74 people in Martha's Vineyard have tested positive for Covid since Obama's 60th birthday bash - "health officials note it's still too early to know whether the hundreds of guests and workers gathered for his weekend of maskless parties have contributed to the surge in cases"
The woke virus strikes again
Facebook - George Takei @GeorgeTakei: "The willfully unvaccinated who wind up in hospitals from Covid should not receive priority medical care over other very sick or injured people who are as much in urgent need of medical care." (Aug 2021)
"A simple law: The more someone called Trump a Nazi, the more likely they are people who act like Nazis."
Addendum: Aaron Kheriaty, MD on Twitter - "No, no this is not how medicine works. We treat the sick. We do not blame the sick. Every sick patient is a person, equal in dignity and equally worthy of medical care. Period."
George Takei on Twitter - "A reminder that ordinary Americans don’t get a helicopter to a free hospital, special antiviral cocktails, or even to check themselves into hospitals as a precaution due to preexisting asthma when they come down with Covid-19. We need healthcare for all, not just the powerful." (Oct 2020)
Healthcare for all means healthcare for those who liberals like
Bacteria Found in Nuclear Reactors Could Be the Secret to Faster, Cheaper Vaccines - "In 2012, for example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documented somewhere near 42,000 new cases of whooping cough, the largest outbreak since 1955, due not to poor access to healthcare, or kooky anti-vaxxers, or a heartier strain of the pertussis bacteria itself, but to an unreliable vaccine composed of fragmentary cellular material."
Damn anti-vaxxers questioning vaccine safety! If you have questions about any vaccine you're an anti-science conspiracy theorist!
From mid-2020
Sean Speer: Let's not prolong this pandemic for the sake of the expert class - The Hub - "University of Waterloo labour economist Mikal Skuterud wondered aloud whether the experts whose influence and profile have risen over the past twenty-four months or so may be consciously or subconsciously inclined to prolong the pandemic... a number of hitherto obscure academics and bureaucrats have never mattered this much before and probably never will again. It’s not normal for them to appear on television each day or increase their Twitter followings tenfold. Such a surge of influence and profile can bring with it a powerful set of incentives. It can contribute to a loss of perspective and an inflation of one’s ego. It can encourage individuals who may usually be scholarly and taciturn to be more quarrelsome and vehement. It can preference 280 characters over nuance. It can turn little-known academics into political actors."
Sarah Letersky: For COVID-19 and beyond, who do we want calling the shots? - The Hub - "The pandemic has seen a pitched battle between those who claim politicians are making decisions driven entirely by crass political considerations and others who fear our leaders are ceding too much control to unaccountable experts... Looking to Ontario as a bit of a case study, critics of the government response have often denounced Queen’s Park for placing an emphasis on public opinion and polling data instead of health expertise. “We do not know if the decisions being made in cabinet are based on politics or science…” an internal critic of the government said in April of this year. Yet aren’t politics, broadly defined, what we want our elected officials to be guided by? Isn’t politics how we account for the multiplicity of interests and perspectives that need to be factored into collective decision-making? Isn’t the whole purpose of government to have a legitimate mechanism to gather the best information available on any given issue and then weigh it according to a combination of normative and empirical considerations? What else besides politics would we use to make the most judicious decision on behalf of the population? Representative democracy isn’t just a slogan about government by the people. It’s a mechanism to account for different interests and perspectives in a pluralistic society and render collective decisions without conflict or instability. An elected government is the people’s representatives precisely because we use politics to balance competing public preferences including — indeed even more so — in a crisis. That is the difference between an unaccountable expert and an elected official. Elected officials are accountable to the public through local representation and in turn are supposed to act on our behalf and based on some conception of our best interests. As such, a politician’s basic job is to take the multitude of public opinion into account when weighing policy options. What good are draconian measures if they are ignored by the people? Politicians, who have a strong vested interest in gauging the mood of the electorate, are better suited to know what people can take and what they can’t. Experts have an important role when it comes to advising government, especially in times such as these where critical health decisions are being made and the most up-to-date medical knowledge is essential. But it is not their job to cast the final vote on a decision. Because come election day, the only person we can hold accountable for those decisions is the name on the ballot... Those who are vaccinated will be far less willing to accept broad public health restrictions after previously being told vaccines were our way out, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did"
Vaxhole logic: if, with a super high vaccination rate, you still have lockdowns and curfews, it's the fault of the unaccinated
