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Edward Dowd, a former Wall Street analyst and BlackRock portfolio manager, examines the epidemic of sudden deaths in America. Throughout his stock picking career, he utilized pattern recognition to get ahead of his peers and the street before his bullish or bearish thesis became consensus. Early in 2021, he noticed a rise of news anecdotes about sudden deaths among very fit athletes and other seemingly healthy young people across the country. His thesis was simple: What changed in 2021? . . . A mass vaccination campaign for Covid-19 was his conclusion. Over the course of 2021 and 2022, Edward amassed evidence from the insurance industry, funeral home industry, and government databases that excessive deaths among working-age Americans have increased in 2021 versus 2020 when vaccines were not available. This book will introduce you to some of the tragic stories that have occurred the last eighteen months and lay out the metadata to show readers that something profound changed in 2021 to cause the sudden rash of young deaths with Cause Unknown!
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For the life of me, and for babies, toddlers, children, teens, young adults, adults and seniors, I can not understand why this report Vaccine‐Triggered Acute Autoimmune Myocarditis: Defining, Detecting, and Managing an Apparently Novel Condition from the Journal of the American Heart Association is not front page news. Leo Kanner used the word "novel" when describing the onset of the Age of Autism. (There's an excellent book about his work. Did you know?) The autism epidemic has paved the way for a blind eye and open hostility toward vaccine injury. Our kids were the beta test. Once a generation of disabled kids was ignored or whitewashed or simply "educated" and drugged, the stage was well and truly set. Vaccine‐Triggered Acute Autoimmune Myocarditis: Defining, Detecting, and Managing an Apparently Novel Condition
Saidi A. Mohiddin, Oliver Guttmann and Federica Marelli‐Berg Originally published26 Oct 2022 https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.122.026873 Journal of the American Heart Association. 2022;0:e026873
Among the seemingly endless “unknown‐unknowns” that the COVID era has foisted on policy makers, public health, health care providers, researchers, and the public is the apparently novel cardiac disease identified in this issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA)1 as ”myocarditis after COVID‐19 vaccination,” elsewhere as ”postvaccine myocarditis,” and perhaps in the future along the lines of ”vaccine‐triggered, self‐limiting, acute autoimmune myocarditis.” This potentially serious complication has been associated with serious harm, arguably most prominently through promotion of vaccine hesitancy, another complex mechanism underlying COVID19‐mediated harm.
A number of very different approaches will be needed to mitigate any harmful effects, including those addressing the whats, whys, and the hows of this apparently rare, currently idiosyncratic, and possibly unique phenomenon. Meanwhile, the clinician is faced with detection, monitoring, and management of affected individuals, a task further complicated by a knotty collection of significant limitations in our ability to manage myocarditis.
Mutually Dependent Limitations: The Catch‐22 of Myocarditis
Each October, I go to the library and borrow a copy of The October Country by Ray Bradbury. As I open the dusty book full of 72 year old short stories, I am transported back to October 31, 1972. I’m riding my purple Schwinn bike down Appletree Drive after school with batterflies 🦇 in my stomach as I think about the night’s Trick or Treats with my friends. One story in particular speaks to me. The Homecoming.
Timmy, a young mortal in a family of ancient supernaturals feels lost and segregated at The Homecoming, a family reunion each All Hallows Eve with rituals that frighten, confuse and elude him. He desperately wants to fit it, and yet, cannot. Some relatives openly mock him, his sister embarrasses him in front of everyone. But his Mother, herself a vampire, soothes him, cherishes him, accepts him and even promises to bury him in a grave when dies.
I think of Mia, Gianna, Bella - so different and unable to fully partake in the world because of their autism. I think of my friends' children. You, my dear AofA readers. But we are not vampires who will “outlive” our children. We will turn into dry autumn leaves, and blow away in the crisp, cold wind of The October Country.
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By Cathy Jameson
For today, I wanted to write about a news story I heard on the talk radio station. It was all about the Halloween candy safety tips, to include trusting the FDA - experts in food safety. Truly an on-topic topic in our community, I changed my mind about what to write. That's because the next day, a friend sent a link that was much more terrifying than encountering botched Halloween candy. ENTER IF YOU DARE.
Watching the link, a trailer for a soon-to-be streamed documentary, I gasped. I’ve heard of the phenomenon, but have shied away from diving into it. It’s a worry, for sure, because close family and dear friends have opted - or were forced into taking the vaccine. Even so, I wasn’t ready to see video of people dropping dead, seemingly out of the blue. It’s always important to know the pros and cons of taking a medical product, but I still didn’t know if I’m ready for all of the information.
Someone wants people, including me, to know though.
If you’ve recently lost someone who died suddenly, my condolences. My heart aches for those who didn’t know this might happen.
Whatever you call it, the jab, the clot shot, or simply the fastest tracked vaccine, could this died suddenly be a true side effect, or is it simply just a coincidence people are experiencing? What do you think? Have you been brave enough to read all about it? As terrifying as it is, I know that I really do need to read more about it.
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Profiles of the Vaccine-Injured: "A Lifetime Price to Pay" (Children’s Health Defense) Are vaccine injuries really “one in a million,” as governments and public health experts constantly tell us? This comprehensive look at the evidence by Children’s Health Defense, illustrated by nine real-life stories of serious vaccine injury, exposes health agencies’ soft-pedaling of vaccine risks as a dangerous lie.
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This new book hits close to home. A direct hit. Are vaccine injuries really “one in a million,” as governments and public health experts constantly tell us? This comprehensive look at the evidence by Children’s Health Defense, illustrated by nine real-life stories of serious vaccine injury, exposes health agencies’ soft-pedaling of vaccine risks as a dangerous lie.
Here's a story that will warm your heart and provide a spark of hope. Aging and autism is one of our most important topics. We're in uncharted territory, as the epidemic of the 1990s and forward begin to enter their 20s, 30s and soon, middle age. That means parents will be senior citizens, trying to provide 24/7 care in many, perhaps most, instances. Siblings might take over. Thanks to Judy R for sharing this story.
A woman built her brother a little house in her back garden and says it’s been a “game-changer” to give him the independence he needs.
Tiffany Chou moved back to Hawaii from New York City to look after her 33-year-old brother, who has autism, after hearing that he was unhappy in his residential home.
The siblings, who are both adopted, hadn’t lived together for 15 years, so Tiffany was apprehensive about what it would be like because Chris’s behavior could be “challenging”.
To better deal with that, the 36-year-old sister and her boyfriend decided to build Chris his own cottage in their back yard after moving to Maui.
“I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into when I moved back and took in Chris,” said the accessory designer. “He can be a bit noisy and overwhelming so we decided if he had his own independent space, just seconds from us, that would be ideal.”
There was a little structure in their garden, which they tore down to begin the construction—and she and her boyfriend managed to put the cottage together for just $15,000.
Chris got to chose the colors of his house and helped out initially with the build, which was completed in three months.
In August, he moved in and now loves his new digs.
“He absolutely loves it—and the change has been incredible,” says Tiffany.
“He’ll do his dishes without prompting. It’s really helped him be more independent.”
They outfitted the home especially for his quirks, too.
“Chris is the thirstiest person you have ever met so he is constantly up in the night drinking water and needing the toilet, so we made sure his bathroom and a water tank was right by his bed.”
