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[Link] Childless QAnon Influencer Ron Watkins Is Berating ‘Communist’ School Boards

Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com

Of course schools are not teaching their kids to be racist or spreading “transexual propaganda,” whatever that means. Perhaps Watkins would know that if he had a child enrolled in an Arizona public school, which he doesn’t. Because he doesn’t have a child at all.

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[Link] The Sicilian town where the Covid vaccination rate hit 104%

Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

While European governments weigh up new mandates and measures to boost the uptake of Covid jabs there is on the slopes of Sicily’s Monte delle Rose a village with a vaccination rate that defies mathematics: 104%.

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[Link] Amnesty UK accused of ‘spreading false information’ about Northern Territory Covid outbreak

Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Amnesty UK has been accused of “spreading false information” about the Northern Territory’s Covid outbreak in an extraordinary joint statement from the territory’s peak Aboriginal health organisation and Amnesty’s own Australian operation.

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[Link] California town declares itself a ‘constitutional republic’ to buck Covid rules

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

A northern California town has declared itself a “constitutional republic” in response to Covid-19 health restrictions imposed by the governor, in the latest sign of ongoing strife between the state’s government and its rural and conservative regions.

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[Link] Why are so many NYPD officers fighting vaccination?

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

In New York City, the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) tried and failed to block the city’s vaccine mandate for all city workers. New York City police officers have been on the wrong side of public health for most of the pandemic.

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[Link] New Zealand gang leaders unite to urge community to get Covid shots

Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Seven New Zealand gang leaders, representing four of the countries most well-known street gangs, have joined forces in a video urging their communities to get vaccinated, in a concept that was conjured up by a government minister.

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[Link] The Great Cop Vax Mandate Apocalypse That Never Happened

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

When New York City announced that city workers—including cops–would have to be vaccinated against COVID-19, there was howling, threats, and promises that thousands would walk off the job or retire, turning the city into a dangerous, crime-ridden hellscape.

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[Link] Pro-vaccine Fox News host receives support from CNN anchor over death threats

Read: 1/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The CNN anchor Jake Tapper reached across the political aisle on Friday to support Neil Cavuto, a Fox News host who received death threats after pleading for viewers to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

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[Link] Supply chains threatened as vaccine deadline looms for freight workers entering the NT

Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

From groceries and hardware to cattle and clothes, freight workers play a crucial role in keeping the Northern Territory open for business. But the NT government's vaccine deadline for the industry is fast approaching.

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[Link] Queensland Police Service employees lose legal bid against mandatory COVID jab

Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

The full bench of Queensland's Industrial Relation Commission (QIRC) rejected submissions that Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll had no power to mandate compulsory vaccinations, did not consult staff and infringed upon workers' rights.

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[Link] In-N-Out Refuses to Be ‘Vaccination Police’ in Dumb Move Against Mandate

Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com

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[Link] Northern Territory chief minister and US senator Ted Cruz in Twitter spat over Covid vaccines

Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

The Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, has hit back at US senator Ted Cruz who criticised the Northern Territory’s vaccine policy, telling the firebrand Texan conservative “you know nothing about us”.

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[Link] President of Brazil says it ‘makes no sense’ for him to be vaccinated

Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

More than 600,000 of his citizens have lost their lives to a Covid-19 outbreak he once pooh-poohed as a “little flu”, but Brazil’s science-denying president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced he will decline to be vaccinated, saying “it makes no sense” for him to do so.

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[Link] Texas governor bans all vaccine mandates, including from private businesses

Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com

Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order late Monday prohibiting all state entities, including private businesses, from requiring people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

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[Link] Unvaccinated patients are getting kicked off organ transplant waitlists

Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com

A growing number of medical facilities across the country are directing coveted organ donations to patients who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, pushing people who remain unvaccinated down or even off of transplantation waitlists.

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[Link] ‘Save Australia’ protest erupts in New York

Read: 5/10/2021 www.news.com.au

Australia became the surprising focal point of an American anti vaccine mandate protest march for teachers in New York City overnight, with hundreds of demonstrators chanting “Save Australia” and some waving Aussie flags.

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[Link] Near death of anti-vaccine cardinal is an “irony of life,” says Pope Francis

Read: 20/9/2021 arstechnica.com

Pope Francis, well-known for his freewheeling conversations with journalists aboard the papal plane, yesterday called out COVID-19 vaccine resistance within church ranks as he flew home from Hungary and Slovakia. And he went straight to the top. Well, the irony of life...

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[Link] This Is How Bad COVID Is Getting in Police Departments

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. COVID-19, the leading cause of death among cops in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic, has continued to explode in departments around the country, as the profession’s vaccine rates continue to lag.

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[Link] The FDA Just Fully Approved Pfizer's COVID Vaccine

Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com

The landmark moment could convince some vaccine-hesitant people to get their shot—and may foreshadow a jump in new vaccine mandates to battle the pandemic. “The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.

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[Link] Trump Booed at His Own Rally For Telling His Supporters to Get Vaccinated

Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The reason? Trump told people to go get vaccinated.

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[Link] Pharmacist Faces Decades in Prison for Allegedly Selling Vaccine Cards on eBay

Read: 17/8/2021 www.vice.com

The news signals the criminal element of buying or selling vaccination documents, and comes as unvaccinated people seek to buy the cards or similar fakes to try and skirt proof of vaccination requested by employers or businesses.

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[Link] Antivaxers Think Their ‘Pure’ Semen Will Skyrocket in Value

Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com

Many men assign a massive amount of importance to their own semen. That's not news to anyone: Throughout history, people have believed all kinds of mystical things about cum and its supposed magical powers of longevity, energy, and machismo.

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[Link] This Woman Secretly Runs One of the World's Biggest Anti-Vax Websites From Her House

Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com

An anti-vaxxer website which scrapes and misrepresents data from a government-run database has been spreading misinformation like wildfire through anti-vax communities for the last month. Now for the first time, the identity of the woman running the site has been revealed.

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[Link] Get ready for 'Vaxzevria', AstraZeneca's rebranded COVID-19 vaccine

Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

AstraZeneca has become a household name, but its COVID-19 vaccine will soon be rebranded to help smooth the pathway for millions of Australians hoping to travel overseas once the international border reopens.

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[Link] ‘They thought Covid only kills white people’: myths and fear hinder jabs in DRC

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Dr Christian Mayala and Dr Rodin Nzembuni Nduku sit together on a bench outside the Covid ward at Kinshasa’s Mama Yemo hospital.

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