Covid Updates: New Zealand Orders Nationwide Restrictions - The New York Times - "New Zealand announced on Sunday that it would impose its highest level of Covid restrictions across the country at midnight, after at least nine cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant were reported... Ms. Ardern said the new measures, classified as “Red” under the country’s traffic-light-based system, were “not lockdown.”... But people who are not vaccinated will face significant restrictions, including being barred from worship services and from businesses that serve food or drinks. Schools will stay open, but all pupils from third grade up must wear masks. Events like weddings and funerals will be limited to 100 people, all of whom must be vaccinated. (If unvaccinated people attend, the limit is reduced to 25.) More than 93 percent of New Zealand’s population aged 12 and up are considered fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, but only 23 percent have received a booster shot"
Looks like New Zealand, due to its covid "success", will be having covid restrictions for years
Pregnant New Zealand reporter turns to Taliban for quarantine - "A pregnant New Zealand reporter is turning to the Taliban for help after being stranded in Afghanistan while her home country holds up her return due to its famously stringent coronavirus quarantine system. In a column published in The New Zealand Herald on Saturday, Charlotte Bellis said it was “brutally ironic” that she once questioned the Taliban about the fundamentalist group’s treatment of women but is now asking the same questions about the New Zealand government. “When the Taliban offers you — a pregnant, unmarried woman — safe haven, you know your situation is messed up”"
Exclusive: Pregnant TV reporter Charlotte Bellis' full, open letter on MIQ - 'NZ said you're not welcome' - "It is illegal to be pregnant and unmarried in Qatar... I made an appointment with a gynaecologist in Doha. At the reception, the first question they asked was "what is your name?" The second, "are you pregnant?" I froze. "Umm no, just here for a check-up?" I asked the doctor, hypothetically, if I was pregnant, would you tell the police. She said "I won't, but I can't treat you and I can only say you need to get married or get out of the country as soon as possible." With Jim stuck in Kabul, we made a plan to keep everything secret until I was safely out of Qatar and try to get an MIQ spot in New Zealand. I immediately started playing the MIQ lottery, waking up at 3am and staring at my computer, only to miss out time and again. I resigned from Al Jazeera in November, losing my income, health insurance and residency. I can't tell you the number of questions I got: Why now? Why are you leaving? It doesn't make sense? I clearly wasn't very convincing in my 'just time for a change' answers. Then, some relief. The Government announced that New Zealand would open to citizens at the end of February. The timing was perfect. I would be 29 weeks pregnant and could get back in time for our little girl's birth in May. Foreigners would be allowed in from the end of April, so Jim could be there for the birth too. We booked flights home and found a midwife in Christchurch. We pondered about where to wait. We flew to Jim's home country of Belgium, but I was not a resident. New Zealanders can only spend three of every six months in the Schengen zone and I had eaten through half of that by the time January came around. We wanted to keep time up our sleeves for an emergency, so decided to rebase. The problem was the only other place we had visas to live was Afghanistan. I organised a meeting with senior Taliban contacts, "you know how I am dating Jim from The New York Times, but we're not married, right?" "Yes, yes we respect you both and you are foreigners, that is up to you." I nervously continued. "Well, I am pregnant and I can't get back into New Zealand. If I come to Kabul, will we have a problem?" One translated for the other and they smiled. "No we're happy for you, you can come and you won't have a problem. Just tell people you're married and if it escalates, call us. Don't worry. Everything will be fine." Soon after, the February border reopening was "delayed" and the lottery suspended. We were devastated. There was no way home other than to apply for emergency MIQ spots. We had read the horror stories of pregnant women being rejected, seen the statistics of just 5 per cent of Kiwis being approved if they are unable to stay in their current location and only 14 per cent being approved if there is a risk to their health and safety... We got letters from New Zealand obstetricians and medical experts to confirm the dangers of giving birth in Afghanistan and the impact of high stress during pregnancy. We included ultrasounds, letters in support of our relationship, bank statements, our Covid vaccinations including boosters, evidence of my resignation and our travel itinerary since. Between Jim and I, we submitted 59 documents to MIQ and Immigration NZ, including a cover letter written by our lawyer summarising our situation. On Monday, 24 January, we woke up to an email. We were rejected... The decision of who should get an emergency MIQ spot is not made on a level playing field, lacks ethical reasoning and pits our most vulnerable against each other. MIQ has set aside hundreds of emergency rooms for evacuating Afghan citizens, and I was told maybe, as a tax-paying, rates-paying New Zealander, I can get home on their allotment. Is this the Hunger Games? Pitting desperate NZ citizens against terrified Afghan allies for access to safety? Who is more important – let's let MIQ decide. In some ways it feels like we are poking the MIQ bull with our case pending, but I feel compelled to speak out. As a journalist I have asked people in much more vulnerable positions to tell their story because - maybe - it will make a difference. Now it is my turn. I am writing this because I believe in transparency and I believe that we as a country are better than this. Jacinda Ardern is better than this... I thought back to August, and how brutally ironic it was, that I had asked the Taliban what they would do to ensure the rights of women and girls. And now, I am asking the same question of my own Government."