His kitchen has an induction cooktop to make sure it’s not left on and Tiffany prepares his food ahead of time, in daily portions, which he keeps in his fridge.
The home—which was built out of reclaimed materials, and fitted with second-hand furniture to keep costs low—has given Chris a newfound independence. (See the home in the video below.) And Tiffany and her boyfriend have their own space, which is essential, especially because they welcomed their new daughter, Luna, last month.
“He loves being an uncle and is great with Luna.”
“It’s been a game-changer for all of us—I don’t have to constantly prompt him to do stuff anymore. Read more here.
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Profiles of the Vaccine-Injured: "A Lifetime Price to Pay" (Children’s Health Defense) Are vaccine injuries really “one in a million,” as governments and public health experts constantly tell us? This comprehensive look at the evidence by Children’s Health Defense, illustrated by nine real-life stories of serious vaccine injury, exposes health agencies’ soft-pedaling of vaccine risks as a dangerous lie.
The Covid vaccine program was touted as a way to protect the elderly. Even if you didn't want the vaccine for yourself, it was your duty to your elders to participate. Below is an expose from The Defender (Children's Health Defense) that should be front page news. The Defender used the term, "slow walked" the data, thus our fancy mother of pearl, gold snail photo.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took more than a year to follow up on a potential increase in serious adverse events in elderly people who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to an investigative report published Tuesday by The BMJ.
The FDA disclosure lacked specific details, such as the magnitude of the increased potential risk, and the agency said it would “share further updates and information with the public as they become available.”
The children! Grandma! Grandpa! Protect them! Last week the CDC approved the Covid vaccines for pediatric use. Soon, state by state, the vaccine will become a gatekeeper to school attendance. Health truly is wealth - for pharma and government and politicians. Why the nation isn't screaming bloody murder is a mystery.
### "Based on this study, risk of myocarditis following SARS-CoV-223 vaccination may be more serious than that reported previously."
Non-profit Organization “Japan Institute of Pharmacovigilance (Med Check)”
ABSTRACT1
Objective: To investigate the association between SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and myocarditis death2
Design: Population based comparative mortality study3
Setting: Japan4
Participants: Vaccinated population was 99 834 543 individuals aged 12 years and older who have5 been received SARS-CoV-2 vaccine once or twice by 14 February 2022. Reference population was6 defined persons aged 10 years and older from 2017 to 2019.7
Main outcome measures: The primary outcome was myocarditis death, defined as the case with8 "myocarditis" for cause of death and with onset 28 days or less after vaccination disclosed on 59 August 2022. Myocarditis mortality rate ratio (MMRR) of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated to the10 reference population by 10-year age group and standardised mortality ratio (SMR) were calculated.11
Mortality odds ratios (MORs) by 10-year age group were also calculated for supplementary analysis.12
Healthy vaccine effect-adjusted MMRRs (adMMRRs) or adjusted SMR (adSMR) were calculated13 by dividing MMRRs or SMR by 0.24 respectively.14
Results: Number of myocarditis death which met the inclusion criteria were 38 cases. MMRR (95%15 confidence interval) was 4.03 (0.77 to 13.60) in 20s, 6.69 (2.24 to 16.71) in 30s, 3.89 (1.48 to 8.64)16 in 40s, respectively. SMR of myocarditis was 2.01 (1.44 to 2.80) for overall vaccinated population,17
1.65 (1.07 to 2.55) for those 60 years or older. Estimated adMMRRs and adSMR were about 4 times18 higher than the MMRRs and SMR. Pooled MOR for myocarditis were 205.60 (133.52 to 311.94).19
Conclusion: SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was associated with higher risk of myocarditis death, not20 only in young adults but also in all age groups including the elderly. Considering healthy vaccinee21 effect, the risk may be 4 times or higher than the apparent risk of myocarditis death. Underreporting22 should also be considered. Based on this study, risk of myocarditis following SARS-CoV-223 vaccination may be more serious than that reported previously.
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Let's praise, not punish progress. You know what I mean. Even 1 demographic is a good start. Thank you to Dr. Ladapo . This opinion piece ran in the Wall Street Journal - which has a paywall. Dr. Ladapo is the author of a memoir titled, Transcend Fear, from Skyhorse Publishing.
How safe are the Covid-19 vaccines? Under my leadership, the Florida Department of Health analyzed overall mortality and cardiac-related mortality risk associated with Covid-19 vaccination. We found an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among men 18 to 39 within 28 days following mRNA vaccination.
The left has smeared these results as “anti-science,” as Holden Thorpe, the editor of Science, recently stated in an editorial. But time and again, the unorthodox science related to Covid-19 becomes the mainstream. Scientists have been attacked for questioning the efficacy of lockdowns, for urging schools to reopen, for challenging the effectiveness of mask mandates, and for opposing vaccine mandates and passports. The scientists asking these questions had the data on their side, but critics bowed to fear and political ideology. This opinion piece ran in the Wall Street Journal - which has a paywall.
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Profiles of the Vaccine-Injured: "A Lifetime Price to Pay" (Children’s Health Defense) Are vaccine injuries really “one in a million,” as governments and public health experts constantly tell us? This comprehensive look at the evidence by Children’s Health Defense, illustrated by nine real-life stories of serious vaccine injury, exposes health agencies’ soft-pedaling of vaccine risks as a dangerous lie.
Dr. Joseph Ladapo is the first state surgeon general to speak out against CDC recommendations.
“A vaccine associated with rapidly declining effectiveness against infection, an evolving safety profile including possible subclinical myocarditis, and no high-quality evidence proving a clinical benefit to healthy children should not be added to the routine vaccine schedule.
“It is an insult to the scientific process and shows that current leadership at the CDC and other parts of the federal government prioritize politics over common sense. Americans deserve better, more honest leadership in public health.”
In Dr. Ladapo’s book Transcend Fear: A Blueprint for Mindful Leadership in Public Health published on August 23, 2022, he describes his views on public health restrictions, early home treatment, and COVID-19 vaccines, along with how Florida officials made public health decisions that set Florida apart from other states—and nations. Based on this experience, Dr. Ladapo explains how states can make better public health decisions in the future—particularly during a crisis.
Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD is the surgeon general of Florida and professor at University of Florida College of Medicine. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Ladapo worked as an associate professor of general internal medicine and a health policy researcher at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife and children.
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Last week, the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices approved the addition of Covid vaccines to the pediatric schedule. This means even babies as young as six months of age could be required to have the full series (2, 3, quarterly?) of Covid vaccines to attend day care, if States add this vaccine to their school requirement list. The CDC did not mandate the vaccine - as pointed out as "misinformation" on social media. States use the CDC schedule to decide which vaccines they will add to their schedules. Age of Autism believes parents should be able to decide for their own children. Parents perfectly at ease with the current schedule yet wholly against the covid vaccine could find themselves having to submit to send their kids to school. Is this enough of a wake up after our many years of demanding an END to mandates?
Below is an action alert from CHD. If you have alerts from other orgs, please send them to AutismAges@gmail.com. Thanks.
Despite immense blowback, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously to add COVID-19 injections to its recommended schedule of vaccinations for infants, children and adolescents. The committee members’ votes solidify their steadfast loyalty to protecting pharma profits at the cost of children’s lives. This is the first step to granting permanent, blanket liability protection for all current and future COVID-19 injections.
