Story in a flash:<ul><li>The FDA has announced a potential bird flu pandemic of low probability for which it is readying tests, antivirals and vaccines.&nbsp;</li><li>Officials claim bird flu has become transmissible to other animals, particularly cows.</li><li>The announcement comes as the WHO works to push through its pandemic treaty and the U.S. prepares for fall elections.</li><li>The late Dr. Zev Zelenko had explained how his protocol for COVID-19, a single-stranded RNA virus, is an appropriate preventive and therapeutic for other single-stranded RNA viruses.</li><li>Bird flu, first detected in China, became the subject of gain of function research.&nbsp;</li></ul>&nbsp;<h2 style="margin-left:0in;">FDA fear-mongering potential pandemic despite low probability?</h2>In February 2023, the World Health Organization <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/here-we-go-fda-warns-potential-bird-flu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">warned</a> about a possible bird flu pandemic. Now, the FDA is sounding an alarm about the potential for such a pandemic, for which it is “drawing up plans to roll out tests, antiviral drugs and vaccines in the event the virus jumps to humans,” as reported by The Gateway Pundit. Even though FDA head Robert Califf says that the probability of this happening is low, they are taking these measures with the rationale that it's best to be prepared for a scenario where the virus jumps to humans.&nbsp;<h3 style="margin-left:0in;">Birds give flu to cows</h3>So far, only one farmer has tested positive for the virus in the United States. He is said to have contracted it after contact with a cow; he suffered from pink eye but did not have any respiratory symptoms. The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13401215/fda-chief-robert-califf-bird-flu-pandemic-outbreak.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">relates</a> that, "[o]nly two humans in the US have tested positive for bird flu ever, with both being in close contact with animals infected with the virus.<h3 style="margin-left:0in;">Announcement precedes WHO Pandemic Treaty vote and presidential election&nbsp;</h3>The specter of a potential pandemic is being <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/28-03-2024-who-member-states-agree-to-resume-negotiations-aimed-at-finalizing-the-world-s-first-pandemic-agreement" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">raised</a> at the same time the World Health Organization (WHO) is scrambling to finalize its Pandemic Treaty, to be voted on during the upcoming Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly, beginning 27 May 2024.&nbsp;Vox has <a href="https://www.vox.com/24151110/bird-flu-h5n1-pandemic-treaty-prevention-response" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">expressed</a> concern that the adoption of the Pandemic Treaty is not going so well; author Dylan Scott, who still credits animal to human transmission for COVID-19, states that despite the threat of a bird flu pandemic, “it has become clear the world is downsizing its ambitions for the treaty. In place of firm commitments are vague aspirations.” Extensive media coverage, of a potential new pandemic, just before the vote, could help build support in borderline nations for passage of the treaty.The presidential election will also be held this fall. Could an expected pandemic, even of low probability, herald insistence by state governments for mail-in-ballots, acceptable some two weeks after election day, to “keep people safe,” as happened four years ago with COVID-19?<h2>Gain-of-Function research for bird flu, too?</h2>The BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240425-how-dangerous-is-bird-flu-spread-to-wildlife-and-humans" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">stated</a> that the bird flu was first detected in 1996 in China's southern Guangdong region. A farmed goose was the first bird ever diagnosed with the H5N1 flu strain. The BBC went as far as blaming people for its transmission:<blockquote>Although wild birds have now helped the virus reach far beyond China, "people are the real problem", [Thijs] Kuiken [a comparative pathologist at Erasmus University Medical Centre in the Netherlands] warns. And in particular, humanity's ever-rising demand for farmed meat. (Emphasis added.)</blockquote>The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/bird-flu-human-transmission-prepared-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">added</a> that bird flu has been a silent pandemic over the last four years, moving from birds to animals. And Dr. Peter McCullough <a href="https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/could-avian-h5n1-influenza-be-disease" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote In his substack</a> that the NIH and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have funded Gain-of-Function (GOF) research, making the bird flu more contagious.&nbsp;<blockquote>Over a decade ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded GOF research that made H5N1 more transmissible&nbsp;</blockquote>McCullough ties the research, in part, to Erasmus University, the home of the aforementioned Kuiken, who declared people the problem in the virus's transmission.&nbsp;<blockquote>One of the primary authors of this dangerous research is Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Tokyo. Another player is Ron Fouchier, working at the Erasmus medical center in the Netherlands. (Emphasis added.)