Netanyahu Delays Evacuation of Sick, Wounded Children From Gaza to UAE After Golan Attack Israel had initially agreed to facilitate the medical evacuation of hundreds of sick and wounded children from Gaza for treatment in the UAE. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel called the decision it 'a...
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Stucky, Jul 30, 2024:
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Wars a setback to polio eradication programme: WHO
Margaret Harris, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization (WHO), says wars have eliminated past efforts made to eradicate polio.
“We were on the point of eliminating it,” Harris told Al Jazeera. “But with conflicts breaking out around the world, all that work, all those millions of dollars … have been wasted because we have just gone backwards,” Harris said.
Cases of polio have declined by 99 percent worldwide since 1988, thanks to mass vaccination campaigns, and efforts continue to eradicate it everywhere.
“Most of polio, 75 percent, may well be asymptomatic – it’s like many viruses. The problem is that if you are one of those getting a severe form you could be paralysed for life or you can die,” she said.
Her comments came as a polio outbreak has been declared inside the Gaza Strip where more than nine months of war have destroyed sewage and water systems. On Friday, the WHO said it was sending about a million vaccines to the Strip.
However, Harris said “we need a ceasefire” to get children vaccinated.
Polio epidemic declared in Gaza: What is polio? How does it spread?
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@A Freeman , Jul 30, 2024:
Another vaccine is simply another way to kill off those who aren't dead or dying already from the war (and vise-versa).
Eleanor McBean offers a historical perspective regarding the development, administration and regulation of vaccines.
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I understand everyone has seen these updates. It may not be the largest issue or point of contention to comment on but from yesterday I am completely sickened with the news of the first supposed polio case in 25 years... knowing the UN/WHO's constant role (of course with billionaire NGO's like the B&MGF) in poisoning Global South populations, in certain examples causing infertility and
spreading polio with their suspicious shots.
Gaza records first polio case as UN calls for truce to tackle virus
Again it's disgusting. Not that we ever would, but after the covid1984 operation no one should place trust in these fraudulent health dictators. Stupid globalist mother fuckers in the UN can't enforce a ceasefire after allowing 10 months of rampant lawless murder and torture, but supposedly they care so much to get experimental injections into the bloodstream of the children of Gaza? This agenda is disgusting I oppose it completely.
The real solution is to sanction the anti-human state of Israel, immediately draw in a coalition of UN/World military bodies to end the indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians. Then can we talk about public health measures- and only led by trusted leaders from the medical community.
"I am completely sickened with the news of the first supposed polio case in 25 years... knowing the UN/WHO's constant role (of course with billionaire NGO's like the B&MGF) in poisoning Global South populations, in certain examples causing infertility and spreading polio with their suspicious shots.
Gaza records first polio case as UN calls for truce to tackle virus
Again it's disgusting. Not that we ever would, but after the covid1984 operation no one should place trust in these fraudulent health dictators. Stupid globalist mother fuckers in the UN can't enforce a ceasefire after allowing 10 months of rampant lawless murder and torture, but supposedly they care so much to get experimental injections into the bloodstream of the children of Gaza? This agenda is disgusting I oppose it completely."
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Just a crumb of some of the sources used here, which are just a crumb of all the sources available on the Internet, which suport Gaza, called the "Israeli genocide" and call on the world population not only not to turn a blind eye and keep silent on the issue, but also to organize themselves with regular protest marches (in fact, some more solvent than these sources themselves, for example, Open Democracy, Open Society and other Soros organizations, but also many smaller ones, with undetermined income, openly organize protests in support of Gaza, where we see perfectly prepared flags, banners, etc.)
So let's see briefly what only some of the sources used here say on the subject
(as well as less frequently used sources, just a short walk; the important thing is that they are to be sources used by the core of the thread and that have been approved of them)
Israeli troops recently launched a campaign to vaccinate its soldiers in Gaza for polio while leaving Palestinians vulnerable to the virus and other infections
thecradle.co
AUG 7, 2024
The Palestinian Health Ministry accused Israel on 7 August of preventing the entry of over a million desperately needed polio vaccines into the Gaza Strip.
أشار مدير الرعاية الصحية في وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية موسى عابد إلى حاجة قطاع غزة لـ1.3 مليون جرعة من لقاح شلل الأطفال، وأن إسرائيل ترفض حتى اللحظة إدخال اللقاحات للقطاع.
