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Rush Limbaugh: Hundreds dead today ‘due to Biden’s mishandling of virus’

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Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh’s website on Thursday featured the headline “Hundreds dead so far from COVID-19 today due to President Biden’s mishandling of the virus.”

“Isn’t that the way we report this stuff?” he told his national audience. “I mean, that’s how they reported it with President Trump. Except they were a little bit more critical than I was. I mean, they had thousands of people dying every day because of Trump. I reduce my number to 100. Over 100 people have died so far from COVID-19 due to President Biden’s mishandling of the virus.”

Limbaugh said the “Drive-By Media” will report that Biden inherited a “horrible coronavirus response” from Trump.

“This is what happens. You know, Obama takes office in 2009, and it takes, what, two weeks, and we are treated to the news, ‘My God. The Bush economy was even worse than we thought. They left us a bigger mess than we thought.’ Remember that? Don’t deny it, folks. That’s exactly how it ends up being reported. So Biden will be said to have inherited a bad coronavirus vaccine rollout, response, whatever. Just like Obama.’Oh, my goodness. They didn’t even tell us. It was worse than we thought.’ Which was used to justify your taxes going up.”

He cited similar claims from Bill Clinton when he took office in 1993.

Limbaugh, mimicking Clinton’s voice, characterized the former president’s response as: “And you know what, the Bush people, they lied, they lied to us. And we found it out. The economy is so much worse than what they told us. I thought I was gonna be able to have a middle-class tax cut. You remember I said so during that campaign. But, nah, can’t do it. I tried. I spent so much time working on it, but I can’t, gotta raise taxes.”

Limbaugh said Trump inherited a nation in decline from Barack Obama.

“What did he do? He didn’t complain. He didn’t call a press conference in the Oval Office. He didn’t say, ‘They lied to me.’ He just worked himself to the bone to fix it,” Limbaugh said of Trump. “And he did, to the point now that the New York Times and the Washington Post are suggesting that the Biden economic transition team had better do everything they can to rebuild the economy to what it was during Trump’s first three years.”

Establishment media have blamed Trump personally for the death toll of the Chinese virus.

Boston University social sciences professor Thomas Whalen charged Trump has “blood on his hands.”

“He knew this was a threat and really did not do what was necessary to respond to it in a thoughtful and resourceful way,” Whalen said.

However, the outbreak turned into a global pandemic one year ago as the communist regime blocked access and spread false information with the help of the World Health Organization. Trump, in fact, restricted travel from China on Jan. 28, prompting then-candidate Joe Biden to call him xenophobic. Trump then created the White House Coronavirus Task Force, which worked with the public sector to provide personal protective equipment and ventilators, and worked with the pharmaceutical industry produced vaccines five times faster than ever before.

The Associated Press this week reported “public health experts” are blaming Trump.

“What’s so troubling about this loss of life is it was preventable,” claimed Steven Woolf of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University. “This is an infectious disease we knew how to prevent.”

He claimed the federal government “did not mount a response to wage war against this virus.”

In fact, Trump recognized that the authority for public health policy resides mostly with the states. The death toll has been high in Democratic-run states such as New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo infamously ordered that nursing homes accept patients who were COVID-positive.

The AP also gave voice to John Swartzberg of the University of Califorina at Berkeley, who blamed a “bad administration.”

Biden, meanwhile, has stated he wants to administer 100 million doses of the vaccines developed through Trump’s Operation Warp Speed.

While the Trump administration delivered millions of vaccine doses to states, giving state officials the responsibility of distributing them, Biden’s plan, the report said, is “to have a far more active and engaged role.”

The AP characterized the combined efforts of the Trump administration, the health community and states as “a monumental wreckage.”

The wire service said it took less than a year for the coronavirus to kill more than 400,000 Americans, while “it took almost four years for that many U.S. service members to perish in World War II.”

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Biden’s America: One nation, or us vs. them?

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“We have met the enemy and he is us,” said Walt Kelly’s cartoon character Pogo, half a century ago, about what we Americans were doing to our environment.

Rereading President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, Pogo’s remark comes to mind.

Biden began on a lofty, hopeful and familiar note:

“This is a great nation. We are a good people.”

