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We are pleased to excerpt this article by John Stone as published on Children s Health Defense in a collaborative effort.###By John StoneThese comments follow on the disappointing failure of Prof Kaye ‘UN Special Rapporteur for the Promotion and Protection of Freedom of Opinion and Freedom of Expression’ to respond to two respectful letters complaining about the arbitrary use of terms like “misinformation” and “disinformation” for information which is likely just inconvenient for corporate global interests, global agencies and the policies of governments. I also protested at the use the of term “anti-vaccinationist” as catch-all hate speech for anyone who criticises vaccine products, programs or the lobby.I was moved to write to Prof Kaye because he seemed to be displaying signs of intellectual fastidiousness last year when he asked Mark Zuckerberg to be more precise about how he defined “vaccine misinformation”. In my second letter I expanded this to include public and expert concern about 5G radiation – also coming to be classified expediently as “misinformation”, as with a recent communique by the Council of Europe (which I understand to be the committee of the 27 heads of government of the European Union). I wrote, it will be recalled:“It seems now that at “warp-speed” global citizens are having their rights to discuss their future stripped away from them by politicians using Orwellian strategies. Now, every time that global corporate interests are called into question, governments only have to wheel out terms like “misinformation” or “disinformation” and they are safe from public scrutiny or accountability. This bodes ill both for democracy and the safety of citizens.“It may be said that I was genuinely surprised when he did not reply to me the first time, and that a United Nations office did not even have the courtesy to provide an acknowledgment, even when repeatedly requested. It should also be obvious that this is just the sort of sensitive issue which his office should be attending to: even if Kaye thinks I am absolutely wrong it ought to be within his grasp to explain why. The idea that there are increasing areas where governments should never have to be called to account is both absurd and menacing.In the absence of a reply I went to Kaye’s 2019 book ‘Secret Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet’ for illumination. The critical passage is found on page 91 where he writes favourably of the work of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII):“OII has shown how all sorts of actors try to manipulate public opinion, from whether to vaccinate your children to whom to vote for in contested elections”It is interesting to note here how once legitimate subjects of free speech have now fall under the heading of “manipulation”. In particular, he mentions OII’s Samantha Bradshaw, with whom I took issue at the House of Commons’ Digital, Culture, Media Sports Committee Inquiry into FAKE News in 2017-18. I wrote to the Committee following her evidence:Read more here. The headline is tongue in cheek, but the kernel of truth is that the FDA will out any product that can harm us except vaccines. If you tell anyone a vaccine cause injury you are instantly branded anti-vaccine. If you have any of this product, please dispose of it immediately and safely. Perhaps your pediatrician will put it with their toxic vaccine waste, for safety.Eskbiochem: Fix your products immediately or pull them from the shelves. We ve been burned too many times already.FDA advises consumers not to use hand sanitizer products manufactured by EskbiochemFDA tested samples of Lavar Gel and CleanCare No Germ. Lavar Gel contains 81 percent (v/v) methanol and no ethyl alcohol, and CleanCare No Germ contains 28 percent (v/v) methanol. Methanol is not an acceptable ingredient for hand sanitizers and should not be used due to its toxic effects.Consumers who have been exposed to hand sanitizer containing methanol should seek immediate treatment, which is critical for potential reversal of toxic effects of methanol poisoning. Substantial methanol exposure can result in nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system or death. Although all persons using these products on their hands are at risk, young children who accidentally ingest these products and adolescents and adults who drink these products as an alcohol (ethanol) substitute, are most at risk for methanol poisoning. By Anne DachelOn June 19 Age of Autism published the piece, We Flattened The Covid Curve Why Not the Autism Curve featuring an interview in which Safeminds Rebecca Estepp had a candid conversation with New Jersey autism researcher, Dr. Walter Zahorodny.“The most startling aspect of the report was that in New Jersey, I see the New Jersey rates as being the leading indicator and I saw surprised to see that even though our rate overall didn’t go up very dramatically between 2014 and 2016, our rate of autism in boys was at the 5 percent level. “One out of 20 boys [has] autism. That’s hard to get your head around. Sometimes I find myself checking myself and questioning, why am I saying that? I’m saying that because the data are clear that that’s the case. I certainly never thought I would be identifying such a high rate of autism among children in our state. That’s certainly the case. I think that would be, from my perspective, the two big findings of this report are that Hispanic children are significantly under-detected in most states and that autism as the leading indicator shows that one out of 20 boys has autism.”... ...the CDC, I think, has been just understating the issue. But really it’s behavior of the press that seems unconscionable to me, and that they take for granted that a claim or the assertion of better awareness explains the problem is sufficient. It’s really not a sufficient explanation.” Since I ve been writing about the really lie about autism (that there s no real increase in the number of children affected, just greater awareness) since 2006, it immediately had my attention.I ve also written about Dr. Zahorodny before. He s been adamant that the ever-growing autism rate represents a real increase in the number of affected children that has to be addressed. Below is an excerpt from a blog called Thinking Autism Guide. Please note: the article might not use the same type of person centered language that you or I use. That said, I have a loved one with autism who just yesterday shattered the last of our cereal bowls on the granite countertop. During a ride in our minivan, I was worried she would break the window with her pounding palm. At dinner, the noise of her banging her hand on the table frightened her sisters (also with autism) away from the meal. I found the information useful. ###When Autistic Kids Destroy ThingsSometimes autistic kids, and the adults they grow up to be, are really hard on physical things. Sometimes they consistently break devices or furniture, or take them apart. What many frustrated parents and caregivers may not understand is that there is usually a reason behind these urges; it s not just random autistic behavior. And if parents can try to figure out why their children have these needs, and then accommodate them as much as they can, everyone can have a much easier time. Not always, but in many cases.With this in mind, we talked to two advocates with both personal and professional experience in this area: Ivanova Smith, and Aiyana Bailin. Here s what they had to say; we hope it is helpful to you.Thinking Person s Guide to Autism: Tell us a little bit about yourselvesIvanova Smith: I am a self advocate leader in Washington State. I am Chair of Self Advocates in Leadership, and Member of People First of Washington. Aiyana Bailin: I ve been a respite care worker for over seven years. I ve worked with kids and young adults with various developmental disabilities (Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, etc.), but I specialize in severe autism. Or rather, I prefer profoundly autistic clients, because we generally get along really well. I m probably on the spectrum, but have never tried to get diagnosed.TPGA: When you see parents complain about autistic children or youths destroying furniture or other household objects, how does that make you feel?Ivanova: When I see the media complaining about autistic people it makes me feel sad. I also think it is not an effective way of helping the situation. There are ways to work with autistic people that help, but that do not stop autistic people from having freedom of experience. Aiyana: I don t have a general answer to this. There are a lot of factors—tone, intended audience, etc. But often, I think parents need to be more careful about how they discuss their autistic (or otherwise disabled) kids. These kids already feel like they cause their parents a lot of stress, and they can be very sensitive about it.TPGA: What do you think makes some autistic children need to take things apart? Ivanova: For many autistic people, we do not only have sensory experiences that are negative. Lots of autistics, especially those with intellectual disabilities, and/or who are non-speaking, also sensory seek. Sensory seeking is when the autistic person seeks out a sensory stimulus. Stimming is actually a form of this. Staring at certain objects and taking them apart is stimulating. Have you ever taken a pen apart? For me I really like lights and water, I like touching fountains, water, and feeling water move. Lots of times autistics need to avoid sudden sensory things, but can also seek out sensory things. Autistic people need understanding for both sensory issues, and sensory seeking. It is important to allow autistics to sensory seek. It as important as allowing us to stim. TPGA: Do you have ideas for how parents might be able to help those children?Ivanova: I understand that property damage can be frustrating. I know my family struggled with it when I didn’t understand. I wore out the lazy boy armchairs because of my intense rocking. It would been helpful to have armchairs that were adapted for autistics who wear things out. Today, we d like to tell you about a new collaboration called Millions Against Medical Mandates.We are a coalition of health freedom activists working together to prevent medical mandates. We are physicians, lawyers, journalists, nurses, researchers, scientists, nutritionists, parents of vaccine injured children and adults, citizen activists and organizations alarmed about the erosion of our rights to bodily autonomy.Those of us who have experienced autism vaccine/injury have been sounding a warning for some twenty plus years. Not just to deaf ears, but ears tightly closed on purpose. And then came COVID-19.How many times have informed, educated advocates in the vaccine injury and autism community been maligned in the press because we do not have a medical degree, and therefore are unable to understand science or have an opinion or recommendation? Even those who are PhDs, Doctors, Scientists and experts have been destroyed. And yet, Gates, a college drop out is the de facto expert, revered like The Claw by the media and public health minions. Given the billions he has invested in vaccine development prior to the Coronavirus pandemic, isn’t it curious that he is so obsessed with the idea that we can’t go back to normal until there is a fast-tracked vaccine for the Coronavirus -as if vaccines are the only only way to protect oneself from a virus. COVID provided public health officials with a chance to completely revamp American health. How about a FitBit for every American, to track their health along with that stimulus check? Public service exercise announcements sandwiched with advertisements - Get up! 10 jumping jacks! 10 sit ups! Let s beat COVID together! We needed Jack LaLanne! We got Jack Kevorkian. We could have helped a nation of obese citizens fighting heart disease, diabetes, stroke and living on pill after pill with a cascade of side effects make meaningful steps forward to health that would not only fight COVID or make for a better outcome if contracted, but also owered the staggering healthcare costs plaguing us.Please consider signing up for this new collaboration called Millions Against Medical Mandates to receive emails that you can share with friends and family. Information isn t just for Bill Gates. It s for all of us to be able to make informed decisions for ourselves and our families. Thank you. Get in your ghost cah and join this rolling rally to STOP two Massachusetts vaccine bills! “Community immunity. Sounds wicked friendly. It s not. From our friends at Health Choice Massachusetts.CALLING ALL PARENTS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND SURROUNDING STATES - JOIN US FOR A ROLLING RALLY THIS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24th. This is a car protest around the State House. The higher-ups will be holding a session this day and we need to be heard. Get in your car and join us! There will be four departure points from around Boston to caravan to the capitol.Learn more: Please RSVP via this link: ✅The police have been notified and supportive of the goals. ✅We have our designated rally route around the State House. ✅Our video went viral and the media have reached out to cover.We need more numbers.These bills are DISCRIMINATORY, DESTRUCTIVE, OVERREACHING AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL.WE NEED TO FLOOD THE STATE HOUSE!Other ways you can help.1. