A most alarming take on things by Mike Adams, but at this point I have read so much bad news that I am uncomfortably numb:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-08-14-next-chapter-plandemic-final-lockdown-extermination-humanity.html

“Every person who has signed up to be tested for covid-19 — or who runs a contact tracing app on their mobile device — is being funneled into a government database that will soon be used to hunt people down for forced vaccinations. What the Democrats want is armed vaccination teams going from private home to private home, forcing people to be vaccinated at gunpoint, or kidnapping them and taking them to FEMA-like “quarantine camps” for processing. (In reality, they are being taken to death camps for executions, see below…) There’s also credible evidence that some of the covid-19 test swabs have already been inoculated with the virus itself in order to spread the outbreak. They are spreading it on purpose, just like they did in Disneyland. Yes, the virus is real, and they have weaponized it against humanity. We know how to beat the virus now, using things like green tea and zinc, but the virus is very real and quite deadly to people who are nutritionally deficient and immune suppressed. Still, the masses of the world do not yet realize what’s coming. As usual, they awakened too late to the horrors that they ignored for too long. They let Big Tech, Big Media and Big (left-wing) Government gain too much power, to the point where the institutions are now the enemies of humanity. And so the ignorant, clueless masses will be systematically culled if the Democrats and globalists get their way. They will be lined up and forcibly injected with “vaccines” that are little more than kill shots, engineered with mRNA strands to turn your body into its own suicide bomb (autoimmune disorders). They will obediently line up at food banks where vaccinations are required to receive free food, and they will take the shot (mark of the beast) in exchange for a bag of toxic, processed food that’s laced with deadly pesticides and herbicides (because the food supply has long been a primary vector of killing humanity). And they will celebrate the LGBT genital mutilation of their own children, while murdering their babies in abortion centers and cheering Joe Biden’s mental incapacity as some sort of “progressive genius.” Yes, they are clinically insane. They want to rule the world, and they can’t wait to mass murder 90% of the human population to “save the planet” from humanity. These are not wild theories… these are their own public admissions. These are demons walking the Earth, and they seek to destroy as many human beings as possible as they destroy themselves in the process.”

     Someone wrote about ghost towns? As classic outlaws, that is our thing, having known many over the hundred and forty or so years we have been alive, John having had many a gun fight in the dusty streets, while tumble weeds, tumbled and six shooters, rumbled. The title is culled, we prefer highway robbery metaphors though, from Robert Bridge, so it looks like some information about what is going down in Melbourne is getting out to the wider world, probably by Indian smoke signals.
  https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/12/letters-from-melbourne-ghost-town-police-state-under-brutal-covid-lockdown/

“The citizens of Australia’s second most populous city are suffering under the harshest lockdown conditions of all Western democracies. Their voices need to be heard. In the last several weeks, Melbourne has introduced shockingly draconian anti-Covid measures, imposed on the metropolis of some 5 million souls. What tragedy was responsible for spurring officials to leap into action? To blame was a fractional uptick in the number of coronavirus deaths – seven to be exact, and all involving citizens above the age of 70 years old. The media jumped on the “new single-day record in Victoria,” which brought the state death toll to 56. I repeat, 56, and the overwhelming majority of those cases involved elderly people in nursing facilities, some of which are under investigation for their handling of patients. While it goes without saying that elderly lives matter, do seven elderly deaths really warrant the shutdown of one of Australia’s busiest cities? Despite the extremely low death rate, Melbourne residents – or shall we call them what they really are, prisoners – must adhere to the following rules:

     Like this super journo Jim Goad, I have already been a social distancing kind of guy for all my life. In school even, the bullies kept their distance from me, because I was dirty, and they were scared of me. Scared of catching something really nasty. Most of the time I spent outside the classroom because I smelt so bad. So, I did not learn much at school, only learning the basics of reading and writing when I was able to use a computer at the community centre a few years ago. As for maths, I can count like this: one, two three … too many… Today, I pretty much live in my shed, much as I have for the past ten years. But I would be happy enough as a totally homeless person, sleeping rough say in derelict buildings, building sites, or parklands. The Coviddo bug never worried me much. We at the bottom of the wheelie bin, who have nothing, have nothing to lose. We are free.
  https://www.takimag.com/article/extreme-social-distancing/

     There! Up in the sky! It is a bird! No, it’s a plane! No, it’s superman! No, it is a spy drone.
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-01/new-surveillance-technology-could-beat-coronavirus-but-at-a-cost/12201552

