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How “Trust Us” Liberals FAILED Us: Thomas Frank with Briahna Joy Gray

Mr. Frank and Ms. Joy Gray discuss the future of both left and right populism in this country, and what history tells us about how to “push Biden left” as so many liberals promised to do. They also dig into Frank’s enormously popular Guardian article on how the media silenced a possible COVID origin story and what it it reveals about our media that the topic is only now considered “acceptable” discourse.

The NHS just changed how they count Covid “cases”…here’s why.

NHS source claims new data will be “more realistic” in the future, by removing “incidental” Covid cases from the records.

Alameda County COVID-19 Death Toll Lowered by 25% After Counting Method Change

Using the older definition of COVID-19 deaths, a resident who had COVID-19 but died due to another cause, like a car accident, this person would be included in the total number of reported COVID-19 deaths for Alameda County. Under the updated definition of COVID-19 deaths, this person would not be included in the total because COVID-19 was not a contributing factor in the death.

Ivermectin: Can a Drug Be “Right-Wing”?

A potential Covid-19 treatment has become hostage to a larger global fight between populists and anti-populists. Ivermectin has suffered the same fate as thousands of other news topics since Donald Trump first announced his run for the presidency nearly six years ago, cleaved in two to inhabit separate factual universes for left and right audiences.

Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates’s Book Is Rubbish!

“Just by chance I was reading the rubbish in Bill Gates’ new book. I normally don’t read rubbish but when they want to be rulers through rubbish, I read it. And it’s lovely because he says the greenhouse gases from factory farms are not because of factory farms and putting animals in prisons … it’s because the cows were the problem. They had four stomachs and the four stomachs make the methane.” —Vandana Shiva

“This whole pandemic, from the beginning, was about the vaccine.”

Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, is vice chairman of medicine at Baylor University Medical Center and a professor of medicine at Texas A&M College of Medicine in Dallas. An internist, cardiologist and epidemiologist, he is the editor in chief of “Cardiorenal Medicine” and “Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine.” He has authored over 500 cited works in the National Library of Medicine.