Science and Digi Briefs for January 27, 2021

Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez



Facebook Censures
Cardinal for criticizing New World Order


Facebook has censored a video of Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara, Mexico, for suggesting that globalist leaders are exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to bring about a new world order.
“What they’re after is a world government, a new world order,” the cardinal asserts in the video.
“They want a single world government, a single army, a single currency, a single economy, and also a single religion — that will certainly not be the Christian religion,” he said. “It will be the religion of Mother Earth, in the name of humanity and universal brotherhood.”
“To this end, pandemics serve to weaken nations; they impoverish and indebt them, bringing down their economies,” Sandoval said. “They also weaken education, closing schools and replacing them with distance learning.”
“These pandemics also impede religious practice, as we saw all last year,” he said. “They close the churches, reduce the number of people who can worship.”
“But above all, they are creating fear, a terrible fear among the people,” he warned.
Editor: And terrible fear soon
turns to terrible anger.
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Ivermectin no longer forbidden for COVID

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has dropped its recommendation against the inexpensive antiparasitic drug Ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19, and the agency now advises it can’t recommend for or against its use, leaving the decision to physicians and their patients.
Ivermectin is an old, cheap medication used to treat many types of parasite infestations including head lice, roundworms and river blindness. It can be taken by mouth or applied to the skin for external infestations.
Ivermectin was discovered in 1975 and came into medical use in 1981. It is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines.[12] Ivermectin is an FDA-approved agent.
Ivermectin was used successfully only against test tube COVID virus. It has not been used against COVID in humans.
The plasma concentrations of Ivermectin necessary for the antiviral efficacy detected in test tubes would require administration of doses up to 100-fold higher than those approved for use in humans.
The approved dose for intestinal roundworms in humans depends on body weight, for example one single pill dose of 9mg for a 100-lb. person.
After treatment with Ivermectin-type medications, patients with hyperreactive immune systems may be more likely than others to experience severe adverse reactions.
Passionate arguments have been waged for and against the drug’s use against COVID.
The drug is “safe at relatively high doses, widely available, and relatively cheap, too,” say a group of doctors pushing its use. The next step is more research to find the best dose for fighting COVID-19. Then researchers can begin testing in people, he says.
“It is important to stress that no one should try to self-medicate with versions of ivermectin that are for veterinary purposes or head lice.” The only safe way to get ivermectin is by prescription from a doctor, he says.
Partly excerpted from Medscape.com
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Yakima Vaccinations- Don’t Come Until Scheduled

Local health officials implore people not to line up at Yakima-area hospitals and health clinics for COVID-19 vaccines after Yakima Valley Memorial was met with a line of people outside its emergency room over the weekend.
The hospital had no more vaccines available to the public as of Jan. 18.
In the future, as doses are available, Memorial will set up a vaccine clinic with a scheduling system. People will not be able to just show up, he said.
Officials from Memorial and from the Yakima Health District encouraged people to make sure they are getting information about local vaccine distribution directly from the health district’s website or their provider, not from non-official social media channels.
“They need to look at our website, health district website,” said Lori Green, chief nursing officer at Memorial. “We absolutely want to vaccinate everyone. The No. 1 thing is we need vaccine.”
Excerpted from The Yakima Herald-Republic
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Journalist Glenn
Greenwald resigns
upon being censored

Greenwald, who shared the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his reporting on National Security Agency domestic surveillance that was uncovered by contractor Edward Snowden, said his departure was related to a piece that he planned to write about former vice president Joe Biden.
Greenwald resigned from The Intercept on Thursday, alleging that the outlet he co-founded was attempting to censor a column in which he criticizes Joe Biden.
Greenwald said he would continue publishing a freelance column, joining a number of journalists such as Matt Taibbi and Andrew Sullivan who have moved their work to the independent publishing platform Substack. Sullivan announced in July that he would leave New York Magazine, writing at the time that editors and writers at the publication were forced to commit to “critical theory in questions of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
Greenwald laid out the reasons for his own resignation in a Substack post.
“The final, precipitating cause [of resignation] is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden,” Greenwald wrote. Lashing out at “all New-York-based Intercept editors” who “vehemently” support Biden, Greenwald claimed that “modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it.”
Greenwald wrote that the article his editors wanted to censor referred to newly released documents pertaining to Joe Biden’s conduct in Ukraine and China. He criticized his former publication for “a deep fear of offending hegemonic cultural liberalism and center-left Twitter luminaries, and overarching need to secure the approval and admiration of the very mainstream media outlets we created The Intercept to oppose, critique and subvert.”
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-Dave Bunting

Glenn Greenwald

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