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Farmers are being paid to destroy their crops, and not subsidized if they just grow them, penalized if you will! Crazy! Carbon giants are telling oil truckers to dump oil! Food and energy, two things that if controlled enough will ensnare the people in the globalists web.
BY MIKE ADAMS
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(Natural News) The insane, fraudulent rushing of the Pfizer vaccine into “full approval” status by the FDA — just announced today — was ordered by the collapsing Biden regime. The purpose of this accelerated approval is to allow Biden’s puppet masters to roll out medical martial law as a means to control the population and suppress the massive uprising that will soon commence against the illegitimate Biden regime.
Reportedly, the next 10 days (or so) will see the public release of the Maricopa County forensic audit results. These results are going to comprehensively reveal that the 2020 election was rigged via ballot stuffing and ballot counterfeiting operations. Once these results are made public, a mass awakening across America will occur as people realize Biden didn’t win and our “democracy” has been infiltrated and taken over by enemy forces that currently occupy the White House.
The mass awakening to election fraud, combined with the increasing realization that the FDA, CDC and vaccine pushers lied to America the entire time (about vaccines halting infections or preventing transmission) will only fuel the protests that will accelerate through the months of September – November.
In order to crush these protests and roll out Australia-style medical martial law enforcement, the Biden regime needed the FDA to (fraudulently) approve at least one “vaccine.” Immediately, the Pentagon has now announced the mandatory vaccination of all US troops, which is a treasonous scheme to mass murder hundreds of thousands of active duty soldiers via bioweapons in order to weaken America’s national security and prepare the nation for its final demise (which has been the goal of Obama and the Obiden regime from the very start).
As the truth about rigged elections and vaccine genocide becomes unstoppable, look for the Biden regime to attempt an internet kill switch/telecommunications outage strategy to try to stop people from communicating. Meanwhile, under medical martial law, Biden is likely to order truly draconian enforcement actions such as criminalizing public protests, setting up vaccine passport checkpoints on highways, and medically kidnapping “anti-vaxxers” to relocate them to the CDC’s “green zones” covid prison camps which have been openly described in great detail by the CDC itself.
The goal is to hold on to power as long as possible, of course, while continuing to inject the masses (and the military) with deadly biological weapons that are engineered to achieve high kill rates over time. The so-called “booster shot” is simply another dose of weaponized spike protein that’s being administered to try to finish the job sooner rather than later.
Joe Biden himself, of course, will be removed at the time that’s most appropriate for his handlers, and before Harris is sworn in, there will technically be no “Commander in Chief” in control of the military. With a near state of civil war inside the military already surfacing due to the bioweapon vaccine mandate that was just activated today, there remains a plausible possibility that elements of the U.S. military could revolt against the treasonous Pentagon leaders who helped orchestrate the catastrophic collapse of Kabul and the fall of Afghanistan which has left 10,000+ American contractors trapped behind enemy lines.
According to my sources, the military is practically in a state of revolt right this very minute, and many mid-level commanders are coming to realize that if they continue to follow orders from traitors like Austin, Milley, or Biden, they’re all finished and the national defense capabilities of the United States of America will rapidly collapse. It is increasingly understood that the traitors in the Pentagon and the White House who coordinated the collapse of Afghanistan are also coordinating the collapse of America. And if they are not stopped, there will be no nation left to defend.
Suddenly, the phrase, “against all enemies foreign and domestic” takes on a whole new meaning.
One additional factor in all this is the willingness of the criminal, illegitimate Biden regime to weaponize food scarcity, financial collapse, vaccine checkpoints, and even engineered regional grid-down scenarios in order to crush dissent and weaken the masses. With Australia’s NSW serving as the experimental template for turning a nation into a covid prison colony, Biden’s puppetmasters are prepared to unleash mass medical kidnappings, covid camp executions, engineered starvation, grid-down emergencies, and even coordinated bank closures or financial events in order to deny the people whatever resources they might need to sustain nationwide protests.
The Biden regime is at war with the American people. And in this state of war, they will engineer scarcity and collapse in every sector imaginable, including potentially shutting down cell towers and internet access, especially in “problematic” areas such as red states.
