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Title: Victorian Workers Rally For Freedom, every day 10am;
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demand Mass distribution of Ivermectin, vitamins C, D and zinc

by Peter Myers, September 23, 2021

Premier Daniel Andrews shut down the Construction industry in Victoria for 2 weeks, after they protested against Vaccine Mandates. As a result, these unemployed workers have time on their hands; they say they'll rally every day until Vaccine Mandates are dropped.

These are big guys, football-player types. Too big for police to push around. Further, their union, the CFMEU, is the most militant in Australia.

The media brand them right-wingers - but that shows the Left Wing provenance of the Lockdown regime. Trots and Antifa call these guys "Far Right", but they are merely nationalists resisting the Globalists' agenda. In opposing the workers, the Trots and Antifa are revealing their alliance with the Globalists.

Other leftists such as Professors Anthony Hall and Michel Chossudovsky side with the workers.

The CFMEU - Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union - is a super-union which operates in all states. Super-unions were formed by amalgamating previously separate unions. A split has now developed between the members and the bosses, who are now seen as pro-Globalist and pro-Lockdown. The bosses control the union's finances, and donations to political parties, but the workers have turned against Labor and its Green-Left allies. Given the bitterness of the standoff, it's likely that many of the existing leaders will be ousted at the next union election.

Resistance is likely to spead to the other states too. It will cost the Labor Party electoral support, at a time when (on foreign policy) it is seen as too cosy with China. In the 1950s, in the wake of the Petrov Scandal, Labor was seen as captive to the USSR. A similar perception that it is captive to China will cost it 2-3% of votes at election time. To this must be added another 2-3% loss over its support for Lockdowns and Globalization generally. These looses will apply to the combined Labor-Green vote.

In Britain, The Economist envisages an Anti-Green backlash (item 7 below):

"Brexit transformed Britain by tapping into ordinary people's resentment of distant elites, and anti-greenery could do the same. Environmentalism is driven by populists' two big bogeymen, scientific experts and multilateral institutions. Green campaigners vie to befuddle the public with acronyms and jargon. Multilateral institutions override democratic legislatures".

This is likely to spread world-wide.

The Economist itself promotes Green policies, but says that nuclear power will re required to replace Coal and Gas.

The Political Correctness of recent decades has occured through the Green-Left avant-garde funneling votes, at election time, to Labor, as preferences (given our 'Instant Runoff' voting system).

With the anti-Green and anti-Labor backlash under way, the conclusion is that the era of Political Correctness is over for Australia; a reaction is in full swing. We will head back to some sort of normalcy. Gender politics is doomed; Israel Folau will be welcomed back to major football as a hero.

Items 8 and 9, about Menstrual changes after covid-19 vaccination, might seem out of place in this newsletter about union militancy. However, these union workers have families, and would be acutely concerned about any threat to the fertility of their wives.

(2) Victorian Workers Rally For Freedom, every day 10am at CFMEU

Victorian Workers Rally For Freedom oNo Vaccine Mandates oEvery Day 10am oCFMEU Headquarters 540 Elizabeth St

See the sign:

(3) Victorian Workers demand Mass distribution of Ivermectin, vitamins C, D and zinc

See this sign too:

Melbourne protest demands

Emergency state powers to be removed immediately

Lockdowns to end immediately

Mask mandate to end immediately

Vaccines mandate to end immediately

Vaccine passports to be removed

Immediate resignation of Premier Daniel Andrews

Immediate resignation of CHO Brett Sutton

Immediate resignation of Chief Commisioner Shane Patton

Reoyal commission into government's response to pandemic

Charges laid against officers assaulting peaceful protestors

All construction sites to resume immediately Mass distribution of ivermectin, vitamins C, D and zinc

(4) REVOLUTION! Protesters Led by Construction Workers in Melbourne

Watch the video at the following link

https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/revolution-protesters-led-by-construction-workers-in-melbourne-shut-down-major-freeways-over-covid-tyranny-and-mandatory-vaccines/

REVOLUTION! Protesters Led by Construction Workers in Melbourne Shut Down Major Freeways Over COVID Tyranny and Mandatory Vaccines

by Brian Shilhavy

Editor, Health Impact News

It appears that we have a bona fide revolution unfolding in the city of Melbourne, Australia!

