The Dose - 2-19-22
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A few articles of interest.
Biden to extend U.S. national emergency due to COVID-19 health risk Feb 18, 2022 Reuters
President Joe Biden said on Friday the U.S. national emergency declared in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be extended beyond March 1 due to the ongoing risk to public health posed by the coronavirus.
Biden said the deaths of more than 900,000 Americans from COVID-19 emphasized the need to respond to the pandemic with "the full capacity" of the federal government.
Former President Donald Trump had declared a national emergency almost two years ago to free up $50 billion in federal aid.
"There remains a need to continue this national emergency," Biden said in a letter on Friday to the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president of the Senate.
The letter was released by the White House.
The emergency would have been automatically terminated unless, within 90 days prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the president sent a notice to the Congress stating it is to continue beyond the anniversary date.
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, joins CNBC’s Hadley Gamble on a panel at Germany’s annual Munich Security Conference to discuss what action needs to be taken to bring an end to the pandemic.
[video:https://youtu.be/U70Q9WqbMFM?t=422]
It appears Bill lumps together in his mind an infection and a vaccination as being similar types of a physical event for a body. If he does not truly understand the difference, it is a bit scary.
Moderator: "Where would you access where we are today in beating COVID-19?"
Bill Gates: Sadly the virus itself, particularly the variant called Omicoron is a type of vaccine. That is it creates both B-cell and T cell immunity and it's one a better job of getting our to the world population than we have with the vaccine. If you do serum survey in African countries you get well over 80% of people have been exposed to the vaccine or two various variants. So you know what that does is it means the chance of severe disease, which is mainly associated with being elderly or having obesity or diabetes, Those risk are now dramatically reduced because of that infection exposure.
You know it is sad we didn't do a great job on therapeutics. You know only here two years in do we have good therapeutic vaccines. It took us two years to be in oversupply. Today there is more vaccines that the world demand for vaccines and you know that was not true. Next time we should try and make it instead of two years we should make it more like 6 months.
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Why is his opinion important? Remember last year?
The World Loses Under Bill Gates’ Vaccine Colonialism May 19, 2021 Wired
Global health czar Bill Gates had other thoughts. Maintaining his steadfast commitment to intellectual property rights, Gates pushed for a plan that would permit companies to hold exclusive rights to lifesaving medicines, no matter how much they benefited from public funding. Given the enormous influence Gates has in the global public health world, his vision ultimately won out in the Covax program—which enshrines monopoly patent rights and relies on the charitable whims of rich countries and pharmaceutical giants to provide vaccines to most of the world.
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Last October, recognizing that monopoly vaccine patents would be the norm and countries would have to compete against each other to purchase doses, a coalition of countries led by India and South Africa brought a patent waiver proposal to the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) council. As recently as a couple weeks ago, Bill Gates has continued to speak out against this proposal.Gates’ argument about the TRIPS waiver—and the one being vociferously lobbied by pharmaceutical companies—is that waiving patent rights would not help poor countries scale up manufacturing and would instead eliminate incentives for future research.
Estimated 73% of US now immune to omicron: Is that enough? AP News February 17, 2022
Millions of individual Americans’ immune systems now recognize the virus and are primed to fight it off if they encounter omicron, or even another variant.
About half of eligible Americans have received booster shots, there have been nearly 80 million confirmed infections overall and many more infections have never been reported. One influential model uses those factors and others to estimate that 73% of Americans are, for now, immune to omicron, the dominant variant, and that could rise to 80% by mid-March.
This will prevent or shorten new illnesses in protected people and reduce the amount of virus circulating overall, likely tamping down new waves. Hospitals will get a break from overwhelmed ICUs, experts agree.
The coronavirus — the current variant or future ones that are sure to pop up — remains a dangerous germ. It is still infecting more than 130,000 Americans and killing more than 2,000 every day. Tens of millions of people remain vulnerable.
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Still, while the population is better protected, many individuals are not. Even by the most optimistic estimates for population immunity, 80 million or so Americans are still vulnerable. That’s about the same as the total number of confirmed infections in the U.S. during the pandemic.“The 26% who could still get omicron right now have to be very careful,” Mokdad said.
There is sentence study which is fairly interesting. It appears someone has been testing SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in white-tailed deer.
Multiple spillovers from humans and onward transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer Feb 8, 2022 PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
White-tailed deer, the predominant cervid in North America, are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and experimentally infected fawns can transmit the virus. To test the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 is circulating in deer, 283 retropharyngeal lymph node (RPLN) samples collected from 151 free-living and 132 captive deer in Iowa from April 2020 through January of 2021 were assayed for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
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Concluding Comments and Future Directions.
