The Dose 12-20-2021

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The Dose is an open thread dedicated to the gentle discussion of of all things Covid. Please refrain from posting covid material elsewhere. Thank you.

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NYC Mayor de Blasio is opening more centers this week----or should I say, re-opening the test centers he'd closed in November.

Look closely. In this photo as in the lines I've observed all week, the people lining up are the young. The article confirms that young people seem to be very frightened by this variant.

Here's the NY Times article from this morninghttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/nyregion/common-cold-coronavirus-anxi...

Is That Sniffle a Cold? Or Is It Covid?
"In New York City, the slightest runny nose has people canceling holiday gatherings and lining up for hours outside coronavirus testing centers.

The symptoms of the common cold are typically a stuffy head, the sniffles and body aches.

Now, this season, there’s a new one: panic.

As the latest coronavirus variant races through recently reopened offices, holiday parties and family gatherings, signs of an ailment that was once an annoying winter perennial — eased with bed rest and chicken soup — now set minds racing. In New York City, the slightest sniffle has people canceling holiday plans and packing coronavirus testing centers, where in recent days lines have stretched for blocks.

Is it a cold? Or is it Covid?"

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spent an hour on medicalkidnap and healthimpactnews, maybe two hours.
Mind blown.

You folks that want to line up every three months for a booster when All Cause Mortality for the Vaccinated is climbing the charts. . .
Well, good luck to ya.

I’m not such a sick bastard that I’d wish Ill on anybody trying to protect themselves or their loved ones, I would just like people to Wake the Fuck Up about what they’re Doing to themselves.

It ain’t fucking Good,that’s been proven at this point IMO.

Many Thanks to/for all the posters/information that has been given here. If ignorance is bliss, there must be a lot of Happy People out in the world.

Sad.

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
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@Tall Bald and Ugly

was amiss when the health authorities stopped counting cases of the flu. The numbers dropped to zero from a yearly average of about 300K. Everything was clumped into the covidis category.

Now, this year as cold season comes around, suddenly there is a new designation ohmygod micron, which of course needs to be jabbed to death or else. The labs are doing a real knock-up job finding
bugs with scary names now.

Meanwhile, countries are throwing out millions of the gene therapy drugs due to shelf life expiration, bad batches and improper handling. Add on to that the improper administration of
shots, ineffective tests and 24/7 media scares and we have the recipe for more plandemic.

Pathetic

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@Tall Bald and Ugly

I think after someone posted an article from it. The athletes one? And then went to the other one to read the whole article and then to the individual stories on people who died.

I’m listening to this now. Medical people talking about adverse effects from the vaccines.

https://rumble.com/vp3h2w-whistleblowers-speak-on-covid-19-vaccine-injur...

They are devastated by what they are seeing. There is no way that governments do not know what is happening to people worldwide. No easy way to report injuries, but even when people take the vtime to do it it doesn’t get anyone’s attention. And people are threatened with job loss if they do speak out.

Also reposting this excellent essay with a must watch video. The 1st one in case someone missed it.

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-an-agree-to-disagree-...

People who went on cruise ships had to be fully vaccinated and now there are outbreaks on the ships. One plane from SA were either fully jabbed or tested negative, but 61/162 were positive for the moronic virus. Fully jabbed NFL, NBA, ect sports people are still getting infected and people who are fully jabbed and boosted are being told to wear masks.

Fauci today says get boosted!
Warren is boosted but got infected anyway. Dash 1 !!!

Let’s recap what we were told before the jabs came out shall we?

Memory Hole: virtually every major health official in the United States has claimed that COVID shots stop the virus

And every single 'public health' pandemic policy is anchored to the idea that COVID shots stop the virus

There is an incredible gaslighting campaign happening in the United States right now, as COVID cases reach all time highs in the U.S. northeast and elsewhere.

On television and in corporate press outlets, there is a giant, ongoing memory-holing operation related to the once-promised idea that mRNA shots would stop the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.

While they now claim otherwise, every single major government health official and pharmaceutical executive has claimed that COVID shots stop the virus. Let’s take a look at what the top government health officials have said on the record about these shots over the past year.

Let’s start with the worst of offenders, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

“When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community. In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that's when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community."