“If you don't feel comfortable signing up to the Government's COVIDSafe tracking app, then you probably won't be happy to hear about the pandemic drone. Key points:

     With universal vaccination on the agenda, basically using the thugs of the system to do the job, the new class are falling over themselves to advocate compulsory vaccination:
  https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/08/06/stop-coronavirus-compulsory-universal-vaccination-column/3289948001/?fbclid=IwAR1wC1VGvpqOn58lpgeUU8AWdp59_xzNJh_0-gSiSTLNKN0NJYgcAwQVY2o

“To win the war against the novel coronavirus that has killed nearly 163,000 people in this country, the only answer is compulsory vaccination — for all of us. And while the measures that will be necessary to defeat the coronavirus will seem draconian, even anti-American to some, we believe that there is no alternative. Simply put, getting vaccinated is going to be our patriotic duty. The reason: When an effective vaccine is available for COVID-19, it will only defeat the pandemic if it is widely used, creating “herd immunity.” It is important to note that during an epidemic, there is no threshold above which the protection conferred by herd immunity cannot be improved. Thus, the more people who are immunized, the lower the risk for all of us, including those who are not vaccinated.  Nor is there an alternative to vaccine-induced herd immunity in a pandemic. Relying on enough people becoming infected and then immune is dangerous, as exemplified by the Swedish experience where the COVID-19 mortality rate exceeds that of its more cautious neighbors. Broad induction of immunity in the population by immunization will be necessary to end this pandemic. In simple terms, a refusal to be vaccinated threatens the lives of others.”

     Well, blow me over, or give me a good roasting in the sun, because your body, and mine, can produce sunscreen.
  https://www.theorganicprepper.com/your-body-can-produce-sunscreen/
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15421-7

“According to a study published in April 2020 via the journal Nature Communications, genes present within the human body are capable of not only producing Vitamin D when the body is hit with sunlight, but the genes also have the potential to produce a natural sunscreen. You read that right: the human body is to a certain extent capable of producing its own sunscreen, thanks to some of the same genes that assist with Vitamin D production. But what about skin cancer? This find is in stark contrast to the old harping voice of the sunscreen industry, which maintains that sunlight can cause skin cancer and things of that nature.  While it’s provable that the massive array of frequencies contained within sunlight contains ultra-high frequency radiation, things that are thought to cause skin cancer and the like. However, is it possible that back in the last several decades of the 20th century, when so many people were getting skin cancer and having holes cut out of their backs to treat it, that sunlight wasn’t the primary agitating factor? Nowadays, it certainly is less common to encounter young people with holes cut in their backs due to skin cancer. Personally, both my grandfathers had just that, holes cut in their backs due to skin cancer. However, one thing I know about their lives, is that they lived and breathed DDT and other carcinogenic chemicals which utterly drenched the common American household back in that day. Some believe that environmental carcinogens in household products, pesticides, herbicides, and the like had more to do with skin cancer back then than sunlight. Supplementation of Vitamin D is more difficult than some vitamins, with a proper balance to Vitamin A necessary, to really get its full benefits if consumed via a supplement. Cod liver oil is said to be a great Vitamin D supplement, because of its natural balance between Vitamin D and Vitamin A.

     The role of China in allowing the Covid-19 pandemic to get rolling in the first place is slowly being pushed down the memory hole, even though the lock downs could well be setting the world on the path to World War III. The World Health Organization is not even going to investigate China’s role; if it was the US, you can be sure that these New World Order types would be screaming from the mountain tops.
  https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/who-will-not-investigate-wuhan-lab-where-coronavirus-was-kept
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/14/poll-65-americans-hold-china-accountable-for-spread-of-the-coronavirus/
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/13/nyc-weekend-shooting-victims-far-exceed-coronavirus-deaths/

“The World Health Organisation announced Monday that it will not be visiting the Wuhan Institute of Virology during its investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, despite the fact that the lab held samples of coronavirus that were almost exactly the same as that which caused a global pandemic. The WHO stated that its mission will only seek to “advance the understanding of animal hosts for Covid-19 and ascertain how the disease jumped between animals and humans”. As The Independent notes, the announcement suggests that the theory of the virus being modified or leaking from the lab in Wuhan has already been completely discounted by the WHO. In addition, the body has refused to provide any details of the locations it will be visiting during its investigation in China. As The Independent report notes, “It had previously emerged the lab had held a coronavirus sample that was 96.2 per cent the same as Covid-19 for almost a decade. This prompted speculation about the origin of the virus…” Several prominent researchers and scientists have also noted that the lab must be investigated given this fact. It also previously emerged that the Wuhan Institute of Virology took a shipment of some of the world’s deadliest pathogens just weeks before the outbreak of the coronavirus. It is also known that the lab was tampering with natural pathogens and mutating them to become more infectious. Intelligence figures across the globe have also called for the Wuhan lab to be investigated. The latest development comes amid reports that Chinese virologists have fled Hong Kong and effectively defected to the West with evidence against the Chinese Communist Party concerning its role in the COVID-19 pandemic. The WHO previously complained that it had ‘not been invited’ by China to investigate the outbreak, and has continually been criticised for propping up Communist Party talking points.”