Clearly covid is New Zealand's top priority and nothing else matters if it threatens their covid "safety". When even with 94% of the eligible population 12 or older with 2 doses (as of Feb 1st), life can't go back to normal, life will never go back to normal
'Very nice spring, very nice summer': Omicron will bring us closer to normal, experts say - "“but if I had to make a guess, I would say that what Omicron will probably give us is a period of respite,” said Bershteyn, an assistant professor in the department of population health at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Immunity gained through vaccination, infection or a combination of the two, could move populations closer to controllable levels of COVID, she and other scientists said. The hope is that the virus “sort of vaccinates itself” — that a milder strain gives us immunity to a later, potentially more severe one... COVID is here to stay. SARS-CoV-2 will continue to live in the human population, Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer said. While we must prepare for more potential unusual variants, “we do need to lay out a strategy and a plan towards moving back toward something that is nearer normality,” Tam said . In England, mandatory masking in public spaces and vaccine passports will be dropped beginning next week, while Spain is moving toward treating SARS-CoV-2 much like seasonal flu... regulatory discussions should be happening now, including, would manufacturers have to do a full clinical trial of a new vaccine, or a small, short trial, looking at the antibody response? How long to monitor for safety? A vaccine against Omicron is three months away. If a more dangerous variant emerged, “we couldn’t wait three months. You’d have to completely lock down everything. It’s just not feasible.”... Hospitalizations will never be reduced to zero. “There are always going to be frail vulnerable people who succumb to this virus,” McMaster University infectious diseases specialist Dr. Martha Fulford said in an earlier interview. Once past this hump, and with more protection because of boosters, more immunity from infections and more effective treatments, a broader conversation will be needed about the risks posed by COVID and the risks that exist from locking down “forever and a day”"
Who knows what moral panic a new variant will incite?
I'm sure cutting corners on clinical trials - despite the vaccines continuing to provide good protection against severe disease - will help boost confidence. Those with concerns are just "anti-vaxxers"
Covid hystericists claim we must protect vulnerable populations, so clearly we must lockdown forever
Ireland drops most COVID restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm' | Toronto Sun - "Ireland’s hospitality sector, which has been particularly hard hit by one of Europe’s toughest lockdown regimes, welcomed the decision"
We’re All Going to Get Omicron - "it’s not like I’m the first person to say this kind of thing, let alone think it. (A Yale public-health lecturer argued this thesis in Atlantic way back in February, 2020, even when we were still dealing with the original, less contagious, more deadly form of the disease.) But expressing such an opinion in public still feels strangely forbidden—because the orthodox line that one still sees on official government channels, and even on many private citizens’ social-media feeds, is that we can completely beat this thing if we all follow the rules... there’s no getting around the fact that the current round of lockdowns has an odd sort of feel to it. In private, if not in public, a growing number of us are willing to admit that we’re not really afraid of this disease anymore. Rather, what we fear is its indirect consequences: missed trips and get-togethers, forced absences from school and sports, home isolation, and the possibility of transmitting the disease to one of the small minority of people in our society whom Omicron is at all likely to hurt."
