September Part One - 2021

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Dear medical apartheid PR "left" - you dare to call me "anti-vaxx" in an attempt to criminalize my concerns over being used as a Big Pharma lab rat.

 You promote medical apartheid & shaming of those who believe in health sovereignty. Please read the following official UK stats:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TS497Rmrfyff/
German lawyer: Doctors & nurses censored; Most people in the intensive care unit are vaccinated!

<non of this is reported.<
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https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/08/31/german-doctors-and-lawyers-assess-blood-smears-from-people-who-have-had-covid-injections-for-me-this-is-euthanasia-for-me-this-is-mass-murder-a-crime-on-a-grand-scale/
German Doctors and Lawyers Assess Blood Smears from People Who Have Had Covid Injections:
“For me this is euthanasia. For me this is mass murder, a crime on a grand scale”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp9l_c3XCgM
Benny Hill - WonderGran Meets Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6gaRZGY1y8
Best of Paranormal Pranks | Just For Laughs Compilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmKfPnnrzfk
Illusion Pranks - Best of Just For Laughs Gags

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd9rWS4ajIY
'Dr Stefan Lanka' : Myth of Germ Theory , interviewed by Gary Null PhD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkxYJDg_sg
Andrew Kaufman, Tom Cowan, Stefan Lanka on the Concepts of "virus", "infection", "disease", etc.

https://vimeo.com/580392204
Gibt es Viren? - Stefan Lanka vs. Ulrich Kutschera

https://odysee.com/@kaisertv:a/Lanka-vs.-Kutschera_forOdysee:9
Gibt es Viren? - Stefan Lanka vs. Ulrich Kutschera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCZgIJcqCAg
Die Pandemie in Rohdaten - von Marcel Barz

https://www.kanta.fi/en/covid-19-certificate
COVID-19 Certificate

<Fascism with extra BS on top<
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsMNpCmUDYY
‘Literal highway robbery’: Police seize $87,000 from law-abiding citizen

https://www.corbettreport.com/redalert-falseflag
Red Alert: False Flag Incoming!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwTwMjZ80_Y
Sie schlugen wieder zu – Berlins Prügel-Polizisten alarmierten erneut UN-Folter-Berichterstatter

https://rumble.com/vm07f7-ex-pfizer-employee-confirms-graphene-oxide-in-the-jabs-shows-the-documentat.html
EX PFIZER EMPLOYEE CONFIRMS GRAPHENE OXIDE IN THE JABS, SHOWS THE DOCUMENTATION TO CONFIRM

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/07/20/covid-cases-are-surging-in-the-most-vaxxed-countries-not-in-the-least-vaxxed/
Covid cases are surging in the most-vaxxed countries, not in the least-vaxxed

Dr. Robert Malone, who pioneered the mRNA vaccine technology is concerned that the countries with the smallest percentage of their population vaccinated have the fewest number of new Covid cases. Countries with the largest percentages of population vaccinated have surging numbers of new Covid cases.
https://freewestmedia.com/2021/09/01/graphene-oxide-is-the-main-ingredient-in-covid-jabs-says-former-pfizer-employee/
Graphene oxide is the main ingredient in Covid jabs says former Pfizer employee

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https://rumble.com/vlf3ua-law-professor-refuses-to-mask-up-or-get-the-jab.html
Law Professor REFUSES to MASK UP or get the JAB

<see the spineless students leave<
https://www.shiftfrequency.com/eu-database-of-adverse-covid-19-drug-reactions-thru-july-2021/
EU Database Of Adverse COVID-19 Drug Reactions Thru July 2021

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccinated-healthcare-workers-threat-unvaccinated-patients-co-workers/
Study: Fully Vaccinated Healthcare Workers Carry 251 Times Viral Load, Pose Threat to Unvaccinated Patients, Co-Workers

The study found vaccinated individuals carry 251 times the load of COVID-19 viruses in their nostrils compared to the unvaccinated.
While moderating the symptoms of infection, the jab allows vaccinated individuals to carry unusually high viral loads without becoming ill at first, potentially transforming them into presymptomatic superspreaders.
https://www.markmallett.com/blog/top-ten-pandemic-lies/
Top Ten Pandemic Fables

https://thehighwire.com/videos/del-bigtrees-full-interview-with-insider-reporter-tom-porter/
DEL BIGTREE’S FULL INTERVIEW WITH INSIDER REPORTER, TOM PORTER

https://intensivstationen.net/
Auslastung Bettenabbau

Intensivstation
Deutschland
https://uncutnews.ch/unfassbar-die-intensivbetten-wurden-seit-maerz-2020-um-50-reduziert/
Unfassbar – Die Intensivbetten wurden seit März 2020 um 50 % reduziert!

