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Originally posted by PASig:
A large majority of the young-20’s employees (Gen Z?) at my work are back to wearing masks.

I really don’t get it? What happened to the younger generation being the rebels and questioning authority? This latest generation are a bunch of mindless drones it appears.

Blame the device in their hands. For many of them, it’s not a tool, it’s a combination appendage and god. Their lives literally revolve around them.

SOMA for the masses.

Scared what Florida will find you piece of shit?


https://thehill.com/policy/hea...ccine-investigation/

Fauci responds to DeSantis’s call for COVID-19 vaccine investigation
BY JULIA MUELLER - 12/14/22 8:34 PM ET

Outgoing White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that he “doesn’t have a clue” what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hopes to accomplish by calling for a state grand jury investigation into alleged “crimes” related to COVID-19 vaccines.

“I don’t have a clue … what he’s asking for. I mean, we have a vaccine that, unequivocally, is highly effective and safe and has saved literally millions of lives,” Fauci, who is also the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told CNN’s Kate Bolduc.


DeSantis on Tuesday announced his office had petitioned for a grand jury investigation into alleged “crimes and wrongdoing” against Floridians “related to the development, promotion and distribution” of the COVID-19 vaccines.

The governor also shared plans to establish Public Health Integrity Committee due to distrust of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), saying “anything they put out, you just assume, at this point, that it’s not worth the paper that it’s printed on.”

Fauci on CNN cited recently released research by the Commonwealth Fund, which found that COVID-19 vaccines from biotech companies Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson collectively saved over 3.2 million American lives and averted more than 18.5 million hospitalizations in two years of the pandemic.

“So what’s the problem with vaccines? I mean, vaccines are life-saving. So, quite frankly … I’m not sure what they’re trying to do down there,” he said.

“It has been politicized and it has been politicized in a way that has actually cost lives,” Fauci added of the vaccine, calling the COVID-19 virus the “common enemy” that Americans should unite around regardless of party, and in spite of mis- and disinformation.

“We’re all in this together. We’re all human beings and we’re all susceptible to disease that can kill us. … When people’s lives are being lost about this, maybe that’ll shake people up enough to realize that we’ve got to start pulling together and not against each other,” Fauci said.


Fauci is stepping away from his government roles this month to pursue the “next chapter” in his career — but that hasn’t stopped top GOP lawmakers from vowing to investigate Fauci over the U.S.’s COVID-19 response.

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Republicans have shared plans to probe the origins of the virus and subpoena the NIAID official when they take control of the House in the next Congress.

Fauci back in August dismissed suggestions that the Republican threats influenced his decision to step away from government.


“I have nothing to hide at all, despite the accusations that I’m hiding something. I have nothing that I could not explain clearly to the country and justify,” Fauci told The Hill last month.

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“So what’s the problem with vaccines?

Well, firstly, it's not at all a vaccine. Not in any sense of the word. So we can start there, you little weaselly shit.

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Fauci on CNN cited recently released research by the Commonwealth Fund, which found that COVID-19 vaccines from biotech companies Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson collectively saved over 3.2 million American lives and averted more than 18.5 million hospitalizations in two years of the pandemic.

That is one BS loaded study. They are literally making stuff up - again....

El Gato Malo spots the BS

Reason # 789 that my children will continue to be homeschooled and will NEVER see the inside of a public school:

Oh boy! It’s “flatten the curve” time in all the leftist controlled paradise zones! Just when we were all hoping they would be moving on to another way to divide everyone…

Why not now? Do they expect their sycophants to believe Covid observes the Christmas holidays?

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Originally posted by PASig:
Reason # 789 that my children will continue to be homeschooled and will NEVER see the inside of a public school:

If you do a good job homeschooling they will be way ahead... but don't send them to an 'elite' college:

Body and Soul at Yale

Elite institution more than doubles per head revenue by trafficking students' bodies for COVID aid

This past week, Yale University got called out by one of its own for TRAFFICKING the bodies and-- potentially--souls of its own student population in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in Federal Covid largesse.

According to Dr. Naomi Wolf, herself an alum, and intelligence analyst Brian O’Shea, Yale has received $9 billion dollars from US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) since 1998, with $1.7 billion awarded since the start of the Pandemic, $607 million in 2022 alone, and an additional $3.4 million earmarked for "Covid Protocols."

These protocols apparently require all students (but not faculty or staff) to receive the bivalent COVID booster by January 31st, 2023, regardless of previous boosters taken.

This despite a sketchy testing history, and evidence that the shots do not prevent infection or transmission, and exhibit a concerning risk profile for this age group. Doesn’t matter, the administration says.

Get jabbed—again— or don’t come back.

