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Originally posted by gearhounds:
And yet, like all the dishonest trash that insist that they’re glad they were “vaccinated” or else their symptoms would be SO much worse, they continue to tout the benefits of a “vaccine” that isn’t a vaccine.

This is now a pandemic of the vaccinated, and we are not out of the woods by a long shot.

Just as we were informed in the very early days of the vaccine rollout, by numerous eminently qualified experts in relevant fields, mass use of a non-sterilizing vaccine in a pandemic, and the use of mRNA technology, has led to wave after wave of new variants. Those who are vaccinated are the factories creating the new variants and spreading them around. Some new variants evade immunity in the un-vaccinated too, putting the entire population at risk.

So far the newer variants have been generally less lethal than preceding variants, but that is not guaranteed into the future. The data out of the UK can be very good, and it consistently shows a high % of the population actively infected at any particular moment.

I don't know the road out of this mess, but I expect it will first require the jabs be halted. After that?

Back in November I asked:

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I know the FAA regulates pilot licenses, and medical conditions can preclude you from having a license.

What will happen if it is ever determined that these vaccines are causing these issues? Will the FAA prohibit the vaccinated from flying? And if so, seeing so many carriers required it what will happen to the airlines?

And now we know the answer. The government will ignore the problem and change the rules putting the public at greater risk.

I suppose a heart attack induced plane crash can just be labeled "pilot error".

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
The government will ignore the problem and change the rules putting the public at greater risk.

It's in the Democrat Book of Rules. If you are losing, move the goalposts.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
Back in November I asked:

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I know the FAA regulates pilot licenses, and medical conditions can preclude you from having a license.

What will happen if it is ever determined that these vaccines are causing these issues? Will the FAA prohibit the vaccinated from flying? And if so, seeing so many carriers required it what will happen to the airlines?

And now we know the answer. The government will ignore the problem and change the rules putting the public at greater risk.

I suppose a heart attack induced plane crash can just be labeled "pilot error".

In the case of a small airplane single private pilot event, it might be known the pilot died or had a serious cardiac/stroke event prior to the crash. But just like all the athletes having cardiac events now, it will be framed as a random event not related to anything.

In the case of airlines or corporate operations, there will be 2 pilots on board so there will not be a crash. While I would describe such an event as the flight being in an "undesirable state", with a less than optimal safety margin, pilots are trained to deal with an incapacitated crew member.

Probably some events will make the news but generally I expect the powers that be will do their best to ignore it, and will attribute it to other causes.

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Probably some events will make the news but generally I expect the powers that be will do their best to ignore it, and will attribute it to other causes.

Yep.

I'm not real optimistic that anyone in any of these 3-letter agencies will be held accountable.
They hide behind a bureaucratic wall of anonymity and they just retire when they get a little too close to the heat.

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Originally posted by sdy:
terrible story from Canada

https://hotair.com/david-strom...aring-a-mask-n524001

Easily one of the worst stories I’ve read

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
I suppose a heart attack induced plane crash can just be labeled "pilot error".

It likely will be accurately labeled as pilot error. They just won’t admit that the pilot’s error was taking the vaccine.

The FAA has a duty to promote aviation and protect the public. There is potential for conflict in these two mandates. If one were to accept the proposition that the jab truly makes one unsafe to fly, the impact on the system would be catastrophic. That is without even considering the political impact of admitting that this jab that the government pushed hurt people. I’d guess either of those impacts is more than plenty to push the management at the FAA to do everything that they can to sweep any potential vaccine issues under the rug.

In a different vein, pilots have been incapacitated in flight since long before Covid or vaccines. There are at least a few stories (and even some videos) of passengers getting Part 91 flights back on the ground after their pilot was incapacitated. In the Part 121 (scheduled airline) world, there are (at least) two qualified pilots in the cockpit. The theory is that either can safely get the airplane on the ground if something happens to the other. Yes, there is a lot more benefit than just that, but that is a consideration. I’m sure that this has happened, before Covid and since, but it doesn’t seem to get as much press for some reason. If the jabs injure pilots, it is probably possible that both pilots could be incapacitated, but I’d imagine that the odds are vanishingly low.