https://uncutnews.ch/vierter-fall-von-kontaminiertem-moderna-impfstoff-in-japan-gemeldet/
Vierter Fall von kontaminiertem Moderna-Impfstoff in Japan gemeldet

https://thehighwire.com/videos/episode-230-the-writing-on-the-wall/
Episode 230: THE WRITING ON THE WALL

2 hours 32 min
https://thehighwire.com/videos/vaccine-disaster-ahead/
VACCINE DISASTER AHEAD

https://thehighwire.com/
With Del Bigtree

https://www.bitchute.com/video/RKU4mEe3fCgw/
Del Bigtree | World Renowned Vaccine Expert Dr.Geert Vanden Bossche:Vaccine Disaster Ahead

https://www.textfixer.com/tools/alphabetical-order.php

https://principia-scientific.com/laboratories-in-us-cant-find-covid-19-in-1500-positive-tests/
Laboratories in US can’t find Covid-19 in 1500 positive tests

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veLBHpl13A0
THE DEATH COUNT EXPLAINED: Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health

“The case definition is very simplistic,” Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, explains. “It means, at the time of death, it was a COVID positive diagnosis. That means, that if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means, technically even if you died of clear alternative cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death.”
https://www.marktaliano.net/the-death-count-explained-dr-ngozi-ezike-director-of-illinois-department-of-public-health/
THE DEATH COUNT EXPLAINED: Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health

"So, everyone who is listed as a COVID death, doesn’t mean that that was the cause of death, but they had COVID at the time of death."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAtg85QEKGk
Mass Vaccination in a Pandemic - Benefits versus Risks: interview with Geert Vanden Bossche

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https://rumble.com/vg5g7n-mads-palsvig-full-interview-part-1-planet-lockdown.html
Mads Palsvig | Full Interview Part 1 | Planet Lockdown

https://www.pboehringer.de/grossbetrug-des-rki-soll-impfapartheid-vorbereiten/
Großbetrug des RKI soll Impfapartheid vorbereiten

Das RKI will per betrügerischer Statistik die Lüge einer kommenden „Pandemie der Ungeimpften“ unterfüttern
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/whos-really-being-hospitalized
Who’s Really Being Hospitalized?

For example, a young man in Orange County, Florida who died in a motorcycle crash last summer was originally considered a COVID death by state health officials (after Fox News investigation the classification was changed.)
https://www.rt.com/usa/533694-joe-rogan-covid-ivermectin/
Joe Rogan reveals he contracted Covid-19, lists medicines he claims made him ‘feel great’ in 3 days

<Joe Rogan says he recently got Covid.
Took Ivermectin and Vitamins got better in 3 days - only had one bad day.
Posts on Instagram that early treatment works.
Pro vaxxer criminals and brainwashed ignorant morons freak out. <
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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.617089/full
Reaction of Human Monoclonal Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 Proteins With Tissue Antigens: Implications for Autoimmune Diseases

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7833091/#__ffn_sectitle
Do COVID-19 RNA-based vaccines put at risk of immune-mediated diseases? In reply to
“potential antigenic cross-reactivity between SARS-CoV-2 and human tissue with a possible link to an increase in autoimmune diseases”

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Emergency use of this jab expires sept 16th.....now you understand the push for it.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/fauci-considering-booster-shots-every-five-months-all-americans-spike-protein-assault-never-ends/5754594
Fauci Considering Booster Shots Every Five Months for All Americans… The Spike Protein Assault Never Ends

https://nypost.com/2021/08/30/ohio-judge-orders-covid-patient-be-treated-with-ivermectin/
Ohio judge orders that COVID-19 patient be treated with ivermectin — which no agency recommends

https://odysee.com/@Projekt-Immanuel:3/Announcement_Eng:6
Project Immanuel - Announcement

https://odysee.com/@Projekt-Immanuel:3/ORI_01_bioweapons:3
Immanuel Project - O.R.I., No. 01: bioweapons - the myth of man-made pathogens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uofVvdChVM
Dr. Christina Parks Testimony House Bill 4471 in Michigan