Wolf alleges that Yale is abusing its position as gatekeeper to its students' futures to more than double its per student revenue—tuition brings in $475 million annually— by doing the government's bidding. She has called for shareholder activism from alumni, and is considering legal action against Yale under federal and state HUMAN TRAFFICKING statutes.

https://malwords.substack.com/p/body-and-soul-at-yale

Never thought I’d see one of the anointed networks admitting the truth- well, in a round about way anyway. NATURAL immunity is an effective way to get through severe Covid infection, or avoid it altogether. Basically, it’s an admission that the best way to attain herd immunity is by going about your business, not shutting everything down and sheltering in place. Because all colds are caused by coronaviruses, even if genetically different, they seem to increase immunity. Imagine that!

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/...-covid-outcomes.html

Spending more time with your kids, grandkids—and their germs—may lower risk of a severe outcome from Covid-19, recent studies show

Let's face it: The kids in your life tend to get sick pretty frequently — which means you do, too — and that may have you especially worried this winter as Americans across the country face a "tripledemic" of flu, RSV and Covid-19.

But on the bright side, for parents, guardians and other people who interact with smaller children (and their germs) often, contracting an illness like the common cold could actually help strengthen your immune system against severe outcomes from Covid-19 infection.

That's according to two studies that were published in August and November of this year, which researched how exposure to younger kids and common colds may impact outcomes for adults after contracting Covid-19.

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in August, discovered an association between people who were exposed to young children and lower risk of severe illness from Covid-19.

Scientists involved in the study predict that cross-immunity from previous exposure to more common coronaviruses – that are often found in children and can present as cold-like symptoms – could be providing protection against severe outcomes from Covid-19.

Data of over 3 million adults who sought outpatient care at Kaiser Permanente Northern California was collected and analyzed. And researchers compared the severity of outcomes from Covid-19 for people without children and people with children in three different age ranges: 0-5, 6-11 and 12-18.

While adults with children had higher rates of Covid-19 infection than those without kids, adults without exposure to children had "significantly higher rates of COVID-19 hospitalization and hospitalization requiring ICU admission, compared to those with children aged 0–5," the study says.

In fact, compared to people with young children, "those without identifiable household exposure to children based on health insurance enrollment had a 27% higher rate of COVID-19 hospitalization and a 49% higher rate of COVID-19 hospitalization requiring ICU admission," the study found.

The November study, also published in PNAS, examined the relationship between recent exposure to common-cold coronaviruses and likelihood of being infected by SARS-CoV-2, more commonly referred to as Covid-19.

The findings showed that chances of Veteran Affairs patients contracting Covid-19 decreased by 80% to 90% if they tested positive for any of the common coronaviruses between February 2020 and February 2021.

For context, four coronaviruses can cause the common cold, according to the CDC.

Infection from two of the common-cold coronaviruses were associated with a reduced risk of infection from Covid-19 among the study's participants, if they developed either common-cold virus within the past year.

This means developing a common cold may shield people from Covid-19 infection, even if for a short period Time.

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Never thought I’d see one of the anointed networks admitting the truth- well, in a round about way anyway. NATURAL immunity is an effective way to get through severe Covid infection, or avoid it altogether. Basically, it’s an admission that the best way to attain herd immunity is by going about your business, not shutting everything down and sheltering in place.

Yes, it is what we should have done from the start, but this would take courage on the part of both the authorities calling the shots, as well as the people of this nation.

Instead, what most people did was to accept without question the propaganda and outright wrong information being fed to them, so we cowered in our homes.

And now they're starting up again with this useless mask horse shit. Sane, intelligent people learn from their mistakes and adjust their behaviors accordingly, but we have jackass fools like the CDC and the NIH who are deaf, blind and bought-off.

I was in the post office the other day in very liberal Howard County, Maryland with about 20 other people and only the PO worker and one other person had a mask on so maybe there is hope yet.

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in very liberal Howard County, Maryland

My wife grew up near Ellicott City, in western Howard County. It used to be a really great place.

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...so maybe there is hope yet.

Go to an airport now, and your feelings of hope will likely diminish.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by VANQUISH:
...so maybe there is hope yet.

Go to an airport now, and your feelings of hope will likely diminish.

In the last month I've been in 3 airports and in general the only people I saw wearing masks were Hawaiian Airlines flight attendants. Pretty much everybody else was without masks.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by VANQUISH:
...so maybe there is hope yet.

Go to an airport now, and your feelings of hope will likely diminish.

Flew to Scottsdale last month, there were not hoards of Mask covered people, in fact there were few at all. Then again it was a Florida to AZ non stop flight....

Well, I'm seeing 15-20% of people in airports and planes wearing masks. I'm not talking about hoards here but enough to be noticeable. The only time it bothers me enough to get angry is when I see very young children being forced by their dimwitted parents to wear a mask.