Australia currently leads the world in medical tyranny as they have descended into a total medical police state in the past several weeks, with authorities desperately trying to keep the COVID narrative alive by trying to track every single movement of their citizens, force them to stay in their homes unless the government gives them permission to leave and go outside, and mandatory COVID-19 shots are being implemented for everyone to participate in society.

Led by construction workers but also joined by other trade unions, people took to the streets of Melbourne en masse Tuesday, shutting down the busiest freeway in all of Australia for a while.

The protesters say this will go on every day now, until the government meets their demands.

Here is our video report. This is from our Rumble channel, and it is also on our Bitchute channel.

4 Comments

drmichaelroth2016 September 22, 2021 at 2:10 pm - Reply

Yeah baby! WE are the government, not them. We're with you and praying for you citizens. What a great example to everyone else in the world. If only the American sheeple would join together and do the same, but many are too lazy, still too comfortable, still too scared, and still to brainwashed.

JP Maxwell September 21, 2021 at 5:32 pm - Reply

Blessings to our Aussie brethren. While the governments want these protests so they can bring down the Iron Fist upon us – we must always remember there are way more of us than there are of them and even UN Troops are going to have a hard time carpet bombing protesters if their own country man refuse to do it. Need a refresher course in how to "Just Say No"? Watch V For Vendetta with Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman, (2005).

lynnthoma September 21, 2021 at 11:54 am - Reply

Here in America the mainstream media will never give us this news. It's up to you independent media sites to keep us informed. Keep up the good work.

DD September 21, 2021 at 11:47 am - Reply

THANK YOU for posting this!! This is so uplifting and encouraging as Australia was the test case for this evil plan! And they are unarmed people (unlike the US) and they are all REFUSING ANY LONGER TO OBEY THESE EVIL COMMANDS!!! HURRAY FOR AUSSIES!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!

(5) Victoria police fired rubber bullets into protesting crowd (Melbourne)

Watch the video at https://twitter.com/NMLockdownsUK/status/1440596069369331713

No More Lockdowns UK @NMLockdownsUK

Melbourne Uprising:

Police now shooting rubber bullets indiscriminately at peaceful people.

A peacekeeping force needs to be sent NOW to protect these people from the criminal Dan Andrews regime!

6:37 PM · Sep 22, 2021·Twitter Web App

https://www.rt.com/news/535559-melbourne-news-cameras-police-ban/

Australian police attempt to keep reporters from covering Covid-19 protests, back off after news outlet threatens legal challenge

22 Sep, 2021 18:49

Melbourne police partially backed off an order to keep news helicopters out of the sky over anti-lockdown protests after media pushed back with a legal challenge. Police said protesters were tracking cops' movements via newsfeeds.

Police in Victoria initially issued a blanket order to keep local news helicopters out of the sky over the Melbourne city center known as the CBD, according to 7 News Melbourne, which reported that it was filing a legal challenge to the rule on Wednesday along with fellow Melbourne broadcaster Channel 9.

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority declared the airspace above Melbourne city center a ‘no-fly zone' on Wednesday afternoon, encompassing three nautical miles from the district, before police relented after a wave of protest from the news media.

Calling the filming ban "an extraordinary new tactic from police," the outlet explained the order was initially meant to keep news helicopters out of the sky until Monday but that "after complaints from media," the police had partially rescinded the order. News outlets can still film the protests, the new rule says, but cannot broadcast the footage without an hour's delay.

To justify the "unprecedented" ban on filming the massive, violent clashes between cops and protesters near the city center, police claimed protesters were watching footage from the news helicopters to get a clue as to where the cops were moving next. However, they presented no evidence to back up this claim, nor did they prove that protesters weren't using more typical reconnaissance means, such as encrypted messaging apps or even phone calls, to track the movement of the authorities.

"A very important line has been crossed here. Victoria Police are censoring the broadcast media. This is the definition of police state behavior," Director of Policy at the Institute of Public Affairs Gideon Rozier told Australian broadcaster ABC.

