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2 Nov 2020, CNN:

“Peyton Baumgarth, 13, *died of Covid-19*. He is the youngest person to pass away from Covid-19 in the state of Missouri, according to state records.”

What might be learned by close scrutiny of this case?🤔

(Refs at end of 🧵)
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cnn.com/2020/11/02/us/…

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“Peyton's uncle, Wayne Franke Jr., told CNN affiliate KSDK that Peyton's mother also tested + for Covid-19.

‘I can't imagine what she's going through, Franke said. ‘Nobody should ever have to deal with that.’”

[Note that the CNN report spells “Franke”, ending with “k-e”.]

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4 Nov 2020, eMissouri-dot-com:

“Peyton died on his favorite holiday.”

[meaning Halloween, 31 October 2020.]



3/ emissourian.com/local_news/pey…
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“‘We are a tight-knit family, so not being able to be there to support one another broke our hearts,’ said *Cyndi Crawford*, Peyton's aunt. ‘We would have been there, every single one of us, if we could have.’”

[Once again, pay close attention to names.]

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“Crawford [..] spoke to The Missourian on behalf of the family…

His uncle, Wayne Franek Jr., said Peyton was also an avid music lover.

“He loved to listen to the radio, and he loved to sing,” Wayne Franek said.”

[The uncle’s name is spelled “Franek” -ending with “e-k”]
🤔

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“(Cyndi) Crawford said the hardest part of the situation was that the family couldn't be there to comfort Peyton in his last days because of safety restrictions.

The family was shocked by the *suddenness* of Peyton's worsening symptoms.”

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“(Peyton Baumgarth’s mother) Stephanie Franek told St. Louis television news outlets… that she didn't even know how to take a breath.

‘This is just something that no parent should ever have to do,’ Franek said in the broadcasts.”

[Again, note “Franek” ending in “k-e”]

🤔
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Note that family spokesperson Cyndi Crawford (Peyton’s aunt) provided many more details.

“…news of Peyton's passing quickly spread Sunday night into Monday, including appearing on a CNN newscast…”

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So one might wonder if the last name of Peyton’s mother and uncle is “Franke” as CNN spelled it-or “Franek” as eMissourian-dot-com spelled it.

The matter is settled by a 2-minute interview of Peyton’s mother by KMOV… “Franek” is correct.

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Stephanie Franek:
“Hug the people you love. Hug them tight. Tell them you love them.

Wear a mask when you’re in public.
Wash your hands.

And know that Covid is real”

I recommend watching the clip (link in above post).

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It may seem that CNN just has a typo-“Franke”. Yet KSDK, the source cited by CNN, spelled “Franek” right.

Strangely, the link labelled KSDK by CNN actually links to WPXI of Pittsburgh.

WPXI has the correct link to KSDK- but incorrectly spells “Franke” in their story.

🤔

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Why focus on the name?

Because “Stephanie Franke” (not Franek) is well-known in the marketing world. Her website states:

“As they (Novavax) became a public-facing brand, our role was to help bolster their reputation among investors and the public.”

Details matter.

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Stephanie Franke also produced marketing material for HCA Healthcare- “the largest network of hospitals in North America.”

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stephaniefranke.com/Hospital-Corpo…
15 Aug 2017:

“Discovery Worldwide, a healthcare communications agency that combines the power of science, storytelling and innovative delivery to
move health forward, announces the appointment of Stephanie Franke as VP, Creative Director….”

🤔

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“Franke reports directly to TJ Cimfel (remember that name), Group VP Creative Director…

Franke is known for developing strategic creative, applying behavior science techniques and connecting brands and causes to the customer through insightful storytelling.”

🤔

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“‘Stephanie is a true champion for elevating personal storytelling by connecting the customer to the cause…," said TJ Cimfel, Group VP Creative Director, Discovery Worldwide.

“…science is changing medicine, and medicine is changing lives."

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pharmalive.com/discovery-worl…
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“Discovery Worldwide is a healthcare marketing agency that unleashes the behavior changing power of science
through creative storytelling+innovative delivery…blending deep scientific knowhow, key customer insights+creative storytelling to elevate the clinical conversation.”

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“Discovery Worldwide is part of
Publicis Health, a division within Publicis Group S.A., the world's third largest advertising and media company.”

The website specifies gene therapy and immuno-oncology as areas which DIscovery Worldwide supports.

🤔
What about Publicis?

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In 2010, CBS reported Publicis was leveraged by both Google (“These 2 companies ought to get their stories straight before the feds start poking around”) and Microsoft (“Microsoft has Publicis over a barrel” via Razorfish).