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“The Gaza Strip needs 1.3 million doses of polio vaccine … Israel is still refusing to allow vaccines into the Strip,” said Musa Abed, Director of Health Care at the ministry.
“The risk of the spread of the polio virus in the Gaza Strip still exists in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression and the deprivation of the population of public hygiene tools. Any delay in the supply of vaccines would exacerbate the already poor health conditions and have serious repercussions on the health of children and vulnerable groups such as the elderly and the sick,” Abed added.
Infectious diseases have been spreading rapidly across the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel’s genocidal war and the internal displacement of nearly two million Palestinians.
(Tweets with children to prove the polio threat follow.)
“There is an imminent epidemiological catastrophe in the Gaza Strip as a result of the outbreak of waterborne or respiratory diseases. There are more than 100,000 cases of epidemic hepatitis … in the year before the [Israeli] aggression there were only 85 cases in the entire Gaza Strip,” Palestinian Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan warned on 4 August.
“The most dangerous thing we are suffering from is the possibility of an epidemic outbreak of Polio in the Gaza Strip,” the health minister added.
Thursday’s health ministry warning came after the World Health Organization (WHO) said it would send one million polio vaccines to the devastated enclave.
https :// news .un .org/en/story/2024/07/1152551
On 18 July, the Health Ministry released a statement warning of poliovirus in Gaza, which was found in sewage sampling tests undertaken in coordination with UNICEF. The ministry said that the presence and spread of poliovirus is caused by the overcrowding of displaced persons, the destruction of health and sanitation infrastructure, and the shortage of medical and cleaning supplies. It warned that this poses a threat to thousands of Gazans and called for an immediate end to the war, the provision of safe water, and the repair of sewage lines that were destroyed by Israeli forces.
Days later, the Israeli army announced a campaign to provide its troops in Gaza with polio vaccines while leaving Palestinians unprotected from the disease.
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Dangerous illnesses have been spreading across the strip due to Israel's decimation of infrastructure, including sewage lines
thecradle.co
Israeli army shields itself from poliovirus as disease runs rampant in Gaza
JUL 22, 2024
The Israeli army launched a campaign on 21 July to provide its troops with polio vaccines, as Palestinians are left unprotected against the virus that has spread across the strip due to Israel’s genocidal war.
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It comes days after the Palestinian Health Ministry released a statement warning of the presence of poliovirus in Gaza, which was found in sewage sampling tests undertaken in coordination with UNICEF.
A new health crisis has emerged in the bombarded Gaza Strip with the detection of poliovirus in sewage, according to the Health Ministry.
www.palestinechronicle.com
The Palestinian Health Ministry said on 18 July in a statement that the presence and spread of poliovirus is caused by the overcrowding of displaced persons, the destruction of health and sanitation infrastructure, and the shortages of medical and cleaning supplies.
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Palestinian medical sources told
The New Arab on Sunday that Israeli attacks on Gaza have destroyed more than 60 percent of infrastructure, including desalination plants, which are out of service due to the war.
The sources highlighted that the ravaged health sector in the strip suffers from severe shortages of medicines and vaccines.
Responding to Israeli claims that hundreds of thousands of polio vaccines have been allowed into the strip, Ismail Thawabta, director of the Government Media Office in Gaza, told The New Arab, “All the Israeli claims are not true … it seems that the Israeli authorities decided to kill all the Palestinians in Gaza, either through the strikes or diseases and starvation.”
“The virus in sewage portends a real health disaster and exposes thousands of residents to the risk of contracting polio,” he went on to say.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and others have been warning about the spread of harmful bacteria and serious illnesses across the besieged enclave since the start of Israel’s war.
Diarrhoea and respiratory infections are some of the leading infectious diseases affecting the besieged enclave.
www.aljazeera.com
The second link from the last paragraph of TheCradle's article:
https ://www. reuters .com/world/middle-east/gaza-faces-perfect-storm-deadly-diseases-2023-12-14/
Gaza faces 'perfect storm' of deadly diseases
By Bassam Masoud and Saleh Salem
December 14, 2023
GAZA, Dec 14 (Reuters) - For the besieged residents of Gaza who have so far survived Israel's bombs and bullets, a silent, invisible killer is now stalking them: disease.
A lack of food, clean water and shelter have worn down hundreds of thousands of traumatised people and, with a health system on its knees, it's inevitable epidemics will rip through the enclave, 10 doctors and aid workers told Reuters.
