We are not a serious society anymore.

(Best reply to this I saw was "She'll get the Spanish Flute if she's not careful" )

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
so he is mandating shots for everyone but Congress is exempt...

I think Congress and all of the staffers should have their own special vaccine

Exempt, just like barrycare.


Saw what you did there and could not agree more!

COVID Data, Facts Not Fear

We know that much of the raw data underlying the CDC statistics are inflated by the way the data is collected and manipulated by the hospitals and healthcare system. However, that said, if we just accept the raw CDC data and evaluate what they are collecting as a way to estimate the risks….here’s the outcome.

♦ Facts as of 9/4/21:

TOTAL CASES (US): 40,048,255
TOTAL DEATHS (US): 643,858

♦ DEATHS BY AGE:

50-64 years: 106,674 (.27% of total cases)
65-74 years: 144,020 (.36% of total cases)
75-84 years: 173,655 (.43% of total cases)
85+ years: 185,188 (.46% of total cases)

♦ TOTAL DEATHS account for 1.6% of total cases.

78.1% of TOTAL DEATHS are over the age of 65.
94.7% of TOTAL DEATHS are over the age of 50.
6% of TOTAL DEATHS are attributed to Covid only.
94% of TOTAL DEATHS have an average of 2.9 co-morbidities (12/6/20).

Why is COVID-19 being disproportionately hyped as such a dangerous threat, when the reality of the statistical danger is much less than the intense level of hype? That is the key question.

https://theconservativetreehou...ot-fear/#more-216836

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Originally posted by 41:
Greenlight for Ivermectin in Japan

If you go back through the source documents for that article, you will find that Dr. Ozaki does not hold a job in government and cannot make policy. He just suggests that Ivermectin be allowed for off label use.

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Originally posted by mbinky:
We are not a serious society anymore.

(Best reply to this I saw was "She'll get the Spanish Flute if she's not careful" )

My kids' school was doing something like this for band. Now they just play outside.

Ludicrous. I don't care if you're for or against masks, ANYONE should be able to identify this as ineffective half-assery.

The kids in school right now- they may live another eighty years or more. They will be the ones who can look back at all of this nonsense and say "I was there. I know what happened and what people went through, and all of it was was wrong."

I wish I could be there when we as a society can be honest finally about this tragic period, but I'll be long gone. It will take two, three generations, perhaps more. All of this will have to be viewed through the prism of history. Most of those who are responsible for this BS will go to their grave thinking they did us a favor by trying to save us with their incessant meddling and rules, even though many of us were too stupid to appreciate their fascistic compassion.

The "flute mask" is pretty epic. Beyond being useless, I wonder if an aero-biologic analysis may actually show her exhaled air being directed in a higher velocity stream toward her fellow band members. It may be worse than useless.

Not everyone in Australia is happy about their retarded government. Too bad the crowd isn’t a thousand times larger but at least some of them are sick of it.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
The kids in school right now- they may live another eighty years or more. They will be the ones who can look back at all of this nonsense and say "I was there. I know what happened and what people went through, and all of it was was wrong."

I wish I could be there when we as a society can be honest finally about this tragic period, but I'll be long gone. It will take two, three generations, perhaps more. All of this will have to be viewed through the prism of history. Most of those who are responsible for this BS will go to their grave thinking they did us a favor by trying to save us with their incessant meddling and rules, even though many of us were too stupid to appreciate their fascistic compassion.

Great perspective! Thank you.

Study Shows Vaccine Will ENHANCE Delta Infectivity

• A group of Japanese researchers released research showing that the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant “is poised to acquire complete resistance” to existing COVID-19 jabs
  
• When four common mutations were introduced to the Delta variant, Pfizer’s mRNA injection enhanced its infectivity, causing it to become resistant
  
• A Delta variant with three mutations has already emerged, which suggests it’s only a matter of time before a fourth mutation develops, at which point complete resistance to Pfizer’s jab may be imminent
  
• A number of experts have raised concerns that COVID-19 jabs and the mass vaccination program could worsen the pandemic by triggering the development of new variants, via a concept known as antigenic, or immune, escape
  
• Another study found that a worst-case scenario can develop when a large percentage of a population is vaccinated but viral transmission remains high, driving the development of resistant strains

COVID-19 jabs continue to be pushed as the only solution to the pandemic, even as “breakthrough” infections increasingly occur. A group of Japanese researchers has also released research showing that the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant “is poised to acquire complete resistance” to existing COVID-19 jabs like Pfizer and BioNTech’s BNT162b2,1 now being sold as Comirnaty.