The violent response of Victoria's police to protests against Melbourne's brutal, lengthy lockdown – which has seen inhabitants of some public housing buildings literally trapped in their apartments with police patrolling the hallways – has caught the world's attention. During a protest on Saturday, police knocked down and pepper-sprayed an elderly woman demonstrating peacefully with an Australian flag, and more recently reports have emerged that police are specifically targeting visibly credentialed news photographers with pepper spray and arrests.

Some 235 people were detained in the latest sweep of protests for breaching lockdown, according to the Daily Mail, which noted that during the weekend protests police also barricaded Melbourne city center and shut down public transit to try to keep people from assembling. Another 193 were fined. While Victorian Premier Dan Andrews (nicknamed ‘Dictator Dan' by his unwilling subjects) has attempted to smear the entire anti-lockdown movement as unhinged, violent hooligans and enemies of public order, many in the crowd are average Australians whose livelihoods have been destroyed by the continuous economic shutdown that has gravely affected the country's economy. The protests are only getting larger, as one video from Tuesday appears to show.

Footage of police firing rubber bullets into a protesting crowd was also posted to social media on Wednesday, shocking many of the demonstrators as one noted there were children present.

(6) The CFMEU is a super-union, covering the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy industries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction,_Forestry,_Maritime,_Mining_and_Energy_Union

Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union

The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU, though most commonly still referred to as CFMEU) is Australia's main trade union in construction, forestry, maritime, mining, energy, textile, clothing and footwear production.

The new CFMMEU has a membership of approximately 144,000, 1% of the Australian workforce, with combined assets of $310 million and annual revenue of approximately $146 million. [...]

The CFMMEU is one of the most powerful unions in the Labor Left faction of the Australian Labor Party.[4] The Construction Division is often associated with the left faction of the Australian labour movement, but during the 2010 Federal election the CFMEU and AMWU donated a total of $60,000 to the Greens.

Each State division operates with autonomy, which results in differing services being offered to members.

(7) The Economist envisages an Anti-Green backlash

https://www.economist.com/britain/2021/09/22/an-anti-green-backlash-could-reshape-british-politics

Bagehot An anti-green backlash could reshape British politics And as radically as Brexit did

Sep 22nd 2021

WHATEVER A British voter's natural political hue—Tory blue, Labour red or Liberal Democrat orange—these days it ends up green-tinged. The Tory government talks effusively about "building back greener". Labour wants a "green industrial revolution". Liberal Democrats have used their position as the third party to argue for everybody to go further and faster. And then there are all the people who want to raze the carbon economy to the ground the day after tomorrow: not just the Green Party but also extremist groupuscules such as Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain.

Which leaves a gap in the market for something different: anti-green politics. Brexit transformed Britain by tapping into ordinary people's resentment of distant elites, and anti-greenery could do the same. Environmentalism is driven by populists' two big bogeymen, scientific experts and multilateral institutions. Green campaigners vie to befuddle the public with acronyms and jargon. Multilateral institutions override democratic legislatures in order to co-ordinate global action. In the public mind, greenery is coming to mean global confabs that produce yet more directives, and protesters who block city centres and motorways.

Greenery suffers from the classic problems of technocratic policymaking, namely offering distant rewards in return for immediate sacrifices and imposing uneven costs. Over-50s, the most reliable voters, won't be around to see the world boil. Poorer people are likely to suffer more than richer ones from the green transition, not just because they have less disposable income but also because they are more likely to work in the dirty economy. The impression of injustice is reinforced by the fact that many of the most vocal green activists have a material interest in the green economy as bureaucrats, lobbyists and entrepreneurs.

A fuel-price rise in 2018 inspired France's gilets jaunes; Germany's Alternative für Deutschland and Finland's Fins have lambasted green hysteria. In Britain, by contrast, anti-greenery is still nascent. Some on the Tory right have complained that their party is in the grip of the green lobby. A few MPs in the "red wall"—once-safe Labour seats in northern England that turned Tory over Brexit—have warned that green levies on driving could see those voters switch back again. The closure of some London streets to through-traffic has sparked protests.