This is a declaration of war on our children. The responsibility to be unrelenting as we defend the next generation from Big Pharma now falls on us. In the coming months, nearly every state in the nation will universally adopt the CDC’s recommended vaccination schedule.
A friend’s son recently asked me a question. Like what the other young fella said to me, our conversation stayed with me long after it was over. We were out to dinner the night this kiddo and I got a chance to talk. After getting Ronan settled in a seat next to my husband, the only other available chair was at the other end of the table with all the kids. I’d miss out on the adult conversation but was happy to catch up with the kids. I’ve known them for years, and they’re really fun to be around.
Plus, I was happy for a tiny break from keeping constant eyes on Ronan.
While eating my fajita, the friend’s son and I started talking. He’d watched me make sure Ronan had everything he needed before I sat down. He’d watched Ronan get settled in and also watched my husband get Ronan fed. I like to see typical kids quietly observing Ronan. I can always tell when they are genuinely curious and politely thinking about Ronan and what’s happened to him. I like it when they later ask questions that are thoughtful, too.
“Do you like taking care of Ronan?” the six-year old asked.
Instant guilt hit me as I took a bite of my dinner. I thought he was going to ask what apps Ronan had on his iPad, or why was Ronan wearing his yellow headphones in the loud restaurant. Chewing slowly on that bite gave me a minute to formulate an acceptable answer to his weighty question.
“You know what, buddy? It’s a lot of work to take care of him, and I always hope that I’m doing it well.” He nodded his head, but I could tell he wanted a more precise answer. He wanted a Yes, I do like taking care of Ronan, or a No, I don’t like it kind of answer. He did not want a vague holy moley, I’ve never been asked that question before kind of answer that I’d just given him. Read more below the jump.
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ACIP voted 15 - 0 to approve the Covid vaccine for the pediatric schedule yesterday. On that note, see you Sunday.
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Lies My Government Told Me by Dr. Robert Malone Available for pre-order now. With contributions from eminent doctors, scientists, and experts in their fields, Lies My Gov't Told Me offers a comprehensive look at the coronavirus pandemic–where we are today, how we got here, and what's on the horizon. Challenging the mainstream government-pharma-media narrative, the chapters in this book will not only outrage readers but will also inform and give readers hope.
Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 by Ed Dowd Available for pre-order now. What is killing young healthy Americans? Edward Dowd, a former Wall Street analyst and BlackRock portfolio manager, examines the epidemic of sudden deaths in America.
Cui bono is Latin for "Who benefits?" It's the sister phrase of "sequi pecuniam/follow the money" and the orphan of "plebes/the people." All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to chosen industry. There are many sayings about the perils of doing tasks too fast. Haste makes waste. Measure twice, cut once. All cast aside when there is a profit to be made. And it's not the Plebeians who benefit. Today's post is from Children's Health Defense's THE DEFENDER. You can subscribe here.
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Although Americans may not realize it, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decisions loom large in their everyday lives — one-fifth of every dollar a U.S. consumer spends goes to a product that the FDA regulates.
However, it is questionable whether consumer safety or the pocketbook concerns of the average patient drive much of the FDA’s decision-making.
As a recent report by Kaiser Health News (KHN) pointed out, nearly half (47%) of the FDA’s 2022 budget came from pharmaceutical industry “user fees” — representing “two-thirds of the drug regulation budget, and the work of at least 40% of the FDA’s 18,000 employees.” The FDA brags that the user fees, along with additional mechanisms at its disposal, merely help expedite drug development and review. Continue reading below the jump.
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ACIP is meeting today.The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is a committee within the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that provides advice and guidance on effective control of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S. civilian population. (source CDC) Here's a webcast link.
Today, ACIP topics will include vaccines in pregnant people (the woke language is more important than safety) and the addition of the Covid vaccine to the pediatric schedule, which is the equivalent of tenure on top of being appointed to the Supreme Court. The grand prize of joining the CDC pediatric schedule is full immunity to product liability, even after the Emergency Use Authorization expires. The AAP reports low voluntary vaccination rates among children 6 months to 12 years of age. Imagine parents' surprise horror when they go to their friendly vaccinator for a well visit and find out they need a Covid vaccine to go to day care, preschool, school, camp. We've been shouting in the darkness for 15 long years. At what point, if ever, will the woke wake?
One more thing. Have you ever heard of Chikungunya Vaccines? They are on the agenda, so perhaps you will soon.
Washington, D.C. — From award-winning filmmaker Jeff Hays, in partnership with Children’s Health Defense (CHD), comes a documentary based on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s New York Times best-selling book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.” The film pulls back the curtain on Fauci’s past and present atrocities, revealing the truth behind the corruption and lies of “America’s Doctor.” The film premieres for FREE today and will run until Oct. 27.
“The Real Anthony Fauci” movie details Fauci’s 50+ year career within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), outlining his pattern of misconduct — his suppression of scientific evidence, disastrous COVID-19 pandemic response, the history of his devastating abuse, torture and medical experimentation on children and animals, his deep conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry and his twenty-year business partnership with Bill Gates — plus more.
Within the first 5 minutes, you know why Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s blockbuster bestselling bookThe Real Anthony Fauciis now a full-length feature documentary exposing Big Pharma, Big Tech and Big Government.
Starting tomorrow October 18th, The Real Anthony Fauci movie will go live. It will be free to watch until October 27th. You have 10 days to watch the film and invite your family and friends to join you.REGISTER HERE!
COLLUDING BIG TECH, BIG PHARMA & BIG GOVERNMENT EXPOSED - THEY PRAY YOU NEVER WATCH THIS
Within the first 5 minutes you will know why they don’t want you to see it…
The forced-vaccine campaign and other cruel actions by Dr. Fauci might seem “too big to fail.” But that is up to us.
We can bow down and comply — take the jabs, wear the face coverings, show our digital passports on demand, submit to the tests.
Or we can say no. We have a choice, and it is not too late.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. closes his spellbinding book with the quote, “We’ll see you on the barricades.” Well… the time is now and these are the barricades.
I saw a young boy a few months ago at a picnic. We’ve had some ‘in passing’ conversations since then – a quick hello, how are you doing, it’s nice to see you again kinds of small talk. Ronan hasn’t been going to church with us lately, but, last week, the boy remembered seeing him at that picnic.
While in the parking lot waiting for my daughter after a game one day last week, the boy, who’s about 7 years old, saw me and said hi. He asked what we were doing, and I told him we were going to go home since we couldn’t stay for the next game. “It would be too much for my son.” He very quickly replied, “He’s the one who was in the yellow headphones who was in the wheelchair.”
Taken aback, I said, “Wow, yes. Good memory!”
I continued, “It’s actually a stroller that Ronan uses when he gets too tired to walk. But, yeah, that’s my son.” I then gave the boy a little more information about why Ronan had those yellow headphones and why he sometimes needs that stroller. “When he was much younger, he could do things like other little boys could do. But then, Ronan got sick.” I shared just a few things that happened to Ronan then and added, “Ronan is non-speaking now.”
The boy’s sister was with him and had tons of little kid questions, like Can he say anything? How did he get sick? Is he okay now? Since I don’t know their family very well yet, I answered each question with very simple facts and also kept the conversation very G-rated, meaning no talking of vaccines. The boy had stayed quiet while his sister and I were talking.
