Since May 15 farmers’ markets have been allowed to reopen, according to the governor’s Executive Order. Plans for the Cape Charles market are still being reviewed by the town, and are currently on hold.

Recreation Director Jen Lewis told the Mirror, ” With all going on it is on hold.  The application process was severely slowed down due to everything and then the restrictions do not allow for a typical farmers market experience at this time.”

Basic requirements issued by the state:

a. On-site shopping is allowed, as long as physical distancing guidelines are followed. Configure operations to avoid congestion or congregation points.

b. Employees and vendors in customer-facing areas must wear face coverings over their nose and mouth at all times.

c. Vendors must supply hand sanitizer stations or handwashing stations for patrons and employees.

d. A thorough cleaning and disinfection of frequently contacted surfaces must be conducted.

e. If any such business cannot adhere to these requirements, it must close

The Southern Gateway Welcome Center is opened on June 1st, and is now greeting travelers.

Welcome Center Hours of Operation, Phase I – Thursday-Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Monday-Wednesday

Staff safety and the safety of the traveling public will remain of the most utmost importance and is a pivotal part of the plan. With that in mind, the Welcome Center Reopening Plan will focus on safety, functionality, and giving the best customer service to the Virginia visitors in these new and uncertain times. Basic provisions and protocols for the WC are as follows:

1) Sneeze Guards to create a barrier between staff and visitors.

2) Restrict the number of visitors allowed to ensure social distancing guidelines and compliance with gathering restrictions.

3) Signage at the entrance reminding visitors of social distancing and capacity restrictions. Only 2 visitors allowed at a time, 1 per family.

4) Staff/Volunteers will be provided masks, gloves and sanitizer. During Phase I masks are mandatory and gloves mandatory during cleaning.

5) Staff will conduct frequent hand washing and sanitizing.

6) Staff will complete the guest registry book on behalf of the guest.

7) Travel guides and maps will be behind the counters and provided to visitors (prepackaged with Travel Guides and local info).

8) All high touch areas sanitized at least every hour (depending on visitation).

Following is the first of a three-phase plan to reopen the facility to the public. Phases will adjust as Governor Northam adjusts restrictions. Daily evaluations and assessments by staff and management will be necessary as this continues to be a fluid situation.

Phase I 1) Welcome Center will be open to the public Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Staff will arrive at 8:30 to prepare and at 4pm staff will conduct cleaning.

2) All employees and volunteers are encouraged to temperature check before reporting to work.

3) Staff will clean common and high touched areas throughout the day, counters and sneeze guards wiped down hourly. Gloves required during cleaning.

4) No outside vendors or Partners allowed inside the Welcome Center lobby.

5) Anyone entering will be required to wear a mask.

6) Temporary tables will be placed at the doorway to restrict access to the center. This will create a “service” area for assisting visitors.

7) Sneeze guards and 6’ distance markers will be in place.

It’s time to sign up for the Eastern Shore Cost- Share Program

Fiscal Year 2021 Sign Up Period starts July 15, 2020 and ends August 17, 2020. A 2nd sign-up period will be announced if additional cost share funds are available.

Nutrient Management Plans: A nutrient management plan details the most efficient use of fertilizer and manure on your farm.  Plans are customized to fit your operation.  They consider the potential productivity of each field along with an inventory of available nutrients from the soil, crop residues, manures, and commercial fertilizers.  This is a flexible plan that is based on crop response and it focuses on efficiently using crop nutrients.  These plans must be written by a VA certified planner and are required to participate in all cost share programs.

Popular Cost Share Programs on the Eastern Shore

Small Grain Cover for Nutrient and Residue Management (SL-8B): A good stand and good growth of winter cover must be obtained in time to protect the area in fall and winter.  No nutrients may be applied between harvesting of the previous crop and March 1 of the next calendar year.  No nutrients are allowed at planting.  Harvesting for hay, haylage, silage, grain, straw, or seed is not permitted.

Harvestable Cover Crop (SL-8H): A good stand and good growth of winter cover must be obtained in time to protect the area in fall and winter.  Harvesting for hay, haylage, silage, grain, or seed is permitted after a specified date.  With few exceptions, nutrients from any sources are not allowed between harvesting of the previous crop and March 1 of the next calendar year.

Protective Cover for Specialty Cropland (SL-8):  This practice keeps a cover on cropland when it is not being used after harvest of vegetables or specialty crops.  Growth must be maintained for at least 90 days after seeding.  Growth may not be harvested for hay or seed.