"The perfect storm for disease has begun. Now it's about, 'How bad will it get?'" James Elder, chief spokesperson for the U.N. children's fund (UNICEF), said in an interview on Tuesday.
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Gaza's health ministry said on Wednesday its supplies of childhood vaccines had run out.
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The United Nations is tracking the incidence of 14 diseases with "epidemic potential"...
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Dr. Paul Spiegel, director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who is in Cairo working on the U.N. response..
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Gaza’s Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic across the enclave, blaming the "dire situation" caused by Israel's "brutal aggression."
www.palestinechronicle.com
July 30, 2024
Gaza’s Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic across the Gaza Strip, saying it was “a result” of Israel’s “brutal aggression” on the enclave.
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Earlier this month, the ministry said tests on sewage samples, conducted in coordination with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), confirmed the presence of the poliovirus in sewage.
In June, UNICEF warned that a lack of access to safe water in Gaza meant the threat of disease was soaring.
“With the breakdown in sanitation and sewage treatment, the polio virus joins the list of threats, especially for the thousands of unvaccinated children,” the organization stressed.
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Warnings of an imminent polio outbreak in Gaza are growing as Israel continues its deadly assault on the enclave.
www.palestinechronicle.com
August 10, 2024
On July 30, Gaza’s Health Ministry said the polio-causing virus type CVPV2 was discovered “in the sewage water in Khan Younis and the central governorates.”
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The discovery, it said, “poses a health threat to the residents of the Gaza Strip and neighboring countries and is a setback for the global polio eradication program.”
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Vaccine Challenge
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said last month that the vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) was found” at six locations in sewage samples collected on 23 June from Gaza’s Khan Yunis and Deir Al-Balah areas.
[Gaza Emergency Response Director for global humanitarian agency, CARE International, Francis] Hughes pointed out that, even if Israel is somehow made to let in vaccines and other critical supplies, there would still be massive hurdles to overcome.
“Once they (vaccines) get into Gaza, we need to roll out a vaccination campaign, but to do that in the current situation is almost impossible,” he said.
Before any sort of vaccination campaign, there has to be “a lot of training for doctors and nurses” and everything is severely complicated as access to hospitals is very difficult, especially in the north of Gaza, he said.
“We’re at a point now where it’s almost inevitable that there would be an outbreak,” warned Hughes.
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The detection of the first confirmed case of polio in the Gaza is an indicator of the existence of hundreds of undetected cases.
www.palestinechronicle.com
August 18, 2024
The first case of polio was confirmed on Friday through lab tests in Amman, Jordan, the Ministry announced.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health warned on Saturday that the detection of the first confirmed case of polio in Gaza is an indicator of the existence of hundreds of undetected cases.
“It is scientifically known that for every 200 virus infections, only one will show the full symptoms of polio, while the remaining cases may present mild symptoms such as a cold or a slight fever,” Minister of Health Majed Abu Ramadan said in a press briefing.
Abu Ramadan revealed that an extensive polio vaccination campaign will start in the coming few days for children under the age of ten in Gaza and will be under the supervision of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Health Minister explained that the vaccination campaign will be carried out in two phases; the first will involve 1.2 million doses of the type 2 polio vaccine and the second upon the procurement of an additional 400,000 doses.
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The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a critical “polio pause” to facilitate a vaccination campaign in Gaza.
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Medical sources confirmed that 14 people were killed and dozens injured in Israeli raids on the central and southern Gaza Strip.
www.palestinechronicle.com
August 20
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said it is still waiting for the arrival of vaccines for the polio campaign.
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"Without an immediate cease-fire and access to vaccines and humanitarian aid across the strip, the people of Gaza are facing a public health disaster."
www.commondreams.org
by Jake Johnson, a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
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"Without immediate action, an entire generation is at risk of infection, and hundreds of children face paralysis by a highly communicable disease that can be prevented with a simple vaccine," said Jeremy Stoner of Save the Children, part of a coalition of aid organizations and physicians that demanded "an immediate and sustained cease-fire to allow polio vaccinations to take place in Gaza."
"For a polio vaccination campaign to be effective, it must be able to reach at least 95% of targeted children, and this cannot happen in an active war zone," the coalition said.
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"It is impossible to conduct a polio vaccination campaign with war raging all over," said António Guterres after a 10-month-old infant became Gaza's first new poliomyelitis case in 25 years.
www.commondreams.org
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The Gaza Health Ministry said Friday that an 10-month-old infant in the central city of Deir al-Balah "who has not received any polio vaccine dose" has tested positive for the virus, which often causes paralysis and can be fatal. The ministry said the baby is one of "a number of children" who have presented with symptoms consistent with polio in recent days.