The next day, I saw the boy again. “Hey there!” I happily greeted him. His greeting had a different emotion than mine. “I feel bad for Ronan,” he told me with sad eyes. Completely taken by surprise, I said, “Oh! Why, buddy?” I had spared him lots of details, like that we saw Ronan decline most after vaccinations, but I could tell what little I did share the day before had really affected him.
“Well, he…” the boy started, “…he can’t talk and do things by himself. What if he wants to tell you something?” I told him, “You’re right. Ronan still can’t do some things, but remember when I said Ronan can communicate? I shared that he can type, and he can use sign language, and he can write with a pencil, and he can show us things that he wants.” Quietly, the boy nodded his head and said, “Y-e-s, I remember.” Still, the boy’s eyes told me that he was quite moved knowing that my son couldn’t do things the boy could easily do.
My next words needed to be encouraging.
“Ronan is a pretty happy kid. We keep him safe and as healthy as we can. When Ronan pops into your mind, like it did just now, maybe you can say a little prayer for him. Or maybe you can say a little prayer for the person who’s helping him. When you see me without Ronan, it’s because he’s being taken care of by someone else. It would be so neat if you could say a little prayer and ask God to bless Ronan or bless our helpers. It’s because of our helpers that we’ve been able to keep Ronan happy and healthy, too, and I’m so grateful for them.”
It was a big ask, but the little boy said he could say a prayer.
Knowing I’d captured his full attention, I continued, “And maybe you can add a thankful prayer for what you get to do, too. You get to do lots of pretty neat things, don’t you? You get to go to school, and play with friends, and go outside and explore new places. Don’t feel bad that Ronan can’t do that stuff, but be thankful that you can do what you want to. I think that it’s a really good thing that you’re able to things.” Without saying anything, he nodded. Then as quietly as he had approached me, he turned to walk away and said, “Okay…bye, Mrs. Jameson.”
I thought I sounded convincing, but time will tell if I helped turn this kid’s frown upside down. I’ll look forward to our next meet up. I’ll wonder if the boy will tell me that he thought to pray for my son. I’ll hope that he’ll share that he’s gotten to do something amazing. I’ll also say a little prayer myself. I’ll pray that he’s one of the kids who, when he grows up, will make the world a better place for a child like mine.
Cathy Jameson is a Contributing Editor for Age of Autism.
AofA is is now on a Sunday - Thursday content publishing schedule. Many of you have contributed to our annual appeal. Thank you so much.
We've launched our annual fundraiser with a colossal, amazing, generous $10,000 matching gift from Laura Hayes. Please see her kind words below the jump. We use DonorBox for our online donations, and you can always send a check to Autism Age PO Box 110546, Trumbull, CT 06611. Donations are tax deductible - EIN is 47-1831987. Thank you.
The War on Ivermectin by Dr. Pierre Kory Big Pharma and health agencies cry "Don't take ivermectin!" A media storm follows. Why then, does the science say the opposite?
Lies My Gov't Told Me: And the Better Future Coming by Dr. Robert Malone With contributions from eminent doctors, scientists, and experts in their fields, Lies My Gov't Told Me offers a comprehensive look at the coronavirus pandemic–where we are today, how we got here, and what's on the horizon.
Below is an important excerpt from Safeminds. As we age, as our children age, death will visit more frequently. Intellectually disabled or not,, the social differences of autism must affect the ability to process grief. How could they not? With thinking patterns that tend to black and white, and routine is paramount, having a loved one disappear without context must be devastating. Some families might want to shield their loved one from grief by not including them in family burial rituals. With the best of intentions. Or because a person with autism could be distracting during services. True story, when my Dad died a month after Dan Olmsted in 2017, I brought my girls to his funeral at the National Cemetery on Cape Cod. He'd been cremated, and the box filled with his ashes sat on stone altar/table. My brother read his favorite poem (The Day is Done by Longfellow), military personnel were on hand, and a bugler played taps. And then? Gianna belted out GRANDPY IS IN THE BOX!!! I looked at my Mom, who was locked arm and arm in my brother for support. I mouthed, "I'm sorry." But you know what? Everyone gave a hearty laugh and bonded in the moment. I still use that phrase with my girls, "Grandpy died, and he went to heaven. Grandpy was in the box." Meet them where they are.
Note: Dr. Ladapo's new book Transcend Fear A Blueprint for Mindful Leadership is available now, and currently #1 in its category. The good doctor can't win. Castigated for saying anything negative or not completely negative about the Covid vaccine. Don't punish progress.
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Dr. Joseph Ladapo on cardiac-related deaths from COVID vaccine: 'It's an enormous deal'
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo recommends that males under 40 years old should not get the COVID vaccine due to cardiac-related deaths on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
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From Skyhorse Publishing, by Dr. Joseph Ladapo. A fascinating look into the life of a state surgeon general and how his public health decisions provide a blueprint for fearless leadership and better national health policy.
Fire safety and autism. Instant fear. I know that getting my 3 adult daughters out of the house quickly would be impossible. And they would never escape on their own. We could practice drills daily (we don't) and they would still perish. Sounds grim? It is. It's autism. We have working smoke detectors. We have a safety sticker on the front door for emergency personnel - fire, police, EMT. I have a standard fire extinguisher on my kitchen counter. It's bulky and in a nighttime fire would be useless, even though it's just down the hall in my small ranch house. These wee StaySafe bottles could mean the difference between getting out and perishing. I have two in my room in my nightstand, one on the mantle of my wood fireplace and one in my kitchen next to its clunky big brother. Be aware, they are not childproof. That's not an issue in my home, but could be in yours. They are 20% off for Amazon Prime members today, and AofA is an Amazon Affliate to share books and other products that might help our families.
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From Skyhorse Publishing, by Dr. Joseph Ladapo. A fascinating look into the life of a state surgeon general and how his public health decisions provide a blueprint for fearless leadership and better national health policy.
Autistic and Intellectually disabled people face discrimination and potentially life changing/threatening interactions because of their social differences. The case below was not borne out to be true. What if the spectator HAD shouted out the N word to a player? What if he watched movies and listened to music that use the term freely without an obviously disclaimer? Using a slur would still be wrong, but could you say he or she was really at fault? It's tough to explain nuance to people who think in a concrete way. Is a word "good" or "bad?" We KNOW our children can make gaffes. As kids, they will get a scolding. As adults, they may be harmed. Thank you to Judith Zimmerman for sharing this article on Twitter yesterday.
A mother says her autistic son became a “scapegoat in a hurried attempt to calm the firestorm” after he was accused — wrongly — of yelling a racial slur at a Duke volleyball player.
Ultimately, the mother believes, the incident reflects bias in multiple forms — in how Duke player Rachel Richardson has been treated and also her son, who she said has physical and developmental challenges. Both, she says, are marginalized in different ways.
Note: Doctors like Andrew Wakefield and Bob Sears blazed this trail of tears whereby medical professionals can lose their licenses for doing their job. California used measles and autism as the groundwork for draconian control and paybacks all in the name of public health. From The Defender at Children's Health Defense:
Two doctors on Tuesday became the first to file a federal lawsuit to stop a new California law that subjects the state’s doctors to discipline, including the suspension of their medical licenses, for sharing “misinformation” or “disinformation” about COVID-19 with their patients.