Heck, if one said, “To heck with it, we are not going to allow vaccinated pilots to fly Part 121 anymore.” It would cause a huge pilot shortage. Either a whole lot of flights wouldn’t happen, a lot of experienced, qualified pilots would have to be rapidly replaced with newly qualified, likely much less experienced pilots, or both. It is possible that this approach would make commercial air travel less safe than rolling the dice on the jabbed pilots’ health.

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The FAA has a duty to promote aviation and protect the public.

They generally do a very good job at protecting the public. The rules and regulations are not always the most logical way to solve particular issues, but for the most part they have framed the landscape for safe operations.

One big exception was the response to 9/11, which was very highly politicized (though not polarized). A lot was done that did not in any way improve safety, and much was not done or was done slowly which could have improved safety. Career gov't employees were very careful not to put their careers on the line. Better to do nothing than make a mistake.

And that was what happened with Covid and the jabs (imho). Better to be one of the herd than to stand out and potentially get your career hurt.

DeSantis is really making the plandemic people mad. Imagine if other states started looking at Florida’s successes against the leftist machine and follow suit.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...id-vaccine-masks.amp

DeSantis calls out 'biomedical security state,' seeks to permanently ban mandates on COVID-19 vaccine, masks

Gov. Ron DeSantis says he's seeking to protect Florida from the "biomedical security state," by permanently banning COVID-19 vaccines and masks.

"It required us over the past few years to stand against major institutions in our society: The bureaucracy, the medical establishment, legacy media and even the President of the United States who, together, were working to impose a biomedical security state on society." DeSantis said while speaking at the Todd Herendeen Theater in Panama City Beach.

If approved by lawmakers, DeSantis' efforts will permanently restrict the COVID-19 vaccine mandates and mask rules in schools and prevents public and private employers from hiring and firing individuals based on their vaccine status.

"When the world lost its mind, Florida was a refuge of sanity, serving strongly as freedom's linchpin," DeSantis said. "These measures will ensure Florida remains this way and will provide landmark protections for free speech for medical practitioners."

U.S. Rep. Neal Dunn, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis and Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo joined DeSantis at the press conference in Florida's panhandle which also featured comments from a number of people who shared their sentiments.

DeSantis asserted that those under 40 who get booster shots are more at risk from boosters than they are from COVID-19, while doctor's related stories of adverse reactions that they attribute to the vaccine.

"This is the first time in history where we are using this technology widely in human beings," Florida's Surgeon General Ladapo said, referring to the mRNA vaccines. "You’re telling people to put it in children, and you’ve never even shown the children to gain from it in terms of an actual help. That’s the land of crazy. Florida is the land of sanity."

DeSantis said part of the protections the state will enact include forbidding any mandatory masking in the state and allow medical practitioners the ability to "speak the truth" and to "choose evidence over narrative."

DeSantis outlined policies that he said will:

Permanently prohibit COVID-19 mask requirements throughout Florida
Permanently prohibit COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirement in all schools
Permanently prohibit COVID-19 vaccine passports in Florida
Permanently prohibit employers from hiring or firing based on MRNA vaccines

The governor also shared that these policies will protect medical freedom of speech including:

Protect medical professionals' freedom of speech
Protect the right to disagree with the preferred narrative of the medical community
Protect the religious views of medical professionals

Previous COVID-19-related policies that were approved by the Florida Legislature in 2021 are set to expire on July 1, 2023, DeSantis' hopes to enshrine the COVID-19 vaccine and mask protections for the future.

"We need to lead with this by making all of these protections permanent in Florida statute, which we're going to do in the upcoming legislative session," DeSantis said.

