XwiT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d1838b1-545e-4d66-b9e9-d5c4cc96dc41_960x540.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XwiT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d1838b1-545e-4d66-b9e9-d5c4cc96dc41_960x540.jpeg 424w, 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A place of uncertainty, even dangerous at times, with the chance of getting sick or falling down, or stepping on a scorpion or a snake. But also, real and overwhelmingly beautiful with connections to people and places that will never be forgotten. </p><p>Yes, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, we are &#8220;<strong>one world</strong>,&#8221; but we do not have &#8220;<strong>one health</strong>,&#8221; and we are not &#8220;<strong>one WHO</strong>.&#8221;</p><p><strong>We are all unique beings created by God. </strong></p><p>When I was maybe 12 years old, I used to walk down to the &#8220;drugstore&#8221; on a Saturday morning with my sister&#8212;after finishing our chores. If it was summer, we went barefoot, we never wore shoes all summer long. In fact, we used to stand on the hot ground to toughen up our feet and see who lasted the longest before having to run to shade. You could fry an egg on that ground. Anyway, there was a rack with books at the drugstore and one time I found The Hobbit. It looked like a wonderful book! My favorite thing was to buy a book and a pile of candy and go home, lie on my bed and read at chomp away. After I finished the Hobbit, I bought the other five books in the Lord of the Rings series. Within those pages I learned about honor and courage and the evil that does its best to pull us in and destroy our souls and the good that triumphs overall. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ljd8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3aa13426-6517-4828-8516-4345d363d37a_1920x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ljd8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3aa13426-6517-4828-8516-4345d363d37a_1920x1200.jpeg 424w, 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'It&#8217;s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don&#8217;t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.' . . .&#8221;</p><p>So said Frodo, a wise hobbit if ever there was one. </p><p>Let us walk this Road, refusing to be captured and caged behind the WHO&#8217;s Gates of Hell. </p><p><em>Thank you for reading and listening. Please comment, share and become a subscriber! </em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://khmezek.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Break Free with Karen Hunt is a reader-supported publication. 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