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Professor who had COVID sues George Mason University over vax mandate

https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/...ersity-over-mandate/

A law professor sued George Mason University over its coronavirus vaccine mandate, claiming he’s built a “robust natural immunity” after recovering from COVID-19 last year.

Antonin Scalia Law School professor Todd Zywicki, 55, calls the Virginia university’s requirements unconstitutional and says he shouldn’t have to get jabbed after he had the coronavirus in March 2020, according to the federal lawsuit filed Wednesday by the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance.

“Common sense and medical science should underpin GMU’s actions,” alliance attorney Harriet Hageman said in a statement.

“Both have gone missing with this latest effort to force a distinguished professor to take a vaccine that he does not need—not for his own protection nor for anyone else’s safety at Scalia Law School.”

Zywicki said in the lawsuit that he has had multiple antibody tests and been advised by his doctor that he’s built immunity. Having to get a vaccination after having had the virus could be dangerous, the lawsuit claims, and the school shouldn’t be able to require vaccines that have yet to receive full FDA approval.

GMU staff face disciplinary action if they don’t get vaccinated or receive an exemption, according to the lawsuit. Discipline includes potential firing and no chance at merit-based raises if teachers and other workers don’t upload proof of the vaccination, the suit alleges.

A spokesperson for the university didn’t respond to a request for comment from The Post on Wednesday.


The school recently announced all staff need to either show proof of vaccination or get a medical or religious exemption to work on campus in Fall 2021. Workers may also get a work-from-home exemption and unvaccinated may face mask mandates and frequent testing which the lawsuit calls “burdensome, invasive, painful, and carries its own risk of physical injury.”

In a statement posted to the school’s website on July 22, university President Gregory Washington said the decision to mandate vaccinations was made in the face of the more contagious Delta variant.

“For the sake of all who are unable receive vaccination, the single most effective way to avoid the virus and stop its spread is for the rest of us to get vaccinated as soon as possible,” Washington said.

The president stated that the policy is consistent with the school’s requiring students to prove immunizations against measles and other illnesses.

“It is extended to faculty and staff for COVID-19 because the extraordinary nature of the pandemic demands it,” Washington said.


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White House Defies WHO With Plans To Start Doling Out Booster Shots

The FDA recently claimed there wasn't enough evidence to warrant recommending booster shots after Pfizer started actively campaigning for them. But apparently, they have changed their tune, even as more data emerges to suggest that the present delta-driven wave of infections might soon start to wane.

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ng-out-booster-shots

Pfizer wants to sell you on annual shots.
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Proof that the politicians are playing you



https://rumble.com/vkq302-aoc-...ves-it-after....html


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We have this thread and the separate vaccine mRNA superpower thread, I guess this is where to discuss therapeutics like Ivermectin hydroxychloroquine or Remdesivir.

I'm overwhelmed, so much contradictory info. Of course there is much systemic pushback on the therapeutics, lots of outdated or agenda-driven stuff. TBH Ivermectin seems to be a must have, certainly based on anecdotal reports. HCQ as a preventative, Remdesivir in worst case scenarios. Ivermectin treats the disease in early stages and would appear to reduce the communicability of a carrier. This from today --

'For $1/Day'... Double-Blind Ivermectin Study Reveals COVID Patients Recover More Quickly, Are Less Infectious

A double-blind Israeli study has concluded that Ivermectin, an inexpensive anti-parasitic widely used since 1981, reduces both the duration and infectiousness of Covid-19, according to the Jerusalem Post. The study, conducted by Prof. Eli Schwartz, founder of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Disease at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, looked at some 89 eligible volunteers over the age of 18 who had tested positive for coronavirus, and were living in state-run Covid-19 hotels. After being divided into two groups, 50% received ivermectin, and 50% received a placebo. Each patient was given the drug for three days in a row, an hour before eating.

83% of participants were symptomatic at recruitment. 13.5% of patients had comorbidities of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, hypertension or cancer. The median age of the patients was 35, ranging from 20 to 71-years-old. Treatment was discontinued on the third day, and patients were monitored every two days thereafter. By day six, 72% of those treated with ivermectin tested negative for the virus, vs. 50% of those who received the placebo. Meanwhile, just 13% of ivermectin patients were able to infect others after six days compared to 50% of the placebo group - nearly four times as many...
Read the article, much more.

