Australia update: Melbourne, Victoria.

Day 5 of the ummm protest. 215 arrested.
It's fizzling out. No longer about the tradies protesting the mandatory vaccination.

It's now apparent that the anti "what-have-you-got", have taken over. They have a leader too.

Gah.

Don't need any leaders.
Just people to step up, en masse.

Even the MSM have lost interest, no more click bait headlining stories.

The State's health officer narrative now, is back to single dose, and double dose percentages.

Because that's the path to freedoms.

For those who have the double dose. Or single.
If you have neither, then devisively, you're not in The Club. No soup for you. No pubs or dining venues. Or travel.

Today, another gathering expected. Somewhere. No-one knows where.

I think the fat lady is singing.

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Norway Official: COVID-19 Can Now Be Compared to the Flu as Country Removes Pandemic Restrictions

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...2FaTrukjjeDrc13ocsid

Norway will end all COVID-19-related restrictions starting Saturday, Sept. 25, the government announced, joining a growing list of countries and states that have removed pandemic curbs.

“It is 561 days since we introduced the toughest measures in Norway in peacetime … Now the time has come to return to a normal daily life,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg told a news conference on Friday.

The virus can now be considered as one of several respiratory illnesses with seasonal variation, said Geir Bukholm, the assistant director for the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, according to local media. In Norway, COVID-19 has been classified as a generally dangerous disease, but the official classification could change soon, he said.

“We are now in a new phase where we must look at the coronavirus as one of several respiratory diseases with seasonal variation,” Bukholm told news outlet VG, referring to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

“This is because the vast majority of those at risk are protected,” Bukholm said, referring to the country’s vaccination campaign.

Norway will no longer require businesses to implement social distancing measures, and it will also allow sports and cultural venues as well as restaurants to use their full capacity, the prime minister’s office said. Nightclubs can also reopen under the new guidelines.

“We have lived a long time with strict measures at the borders. This has been important in combating imported infections. When we now move on to a normal everyday life, the government proposes a gradual reduction of the restrictions on entry into the country. This will take place under close supervision,” Minister of Justice and Emergency Management Monica Mæland said in a statement on the government’s website, according to a translation.

The country will also allow restriction-free travel from some countries, namely from European nations, so-called “purple list countries,” and the United Kingdom.

Solberg had so far implemented the first three stages of a four-step plan to remove social and economic restrictions imposed since March of last year, but the final step was postponed several times amid worries over infection rates.

“In short, we can now live as normal,” Solberg said.

The prime minister warned, however, that those who do contract COVID-19 must still go into isolation to avoid spreading the virus. Some restrictions will still apply to those arriving from countries considered to have a high rate of infections, the government said.

Nearby Sweden earlier this month announced it will remove most of its COVID-19 restrictions.

An announcement from the Swedish government on Sept. 7 said that restrictions on public venues such as restaurants, theaters, and stadiums will be removed on Sept. 29.

“The proposal means that any participation restrictions that may be needed for public gatherings and public events with 15,000 or more participants should not apply if the system of vaccination certificates is used,” said the government’s statement. “This means that the organizer shall not be obliged to limit the number of participants in premises and delimited areas or spaces that the organizer has at its disposal if there are restrictions regarding this.”

According to the Norwegian Institute for Public Health, about 67 percent of the population is fully vaccinated.

^^^^
And still, the big lie machine is continuing to ramp up here in the US. It makes it all painfully clear to even the most rabid leftist still grasping at straws in trying to defend this criminal administrations actions- they are lying about the severity of illness, they are lying about the efficacy of vaccines, and they are lying about the usefulness and effectiveness of stupid masks on their faces.

a few years ago if you were wearing a mask, you were either a criminal or you had something to hide

apparently the situation hasn't changed

quote:

Originally posted by nhtagmember:

a few years ago if you were wearing a mask, you were either a criminal or you had something to hide

I had to go into the credit union to get a problem solved.

I remarked to the rep that if I had worn a mask a year or two ago, they would have called the cops, but now they sound the alarm if I try to go in without a mask.

A study from Saudi Arabia on vitamin D3 supplementation to assist with covid recovery. I've been taking a multi-vitamin and fish oil supplement for years but added 1000 IU of D3 back in January. I work 90% outside so I get sun (when it's out) but I figured a little more would be ok. I go for annual blood work in a few weeks might have them check my vitamin D levels.

