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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said he was informed by some members of the U.S. military that they would quit if the armed forces mandated a COVID-19 vaccine, coming after a report claimed that Army headquarters told commanders to prepare for mandatory vaccinations in September.
“I’ve been contacted by members of our voluntary military who say they will quit if the COVID vaccine is mandated. I introduced HR 3860 to prohibit any mandatory requirement that a member of the Armed Forces receive a vaccination against COVID-19. It now has 24 sponsors,” Massie wrote on Twitter. He didn’t provide more details.
It isn’t clear how the service members could quit or how many would try to do so. Once a member reports to their first duty station, they are obligated to stay within the service of the armed forces. If a service member leaves without approval, they can be declared AWOL, or absent without leave.
The Republican lawmaker was referring to a report published by the Army Times over the weekend that detailed an executive order sent by the Department of the Army Headquarters that commands should be prepared to administer COVID-19 vaccines starting as early as Sept. 1. The date is contingent on when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues its full approval of the vaccines.
The Army Times reported that it had obtained the directive, HQDA EXORD 225-21, COVID-19 Steady State.
“Commanders will continue COVID-19 vaccination operations and prepare for a directive to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for service members [on or around] 01 September 2021, pending full FDA licensure. Commands will be prepared to provide a backbrief on servicemember vaccination status and way ahead for completion once the vaccine is mandated,” the directive reads.
An EXORD is a directive issued by the president to the defense secretary to execute a military operation.
The Department of Defense and the U.S. Army didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.
“We do not comment on leaked documents,” a U.S. Army spokesperson told the Army Times, noting that “the vaccine continues to be voluntary.”
“If we are directed by [Department of Defense] to change our posture, we are prepared to do so.”
On July 5, Massie noted that his Twitter post was “targeted” by “science-illiterate, military hating, angry blue [checkmark]” users on Twitter.
“There are no health outcomes based studies that show any benefit from the vaccine for those who have already had COVID,” he wrote.
The congressman also pointed to a Department of Defense study published in late June that found a higher number of military members who got the vaccine experienced higher than expected rates of heart inflammation.
U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force physicians found 23 cases of myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation, in previously healthy men. They developed the condition within four days of getting the vaccine, a study published in JAMA Cardiology found.
The study comes weeks after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel found a higher rate of heart inflammation after mRNA vaccines were administered. However, the agency and other health officials have said the benefit of getting the vaccine outweighs the risks.
COVID-19 is the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
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A Chinese 'spy recruitment' scholar is now running Joe Biden's NSA Personnel Department
Reporter : Natalie Winters
Thomas Zimmerman – a Special Assistant to Joe Biden on National Security Agency personnel – formerly served as a visiting scholar at a Chinese Communist Party think-tank labeled as a “front group for Chinese intelligence collection and overseas spy recruitment” by the FBI, The National Pulse can reveal.
News (7) to (9) / Reporter : Zhong Yuan / Editor : Gao Yi / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/7/5/n13069996.htm / Direct translation
A leaked document of the health ministry in Thailand has raised doubts about the efficacy of Sinovac Biotech's vaccine. The memo intended for internal use included an opinion that mRNA vaccine shouldn't be given a boost because that could bring down people's confidence in China's Sinovac vaccine.
The Bangkok Post stated that the memo was taken from a meeting held between an academic committee on communicable disease control, a sub-committee on immunization and a working academic panel on vaccine management on June 30. The meeting was organized to discuss the distribution of the Pfizer vaccine.
Netizens started taking the memo more seriously when Thailand's Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul confirmed that the document was authentic. So, does that mean Sinovac is less effective than Pfizer vaccine? Here is what the memo stated.
The memo included opinions from a number of in-house health experts. One of the writers of the opinion recommended the authorities not to give a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine to frontline health workers because such a move would mean that the ministry was admitting that the Sinovac vaccine was not effective.
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Netizens Start Online Campaign
So far, Thailand has administered Sinovac's vaccine to most of its health workers. The study by the health ministry had shown that the Sinovac doses were 95 percent effective in reducing the risk of death. According to the study, Sinovac's vaccine was effective with Alpha variant of COVID-19 as it showed 71 percent to 91 percent efficiency in stopping the infection.
As soon as the memo was leaked, netizens started an online campaign #GivePfizertomedicalpersonnel. Netizens demanded not to put the lives of health workers in danger by administering them with Sinovac vaccine. In one day alone more than 624,000 people tweeted using the hashtag supporting the Pfizer vaccine.
Soon, netizens were confused as one of the senior health officials, Opas Karnkawinpong, addressed the media and told that the document was fake. His statement contradicted Health Minister Anutin's confirmation of the authenticity of the leaked memo.
However, Anutin said that the comment on boosting the vaccine was just an opinion of an individual. He said that the vaccine policy was set by an expert panel. He also supported the Sinovac's vaccine and said that two doses of Sinovac vaccine were effective and delivered results beyond the standard.
Currently, Thailand mainly depends on AstraZeneca shots, locally manufactured by royal-owned company Siam BioScience. Reports claim that Moderna's mRNA vaccine will also be available soon in the country. Reuters reported that Thailand will get 20 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The US will also be sending 1.5 million doses of Pfizer vaccine by the end of July.