Following DeSantis' press conference, House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell promptly called a press conference stating that Governor DeSantis and his administration was "the No. 1 peddler of misinformation from the anti-vax establishment."

Driskell noted that DeSantis was a champion for the Covid-19 vaccine when it first became available, and that only roughly one-third of Florida nursing home residents are up-to-date on their vaccination status.

Driskell emphasized that "no one ever promised total immunity, but those vaccines do lessen the chance of infection, and they increase the likelihood of a milder case if you do get sick."

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https://www.foxnews.com/politi...id-vaccine-masks.amp
Driskell noted that DeSantis was a champion for the Covid-19 vaccine when it first became available, and that only roughly one-third of Florida nursing home residents are up-to-date on their vaccination status.

Driskell emphasized that "no one ever promised total immunity, but those vaccines do lessen the chance of infection, and they increase the likelihood of a milder case if you do get sick."

In the beginning people were scared and they looked to the drug companies and the Government to do something.
When the vaccine was first rolled out, my original assumption was that is was only for the people who were at most risk.
Government officials were in favor of the vaccine at first for the reasons above and trusted the drug companies.


As time went on, all of a sudden, the vaccine was for everyone who wanted it and people did get it however a lot of people were skeptical, I know I was.
People wanted to wait because no one was talking about the side effects of a drug that was produces in record time.

This did not sit well with the Federal Government and next thing we know there are people pushing the mandatory requirement to get the vaccine.

Thank god our Governor did not cave in and follow suite with the Federal Government. He gave people a choice and kept our state open when other were placing restrictions on what could open and what could not, this included our schools.


As far as immunity, I remember the statements "It's safe and effective" and "if you get the vaccine you can get virus or you can't give the virus to anyone" coming form our goverment officials when the vaccine came out, boy did those statements change.
I know people who have their vaccine and multiple boosters who have been sick enough to end up in the hospital.

The left did not like it when all of a sudden conservatives were using the line "my body my choice" when it came to the vaccine and this is always what it should have been about.

I had Covid bad back in the summer of 2021. I was in the hospital for about a week with Covid, my wife ended up with what amounted to a cold from Covid.
When I got out I told my wife the first thin we needed to do was get the vaccine as soon as we were able. I had no interest in getting the vaccine in the past up till the point when I got sick. Thank god my Dr told me we had to wait 90 days before we could get the shot. In that time frame the Covid fog my brain was in cleared and we decide not to get the vaccine. Since then the amount of information about natural immunity and the side effects of the vaccine have grown quite a bit.

I have always said if you want to get the vaccine and or put a mask have on have at it, I won't criticize you and I would expect the same from you in regard to my choices.

More, from Florida:

Governor DeSantis announced a package of proposed legislation captioned, “Permanent Protections Against the COVID-19 Biomedical Security State.”

Most of the existing Florida laws related to individual rights against the various covid mandates were set to expire this year. Back in 2021, nobody — except a few of us conspiracy theorists — believed we would still be dealing with mask mandates two years later. But here we are.

In fact, local mega-hospital chain and University of Florida-affiliate Shands Healthcare just reimposed a network-wide mask mandate, as a “private employer.”

According to the Governor, Florida intends, not just to extend the laws, but to make the existing protections permanent, and add some new ones.

Here is the flyer for the Governor’s new legislative package: (too big,follow link)

Under the new laws, employers may not discriminate against employees based on their jab status, nor can masks be required outside industrial settings where necessary to protect employees apart from covid. In his announcement, Governor DeSantis called mask mandates “insane and irrational.” That shows you how far we’ve come.

The new package of laws will also provide the strongest speech protections for doctors in America — the opposite of California, which was roundly mocked during the press event. At one point, DeSantis emphasized “they were wrong about lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures, mRNA shots, and passports.”

What else is there?