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https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/videos/dr-gold-prescribes-truth-with-dinesh-dsouza/
Simone Gold, MD, JD, FABEM, sits down with Dinesh D’Souza for a candid interview discussing the censored COVID-19 treatments,
 the government’s manipulation of medicine, and vaccine controversy. All videos available at AFLDS.org

58 min video
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Digital_certificates-vaccination-2021.1
Digital documentation of COVID-19 certificates: vaccination status: technical specifications and implementation guidance, 27 August 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLj20fbYM8Q
Waltzes for the soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1dbbrfekAM
Chopin - Relaxing Classical Music

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jim-quinn-critically-thinking-person-might-look-delta-data-conclude
Jim Quinn: "A Critically-Thinking Person Might Look At The Delta Data & Conclude...

With the Indian case collapse, the purveyors of fear needed to give the Indian variant a new scary name – Delta Variant. So India, with a 10% vaccination rate has seen a complete collapse in cases. Meanwhile, the UK and Israel, with some of the highest vaccination rates in the world, 64% and 60% respectively, have seen huge surges in Delta cases. It’s almost as if the vaccines have created the Delta surge. You might even conclude the vaccines are a complete and utter failure, with significant numbers of adverse reactions, 5 months of limited efficacy, and unknown long-term health effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIbweADku04
100% Pure Schumann Resonance for Grounding, Stability, & Well-Being [9-hours]

https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/the-logic-of-mask-wearing/
The Logic of Mask Wearing

https://off-guardian.org/2021/07/28/watch-research-tools-you-should-know-about/
WATCH: Research Tools You Should Know About

https://off-guardian.org/2021/08/31/watch-research-resources-you-should-know-about/
WATCH: Research Resources You Should Know About This edition of #SolutionsWatch is all about the best online resources that many people don’t know exist.

https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2021/08/31/pcr-tests-cant-identify-delta-variant-its-all-fiction/
Bombshell: PCR tests can’t identify Delta Variant; it’s all fiction

https://sputniknews.com/asia/202108311083756417-taliban-offered-us-military-to-secure-kabul-but-americans-said-no-bombshell-report-reveals/
Taliban Offered US Military to Secure Kabul, But Americans Said No, Bombshell Report Reveals

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/08/26/great-barrier-reef-sea-surface-temperature-no-change-in-150-years/
Great Barrier Reef Sea Surface Temperature: No Change In 150 Years

https://www.bitchute.com/video/8rOIsgJxkgFK/
Anti-Mask Rant by Kristen Meghan Kelly - 100% Worth Your Time!

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https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2021/04/06/masks-do-nothing-to-stop-the-spread-of-covid-and-are-harming-children/
Masks do nothing to stop the spread of COVID and are harming children

https://www.bitchute.com/hashtag/masks/
#masks
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/NHqHdksShQuQ/
Medical Mask Expert Destroys The Mask Narrative

https://themodelhealthshow.com/maskfacts/
the science and history of masks video

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/the-science-of-masks/
The Science of Masks

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O39hQzpJR9Q
Rokotteiden Haittavaikutukset, mRNA Teknologia, Lasten Rokottaminen - Tamara Tuuminen - #66

< no virus was ever isolated and purified<
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IFVeYUExDJzJ/
Vaccine Syndrome: How the Experimental Anthrax Vaccine Killed 35,000 Military Men and Women

https://www.globalresearch.ca/military-doctor-covid-vaccine-program-killed-more-young-active-duty-people-than-covid-did/5754315
Military Doctor: “The COVID Vaccine Program Has Killed More Young Active Duty People than COVID Did”

Also, here is the documentary: “Vaccine Syndrome: How the Experimental Anthrax Vaccine Killed 35,000 Military Men and Women” from our Bitchute channel.
https://www.drrobertyoung.com/post/world-health-organization-who-publishes-epidemic-curves-of-the-most-vaccinated-countries

https://www.drrobertyoung.com/post/transmission-electron-microscopy-reveals-graphene-oxide-in-cov-19-vaccines
Scanning & Transmission Electron Microscopy Reveals Graphene Oxide in CoV-19 Vaccines

Book by Peter Duesberg
******No virus isolated******5 million Dollars to proof existance of Aids virus***********
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Z2sAH0Woz38r/
Newsbreak 133|BREAKING: Dr. Young Reveals Graphene, Aluminium, LNP Capsids, Parasite in 4 Vaccines

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-08-28-canada-just-ordered-293-million-covid-vaccine-doses.html
Why did Canada, population 37 million, just order 293 million covid vaccine doses?

