HOW MUCH DO THE MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS JOE BIDEN HAS USHERED OVER THE OPEN BORDER CONTRIBUTED TO COVID?
Data cover-up deepens as at least 3 children die of COVID every day in the US
Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced that it would discontinue publishing child hospitalization and mortality figures in its weekly “Children and COVID-19” report. The notice states that as of June 16, 2022, “due to only a portion of states reporting hospitalizations and deaths, we are no longer providing updates on cumulative hospitalizations and mortality data.”
The news highlights the degree to which surveillance and public reporting of the COVID-19 pandemic has been systematically shut down under the Biden administration, beginning with the Department of Health and Human Services ending the requirement for hospitals to submit daily death reports in early February.
Since the spring of 2020, the AAP has reported state-level information about child infections, hospitalizations and deaths. While the data has always been limited due its reliance on inconsistent public data from the states, the report has nevertheless been an important tool in tracking the far-reaching impact of the pandemic on the most vulnerable population in society. It has been particularly insightful in documenting the calamitous impact of the forced reopening of schools during the Delta and Omicron surges, during which the vast majority of infections, hospitalizations and deaths among children occurred.
The latest report notes, “Almost 13.8 million children are reported to have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic according to available state reports; nearly 315,000 of these cases have been added in the past 4 weeks. Approximately 5.9 million reported cases have been added in 2022.”
It adds as well that for the week ending June 30, nearly 76,000 children were infected with COVID-19, up from 68,000 last week. By contrast, this is a 528 percent increase from the number of child cases reported a year prior on July 1, 2021.
The rising cases are part of the latest wave of the pandemic ripping through the United States and internationally. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants are now dominant across the country, accounting for 70 percent of cases last week. The subvariants are known to be highly resistant to immunity from vaccines and prior infections.
The AAP’s last update for child hospitalizations recorded a cumulative total of 43,316 since the start of the pandemic but with data from only 25 states and New York City. It also recorded 1,055 deaths with data from 46 states, New York City, Puerto Rico and Guam.
Though alarming in themselves, the figures from the AAP are known to be undercounts due to the limitations noted above. Over 86,000 children ages 0-17 have been hospitalized from COVID-19 according to CDC data and at least 1,624 have died. The CDC Data Tracker, which is the most real-time source to track deaths by age group, has added 63 pediatric deaths in the past seven days alone, an average of nine per day. Over the past month, 101 pediatric deaths have been added to the Data Tracker, an average of over three per day.
Even these horrific figures are also likely undercounts. In a still unexplained incident, on March 16, 2022, the CDC abruptly removed 72, 277 deaths from the Data Tracker, including 416 pediatric deaths, or 25 percent of the total. Despite repeated attempts by the WSWS to clarify this change to their data, the CDC never issued a clear explanation.
The only plausible explanation for this data manipulation can be gleaned from a report in the Guardian and a form publicized by anti-COVID activist Gregory Travis, which note that the CDC now differentiates between children dying “with COVID” and dying “from COVID.” Initially a far-right talking point at the start of the pandemic, this was adopted by the Biden administration and state Democrats during the Omicron surge last winter.
Though the discontinuation of hospitalization and death data in their weekly report is alarming, the AAP is correct in noting the scarcity of information being made public about the spread of COVID-19.
According to Johns Hopkins, at present half (25) of US states report case information only once a week. Only four states continue to report case numbers seven days per week: Texas, Arkansas, New York and New Jersey. Twenty-four states report COVID-19 deaths only once per week, while Nebraska and North Dakota report deaths “0 days” per week.
On March 18, North Dakota changed from daily reporting to once per week reporting, but the state’s new weekly dashboard does not include deaths. Instead, COVID-19 deaths are now included in a provisional data report released by the Vital Records division once a month. Similarly, Nebraska’s “Respiratory Illness Dashboard” does not publish COVID-19 deaths.
Other states that have reduced reporting since mid-March include Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Montana and Vermont.
