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Originally posted by highroundcount:
Then there is this poor parent at a schoolboard meeting that gets pushed around by hot headed security just for not wearing a face diaper.

Kind of a bummer the cop attending just watches it happen.

And no one except for the lady filming stands up for the guy.

The world has truly gone insane.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...cials-posed-maskless

Hey for once it's not Loudoun County Schools looking horrible. Got a five minute break, sweet.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu holds a Livestream.
Doesn't go well
video at
https://twitter.com/i/status/1492144808529473543

What a feckless person. It’s obvious. Wow.

Robust Covid-19 Booster Protection Wanes After Four Months, CDC Says

CDC study assessing effectiveness against the Omicron and Delta variants underscored generally strong protection for authorized mRNA vaccines

https://www.wsj.com/articles/o...684?mod=hp_lead_pos6

Messenger RNA vaccines’ protection against Covid-19 hospitalization remained strong overall after three doses but did wane over time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

In the month after the Omicron variant became dominant in the U.S. around Dec. 20, protection against hospitalization fell from 91% within two months of receiving a third shot to 78% after four months, the CDC said Friday, reporting results from a study.

The CDC report said the findings underscored the importance of receiving a third mRNA vaccine dose to prevent hospitalization as well as emergency-care visits.
Without a third booster shot, protection against hospitalization within two months of a second shot was 71%, and fell to 54% after five months.

Vaccine effectiveness also waned against Covid-19 cases leading to an urgent-care or emergency-room visit. During the Omicron period, the protection rate fell from 87% within two months of a third dose to 66% after four to five months, and to 31% five months more after a third shot.

Messenger RNA shots from Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE and from Moderna Inc. are the most widely used Covid-19 vaccines in the U.S. After the Omicron variant began spreading, early research indicated the initial two shots weren’t as effective as they had been against earlier strains, but the booster shot provided strong protection.
The CDC study looked at hospitalization data from 10 states from Aug. 26 through Jan. 22, through most of which the Delta variant was the dominant strain. Omicron became the dominant variant around Dec. 20.

During the Delta-predominant period, protection against hospitalization was 96% within two months of a third shot, and fell to 76% within four months or more after the third shot.

Over the entire five-month period analyzed by the CDC, 43% of people hospitalized with Covid-19-like illness were unvaccinated, 45% received two vaccine shots and 12% had gotten three shots, the CDC said.

Coronavirus-related hospitalizations have continued to decline in the U.S., with the seven-day average of patients with confirmed or suspected Covid-19 dropping 35% from a Jan. 20 peak to 103,464, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.

The rolling seven-day average of daily deaths with Covid-19, a lagging indicator, shows tentative signs of stabilizing, reaching 2,466 on Wednesday, compared with 2,531 on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. have been averaging above 2,400 a day since Jan. 28 and running at their highest level since February last year.

New confirmed infections with the virus in the U.S. and the European Union have been falling from their peaks in January.

In the EU, average Covid-19 deaths have risen to more than 2,000 a day again as the Omicron wave continues to take a deadly toll in Italy, France, Spain and some other countries. However, declining overall infections have made epidemiologists optimistic that deaths too will peak soon.

Confirmed Covid-19 cases in France have fallen at an accelerating rate, with an average of 201,694 new cases a day over the week ended Feb. 7, down 34% from a week earlier. As of Thursday evening, France’s weekly average of daily hospital admissions was down 9% from a week earlier, while intensive-care unit admissions were down 6%. Deaths have continued to rise, reaching a daily average of 286 on Thursday. In another sign of receding overall contagion, some 2% of school classes were closed on Friday due to Covid-19 infections, a steep fall from the 3.2% that were closed the previous week, according to data from France’s Education Ministry.

Italy on Thursday passed 150,000 confirmed Covid-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic. The first country outside Asia that was hit on a large scale by Covid-19, Italy has Europe’s second-highest overall death toll from the virus, after the U.K.

Italy’s average daily deaths in the winter wave have stabilized at more than 360, but health experts say mortality will likely recede soon as overall Omicron cases decline. Confirmed infections have dropped fast in Italy too, with the seven-day average of new confirmed cases falling below 90,000 this week, compared with more than 180,000 in mid-January.