But such rows are about to get a lot louder. Turbulence on the global energy market is drawing unflattering attention to British energy suppliers, which are struggling with the transition from coal- and gas-fired plants to renewables. The more the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, says about there being "absolutely no question of the lights going out", the more consumers will worry. And other environmental policies on the horizon will also hit them hard. From 2030 the sale of new petrol and diesel cars will be banned. The electric cars that will replace them are rapidly improving, but not yet as cheap or as convenient. For city-dwellers it is hard enough to find parking without having to look for a charging-point too, and long journeys require planning.

Since the discovery of gas in the North Sea in 1965, most British homes have used the fuel to heat their homes. But the government plans to take gas-fired boilers off the market in the coming years, to be replaced by hydrogen boilers or heat pumps. The date for the switchover is slipping, since neither technology is ready for mass roll-out. Air-source heat pumps are larger than gas boilers, produce lower temperatures and cost much more. People's enthusiasm for greenery may reach its limits if familiar, well-functioning products are replaced by more expensive, inferior ones.

In the past decade climate-change denialism has given way to something cannier and harder to pin down. Nigel Farage, the former leader of the uk Independence Party and a major force behind Brexit, claims that he is as green as the next man—indeed that he voted for the Green Party back in the 1980s—but that he's in favour of "sensible environmentalism" rather than the establishment kind that taxes "poor people to give money to rich people and big corporations while China's going to ignore it all".

Anti-greens are also seeking to reshape politics indirectly: not just by creating new parties, but by changing the hue of the established ones from inside. For neither of Britain's biggest parties is as deep-dyed green as they appear to onlookers. The Conservative Party certainly has big names who preach environmentalism, like Zac Goldsmith, an aristocratic Brexiteer. But it has always also been the party of homeowners who care about their energy bills, motorists who want to get the last mile from every gallon and older people who don't want to change their ways. More recently, they have been joined by red wall voters with little spare cash. Labour, for its part, is an uneasy coalition of graduates, who cheer every green initiative, and lower-paid workers, who are nostalgic for the days of well-paid jobs in heavy industry and primarily concerned with making ends meet.

Hot air emissions

How to avert an anti-green backlash? Politicians need to avoid unforced errors, such as making everyone rip out perfectly good boilers before replacements are ready. They need to shield vulnerable groups from the costs of the energy transition, remembering how the mood turned against globalisation when politicians failed to honour promises to compensate the losers. They need to see the world through the eyes of people who accept that climate change is a problem but must ceaselessly struggle to get by in the here and now. The prime minister, Boris Johnson, won easy applause at a un round table on climate action this week by expressing frustration that the "something" the world is doing to limit global warming is "not enough". The audience he really needs to convince is the one that laughed along to his provocations before he re-entered Parliament in 2015, such as mocking wind power as too weak to pull the skin off a rice pudding.

(8) 30,000+ Women in UK Report Menstrual Problems After COVID Shots

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/30000-women-uk-report-menstrual-problems-covid-shots/

09/22/21

30,000+ Women in UK Report Menstrual Problems After COVID Shots, But Menstrual Issues Not Listed as Side Effect

"If we were to follow the scientific method, as it was taught in textbooks ... we would immediately see this observation of menstrual cycle changes in tens of thousands of women as a signal, for which necessary questions would need to be asked," Dr. Lawrence Palevsky told The Defender.

By Megan Redshaw

Reports of adverse reactions include heavier-than-usual periods, delayed periods and unexpected vaginal bleeding.

According to an editorial published Sept. 16 in The BMJ, more than 30,000 reports of menstrual irregularities and vaginal bleeding had been made, as of Sept. 2, to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency's (MHRA) Yellow Card Scheme — the UK system for collecting and monitoring adverse reactions following COVID vaccines.

Reports of adverse reactions include heavier-than-usual periods, delayed periods and unexpected vaginal bleeding. Most women who reported a change to their period after vaccination found it returned to normal the following cycle, according to the author of the editorial, Dr. Victoria Male, a reproductive specialist at Imperial College in London.