Did Publicis cut a deal with Google and Microsoft?

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Back to Stephanie “Franek”:

21 Dec 2020:

“A COVID-stricken teen tragically warned his mom ‘I'm going to die’ before his blood sprayed a hospital wall as he passed away.”

(The pictures are graphic.)

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thesun.co.uk/news/13539539/…
“Peyton Baumgarth, 13, died just six days after developing symptoms of the killer infection…

Stephanie Franek, 44, watched as doctors unsuccessfully battled to save her precious son's life as the treatment to oxygenate his blood failed.”
🤔

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“His shocked mother has shared chilling images of the bloodied SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital room to urge Americans to take Covid seriously.

Stephanie, a nurse (🤔) from St Louis, said that, heartbreakingly, Peyton told her he thought he was going to pass away.”

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“She (Stephanie Franek) recalled: ‘He said: “Mommy, I'm going to die.”

I said: 'No, you're not going to die, you'll be OK.’

"He told me he loved me and those were the last words I got to hear from him."

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(Buckle up everyone)

“To make matter worse the mom-of-two endured another Covid loss when her sister Cyndi Crawford, 57, died 5 weeks after Peyton in the ICU.

She said: ‘One loss would have been
heartbreaking alone but these two have completely shattered our hearts.’”

🤔
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“After being admitted to hospital, Stephanie was *horrified* to discover that her son's oxygen levels had plummeted to just 44 percent…

‘We had only been in the ER for probably one hour when doctors decided they needed to put him on a ventilator’ she said.”

🤔

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“Doctors treated Peyton with ECMO…

But, his condition worsened suddenly on October 31, when he began to hemorrhage.

His mom said that Peyton "had this big
coughing fit and he basically started to
hemorrhage in his chest…”

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“‘The surgeons were trying to replace the ECMO +were doing CPR to help circulate his blood”…

As doctors… tried to replace the tubes in Peyton's neck, the blood… sprayed over the walls… ‘it was all over the surgeon, and he just kept working.’

Stephanie watched…”

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“Adding to Stephanie’s pain, her sister Cyndi, *a trauma registrar*, came down with Covid a week before Thanksgiving.”

(As a trauma registrar would Cyndi have been familiar with how ECMO works?)

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"I hope people will take Covid more seriously and not say it is a political agenda or some type of fakes (sp?) news or that it is the same as the flu."

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A second Sun article focuses on the pictures and covers much of the same material.

But it also adds a few more details.

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the-sun.com/news/1995186/s…
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“(Stephanie) shared that the only positive has been reuniting with her ex boyfriend, Chris Lottmann, 43, a welder, whom Peyton adored.

‘He was very close with Peyton and I called him to tell him that Peyton had passed away and he was devastated.’”

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We have got back together and he has been a huge source of support for me…’

‘We think it was Peyton's wish and *our gift from Peyton* that he got us back together he really didn't want us to break up in the first place.’”

🤔

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Back to Stephanie “Franke”-

Recall that she “reports directly to TJ Cimfel at Discovery Worldwide.

It turns out that TJ Cimfel lists both “Healthcare Executive” and “Screenwriter/author” on his LinkedIn page.

In what genre does he specialize?

Horror movies, of course.

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Given Stephanie “Franek” shared pictures captioned:

“Peyton Baumgarth died in *horrific* circumstances…” and

“His mom has shared shocking pics of the blood-covered walls in the hope of saving other lives from coronavirus.”

Would her story resemble work by TJ Cimfel?
🤔

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Stephanie Franke and TJ Cimfel work for Discovery Worldwide, part of Publicis.

In 2019, Reuters reported the emergence of NewsGuard and stated:

NewsGuard’s “investors include the French advertising company Publicis Groupe SA.”

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May 2021:

“Publicis Groupe is leveraging NewsGuard…”

“This tool provides Publicis Groupe clients with a constantly updated *exclusion list* to protect them from having their ads unintentionally fund thousands of misinformation and hoax websites.”

🤔

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“Publicis also partnered with NewsGuard on the launch of its HealthGuard browser plug-in to power a new campaign, ‘VaxFacts,’ following a rise in misinformation and hoaxes relating to the COVID-19 health crisis and vaccine development.”



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“‘We have an obligation to restore the
accuracy and trustworthiness of content in all aspects of our industry,’ said Andrea Palmer, President, Publicis Health Media.”

[Did they hire TJ Cimfel because nothing says ‘accurate+trustworthy’ better than a horror movie script?]

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"We are delighted to work with Publicis to provide access to HealthGuard…," said Sarah Brandt, NewsGuard executive VP…

"PHM has been a great partner in making people aware of this tool to protect their families from healthcare hoaxes, including relating to the vaccines."