***********No virus ever isolated*******************
https://www.brighteon.com/08e2ac4b-461e-4852-b8cf-2c2bded2a1ea
Drs. Thomas Cowan and Andrew Kaufman interviewed by Mike Adams: Why the "virus" pandemic is a FARCE

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/08/29/665390/Syria-US-SDF-Dayr-alZawr
Syrians protest US arrest of 300 tribesmen for fighting Daesh

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210712/dq210712b-eng.htm
Provisional death counts and excess mortality, January 2020 to April 2021

<According to Statistics Canada, between January 2020 and April 2021, lockdowns were directly and indirectly responsible for THREE TIMES as many deaths as covid in Canada.<
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5csHcIAdJ-k
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Kämmerer

https://cormandrostenreview.com/report/
Review report Corman-Drosten et al. Eurosurveillance 2020

External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at the molecular and methodological level: consequences for false positive results.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nucleic-acid-testing-technologies-use-polymerase-chain-reaction-pcr-detection-sars-cov-2/5739959
The WHO Confirms that the Covid-19 PCR Test is Flawed: Estimates of “Positive Cases” are Meaningless. The Lockdown Has No Scientific Basis

According to scientific opinion:
“if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of 35 cycles or higher is used (as is the case in most laboratories in Europe & the US), the probability that said person is actually infected is less than 3%, the probability that said result is a false positive is 97%  (Pieter Borger, Bobby Rajesh Malhotra, Michael Yeadon, Clare Craig, Kevin McKernan, et al, Critique of Drosten Study)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yTA_q4mFnY
گزارش کامل از چگونه گی برخورد طالبان با مردم هزاره ( آیا طالبان واقعا با مردم هزاره دشمنی دارند ؟ )

https://rumble.com/vlrhli-dr.-ryan-cole-featured-on-the-highwire-82621.html
Dr. Ryan Cole featured on The Highwire - 8/26/21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Balkans
Iron Age

Later, Hellenistic culture spread throughout the empire created by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE. The Greeks were the first to establish a system of trade routes in the Balkans, and in order to facilitate trade with the natives, between 700 BC and 300 BC they founded a number of colonies on the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus) coast, Asia Minor, Dalmatia, Southern Italy (Magna Graecia) etc.

By the end of the 4th century BC Greek language and culture were dominant not only in the Balkans but also around the whole Eastern Mediterranean. In the late 6th century BC, the Persians invaded the Balkans, and then proceed to the fertile areas of Europe. Parts of the Balkans and more northern areas were ruled by the Achaemenid Persians for some time, including Thrace, Paeonia, Macedon, and most Black Sea coastal regions of Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, and Russia.[7][8] However, the outcome of the Greco-Persian Wars resulted in the Achaemenids being forced to withdraw from most of their European territories.
https://rumble.com/vkrdx6-dr.-zelenko-speaks-to-a-rabbinical-court-in-jerusalem.html
Dr. Zelenko speaks to a Rabbinical court in Jerusalem

https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/videos/dr-zelenko-speaks-to-a-rabbinical-court-in-jerusalem/
Dr. Zelenko speaks to a Rabbinical court in Jerusalem

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https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/questions-after-new-reports-that
Questions With New Reports That US Forces Gunned Down Civilians After Kabul Blast

A new BBC report shows eyewitnesses at the scene of the deadly Kabul airport explosion on Thursday saying that a significant number of the 170 Afghans killed in the attack actually died from gunfire by the US-led alliance in the chaos following the blast.
https://humansarefree.com/2021/08/whistleblower-deaths-covid-19-vaccines.html
Fraud and Depopulation: Healthcare Worker Whistleblower Claims They’ve Seen More People Dying Due to Covid-19 Vaccines Than from Covid-19 Itself

“The people moved to the Covid unit, didn’t have Covid. They tested positive with the PCR test, but most of them were asymptomatic and only suffering from their pre-existing conditions. People with other terminal conditions were listed as Covid deaths, a billing department in a nursing facility had therapists change its medical diagnosis codes from conditions such as pulmonary disorder to Covid to get higher reimbursements.”
https://twitter.com/SecKermani/status/1431517279859224579
Our report from last night on the awful ISIS attack outside Kabul airport as families still search Kabul's morgues for their loved ones..