The tip of the iceberg. It looks like Phizer has an Ivermectin clone ready to trot out, at a much higher price. I see talk that big pharma has purposely avoided studies on Ivermectin for obvious reasons.

Steve Bannon talks about this, claiming Fauxi is on board with Phizer's therapeutic clone. Episode 1147, about 30 minutes in. I dunno but holy crap, what a mess.

https://podnews.net/podcast/i7e7r




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In regards to the booster as long as the government is writing billion dollar checks you can bet big farma is going to recommend another shot.


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A Pandemic of The Vaccinated – Does The Vaccine Create a Pathway For A More Dangerous Variant?
August 5, 2021 | Sundance | 266 Comments

One of the more commonsense approaches to reviewing COVID-19 data, amid the outbreak of the ‘Delta variant’, is to look at the percentage of vaccinated people in a regional population, and then look at the percentage of vaccinated people in the hospital with “covid related” symptoms. [Obviously, the presumption is – if the COVID illness is severe enough to require hospitalization, then the patient is severely or acutely sick.]

A review of Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, area populations/hospitalizations previously showed the percentage of hospitalized COVID patients with the vaccine is identical to the percentage of people vaccinated in the population served by the hospital. The same data was reflected in the statistics released by Public Health Scotland (link). The percentage of vaccinated people hospitalized is identical to the percentage of people vaccinated in the population.

♦ What does that mean?

Quite simply, it means the vaccine provides no benefit with a COVID-19 illness severe enough to require hospitalization. So, if the vaccine provides no benefit then why take it, that’s the bottom line question. Before going deeper, first watch this video segment:

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Since that video and discussion above took place in May 2020, we now have a massive number of people who have been vaccinated. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, we also now have the data on those vaccinated people coming into contact with the COVID-19 virus after their vaccination (‘Delta Variant’). The data is very troubling, because it confirms what was presented in that video.

A review of a sizable data-set from Public Health Scotland shows that 87% of the deaths directly attributed to COVID-19 are amid the vaccinated population [SEE DATA].

Putting both sets of empirical data together, this is what you discover:

(1) The vaccination provides no benefit to stop the COVID-19 virus infection rate.

(2) The vaccine does not stop hospitalization from severe symptomatic illness.

(2) The vaccine does not stop severe acute respiratory failure that results from SARS-CoV-2 infection.

(3) The vaccinated population that are hospitalized and then die from COVID-19 represent 87% of all deaths.

These troubling outcomes also are confirmed by the Red Cross earlier saying: “Vaccinated people cannot contribute convalescent blood plasma to help other COVID-19 patients in hospitals. That plasma is made up of antibodies from people who have recovered from the virus, but the vaccine wipes out those antibodies; making the convalescent plasma ineffective in treating other COVID-19 patients.”

So, the second alarming question is: Does the vaccine actually create a pathway, an “antibody immune enhancement” that makes the infection more deadly?

Unfortunately, the data starting to come out now seems to say, yes. People appear to have a more severe illness when exposed to the virus after vaccination. That would explain why there is such a high percentage of deaths amid the vaccinated population after exposure.

NOTE: the mortality rate could be a matter of scale. The elderly population have a higher vaccination rate, and the elderly population have a higher hospitalization rate; ergo the older population group, a more vulnerable population group, would make up a higher percentage of people who have died from COVID related illnesses. More study seems to be urgently needed.

Overall, the COVID-19 mortality rate is lower than the flu mortality rate; and both are influenced heavily by pneumonia as the symptomatic cause of death.

♦ Ryan Christian is a researcher who has done a very deep dive into the historic CDC and WHO record of flu cases and now COVID cases. He has an extensive video presentation with dozens of citations from his data research [Main Article].

