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Leaked Email: Wuhan Lab Chief ‘Ordered Scientists Not to Talk About COVID Origins’

China covered up claims that the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology ordered scientists not to talk about Covid, bombshell emails have revealed.

US State Department correspondence, obtained through freedom of information requests, points to more evidence of how the Communist Party tried to control the narrative during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

Emails uncovered by US Right to Know (USRTK) – a public health research non-profit organisation – show how the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) told staff “not to discuss Covid-19” in January 2020.

And a memo shared by Terminus 2049 – a crowd-sourced project which archives materials censored by Chinese media outlets – showed the alleged directive from the top of the lab.

It appears to show the director general of the Wuhan lab emailing staff to “strictly prohibit” them from speaking publicly about “the unknown causes” of the virus. (Read more from “Leaked Email: Wuhan Lab Chief ‘Ordered Scientists Not to Talk About COVID Origins’” HERE)

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Teachers Union President: Schools Might Not Reopen This Fall (VIDEO)

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten was ripped after hedging on whether or not U.S. schools would reopen in the fall during a Wednesday interview on MSNBC.

While having previously recommended that fully vaccinated individuals are not required to wear masks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed guidance following the spread of the new Delta variant of the virus, announcing that vaccinated people should return to wearing masks indoors and suggesting universal masking in schools.

Weingarten called the guidance a “curveball,” before suggesting that school reopenings this fall are not a done deal.

“So the bottom line is, we’re going to keep kids safe, we’re going to keep our members safe, we’re going to try to open up schools, and we’re going to move through this political battlefield,” Weingarten said.

Critics picked up on her comment about the reopening of schools because it sounded like backpedaling from when she argued in May that “we can and we must reopen schools in the fall.”

(Read more from “Teachers Union President: Schools Might Not Reopen This Fall (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Facebook, Google Mandates Vaccines for Employees

Google and Facebook have both announced that all employees returning to company offices must be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

NBC News reports that Google and Facebook have both stated that all employees returning to company offices will need to be fully vaccinated as fears around a delta variant of the coronavirus continue to rise amongst the Silicon Valley elite.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a memo to employees this week: “Anyone coming to work on our campuses will need to be vaccinated. We’re rolling this policy out in the U.S. in the coming weeks and will expand to other regions in the coming months. Getting vaccinated is one of the most important ways to keep ourselves and our communities healthy in the months ahead.”

Just a few short hours after Google’s announcement, Facebook enacted a similar policy. Lori Goler, Facebook’s vice president of people, told employees: “As our offices reopen, we will be requiring anyone coming to work at any of our US campuses to be vaccinated. How we implement this policy will depend on local conditions and regulations. We will have a process for those who cannot be vaccinated for medical or other reasons and will be evaluating our approach in other regions as the situation evolves. We continue to work with experts to ensure our return to office plans prioritize everyone’s health and safety.” (Read more from “Facebook, Google Mandates Vaccines for Employees” HERE)

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CDC Reverses Mask Guidelines for Vaccinated; Netflix Mandates Vaccine; Governor Signs Law Banning Vaccine Mandates

By NBC New York. States and businesses scrambled Wednesday to change course after the federal government issued new guidance calling for the return of mask wearing in virus hot spots amid a dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations nationwide.

Nevada and Kansas City were among the locations that moved swiftly to re-impose indoor mask mandates following Tuesday’s announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The guidelines also call on all schools to require masks for students, teachers and visitors, and districts around the country tried to navigate the latest advice.

In a handful of Republican-led states, lawmakers have made it illegal for schools to require masks. South Carolina’s governor said the state would not reverse its mask restriction, but Arkansas leaders are weighing whether to revisit an April law banning local and state government entities from requiring masks. (Read more from “CDC Reverses Mask Guidelines for Vaccinated” HERE)

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Netflix to Require COVID Vaccinations for Actors & Other “Zone A” Personnel on Its U.S. Productions

By Deadline. Netflix has become the first major Hollywood studio to implement a blanket policy mandating vaccinations for the casts of all of its U.S. productions, as well as those who come into contact with them on set.

I hear the streamer just informed its production teams and partners that it will be requiring vaccinations for everyone working in “Zone A,” which consists of the actors and those who come in close proximity to them.

The new return-to-work protocols agreed upon by the Hollywood unions and major studios last week give producers “the option to implement mandatory vaccination policies for casts and crew in Zone A on a production-by-production basis.” (Read more from “Netflix to Require COVID Vaccinations for Actors & Other “Zone A” Personnel on Its U.S. Productions” HERE)

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Republican Governor Signs ‘Medical Freedom’ Law Preventing COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

By Washington Examiner. New Hampshire residents will not be forced to receive a coronavirus vaccination despite other states and businesses requiring one.

“Every person has the natural, essential, and inherent right to bodily integrity, free from any threat or compulsion by the government to accept an immunization,” according to a new bill that Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law this week.

