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&lt;p&gt;Bill Gates says he and his affiliates have the goal to test everyone and vaccinate the ones whose results are negative.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8fIjxicoo&amp;amp;feature=emb_logo"&gt;www.youtube.com/watch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: COVID-19 False Negative Test Results Are a Major Problem</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/03/covid19-false-negative-test-results-problematic.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#989344</link><pubDate>4/5/2020 8:23:10 AM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:989344</guid><dc:creator>Randyfast</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;False Positives; False Negatives; Manipulated/Cherry Picked Data...It&amp;#39;s all about brainwashing and conditioning the masses to ACCEPT the toxic vaccines that are coming! The zombie masses will DEMAND the vaccines! I know this for a fact! This is the same M.O. as always! Most people I see, believe that the &amp;quot;Health Officials&amp;quot; will &amp;quot;save&amp;quot; them from this &amp;quot;pandemic&amp;quot;! Lemmings over the cliff!&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: COVID-19 False Negative Test Results Are a Major Problem</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/03/covid19-false-negative-test-results-problematic.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#989319</link><pubDate>4/5/2020 6:13:13 AM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:989319</guid><dc:creator>dea16451</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;They found an industry that buys influence over doctors, charities, patient groups, journalists, and politicians, and whose regulation is sometimes weak or ambiguous.  For example, the Department of Health, responsible for a national health service that spends £7.5bn on drugs annually, is also responsible for representing the interests of the pharmaceutical industry...  The committee described how the industry taints doctors. Over half of all postgraduate medical education in the UK, and much education of nurses, is funded by the pharmaceutical industry from its annual marketing budget of £1.65bn.  The Department of Health spends just 0.3% of this on publishing independent information on drugs. “Key opinion leaders” may receive £5000 for giving an hour&amp;#39;s lecture...  The industry spends £3.3bn annually on research in the UK, financing about 90% of all clinical drug trials, but develops few truly innovative drugs. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It influences the interpretation and reporting of results of trials. Negative results can be dismissed as erroneous (“failed trials”), whereas positive ones can be published repeatedly in different guises...  The current wide ranging report correctly identifies many areas of pharmaceutical influence, and the distortions they introduce.&amp;quot; &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC556141/"&gt;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../PMC556141&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; The US (amongst others) is being crippled, because of the fear-mongers, who are financially connected to those profiting. The Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs). Follow the money trail.  Even though they have denied it and called it a &amp;#39;coincidence&amp;#39;, who were &amp;#39;coincidentally&amp;#39; involved in &amp;quot;Event 201&amp;quot; in October? (and the guilty can still deny). Please, find the true statistics.  Unfortunately, I couldn&amp;#39;t fit it all in one &amp;quot;Comment&amp;quot; because of the character limit.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: COVID-19 False Negative Test Results Are a Major Problem</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/03/covid19-false-negative-test-results-problematic.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#989318</link><pubDate>4/5/2020 6:12:03 AM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:989318</guid><dc:creator>dea16451</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Professional medical associations (PMAs) play an essential role in defining and advancing health care standards. &amp;nbsp;Their conferences, continuing medical education courses, practice guidelines, definitions of ethical norms, and public advocacy positions carry great weight with physicians and the public. &amp;nbsp;Because many PMAs receive extensive funding from pharmaceutical and device companies, it is crucial that their guidelines manage both real and perceived conflict of interests. &amp;nbsp;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19336712"&gt;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../19336712&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;The pharmaceutical industry, in its marketing efforts, often turns to &amp;quot;key opinion leaders&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;KOLs&amp;quot; to disseminate scientific information. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Drawing on the author&amp;#39;s fieldwork, this article documents and examines the use of KOLs in pharmaceutical companies&amp;#39; marketing efforts. Partly due to the use of KOLs, a small number of companies with well-defined and narrow interests have inordinate influence over how medical knowledge is produced, circulated, and consumed. &amp;nbsp;The issue here, as in many other cases of institutional corruption, is that a few actors have accumulated the power to shape the information on which many others base their decisions. &amp;nbsp;Efforts to address this corruption should focus on correcting large imbalances in the current political economy of medical knowledge &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24088154"&gt;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../24088154&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: COVID-19 False Negative Test Results Are a Major Problem</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/03/covid19-false-negative-test-results-problematic.