Christian’s ongoing research indicates the COVID-19 virus is no more deadly than the flu; and Christian uses a historic reference of flu deaths being over-reported and conflated. Citing a hidden 2011 report to the World Health Organization about avian H5N1 and a new A(H1N1) human influenza virus:

WHO (2011) – […] The pandemic policy was never informed by evidence, but by fear of worst-case scenarios. […] In both pandemics of fear, the exaggerated claims of a severe public health threat stemmed primarily from disease advocacy by influenza experts. In the highly competitive market of health governance, the struggle for attention, budgets and grants is fierce. (link)

HHS (2017) – US data on influenza deaths are false and misleading. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges a difference between flu death and flu associated death yet uses the terms interchangeably. Additionally, there are significant statistical incompatibilities between official estimates and national vital statistics data. Compounding these problems is a marketing of fear—a CDC communications strategy in which medical experts “predict dire outcomes” during flu seasons. (link)

Those cited historic examples set the baseline to see how three different sets of illness are being conflated in 2021 to maintain a COVID-19 pandemic policy based on fear, worst case scenarios and false data.

From the CDC website they tell us that deaths from pneumonia, influenza and COVID (PIC) are all reported as COVID-19 deaths without differentiation:



CDC – “Based on NCHS mortality surveillance data available on July 29, 2021, 7.4% of the deaths that occurred during the week ending July 24, 2021 (week 29), were due to pneumonia, influenza, and/or COVID-19 (PIC). This percentage is above the epidemic threshold of 5.5% for week 29.

Among the 1,381 PIC deaths reported for this week (week 29), 642 had COVID-19 listed as an underlying or contributing cause of death on the death certificate, and one listed influenza, indicating that current PIC mortality is due primarily to COVID-19 and not influenza. The data presented are preliminary and may change as more data are received and processed.” (link)

All Pneumonia, Influenza and COVID deaths (the PIC group) are reported exclusively as COVID deaths; and all of that data is dependent on how the hospitals “code” the death. If all deaths are coded as covid deaths, then the CDC mortality data is assembled based on false baselines.

The entire presentation by Ryan Christian is worth reviewing. The discussion is wonky and somewhat in the deep weeds, but everything is massively cited with direct sourcing to back up the hypothesis. [RokFin Video Presentation Here] and his heavily censored Website is HERE.

♦ Bottom Line: COVID-19 is not more deadly than the flu UNLESS you have taken the vaccine; then it might be more dangerous. The vaccine is ineffective at stopping severe COVID illness and, data suggests, might actually make things worse…. creating a perpetual need for continued booster modifications to counteract the initial issue.

There’s something sketchy about the vaccine when contrast against this data, the CDC twisted language, and the scale of government/media pushing and requiring it.

I do not say this lightly.

https://theconservativetreehou...variant/#more-214976



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Ooooooooh, unforseen circumstances. There's a first.



Shocked I say....


And amazingly enough, yesterday the CV19 numbers in my county tanked. Near an all time low (15 total new cases for the day), definitely a downward trend after a slight elevation (avg 2-5 cases/day to 8-12 cases/day) for a week.

The news first thing this morning reported us as one of the worst counties in the state. The numbers today, spiked higher than I've ever seen in a single day (321) when the website was updated in the late afternoon.

Other than the last time when the next day they were corrected.

https://www.waynecounty.com/covid19dashboard/




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BTW, the woman attached to Jennifer Aniston's nipples says she's cut people out of her life because they won't take the shot.
 
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Listening to local radio on the drive up to the lake the other day. Sports talk from Mpls. was on. They are all up in arms because many of the players for the Vikings won’t take the jab. The coach is beside himself stopping just short of calling people who are hesitant stupid. He said something along the lines of “some of the stuff these guys are reading is just, ooof, really out there. Of course he doesn’t want players sitting out on covid protocol because he might lose a football game because of it. And all the radio talking heads wholeheartedly agree. One said the problem started when we had a commander in chief who for four years spent the entire time deriding all government agencies calling them dishonest and the media fake news and now many people don’t trust the government or official agencies. After saying that he says “well yeah some things in government happened that probably shouldn’t have but, but”.. Ya think?!?! For chrissakes that’s a understatement!

The next thing said was along the lines of and all these people who have all these talking points and excuses for not getting the vaccine like it’s not FDA approved, it hasn’t been properly tested, people have had side effects and a few people have died. And oh my favorite excuse is all the people coming across the border aren’t vaccinated! These are educated adult men talking like this. I couldn’t help but get a laugh out of it. This is what happens when people’s entire identity relies on the success or failure of a local sports team.