The “medical freedom” law came to fruition as some neighboring states look to boost vaccination rates via vaccine mandates. Some public businesses across the country, including larger entities such as the NFL, are also requiring their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The New Hampshire government is still promoting the vaccine to its residents. (Read more from “Republican Governor Signs ‘Medical Freedom’ Law Preventing COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates” HERE)

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WATCH: CNN Anchor Calls To Punish Americans Who Refuse COVID Vaccine

CNN host Don Lemon voiced his support for those who do not want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to be ostracized from society and should not be able to go grocery shopping or being able to hold a job.

“I’m sure a lot of people are not going to agree with this but don’t get the vaccine, you can’t go to the supermarket. Don’t have the vaccine, can’t go to the ball game. Don’t have a vaccine, can’t go to work. You don’t have a vaccine, can’t come here. No shirt, no shoes, no service,” Lemon said on Monday night to host Chris Cuomo.

“That’s where we should be because we continue to waste our breath on people that are just not going to change. You know, the circular logic they keep going back and saying well, it’s my freedom it’s whatever. I’m free. Well, your kid is not free to give other kids meningitis in schools. Got to take a vaccine to do that. You got to take a vaccine to be employed. So what is the big deal? All these people are saying I don’t want to put this stuff in my body there out drinking on the weekend and putting other substances in their bodies that’s way worse than a vaccine. Come on, let be real.”

(Read more from “WATCH: CNN Anchor Calls To Punish Americans Who Refuse COVID Vaccine” HERE)

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Pro-Mask Governor Pulls Son From Summer Camp After Maskless Photos Surface

Gov. Gavin Newsom removed his children from a summer camp after photos surfaced of his son attending the camp indoors maskless.

“​​The Newsoms were concerned to see unvaccinated children unmasked indoors at a camp their children began attending yesterday. Their kids will no longer be attending the camp,” the governor’s communications director, Erin Mellon, told Fox News in a statement Tuesday when asked about the photos.

California’s current guidance for children aged 2-11 states they must wear masks during “camps for youth, youth sports and other youth activities, including theater and music performances and band. Updated CDC guidance is forthcoming for youth settings.”

California officials announced July 9 that students and teachers returning to the classroom this year will also be required to wear masks, regardless of vaccination status.

“We’re going to start with a requirement K through 12 that the year begins with masks,” California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said at the time. “At the outset of the new year, students should be able to walk into school without worrying about whether they will feel different or singled out for being vaccinated or unvaccinated — treating all kids the same will support a calm and supportive school environment.”

(Read more from “Pro-Mask Governor Pulls Son From Summer Camp After Maskless Photos Surface” HERE)

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Study: Recovered COVID-19 Patients Possess Robust Immunity to Virus

A newly released study conducted by Emory University suggests recovered COVID-19 patients possess long-term immunity to the respiratory virus months after infection.

Published in Cell Reports Medicine, the comprehensive study analyzed 254 individuals with mostly mild to moderate symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection over an eight-month period and found that patients possessed “durable broad-based immune responses” to the virus after recovering from an infection.

“The study serves as a framework to define and predict long-lived immunity to SARS-CoV-2 after natural infection,” said Emory Vaccine Center director Rafi Ahmed. “We also saw indications in this phase that natural immunity could continue to persist.” Ahmed served as a lead author on the study.

The study goes on to note that in response to an active infection in the body, the human immune system produces a multitude of neutralizing antibodies, while also activating certain T and B cells to establish immune memory. Ahmed denotes that these developments make a strong case for some form of lasting immunity to the virus. (Read more from “Study: Recovered COVID-19 Patients Possess Robust Immunity to Virus” HERE)

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How Children Are Spoofing COVID-19 Tests With Soft Drinks

Children are always going to find cunning ways to bunk off school, and the latest trick is to fake a positive Covid-19 lateral flow test (LFT) using soft drinks. [Videos of the trick have been circulating on TikTok since December and a school in Liverpool, UK, recently wrote to parents to warn them about it.] So how are fruit juices, cola and devious kids fooling the tests, and is there a way to tell a fake positive result from a real one? I’ve tried to find out.

First, I thought it best to check the claims, so I cracked open bottles of cola and orange juice, then deposited a few drops directly onto LFTs. Sure enough, a few minutes later, two lines appeared on each test, supposedly indicating the presence of the virus that causes Covid-19.

It’s worth understanding how the tests work. If you open up an LFT device, you’ll find a strip of paper-like material, called nitrocellulose, and a small red pad, hidden under the plastic casing below the T-line. Absorbed on the red pad are antibodies that bind to the Covid-19 virus. They are also attached to gold nanoparticles (tiny particles of gold actually appear red), which allow us to see where the antibodies are on the device. When you do a test, you mix your sample with a liquid buffer solution, ensuring the sample stays at an optimum pH, before dripping it on the strip.