The CDC has led the charge in perpetuating the lie that tracking infections is not necessary. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky laughed during a recent interview when she stated, “I know we’re not counting all the rapid [tests]... One of my favorite lines from somebody at the CDC was, ‘you don’t need to count the rain drops to know how hard it’s raining.’” In fact, identifying cases is a prerequisite to isolating infected individuals and stopping the chain of transmission.
Nearly every state, in seeking to justify the reduction in reporting, cited the CDC’s changes to its community risk guidelines in February, which sought to convince the public that risk was tied not to community transmission but to local hospital capacity.
Announcing the reduction in weekly reporting on April 4, a spokesperson for Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services stated, “The change in the way the state will report cases and deaths going forward adheres to a national surveillance strategy created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
On May 18, Vermont decommissioned its COVID-19 dashboard and changed to weekly surveillance reports, which its website states provide “the data and indicators most useful to help monitor and determine risk of COVID-19” but do not include mortality data. Death information, as well as more robust data sets with demographic information, is only available through the state’s Open Geodata portal, which is also updated only once per week.
On a COVID-19 Update podcast episode in April, the American Medical Association interviewed Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH, the chief medical officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). The ASTHO consists of the chief health officials from each US state, Washington D.C., US territories and Freely Associated States. In the interview, Plescia stated that the reduction in data reporting is consistent with reaching “a different stage with how we’re handling the pandemic.”
Plescia repeated the lie that infections in themselves don’t matter. “We don’t want people to get COVID but people are going to get COVID and if they’ve been vaccinated, they’re probably going to be okay,” he said.
Every new detail that scientists learn about Long COVID, or Post-Acute Coronavirus Syndrome, underscores that this statement could not be further from the truth. At least 10 to 30 percent of people who contract COVID-19 will develop Long COVID and an estimated 20 million adults in the US currently suffer from persistent symptoms, which can affect nearly every organ system in the body.
As for children, very little is known about the long-term impact that an infection will have on their health and development. The recent release of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for ages 6 months-5 years is an important but limited step toward protecting children from the most severe acute outcomes. Vaccines have been shown to reduce the incidence of Long COVID by only 15 percent in adults.
Many children ages 5-17 remain unvaccinated altogether. As of June 29, 2022, only 36 percent of children ages 5-11 had received at least one dose and only 29 percent had two doses. Among ages 12-17, 69 percent had received at least one dose and 59 percent had two doses.
With the intentional shutting down of surveillance and public reporting of COVID-19 data, it is increasingly difficult for people to track the disease and understand their own risk. This has ominous implications for the coming fall and winter when millions of children will be forced back into dangerous classrooms and during which time the White House has projected 100 million Americans could contract the disease.
WSWS writer Benjamin Mateus recently posted an important graph on Twitter that showed global youth and infant mortality rates across historical periods. Beginning at the turn of the 20th century there was a monumental reduction in youth mortality rates, driven by the major advances in public health, including vaccines, hygiene and other interventions to protect children from diseases. He noted this was not “because children were exposed to pathogens, but rather protected from them.”
The current policies of the Biden administration and the CDC, which demand that the population “learn to live with COVID,” in line with the profit dictates of the ruling class, are a direct attack on this progress. The working class must take charge in defending itself and the younger generations against a historical move backward. This requires building an independent movement based on a conscious fight for a zero-COVID program in every country to end the pandemic.
Red States: Biden Eroding American Sovereignty by Releasing Over a Million Border Crossers into U.S.
President Joe Biden is eroding United States sovereignty as his administration has released over a million border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities since he took office in late January 2021, an amicus brief signed by 17 states alleges.
The brief — signed by officials from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming — was filed last week in a case against the Biden administration for their seeking to drastically reduce arrests and deportations of illegal aliens in the U.S.
As noted, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using the little-known “humanitarian parole” authority to release tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior every month.
“Although most migrants that DHS encounters are supposed to be subject to mandatory detention if they are not immediately removed DHS has circumvented this mandate too through abuse of its parole authority under 8 U.S.C. §1182(d)(5),” the brief states:
That parole authority is carefully circumscribed “within narrow parameters,” and requires individualized decisions that are made “case-by-case and with a public-interest justification.” But DHS has instead been “releas[ing] undocumented immigrants into the United States en masse” under that authority. [Emphasis added]
The brief suggests that three-fourths of illegal aliens arriving at the southern border are evading Border Patrol agents while the “small portion that DHS does not slip through the agency’s fingers entirely, DHS unlawfully paroles many of them into the U.S. rather than detaining them.”