Amusingly, I don’t think the Governor used the “v” word a single time, preferring instead “shots,” “jabs,” and “injections.” When Surgeon General Joe Ladapo spoke, he stressed that, despite what many public health official have claimed, mRNA is a brand new technology. Giving it to kids “is the land of crazy, and Florida is the land of sanity,” Ladapo said. “We’re going to keep it that way.”

I’m sure you’ll be gratified to hear that Governor DeSantis agrees with us (and the facts), and repeatedly noted that people are MORE likely to get infected WITH the new bivalent booster than without it:
Ron DeSantis says "almost every study" found those who receive the booster are "more likely" to get infected with COVID-19

"I don't even think China imposes [travel vaccine mandate] anymore!"
https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNew...OtenmChOt3jt3AYjwJ_w

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The drumbeat on the excess deaths problem is becoming deafening. On Monday, former Blackrock executive Ed Dowd told Steve Bannon that insiders say a “narrative shift” on sudden deaths is coming from the White House:

Dowd said the disability data and the spike in deaths in working-age Americans (read: subject to mandates) is getting too big to hide, and White House staff is currently debating announcing an “epidemic” of sudden death, blaming, wait for it, long covid and the horrors of climate change. That’s not a joke.

I don’t know if it’s true, and I don’t usually run rumors, but Ed’s claim nicely tees up the phenomenon coalescing since New Year’s.

The Wall Street Journal dipped a timid toe into the excess deaths whirlpool last week, running an op-ed headlined, “How Deadly Were the Covid Lockdowns?” The sub-headline further explained “For Americans under 45, there were more excess deaths without the virus in 2020-21 than with it.”

Without mentioning the most obvious suspect — the one new thing that 70%+ of Americans have in common — the authors expressed concern over the rising rates of U.S. deaths over the baseline through 2022 — not just higher this year than in 2020-21, but MUCH higher, and which keep on floating upwards. Most alarmingly, and consistent with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s goofy notice that for some reason there are fewer employees competing for jobs, deaths are highest among working-age Americans (18-44):

The CDC data show the rate of non-Covid excess deaths in the first half of 2022 was even higher than 2020 or 2021. These deaths therefore likely already exceed 250,000, disproportionately among young adults. We are witnessing multiple healthcare emergencies, but resources and attention are still directed toward Covid. Non-Covid excess deaths have shown no signs of diminishing, at least through mid-2022.

Multiple healthcare emergencies. And nobody is looking into it.

It’s pin the blame on the covid donkey! At least they’re starting to pin the blame on the jackass experts where it undoubtedly belongs:

No time is too soon to acknowledge and begin to alleviate the collateral damage from Covid policies.

Well. “Now” is too soon, apparently. Not surprisingly, the highest cohort of excess deaths — even with the CDC constantly fiddling with its figures and “upgrading” the software — was due to strokes and heart attacks (i.e., AT HOME), as reported in the authors’ linked study:

Hypertension and heart disease deaths combined were elevated 32,000. Some of these appear to be heart attacks suffered at home without visiting a hospital. Diabetes or obesity, drug poisoning, and alcohol-induced causes were each elevated 12,000 to 15,000 above previous (upward) trends. Homicide and motor-vehicle fatalities combined were elevated almost 10 000.

I believe that a threshold case for negligent homicide could now be brought against public health officials at all levels of government.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...ack&utm_medium=email

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@TexasLindsay_
Tucker covers @StKirsch’s bombshell finding about the FAA loosening its EKG range for pilots while offering no explanation as to why to the public. Guest: @LTCTheresaLong

https://twitter.com/TexasLinds.../1615533566737420290

Also, Steve Kirsch on The Jimmy Dore Show:

Pfizer, Fauci staffers sign off on research finding mRNA COVID vaccines produce worse antibodies

Second study in a month to find "class switch" to so-called IgG4 antibodies, known for their mild immune response, in mRNA recipients alone. Future of Johnson & Johnson's traditional vaccine unclear as demand craters.

https://justthenews.com/politi..._campaign=newsletter

Less than a month after the CDC marked the two-year anniversary of the first administered COVID-19 vaccine by telling Americans to get a bivalent booster, two peer-reviewed German studies have found that mRNA vaccines — the vast majority of the U.S. market — induce worse antibodies compared to traditional adenovirus vaccines.

