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COVID Junk Science Crumbling; GoFundMe FAIL


Government officials are starting to treat COVID-related junk science like a mask they've sneezed in: quietly dropping it, trying not to be noticed.

Here's the White House press secretary saying the Biden administration never supported lockdowns. (They just wanted you fired for not taking an experimental injection.) 


Here's the State of Indiana obliquely saying that vaccination doesn't prevent spread. Note that the top of the isolation and quarantine flow chart says "regardless of vaccination status." 

 


Come to think of it, I haven't seen a tweet or heard their ad recommending vaccination in a while. 

It doesn't look like the vaccines are doing much of anything anymore, based on data compiled and calculated from the state's coronavirus website and the Regenstrief hospitalization website (click to enlarge):


The breakthrough hospitalization rate is more in line with Denmark and England. The huge jump might be explained by the 87% breakthrough rate of cases the previous week--or maybe it was Indiana's attorney general "asking questions and raising concerns" over reported COVID statistics.

The AG is also raising concerns over GoFundMe. The organizers of the trucker convoy in Canada set up a GoFundMe account to cover expenses for their protest. After donors gave them $10 million, GoFundMe distributed $1 million to the organizers, then closed the account stating the protest had turned into an occupation. They announced their plan to offer refunds and give whatever remained of the $9 million to charities of its choice. I'm not a CPA, but I don't think charities are legally allowed to do whatever they want with allocated funds. But GoFundMe isn't buggo on law OR order.

I'm old enough to remember when GoFundMe was bailing rioters out of jail back in 2020. Andy Ngo recalls when GoFundMe supported squatters, domestic terrorist groups, and someone who assaulted him in 2019 and Jack Posobiac points out that GoFundMe supported CHAZ/CHOP after people were murdered there. So 1) GoFundMe having a bee in their bonnet over parking violations, honking and whatever it is that "police are investigating" beggars belief, and 2) giving the truckers' money to someone else is stealing. 

GoFundMe beat a retreat: they're actively refunding the money to the donors to "make it easier for them." Right--after tweets all over Twitter advised the donors to do "charge backs" instead of refunds, making GoFundMe incur bank fees. Now, at least two attorneys general (Indiana's and Florida's) are now looking into the organization. And yes, contrary to the ignorati on Twitter, they have jurisdiction since GoFundMe is based in the US and some of the donors live here.

The fundraiser is now at GiveSendGo, where a stampede of donors ddos (denial of service) attack crashed their site. It is back up and running slowly, but the convoy raised over $1 million in one day. 

I've watched a few live streams of the protest. Elsewhere on social media I saw one nazi flag and (oddly for Canada) one Confederate flag among thousands of protestors, but all I saw in the live streams where Viva Frei was walking around were Canadian flags and signs opposing the mandates and their prime minister. People of various backgrounds--white, black, Sikh, Inuit, Muslim--were dancing, walking around, talking; a few people were building a small soup kitchen that looked like a food stand. People were shoveling the sidewalks and trash was in trash bags. Even last night--a Friday night--nobody looked drunk or disorderly. He walked around the Senate building and didn't find any graffiti; he walked by the Terry Fox statue this morning, where people had put flowers.

Screen shot from today's live stream by Viva Frei. https://rumble.com/vu4k5m-live-from-ottawa-counter-protesters-at-the-freedom-convoy-2022-viva-on-the-.html

Clearly, this protest offended something besides GoFundMe's decency or by-the-book enforcement of terms of service. Let's hope that GoFundMe goes the way of lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

Photo of trash cans from Pixabay.

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