The Dose - 1-21-22
An open thread for gentle discussions of all things Covid.
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400 Million Free N95 Face Masks Are Being Dispensed — Here’s How To Get Yours
The Biden administration aims to make 400 million N95 masks available to all Americans for free at pharmacies and community health centers next week, a White House official said per The Wall Street Journal. The masks will be coming from the Strategic National Stockpile, the national repository of critical medical supplies. The program will be fully up and running by early February. ...
Three masks will be available per person, according to the official, and most of the pharmacies that are part of the federal pharmacy vaccine program will distribute the masks.
New York and other north-eastern US states see a rapid fall in Covid cases
New York City and some north-eastern US states appear to be seeing rapid decreases in their numbers of Covid-19 cases in recent days, raising the possibility that the Omicron wave has now already peaked in some parts of America.
In New York City the rolling seven-day average of new cases was less than 28,000 a day on 16 January, down from an average of more than 40,000 on 9 January. Similar patterns were being observed in the state as a whole and other nearby regions. ...
Some 400,000 tests were conducted in New York on Saturday, with a positivity rate of 12.9%. Just one week ago, on a similar number of tests, the positivity rate was almost 20%. The state reported 51,264 new cases on Saturday, down from the peak of more than 90,000 a week earlier, according to a New York Times database. The number of people hospitalized fell for a fourth straight day.
Several other north-east states – including New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island – may be heading in a similar, down-trending direction.
Covid cases 'drop significantly' in Africa, WHO says
Cases of Covid have sharply declined in Africa and deaths are declining for the first time since the emergence of the Omicron variant, the World Health Organization has said.
The UN health agency’s regional office for Africa said newly reported cases fell 20% in the week to Sunday while notified deaths dropped 8%.
Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO’s regional director for Africa, described the 56-day flareup as Africa’s “shortest upsurge yet” but added: “The continent has yet to turn the tables on this pandemic. So long as the virus continues to circulate, further pandemic waves are inevitable.”
Australia’s Omicron wave has likely peaked, experts say
The Omicron outbreak of Covid cases appears to have peaked in New South Wales, Victoria and other parts of Australia, epidemiologists believe.
Prof Adrian Esterman, an epidemiologist and biostatistician at the University of South Australia, said the Omicron wave had “absolutely certainly” peaked in NSW and Victoria.
The Reff – the effective reproduction number, which measures how many other people someone with Covid will infect, on average – had dropped below 1 in both states, Esterman said.
“We know that the peak has been reached when the Reff gets below 1.”
Biden BUNGLES Free COVID Tests With LONG Shipping Times
Bank Blocks Donations Supporting Cuban Effort to Vaccinate World
Progressive International recently asked for contributions so they can send a delegation to Havana next week to promote Cuba's effort to vaccinate the world against Covid-19.
But in an apparent genuflection to the illegal U.S. embargo against the island, Dutch multinational bank ING has blocked all donations supporting the trip, the group said Tuesday.
"This is scandalous," said Progressive International (PI) general coordinator David Adler.
"The U.S. wields unparalleled power over our global financial system," Adler continued. "Yesterday, a message received by our supporter revealed the far-reaching consequences of the U.S. embargo on Cuba: a European bank, established in the Netherlands, has decided to put the interests of the U.S. government above the lives of millions of people."
He added that "the embargo seeks not only to suffocate Cuba, but also to stifle our solidarity with it."
In his message on Wednesday, Adler lamented that "it looks like others are following suit."
According to Pawel Wargan, coordinator of PI's Secretariat, PayPal has joined ING in blocking donations meant to help delegates travel to Havana. "We have a duty to end this genocidal embargo," said Wargan.
Anti-war activists at CodePink responded to the news by saying that "some of the most powerful people in the world would rather prolong a global pandemic than allow the Cuban people some relief from U.S. imperialism. What awful, deadly priorities."
As the coronavirus crisis enters its third year, new infections have reached record levels globally. Meanwhile, access to lifesaving vaccines remains starkly unequal. Several countries are administering booster shots—hundreds of millions of which are set to be thrown away in the coming weeks—before most of the world's poorest inhabitants have been given their first jab.
