Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Second Largest Teachers Union in America Influenced CDC’s Questionable School Reopening Guidelines, According to Emails
Emails show that one of the United States’ largest teachers unions noticeably influenced the school reopening guidelines promulgated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in February.
A nonprofit organization called Americans for Public Trust obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and sent them to the New York Post, which subsequently broke the story Saturday evening.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and some of her top advisors hammered out certain details of the guidelines with officials from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) back in early February. Some White House officials were also privy to the discussions.
The CDC published their guidelines on February 12, which recommended universal masking, six-foot social distancing, contact tracing, and rigorous facility cleaning as conditions for holding in-person classes.
According to the New York Post report, the AFT’s “suggestions” on the language of the CDC guidelines were adopted almost verbatim in at least two instances. Kelly Trautner, the AFT’s senior director for health issues, argued that the following line should be included: “In the event of high community-transmission results from a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, a new update of these guidelines may be necessary.” The CDC listened and placed it on page 22 of their published guidelines. Trautner’s suggestion came after the agency had been “preparing to write that schools could provide in-person instruction regardless of community spread of the virus.”
In the other confirmed instance, the CDC included in their guidelines a “lengthy provision” acceding to the AFT’s demand that teachers with “documented high-risk conditions or who are at increased risk for COVID-19” ought to be granted remote work concessions. These special arrangements, the Post reports, also included any teachers who have an at-risk household member.
The AFT boasts 1.7 million members, making it the second largest teachers union in the United States, only behind the 2.3 million-member National Education Association (NEA). The New York Post called the AFT “one of the most reliable and deep pocketed donor constituencies of the Democratic Party.”
Responding to a request for comment from the Post, professor of medicine and COVID-19 researcher Dr. Monica Gandhi said that the AFT’s lobbying of the CDC is “very, very troubling.”
“What seems strange to me here is there would be this very intimate back and forth including phone calls where this political group gets to help formulate scientific guidance for our major public health organization in the United States,” Dr. Gandhi said. “This is not how science-based guidelines should work or be...
MISTAKEN IDENTITY: Reckless Gestapo-Like Search Shines Light on Today's FBI
The FBI raided an Alaska woman’s home and place of work last week in search of Nancy Pelosi’s stolen laptop. However, the woman says it was a case of mistaken identity.
If you aren’t familiar with the story, Pelosi’s laptop – which was used “only for presentations” – disappeared from her office during the Capitol riot on January 6. Back in January, a woman was arrested in connection with the laptop, though it has yet to be recovered.
Marilyn Hueper, owner of Homer Inn & Spa in Homer, Alaska, said federal agents broke down the doors of her home – which doubles as a bed and breakfast – confiscating laptop computers and cell phones.
What’s worse, they proceeded to handcuff her, her husband and their guests during the raid.
Hueper said the FBI conducted the search along with a Capitol police officer, and that the agents “forensically audited” her husband’s cell phone. She added that agents claimed no one answered their knocks on the door, but the search party never knocked.
“I think almost right off the bat, they said, ‘Well you probably know why we’re here,’ or something like that. It’s like, yeah, no, not really. And they said, ‘Well we’re here for Nancy Pelosi’s laptop.’ And I said, ‘Oh,’” Hueper told a local radio station, per the Daily Wire.
The agents then showed her a photo of a woman who participated in the riot that may be in possession of Pelosi’s laptop. Hueper said the woman looked “remarkably” similar to her, but she told the agents that while she was present at the rally outside the Capitol building, she never went inside.
“I’m like, ‘Wait a minute. Is that her? That’s clearly not me. Why did you not show me this to start with?’” Hueper said.
“I don’t mean to be disrespectful and laughing, but this is really surreal and strange,” she said she told the agents. “I still think it’s funny that they want to take me as someone who was actually there, instead of lost, eating hot dogs at the other end of the Mall.”
Hueper said it was comforting knowing that Pelosi’s laptop is really missing and that the search was not a “conspiracy theory.”
“I said, ‘Oh, so it was stolen and it’s at large, good to know. I thought maybe it was...
BLM Activist Got On Chauvin Jury After Insisting He Never Attended An Anti-Police Protest. He Attended An Anti-Police Protest Last Year.
