Canada truck protesters call to defy order, Representatives for a group of truckers blockading Canada's capital over COVID-19 restrictions are calling on protesters to defy government orders to vacate the area. You cansubscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. Were not on drugs, and we dont need to be on drugs. Even if that is true, he seems oblivious to the law of large numbers and unconcerned that, if one million people catch the disease, that means 2,600 dead and that if 100 million people catch the disease (as could happen) that means 260,000 dead. Heidi Larson, for those of you who dont know who she is, is the director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, a group dedicated to combatting vaccine hesitancy. So, what is the other commonality between antivaxxers and COVID-19 deniers and conspiracy theorists? International Criminal Court, accessed Feb. 14. International Court of Justice, accessed Feb. 15. They identified six consistent themes and compared them to the anti-vaccine movement. How many times have you heard this argument? Larsons job at the WHO is to develop strategies to increase public confidence in vaccines and combat vaccine hesitancy and antivaccine views. Pramod K. Nayarteaches at the University of Hyderabad. "Now the world is watching the sausage being made," Bigtree said. Oliver O'Connell 23 January 2022 17:51 1642960830 But in the BitChute post,the text is cropped out. This was a huge pronouncement, one that equates intentional massacres of civilian populations with letting people die of starvation, or from a lack of air. Well, I must have, like, COVID, he recalled telling himself in mid-May. One of the happy delusions that many in the science-based community (including, at least somewhat, myself) and mainstream press have held over the years that has been punctured by the arrival of COVID-19 is that one main reason that antivaccine beliefs persist is that weve forgotten the toll that the diseases against which we vaccinate. Doctors and scientists say both the Moderna and . I would never wish COVID-19 on anyone, not even someone as odious and harmful to public health as Bigtree. The pronouncement recalls two historical trials that illuminate the larger questions our own honourable court has raised: that of crimes against humanity itself. We need to learn how to support this process and stop fighting it.. After all, you might think that no one is telling him he has to take a medication to protect others. An attention to what was said and proved therein are salutary lessons in what to look for, and what to read, in the signs around us. Antivaxxers and COVID-19 deniers share that mystical, magical belief system in which they are healthy entirely because of their choices, and they (and their children) are not at risk of horrible outcomes due to infectious disease because of their choices. Contrast that to what antivaxxers are doing now, protesting against lockdowns, refusing to wear masks, refusing to abide by social distancing, and, in essence, claiming that COVID-19 is no big deal. Nor, they underscored, was their countrys population on trial. On December 17, Bigtree shared a Reddit post about a Tennessee nurse who fainted shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine as supposed evidence that the vaccine is not safe. As has been widely reported, the nurses reaction was caused by a health condition she experiences -- syncopal episodes -- where pain, no matter how minor, can cause her to faint. And in this case, thats what I was doing for the last two years.. (In the case of antivaxxers, there is one exception. Obviously, I need blood transfusions, which goes against so much of what I try to do with my health, taking other peoples blood.. The result was negative. Antivaccine thought leader Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote a pseudoscience- and misinformation-filled letter to the Samoan Prime Minister, while antivaccine activists doubled down promoting fear mongering about MMR. Im sitting here in the middle of the conversation of my lifetime and Im having these, you know, symptoms that people are talking about, he said. Case counts were rising. Peter McCullough, MD, MPH Expand search. Its not just harassment and political resistance. Being overworked and stretched thin because of how inadequate many states public health infrastructure was before the pandemic play a role too. The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Gring (at the left edge on the first row of benches). More Info on Schemes Scammers are using social media to perpetrate COVID-19-related scams. Thats what this is. 07/27/20 3:21 PM EDT, After Facebook banned a prominent anti-vaxxers page for spreading dangerous medical misinformation, he just moved his lies to a different one, Fox News Tomi Lahren scolds Donald Trump for criticizing Ron DeSantis, Tucker Carlson says Andrew Tates arrest for human trafficking was pretty obviously a set-up, Tucker Carlson: A society that elevates people who are mentally ill is doomed, Sean Hannity encourages caller who claims hes stockpiling military weapons at the southern border, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow praises Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh's efforts to block anti-trans legislation, YouTube terminates anti-vaccine figure Del Bigtrees account after he pushed dangerous coronavirus and vaccine misinformation, Facebook and YouTube are letting anti-vaccine figure Del Bigtree push deadly coronavirus misinformation, Anti-vaccine figure Del Bigtree is using Facebook and YouTube to encourage people to intentionally contract coronavirus. He had a primary worry that only an anti-vaxxer could have. COVID-19 Vaccine-injured healthcare worker, Angelia Desselle, has been cruelly attacked by a social media mob accusing her of faking her tremors, which occurred