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Caustic Commentary

Sally Fallon Morell takes on the Diet Dictocrats

COVID VERSUS THE FLU development.” According to Koh, it is crucial “for companies
We have consistently stated that the illness called Covid-19 developing vaccines to publish full results from clinical trials
is not just a bad case of the flu, but something completely as soon as possible to persuade physicians that the vaccine
different and far more serious. A study published December is safe” (Chicago Tribune, November 26, 2020). Of course,
15, 2020 in the British Medical Journal confirms this view. if the vaccines are so safe, they would have published the
Researchers compared hospitalized flu patients 2017-2019 full trial results weeks ago.
with Covid patients February 1 through June 17, 2020.
Among those hospitalized with either Covid-19 or the flu, STILLBIRTH RATE RISES DURING PANDEMIC
those with coronavirus were nearly five times more likely A significant rise in stillbirths worldwide since the corona-
to die than those with influenza. Those with Covid-19 had virus “pandemic” began has experts worried. Based on data
an increased risk of acute kidney and liver damage, as well from more than twenty thousand women in India, stillbirths
as heart disorders, stroke, severe septic shock, low blood increased from fourteen per thousand to twenty-one by the
pressure and excessive blood clotting. A surprising finding end of May, a rise of 50 percent. Birth data from a large
was a higher risk of developing diabetes among Covid-19 London hospital indicate a fourfold increase in the incidence
patients—nine more cases per one hundred people. The of stillbirths. Public health officials are blaming the increase
Covid-19 patients most at risk for death were those seventy- on “disruptions in health care,” such as lack of prenatal visits
five years and older, who had pre-existing conditions (BMJ to physicians, but we can think of other reasons: hypoxia
2020;371:m4677). Not surprising: a study published in the due to mask wearing; domestic abuse due to lockdowns; and
journal PeerJ (October 1, 2020) found a higher death rate in exposure to fifth-generation wireless (realclearscience.com,
older people who had the flu vaccination and no significant September 16, 2020).
differences in illness rate due to lockdown or mandatory
masks (The Spectator, December 18, 2020). NO SCHOOL FOR YOUR KIDS
State governments have denied an education to sixty million
COMBATTING VACCINE HESITANCY American children during the past six months. And for no
In one of the largest public education campaigns in history, reason. Public health officials admitted that kids are better
the Ad Council and the COVID Collaborative have invested off in school. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National
fifty million dollars to “educate the American public about Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in late
the safety and efficacy of new Covid-19 vaccines,” with a November we should “close the bars and keep the schools
particular focus on reducing vaccine hesitancy in the Afri- open.” According to an April study published in the Journal
can American and Hispanic communities. A recent survey of the American Medical Association, children “. . . develop
conducted by the COVID Collaborative found that only 14 only mild symptoms and typically recover in two weeks.”
percent of African Americans and 34 percent of Latinos trust In New Jersey, a state with a high number of “cases,” not a
the vaccine. According to Michelle A. Williams, Dean of the single school-age child has died of Covid-19. Teachers under
Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a the age of fifty have a 99.98 percent survival rate; under age
co-founder of the Collaborative, “It’s not having a vaccine seventy the rate is 99.5 percent (www.bitchute.com/video/
that saves lives, it’s people actually getting vaccinated. For DQVZGtIJqHR2/). Meanwhile parents who still have jobs
that to happen, we need to understand why so many are are coping with working and homeschooling simultaneously,
hesitant and help overcome that.” In other words, browbeat and many children have fallen behind in reading and math
the understandably skeptical minorities into overcoming due to Covid closures.
their better judgment. According to Professor Howard Koh,
health professionals will play a key role in persuading the GOOD ADVICE
public that vaccines are safe; unfortunately doctors and The Weston A. Price Foundation suggests cod liver oil and
nurses are getting “confused messaging about safe vaccine fermented foods as important parts of a healthy diet; and we
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