Or put anther way, it's not going away and everyone will get it eventually...

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mandating vaccines for interstate travel

How could that be enforced? Air and train (Amtrak) I could see, but what about by road? There aren't enough cops in the country to monitor and stop motor vehicles on every interstate, US-numbered and state highway, as well as every local road, that crosses a state ine. I don't think anybody thought this through.

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Originally posted by egregore:

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mandating vaccines for interstate travel

How could that be enforced? Air and train (Amtrak) I could see, but what about by road? There aren't enough cops in the country to monitor and stop motor vehicles on every interstate, US-numbered and state highway, as well as every local road, that crosses a state ine. I don't think anybody thought this through.

Trying to put the pressure and fear on the non compliant to get them to take the vaccine. It is not about the virus, if it were the Southern border would not be open and they would not be bussing illegals who were not tested all over the country.

How dare we not follow their mandates and refuse to believe their lies. They will have none of that.

Don't forget, kids- anytime a vaccinated person gets COVID-19, make it sound like a rare event, by giving it a nifty name like "breakthrough case."

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Originally posted by egregore:

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mandating vaccines for interstate travel

How could that be enforced? Air and train (Amtrak) I could see, but what about by road? There aren't enough cops in the country to monitor and stop motor vehicles on every interstate, US-numbered and state highway, as well as every local road, that crosses a state ine. I don't think anybody thought this through.

More so than even that, I think this would have to pass a HUGE legal hurdle (which I don't think it ever could) before it could be put in place. Then there's the issue that many states simply would not support this BS. Biden and his crew of incompetent totalitarian wannabees can join Jeffrey Toobin on a Zoom circle jerk to bloviate all they want on this topic, but in the end, it ain't never gonna happen.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
It is not about the virus, if it were the Southern border would not be open and they would not be bussing illegals who were not tested all over the country.

It's entirely likely they are intentionally doing this to cause higher infection/hospitalization/death rates in southern Republican states to discredit their governors' refusal to enact vaccine or mask mandates or continued lockdowns. Don't ever underestimate the propensity of marxists to kill people to achieve political goals.

Badu described Obamas birthday party as a "sacred event".
Like.... Easter? Or Christmas?
Lets all worship the Obamas!

When your entire world is about race- when you dwell on it, fume over it 24 hours a day, every day of your life, then, yeah, Obama becoming POTUS is sacred.

They don't give a shit about this country.

I keep hearing this word... "case". What does that mean?

'Case': Another semantic Trojan Horse
By Leann Horrocks

In our new world of pandemic panic porn, it is important to remember that the word "case" is not a term of art. It is not a medical term or a legal term. It is just another word with a broad meaning that has been commandeered by people who want to control you.

This seemingly innocuous word is being used as a blunt instrument to stampede you into doing what the globalist elites want you to do. It is widely used when the media, Big Tech, and government experts (the "infomob") lie by omission.

When you hear that there are x "new cases" in any context, this should immediately prompt you to ask questions about the number:

Are these just positive COVID tests?
Are these hospitalized people?
Are these people who are not sick at all?
Are these re-testing of the same people who have to be tested daily to keep their jobs?
Are these people with other medical conditions?

The infomob wants you to envision these "cases" as hospitalized people on respirators, gasping for breath. What if most of these are just positive tests? If so, were these done with the PCR test? The fact is, the PCR test is so highly parameterizable that you can set it to find whatever you want. This is one of the reasons the CDC has quit using it.

By simply saying "cases," breathless TV "newspeople" can fill in the blanks for you with angst-ridden, dramatic presentation. Don't buy it. It's all set-up for you to drown in their implications. The infomob makes sure you are not exposed to any contrary viewpoint without going way out of your way, and they present the party line with maximum drama. It's all many people hear, and it's loud. Sadly, it has also been very effective.
The Squad Asks Treasury Department to Go After Israel

In addition to merely misrepresenting reality, the numbers may well not be true. It's not enough for the globalist left to demonize the "unvaccinated." Even with control of all the levers of power and all means of casual information access, the elites are still having to lie. For example, the Texas Tribune recently claimed that 5,800 children were admitted to pediatric hospitals from COVID in just seven days. The truth is that 783 children were hospitalized over the course of a month from COVID and other causes. How many parents were finally convinced by the larger number to subject their child to a radical gene therapy with far higher risk that the disease itself? How must they have felt when they saw the retraction?