The first paper, published in Science Immunology Dec. 22, focused on mRNA boosters, while the second, published in Frontiers in Immunology Jan. 12, found the same association with the two-dose primary series.

The Frontiers paper has the added distinction of a Pfizer scientist serving as its editor and one of Anthony Fauci's staffers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as a peer reviewer, suggesting the mRNA vaccine maker and feds were aware of a potential antibody problem around the time Omicron-targeting boosters were authorized.

The findings call into question the government's promotion of bivalent boosting even while regulators admit that newer COVID variants are evading vaccines.

New York City's Department of Health told residents Friday the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant now comprises three-quarters of documented COVID infections in the city.

It is "the most transmissible form of COVID-19 that we know of to date and may be more likely to infect people who have been vaccinated or already had COVID-19," the department tweeted. It didn't answer Just the News queries about the evidence for its claims about vaccination or prior infection.

The CDC said XBB.1.5 accounted for 43% of documented infections nationwide last week, with under 3% from BA.5, which is part of the bivalent cocktail. University of Tokyo virologists shared research Sunday that found XBB.1.5 exhibits "profound immune resistance" and "augmented ACE2 binding affinity," and hence "increased transmissibility," due to specific mutations.

While the World Health Organization deemed XBB variants "the most antibody-resistant variants to date" in a "rapid risk assessment" last week, it said XBB.1.5 specifically "does not carry any mutation known to be associated with potential change in severity."

The University of Lübeck researchers behind the Frontiers study confirmed the so-called IgG4 antibody "class switch" first observed by their peers at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg among healthcare workers in the Science Immunology paper, which was submitted 11 days earlier in August.

The Lübeck researchers recruited 157 people starting in December 2020 and split them into six groups, five of which had no known prior infection.

The first five received either two doses of Pfizer, Moderna or traditional AstraZeneca, or one dose of AstraZeneca followed by either a Pfizer or Moderna dose. The sixth group — infected but not hospitalized — received one or two Pfizer doses.

"[R]epeated immunization of [uninfected] individuals with the mRNA vaccines increased the proportion of the IgG4 subclass over time which might influence the long-term Ab [antibody] effector functions," according to the paper.

IgG4 is known for a mild immune response that "can even inhibit the effector functions of IgG1 and IgG3" antibodies, the researchers said. (Elsevier's ScienceDirect says IgG1 accounts for about 70% of total antibodies in adults, while IgG3 "mediates comparable functional activity.")

The groups that received any Moderna dose, whether a full primary series or just second dose, had a "higher potential to generate" long-term IgG4 responses compared to those who received any Pfizer dose, the paper says, speculating the higher mRNA concentration in Moderna might explain this.

Researchers didn't find a long-term IgG4 response in those who received two doses of AstraZeneca, the non-mRNA vaccine. (The study period was 270 days.)

The sixth group, with documented prior infection, which received the Pfizer vaccine, had "comparable long-term IgG subclass levels when compared to" uninfected Pfizer recipients, but "their IgG4 response seemed not to be or barely induced," the paper says. This result was "likely generated by re-activation" of memory B cells induced by natural infection.

"If I were to choose between mRNA vaccines and adeno-vaccines based on these data alone, I would choose adeno-vaccine," University of Southern Denmark global health professor Christine Stabell Benn tweeted. She coauthored a paper last year finding that Pfizer and Moderna vaccines didn't reduce all-cause mortality, but it has not been published yet.