Some people believe there still remain enough “white hats” in the US military to arrest the traitors, hold new elections and potentially reinstate Trump after a new election is held, but this view should be taken with a grain of salt, as the far more likely outcome is collapse and chaos rather than organized restoration. In either case, it’s clear that Trump wants no part of taking office again until after the financial collapse takes place. In fact, even Kamala doesn’t want to be sitting in the Oval Office when that occurs, so there’s a concerted effort right now to keep Biden in place as an empty shell for as long as possible, almost as if Weekend at Bernie’s has become national policy at the White House, which seems altogether fitting for a nation that’s currently run by criminals, morons and senile fools.
Once the financial collapse is initiated, if Biden is still in the White House he can then be blamed for the collapse and removed via 25th Amendment, with his replacement promising to “rescue” America from the horrific mistakes of a mentally incompetent Joe Biden.
The next several months are going to witness the most chaotic time in the history of this nation (even considering the 1860s), with September 2021 – March 2022 characterized by:
Note that right this very minute, the U.S. dollar has already lost at least 40% of its purchasing power in the last 12 months. The things people buy with dollars are skyrocketing in price (food, fuel, housing, used vehicles, etc.), which is a result of the collapsing dollar, stemming from endless money printing by the Biden regime and the corrupt Fed. This is also a form of “final looting” of the nation before its demise. People in the inner circles of power are looting dollars via government stimulus handouts, then using those dollars to buy crypto or gold, knowing that the dollar will soon be utterly worthless.
All this money printing means average Americans are being driven into poverty by the day, with food, housing, transportation and other basic needs rapidly becoming unaffordable, even for the former middle class. It won’t take long before the middle class is wiped out, and tens of millions of Americans will discover they have nothing left to lose (since they’ve already lost everything).
This is all part of the engineered chaos plan that’s designed to bring down America, and with the FDA’s accelerated approval of the Pfizer vaccine today, this plan has just been activated.
See more details in today’s video Situation Update via Brighteon:
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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There is another important angle to this that the report below, true to establishment media form, doesn’t mention: around 10 percent of Afghanistan is Shi’ite, and almost all of that ten percent are Hazaras. But any Islamic jihad aspect of a story is certain to be ignored or downplayed in establishment media reports.
“Afghanistan: Nine ‘tortured and butchered in mountains’ by Taliban,” by Jonathan Prynn, Evening Standard, August 20, 2021:
Taliban fighters massacred nine men from Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic minority last month in a “horrifying indicator” of what may lie ahead, says a report from Amnesty International.
The human rights group detailed how the men were butchered after the Taliban took control of the mountainous Ghazni province in the centre of Afghanistan.
Six of the men were shot and three were tortured to death, including one man strangled with his own scarf. He had his arm muscles sliced off.
Another man was so heavily shot in the chest he was buried in pieces, according to witnesses.
One of the victims, 75-year-old Sayeed Ahmad, had insisted the Taliban would not harm him because of his age and that he intended to return to his village to feed his cattle. He was executed with two bullets to the chest and another in his side….
BY EVAN NAPPEN
SEE: https://www.ammoland.com/2021/08/no-vaccination-no-guns-gun-confiscation/;
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New Jersey – -(AmmoLand.com)- In this episode Gun Lawyer Evan Nappen puts the two pieces together and explains their plan. Both parts are being separately promoted by Obama apparatchiks, Rahm Emanuel & Juliette Kayyem
That’s how they plan to do it.
Let me start by just talking about some things you may not know about the COVID vaccination. Even talking about a COVID vaccination, the lamestream media and big tech overlords they don’t you even talking about this, but we are going to talk about it. Let me just make it clear. There is a database of every individual who has received a COVID vaccination. You may not be aware of that; you may not even know about it. They do not make a big deal about it. But that database is there because this is an experimental vaccine, and they need to track you and it for medical and health purposes. So, there is a legitimate reason to do it. But regardless of that, this database exists. Listen above as I explain their plot…”
About Evan Nappen
Known as “America’s Gun Lawyer,” Evan Nappen is above all a tireless defender of justice. Host of the praised “Gun Lawyer” Podcast, author of eight bestselling books and countless articles on firearms, knives, weapons history, and the law, a certified Firearms Instructor, and avid weapons collector and historian with a vast collection that spans almost five decades, it’s no wonder he’s become the trusted, go-to expert for local, industry, and national media outlets. Called on regularly by radio, television, and online news media for his commentary and expertise on breaking news, Evan has appeared on countless shows including Fox, CNN, Court TV, WOR-New York. As a creative arts consultant, he also lends his weapons law and historical expertise to an elite, discerning cadre of movie and television producers and directors, and novelists. He also provides expert testimony and consultations for defense attorneys across America.