“Our data from the CDC suggests that vaccinated people don’t carry the virus, don’t get sick and that it’s not just in clinical trials, but it’s also in real world data.” - CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has repeatedly told people that his shots stop the spread of COVID-19 and prevent infection.

“I’m very confident that transmission between people will be reduced by such a highly effective vaccine" -BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin, whose company developed the “Pfizer vaccine.”

Links in the article are backed up with the stories of when they said it. It goes beyond gaslighting. It’s outright lying to us and now lying again about them never saying that. Now it’s to keep you from getting worse or dying. I can go on, but choir preaching. The ones who need to hear don’t want to. They’d rather blame the unjabbed and call them names and cut off their medical treatment.

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@snoopydawg I represented him in a divorce a few years ago. He told me that out of the blue, his ex-wife called and told him to not get jabbed, and to tell his family to skip them. She is an RN with vast experience.
He had one sister who got vaccinated. After her second jab, her arms went numb and her hands tingle all the time. She had these adverse reactions immediately after the second shot, and they have not abated for 7 months. If this is forever, her life is ruined.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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h/t - Yves Smith

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

@Azazello This video should be required viewing for the entire population of the USA.

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I didn’t see that before I posted their written words.

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from yesterday's The Dose as I believe is important to understand what is actually going on with the continuing FUD.

I see this as a raison d'être
@snoopydawg

for the instillation of biometric passports. This is the ONLY measure that TPTB can ensure full compliance. I believe that the plandemic was engineered with this as one of the end points. Once they have your biometrics you can be controlled like sheep. Everything has been planned in advance by the WEF to be in place between 2025 and 2030.

US government leans into airport biometrics, providers envision automation options
Dec 15, 2021

An executive order signed this week by U.S. President Joe Biden could boost funding for the Transportation Security Administration’s biometric programs, as the government attempts to save Americans time and address the highest-friction interactions they have with the public sector, Roll Call reports.

Senior Advisor to the President Neera Tanden specifically invoked biometrics among tools to help speed up airport processes and reduce the amount of time people spend waiting in lines. Another key component of the executive order is communicating to the public the services the government offers, Tanden said.

Other areas of friction addressed by the order include passport renewals and online applications, which could mean more support for federal digital ID and online authentication programs.
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“Developing self-screening stations at checkpoints, through the Passenger Self-Screening Project, will allow passengers to complete screening activities by themselves, similar to self-checkout at grocery stores,” explains Kathryn Coulter Mitchell, the senior official performing the duties of the under secretary for Science and Technology.

TSA Identity Management Capability Manager Jason Lim discussed government efforts to incorporate more credentials, such as mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs), in a recent interview with PYMNTS.

Lim sees the pandemic as fundamentally changing TSA’s mission, with increased automation and digital ID screening necessary measures for protecting public health and safety.

In addition to mDLs, TSA’s efforts include the rollout of its new biometric credential authentication technology, known as CAT-2 or CAT-C scanners, supplied by Idemia. Pairing biometrics with approved digital IDs can significantly improve security while rendering processes touchless, Lim says.
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Amadeus’ Traveler ID for Safe Travel will also be implemented by Hawaiian for convenient verification of health status documentation.

Elsewhere in the travel industry, airport retailer Hudson has adopted Amazon One palm biometrics to provide a ‘Just Walk Out’ experience at Dallas Love Field Airport and Chicago Midway International Airport.

The deployment of Amazon’s retail biometrics in airports allows previously enrolled travelers to use biometrics to charge purchases to a card associated with their account at Hudson Nonstop stores.
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the Covid mines seems to have some truth to it.

A GM of a NHL team asked appropriately why players without symptoms are getting tested? So my question is, how many players are testing false positive and if having been vaccinated does that make you more susceptible to testing positive when tested.

This surely says, they're coming to take us away. And we were afraid of the Republicans and Cuomo

https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2021/12/debt-rattle-december-20-2021/

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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

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@ggersh

Sure that’s one way to decrease the number of cases. Hey wait wasn’t that what Trump suggested once and got all kinds of crap from democrats? Why yes it was.

