A video with tens of thousands of views falsely claims an international court is investigating"crimes against humanity" related to the coronavirus pandemic. One wonders if he views nearly all cancer as preventable when it is not. Oliver O'Connell 23 January 2022 17:51 1642960830 03/03/23 8:29 PM EST, Video & Audio She and a colleague watched weekly episodes of The Highwire with Del Bigtree from Jan. 30, 2020, to April 2, 2020. The pronouncement recalls two historical trials that illuminate the larger questions our own honourable court has raised: that of crimes against humanity itself. They teach us what to watch for in political leaders and parties, to be vigilant. Pramod K. Nayarteaches at the University of Hyderabad. subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. Fact check: No evidence of cancer spike linked to COVID-19 vaccines. Crimes against humanity are specific crimes committed in the context of a large-scale attack targeting civilians, regardless of their nationality. According to Jackson, the Nazis had dripped so much poison into the country that the forces they set in motion remain: these prisoners represent sinister influences that will lurk in the world long after their bodies have returned to dustThey are symbols of fierce nationalisms and of militarism, of intrigue and war-making They have so identified themselves with the philosophies they conceived and with the forces they directed that any tenderness to them is a victory and an encouragement to all the evils which are attached to their names. On that page, Bigtree shares disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine, including the baseless claim it will eventually kill half of its recipients. (Feb. 16), India sees surge in COVID-19 home testing, On New Year's Eve, the Indian government wrote to states encouraging them to use COVID-19 home tests, especially people experiencing symptoms, in a bid to avoid straining local health systems. Del Bigtree may be the most connected node in the anti-vaccine activist network. If you can get to Cancun, we can get you transfusions with people that have not been vaccinated, the doctor said, by Bigtrees account. The original video refers to a "criminal investigation" that is "modeled after United States Grand Jury proceedings." Meanwhile, antivaxxers have joined COVID-19 conspiracy theorists in portraying contact tracing and quarantine as subjugation.. 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. Second, it is the traditional venue for discussion and implementation of the ILC's . At least three anti-vax doctor speakers have referred to current Covid policies as "crimes against humanity", to chants of "lock them up". After undergoing extensive medical testing, the woman was diagnosed with a conversion disorder -- a medical condition where neurological systems manifest without any apparent underlying physical cause. All the way to Cancun, Bigtree said. At this point, let me emphasize how extremely judgmental Bigtree is in this video, his disclaimers of Good on ya! and Its OK! to those with chronic diseases notwithstanding. Health. Today, I explain how the legal structure, scientific experimentation, surveillance and mandate state, and quest for genocide is even stronger than in 2020. That group is very well known. They identified six consistent themes and compared them to the anti-vaccine movement. (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. Companies and rich nations are creating a deadly covid-19 vaccine "protection racket" Early in the pandemic, Pfizer announced an intention to profit from its covid-19 vaccine.1 In the first three months of 2021, Pfizer's vaccine brought in $3.5bn (2.5bn; 3bn) in revenue and hundreds of millions in profit.2 Other companies are also making exceptional profits from covid-19. Researchers at Columbia University compared the Trump administration response to COVID-19 to the response of . The Austin-based group founded by anti-vaccine activist Del Bigtree regularly posts information questioning the safety of the coronavirus vaccines. He tested for COVID-19. Contrast that to what antivaxxers are doing now, protesting against lockdowns, refusing to wear masks, refusing to abide by social distancing, and, in essence, claiming that COVID-19 is no big deal. But she reasoned that standing up for public health principles was worth it, even if she risked losing the job that allowed her to live close to her hometown and help her parents with their farm. The claim: A video shows a trial for COVID-19 'crimes against humanity' at the 'World Criminal Court'. Then came the Facebook post: a photo of her and other health officials with comments about their weight and references to armed citizens and bodies swinging from trees.. Overeating does predispose to obesity, although it is way more complicated than Bigtrees version of it, which, boiled down to its essence, demonizes those with obesity as fat slobs who lived their youth and middle age overindulging without a care in the world for what their choices are doing to their body. By pretending to serve a national cause, the party imposed limitations on freedoms: The forecast of religious persecution was clothed in the language of religious liberty, for the Nazi program stated, We demand liberty for all religious denominations in the State. But, it continues with the limitation, so far as they are not a danger to it and do not militate against the morality and moral sense of the German race.. 07/30/20 11:54 AM EDT, Article racing heart and shortness of breath and fatigue, actively perpetuating untruths that endanger us all. Let me provide some perspective as someone whos been following the antivaccine movement for nearly two decades and writing about it regularly for over 15 years. 