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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Who knows how many jihadis are among them? No one! And remember: if you express any concern about that, you’re a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe,” and probably a violent extremist.
“Afghan evacuees face confusion, separated families as they land in Northern Virginia,” by Jess Arnold, WUSA, August 21, 2021:
DULLES, Va. — Hundreds more Afghan refugees flew into Dulles International Airport on Saturday as volunteers worked to get them housing and support.
National Airlines flew in close to 270 refugees in the afternoon after the U.S. government contracted them to help aid in the evacuation.
One man, Zamir Sultani, said his sister was stuck on that very plane for hours with no information about when she and other passengers would disembark.
“My sister is a type I diabetic, and she’s not feeling that good. They’ve been sitting there hours and waiting to get out. and my dad is a dialysis patient, and he’s also stuck there,” Sultani said. “All of them are sitting in the plane, and nobody is even telling them what’s going on.”
Sultani said he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. in Afghanistan for years before immigrating to the states in 2010.
As of 9:30 p.m., he said his family had reached the customs line but still expected more processing afterwards.
Another woman, whose sister was on a plane from Qatar after working on the air base there, said refugees were lined up in a separate part of customs….
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
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Not only does the Taliban have lists of the names and phone numbers of every Afghan who worked for US in the past two decades, but the Taliban is also in possession of sophisticated biometric data machines (Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment-HIIDE). The implications are disastrous.
HIIDE devices contain identifying biometric data such as iris scans and fingerprints, as well as biographical information, and are used to access large centralized databases.
US Marine Special Operations Command veteran Peter Kiernan stated: “We would go into villages and enroll people into this biometric data system.” Thousands a day.
Kiernan went on to say — in part — how this information was used:
…in identifying bomb-makers, while it was also used to confirm the identities of contractors and locals working with the US military.
In 2016, the Taliban “used a biometric reader to identify bus passengers who were members of the security services in a violent ambush that claimed 12 lives.”
It’s not only Afghans who are now in danger. Kiernan warned that beyond the contractors and locals, it is “probable that the Taliban have access to some of the coalition’s biometric data” as well.
An Army Special Operations veteran also disclosed another enemy that has long posed as a friend to America: Pakistan. He stated that “the Taliban may need additional tools to process the HIIDE data,” and expressed concerns that the Pakistani Spy Agency ISI “would assist with this.”
In light of Biden’s disastrous incompetence, also worrying is that he previously proposed a budget for 2022 which sought “more than $11 million to purchase 95 new biometric collection devices expanding upon those used in Afghanistan and Iraq.” What he intends to do with these purchases isn’t disclosed, only the capability of the devices:
“This updated database will make it more efficient for warfighters to collect, identify and neutralize the enemy,” wrote Col. Senodja Sundiata-Walker, project manager for the Pentagon’s biometrics program.
But as we see in the case of the biometric data in Afghanistan, the database could easily fall into the wrong hands.
Add the HIIDE equipment to the billions of dollars worth of American aircraft, equipment and weaponry that are now at the Taliban’s disposal.
Joe Biden is so incredibly incompetent that his debacle in Afghanistan increasingly resembles deliberate sabotage.
“Afghanistan: Will fingerprint data point Taliban to targets?,” by Chris Vallance, BBC, August 20, 2021:
“We would go into villages and enrol people into this biometric data system,” US Marine Special Operations Command veteran Peter Kiernan recalls.
“You had a device about 12 inches by six inches wide. It would scan their fingerprints, it would scan their retina, it would also take a picture of them.”
It’s been a busy week for Mr Kiernan. In Afghanistan, he was in charge of 12 local interpreters. Some are still in the country when we speak, and he’s trying to help them leave.
For those who worked with US forces, leaving is a matter of urgency.
A United Nations document recently seen by the BBC says the Taliban are intensifying their hunt for people who worked for, and collaborated with, Nato and US forces.
And the giant stores of biometric data collected by both the US military and the Afghan government could, some argue, pose a risk to those facing reprisals.
Brian Dooley, a senior adviser to activist group Human Rights First, told the BBC’s Tech Tent podcast that while very little was definitively known, “a very educated guess would say that [the Taliban] either has or is about to get their hands on an enormous amount of biometric data”.
Using handheld devices called HIIDE (Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment), soldiers like Mr Kiernan would add the details of Afghans to a US biometric store.
