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YouTube censors DeSantis COVID-19 roundtable challenging lockdown consensus


YouTube has removed a video of a public health roundtable hosted by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) with a panel of scientists and researchers who challenged the effectiveness of COVID-19 lockdowns and masks, claiming the discussion violated its Community Guidelines.

The roundtable, which took place at the state Capitol on March 18 and was streamed and posted to YouTube by WTSP-TV, featured former Trump White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, epidemiologist Professor Sunetra Gupta, and researchers Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorff.

The scientists and researchers discussed how public policy measures adopted during the pandemic to mitigate spread of the virus, including quarantining healthy people, shutting businesses down, and mandating mask-wearing, were inspired in part by fear rather than by scientific evidence.

Dr. Bhattacharya called lockdowns "the single biggest public health mistake in history" and argued they failed to protect vulnerable populations like senior citizens from contracting COVID-19. The panel discussed evidence that contradicted some studies that suggest lockdowns may have saved millions of lives globally.

The experts also disputed the effectiveness of mask-wearing, offering various opinions that differed from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for preventing spread of COVID-19.

Jeffrey A. Tucker, writing for the American Institute for Economic Research, was the first to notice that YouTube had removed the video.

"With no warning, no announcement, and no explanation, YouTube on April 7, 2021, suddenly deleted the entire video from its platform," Tucker wrote Wednesday. "Once hosted by WTSP Tampa Bay, an NBC affiliate, it originally appeared as embedded in a story on WTSP.com."

"AIER embedded that same video on our story about the event, along with the first and still the only full transcript of the event. In the late afternoon, the video appeared completely blanked out," he reported.

Tucker harshly criticized YouTube’s actions.

"When the CDC and WHO began to contradict themselves on many issues, among which included immunities and their source, YouTube took a different direction, curating the ‘science’ themselves and deleting any video that its employees didn’t like," he wrote.

"This policy has now run afoul of the basic needs of public health messaging, science, and sound policy decision making, even to the point of removing a serious forum of a popular government along with his scientific advisors from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford universities."

YouTube’s Community Guidelines state the platform "doesn’t allow content about COVID-19 that poses a serious risk of egregious harm."

The website bans "content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19." Such content may be related to treatment, prevention, diagnosis, transmission, social distancing and quarantine guidelines, or the existence of COVID-19.

TheBlaze contacted Google asking for specific reasons why WTSP-TV’s video was removed, but did not receive a response before publication. TheBlaze also asked if other videos of the March 18 roundtable, such as this one posted by NBC 6 South Florida, will also be removed.

TheBlaze also reached out to WTSP-TV and Governor Ron DeSantis’ office with requests for comment.

Watch the roundtable discussion:

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US Apprehends Most Migrants In Two Decades As Reports Of Molested Kids Emerge

US Apprehends Most Migrants In Two Decades As Reports Of Molested Kids Emerge

While Nancy Pelosi insists that the situation at the US-Mexico border has improved under President Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris – who Biden put in charge the migrant surge – refuses to even visit, the numbers on the ground paint a sobering picture.

According to new figures from the Customs and Border Protection agency, the US just had the most apprehensions in nearly two-decades, as 172,331 migrants were arrested in March after illegally entering the country.

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 The March numbers are a 70.6% increase over February‘s 101,028 apprehensions.

Meanwhile, Texas has launched an investigation following accusations of child sexual abuse at a federal outflow migrant facility in San Antonio, after two Texas agencies received tips alleging the assaults.

More via The Epoch Times:

The separate complaints came to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services about the Freeman Coliseum, where some unaccompanied minors—children who crossed the southern border illegally without an adult—are currently being held, Abbott told reporters at a conference held in front of the site.

“Earlier today, the Texas Health and Human Services commission and Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, separately received tips that alleged child abuse and neglect at the San Antonio migrant facility,” Abbott said. “These products are a bi-product of President Biden’s policies.”

The allegations comprise four main complaints that allege child sexual assault, children not eating throughout the day, not enough staff on hand to supervise the children, and children with COVID-19 are not being physically separated from those who don’t have the virus. It is unclear how many children were allegedly abused or adversely affected by neglect.