</blockquote><h2 style="margin-left:0in;">Zelenko protocol good for flu</h2>The late Dr. Zev Zelenko explained that his COVID-19 protocol is a general remedy for many viruses including influenza.&nbsp;When COVID-19 hit, Dr. Zelenko repeatedly advocated taking zinc and a zinc ionophore (which helps the zinc enter cells), such as hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, quercetin, or ECGC, to prevent or combat the virus. Zinc is important to the immune system and has been found to inhibit viral replication,Dr. Zelenko explains, in the video below, how zinc ionophores “open a channel, a door, that allows for zinc to go from outside the cell to inside the cell” along with Vitamin C and Vitamin D3 to “create a very powerful immune-boosting nutritional supplement.”&nbsp;&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/uzp3gc"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");</script>

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Rumble("play", {"video":"vowxhh","div":"rumble_vowxhh"});</script></div>&nbsp;More than a preventive or therapy for COVID-19, Dr. Zelenko <a href="https://frontline.news/post/cheap-drugs-cheap-nutrients-treat-disease-say-fauci-baric-fda#fnref:8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">found</a> that it was effective for single-stranded RNA viruses, including all strains of COVID, influenza virus, RSV Virus, Ebola Virus, Marburg Virus &amp; Hantavirus. In the video below, shared by his brother Frank Zelenko on X, Dr. Zelenko expressed his belief we could eradicate many health threats using his protocol.&nbsp;<blockquote>I think there may be a solution to all these huge public health and bioterrorist problems all with one simple cheap oral approach. . &nbsp;. . If the whole world had enough high normal levels of vitamin D3 and enogh intracellular zinc we can [sic] eradicate most of these health threats.</blockquote>&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Folks the FDA is literally telling you that they will kill 1 out 4 people in America with an ssRNA virus. My brother Dr Zelenko, gave you the knowledge on how to survive this. If you have this knowledge and you dont share it as hard as possible, then G-d have mercy on your… <a href="https://t.co/AUFOebQDGx">https://t.co/AUFOebQDGx</a> <a href="https://t.co/czWU4Lfxj4">pic.twitter.com/czWU4Lfxj4</a>— Frank (Ephraim) Zelenko (@frank_zelenko) <a href="https://twitter.com/frank_zelenko/status/1788941406041469110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>&nbsp;The below advertisement <a href="https://by-julietbonnay.com/2022/01/dr-zev-zelenko-zinc-is-the-bullet-it-kills-the-virus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lists</a> the dosages of the recommended supplements, included in his Z-Stack, that he recommended for preventive and therapeutic care:&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1715627205/image_d1e0f2979a.png"></figure>&nbsp;<h2>Studies support the use of zinc and zinc ionophores for multiple viruses</h2>A 2010 study, of which Dr. Ralph Baric[fn]Dr. Baric, an epidemiologist, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, worked on gain-of-function research, and repurposing Remdesivir as a remedy for COVID-19. Remdesivir had been unsuccessful as an Ebola drug since it caused more deaths than Ebola, with liver and kidney failure as adverse effects.[/fn] was a co-author, <a href="https://frontline.news/post/cheap-drugs-cheap-nutrients-treat-disease-say-fauci-baric-fda#fnref:8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">showed</a> that zinc and a zinc-ionophore were effective against COVID and other RNA viruses including influenza:<blockquote>" . . . zinc, along with the zinc-ionophore pyrithione increased the cellular concentration of zinc and effectively impaired the replication of the virus.The study also reported that the combination of zinc with an ionophore is effective against a number of other RNA viruses including poliovirus, influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, and several picornaviruses (which cause respiratory tract infections).</blockquote>Another study referenced by that report was published in September 2020 in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. The data showed that COVID-19 patients deficient in zinc were more likely to be hospitalized longer and more likely to die.&nbsp;<blockquote>The study data clearly show that a significant number of COVID-19 patients were zinc deficient. These zinc deficient patients developed more complications, and the deficiency was associated with a prolonged hospital stay and increased mortality.</blockquote>A 2022 updated review of quercetin's pharmacological activity, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9731755/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">published</a> in the journal “Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine," lists bird flu, H5N1, as one of the viruses that quercetin inhibits:<blockquote>Quercetin and its derivatives have antiviral effects on a variety of viruses, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), polio virus, respiratory virus, Sindbis virus, Mayar virus, and H5N1 virus&nbsp;</blockquote><h3>Other natural remedies&nbsp;</h3><a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/natural-flu-remedies#rest" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Healthline</a> and <a href="https://www.goodrx.com/well-being/alternative-treatments/flu-natural-home-remedies" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GoodRx</a> also provide suggestions for natural remedies for the flu, among them rest, keeping hydrated, using