     I hope that you are as excited as me about the prospects of having an endless number of highly tested Covid-19 vaccines pumped into your blood stream? Surely there is not much to go wrong here?
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-08-06-doctor-warns-covid-19-vaccine-alters-your-dna.html

“The current push underway to develop a vaccine against COVID-19 in record time has many medical professionals concerned, even those who are normally in favor of vaccines. One of the big areas of worry related to the effort is DNA damage. Internal medicine specialist Dr. Carrie Madej posted a video online recently in which she outlined her concerns about a vaccine. She explained that human DNA is not fixed. People’s genes can be reprogrammed and turned off and on to bring about changes in the body that can improve their health – or compromise it. Stress, diet and toxins can reprogram our genes, as can the lab-created genetically modified cell lines that are used in developing vaccines. This leads Dr. Madej to wonder at which point a person is no longer themselves after drugs or vaccines have changed their DNA. Since it’s possible to patent genetically modified material, can a human whose DNA has been changed using a patented drug be considered a genetically modified organism that can also be patented and owned? Such a vaccine would work very differently from traditional vaccines. These new mRNA vaccines essentially tell human cells to create the properties of an infectious organism. In the case of COVID-19, the vaccine places genetic instructions taken from coronavirus into human cells, prompting the cells’ ribosomes to generate infectious spike proteins. This would spur the immune system to attack the body’s proteins and spring B cell antibodies into action. Even though this process might create antibodies in vitro, that does not guarantee that people will be granted full-spectrum immunity from such a vaccine because a complete adaptive response would also involve T cells. There’s also the fact that coronaviruses mutate over time, which means that the mRNA sequences that are used in the vaccines would have to be modified every year to keep up with the latest strains and people would have to get injections on a regular basis to offer any degree of continued protection. Unfortunately, the rush to get a vaccine to market means that long-term studies into the health effects of inserting a gene into the genome in this way will not be possible. What we do know, however, is that preliminary clinical results have shown that compounding injections like this can cause negative effects and precursors to chronic disease. With higher doses, those risks rise.

     Why try and be an original American outlaw, when we can quote from a superior writer like Roosh V, who, trained in the biological sciences, knows far more about bugs than me? Me, well, guns and Bowie knives are my thing, with a spot of lawyering thrown in for good measure, and stage coach robbery horse rustling, maybe a few spots of gun and knife fighting. But, even while riding the prairie on my horse, I still wear a face mask, and in fact, people in my thieving profession were the first to wear face masks. So too should you, even while showering.
  https://www.rooshv.com/why-i-always-wear-a-face-mask

“You may be surprised to know that I constantly wear a face mask, even when I’m driving alone in my car. The reason is I don’t want to get infected by coronavirus, and other than washing my hands two dozen times a day, the mask is the only way I’m assured of staying healthy. I’d like to share why I wear the mask so that you decide to wear one too.

     Lock down is tough. But, for alcoholics such as myself, there is always the bottom of a bottle to search for. One is never alone with a bottle of booze, pathetic I know. But, suddenly there is a shortage of alcohol. Oh my, just as well I took our resident survivalist John Steele’s advice to stock up on vital supplies, such as plenty of alcohol. Kiddies reading this, do not follow my bad example, or you will end up like me, or worse, so learn your lesson about the evils of drink.
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8606265/Victoria-reports-460-cases-coronavirus-overnight.html?ito=push-notification&ci=27035&si=12817605

“'Stage four restrictions will make a difference but we won't see them for another week or more.' The tough stay-at-home restrictions, which include an 8pm-5am curfew for metropolitan Melbourne, have been in place for almost a week. The fresh infections come amid fears Victorians could be left without medicine, alcohol and school supplies after major businesses were closed by the state's stage four lockdown.”

