Seattle: 13-Year Old Boy Watches Father Die as Staff Shortages Due to Vaccine Mandate Delay Response

A 13-year-old boy in Seattle helplessly watched his 45-year-old father die because of a delayed emergency response due to staffing shortages from vaccine mandates. When Seattle Fire arrived to the apartment, they were told they had to wait for a police escort because the address had been flagged as unsafe to enter. There is a shortage of police officers due to Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s Covid vaccine mandate so it took nearly 20 minutes for first responders to start a resuscitation effort.

A 13-year-old boy in Seattle helplessly watched his 45-year-old father die because of a delayed emergency response due to staffing shortages from vaccine mandates.

The teen boy called 911 TWICE begging for help last week as his father struggled to breathe.

When Seattle Fire arrived to the apartment, they were told they had to wait for a police escort because the address had been flagged as unsafe to enter.

There is a shortage of police officers due to Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s Covid vaccine mandate so it took nearly 20 minutes for first responders to start a resuscitation effort.

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Austria Orders a National Lockdown for Unvaccinated People

The Austrian government, led by Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, who also holds a title as a Count, has ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people, claiming that rising coronavirus infections and deaths will overwhelm hospital staff; the lockdown begins at midnight Sunday and will initially last 10 days. Unvaccinated people 12 and older are not allowed to leave their homes except for basic activities such as working, grocery shopping, going for a walk — or getting vaccinated. Police will patrol to check for people who are not vaccinated and could be subject to a fine up to $1,660 if they violate the lockdown. Around 65% of the total population of 8.9 million people is fully vaccinated.

Last year, we reported that CDC documents show plans to quarantine “high risk” people in the US.

The Austrian government has ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people starting at midnight Sunday to combat rising coronavirus infections and deaths.

The move prohibits unvaccinated people 12 and older from leaving their homes except for basic activities such as working, grocery shopping, going for a walk — or getting vaccinated.

Authorities are concerned about rising infections and deaths and that soon hospital staff will no longer be able to handle the growing influx of COVID-19 patients.

“It’s our job as the government of Austria to protect the people,” Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg told reporters in Vienna on Sunday. “Therefore we decided that starting Monday … there will be a lockdown for the unvaccinated.”

The lockdown affects about 2 million people in the Alpine country of 8.9 million, the APA news agency reported. It doesn’t apply to children under 12 because they cannot yet officially get vaccinated.

The lockdown will initially last for 10 days and police will go on patrol to check people outside to make sure they are vaccinated, Schallenberg said, adding that additional forces will be assigned to the patrols.

Unvaccinated people can be fined up to $1,660 if they violate the lockdown.

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Computer Augmented Reality and VR Expert Warns that the Metaverse Could Make Reality Disappear

Louis Rosenberg, a computer scientist known for developing the first functional augmented reality system at Air Force Research Laboratory that enhances computer interactions through visual, auditory and other sensory means, believes that by integrating virtual reality and augmented reality, and impelling people to interact in the digital realm for a significant portion of their day, could ‘alter our sense of reality’ and distort ‘how we interpret our direct daily experiences.’ He said that our surroundings will become filled with persons, places, objects, and activities that don’t actually exist, and yet they will seem deeply authentic to us. Rosenberg was concerned about ‘platform providers’ that will have the infrastructure. Mark Zuckerberg recently changed the name of Facebook to ‘Meta’ to reflect the transition of the company into the metaverse. ‘Meta’ means ‘dead’ in Hebrew. Technologies adopted in the name of convenience rarely remain optional. Those who do not participate will be at a disadvantage socially, economically, and intellectually.

  • One of the world’s leading computer engineers believed the metaverse could one day ‘make reality disappear’
  • Louis Rosenberg is known for developing the first functional augmented reality system at Air Force Research Laboratory
  • Rosenberg is deeply worried about the ‘platform providers’ that will have the metaverse infrastructure
  • Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has previously suggested the metaverse will be the future of his company 
  • Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson is credited with creating the ‘metaverse’ phrase as a successor to the internet

One of the world’s leading computer engineers believes the metaverse, the idea that caused Mark Zuckerberg to rebrand his whole company, could one day ‘make reality disappear.’

In a recent op-ed, Louis Rosenberg, a computer scientist known for developing the first functional augmented reality system at Air Force Research Laboratory and founding virtual reality company Immersion Corporation, believes that by integrating virtual reality and augmented reality and having people interact in the digital realm for a significant portion of their day, it could ‘alter our sense of reality’ and distort ‘how we interpret our direct daily experiences.’