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BILLS AND WAYS TO HELP - visit fb.com/opposeoverreach 2. VISIT ONE CLICK DAILY TO JOIN IN OPPOSITION - 3. SHARE AND RETWEET OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PIECES4. SIGN UP FOR TEXT ALERTS - https://tapit.us/ekE6Cd#opposeoverreach #iamworthy #S2763 #H4784 #healthchoice4actionmaThe Community Immunity Act is Discriminatory, Destructive and incites Bullying Fox News 12 Sherman TexasI saw this story about a Texas boy burned by chemicals left on a shopping cart on the Massachusetts Health Choice Facebook page and wanted to scry. That s not a typo - that s scream AND cry. I ve been thinking about children around the world - and ubiquitous use of toxic, caustic, dangerous chemical cleaning and disinfecting agents. This weekend I was in a Shop-Rite here in Connecticut and they have shower curtains hung between the cash register aisles. If you have ever had a clear shower curtain, you know they get moldy very fast and don t stay clear long. They are a bear to really clean. This is what shopping as come to during COVID-19. Jury rigged safety systems are that have no scientific basis. What will happen in schools, when every surface is covered in a chemical one, two or more times per day? What is the public health cost to inhaling and contacting these products day in and day out for any of us, let alone kids? I think the boy have lost his sight if he d gotten that stay COVID safe! chemical in his eyes. A nightmare. Kim###Texoma boy burned by chemicals on Kroger shopping cartSHERMAN, Tex. (KXII) - A Texoma boy is recovering after something meant to protect him left him with burns on his face. How a trip to the grocery store quickly turned into a trip to the doctor.“We go to Kroger weekly. We enjoy it, love the fuel points, you know. It’s just one of those, it took us by surprise, said Jessica Garcia of Sherman.Garcia and her 7-year-old son, Jax Owens, went to do their weekly shopping at the Sherman Kroger Sunday. She said she noticed a gel-like substance on the shopping carts, but wiped down as much as she could see before letting Jax inside.“As we’re going through getting our groceries he just was telling me how his face was itching and burning, but I didn’t see anything, said Garcia.Garcia says his face became red and swollen, and kept an eye on him that night..“The very next morning, his lip was, even though it’s huge right now it was about 5 times bigger than that,” said Garcia. Here s to the men who embody the three P s of Fatherhood - Provider, Protector, Problem Solver. Happy Father s Day. Cathy has the day off with her family. Josh Edwards: December 13, 1992 - June 20, 2020Photos published with family permission.We are gutted to write of the death of Josh Edwards. Josh suffered all of his life following injury from his MMR vaccination. From the healthy, bouncy baby boy you see, to the man who lost an eye to infection just this past January. But his soul remained pure and intact. Earlier today, Josh s soul left his ravaged body and is free.Today, we honor his life and his sacrifice. Josh was one of the patients seen so many years ago by a young. British gastroenterologist who looked at Josh s condition and asked, How? Why? That Doctor was named Andrew. J. Wakefield. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and all affected by his death. The only thing worse than mourning your child once, must be mourning him... twice. Rest in Peace, Josh. An infection in January of 2020 cost Josh his eye.I am Josh. I was born on the day I was due, December 13, 1992 - and a little bruiser I was, said the nurses. I was a robust 8 pounds 11 ounces, chunky and muscular. I breastfed well and thrived.After 6 weeks, I went on the bottle. I was such a happy baby, always smiling and very content, says Mum. I played peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake with Brother. Everybody gave me cuddles and I gave them back. I sat at 6 months old. I walked at 11 months old and weighed 25 pounds. I could say “Mama,”“Dada,”“ta” [thank you], “gone,”“juice,” and “bye.” I love bath time! I splash and play with my brother and the bath toys. I am a strapping lad! |Remember this beautiful boyIt’s January 1994; I’m 13 months old. Off to the doctor for my MMR! Tonight I have a high fever. I don’t feel so well in the morning, with severe diarrhea leaking through my clothes and onto my bedding. My stool is bright yellow, runny, and then like oxtail soup. Can you imagine? This went on for 5 days, and then I stopped “going” so much . . . Mum says “constipated.” I used to poop every day before the MMR, sometimes twice a day. I’m so sorry, Mum, I don’t know what is happening. I am miserable and upset.Read more about I AM JOSH Here. Weapons related behaviors prohibited on school property include, [WP3P] Bringing a toy/look-alike gun to school/school sponsored event.” – PPS Code of Student Conduct We ve had a problem at this school. The boys have gone around fake shooting and making paper guns at class. It s inappropriate. ....school authorities telling students, including Nathan, that any gun-related behavior would have serious consequences. Columbus Ohio ###Children who ve been taught every day that anything that resembles a gun, including their own fingers, is disallowed on school grounds will now have to process the fact that the teachers and staff who used to conduct lock down drills will now be pointing gun-like thermometers inches from their faces, while masked. Where are the public health officials, social workers and school psychologists screaming that this message will terrify and traumatize many students? The psychological impact of having to pass a health screening every day by what looks like a weapon seems like a threat to current and future health. Safeminds presents a 5 minute interview with Dr. Walter Zahorodny discussing the steep upward curve of autism especially in New Jersey, the non-existent response from state and federal officials and the whitewashing by the media. If we have taken a COVID approach 25 years ago, how many children would be in college or working to their fullest capacity today? How many families would be enjoying retirement instead of tending to severely affected children? How many school budgets would have millions of dollars free to use for the student population? None of this means eradicating people with autism. The birth cohort may well have had quirks and traits and even autistic like symptoms and gone on to lead the life meant for them. Not the life manmade autism foisted upon them.Take 5 minutes to listen. We ll be sharing screen shot memes over the coming days that you can share easily on social media. Thank you.### Note: Growing up, my parents were big fans of BritComs - British sitcoms that ran on our Boston PBS station from the BBC. Are You Being Served? Fawlty Towers. And our very favorite, Keeping Up Appearances. To borrow from their dialog, I m so pleased to announce that our John John Stone, is now also featured on the Children s Health Defense site. It is alliances like this that will educate a broader swath of readers. Please join me in congratulating him.###For the Attention of David Kaye, on Freedom of Opinion and ExpressionBy John Stone On May 1, 2019, David Kaye Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression for the United Nations wrote a letter to Facebook’s co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He wrote to provide preliminary reactions to Facebook’s initiative to create an Oversight Board for Content Decisions (“the Board”).In his letter he used as examples “anti-vaccination disinformation campaigns” and “vaccine misinformation:Measures Facebook has adopted, for instance in the face of anti-vaccination disinformation campaigns, are often understandable responses to unfolding crises, but their ad-hoc development may be susceptible to criticisms of bias and arbitrariness. Aligning these measures with human rights standards, however, can place them on a more principled footing. Under Article 19(3), restrictions on expression may be validly imposed if they are “provided by law” and “necessary” to serve a legitimate objective, such as the protection of public health. The Human Rights Committee has found that “law” must be “formulated with sufficient precision to enable an individual to regulate his or her conduct accordingly.” Even though Facebook does not make laws, the general principles of legality should nevertheless guide Facebook’s development of its rules and policies. In the context of its response to vaccine misinformation, for example, these principles would at least require Facebook to provide more information about how it defines “vaccine misinformation,” the processes it has developed for flagging such content, and the types of consultations it conducted in developing these measures and with whom it consulted. These are also the kinds of considerations that the Board, to provide genuine oversight, should be equipped to assess in reviewing appeals of content decisions.Article 19(3) also provides concrete metrics for assessing the impact of particular forms of expression on its platform, and calibrating a proportionate response to address such impacts. Under the requirement of legitimacy of objectives, it is incumbent on those advocating for restrictions to explain the “precise nature of the threat” and assess whether there is a “direct and immediate connection between the expression and the threat.” (CCPR/C/GC/34) In this example, these principles should lead Facebook to assess and explain how the spread of vaccine misinformation on its platforms raises public health concerns. Under the requirement of necessity, restrictions on expression must be “appropriate to achieve their protective function,” the “least intrusive instrument amongst those which might achieve their protective function” and “proportionate to the interest to be protected.” (Id.) Considerations of proportionality provide Facebook with a principled and internationally recognized framework for evaluating its decision to demote and de-emphasize anti-vaccination content rather than categorically ban such content on its platforms. Again, these are also the kinds of questions that the Board could be authorized to address in its review of content decisions.On May 29, 2020 I wrote the a letter to David KayeTo: David Kaye, ‘UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right freedom of opinion and expressionRE: Your letter to Mark ZuckerbergDear Mr. Kaye,Read the full letter at Children s Health Defense For the Attention of David Kaye, on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Surprisingly, U.S. mortality rates have declined among young people during the lockdown, especially among infants. These trends have gone largely unnoticed and remain unexplained.Lessons from the LockdownWhy are so many fewer children dying?A White Paper from Health ChoiceView this paper on the Health Choice website and subscribe to alertsBy Amy Becker and Mark Blaxill(To review, share and print this White Paper it its original formatting, Download Lessons from the Lockdown HERE.)June 18, 2020Covid19 is a serious public health issue, but the breathless reporting among the media of positive tests and an ever-rising death toll does little to instruct us about the true nature of the virus and the unprecedented steps taken to prevent its impact. As in many complex and pervasive health phenomena, there are many ways to measure health effects, but in our view the proper measure of impact is not a narrow or intermediate metric, but rather total health outcomes. In the case of a pandemic virus affecting large populations and where the immediate concern is sharp increases in deaths, the best measure of outcomes is not a selective measure of deaths somehow attributed to the disease but instead is deaths from all causes. For perspective, these deaths must be compared to historical death rates from all causes in prior years (Percent of Expected Deaths). As we will show, a balanced view of the broader American Covid19 experience demonstrates both the scale and variability of its negative outcomes in older Americans, especially the elderly, but also some unexpected positives. Surprisingly, U.S. mortality rates have declined among young people during the lockdown, especially among infants. These trends have gone largely unnoticed and remain unexplained.Death rates from all causes vary widely and somewhat predictably. The most pronounced variation occurs by age cohort (most deaths occur in the elderly) and by time of year and to a lesser extent by geography. All-cause deaths are cyclical, commonly rising in the winter months and “flu season” and then falling to lower levels as warmer weather arrives. To the extent that death rates vary by region, this is mostly a result of differences in the age mix of residents. In the case of Covid19, death rates are not yet known to be cyclical but they do vary significantly by age and geography.In the analysis that follows we have examined the evidence on total death rates by geography (mostly by state), by age group and by week (and flu season). We have extracted eight main lessons. Some of these are part of the ongoing conversation around Covid19; others are unexpected or at least have not been widely circulated. Why this discrepancy? Since the infectious disease establishment has controlled the “pandemic” narrative, the variance between this evidence and conventional wisdom is largely driven by longstanding bias and error patterns among the experts in that community. Overall US trend. The Covid19 impact on all-cause deaths has been sharp and clear. (1)Tens of thousands more Americans than expected died in a brief period. Before mid-March, overall U.S. deaths were trending at a level no different from recent years at between 55-60,000 per week. Beginning in the week ending on March 28, all-cause deaths began rising sharply, peaking in the week ending April 11 at around 75,000, or 137% of Expected Deaths for the week. Immediately thereafter, all-cause deaths began dropping sharply. Within five weeks, all-cause deaths were back to their typical range. By the week ending May 16, the measurable pandemic death impact had ended even though Covid19-related deaths most certainly had not. (2)Attributing a Cause of Death (COD) to COVID-19 is not always clear-cut, due to significant overlap among COVID-19, Pneumonia, Influenza, and presumably other primary CODs. (2)That said, the spike in deaths officially attributed to COVID-19 occurred in tandem with the spike in all-cause deaths, leaving little doubt that Covid19 was the main contributor to the excess of expected deaths between March 22 and May 9. By Barbara Loe Fisher and Carolyn