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—  THE FOURTH WAVE — DELTA WARNING  —  

It is time for some hard lines as we are facing another national crisis caused by a virus with no political beliefs, no religious beliefs, authored stupid commentary, social media distortions,  party affiliations and it thrives on ignorance and stupidity.  

Supported by lies and false news, theories , social media clowns, conspiratorialists, mostly (99%) Reptilians are killing Americans.  The old GOP Republicans Grey heads doing nothing but obstruct.  Those who have not been vaccinated are not only a threat to themselves but their loved ones.

Freedom of speech is one thing but conspiracies and mis-informants have to be dealt with humanly but severely. New manila rope not some old stuff. 

—  PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE  —  

The Lying Doctor Quack

The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online  —  Joseph Mercola 

Researchers and regulators say Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician, creates and profits from misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines.  Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician in Cape Coral, Fla., is a key figure in the “Disinformation Dozen” spreading anti-vaccine messaging, researchers said.

The article that appeared online on Feb. 9 began with a seemingly innocuous question about the legal definition of vaccines. Then over its next 3,400 words, it declared coronavirus vaccines were “a medical fraud” and said the injections did not prevent infections, provide immunity or stop transmission of the disease.

Instead, the article claimed, the shots “alter your genetic coding, turning you into a viral protein factory that has no off-switch.”  Its assertions were easily disprovable. No matter. Over the next few hours, the article was translated from English into Spanish and Polish. It appeared on dozens of blogs and was picked up by anti-vaccination activists, who repeated the false claims online. The article also made its way to Facebook, where it reached 400,000 people, according to data from CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned tool.

The entire effort traced back to one person: Joseph Mercola.  Dr. Mercola, 67, an osteopathic physician in Cape Coral, Fla., has long been a subject of criticism and government regulatory actionsfor his promotion of unproven or unapproved treatments. But most recently, he has become the chief spreader of coronavirus misinformation online, according to researchers.

A Track Record Of Lies and Mis-Information —  An internet-savvy entrepreneur who employs dozens, Dr. Mercola has published over 600 articles on Facebook that cast doubt on Covid-19 vaccines since the pandemic began, reaching a far larger audience than other vaccine skeptics, an analysis by The New York Times found. His claims have been widely echoed on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

The activity has earned Dr. Mercola, a natural health proponent with an Everyman demeanor, the dubious distinction of the top spot in the “Disinformation Dozen,” a list of 12 people responsible for sharing 65 percent of all anti-vaccine messaging on social media, said the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate. Others on the list include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, and Erin Elizabeth, the founder of the website Health Nut News, who is also Dr. Mercola’s girlfriend.

“Mercola is the pioneer of the anti-vaccine movement,” said Kolina Koltai, a researcher at the University of Washington who studies online conspiracy theories. “He’s a master of capitalizing on periods of uncertainty, like the pandemic, to grow his movement.”

Some high-profile media figures have promoted skepticism of the vaccines, notably Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham of Fox News, though other Fox personalities have urged viewers to get the shots. Now, Dr. Mercola and others in the “Disinformation Dozen” are in the spotlight as vaccinations in the United States slow, just as the highly infectious Delta variant has fueled a resurgence in coronavirus cases.  More than 97 percent of people hospitalized for Covid-19 are unvaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

LET US LOOK TO THE RUSSIANS FOR AN ANSWER  —  When you push lies against the common good and cause many to suffer I propose the “ Stalin - Putin method of treating someone who perpetrates anti-or negative incorrect thinking”.   It’s simple saves time and money and totally eliminates a problem,  It actually accomplishes three goals with limited  constraint on the truth or process, and eliminates all confusion by simply blowing the idiots head off with a full burst from an AK47 --

ADVANTAGE  1—   YOU SHOOT THE PERSON MAKING CLAIMS - NO MORE PROBLEMS FROM THIS PERSON ADVANTAGE  2—   YOU NOW DO NOT HAVE THE PROBLEM TO WORRY ABOUT,  WORRY ABOUT OTHER THINGS
ADVANTAGE   3—  OTHERS SEEING THIS SOLUTION WILL NOT FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS

👹  Online Falsehoods and Scams  —  President Biden has blamed online falsehoods for causing people to refrain from getting the injections. But even as Mr. Biden has urged social media companies to “ do something about the misinformation,” Dr. Mercola shows the difficulty of that task.