He ended in the same vein: “So, with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith. Driven by conviction. And, devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts.”

Within the address itself, however, Biden recited what he believes to be the historic crimes of the nation and the sins of the soul that torment a considerable portion of our population.

Among the afflictions from which America suffers, said Biden, are “political extremism, white supremacy” and “domestic terrorism.”

How do we overcome these evils?

Said Biden, “Unity is the path.”

But how can good Americans unite with white supremacists and domestic terrorists? Ought we not separate ourselves and do battle with them? And who exactly are they?

Surely, among the enemy is the mob that invaded and trashed the Capitol on Jan. 6. But what of the hundreds of thousands who came out for Trump rallies? What of the 75 million who voted for Donald Trump?

Are all the deplorables outside the company of the saved? Are they, as Hillary Clinton once said of them, “irredeemable”?

“Today, we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause,” said Biden, “the cause of democracy.”

The clear implication here is that a victory for Trump on Nov. 3, would have been a defeat for democracy. How unifying is that?

“Today, on this January day,” said Biden, “my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation. I ask every American to join me in this cause.”

He then enumerated the characteristics of our enemy: “Anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, violence and lawlessness.”

Yet, on inauguration night, Antifa mobs attacked the Democratic Party headquarters in Portland and torched American flags in Seattle, the same kind of left-wing mobs that gave us a long hot summer of rioting, looting and arson after the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd.

Has Biden ever condemned by name these mobs the way he did the mob that invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6?

Biden went on to describe U.S. history as he sees it, as a long Manichaean struggle for the soul of America.

“The forces that divide us are deep and they are real. … Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the other harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear and demonization have long torn us apart.”

But if our history has been an endless struggle against racism, nativism and demagoguery, and today’s struggle is against rampant anger, resentment, hatred, extremism, violence and lawlessness, as well as “white supremacists and domestic terrorists,” how can we credibly call ourselves a “great nation” and “good people”?

While Biden identifies the demonic character of the enemy, he does not name them. Who are they? How can we defeat them if the president will not identify them? And if they are evil and we are good, then why should we unite with them rather than ostracize and crush them?

In Joe’s depiction: “We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace only bitterness and fury.”

But is “fury” not a legitimate attribute of those fighting the hateful enemies Biden describes?

“Today in this time and place, let’s start afresh. All of us. Let’s begin to listen to one another again. Hear one another. See one another. Show respect for one another.”

This call to unity is followed by another call, to “reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.”

After this, Biden went off on a tear against mendacity.

“Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit.”

All our leaders have a duty and responsibility “to defend the truth and defeat the lies.”

But who are the liars? And if we are to do battle against the liars, why did Biden declare a minute later: “We must end this uncivil war.”

It was said of Warren Harding’s inaugural address that it was “an army of pompous phrases marching across the landscape in search of an idea.”

Joe Biden’s inaugural was the most confusing, contradictory and incoherent ever delivered from the steps of the Capitol, reflective of the mind of its author and the state of the Union he now leads.

Good luck, Mr. President. You will need it, and so will we.

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Now WHO admits ‘gold standard’ COVID test is unreliable

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The World Health Organization has officially acknowledged that the “gold standard” test used to diagnose COVID-19 has a high rate of false-positives that make it unreliable.

In an advisory to lab workers issued Jan. 13, the WHO recommends a second test to confirm any diagnosis for people who aren’t showing any symptoms of the disease.

“Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken,” the guidance says.

The WHO warns that most PCR tests “are indicated as an aid for diagnosis,” meaning health care providers should consider at least seven other factors to confirm any test.

Health care providers, the guidance says, “must consider any result in combination with timing of sampling, specimen type, [test] specifics, clinical observations, patient history, confirmed status of any contacts, and epidemiological information.”

A study released last April by reseachers from Cornell University and the University of Hawaii found the “evidence shows that false positive PCR results are common enough to impact clinical and policy decisions.”

It noted that in each of the major epidemics prior to COVID-19 since 2000, the WHO and the Centers for Disease Control were concerned about the high rates of false-positives from PCR tests and issued guidelines to minimize the problem.

In August, the New York Times examined PCR testing data in three states and found “up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus” and, therefore, were not infectious.

Experts who spoke to the Times said they couldn’t understand why such cases were classified as infections.

“Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus,” the Times said.

White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci – who President Joe Biden says will have a more prominent role in his administration – has admitted PCR tests pick up harmless fragments of the coronarvirus that produce many false-positive cases that result in overstating the threat, WND reported in December.

The issue with PCR tests – short for polymerase chain reaction – is the “cycle threshold” at which they operate. The test multiplies a virus fragment over a series of cycles until it can reliably detect the virus within a sample. The more cycles needed to detect the virus, the smaller and weaker the original sample was.

That means detecting a virus in a person after a high number of cycles, resulting in a “positive case,” is relatively meaningless, because the person won’t get sick and is not infectious.

Fauci acknowledged in a July podcast interview that resurfaced in December that at 35 cycles or higher, the chances of the test being accurate are “minuscule.”

“It’s very frustrating for the patients as well as for the physicians,” he said, when “somebody comes in, and they repeat their PCR, and it’s like [a] 37 cycle threshold, but you almost never can culture virus from a 37 threshold cycle.”

“So, I think if somebody does come in with 37, 38, even 36, you got to say, you know, it’s just dead nucleotides, period,” said Fauci, the top White House coronavirus adviser.

He pointed out that patients usually are not told their cycle threshold after testing positive.

See Fauci’s remarks about PCR tests in the video podcast:

Researchers demand retraction of major pro-PCR test study

WND reported earlier in December an external peer review concluded a major paper supporting the PCR test for COVID-19 had 10 “serious flaws,” resulting in many false positive cases.

The critics wrote in their peer review: “We are confronted with stringent lockdowns which have destroyed many people’s lives and livelihoods, limited access to education and these imposed restrictions by governments around the world are a direct attack on people’s basic rights and their personal freedoms, resulting in collateral damage for entire economies on a global scale.”

A briefing published by four British scientists concluded PCR testing is “distorting policy and creating the illusion that we are in a serious pandemic when in fact we are not.”

“A false positive pseudo-epidemic is a well described phenomenon in the medical literature which results in an exponential rise in diagnosed cases and deaths but no excess deaths,” the researchers wrote.

Nevertheless, high-threshold tests are widely used.

The Alaska Department of Health and Human Services said in an informational document that most of its PCR tests utilize cycle thresholds of 37.

In Florida, the Department of Health under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an order in December requiring all labs to report cycle thresholds.

Doctor: Lockdowns based on ‘faulty testing’

A physician from Omaha, Nebraska, testified to the Papillion, Nebraska, City Council on Dec. 1 that “we’re basing all of these lockdowns, these restrictions, these mandates, on faulty testing.”

“In other words, we don’t have a pandemic of people falling over dead,” he said. “What we have is a pandemic of false positives.”

He explained that the PCR test was not meant to be diagnostic.

“Anyone can test positive for practically anything with a PCR test,” he said. “If you run it long enough … you can find almost anything in anybody. It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick.”

Study: No asymptomatic transmission

The Infectious Diseases Society of America’s most updated guidance recommends that only people with symptoms get tested for influenza.

Sweden has based its policy of not imposing lockdowns, masks and universal testing on its belief that asymptomatic spread “accounts for a small proportion” of COVID-19 cases.

WND reported in December a study published by the peer-reviewed journal Nature found no transmission of the coronavirus among people in close contact with asymptomatic patients.

The study in Wuhan, China, identified 300 asymptomatic coronavirus cases and followed 1,174 of their close contacts. None of the contacts tested positive for COVID-19.

“Compared with symptomatic patients,” the researchers said, “asymptomatic infected persons generally have low quantity of viral loads and a short duration of viral shedding, which decrease the transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2.”

Being asymptomatic is not the same as being presymptomatic. An asymptomatic carrier is infected with the virus but never displays symptoms. Presymptomatic describes a phase in which a person has yet to show symptoms and can transmit the virus.

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EU president: ‘Unbridled power held’ by Big Tech CEOs must be ‘reined in’

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(ZEROHEDGE) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen informed President-elect Joe Biden ahead of today’s inauguration that Silicon Valley CEOs have no authority to decide on laws and rules, according to RT News.