What’s more, when four common mutations were introduced to the Delta variant, Pfizer’s mRNA injection enhanced its infectivity, causing it to become resistant. A Delta variant with three mutations has already emerged,2 which suggests it’s only a matter of time before a fourth mutation develops, at which point complete resistance to Pfizer’s jab may be imminent.

https://noqreport.com/2021/09/...e-delta-infectivity/

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Originally posted by chellim1: When four common mutations were introduced to the Delta variant, Pfizer’s mRNA injection enhanced its infectivity, causing it to become resistant

Have they learned nothing from the Wuhan lab? Why in the heck would you deliberately alter the virus just to see if you can make it evade the vaccine?

Fauci Calls for 'Many, Many More' Vaccine Mandates

Pile enough mandates upon Americans and they will do as they are told, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke to CNN’s Jen Christensen on Sunday.

The White House’s chief medical adviser said the spread of the delta variant of COVID-19 is the fault of those who do not listen to experts such as himself.

Fauci said part of the solution to reducing the virus’ spread is for Americans to rely on what he called “trusted public messengers who put aside political ideologies and convince people to get vaccinated.”

The alternative is for them to be forced to do as they are told, he said.

“The other way to do it is to have many, many more mandates,” Fauci said.

“I know that rankles a lot of people,” he told Christensen, “but you’re going to see situations locally — I don’t think you’re going to see centrally derived mandates — but there are going to be mandates where colleges, universities, places of business, large corporations, they’re going to say, ‘If you want to come work for us, you’ve got to be vaccinated.’

“I believe that’s going to turn this around, because I don’t think people are going to want to not go to work or not go to college or not go to a university. They’re going to do it.

“You’d like to have them do it on a totally voluntary basis, but if that doesn’t work, you’ve got to go to the alternatives,” he said.

Last week, President Joe Biden said he would use his rule-making powers to force businesses with more than 100 workers to institute vaccine mandates. Fauci said the administration had to act because of one group.

“We have a really unfortunate situation that we have a pretty hardcore group of people that we’re trying to persuade them — or mandate them, if they’re not persuaded — to get vaccinated,” Fauci said.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/20...re-vaccine-mandates/

Local article that actually represents what we are seeing in the ER here in Alaska. I don't necessarily agree with all of the statements made in the article, but the frustration amongst our staff is real and growing.

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2...X21sId8__XYrBo6G0Jmw

Watching patients die of COVID-19 is taking a toll on Alaska’s hospital workers
By Lex Treinen, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage - September 13, 2021

As COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to break records in Alaska, health care workers in the state’s emergency rooms and ICUs say watching patients die is becoming routine, and it’s taking a toll on their mental health.

“The range of emotions that I go through in an ER shift now is unbelievable: anger, sadness, compassion, empathy, disappointment,” said Matthew Kinsler, an emergency room nurse at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage.

He said lately he’s taken to venting in the hospital’s supply rooms, where he’ll go to swear out loud to himself and throw things around until he’s comforted by coworkers.

At the ICU, where the sickest patients come, providers are used to losing patients, but the most recent wave of COVID deaths is unprecedented.

As of Friday, 208 people were hospitalized in Alaska with COVID-19 and 27 of them were on ventilators. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says about 50% of patients on ventilators will die.

“I’ve heard many of our therapists say, ‘I feel like a failure working in this unit, because everything I know to do doesn’t work, it doesn’t make a difference,’” said Karen Good, who oversees respiratory care at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage.

Good said it’s stressing family relationships and testing the patience of hospital workers who say that the suffering is largely preventable through vaccination.

Heidi Decaro, a respiratory technician at Providence’s ICU, said she’s had patients who don’t take COVID precautions seriously, or even deny that the coronavirus is real, even as they are dying. It’s stretching her professionalism.

“You really do have to bite your tongue, because you are a professional first of all, but you are there to help them and so you have to work on building a relationship,” she said. “Because there’s already a barrier of: This isn’t real versus this is real.”

Decaro said it’s making her more irritable at home. After losing patients — she says four patients under her care died last week — she’ll snap at her family for small annoyances.

“People are dying out there, just do the dishes!” she said. “It’s the little things.”

Decaro said ICU workers feel isolated from the rest of the city where it seems like life is going on as normal.

Doctors and nurses have publicly implored political leaders to put restrictions back in place like required masking, but the governor and Anchorage mayor have not.

“Everybody in the health care system feels helpless, because we see the end result of something that could have been preventable,” said Javid Kamali, an intensive care physician at Providence.

Kamali, 56, said that aside from seeing sicker COVID-19 patients in the hospital now, he’s also seeing younger patients.

“For the first time in my entire career, which spans about 20 years, I’ve had a whole ICU filled with patients who are younger than me,” he said. “That has never happened before”

He said unvaccinated patients in their 30s and 40s have died from COVID in recent weeks.

Hospitals have been forced to keep people being treated for COVID in emergency rooms instead of ICUs, where they could get better care. They’re being held for hours, or even days, taking up space for new patients who come in with less serious issues.