He said it was useful in identifying bomb-makers, while it was also used to confirm the identities of contractors and locals working with the US military….
BY J.D. HEYES
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(Natural News) As much as Donald Trump was accused by the left of being incompetent and incapable when it came to domestic and foreign policy, his presidency was, by any measure, one of the most successful in the history of our country.
Trump created one of the best economies we’ve ever had; there were more jobs than there were available workers (full employment, in other words), wages had risen for all demographics, companies were expanding, and opportunities abounded. He cut our taxes and raised our energy independence to a level unseen since the 1960s. Our military was strong, and though he was criticized frequently for his boorishness by our allies, our enemies respected him — and us, by default.
Trump’s administration made historic peace deals in parts of the world that had been at each other’s throats for decades. And he had a plan to get our military men and women out of Afghanistan after 20 years.
But then, his reelection was literally stolen from him (come on, everyone with a couple of brain cells to rub together knows that’s true) and now we’re stuck with a frail, old man who has dementia (but we’re not supposed to notice or mention it). And his foreign and domestic policies — well, the policies of the people behind the scenes pulling the wires and calling the shots — are a disaster.
Energy prices are going up, and we are becoming dependent again on foreign producers. There are jobs a-plenty, but because we’re paying people to stay home via outsized unemployment benefits under the guise of ‘COVID relief,’ there aren’t enough workers to full availabilities, so our businesses are suffering and they can’t expand.
Our military remains strong but is becoming infiltrated with woke, left-wing, Marxist ideologues who hate the founding principles of the country they swore an oath to defend. Our enemies think Biden’s a joke and are emboldened to act (they will soon, too, wait and see), while our allies worry that Biden and his handlers won’t be there for them if they get into trouble.
Consider the debacle pull-out of Afghanistan: Biden ordered it in April (remember when Trump ordered everyone out by May 1?), and yet, this past week as U.S. forces pulled out they did so hastily, chaotically, and without rhyme or reason after having months to prepare, leaving behind thousands of Americans in the process.
Think of it: As of this writing, there are thousands of American citizens trapped in Afghanistan — after we’ve been there for two decades and after having had months to plan our withdrawal.
The very first duty of a president is to serve and take care of Americans; he has utterly failed in that responsibility, that much we know. But it gets worse.
This week, as pandemonium swept across Afghanistan with the advance of Taliban forces, Biden wasn’t worried about that situation. No.
He was far more concerned with forcing state-managed local school districts to force children to mask up as they head back to classrooms this fall — because he claims to ‘care’ about school children.
Let’s be frank about this: It’s not that Biden ‘cares’ so much about public school kids. It’s that his left-wing Marxist handlers hate it when a Republican governor or leader pushes back on their authoritarianism because they think they are entitled to ‘rule’ over America rather than govern with our consent.
Fortunately, some of those same governors — like Florida’s Ron DeSantis — aren’t having it. He’s calling Biden out for his abject hypocrisy.
“You have all the stuff going on with Afghanistan – obviously all the stuff at the southern border … one of the biggest border disasters in the history of our country, inflation, gas prices, and what does he do?” DeSantis said this week on Fox News‘s “Hannity.”
“He is obsessed with having the government force kindergartners to wear masks all day in school,” DeSantis added. “In Florida, we believe that that’s the parents’ decision. Joe Biden thinks the federal government should come in and overrule the parents and force these young kids to wear these masks.”
Biden isn’t in charge, we know that. We also know those people running his administration don’t really care about saving American lives.
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BY LANCE D. JOHNSON
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(Natural News) US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is on a mission to eradicate quality information about health that could help people make an informed choice about their healthcare. Murthy is participating in a wider criminal conspiracy to deprive the public of important, life-saving medical information surrounding the issue of vaccination and natural immunity. Murthy believes that the government should appropriate “credible sources” and establish an official Ministry of Truth while using the “mainstream media” to punish free speech on vaccines and other issues related to COVID. Murthy is a firm believer in establishing official channels of authoritative vaccine propaganda while eliminating any information on vaccine injury and the faults of vaccine science.
The US Surgeon General is nothing but a vaccine-pimping propagandist, who leverages the power of the federal government to censor Americans who have been injured by vaccines. He wants to eliminate the pages, channels, videos and posts of prominent scientists and doctors who speak out about the ineffectiveness and in-humaneness of the current medical experiments and population control tactics. Murthy’s office is admittedly working with social media companies to suppress what they call “medical misinformation.” He says Americans have “no right” to spread “disinformation.” Anything the current regime doesn’t like will be removed from social media using sophisticated algorithms that target the information before it has a chance to spread online. Any information that doesn’t cater to vaccine-worship and doesn’t maximize obedience to the vaccine industry will be labeled “false” “misleading” or “dangerous.”
