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   >> a fact is interpreted or different facts presented to address the same   
   >> question, has now become the norm for a whole range of actors — the   
   >> government, civil society, pharma, healthcare providers, scientists and   
   >> the media.   
   >>   
   >> Truth, then, has been the biggest casualty of the past five years,   
   >> powered by the distortion or denial of facts and accompanied by the   
   >> decline of trust in the institutions that people rely on to tell the   
   >> truth. In its place, propaganda, rumour, myths and misinformation have   
   >> taken hold of the collective imagination. While the pandemic today seems   
   >> like a passé topic that most prefer not to think about, it is important   
   >> not to forget that people were dying by the hundreds of thousands just a   
   >> few years ago. Moreover, the pandemic’s enduring legacy, the inexorable   
   >> decline of truth and trust, continues to dominate our lives, grievously   
   >> wounding our humanity and, arguably, the very idea of democracy.   
   >>   
   >> (The writer is Paul Farmer Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical   
   >> School)   
   >   
   > In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of   
   > GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's   
   > secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps   
   > us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne   
   > pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being   
   > 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**   
   > appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).   
   >   
   > Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the   
   > COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by   
   > rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given   
   > moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly   
   > contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to   
   > "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and   
   > self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.   
   > Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case   
   > scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,   
   > Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations   
   > combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"   
   > that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no   
   > longer effective.   
   >   
   > Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (   
   > https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ   
   > ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.   
   >   
   > So how are you ?   
   >   
       I am wonderfully hungry!   
      
      
     Michael   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)