The picture is more mixed in Germany, where the seven-day incidence of infections has continued to rise. But Germany on Thursday registered a daily drop in infections compared with the same day last week for the first time in 2022. The country’s disease-control center, the Robert Koch Institute, said new confirmed cases fell to 240,172 on Thursday, from 247,862 a week earlier.

German health experts say strict social-distancing measures, which are particularly severe for the unvaccinated, meant that Omicron infections had risen more slowly in Germany than in many neighboring countries and would therefore take longer to peak. Despite pressure from businesses and civil society, German authorities have said it would be weeks before the measures are relaxed.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Robust Covid-19 Booster Protection Wanes After Four Months, CDC Says

CDC study assessing effectiveness against the Omicron and Delta variants underscored generally strong protection for authorized mRNA vaccines

The above underscores why there are two narratives. There in a headline and sub-title are two, conflicting statements. It cannot both wane in a short period and be "generally strong."

That's good journalism, that is. Not.

No wonder skeptics walk away with one thought and believers another.

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Robust Covid-19 Booster Protection Wanes After Four Months, CDC Says

CDC study assessing effectiveness against the Omicron and Delta variants underscored generally strong protection for authorized mRNA vaccines

Complete BS. I know dozens of people who contracted Covid 3-4 weeks after submitting to their 3rd poke in Nov-Dec 21.

We all know this - the CDC studies are worthless and have zero credibility to those who are capable of thinking for themselves.

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The CDC’s word is every bit as worthless as the snake oil these charlatans are peddling. They are NOT vaccines. They are nothing more than prophylactic remedies to lower the severity of symptoms (sometimes). I’ve seen way too many people supposedly protected by multiple injections of these “vaccines” get sick to believe a word these liars say. They have ZERO credibility.

EMA investigating menstrual irregularities following COVID shot

European Medicines Agency says it is 'assessing reported cases of heavy menstrual bleeding and absence of menstruation' following the shots.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/322189

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Friday that it was investigating reported menstrual irregularities after the reception of COVID shots.

In a release about recent meetings held by the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC), the EMA said that "The PRAC is assessing reported cases of heavy menstrual bleeding (heavy periods) and absence of menstruation (amenorrhea) with the COVID-19 vaccines Comirnaty [manufactured by Pfizer] and Spikevax [manufactured by Moderna]."

"The Committee had previously analyzed reports of menstrual (period) disorders in the context of the safety summary reports for COVID-19 vaccines approved in the EU and concluded at the time that the evidence did not support a causal link between these vaccines and menstrual disorders.

"In view of spontaneous reports of menstrual disorders with both vaccines and of findings from the literature, the PRAC decided to further assess occurrences of heavy periods or amenorrhea following vaccination," the EMA explained.

"After reviewing the available evidence, the PRAC decided to request an in-depth evaluation of all available data, including reports from spontaneous reporting systems, clinical trials and the published literature."

The EMA added that "it is not yet clear whether there is a causal link between the COVID-19 vaccines and the reports of heavy periods or amenorrhea. There is also no evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines affect fertility."

In June, Kan News cited an increasing number of reports of menstrual irregularities among Israeli women following the COVID shot, including cases of earlier and later-than-usual periods, heavy bleeding, and periods occurring after menopause - including the case of a 92-year-old woman who received a period after the shot.

The health ministry told Kan News at the time that the mechanism for the phenomenon was unknown, and that they had still not proven a causal link between the shot and menstrual irregularities.

Oh poor Atlantic why don’t you pity yourself some more.

This is why you shouldn’t scare the hell out of people

What the hell did they think would happen when they decided to scare the hell out of the population rather than let us make decisions about risk? This is a symptom of this society’s rabid obsession with safety and controlling everything. I wonder how this will impact the next time something starts making people sick.

The real victim are the kids who have had to live through this cluster. I really can’t figure out why people wear masks that do absolutely nothing. I get the psychological component but at least in my neck of the woods the vast majority of people I see out and about are over the mask bullshit. And yet the morons at our school board are still requiring masks at my kids school. The perception of pretending to care for the kids isn’t doing them any favors.

In a way I don’t mind that masks show me who the idiots are and people who would rat out their neighbors. They are the people walking around alone in my neighborhood wearing masks or the geniuses driving alone in their car with a mask on. They are the people who would ban all the dangerous things for the illusion of safety. I know societies will always have these idiots but I do take some encouragement from the fact that I am seeing less and less of these morons out in public every single day.