The shallow end of the pool is over these guys heads.


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BTW, the woman attached to Jennifer Aniston's nipples says she's cut people out of her life because they won't take the shot.

Well that’s one more now that I don’t have a realistic shot at.


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White House Considering Requiring Foreign Visitors to Show COVID-19 Vaccination Proof:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...fficial_3935548.html

The White House confirmed Thursday it is considering requiring foreign visitors to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination as a condition for international travel.

Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, told reporters on Thursday that several federal agencies are examining the possibility of issuing such a mandate.

“We will be ready when it is the right time to consider reopening,” Zients said at a White House COVID-19 briefing. He appeared to confirm anonymously sourced reports that administration officials will have to present proof they’re vaccinated against the virus.

There is still no timetable on when the United States will resume international travel to certain countries, as a number of federal officials have cited concerns about the Delta variant.

In early 2020, the United States imposed its first restrictions on travel from China—where the virus originated—before imposing restrictions on Europe and other nations.

Canada recently announced it would allow “nonessential” travel from the United States if travelers can provide proof of vaccination. The United States, however, did not reciprocate Canada’s policy and has kept its border with its northern neighbor closed due to COVID-19.

And in contrast, along the U.S.–Mexico border, which is still seeing record numbers of illegal immigrants crossing, proof of COVID-19 vaccination isn’t required before aliens are released into the United States. Reports last month said that during the final week of July, about 7,000 people who crossed illegally were released in McAllen, Texas.

Reports citing anonymous sources also said the Biden administration is creating a plan to provide vaccines to illegal immigration.

It was not immediately clear whether a plan would require visitors arriving from Mexico and Canada to be vaccinated before crossing land borders.

Starting late last month, a number of large corporations including Google, Facebook, Tyson Foods, and many others started mandating that their employees get vaccinated by a certain date or potentially face termination. The federal government, too, will soon require employees to get vaccinated or wear a mask and socially distance.

This week, New York City became the first to announce a policy implementing a COVID-19 vaccine pass that requires customers to show proof of vaccination before they enter restaurants, gyms, and theaters. The Los Angeles City Council is working on passing a similar mandate.

Vaccine passports and similar systems have been criticized by civil liberties groups, conservatives, and even some Democrats as creating a segregated society of vaccinated and unvaccinated people.

During a news conference earlier this week, Zients announced that it is “time to impose some requirements on COVID-19 vaccines.”

President Joe Biden, he said, “called on states and local governments to use funding they have received, including from the American Rescue Plan, to give $100 to anyone who gets fully vaccinated,” adding that “if financial incentives like these help us get more shots in arms, we should use them.”

But he went a step further, saying that mandates must be imposed.

“But in addition to incentives, it’s time to impose some requirements based on the realities of different risks unvaccinated individuals pose versus those who have been vaccinated,” Zients proclaimed.

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Get it or be terminated. Within 5 weeks of the FDA rubber stamp, which is expected coming up in September.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2...-mandate-us-workers/

United Airlines Announces Vaccine Mandate For U.S. Workers


CHICAGO (CBS/AP) — United Airlines is requiring its U.S. employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, becoming the first major airline to institute a vaccine mandate for its staff.

The Chicago-based airline told its U.S. employees in a letter that they must provide proof they have been fully vaccinated five weeks after the FDA fully approves a vaccine, or five weeks after Sept. 20, whichever comes first.

To date, the FDA has granted only emergency-use approval of the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, but according to published reports, the FDA is expected to give full approval to the Pfizer vaccine by early September.

Company leaders called the vaccination requirement a matter of safety and cited “incredibly compelling” evidence of the effectiveness of the vaccines.

“We know some of you will disagree with this decision to require the vaccine for all United employees,” CEO Scott Kirby and President Brett Hart told employees Friday. But, they added, “the facts are crystal clear: everyone is safer when everyone is vaccinated.”