‘Our surroundings will become filled with persons, places, objects, and activities that don’t actually exist, and yet they will seem deeply authentic to us,’ Rosenberg penned in the piece, published by Big Think.

Although he did not specifically mention old Zuckerberg or Meta by name, Rosenberg made a clear reference that he is deeply worried about the ‘platform providers’ that will have the infrastructure.

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National Guard Deployed ahead of Rittenhouse Verdict. Judge Received Threats.

Hundreds of Wisconsin National Guard troops have been activated ahead of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial verdict to prevent rioting. Last year, when Kenosha was burning due to the BLM and leftist riots, Democrat Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers refused to call out the National Guard to stop it. Police in Chicago, about 65 miles south of Kenosha, are also preparing for riots. Rittenhouse shot three men, killing two of them, and wounding the third in this self-defense case. Judge Bruce Schroeder, who has received death threats and threats against his family, is now allowing the jury, which has also received threats, to consider lesser charges against Rittenhouse, increasing the chances that he will be convicted. The article explains the current charges and provides details on the possible lesser charges.

When jurors in the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse begin deliberations, expected early this week, the young man’s actions during a night of unrest on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year will not be in dispute.

Rittenhouse, then 17, shot at four people with a semiautomatic rifle, killing two of them and wounding another. Nearly all of it was captured on video that was analyzed frame-by-frame over the last two weeks.

The prosecution has sought to portray Rittenhouse as a teenage vigilante who illegally possessed the gun and acted criminally and recklessly.

Defense lawyers — backed up by the defendant’s riveting and emotional testimony — argued that he acted in self-defense.

After closing arguments, set for Monday, the jury will get the case.

The panel will consider five felony counts and a misdemeanor weapons charge against Rittenhouse. Using an AR-15-type rifle, he killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, during street demonstrations over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Here are the counts the jury will weigh after Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder instructs them on the law:

First-degree reckless homicide, use of a dangerous weapon

Count 1 states that Rittenhouse recklessly caused the death of Rosenbaum under circumstances that showed utter disregard for human life.

The judge denied a prosecution request for the jury to also be instructed on second-degree reckless homicide.

Rittenhouse testified he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Rosenbaum after the man threw a plastic bag at him and chased him.

“I didn’t do anything wrong. I defended myself,” he testified.

Under cross, Rittenhouse said that he knew Rosenbaum was unarmed. He said he pointed his rifle at Rosenbaum in an attempt to deter him and acknowledged that was dangerous.

“If I would have let Mr. Rosenbaum take my firearm from me, he would have used it and killed me with it and probably killed more people,” he testified.

Rittenhouse broke down in tears at one point, leading to a short break.

“I think it was a game changer to put him on the stand,” CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson said. “Number one, you humanize him… More important, number two, he explained his uses of force.”

Rittenhouse’s testimony couldn’t have been scripted any better, criminal defense attorney Mark Eiglarsh said.

The “biggest issue” is whether the jury finds Rittenhouse credible, he told CNN. “Secondly, do they believe then that it equals he reasonably feared death or great bodily harm?”

Wisconsin law allows the use of deadly force only if “necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm.”

“Whether he engaged in self defense and did so reasonably and thought his life was in immediate danger … that’s what the jury has to assess ultimately,” Jackson said of Rittenhouse.

Prosecutors also requested the jury be given instruction on provocation. They argued Rittenhouse provoked Rosenbaum by raising his gun and pointing it at somebody, which led to the victim running after him.

The judge agreed to allow that the panel consider whether Rittenhouse provoked Rosenbaum into attacking him — thus negating self-defense.

Ellie Honig, a CNN senior legal anaylst and a former prosecutor, said the provocation instruction was an important win for the prosecution.

Honig said the instruction allows prosecutors to argue “the defendant went too far, used deadly force when it wasn’t reasonably necessary” and that he “provoked the attack, and hence cannot argue self-defense.”

First-degree recklessly endangering safety, use of a dangerous weapon

Count 2 states that Kyle Rittenhouse recklessly endangered the safety of Richard McGinniss — a journalist with the conservative Daily Caller — under circumstances that show utter disregard for human life.

The state asked that the jury also be instructed on second-degree recklessly endangering safety. Schroeder said he was inclined to give the additional instruction on the lesser charge.

The judge told Rittenhouse that presenting lesser offenses lowered the possibility of a second trial but increased the risk of a conviction.

Allowing jurors to weigh less serious charges could help the prosecution.