Dr. Mark McDonald, a Los Angeles psychiatrist, and Dr. Jeff Barke, an Orange County primary care physician and founding member of America’s Frontline Doctors, filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
The lawsuit names 12 members of the Medical Board of California and California Attorney General Robert Bonta.
The plaintiffs also filed papers seeking a preliminary injunction to protect their free speech rights as the case unfolds.
“[This new law] puts patients at risk. Requiring physicians to consider the state’s narrative when making a medical decision, is bad medicine and dangerous. Consensus in science only occurs when dissenting opinions are censored.”
Commenting on the lawsuit, Mary Holland, president and general counsel for Children’s Health Defense, said, “California’s new law is a clear violation of the First Amendment. It’s startling that the legislature and the governor would even attempt to pass such legislation.” Read more at The Defender, and please share.
Kim shared that Age of Autism has an Instagram page. How exciting! I used to post on Instagram, but I’ve gotten too busy to keep up with my personal page. I am so glad Kim has time to manage each of our AofA social media pages with fresh content. If she ever needed new photos to post on AofA’s new page, I think these are insta-worthy. I like that each of them comes with a story—some yet to be written down.
Several Christmases ago, we had a terrible bowling incident. These next two photos document a more recent bowling game that came with no injuries.
Ronan’s siblings took those bowling pictures of us. The kids give me such a hard time when I sneak the camera out at Mass to take photos. I know it’s not the most reverent thing to do, but….look at that photo of Ronan reading along! I love that I can snap his progress in church, one of my favorite places to be.
Sometimes it’s the little things that make my heart melt. Other times, it’s the very big things that have me beaming.
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Yesterday was the start of the solemn Jewish holiday of Atonement, Yom Kippur. When Dan Olmsted was alive, we wrestled with the intent and appropriateness of bringing the Holocaust into any of our writing. Today, to do so if often met with swift reprisal. At the start of the lockdown, there was worry how people with special needs would or would not be treated. And terror at the thought of our kids alone in a hospital. Vera Sherav was herself a child doomed by Nazi Germany, and who escaped death. Below is a press release from Vera and Scott Schara, co-founder and president of Our Amazing Grace’s Light Shines On, Inc., an organization created in memory of his daughter, Grace, a 19-year-old girl with Down Syndrome who lost her life at the hands of medical personnel at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (Ascension) in Appleton, Wis., on Oct. 13, 2021. Two people of deep faith. Different. And yet, joined by a common decency and urgency. Shalom.
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR SAYS COMPARISONS TO COVID AGENDA COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED
FREEDOM, WISCONSIN, October 5, 2022 — As was the case in World War II, a coordinated effort using physicians, nurses, scientists, and media propaganda, the world today adopted Nazi-style methods to control billions of people, according to Vera Sharav, a Holocaust survivor who was rescued from a concentration camp in Ukraine when she was a young girl. She is a public advocate for human rights, and the founder and president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) which serves as an information resource and public interest watchdog organization whose goal is to unlock the walls of secrecy in biomedical research and bring accountability to that endeavor.
Public health officials influenced medical examiners to falsify death certificates at the behest of the CDC. The new rules stated if a person tested positive for COVID-19 and died, it was classified as a COVID death. The departure from traditional protocols of death determination certainly played a role in the mounting deaths being attributed to the virus rather than the true cause of death. This is the type of control the authoritarians seek, through fear and propaganda, Sharav warns.
“People have been programmed through an education system that teaches people to defer to authority. Deferring to authority and obeying what is dictated by authority, is collaborating in one’s enslavement,” she said.
Reflecting upon history, one can easily see the control measures enacted worldwide in the behavior of the authorities in mid-1930s Nazi Germany.
“The Holocaust didn’t begin in the gas chambers,” Sharav said. “It developed in phases – 9 years of incremental phases during which people lost their rights – their legal rights, their civil rights, and human rights. It happened in stages because Hitler wanted to see if anyone would object. So the problem, really, with a holocaust, is with the onlookers who obey orders blindly and they keep escalating and escalating the human rights violations until you’ve got genocide on your hands,” Sharav explained.
Cannabis-Based Medicinal Products Reported to Improve General Health-Related Quality of Life for Adults with ASD
October 03, 2022 Treatment Found Beneficial for Managing Anxiety Levels and Aiding Sleep Disturbances
For years, cannabis-based medicinal products (CBMPs) have been considered promising treatments for managing symptoms and comorbidities related to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, there has been very little evidence to back up this claim. For the first time, a team of British scientists assessed changes to health-related quality of life indicators and recorded the incidence of adverse events in adult patients with ASD treated with CBMPs. The study’s design included identifying participants treated with CBMPs from the UK Medical Cannabis Registry (UKMCR). The participant’s primary outcomes were then measured by Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), Single-Item Sleep Quality Scale (SQS), 5-level version of the EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L). The research team took outcome measurements at 1, 3, and 6 months and compared them with the participant’s baseline. Adverse events were also recorded and analyzed. In total, 74 adult patients with ASD were included in this research. The mean age of participants was 32.7 years. Overall, the current study linked CBMPs use with statistically significant improvements in managing anxiety levels and aiding in sleep quality. Interestingly, the patients saw generalized anxiety benefits at the 1 and 3-month measurements, but the same beneficial findings were not present at the 6-month marker. The authors believe this result could be due to a limitation in the study design, since there was a reduction in the number of participants that were followed up at 6 months. Therefore, they view this finding as insignificant. The study also discovered an associated improvement in self-reported sleep quality among participants during each of the three measurement markers. Of particular significance, a reduction in concomitant medication use during the treatment was identified. In total, 33.3% of patients stopped taking benzodiazepines during the study, and there was a 25% reduction in neuroleptic prescribing. Adverse events were reported by 18.9% of patients. No life-threatening or disabling adverse events were recognized, and most adverse events were considered mild or moderate. The authors believe their findings are not conclusive but provide scientific justification for further evaluation. Read more at Safeminds HERE.
Over the course of 2021 and 2022, Edward amassed evidence from the insurance industry, funeral home industry, and government databases that excessive deaths among working-age Americans have increased in 2021 versus 2020...
As of 2021, SIDS has a parent, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. Seemingly healthy adults dying, and
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obituaries that spout platitudes like, "died peacefully in his sleep." At 42. We invite you to pre-order Cause Unknown, debuting in December from Skyhorse Publishing and Children's Health Defense. The book cover is a live link.
LinkIn.Bio is magic, that's what it is.... Happy to report we had almost 100 new followers on Insta last week. Welcome! Old dog here learned how to use LinkIn.Bio to connect you to books and more. When you see LinkIn.Bio on the post, that means if you click Linkin.Bio below our name, you'll see all of the photos that are connected to a URL, and when you click THAT photo, you'll be magically whisked to another website. Take a look, buy a book! A knowledge rainbow.
We're using the name Autism Ages rather than Age of Autism. Autism Ages is the official name of the non-profit founded by Dan Olmsted. Age of Autism is our blog. You can use the QR code to find us, or the link below. We're trying to keep one step ahead of the you know whats. Each version of AofA has different content. Please follow and like us for messages throughout the week. Thanks.
Would it be jumping to conclusions to scream IT'S ABOUT MONEY NOT HEALTH!!!??? Every time a patients enters a doctor's office it's another opportunity to sell prescribe a drug, or force administer a vaccine, or cajole into order a diagnostic test. Those machines don't pay for themselves, and the expiration dates aren't getting any younger. American women should be able to choose their level of reproductive healthcare without shame. This IS 2022 after all.