post-vaccination. Bigtree returned on June 4. Getting vaccinated increases your protection against COVID-19 . The doctors sought to determine what was causing the problem in the first place. On that page, Bigtree shares disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine, including the baseless claim it will eventually kill half of its recipients. Jackson concluded his comments on the partys role: The Government, the Party formations indicted before you as criminal organizations, the Secret State Police, the Army, private and semi-public associations, and spontaneous mobs that were carefully inspired from official sources, were all agencies that were concerned in this persecution. Do it for the pharmaceutical-dependent! Del Ponte made the horrifying and yet simple point about Milosevic: Many victims cannot come before you because they did not survive. They fail to understand that personal health cant be separated from public health. Texts produced by demagogues and party leaders must be read closely, for they are not abstract ideals but action plans. Only unfounded fears to the contrary kept Bigtree from just getting a needed transfusion at the nearest facility. If you dont believe me, consider how in recent years they have manifested their hostility towards public health interventions not just in the form of resistance to school vaccine mandates, but in proposing laws and regulations that would make it more difficult for local health authorities to prevent and respond to outbreaks even leaving aside the issue of vaccines. He was marginally better when the plane took off the next morning. Last week, antivaccine activist Del Bigtree posted a rant denying the severity of COVID-19, blaming the chronically ill for having made themselves vulnerable to severe disease through their lifestyle choices, and urging the young and healthy to catch this cold. Soon as I arrived, [I] was greeted by the doctors from the hospital there.. He and his wife enlisted the help of family friends, a couple who are both emergency room doctors. The claim: A video shows a trial for COVID-19 'crimes against humanity' at the 'World Criminal Court'. For instance, the handwritten diary of Alfred Jodl documented detailed plans by Germany against individual nations: Austria (titled Case Otto), Czechoslovakia (titled Case Green) and others. Discover short videos related to covid lawsuit crimes against humanity on TikTok. Moderna . A user on BitChute, a video-sharing platformthat hosts content that's banned on YouTube, made the claim in a post published Feb. 6. Most importantly, I was thinking, How the heck am I going to know whether or not the blood Im getting that I need has been vaccinated? Bigtree recalled. It's indeed a crime against humanity what's currently happening with the establishment (government-, science- and medical . Eager to get in on the anti-vaccine action, Staver's colleague and co-host Holly Meade called the push to vaccinate Americans "a crime against humanity.". Basically, if youre surprised that antivaxxers have allied themselves with COVID-19 deniers, you havent been paying attention. Also read: COVID-19: Like in Dantes Inferno, Indians Are Going Through Nine Circles of Hell. Kennedy falsely claimed that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines alter the function of your genes, potentially causing autoimmune disease in recipients. They do care about children whose chronic health problems they think they can blame on vaccines, but from my perspective they only care about them insofar as they can use them to blame vaccines for autism, autoimmune diseases, sudden infant death syndrome, diabetes, and the myriad chronic health conditions that have led antivaxxers like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to falsely claim that todays generation is the sickest generation, all due to vaccines.) According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the Geneva Conventions define war crimes to include "willful killing; torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments; willfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health; extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and . The HighWire host, Del Bigtree, whose 7-year investigation into Vaccine Safety and Policy in America inspired the launch of ICAN (icandecide.org) and The HighWire, explains why 'it ain't Just the Covid Vax' that you should be worried about. by Lisa Benjamin. Get through the day! And Im worried about the spike protein.. -- From David Martin, Documentation TO USE: Felony Crimes Show The Highwire with Del Bigtree, Ep COVID CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY? Isnt it also letting die, not wanting to know that one is letting others die hundreds of millions of human beings, from hunger, AIDS, lack of medical treatment, and so on also be part of a more or less conscious and deliberate terrorist strategy?. But Im going to be honest about it because I think its something that we all do. Numerous calls have been issued since the late 1990s for the Holodomor to be termed a genocide. The persons were tried, as both Robert H Jackson, the Chief United States Prosecutor at Nuremberg and the Milosevic prosecutor CarlaDel Ponte emphasised, as individuals. And they found one one unit of blood.. Mar-a-Lago Clearinghouse: All Key Documents in the Special Counsel Investigation. You do not get to put me in the way of Heidi Larson, who wants to eradicate natural health and natural immunity and make us all pharmaceutical dependent. Photo: Wikipedia Commons, The Nazi Party was bound by an iron discipline into a pyramid, with the Fhrer, Adolf Hitler, at the top and broadening into a numerous Leadership Corps The membership took the Party oath which in effect amounted to an abdication of personal intelligence and moral responsibility The membership in daily practice followed its leaders with an