The leftist assholes are STILL pushing to get the poison injected into children, despite their admitting that children are far less susceptible to severe disease, and indications that as high as 90% have already gotten the wuflu and “survived” it- an extremely high percent of whom display antibodies against the bug. An intelligent (or honest) person would look at the situation and say “kids are healthier and don’t need this shit”, but they’re back on the “we need to push the poison” kick regardless. If there’s any silver lining here, it’s the continuing abysmally low uptake of their poison injections into children by parents (including leftist supporting retards).

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/ne...s-cdc-estimates/#app

More than 9 in 10 kids have survived at least one bout with COVID, the CDC estimates

More than 90% of children in the U.S. have survived at least one infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, based on data collected from commercial laboratories around the country through October.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new "seroprevalence" estimates, published Thursday, look at whether people have detectable antibodies in their blood from at least one prior COVID-19 case. They could still be at risk of reinfection from the new variants circulating this winter.

"The estimates do not necessarily show how many people have enough antibodies to protect them against reinfection, severe outcomes, and/or COVID-19-related complications," the CDC says.

Since 2020, the federal government has been producing these estimates based on sampling blood that commercial laboratories collect for reasons other than COVID-19, like routine check-ups.

Measurements of prior infection among children have far outpaced adults over the course of the pandemic, in the CDC's figures.

The CDC estimated earlier this year that still less than half of adults had infection-induced antibodies through March, the latest data for which the CDC has estimates for this age group. By contrast, the CDC had already tallied 75% of children with antibodies through February.

A more recent estimate for adults through June is planned soon, a CDC spokesperson said, with additional updates planned "approximately every 3 months after that."

White House brings back free at-home COVID test orders as part of "winter preparedness plan"
Among the states with reported data, Hawaii is the only state under 80% seroprevalence in children. Many states are estimated at or above 90%.

Nationwide, all of the age groups broken out by the agency show upwards of 8 in 10 children having had COVID-19 at least once. Kids 5 to 11 years old have the highest seroprevalence rate, at 92.1%.

The new figures come as the Biden administration has struggled to persuade families to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19, despite evidence that the shots are safe for kids and can reduce the odds of children facing severe illness or spreading it to others.

Less than half of children under 12 years old and under two-thirds of teens have finished their primary series COVID-19 vaccinations, according to CDC figures. A small fraction have received their updated COVID booster.

Data published this week from the CDC's National Immunization Survey suggest vaccine hesitancy is continuing to grow among families.

Among children under 5 years old, where vaccination coverage is lowest, the agency now estimates that nearly half of parents "probably or definitely" will not get their kids vaccinated.

Uptake of the COVID shots is far lower than the annual flu shot; the CDC estimates 42.5% of children had gotten a flu shot through the end of last month. That is on par with previous years, which typically reach around 60% vaccination by the end of the season.

The agency also published new data on Thursday warning that children could be at risk of rare but serious co-infections of COVID-19 and influenza, as infections of the two viruses have increased in some parts of the country.

Last season, when the U.S. saw a relatively small wave of flu hospitalizations, the agency tallied 6% of hospitalized pediatric flu patients co-infected with SARS-CoV-2. About 16% of flu deaths in kids last season had a co-infection.

The findings underscore that "influenza and SARS-CoV-2 coinfections occur in pediatric patients and that coinfection can potentially cause more severe illness," the study's authors wrote.

"The public should adopt prevention strategies, including influenza and COVID-19 vaccination, and consider mask use during high respiratory virus circulation," they said.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
It took 2 years and 9 months, but Rona finally hit us.

I hope it hasn't hit you badly and that you all feel better soon.

Luckily it’s been like a really bad cold for us. We are not over it but close. I guess it worked out for us getting it at the same time with mild symptoms instead of one right after another going into the holidays. This new version seems to be really easy to get seeing how we both made it so long and got it now.

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Luckily it’s been like a really bad cold for us........This new version seems to be really easy to get

That's generally how these things evolve.

Easier to spread, less likely to cause serious illness.

We did all we could to catch 'rona recently. We took a cruise to Mexico, walked around a number of ports, flew to and from SFO. Yep, a few days after we returned, we both woke up with bad sore throats and cold like symptoms. I probably had the worse sore throat of my life but not bad enough that I couldn't knock down a cheeseburger. We both tested positive.

5 days later, we were fine and tested negative and on our merry way. No big deal.

Incidentally, we both had donated blood at One Blood shortly after all the panic started. At the time, they tested for the Covid antibodies. Both my wife and I tested positive on each of two donations 60 days apart. Since we are retired, we were not forced to get the fake vaccines - and didn't.

Mike