So my question is, how many players are testing false positive and if having been vaccinated does that make you more susceptible to testing positive when tested.

Or more susceptible to getting infected because it lowers your immunity. Malone has written about this and I posted a link about a week ago. He called it VAIDS. Vaccine auto immune disorder.

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@snoopydawg And from what I've read Omicron has the same symptoms as a cold, imagine that.

Here's a link

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n3103

Covid-19: Runny nose, headache, and fatigue are commonest symptoms of omicron, early data show

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now it's someone who Jews don't like"

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@ggersh

This seems to back it up. IM doc from naked capitalism in the link Azazello posted.

How have things changed? – Way way more vaccinated and boostered patients are now becoming positive. Many of them quite ill. Indeed, as OUTPATIENTS, I would say our vaccinated ill is basically on par with the vaccinated population at large. The same is true of the boosters. So, basically, just like Denmark, we seem to be at complete par. Ergo, the vaccines are basically worthless for transmission of the virus. So far, it remains about 60-40 unvaccinated-vaccinated in the hospital. However, the vaccinated are becoming more and more ill.

This one blasts the WH Covid trio for their blaming everything on the unvaxxed. Both are good reads as are the comments.

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@snoopydawg How can such inept people be in charge of the govt. Corruption.

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@ggersh

From the lancet

High COVID-19 vaccination rates were expected to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in populations by reducing the number of possible sources for transmission and thereby to reduce the burden of COVID-19 disease. Recent data, however, indicate that the epidemiological relevance of COVID-19 vaccinated individuals is increasing.

In the UK it was described that secondary attack rates among household contacts exposed to fully vaccinated index cases was similar to household contacts exposed to unvaccinated index cases (25% for vaccinated vs 23% for unvaccinated). 12 of 31 infections in fully vaccinated household contacts (39%) arose from fully vaccinated epidemiologically linked index cases. Peak viral load did not differ by vaccination status or variant type []. In Germany, the rate of symptomatic COVID-19 cases among the fully vaccinated (“breakthrough infections”) is reported weekly since 21. July 2021 and was 16.9% at that time among patients of 60 years and older [].

This proportion is increasing week by week and was 58.9% on 27. October 2021 (Figure 1) providing clear evidence of the increasing relevance of the fully vaccinated as a possible source of transmission. A similar situation was described for the UK. Between week 39 and 42, a total of 100.160 COVID-19 cases were reported among citizens of 60 years or older. 89.821 occurred among the fully vaccinated (89.7%), 3.395 among the unvaccinated (3.4%) [].

One week before, the COVID-19 case rate per 100.000 was higher among the subgroup of the vaccinated compared to the subgroup of the unvaccinated in all age groups of 30 years or more.

Israel a nosocomial outbreak was reported involving 16 healthcare workers, 23 exposed patients and two family members. The source was a fully vaccinated COVID-19 patient. The vaccination rate was 96.2% among all exposed individuals (151 healthcare workers and 97 patients). Fourteen fully vaccinated patients became severely ill or died, the two unvaccinated patients developed mild disease [].

There’s more to this paragraph and I broke it up for easier reading. I think it’s what Malone and others have been saying could/would happen if vaccines that were none sterilizing were given during the epidemic. Whether it’s ADE or VAIDS remains to be seen or if it’s a bit of both. And yet all Fauci and Biden are doing is telling people to get jabbed more. Warren tested positive yesterday and said that it would have been worse if she hadn’t been, but how does she even know that? Maybe she wouldn’t have gotten it if she had not been and was taking vitamins and ivermectin. Or will she join the group of congress critters that do take it? But whenever someone says that I think of Powell. Good thing he got jabbed…it could’ve been worse.

I think the poo is going to hit the fan with omicron. I hope it’s as mild as people are saying it is.

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with their mandated jackboot authority ploys.
WTF, doesn't anyone see that the vaxxes are not stopping
the spread? Guess it doesn't matter when your own
personal collar is the goal. This is just another excuse.

Just say know.

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@QMS and they all seem to be neoshitlibs/neoshitcons.

People on the left and right are seeing thru this BS, we just
don't have a big enough megaphone yet.

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"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
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@ggersh

somebody bound to hear

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@ggersh @ggersh Remove them?