essential oils, and taking zinc and Vitamin C. Dr. Axe <a href="https://draxe.com/health/flu-natural-remedies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">suggests</a> Vitamin C, zinc, Vitamin D3, echinacea, elderberry, and probiotics among other treatments for the flu. However, none of them list a zinc ionophore.Related articles:<ul><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/cheap-drugs-cheap-nutrients-treat-disease-say-fauci-baric-fda#fnref:8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cheap drugs, cheap nutrients treat disease say Fauci, Baric, FDA</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/zelenko-on-next-pandemic-zinc-ionophores-and-zinc-inhibit-all-covid-influenza-rsv-ebola-marburg-hantavirus-strains">Zelenko on next pandemic: Zinc ionophores and zinc inhibit all COVID, influenza, RSV, Ebola, Marburg, hantavirus strains</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/dr-vladimir-zelenko-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize">Dr. Vladimir Zelenko nominated for Nobel Peace Prize</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/from-the-brink-of-hospice-with-stage-4-cancer-to-remission-thanks-to-ivermectin">From the brink of hospice with Stage 4 cancer to remission — thanks to ivermectin?</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/uk-considers-requiring-poultry-owners-to-register-birds-for-public-health">UK considers requiring poultry owners to register birds for ‘public health’</a></li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/suffocate-chickens-with-firehose-foam-federal-agents">'Suffocate chickens with firehose foam' - Feds</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/delta-farce-public-health-england-report-shows-were-engaged-in-destruction-and-authoritarian-control-of-population-over-respiratory-virus-with-lethality-approximating-seasonal-flu">Delta Farce: Public Health England report shows 'we’re engaged in destruction and authoritarian control of population over respiratory virus with lethality approximating seasonal flu'</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/flashback-60-minutes-mike-wallace-exposes-1976-swine-flu-pandemic-vaccine-injuries">Flashback: 60 Minutes - Mike Wallace exposes 1976 Swine Flu Pandemic vaccine injuries</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://frontline.news/post/university-of-california-mandates-flu-vaccines-for-all-campuses">University of California mandates flu vaccines for all campuses</a></li></ul>

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For the last two years, British authorities have been testing AI-powered emotion recognition cameras on travelers in train stations, according to recently disclosed documents.<h2>What can the cameras see?</h2>In each of eight train stations around the UK, five to seven cameras or sensors scan the passing crowds. Using AI software from Amazon, the cameras use object recognition algorithms to spot criminal activity, trespassing, weapons, wet floors, overcrowding, and overstuffed trash cans.&nbsp;They can also alert authorities when passengers engage in “unusual behavior,” such as shouting, running, smoking, or skateboarding.&nbsp;A combination of existing cameras and newly installed smart cameras are being used for the surveillance project. All are equipped with Amazon’s Rekognition surveillance system.<h2>Emotional recognition</h2>Through a combination of facial and behavioral analyses, the Rekognition software allows officials to also <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">analyze visitors’ emotions</a>. Internal documents note that the cameras can detect whether a passenger is “happy, sad [or] angry.” They can also recognize passenger satisfaction, which “could be utilized to maximum advertising and retail revenue.”<h2>Anti-social behavior</h2>Authorities can also detect passengers who exhibit “anti-social behaviour,” which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/asb/asb/antisocial-behaviour/what-is-antisocial-behaviour/">according</a> to London’s Metropolitan Police Service means “behaviour by a person which causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to persons not of the same household as the person.”<h2>Social distancing, face masks, and demographics</h2>Other&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24757655-usecases_dpas_review_managed_stations?responsive=1&amp;title=1">use cases</a> for the surveillance cameras include detecting whether passengers are keeping to social distancing rules and wearing face masks. The cameras can also scan for demographics by identifying people’s age profiles and “socio-economic classification,” which the documents note can create “revenue opportunities for better targeted advertising and product placement.”<h2>‘Quite a concerning step’</h2>The documents were obtained by Big Brother Watch, a civil rights and government watchdog group, in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. Network Rail, a body within the Department of Transportation which manages most of the country’s train network, has been overseeing the surveillance project.&nbsp;“The rollout and normalization of AI surveillance in these public spaces, without much consultation and conversation, is quite a concerning step,” Jake Hurfurt, head of research and investigations at Big Brother Watch,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/">told</a> Wired.As of now, the surveillance systems do not use facial recognition technology, which analyzes faces and matches them against facial images stored in certain databases.