Nearly 9.8 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally to date. More than 70% of people in high-income nations have been fully inoculated, but just 9.6% of people in low-income countries have received at least one shot due to dose hoarding by wealthy governments and knowledge hoarding by pharmaceutical corporations, whose profit-driven refusal to share publicly funded vaccine formulas has generated artificial scarcity.
According to a recent analysis, billions of additional Covid-19 vaccine doses are required to end the pandemic—meaning that global vaccine manufacturing must be ramped up significantly.
As PI said Monday when sharing its plan to send representatives to Havana "for a special showcase of the Cuban vaccines":
President Joe Biden could easily help fill this shortfall by compelling U.S. pharmaceutical corporations to share their vaccine technology with poorer nations. But he has so far refused to do so. A new production hub in Africa—where only 3% of people are vaccinated—is now trying to replicate the Moderna vaccine. But without Moderna's help, or Joe Biden's executive action, production could take more than a year to begin.
By contrast, PI continued, "Cuba has emerged as a powerful engine of vaccine internationalism."
That's precisely why PI is sending a delegation to Havana: to draw attention to "the promise of the Cuban vaccine and the perils of the U.S. embargo against it," with the goal of forging "connections between Cuba's public biotech sector and manufacturers who might produce the vaccine and help the Cuban government recuperate the costs of its development."
Despite the added challenges created by a six decade-long U.S. blockade, Cuba's public biotech sector has developed two highly effective vaccines. And its universal healthcare system has fully inoculated more than 86% of its population, quickly surpassing many wealthier nations, including its northern neighbor.
Moreover, the island has already started exporting its homegrown doses and plans to share its recipes with impoverished nations abandoned by Big Pharma and wealthy countries.
Israeli 4th Shot Trial FAILS, "Not Good Enough" Against Omicron. WHO Says Kids DON'T Need Booster
US children’s Covid vaccinations lag despite record infections
As the Omicron variant rips through the US, children are being infected with Covid-19 in record numbers – yet their rate of vaccination has lagged, creating a surge in hospitalizations and undermining in-person schooling.
Nearly a million new Covid cases – more than 981,000 – were confirmed in children in the week ending 13 January, a 69% increase from the week before and four times higher than last winter’s peak, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. That means one in 10 Covid cases among children in the entire pandemic have happened in the past week, the organization said.
Adult rates have shot up, too, with an average of more than 870,000 confirmed cases a day in the US – but children have much lower vaccination rates. Only 18.8% of kids aged five to 11, and a little more than half of 12- to 17-year-olds, are fully vaccinated, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hospitalizations for kids are soaring, although severe illness and death are much less likely for children than adults.
Also of interest:
Covid-19 map of the US: latest cases state by state
“Fact-Check” Of Joe Rogan Is A GIANT FAIL
Hospital Overcrowding Was Happening Way Before COVID
CORBEVAX, a New Patent-Free COVID-19 Vaccine, Could Be a Pandemic Game Changer Globally
Face masks make people look more attractive, study finds
Comments
Death vastly over estimated...
Death registrations for 2020 and 2021
for deaths where COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause, but had no other pre-existing conditions recorded on the death certificate, England and Wales
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinform...
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[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UHvwWWcjYw]
From below the clip...
Looks like we've been scammed, scared, and manipulated.
To bad this wasn't the messaging (from FLCCC)
Thanks for the dose js!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
A Texas court just stopped the federal mandates
I’m sure we will see a lawsuit for truckers before long. Biden says every trucker must be jabbed too. And all ‘essential' workers coming into the country must be fully jabbed. Essential for taking American jobs? Yeah that’s going to torque a lot of people.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
The roots of UK's most notorious invasive plant are also a
COVID medicine, a tea made from which seems to reduce replication of the virus and inflammation like sepsis, significantly. Why arent they using it? it reduces mortality in China, where, as Huzhang, its been used in illnesses for >2000 yrs.