Exactly--How and to Where.....

Germany, 1938.

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@NYCVG

What? That’s stepping way over the line to vaccinate kids without their parents approval or knowledge. They have done it in some places in Canada already and it’s why the health director in Tennessee was fired. She wanted to bring back a law allowing that. I doubt that many kids would get it before parents went loco. I know I would. People are supposed to have the right to body autonomy which government doesn’t get to overrule. It’s been settled in the Nuremberg code. Besides all the vaccines are still experimental and none used here have gotten authorized yet. Pfizer wants people to think they have, but the minute they use the one given they then can be sued for damages.

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They put people in detention camps for 2 weeks.

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are skeptical about government's assurances that the vax is safe and/or that the mandates are justified.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlvBP8f6S-I]

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@randtntx protests
[video:https://youtu.be/G9udRk2q7ic

France:

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versus the much larger spectrum of the collective us.
Hang onto your hats, this may get rough ..

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@QMS , your just say know. And hang on to your hats for sure.

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@randtntx

coming forward and exposing how dangerous these non vaccines are.

Here’s a few talking about what they are seeing in their hospitals and it’s not rare according to them. 3-6 people a day, every day since they were rolled out. They will absolutely lose their jobs before taking them. Elderly people losing their mental health and apparently there is no place to put them like nursing homes so they take up beds in hospitals instead. And remember no one is fully vaccinated until 2 weeks after their last jab and if it’s vax injury they get counted as unvaxxed Covid. Devious.

https://rumble.com/vp3h2w-whistleblowers-speak-on-covid-19-vaccine-injur...

Doctors here are threatened with losing their licenses if they even hint at bad vax outcomes. That’s conspiracy or something in that vein. Not too long ago I think it was npr that asked people if they knew anyone who had died of the Rona and they were flooded with people telling about vaccine injuries. And still we are being told that they are safe. That’s criminal.

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between different lots of the Covid vaccines.

Covid Vax Variability Between Lots - Independent Research by International Team - Video Link
December 15th, 2021

Scientists compared variability between Flu vaccine lots with variability between Covid vaccine lots, and were shocked to find EXCESSIVE and HIGHLY UNUSUAL degree of variation between different lots of the Covid vaccines.

When 22,000 flu vaccine lots were examined, almost all of them produced 5 or fewer severe adverse reactions per lot. Only 2 lots exceeded this (22 SAEs and 37 SAEs)

When the same number of Covid vaccines were compared, there was found to be huge variation - with many lots producing 5 or fewer severe adverse reactions , but many others producing 1000-5000 severe adverse reactions.

So the coefficient of variation for Covid vaccines is 1000% - compared to the coefficient of variation for flu vaccines (which is 99%)

In other words, Covid vaccines vary 10 times more than flu vaccines.

Under FDA regulations, such high variation between different lots and between different manufacturers means the drugs are ADULTERATED, and carries significant legal penalties.

Such variation may also negate EUA authorisation - which is only granted based on consistency of the product.

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and any mandatory reasons. The fact that less people are getting booster shots is a good sign I think. Some it’s because people didn’t sign up for continuous shots, others got worse reactions from the 2nd jabs and some got 2, but got sick anyway. Whatever it is I’m glad to see it. The more the merrier to join against the agenda.

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"We're getting to the point now where ... it's about severity," said Xavier Becerra, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, in a meeting with reporters this week. "It's not about cases. It's about severity."

Becerra said the issue recently arose during a meeting at the White House with Biden's Covid response team. Other officials also said the issue of how to refocus the public away from total cases toward the severity of illness has been an ongoing subject of discussion within the administration.

"There's a degree of difficulty that now comes in trying to decide what means it's severe and what you have to do to stay out of that threshold of severity," Becerra said. "But I think that's where we're heading, is to try to be able to tell the public that."

Administration officials acknowledge the Omicron surge will likely rip through the country, a psychological setback for a population that's become highly attuned to the pandemic. In some places where vaccination rates lag, the consequences will be debilitating, administration officials fear. But in areas where most people have received their initial shots and boosters, the effects could be minimal.