Excerpt:

Preliminary trials on the use of vitamin D supplementation against COVID-19 are limited but accumulating. In a pilot study done in Spain, early high dose vitamin D3 prevented ICU admission among COVID-19 patients in combination with the best available standard care for severe cases [31]. In a case-series of COVID-19 patients who received 50,000 IU daily for 5 days, a marked reduction in recovery time and inflammatory markers were observed compared to those who received 1000 IU [32]. A recent quasi-experimental study also showed that among the frail elderly with COVID-19, those who received boluses of 50,000 IU per month or 80,000–100,000 IU per 2–3 months were associated with less severe and improved survival (OR = 0.08 (0.01: 0.81), p = 0.03) [33]. Among the negative trials, a single high dose vitamin D (200,000 IU) given to severe COVID-19 patients (n = 114) did not reduce the hospital stay and severity of outcome compared to the placebo group (n = 118) (Hazard Ratio 1.12) [34]. The trials mentioned have mostly focused on severe cases and mega-doses of vitamin D compared to the present study, which focused on mild cases and lower daily vitamin D doses. In a large-scale meta-analysis conducted involving almost 11,000 participants in 25 clinical trials on the prevention of acute respiratory infections, the protective effects were the greatest among those vitamin D deficient individuals who received daily or weekly doses as opposed to boluses [9]. The dose used in the present study is somewhat similar to a previous RCT, which demonstrated, albeit during a longer term (12 months), that the supplementation of 4000 IU Vitamin D3 prevented acute respiratory infections by as much as 36% (Relative Risk 0.64, 95 % CI 0.43–0.94) based on a cohort of 140 adults with increased risk of acute respiratory infections (>4 infections/year) [35].

Conclusions

In summary, a 2-week oral supplementation of 5000 IU vitamin D3 was superior to 1000 IU in resolving cough and gustatory sensory loss among COVID-19 patients with sub-optimal vitamin D presenting with mild to moderate symptoms. The present findings add to the growing body of evidence on the beneficial effects of vitamin D supplementation against COVID-19, particularly among those with suboptimal levels.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308273/

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

quote:

Originally posted by nhtagmember:

a few years ago if you were wearing a mask, you were either a criminal or you had something to hide

I had to go into the credit union to get a problem solved.

I remarked to the rep that if I had worn a mask a year or two ago, they would have called the cops, but now they sound the alarm if I try to go in without a mask.

I've said that before as well.

My bank had a "no hats", "no sunglasses", "no hoodies", "no face coverings" sign. They have ripped the corner off that displayed the "face coverings".

When I was working at the mill in the early 2000s on the swing shift it often would be very cold (as in your soda would freeze solid on your janky forklift soda holder).

Between one of my yard guys walking into the convenience store with his ski mask on and the annual Halloween assholes going in to pick up their last call booze, the owner had a strict No Mask policy.

Now when I'm pulling up my neck gator to go into someplace I wonder if I'll get shot.


Oh, and as a fun note, the local taco shop got robbed once or twice by someone wearing a...........mask. Far as I know, no one has been arrested or identified. Pure gold.

quote:

Originally posted by a1abdj:
My bank had a "no hats", "no sunglasses", "no hoodies", "no face coverings" sign. They have ripped the corner off that displayed the "face coverings".

Always thought how ridiculous that sticker and approach is. Yeah, don't worry about the Springfield 45acp in my waistband, let's see that messy hair instead.

And the Babylon Bee strikes gold again.

quote:

Originally posted by a1abdj:

My bank had a "no hats", "no sunglasses", "no hoodies", "no face coverings" sign.

A teller told me -- she didn't ask, she told me to remove my sunglasses. My prescription bifocal sunglasses.

I asked to see her medical license, you know, the one that authorizes her to prescribe corrective lenses. That was the end of that discussion. And, as bigdeal mentioned above, my roscoe was not a problem.

Australia update: Melbourne, Victoria.

The protests have pretty much fizzled.
31 arrested yesterday.

The anti-crowd have demands, but lack interest.

Oh well, it was fun for the press while it lasted.

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I do believe it's about time the Queen organized the BEF to go liberate that nation.

Israel. One of the most vaccinated countries on Earth. Over 1/3 of their entire population has been given the third dose of Pfizer.