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UK tests emotion recognition cameras in train stations

The European Union (EU) is considering subjecting foreign travelers to lie detector tests administered by AI technology.&nbsp;<h2>How would it work?</h2>Authorities at airports and ferry ports would use cameras equipped with machine-learning software to detect whether a person is being untruthful. As travelers fill out their entry applications, their eye, facial, and behavioral movements would be analyzed. If the camera indicates the traveler is lying, the software will send an alert to an immigration officer who will investigate.The technology has already been successfully tested in trials conducted by EU countries in the last few years. iBorderCtrl and TRESPASS, two such trials, explored how to create an automated border control system. Several features were tested, including the lie detector tests described above. They also piloted a feature in which AI software scans the social media accounts of travelers before granting them entry.Critics of the lie-detection scheme include Patrick Breyer, a German MEP. Breyer&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13534215/Outrage-British-tourists-going-away-EU-countries-face-lie-detector-test-carried-artificial-intelligence-granted-entry.html">told</a> The Mail on Sunday that the technology is “pseudoscience” that threatens to profile the wrong people.&nbsp;“It will discriminate against anyone who is disabled or who has an anxious personality. It will not work,” said Breyer.<h2>Part of the Entry-Exit System</h2>If the EU decides to implement AI-powered lie detection, it will likely be introduced as part of the new Entry-Exit System (EES) due to take effect on October 6th. EES will replace the passport-stamping process by having foreign travelers apply for entry through self-service kiosks. These kiosks will collect the travelers’ biometric data, including their fingerprints and facial images.These data will eventually be stored in the Common Identity Repository (CIR), a massive database being built by the EU. The CIR will be capable of storing biometric files on 300 million individuals.&nbsp;<h2>EES for outsiders, digital ID for insiders</h2>While the EU prepares to roll out the EES for foreigners, including British citizens, it is also rolling out a digital ID program for EU citizens .Regulations that took effect last month&nbsp;<a href="https://frontline.news/post/europe-launches-digital-id-scheme/">require</a> EU&nbsp;Member States in the European Union to provide a digital ID wallet to their citizens by 2026 which must conform to the European Union Digital Identity (EUDI) wallet specifications. These specifications include the ability to store a taxpayer’s identity papers, such as driver’s licenses, health insurance cards, diplomas and other official documents.&nbsp;&nbsp;<h2>How will the wallet be used?</h2>The digital wallet will allow access to both public and private services. Uses include making payments, opening a bank account, getting prescriptions, signing contracts, traveling, accessing government services, receiving social security benefits, logging into social media accounts, and more.&nbsp;“It can also be used to facilitate the freedom of movement by storing documents such as the European Health Insurance Card,” explains the European Commission (EC) on its&nbsp;<a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eudi-wallet-implementation">website</a>.Under the current rules, the EUDI wallet will be optional for taxpayers.&nbsp;<h2>Critics raise concerns about the wallet</h2>The EUDI wallet’s main selling point is that users will be able to share only the details necessary to authenticate themselves for a given service. All other personal information will remain hidden. The EC expects this feature to satisfy widespread privacy concerns.But concerns about the wallet remain. The main worry is that while users only share those details that are necessary, the government can decide at any point which information is “necessary” to share. During the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, the European Commission made proof of vaccination necessary to access services and establishments. Prior to that, each taxpayer’s health information was considered confidential.