idolatry and self-surrender more Oriental than Western., Also read: A Report Card on the End Times Brought Upon Us by Hindutva. It was an instrument of conspiracy and of coercion.. All hes being asked to do is to wear a facemask when in public around other people, to abide by social distancing guidelines, and to wash his hands and/or use hand sanitizer frequently. Covid-19 did not stop war crimes being tried by international jurisdictions. The mob descended on her after she responded to a tweet from Elon Musk, with video of her injury. This sort of attitude is very typical of antivaxxers and is born of how much antivaxxers believe in alternative medicine and natural treatments. The health officers are kind of in this position where everything that everyone is angry about is the health officers fault., The official described death threats received by email and on social media as well as protesters showing up to their home. He would have had no problem taking blood from his wife, who we can presume is unvaccinated. And in case thats enough, SFGate published a story recounting the damage done to young people who have survived severe COVID-19, including kidney failure requiring dialysis, shortness of breath that persists for many weeks, the need for chronic oxygen, multiple relapses, and other complications. Nationwide, a number of health directors have either retired, quit, or been fired in the face of harassment, resistance, and the unhappiness of politicians: This isnt just happening in California. In its annual report, Trial International, a Geneva-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) even points to a rise in . (As an aside, in this age of the COVID-19 pandemic, its hard for me not to be almost nostalgic for times when measles outbreaks were one of my main concerns. This essay focuses on action in the Sixth Committee for two reasons. And I was aware that there was bleeding taking place, as many people that suffer from those things do, but I just kept working and thinking Ive never heard of someone dying from freaking hemorrhoids., He went on, I am here to report that the surgeon said that, you know, what was inside was horrific and really needed to be taken care of. There is, of course, a small kernel of truth buried in his rant in that, yes, lifestyle matters when it comes to chronic disease. What difference does it make? You have diabetes. In March 2020, anti-vaccine activists incorrectly alleged - by misrepresenting a study - that flu vaccines increase COVID-19 risks. According to Jackson, the Nazis had dripped so much poison into the country that the forces they set in motion remain: these prisoners represent sinister influences that will lurk in the world long after their bodies have returned to dustThey are symbols of fierce nationalisms and of militarism, of intrigue and war-making They have so identified themselves with the philosophies they conceived and with the forces they directed that any tenderness to them is a victory and an encouragement to all the evils which are attached to their names. What am I going to do? Bigtree said on the podcast. The trials repeatedly teach us this: in totalitarian states, or those morphing into one, the leader reconstructs the party in a way that is iconophilic towards him or her. Ohios state health director, Amy Acton, resigned last week after facing legal challenges to her authority and protests in front of her home. And does killing necessarily mean putting to death? Report COVID-19 Fraud. The anti-vaxxers insist they know better, or at least until they try it. That 0.26% are the most sick among us, and I have nothing against you. Thats the United States of America. The party unleashes an army of minions to do its bidding, the grassroot level organisation enables it, through coercive measures, including moral policing, to establish a reign of terror. The document, which obtained over 3,100 signatures around the world, blasts the "one size fits all" treatment recommendations . Come on! Its "distance" in evolutionary time to SARS-CoV-2 is about 20 to 80 years. Crimes against humanity are specific crimes committed in the context of a large-scale attack targeting civilians, regardless of their nationality. You really need four liters of Coca-Cola? Text reading "model proceeding" is inthe bottom right-hand corner oflivestreamsonYouTube and Odysee, another video-sharing platform. When Bigtree joined the program, he made the baseless assertion that recipients of COVID-19 vaccines may face up to a 50% mortality rate if they ever encounter another coronavirus in their lifetimes, echoing a claim that originated from toxic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Think about it. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched.. Crimes always are committed only by persons. And so I had a surgery to deal with that., He added, Im sitting on my doughnut right now, in all total candor.. He had all the while been ignoring a private medical, seemingly minor problem of his own. Video & Audio Rather than the perhaps emotional and subjective testimony of the survivors, Nurembergs Jackson unusually chose to trust the supposedly objective material record of Nazi planning and process. In the Ukraine during 1932-33, thanks to Josef Stalins policies in taking away all their grains and blockade of food movement into the region, 6 million died from starvation in the Holodomor (killing by starvation). Smoking does hugely predispose you to lung and cardiovascular diseases, for example. You have COPD. As I described a little over a year ago, you have to do is to look at the reaction of antivaxxers to the numerous measles outbreaks that have occurred over the last decade in areas of low uptake of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. In relation to COVID-19, anti-vaccine activists have aggressively promoted misinformation from the start