Small business confidence plunges to lowest since pandemic began amid Omicron chill - "Small business confidence in Canada hasn’t been this low since the dark days at the beginning of the pandemic... “The last time optimism was this low was in the spring of 2020. We are once again seeing negative staffing plans and more owners who say their business is in bad shape than those who say it is in good shape,” said Simon Gaudreault, vice-president of National Research at CFIB. “This really underlines how precarious the situation is for a lot of small businesses.” Nearly a quarter of business owners expect to have to cut full-time staff in the next few months, the survey found. Three in 10 (31 per cent) say their business is in bad shape while 29 per cent say it is in good shape. In December those figures were reversed... Businesses have been weakened by two years of pandemic restrictions with average debt loads reaching $170,000. Then just as they are beginning to recovery new lockdowns and restrictions have been implemented without a full return of support programs"
Political theatre is not costless
Chris Selley: School's open for Omicron—except here in Canada - "One of the most obvious signs that many governments are confident that Omicron is much more manageable than previous variants, despite it driving case counts far higher than ever before, is how many kids around the world are heading back to school this week on time... On Monday Spain reported 42 people per million were in the ICU. France reported 54. Canada reported … 16. Spain’s peak ICU occupancy was 104 per million, on Jan. 31 last year. France’s was 104 per million, way back in April 2020. Canada’s was 39, on May 1 last year... If that’s actually necessary from a public health perspective, it’s not because our children are at any significant risk. It’s because we have utterly pitiful ICU capacity. But it almost certainly isn’t necessary, and plenty of leading, perfectly cautious Canadian medical minds clearly think so — although some seem remarkably timid about saying so, as though it might get them barred from hospital pub night or something. Dr. Jennifer Grant, an infectious diseases physician and clinical associate professor at UBC’s medical school, is not so timid. We need more of that. "The Omicron variant is substantially less likely to cause severe disease, including in children. Those at risk of severe disease are either too young to be in school, or have had the opportunity to be vaccinated. Teachers have consistently been shown to have no higher risk of infection or severe disease than other members of the community,” Grant wrote in a scorching op-ed (by Canadian standards) in the Ottawa Citizen. “We are trading the certainty of profound harm to our children for essentially no benefit from a public health or disease transmission perspective.” At this point in the pandemic, even more than ever before, governments are essentially deciding what level of action they need to be projecting to the public, then choosing a package of Things People Will Tolerate that add up to the required level of action. Nobody really thinks the action will halt or even seriously slow down Omicron. It’s all just pantomime. It is most unfortunate that so many Canadians, and Ontarians in particular, are willing to tolerate closing schools for the sake of that pantomime"
Listen to the experts - when they say what you like
Why Indonesia is prioritizing the young for coronavirus vaccines - The Washington Post - "Officials are concerned over what they described as a lack of adequate research into how the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by Chinese company Sinovac, will affect older recipients. The late-stage trial in Indonesia did not include participants over the age of 60. And officials have decided that vaccinating the young could be the best way to dampen widespread transmission of the virus."
Weird how they didn't know that, as we are told, the vaccines were never meant to stop transmission
Singaporeans, Chinese nationals queue up for Sinovac vaccine, despite regulators’ concerns over efficacy | South China Morning Post - "“There is a significant risk of vaccine breakthrough,” he told reporters. “It’s not a problem associated with Pfizer. This is actually a problem associated with the Sinovac vaccine, and in other countries, they are now starting to think about booster vaccinations, even six months out from an original vaccination for some of these vaccines as well.”"
Another article to memory hole, since we must pretend we were never old MRNA vaccines were good against infection. And just over 6 months after this article, Singapore announced that you needed a MRNA booster to continue to be considered fully vaccinated after 9 months
WHO chief scientist not confident vaccines prevent transmission - "chief scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said the WHO hasn’t yet determined whether the approved vaccines being administered in Canada, the U.S. and Europe are effective at preventing transmission"
From December 2020. Prescient. Of course today we are simultaneously being gaslit that the vaccines were never meant to prevent transmission and also that if you don't get a vaccine you're selfish because you will infect others
Meme - Palmer Report @PalmerReport: "This attempt by unvaccinated Southwest airline employees at crippling U.S. air travel is the latest reminder that it's a very short distance from anti- vaxxer to domestic terrorist."
When you need to ramp up the narrative
Polish Gym Rebrands As Church to Stay Open During COVID-19 Rules - "A gym in Krakow, Poland, is trying to rebrand itself as a "Church of the Healthy Body" in order to stay open during new coronavirus lockdown restrictions. The manager of Atlantic Sports Fitness, Marta Jamróz, wrote in a Saturday Facebook post: "Since fitness classes cannot function ... a religious congregation of members are starting today at our club the 'Church of the Healthy Body.'" Jamróz also referred to the gym's trainers as "the elder council.""
Libertarian Seychelles on Twitter - "The reason so many vaxxed people are pushy and adamant about you getting it too, is because deep down they fear they made a mistake and don't want to be alone with their choice. YOU have to be wrong. Even if you're right, you have to be vaxxed too so everybody suffers equally."