Legume Cover Crop (WQ-4):  This practice is for use only on land being planted to a grain crop.  No-till planting must be established into an existing legume stand or newly established legume stand.  Grazing is not allowed.  Removal of legume residue by baling or any other means is not allowed.

Cost share and/or tax credits are available for other best management practices not listed.

For more information on these practices or others, contact:

Bill Savage, Conservation Specialist, at 757-302-4437 or bill.savage@esswcd.org.

Carmie Savage, District Manager at 757-302-4431 or carmie.savage@esswcd.org

The Eastern Shore SWCD’s local Dominion Energy Envirothon competition  was held on March 12,

2020, at the Barrier Islands Center in Machipongo.  A total of six teams competed, representing Northampton High School, Chincoteague High School, and Broadwater Academy.  Held annually, the Envirothon tests students on their knowledge of wildlife, forestry, aquatics, soil science, a special topic.  This year’s special topic was “Water Resources:  Local Control and Local Solutions.” 

This year’s winner was Broadwater Academy.

In addition to being tested on natural resource topics, students also must study a given problem and make recommendations on how to fix that problem using best management practices.  This years special problem required the teams to give a 20 minute oral presentation on ways to protect surface and ground water from pollution in Rockingham County.

Envirothon coaches were Fred Gers, CHS, Kelsey Gaskins, NHS, and Sandra Thornton, BA.

337AD: Death of Constantine the Great, the first Roman emperor to embrace Christianity. He aggressively set about un-doing the persecutions carried out by his predecessor, Diocletian. In particular, he issued the Edict of Milan in 313, declaring religious tolerance throughout the Empire as the law of the land. He also rebuilt the ancient Turkish city of Byzantium, re-naming it Constantinople and making it the capital of the eastern portion of the Empire, a position it maintained for another thousand years.

735AD: Death of The Venerable Bede (b.672), English historian and theologian, whose many scholarly works include the first comprehensive history of the British Isles, titled Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People).

1332: Birth of Ibn Khaldun (d.1406), the great Arab polymath whose theory of business cycles and the rise and fall of nations remains foundational to any serious sociological study.

1453: After a 53 day siege by the Moslem armies of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, the Byzantine capital of Constantinople falls to the Turks, closing the final chapter of the 1,500 years of the Roman Empire, and decisively ending the existence of Christianity in its Anatolian heartland. Ironically, the seeds of the defeat were planted by the massive depredations of the 4th Crusade some 200 years prior, when the city underwent another siege and sacking from its erstwhile Christian allies. The Ottoman Empire established this day remained a potent threat to Europe for nearly 500 years, until it was finally dismantled by the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Great War.

1521: Concluding the process of the Imperial Diet that began in mid-April, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V issues the Edict of Worms, formally declaring Martin Luther a heretic and outlaw, subject to arrest and punishment. The edict reads in part: “For this reason we forbid anyone from this time forward to dare, either by words or by deeds, to receive, defend, sustain, or favor the said Martin Luther. On the contrary, we want him to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic, as he deserves, to be brought personally before us, or to be securely guarded until those who have captured him inform us, whereupon we will order the appropriate manner of proceeding against the said Luther. Those who will help in his capture will be rewarded generously for their good work.” Disregarding prior negotiations that promised safe passage, Luther’s friend and mentor Prince Frederick III, Elector of Saxony captured him enroute to his home and spirited him away to safe haven in Wartburg Castle, where he began work on his German translation of the Bible. The Edict was temporarily suspended in 1526 but was put back in force in 1529. Although it was never enforced against Luther himself, it was used as justification for arrests of Lutheran agitators in the Low Countries under Charles’ direct control. 

1541: Death of French religious reformer John Calvin (b.1509), one of the key figures of the Protestant Reformation, whose insights and writings on Christian doctrine remain the foundation of the Presbyterian and other Reformed churches. Much of his work occurred in Geneva, where his church became a center for a group of English dissidents under John Knox, among other groups dealing with the intellectual and religious ferment of the time.

1626: Director-General of the New Netherlands division of the Dutch West Indian Company, Peter Minuit, purchases Manhattan Island from the local indigenous tribe for items valued at 60 Guilders, often mis-represented as $24 of wampum. In order to both help perpetuate tradition (the $24 story), while still propagating something resembling truth, here is a little context: records also exist of Minuit negotiating for similar ownership rights on Staten Island in trade for “duffle cloth, iron kettles and axe heads, hoes, drilling awls, Jew’s Harps and other divers items…” Historians Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace in 1999 put this into modern terms: “…the Dutch were engaged in high-end technology transfer, handing over equipment of enormous usefulness in tasks ranging from clearing land to drilling wampum.” 