👹  Over the last decade, Dr. Mercola has built a vast operation to push natural health cures, disseminate anti-vaccination content and profit from all of it, said researchers who have studied his network. In 2017, he filed an affidavit claiming his net worth was “in excess of $100 million.”

👹  And rather than directly stating online that vaccines don’t work, Dr. Mercola’s posts often ask pointed questions about their safety and discuss studies that other doctors have refuted. Facebook and Twitter have allowed some of his posts to remain up with caution labels, and the companies have struggled to create rules to pull down posts that have nuance.

👹  “He has been given new life by social media, which he exploits skillfully and ruthlessly to bring people into his thrall,” said Imran Ahmed, director of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which studies misinformation and hate speech. Its “Disinformation Dozen” report has been cited in congressional hearings and by the White House.

👹  In an email, Dr. Mercola said it was “quite peculiar to me that I am named as the #1 superspreader of misinformation.” Some of his Facebook posts were only liked by hundreds of people, he said, so he didn’t understand “how the relatively small number of shares could possibly cause such calamity to Biden’s multibillion dollar vaccination campaign.”   The efforts against him are political, Dr. Mercola added, and he accused the White House of “ illegal censorship by colluding with social media companies.”

👹  He did not address whether his coronavirus claims were factual. “I am the lead author of a peer reviewed publication regarding vitamin D and the risk of Covid-19 and I have every right to inform the public by sharing my medical research,” he said. The Times was unable to verify the claims in the study, which was published by Nutrients, a monthly journal from Molecular Diversity Preservation International, a nonprofit in Basel, Switzerland.

👹  A native of Chicago, Dr. Mercola started a small private practicein 1985 in Schaumburg, Ill. In the 1990s, he began shifting to natural health medicine and opened his main website, Mercola.com, to share his treatments, cures and advice. The site urges people to “take control of your health.”

👹  In 2003, he published a book, “The No-Grain Diet,” which became a New York Times best seller. He has since published books almost yearly. In 2015, he moved to Florida.

As his popularity grew, Dr. Mercola began a cycle. It starts with making unproven and sometimes far-fetched health claims, such as that spring mattresses amplify harmful radiation, and then selling products online — from vitamin supplements to organic yogurt — that he promotes as alternative treatments.

👹  To buttress the operation, he set up companies like Mercola.com Health Resources and Mercola Consulting Services. These entities have offices in Florida and the Philippines with teams of employees. Using this infrastructure, Dr. Mercola has seized on news moments to rapidly publish blog posts, newsletters and videos in nearly a dozen languages to a network of websites and social media.

👹  His audience is substantial. Dr. Mercola’s official English-language Facebook page has over 1.7 million followers, while his Spanish-language page has 1 million followers. The Times also found 17 other Facebook pages that appeared to be run by him or were closely connected to his businesses. On Twitter, he has nearly 300,000 followers, plus nearly 400,000 on YouTube.

👹  Dr. Mercola has a keen understanding of what makes something go viral online, said two former employees, who declined to be identified because they had signed nondisclosure agreements. He routinely does A/B testing, they said, in which many versions of the same content are published to see what spreads fastest online.

👹  Facebook said it has labeled many of Dr. Mercola’s posts as false, banned advertising on his main page and removed some of his pages after they violated its policies. Twitter said it has also taken down some of Dr. Mercola’s posts and labeled others. YouTube said Dr. Mercola was not part of a program from which he can make money from ads on his videos.

