'family never anticipated the worldwide headlines that would ensue. In a ballyhooed press conference, New Mexico Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase...announced New Mexico’s first ivermectin “overdose,” soon adding a second fatality allegedly from “ivermectin toxicity.”'
'Now, Scrase has acknowledged that his repeated, what he called “offhand,” assertions were groundless. 2 deaths were not caused by ivermectin, a long-used generic drug that was emerging as a...treatment....the pair died because they “actually just delayed their care with covid.”'
'we pressed his agency to provide evidence for its claims of so-called “ivermectin deaths.” Officials had repeatedly said they were awaiting a toxicology report on the cattleman’s death. Yet we learned that the report was never even ordered or done'
'and, moreover, the man’s death was ruled by the state’s coroner as being from “natural” causes.'

That is, not just claims in the absence of evidence but counter to evidence of absence.
'Not a single media outlet reported Scrase’s admission, even as dozens, including the The Hill and The New York Times, had eagerly covered his original assertions about ivermectin...awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015.'
'Doctors, scientists, & toxicologists worldwide were puzzled by the assertions, because ivermectin is an extraordinarily safe, FDA-approved drug. A fixture on the WHO’s list of 100 essential medicines...'
and, as such, 'all hospital systems are recommended to carry.' In the face of a centralized, officially endorsed campaign to smear it as a veterinary medicine, "horse dewormer," 'nearly four billion doses have been given in four decades' to humans.
'New Mexico became a key player in a broad pattern...to portray ivermectin as dangerous....

Research strongly supported the drug’s efficacy against covid; prescriptions were soaring; and public health officials were single-mindedly focused not on treatment but on vaccination.'
'Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 71 studies'
updated Dec 16, 2021
ivmmeta.com
The Hill, New York Daily News, Guardian, Rolling Stone, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow...bit hard. Here’s how Rolling Stone headlined its follow-up on Sept. 3:

“Gunshot Victims Left Waiting as Horse Dewormer Overdoses Overwhelm Oklahoma Hospitals, Doctor Says.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
'But the same story on Wednesday night featured this headline: “One Hospital Denies Oklahoma Doctor’s Story of Ivermectin Overdoses Causing ER Delays for Gunshot Victims.” Which is to say, the “story” collapsed.'
'After the story went viral, two hospitals in eastern Oklahoma — Northeastern Health System-Sequoyah and Integris Grove Hospital — issued statements denying that they had been overrun by ivermectin users.'
Yet there should be no minimizing the two-step horror of what KFOR-Maddow-Daily News-Rolling Stone and others did in this case: First, they failed to see through a phantom story, likely because it tickled their own preconceptions of life in a red state.'
'And second, when the story was exposed, they tweaked a headline, appended an “update,” added a comment or inserted “context” — all of them cowardly quarter-measures at war with any self-respecting book of journalistic standards.'

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Imminent risk of war, & NATO defeat, against Russia...

US Navy PostGraduate School, Monterrey California:
calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/hand…

commentary on their paper:
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moonofalabama.org/2021/12/us-nav…
'a vessel equipped w/ 12 hypersonic missiles can attack as many actively defended targets as two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers firing 16-missile salvos...the offensive equivalent of two entire vessels in the scenario where an actively defended target is being attacked.'
In more concrete terms:
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#ZeroCovid & / or
herd immunity thru Omicron &/or
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original.antiwar.com/gilbert_doctor…
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