Various Coronavirus News Updates: U.S. National Emergency extended, Bill Gates disappointed, IVM, breakthrough cases, immunity + antibodies.

Biden to extend U.S. national emergency due to COVID-19 health risk

Bill Gates is Ready to Capitalize on ‘The Next Pandemic’

Estimated 73% of US now immune to omicron: Is that enough?

Arkansas county praises doctor who gave inmates ivermectin

2,044 Fully Vaccinated Indiana Residents Died Of COVID-19; 329,000 Breakthrough Cases Recorded

A test to determine COVID immunity could reshape US policy

I’m behind because I haven’t really been keeping up with coronavirus news. Out of sight, out of mind! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Vax Passports: Where Your State Stands

Alliance for Natural Health | May 27, 2021

As more Americans get vaccinated against COVID-19, and vaccination recommendations extend to younger and younger Americans, we are starting to see more efforts to require vaccination as a condition of receiving services, as we’ve seen at American universities. This endangers autoimmune patients who are more at risk of serious adverse events following COVID vaccination. States can take a stand for medical freedom and privacy rights. To prevent de facto vaccine mandates that endanger millions of patients, we must encourage state leaders to take action to protect our health.

Vax Passports: Where Your State Stands

The Government’s War on Free Speech: Protest Laws Undermine the First Amendment

This holds true whether you’re talking about the right to criticize the government in word or deed, the right to be free from government surveillance, the right to not have your person or your property subjected to warrantless searches by government agents, the right to due process, the right to be safe from soldiers invading your home, the right to be innocent until proven guilty and every other right that once reinforced the founders’ belief that this would be “a government of the people, by the people and for the people.”

The Government’s War on Free Speech: Protest Laws Undermine the First Amendment

From Fixing Potholes to Managing Billions: Is Buttigieg Ready to Be Transportation Chief?

From Fixing Potholes to Managing Billions: Is Buttigieg Ready to Be Transportation Chief?

South Bend, like many cities in the upper Midwest where there is precipitation and temperature changes, has a vicious pothole problem: About 22,000 of them gape across the city’s streets each year. In January of 2019, residents of the city asked Domino’s Pizza for help to augment the city’s $90,000 pothole budget and won a $5,000 grant for its public works department, the only town in the state of Indiana to do so. “If Part-Time Pete Buttigieg spent as much time fixing issues in South Bend as he does running for president, Domino’s Pizza wouldn’t have to take matters into their own hands and fix the city’s pothole mess,” RNC Spokesperson Michael Joyce said at the time.

Seeking ‘Biggest Incident of Voter Nullification’ in US History, 18 Republican AGs Back Texas Effort to Overturn Biden Win

Seeking ‘Biggest Incident of Voter Nullification’ in US History, 18 Republican AGs Back Texas Effort to Overturn Biden Win

Texas doesn’t have standing to raise these claims as it has no say over how other states choose electors; it could raise these issues in other cases and does not need to go straight to the Supreme Court; it waited too late to sue; the remedy Texas suggests of disenfranchising tens of millions of voters after the fact is unconstitutional; there’s no reason to believe the voting conducted in any of the states was done unconstitutionally; it’s too late for the Supreme Court to grant a remedy even if the claims were meritorious (they are not).

Richard Hasen, University of California Law Professor