👹  In 2012, Dr. Mercola began writing about the virtues of tanning beds. He argued that they reduced the chances of getting cancer, while also selling tanning beds with names like Vitality and D-lite for $1,200 to $4,000 each. Many of the articles were based on discredited studies.

👹  The Federal Trade Commission brought false-advertising claims against Dr. Mercola in 2017 based on the health claims about tanning beds. He settled and sent $2.95 million in refunds to customers who bought the tanning beds.

Food And Drug Administration  —  The Food and Drug Administration has also issued warning letters to Dr. Mercola for selling unapproved health products in 2005, 2006 and 2011.

👹  Many of Dr. Mercola’s claims have been amplified by other vaccine skeptics, including Ms. Elizabeth. She worked for Mercola.com from 2009 to 2011, according to her LinkedIn page.  But while Ms. Elizabeth and others are overtly anti-vaccine, Dr. Mercola has appeared more approachable because he takes less radical positions than his peers, Ms. Koltai said. “He takes away from the idea that an anti-vaccination activist is a fringe person,” she said.

👹  In an email, Ms. Elizabeth said she was “shocked to have been targeted as one of the 12” in the “Disinformation Dozen” and called it a “witch hunt.”    When the coronavirus hit last year, Dr. Mercola jumped on the news, with posts questioning the origins of the disease. In December, he used a study that examined mask-wearing by doctors to argue that masks did not stop the spread of the virus. 

👹  He also began promoting vitamin supplements as a way to ward off the coronavirus. In a warning letter on Feb. 18, the F.D.A. said Dr. Mercola had “misleadingly represented” what were “unapproved and misbranded products” on Mercola.com as established Covid-19 treatments.

👹  In May, Dr. Mercola took down many of his own Facebook posts to evade the social network’s crackdown on anti-vaccine content.  Facebook also recently removed his Feb. 9 article.  

👹  But Dr. Mercola has continued to raise vaccine questions. In a Facebook post on Friday, he used another study to mull how useful the Pfizer vaccine was against Covid-19 variants. One headline in the post said the vaccine was only 39 percent effective, but it did not cite another statistic from the study that said the vaccine was 91 percent effective against serious illness.  “Is this possible? We were told 95 percent effectiveness,” he wrote.

MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE ORIGIONAL 

👺  Delta is more contagious than the other virus strains  —  Delta is the name for the B.1.617.2. variant, a SARS-CoV-2 mutation that originally surfaced in India. The World Health Organization (WHO) has called this version of the virus “the fastest and fittest.” In mid-June, the CDC labeled Delta as “a variant of concern,” using a designation also given to the Alpha strain that first appeared in Great Britain, the Beta strain that first surfaced in South Africa, the two Epsilon variants first diagnosed in the U.S., and the Gamma strain identified in Brazil. 
“It’s actually quite dramatic how the growth rate will change,” says Dr. Wilson. Delta is spreading 50% faster than Alpha, which was 50% more contagious than the original strain of SARS-CoV-2, he says. “In a completely unmitigated environment—where no one is vaccinated or wearing masks—it’s estimated that the average person infected with the original coronavirus strain will infect 2.5 other people,” Dr. Wilson says. “In the same environment, Delta would spread from one person to maybe 3.5 or 4 other people.”

👺  Unvaccinated And Young People Are at risk  —   People who have not been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are most at risk.  In the US, there is a disproportionate number of unvaccinated people in Southern and Appalachian states including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, and West Virginia, where vaccination rates are low  and Kids and young people are a concern as well.  These are Republican strongholds.   “A recent study from the United Kingdom showed that children and adults under 50 were 2.5 times more likely to become infected with Delta.  “But Delta seems to be impacting younger age groups more than previous variants.”