The United States’ disgraceful infant and maternal mortality rates — higher than in any other wealthy nation — raise questions about what to do to lessen the risk of complications during delivery and postpartum.
In this regard, government health agencies often highlight the importance of prenatal care.
In fact, increasing “early and adequate prenatal care” is a core objective of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2030 goal related to pregnancy and childbirth — an objective achieved for three out of four American women, with only 6% of women who give birth receiving little or no prenatal care.
“Adequate,” in the U.S. context, means as many as 15 prenatal visits. But does this barrage of prenatal attention actually improve maternal and infant outcomes?
Or — as Harvard researchers implied in an article published in 2020, in the prestigious journal Health Affairs — is it counterproductive overkill?
In 2016, researchers who assessed pregnancy outcomes by number of prenatal visits observed that while prenatal care “is widely accepted as an important public health intervention … its efficacy remains largely unstudied and unproven.” Read more at The Defender.
Over the course of 2021 and 2022, Edward amassed evidence from the insurance industry, funeral home industry, and government databases that excessive deaths among working-age Americans have increased in 2021 versus 2020...
As of 2021, SIDS has a parent, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. Seemingly healthy adults dying, and
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obituaries that spout platitudes like, "died peacefully in his sleep." At 42. We invite you to pre-order Cause Unknown, debuting in December from Skyhorse Publishing and Children's Health Defense. The book cover is a live link.
Note: Today we're launching or annual fundraiser with a colossal, amazing, generous matching gift from Laura Hayes. Laura and her husband will match $10,000 between now and the end of November. Please see her kind words below. We use DonorBox for our online donations, and you can always send a check to Autism Age PO Box 110546, Trumbull, CT 06611. Donations are tax deductible - EIN is 47-1831987. Thank you.
My husband and I will be doing another matching donation campaign here at AoA again this year, with one important difference. Instead of a $5,000 matching campaign, we are doubling it this year to a $10,000 matching campaign.
Why? Because Age of Autism continues to be a much-needed bastion and beacon of publishing important and truthful information that mainstream media refuses to publish. Furthermore, it doesn't sweep the Vaccine Injury Epidemic, which includes the "Autism" Epidemic, under the rug. It shines a light on it.
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By Cathy Jameson
I had a different idea for this week’s Sunday post, but after scrolling through FB on Friday evening I changed topics.
Joshua Coleman has been an advocate in our community for several years. Dad to a son with vaccine injury, he took his advocacy, and his talents, to the streets with V is for Vaccine.
When able, Josh records his efforts and quickly shares what he’s learned with other. I’ve always appreciated that about him. While I stay home taking care of my family, Josh and hundreds of other advocates have shown up. To the state capitol. To Disneyland. To Broadway. To the races, national conventions, and more. I’ve gotten to watch a few events as they were livestreamed. Standing in solidarity, sometimes in silence, it’s incredible to see.
When I’ve missed a livestream, I can’t wait to watch the recorded video later to see who was there, to hear what was said, and to also thank God for the bravery of those present. Some of those videos can be found here. Parents For Healthcare Rights - YouTube If you're Joshua Coleman, your photos and videos are very creative and informative. They feature parents, supporters and the public. They have been shot at small events and at blockbuster venues. Those who partake in the rallies have made local headlines and have even found their way onto news segments in mainstream news.
Uploading videos to the YouTube platform is commonplace, unless you're someone like Joshua Coleman though. Before his work is completely removed, head over to his channel and watch what he and groups like V is for Vaccine have done. Josh has reported that his videos are now slowly being taken down. If you appreciate what you see, tell him thank you. And please consider supporting the incredible efforts these parents are doing on behalf of so many.
Cathy Jameson is a Contributing Editor for Age of Autism.
Good Saturday! We're making some updates and additions to AofA next week. More details on Monday. In the meantime, we're growing our Instagram account, as another way to reach families. We're using Autism Ages rather than Age of Autism. Autism Ages is the official name of the non-profit founded by Dan Olmsted. Age of Autism is our blog, then we have Facebook and Twitter. Autism Ages is our name on Instagram. You can use the QR code to find us, or the link below. We're trying to keep one step ahead of the you know whats. Each version of AofA has different content. Please follow and like us for messages throughout the week. Thanks.
A federally funded study released Tuesday reported a “positive association” between “vaccine-related aluminum exposure” and “persistent asthma” in children 24-59 months old.
Overall, kids in the study who received 3 milligrams or more of vaccine-related aluminum had at least a 36% higher risk of developing persistent asthma than kids who got less than 3, the study’s lead author, Dr. Matthew F. Daley, told The Associated Press.
Daley was quick to urge caution in the interpretation of the results, telling STAT, “I’m still going to advocate for vaccines as strongly as I did before we had these findings.”
The study was published in the medical journal Academic Pediatrics. In addition to Daley, the authors included Dr. Frank DeStefano and other current and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staff.
AAP, The American Academy of Pediatricians says it's OK for kids with lice to remain in school. Sending them home promotes stigma and shame. Meanwhile, 100% healthy, robust, disease and presumably vermin free school children have been expelled from school and officially castigated as dangerous threats to other students across the nation for lack of one or more pediatric vaccines. What a lousy idea. The jokes just write themselves. Unfortunately, the joke is on our kids.
Children's TV used to tackle tough topics and teach kids that there was a way to get through embarrassing situations without the rest of the world having to pretend they were normal. The PBS classic based on Marc Brown's Arthur books was a leader. They had an episodes about bed wetting, asthma, chicken pox (!) and a classic about lice. Oh, and in case you haven't checked on leprosy recently, CDC has rebranded it as Hansen's disease (not to be confused with a crush on the 90s Tween boy band) and says it's A-OK to go to work or school with active leprosy under treatment.
From the AAP Newsletter:
ITASCA, IL--The American Academy of Pediatrics has updated guidance on diagnosing and treating head lice for the first time since 2015, noting that infestations are neither a health hazard nor sign of poor hygiene but can result in significant stigma and psychological stress.
The clinical report, “Head Lice,” published in the October 2022 Pediatrics (published online Sept. 26), describes new medications for treatment and provides an algorithm for management of affected patients and clarification on diagnosis and treatment.
“Head lice are an unpleasant part of the human experience, but they can be successfully managed and are no reason for a child to miss school,” said Dawn Nolt, MD, MPH, FAAP, lead author of the report, written by the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases, Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine, and Section on Dermatology.
As we enter Fall, there’s a push for Covid vaccine boosters, and the Flu shot is back. Below is an excerpt from The Daily Sceptic as one expert makes a plea for a safety review. Measure twice, cut once, or not at all.
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Leading doctors have joined a call to suspend all COVID-19 mRNA vaccines until serious side-effects are fully investigated and the raw trial data from Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trial are released for independent analysis to help determine the true benefits and potential harms for different age groups.
Writing in the peer-reviewed Journal of Insulin Resistance, one of the U.K.’s most eminent Consultant Cardiologists Dr. Aseem Malhotra, who was one of the first to take two doses of the vaccine and promote it on Good Morning Britain on TV, says that since the rollout of the vaccine the evidence of its effectiveness and true rates of adverse events has changed.