     Here is a point of view that needs serious discussion by all respectable white collar and tie conspiracy theorists: is a massive depopulation program being put into place? Mike Adams, the Health Ranger has championed this idea before, but now with Covid-19 going into over-drive for round 2.0, soon 3.0 (?), he gives it both barrels in an unrelenting outpouring of conspiratorial logic, which we all love:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-08-03-coronavirus-vaccine-final-solution-depopulation-weapon.html

“Now we come to the real mission in the “plandemic,” the censorship, the banning of hydroxychloroquine and the silencing of America’s Frontline Doctors: It’s all about global depopulation via a new vaccine that’s designed to mass murder billions of human beings and sharply reduce the population of the human race on planet Earth. Why else do you think they’re making it mandatory while granting the vaccine companies complete legal immunity from all liability? It’s because the vaccine is designed to kill human beings, not save them. Once people start dying, no one can sue the vaccine makers. That’s why they needed the legal immunity agreements in place before they launched the vaccine push. The global depopulation agenda isn’t even a secret, by the way. Bill Gates openly talks about using vaccines to reduce the human population, and globalists openly admit they believe that if human populations aren’t sharply reduced, the planet’s biosphere will collapse due to carbon dioxide emissions, pollution and the frenzied consumption of natural resources. Whether or not you believe that, they (the globalists) believe it. And they believe they must kill 90% of the human population in order to save the other 10%. Thus, globalists who pursue global depopulation see themselves as heroes of humanity, not mass murderers. The engineering and release of the coronavirus is simply the escalation of the same goal: To shut down global economies, cause mass famine and poverty, followed by an engineered culling of human populations. Where the global warming fraud failed, the COVID-19 “plandemic” succeeded. The lockdowns were weaponized and extended, crushing national economics and leading to what will now be a mass wave of homelessness, destitution, disease, famine, social unrest and possibly even nuclear war.

     Hey, all you fans of Coviddy out there, here are some videos to watch during our imprisonment. Reports of unused tests coming back positive? Surely not. Just more conspiracies, but we like it.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WGd7MDOMVY&list=UUmvY_Q0pDd_IyolemhFG3pw&index=12
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEPGmXaqY2Q&list=UUmvY_Q0pDd_IyolemhFG3pw&index=13

     Whoaha! That one was so hot that Zucky plucked it while I was scratching this text out. View this stuff while one can if it is on the Tube. And, most enjoyable of all, visit a communist concentration camp 2020 style, seen by satellite. We know what to expect for the future. Nope, it seems a mighty much like home now.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgd20i0k5go&list=UUmvY_Q0pDd_IyolemhFG3pw&index=15

     This applies to women, but I am sure there would be equivalent health problems for men too. The more sex partners (over 10!) a woman has the greater the cancer risk:
  https://cancer.news/2020-07-28-study-finds-women-with-10-sexual-partners-greater-risk-of-cancer.html#

“Now, according to an alarming study published in the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, researchers have discovered that women who have multiple sexual partners are also more likely to be diagnosed with cancer.

     Australia’s leading vaccination critic, Dr Judy Wilyman has in her newsletter number 263, given a critique of the fundamentals of the very basis of the claim that there is a Covid-19 pandemic. No, she argues, it is more like a “plandemic” with a political agenda:   
  http://vaccinationdecisions.net/newsletters-2020/

“Many things can be hidden in disease statistics - there are lies, damned lies and statistics. In Australia if you do not turn on your TV you would not know there is a 'pandemic'. And if you do not do a medical test then there would not be so many 'cases' of this 'new' disease. These tests are not identifying SARSCov2, the virus that is claimed to cause COVID 19 disease, and many of the 'cases' do not have any signs of disease. In Australia the cases are from testing the healthy population. This is all about the criteria used to diagnose this disease and the extra surveillance that is being done in healthy people to find claimed 'cases' of this new disease. Here is a summary of the main points that demonstrate that this is a pLandemic and not a pandemic of an infectious agent:

     US journalist, Lance Welton, wrote from very early in the Covid-19 freak-out, that there were racial differences in susceptibility, and that Blacks, Hispanics, and East Asians were more susceptible than Whites (although this goes somewhat against the type of hierarchy of American Renaissance/race realism, where East Asians are superior to Whites in almost everything, but rank above Blacks and Hispanics – look Mom, I’m not a racist!).
  https://vdare.com/articles/covid-19-and-race-i-am-completely-vindicated-by-u-s-govt-report?scroll_to_paragraph=8