1703: After capturing a Swedish fort further up the Neva River, and determined to drag sclerotic Russian leadership and society into the mainstream of the Western European world, Tsar Peter I (The Great) commissions the city of Saint Petersburg as he lays the foundation stone of the Peter and Paul Fortress on Zyachay (Hare) Island in the Neva delta. He names the new city after his patron saint, and sets in motion a development process that brings in the finest Western European architects and planners to essentially create- tabula rasa- the northernmost, and most beautiful capital city in Europe.

1738: Christian conversion of John Wesley, who went on to lead the Methodist movement in Great Britain.

1738: The English colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland sign a peace treaty, ending Cresap’s War, also known as the Conojocular War. The boundary dispute arose out of an imprecise description of Pennsylvania’s southern boundary in its 1681 charter- or more exactly, a very precise description based on incorrect geography: the start point was the town of New Castle, Delaware, and from thence “…a circle drawn at twelve miles distance from New Castle Northward and Westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of Northern Latitude, and then by a straight Line Westward..” Without going into gory detail, the dispute reared up in 1730 when Maryland began to enforce its territorial claims after ten years of settlements and counter-settlements by Pennsylvanians in the lands west of the Susquehanna River. The flash point became dueling ferry services (no joke) established by the two colonies. In 1730 two Pennsylvanians attacked the Maryland ferry run by Thomas Cresap. No-one was injured, but Cresap began a harassment campaign against Pennsylvania settlers, eventually leading sporadic violence against both parties, and ultimately to the militias of both colonies marching across each others’ claims. King George II ordered the Royal Committee for Plantation Affairs to settle the dispute, and the agreement was signed on May 25^th. The territorial definition was conclusively settled after the 1767 survey completed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon.

1787: The Constitutional Convention, under the leadership of General George Washington, convenes in Philadelphia to write a new governing document to replace the inadequate Articles of Confederation.

1803: Birth of prolific English author Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (d.1873), whose original prose includes such current clichés as: “the pen is mightier than the sword” and “the great unwashed” and “the pursuit of the almighty dollar” and perhaps most famously, “It was a dark and stormy night…”

1859- Abolitionist John Brown leads a group that murders five pro-slavery settlers in Pottawatomie, Kansas. Before the secessionist movement took root in the South, “Bleeding Kansas” became the violent first battleground between pro and anti-slavery forces.

1866: Death of General Winfield Scott, USA (b.1786). The old warhorse, also known as “Old Fuss and Feathers” served his country over the course of a 47 year active duty career, commanding forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Blackhawk War, the Second Seminole War, and for a short time after the opening guns, the War Between the States. He served 20 years as Commanding General of the United States Army (equivalent to the current Army Chief of Staff). He became a national hero after the Mexican campaign, which led to an unsuccessful run for the Presidency as a Whig in 1852. More important from his service in Mexico was his role in leading and training an entire generation of Army officers who would go on to distinguish themselves on both sides of the Civil War.

1883: After 14 years of highly technical and complex construction, the Brooklyn Bridge opens for traffic.

1896: In Moscow, the thirty year old Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov is crowned Czar Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias.

1896: In New York, James Dow publishes his first index of key industrial stocks, 12 companies with an index value of 40.94.

1906: The Wright Brothers receive U.S. Patent number 821,393 for their “flying machine.” The patent is the result of the Wright’s extensive testing and refinement of aircraft control mechanisms on their basic 1903 design, and was indicative of their decision to leave the bicycle business and make a go of it in the nascent field of commercial aviation. This is the same patent I mentioned the other day that led Glenn Curtis and others to create work-arounds that would avoid patent infringement issues, although the patent fights between them would continue for years.

1914: Bosnian Serb anarchist Gavrillo Princip leaves Belgrade on a conspiratorially secret 10 day journey to Sarajevo.

1915: Eruption of Northern California’s Mount Lassen, the only other U.S. volcano in the lower 48– besides Saint Helens– to blow in the 20^th century. This was the first of 107 separate eruptions that occurred during the next twelve months. 