Didn't know the vaccine had an expiration date. "“The virus is progressing through the unvaccinated population or those whose vaccination has expired,” the researchers wrote."

https://www.jpost.com/breaking...es-new-report-680214


535 deaths from corona in Israel in September

221 COVID patients ventilated, most since March, including two new mothers • Coronavirus cabinet not supposed to meet until Wednesday • Experts say serious cases should decline in a few weeks

Thirty Israelis were reported to have died of COVID-19 between Friday morning and Saturday night, the Health Ministry showed, as the fourth wave continues to surge across the country, striking hardest young, unvaccinated citizens. Nonetheless, the coronavirus cabinet is unlikely to meet until Wednesday.

There were 7,641 people reported to have died from the virus as of Saturday night and 7,611 as of Friday morning. In total, 535 people have died since the start of September – twice as many as had died in the four months from April through July when only 266 people died of the virus.

Some 627 people died in August. Last September, 651 people died. The month with the highest number of deaths was January 2021, when 1,444 Israelis succumbed to COVID-19.

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who have been advising the government since the start of the pandemic, shared a report on Friday that they presented to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in which they predicted a continued decline in the infection rate.

They also predicted that the number of serious cases would decline, but that it would take another week or two before this decline was felt in the country’s hospitals. They said that since serious cases tend to be younger people and the unvaccinated, they are hospitalized for longer periods of time and are therefore crowding the country’s intensive care units.

“The virus is progressing through the unvaccinated population or those whose vaccination has expired,” the researchers wrote.
There were 694 people in serious condition Saturday night, among them 221 who were ventilated – the highest number since March.
On Friday, there were 41 COVID-19 patients connected to heart-lung ECMO machines, the majority of whom were unvaccinated, according to the Health Ministry. There was not a single person who was vaccinated with a third coronavirus shot connected to an ECMO machine.

Two of these young people were unvaccinated young expecting women, ages 20 and 27, who are hospitalized at Hadassah-University Medical Center in Ein Kerem, in serious and critical condition.

Due to the serious nature of their conditions, they were forced to deliver their babies early, at weeks 28 and 27 respectively.
The 20-year-old is intubated in critical condition and the 27-year-old is in serious condition and receiving respiratory assistance. Both babies, born so long before their due dates, are being treated in the hospital’s preterm neonatal intensive care unit.

“The next few weeks will be critical,” a spokesperson for the hospital told The Jerusalem Post.

Also at Hadassah, two young children ages six months and two years were in serious condition with the virus on Friday. Both of them suffer from severe underlying medical conditions.

The hospital said it was treating 50 COVID-19 patients in its two coronavirus internal medicine wards, two coronavirus intensive care units, and its coronavirus pediatric intensive care unit. Twenty of the patients were ventilated in critical condition, including two 40-year-olds who were hooked up to ECMO machines.

Some 4,932 new cases were diagnosed on Friday, the Health Ministry announced Saturday night. The positivity rate on Saturday was down to 4.30%, out of around 121,000 tests administered – in line with Hebrew University predictions.

The National COVID-19 Experts Committee warned the government last week that its policy of relying on a third booster shot and minimal economic restrictions is not proving itself. They also said that Israel, like other countries, is likely to be faced with the tragic dilemma of prioritizing young patients in need of critical care for coronavirus or other ailments over senior patients and called for a change in policy.

Nonetheless, the coronavirus cabinet is not expected to meet until at least Wednesday, when Prime Minister Naftali Bennett returns from his visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. The majority of cabinet ministers are reportedly against adding any new restrictions, mainly because the Green Pass policy is already being adjusted next week, on October 3, and they want to see if it will have any impact.

The Hebrew University researchers said that returning to routine in October after the holidays could lead to an increase in infections. But, like the ministers, they expressed some optimism that when the Green Pass is adjusted to only include those who are fully vaccinated or recovered (within the last six months or with a booster shot) then the country could and should see the significant reduction in infection that it is waiting for.

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Although it’s probably impossible to know, how many of the unvaccinated sick previously had recovered from Covid and had natural antibodies?

For those that might find it interesting, we are seeing a noticeable number of my wife’s coworkers who got their first Pfizer vaccines in December now getting COVID. Mild or little symptoms so far thankfully. These are direct, high virus contact nurses who have been in good shape until the past month.

Ref: Nursing home COVID cases in Spain March 2020 and their 100% recovery!!