United, which has 67,000 employees in the United States, is the first major U.S. airline to announce it will require vaccination for workers. The airline has been requiring vaccination of new hires since mid-June. Unvaccinated workers are required to wear face masks at company offices.

The airline estimates that up to 90% of its pilots and close to 80% of its flight attendants are already vaccinated. They get incentives to do so.

Under the new vaccine requirement, each employee will have to send an image of their vaccine card to the company. Those who don’t will be terminated, with exemptions granted only for religious or health reasons, officials said.

Employees who are already vaccinated or do so by Sept. 20 will get an extra day of pay, according to the memo from Kirby and Hart.

Like United, Delta Air Lines has operated vaccination center for employees and recently began requiring the shots for new hires. Delta CEO Ed Bastian said this week that 73% of the airline’s workforce is vaccinated. Executives at other airlines have similarly encouraged their workers to get vaccinated, even offering bonuses and paid time off to get the shots, but haven’t made them mandatory.

Airlines and other companies in the travel business have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic, which led to sharp travel restrictions. The United States requires people entering the country, including U.S. citizens, to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test, and the Biden administration plans to require non-U.S. citizens to be vaccinated before entering the country.

A United executive said the airline has no plans to require that passengers be vaccinated, calling that a government decision. The CEOs of Delta and American have similarly ruled out a mandate for passengers.

Microsoft, Google and Facebook have said they will require proof of vaccination for employees and visitors to their U.S. offices starting this fall.

This week, Tyson Foods announced it will require all U.S. employees to get vaccinated by November — notable because unlike the tech companies, Tyson relies on many lower-paid workers who cannot do their jobs remotely. The president of the United Food and Commercial Workers criticized Tyson for imposing the requirement while the vaccines still have only emergency FDA approval.

A few governments are getting involved. California and New York City will require employees to be vaccinated or face weekly testing, and the California mandate extends to workers in public and private hospitals and nursing homes.

The new rules come as the U.S. struggles with a surge in infections driven by the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19. The 7-day average of new reported coronavirus cases has jumped to more than 90,000 a day from around 12,000 a month ago, although hospitalizations and deaths have risen more slowly.



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Democrats Want to Hate Their Way Out of the Pandemic

When identity politics is your answer to everything.
Fri Aug 6, 2021 Daniel Greenfield

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"As Virus Cases Rise, Another Contagion Spreads Among the Vaccinated: Anger," the New York Times hisses. "Vaccinated people are ready for normalcy — and angry at the unvaccinated," the Washington Post jeers.

"It's O.K. to be mad at people who refuse to get vaccinated," America Magazine reassures.

Hating people is a hell of a prescription for a medical crisis, but to the Left all problems are political problems. And they deal with political problems by hating twice as hard as ever.

Our media, like that of most totalitarian countries, exists to tell regime loyalists whom to be angry at today while distracting them from the regime’s latest disaster. The American Left only knows and understands identity politics. Its view of the world is rooted in the same Marxist theories that made the Soviet Union and every Communist government so dysfunctional, but the need to juggle the intersectional dynamics of multiculturalism has made it especially insane.

Anyone who wants to understand America’s racial divisions need only look at the perverse skill with which leftists divided the country between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated in less than a year. In a short amount of time people had been taught to hate each other and to form deep divides over an issue that hadn’t even been on their minds last summer.

If the Left can do that with a shot, is it any wonder they were able to do it with skin color?

America’s Left has become an identity politics generator, literally creating new identities overnight (the average number of gender identities went from 48 in 2019, to 56 in 2020, to 64 today), to compete in a packed victimhood Olympics whose only purpose is political power.

The Left has succeeded so well that all of the country’s political discourse is about rival claims of victimhood and dueling accusations of oppression. The identity politics generator works so well that in under a year a new identity can be up and running, and ready to register victims and demand political power to repress the other side of their binary identities. But all this does is give the Left an exciting new way to seize power and posture as the victims this week.

Faced with a pandemic, the Left built a new political identity around masks and vaccines.

That’s what it does with every challenge or crisis. When all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail and when all you have is identity politics, every problem is identitarian.