1921: Opening day in the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, in Boston. The two immigrant Italian anarchists, usually described sympathetically as a shoe-maker and a fish monger, were arrested for robbery and murder, and after a internationally sensational trial were sentenced to death. The trial gained notoriety not only for the lurid twists and turns promulgated by both the prosecution and the defense (“someone changed the barrel of his gun!”), but also by the two’s unrepentant status as international anarchists. Further controversy followed as the presiding judge Webster Thayer refused to grant five motions for new trials, later confronting a colleague with, “Did you see what I did with those anarchistic bastards the other day? I guess that will hold them for a while…” Sacco and Vanzetti’s case became cause célèbre with leftists world-wide, and even non-leftists grew increasingly uncomfortable with the court’s seeming disregard for normal evidentiary rules and appeal procedures. With the wheels of justice inexorably moving forward, Sacco and Vanzetti were electrocuted on August 23^rd, 1927. To no one’s surprise, anarchist riots and bombings broke out in response as far away as Buenos Aires.

1923: First running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in Sarthe, France. This race is highlighted in the film Ford v Ferrari.

1927: In Dearborn, Michigan, last day of production of the Ford Model T, as equipment on the assembly line is changed out to produce the new Model A. The Model T was the first car to be mass-produced, beginning in 1908. With over 15,000,000 produced, it was the best-selling car in the world until surpassed by the Volkswagen Beetle in 1972. Interestingly, as part of its centenary celebrations in 2003, Ford produced six new Model Ts using long-warehoused original components and other parts made from original drawings.

1937: Opening Day of the Golden Gate Bridge, linking San Francisco with Marin County.

1940: Opening of the 9-day Battle of Dunkirk, where British and other Allied forces were surrounded on the French beach by two German armies which swept across the Low Countries and burst out of the “un-passable” Ardennes Forest to overwhelm the defenses of France. Inexplicably, rather than destroying or capturing the fleeing forces, Hitler ordered a ceasefire that lasted three days, during which the British were able to establish a defensible perimeter and set conditions for a somewhat orderly evacuation under fire, which rained down primarily from the Luftwaffe. The eventual evacuation of 338,226 men via a flotilla of “the little ships of Dunkirk” became the stuff of legend, and the nucleus of the army that would return to the Continent at Normandy four years later.

1941: On her breakout cruise into the North Atlantic, the German battleship Bismarck engages and sinks HMS Hood, which goes to the bottom with the loss of all hands save three.

1941: Three days after obliterating HMS Hood and making her way into the North Atlantic, the German battleship Bismarck is crippled by a torpedo shot from an ancient Fairey Swordfish biplane from HMS Ark Royal, allowing the British battleships King George V and Rodney and their escorts to close the German vessel and open fire. A fierce gun duel rages for nearly two hours, after which Bismarck sinks from the combined effects of gunfire and intentional scuttling. 111 survivors are rescued by the British ships before leaving the area from a U-boat threat. The wreck of the Bismarck was discovered and documented in June of 1989 by Robert Ballard. 

1947: President Harry S. Truman signs into law an economic assistance act for Greece and Turkey that will become the foundation for the Truman Doctrine on controlling the spread of Communism.

1958: First flight of the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II.

1961: President John F. Kennedy gives his famous speech committing the United States to land a man on the moon and bring him safely back by the end of the decade.

1964: President Lyndon Baines Johnson announces the Great Society legislative program, in which he promises to “eliminate poverty and racial injustice in America.” I wonder how it all worked out…

1968: USS Scorpion (SSN-589) suffers an explosion of unknown origin and sinks with 99 souls on board into 9800 feet of water, 400 miles southwest of the Azores. The circumstances of its sinking remain partially classified, but all of the evidence points to an on-board malfunction of a torpedo. Nothing supports the undying conspiracy theories that she was intentionally torpedoed by the Russians in retaliation for our salvage of a Soviet Hotel class submarine off the coast of Hawaii. Interestingly, then-Captain Robert Ballard and the Woods Hole Institute used their search for the Titanic as cover for their actual search for the remains of Scorpion. The wreckage site is regularly monitored for radioactive contamination from its reactor and torpedoes. 

1972: President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonoid Brezhnev sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The landmark agreement limited the parties to a single fixed site (Moscow and Grand Forks, ND) and for practical purposes enshrined Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) as a viable basis for the relationship of the two nuclear superpowers. The United States withdrew from the treaty in December, 2002, per the provision requiring six months notice.