NAKED FACE (offline) on Twitter - "Quebec mother has parental authority revoked because of opposition to covid vaccines. Will not be able to prevent vaccination of her 9 and 14 year olds. Many such cases, usually divorced spouses using accusations of conspiracy theory to seize full custody of children."
Given that covid is less deadly to kids than the flu, this has interesting implications
How São Paulo Became ‘The World’s Vaccine Capital’ - "Many non-Brazilians, even epidemiologists, were astonished by the announcement in November 2021 that São Paulo had achieved universal full vaccination of adults against Covid-19... Still, extremely high vaccination isn’t a panacea. In a press briefing on January 12, Carissa F. Etienne, the director of the Pan American Health Organization, stated that Omicron “has led to a rise in re-infections, even among those who are fully vaccinated. This new wave of infections, it won’t be ‘mild’ for our health systems as the Omicron variant is already challenging our health workforce and limiting care for other diseases.” And Ranzani notes, “I don’t think we should consider the concept of ‘herd immunity’ as a public health goal at this moment. The arrival and spread of Omicron has shown it clearly again.” Across Brazil, booster shot coverage is currently low."
Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo postpone Carnival parades due to COVID-19 - "Amid a rising number of COVID-19 cases, Brazilian cities Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo announced that their Carnival parades would be postponed until April... The two cities were previously considering still holding samba school though they had already canceled Carnival street parties."
Even with a 100% vaccination rate, life can't go back to normal. Covid hystericists don't want the pandemic to end, or their lives will lose meaning. Maybe they'll turn the unboosted into the scapegoats for their unscientific, failed covid policies now
Europe considers new COVID-19 strategy: Accepting the virus - "The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has advised countries to transition to more routine handling of COVID-19 after the acute phase of the pandemic is over. The agency said in a statement that more EU states in addition to Spain will want to adopt “a more long-term, sustainable surveillance approach."
Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now - "In the pages of The BMJ a decade ago, in the middle of a different pandemic, it came to light that governments around the world had spent billions stockpiling antivirals for influenza that had not been shown to reduce the risk of complications, hospital admissions, or death. The majority of trials that underpinned regulatory approval and government stockpiling of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) were sponsored by the manufacturer; most were unpublished, those that were published were ghostwritten by writers paid by the manufacturer, the people listed as principal authors lacked access to the raw data, and academics who requested access to the data for independent analysis were denied. The Tamiflu saga heralded a decade of unprecedented attention to the importance of sharing clinical trial data... Progress was made, but clearly not enough. The errors of the last pandemic are being repeated. Memories are short. Today, despite the global rollout of covid-19 vaccines and treatments, the anonymised participant level data underlying the trials for these new products remain inaccessible to doctors, researchers, and the public—and are likely to remain that way for years to come. This is morally indefensible for all trials, but especially for those involving major public health interventions. Pfizer’s pivotal covid vaccine trial was funded by the company and designed, run, analysed, and authored by Pfizer employees. The company and the contract research organisations that carried out the trial hold all the data. And Pfizer has indicated that it will not begin entertaining requests for trial data until May 2025, 24 months after the primary study completion date, which is listed on ClinicalTrials.gov as 15 May 2023 (NCT04368728). The lack of access to data is consistent across vaccine manufacturers... Underlying data for covid-19 therapeutics are similarly hard to find... We are left with publications but no access to the underlying data on reasonable request. This is worrying for trial participants, researchers, clinicians, journal editors, policy makers, and the public. The journals that have published these primary studies may argue that they faced an awkward dilemma, caught between making the summary findings available quickly and upholding the best ethical values that support timely access to underlying data. In our view, there is no dilemma; the anonymised individual participant data from clinical trials must be made available for independent scrutiny. Journal editors, systematic reviewers, and the writers of clinical practice guideline generally obtain little beyond a journal publication, but regulatory agencies receive far more granular data as part of the regulatory review process. In the words of the European Medicine Agency’s former executive director and senior medical officer, “relying solely on the publications of clinical trials in scientific journals as the basis of healthcare decisions is not a good idea ... Drug regulators have been aware of this limitation for a long time and routinely obtain and assess the full documentation (rather than just publications)... After a freedom of information request to the agency for Pfizer’s vaccine data, the FDA offered to release 500 pages a month, a process that would take decades to complete, arguing in court that publicly releasing data was slow owing to the need to first redact sensitive information. This month, however, a