This purge of quality information would include the censorship of Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA vaccines himself. Malone gave up his chance for a Nobel Prize and is currently being threatened with assassination for speaking out about the problems with the vaccine technology he invented.
This purge would certainly include former US Navy surgeon Dr. Lee Merritt, who is now warning of the widespread continuance of vaccine injury that is now a direct threat to active-duty soldiers, who are currently being told it’s “mandatory” to take covid vaccines.
Undoubtedly, the Surgeon General would also censor Dr. Harvey Risch from the Yale School of Medicine, who called out the CDC for committing large-scale medical fraud and hiding covid cases among the vaccinated.
Taking their breach of the First Amendment a step further, the Surgeon General told CNN that media outlets should work with the federal government to stop people from speaking out about their choices regarding COVID. The federal government wants to turn all journalism into an official Ministry of Propaganda, to suppress the failures of their deadly population control experiments. This is the greatest violation of Americans’ First Amendment rights in the history of the United States. The federal government is abridging the freedom of speech and the press and is basically establishing a national vaccine-worshiping religion that every individual must obey and follow.
The Biden regime is not only abridging the freedom of the press by working with Big Tech to silence independent journalists, but they are also hijacking the mainstream media channels and conscripting “journalists” to promote their vaccine-worshiping religion and gag anyone who speaks out against it. These same forces of censorship continue to tell the public that COVID “doesn’t have to be a partisan issue.” Murthy even presented his authoritarian suppression of information and control over the media as “journalists doing the right things.” As important conversations are labeled “misinformation” Murthy promises that the federal government is only interested in “getting accurate information out to the public.” While these diabolical forces smile in front of the camera’s eye, pretending to be the nice guy, they are busy working behind the scenes to violate every human right that Americans once held dear.
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BY LUIS MIGUEL
SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/trump-gets-briefly-booed-by-supporters-after-pushing-covid-vaccine/;
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Medical freedom has become a force to reckon with, so much so that even Trump’s popularity won’t get many conservatives to hop aboard the vaccine bandwagon.
Speaking at a rally in Cullman, Alabama, on Saturday night, President Trump was briefly booed when he encouraged those listening to his speech to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I believe totally in your freedoms, I do, you gotta do what you gotta do, but I recommend take the vaccines. I did it. It’s good,” Trump said, provoking pushback from his supporters.
“That’s OK, that’s all right,” he added. “But I happen to take the vaccine. If it doesn’t work, you’ll be the first to know. But it is working. You do have your freedoms, you have to maintain that.”
The push for all Americans to get vaccinated may accelerate now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the Pfizer shot.
“Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine,” the agency wrote in a statement. “The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.
“The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals.”
The mainstream media has made significant efforts to convince Americans that they must get vaccinated, publishing a stream COVID-19 tragedies that always end with the infirm or dying regretting not having received the vaccine.
What the mainstream media does not report on, however, is the evidence of COVID vaccine-related injuries and deaths.
In June, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) held a press conference in which many, including former Green Bay Packer offensive lineman Ken Ruettgers and his wife, Cheryl, discussed adverse reactions to the vaccine.
As The New American previously reported:
“On January 14th I received the Moderna vaccine. The next morning I woke up with severely swollen lymph nodes in my neck,” Ruettgers said. “Three days later I woke up in the middle of the night with stroke-like symptoms.… My face and scalp were tingling, numb and burning with pain and my left arm and legs were also weak and numb.”
… Participants of the press conference described shooting pains, partial paralysis, and general numbness from the vaccines.
… Stephanie de Garay’s 12-year-old daughter, Maddie, participated in clinical trials for the Pfizer vaccine offering last year and has struggled with health problems ever since.
“For the past five months, Maddie has been to the ER nine times … has been hospitalized three times, for a total of two months in the hospital. She was totally fine before this, she did the right thing trying to help everybody else and they’re not helping her,” said de Garay.
Throughout the world, vaccination is becoming a required status to engage in society. In some countries, proof of COVID-19 vaccination status is a requisite to enter most public places. In Australia, 24,000 children will be vaccinated without their parents’ consent at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. Australia is requiring that they get the shot to enter school.