Abbott called the situation at the facility a “health and safety nightmare,” and called on the administration to move the children away to safer facilities and shut down the facility. “Biden’s open border policy caused this crisis,” Abbott said on Twitter.

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Meanwhile, Kamala ‘Hunger Games’ Harris can’t be bothered to even visit…

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Idiot Biden Confuses Gun Control Talking Points, Repeatedly Refers to the “ATF” as the “AFT” (VIDEO)

Joe Biden on Thursday delivered remarks on ‘gun violence’ in America and announced his ‘initial’ executive actions on gun control.

Biden used this as an opportunity to trash America and attack the Second Amendment.

In addition to all of Biden’s lies about firearms and the Second Amendment, perhaps the scariest thing he said today was, “No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.”

Joe Biden nominated David Chipman to serve as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF).

Idiot Biden referred to the ATF as the AFT two times in a row.

WATCH:

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Firearm Background Checks Soar To Record High In March Ahead Of Biden Gun Control Push

Background checks for gun sales soared to an all-time record in March, reportedly spurred on by President Joe Biden’s threats to increase federal gun regulations, and by a wave of $1400 COVID-19 stimulus checks.

U.S. News and World Report noted Thursday that the FBI reported a record number of gun background checks in March. The bureau “conducted nearly 4.7 million background checks, breaking the record high that was just set in January, another month that was marked with violence and turmoil.”

“March’s background checks represent a 36% increase from February, which saw about 3.44 million checks. Additionally, nearly 1 million more background checks took place last month than in March 2020,” the outlet added.

Although it is not clear whether every background check resulted in a gun purchase — each individual sale is governed by varying state laws, and many buyers may not pass the FBI investigation — an increase in the number of background checks does appear to correlate with an increase in the number of gun sales, according to the Washington Examiner, citing gun retailer groups.

“After the FBI release, for example, Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting reported that sales are set to break the yearly record of 22.8 million in 2021. ‘For the first quarter of 2021 as a whole, about 5.9 million firearms were sold as opposed to 5.2 million in the first quarter of 2020. If this rate of sales were to be sustained throughout 2021, last year’s record sales of 22.8 million would be broken,’” one group noted to the Examiner.

The increase in the number of background checks also seems to correlate with the threat of increased gun regulation and, in March, the number of gun background checks spiked following two reported mass shootings, both of which were followed by an increase in gun control rhetoric from the White House.

“Of the top 10 days for most background checks, six were in March 2021, according to FBI data, including the top three days,” US News reported. “Following deadly mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder, Colorado, gun sales soared and five of the top days occurred following either one or both shootings.”

“In addition to mass shootings, gun-control legislation can also be a driver of gun sales and House Democrats on March 11 passed a pair of gun-control bills that would expand background check requirements on all gun sales and transfers,” the outlet noted.

Indeed, President Joe Biden is expected to announce gun control executive orders on Thursday that will expand federal background checks, outlaw sales of “ghost guns” — homemade, often 3D printed firearms, without serial numbers — and implement so-called “red flag” provisions, controversial rules that limit gun sales to people who have a record of being treated for mental illness.

The Biden administration has, as of yet, refused to commit to stricter regulations on so-called “assault” weapons and high-capacity magazines, noting in previous interactions with the media that those restrictions must be passed by Congress.

The Washington Examiner noted, also, that the Biden administration may have inadvertently spurred the increase in gun sales by passing a coronavirus relief bill that issued $1400 stimulus checks to most American taxpayers.

“There are obvious factors at play here: Biden’s gun rhetoric being No. 1, as well as two mass shootings that were heavily covered in the media. However, we also saw a lot of transactions of around $1,400 starting on March 17, so it appears many people are using their stimulus money to buy guns,” one gun retailer told the examiner.

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Texas Rancher Reveals He and Neighbors Have Made Disturbing Discoveries on Their Properties

Texas rancher Whit Jones has seen the ugly side of illegal immigration, as evidenced by the bodies he and his neighbors have found on their land. Jones appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday to explain how the border crisis looks from his ranch in Hebbronville, Texas. Jones said that he finds two or three…

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