👺  Delta could lead to 'hyperlocal outbreaks’  —  If Delta continues to move fast enough to accelerate the pandemic, Dr. Wilson says the biggest questions will be about transmissibility—how many people will get the Delta variant and how fast will it spread?
The answers could depend, in part, on where you live—and how many people in your location are vaccinated, he says. “I call it ‘patchwork vaccination,’ where you have these pockets that are highly vaccinated that are adjacent to places that have 20 percent vaccination,” Dr. Wilson says. “The problem is that this allows the virus to hop, skip, and jump from one poorly vaccinated area to another.”
In some cases, a low-vaccination town that is surrounded by high vaccination areas could end up with the virus contained within its borders, and the result could be “hyperlocal outbreaks,” he says. “Then, the pandemic could look different than what we’ve seen before, where there are real hotspots around the country.”  

👺  There is still more to learn about Delta  —  One important question is whether the Delta strain will make you sicker than the original virus. “Based on hospitalizations tracked in Great Britain which has been about a month ahead of the US with Delta, the variant is probably more pathogenetic,”  a study from Scotland that showed the Delta variant was about twice as likely as Alpha to result in hospitalization in unvaccinated individuals (and vaccines reduced that risk significantly).

Another question focuses on how Delta affects the body. There have been reports of symptoms that are different than those associated with the original coronavirus strain, Dr Yildirim says. “It seems like cough and loss of smell are less common. And headache, sore throat, runny nose, and fever are present based on the most recent surveys in the U.K., where more than 90% of the cases are due to the Delta strain,” she says.
 It’s unclear whether Delta could cause more breakthrough cases—infections in people who have been vaccinated or have natural immunity from a prior COVID-19 infection, which so far have been rare in general. “Breakthrough is a big question,” Dr. Wilson says. “At least with immunity from the mRNA vaccines, it doesn’t look like it will be a problem.” A Public Health England analysis (in a preprint that has not yet been peer-reviewed) showed that at least two of the vaccines are effective against Delta. 

👺  Vaccination is the best protection against Delta  —  The most important thing you can do to protect yourself from Delta is to get fully vaccinated, the doctors say. That means if you get a two-dose vaccine like Pfizer or Moderna, for example, you must get both shots and then wait the recommended two-week period for those shots to take full effect.
 

👺  What is most concerning about the new variant of COVID-19 from South Africa —  A variant called B. 1.351, which first appeared in South Africa, may have the ability to re-infect people who have recovered from earlier versions of the coronavirus. It might also be somewhat resistant to some of the coronavirus vaccines in development.

My belief is when stupid, ignorant selfish goose stepping politicians gain office,  it took the stupid, ignorant, selfish, voters lacking education to elect them  —   And backing up the Gremky-Freebish theory of Cranial-Rectal Dyslexia —  that plagues (GOP) Reptilian Party Politicians, some of them are so dumb — We don’t know how they remember to breathe  — 

Our continuing offer to provide free Lobotomies for those who believe in these politicians  and their false narratives will continue unless one day they wake up and realize how frickin stupid they really are.

It raises the point:    Is Sh*t for Brains Dyslexia Contagious?  Science tells us 37%, basically the Republican Base seems to be suffering,  believing anything their politicians tell them,  we are shocked when statistics show that Ignorance is the most common disorder Republicans suffer from  —  

THE UNVACCINATED
Who are the Unvaccinated?  Young, less Educated, Republicans, People of Color, Uninsured

As of late May 2021, a majority of US adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine, with 62% of adults reporting having gotten at least one dose according to the KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor. There are still substantial shares of the adult population who have not received a vaccine and many do not plan on getting vaccinated. 

This analysis, drawing on data from the KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor, provides some insights into the demographics of the currently unvaccinated population as well as their views of vaccines generally and the pandemic more broadly.

Unvaccinated adults are a shrinking population in the US that, as of late May 2021, consists of about one-third of U.S. adults (37%). Adults in this group are those, who despite outreach efforts and being eligible for a vaccine for at least six weeks, have not received a COVID-19 vaccine. 