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And that was almost a month ago; imagine the psychosis these idiots are wallowing in as spring approaches. I LOVE walking around maskless and without even the slightest bit of trepidation while seeing these MORONS sucking in their own CO2.

For those of you who had Covid, how long did symptoms last? I’ve had it for about 10 days now and I still feel like crap.

Not the worst I’ve ever felt, but not great either.

It was close to a month for me dealing with mild symptoms. My taste and smell still aren't completely back. It's been almost two months from the start.

Still no taste or smell. Still a bit of a cough. Been 45 days

I had it in Oct 2020. I didn't have any chest issues at all, fatigue took about ten days to resolve, it was prolly eight weeks before taste and smell were more or less back to normal.

Had it over this past Thanksgiving. After 2 weeks the virus was no longer detectable but the Covid-cough lasted another 10 days or so. Sense of smell and taste came back intermittently at first but seems to be back to normal. Pretty much mirrored flu with a longer reduction of symptoms period.

Steve Kirsch on Charlie Kirk Show

Got Omicron 37 days ago. Not vaccinated, not boosted. Having lived through the Swine Flu fiasco, My wife and I decided early on that we were not getting a rushed and experimental drug.

The bad symptoms (headache, fatigue, sinus pressure) lasted about 6 days. They came back intermittently, but were nothing like the original symptoms.

Lost all taste for about 5 days, then got the super-salt-taste symptom.

Cough came on about 14 days in and I'm still coughing. Takes a LONG time for the cough to disappear, I think. Sinus drainage sucks.

As for taste, it's intermittent, too. I have maybe 30% of my normal taste, but some days I get the super-salt-taste (SST) thing again.

That said, VERY glad to have gotten off so easy and contracted the Omnicron variant.

Rucker, when you are referencing the "super-salt" taste - is it really like salt or more like the iron in your blood you taste when you bite your tongue or lip?

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
Rucker, when you are referencing the "super-salt" taste - is it really like salt or more like the iron in your blood you taste when you bite your tongue or lip?

Good question and I had to think about it. It’s more salty than metallic. I had a super-salt taste problem about 4 years ago with a form of chemotherapy. This is pretty similar. And I’m not on chemo now.

Interesting how varied the symptoms are, and how long they last for different people.


I started out with aches, 102 fever, cough, and sore throat.


Now I have a very minor cough, not a real issue, but my fever comes and goes. I might be 97.5 during the day but I’ll wake up with 101 in the middle of the night.


I’m pretty sure I had swine flu, which was worse than Covid *for me*, but this fever that keeps hanging around is a new experience.


I feel better today, but I’m on day 10-12 so I would think getting better would be right around the corner. At least I hope and pray it is.



I’m not vaccinated, and I took HCQ, ivermectin, and all the normal vitamins. I’m not sure they worked for me, but they seem to work for a lot of people.


I haven’t lost my taste or smell, but oddly Diet Pepsi tastes off to me now. Nothing else really tastes any different but Diet Pepsi has a strange flavor.

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Originally posted by TheNewbie:
Interesting how varied the symptoms are, and how long they last for different people.


I started out with aches, 102 fever, cough, and sore throat.


Now I have a very minor cough, not a real issue, but my fever comes and goes. I might be 97.5 during the day but I’ll wake up with 101 in the middle of the night.


I’m pretty sure I had swine flu, which was worse than Covid *for me*, but this fever that keeps hanging around is a new experience.


I feel better today, but I’m on day 10-12 so I would think getting better would be right around the corner. At least I hope and pray it is.



I’m not vaccinated, and I took HCQ, ivermectin, and all the normal vitamins. I’m not sure they worked for me, but they seem to work for a lot of people.


I haven’t lost my taste or smell, but oddly Diet Pepsi tastes off to me now. Nothing else really tastes any different but Diet Pepsi has a strange flavor.

I had a similar experience. Was sick with cough, sore throat, low grade fever/chills (chills during day, fever around 100-101 at night), and massive muscular fatigue for about 4 days. Got better for two days and then all symptoms came back again for about 5 days. Now going on week 4 since testing and symptoms, still have annoying cough and occasional night sweats and chills (those seem to be getting better, occurring less and less). I never lost my sense of smell or taste.