White-tailed deer are the most abundant wild cervid species in the United States, with an estimated 25 million individuals, and deer hunting is the most popular form of hunting in the United States, contributing over $20 billion to the US GDP and supporting more than 300,000 jobs in 2016 (34). In addition to the abundance, social relevance, and economic importance of deer to the US economy, the discovery of sylvatic and enzootic transmission in a substantial fraction of free-living deer has important implications for the natural ecology and long-term persistence of SARS-CoV-2, including through spillover to other free-living or captive animals and potential for spillback to humans.In this context, there are several important questions that require urgent attention. For instance, it is important to understand whether the observed widespread SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission among white-tailed deer will result in virus adaptation to cervids similar to what has been observed in other species such as the mustelids. Previously, a high similarity in the white-tailed deer ACE-2 sequence was shown relative to human ACE-2, and the changes within the domains that bind the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein are at residues D30E, L79M, M82T, and E329D (5, 35). Therefore, it is not altogether surprising that the deer ACE-2 receptors enable efficient binding by the Spike protein for viral entry, perhaps even slightly better than humans (35), that will allow the highly efficient transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in deer. Hence, it is tempting to predict that, unlike the observed rapid adaptions in Spike in mustelids with a restricted ACE-2 receptor, any adaptations of SARS-CoV-2 in deer during the initial waves of infection are more likely to occur in regions outside of the Spike protein.
US anti-Asian violence spiked during the pandemic February 18, 2022 Asia Times
My collaborators and I looked more specifically at violent attacks against Asian Americans or their property from 1990 to 2021. In the 30 years before the pandemic, we identified public reports of 210 anti-Asian violent attacks in total, an average of 8.1 per year. But during 2020 and 2021, there were 163 attacks, averaging out to 81.5 a year – or more than 11 times the previous average.
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Our data found that before 2020, the average number of Asian Americans killed or injured in anti-Asian attacks was just over eight per year. In 2020 and 2021, however, 49 were physically harmed, an average of almost 25 per year.We found that almost half of the anti-Asian attacks in 2020 and 2021 were motivated, at least partially, by anger and animosity associated with Covid-19, a disease first identified in Asia. For instance, in June 2020, an Asian restaurant in New Jersey was vandalized with graffiti reading “coronavirus” and “Covid-19.” And in February 2021, Denny Kim, a 27-year-old Korean American veteran of the USAir Force, was beaten by two men who shouted anti-Asian slurs at him and called him “Chinese virus.”
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Most anti-Asian violence, both before and during the pandemic, happened in urban and suburban areas in typically progressive states.
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What emergency does joementia see?
Omicron has caused everything to trend downward...
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US data
hospitalizations...
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and deaths... all dropping...as should the emergency measures
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The power grab is easy to see if you look...especially in Canada.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Some examples of a European
response to the trucker convoy;
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10501627/Austria-latest-nation-...
A short piece
in the Toronto Star that explains the next step to endorse (or not) the Emergency Act.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2022/02/18/with-liberals-invoki...
A starkly different point of view
from Ian Welsh:
and this;
https://www.ianwelsh.net
I don't think the above necessarily describes the 'truckers' but I understand his point to be about public health policy. I agree to the extent that I think we need effective and intelligent public health policy (something we have not had, but we could have had).
That’s sad to see from Ian
The truckers are pro death because they want their freedoms back? Does Ian and the others who think that understand that most of the truckers have been jabbed, but see the power grab by governments as bad? I find it sad how badly misinformed so many people are. Hopefully one day the truth about early treatments will be acknowledged. Then people will see who was actually research for massive deaths.
And who in hell would write this?
No wonder governments continue to take away our rights. It seems that more people are saying that they have nothing to hide so why do they care if their governments spy on them? The founders aren’t rolling in their graves anymore, they’ve up and left them.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Well
That Washington Post article is absurd as you point out. Saying that the concept of 'Freedom' is proof that one is a White-supremacist? Tell that to Thomas Paine who was a proponent of individual freedom but very much against slavery or inequality.
Ian Welch is a Canadian. I often find his opinions well argued and compelling. I'm interested in what Canadians are saying. I, however, don't categorize the truckers as pro-death.