In a two-part research paper entitled “Curing the pandemic of misinformation on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines through real evidence-based medicine”, real-world data reveal that in the non-elderly population the number needed to vaccinate to prevent one death from COVID-19 runs into thousands and that re-analysis of randomised controlled trial data (that first led to approval of the vaccines for Pfizer and Moderna) suggests a greater risk of suffering a serious adverse event from the vaccine than being hospitalised with COVID-19.
Dr. Malhotra writes: “Pharmacovigilance systems and real-world safety data, coupled with plausible mechanisms of harm, are deeply concerning, especially in relation to cardiovascular safety.”
Mirroring a potential signal from the Pfizer Phase 3 clinical trial, a significant rise in cardiac arrest calls to ambulances in England was seen in 2021 (an extra 14,000 compared to 2020) with similar data emerging from Israel in the 16-39 year old age group where there was a 25% increase in heart attacks or cardiac arrests associated with the Pfizer vaccine administration but not associated with COVID-19.
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A fascinating look into the life of a state surgeon general and how his public health decisions provide a blueprint for fearless leadership and better national health policy.
Cure has been a dirty word in autism for decades. We've been carefully taught that there is no cure for autism. Treatments are only therapeutic and rarely medical. And to want a cure is to hate your child. We've seen a similar conflict during the Covid years. If you're an old timer in the biomedical autism world, you'll remember that Lupron was suggested as a treatment for high mercury to lower aggression and some of the worst autism symptoms. In 2010, Disability Scoop called it a "Chemical castration drug,"and said What’s more they are highlighting the risks that Lupron can bring patients including heart problems, stunted growth and impotence..." Meanwhile, and unbeknownst to most of us, The Kaiser Family Foundation gushed over the use of Lupron as a godsend for the mental health of transgender adolescents: ...in 2008 that the Endocrine Society approved puberty suppressors as a treatment for transgender adolescents as young as 12 years old. The Society..declared that the intervention appears to be safe and effective. In 2011 the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), also issued Standards of Care for the treatment of patients with gender dysphoria, which include puberty suppression. There are few reported side effects to this off-label use of sex hormone suppressors.
Now look at this parallel with Covid and Dr. Meryl Nass - who was sanctioned for treating patients.
It is remarkable that a large series of events taking place over the past months produced a unified message about hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), and produced similar policies about the drug in the US, Canada, Australia, NZ and western Europe. The message is that generic, inexpensive hydroxychloroquine (costing only $1.00 to produce a full course) is dangerous and should not be used to treat a potentially fatal disease, Covid-19, for which there are no (other) reliable treatments.
Hydroxychloroquine has been used safely for 65 years in many millions of patients. And so the message was crafted that the drug is safe for its other uses, but dangerous when used for Covid-19. It doesn't make sense, but it seems to have worked. Read the full article here.
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Italians were voting Sunday in national elections in which the far-right Brothers of Italy party -- led by Giorgia Meloni -- appears poised to make big gains after the collapse of two governments since the last election. Source: CNN Italy expected to look right as voters head to polls in national election.
by John Stone
The term "smart power" was new to me when I encountered it recently in a British Medical Journal blog as part of the new-speak vocabulary of J Stephen Morrison 'senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and director of its Global Health Policy Center". Morrison's article is interesting both because it discloses explicitly how 9/11 was made an opportunity to draw health into the global security agenda of the United States while failing to understand how such a move might result in the shattering of "consensus" and the post war "Western post-war liberal order": "smart power" even if it is smart is not "liberal" and will not lead to consensus. But it also spells out that the global vaccine program has become a covert instrument of US power. If Morrison by any chance laments the passing of the centre-left government in Italy, then perhaps the White House putting Italy and its health minister, Beatrice Lorenzin, in charge of global vaccine strategy was an error
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This weekend, Ronan's younger brother toured a college with my husband. A fun guys' weekend away, the campus they were checking out has almost everything on the checklist—the major he's interested in, internship possibilities, (somewhat) affordable tuition, ideal location, and just a bit of a drive away while also being kind of close to home. One thing would be missing though...Ronan.
As Willem was packing his overnight bag, I asked, "Got everything?"
He quickly said, "No, I need Ronan. I want him to be able to come with us and also to stay with me when I live there."
Cue the tears.
Ronan's big sister, Fiona, has shared with us that she’s missed Ronan quite a bit since she's been away at college. We hardly got to see her when covid restrictions were in full swing on her campus her first year away. Thankfully, she was able to come home for every break, plus some bonus long weekends, during last school year. Every single time she came home, she jumped right back in to help her brother.
That, in turn, always helped me.
With how giving of her time she was long before going away to school, I encouraged Fiona to apply for a scholarship that crossed my newsfeed. She and I had worked hard to secure others successfully, so I was excited that she wanted to submit an essay for this one. It would be a much, much tougher topic than some of the ones she'd written about before, but I knew she'd be up for the challenge.
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Financial planning for a lifetime of care is a burden few understand outside our community. We don't get a roadmap of how to help and support our loved ones. Rich, poor or in between, we'll have to make decisions. CTFSN is a Connecticut-based special needs organization. The seminar is from a Northwestern Mutual special needs financial planner, and the info will be applicable across the country. There are so many questions and pitfalls regarding finances before and after our children turn 18. Kim
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Special Needs Trusts or Able Accounts? Financial Planning Workshop Hosted by CTFSN October 12th, 2022 | 12 :30 PM Via Zoom Financial Planning for the future of your child. Stephen Ehrens, CPA and Wealth Advisor from Northwestern Mutual will discuss, Estate planning considerations, Special Needs Trusts, Wills, Benefits, i.e. SSI and Medicaid, Insurance and Investments. Also, how an “ABLE Account”, will provide a tax-sheltered vehicle for your child.
Featured Speaker: Stephen Ehrens CPA, Wealth Management Advisor for Northwestern Mutual. Specializes in financial planning for families with children with special needs and disabilities. To learn more about Stephen, please visit: www.stephen.ehrens.com
Please email Eric.Goldsmith@nm.com for the Zoom Link and for materials after the webinar.
To do list: Buy fresh fruit and toilet paper. Schedule oil change. Plan the next 60 years of life for Mia, Gianna and Isabella.
No sweat.
I saw this online workshop from Empowering Ability on Facebook, and thought it's worth sharing. As ever, I think that the autism community will find some (maybe a good deal) of planning for special needs will not work for us. Rather than be a complete Debbie Downer, I'm trying to look forward with hope and confidence that my adult daughters will have a fulfilling life.
What you’ll discover in this (free) 'Life Plan Workshop':
1) Understand the REAL reasons why you're feeling stuck so that... you can move past the fears that are stopping your loved one from living their own adult life.
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Children's Health Defense was deplatformed from Facebook and Instagram, a blow to their ability to communicate with readers around the globe. Please sign up for The Defender daily email so that you keep abreast of their work. President Biden declared that the Pandemic is over on 60 Minutes this week. He also declared a long winter of sickness and death for the unvaccinated last year, in a grim prediction that fizzled. CHD covers the story:
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Biden Declares ‘Pandemic Is Over,’ Prompting Calls for End to ‘Absurd’ Vaccine Mandates, Federal Health Emergency
President Joe Biden’s Sept. 18 statement that the COVID-19 pandemic is “over” prompted questions about why his administration hasn’t ended the federal public health emergency and how the government or employers can continue to mandate Emergency Use Authorized vaccines.