Brad Hazzard, the minister for health and medical research in New South Wales, Australia, stated that parents will not be allowed inside the arena while the shots are taking place. Directing his remarks toward children, he said:
Make sure [your parents] stay outside the arena because we don’t want too many people obviously milling around inside the arena. Make some arrangements for — after you’ve got your access to that golden opportunity of the vaccination — to wait outside for you.
Americans are pushing back against the overreach and raising awareness about the dangers that forced vaccinations pose to a free people. The medical freedom movement that opposes sacrificing individual liberties in the name of “the public good” is now sufficiently strong as to voice disagreement with the most popular Republican in decades.
BY VERONIKA KYRYLENKO
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Mississippians who get infected with COVID-19 must self-isolate at home as soon as they become aware of their illness, or face fines and/or imprisonment, the state’s health officer ordered on Friday.
In his isolation order, Mississippi State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs said that people are expected to remain home for 10 days after becoming ill or testing positive for COVID-19, regardless of whether they are fully vaccinated or whether they experience any symptoms.
The order reads:
All persons, including fully vaccinated individuals, infected with COVID-19 must remain in the home or other appropriate residential location for 10 days from onset of illness (or 10 days from the date of a positive test for those who are asymptomatic).
The order added that quarantined people would not have to show a negative COVID-19 test to end isolation at the end of 10 days, but do need to be fever-free for at least 24 hours “with an improvement of other symptoms.” The rule is also to be applied to all K-12 school students and staff who would be prohibited from entering school premises.
The order states that refusal to comply would be viewed as a misdemeanor “at minimum,” punishable by a fine of $500 or imprisonment for six months, or both. However, the order provides that “if a life-threatening disease is involved,” failure or refusal to obey the rule would be considered a felony, punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up to five years, or both.
While isolating, people must limit household contacts, and ideally stay away from others in a separate room, having no guests and wearing a facemask when outside of the room.
The order includes a link to the CDC guidance on preventing transmission at home. Among other provisions, the CDC recommends wearing masks to everyone who is older than two, not just around other cohabitants, but also around pets, not sharing personal items such as dishes, and wearing disposable gloves.
State Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers warned Mississippi has the highest number of new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents in the nation and stood at 843 cases per 100,000 in the last seven days.
Neither of Mississippi’s top health officials mentioned any scientific evidence supporting the measures provided in the order, such as the number of cases of asymptomatic transmission, which may be as low as zero, according to one of the largest studies conducted on the issue. Given that up to 45 percent of people who contracted COVID-19 experience no symptoms at all, a large portion of them would be cut off from their regular routine for no reason.
Then, the order raises questions on facemasks’ effectiveness. For example, it is unclear why infected people can’t leave home and participate in everyday life if they wear masks, which have been touted as one of the most effective measures of preventing the COVID-19 transition. The CDC recommends everyone to wear a mask in most indoor settings “even if you do not feel sick,” citing “several studies” that have found that people with COVID-19 who never develop symptoms and those who are not yet showing symptoms (pre-symptomatic) can still spread the virus to others. “Wearing a mask helps protect those around you, in case you are infected but not showing symptoms,” it is noted. Logically, the rule would apply to the known positive cases, but it does not.
The order does not mention the high degree of inaccuracy of COVID-19 tests, and the high number of “false positives,” brilliantly explained by New York Times science reporter Apoorva Mandavilli. Per her report, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carry barely any virus to transmit it to others, and, therefore, had no need to be isolated. In fact, the COVID-19 tests are so unreliable, the Food and Drug Administration quietly recalled thousands of them in late July, applying a so-called Class I recall, meaning the use of “these devices may cause serious injuries or death.”
The isolation order comes with the rollout of COVID-19 mandates in the state. Just recently, Mississippi’s only academic medical center, the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has amended its vaccination policy to make COVID-19 inoculation a condition of employment. “COVID-19 in Mississippi is a raging wildfire but not everyone is helping throw water on the flames in their own backyard,” the announcement says while adding it is crucial “to unite to combat a common enemy — the most vicious pandemic any of us have ever experienced.”
On August 12, Governor Tate Reeves expanded Mississippi’s state of emergency for 30 more days in order to ease the process of procuring additional resources, to allow the healthcare system to continue to transfer patients to hospitals where treatment is available, to ensure expanded access to telemedicine, and to keep options open for use of the Mississippi National Guard, per local media.