Hendler, JDVirginia Legislature Gives CDC, Board of Health Power to Mandate Vaccines for School Children In the 2020 Legislative session, the Virginia Legislature passed H.B.1090, a bill that amended a law requiring children attending public and private schools in the state to receive vaccines (§ 32.1-46. Immunization of patients against certain diseases).1 Virginia Delegate Patrick Hope (D-Arlington) was the lead sponsor of H.B. 1090 introduced on Jan. 8, 2020, which proposed to automatically mandate that children enrolled in daycare or school receive all current and future vaccines recommended by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).The final bill, passed by the Senate in March, granted Governor-appointed members of the Virginia Board of Health the authority to add federally recommended vaccines to the schedule required for school attendance with the exception of the annual influenza vaccination. The bill included an exemption from the requirements of Article 2 of the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4006 et seq. of the Code of Virginia), effectively blocking Virginia citizens and elected legislators from participating in the decision-making process that creates new vaccine mandates for children.Abdicating Responsibility Accountability: Eliminating Voters from the Vaccine Law Making ProcessUnder the U.S. Constitution, duly elected representatives in state legislatures have authority for making public health laws for state residents. In handing the power to make vaccine laws to unelected members of a federal advisory committee and state Board of Health, the Virginia legislature has abdicated responsibility and accountability to constituents by cutting out elected representatives and the voters who elected them from the vaccine law making process.2 Although the new law provides for a 60-day public comment period after the Board of Health issues a Notice of Intended Regulatory Action to add a new vaccine to the required list for daycare and school attendance, the legislature will never again hold a public hearing where citizens can testify for or against the addition of a new vaccine mandate for children.Under the new law, the state Board of Health composed of physicians and representatives of medical trade and pharmaceutical-related associations like the Medical Society of Virginia, Virginia Pharmacists Association, Virginia Nurses’ Association,3 4 are expected to endorse vaccine use recommendations issued by members of the ACIP appointed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new law automatically adds up to 10 more doses of five vaccines for daycare and school children, including vaccines that the Virginia legislature previously voted against adding to the schedule, such as the very expensive meningococcal vaccine and HPV vaccine for boys.5H.B. 1090, as amended, was passed during a special session held by the state legislature on Apr. 22, 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, MD signed the bill into law with an effective date of July 1, 2021.6Strong Public Opposition in Legislative Committee HearingsRead more at Virginia Legislature Gives CDC, Board of Health Power to Mandate Vaccines for School Children Who remembers Dressy Bessy and Dapper Dan?By Kim RossiI thought we could all use a bit of good news. Yesterday, my daughter put on her pants independently. Most would read that simple sentence and imagine a young Mom proud of her toddler wriggling into a pair of Osh Kosh B Gosh pants. My daughter is over 18. I m over the hill.Dressing is a safety issue. A beautiful woman who can dress herself is a beautiful woman who is not naked twice a day in front of anyone. We ve been working on Activities of Daily Living for a long time. Since the COVID shutdown, I ve been her teacher on top of everything else. And as challenging as distance learning by ZOOM calls was for her staff and my daughter and me, it forced me to follow a curriculum for her. It taught me how to better teach her. Her teachers helped me gain new skills. We ve had success in part because I was not rushing to get her sisters ready for their day program at the same time, not making lunches, not packing backpacks and not watching the clock for transportation. Our mornings have been laid back, at least by our standards. I was able to take as much time as needed to help my daughter motor plan dressing. Next time you put on your pants, count all the steps. It s more than you think. We ll keep working until we master bluejeans. Hint: the jeans are stiff enough that they stay open so that she can insert her leg. I found that if I sit her on a low bench, she can reach her feet better than if she is sitting on her bed. There s less reaching forward. Less motor planning. So many pieces and parts. This is huge progress for her.Pants. On. By herself. Osh Kosh... oh my Gosh! We have autism families in New York state who have not seen their loved ones in group homes since MARCH. Draconian measures seemed only to apply to the disabled while others were allowed to gather in droves. ###ALBANY, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo held his daily briefing in Albany on Tuesday. There, he announced that hospitals and group homes would be allowed to have visitors, as long as visitors follow state guidelines.Cuomo said hospitals can allow visitors at their discretion, as long as visitors followed state guidelines, which includes time-limited visits, visitors must wear PPE, and visitors are subject to temperature checks.Cuomo: Visitation now allowed at hospitals and group homes By Meryl Nass, MD[Editor’s note: It should be noted that Dr Nass’s first objective has been achieved as following the publication of this article the WHO have halted these lethal trials.]Updates can be found here.The Solidarity Trial is a WHO-led conglomeration of many national trials of treatments for Covid-19. Per the WHO:As of 3 June 2020, more than 3500 patients have been recruited in 35 countries, with over 400 hospitals actively recruiting patients. Overall, over 100 countries have joined or expressed an interest in joining the trial, and WHO is actively supporting 60 of them...The hydroxychloroquine arm of the Solidarity trials restarted enrolling patients June 3, after being halted May 25 by WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the Executive Group of the Solidarity Trial. The hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) arm of the trials had been stopped after publication of the Lancet Surgisphere study, which claimed that patients who received hydroxychloroquine had 35% higher death rates, but the Lancet study was retracted 13 days after publication, as its data turned out to be fabricated.Below are the drugs being tested in Solidarity:RemdesivirHydroxychloroquineLopinavir with RitonavirLopinavir with Ritonavir plus Interferon beta-1a.However, the doses were not specified on WHO s list of the drugs to be trialed, nor were they specified, surprisingly, in WHO s 4 person consultation on chloroquine (CQ) dosing, dated April 8. Instead, the Introduction of the Report of that meeting notes, The chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine schedule selected for the trial includes two oral loading doses (250 mg per tablet CQ or 200 mg per tablet HCQ), then oral twice-daily maintenance doses for ten days. This meeting convened to discuss the appropriateness of the selected doses for the trial. Last week, I was alerted to the fact that India s ICMR, its official medical research agency, had written to the WHO, telling WHO that the hydroxychloroquine doses being used in the Solidarity trial were 4 times higher than the doses being used in India. Then I learned that Singapore had been hesitant to participate in the WHO trial due to the hydroxychloroquine dose. The UK Recovery trial was very similar to, but not part of, the international Solidarity conglomeration of clinical trials. The Recovery trial ended its HCQ arm on June 4, reporting no benefit. In-hospital mortality of the 1542 patients receiving hydroxychloroquine was 25.7%, or 396 deaths, about 10% higher than those receiving standard care, a non-significant difference. Connecticut State Representative Joshua Elliott has posted on his Facebook page the following: It isn t discomfort about addressing the issue of abolishing the police on its face. After enough conversations with folk, I believe in the mission. Elliott has lead the charge to abolish the religious vaccine exemption in Connecticut. If he d only been able to do away with the police in Hartford, perhaps one of our finest advocates and attorneys would not have been ARRESTED for raising her voice in the legislative building during a peaceful protest. Vaccine rights and the right to protection by the police are two pretty different topics. But here we will find more people to share common ground (not to be confused with Elliott s Common Bond natural food market a few miles from my home) who realize that there are some politicians who see a very different path forward than many of us.There are parallels between the BLM movement and the autism community. Hear me out. We ALSO see our loved ones secluded, restrained, shocked with electricity (hello Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts) and choked to death. We understand the worry a mother feels sending her son out into the world. We know the pain. We want TRAINING. UNDERSTANDING. Benefit of the doubt. full disclosure: I am a white, middle aged woman. Named KIM. Not Karen.A quick aside: In 2020, 2 masked men broke into my home while I was alone working. I dialed 911 and let me tell you, I didn t want a social justice advocate sauntering down the street to help. I wanted Batman, Superman, The Hulk and the men and women of my town police force. And when my daughter Isabella was assaulted by a bus aide over and over? It was a Police Detective who worked like a dog to bring her assailant to justice - and by doing so - protect others from ever having to work with the young monster because she is now a felon, unable to work with disabled or elderly above the table. ###I will be going hard on this issue this election cycle (and beyond, but it s during election cycle that I m out at people s doors having many one on one conversations.)First, it s important that I admit discomfort. It isn t discomfort about addressing the issue of abolishing the police on its face. After enough conversations with folk, I believe in the mission. It s the fear of not being taken seriously by people - something that folk who push the narrative have to face day in and day out.Black Lives Matter may not have started as a full-throated movement a few years ago while organizers, activists, and advocates began to coalesce their numbers, strategies, and narratives. Now it is, and it is taken seriously by everyone.Abolishing the police, as a movement, is in a similar position. We can sleep well tonight knowing that Bill Gates has transformed Dr. Peter Vaccines did not Cause Rachel s Autism Hotez life. Money will do that. Dr. Hotez earned $70K for working just 10 hours a week in 2016 for the Sabin Institute. That s around $145 per hour. Not a bad wage by the average American s thinking. And that was a side gig. For most of us, autism has thrown our finances into a blender set to shred. #MeetBillGates Source: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/06-1389829 Bill Gates backing plan to stop climate change by blocking out the sunIt sounds like a wacky idea out of science fiction - but it’s backed in part by billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates and top scientists from Harvard.The researchers believe that a fleet of specially designed aircraft could spray sulfate particles into the lower stratosphere to cool down our planet and offset the effects of climate change.A test of the technology has been proposed for this year, the Daily Mail reports, with the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) seeing a bag of carbonate dust released into the atmosphere 12 miles up.If that experiment proves successful, the researchers will move on to releasing the dust from planes.This week, advocates from all walks of life are engaging in a campaign to #MeetBillGates and his stranglehold on our lives. Our freedom. Our medical care. Imagine a human being able to control the sun? Let s call the project ICARUS. By Cathy JamesonIn the midst of the incredible COVID-19 worldwide event, shelter-in-place orders were promulgated by the state. Americans were encouraged to stay away from and were even prevented from entering medical facilities, but one medical treatment was given a pass: vaccines. The shutdown of medical facilities affected countless patients across the country, including my son. Where we could no longer access direct medical care for him with a team of physicians who knew his needs best, I was allowed to walk him right into a pediatrician’s office for a liability-free vaccine that comes with known adverse reactions and negative side effects. That’s because the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) was quick to disregard US governors’ stay-home orders. Instead of waiting for America to re-open like practically all other businesses had to, the AAP created a plan to keep vaccine visits a priority. Schools are taking on that same message. That’s nothing new. It doesn’t happen this early usually, but schools are now parroting information from the industry. Get your shots. Get them now. Recently, I saw a notice regarding school physicals. Despite the restrictions that closed many classrooms and educational centers this year because of COVID-19, school officials remain hopeful that buildings will open in the fall. With that, parents were being asked to think ahead. That includes getting their students’ physicals. It also means getting up-to-date on vaccines. Some clinics are suggesting catch-up shots as well. At many well-child visits, beginning at 2-weeks of age, a set number of vaccines is recommended. If the child was unable to get to the doctor for the previously suggested appointment, the doctor might suggest that they get