@randtntx And so those who are
I don't know why
Seems straightforeward; those who advocate for choice
are pro-death (a fairly simplistic view, imo). Anyway, like eliminating mandates, supporting ivm or hcq as options instead of vax only is support of choice and hence pro-death.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Not sure I follow you
I only read the blockquote
The truckers have certainly never vocalized or printed anything objectively "pro death"they have never claimed to be remotely pro death. They claim to be anti-mandate, whish is simply pro choice, which yon Ian says is Pro-death, hence support for choice must be, in his eyes, pro death. q.e.d., as they say
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I would not argue
He was, as I see it, either maliciously slandering the
truckers or asserting that opposing mandates is "pro-death". I simply noted that the latter interpretation is, in the context of the truckers' demonstration and goals, equivalent to condemning allowing people to choose their approach. Not trying to score points, just expressing a concern that somebody would go to such rhetorical lengths to support vaccine mandates or otherwise oppose freedom of choice.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
@randtntx because of this quote
"Just noting that the people who don’t want zero-Covid are, objectively, pro-death"
I want to have zero Covid deaths so I use the one drug that has shown the best results around the globe. It is called Ivermectin. It shows better results than any other pharmacological agent. I would argue that based on his statement, if you do not approve of Chinas highly effective non pharmacological Covid containment strategies, or the use of Ivermectin, then you are Pro death.
I am in favor
@randtntx I agree. And Ian
He does not know what the other measures are that the truckers are willing to take. I believe we should have a "throw the kitchen sink at it" approach. But mandating a SINGLE solution seems pointless. How about encouraging a multi faceted approach?
I haven't seen any evidence
Have you seen any evidence that they want people to die
and, in particular, for their convenience and profit?
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
What does it mean in
My impression is most experts on all sides are in agreement that Covid is here to stay, that trying to eradicate it at this stage is a fool's errand and would cause more harm than not.
Is China's policy draconian?
I can only judge from what I have read and the Chinese policy appears to be much more successful than ours. The Chinese seem to have been able to open their society to closer than normal functioning than we have. They seem to have protected their population from the astronomical death toll that we have inflicted on our people. They appear to have accomplished this by being proactive from the very beginning. It seems to me they have 'thrown everything but the kitchen sink' at this problem. We have not. And yes, I would like a functioning public health system in this country so that we could effectively tackle this problem. Instead we throw up our arms and act like we can't do anything.
It seems to me that TPTB in this country are very happy to open up our society to function 'normally' without trying to protect the people with even the simplest of measures. Death and disease, as we have seen in the past two years is good for a certain sector of the economy. I think citizens should be careful what they ask for. If we ask for nothing (going back to normal) we will certainly get nothing. Now I hear that employers want to send people to work even when they are sick and test positive for the virus (Even Nurses). The people here are cheering this kind of an approach. Why? I don't think the Chinese send people back to work while they are sick. To do that seems pro-death, perhaps that is what Ian Welch meant?
Ian also suggestd that Oprah and
George Clooney should run for Pres of amerikkka in 2020.
Clooney of course, has a lifetime sinecure on the council of foreign relations, lol.
Perhaps it was a joke
I don't know, as much as I don't like either of the above, I don't think it would really matter in terms of the well-being of the rest of the u.s. citizens. I think he is on to something.
I always thought
I was a day late and a dollar short, this takes the cake though.
https://today.uconn.edu/2020/06/uconn-health-researchers-find-simple-ora...
@randtntx at the encouragement of
Yes, FLCCC began
Good on you
Y’all heard about this
Reports are that the lady died from her injuries, but it hasn’t been verified yet. But the only reason why they took the horses into the crowd was for intimidation. Dangerous move. Scared horses could have kicked out at people.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
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More
I can’t see the point of contact, but maybe you can. It’s clear from the picture above that it happened.
Of course there was a chance someone would get hurt!
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All that's left is democKracy
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2022/02/debt-rattle-february-19-2022/
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
I’m enjoying this one from there
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=245198
He definitely has a way with words.
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Yes Denninger has always been on the radar
even more should that be possible!
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
Dang!
He swears more than I do, and so appropriately. I'm laughing, and shaking my head at the same time. He's right to the point too!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
I see 3 possibilities, all very bad. Any good ones?
1, Canada votes a Conservative sweep next election, and for at least 20 years. The Earth won't last that long (the rest of the world follows suit)
2, Trudeau doesn't allow another election and Canada goes along. (see above)
3, the Canadians support an anti-anti-vax holocaust, Concentration camps, lynching, the works. Africa can't afford vaccines? Nuke Lagos! That'll teach em!
On to Biden since 1973
Coming soon to america and it isn't going to be pretty
https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/swjbk4/wef_leader_deputy_...