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“NewsGuard reports have found… more than 4,000 blue-chip companies inadvertently funded COVID-19 misinformation sites through their programmatic advertising…

and more than 1,000 brands funded ‘Stop the Steal’ sites leading up to the January 6 riot.”

“brand unsafe”
🤔

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In Feb 2022, Childrens Health Defense published a lengthy article on NewsGuard:

“Backed by Big Pharma, NewsGuard Brings ‘Fact Checking’ to tens of millions of kids in schools”



Excerpts follow…

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“The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is partnering with NewsGuard…

and AFT agreed to purchase NewsGuard licenses for its entire membership of teachers 1.7 million
in total.”

(NewsGuard uses a “traffic light” and “nutrition label” for websites.)

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“NewsGuard included CHD on its list of websites that spread ‘vaccine myths,’ lamenting that ‘Some of the websites NewsGuard identified have become more popular online than trustworthy sources of information about COVID-19.’”

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“A February 2021 NewsGuard interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was ‘annotated in italics in footnote form with fact checks debunking
the dozens of arguments Kennedy employed to bolster his false claim that Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous.’ “

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CHD: “NewsGuard's advisory board [includes] individuals from the political, intelligence, Big Tech and media establishments, including:

Don Baer
Arnie Duncan
Gen. Michael Hayden
Leo Hindery Jr.
Elise Jordan
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Tom Ridge
Richard Stengel
and Jimmy Wales”

🤔
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Jan 2023:

“‘There's Something Wrong With The Children’ (uses) the gaslighting trope of the crazy character that no one believes until it's too late.” -“available on Amazon Prime”

TJ Cimfel (of Discovery Worldwide/Publicis) was one of its screenwriters.

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The plot is described:

“Ben is the only one who notices and can see the *children* acting sinister, but… his wife and friends don't entirely trust his judgment.

Unfortunately for the rest of the adults, they realize Ben is telling the
truth when it is already too late.”

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“The *children* start to act strangely and even murderously. Ben sees one drugging their parent's drink and make stabbing motions, so he points out the strange behavior. When he does, the kids act as if they're just playing innocently or act bewildered by his accusations.”

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The 1st amendment protects screenwriters who cast children as murderous evil-doers.

But if Big Pharma execs or government regulators were cast as unsuspected murderers instead of children, wouldn’t NewsGuard have placed TJ Cimfel’s movie on an ‘exclusion list’?

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Sep 2023:

“House
BY TJ CIMFEL

House does not want you here. Does not want your laughter in its halls. Does not want your gentle breathing at night. Your cheerful demeanor. Your smiling brood. It does not want your
hopeful words...”

What if the title were ‘Hospital’?
🤔😡

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Recapping:

1. The first child to “die of covid” in Missouri in only 6 days had a “coughing fit” on ECMO which led to blood all over the walls+ceiling of his hospital room.

2. His aunt, who spoke for the family and only 57, “died of covid” 5 weeks later-also on ECMO.

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3. The last name of the boy’s mother, Stephanie Franke, was spelled “Franke” by CNN in its story.

4. “Stephanie Franke” is a marketer who produced ads for Novavax. She works for TJ Cimfel at Discovery Worldwide/Publicis.

5. Publicis invests in and partners with NewsGuard.

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6. NewsGuard polices information, providing an ‘exclusion list’ to prevent advertisers from supporting websites. (Does NewsGuard influence advertisers considering ads on X?)

7. TJ Cimfel of Publicis is a rare combination- healthcare executive and horror movie screenwriter.

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To conclude, i ask:

Was Peyton Baumgarth murdered to promote the covid narrative?

Was his aunt, a trauma registrar, murdered when she figured out what happened to Peyton?

If so, those behind these two murders *must* be brought to justice- no matter who “they” are.

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Refs

On the spelling of “Franke” and “Franek”.

Click the link in the CNN story to see it links to WPXI instead of KSDK.

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3. cnn.com/2020/11/02/us/…
wpxi.com/news/trending/…
ksdk.com/article/news/h…
On TJ Cimfel’s movies:

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Looks like his LinkedIn page might now be private.gointothestory.blcklst.com/interview-vide…
thedarkmagazine.com/issues/septemb…
CBS apparently just archived the story on Google and Publicis:

9. web.archive.org/web/2011112621…
CBS story on Microsoft and Publicis:

10. cbsnews.com/news/what-a-co…
11. Stephanie Franke’s website on Novavax.

stephaniefranke.com/Novavax
12. Cyndi Crawford quoted extensively

emissourian.com/local_news/pey…

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