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A report published Tuesday revealed that the FBI sent agents to intimidate a nurse after she blew the whistle on child mutilation practices at Texas Children’s Hospital.<h2>‘Manipulating’ children into mutilation</h2>Vanessa Sivadge started working as a registered nurse in the cardiac unit at Texas Children’s Hospital in 2021. Soon she began to notice that children who came to the hospital to be treated for various psychological issues were being recommended for “gender-affirming care.” When kids showed up who were struggling with anxiety, depression, abuse, puberty discomfort, addiction, and suicide ideation, doctors diagnosed them with “gender dysphoria.”&nbsp;These children were then placed on sex-change regimens that included puberty blockers, breast-removal surgery, and implanted hormone devices.&nbsp;The next year, under pressure from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Texas Children’s Hospital CEO Mark Wallace announced the closure of the gender clinic. But the clinic quietly reopened days later, managed by Drs. Richard Roberts, David Paul, and Kristy Rialon.Sivadge told journalist Christopher Rufo that doctors in the clinic were “manipulating” children into child mutilation and that those doctors ignored parental objections. Sivadge felt that the hospital would call Child Protective Services on parents who objected to these treatments.“I work very closely with this provider, Dr. Richard Roberts. I’ve been in the room with him when he speaks with these patients,” Sivadge told Rufo. “Dr. Roberts is extremely encouraging of their transition and will essentially do whatever he can to make sure that they are happy, at least externally happy. Because I am absolutely certain that they are not internally happy. He is very accommodating. He does whatever they want. Essentially, there is no critical analysis of the process.”<h2>The FBI pays a visit</h2>Two months after she spoke to Rufo, two FBI agents appeared at Sivadge’s door unannounced. Agents Paul Nixon and David McBride told Sivadge they wanted to discuss “some of the things that have been going on at [her] work lately” and asked to enter her home.They notified her that she was a “person of interest” in an investigation against a whistleblower who had exposed the child mutilation practices at Texas Children’s Hospital. The agents said that someone at work gave the FBI Sivadge’s name.“They threatened me,” she said. “They promised they would make life difficult for me if I was trying to protect the leaker. They said I was ‘not safe’ at work and claimed that someone at my workplace had given my name to the FBI.”<div class="raw-html-embed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">This is where we are now: The Biden Administration sent two FBI agents to intimidate a nurse who told the truth about the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes "transgender medicine." <a href="https://t.co/XbtZVnp5Kw">pic.twitter.com/XbtZVnp5Kw</a>— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1803144650984714361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2>Medicaid fraud</h2>Texas law does not allow “gender-affirming care” to be covered by Medicaid. But after looking closely at the paperwork of some of the patients, Sivadge came to believe that the doctors were billing Medicaid for the sex-change treatments.“The largest children’s hospital in the country is illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures,” she told Rufo. “It is evident that the hospital continues to believe it is above the law not just by concealing the existence of their transgender medicine program from the public, but by stealing from the federal government.”<h2>Whistleblower surgeon indicted</h2>Sivadge is not the first whistleblower to expose Texas Children’s Hospital’s activities. Rufo broke the first story about the hospital’s practices last year based on information from Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon who worked at Texas Children’s Hospital.This week, Dr. Haim was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/doctor-charged-unauthorized-access-personal-information-pediatric-patients-texas">indicted</a> by the Department of Justice with four felony counts of obtaining personal medical information.