1977: Mountaineer George Willig performs a single-handed free climb of the south tower of New York’s World Trade Center. He is arrested for trespassing and fined $1.10, a penny for each floor.

Karen Gay is the Eastern Shore of Virginia Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader. Consider joining our ESVA Weston A Price Foundation Chapter Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/esvawapf/. For more information contact Karen at karengreergay@gmail.com. All are welcome!

Are you ready to hop onto the COVID-19 vaccine bandwagon? If so, you’ll need to read this article to learn a little more about it. It turns out that a quarter of Americans are hesitant either because they believe the vaccine will be worse than the disease itself, or they are concerned about the speed with which the vaccine is being developed says a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The authors and vaccine advocates say that the hesitancy is due to misinformation, but I’ve been collecting studies and news articles on this vaccine and what I’ve learned will allow you to make an informed decision.

Background

Scientists have been working on vaccines for SARS and other respiratory viruses for decades without success. An early respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine was given to children in the Washington D.C. area in the 1960s. Eighty percent of those receiving the vaccine became ill with respiratory disease and two died. This new effect was called enhanced respiratory disease. You can read about it here. As the SARS viruses overtook RSV as a virus of concern many attempts were made to develop vaccines for them without success. There are many summaries of why they have failed so far, but this article from 2012, entitled Immunization with SARS Coronavirus Vaccines Leads to Pulmonary Immunopathology on Challenge with the SARS Virus, is a good representation. Here’s what happened:

1. Scientists developed a SARS vaccine and injected animals with it
2. The animals developed antibodies. The scientists were pleased because they believed that the antibodies would counter the virus
3. SARS was introduced to the animals and they developed the same enhanced respiratory disease as the children having received the RSV vaccine.
4. A conclusion of this summary is “Caution in proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated.”

Similar results happened in the Phillipines in 2016 and 2017 with dengue fever. Eight hundred thousand children were injected with Sanofi’s Dengvaxia and for those who had never encountered dengue fever “the vaccine actually increases their chances of getting sick if infected with the virus.” About 600 children died. As the article concludes “between 80,000 and 120,000 of them are now more at risk of death if they contract dengue than they were before they had been vaccinated, and health author­ities have no way of knowing who they might be.” These children are subject to the same enhanced effect as produced by the RSV and SARS vaccines. Nowadays other names for this event are immune enhancement or pathogenic priming.

I have heard that there are over 100 coronavirus vaccines under development and a small number of these will be chosen. Why so many? Consider the world population of 7.8 billion. If each vaccine dose costs $50, the chosen pharmaceutical companies together could earn $380 billion dollars, and twice that with a booster. If they can persuade governments to require this every year, the profits would be astronomical. I believe that this is one of the reasons we are seeing so much resistance to medications that alleviate the course of coronavirus. Pharmaceutical advertising produces the largest income for the media. If you don’t believe this, consider why we’ve heard so little about 600 dead children in the Philippines or even 55,000 dead Americans who took Merck’s Vioxx.

Several SARS CoV-2 Vaccine Variants (Note: this part is pretty technical and I hope I got all the details right. If this is boring to you, you can page down to the next section!)

By and large scientists are using very new technology to develop Coronavirus vaccines. Moderna, Inc., of Cambridge, MA, partnered with Merck appear to be one of the frontrunners favored by Dr. Antony Fauci and funded by Bill Gates, but other strong contenders are Oxford University together with AstraZeneca, GSK/Sanofi and Pfizer/BioNTech. These companies are using different approaches in developing a coronavirus vaccine.

Moderna, Inc. is using messenger RNA (mRNA) to develop its vaccine called mRNA-1273. There are no human vaccines made with this new approach. This technology uses mRNA to insert instructions into your cells that cause the ribosomes to create a stabilized form of the Spike protein which will then create antibodies. Clinical trials have started on 45 people and they will be monitored for a year after their second dose. On May 18, Moderna announced positive results from this trial. The release states that all participants had increases in their immune system and various levels of binding antibodies depending upon the group. Only eight volunteers developed the desired neutralizing antibodies. Later the results were criticized because data was not provided. This article said based on the information made available “there’s really no way to know how impressive – or not – the vaccine may be.” Another issue with the press release is that 3 of 15 exceptionally healthy people in the high-dose group experienced grade 3 adverse events which were “transient and self-resolving.” The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identifies a grade 3 reaction as “Severe or medically significant but not immediately life- threatening; hospitalization or prolongation of hospitalization indicated; disabling; limiting self care.” One of these 3 people came forward to tell his story. He developed a fever of 103 degrees, went to an urgent care facility, returned home, fainted, and then recovered.