SIDEBAR:  Deny them full Hospital Coverage… It was their call, devote saving lives in hospitals to those who did the right thing.  Ignorance is not a disease, it’s just a self chosen way of life… by simpletons and you can die… 

The ignorant have cost our economy, our medical staff stretched to the limit, death and destruction of families and the carriers have denied those their health with obstruction…   I’m sorry but listening to morons and lies have jaded my thinking and it’s more important to save 63% and let the 37% go alone.

• Unvaccinated adults are significantly younger, with 29% of those in the group falling in the 18-29 year old range compared to 17% of those in the vaccinated group. In addition, a smaller share of unvaccinated adults are 65 and older (9%) than the vaccinated group (28%). This may reflect recent changes in access to vaccines with older populations being among the first groups eligible to be vaccinated in states. President Biden announced that 90% of adults would be eligible to get the vaccine by April 19 but there were still significant waiting times for many adults who had just gotten eligible. 
  
  
• Over the next few weeks we will better know whether these age differences are due to vaccine access or to actual different vaccine intentions among younger adults.  There are strong partisan differences in vaccine intentions with almost half (49%) of unvaccinated adults identifying as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents, compared to three in ten (31%) vaccinated adults. On the other hand, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents make up a majority of the vaccinated population (about six in ten), while about three in ten in the unvaccinated population identify as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents.
  
  
• Compared to vaccinated adults, smaller shares of White adults are unvaccinated, with no significant differences for Black and Hispanic adults on whether they have received at least one-dose so far, despite Black and Hispanic adults lagging in vaccination rates compared to Whites. Around two-thirds (64%) of vaccinated adults are White, compared to 56% of unvaccinated adults. With difficulty accessing vaccine locations and services disproportionately impacting the non-White population, current outreach continues to strive to bridge the gap.
  
  
• Americans with lower levels of education make up a larger share of the unvaccinated population than the vaccinated one, with 46% of unvaccinated adults holding a high school degree or less compared to 34% of vaccinated adults. Vaccinated Americans are twice as likely as unvaccinated to have a college degree or higher (38% vs. 19%).
  
  
• The unvaccinated group also tends to include disproportionate shares of adults without health insurance coverage as well as those with lower levels of income. Those under the age of 65 without insurance make up about one quarter of the unvaccinated population, and 42% of all unvaccinated adults report earning less than $40K a year.

Corrupt Beliefs Shared By Many Reptilians (Republicans)

• The South did not lose the war between the states it will win by gerrymandering and corrupt voting legislation...
• Donald T-RUMP won the election by a landslide, lost by a sh*t slide  —  
• All of T-RUMPS lies are real lies not truth, almost 30,243 to date from all four reporting services  
• The PillowCreep tells us  T-RUMP was sent us by God to solve our problems  —  More like a False Prophet  — 
• The Covid-19 is a Democratic Party Hoax  —  
• 99% of those with severe Delta COVID, with no vaccinations have died  — they claim thats false news  — 
• Those claiming Reptilians are dumber than rocks owe an apology to the rocks…Rocks keep their mouths shut and rarely get out of place...
• Reptilian politicians practice the NAZI Goose step very afternoon as they just do what they are told to do and betray the people who voted for them.  McConnell and McCarthy still calling the Cadence of Corruption  —    
• Going back to our origional theory you can’t elect a stupid moron as your representative unless you are just as stupid and a moron.  
• The Congressional attack on January 6th was a “ Love fest”  just “ Good Americans” exercising their right to free speech.  We need to get serious about rhetoric vs free speech and we need to go back to consequence for your actions.  In ancient Britain,  lies like they tell would result in their tongues being removed…  immoral acts would have resulted in removal of genitals  ( Matt Gaetz for example) 
• Any other country in the world would see these people hanged by now. The only rights I see for these lover fest sycophants would be a choice of rope,  either hemp or nylon.