“You see your family, your loved ones, your friends, waiting in the emergency department waiting room with really bad abdominal pain, chest pain, shortness of breath — all of these awful symptoms that you’d want to get addressed immediately — are generally getting pushed to the backburner,” said Kinsler, the Alaska Regional ER nurse.

Kinsler said that ER nurses are used to stabilizing patients and moving them out of the beds. With COVID, he said, they’re forced to do a job they’re not as well trained for.

Nationwide, news outlets have reported patients dying while waiting for a bed in the ER, as the latest surge in COVID-19 cases keeps hospitals at or near capacity. When asked whether Alaska has gotten to that point, Kinsler gave an unequivocal “yes.”

“It’s there, absolutely. 100% there,” he said.

It’s especially hard to see patients come in one day, and have their parents come in a few days later and die from the disease. He said those patients often blame themselves.

“It’s pretty jacked up to say, you caused your parents to die because of the decisions that you made. But it’s an easy leap to make in the brain,” he said. “That is the most heartbreaking thing and I’ve seen it multiple times.”

One of the few comforts health care providers have is one another. They say they’re forging tighter bonds through after-work beers or hikes on days off or bringing cookies to work to share.

Good said that if nurses or technicians blame themselves for losing a patient, physicians will often round up the staff to remind them of everything they did do.

“We help each other the best we can. We bring them snacks, we sit down with them, we wipe off the tears,” said Kamali. “But that’s pretty much all we can do.”

He said there’s something the public can do to help: get vaccinated.

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The White House’s chief medical adviser said the spread of the delta variant of COVID-19 is the fault of those who do not listen to experts such as himself.

Fauci said part of the solution to reducing the virus’ spread is for Americans to rely on what he called “trusted public messengers who put aside political ideologies and convince people to get vaccinated.”

This troglodyte POS is beyond belief. When you call yourself an "expert" and/or a "trusted public messenger", your elephant ego is writing checks your canary ass can't cash. What a piece of garbage.

Strange world where we pretend nature doesn't have the ability to cull the human herd at will...very strange world.

Ex-ER nurse recent testimony on vax effects, very chilling stuff!

https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021...because-this-is-war/

71 i am guessing that article is the equivalent to a pbs or cnn piece in the lower 48. I do not buy it.

The guy in the storeroom needs to get a grip. If it were true.

I am not saying there is no covid there. But "get the poke" is as prevelent there as everywhere else. It is biased to that end. It is obvious. How about treating those folks with proven therapeutics.

And we do know that the health of Alaskans percapita is not great. Neither is healthcare.

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“The range of emotions that I go through in an ER shift now is unbelievable: anger, sadness, compassion, empathy, disappointment,” said Matthew Kinsler, an emergency room nurse at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage.

He said lately he’s taken to venting in the hospital’s supply rooms, where he’ll go to swear out loud to himself and throw things around until he’s comforted by coworkers.

What a load of lying horse shit. Straight out of an episode of ER. Yeah, you're so special, you phony.

Flat-out, that stuff is nothing but a lie.

These people want us to believe what they say? Then, they should STOP LYING TO US.

Federal Judge blocks New York state vaccine mandate for health care workers

"The vaccine mandate is suspended," reads an order from Judge David Hurd

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

On Tuesday, a Clinton-appointed federal judge granted an emergency injunction preventing the state of New York from enforcing a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for its healthcare workers.

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the healthcare worker vaccine mandate on August 16 prompting more than a dozen healthcare professionals to request a court enjoinder. The mandate requires hospitals staff and employees of long-term care facilities to be vaccinated in order to remain employed.

The suit argues that medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, and medical technicians face losing their careers and livelihoods if they refuse to receive a vaccine that contradicts their religious beliefs. According to the suit, the religious beliefs of the 17 medical professionals compel them to "refuse vaccination with the available Covid-19 vaccines, all of which employ aborted fetus cell lines in their testing, development, or production."

The legal argument takes its shape under the umbrella of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Christopher Ferrara, an attorney with the Thomas More Society said that New York is attempting to "slam shut an escape hatch from an unconstitutional vaccine mandate ... They are doing this while knowing that many people have sincere religious objections to vaccines that were tested, developed, or produced with cell lines derived from aborted children."

Judge David Hurd of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York granted the temporary restraining order on the morning of September 14. "The vaccine mandate is suspended," reads his order, and the state Department of Health is "barred from taking any action, disciplinary or otherwise, against the licensure, certification, residency, admitting privileges or other professional status or qualification of any of the plaintiffs on account of their seeking or having obtained a religious exemption from mandatory Covid-19 vaccination."

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Federal Judge blocks New York state vaccine mandate for health care workers

"The vaccine mandate is suspended," reads an order from Judge David Hurd

Fantastic.