both sets of vaccines. Doubling up on shots doesn’t sound like the best idea, and that isn’t just a personal opinion. Safety studies have yet to be established on the entire vaccine schedule. To administer twice as many vaccines in one visit is ludicrous. Something else that is unreasonable is that all too often, a school will cite the state law and send out a blanket statement: Shots are required for school entry. The school letter starts by stating that vaccines are safe and effective. They then list vaccines requirements, usually by grade or age. Some will use language that makes it sound as if it’s impossible for a child to gain school entry without a medical physical and all of the liability-free vaccines on the schedule. What isn’t included in those official notices is the smaller, yet equally valuable, message: exemptions are allowed. Many states have taken exemptions away, but some do still exist. While personal belief and religious exemptions have been removed, medical exemptions exist in every state. Steve Jobs created a world of imaginative products used the world over for creative connections between humans. Bill Gates created machines to conduct business. Today is a day to talk about Bill Gates iron grip on every aspect of planet earth save maybe its orbit as the pandemic he may have crafted wages on. Two men. Genius level. Both college drop-outs. Both richer than most of us could ever imagine. One died from cancer, unable to save his own life using medicine. The other is now for all intents and purposes in charge of our lives, and believes using medicine is his to impose on every one of us. In 1984, when Jobs launched the Macintosh computer, the above TV ad mesmerized the world with its theme of a WOMAN shattering an Orwellian world. A world with robotic people following instructions, marching in lockstep and even wearing.... masks. Exactly the world Bill Gates is constructing around us TODAY.The strange love-hate relationship between Bill Gates and Steve JobsMatt Weinberger and Avery HartmansMar 11, 2020, 12:11 PM Jobs didn t even have any mercy when Gates decided to quit Microsoft in 2006 to focus more on his foundation. Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology, Jobs said. Ultimately, both men claim quite a legacy: Jobs built Apple into what is now one of the most valuable companies in the world, while Gates is one of the richest men in the world.Said Gates of Jobs in Bill Gates has a perfect explanation of the difference between him and Steve JobsJay YarowApr 7, 2015, 8:49 AMSteve had a design mind-set. When I get to a hotel room, I don t go, Oh, if I had designed this car I would have done this and this. People like Jony Ive and Steve Jobs are always looking at stuff that way. You know, I look at code and say, Okay, this is architected well, but it s just a different way of understanding the world. His most natural, innate sense was a world-class instinct about whether this or that object met certain standards. He had extremely high standards of what was shit, and what was not shit. Language alert: So much for draining the swamp. When President Trump appointed (was handed on a silver platter atop one million dollars) Scott Gottlieb to run the FDA, that was the death knell for the Vaccine Safety Commission he promised Americans. The pfox sashayed into the hen house with a million bucks and had a fine meal, leaving not so much as a feather. My daughter was abused at age 10Note: Yesterday we ran a narrative non-fiction look at what COVID has done to adults with disabilities and their families written by Barbara Fischkin about her son Daniel. I highly recommend you read it. Our loved ones have been cast aside throughout COVID and now, with the racial tensions following the death of George Floyd, their lives seem to have fallen further down the care curve. The irony to me is that while the nation rightly decries police brutality, people with severe developmental delays including autism are frequently subject to brutal restraints, submissions, seclusion and other tactics that if used by the police against people of any color, would be deemed barbaric. Our kids have been bruised, bones broken, locked in rooms, held on the ground until they aspirate their own vomit, allowed to wander away to meet their fate in a pond or other body of water, choked to death. Where is the protest?###Trump Administration Releases Aid For Disability Service Providers by Michelle Diament | June 11, 2020Amid questions about delays, the Trump administration is sending billions of dollars in aid to disability providers and others funded by Medicaid who have been hard hit by the pandemic.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said this week that some $15 billion will go toward providers serving individuals covered by Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, including home- and community-based services providers.The money is part of the $175 billion Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund that federal lawmakers created in a pair of coronavirus relief bills earlier this year to help health care providers.While HHS has already distributed billions of dollars from the fund, little has gone toward providers funded primarily by Medicaid.That has drawn the ire of disability advocates and lawmakers alike. Just last week, a bipartisan group of congressional leaders wrote to HHS Secretary Alex Azar to inquire about the holdup.Agencies supporting people with developmental disabilities — which rely on Medicaid funding — have struggled greatly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the American Network of Community Options and Resources, or ANCOR, a national trade group representing disability service providers. Unable to continue offering day programs and other services, providers have seen revenues decline while their costs for staffing, personal protective equipment and other needs have grown. Source, Barbara s FB 10/19Note: I met Barbara Fischkin at my very first public speaking event in New York City a dozen or so years ago. She is an accomplished author, and was a successful journalist who traveled the world for her career. I consider her a friend and mentor. Her adult son Daniel has been in his New York Group home since the quarantine began. Like many group homes, Dan s been denied all visits, even from Mom or Dad. Her son contracted COVID and recovered. She has been able to have curb distance visits. This is happening all over the country, maybe the world. People with autism cut off from their loved ones. I can t imagine anyone being able to explain to my three daughters why I am not there for them. My once, twice, thrice broken heart couldn t take knowing they were worried I d never return, or worse starting to forget me. Below is an excerpt from a magnificent narrative non-fiction essay she has written about this time and our autism family. Never forget, no matter how we ended up here, how we have treated autism, educated our children, housed them - all of it - at the end of the day, we are the autism family. Take the time to savor her style, her wit, her honesty, her emotion. Enjoy. KimBarbara Fischkin is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction and satiric fiction and is currently writing an autism-related historical novel titled The Digger Resistance, some of it set in what was once an Eastern European shtetl. She holds an interdisciplinary Master of Liberal Studies Degree in “Autism Past and Present,” is a writer for City University of New York’s Office of Communications and Marketing, and is a member of the CUNY Disability Scholars Group. As an international journalist, Fischkin covered stories in Latin America, Asia, and Europe and wrote for major publications including Newsday, where she was on staff, the New Yorker, and the New York Times, among many others. .AUTISM in the Time of COVID: Guilt, Histories, and the VillageKimBy Barbara Fischkin GUILTThe Covid test for my son came back positive. Great, I told myself, first you gave him autism, now the plague. Dan, 32, has been unable to speak since he was three and a half, a rare case of Childhood Disintegrative Disorder. Doctors told my husband and me to expect the worst. This, they said, was as severe as it gets on the autism spectrum. The worst did not happen. As an adult, Dan has an active life. Still, he is far from cured. Due to his lack of speech and other disability-related deficits, he cannot live by himself or go anywhere alone. He lived with us until he was 22 and then moved to a nearby group home. It is a beautiful, well-furnished house and he has his own large room. Still, it is a group home. I do not know what happened to our once normal child; nobody does. As the spectrum itself grows, it becomes more confounding. For me, maternal guilt comes with the territory and it is irrational. I am still haunted by the long-debunked theory that “refrigerator mothers” cause autism. In my case this is beyond ridiculous. Friends, relatives, and colleagues—and my husband in particular—claim I have an overabundance of warmth, enthusiasm, and passion and, if anything, could tone it down a bit. Still, on bad days the dark side of my brain imagines Bruno Bettelheim, the most famous purveyor of the “refrigerator mother” autism myth, rising from his cremated ashes to crown me the world’s foremost ice queen.I think: I should have worked less after he was born? Should I not have moved him from one country to another when he was just a toddler? I was a journalist and a writer. But I took him with me. On interviews in Mexico City, to Guatemala to interview orphans, to Panama, Thailand, and the Philippines to catch up to his foreign correspondent father. He rode in a baby backpack and played with my hair. I took him—and a nanny he loved—to a North Carolina writing workshop, because two weeks was too long a separation. Doesn’t this exemplify a warm mother?I should have played more games with him. Did we have enough puzzles? Too many? I read to him every night, didn’t I? Goodnight Moon. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The Philharmonic Gets Dressed. You name it, I read it. I breast fed Dan. Or am I imagining this?Could a mother imagine she did such a thing, when she did not? I do not think so. But when it is almost 30 years since your child fell apart and you still don’t know why, such thoughts continue to flow. And so, it came as no surprise to me—or others—that when Dan tested positive for the novel Coronavirus, I was sure I had given this to him, too. I based this on circumstantial evidence which would be mortifying, if it weren’t so funny. In the worst of times, and in our memories of them, humans crave humor. If we didn’t, the Holocaust movie Life is Beautiful would not have won three Academy Awards. So here goes: I was sure I gave Dan the virus because I had my eyelashes dyed. The woman who does this for me—as she tells great stories about waxing the legs of Lillian Hellman and Beverly Sills—tested positive after my last appointment with her on March 4. New York was still wide open then. She was so sick that she wondered if she was down for the count. I didn’t find out until she revived and after I had spent a day with my son. If I had known, I would not have seen him. This anti-mantra flowed through my brain, until I convinced myself I could push it aside by a list of other ways Dan could have been infected. Three of his group home housemates had it. Did they give it to him? Or he to them? Staff came in and out. My husband and I rode the Long Island Rail Road in early March. We walked and biked the crowded boardwalk in Long Beach on Long Island, where we live. This is the nobody knows virus. Dr. Peter Piot, the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine described in the New York Times on May 26 as a “legend in the battle against Ebola and Aids,” does not know where he got Covid-19.Dan appears to be healthy now. He has been symptom-free for weeks. He has, ahead of time, lost the 20 pounds he usually sheds in summer when he surfs the ocean. He looks like himself again, tall and solid, fashionably balding with a Roman profile. There do not seem to be any Covid after-effects, as many others—including Piot—report. But. . . can a mother tell such a thing from a distance of six feet? As I finish writing this on June 1, I have not been able to touch my son or even stand in the same indoor room with him since March 17. Seventy-six days. After 49 days, my husband and I were permitted curbside visits with him. It is as if our son were a restaurant permitted to offer take-out, but not delivery. Neither one of us has ever not seen him for this long, even in those vintage traveling days. Now, more than ever, we need alliances and cross-pollination. Age of Autism is pleased to be both a content generator and a resource to help readers find the news Google doesn t want you to know about. Dan Olmsted called the AofA family The Rebel Alliance, and we are growing. The timeline excerpt below is from Children s Health Defense.