Three Hawaii residents who were fully vaccinated against the CCP virus have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.

“His excitement, positivity and energetic team spirit were one of a kind,” Fox executives said about employee Eric Spinato.

On March 16, Louder with Crowder celebrated the one-year anniversary of “15 Days to Flatten the Curve.” It was a year since “experts” told us we needed to shut down for fifteen days. Steven and the gang felt the anniversary called for a party. Sadly, the entire episode has been removed from YouTube. “But why” you ask. Let’s skip down memory lane for that. Remember Dr. Erickson and Dr. Massihi? It’s okay, they’ve also been removed from YouTube. They were the two California doctors who spoke out against COVID restrictions all the way back in April of 2020. Since they also questioned the tactics surrounding COVID, while actually speaking about their actual experiences in the medical field, their video was labeled misinformation and YouTube removed any uploads of it. That now includes OUR show for showing a clip of the forbidden video. The Big Tech company claimed the Louder with Crowder episode “LOCKDOWN ANNIVERSARY! Reviewing ALL the Lies and the Liars Who Told Them!” violated its guidelines and was removed from the platform. Though the episode can be seen in its entirety if you’re a Mug Club subscriber.

YouTube claims our video broke its COVID-19 medical misinformation policy. This is going to be good, so grab a snack. Here’s the part relevant to this issue of our video’s banishment:

• • Denial that COVID-19 exists
  • Claims that people have not died or gotten sick from COVID-19
  • Claims that the virus no longer exists or that the pandemic is over
  • Claims that the symptoms, death rates, or contagiousness of COVID-19 are less severe or equally as severe as the common cold or seasonal flu
  • Claims that the symptoms of COVID-19 are never severe

There is also an “Educational, documentary, scientific or artistic content (EDSA)” policy that states YouTube may allow “content that violates the misinformation policies noted on this page if that content includes context that gives equal or greater weight to countervailing views from local health authorities or to medical or scientific consensus. We may also make exceptions if the purpose of the content is to condemn or dispute misinformation that violates our policies. This context must appear in the images or audio of the video itself. Providing it in the title or description is insufficient.”

We added the bolded sentences for reasons which will become clear as we skip down the trail of insanity.

Let’s look at the offending clip in question, shall we? For those of you who are Mug Club members, we’re listing the time stamps so you can play along. Never say we don’t love our audience.

24:20 – We begin with Steven stating the WHO position that COVID’s death rate is 3.4% and exceeds that of the flu. This is what the screen capture looks like. We’d add video but… can’t.

24:24 – There is a clip showing a news broadcast reporting that the WHO considers the mortality rate of COVID to be 3.4%:

24:30 – There is a clip showing another news broadcast reporting that the WHO considers the mortality rate of COVID to be 3.4%:

24:39 – There is a clip showing a Bloomberg News report that the WHO considers the mortality rate of COVID to be 3.4% and “much more lethal” than the flu:

Are you sensing a pattern here? Good, but there’s more.

24:47 – There is a clip showing WHO Director General Dr. Ghebreyesus presenting at a WHO press conference stating that the mortality rate is 3.4% for COVID and alleging that the seasonal flu kills less than 1%:

25:06 – There is a clip from Fox News, where the interviewing anchor states that the WHO has reported the COVID mortality rate as being 3.4%, then asking President Trump’s opinion on that, and the president disputes the figure:

That’s SIX “countervailing views.” Steven, the WHO, and four news agencies. It was only after that context was provided that the show went on to provide counter-evidence from COVID tracking data websites that use the CDC and Johns Hopkins as their data sources.

25:28 – We presented a Worldometers overlay showing a 1.8% COVID mortality rate, on screen for less than 3 seconds, which uses CDC and other governmental agency data regularly relied on by the New York Times and other news organizations.

25:49 – Next, there was a COVIDUSA.net overlay showing a 0.162% COVID mortality rate, on screen for less than 1 second, which is sourced from the CDC/Johns Hopkins.

25:56 – Co-host Gerald Morgan says the WHO was correct that the COVID mortality rate was at or greater than the flu rate for those over 40, but disputes that COVID mortality rate is greater than the flu for those under 40, particularly infants. Here’s the face Gerald makes during the video.

26:39 – Steven introduced the Erickson/Massihi video as being banned from YouTube and Facebook for making statements counter to the WHO narrative:

27:36 – At the conclusion of the Erickson/Massihi clip (which only gives 1-2 sentences at all about mortality rates of COVID vs. the flu), Steven again reiterates that this video was banned in 2020 as being “misinformation” despite the statements then matching data seen today about those mortality rates.

Still with us? Great.

