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Oct 25 As Ohio COVID deaths near 1,000 for 2024, health director urges vigilance, vaccination (Columbus Dispatch) -

dispatch.com/story/news/health

The state health department director, Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, cautioned Ohioans Thursday ...

"COVID-19 has not gone away, and it remains a very real threat," Vanderhoff said in a press release "The virus continues to evolve and can cause severe illness or death, particularly among those who are unvaccinated."

The Columbus Dispatch · As Ohio COVID deaths near 1,000 for 2024, health director urges vigilance, vaccinationBy , The Columbus Dispatch

Oct 20 2024 [Translated: ] Trump pal Elon Musk Public enemy number two (Der Speigel | Germany)

spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unterneh

September 2020 Musk told Kara Swisher he wouldn't vaccinate for COVID.

[Translated: ] If Harris wins, Musk recently said, he would be "fucked" - which, conversely, can be understood as a free pass for the ex-president: Musk would not stop anything that could overthrow Harris. On the contrary.

DER SPIEGEL · Trump-Kumpel Elon Musk: Staatsfeind Nummer zweiBy Markus Becker
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Two days after my Oct. 11 newsletter published the anti-immigrant narratives amplified by overseas conspiracy influencers, the Lincoln Project on Oct 13 debuted their ad "Axis of Influence" naming Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk & Peter Theil as immigrants who "undermine" "our way of life."

The narration went further, calling the trio the "Axis of Evil". It's powerful, take a look:

youtube.com/watch?v=LZr1hO1ynR

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6/ Mark Zuckerberg whines in 2024, working men died in 2021.

Zuckerberg in his letter to House Republicans this week feels "regret" **for responding** in 2021 to President Biden's bully pulpit pleading by removing from Facebook media artifacts misleading people about the COVID vaccine.

See Oct. 2021 unpaywalled issue of TracingCOVID to decide for yourself if Zuckerberg, who earned higher-than-typical profits in 2021, should feel "regret".

tracingvrl.substack.com/p/trac

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5/ In late 2022, a deranged-yet--lucid man named David DePape broke into then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's house and beat her husband in the head with a hammer.

It was an attack Paul Pelosi miraculously survived.

DePape's posts to Facebook showed he amplified COVID vaccine and other conspiracy theories.

tracingvrl.substack.com/p/trac

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8/ And the misinformation looks to be much worse than usual this election cycle, due to the recent "British Invasion" 🇬🇧 of the U.S. 🇺🇸 press corps.

British editors who worked for Rupert Murdoch have been installed recently at Washington Post, CNN, New York Post, Daily Beast and another at Daily Beast. And the press is a big superorganism, one outlet influences all the others like Axios, Politico.

tracingvrl.substack.com/p/anat

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2/ But first: COVID is still transmitting, wastewater readings show.

There is a narrative spreading that you should wait to test because testing too soon brings a false negative result.

Instead, test twice so as to utilize post-infection antivirals like Paxlovid, which must be taken within five days of testing positive.

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May 10 There’s a new highly transmissible COVID-19 variant. Could FLiRT lead to a summer uptick? (Los Angeles Times) - latimes.com/california/story/2
“The two FLiRT subvariants combined comprised an estimated 35% of coronavirus infections nationally for the two-week period that began April 28," according to the U.S. CDC. "By contrast, JN.1 is now believed to comprise 16% of infections; in mid-winter, it was blamed for more than 80%.”

Los Angeles Times · A new COVID-19 variant FLiRT has emerged. Here's what to knowBy Rong-Gong Lin II

May 23 John Stockton's COVID-19 lawsuit dismissed (KHQ NBC 6 Spokane WA) - khq.com/news/john-stocktons-co

"COVID-19 skeptic John Stockton’s lawsuit seeking an injunction against the Washington Medical Commission for considering disciplining doctors who spread disinformation about the virus has been dismissed in federal court."

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Thread Postscript: As Futurism reported in their "Meet AdVon" investigation, the lack of BOT disclosure in written text makes people disengage from both BOT-authored and human-authored content.

It "makes the web worse for everyone"

futurism.com/advon-ai-content

After last week, I'll assume all outlets are publishing BOT-authored content alongside human-authored without disclosure, until they publish a policy statement indicating otherwise