If, for instance, measles returned with a vengeance, or haemophilus influenza type B, or polio, antivaxxers would see the error of their ways, and resistance to vaccination would diminish. For Del Ponte too, the Milosevic trial addressed questions for humanity itself: These crimes touch every one of us, wherever we live, because they offend against our deepest principle of human rights and human dignity.. At this point its hard not to retort: You first, Mr. Bigtree. They identified six consistent themes and compared them to the anti-vaccine movement. The doctor in Mexico called back within an hour. This was a huge pronouncement, one that equates intentional massacres of civilian populations with letting people die of starvation, or from a lack of air. In reality, the percentage of cases of COVID-19 that remain asymptomatic is probably 30-50%, and these people with asymptomatic infection can still transmit the disease. Think about it. As I described a little over a year ago, you have to do is to look at the reaction of antivaxxers to the numerous measles outbreaks that have occurred over the last decade in areas of low uptake of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. You cansubscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. Hes contemptuously blaming people with chronic diseases for being chronically ill. In June, anti-vaccine activist Del Bigtree described COVID-19 as a "cold," blamed . I mean, what are the odds? Im being sarcastic, of course. He in the meantime hit the road, taking his anti-vax message to Connecticut and Minnesota, placing others at risk of contracting the illness that now left him fearful even after a negative test. He was speaking with a frankness that would have been admirable were he not also energetically spreading deadly lies. (As an aside, in this age of the COVID-19 pandemic, its hard for me not to be almost nostalgic for times when measles outbreaks were one of my main concerns. (In cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Justice has taken legal action against individuals who claim ozone therapy is a treatment for COVID-19.) The Allahabad high court was making exactly the same point. Genocides of large populations can also be achieved differently. Also read: An Indian Kristallnacht in the Making. Jackson concluded his comments on the partys role: The Government, the Party formations indicted before you as criminal organizations, the Secret State Police, the Army, private and semi-public associations, and spontaneous mobs that were carefully inspired from official sources, were all agencies that were concerned in this persecution. "The Grand Jury of the World Criminal Court begins Investigation into Crimes Against Humanity - DAY 1," reads the video's description, writtenby user "Wil Paranormal." Its Not Enough to Say the Govt Has Failed. Or could we live and let live? Heres another way of putting it: How many times have you heard antivaxxers making the argument that, if vaccines work, you shouldnt be worried about their unvaccinated children? Drug yourself! Lets catch this cold! Anwar R was a supervisor of Eyad al-Gharib, who was convicted in February last year for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity in Syria. As they have done for vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases many times before, they are vastly You will see their own conduct and hear their own voices as these defendants re-enact for you, from the screen, some of the events in the course of the conspiracy. How many times have I suggested this? And I was aware that there was bleeding taking place, as many people that suffer from those things do, but I just kept working and thinking Ive never heard of someone dying from freaking hemorrhoids., He went on, I am here to report that the surgeon said that, you know, what was inside was horrific and really needed to be taken care of. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Steven P. Novella, MD Founder and Executive Editor, David H. 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The Germans were always meticulous record keepers We will show you their own films. The mutual legal assistance initiative focuses on the creation of a modern and detailed framework for mutual legal assistance and extradition in . To let people die for want of food, and air now, is tantamount, says Jacques Derrida, to the genocides that scarred forever the 20th century. Why Indias COVID-19 Catastrophe Is Indeed a Crime Against Humanity, COVID-19 and Indias New Viral Necropolitics. USA TODAY did not find evidence that acaselike the one described in the video is being prosecuted in alegitimate international court, either. I like the finer things in life. According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the Geneva Conventions define war crimes to include "willful killing; torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments; willfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health; extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and . A video with tens of thousands of views falsely claims an international court is investigating"crimes against humanity" related to the coronavirus pandemic. Thank God theres drugs out there! The episode's aim was to dissuade viewers from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Some of Bigtrees supporters arranged for a private plane to transport him to where there was no reason to go, But he was not at all sure he would survive the flight to Cancun without an initial transfusion. What difference does it make? Bigtree was a speaker at the event and made a number of medically dangerous claims after asking the crowd, Are people really dying of COVID-19? Mere minutes before the end of her four-year mandate at midnight on Aug. 31, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet released a long-delayed and long-awaited report on . You made your choice. Lets take off our masks. Also, there is a growing body of evidence showing that masks do decrease the rate of transmission of COVID-19 to other people, as I discussed a couple of weeks ago. I dont care if I live to be 100 years old. Go and do whats necessary. Being overworked and stretched thin because of how inadequate many states public health infrastructure was before the pandemic play a role too. That was on the night of May 20. Drink all the bourbon you want, and smoke as many cigarettes as you want, and when you find yourself pharmaceutical-dependent I will go ahead and say thank God the drug companies are there for you, but you do not get to make me pharmaceutical-dependent. Its great, and theyre fun to hang out with. Its hard to blame Dr. Acton for deciding that she couldnt take it anymore. Record yourself on video doing it! The rate of asymptomatic COVID-19 has been notoriously tricky to estimate, given