In an interview aired Sept. 18 on “60 Minutes,” President Joe Biden declared the COVID-19 “pandemic is over,” in the first such statement by a prominent political figure in the U.S.
Biden made the comment from the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, which is being held for the first time since 2019... Read more at The Defender.
In his remarks, Biden, using the auto show as a point of reference, stated:
“We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lotta work on it … but the pandemic is over.
“If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s changing. And I think this is a perfect example of it.”
We're on Insta, for now. Please follow us. We're there with the Autism Ages name and a different profile pic. You can surmise why. Our Twitter has over 30,000 followers, but we've been placed in "sensitive content" mode, so our Tweets come with a warning label. We'll be promoting new books, old books we love and more on Insta. As well as excerpting and linking over to this, the flagship AofA. Social media, mobile devices have changed how and where we read. Add a bolus dose of censorship and it's a challenge to find and keep friends and readers near. Thanks. Kim
We're used to being told that autism has no treatments or cures. We've taken beatings for decades regarding therapies and medical interventions, and guess what? Despite these beatings, our morale ALWAYS improves, because we never give up and rarely listen to so called "experts" like the nudniks at the American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA.) Experts in the case of "evidence based" science are often folks who have hit the jackpot known as Insurance Reimbursements for offering the therapies that universities have been paid to study and rubber stamp by industry. My daughters had school based speech therapy from age 3 through 22. Their therapists were lovely women ( we did not have a single male speech therapist in 57 cumulative school years.) They meant well. They imparted what they were taught. They were kind. They tried. They made ZERO headway. I mean zero. Nothing the school SLPs did boosted my girls' ability to communicate or to make their needs known. Not even the exalted iPad - with the $300 apps one friend described as dropping 100 flashcards on the floor and expecting a sentence. Even worse with school based Occupational Therapy. Or as I call it, "The Pencil Holding Guild." Not until we had a private therapist using reflex integration did we see benefits from OT. Work she could NOT do in a school based setting.
JB Handley will tell you more about how the ASHA which is the organization that is supposed to champion communication, shuts it down. His book, cowritten with his son Jamie, is our AofA Book Club book of the day. We're featuring books on our Instagram, and in our sidebar, which nobody sees any longer because we all read on mobile devices.
PORTLAND, Oregon—We’re finishing up the filming for our new documentary, SPELLERS, a movie inspired by the book my son Jamie and I wrote in 2021 titled Underestimated: an Autism Miracle. Briefly, it's the story of the miraculous discovery my family made that our 17-year-old son Jamie was cognitively brilliant but “trapped” inside his own body. What freed him from this self-described “silent prison”? A communication method known as Spelling 2 Communicate, heretofore referred to as “S2C.” Here’s a great video primer on S2C:
Today, the miracle with Jamie continues unabated. Jamie no longer needs anyone to hold the keyboard for him. As you can see in the picture at the top of this post, Jamie is able to spell his thoughts and feelings independently, even with two cameramen filming his every move (well, you can’t actually see it yet, but trust me you will soon, that scene is in the movie!). At home, without the Hollywood klieg lights on, it gets even better: Jamie is now typing with two hands on a flat keyboard, communicating the way most of us do.
I’m guessing half the people reading this article don’t know what the ASHA acronym stands for (thanks for sticking with me!) so here you go: American Speech Language Hearing Association. Basically, it’s a trade group that represents more than 200,000 speech language pathologists, is based in Rockville, MD, and is run by a woman named Vicki Deal-Williams.
For those of you not in the autism world, Speech Language Pathologists (we call them “SLPs”) are a big deal. They work with our kids. They try to help them talk. Some of them are great, amazing people. And, those who call themselves SLPs only do so for one reason: they have received the accreditation of ASHA. These credentials allow them to refer to themselves as SLPs, and these hard-earned credentials are everything to them. Therefore, what ASHA says carries huge weight with them, and they sure don’t want their credential pulled by not marching to their tune.
And, in 2018, ASHA did something with their weight that has had a giant impact on the roughly 50 million nonspeakers in the world: they issued a proclamation stating that what my son was doing on a keyboard was a magic trick, was not coming from him, and that SLPs should run, not walk, away from ever using a letterboard and should actively discourage parents from trying S2C, too.... Read more here.
I had the radio on as I drove into town by myself the other day. Catching up on some morning news, I was quite pleased to hear the radio announcer share that, “Most Americans have turned the page on the COVID pandemic...” I wanted to high five someone after hearing that. Another tidbit from the poll was also encouraging. “The public’s perception of personal risk also is a low point, and people are starting to pick and choose more where they deem it necessary to take precautions like masking.”
Good for them, I thought.
People, lots of people, dropped the masks many months ago. I know a few who still, maybe out of an abundance of caution, have kept theirs on. Last week, when an issue popped up that needed medical attention, I made an appointment with our doctor’s office and was sternly reminded to, ‘Bring your mask!! It’s required to wear one!’ I had bought several washable, fabric-styled ones during the lockdown but could not honestly remember where I’d put them. I put them away so long ago. The only time we’ve been asked to wear one lately has been at a doctor’s office.
Thankfully, we haven’t had the need to go to the doctor too many times.
The radio announcer continued to another segment after reporting on the Axios. The weather forecast would be next. Once on the air, the meteorologist bellowed, “Across the arena, we’ll see some clear skies and lower temperatures!”
Across the arena.
Arena? I’d never heard that term used to describe where I live. But with that recent poll, and with the ever-constant news of the ever-available boosters, it did feel like I was in some sort of game. It’s not like the Game of Life I was in, but more like The Hunger Games.
I love the Game of Life and always look forward to when the kids want to play it. I don’t love The Hunger Games so much. When the series came out, I shied away from it. My fifth child was born the year the first book was released. I was too busy to read it or get caught up in the hype. Years later, when the movies came out, I decided to watch them. I had limited knowledge of the storyline still but knew that it was a sort of survival story.
A video circulated on Twitter this week, said to be the home of a 12 year old boy, destroyed in an outburst, purportedly because his mother took away his phone. One would surmise that taking away the phone was a consequence of some other action. When I read the comments, I was heartsick. Most blamed MOM for not having control of her son. The leap to blaming Mom made me Tweet a show of empathy for her. Additional comments refute the story, and a screen shot shows the Mom saying her son is 15, mentally ill, and off his medications, 6' tall and 200 lbs. The pre-pubescent Hulk. Holy cow. No matter the final facts, as Anne Dachel catalogs in her site Loss of Brain Trust, the American boy is is real trouble.
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home). Anne Dachel Loss of Brain Trust.com
Addressing mental health needs is as overtaking academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories on Loss of Brain Trust are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Raging children are a daily occurrence for many in the autism community. My daughters do not rage and destroy large swaths of the house. For this, I am grateful. I have many friends whose homes had holes in the walls, bedrooms with nothing but a mattress on the floor, and broken windows. We need training to protect ourselves from our own kids, and that's a rotten thing to have to say, but the truth.
How can "the village" short circuit this youngster's rage so that he does not worsen as he enters manhood? My main thought was that this is a school shooter developing. That's how we have to think in the USA these days. "
I hope the boy gets real help, not just medication. I wish Mom a clear path forward and gentle hands to guide her. She must be well and truly exhausted. From this we know.