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Only 39 percent of Americans think marriage and children should be prioritizedAs if we didn’t already know that American society was polarized, the Pew Research Center has provided us with a new <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/06/gender-family-reproductive-issues-and-the-2024-election/pp_2024-6-5_cultural-values_4-03/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">poll</a> that shows Trump and Biden supporters sharply divided on issues related to family and having children.Asked whether “society is better off if people make marriage and having children a priority,” 59 percent of Trump supporters said yes, while just 19 percent of Biden supporters agreed with the statement. Overall, just 39 percent of Americans think society is better off with people prioritizing marriage and building a family.<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1718673841/pew1_87d1a43711.png"></figure>39 percent isn’t a lot and is a worrying figure for the traditionally minded. However, back in 2020, a Pew <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/09/10/voters-attitudes-about-race-and-gender-are-even-more-divided-than-in-2016/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">poll</a> found that only 36 percent of Americans agreed with the identical proposition, while 61 percent of Americans said “society is just as well off if people have priorities other than marriage and children.”The political divide was just as stark then, too. Among Trump voters, 55 percent were family prioritizers in the 2020 poll; among Biden supporters, just 20 percent believed in prioritizing family.<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1718673963/pew2_612e7c1ec0.png"></figure>Going back eight years, to 2016, one finds very little difference; 42 percent of Americans supported building a family for the benefit of society and 55 percent thought society was just as well off with people having other priorities instead. 57 percent of Trump voters supported prioritizing family life, as opposed to 28 percent of Clinton voters.Summing up changing attitudes over the past eight years, one therefore finds that among right-leaning Americans, around six in ten people think family is important for society, with little change over time. Among left-leaning Americans, the percentage of those who think family is important for society has dropped quite sharply, from 28 percent in 2016 to 20 percent in 2020 and 19 percent today — just 2 in 10 people.&nbsp;Getting married = losing progressive credentialsThere are a number of reasons for these trends and divisions; one of them is simply that “family” has become a conservative value, as <a href="https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/family-abolition-and-the-covid-pandemic?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=441185&amp;post_id=141128325&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=240v19&amp;triedRedirect=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OpenDemocracy.net</a> expresses it:<blockquote>Defending the “monogamous, heterosexual, many-children family” is therefore not a neutral act of defending the right to a safe and cozy home, but is more often than not tied up in other conservative political goals.</blockquote>While it seems unlikely that conservatives support marriage and having children because they want to appear conservative in their own eyes and in the eyes of the world, it is perhaps more likely that liberals and progressives consciously or unconsciously reject family values for fear of being branded “conservative.”Thus, even extreme left-socialist firebrands such as Israeli feminist Merav Michaeli can give <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTf8jKMGsGE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TED talks</a> on “canceling marriage” while being in monogamous relationships and having children (in <a href="https://www.mercatornet.com/what-happens-when-an-anti-family-activist-has-a-baby" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michaeli’s case</a>, via surrogacy).&nbsp;All locked up together… or distanced for goodThe COVID scam years have also taken their toll on family life, particularly among those who toed the establishment line. Multiple accounts attest to families split apart after injected family members broke off contact with relatives who refused the shots. Many remain estranged to this day.One <a href="https://www.onepoll.us/nearly-two-thirds-of-vaccinated-americans-ban-unvaccinated-family-from-their-holiday-gatherings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">poll</a> taken in 2021 revealed that,<blockquote>... of the fully vaccinated, six in 10 (58%) have reportedly cut off family members who refuse to get vaccinated, while 63% don’t feel comfortable inviting unvaccinated relatives to their parties.</blockquote>Lockdowns, too, put family life under stress and made it appear far less attractive, with nuclear families locked up together at home for weeks and months, while the supportive structure of extended family was placed out of reach. Studies have shown this effect, with one notable <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611690/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">study</a> concluding that,<blockquote>... family chaos during pandemic-related shutdowns also was associated with increases in maternal-child conflict, paternal-child conflict, and sibling conflict...</blockquote>&nbsp;Heating the planet, one child at a timePerhaps one of the biggest factors turning progressives away from family is climate scaremongering. Apparently, one of the best ways to shrink one’s carbon footprint is to <a href="https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/human-overpopulation-can-having-fewer-children-really-make-a-difference" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">have one child less</a>. Plenty of people are opting to do just that, which means for many, having no children at all, given that the average is already below two per mother.In fact, a New York Times <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2021/07/27/the-media-produces-derangement-proof-from-new-york-times-readers-n2593145#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">article</a> from 2021 provided testimony from dozens of comment posters on how they (or their children) were taking climate change so seriously that they were opting out of the future entirely.Sophia from Maine told the world that,<blockquote>I have one child, a daughter, who told me age 8 that she would never have a child because of global warming. She's now 34 and has never changed her mind. So I will not experience a grandchild. For her wisdom, I am grateful. I would be heartsick if I did have a grandchild who would have to experience the onslaught of changing climate.