☕️ BACK PAY ☙ Saturday, September 9, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Opinion

By Jeff Childers

09-09-23

Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! The Weekend Edition roundup includes: Fifth Circuit slams White House for covid and elections censorship in Missouri v. Biden; Pfizer gene therapy; Pelosi will keep running until she’s 109; key vaccine advisor advises against boosters; is Australia’s flu-demic real or media manufactured?; turbo flu killing folks Down Under; Australians just can’t get over their colds but have a fun name for it; field reports; New Mexico outlaws guns as an emergency public health measure; UN declares we are in the climate end game; and New York teachers fired for not jabbing get giant checks and their jobs back.

🗞💬 WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY 💬🗞

🔥 The New York Times ran a delicious story yesterday headlined, “Appeals Court Rules White House Overstepped 1st Amendment on Social Media.” “Overstepped” is a bit understated.

The story referred to the case of Missouri v. Biden. In what the Times goofily called “a victory for conservatives,” rather than for all Americans, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court injunction banning the White House, CDC, and FBI from influencing social media companies to remove so-called “disinformation.”

In the delightful 75-page order, the judges opined that the White House and its Surgeon General had “coerced the platforms to make their moderation decisions by way of intimidating messages and threats of adverse consequences” and “significantly encouraged the platforms’ decisions by commandeering their decision-making processes.”

The appellate court also found that the FBI had illegally coerced the companies, which had taken down 50% of the online material that the bureau’s agents flagged as problematic. “Given the record before us, we cannot say that the F.B.I’s messages were plainly threatening in tone or manner,” the judges wrote. But “we do find the F.B.I’s requests came with the backing of clear authority over the platforms.”

It’s not an exaggeration to say this case is probably the most important civil rights case in our lifetimes. This ruling is terrific news. To give you some inside baseball about how good it was, I’ll explain some injunction law.

There are four main elements that a party must prove to get an injunction. Three of them are tough. One of the tough ones is that the party must show a “substantial likelihood of prevailing on the merits.” In simpler words, that means the party seeking the injunction has to convince the court it will probably win the whole case.

So when a court grants an injunction, it must also find that, at this point, it looks like the party is probably going to win. It’s like an early trial, a preview of the court’s final decision, a trial-before-the-trial. The party that wins the injunction then has a huge, permanent advantage in the case.

So the fact that in Missouri v. Biden, the trial court and now the appellate court have both agreed on the injunction, things are looking very bad for the government and its censorship machine. Which explains why the New York Times finally reported on the case.

According to the story, the White House “is considering” appealing to the Supreme Court, and I hope they do. But I would be very surprised if that happens, because we all know the Supreme Court is probably dying to weigh in on this issue.

Major progress.

💉 Look out below! This “sponsored content” appeared on Politico’s homepage this morning:

They aren’t giving up, not even close. Stay vigilant!

But at least Politico labeled it as “sponsored,” which is a massive improvement over what they were doing during the pandemic.

🔥 Nancy Pelosi, at only a youthful 83, announced yesterday she intends to run for re-election in her California district, which she has hogged for 36 straight years now since 1987.

💉 The UK Daily Mail ran a surprising story yesterday headlined, “FDA vaccine adviser Dr Paul Offit says healthy young people don’t need another Covid booster – despite new BA.2.86 variant pushing virus rates up.” Whoops! This won’t be good for business!

Pro-jab pediatric vaccine specialist Dr. Paul Offit, who advises the FDA on a range of shots for infectious diseases, and sits on the FDA’s vaccine approval committee, advised the Mail that middle-aged and younger Americans without chronic diseases already have strong enough immunity to prevent severe covid illness this winter.

Offit explained, “Understanding that the goal of the vaccine is to prevent severe disease … Boosting otherwise healthy young people is a low-risk, low-reward strategy.”

Yesterday, someone connected to my office, who has an an autoimmune disease, got a call from her doctor the day before she was scheduled to get her covid booster shot. They cancelled — not rescheduled — her booster appointment explaining, “they don’t work.”

The ‘consensus’ is crumbling.

💉 The UK Daily Mail published a many-layered onion of an article back in July. You’ll forgive me for missing it at the time, since the story’s real news was buried under a fake news headline. Let’s start with that: “Healthy and fit father-of-three, 37, dies from the flu just five days after falling ill with a slight cough: ‘It’s like we are living in the 18th century’.”

Five days from cough to croaked? Sounds like turbo-flu!

The headline was true to the extent that Australian Mate Babic, a healthy and fit 37-year old dad died shortly after catching the flu.