“For the vast majority of migrants unlawfully entering the U.S., actual enforcement of U.S. immigration laws by DHS is thus the rare exception, rather than the rule,” the brief states.
As Breitbart News has reported, Biden’s DHS has released nearly 1.05 million border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities since February 2021. This is a foreign population twice the size of Wyoming’s, about 84,000 people larger than the population of Austin, Texas, and twice the population of Atlanta, Georgia.
In May, alone, Biden’s DHS released more than 95,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior — nearly 30,000 people larger than the population of Portland, Maine. In April, Biden’s DHS released nearly 118,000 and in March, the agency released over 80,000.
The case is Texas v. United States, No. 22-40367 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
America, the Globalist Grift
By Michelle Malkin | July 6, 2022 | 5:04am EDT
I hate to snuff out any post-Independence Day fervor that you still might be enjoying. Oh, well. "Wet Blanket" is my middle name. All the annual Old Glory-waving rituals and public displays of patriotic affection can't change this bitter fact:
Our once-sovereign nation has become nothing more than a morbidly obese cash cow for what the Biden administration now openly calls the "liberal world order."
Higher gas prices are just the tip of the sacrifice iceberg. It's our posterity paying the globalist pipers. In the new "liberal world order" (which is really just the same old Bush family "New World Order" of more than three decades ago), homegrown children's needs are subjugated to the hopes and dreams of the children of the rest of the world.
Stick with me and follow an open-borders bouncing ball that demonstrates how multinational elites exploit America Last — with the brazen complicity of our own U.S. government, nonprofits and corporations. As always, we must follow the money to find the truth. Let's dig deeper behind this headline:
"Former American Hebrew Academy will house unaccompanied immigrant children."
According to WFMY-TV news in Greensboro, North Carolina, a failed international school venture called the American Hebrew Academy entered into a lucrative five-year lease agreement this week with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. The plan will turn AHA's sprawling campus into a tax-subsidized shelter for illegal alien youth. The "unaccompanied children" will be shipped from Mexico starting this month and will be treated to a comprehensive array of benefits exclusively showered on the offspring of southern border violators.
I exposed the HHS/ORR kiddie catch-and-release racket in my 2019 book, "Open Borders Inc." Thanks to a liberal Bill Clinton-appointed judge in Southern California and convoluted class-action litigation dating back to 1997 on behalf of illegals spearheaded by the American Civil Liberties Union, the feds created new rights and standards for illegal alien minor shelter care. Clinton immigration bureaucrats agreed to provide food, clothing, personal grooming items, medical and dental care, family planning, "at least one hour a day of large muscle activity," "structured leisure time activities," psychotherapy and lawyers. Lots of lawyers.
HHS now operates a network of 100 state-licensed shelters in 17 states and has provided care to a whopping total of over 340,000 illegal alien children. (For perspective: That's a population roughly equivalent to the city of Anaheim, California, or Aurora, Colorado.) In 2017, the budget was $1.4 billion. In 2022, the Biden administration has requested an astronomical $3.2 billion in funding for the program.
Fun fact: The Biden administration rerouted $2 billion in COVID-19 funds for Americans to the illegal alien youth housing boondoggle.
Those tax funds will subsidize a panoply of for-profit and nonprofit ventures serving foreigners' children on American soil, which in turn provides bottomless inducements for countless hundreds of thousands of other families around the world to fork over coyote fees to send even more unaccompanied minors across our borders, who then move into the HHS/ORR facilities, which are served by nearly 50 other organizations at a cost of over $34,000 per child, according to the Capital Research Center.
So while you're worrying about formula, diaper and food shortages for your own kiddos, rest assured: Open Borders, Inc. is hard at work spending your money on everyone else's babies, toddlers and teens.