"You have a Delta surge now that, even if we didn't have Omicron, would be a real challenge for the unvaccinated people. ... That's the ingredients of a perfect storm," a senior administration official said. "That's the reason why the message has to be, 'Get vaccinated -- and if you are vaccinated, get boosted.' "

Good luck with that message change after 2 years. It’s always been the case numbers that drove the fear. But like the NFL changing who they will test, either just the unjabbed or the ones that show symptoms, Biden’s only going to mention the positives that are also symptomatic. Besides if Malone is right we’re going to see more severe illnesses in the jabbed vs the unjabbed. Here’s an idea. If they really want to get a handle on the epidemic then use every trick in the book including repurposed drugs and watch as it finally recedes into history. But then people might wonder why that didn’t happen from the git go. Mamma said that lies always come back to bite you in the buttocks.

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@snoopydawg Laugh or cry?

IDK.

New words. New framing. new goal posts. seems pretty desperate and desperate is dangerous

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Someone asked Pelosi if she thought democrats needed to change what they had been doing and she said no they just needed better messaging..lol. That’s what Biden’s WH is going to do. Change the message. And probably move the goalposts while they are at it. Da hell with how many lives are lost. Just change the message! Yup they are going to lose the midterms big time because most people can see that they can’t deliver. Except for DK. It’s the voters fault for not electing more and better democrats.

And it’s not Biden’s fault that he can’t get BBB through. Who’s is it? Republicans for not voting for it..oh I wish I was kidding, but it’s all over the wreck list. But then didn’t Biden tell us that he knew how to work with republicans better than Bernie could. Yes he did…

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The protections you used up until now are not enough.

We need to talk about prevention. Vaccines can help reduce the rate of death and serious infections, but hospital systems will crash at the current level of infection. Treatments are important but protection is essential. Omnicom reduces your immunity and reinfects often.

  • For starters, get real masks and double-mask now.
  • Get the nasal spray I have recommended that contains carrageenan. Clinical trials show it to be effective against SARS-CoV-2. Use it before you go out, under your mask.
  • Gargle throughout the day with remedies we have discussed.
  • There is now a chewing gum prophylaxis.
  • If you think you have been exposed, swab nostrils with provident iodine and follow with several squirts of saline nasal spray. Keep your nose clean and disinfected at all times.
  • Put air purifiers in every room you occupy. Read up on venting.
  • Stay out of stores, office buildings, and any interior spaces where people gather.
  • Do not walk outside where there are other people walking.
  • If possible, switch to medical services that use Zoom.

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Omicron is Not a Mild Infection

Findings from the latest report from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Modelling within the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Jameel Institute, Imperial College London.

The study finds no evidence of Omicron having lower severity than Delta, judged by either the proportion of people testing positive who report symptoms, or by the proportion of cases seeking hospital care after infection. However, hospitalisation data remains very limited at this time.

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US Public Health Officials appear to be lying throughout the following article. It looks like they are conflating general Covid-19 statistics with their Omicron data — and pretending they are discussing Omicron infections:

Reinfections Seen in Early U.S. Cases of Omicron
— Anthony Fauci, MD, delivers "sobering" and "encouraging" news about the variant

Omicron has dipped its toe into the U.S., but COVID-19 booster shots can prevent it from gaining a stronger foothold, White House officials said at a briefing on Friday.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, opened the briefing by noting that Omicron is now in 25 states. She then reviewed an early release in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which cited preliminary data on 43 cases of Omicron from December 1 to 7.

Of these 43 cases, almost 60% were in younger adults ages 18 to 39, one-third had traveled internationally in the prior 2 weeks, and nearly 80% were fully vaccinated. Fourteen of these patients also received a booster dose, although six of those received the shot less than 14 days before symptom onset. Six of the cases involved people with a documented prior COVID infection.

There was one hospitalization and no deaths. The report also noted the earliest date of symptom onset was November 15 in someone who had traveled abroad.

Nearly all cases were symptomatic, with 89% reporting cough, 65% reporting fatigue, and 59% reporting congestion or runny nose.

"Although we don't have all the answers on the Omicron variant, initial data suggest COVID-19 boosters can help to bolster protection against Omicron," Walensky said.