"The ultimate vaccine for polio is peace and an immediate humanitarian cease-fire."
"The continued brutal Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has caused a health disaster as witnessed by international organizations," the ministry added, citing "the lack of basic hygiene needs, the lack of sanitation services, the accumulation of waste on the streets and around the shelters of the displaced, and the lack of safe drinking water" as factors that "have created a conducive environment for outbreaks."
Responding to the news, Guterres implored Israeli and Palestinian forces to lay down their arms so that U.N. humanitarian aid workers can launch a campaign to vaccinate half a million Gazan children.
"I am appealing to all parties to provide concrete assurances right away guaranteeing humanitarian pauses for the campaign," he told reporters at the U.N. headquarters in New York.
"Let's be clear: The ultimate vaccine for polio is peace and an immediate humanitarian cease-fire," Guterres stressed. "But in any case, a polio pause is a must."
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Earlier this month, the Gaza Health Ministry declared the entire strip a "polio epidemic zone."
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"We know how an effective polio vaccination campaign must be administered," Guterres said. "Given the wholesale devastation in Gaza, at least 95% vaccination coverage will be needed during each round of the two-round campaign to prevent polio's spread and reduce its emergence."
The Gaza Health Ministry said that it has been working with the U.N. and other international organizations "over the past weeks on developing an integrated comprehensive plan for the implementation of an expanded polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip," and that it will "carry out a vaccination campaign in the next few days targeting children under the age of 10."
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The Gaza Health Ministry said 1.1 million doses of a two-dose, orally administered type 2 polio vaccine have been provided by the United Nations Children's Fund, with another 400,000 doses on the way. UNICEF said it "is coordinating delivery efforts and the cold chain equipment needed for storage."
Medical teams from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)—which is the largest healthcare provider in Gaza, even as Israeli forces have killed around 200 of its workers—said they are ready to administer the polio vaccines and assist in their distribution.
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Guterres underscored the need to "defeat a vicious virus that, left unchecked, would have a disastrous effect not only for Palestinian children in Gaza, but also in neighboring countries and the region."
"Polio does not care about dividing lines, and polio does not wait," he said. "Polio goes beyond politics. It transcends all divisions. And so it is our shared obligation to come together. To mobilize—not to fight people, but to fight polio."
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The escalation follows the latest truce talks, which ended without a breakthrough
www.middleeasteye.net
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Polio epidemic
Meanwhile, the Palestinian health ministry announced on Friday that the first case of polio has been recorded in Gaza.
The discovery comes shortly after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for humanitarian pauses to conduct a polio vaccination campaign.
"Let’s be clear: the ultimate vaccine for polio is peace and an immediate humanitarian ceasefire," Guterres said.
"But in any case, a polio pause is a must. It is impossible to conduct a polio vaccination campaign with war raging all over."
Guterres called for seven-day pauses to facilitate the vaccination of 650,000 Palestinian children.
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"An entire generation" of children is at risk of infection, warn aid groups.
electronicintifada.net
21 August 2024
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While downplaying the significance of the detection of polio virus in Gaza wastewater, Israel claims that it will facilitate the transfer of polio vaccines to the territory. But healthcare practitioners say that a ceasefire is needed to safely distribute and administer the doses to children.
António Guterres, the UN secretary-general, said that the vaccination campaign would involve more than 700 teams at hospitals and health centers and 300 community outreach teams in Gaza.
It would require “reliable internet and phone services to inform communities about the campaign,” Guterres added, as well as an “increase in the amount of cash allowed into Gaza to pay health workers.”
“The ultimate vaccine for polio is peace and an immediate humanitarian ceasefire,” Guterres said.
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Humanitarian groups say this grim reality underscores the urgent need for a ceasefire and freedom of movement to make a polio vaccine campaign possible.
“Specialist refrigerated trucks needed to safely transport vaccines have been repeatedly rejected from entry, leaving thousands of children at risk,” according to the aid groups and doctors calling for a ceasefire to stop the spread of polio.
“An entire generation is at risk of infection, and hundreds of children face paralysis by a highly communicable disease that can be prevented with a simple vaccine,” according to Save the Children’s Jeremy Stoner.