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#989317</link><pubDate>4/5/2020 6:11:24 AM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:989317</guid><dc:creator>dea16451</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;He is Professor of Medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University in California. He says the data are utterly unreliable because so many cases are going unrecorded. &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8138675/PETER-HITCHENS-shutting-Britain-REALLY-right-answer.html"&gt;www.dailymail.co.uk/.../PETER-HITCHENS-shutting-Britain-REALLY-right-answer.html&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Government is like a doctor, confronted with a patient suffering from pneumonia.  ‘This is serious,’ says the doctor. ‘I have never seen anything like this. Unless I act radically, you will die terribly.’ He then proposes to treat the pneumonia by amputating the patient’s left leg, saying this method has been used successfully in China.  The trusting patient agrees. The patient eventually recovers from pneumonia, as he would have done anyway. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The doctor proclaims that his treatment, though undoubtedly painful and radical, was a great success.  But the patient now has only one leg, and a very large hospital bill which he cannot afford to pay.&amp;quot; &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8163587/PETER-HITCHENS-Great-Panic-foolish-freedom-broken-economy-crippled.html?ito=email_share_article-top"&gt;www.dailymail.co.uk/.../PETER-HITCHENS-Great-Panic-foolish-freedom-broken-economy-crippled.html&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; Who is profiting from all this madness?  &amp;quot;It is in the interests of all pharmaceutical companies to engage in disease mongering by expanding diagnostic categories so more people are eligible for drug treatment and to convince physicians that drugs are the only viable therapeutic options&amp;quot; &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2006/06/oped1-0606.html"&gt;journalofethics.ama-assn.org/.../oped1-0606.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: COVID-19 False Negative Test Results Are a Major Problem</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/03/covid19-false-negative-test-results-problematic.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#989315</link><pubDate>4/5/2020 6:09:45 AM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:989315</guid><dc:creator>dea16451</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I notice that large, dominating corporations are becoming more profitable and powerful during this crisis, whereas the smaller family businesses have been closed. &amp;quot;Avoidable deaths are tragic, but each year there are already many deaths, especially among the old, from complications of flu leading to pneumonia. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) tells me that the number of flu cases and deaths due to flu-related complications in England alone averages 17,000 a year. &amp;nbsp;This varies greatly each winter, ranging from 1,692 deaths last season (2018/19) to 28,330 deaths in 2014/15. The DHSC notes that many of those who die from these diseases have underlying health conditions, as do almost all the victims of coronavirus so far, here and elsewhere. &amp;nbsp;As the experienced and knowledgeable doctor who writes under the pseudonym ‘MD’ in the Left-wing magazine Private Eye wrote at the start of the panic: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;‘In the winter of 2017-18, more than 50,000 excess deaths occurred in England and Wales, largely unnoticed.’ Nor is it just respiratory diseases that carry people off too soon. In the Government’s table of ‘deaths considered avoidable’, it lists 31,307 deaths from cardiovascular diseases in England and Wales for 2013, the last year for which they could give me figures. This, largely the toll of unhealthy lifestyles, was out of a total of 114,740 ‘avoidable’ deaths in that year. &amp;nbsp;To put all these figures in perspective, please note that every human being in the United Kingdom suffers from a fatal condition – being alive. About 1,600 people die every day in the UK for one reason or another. A similar figure applies in Italy and a much larger one in China. &amp;nbsp;The coronavirus deaths, while distressing and shocking, are not so numerous as to require the civilised world to shut down transport and commerce, nor to surrender centuries-old liberties in an afternoon.&amp;quot; We are warned of supposedly devastating death rates. But at least one expert, John Ioannidis, is not so sure.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: COVID-19 False Negative Test Results Are a Major Problem</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/03/covid19-false-negative-test-results-problematic.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#989313</link><pubDate>4/5/2020 6:08:50 AM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:989313</guid><dc:creator>dea16451</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I feel it is dishonest statistics, used in order to make the world fearful and more compliant with the goals of those profiting from all this. How long will it take for the US to become so crippled financially, that they become beholden to whoever &amp;#39;bails them out&amp;#39;? Who is wealthy enough to bail them out?  Who are the wealthy benefactors of The WHO? Bill Gates and the pharmaceutical industry. &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/2/bill-gates-and-his-coronavirus-conflicts-of-intere/"&gt;www.washingtontimes.com/.../bill-gates-and-his-coronavirus-conflicts-of-intere&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why did The WHO declare it a global pandemic, when at the time of their declaration, it wasn&amp;#39;t? This is how countries become oppressed. Control, born out of fear, financial crisis, debt. Where is this all really leading us? Because of all the false and misleading statistics, mayhem is upon us all; mentally, emotionally, financially, physically.  