The fluid wicks up the nitrocellulose strip and picks up the gold and antibodies. The latter also bind to the virus, if present. Further up the strip, next to the T (for test), are more antibodies that bind the virus. But these antibodies are not free to move – they are stuck to the nitrocellulose. As the red smear of gold-labelled antibodies pass this second set of antibodies, these also grab hold of the virus. The virus is then bound to both sets of antibodies – leaving everything, including the gold, immobilised on a line next to the T on the device, indicating a positive test.

So, how can a soft drink cause the appearance of a red T line? One possibility is that the drinks contain something that the antibodies recognise and bind to, just as they do to the virus. But this is rather unlikely. The reason antibodies are used in tests like these is that they are incredibly fussy about what they bind to. There’s all sorts of stuff in the snot and saliva collected by the swabs you take from the nose and mouth, and the antibodies totally ignore this mess of protein, other viruses and remains of your breakfast. So they aren’t going to react to the ingredients of a soft drink. (Read more from “How Children Are Spoofing COVID-19 Tests With Soft Drinks” HERE)

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China’s Biowarfare Military-Civilian Research Fusion And How It Links To U.S. Research Centers

China’s massive biowarfare program operates at three levels.

There is a core secret military level composed of military research centers and hospitals.

The second level includes all universities and “civilian” research centers, like the Wuhan Institute of Virology because in China there is no difference between military and civilian research.

The fusion of military and civilian research was mandated by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Thirteenth Five Year Plan in 2016.

That second level allows the core secret military level to access knowledge and skills from the third level of China’s biowarfare program, international universities and research centers, particularly those in the United States.

Since the 1990s, scientists with direct and indirect connections with China’s biowarfare program have been coming to the U.S. in a process we call “scientific chain migration.”

The first wave of Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) or CCP-sponsored scientists would establish themselves in U.S. research laboratories, then inviting their colleagues.

Today, there are an overwhelming number of PLA and CCP scientists in the U.S., many of whom are now U.S. citizens, but maintain active scientific collaboration with colleagues in China, including the PLA.

Those PLA and CCP-sponsored scientists operating in the U.S. have been using U.S. government funding to support research with their Chinese collaborators.

By following the research funding within China, it is possible to gain an understanding of how the military-civilian research fusion system operates.

One such example is provided below.

As described in an earlier [Restoring Liberty] article, we believe, based on an examination of Chinese-language documents and scientific publications, that the Military Veterinary Research Institute and the Institute of Zoonotic Diseases in Changchun, Jilin Province, China, led by People’s Liberation Army General Ningyi Jin and retired General Xianzhu Xia, are core elements of China’s biowarfare program.

General Xianzhu Xia is a graduate of Nanjing Agriculture University. Nanjing also happens to be the headquarters of the PLA’s Eastern Theater command, whose role in the creation of the COVID-19 virus we have previously documented on [Restoring Liberty].

Chinese internal research funding documentation shows that Shuo Su from the Nanjing Agricultural University is funded by the PLA’s Military Veterinary Research Institute.

Shuo Su was an early adaptor of “gain of function” research in 2014 using influenza viruses and also published about genetic recombination of coronaviruses in 2016.

His 2020 work on the COVID-19 virus links directly back to the Military Veterinary Research Institute via his collaboration with Zongzheng Zhao, who was also separately doing “gain of function” research on influenza viruses in 2014.

Shuo Su’s international collaborations include the University of Florida, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin, Ohio State University, Tulane University, UCLA and others.

The direct links between the PLA’s Military Veterinary Research Institute and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston have been documented in an earlier [Restoring Liberty] article.

It is time to end the debate about the origin of the COVID-19 virus, which China hopes to prolong. The COVID-19 virus was made in a laboratory in China.

The next task is to identify those in the PLA who were involved in creating the COVID-19 virus and precisely how it was done.

In conjunction, there should be an investigation of U.S.-based scientists who may have assisted the PLA and expose the extent of infiltration of U.S. virus research programs by the CCP and the PLA.

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Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is retired from an international career in business and medical research with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. His email address is [email protected].

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Grandson of Rev. Billy Graham in Critical Condition With COVID-19

The grandson of late evangelist Billy Graham is hospitalized in critical condition with COVID-19, relatives said.

Jonathan Lotz, who reportedly worked with his grandfather from 1994 through 2002, was in an ICU at an undisclosed hospital Sunday, according to a Facebook post by his mother.

“Pray he will not have to go on a ventilator, that his oxygen levels would increase, that his lungs will be strengthened, healed and that his health will be fully restored — with no long-term complications,” wrote Anne Graham Lotz, one of the Rev. Billy Graham’s five children. “My heart is filled with gratitude for your prayers.”

Lotz said her son — a cancer survivor who directs Jonathan Lotz Ministries, preaching the “Gospel of Jesus Christ” across the world, according to its website — texted her early Sunday with an update on his condition, saying he was exhausted yet “spiritually overflowing.”

“I have had the privilege of sharing Jesus with the ER & ICU staff,” Jonathan Lotz texted his mother. “What a Savior! God is so good!” (Read more from “Grandson of Rev. Billy Graham in Critical Condition With COVID-19” HERE)

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