Network Pharmacology Reveals That Resveratrol Can Alleviate COVI
Full Text Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34580601/
Abstract
Hyperinflammation is related to the development of COVID-19. Resveratrol is considered an anti-inflammatory and antiviral agent. Herein, we used a network pharmacological approach and bioinformatic gene analysis to explore the pharmacological mechanism of Resveratrol in COVID-19 therapy. Potential targets of Resveratrol were obtained from public databases. SARS-CoV-2 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened out via bioinformatic analysis Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets GSE147507, followed by Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analysis; then, protein-protein interaction network was constructed. The common targets, GO terms, and KEGG pathways of Resveratrol targets and SARS-CoV-2 DEGs were confirmed. KEGG Mapper queried the location of common targets in the key pathways. A notable overlap of the GO terms and KEGG pathways between Resveratrol targets and SARS-CoV-2 DEGs was revealed. The shared targets between Resveratrol targets and SARS-CoV-2 mainly involved the IL-17 signaling pathway, NF-kappa B signaling pathway, and TNF signaling pathway. Our study uncovered that Resveratrol is a promising therapeutic candidate for COVID-19 and we also revealed the probable key targets and pathways involved. Ultimately, we bring forward new insights and encourage more studies on Resveratol to benefit COVID-19 patients.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors disclose no conflict of interest.
So as one country after another rescinds their mandates
we are finally getting tests, what a fucking surprise.
Looking around at websites far and near I can't seem to find
any story of governments helping people. It actually looks like
TTP went through without any notice. The Corporations have bought
the 5 EYE nations lock stock and barrel.
With that here are the headlines at Automatic Earth
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2022/01/debt-rattle-january-21-2022/
• How Many People Have Died Purely Of Covid (Farage)
• Sewage Surveillance Reveals Omicron Is Disappearing Fast (ZH)
• Investigate the Cause of the Spike in Child Deaths (Craig)
• Triple-Jabbed Over-30s Have Higher Infection Rates Than the Unvaccinated (DS)
• Over a Million Americans Were Injured by Covid Vaccines (Rescue)
• Journal Pulls COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events Analysis (ET)
• Ivermectin Could Destroy Justification for Lockdowns and Vaccine Mandates (ET)
• Unexpected Comeback in the FLCCC Early Treatment Protocol (CE)
• France To Lift Covid-19 Restrictions In February (Pol.eu)
• Top Russian Senator Blasts American’s ‘Amazing Stupidity’
• Germany’s Pivot From America (Pol.eu)
• Durham vs. Horowitz (Maté)
• Congress’s 1/6 Committee Claims Absolute Power (Greenwald)
• Jeremy Grantham Doubles Down on Crash Call, Says Selloff Has Started (BBG)
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Do hospitals have a right to kill unvaccinated people who catch
COVID?
Thats in its essence whats was at stake in the case of this man,
He has been moved to another hospital and is doing much better. He was very undernourished - the most undernourished patient the new hospital had ever seen. He is now conscious and responding to people, he is blinking in response to questions, he was not brain dead.
Poor man, last I looked, being unvaccinated didnt carry the death penalty.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/us/scott-quiner-covid-ventilator.html
THis is a sick, money obsessed health care system we have here. By all accounts.
Seriously?
No one should be put down for making the decision they think is best for them.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Insults are a bannable offense here, zed...
I would tread lightly. Next time you're out of here.
Interesting discovery
Jimmy talks about hospitals claiming that they were overwhelmed with flu patients in 2018 and flu patients are being treated in tent and that there are 30,000 less hospital beds available than were previously. After 2 years of being told that hospitals are overwhelmed and there are no ICU beds he wonders why none have been built. It’s a good question, but we know why they haven’t. I posted a graphic awhile ago showing the same headline of hospitals being overwhelmed going back years. From all over the world.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Another interesting finding
Health agencies don’t want to know if Covid started here before they say it did.
I find that very interesting. Is it because it not only goes against the narrative that Covid escaped from Wuhan or because it might point to it escaping from one of our labs here that we were told were shutdown for gain of function meddling? You get too many smoking guns and it leads up to a smoking crater that smells badly. Add in the Fauci emails and everything else we’ve learned in the last 2 years and yes something stinks.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
But wait there’s more
He also contacted the CDC to no avail either. But look at what else he found.
Thoughts on why this information wasn’t plastered all over the country when it was found? IIRC the government is saying that Covid wasn’t released from the Wuhan lab, but if someone has other info let us know. Damn peculiar
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Great rant
"they're not fucking telling you."