She also cited two studies out of Israel that found a 90% reduction in mortality among older adults receiving boosters, and a "20-fold decrease in severe disease" for those who were boosted across age ranges.

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Don't know why, but the NYTimes is using weasel words in this otherwise factual report. Notice the subtitle: They are not using Omicron data in the first part, and in the second part the 'concern' is not so much the rapid spread — but the rapid spread of a serious infection. The title is correct, however, because human scientists do not yet know how to make a vaccine for a coronavirus. They have tried and tried, but have never been able to produce a vaccine that prevents infection.

Most of the World’s Vaccines Likely Won’t Prevent Infection From Omicron

They do seem to offer significant protection against severe illness, but the consequences of rapidly spreading infection worry many public health experts.

A growing body of preliminary research suggests the Covid vaccines used in most of the world offer almost no defense against becoming infected by the highly contagious Omicron variant.

All vaccines still seem to provide a significant degree of protection against serious illness from Omicron, which is the most crucial goal. But only the Pfizer and Moderna shots, when reinforced by a booster, appear to have initial success at stopping infections, and these vaccines are unavailable in most of the world.

The other shots — including those from AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and vaccines manufactured in China and Russia — do little to nothing to stop the spread of Omicron, early research shows. And because most countries have built their inoculation programs around these vaccines, the gap could have a profound impact on the course of the pandemic.

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@Pluto's Republic vaccination status or health complications. Omicron infection should be avoided if at all possible. Too much confusion in medicine right now to risk an unknown outcome of an infection.

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@Pluto's Republic So what are you saying Pluto? That Omigod the latest vairiant they pulled out of their butts is a killer or just another variant in this strange trip the purveyors of cooked up viruses have cooked up to sell their antidote the vague jabs? Jeeze what a nasty trip. Like I trust big pharma or the healthcare industry to provide anything but more death or harm to humans. Cant figure out your angle on this.

Think perhaps Moderna or Pfizer BioTech are not interested or able to 'cure' this manmade plague. Hopefully it will run its course as the assholes who cooked it up are not as efficient as they fancy themselves. Man get rid of these psychos. Gain of function my ass. Scientists they might be but who gives a rats ass when they cross the line and muck with the basic laws of nature. For what gain? Sickos.

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Early observations demonstrate big trouble for all interests;

Omicron is not a mild disease above the 40th parallel where most of Europe and much of the US reside. It is no less dangerous than the Delta variant. People end up in the hospital because we developed no treatments for Covid-19.

It is so contagious it is hard to imagine. Recall that early last week in was in 20 US States. Today, it comprised 73 percent of all new cases in the US.

It not only evades the body's immunity from vaccinations or prior infections, but it erases the immune system memory so that people can easily become reinfected. Again and again.

New cases that check into the hospital are now growing closer to 50-50. It affects the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.

Anyone who travels anywhere to celebrate Christmas with friends and family will likely become infected. Americans do not wear serious masks and know nothing about alternative prevention methods. They have no interest in staying home.and are worried about all the wrong things.

In my view, this is a story about molecular biology. I speculate that the answer is in adjuncts and catalysts. If a treatment is found, it will likely be an old drug that already exists or a combination of minute nutraceuticals. The two early treatments that were sabotaged and banned by the medical Industry — are still the two most widely used treatments for Covid-19 in the world today. Both were related to insecticides. Now a third one is gaining noticed. Chances are that's where the answer lies when it comes to eradication. The virus can only be eradicated inside human bodies that contain the right kind of molecules.

At the current rate of infection, Omicron will cover the entire world in just a couple of months.

There is already a new variant of interest waiting to take its place.

I don't believe this coronavirus is manmade. US bio-labs all over the world (unregulated) are working on weaponizing pathogens optimized to match a genetic trait carried by enemy. Likely carried by regional insects. There is an abundance of pathogens out there. Some scientists think the animal host of Covid-19 is a humanized lab mouse. Sounds right.

About 10 percent of humans can or do become psychopaths. I agree with you. This brain malformation is the problem in the world. They all need to be found and retired from whatever jobs they have, especially public service. They have been creating chaos and misery for tens of thousand of years. They are now actively killing the planet.