that often theres no longitudinal testing to see if those who are asymptomatic when tested go on to develop symptoms. Also read: COVID-19 and Indias New Viral Necropolitics. COP27 Produces a Historic Result for Vulnerable Countries: A Loss and Damage Fund. International Criminal Court, accessed Feb. 14. International Court of Justice, accessed Feb. 15. He had started as a middling television producer and made a second career spinning dangerous delusions that left thousands of children needlessly prey to potentially devastating illnesses. If you are a victim of a scam or attempted fraud involving COVID-19, you can: Contact the National Center for Disaster Fraud hotline at 866-720-5721 or online at justice.gov . -- From David Martin, Documentation TO USE: Felony Crimes Saying that he stood with supporters of Donald Trump who refuse to wear masks and commenting on the size of his crowd, Bigtree also bragged that he has been to more superspreader events than almost anyone I know before falsely claiming that there is no such thing as asymptomatic spread of COVID-19. In the meantime, a guest host filled in on The Highwire, so as to keep the distortions and delusions flowing. COVID-19 Vaccine-injured healthcare worker, Angelia Desselle, has been cruelly attacked by a social media mob accusing her of faking her tremors, which occurred post-vaccination. He was back home in Austin, Texas, by May 17. The result has been millions deadover 500,000 in the U.S. aloneand the destruction of the West's economy. The start of the prosecution of Herman Goering, Albert Speer and other Nazi officials on November 21, 1945 at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany and the commencement of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia the first head of state to be prosecuted in this fashion on February 11, 2002 at The Hague, Netherlands prepared a checklist for humanity: what to look out for in dictators or political parties, their mobilisation of hatred, the organisation of ethnic cleansing, the naturalisation of torture and discrimination, among others. It's indeed a crime against humanity what's currently happening with the establishment (government-, science- and medical . When you reach that point in your life where now your arteries are starting to clog up, your body is shutting down, and the alcohol is eating up your liver, and you have diabetes, or you have multiple COPD, you have asthma, you cant breathe, all the cigarette smoking has finally caught up with you, you have heart disease because of the way you decided to live your life in the moment, heres what you are now. Exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine. One of the happy delusions that many in the science-based community (including, at least somewhat, myself) and mainstream press have held over the years that has been punctured by the arrival of COVID-19 is that one main reason that antivaccine beliefs persist is that weve forgotten the toll that the diseases against which we vaccinate. By pointing to those in authority who had reneged on their responsibilities, the honourable court was also implicitly probing larger questions of leadership, political parties and the state, holding each of these accountable. We were running tests on everything, but what it ultimately appears to have come down to is really Occams razor, which is the simplest answer, Bigtree said. In the Ukraine during 1932-33, thanks to Josef Stalins policies in taking away all their grains and blockade of food movement into the region, 6 million died from starvation in the Holodomor (killing by starvation). My favorite cancer doctor, really in the world, has a clinic, actually, a couple, one in Tijuana and one down in Cancun. Whether or not its just the 20% of us and maybe were not even in that category, lets give it a college try to catch this cold, so that we can protect the pharmaceutical-dependent amongst us! by Richard Dicker and Paloma van Groll. Wisconsin state health director Jeanne Ayers was asked to resign in early May, at a time when COVID-19 cases in the state had surpassed 10,000, and top officials would not say why. The health officers are kind of in this position where everything that everyone is angry about is the health officers fault., The official described death threats received by email and on social media as well as protesters showing up to their home. Jackson offered a pithy account of the stupendous work in organization of the Nazi party: Their entire structure of offices and officials was dedicated to the criminal purposes and committed to the use of the criminal methods planned by these defendants and their co-conspirators Some of its purposes would commend themselves to many good citizens, such as the demands for profit-sharing in the great industries, generous development of provision for old age, creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, a land reform suitable to our national requirements, and raising the standard of health.. It helped a little bit, [but] I wasnt feeling that much better.. Defendants in the dock at the Nuremberg trials. NEWS (December 5th, 2021): Public International Criminal Court for Crimes Against Humanity vs Covid-19 have started a Nuremberg Trials 2.0 website HERE. It established elaborate administrative mechanisms to identify and liquidate spies and informers, to manage concentration camps, to operate death vans, and to finance the whole movement. When Bigtree joined the program, he made the baseless assertion that recipients of COVID-19 vaccines may face up to a 50% mortality rate if they ever encounter another coronavirus in their lifetimes, echoing a claim that originated from toxic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Nazi Germany was a state whose leader, under the pretext of national welfare, terrorised and exterminated people. Saying, Del, you need to get to an emergency room immediately, Bigtree remembered. At the trials, an attempt was made to distinguish between individual and collective guilt. And the ongoing scandals around the coronavirus COVID19 vaccine are adding even more scrutiny to the industry. But that's wrong. I could mention how antivaxxers reacted to the measles outbreaks among Somali immigrants in Minnesota, a reaction that involved denial of their culpability for fear mongering about MMR as a cause of autism and of the severity of measles. Some of you might even recall antivaxxers dismissing vaccines as important and then saying theyd just quarantine in the event of an outbreak. That 0.26% are the most sick among us, and I have nothing against you. by Lisa Benjamin. Canada truck protesters call to defy order, Representatives for a group of truckers blockading Canada's capital over COVID-19 restrictions are calling on protesters to defy government orders to vacate the area.