The following article is written by Prof. John Ioannidis &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/"&gt;www.statnews.com/.../a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; This shows that he should know what he&amp;#39;s talking about: &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/john-ioannidis"&gt;profiles.stanford.edu/john-ioannidis&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;A recent interview with Professor Dr Sucharit Bhakdi, an infectious medicine specialist.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Professor is one of the most highly cited medical research scientists in Germany.  He was head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, one of Germany&amp;#39;s most distinguished seats of learning.&amp;quot; &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2020/03/an-expert-says-the-current-response-to-the-coronavirus-is-grotesque-absurd-and-very-dangerous.html"&gt;hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/.../an-expert-says-the-current-response-to-the-coronavirus-is-grotesque-absurd-and-very-dangerous.html&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; A video message from Dr Bhakdi &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsExPrHCHbw"&gt;www.youtube.com/watch&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; Death by despair, will no doubt ensue, as people lose their homes, businesses and minds. Those with the longest life spans, tend to be those who are able to exercise and have meaningful social connections; which also seems to encourage better mental health.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: COVID-19 False Negative Test Results Are a Major Problem</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/03/covid19-false-negative-test-results-problematic.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#989312</link><pubDate>4/5/2020 6:08:27 AM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:989312</guid><dc:creator>dea16451</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;The way that The WHO is collecting their COVID19 statistics is concerning me. Just because someone has COVID19 when they die, doesn&amp;#39;t mean they died because of COVID19. Their current disease reporting requirements, are ensuring that COVID19 is listed as the cause of death, purely because the person had it at the time of death, even though other underlying conditions may have been the reason for the death  (eg. other viruses/flus, cancer, chemo, stroke, heart attack, aneurism, asthma)  Again, anyone recorded as having tested positive for COVID19,  if they die, they are recorded as a COVID19 death (but COVID19 may not have been what actually killed them). All reports keep saying that those that have died, had underlying conditions. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, the COVID19 death statistics, being touted to the world, are highly inaccurate. (see below from Prof Ioannidia and Dr Bhakdi) People who get the normal flu, with the milder symptoms, don&amp;#39;t usually bother getting tested for it, so are not included in normal flu statistics. But those who get COVID19, with the milder symptoms, have been encouraged to get tested, so with COVID19, the numbers are made to look much higher. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I see figures of people being tested, showing up as COVID19 negative, versus people being tested coming up as COVID19 positive.  So what diseases do the &amp;#39;negatives&amp;#39; actually have, if they have symptoms warranting testing? The normal flu?  How many have died of normal flu? Have some died with both COVID19 and normal flu, having presented with normal flu complications first, then showing up as having COVID19 later, having caught it in hospital? Then there&amp;#39;s the ones, like myself and my family, who back at the very beginning of January, had the symptoms of fever and cough (no runny nose), but never sought to get tested, because the media frenzy hadn&amp;#39;t begun yet, urging people to get tested. The numbers and statistics are being highly manipulated.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: COVID-19 False Negative Test Results Are a Major Problem</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/03/covid19-false-negative-test-results-problematic.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#989234</link><pubDate>4/4/2020 2:50:30 PM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:989234</guid><dc:creator>Brian1</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;False results is one reason why we still need to wear masks and do social distancing. Not having the virus still means we need to protect ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: COVID-19 False Negative Test Results Are a Major Problem</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/03/covid19-false-negative-test-results-problematic.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#989233</link><pubDate>4/4/2020 2:41:46 PM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:989233</guid><dc:creator>steelj</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, a medical procedure that doesn&amp;#39;t work very well! &amp;nbsp;How shocking!&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: COVID-19 False Negative Test Results Are a Major Problem</title><link>https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/03/covid19-false-negative-test-results-problematic.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#989120</link><pubDate>4/4/2020 6:42:05 AM</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:989120</guid><dc:creator>smidiot</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;perhaps the person is negative for COVID-19 but has a cold or flu with a set of symptoms which mimic those displayed by patients who actually have COVID-19. There can be false negatives or positives for any test just as health professionals can misdiagnosis an illness. Should the published numbers about infection rate and mortality be trusted?&lt;/p&gt;
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