Attorney Bill Richmond sent YouTube a detailed email with all this information contending:

1. Context was abundant,
2. Countervailing views were thoroughly mentioned by Steven,
3. The countervailing views handily satisfy the EDSA exception.

Did YouTube review the whole episode to see that Louder with Crowder had presented the information it presented? YouTube claims the show was reviewed in its entirety. Our contention is that doesn’t seem to be the case. This was YouTube’s response:

The video had already been reviewed in its entirety before it was removed last night, per standard practice.

The team confirmed that the video violated our COVID-19 medical misinformation policy and the EDSA context was not adequate to meet our requirements. Specifically, countervailing views in the content are not considered sufficient if the commentary surrounding them illustrates that the purpose of providing those views is to discredit them.

Basically, even though we proved that we were well within YouTube’s guidelines and backed up that assertion with links, timecodes, and verified data, YouTube insists that we broke its guidelines anyway. Why? Because the commentary “surrounding them” didn’t discredit them. It seems like for YouTube, there’s only one conclusion one is allowed to draw when it comes to COVID-19 policies. And any other conclusion drawn is to be stricken from existence.

Riddle me this: does the above response from YouTube look like a response from a publisher? Or a platform? Think about it.

The answer here is a simple one. YouTube should reinstate the video. Failure to do so violates YouTube’s own stated policies and YouTube’s enforcement actions in similar circumstances. If YouTube refuses to reinstate the video, other action will need to be taken.

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Pfizer’s COVID vaccine is already the second-highest revenue-generating drug in the world — but the company plans to turn the vaccine into an even bigger cash cow once the pandemic ends, according to news reports.

Citing comments made by Pfizer CFO Frank D’Amelio, Forbes and FiercePharma reported that the company “is going to get more on price” once the pandemic wanes and “we are no longer in a pandemic pricing environment,” D’Amelio said.

The vaccine maker expects 2021 sales of about $15 billion based on current contracts for its COVID vaccine, but that number could double as Pfizer says it can potentially deliver 2 billion doses this year, according to The Guardian.

One analyst speculated that Pfizer could be targeting a price 3 to 4 times higher than the $19.50 the company currently charges the U.S. government — or even up to $156 per dose.

Pfizer based the vaccines’ current price on the need for governments to secure doses and get the virus under control. The company splits the profits 50-50 with German partner, BioNTech.

Under Operation Warp Speed, Pfizer agreed to supply the U.S. government with 100 million doses of its vaccine for $1.95 billion, so Americans can receive the vaccine for free.

Pfizer’s initial contract included an option for the government to buy up to 500 million more doses at $19.50 per dose. That’s well below the $150 or $175 per dose the drugmaker typically pulls in for a vaccine, D’Amelio said during the February earnings call.

In comparison, the Moderna vaccine is priced at $15 per dose, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is $10 and AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine is $4 per dose, reported Fierce Pharma.

Pfizer executives unveiled the company’s $15 billion sales estimate as part of the company’s 2021 guidance, based on doses set to be delivered in 2021 under existing contracts.

To put $15 billion into perspective, Pfizer also markets the bestselling vaccine outside of COVID –– pneumococcal shot Prevnar 13. In 2020, Prevnar 13 revenues were $5.85 billion. Pfizer’s entire vaccine franchise pulled in $6.56 billion in 2020, reported Fierce Pharma.

As initial demand for its COVID vaccine subsides, the company could make significant profits by charging higher prices and implementing routine booster doses for new variants of the virus, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told analysts, big banks and investors during the February earnings call.

During the Barclays’ Global Health Conference, D’Amelio said the company doesn’t see this as a one-time event, but “as something that’s going to continue for the foreseeable future.”

Pfizer has already launched a study of a third vaccine dose to address variants, called for annual boosters and told investors to expect a revenue stream similar to flu vaccines.

“Every year, you need to go get your flu vaccine,” Bourla said. “It’s going to be the same with COVID. In a year, you will have to go and get your annual shot for COVID to be protected.”

That will mean even more sales — and more profits — from the vaccine, reported WRCBtv, a CBS subsidiary.

According to Forbes, some critics say the dramatic increase in the cost of the vaccine is a “bait and switch” operation that could result in Pfizer being called to Capitol Hill to justify the expense to the American public.

But the drugmaker isn’t alone in viewing vaccine pricing differently during the pandemic. J&J and AstraZeneca have each pledged to sell their vaccines at cost during the pandemic with the contractual right to deem the pandemic “over” in July 2021, paving the way for price increases, reported the Financial Times.

Moderna indicated it may raise prices after the pandemic turns into an endemic. During a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing last summer, manufacturers were asked whether they would sell the vaccine at cost.