Pfizer and NIAID did not respond to Just the News queries on when they knew mRNA vaccines might induce a less effective antibody response, given their employees' involvement in editing and reviewing the Frontiers paper. Fauci stepped down as NIAID director at year's end, after his scientist completed peer review.

"The long-term impact of the switch to IgG4 antibodies is unclear," former New York Times drug industry reporter Alex Berenson wrote in his newsletter, which analyzed both IgG4 studies. "But nearly all the wealthy countries that heavily used the mRNA jabs continue to endure waves of Covid and significant numbers of deaths," particularly those with little prior infection such as Japan.

Without a stark change in across-the-board COVID vaccination policy, the U.S. stands to become even more heavily reliant on mRNA vaccines amid uncertainty over Johnson & Johnson's place in the market.

U.S. regulators crippled the reputation of J&J's traditional vaccine by recommending a "pause" to investigate a handful of blood clots in spring 2021. They did not repeat the pause when acknowledging heart inflammation reports in mRNA recipients that summer.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that "slumping demand" led J&J to end manufacturing agreements for its traditional vaccine. It's also in arbitration with Merck, whose vaccine partnership was created under pressure from the Biden administration.

J&J said it has hundreds of millions of doses it will continue to make available "where needed," but didn't tell the Journal whether it will keep making its vaccine, which does not purport to target newer variants. The only other traditional COVID vaccine maker, Novavax, received authorization just six months ago.

It seems like more and more media sites are getting behind the anti-government narrative over Covid. The question I have is whether or not this is genuine, or part of severing Biden from the democRAT party because the country as a whole DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS ASSHOLE OR GLOBALIST INTERFERENCE. In other words, damage control with 2024 in mind. An article in USA Today mildly attacked the administration directly, joining other outlets that even gently, rebuke Biden. When 2024 hopefuls begin openly attacking Biden, then we’ll know the reasons for certain. To me, it looks like the idiot has outlived his usefulness and the left is planning for the not too distant future.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...ust-end/11067826002/

From student loans to masks, why does Biden want to keep us in a perpetual 'emergency'? It’s long past time for Biden to end the national emergency and give up the tremendous powers that go along with it.

We’ve made it to 2023, nearly three years since the pandemic hit the United States in full force. The virus is less deadly, we have effective vaccines and life is pretty much back to normal for most of us.

If you’re President Joe Biden, however, the COVID-19 “emergency” is still front and center.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think Biden actually believes we are still in a state of emergency. He admitted as much in September when he declared the pandemic was “over.”

Yet the president and his administration have enjoyed the extra powers that have accompanied the national emergency declaration. And they are working hard to cling to this authority, which has granted the executive branch broader control over our lives.

While the country has been distracted with the classified documents that keep popping up in Biden’s office, garage (near his treasured Corvette) and home, the administration continues its crusade to convince the courts the country remains in a state of emergency.

Biden still obsessed with debt 'cancellation'

Here are two examples.

First, the Biden administration won't give up on its plan to “forgive” hundreds of billions of dollars of federal student loan debt. Biden did this through executive action – with the national emergency over COVID-19 as the rationale. Several courts have found that Biden's order is an unconstitutional overreach, and the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up two cases and plans to hear arguments next month.

While loan forgiveness is on hold, Biden hasn’t stopped meddling in student debt, separating personal responsibility from borrowing decisions. In November, the administration once again extended the pause on student repayments, even after saying repeatedly it wouldn’t do so.

And this month, it issued a proposed rule for income-driven loan repayments. If Biden gets his way with debt cancellation, along with these other measures, the cost to taxpayers will balloon to as much as $600 billion – debt that the country can’t afford.

The Education Department calls efforts to block the forgiveness “callous” and claims the legal fight has created “financial uncertainty” for borrowers.

If anyone has created uncertainty, it’s the Biden administration and its illegal actions.

Second, the administration was in court this week grappling to reinstate the federal mask mandate for airplanes and other transportation. That order was struck down in April by a federal judge in Florida to the relief of the airlines and most travelers.