Von der Leyen said in a speech on Wednesday to the European Parliament that the incoming Biden administration must begin to regulate big tech companies. “This political power, unbridled power held by the big internet giants must be reined in,” she said.

European lawmakers are in the process of formulating new digital privacy and antitrust regulation that would have severe implications for Apple, Google, and Facebook.

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Biden fires NLRB lawyer ‘to pay back union bosses’

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By Thomas Catenacci
Daily Caller News Foundation

President Joe Biden took the unprecedented step of firing National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Peter Robb after he refused to resign Wednesday.

President Joe Biden reportedly asked National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter Robb to resign by 5 p.m. Wednesday, just hours after the president was sworn into office, according to Bloomberg Law. Robb then sent a scathing letter to White House Director of Personnel Cathy Russell refusing to submit a letter of resignation before he was fired Wednesday night.

“The removal of an incumbent General Counsel of the NLRB prior to the expiration of the term by a President of the United States is unprecedented since the nascence of the National Labor Relation Act (NLRA) and the NLRB,” Robb wrote, according to the letter obtained by Bloomberg Law.

Robb added that a key component of the 1947 NLRA was to create an “independent” general counsel. The NLRB general counsel is appointed by the president, serves four-year terms and is responsible for investigating and prosecuting unfair labor practices.

“The removal of a General Counsel would set an unfortunate precedent for the labor relations of this country,” Robb said.

Historically, NLRB general counsels have served out their entire terms, even as new administrations have taken office, and haven’t been fired, according to the National Right to Work Foundation. Former President Barack Obama’s NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin served out his entire term after Donald Trump took office.

“This unprecedented move to oust NLRB General Counsel Robb before the end of his Senate-confirmed four-year term is the very opposite of a return to ‘normal’ and a disturbing sign of just how far the Biden-Harris Administration is willing to go to pay back the union bosses that helped put Biden in the White House,” National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix said in a statement.

Mix said that labor unions applauded Biden’s firing of Robb because he has supported rank-and-file workers’ rights over Big Labor interests. Robb ruled in favor of workers who didn’t want their union dues going toward political contributions and supported rules that made it easier for workers to vote unions out of their workplace.

“In his first hours in office, President Joe Biden has taken immediate action to secure the rights and protect the well-being of America’s working families by removing Peter Robb as NLRB general counsel,” American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) President Richard Trumka said in a statement Wednesday.

“A union-busting lawyer by trade, Robb mounted an unrelenting attack for more than three years on workers’ right to organize and engage in collective bargaining,” he continued.

The AFL-CIO is a federation of 55 labor unions representing 12.5 million workers.

This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Mississippi bill makes it murder to ’cause an abortion’

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By Mary Margaret Olohan
Daily Caller News Foundation

Abortion would be classified as murder under a new Mississippi bill introduced into the state’s legislature.

Republican Mississippi state Rep. Dan Eubanks’s bill would make it a felony for anyone who “willfully” cause an abortion.

“Any person who performs or induces any abortion shall be guilty of murder,” the representative’s legislation reads.

The legislation also proposes that “it shall be unlawful for any physician to perform an abortion or to perform an abortion that results in the delivery of a living child and to intentionally allow or cause the child to die” — language referencing situations in which a baby is delivered alive through a failed abortion and doctors choose not to administer care.

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam was criticized when he described such an instance, saying, “The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

The bill also proposes increasing penalties for anyone who “advertises for medicine or tools that can be used in an unlawful abortion” as well as prohibits public funds from being used for abortion facilities.

Eubanks did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

His legislation is not the first radically pro-life measure that Mississippi has passed: Republican Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill banning abortions after 15 weeks in 2018.

A federal appeals court would rule that this ban was unconstitutional.

Women who wish to obtain abortions in Mississippi must first receive state-directed in-person counseling, wait 24 hours, and obtain an ultrasound of the unborn baby, according to the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute. The doctor must offer the patient the option to see the ultrasound.

A minor’s parents must consent before she obtains an abortion, and the state does not allow abortion drugs to be administered through telemedicine, according to Guttmacher.

Abortions may be performed after 18 weeks only if the mother’s life is in danger or in case of “lethal fetal anomaly,” Guttmacher noted, and abortions performed based on race, sex selection, or genetic anomaly are prohibited.

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