judge rejected the FDA’s offer and ordered the data be released at a rate of 55 000 pages a month. The data are to be made available on the requesting organisation’s website (https://phmpt.org/). In releasing thousands of pages of clinical trial documents, Health Canada and the EMA have also provided a degree of transparency that deserves acknowledgment. Until recently, however, the data remained of limited utility, with copious redactions aimed at protecting trial blinding... As well as access to the underlying data, transparent decision making is essential. Regulators and public health bodies could release details such as why vaccine trials were not designed to test efficacy against infection and spread of SARS-CoV-2. Had regulators insisted on this outcome, countries would have learnt sooner about the effect of vaccines on transmission and been able to plan accordingly. Big pharma is the least trusted industry. At least three of the many companies making covid-19 vaccines have past criminal and civil settlements costing them billions of dollars. One pleaded guilty to fraud. Other companies have no pre-covid track record. Now the covid pandemic has minted many new pharma billionaires, and vaccine manufacturers have reported tens of billions in revenue. The BMJ supports vaccination policies based on sound evidence. As the global vaccine rollout continues, it cannot be justifiable or in the best interests of patients and the public that we are left to just trust “in the system,” with the distant hope that the underlying data may become available for independent scrutiny at some point in the future. The same applies to treatments for covid-19. Transparency is the key to building trust and an important route to answering people’s legitimate questions about the efficacy and safety of vaccines and treatments and the clinical and public health policies established for their use. Twelve years ago we called for the immediate release of raw data from clinical trials. We reiterate that call now. Data must be available when trial results are announced, published, or used to justify regulatory decisions. There is no place for wholesale exemptions from good practice during a pandemic. The public has paid for covid-19 vaccines through vast public funding of research, and it is the public that takes on the balance of benefits and harms that accompany vaccination. The public, therefore, has a right and entitlement to those data, as well as to the interrogation of those data by experts. Pharmaceutical companies are reaping vast profits without adequate independent scrutiny of their scientific claims. The purpose of regulators is not to dance to the tune of rich global corporations and enrich them further; it is to protect the health of their populations. We need complete data transparency for all studies, we need it in the public interest, and we need it now."
Damn anti-vaxxers! How dare they question "the science"?
Pfizer pushes to intervene in lawsuit seeking COVID vaccine information from FDA - "Pfizer Inc wants to intervene in a Texas federal lawsuit seeking information from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration used in licensing the company's COVID-19 vaccine, a litigation move that plaintiffs who are suing for the data say is premature. Pfizer's lawyers at DLA Piper told U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman on Jan. 21 it wanted a role in the proceedings to help the FDA avoid "inappropriately" disclosing trade secret and confidential commercial information. On Tuesday night, the group of doctors and scientists who sued last year over public access to the FDA's Pfizer licensing records said in a court filing that the company's bid to jump into the lawsuit was untimely because the plaintiffs have not challenged any redactions to requested records."
Convenient.
Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial - "A regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial. Staff who conducted quality control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they were finding. After repeatedly notifying Ventavia of these problems, the regional director, Brook Jackson, emailed a complaint to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Ventavia fired her later the same day. Jackson has provided The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails."
Sex during the coronavirus: Is it dangerous to hook up? - "Stoya: I know this is going to blow minds, but here goes … sex, in the short term, is not a need. Definitely not in this case."
2 years later...
Covid Vaccine Immunity: 30% people losing vaccine-acquired immunity after six months; AIG study - "The study was conducted by AIG Hospitals along with the Asian Healthcare Foundation on 1,636 healthcare workers fully vaccinated with three of the Covid-19 vaccines currently being administered in the country. Of the 1,636 participants in the study, 93% (1519 individuals) had received Covishield, 6.2% (102) got Covaxin and less than 1% (13) had been administered the Sputnik jab."
Clearly, the solution is 4 boosters a year for everyone, or you get fired
Omicron Has Created Two New COVID Attitudes - The Atlantic - "To understand how ideologically scrambling the Omicron wave has been, consider this: Some 2022 Democrats are sounding like 2020 Republicans... A virus that seems both pervasive and mild offers an opening to people who are, let’s call them, “vaxxed and done.”"
Canadians will pay the bill for COVID-19 in higher taxes — here’s how it will likely happen | The Star - "Ottawa is running up deficits at a rate not seen since the Second World War in an effort to support businesses and individuals."
Covid hysteria is not free
Michigan Supreme Court strikes down governor's continued state of emergency
Of course politicians like an emergency that never ends