“It emerged that non-whites in the West were the worst hit, even when controlling for socioeconomic status. This appears to be due to Vitamin D deficiency indirectly caused by dark skin in an environment with low light—which also helped to explain why Africans in Africa were resistant. In essence, non-whites in countries with low light are Vitamin D deficient because they cannot so easily absorb sunlight via their skin and synthesize it into Vitamin D. But others likely also played a part. For example, the fact that Iran and southern Europe were particularly hard hit raised the possibility that, for these people, lack of genetic resistance to flu was significant.
Rounding up all that we now know on race differences in Covid-19 prevalence in the US, Andy Slavitt, former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has now concluded that the impact was clearly greater on non-whites. Based on the report by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Characteristics of Persons Who Died with COVID-19 — United States, February 12–May 18, 2020 July 17, 2020], Slavitt tells us (in an extended Twitter thread)  that 13% of whites who died were under the age of 65, compared to 30% of non-whites. The median age of death from Covid-19 for those under 65 was 44 for whites but only 31 for non-whites.”

     I am just reporting, so please don’t send the black helicopters with sub-nuclear missiles to my house, to blow everything up, because I just got the garden in order.  Just the antifa will be fine, to beat us all slowly to death, the good old-fashioned way! Oh, how cynical this old lady has become. But, there is still hope, for vitamin C plus quercetin, available still at your health foods shop may hold the key to a certain nameless virus that we cannot even mention in whispers, without meeting the same fate as Donny Trump’s son (eternal silencing):
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-07-28-study-vitamin-c-plus-quercetin-a-solid-remedy-for-coronavirus.html

“New research published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology has revealed that vitamin C combined with quercetin represents a powerful natural remedy for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). Entitled, “Quercetin and Vitamin C: An Experimental Synergistic Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Related Disease (COVID-19),” the paper takes a detailed look at the antiviral properties of these two nutrients, which together show incredible promise in helping Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) patients recover. It explains that quercetin has the ability to interfere “at multiple steps of pathogen virulence,” including at “virus entry, virus replication, (and) protein assembly” to inhibit the viral infection and proliferation. And when combined with vitamin C, quercetin is effective “for both the prophylaxis and the early treatment” of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), as well as other respiratory tract infections. In case you are unfamiliar with it, quercetin is a plant pigment in the flavonoid family that possesses antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and immune-protective properties. It has also been studied extensively for its ability to inhibit polymerases, proteases, and reverse transcriptase, as well as to suppress DNA gyrase and bind viral capsid proteins. This might sound like complicated language to the average “Joe,” but suffice it to say that quercetin, especially when amplified by the presence of vitamin C, obstructs viral infection, as well as viral replication and proliferation.

     This has been covered before, but now The Australian is taking this up:  
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/chinese-virologist-fled-territory-to-tell-truth/news-story/f7b441eae1e6c4fe765f854bdb267373?type=curated&position=1&overallPos=1&utm_source=TheAustralian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TATodaysHeadlinesSubPM&utm_source=TheAustralian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TATodaysHeadlinesSubPM

“A Chinese virologist has claimed she fled Hong Kong to expose the truth about a Beijing cover-up over the initial outbreak of COVID-19. Li-Meng Yan, a scientist at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, feared she would be killed for speaking out in China and chose to escape to the United States, where she is hiding at an undisclosed location. According to the researcher, the Chinese Communist Party and senior university staff suppressed evidence that coronavirus could be transmitted between humans as early as last December. Dr Yan, who grew up in mainland China, said she was among the first scientists asked to investigate a small number of cases in Wuhan. She claimed the Chinese government refused to let overseas experts, including those from Hong Kong, conduct research in China. On December 31 she turned to her contacts on the mainland for more information, including an expert at the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. One said that there were cases of “family clusters”, indicating human-to-human transmission, she claimed. Dr Yan said when she reported to her boss, Leo Poon, an Oxford-educated supervisor at the university, he ignored the information. The Hong Kong centre is used by the World Health Organisation as a reference laboratory and specialises in viruses. On January 9, it released a statement supporting Chinese claims that the virus “does not transmit readily among people”. A few weeks later Wuhan was quarantined. One study by Chinese and British experts found that had the lockdown begun at the start of the year, the number of cases could have been cut by 95 per cent, according to the Daily Mail. In a statement, the Hong Kong centre said Dr Yan’s reported comments had “no scientific basis but resembles hearsay”.