Oxford University is also using an mRNA platform with a weakened form of the common cold virus to which genetic material has been added that will cause the creation of the Spike protein. They are hoping that the immune system recognizes the protein and antibodies are created. This vaccine is called BNT162 and clinical trials were begun in late April with 200 volunteers. There are 4 candidates being tested and they are using the meningococcal vaccine as the control group.  On April 27 the New York Times published a glowing report on a trial of the Oxford “vaccine” at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana. Vincent Munster, the researcher conducting the test, “inoculated six rhesus macaque monkeys with single doses of the Oxford vaccine. The animals were then exposed to heavy quantities of the virus that is causing the pandemic — exposure that had consistently sickened other monkeys in the lab. But more than 28 days later all six were healthy.” Was this a success? On May 16, two articles were released by Forbes and Daily Mail. Both reported that the vaccinated monkeys all became infected with coronavirus. In addition, Forbes expressed concern at the lack of neutralizing antibodies. Daily Mail was concerned that the vaccinated monkeys could spread the virus. 

Messenger RNA vaccines have not been tried on humans. This very informative article in the journal Nature explains mRNA technology and several possible pitfalls that need to be investigated: “A possible concern could be that some mRNA-based vaccine platforms induce potent type I interferon responses, which have been associated not only with inflammation but also potentially with autoimmunity” Oedema is also noted as a possible side-effect. Another source refers to “nasty side effects” when trying to deliver the mRNA into the cells. However, there are distinct advantages to this technology in that viruses are not grown in animal tissue which carries the considerable risk of introducing animal viruses and retroviruses into the human body. Another good article describes 5 things to know about mRNA vaccines in an easy to understand format.

GSK and Sanofi are using recombinant DNA technology to develop a Spike protein antigen. They will use a baculovirus which is a tool for delivery of gene therapy into the cells. It will be using a proprietary adjuvant (additive) called AS03 to the vaccine so that the antigen can be produced in a weakened form. The adjuvant’s job is to ramp up the immune response. AS03 is an oil-based additive containing squalene. This adjuvant is not in any of the vaccines that are recommended for children today. However, AS03 was added to Pandemrix, the 2009-2010 flu vaccine licensed in Europe, and some children developed narcolepsy. A 2018 study conducted by GSK itself confirmed an association between the Pandemrix vaccine and narcolepsy but attempted to minimize it. You can find this study here. You will need to access the link and then download the actual PDF to read the details. Section 4.2 discusses narcolepsy. Relative risk is used in this study to compare the likelihood, or chance, of an event occurring between two groups, the Pandemrix group and the control group. A value of 1 indicates a neutral result while a value of less than 1 indicates that the risk of narcolepsy is lessened and a value of greater than 1 shows that the risk of narcolepsy is increased.  The study found that relative risks ranged from 1.5 to 25 in children and 1.1 to 18.8 in adults. Nevertheless, the study states that AS03 has an extensive safety record and should be used provided that a mimicry sequence be removed. It well may be that GSK has removed the sequence from AS03 but reading over Table 3 showing possible results like Guillain Barre Syndrome (paralysis), multiple sclerosis, and epilepsy being written off as unimportant because these things occurred in an inconsistent manner across countries is concerning. An example is the occurrence in Canada where the relative risk of Guillain Barre Syndrome is 3.02 four weeks post vaccination and 4.7 for multiple sclerosis written off as a result of increased influenza.

These experimental DNA vaccines, like the mRNA vaccines, can be quickly developed but unlike the mRNA vaccines run several risks: suboptimal potency and the possibility of potential risk of integration of exogenous DNA into the host genome.

Summary of Concerns

For a virus that will last about two years, there’s a lot of money and resources being poured into vaccine development. Short-cuts, lack of full-fledged animal trials and new technologies present a lot of risk and concerns for safety are warranted. Listed below are some of the mostly safety concerns that I’ve read about.

Immune Enhancement:  In the Background section of this article we learned about how a severe immune reaction (or enhanced respiratory disease or pathogenic priming) occurred to vaccinated people who were challenged with the virus they were vaccinated against. We are a long way from the time when the vaccinated volunteers are naturally challenged with coronavirus which will depend on the level of the virus in the community. At this point we are not certain whether the vaccinated volunteers will acquire coronavirus, not acquire coronavirus, or develop a severe immune reaction. It may take a long time to understand this. By this time, coronavirus may have departed.