Let us peer further into the defunct "American Hebrew Academy," which is now reinventing itself as part of the Biden leasing scheme as the "Greensboro Piedmont Academy Influx Care Facility for UC (unaccompanied minors)" and the "Greensboro Global Academy."
The AHA was in a "financial death spiral" for years after its profligate founder and aviation reinsurance mogul, Maurice Sabbah, threw $100 million down a black hole pursuing his dream of building a world-renowned boarding school in 2001 that he envisioned as "an international destination in elite Jewish education," according to The Forward.
But that year, an arbitration panel ruled that Sabbah's aviation reinsurance business had committed fraud and "willful and deliberate misconduct" by skimming off hundreds of millions of dollars for its founders, leaving Japanese insurance companies high and dry when 9/11 happened; the decision yielded a $400 million settlement. The ripped-off companies then sued and settled with AHA to recoup purloined funds.
The operators of the academy tried to salvage the 100-acre campus — replete with an $18 million athletic field, 22-acre lake, 16 dorms, 34 staff resident apartments, natatorium, climbing walls and high-tech gadgetry in every classroom — by rebranding as an "international school" targeting Middle Eastern and Asian students.
The goal: bringing "globalization" to Greensboro.
The "American Hebrew Academy" turned to a "private" education company called Puxin in communist China for a $26 million loan in 2019 for help. In May 2022, the New York Stock Exchange moved to suspend trading in Puxin and delist it amid longstanding allegations of fraud. As Judicial Watch notes, "the money HHS is paying in rent will likely be used to pay back the Chinese company."
God bless America? God help us from the globalist grifters making bank off whatever is still left of this country, if that is what you call it.
(Michelle Malkin's email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com.)
Ron Paul: What We’re Facing Today ‘a Lot Worse’ than the Depression, Recent Downturns
Tuesday, during an appearance on Newsmax TV’s “American Agenda,” former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) warned the country was worse off than it had been in some of the most challenging economic times in its history, including the Great Depression of the last century.
Paul decried the economic policies of inflating the money supply and the U.S. debt as the causes.
“[T]he founders understood exactly what we’re talking about,” he said. “They had the runaway inflation with the Continental Dollar. So they put in the Constitution that only gold and silver could be legal tender. And if we had followed that, we wouldn’t have had the welfare-warfare state with these huge deficits and what we’re facing because I think what we’re facing today is a lot worse than what we’ve had in the past, whether it was the Depression or whether it was the downturns we’ve had in recent years.”
“I think the bubble is bigger,” Ron Paul added. “I think the debt is bigger. The demands are bigger, and people are way overconfident even though they’re getting worried — way overconfident that you can take your debt at $10 trillion and, in a few years, switch it to $30 trillion, and nothing changes.”
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Exclusive—RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Hammers Biden on Rising Prices: ‘American Dream Is Slipping Away’
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel hammered the Biden administration for its reckless spending and anti-U.S. energy agenda which forces Americans to pay more for groceries, gas, and travel.
Data from the Farm Bureau shows that the cost of having a July 4 cookout is 17 percent higher compared to prices from a year ago. This year’s Independence Day celebration will cost Americans, for a party of ten, approximately $69.68 for their favorite cookout foods such as cheeseburgers, pork chops, chicken breasts, homemade potato salad, strawberries, and ice cream.
In response to this, McDaniel exclusively told Breitbart News that “The American Dream is slipping away because of Joe Biden,” blaming the costs on Democrat policies.
“Democrats’ reckless spending, anti-U.S. energy agenda, and failed economic policies are leaving families further and further behind,” McDaniel continued. “Instead of celebrating Fourth of July weekend, Americans are spending more on groceries, emptying their wallets for gas, and canceling travel plans.”