NYCVG
This is just wrong!
Go Brandon yourselves! What part of my body my choice don’t you understand you effing hypocrites.
It’d be interesting to see a comparison on how this poll would have stacked up with Hitler’s plans for the undesirables if one had been taken from the ‘Good Germans' before he did what he did. I’m seeing many parallels to what happened then with what is happening now. And not just in the US either. But then that’s why governors are saying what they are about the unjabbed isn’t it?
From the comments:
Amen to that and can anyone explain how people who have always been against these actions could just turn around and be for them? Besides mass phychosis or brainwashing? Or does that explain it? I’m seriously flabbergasted.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Thanks, I removed it.
You're right, it is totally a personal decision. Sorry!
Grest Stuff, Joe
in this Dose.
I have an idea that may be controversial about the first item on your round-up, the free N95 masks. When they arrive in the pharmacies next week I intend to get the 3 masks we are each assigned.
Not because I will need or use them now, but because of CB and others reports about what may be coming next.
My plan is to get the masks on offer and place them safely away, ready for the day, should it come, when we may need them.
NYCVG
Nazi Germany redux...
The unvaxxed have now become less than human.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpqC1cb-RmU]
Ominous
This goes along with the 100% in anti-semitic attacks in NYC as reported by Mayor de Blasio on his last day in office, a few weeks ago.
Neil Oliver says he could be wrong.
But I am pretty certain that he's got what he is seeing and hearing right.
NYCVG
Well, they are poor. European countries are also amping up
laws against begging and sending back any Eastern Europeans caught "sleeping rough" or begging.
When I went to Europe as a child (pre-EU) I remember beggars were not unusual. They were usually people who had suffered disfiguring injuries (probably in WWII whichy had happened not that long before).
There were still lots of towns where indoor plumbing and electricity plentiful enough for refrigeration was not the norm. I remember that.
Most N95 masks are inadequate for me at least on mold. I always
get the Kimberly-Clark style masks. I think they are P-99. They look like a duck bill. They have the ability to seal out most junk.
Actually, now I use a rubber half face ventilator usually with P-100 HEPA cartridges. The purple screw on ones. You have to be clean shaven and the respirator need to be put on uncomfortably tight.
North also makes ones with a face mask that goes around your face and especially eyes.
The N-95 masks (made for painting, generally) are almost all near useless because they don't seal enough around the nose. My problem is that enough bad stuff still gets in around the nose to still make me feel sick. Some are made in the US, though. More probably come from China.
The use of the procedure masks is to prevent coughing people from directly coughing on other people. So they are mostly to protect others from you. They are unlikely to be able to stop viruses, however they likely do stop big balls of spit.
BMJ: Data from vaccine manufacturers has not been forthcoming
Not only this
Since the trials never even explored that then why were we told that they would be efficient to stop the infection and spreading of them? It’s just recently that Biden has stopped saying that "if you get vaccinated you aren’t going to get Covid." The unjabbed are being vilified for not getting one and many have been fired from their jobs for it.. that poll Jimmy talked about with people wanting the unjabbed to be punished is a direct result of the lies they’ve been told. Even while millions of double jabbed and boosted people are sick with Covid now. Just because it’s more contagious shouldn’t keep people from seeing that they have been.
Pfizer didn’t test to see it was safe for pregnant women to take them, but they are told it is. The tests they did for kids used lots of old data for adults. And it was from the original virus not the ones that came after.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Northern England
There was a huge outbreak of COVID-like illness in Northern England in late 1919.
Also in California after a big conference. I am fairly certain that people who had gone to some big conference in Northern California in late 2019 got it in large numbers.
So it seems like it may have originated in the US or UK?
Another take on the scotus decision
This is the point I’ve been trying to make. It removes body autonomy. Hospitals allow medical staff that have direct contact with patients to wear masks if they don’t get flu shots, but it’s not allowed for unjabbed people to wear them while allowing infected ones to do so. If masks work for infected jabbed people then why don’t they work for the unjabbed ones just as well? People can get exemptions for medical and religious reasons, but they are rarely given for the Rona. Flu has killed way more people than Rona has, but….my mind can’t make sense of the rules because they don’t make sense period.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.