Animal Testing: In order to get a vaccine to the public, shortcuts are being taken. Oxford vaccine monkey trials indicated that their vaccine was not generating enough neutralizing antibodies. Other companies have skipped animal trials completely, thus running the risk of safety problems.

New Technology: Messenger RNA vaccines have not been approved by the FDA for humans yet and they are very experimental. DNA technology is being used in cancer research but there is the risk of putting a foreign genome into the vaccinated person. No one today understands the long-term effects of these vaccines.

Volunteer Health: In initial trials all the volunteers are extremely healthy. Later trials will involve children and those who may have some health problems. In the Moderna trials, 20% of the high-dose experienced significant adverse reactions. We can probably expect more reactions from later, less healthy groups.

Mandates: There have been calls by Bill Gates and others for the chosen vaccines to be made mandatory especially for health care workers. There must be personal choice available for vaccines that are poorly tested and where the long-term effects are not known.

Liability: The federal government has indemnified vaccine producers as described in this article. This means that there’s all gain for these companies and very little pain should their product cause widespread injury.

Mutations: According to one source the coronavirus has mutated into at least 30 variants making it more difficult to develop the right vaccine.

There are still many questions relating to the new DNA and mRNA vaccine platforms. While they may show promise for the future, are we ready for them now? After reading about possible issues with coronavirus vaccines are you prepared to be one of the first in line? Or will you wait a bit and see if vaccines are even necessary for coronavirus?

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Meet Shorty 
Hey, I’m Shorty and I’m a very loving boy around 5 years old. I’m a mix of many breeds, medium size weighing 35 lbs. I’m really short and long, and a little heavy.

I appear to be house-trained, as I’ve always waited to go out side to do my business. My back end is sparse in the hair department, probably due to poor diet and fleas. Hair is growing back nicely, now, though.

I am a lap dog and have lots of love to give. If you’re on the floor with me, I’m climbing in your lap for lots of attention. I don’t seem to be used to getting on the couch, and have to really be encouraged to jump up there.

I came here with heartworms, but have already been through treatment for them. I’m up to date on vaccines. I am not neutered yet, and can only go home to residents of Accomack or Northampton counties on the Eastern Shore of VA.

Ag folks can now apply for USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, which provides direct payments to farmers and ranchers to offset impacts from the coronavirus pandemic. Applications will be accepted through August 28, 2020.

The application form and a payment calculator is available on farmers.gov/cfap. And we have a call center (877-508-8364) set up to help you with your questions.

Producers of all eligible commodities can apply through their local FSA office. FSA is available over the phone and virtually to walk you through the application process.

It was amazing to watch looters destroy American businesses when they aren’t even infectious disease experts. Turns out rioting was the cure for coronavirus this whole time. Who knew?

The riot in Minneapolis began when a group of 50 or 60 people attempted to loot a Target store in the Midway neighborhood. When police arrived, they reportedly dropped their stolen goods and ran down the street where they began to destroy other shops.

Meanwhile, SpaceX launches its first manned flight of the Dragon (leaving Earth is probably not a bad idea). When I was a kid I was naive enough to think by 2020 the world be obsessed with stuff like this rather than rioting. Then I realized it’s about efficiency. Looting is just the welfare state without the middleman. Welcome to 2020 America where hair stylists and preachers are thrown in jail while looters and rioters are celebrated as freedom fighters.

Many of the businesses burned are small businesses that were already struggling due to the pandemic.

Other stores that were targeted included Foot Locker and TJ Maxx.

Rioters burned DC in 1968. It took 40 years for the city to recover. And it some ways, it never did. Some of the burned-out areas had crumbling buildings and vacancies for decades. Tens of thousands of people left town never to return. The city was literally gutted.

Timeline of events so far: Dems cheered on riots and looting until they realized how bad those things actually are and now they are desperate to blame phantom Russians and White Nationalists so they don’t have to own the responsibility for the chaos they allowed. They raised the animals, and now they’re out of the barn.

Remember when we were all expected to believe that Jussie Smollett had been attacked in the middle of Chicago by a group of MAGA hat-wearing white supremacists? It seems like the looting of the CNN headquarters was the turning point that led pundits, political advisers, and government officials to say “actually this is a white nationalist psyop” which is hilarious.