     The vaccination regime is getting into full swing, with the likelihood of compulsory vaccines for the whole world. Money! Money! Money! Taste the honey. Just ask old dollar bill:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8551511/Bill-Gates-warns-multiple-doses-vaccine-against-coronavirus-necessary.html

“Bill Gates has warned that any vaccine against coronavirus could take several doses to be effective, as he described 'serious mistakes' made by the Trump administration and said some schools may not be back to normal until the fall of 2021. The Microsoft founder, who now directs much of his time and energy to his global health foundation, said that the closure of schools was, after deaths, the 'biggest cost' of the pandemic. And, in an interview with Norah O'Donnell on CBS News, aired on Wednesday night, the Seattle-based billionaire was critical of Donald Trump's handling of the crisis. 'Some of the policies were a mistake,' said Gates. On the issue of a vaccine, Gates said he had faith in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finding a safe and reliable vaccine. But he warned that it would take 'unbelievably big numbers' of doses to wipe the virus out. 'None of the vaccines at this point appear like they'll work with a single dose,' Gates said. 'That was the hope at the very beginning.' Gates, who has been warning about the threat of a global pandemic since 2015, admitted that 'there will be a lot of uncertainty' about the efficacy of any vaccine, but stressed that it's a solution 'that will improve over time.' Gates said that he was dismayed by the response from the Trump administration, although he conceded that some of the 'serious mistakes' were made 'because we didn't understand the virus very well.' Among those mistakes was not encouraging people to wear face masks, and reopening too quickly, he said. He said Europe, in general, responded better. 'Their leadership communicated with a clear voice; their scientists were encouraged to go on tv rather than banned; and their population benefited,' he said. 'Just the idea that the CDC isn't being heard from, and that Fauci is being limited - you'd never have predicted that. It's really unexpected that you'd not have the experts able to share.'”

     Lots of shonky things have happened, and are happening re Covid-19 construction and reporting. Academic debunker of all things statistical, Professor John Ioannidis, has been working overtime:
  https://fee.org/articles/john-ioannidis-warned-covid-19-could-be-a-once-in-a-century-data-fiasco-he-was-right/

“A Florida health official told a local news station that a young man who was listed as a COVID-19 victim had no underlying conditions. The answer surprised reporters, who probed for additional information. “He died in a motorcycle accident,” Dr. Raul Pino clarified. “You could actually argue that it could have been the COVID-19 that caused him to crash. I don’t know the conclusion of that one.” The anecdote is a ridiculous example of a real controversy that has inspired some colorful memes: what should define a COVID-19 death? While the question is important, such incidents may be just the tip of the proverbial iceberg regarding the unreliability of COVID-19 data. In May, a public radio station in Miami broke what soon became a national story. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had been conflating antibody and viral testing, obscuring key metrics lawmakers use to determine if they should reopen their respective economies. The story was soon picked up by NPR, who spoke to an epidemiologist who condemned the practice. "Reporting both serology and viral tests under the same category is not appropriate, as these two types of tests are very different and tell us different things," Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security told NPR. The Atlantic soon followed with an article that explained the agency was painting an inaccurate picture of the state of the pandemic. The practice, the writers said, was making it difficult to tell if more people were actually sick or had merely acquired antibodies from fighting off the virus. Public health experts were not impressed.

     This horror speaks for itself. And, it is from the Canadian government, which says it all. Adult discretion please, shocking thing for news reporting I agree.
  https://globalnews.ca/news/7204384/coronavirus-glory-holes-sex/?utm_source=amerika.org

“B.C. health officials are recommending an age-old, occasionally cutting-edge tactic for sex during the coronavirus pandemic: “glory holes.” The B.C. Centre for Disease Control added new recommendations for socially distant sex to its COVID-19 website this week. One of those tips was to try using a “glory hole” — a hole cut into a wall that’s only large enough for a penis to slip through. Glory holes are typically used for anonymous oral or penetrative sex, according to Urban Dictionary, but they’re also an excellent way to limit physical contact during intercourse, the B.C. CDC says. “Use barriers, like walls (e.g., glory holes), that allow for sexual contact but prevent close face-to-face contact,” the health organization writes on its website. The recommendation is just a tip and not a firm rule, according to the website. The site includes many other tips for reducing your risk of spreading the coronavirus during sex, such as wearing a mask, refraining from kissing, using a condom and washing your body with soap and water. Health officials across the country have echoed most of that advice, although they haven’t said anything about glory holes. New York City health officials hinted at using glory holes in a recent three-page document without specifically naming them. “Be creative with sexual positions and physical barriers, like walls, that allow sexual contact while preventing close face-to-face contact,” the document said.