@usefewersyllables , there are history books and there are history books. Texas has a overlarge influence on history text books that are deemed worthy of supplying to our public schools. Many of those probably should be burned.

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has figured out one way to make sure that he gets into the history books, at least for a little while before they start burning them... He and De Santis make a pretty couple, don't they?

@CB . I didn't listen to that dark horse podcast with Robert Malone. I will look for it; hopefully it is still available.

Here is an interesting interview with Dr. D. Gurdasani that explains why we are unlikely to reach herd immunity and why allowing this virus to become endemic would be unwise.
"Deepti Gurdasani is one of the lead authors of the BMJ article condemning the UK government’s promotion of 'herd immunity through mass infection', calling its actions a 'dangerous and unethical' experiment.”

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/02/gurd-a02.html

All these factors make it very difficult to attain herd immunity. We need to remember with the current variant that is becoming dominant in different parts of the globe, because it’s highly transmissible, we need about 85 percent or more of the population to be immune, not vaccinated, but immune and not be able to essentially transmit to other people. At the current point in time, we don’t think that vaccines necessarily provided 85 percent effectiveness. Even if you vaccinated 100 percent of the population, you may not reach that level where the pandemic dies by itself, which is essentially the herd immunity threshold.

And that makes it very complicated. I think there needs to be a level of honesty around this. This is not a threshold we will likely be able to reach through vaccination or contain the pandemic through vaccination alone, unless we develop a next generation of vaccines that are effective against these newer variants, which may well happen. But it’s unlikely to be able to keep up with virus evolution unless we prevent new variants from evolving.

Dr. Gurdasani has this to say about allowing this virus to become endemic.

Of course, this idea of living with the virus and endemicity leads to new opportunities for the virus to evolve as we’ve already seen, because the more transmission happens, the more mutation happens. And if you have a population that’s partially immune, that sort of high level of mutation hits a sort of partial protection against vaccination, which means that mutations that can escape a vaccine-based immunity or natural immunity are then selected.

And that’s how the adaptation of the virus happens, to escape vaccines, and promotes new variants that are potentially more transmissible and more severe than we’ve seen. People who talk about endemicity often are speaking about benign viruses or the virus becoming benign over time, something like the flu that you live with, that comes in the seasons, kills a few thousand people, as if that’s acceptable. But, in reality, the picture with SARS-CoV-2 is likely to look very different. It is likely it will be a high endemicity situation where the virus continues to adapt and, perhaps, even our vaccines can’t keep up with it. In which case we lose much of the gains we’ve already made. This will lead to a sort of pandemic and epidemic cycles.

And this will leave many people disabled with long-term disease. I mean, this is a virus we know can enter the brain, that causes long-term neurological deficits, that causes thinning in parts of the brain that are associated with taste, smell, and memory. We also know it affects different organ systems, even in those people with mild infection.

And we know that chronic illness isn’t rare [with this virus]. It’s nothing like the flu and it’s nothing that’s benign. And there’s absolutely no evidence that this virus is currently evolving in any way to become less severe or less transmissible or less able to escape vaccines. All indications point to the opposite direction. We should be very cautious and worried about letting this virus spread in our communities and achieving endemicity. This is not a virus we can live with or even want to live with. This is a virus that we need to eliminate, but that requires global coordination. And it requires countries to do what’s in the interest of public health and what’s based on evidence. And it also requires a scientific community to come together and not indulge in “exceptionalist” stances that are not grounded in evidence.

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US facing a deluge of COVID-19 hospitalizations as Delta variant spreads rapidly
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In addition to Brilliant, every epidemiological authority on the pandemic has stated in no uncertain terms that mutations are probable, if not inevitable, especially considering the repeated high levels of community transmission across the globe. In such an event, even vaccines and strict public health measures may not curb the spread of emerging strains.
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The worrisome week-over-week rising trends in COVID-19 cases across the US, regardless of each states asserted vaccination rates, only confirms in the real-world sense the validity of Dr. Gasperowicz’s conclusions.

Adding the proverbial insult to this gruesome injury, the present situation in the US harks back to the early March days of 2020, when a flawed diagnostic test and lack of meaningful public health measures—contact tracing and isolation, social distancing and mass testing—meant the country was flying blind through the storm of the pandemic.
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“We are in a situation with this current variant where herd immunity is not a possibility because it still infects vaccinated individuals. I suspect that what the virus will throw up next is a variant that is perhaps even better at transmitting in vaccinated populations. So, that’s an even more of a reason not to be making a vaccine program around herd immunity.”

It is becoming apparent that the only solutions were prophylactics that can minimize the effects and duration of the viral infection combined with effective isolation - ie quarantine the sick. We should have prioritized accurate testing and treatments rather than shooting for the moon with untested vaccines, especially the mRNA 'vaccines', that have proved to be so ineffective and actually counter-productive in this pandemic.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwE2ZeuUyXo]

@QMS

sources many times per day as it was happening. Sometimes within a mere week or so stuff either vanished or took really narrow, precise searches to retrieve; lots of stuff vanished completely after a while, so I know exactly whereof you speak. Bulk gaslighting on a global scale. I can't tell you how many times I regretted never having a couple of huge drives and some software that would make clipping, indexing, and saving hyper easy.

be well and have a good one

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Thanks for reading and commenting.
The underlying point about our memories
being flushed down the 'memory hole' is the
constant re-writing of the script to suit current
memes. It is confusing to research a data point
that has been changed to suit some agenda that
did not exist at the time of discovery. This may sound
vague, but there seem to be fewer constants these days.
Except for wars (just change the mission name) and taxes
(always going up).

Thats it.
Cheers!