The Daily Mail’s reporter either did a terrible job of trying to frame flu for Mate’s death, or she was secretly trying to smuggle out the true story. Either way, read the Mail’s description of his flu death and then let’s compare notes:

Carla contracted Influenza B early last week, and on Friday Mate had a slight cough, but was still going about his day as normal, cooking dinner for the kids and settling in for a night in front of the footy… On Tuesday night, the 37-year-old was struggling to sleep, running a high fever and suffering from sweats, shaking and bad bouts of coughing so he got up and ran himself a bath.

He walked back into the bedroom and sat on the end of the bed, where he died.

‘It is just an absolute tragedy, I just don’t even know what to do. It doesn’t even seem real,’ Carla said.

Um. Mate — who symptoms included a fever, sweats, and a cough — died sitting on the end of his bed waiting for the tub. He never made it to the hospital. He never even called the hospital. He never even stood up. Before Mate could gasp out a word of protest, flu struck him dead as a doornail, right there, perched on Carla’s best duvet.

Right before that he was walking around, for crying out loud.

Is that like any flu death you ever heard of? Let us count the problems. First of all — and I shouldn’t even have to say this at this point in our collective involuntary viral-sciences education — nobody dies ‘from flu.’ People with bad cases of flu die from complications like bacterial pneumonia, sepsis, or “exacerbation of chronic underlying conditions” (per CDC).

Just like covid, coincidentally. But I digress.

Flu doesn’t just strike people dead while they’re waiting around for a nice hot bath to fill up. The very idea is complete rubbish, poppycock.

Now add the fact that seasonal flu almost never kills healthy 37-year-old dads. When it does kill, seasonal flu kills frail seniors and infants. Remember, we’re talking about seasonal influenza, not 1918.

That’s why I called the article’s headline “fake news.” Even the Daily Mail’s reporters aren’t dumb enough to buy the pathetic story that Mate died “from flu.” It was probably a massive heart attack.

And that was just the story’s outside layer. Now let’s peel back the onion.

💉 The next layer was the story’s ostensible narrative frame, which is that Mate’s death was not due to flu, per se, but only happened because he didn’t get his flu vaccine. To give that weak story some stuffing, the article recounted Carla’s flu close-call from December. Look at this:

The couple weren’t vaccinated against the flu after Carla had a bad reaction to the Pfizer Covid vaccine. She said they were ‘a bit apprehensive to have the flu vaccine’… Both she and Mate contracted Influenza A in December, with Carla’s illness progressing into pneumonia and resulting in her having to be admitted to hospital.

Wow. This poor couple. First of all, they’d had their covid jabs, which were mandated hard in Australia. Then Carla had a vaccine injury, which is why they didn’t get the not-mandated flu jab. Unsurprisingly, the story didn’t describe Carla’s “bad reaction.”

Then, and follow me here, the young, healthy couple both got severe flu twice in less than a year.  They’d had bad flu in December — resulting in Carla’s hospitalization, and then again in July, resulting in Mate’s death. The Daily Mail claimed — without evidence — they had Influenza A in December and Influenza B in July, but didn’t cite any test or diagnosis. That’s just the Mail trying to cover up the real issue: the couples’ jab-suppressed immune systems.

Let’s peel back another layer.

Heavily-jabbed Australia is heading toward its “deadliest flu season in history.” Which is weird, coming right out of the pandemic, with so many people jabbed for so many things, and with everyone’s immune system on high alert. Of course, if they’re counting tub-waiting deaths as flu deaths, we can assume the flu mortality figures are inflated.

Anyway, here’s how the Mail described the flu-demic. Remember, this is back in July:

Australia is on track to eclipse its deadliest-ever flu season in 2019, with medical experts pointing the finger at poor vaccination rates in the post-Covid period.

At least 107 Australians have lost their lives to influenza since the start of the year, according to data from the Federal Department of Health.

Dumb Australians, not taking their safe and effective flu vaccines.

💉 Now let’s drill down into the 107 dead Australians and see what we find. According to a second Daily Mail story, also from July, “the highest number  among children.”

But it wasn’t infants, as you would expect. It turns out that, coincidentally, the flu deaths are mainly among older children, children old enough to get the covid jabs. In one example, the Mail’s headline read, “Little Emma, 11, who died from the flu was released from hospital just one day earlier – as cases surge across Australia.”

Emma Schwab, 11, was treated for ‘Influenza B’ at Noosa Hospital in Queensland on July 5th and returned home. In other words, Emma was well enough that the hospital discharged her. The next day her parents called for emergency services but it was too late; Emma either died at home or shortly after getting to the hospital.

I guess now we do have “turbo flu.” It can kill you in one day and you won’t even be able to make it to the hospital. It can kill you right on the edge of your bed. One minute you’re sitting there musing about whether your wife’s fancy shampoo would make a nice bubble bath, and then — WHAM! — influenza. It’s all over.