“A lot of times … the jury gets into a heated discussion about whether he’s guilty or not guilty of intentional conduct,” said CNN legal analyst and former prosecutor Paul Callan.

“And they compromise on a lesser charge when they have one available. If they don’t have one available, it’s either guilty of one of the higher charges or not guilty.”

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Federal Court Upholds Decision to Halt Biden’s “Staggeringly Overbroad” Vaccine Mandate

The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld its decision to block the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate that requires businesses with 100 or more workers to be vaccinated by January 4 or wear face masks and undergo weekly tests. The court ordered the US Department of Labor to take no further steps to implement its mandate. Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote in the prevailing opinion that the mandate goes too far, and that he has ‘grave’ concerns about whether the edict is legal or constitutional. He wrote, ‘From economic uncertainty to workplace strife, the specter of the Mandate has contributed to untold economic upheaval in recent months.’

At least 27 states have filed legal challenges in at least six federal appeals courts after OSHA released its rules on November 4. The federal government said in its court filings Monday that the cases should be consolidated and that one of the circuit courts where a legal challenge has been filed should be chosen at random on November 16 to hear it.

  • A three-member panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans affirmed its ruling 
  • The Biden administration argued that halting implementation of the vaccine mandate could lead to dozens or even hundreds of deaths 
  • However, Circuit Court Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote in the prevailing opinion that it goes too far 
  • ‘From economic uncertainty to workplace strife, the specter of the Mandate has contributed to untold economic upheaval in recent months,’ he added
  • At least 27 states have filed legal challenges in at least six federal appeals courts after OSHA released its rules on November 4 

A federal court has upheld its previous decision to put a hold on President Joe Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate for companies with 100 workers or more.

A three-member panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which covers Texas, Louisiana and parts of Mississippi, affirmed it’s ruling in a new opinion published Friday.

That saw it order the US Department of Labor to take no further steps to implement its mandate, whose deadline is January 4.

The Biden administration argued that halting implementation of the vaccine mandate could lead to dozens or even hundreds of deaths.

However, Circuit Court Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote in the prevailing opinion that the mandate goes too far, and that he has ‘grave’ concerns about whether the edict is legal or constitutional.

‘The mandate is staggeringly overbroad,’ the opinion said. ‘The mandate is a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer that makes hardly any attempt to account for differences in workplaces (and workers).’

Lawyers for the Justice and Labor departments filed a response Monday in which they said stopping the mandate from taking effect will only prolong the COVID-19 pandemic and would ‘cost dozens or even hundreds of lives per day.’

The mandate, which requires private companies with 100 or more employees to impose vaccine mandates on their workers by January 4, was officially announced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on Thursday – immediately leading to a flurry of lawsuits from Republican states and entities.

Engelhardt, on the other hand, argued that the mandate is causing more harm than good.

‘From economic uncertainty to workplace strife, the mere specter of the Mandate has contributed to untold economic upheaval in recent months,’ Engelhardt wrote.

At least 27 states have filed legal challenges in at least six federal appeals courts after OSHA released its rules on November 4.

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Scientists Are Attempting to Grow Covid Vaccine-Filled Lettuce and Edible Plants To Replace Covid Shots

Researchers at the University of California Riverside were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop technology that infuses experimental mRNA Covid-19 vaccines into spinach, lettuce and other edible plants. A team of nanobiotechnology experts is currently working on delivering DNA containing mRNA BioNTech technology into chloroplasts, the part of the plants that instruct its cells’ DNA to replicate the vaccine material. They plan to send genetic material inside of a protective casing, using plant virus nanoparticles.

Millions of people who have refused to get an experimental mRNA vaccine may soon be forced to consume the gene therapy in their food.

Researchers at the University of California were awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation developing technology that infuses experimental mRNA Covid-19 vaccines into spinach, lettuce and other edible plants.

The team of nanobiotechnology experts is currently working on successfully delivering DNA containing mRNA BioNTech technology into chloroplasts, the part of the plants that instruct its cells’ DNA to replicate the vaccine material.

The researchers are tasked with demonstrating the genetically modified plants can produce enough mRNA to replace Covid jabs and infuse the plants with the right dosage required to eat to replace vaccines.

Experimental mRNA vaccines will be edible, Juan Pablo Giraldo, an associate professor in UCR’s Department of Botany and Plant Sciences who is leading the research explained in a press release published by the university on Sept. 16.

“Ideally, a single plant would produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person,” Giraldo said. “We are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce and have long-term goals of people growing it in their own gardens,”

“Farmers could also eventually grow entire fields of it,” he added.

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