Wife and I both had COVID last of Mar first of April 2021. This explains why she had very mild symptoms for a couple days while mine (rather severe) lasted about two weeks. She takes Allegra every day, I take nothing.
We are still, and will be, unvaccinated.


Full link here: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243683


Critical excerpt here: So what did these few nursing homes do that nobody has done since and nobody reported out at the time?

1. Early start of treatment, regardless of the severity of patient symptoms.
- Antihistamines every 12 h: dexchlorpheniramine 2 mg, cetirizine 10 mg or loratadine 10 mg.

2. Patients with mild or recent-onset symptoms (cough, fever, general malaise, anosmia, polymyalgia):
- Azithromycin 500 mg orally every 24 h for 3 days if there is rapid improvement, and for 6 days if the duration of symptoms is prolonged.
- If pain or fever, acetaminophen 650 mg/6–8 h.
- Nasal washing and gargling with sodium bicarbonate water (half a glass of warm water with half a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate).

3. If symptoms of severity (dyspnea, breathing difficulty, mild or moderate chest pain, with SpO2 <80%, heart rate >100 beats per minute at any time of the process):
- Antihistamines + Azithromycin (see mild treatment management)
- Levofloxacin 500 mg/12 h, up to 14 days of antibiotic treatment from diagnosis.
- Mepifilin solution, 50 mg/8 h as a bronchodilator, until subjective improvement. Patients with previous lung disease (asthma or COPD) used their usual bronchodilators.
- If the patient experienced increased breathing difficulty, prednisone 1 mg/kg/day divided into two doses until clinical improvement, and then it was slowly tapered down.

4. Prophylactic treatment for close contacts, including all asymptomatic residents:
- Antihistamines at the same dose as symptomatic patients.
Ed 9/25 11:30 - Reformatted the cut section; it got mangled by the forum. Still not what I'd like in terms of formatting, but at least it's readable now... and one typo corrected.

Look at that top line.

Cetrizine is otherwise known as Zyrtec. Loratadine is otherwise known as Claritin. Dexchlorpheniramine is not often-used in the US anymore, but it used to be. The other two core drugs were Azithromycin and Levofloxacin, both common antibiotics with the first being the infamous "Zpak" from the HCQ+Zinc+Zpak combination that a fraudulent study was used to discredit.

Both of the first two antihistamines are available over the counter in most nations including the United States. The dosing they used is twice that on the label. The two antibiotics are both available anywhere for little money.

Before they started treating people three residents died. The entire group of them had the common maladies of old age -- hypertension, diabetes, COPD, cardiovascular disease. Most were using a huge range of existing drugs for their conditions (5 or more.)

As soon as they started treating people the following happened:

All of our patients evolved satisfactorily and were recovered at the beginning of June. No adverse effects were recorded in any patient and no one required hospital admission. At the end of June, 100% of the residents and almost half of the workers had positive serology for COVID-19, most of them with past infection.

Wasn't there a science fiction movie or TV show about a planet where the inhabitants are incapable of lying?

Buried somewhere in this mountain of bullshit is the Truth- the actual facts and reality of all of this, but it's going to remain hidden from this generation. Someday, the Truth will come out, but most of us alive today won't be around to see it.

So, for those of you who don't understand why many of us don't believe anything we've been told and anything that's been "reported" about this global farce, I give you: The World in the 21st Century

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Originally posted by stkfox:
Ref: Nursing home COVID cases in Spain March 2020 and their 100% recovery!!

Wife and I both had COVID last of Mar first of April 2021. This explains why she had very mild symptoms for a couple days while mine (rather severe) lasted about two weeks. She takes Allegra every day, I take nothing.

Interesting.

I upped my daily vitamin C and vitamin D supplements at the start of this whole thing. Later found high dosages of the former increases production of interferon, which is an anti-viral.

I take one of AllerClear, Aller-Fex, or Aller-Tec (Kirkland versions of Claritin, Allegra, and Zyrtec, respectively), plus either NasalCrom (non-steroidal) or AllerFlo (Kirkland version of Flonase) nasal sprays, daily, to keep the allergies down to a low boil. I do salt water nasal rinses one to two times a day, as-needed. Now I find these may be prophylactic measures, vis-a-vis the Wu Flu, too.

May help explain why, in addition to frequent hand-washing or otherwise disinfecting, and carefully avoiding hand/face contact, I've pretty much been living life normally and have managed to avoid infection?