In case you missed the news back in 2021, Australia also mandated covid vaccines for kids.

💉 It’s very tempting to blame all this silly flu fear-mongering on creative death-counting techniques the media honed up during the covid pandemic. It make sense they’re just trying to sell more flu vaccines. But I’m starting to think there might be something more going on.

Here’s yesterday’s headline from the Sydney Morning Herald:

Weird. It’s just like Mate and Carla’s quadruple-flu story. Australians keep getting sick. Here are the story’s first few paragraphs:

Australia is grappling with the “yo-yo flu”, where cold symptoms continually return, as a sharp rise in respiratory infections has been driven by an early flu season, continuing cases of COVID-19 and the circulation of nasty viruses.

Sydney pharmacist Sylvia Thai said she and her family had been sick intermittently for the past several months, and believed it was a byproduct of low natural immunity.

“We’ve been constantly sick, and it’s been going around in a cycle, we keep giving it to each other,” she said.

Got that? Australian’s “cold symptoms continually return” as folks have been “sick intermittently for the past several months,” as a “byproduct of low natural immunity,” making them “constantly sick” in an endless “cycle” of discomfort, runny noses, and Kleenex.

According to the anecdotal pharmacist cited for the story, Sylvia Thai (if that’s her real name), customers have been streaming into her pharmacy to get doctor’s notes and cold medicine — and many keep returning every few weeks for more.

The experts aren’t even trying to hide it; they admit the flu season has been fueled by depressed immunity. They just blame depressed immunity on lockdowns instead of jab injuries:

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners vice president Bruce Willett said Australians would also have limited natural immunity after two years of staying indoors, increasing their susceptibility to infections and secondary infections – though this was likely to be the final year of low immunity levels.

To a certain extent, I agree with Mr. Willett. I agree Australians probably have limited natural immunity. We disagree only as to the cause. Hopefully Mr. Willett is right this will be the last year it happens.

💉 Along the same lines, anecdotally, I got two texts yesterday. The first was from a friend who said her long-standing doctor’s appointment got canceled the day before the appointment, since her doctor’s office said it was dealing with a huge influx of covid cases “presenting as strep.”  Or it was just strep. Then I got a text from a friendly mole inside one of the big health agencies who said the agency was assembling an emergency response team for covid, flu, and RSV.

Our flu season hasn’t really started yet. So far there’s no evidence of unusual flu activity. But it is going to be an interesting flu season.

NOTE: The Daily Mail’s article about the bereaved young Australian family mentioned that Mate worked for himself, had no retirement or life insurance, and now his fatherless family is having to sell the house that Mate built for them. They have a GoFundMe at https://gofund.me/230e7364.

(Hat tip to Dr. William Makis and his excellent Substack MakisMD, which relentlessly covers covid deaths and studies. He’s nearly as prolific a poster as I am. Dr. Makis mentioned Mate’s story in a fascinating stack speculating pharma is trying to rehabilitate mRNA’s reputation using flu season.)

🔥 Queen Hotchibobo has spoken! The Santa Fe New Mexican ran a story yesterday headlined, “Governor bans carrying guns in Albuquerque after 11-year-old killed.”

Governor Lujan Grisham says her duty to uphold her oath to the constitution is "not absolute" pic.twitter.com/Mla4rcNXMX

— Beau Hightower (@beauhightowerdn) September 8, 2023

Who cares if it’s unconstitutional? If it saves just one life.

On Thursday, New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham declared gun violence to be a public health emergency. The next day, yesterday, on the strength of Thursday’s emergency order she signed another emergency public health order that, effective immediately, prohibits citizens from carrying firearms, either open or concealed, in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County for the next 30 days, regardless of whether they have a permit.

Open and concealed carry are (normally) legal in New Mexico. They have a lot of snakes, including the human kind.

Governor Grisham said she “will either amend or remove or adjust” the order after the 30-day ban period, depending on “circumstances.” Circumstances like how her emotions are feeling that day. “I realize, it is a pinch, and then some, on responsible gun owners,” Governor Grisham explained. “It’s a sacrifice that allows everyone else to get their arms around the growing, significant problem.”

Got that? A “sacrifice.” By responsible gun owners. For the greater good.

During the press conference, Governor Grisham explained she doesn’t think that constitutional rights are absolute, especially in emergencies. And she can make an emergency whenever she wants! All social problems are potentially emergencies! It’s great!

Grisham explained it doesn’t matter at all, that there are already laws on the books against illegal guns, don’t be silly, what nonsense, because there are too many criminals and everybody knows criminals don’t follow the laws”.”

“I can’t arrest everyone . There are literally too many people to arrest! … We won’t be able to arrest all of them. If I’ve declared an emergency, I can invoke additional powers. No constitutional right, including my oath, is intended to be absolute… If I’m unsafe, who’s standing up for that right?