Moderna said it would not sell its vaccine at cost, despite the fact that development and manufacturing of the vaccine was almost entirely funded by U.S. tax dollars. Moderna subsequently earned an award for the “worst example of profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare” by the Lown Institute in Boston.

Like Pfizer, rival Moderna is poised to make billions from its COVID vaccine. As of mid-January, Moderna had secured $11.7 billion in advance purchase orders from various governments and organizations, and the company was in the process of negotiating more deals, according to Fierce Pharma.

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said in an interview the company could join the ranks of the largest vaccine players by revenue this year.

Unlike Moderna, “Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine development and manufacturing costs have been entirely self-funded, with billions of dollars already invested at risk,” the company said in a Nov. 16, 2020 press release.

Dr. Reshma Ramachandran, a physician-fellow in the Yale National Clinicians Scholars Program testified last month before U.S. lawmakers about vaccine pricing and the refusal of the government and drug manufacturers to reveal information about the arrangements they’ve reached around their vaccines.

In an interview with YaleNews, Ramachandran explained that when Pfizer moves away from “pandemic pricing” and towards price points that are in line with other vaccines it has on the market, at $150 or $175 per dose, insurance companies will have to shoulder the cost and they’ll pass it down to the public through insurance premiums.

We’ve already seen this with flu vaccines –– “a publicly funded vaccine technology has continued to increase in price over the past two decades with significant impacts on our public health program budgets and our insurance premiums,” Ramachandran said. “It’s not the companies that have taken on the risk of developing and manufacturing vaccines. It’s the American people.”

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One year on from the start of the first lockdown, the brutal price of this drastic policy is all too obvious DR JOHN LEE writes.

Capacity limits lifted on Minnesota places of worship, but social distancing still required. Thomas More Society wants more states to follow suit.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the trials being held “without transparency” for the two Canadians who have been detained in China for two years are “disappointing.” Michael Spavor was tried in court Friday but no verdict was announced. Michael Kovrig’s trial is scheduled for Monday. “It is disappointing that the trial that Michael Spavor went through and possibly the trial that Michael Kovrig will go through on Monday are happening in secret without transparency, without access by Canadian consular officials,” Trudeau said during a press briefing on Friday. Trudeau said his government has been working with allies to pressure Beijing for their release and will continue to do so. “China needs to understand that it is not just about two Canadians, it is about the respect for the rule of law and relationships with a broad range of Western countries that is at play, with the arbitrary detention and coercive diplomacy …

‘That’s the opposite of the message we ought to be sending’

Johnson & Johnson is working to develop modified versions of its COVID-19 vaccine that may be needed to protect against virus variants, a report said. “We’re working on several next generations of vaccines,” J&J Chief Executive Alex Gorsky said Thursday during an online discussion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Gorsky expressed optimism that its…

by Catherine Smith

Democrats blocked a bill sponsored by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), which would require the Department of Homeland Security to test all migrants crossing illegally into the country for COVID-19, Breitbart reports.

Republicans put forward a motion to block the previous question on a piece of legislation Tuesday that would allow for the consideration of Miller-Meeks’ legislation, the Requiring Every Alien to Receive a COVID-19 Test (REACT) Act. This bill would mandate that the Homeland Security Department (DHS) test all migrants crossing the border illegally that the DHS releases into the country, Breitbart reported.

According to a news release from Miller-Meeks, as of March 8th, the federal government released 185 migrants into Brownsville, Texas who have tested positive for the coronavirus. The release also said that current law does not require the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or Immigration and Customs Enforcement to test illegal immigrants for coronavirus,” according to the report.

Currently only those who show Covid symptoms are tested and treated before release from custody.

The CBP is reportedly encountering more than 3,000 migrants per day, which is approaching the levels of the 2019 border crisis, according to the report.

Miller-Meeks said on the House floor Tuesday night:

This week, I traveled to El Paso, Texas, to meet with CBP agents and officers. I saw firsthand the crisis they are facing, and I believe it is our job in Congress to address it and assist them. Approximately 50% of agents have tested positive for COVID-19, and very few migrants are being tested. My REACT Act would require that every migrant released from CBP or ICE custody is tested and receives a negative test. Border security and immigration is not an issue that only affects border states, it affects every community across the country. By ensuring that individuals entering the country are negative for COVID-19, we can help keep our communities safe and healthy.

Democrats voted to advance the previous question, or against Miller-Meeks’ bill, with 212 votes in against and 200 votes in favor of the Iowa Republicans’ legislation.

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Catherine Smith reports for American Greatness.

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