###From the moment of “COVID-19’s” naming—and particularly since the imposition of unprecedented restrictions on “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”—some people have smelled a rat. And with each passing week, the smell becomes worse. A growing chorus of ordinary citizens and world-renowned medical and scientific experts is raising questions about matters ranging from the coronavirus’s origins to the rationale for continued lockdowns ….The mainstream media have shown themselves only too ready to lob ad hominem attacks against any and all such non-conformists. However, one does not have to be insensitive to the illness and deaths associated with COVID-19 to recognize that powerful agendas are riding on the coattails of SARS-CoV-2. …To make it easier for the public to assess what is happening and what is at stake, Children’s Health Defense has put together [a] timeline of selected events. Timeline of selected events1998May 18: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 states file antitrust charges against Microsoft.20002000: Bill Gates steps down from his position as Microsoft CEO, and Bill and Melinda Gates launch their eponymous foundation.2000: The Gates Foundation (along with other partners) launches the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), known today as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The foundation has given $4.1 billion to Gavi over the past 20 years.2001November: After initially losing the antitrust lawsuit and appealing the decision, Microsoft settles its case with the DOJ out of court.2002November 2002: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) researcher Ralph Baric publishes a “breakthrough work” in gain-of-function research (studies that alter pathogens to make them more transmissible or deadly, see Notes above), describing the creation of a synthetic clone of a natural mouse coronavirus.November 2002: China’s Guangdong province reports the first case of “atypical pneumonia” (later labeled as SARS).See the full timeline and more at Children s Health Defense. Source: RoboCopNote: When I was a young woman, I remember my Dad telling me he never, ever bought a car in its first model year, no matter how snazzy or how much he wanted that shiny new GM. He said it took time to work out the kinks.Many Americans are worried that a brand new, rushed and liability free COVID vaccine might not be safe. It s natural to worry. It s smart to worry. People who have never, ever questioned vaccines are perking up. ON THEIR OWN. We are not a club seeking fresh members. Enable us? Such nonsense. Dr. Hotez also blames the way the vaccines are being communicated. In other words, they need a better AD CAMPAIGN. Better optics to use today s parlance.### Operation Warp Speed is fueling vaccine fears, two top experts worryThe federal government s Operation Warp Speed vaccine program, with its emphasis on quick production and testing of experimental coronavirus vaccines, is fueling fears already stirred up by vaccine skeptics, two experts said Friday.The approach itself is not unreasonable, said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine. But the way it s being communicated is scaring people, he told CNN. The way the message is coming out of Operation Warp Speed creates a lot of chaos and confusion. And it is enabling the anti-vaccine movement, Hotez said.A White House coronavirus task force source told CNN earlier this week that the Trump Administration s Warp Speed program had chosen five companies mostly likely to produce a Covid-19 vaccine -- whittled down from 14 last month when Operation Warp Speed was launched. I don t even know where to begin. For years, media has been crying that our children, especially our teenagers, are suffering from anxiety and depression. The post-Columbine world changed schools forever. The formerly never ending school shootings made parents everywhere fear for their kids safety while in school. Kids have active shooter drills and learn evasion techniques, how to staunch a bullet wound. Hardly the three Rs of yore. Today, WIRED Magazine reports on a dragnet of technology under the guise of protecting from COVID. Can you fathom your child being tracked by someone other than you with your iPhone for safety? Even in the autism community, where tracking devices can be a blessing when compared to the danger of death by wandering, would you put a beacon on your child of any age to permit strangers to track your children? What could possibly go wrong?###When students return to school in New Albany, Ohio, in August, they’ll be carefully watched as they wander through red-brick buildings and across well-kept lawns—and not only by teachers.The school district, with five schools and 4,800 students, plans to test a system that would require each student to wear an electronic beacon to track their location to within a few feet throughout the day. It will record where students sit in each classroom, show who they meet and talk to, and reveal how they gather in groups. The hope is such technology could prevent or minimize an outbreak of Covid-19, the deadly respiratory disease at the center of a global pandemic. Read more at WIRED.Schools Turn to Surveillance Tech to Prevent Covid-19 Spread Administrators hope tracking beacons will identify where students congregate and who should be isolated if someone contracts the coronavirus. Re: Even covid-19 can’t kill the anti-vaccination movementRe: Even covid-19 can’t kill the anti-vaccination movement Katrina Megget. 369:doi 10.1136/bmj.m2184Written by Joshua MazerDear Editor 5-18-2020I read with interest Even Covid -19 can t kill the anti-vaccination movement. President Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed,” the crash program to develop a covid-19 vaccine should give any sentient, thinking medical consumer reason for pause. Voices on the left and right, inside and outside of the medical community, are sounding cautionary notes about ignoring established safety protocols to speed development of a covid shot.Yet Trump is demanding, and getting, short cuts. MSN reported May 5: “Medical staff at the University of Maryland School of Medicine spent early Monday injecting the first few people with a potential vaccine for the coronavirus as part of an accelerated international effort” “We’re not skipping any steps, but we are speeding them up quite a bit,” said Dr. Kirsten Lyke, and “she’s never done one quite…this quickly.”What could possibly go wrong? A brief history of “rushed vaccines” from the recent past offers some troubling insightsThe polio vaccine was rushed to market by firms competing not only to save lives, but to cash in on the opportunity as well. Dr. Paul Offit cited in the Washington Post commented; ”Roughly 40,000 got “abortive” polio, with fever, sore throat, headache, vomiting and muscle pain. Fifty-one were paralyzed, and five died, Offit wrote in his 2005 book, “The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis.” It was “one of the worst biological disasters in American history: a man-made polio epidemic.” Further, an estimated 10 million Americans were infected with Simian Virus 40 from the early polio vaccines.The measles vaccine was rolled out in 1963. It was withdrawn within one year. It caused a more virulent and infectious vaccine strain of “atypical measles” that was deadlier than natural measles.The Urrabe strain measles mumps rubella (“MMR”) vaccine was introduced in Canada in the early 1980’s and withdrawn immediately because it caused aseptic meningitis. Despite the warning, Britain introduced the same shot and withdrew it in 1993 for the same reason. The slave trade became legal for one last time ... as the Senior class members sold themselves along with thirteen brave and courageous teachers, the caption read in the yearbook, titled Acres. Two white students who darkened their skin appear in photos on the page. NBC Dallas on Melinda Gates High School Yearbook from 1979. She was a Freshman that year.Hello, readers. I m pretty sure I ll find myself in a morass as I try to tip toe across this minefield of topics. Race and COVID. American cities are reeling after the murder of George Floyd in a brutal submission from which he was not able to tap out. We know all too well in the autism community that restraints (as submissions are called in Special Education) can kill. Just last November, Max Benson, a boy with autism, was killed during a restraint for spitting. One of my daughters has a spitting behavior that has vexed her team and me for a long time, and with COVID-19, is now I think life threatening for her safety and ability to re-enter any school or program. According to the LA Times: ...two teachers performed a takedown maneuver by holding Max’s hands behind his back, then dropping him to his knees and rolling him facedown. We are in turmoil over COVID. And here comes Melinda Gates who made two points that struck me in her interview with TIME Magazine last week at the GAVI fund raising pot luck supper in London. Her points were:1) The second group who should have access to the COVID-19 vaccine is African Americans. And then other people of color. (health care providers are the first group.) 2) The way out from COVID-19 is a vaccine. America has seen the horror of the Tuskegee Experiment, a FORTY YEAR EXPERIMENT for science. America has not been allowed to see the CDC Whistleblower William Thompson s work on the falsification of MMR vaccine data as it related to African American toddlers and autism rates. Why does Melinda Gates get to decide who can or should have any COVID vaccine? Let s pretend for one moment that the vaccine will work - without out any side effects - and with guaranteed lifelong immunity PLUS free pony rides for life. How would Americans like her list of who should get the vaccine in what order? Conversely, let s pretend for another moment that the COVID vaccine(s) will have serious side effects and not confer immunity at all. How would Americans like her list of who should get the vaccine in what order?Melinda Gates Lays Out Her Biggest Concern for the Next Phase of the COVID-19 PandemicTIME: The scale of anti-racism protests we’re seeing right now is incredible. How does this moment relate to your work in health equity? Gates: What happened to George Floyd was brutal and horrible and should never happen to anyone, anywhere. This is a moment of reckoning in the United States. We all need to really pause during this time and learn as best we can from it. Even before we saw this senseless death, COVID had already started to show us gaps and structural problems in our country. We are seeing black men die at a disproportionate rate. We know the way out of COVID-19 will be a vaccine, and it needs to go out equitably.Who needs it after health care workers? In the U.S., that would be black people next, quite honestly, and many other people of color. They are having disproportionate effects from COVID-19.I Bing ed her name (one does not GOOGLE Mrs. Gates) and biography. She is about my age, born in Dallas, Texas, just a year after President Kennedy was shot in the same city. Mrs. Gates attended Ursuline Academy, and then Duke University in North Carolina. She was Valedictorian of her high school class in 1982. She would have been a Freshman in 1979, when students AND STAFF thought it was acceptable and clever and funny to have a fundraiser called Senior Slave Day. by Cathy JamesonIt was around 9 pm on Thursday evening when a storm came through. One of the first thunder storms of the season, this one had the works – lightning, thunder, and steady, heavy rain. Never a fan of thunder, especially at night, I was glad that we were altogether in the den watching a movie as a family. Snuggled between Ronan and his younger brother on the couch, I felt safe. Turning off the TV after the movie ended, we stayed in the den a little bit longer and said prayers with the kids. Just as we sent them on their way to get ready for bed, the electricity went out. In between flashes of lightning was total darkness. Groping the furniture so as not to trip on anything or anyone, I looked for a flashlight. Ronan’s youngest sister is terrified of the dark and had just gone to my bathroom to brush her teeth. Knowing she’d be really, really scared, and because that bathroom was on the complete opposite side of the house, I made a plan. That plan changed when I realized that Ronan’s brother had just gone into the basement to play video games. Both were in darkness and would have to make their way through an even darker hallway. Since she was more scared than he, I ran to her first. Not as nervous as I get with thunder, but just enough to be a bit jittery, Willem laughed the entire way back up the stairs looking for the rest of us. Finding Ronan, he offered to bring him to his room and help get him ready for bed. Once the kids had flashlights and could continue with the bedtime routine, I went back to clean up the den. I thought Fiona had gone to her own room to go to bed already. She had to be at work at 5 am the next day, but I could still hear her voice. Listening for where it was coming from, I was surprised to hear her in my younger girls’ bedroom. I was even more surprised as I realized all of my children were in the girls’ bedroom. Ronan and Willem had taken a detour and joined them. Not wanting to break up the sibling bond, I stopped in the darkened hallway and listened. I could hear laughter, silly noises, and funny stories being told. The storm, which had wreaked havoc in our neighborhood, had brought them together. Cherishing the moment, I thanked God for the lightning and thunder I normally loathe.Like other storms I’ve experienced, last night’s is now but a memory. Sitting down today to write, I was struck by how often ordinary life turns ominous. Without warning or preparation, one finds it’s dark and scary. As you grope through the gloom, your first thought is for those who are vulnerable, the ones most dependent on you. Will they be okay? Will they make it through? Will they be scarred? If yes, for how long? But rather than wallow in the shadows or the darkness, I remind myself to look for the positive. I haven’t always done that, including when Ronan was injured by vaccines. Discovering that injury was a horrible realization. On the very tough days, it still is! What positive could possibly come from it? Well, when I think about it, I can list a few encouraging things that have happened – I’m a better advocate for all of my children because of that injury. I’m a stronger mother also. It might not occur right away, but I think other parents can eventually list a few positive things in their life as well. Below is a best of post from when my middle daughter (Lord is she ever, just like her Mom) aged out of the school system at 21. What on EARTH is happening for students aging out in 2020? Programs are closed everywhere. Zoom programming us DOOM programming for many on the spectrum. What s happening in your State and how are you forging into adulthood?