Many we spoke to, including eyewitnesses, said significant numbers of those killed were shot dead by US forces in the panic after the blast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhJB2By61bQ
گزارش کامل از وضعیت کشته شده گان و زخمیان رویداد خونین میدان هوایی تحت اداره طالبان

MUST WATCH
If true, this is a MAJOR BOMBSHELL.
This guy, Faisal, has a YT channel, Kabul Lovers, where he's engaging in some first-class streetwise journalism, putting to shame virtually every TV network.
He's talking to a military officer who examined the bodies of many of the bombing victims at Kabul Emergency Hospital.
He says most were not victims of the suicide bombing:
ALL VICTIMS WERE KILLED BY AMERICAN BULLETS, EXCEPT MAYBE 20 PEOPLE OUT OF 100.
It makes total sense. The soldiers freaked out - and started shooting anything that moved down in the sewer, American-style.
The full, original report, in Dari, is here - he talks to a lot of people, by the hospital:
<Pepe Escobar<
https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/06/04/18th-update-on-adverse-reactions-to-the-covid-vaccines-released-by-uk-government-mhra/
We can’t do this to Children! – Shocking 18th update on Adverse Reactions to the Covid Vaccines released by UK Government / MHRA

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1
Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections

Results SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13.06-fold (95% CI, 8.08 to 21.11) increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected, when the first event (infection or vaccination) occurred during January and February of 2021. The increased risk was significant (P<0.001) for symptomatic disease as well. When allowing the infection to occur at any time before vaccination (from March 2020 to February 2021), evidence of waning natural immunity was demonstrated, though SARS-CoV-2 naïve vaccinees had a 5.96-fold (95% CI, 4.85 to 7.33) increased risk for breakthrough infection and a 7.13-fold (95% CI, 5.51 to 9.21) increased risk for symptomatic disease. SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees were also at a greater risk for COVID-19-related-hospitalizations compared to those that were previously infected.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-no-infection-parties
Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine—but no infection parties, please

The new analysis relies on the database of Maccabi Healthcare Services, which enrolls about 2.5 million Israelis. The study, led by Tal Patalon and Sivan Gazit at KSM, the system’s research and innovation arm, found in two analyses that people who were vaccinated in January and February were, in June, July, and the first half of August, six to 13 times more likely to get infected than unvaccinated people who were previously infected with the coronavirus. In one analysis, comparing more than 32,000 people in the health system, the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher.
https://rumble.com/vjfya9-tucker-carlson-vaccine-passports.html
Tucker Carlson - Vaccine Passports

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/08/28/vaccine-passports.aspx
Why Vaccine Passports Must Be Rejected

The Dirty War on Syria: Washington Supports the Islamic State (ISIS)
https://www.corbettreport.com/sciencecrisis/
Covid-19: Politicisation, “Corruption,” and Suppression of Science

https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw20210826/
Interview 1658 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato

https://www.brighteon.com/89b90453-138e-4c2c-b217-14a23c41f19c
Look at what happenned to me a few days after i got the Moderna Vaccine

https://www.kla.tv/18590
Meine Corona-Impfung und ihre Folgen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp_zNSEW1wc
COVID-19 vaccine reactions: Families describe adverse responses to shot

https://www.kla.tv/19603
Tabu-Thema Impfnebenwirkung: Mädchen nach Covid-Impfung Pflegefall

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9
Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime

People who recover from mild COVID-19 have bone-marrow cells that can churn out antibodies for decades, although viral variants could dampen some of the protection they offer.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7034e5-H.pdf
SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Hospitalizations Among Persons Aged ≥16 Years, by Vaccination Status — Los Angeles County, California, May 1–July 25, 2021

<According to the CDC, if you die "from covid" within 14 days of receiving the 1st dose of a 2 dose vaccine or the 1st dose of a single dose vaccine, you are "unvaccinated".<
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Lets do a rough calculation:
At least 90% of the cov positives are false positives
At most 10% of all cov vaccines deaths got reported.
Allegedly 4.5 million cov deaths as of now world wide.
2 flu seasons.
Real numbers at most 450.000 for 2 flu seasons
664.000 deaths in the USA in 2 seasons
Real number 1/10th = 66.000 in 2 flu seasons
13.600 VAERS reported vaccine deaths.
Real numbers X10 = 136.000 deaths
Add to this people who died because of ventilators.
Refusal of medicine and healthcare.
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