Yet the Biden Justice Department is arguing that the administration does hold the authority to require masks in the name of public health and that it's an "important authority the Department will continue to work to preserve.”

I have a feeling many Americans would disagree. Unless you’re a student at Ann Arbor Public Schools in Michigan or visiting a doctor’s office, masks are no longer part of most Americans' daily lives. So why is the administration fighting for them?

It’s all about power.

End the emergency, already

The courts have already shot down other Biden emergency-related mandates, including COVID-19 vaccine requirements at private businesses and extended eviction bans. The fate of these latest measures isn’t looking good either.

Next month, Biden will again consider whether to extend the COVID national emergency declaration that has existed since early 2020. Congress has signaled it’s ready for it to end. In November, the Senate – including 12 Democrats – passed a resolution calling for a termination of the emergency. Now that Republicans hold the House, expect that chamber to join in.

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Yet the president and his administration have enjoyed the extra powers that have accompanied the national emergency declaration. And they are working hard to cling to this authority, which has granted the executive branch broader control over our lives.
It’s all about power.

Yes.

Contrast with DeSantis:

Yesterday the Epoch Times ran an encouraging story reporting that DeSantis Administration officials say the Governor is working to allow the hospital covid liability shield to expire on June 23rd.

Link: EXCLUSIVE: Florida’s DeSantis Hopes to Let Hospital Immunity Related to COVID Die, Insider Says.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/...er-says_4995653.html

The ‘leak’ signals to Florida legislators that DeSantis would not sign a bill extending the much-hated law. Hopefully they take the hint. If necessary, we’ll help them remember.

I predict that, if the liability shield expires, hospital covid patients will suddenly and unexpectedly start having much better outcomes. Florida hospitals might discover they don’t need ventilators as much unless they keep putting people into medically-induced comas, and those might become a lot less necessary. Just saying.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...ack&utm_medium=email

Link

Utah plastic surgeon sold COVID-19 vax cards but threw away the vaccine, feds say

“MIDVALE — A Utah plastic surgeon and his associates are facing federal charges accusing them of throwing away COVID-19 vaccinations but still handing out COVID-19 vaccination cards to those who paid……
Each person seeking a vaccination card then made a $50 "donation," which prosecutors say "were made to a 'charitable organization'……
Prosecutors say 1,937 doses of the COVID-19 vaccination, worth a little more than $28,000, were supposed to be given to patients between Oct. 15, 2021, and Sept. 6, 2022, "when, in fact, they had received none."

He's in deep doo-doo I would suspect.

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He's in deep doo-doo I would suspect.

Not if I were on the jury.

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Originally posted by mcrimm:
Utah plastic surgeon sold COVID-19 vax cards but threw away the vaccine, feds say
Each person seeking a vaccination card then made a $50 "donation," which prosecutors say "were made to a 'charitable organization'…

Prosecutors say 1,937 doses of the COVID-19 vaccination, worth a little more than $28,000, were supposed to be given to patients between Oct. 15, 2021, and Sept. 6, 2022, "when, in fact, they had received none."

He's in deep doo-doo I would suspect.

He's probably in deep doo-doo...
but I wonder how many doses were thrown out by similar actions, kept quiet and without any "donations" or paper trail?

In other words, the actual vaccination rate is probably lower than the 68% or so that the government claims.

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University of Tokyo virologists shared research Sunday that found XBB.1.5 exhibits "profound immune resistance" and "augmented ACE2 binding affinity," and hence "increased transmissibility," due to specific mutations.

Dumb question: what does the statement regarding ACE2 mean? If someone is taking ACE inhibitors (for blood pressure?), is the finding above good, bad, irrelevant?

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Dumb question: what does the statement regarding ACE2 mean? If someone is taking ACE inhibitors (for blood pressure?), is the finding above good, bad, irrelevant?

Irrelevant. Keep taking your BP meds.

RMD