###2018: Time flies. Gianna, in her fashion, is leaving the nest (not literally, she lives with her sisters and me!) and starting the adult phase of her life. School ends today. She turns 22 next month. Can you imagine that? She will be attending a program for adults with special needs. She ll be safe and well cared for and have a chance to grow and learn and gain skills toward more independence. And while it sure isn t what I had ever planned for her - I m grateful that we have good people helping us. Mia s age out was much tougher on me. But I m in a better frame of mind than I was two years ago, so perhaps that s a big part of my peace. I hope you are find peace too. In some fashion. We can do this, friends. Readers. Stay strong.Love, Kim by John StoneThis is the moment of national humiliation that we somehow did not see on our television sets last night: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson surrendering to Bill Gates and the vaccine cartel, GAVI, hailed by him as the new NATO - while he speaks from a nation on its knees like Vichy France. While British news after months of wall to wall Coronavirus suddenly, mysteriously became obsessed with the 13 year old saga of Madeleine McCann almost no one saw Johnson s insipid, but rhetorically overblown speech at the end of the global summit he hosted in London yesterday and chaired with Gates. No one knew when they were electing Johnson that they were electing Gates and putting the vaccine industry at the heart of the British nation s future. It was particularly galling to see him extol the already failed Oxford COVID vaccine as an example of British innovation. This is presumably where we were headed from the moment lockdown was announced. The meeting elicited a short mention at the end of the BBC 10 o clock news and was not mentioned on the front pages of any of the national newspapers this morning. If GAVI is the new NATO, and the focus of British national destiny perhaps the moment should not have been news managed out of existence. Now everything that our lives were worth has to be surrendered in an endless war against disease long ago devised by Mr Gates. In Gates s brave new world everyone will have to have vaccines like computer patches every five minutes, and when they don t work - if we are still standing - we will have to have another. John Stone is UK Editor of Age of Autism Source: Psychology TodayBy Anne DachelPsychology Today just announced that having more kids with autism around doesn’t really mean there is more autism in the world. Abigail Fagan, an associate editor at P.T., asked the question in the headline of her June 3rd story: Do Environmental Changes Explain the Rise in Autism Diagnoses? The answer is a resounding NO! THERE HAVE BEEN NO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES.Sure the numbers are up.The rise in autism diagnoses has been steady and striking. In the 1960s, roughly 1 in 10,000 people was diagnosed with autism. Today, 1 in 54 children has the condition, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the rise in the U.S. is mirrored in countries around the world.Don’t worry, nothing is really wrong.Anyone out there, like me, who’s been hanging around this issue for the last two decades knows exactly how Fagan proves her claim: More kids have an autism label because of better diagnosing, greater awareness, expanded spectrum.That fact that there is no end in sight to the exponential autism increases doesn’t bother Fagan. More and more and more kids landing on the autism spectrum just means doctors continue to get better and better at recognizing the disorder, teachers and parents are more aware than previous teachers and parents were and changes in the official diagnosis which was expanded to include Aspergers Syndrome in 1994 and then narrowed in 2013 insures that everyone will be confused as to what exactly autism is.What isn’t happening, according to Fagan:There is no environmental factor contributing to kids developing autism. Mostly autism is genetic and it’s always been here and it always will be.I won’t bother you with long quotations for her piece. Here are highlights.“…some estimates place the heritability at 80 percent.” ,“… genetic and environmental contributions did not significantly shift over time.” “[Specific environmental factors] are not responsible for the surge in diagnoses.” “…there was no significant difference in autism prevalence between children and adults.” ‘We’re diagnosing autism 10 to 50 times more now than we were 25 years ago.’ The UK government will host Gavi’s third donor pledging conference to mobilise at least US$ 7.4 billion in additional resources to protect the next generation with vaccines, reduce disease inequality and create a healthier, safer and more prosperous world. https://www.gavi.org/investing-gavihttps://www.gavi.org/investing-gavi Below is a post from May, 2019 by John Stone. Remember, Prevent. Protect. Prosper. And they forgot one - Profit.By John StoneSeth Berkley, the director of Gavi, who led the call for a clamp down on vaccine criticism in social media two years ago in the British mainstream journal the Spectator had a few months before been named in the Mail on Sunday as the worst charity fat cat. Ian Birrell had written an article entitled The fattest charity fat cat of them all: Foreign aid boss made Millions out £1.5 billion handed to his charity by British taxpayers (actually nearly £2.5 million, heading for $4million). He reports: Seth Berkley has taken home more than £2 million over the past four years as chief executive officer of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi), which has been given £1.5 billion by Britain...Another official at the Geneva-based group collects a pay package of more than £500,000 a year...Incredibly, Dr Berkley was given a housing allowance on top of his £623,370 pay package... Like others at Gavi, he is also offered help with school fees and is exempt from paying Swiss income taxes under a deal struck by the organisation. In November 2017 I wrote in evidence to the UK House of Commons media committee (DCMS) inquiry into Fake News: In this regard it is disquieting to look at the global campaign by vaccine lobbyists which reached these shores this summer advocating compulsory vaccination, having scored recent successes in Australia, Italy, France and parts of the United States. The British Medical Association jettisoned its traditional opposition to compulsory vaccination... – dismissed only a few years ago by a former chairman, Hamish Meldrum, as “Stalinist” ... - and called for the matter to be discussed. Just a few days before an article appeared in the on-line Spectator by the CEO of GAVI, a global agency promoting vaccination, calling for “anti-vaxxers” to be excluded from “social media”... It must be emphasised that anyone remotely critical or informed about the vaccine lobby and its products, is placed under the general pejorative label “anti-vaxxer”: it is the vaccine/pharmaceutical lobby that polarises the debate – anyone who is not in favour of their entire open-ended agenda is subject to opprobrium and ad hominem attack. Complex health issues are being reduced in the mainstream arena to “Four legs good, two legs bad” type arguments. Gavi s partners include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, the WHO, the World Bank and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (notably Johnson Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck Co., Novartis, Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis and Pfizer), a network which surely leads back to the Global Health Security Agenda launched in the White House by Barack Obama in September 2014 in the wake of the William Thompson affair.We have to ask whether it was ever the welfare of humanity which was at stake, or just the welfare of a certain class?John Stone is UK Editor for Age of Autism. Hi, friends. Kim here. Yesterday, I received an email that my youngest daughter s school will be closing its doors for good on June 30th, after 28 years serving students with autism and other severe diagnoses. She was only there for one year, her first transition year post 18. But they treated Bella like family from day one. She had two more years to go. She has made so much progress there. For the first time in her 19 years, she is communicating with us. Telling us what she thinks and needs and wants - via assistive tech. The other day, she said, I don t want to... Can you imagine a life of never being able to express yourself? She had a dream team of teachers and therapists. Imagine if Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Wayne Gretsky, Arnold Palmer and Alex Rodriguez came together with their talent and expertise and heart. And success rate. That was Bella s school.Poof.Teachers. Fired.Therapists. Fired.Staff. Fired.Students. Fired.COVID-19 will be killing more than people. It will kill dreams. But it will NOT kill our future.I told my daughter s teacher, who had the honor and decency to call me right away, with tragedy comes opportunity. We will create something new. Bright. Good. Whole. Sustainable. Somehow.I can t write much else about this. I m reeling. Truly. COVID-19 just deep sixed one of the best schools for autism the nation has ever had.STILL I RISE - By Maya AngelouYou may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I ll rise.Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you beset with gloom?’Cause I walk like I ve got oil wellsPumping in my living room.Just like moons and like suns,With the certainty of tides,Just like hopes springing high,Still I ll rise. Below is a Facebook post I could have written myself. Three times. Please consider support VOR - Voices of Reason for the disabled. VOR has been fighting for the rights of the disabled, including the autistic, for decades. I was their keynote speaker several years ago and still recall how welcome I felt there, as we all had the same agenda - our children s rights throughout the lifespan. It s ironic that I teach self-defense. I earned my black belt in two martial arts late in life. And I train every day. Protecting women is my passion. And yet, I can do little for my own daughters. The post linked an article from the National Counsel on Severe Autism. ### An autism fact too horrible to discuss May 27, 2020 The mother of a teenage daughter with nonverbal autism opens up about her extreme sexual vulnerabilitiesMy 17 year-old daughter, I’ll call her Cathy, has autism. Not the “self-advocate” autism, or the “neurodiversity” autism, or the Daryl Hannah autism (whatever that was). Noooooooooooo. My Cathy has an autism that leaves her helpless, 100% defenseless.Cathy is gorgeous, quite tall, with wavy bright blond hair and a face like a doll. If an actress were to play her in a movie I think Cameron Diaz would fit the part. But after that, no similarity. Cathy can’t talk, read, write, answer a phone, text, or understand a story. She can’t brush her hair or teeth, wipe herself after toileting, change her menstrual pad, or put on her clothes. If it’s freezing outside it wouldn’t occur to her to put on a coat. More than once she’s left the house totally naked.I found NCSA because of this post on its website, A Sister’s Quest to End Sexual Abuse of the Severely Disabled. I was looking for information I could use to protect Cathy, because she is more vulnerable to sexual assault than almost anyone else in the world. Mothers like me suffer a sheer terror that rips our hearts into pieces.... Read more: An autism fact too horrible to discuss May 27, 2020 The mother of a teenage daughter with nonverbal autism opens up about her extreme sexual vulnerabilities via GIPHYWell, fellow anti-vaxxers, looks like we re gonna need a bigger boat.... ONLY 27% of Americans say they WOULD (doesn t mean will, would brings in conditions, I would... IF) take the brand new, wet behind the ears, greenhorn, new kid on the block, untested, experimental Coronavirus vaccine that may or may not ever even see the light of day. YouTuber and child Re-home-girl Myka Stauffer is rumored (we re kidding) to say she will only take the vaccine during an unboxing segment at $1.00 per view. A plurality is simply the largest number in a poll - it does not mean a majority. The article also neglects to point out the MMR uptake is high because it is on the pediatric schedule. From ABC News:27% unlikely to be vaccinated against the coronavirus; Republicans, conservatives especially: POLLUnpersuaded by more than 100,000 pandemic deaths in the United States, 45% of strong conservatives, four in 10 Republicans and nearly as many evangelical Christians say they’d be unlikely to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, even for free.Overall, 27% of adults in an ABC News/Washington Post poll say they definitely (15%) or probably (12%) would not get the vaccine. Among them, half say they don’t trust vaccines in general, while nearly a quarter don’t think it’s needed in this case.A plurality definitely would get vaccinated (43%) and 28% say they probably would. The net, 71%, is much higher than the adult vaccination rate for the standard seasonal flu – 45% in the 2018-19 flu season, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (with a wide range by state, from 34 to 56%.) It’s much lower than the 2017 child vaccination rates for polio and measles/mumps/rubella, 93 and 92%, respectively. Read more at the link below.27% unlikely to be vaccinated against the coronavirus; Republicans, conservatives especially: POLL By Judith Pinborough Zimmerman and Mark Blaxill, Editor-At-Large, Age of AutismDespite ongoing increases in the number of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has consistently failed to declare ASD an epidemic. This public messaging decision highlights the CDC’s ongoing disregard for prevalence increases over time that support the overriding importance of environmental causes rather than genetics causality in this serious childhood health condition. According to the most recent 2018 survey from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), 1 in 35 American children ages 3-17 have an Autism spectrum Disorder (ASD), over 1.7 million children (see HERE) .Using a different method, the recently released CDC report from its Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, reported