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From Palestine to the World
A group of 20 aid agencies and 20 medical professionals have joined forces and called for an urgent ceasefire to administer polio vaccines to about 640,000 children under the age of 10 in the war-battered enclave. More details: https://qudsnen.co/?p=46833
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A group of 20 aid agencies and 20 medical professionals have joined forces and called for an urgent ceasefire to administer polio vaccines to about 640,000 children under the age of 10 in the war-battered enclave.
More details:
A Palestinian girl is examined by a doctor amid fears over the spread of polio after the first case was reported by the Ministry of Health at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, August 18, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
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Another favorite of the blog (at least of its owner and artistic director), the inspirational anti-imperialist Caitlin Johnstone, is quite quiet on the subject and I found only one brief mention in this paragraph of this inspirational article of hers:
(I have only left the link on the subject, but she gives links to many inspiring and interesting anti-imperialist sources, which are certainly worth interest, but I will leave them for another time)
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
www.caitlinjohnst.one
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In the last few days Israel has assassinated leaders in multiple neighboring nations, assassinated multiple journalists, deliberately destroyed a water facility in Gaza during a polio outbreak, and had riots defending the right of IDF soldiers to r*pe Palestinian prisoners. Clearly the sort of country we should all want to send our sons and daughters to go fight and die for.
The World Health Organization has joined the Gaza Health Ministry in raising the alarm over an impending polio outbreak.
www.wsws.org
31 July 2024
The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Wednesday that polio had been detected in Gaza and warned that urgent preventive measures had to be taken to protect children from the infection, which can cause death or crippling paralysis.
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The WHO has dispatched a million doses of polio vaccine to the Israeli-occupied territory, but how they will reach the population, particularly the children, under conditions of continuous military violence is unknown.
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Gaza has been polio-free for a quarter of a century, thanks to effective mass vaccination, but this health achievement, like all the social gains of the Palestinians, is threatened with utter destruction under the impact of Israeli bombs, missiles and tank shells.
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In response to the reports of polio, Israel said it was offering soldiers serving in the Gaza Strip the polio vaccine to be administered during routine troop turnover, although it was not mandatory for them to accept it. The Israeli army also indicated it would allow international groups to bring the polio vaccine into the enclave. According to the WHO, more than a million polio vaccine doses were being brought in to be given over the coming weeks.
Even before the military assault on the defenseless enclave, in March 2023, Israeli physicians were urging the government and medical community to respond to an outbreak of polio and prioritize and vaccinate the 176,000 Israeli children who had never received any doses. At the time, four children had been diagnosed with polio, and one had paralysis in his limbs. Prior to that outbreak, Israel had no clinical cases of polio between 1988 and 2022.
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I'm tired, so let's ending with the most uninteresting part of news in all these websites and the rest that didn't go unchecked, which are a small crumb of everyone on the global web (and some of them will visit the blog). Later it becomes far more interesting.
As
@DavidSon said:
... from yesterday I am completely sickened with the news of the first supposed polio case in 25 years... knowing the UN/WHO's constant role (of course with billionaire NGO's like the B&MGF) in poisoning Global South populations, in certain examples causing infertility and spreading polio with their suspicious shots.
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Again it's disgusting. Not that we ever would, but after the covid1984 operation no one should place trust in these fraudulent health dictators...
What do you mean by "covid1984 operation"? I am worried.. Are you referring to something like those oddities in far-right conspiracy blogs, such as "plandemic, great reset, eugenics program, depopulation" and such?
If that were the case, then all these blogs that are specifically anti-war, fighting for the rights of the people, and are directed against (amerikan) imperialism, and fascism, and support the global east&south, global equality, and now point to the Israeli genocide and support Palestine (the same blogs, a small part of which we see here),
they would say something like "covid1984, plandemic, great reset", right?
Did they say it? Or not? What did they say?...
(... we are about to find out - stay tuned)
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But that's nothing, even not even the first step of a long-distance runner's training, even not a drop in the rising sea of browsing the thousands of websites that report on the sea of Palestinian skulls.
This is not even a small initial tick from the famous "Trump's fact-checker public nervous breakdown syndrome" that some of our sheep-headed forum medical professionals have recently registered. But the efforts of these local medical professionals (specialized in external surgeries supporting the thread) are extremely helpful in the manifestation of the syndrome. I can only thank them.
"Just one such a long thing every now and then, what's the big deal", don't get caught up in it at all, it will be cut into as small pieces as possible to increase the frequency.
www.declassifieduk.org
www.theguardian.com
www.zerohedge.com