of the pandemic. One wonders if he views nearly all cancer as preventable when it is not. That was on the night of May 20. NEWS (December 5th, 2021): Public International Criminal Court for Crimes Against Humanity vs Covid-19 have started a Nuremberg Trials 2.0 website HERE. Bigtree decided to see a cardiologist, who did some blood tests as well as checked his heart. In iconophilic political parties, national ideals are what the charismatic leader says they are, and only serve to consolidate the leaders iron grip on the party. No one argues that there isnt a difficult tradeoff to be made between public health and economic interests. The speaker added, The truth is our bodies take on viruses to help detox and push out toxins from our bodies. And the ongoing scandals around the coronavirus COVID19 vaccine are adding even more scrutiny to the industry. German efficiency was devoted to mass murder and Nazi politics like that of Milosevics, blinded by devotion to the Great Leader, was a necropolitics. The group behind the original 90-minute video from which the clip is taken, called "Grand Jury,"didn't claim it showed a real trial. How often have you heard them reject any responsibility whatsoever for any children other than their own, dismissing the concerns of parents of children with cancer or other conditions that leave them immunosuppressed and unable to take certain vaccines? He recounted the tale of his illness in the June 4 episode of his weekly anti-vaccine podcast, The Highwire. In the meantime, a guest host filled in on The Highwire, so as to keep the distortions and delusions flowing. Lets go outside. We were running tests on everything, but what it ultimately appears to have come down to is really Occams razor, which is the simplest answer, Bigtree said. Fortunately, this is not an attitude shared by most Americans, although it is de facto policy in too many parts of the country. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Steven P. Novella, MD Founder and Executive Editor, David H. 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His rant shows exactly why COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and antivaxxers have such an affinity for each other and have teamed up to Jackson underscored that the entire party apparatus built on a certain appeal: It also made a strong appeal to that sort of nationalism which in ourselves we call patriotism and in our rivals chauvinism. Bigtrees affliction might seem apt to those who refer to a professional anti-vaxxer with a certain vulgarism. Its also, Ive noticed, very typical of COVID-19 deniers, many of whose attitude seems to be, Screw the old and chronically ill, I need to golf and get a haircut! Indeed, this attitude started to take root fairly early in the pandemic, when a number of politicians of a certain political bent (you know which one) argued in essence that we need to sacrifice grandpa and grandma in order to save the economy. He also falsely claimed that COVID-19 can be cured by hydroxychloroquine. Think about it though. Overeating does predispose to obesity, although it is way more complicated than Bigtrees version of it, which, boiled down to its essence, demonizes those with obesity as fat slobs who lived their youth and middle age overindulging without a care in the world for what their choices are doing to their body. The unholy alliance between antivaxxers and COVID-19 conspiracy theorists is a natural fit. John Ziegler Goes Viral Over Lockdown; CA Mayor Defies Newsom Mask Order; Dr. Zelenko's HCQ Protocol Saving Lives; Kids & Masks: Are They Safe? But that is an error that must be avoided Collective guilt forms no part of the prosecution case.. A week and a half ago, Ohio health director Dr. Amy Acton, who had made national news for her science-based approach to COVID-19 and public health, resigned, due to a burnout from overwork and dealing with protesters and resistance, for example: Actons experience was no different. One medical tale to which Bigtree seems to use the truth as home base was the upshot of his own. Of course, hes also refusing to wear a mask and social distanceIll give him the benefit of the doubt that hes not refusing to wash his damned handsbut primarily hes saying he refuses to be vaccinated against coronavirus once there is a vaccine. Last week, a prominent antivaxxer, Del Bigtree, whom you will likely remember as the genius behind the antivaccine propaganda film disguised as a documentary, VAXXED, demonstrated this hostility towards reasonable public health interventions in a segment from his online video show, The Highwire With Del Bigtree posted on June 19. Philosophers such as Achille Mbembe argue that modern politics is often a necropolitics, a production of death. One way of thinking about this is whether there are customary international criminal law rules on crimes against humanity that might be applicable to the United States. That group is very well known. Bigtree did not respond to a Daily Beast request for comment about his illness and subsequent account. Drug yourself! ), He then falsely called COVID-19 a cold, and claimed that unlike quarantine measures put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19, we let the Spanish flu run its course, we let MERS run its course, we let SARS run its course and we all lived. (That is not what happened during those outbreaks, some of which killed many people.). You did that to yourself, not me. An international group of physicians and scientists signed a declaration Friday accusing COVID-19 policy-makers of "crimes against humanity" for preventing the use of life saving treatments on their patients. May 7, 2021 A team of over 1,000 lawyers and over 10,000 medical experts led by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich have begun legal proceedings against the CDC, WHO & the Davos Group for crimes against humanity.