To date, none of the COVID vaccine manufacturers list any issues pertinent to menstrual health as a side effect. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, common side effects of COVID vaccines include: pain at the site of vaccination, tiredness, fatigue and fever.

Male called for further investigation into potential effects of COVID vaccines on menstrual health — but said the problem lies with the body's immune response, not the vaccine.

"Menstrual changes have been reported after both mRNA and adenovirus vectored COVID-19 vaccines, suggesting that if there is a connection, it is likely to be a result of the immune response to vaccination rather than a specific vaccine component," Male wrote.

According to the MHRA, evaluation of Yellow Card reports does not support a link between changes to menstrual periods and COVID vaccines, because the number of reports is low compared to the number of people vaccinated, and the prevalence of menstrual disorders generally.

However, the way in which Yellow Card data are collected makes firm conclusions difficult, according to Male.

According to the most recent data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) — the primary government-funded system for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S. — between Dec. 14, 2020 and Sept. 10, 2021, there have been 8,793 total reports of menstrual disorders after vaccination with a COVID vaccine.

Historically, VAERS has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events, which means the number of actual adverse events evolving menstrual disorders could be much higher.

In an interview with Medical News Today, Dr. Sarah Gray — a general practitioner who for 15 years who ran a specialist women's health clinic for the UK's National Health Service — said:

"The control of menstrual bleeding is complex with potential effects from the brain, ovaries and uterus itself. It is plausible that the effects of [SARS-CoV-2] infection or vaccination on the immune system could affect this control pathway, and any research would be greatly valued."

Gray also noted, "women's health has not been a research priority for 20 years and there is much we do not know."

Dr. Kathryn Clancy, assistant professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said she is involved in similar research into acute immune activation and menstrual repair mechanisms.

"I am dismayed that the research design of [COVID] vaccine trials makes it impossible at this time to actually explore this relationship, and hope drug and vaccine manufacturers in the future take these considerations into account," Clancy said.

In an email to The Defender, Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, pediatrician, lecturer and author, said:

"If we were to follow the scientific method, as it was taught in textbooks (knowing full well there is no longer any adherence to the scientific method), we would immediately see this observation of menstrual cycle changes in tens of thousands of women as a signal, for which necessary questions would need to be asked."

Palevsky — who is part of an independent research group collecting data from unvaccinated women who experienced menstrual changes after being around others who recently received COVID vaccines — said a necessary study would examine the contents of the injection, and assess the chemical natures of these contents and their effects on human physiology and women's reproductive systems.

"A true adherence to the scientific method would allow for answers to be reported without bias or prejudice for a desired outcome of the results," Palevsky said.

Palevsky explained:

"There is a long list of side effects that the manufacturers of the injection sent to the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] in the fall of 2020. Many of the injuries people are reporting after receiving these injections, including bleeding, blood clots, autoimmunity, Guillain-Barré syndrome and many others, are well known to the manufacturers and the FDA but, the powers that be continue to ignore the reports of people presenting with these real-time adverse events, as if they have nothing to do with the injections, at all.

"Essentially, they gathered the data in clinical trials but have kept them completely under wraps."

Palevsky said he believes the spike protein could play a role in the menstrual irregularities women are reporting, along with "other factors we may not know because no one is doing the appropriate research."

As The Defender reported Sept. 8, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded one-year supplemental grants totaling $1.67 million to five institutions to explore potential links between COVID vaccines and menstrual changes, after thousands of women reported menstrual irregularities after vaccination in the U.S.

According to the NIH website, some women have reported experiencing irregular or missing menstrual periods, heavier-than-usual bleeding and other menstrual changes after receiving COVID vaccines.

The new funding will go toward research to determine whether the changes may be linked to COVID vaccination itself, and how long the changes last. Researchers will also seek to clarify the mechanisms underlying potential vaccine-related menstrual changes.

So far, no published studies have examined — or offered conclusive evidence — of possible links between the vaccines and menstruation.

(9) BMJ Editorial - Menstrual changes after covid-19 vaccination

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2211

Editorials

Menstrual changes after covid-19 vaccination

BMJ 2021; 374 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2211 (Published 16 September 2021)

Cite this as: BMJ 2021;374:n2211

Author

Victoria Male, lecturer in reproductive immunology

Author affiliations

v.male@...