I saw a Texas congressman, arguing for school masking, saying child hospital cases had doubled in the last week in his district. Was he relying on this article? Was he talking about two "cases" rising to four?

It is really important to listen carefully to news reports. The more emotional they are, the more carefully you have to listen. When you hear the word "case," your BS-o-meter should swing to the red zone immediately.

It's easy for a clear thinker to just throw up his hands and say, "I don't believe anybody anymore." Don't drop out! You are playing right into lefty hands when you do that; leftists would love to have you removed from the playing field. They don't want you looking around for the truth. If you are reading this, you know how to look outside the box. Right now, that ability might be your greatest strength.

The globalist left's desire to instill fear in one's fellow countrymen for political gain is an evil goal and ghastly in its scope. A fig leaf of "concern for those in danger" doesn't begin to cover its malicious intent. It's up to you not to allow yourself or the ones you care about fall victim to it.

https://www.americanthinker.co...ic_trojan_horse.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...theft-covid-n1276789

long article, snips:

How international scam artists pulled off an epic theft of Covid benefits
Russian mobsters, Chinese hackers and Nigerian scammers have used stolen identities to plunder tens of billions of dollars in pandemic aid, officials say.

Among the ripest targets for this cyber theft have been jobless programs. The federal government can’t say for sure how much of the more than $900 billion in pandemic-related unemployment relief has been stolen, but credible estimates range from $87 to $400 billion--at least half of which went to foreign criminals, law enforcement officials say.

Those staggering sums dwarf, even on the low end, what the federal government spends each year on intelligence collection, food stamps, or K-12 education.

“This is perhaps the single biggest organized fraud heist we've ever seen,” said security researcher Armen Najarian, of the firm RSA, who tracked a Nigerian fraud ring as it allegedly siphoned millions out of more than a dozen states.

Jeremy Sheridan, who directs the office of investigations at the Secret Service, called it “the largest fraud scheme that I’ve ever encountered.”

“Due to the volume and pace at which these funds were made available and a lot of the requirements that were lifted in order to release them, criminals seized on that opportunity and were very, very successful--and continue to be successful,” he told NBC News.

While the enormous scope of COVID relief fraud has been clear for some time, scant attention has been paid to the role of organized foreign criminal groups, who move taxpayer money overseas via laundering schemes involving payment apps and “money mules,” law enforcement officials told NBC News.

“This is like letting people just walk right into Fort Knox and take the gold, and nobody even asked any questions,” said Blake Hall, the CEO of ID.me, which has contracts with 27 states to verify identities.

lots more at link. only gets worse

Fauci Downplays New COVID-19 Vaccine Study

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...2BHswhApzx9EAvQU63BT

White House COVID-19 advisor Anthony Fauci downplayed on Aug. 15 a recent study from a prominent medical research center that deemed the Pfizer vaccine less effective than the Moderna vaccine.

The Mayo Clinic and Cambridge-based biotech company nference, in a study, found that both mRNA COVID-19 vaccines’ effectiveness dropped in the month of July. The researchers, while saying the vaccines provided good protection against the virus, found that Moderna’s vaccine effectiveness was 76 percent, as compared with Pfizer’s 42 percent.

“That study … is a pre-print study, it hasn’t been fully peer-reviewed,” Fauci said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” of the recent Mayo-nference study’s findings, which was published on the website medRxiv.org. The study gathered data from about 25,000 Minnesota residents from January and July.

“I don’t doubt what they’re seeing, but there are a lot of confounding variables in there, about when one was started, the relative amount of people in that cohort who were Delta versus Alpha.”

Fauci was referring to the Delta and Alpha COVID-19 variants. He didn’t elaborate on the comment.

Both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine should be used as booster shots, he said.

“Right now, if we get boosters … it’s clear we want to make sure we get people, if possible, to get the boost from the original vaccine,” Fauci said.

Fauci has been the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and has become one of the federal government’s public faces in its messaging about COVID-19. In the interview, Fauci also said he hopes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fully authorizes the vaccines.