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
From the comments
This is why I wrote the essay on the great reset. Sadly only 5 people thought it was worth reading. Oh well we can’t say that we weren’t warned. The thing is that what’s happening in Canada with freezing bank accounts can happen here any time a president wants to enact it since congress passed the patriot act and Obama rescinded habeas corpus. We can be arrested and locked up indefinitely without access to a lawyer or have a trial on our guilt at the president’s whim.
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Yes, it's frustrating that more people aren't
Jimmy and Jackson touch on in it here
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJdHF7J_ZZM]
So does Russell
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GnClytz34]
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
Lots of people are cheering the crackdowns on bank accounts
I reminded them of that slippery slope and the saying that first they came for…
Idiots are the same ones who cheer for censorship. If they had been alive back in Germany during the war I wonder how many would even try to hide Anne Frank?
See the response from the speaker in my comment below. The audio was bad?
From Jimmy’s video he mentioned Tony Blair. Nothing he’s involved in is good for we the people.
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Just like the national guard didn’t have to be jabbed
when they took over for the nurses who were fired because they didn’t want to get jabbed there are truckers who are delivering medical supplies in Canada who don’t have to be. Make it make sense!
Yeah and so? Explain how that makes any sense at all when they say that they are dealing with an epidemic! It pure nonsense. IMO.
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It’s not just the audio of Shwab speaking
He wrote a damn article on how he has captured many politicians.
At least the question was asked. Someone should ask Pete about his name being mentioned.
People involved with the protest will be charged for a criminal act.
Sending another message. But no charges for people involved with the destructive BLM ones? From what I understand lots of businesses in the area are doing a class action lawsuit against the truckers because they say it hurt their businesses. Others are saying those businesses made lots of money because of all the activities.
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Brilliant!
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The false Ivermectin cure always was / is a scam!
From JAMA
New clinical trial results published Friday show that Ivermectin fails to stop Covid-19 progression.
link to JAMA
What is your problem?
Don't want access to IVM that's fine, but it isn't fine to deny others access.
Dr Kory debunks the piece here 15 or 20 min in.
Look no one is asking you to take IVM, nor accept it is an effective treatment. But you might want to ask yourself why so many Drs think it is, and those doctors are largely silenced....,.as is the damage many have experience from vaccination.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I doubt he will watch it to see if perhaps the study is wrong
because his mind is made up and there is only one thing that works to treat Covid even though it’s not working very well at all. After 3 jabs people are still getting infected and still they won’t consider the possibility that repurposed drugs can work. But it’s not just Covid that has closed their minds. It’s been fascinating reading the comments from people I have known through the various comments systems on various websites and how they have changed over the decades in the way they think. I have agreed with many of them from a leftist perspective until the epidemic hit because they saw through the establishment bullsh*t, but now it’s like I have no idea who they have become. I think it had something to do with Trump derangement syndrome and the constant bombardment of Russia Russia Russia that has changed the way they think.
I’m probably not explaining this very well. I’ll blame it on it’s being morning. But I just realized that when reading a comment from someone I’ve respected for a long time. NATO's mouthpiece is insisting that Putin is getting ready for a full scale invasion of Ukraine and the commenter compares Putin to Saddam and Iraq. No idea what he’s saying, but it’s not what he would have said a few years ago. One place where I see that the most is on common dreams. I used to comment there daily since they had a system to, but my viewpoints have been discarded and attacked so many times I’ve given up. Their minds are closed to any thinking other than group think and they now see Biden as the savior that Obama never was. More people are thinking along the same lines as those on orange state.
Maybe I’ll try to say this more clearly later. I think the racist graphic sums it quite well.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
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Trump derangement syndrome...
morphed into COVID derangement syndrome...at least in my group of friends. Those that bought Russiagate are buying the Falsie narrative now.
As to IVM, HCQ, Vitamins, and so on... I'm not asking others to think they work. I try to present evidence, but leave it to them to come to their own conclusions. Why do they try to convince me these treatments don't work?
Kinda like the jabs. You want repeated jabs...hey that's up to you, but don't ask me. My double dose was more than enough. And I feel I wasn't well informed prior to getting them.
I rarely respond, but I felt the need this AM. Enjoy your day and give Sam a pet for us.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Shaking my head in
disbelief. Biden as a savior? I don't disagree with you, Snoop, at all, I disagree with the main-stream never-really-pay-attention center-left. Biden's a sh$t dem. He was when I was 9, he is still now that I'm 59. And we all know it. We've got all kinds of proof in his own words from when he was younger. But now he's some kinda dementia-addled savior for them? From what? Bernie could have saved us much better...
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so