As “protesters” march on Trump Tower in Chicago and the White House, it might be helpful to might point out the death of Mr.Floyd happened under a Democrat mayor, Democrat senator, Democrat governor, with a Democrat county prosecutor. Buyer’s remorse is a thing.

To the best of my knowledge, as I write this, Joe Biden has not condemned the violence and arson and looting the nation is witnessing.  This appears to be some kind of perverse political calculation. Oh, and Senator Kamala Harris was protesting at the White House shouting, “Don’t Shoot!”

Violence erupts between protestors and police in Chicago. pic.twitter.com/9WmVYGeONm

— Elma Aksalic (@ElmaAksalic) May 30, 2020

Face it, the looters don’t give two craps about Floyd. The whole “looting is justified .. because they’re hurt… and insurance” is a statement that reeks of immorality and economic illiteracy. Looters aren’t at all worried about George Floyd or black lives.

BREAKING: rioters pull a black man out of his car and begin beating him on the streets In Dallas pic.twitter.com/a6cu5ePgQJ

— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) May 30, 2020

Where the hell is the evidence for far-right white supremacists doing this? The people who have largely supported/participated in the riots are Antifa, BLM, and far-leftists. The truth is that they realize they’ve screwed up big time, and now they want to shift the blame. Don’t let them.

A security expert says intelligence reports indicate most of the hard-core protesters in Minneapolis are far-left or anarchists, and that far-right groups have not yet made a significant appearance.https://t.co/pkJAKjkYYj

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 30, 2020

We see the same problem in the conversations about these riots that we did in discussions about the lockdowns. Some people find themselves unable to care about both lives and livelihoods, and they’re very angry that other people can.

“Let’s be very clear, the situation in Minneapolis is no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd. It is about attacking civil society, instilling fear and disrupting our great cities.” Minnesota Gov. Tim Wals.

Tony Timpa was suffocated by police during an arrest. He screamed “you’re going to kill me.” And they did. As he lay dead, they cracked jokes. There were no riots. Little coverage. You’ve never heard his name because he’s white.

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— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 30, 2020

There needs to be a federal investigation into these paid left-wing radical groups like Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and others that are responsible for extreme violence against innocent civilians, looting and arson, through command and control. Can people see what is happening here? Who is paying these people? The rioters have earpieces, military-grade radios, and repeaters on heir vehicles – who are they communicating with? Who are their command and control?

Organizers in Minnesota are putting their lives on the line for justice. It’s time for us to show up for them.

Join @AyannaPressley, @AOC, @RashidaTlaib, and me.https://t.co/BzDULI4Zxs

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 29, 2020

Antifa infiltrated the legitimate protests for George and in doing so took away from the protester’s ability to get their issues addressed.

Reporting from Lafayette Park only a few hundred yards away from the White House, Fox News correspondent Leland Vittert said the scene was “unprecedented,” as Secret Service members in riot gear were met by at least 100 protesters.

BREAKING: Fox News’ @LelandVittert & crew robbed and assaulted while covering protest outside of the White House

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 30, 2020

“I have never seen this in now six years in D.C. I don’t know the last time that it’s happened, but the Secret Service is now in riot gear,” Vittert said. “They have exercised incredible strength with the epithets thrown at them.”

So, who provided bricks for the rioters to use in Washington D.C. and Dallas? Somebody paid for them.

To sum up: In The Simulation, a battered nation went on offense against the Plague, came together over police brutality and racism (:-)), united in their hatred of CNN, and launched a rocket. When the protests end, the protestors go back to their lives and leave people of color to clean up the mess.

We have the capacity to destroy our cities and burn them to the ground. And we have the potential to fly men into outer space. The choice is ours.

Riots attract all kinds of people who have grievances, hate authority, or just want to watch the world burn. We have a pent up population that’s pissed off. But this moment is about George Floyd. It’s about black lives lost, and now that point is almost rapidly dissipating.

So it goes.

World Health Organization says asymptomatic people shouldn’t wear masks.

“WHO only recommends the use of a mask in specific cases. If you have cough, fever, and difficulty breathing, you should wear a mask and seek medical care. If you do not have these symptoms, you do not have to wear masks because there is no evidence that they protect people who are not sick.”

Healthy people caring for people who have been infected with the coronavirus should wear a mask.

This contradicts U.S. guidance in favor of wearing a mask based on the idea that many sick people have no symptoms. The notion that asymptomatic people can spread the virus is also behind most of the most dramatic lockdown measures.