COVID-19 is the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

Representatives from the Mayo Clinic didn’t respond to a request for comment on Fauci’s remarks by press time.

Mayo Clinic and nference researchers studied records to determine the vaccines’ efficacy, although the scientists noted that it hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed.

Despite their findings, the researchers touted the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccines, saying that they “strongly protect” against COVID-19 and “severe disease.”

“Larger studies with more diverse populations are warranted to guide critical pending public and global health decisions, such as the optimal timing for booster doses and which vaccines should be administered to individuals who have not yet received one dose,” they wrote.

When reached for comment, Pfizer told The Epoch Times that it, along with partner BioNTech, are “driven by science to discover the best approaches” to combat the virus. Moderna didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.

Days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) approved booster shots of the two mRNA vaccines for people with compromised immune systems. The decision doesn’t apply to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which uses different technology and requires only one dose.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
“That study … is a pre-print study, it hasn’t been fully peer-reviewed,” Fauci said

Translation: Palms have yet to be greased.

Will it be "peer-reviewed" in Ben Franklins, or will it be unmarked twenties?

Speaking of cases, my youngest daughter tested positive (not one symptom) on her way to Hawaii from Dallas. Ended up with three total positive tests in two different states and you know damn well every one is counted. A gal I know in Florida had five positive tests before she was allowed back to work.

Just when you thought it was save to go back into the woods, now we have this.

White-tailed deer test positive for COVID antibodies.

The agency tested wild deer from January to March of this year and found 40% of the tested deer — 152, to be exact — had antibodies.

So, this means that the deer somehow contracted COVID-19 and recovered from it.
The agency said the deer were most likely asymptomatic.

Many of you might be wondering: If you go deer hunting in the fall, do you need to worry about getting COVID-19 from a deer that you may get close to?

The USDA told National Geographic that transmission from deer to humans is extremely low, but it is still something to keep an eye on as the COVID-19 virus mutates.

Louisiana has been under a statewide mask mandate that started last Monday. It's "supposed" to last a month.

During the last mandate pretty much every store was enforcing the mandate. At least half of the stores I've been to haven't enforced the mandate this time around.

Starting tomorrow in New Orleans anyone that wants to go to a bar, restaurant, casino or sporting event in New Orleans will have to show proof of vaccination or proof of a negative result from a Covid test to gain entrance to the site.

https://www.nola.com/news/coro...02-837b31f950f9.html

As a technician that services atm's and other cash equipment throughout south Louisiana, I don't know if this mandate applies to outside vendors but I suspect it does. I won't be participating.
My company has mandated mask wearing. That I've tolerated. I'm not going to get tested unless I think I'm coming down with the virus and have no plans on getting vaccinated.

If I go to a site in New Orleans and refused entrance I'll note the call and leave it for another tech that wants it. I don't think any of the other techs in our area have been vaccinated either.

This is a wait and see scenario.

Don't french kiss the deer. Got it.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Don't forget, kids- anytime a vaccinated person gets COVID-19, make it sound like a rare event, by giving it a nifty name like "breakthrough case."

That's what keeps me wondering if there really is a "Delta variant", or if it's just a made up excuse as to why vaccinated people keep getting it. "Oh no no, that's a different version of it".

(tinfoil is fun)

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The agency said the deer were most likely asymptomatic.

Oh knows!!! More asymptomatic spread???? Quick, we need to issue masks to all deer and other forest critters. We can't risk deer spreading to moose and squirrel.

Oh, and hunters better mask up too.


On a serious note, how do you suppose that a deer population managed to test positive for a human respiratory disease, that requires prolonged close contact to transmit?

Isn’t this a vascular disease with respiratory symptoms as part of its presentation?

Bats. Final answer.

Went to a food truck event Friday evening at a local park for a change of pace. Easily a couple hundred people there. Maybe 10% were masked. More humorous was this setup. The entire time I was there (maybe an hour and a half) I didn't see a single person in their tent. So on the way out I cruised through and asked. They'd been there for ~2.5 hours at that point and had not vaccinated a single person. Something tells me from what I saw Floridians are reaching an end point for this BS.