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https://brownstone.org/articles/osha-vaccine-mandate-heads-to-the-suprem...

This really is stacking up to be a battle between the new and old normal, which is to say the expectation of normal freedoms vs. rule by a bio-security state. The results will fundamentally affect the relationship between business and government and workers and employers. If the majority gets its way here, it’s hard to see how traditional Constitutional restraints on states at any level can be maintained in the face of bureaucratic diktat as ordered by an executive.

I think the majority opinion was wrong because it’s more about panic over the virus than following the law. How does it make sense that places with 100 workers is in danger if not everyone is jabbed, but not places with less than that number? And how does a mandate for that business keep people from being exposed to the unjabbed after they get off work? And now that more jabbed folks are getting infected how will making sure that everyone in 100+ is jabbed make any f’cking difference?

Some people who are pro mandates think that every unjabbed nurse is going to infect them even though they have been fully jabbed even if they are wearing full PPE? It’s fear that is driving a lot of this, but just because people are afraid doesn’t mean that the rest of us have to give up our rights. People in Germany once thought that Jewish people were infected with all kinds of diseases and went on to close their eyes to atrocities. Let’s not make that decision here. If government can force you to take something then it can force you to give something up. Blood, marrow, organs? Slippery slope..IMO.

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Discovered: Fauci part of campaign to demonize opponents
from Tom Woods

I'm sure you remember the statement last year by three experts -- Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, and Sunetra Gupta of Oxford -- decrying lockdowns as disastrous, and contrary to public health properly understood. It was called the Great Barrington Declaration.

Thanks to emails recently made public, we now know that Dr. Fauci and Francis Collins (of the National Institutes of Health) were part of an effort to smear these scientists and deliberately misrepresent their positions.

(Incidentally, when I was dealing with COVID myself, Jay -- who has become a friend -- wrote to me without being asked, to offer medical advice and answer my questions.)

For today's email, I want to share Jay's response, from a Twitter thread:

On TV today Francis Collins doubled down on his lies and propaganda attack and on the Great Barrington Declaration. If you read the GBD, you will not find the words "let it rip" because the central idea is focused protection of the vulnerable.

We now know the origin of the term -- it came from the mind of Collins and Fauci. When reporters started asking me why I wanted to "let the virus rip," I was puzzled. Now I know that Collins & Fauci primed the media attack with the lie.

I was also puzzled by the mischaracterization of the GBD as a "herd immunity strategy." Biologically the epidemic ends when a sufficient number of people have immunity, either through COVID recovery or vax. Lockdown, let-it-rip, & the GBD all lead to that.

As Martin Kulldorff has said, it makes as much sense to say "herd immunity strategy" as it does to say "gravity strategy" for landing an airplane. The only question is how to land safely, not whether gravity applies.

So the question is how to get through this terrible pandemic with the least harm, where the harms considered include all of public health, not just COVID. The GBD & focused protection of the vulnerable is a middle ground between lockdown & let-it-rip.
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In this propaganda and smearing war, they joined Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust, and Dominic Cummings, former consigliere to UK PM Boris Johnson.

They engaged in ad hominem smears, calling Sunetra Gupta, Martin Kulldorff, and me "fringe" epidemiologists. It is an odd argument given my decades of NIH-funded research. Does Collins & the NIH fund many other "fringe" scientists?

So, why do Fauci & Collins engage in ad hominem & lies instead of honest scientific discussion? I don't know fully, but part of the answer lies in another puzzle -- their blindness to the devastating effects of lockdown on the poor & vulnerable.
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The conflict of interest created here is at least as great as traditionally recognized conflicts that, for instance, pharma-funded scientists face. Collins and Fauci should have recused themselves from COVID policymaking.

Francis Collins' interview with Baier marks a sad end to an illustrious career, and I take no joy in saying so. Fauci should join him in retirement. They have done enough damage.

You can say that again.

If you want to find out more about Jeremy Farrar, I've posted his complicity with Gates' Wellcome Trust in my post of today in a previous The Dose:

https://caucus99percent.com/comment/553672#comment-553672 12/21/2021
Covid-19, trust, and Wellcome: how charity’s pharma investments overlap with its research efforts

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