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. Its also, Ive noticed, very typical of COVID-19 deniers, many of whose attitude seems to be, Screw the old and chronically ill, I need to golf and get a haircut! Indeed, this attitude started to take root fairly early in the pandemic, when a number of politicians of a certain political bent (you know which one) argued in essence that we need to sacrifice grandpa and grandma in order to save the economy. The unholy alliance between antivaxxers and COVID-19 conspiracy theorists is a natural fit. This sort of attitude is very typical of antivaxxers and is born of how much antivaxxers believe in alternative medicine and natural treatments. The racing heart and shortness of breath and fatigue that he was experiencing raised another possibility that was not without irony, given that he has been actively perpetuating untruths that endanger us all in the midst of the present pandemic. NEWS (December 5th, 2021): Public International Criminal Court for Crimes Against Humanity vs Covid-19 have started a Nuremberg Trials 2.0 website HERE. Crimes against humanity have often been committed as part of State policies, but they can also be perpetrated by non-State . They do care about children whose chronic health problems they think they can blame on vaccines, but from my perspective they only care about them insofar as they can use them to blame vaccines for autism, autoimmune diseases, sudden infant death syndrome, diabetes, and the myriad chronic health conditions that have led antivaxxers like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to falsely claim that todays generation is the sickest generation, all due to vaccines.) Look at the title of Bigtrees video, WE NEED TO CATCH THAT COLD! For 15 months of that time, he had been perpetuating falsehoods about COVID and vaccines in the midst of a pandemic that has claimed more than 594,000 American lives. Hemoglobin being the protein in the blood that carries the oxygen from the lungs. It's indeed a crime against humanity what's currently happening with the establishment (government-, science- and medical . The less forgiving among us would consider it only justice if he fell victim to the same illusions he fosters in others. Philosophers such as Achille Mbembe argue that modern politics is often a necropolitics, a production of death. Facebooks action came months after he was banned by YouTube, where he had also broadcast his show. The document, which obtained over 3,100 signatures around the world, blasts the "one size fits all" treatment recommendations . "Now the world is watching the sausage being made," Bigtree said. Grow up! Even if that is true, he seems oblivious to the law of large numbers and unconcerned that, if one million people catch the disease, that means 2,600 dead and that if 100 million people catch the disease (as could happen) that means 260,000 dead. 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. 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. A user on BitChute, a video-sharing platformthat hosts content that's banned on YouTube, made the claim in a post published Feb. 6. Things have gotten ugly, said one Northern California health officer who asked not to be named over personal safety concerns. Basically, they doubled down on their antivaccine propaganda. You really need four liters of Coca-Cola? 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? Basically, if youre surprised that antivaxxers have allied themselves with COVID-19 deniers, you havent been paying attention. Think about it though. The honourable court added that it finds it necessary to direct for immediate remedial measures to be taken by the government. The mutual legal assistance initiative focuses on the creation of a modern and detailed framework for mutual legal assistance and extradition in . She encouraged fans to check out QAnon, called the Centers for Disease Control a "covid death cult," and described the vaccines as crimes against humanity. In November 2020, Facebook removed a page where Del Bigtree, a notorious anti-vaccine figure, broadcast his show -- The High Wire -- to a large online audience. There's no evidence the pediatric COVID-19 vaccine is the cause, as viral posts falsely claim. And in this case, thats what I was doing for the last two years.. (Feb. 17), Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunks, that hosts content that's banned on YouTube, No evidence of cancer spike linked to COVID-19 vaccines, Fact Check: 10,000 Medical Experts Did NOT Start Nuremberg 2 Trial Against World Leaders for Crimes Against Humanity, Attorney Profile:Reiner Fuellmich #165532, 'Nuremberg 2.0: Why COVID Conspiracy Theorists See This Lawyer As Their Saviour, BitChute welcomes the dangerous hate speech that YouTube bans. COP27 Produces a Historic Result for Vulnerable Countries: A Loss and Damage Fund. However, truth be told, it is also one that makes us, as science advocates, feel a bit smug and confident. "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." He then goes into a despicable diatribe, which, in case Bigtree memory-holes his rant, I am transcribing extensively because it is a near-perfect distillation of antivaccine thinking and the screw the old and infirm attitude that many COVID-19 deniers express: What is the group that is really at risk?