</blockquote>Ida from California sympathized, writing that,<blockquote>I weep with you, Sophia. Whenever I look my 11 year old daughter in the eyes I feel so many emotions: guilt for bringing her into this dying world.</blockquote>Liberal from Texas added,<blockquote>I feel your pain. I have 2 sons. Neither one will have children and their partners agree. I'll never have grandchildren. But I also realize that their decisions have in some way been molded by me. I am proud of their decision.</blockquote>CC from California responded:<blockquote>I will have no grandchildren. As I watch my peers enjoying their final years surrounded by grandchildren, I can't help feeling a little jealous. At the same time ... our daughters are stepping up to the challenge. I'm proud of them.</blockquote>Marisa from New York wrote:<blockquote>I, too, am coming to terms and accepting that my 36 year old son will not have a child as well -- for stated reasons. It is painful for me when I watch other young men and women his age going about town with their children. But I understand, and concur, on an intellectual level, that of course they're right. Bringing more children into the world these days is an existential worry. And irresponsible. So, as I grieve for our planet, I also grieve for the grandchildren that I will never have.</blockquote>And Liz from Portland put it in stark terms:<blockquote>Frankly, as someone who has been concerned about climate change, and observing what is happening over the last ten years with real dread, I do not understand why anyone in the last ten years would voluntarily have a child.</blockquote>&nbsp;Just one, or perhaps noneThree years on and people (on the left-side of the political divide) aren’t feeling any better about humanity’s prospects. The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Guardian</a> surveyed “climate scientists” and found them wallowing in depression and gloom, echoing NYT readers with their determination not to bring children into a “dying” world.Another Pew <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/06/gender-family-reproductive-issues-and-the-2024-election/pp_2024-6-5_cultural-values_4-05/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">poll</a> conducted this year found that 27 percent of Biden supporters think it’s “good” for society that people are having fewer children, as opposed to just 17 percent of Trump supporters who feel the same way. 47 percent of Trump supporters think a <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?end=2022&amp;locations=US&amp;start=1960&amp;view=chart" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">declining birth rate</a> is “bad” for society, as opposed to just 23 percent of Biden supporters who think that way.&nbsp;Meanwhile, the family is under attack from new directions, with queer (in several ways) researchers actually promoting the idea of <a href="https://frontline.news/post/queering-babies-testosterone-during-pregnancy-should-be-allowed-says-study" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">normalizing birth defects</a>, and the trans lobby inadvertently (?) promoting the mass sterilization of all those who feel they’re “in the wrong body.” A recent <a href="https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/only-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BBC Science Focus</a> article promotes the one-child family as the recipe for success, and studies are published <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2005.00078.x" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">claiming</a> that while having one child makes parents happier, any further children make them (well, perhaps just the mothers) more miserable.Organization such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) encourage people to think in terms of communities and collectives for health and <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/06/happiness-hacks-well-being-studies-longevity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">happiness</a>, and only mention <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/05/climate-anxiety-is-on-the-rise-heres-what-we-do-about-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">family</a> in the context of intergenerational conflict.&nbsp;Why edit genes when you can program your robobaby?One other factor that could be driving reluctance to procreate is little mentioned, and that is AI. Common to virtually every parent is the aspiration for their children to have a better life than they do. But with AI predicted to make masses of people unemployed in the future, what can many parents realistically expect for their offspring?Kai-Fu Lee is a venture capitalist, the CEO of Sinovation Ventures. Seven years ago, he <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/27/kai-fu-lee-robots-will-replace-half-of-all-jobs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">predicted</a> that AI would take over up to half of jobs within ten years (adding, without explanation, that this would “wipe out poverty”).Asked whether humans will still have a place in this all-new digital world, he insisted that they would, because human-to-human interaction is like nothing else.<blockquote>Touching one’s heart with your heart is something that machines, I believe, will never be good at.</blockquote>Lee <a href="https://fortune.com/2024/05/25/ai-job-displacement-forecast-50-percent-2027-kai-fu-lee-chatgpt-openai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">added</a> that humans have unique traits which machines cannot emulate perfectly:&nbsp;<blockquote>We have compassion and empathy. We have emotions and the ability to love. We have the ability to connect to other people and create trust and win trust.</blockquote>But he added a note of warning:<blockquote>Do I think AI can fake it? Yes. Do I think people will accept the faking AI, at least for the next 50 years? No. So that’s long enough for your kids to survive and figure out the next step for their kids.</blockquote>What Lee doesn’t seem to grasp is that compassion, empathy, and love only have meaning when the person giving them gives out of choice. Do we really want teleprompter spouses?But Lee doesn’t see AI robots replacing our marriage partners anytime soon. What about AI kids? If, as the studies say, it’s all about how kids make us feel, why not have perfectly behaved, well-groomed, intelligent and successful AI-babies?

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