And every solution manufactures the same cliched binary identities, victims and oppressors, the enlightened and the reactionaries, and yokes them to the same tired narrative which organizes the latter against the former. The speed with which the Left turned personal medical decisions into an identity shows how the artificial assembly line of its identity politics really works.

Diversity isn’t really very diverse. Multiculturalism is really a single political culture. Identity politics offers the same product with a different coat of paint from the same identity factory.

Identity politics is a revolutionary tool, organizing everything from fifth columns to coalitions to seize political power, but revolutions solve the problem of who is in power, not real problems.

Revolutionary regimes are great at revolutions and bad at everything else.

The Democrats are great at identity politics and bad at pandemics. They excel at taking over institutions, rigging elections, and building narratives in which they’re the victims. They just don’t know how to do anything else. During the revolutionary phase, problems don’t need solving, only exploiting. As Lenin reportedly said, “the worse, the better.” A pandemic, a wildfire, tainted water, or an economic collapse is just another opportunity to churn out narratives declaring that identity politics groups have been hit hardest by the disaster before seizing power in their name.

This works about half the time. The half when Democrats are out of power. Revolutions work best when you’re not already on the throne and trying to blame someone else for your mess.

Power and identity politics can exploit a pandemic, but they can’t meaningfully address it. Much as the Soviets couldn’t address agriculture, and China can’t fix its environmental disasters, the Biden administration and its leftist allies lack the intellectual tools to cope with the problem.

Communist regimes reduced all problems to class warfare, declared that they had eliminated classes, and then blamed problems on domestic saboteurs or denied that they existed at all.

The Democrats blamed the pandemic on the Trump administration. After taking power, they began blaming Trump supporters. Unable to deliver on their promises, they doubled down on identity politics as their way of evading responsibility for the job they claimed they wanted.

But lefties want the job, they don’t want the responsibility.

Fixing problems is dirty and unrewarding work that requires humility, patience, and a willingness to listen. These are not the attributes of a radical movement of egotistical theoreticians who use identity politics to trick people into letting them test out their theories and then when their theories fail in the real world, pivot back to identity politics to blame others for their failures.

The revolutions keep coming, but utopia never arrives.

The Left interacts with reality through a series of abstract constructs filtered through an ideological matrix defined by social relations. This is an unfit model for solving anything except social problems and hasn’t even seen any success there. Reducing the problems of a vast universe, or even a planet, to social injustice is the laughably stupid approach of our elites.

An ideology that blames everything from forest fires to viral outbreaks on social injustice foolishly treats human social relations as the greatest force in the universe. Elites who embrace these ideas are announcing their inability to grapple with problems outside social relations.

Instead of dealing with the problems, they attach them to another identity politics group.

Then they blame some other group for their own inability to grapple with the problem. Democrat politicians and the media have blamed the pandemic on church attendees, Chassidic Jews, spring breakers, surfers, Trump supporters, and an endless list of out-group scapegoats.

Every instance of scapegoating has been undone by their own hypocrisy from the French Laundry to Black Lives Matter riots to the rejection of vaccine mandates by their own health care and teachers’ unions. And Americans are growing tired of their cynical blame game.

Democrats and their media are encouraging Americans to hate each other as they have since the very beginning of the pandemic and the very beginning of their radicalization as a party.

Every problem is met with identity politics and hate.

The Left wants Americans to blame everyone for their problems except the ones in power.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/f...c-daniel-greenfield/



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I know that this has largely become the vaccine news article thread, but I was wondering something.

Am I the only one one that knows multiple people that have “tested positive” multiple times? I know one guy that has “tested positive” and been quarantined five times in 18 months????

Anyone else seeing this?




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Am I the only one one that knows multiple people that have “tested positive” multiple times?
We have a SIGforum member who was hit hard by The Virus in December 2020, then hit again, a year later.



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I know that this has largely become the vaccine news article thread,

I think it's the "all things COVID related" thread which is a bit broad for a topic that effects so many areas of our lives...

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Am I the only one one that knows multiple people that have “tested positive” multiple times? I know one guy that has “tested positive” and been quarantined five times in 18 months????

I think PCR testing has been discussed, and yes, it produces many false positives.
Chances are good that your friend has been exposed to the virus and has over come it, and has anti-bodies.



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