an average ASD rate of 185 per 10,000 among 8-year-old children born in 2008, or 1 in 54. (see, HERE). The CDC proudly promotes ADDM as the only collaborative network to track the number and characteristics of children with ASD. This new rate represents a 9% increase over the 2014 ADDM Network report, which reported a rate of 1 in 59. (see HERE). Comparing recent ADDM Network ASD rates to those first reported by the network in 2000, there is a staggering 176% increase when compared the earliest ASD report rate of 1 in 149 among 8-year-old children in 2000. (see HERE). Changes by year and site are shown in Figure 1.The only acknowledgment of urgency in the 2014 ADDM report, is a sentence buried deep in the text stating that autism was “an urgent public health concern.” In the most recent ADDM 2016 report, an autism rate of 1 in 54 is merely “a continuing public health concern” as shown in Figure 2. Instead of raising the alarm over their unbending upward trend line, the CDC reserves its main concerns for racial equality: applauding the fact that autism in African Americans is now broadly similar to that of white and Asian Americans. Using the ADDM Network methodology, ASD cases are identified through a review and abstraction of records followed by experienced clinicians who systematically review information to determine ASD case status. The CDC claims its methodological approach provides the “best possible estimate currently available of prevalence of ASDs without conducting complete population screening and diagnostic clinical case confirmation.” (see, HERE). If the CDC believes ASD rate increases over time are result of racial inequities, why haven’t they recommended population screening and diagnostic case confirmation in underserved populations to obtain more accurate statistics?The ADDM Network has no evidence of overall flattening or declining ASD rates. There are, however, anomalies in the data reported from a number of sites, including most notably Utah, and Maryland. Maryland’s ascertainment areas changed with the inclusion of a second site with reduced access to school records. In Utah’s case, as one of us has pointed out in her 2013 complaint, intentional deviations from the ADDM Network methodological procedures were allowed and covered up by the ADDM Network and University of Utah (U of U).The two of us share a longstanding concern over the CDC’s failure to sound the alarm with respect to the sharp and ongoing increases in autism rates. One of us has been critical of CDC’s fraudulent misuse of statistics for nearly two decades. Another of us, was once a CDC insider and Principal Investigator for the Utah ADDM site, Utah Registry of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. After beginning to raise concerns over environmental causation, data errors and privacy violations in the Utah autism data one of us (Zimmerman) was summarily dismissed from her position. She has since filed a series of successful lawsuits against her former employer the U of U.In addition, Zimmerman became so concerned about intentional data manipulation and public messaging by ADDM officials, she asked two United States Congressmen, Utah Democrat Ben McAdams and Florida Republican Bill Posey, to support a congressional investigation into research fraud by the ADDM Network and U of U. ( Read the letter here) Zimmerman was the original CDC grant awardee and the Utah ADDM principle investigator from 2002-2013. Zimmerman believes she now has enough evidence to show serious violations of federal health and education privacy laws and intentional deviations from predetermined ADDM study protocols by U of U with the complicity of ADDM Network Officials. JB Handley wrote a lengthy article about the COVID lockdown well worth reading. Below is an excerpt.j.b. handley blog May 30LOCKDOWN LUNACY: the thinking person s guideBy J.B. HandleyFor anyone willing to look, there are so many facts that tell the true story, and it goes something like this:Knowing what we know today about COVID-19’s Infection Fatality Rate, asymmetric impact by age and medical condition, non-transmissibility by asymptomatic people and in outdoor settings, near-zero fatality rate for children, and the basic understanding of viruses through Farr’s law, locking down society was a bone-headed policy decision so devastating to society that historians may judge it as the all-time worst decision ever made. Worse, as these clear facts have become available, many policy-makers haven’t shifted their positions, despite the fact that every hour under any stage of lockdown has a domino-effect of devastation to society. Meanwhile, the media—with a few notable exceptions—is oddly silent on all the good news. Luckily, an unexpected group of heroes across the political landscape—many of them doctors and scientists—have emerged to tell the truth, despite facing extreme criticism and censorship from an angry mob desperate to continue fighting an imaginary war.My goal is to engage in known facts. You, the reader, can decide if all of these facts, when you put them together, equate to the story above.Fact #1: The Infection Fatality Rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.07-0.20%, in line with seasonal fluThe Infection fatality Rate math of ANY new virus ALWAYS declines over time as more data becomes available, as any virologist could tell you. In the early days of COVID-19 where we only had data from China, there was a fear that the IFR could be as high as 3.4%, which would indeed be cataclysmic. On April 17th, the first study was published from Stanford researchers that should have ended all lockdowns immediately, as the scientists reported that their research “implies that the infection is much more widespread than indicated by the number of confirmed cases” and pegged the IFR between 0.12-0.2%. The researchers also speculated that the final IFR, as more data emerged, would likely “be lower.” For context, seasonal flu has an IFR of 0.1%. Smallpox? 30%.As the first study to peg the IFR, the Stanford study came under withering criticism, prompting the lead researcher, Dr. John Ioannidis to note,“There’s some sort of mob mentality here operating that they just insist that this has to be the end of the world, and it has to be that the sky is falling. It’s attacking studies with data based on speculation and science fiction. But dismissing real data in favor of mathematical speculation is mind-boggling.” Excerpted from the Child Health Safety site. As if we aren t reeling with enough sadness and turmoil right now. The Autism epidemic roils on, with our protests squelched, our voices ignored, and our patience thin, our future in doubt.###England Has 250,000 More Autistics in 15 years – 1 in 21 English Schoolboys is Now Autistic Official Education Department Government Statistics IndicateOfficial UK statistics indicate 1 in 21 English schoolboys is now autistic. Worse still when school leavers are included, in just 15 years the total number of new autistic school children and young adult school leavers is 258,000 according to CHS’ estimates from the official figures.This is good solid information.We have only just heard for Northern Ireland that: One in 16 Boys is Autistic Show New UK Official Statistics – But Nobody Cares – And Its Worse than COVID-19These are all truly horrifying figures. And you can see from the chart how the numbers have been increasing every year.If the USA follows the same pattern Americans have today an extra 1.6 million autistic children and young adults added in just the last 15 years. But the US has the highest vaccine burden of any country in the world, so the figure could be higher. 1.6 million is a crude estimate for the equivalent number of new autistic American children and young adults added to the US population over the past 15 years. This is calculated by multiplying CHS’ estimate for England by 6 times. The USA has approximately six times the population of England [330 million US vs 54 million England].People like Sir Norman Lamb a former UK health minister and Matt Hancock the current English Secretary of State for Health along with many others have been pretending nothing is wrong and that vaccines have nothing to do with causing autism. It is just not true and the evidence has been building up for over three decades now.The British Government can spend billions on a lockdown caused by junk science but does not care about 250,000 new autistics added to the English population in just 15 years. To these we need to add the Irish, Welsh and Scottish autistic children and the now young adult school leavers in those regions over the past 15 years.The figures these estimates are taken from are highly reliable. They are not from inaccurate surveys. The figures are official government figures from the annual schools census. The census counts every child in school in England known to be autistic.The hollow claims of those who either want to cover up this disaster for children and their families or bury their heads in the sand or sit in denial, that there is no real increase are hollower by the second. It is not credible nor scientific.But if anyone wants to play stupid games claiming there is no increase and we always had these numbers of autistic children, the recent figures from Ireland show that nearly two thirds of autistic children are stage 5.What does that mean? It means if we always had the same numbers of autistic children and young adults before now, two thirds of them would be so severely disabled you could not miss them unless you were blind deaf or dumb or the UK’s National Autistic Society, [NAS] or the UK’s Autistica or Professor Brugha and his UK team of “expert” autism researchers at Leicester University. or even Professor Simon Baron-Cohen and his team at Cambridge University. Professor Baron-Cohen and his team were quoted in The Independent saying: READ MORE AT CHILD HEALTH SAFETY HERE.NOTE: THE CHS BLOG IS BEING PROGRESSIVELY UPDATED SO PLEASE REVISIT FOR THE LATEST VERSION Today we have a Best of from May, 2016. Cathy is taking a well deser ve Covidcation from her Sunday AofA duties.By Cathy JamesonWhen my children were babies, I didn’t question vaccines. I never thought to because I believed wholeheartedly in them. As a young parent, I thought vaccines were going to protect my children. They were going to keep them healthy. They were going to keep them from getting sick from disease. I thought that if they didn’t get them, my kids would get sick. But the more vaccines they received, the sicker my children became. Struggling to understand why they weren’t healthier, I started to read about vaccines and the immune system. Having never cared to research those topics before, I was a bit overwhelmed. Not vaccinating came with risks. But continuing to vaccinate carried equally disturbing risks. I wasn’t just overwhelmed with what I was reading. I was totally confused! I walked away with more questions than answers each time I sat down to read or to look something up. Blinded by the science, it took some time for my eyes to fully open. Once they were finally opened, I didn’t stop the vaccine searches I was doing. I continued to read more. It was only after reading as much as I did about vaccines and after distancing myself from them that I could see that the practice of tricking the immune system to produce a response that would hopefully create life-long protection was somewhat preposterous. Sadly, that realization came only after I had subjected my children to that practice. The type of responses my children had to vaccines were not the ones the doctor or the pharmaceutical companies advertised. Theirs resulted in negative responses, with Ronan being the worst response. The loss of speech, the onset of seizures and debilitating developmental delays were what followed his vaccinations. As bizarre as this may sound, those negative outcomes later contributed to a positive solution. Instead of choosing to continue to follow the recommended schedule that was doing more harm than good, I confidently walked away from it. I started on a new path when I left vaccines behind. It took a great amount of time, reading, and confidence to come to the conclusion that they weren’t the right choice for us, but that choice has served my children well. That choice has also served up some regret. But I do believe it has a role in the overall healing process – if I didn’t regret what happened to Ronan, I don’t think I’d have worked as hard as I have for him nor for as long as I have. I haven’t opted for them lately, but I still find myself reading about vaccines – not because I don’t know enough about them already. I continue to read about them because I am frequently asked about them. Young parents who learn that I’ve been vocal about the subject are curious about my stance and want to know more. Surprisingly, many young parents know quite a lot already! They do!Strange headline, right? Guess what? The post I wrote was forbidden. The link below will take you. Seems there was something about the links in the excerpted post from Jennifer Margulis, PhD that set off alarm bells, sprinkler systems and WARNING WILL ROBISON alerts left and right. Mamma Mia...... The post is in the link below. Thanks for putting up with the nonsense with us. XOX KimKnock three times, turn around, show us the secret handshake and view the verboten post here Note: We ran this post yesterday, but my computer ate the links. My apologies to David Foster and the readers. Kim:By David FosterMay 26, 2020Foreword:This was written with my Facebook friends in mind, it is my plea for them to take a close look at safety issues surrounding the rush to develop a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. I know I am preaching to the choir here at Age of Autism, however my preference is to leave this as-is so that it can be used to convince anyone.Anyone who knows me is aware that I am very passionate about vaccine safety. I have been following this issue for over 25 years and have gained a great deal of historical context which allows me to look at current events in a rather