New Mexico Republicans were not amused. Many called her a “dictator” and other words that I can’t reproduce in this family blog. Senate Minority Leader Greg Baca (R-Belen) slammed Lujan Grisham’s order as “unconstitutional” in a statement from Senate Republicans, saying her “soft-on-crime approach has failed and put the safety of all New Mexicans in great jeopardy.”

Representative Baca has a point. The Governor just disarmed all the people who follow the law, and as she said, criminals don’t follow laws anyway. Maybe the hoodlums will go along with it since it’s a public health order.

This is just more rotten pandemic fruit. Governors who want to do unconstitutional things now think all they need to do is declare a public health emergency. It worked for covid, after all.

As I’ve said many times before, emergency executive authority is the worst, most anti-democratic idea ever, and we need to drown it in weed-killer everywhere it has sprouted up. The good news is, there are a lot of attorneys who now have plenty of practice challenging insane government overreach like this.

Stand by.

🔥 The Washington Free Beacon ran an awful story yesterday headlined, “California Dems Pass Bill To Allow Custody Judges To Consider ‘Gender Affirmation’.”

The bill passed the California Assembly yesterday in a lopsided, party-line vote (57-16), making family-court judges prefer parents in custody disputes who “affirm” their children. The bill now sails over to almost-recalled Governor Newsom’s desk for signature, and he is expected to sign it with great relish.

Before the vote, Legislators took to the microphone and somberly declared that parents “have a duty to affirm our children.” The bill requires judges, when considering the best interests of a child, to more strongly score the parent who “affirms” their child’s insane belief they are a different gender.

To me, this is a natural outgrowth of a trend I saw developing during the pandemic, when my office would regularly get calls from panicked parents in custody disputes when judges were considering parent preferences for covid vaccination. Some judges were weighting pro-jab parents more highly in custody disputes. Sadly, there wasn’t much we could do. Judges are required to consider the “best interests of the child,” and too often during the pandemic that came down to whether the judge personally thought vaccination was in the child’s best interest or not.

As you can imagine, the outcomes of these cases were highly inconsistent, since judges’ personal vaccination opinions varied. Desperate parents seeking to protect their kids from jabs would call the office, hoping that we could somehow put the vaccines on trial in their custody case and convince the judge the vaccines are dangerous. But the problem always was that the “best interests” standard is so fuzzy that a smart judge could just bury the jab issue inside a global “best interest” finding.

What California just did was cement that judges must consider the gender affirmation issue, and they have to consider “affirming” to be a positive. It probably won’t change anything that a liberal judge would have done anyway, applying the ‘best interests’ standard. It only handcuffs conservative judges.

If you stay in California, be careful who you have kids with.

🔥 Yesterday, Portuguese communist and Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres called the whole game. It’s all over. The climate breakdown has begun. We’re doomed!

Well, “doomed” might be over-stating things a little. First, I’d refer the Secretary General to the Hunga Tonga volcano. Second, I’m not even too sure about the Secretary’s data. For example:

And it’s worth hauling out this old Project Veritas 2021 chestnut, in which a CNN technical director admitted the network was scheming to pivot to climate hysteria after people got tired of hearing about pandemic hysteria:

🚩 2021 Flashback: Project Veritas caught CNN’s Technical Director, Charlie Hester saying when the public gets covid fatigue “we’re going to start focusing mainly on climate [change], like global warming…”

CNN seems to be in lockstep with the current administration. pic.twitter.com/fY8kL0Gij0

— Te𝕏asLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) July 20, 2022

So.

🔥 Finally, NTD News ran an optimistic story yesterday headlined, “Judge Rules Teachers Can Get Jobs Back With Back Pay After Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine.”

A New York state judge ruled Wednesday that ten teachers fired by New York City’s Department of Education for refusing to get the covid vaccine must now be reinstated — with back pay. Think about that. Two years of back pay. That will be a sweet little check. Or, not so little. The judge also awarded their attorney’s fees.

Judge Ralph Porzio found the city’s denials of religious exemption requests was unconstitutional, capricious, and arbitrary. “This Court sees no rational basis for not allowing unvaccinated classroom teachers in amongst an admitted population of primarily unvaccinated students,” Judge Porzio wrote. “As such, each classroom teacher amongst the Panel Petitioners is entitled to a religious exemption from the Vaccine Mandate.”

The so-called “rational basis test” is the standard most forgiving to the government. It’s almost impossible to beat, because “any rational basis” will justify the government’s decisions. But the lawyers beat it here.

More progress!

Have a wonderful weekend! Rest up and we’ll regroup on Monday morning to kick off the new week in post-pandemic.

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