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Research: Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna can effectively fight against Lambda variant
Editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA / Source : 8world
US research shows that Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna's covi vaccines are believed to be effective against the Lambda variant (Covi37), which is more transmissible than Delta variant (Covi72).
Covi37 from Peru has now invaded more than 31 countries around the world, and was listed as a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization on 15 June 2021.
Subsequently, the researchers discovered that this variant strain may be more transmissible than Covi72, which is currently raging around the world and setting off a new wave of epidemics in many stable areas, and has a better way to escape the protection provided by the antibodies produced by the covi vaccine.
However, according to the latest research by the New York University School of Medicine, the antibodies produced by the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine can still neutralize Covi37.
Although this variant virus is partially resistant to protests caused by the vaccine, scientists are confident that messenger RNA vaccines such as Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna can effectively combat this variant virus.
News (18) to (20) / Reporter : Luo Ya / Editor : Gao Jing / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/21/7/6/n13071430.htm / Extract translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA / Image : Video Screenshot
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Tsinghua old professor angrily denounces: CCP is squandering taxpayers' money
On 5 July, a video of Jiang Yijun, a retired professor of the Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University, was widely circulated on Twitter. She introduced the vice president of Tsinghua University to send her a commemorative party badge.
"In my first sentence, I told the vice-principal that I am opposed to this chapter. The reason is that my creed is to do nothing. I have retired for 30 years. If I have not contributed to the party and the people, I shouldn’t take it. This chapter, there are more than seven million such chapters across the country, which requires a waste of much of the country’s manpower and material resources."
She also quoted Lao Mao and felt ashamed that wearing this badge was a waste of people's property.
She also compared foreign political parties, "For example, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the United States have at least 200 years of history. Which party used taxpayers' money to celebrate its birthday with great fanfare? Hundreds of thousands of people were mobilized to sing praises and let children sing communism. The successor of ism, extravagance and waste to the extreme."
She also emphasized, “I think this party has made a big mistake. It is now self-modifying, expanding, and expanding itself. If you are abroad, you will immediately criticize the party and the people will vote you down."
It is reported that Jiang Yijun is a graduate of Shanghai Jiaotong University and joined the underground party of the Communist Party of China as early as 1949. Her video has attracted attention online.
Ms. Cai Xia, a former professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, who is now completely decoupled from the CCP, said, "This old professor at Tsinghua University is a rare sober and daring person in the CCP." "There are many people in the CCP who understand. , But under high pressure, there is an atmosphere of terror and killing in the party, and few people dare to speak out like this."
Bao Tong also said, "Thank you Professor Jiang Yijun, thank you for your clear summary!"
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Expert: The old women went out to tell the truth
Professor Feng Chongyi, an expert on China issues living in Australia, said that these old women have already given up their minds and complained. It turns out that people were deceived by the CCP to join the party, thinking that joining the party can realize their ideals. These young intellectuals back then still have a heart for them. , So they are dissatisfied with the dictatorship and corruption of the current party. When they were old, the time they had enjoyed was over, so now they have to go out and tell the truth.
He also said that these people were called "two-headed truth" and they joined the party with ideals. Later, they discovered that they were not serving the people as they thought they were. They were an authoritarian and corrupt party. There will be complaints in private, and there are many such people such as Li Rui, Zhu Houze, Hu Jiwei, Bao Tong and so on.
Feng Chongyi believes that there are many people who are dissatisfied, but there are not many people who are brave enough to speak out publicly. Because many elderly people dare not speak because they have to see a doctor when they are old, the treatment of senior officials is very important. If they do not have this, they will enter the senior ward and pay for the medical expenses themselves. Because you can’t afford them, they have to bow their heads and bear the CCP's insult given.
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Folk Scholars: The CCP has brought many sufferings to the Chinese people
In an interview with The Epoch Times, Mr. Chen, a researcher on civil party history in mainland China, said that Professor Jiang Yijun had a clear understanding of the CCP. He believed that there was a peculiar phenomenon in the CCP system. When the Soviet Union implanted communist cancer cells in China, they held it. An ideal to transform China joins. When he retires and is not under the control of the party organization of his unit, he dares to stand up and tell the truth, such as the "Record of the Lushan Meeting" written by Li Rui.
Mr. Chen thinks that the CCP has used the money of many taxpayers to organize large-scale party celebrations, which makes him extremely angry. The CCP is also sprinkling money everywhere in the world, sprinkling 600 billion U.S. dollars.
"The CCP’s celebration of the centenary of the party’s celebration is like a joke. The CCP came to the land of China, with dirty blood in every pore. It has brought endless suffering to the Chinese people. Without the CCP, China It will develop better." Mr. Chen said.
He took South Korea and Taiwan as examples and said that they did not have a Communist Party and they all developed very well. But North Korea has the Communist Party, and people are still starving to death. Mainland China has the Communist Party. The Mainland has become a communist country with corruption, poisonous air, overflowing sewage, and the country will not be a country.
He emphasized, “How can the CCP brag about its kindness to the people? It’s shameless. East Germany has the Communist Party. When the Berlin Wall falls, the people will vote with their feet and vote for West Germany, and the Communist regime will fall in an instant. Communism is for mankind. The only contribution is the writing of negative teaching materials, which are made up of mountains of bones and rivers of blood."
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