unique light. What most do not know is that the very first time I was presented with information expressing concerns about vaccine safety I got very angry, wrote a scathing letter to the Editor of the health newsletter in which it appeared, and immediately cancelled my subscription. I mean what the heck...everyone knows vaccines are safe and effective, and this article was not just wrong but downright irresponsible and dangerous.When I discussed this with a friend I was quite surprised when she very gently suggested that the information I was dismissing outright might not be all that outrageous. She let me borrow a book called Vaccines: Are They Safe and Effective by Neil Z. Miller. I started reading the book, and I was so eager to find flaws to bring up with my friend that I went to great lengths to memorize everything. I was memorizing things like what MMR and DTP stand for, what an adjuvant does in a vaccine, which vaccines are live virus vaccines and which are inactivated.And then it suddenly dawned on me: I had very strong opinions about a topic I knew virtually nothing about.So please believe me when I say that I do understand the current desire to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. Nearly every media article or segment includes a phrase like ...until we develop a vaccine , and many in our health agencies are suggesting that we won t be able to return to normal until we have a vaccine. To me this is code for you will not be allowed to participate in society until you have been vaccinated . Since nearly everyone credulously believes that vaccines are universally safe and effective, this seems perfectly reasonable.The first question we should be asking is, have we had any success in the past in developing vaccines for other Corona viruses or other similar viruses?The answer to that question is an unqualified No . In a fantastic report titled Avoiding Pitfalls in the Pursuit of a COVID-19 Vaccine from the National Academy of Science 1, the authors describe how vaccine candidates for SARS Coronavirus, RSV (Respiratory Synctial Virus), and Dengue have all suffered the same serious adverse reaction, causing severe immune system over-activation and more serious disease upon challenge with the virus in animal testing. Even staunch vaccine advocates and vaccine developers like Dr. Paul Offit, Dr. Peter Hotez and Dr. Anthony Fauci are suggesting caution here. 2,3,4The science behind these concerns is unequivocal. Studies have shown that previous vaccines for earlier Coronaviruses have caused immunopathology suggesting hypersensitivity to SARS-CoV component 5, that vaccinated animals displayed increased eosinophilic immune pathology to the lungs and were not protected against significant virus replication 6, that Inactivated MERS-CoV vaccine appears to carry a hypersensitive-type lung pathology risk from MERS-CoVinfection that is similar to that found with inactivated SARS-CoV vaccines from SARS-CoV infection 7, and that [SARS-CoV] vaccines not only failed to protect from homologous or heterologous challenge, but resulted in enhanced immunopathology with eosinophilic infiltrates within the lungs of SARS-CoV-challenged mice . 8 One experimental SARS-CoV vaccine was even found to cause autoimmune-mediated inflammatory responses leading to liver damage. 9 Unvaccinated children are less likely to be diagnosed with developmental delays, asthma, and ear infections.Redding CA— A new peer-reviewed study in the journal SAGE Open Medicine details the health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children from three pediatric practices in the United States concludes that unvaccinated children have better health outcomes than their vaccinated peers.Children in the study were followed continuously for a minimum of 3 years from birth. The study was based on medical records of over 2000 children enrolled in three pediatric practices and born between November 2005 and June 2015. Vaccination status was determined based on any vaccination received prior to one year of age which yielded 30.9% of the children in the unvaccinated group. Results show that vaccination before one year of age led to significantly increased odds of medical diagnoses of developmental delays, asthma and ear infections in children.In a separate analysis, based on the number of vaccines received by one year of age, children receiving more vaccines were more likely to be diagnosed with gastrointestinal disorders compared to those who received no vaccines within the same timeframe. In temporal analyses, children vaccinated prior to six months of age showed significant risks of each of the disorders studied as compared to unvaccinated children in the same timeframe.The study, coauthored by Dr. Brian Hooker and Mr. Neil Miller, is unique in that all diagnoses were verified using abstracted medical records from each of the participating pediatric practices. Lead author of the study, Dr. Hooker, stated, “The results definitely indicate better health outcomes in children who did not receive vaccines within their first year of life. These findings are consistent with additional research that has identified vaccination as a risk factor for a variety of adverse health outcomes. Such findings merit additional large-scale study of vaccinated and unvaccinated children in order to provide optimal health as well as protection against infectious diseases.”Children’s Health Defense (CHD) has assembled nearly 60 studies that find vaccinated cohorts to be far sicker than their unvaccinated peers. CHD is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending the recent epidemic of chronic health conditions affecting 54% of children. The organization recognizes a variety of harmful environmental exposures contributing to an overall decline in children’s health. NOTE: This might not be the best day for me to write about the concept of REHOMING kids with autism. Tomorrow s not looking good either. The term is a euphemism usually used for dogs and cats that are sent away because they are inconvenient, too much work, vicious, don t get along with other pets or family members and frankly, most rescue agencies think people who rehome are selfish jerks. Read the poem above and change DOG to CHILD. How about rehoming children with disabilities like autism? Yes, it s better than killing them. We just saw a horror in Florida. Still. Rehome... I know how hard life can be with kids with autism - don t we all. I know families facing the horror of reactive attachment disorder in adopted children. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. How much time have you devoted to your children with autism. What have you lost? Given up. How many bruises, cuts, scratches, broken windows, smashed drywall have you mended. When was the last time you sipped a cup of coffee alone and contemplated all the parts of life that autism has taken from your child? Let alone you. Me? Try 68 cumulative YEARS with my 3 daughters. And it ain t a contest I want to win. Or a contest at all. Stamina. Love. Ability. Care. Altruism. And a touch of masochism, if we get down and truthful. Some of us parents have it. Others. Don t. And NONE of us is Mother or Father Teresa. This poor gal couldn t last 2 years. Just look at her tears. Look at her husband in his tight immaculate white T shirt and coiffed goatee. There were things they weren t told. Cue the flood of tears and clutch your pearls. From CHINA? Imagine that? What were YOU told before autism? What did YOU EXPECT when you were EXPECTING? Perfection? And we should pity her for feeling so, so bad about her decision to return her kid - tell me? Is it a nickel or dime return on a child? She gets a story in People Magazine for doing to a child what most call selfish to a dog or cat. A YouTuber. Maybe she should consider going into UnBoxing as her career - Motherhood ain t for her. Kim### YouTuber Myka Stauffer Reveals She Rehomed Her Son Who Has Autism 2 Years After She Adopted HimYouTuber Myka Stauffer and her husband James have announced that they have decided to rehome their son Huxley, whom they adopted two and a half years ago.The couple welcomed the now-4-year-old little boy, who was later diagnosed with autism, through an adoption from China in October 2017. Once Huxley came home, there was a lot more special needs that we weren t aware of, and that we were not told, James said in a video shared on Tuesday. For us, it s been really hard hearing from the medical professionals, a lot of their feedback, and things that have been upsetting, he continued. We ve never wanted to be in this position. And we ve been trying to get his needs met and help him out as much as possible ... we truly love him. Read more:YouTuber Myka Stauffer Reveals She Rehomed Her Son Who Has Autism 2 Years After She Adopted Him By David FosterNOTE: We have had a technical issue on this post - but we re working on it. You will see it return shortly. Nothing nefarious, I assure you. Thank for your patience. Kim Monty Python Tisbutascratch GIF from Montypython GIFsOur Father WHO art in CDC, hallowed be thy name. Thy vaccine come. Thy liability none. On Earth as it is your fairytales. Give us this day our daily dose and forgive us our questionsAs we destroy those who have questioned before usLead us not into anti-vaccinationBut deliver us from disease.AmenFrom the StatNews article below: He (Moderna test subject Ian Haydon) and his girlfriend arrived home at 7 a.m., and he slept until noon. His temperature was 101.5. He got up to go to the bathroom, and became so nauseous he threw up. On his way back from the bathroom, he fainted. His girlfriend caught him and kept his head from hitting the floor. Do you have someone around at all times to keep your head from hitting the floor? Perhaps in addition to $1,200 to keep us afloat, Americans need funds to hire a CoVax Buddy. On Twitter, Ian Haydon said, -- deep breath - I had a bit of an issue... And Moby Dick was a bit of a whale. Keep all of the test subjects in your thoughts. We know what can happen, after all. Kim###By Matthew Herper. Stat News:He experienced a severe reaction to Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate. He’s still a believerPatients in clinical trials are usually faceless. But as the experimental Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Moderna Therapeutics has begun advancing through studies, it has found a much more visible advocate: trial volunteer Ian Haydon, a 29-year-old in Seattle.Haydon has spoken about the vaccine on CNN and CNBC. He even said he’d volunteer to be exposed to the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, if researchers want to test to see if the vaccine was actually effective. But up until now he has left out a key detail: He is, apparently, one of three people in the trial who had a systemic adverse reaction to the vaccine. Twelve hours after receiving his second dose, he developed a fever of more than 103 degrees, sought medical attention, and, after being released from an urgent care facility, fainted in his home. He recovered within a day.He has not brought up the side effects previously, he said, out of “an abundance of caution.”“I understand that sharing the story, it’s going to be frightening to some people,” he said. “I hope that it doesn’t fuel any sort of general antagonism towards vaccines in general or towards even this vaccine.... Read more here. by John StoneOn 27 April a New York Times article reported excitedly the result animal trials of the Oxford Coronavirus vaccine: Scientists at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana last month inoculated six rhesus macaque monkeys with single doses of the Oxford vaccine. The animals were then exposed to heavy quantities of the virus that is causing the pandemic... But more than 28 days later all six were healthy, said Vincent Munster, the researcher who conducted the test.. This would have been just as well because just four days earlier on 23 April Oxford Vaccine Group under the leadership of Andrew Pollard amid immense publicity had begun experimenting on human subjects. On 30 April a contract was announced with AstraZeneca to manufacutre the vaccine, promising to deliver an entirely new vaccine to the market at unprecedented speed by September. The only trouble was that when the results of the animal trial came to light in mid-May it was disclosed that on the contrary all the monkeys had become ill. The Daily Mail reported: In the latest animal trials of the vaccine carried out on rhesus macaques, all six of the participating monkeys went on to catch the coronavirus. Dr William Haseltine, a former Harvard Medical School professor, revealed the monkeys who received the vaccine had the same amount of virus in their noses as the three non-vaccinated monkeys in the trial.This suggests the treatment, which has already received in the region of £90 million in government investment, may not halt the spread of the deadly disease. Haseltine also commented in Forbes: There is a second troubling result of the Oxford paper. The titer of neutralizing antibody, as judged by inhibition of virus replication by successive serum dilutions as reported is extremely low. Typically, neutralizing antibodies in effective vaccines can be diluted by more than a thousand fold and retain activity. In these experiments the serum could be diluted only by 4 to 40 fold before neutralizing activity was lost. Manifestly, human testing proceeded both against an entirely misleading background, and prematurely - which poses the most serious ethical questions. And now that we know that though the product was defective everything ploughs on regardless - Oxford/AstraZeneca now have contracts for hundreds of millions of rounds of the vaccine from both the British and the United States government.The British government has both a huge financial investment in the product and a reputational one, but it may help that Prof Pollard is both an adviser to the British regulator and chair of the committee recommends vaccine for public use.John Stone is UK Editor for Age of Autism.

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