A link is plausible and should be investigated

Common side effects of covid-19 vaccination listed by the UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) include a sore arm, fever, fatigue, and myalgia.1 Changes to periods and unexpected vaginal bleeding are not listed, but primary care clinicians and those working in reproductive health are increasingly approached by people who have experienced these events shortly after vaccination. More than 30 000 reports of these events had been made to MHRA's yellow card surveillance scheme for adverse drug reactions by 2 September 2021, across all covid-19 vaccines currently offered.1

Most people who report a change to their period after vaccination find that it returns to normal the following cycle and, importantly, there is no evidence that covid-19 vaccination adversely affects fertility. In clinical trials, unintended pregnancies occurred at similar rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated groups.2 In assisted reproduction clinics, fertility measures and pregnancy rates are similar in vaccinated and unvaccinated patients.3456

MHRA states that evaluation of yellow card reports does not support a link between changes to menstrual periods and covid-19 vaccines since the number of reports is low relative to both the number of people vaccinated and the prevalence of menstrual disorders generally.7 However, the way in which yellow card data are collected makes firm conclusions difficult. Approaches better equipped to compare rates of menstrual variation in vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations are needed, and the US National Institutes of Health has made $1.67m (£1.2m; €1.4m) available to encourage this important research.8

Menstrual changes have been reported after both mRNA and adenovirus vectored covid-19 vaccines,1 suggesting that, if there is a connection, it is likely to be a result of the immune response to vaccination rather than a specific vaccine component. Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) has also been associated with menstrual changes.9 Indeed, the menstrual cycle can be affected by immune activation in response to various stimuli, including viral infection: in one study of menstruating women, around a quarter of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 experienced menstrual disruption.10

Biologically plausible mechanisms linking immune stimulation with menstrual changes include immunological influences on the hormones driving the menstrual cycle11 or effects mediated by immune cells in the lining of the uterus, which are involved in the cyclical build-up and breakdown of this tissue.12 Research exploring a possible association between covid-19 vaccines and menstrual changes may also help understand the mechanism.

Although reported changes to the menstrual cycle after vaccination are short lived, robust research into this possible adverse reaction remains critical to the overall success of the vaccination programme. Vaccine hesitancy among young women is largely driven by false claims that covid-19 vaccines could harm their chances of future pregnancy.13 Failing to thoroughly investigate reports of menstrual changes after vaccination is likely to fuel these fears. If a link between vaccination and menstrual changes is confirmed, this information will allow people to plan for potentially altered cycles. Clear and trusted information is particularly important for those who rely on being able to predict their menstrual cycles to either achieve or avoid pregnancy.

We are still awaiting definitive evidence, but in the interim how should clinicians counsel those who have experienced these effects? Initially, they should be encouraged to report any changes to periods or unexpected vaginal bleeding to the MHRA's yellow card scheme. This will provide more complete data to facilitate research into any link and signal to patients that their concerns about vaccine safety are taken seriously, building trust. In terms of management, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the MHRA recommend that anyone reporting a change in periods persisting over several cycles, or new vaginal bleeding after the menopause, should be managed according to the usual clinical guidelines for these conditions.714

One important lesson is that the effects of medical interventions on menstruation should not be an afterthought in future research. Clinical trials provide the ideal setting in which to differentiate between menstrual changes caused by interventions from those that occur anyway, but participants are unlikely to report changes to periods unless specifically asked. Information about menstrual cycles and other vaginal bleeding should be actively solicited in future clinical trials, including trials of covid-19 vaccines.

Footnotes

Competing interests: The BMJ has judged that there are no disqualifying financial ties to commercial companies. The author declares the following other interests: research funding from the Wellcome Trust and research charity Borne; payments to act as an external examiner for the University of Cambridge and the University of Leeds; and royalties received for my contribution to Immunology 9th edition (Elsevier). Further details of The BMJ policy on financial interests is here: https://www.bmj.com/sites/default/files/attachments/resources/2016/03/16-current-bmj-education-coi-form.pdf.

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