Chauvin juror Brandon Mitchell is now encouraging others to get on juries to "spark some change"
Brandon Mitchell, 31, was able to make it onto the Derek Chauvin jury after he checked "no" when asked if he or anyone close to him had "participated in protests about police use of force or police brutality."
On Sunday, a photo surfaced of Mitchell wearing a "GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS," "BLM" shirt and a "Black Lives Matter" hat while at a protest against police brutality in Washington, DC in August 2020.
On Monday, Mitchell admitted that he attended the "March on Washington" while speaking with the Star Tribune (who buried the lead).
[...] Mitchell said the social media post was made by his uncle, who is the father of one of the cousins pictured, and appears to be "a partial real post." However, he said, he has no recollection of wearing or owning the shirt.Mitchell said the event was commemorating the 57th anniversary of King's famous speech, which advocated for civil and economic rights for Blacks, and is credited with helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The event was "100% not" a march for Floyd, Mitchell said, adding, "It was directly related to MLK's March on Washington from the '60s … The date of the March on Washington is the date."
Philonese Floyd, George Floyd's brother, said while speaking on stage during the March on Washington that it was a march for Floyd.
Equality Vs. Equity
Biden’s ‘Equity’ Push Is Actually a Push for Unequal Treatment
Equity = Egalitarianism
Equity = The Chinese Great Leap Forward, which led to mass starvation and the deaths of tens of millions.
The Reign of Reverse Racism
Fake News Still Gaslighting America with Phony Polls
Opinion polls, particularly in the buildup to a presidential election, are not designed to reflect public opinion, but instead to shape it. For the media, objectivity is only of historic interest, a journalistic tenet from a bygone era. Now most of the media is embedded within the Democrat party, serving as an advocacy arm or political action committee to influence elections and agendas.
A CNN staffer, who bragged that he was “one step down” from a director, admitted to an undercover Tinder date, actually a real journalist working for James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, that CNN was “creating a story” that “we didn’t know anything about,” calling it “propaganda” to help remove President Trump from office. The epitome of fake news.
Fake news media have many gaslighting tools at their disposal. Some outlets doctor audio or video tapes to make their “bad guy” appear racist or doing something illegal. Or, they make their “good guy” look like Mother Teresa. Recipients of this treatment range from law enforcement and Ferguson’s Gentle Giant Michael Brown, to George Zimmerman, and even President Donald Trump.
Many cable news channels, or newspapers simply say or print falsehoods, as in Trump-Russia collusion, Russian bounties on American soldiers, or the cause of death of a Capitol Police officer. The error or correction, if acknowledged at all, is relegated to a couple of lines buried in back of the newspaper several days or more later.
Opinion polls are a well-known and effective method of shaping opinion. These methods have been well described and include sampling whoever answers the phone versus likely voters, the latter being a practice of Rasmussen Reports in their high accurate presidential opinion polls. Oversampling Democrats is another fraudulent way to produce a poll result favoring the DNC media agenda.
President Biden last week addressed Congress, at least those select few members invited to listen to Sleepy Joe propose new spending in excess of $4 trillion, an amount larger than what the federal government takes in annually through already-confiscatory taxes.
Despite most or all members of Congress, as well as the president and vice president, already being vaccinated, the sparse audience was wearing masks and sitting at least six feet apart. If fully vaccinated, why were the attendees acting as though they were not? If the government message is that the vaccine works and everyone should take it, why are the top government leaders sending the opposite message?
Cable news anchors from CNN and MSNBC, joined by Fox News’s Chris Wallace, were gushing over Biden’s speech, some nearly in tears, a far cry from any Trump speech reaction over the past four years. CNN commissioned a poll to support their lovefest over Biden’s spendfest speech.
Their headline on the day after Biden’s speech was “7 in 10 who watched say Biden’s speech left them feeling optimistic.”
Start with the bit about “who watched.” How many Americans gave up an hour of their evening to watch what the media thought was a speech on par with Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech? Not too many.
Charlie Kirk tweeted out TV ratings for presidential addresses.
The last figure was the sum total of the three main legacy television networks - CBS, ABC, and NBC, plus Fox News. Nielsen reports the audience from more sources at 26.9 million. Either way, Biden drew considerably less of the audience that Trump did in his first congressional address and far less than...
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