The Farm Bureau’s July 4th cookout survey, which was taken from 176 volunteer shoppers across the country and in Puerto Rico — including from the agency’s staff — found that the most significant price increase in goods compared to last year was the ground beef, chicken breasts, and pork & beans:
- Two pounds of ground beef are $11.12, up 36 percent from last year
- Two pounds of boneless, skinless chicken breasts are $8.99, up 33 percent from last year
- 32 ounces of pork & beans are $2.53, up 33 percent from last year
- Three pounds of center-cut pork chops are $15.26, up 31 percent from last year
- 2.5 quarts of fresh-squeezed lemonade are $4.43, up 22 percent from last year
- 2.5 pounds of homemade potato salad are $3.27, up 19 percent from last year
- Eight hamburger buns are $1.93, up 16 percent from last year
- Half-gallon of vanilla ice cream is 5.16, up 10 percent from last year
- Thirteen-ounce bag of chocolate chip cookies is $4.31, up 7 percent from last year
The skyrocketing costs of everyday goods, ultimately costing Americans roughly $10 more than last year, also comes the year after the Biden White House tried to tout that Americans would save $0.16 on their Fourth of July cookouts.
Americans are starting to worry about the price of food.
A recent poll from CBS News found that the price of food impacts 90 percent of Americans, and 84 percent said they are personally affected by the cost of gas. This comes as the average price of gas has skyrocketed in June, seeing a record high for part of the month and soaring above $5 a gallon.
This also comes as Americans say the American Dream is less achievable now than it was two years ago.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that 60 percent of Americans are pessimistic about the ability of most people to achieve the American Dream. Additionally, 83 percent said that the state of the economy is “poor” or “not so good.” This comes two years after a Gallup poll found that 70 percent viewed the American dream as personally achievable.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
Joe Biden’s Approval Underwater on Key Issues
President Joe Biden’s approval on key issues is underwater months ahead of the midterm elections as Democrats hope to not only maintain but grow their majorities, a Yahoo! News/YouGov survey found.
The survey, which found 60 percent indicated that Biden should not run for reelection in 2024, showed 54 percent disapprove of his overall job performance. Only 38 percent approve, giving Biden a net approval of negative 16.
Biden does not fare better on specific issues, either. A majority, 59 percent, disapprove of his handling of the economy, compared to 31 percent who approve, putting him 28 points underwater in that area. Notably, 66 percent of independents disapprove of his handling of the economy as well.
The net negative trend is consistent on a variety of issues.
Race:
38 percent approve
47 percent disapprove
Guns:
36 percent approve
53 percent disapprove
Climate change:
36 percent approve
47 percent disapprove
Crime:
32 percent approve
53 percent disapprove
The situation with Russia and Ukraine:
38 percent approve
50 percent disapprove
Abortion:
31 percent approve
55 percent disapprove
Biden only garnered a positive approval on one issue — the coronavirus, with 45 percent approving and 43 percent disapproving.
The survey was taken June 24-27, 2022, among 1,630 U.S. adults and coincides with June’s Harvard Caps Harris Poll poll, which showed former President Donald Trump besting Biden on similar issues.
Exclusive — Rep. Markwayne Mullin: Biden Administration ‘Trying to Wreck Our Economy’ for a ‘Socialist Takeover’
Rep. Markwayne Mullen (R-OK) said the Biden administration is deliberately harming the U.S. economy to create pretexts for further governmental seizures of power and control over society, offering his remarks on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host Jerome Hudson.
Inflation of gas prices due to government decrees and policies is part of a broader undermining of U.S. prosperity driven by the Democrat Party to create citizens’ dependency on the state, Mullen stated.
“There are three things that a socialist takeover has to control,” Mullen said. “They have to control the education system, the healthcare system, and the energy sector. The energy sector, because the energy sector is the backbone of every economy. Without strong and affordable energy, you can’t have a strong economy. If you show me a country that doesn’t have reliable and affordable energy, I’ll show you a third-world country, and that’s the advantage that a socialist dictator [uses]. They take advantage of that.”
He continued, “They’re not disguising what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to wreck our economy so that the government can come back in and try to raise it back up. … They’ve literally taken the mask off. … They’re trying to destroy the market [for fossil fuels], and that market disruption happens to be in red states.”
Mullin is running in a special election to represent Oklahoma in the U.S Senate due to Sen. Jim Inhofe’s (R-OK) pending retirement, scheduled for January 2023.
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