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Fun fact. This is what the definition of vaccine was before Covid insanity.
Covid vax doesn't meet almost any of this criteria.
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Covid vax doesn't meet almost any of this criteria.
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Kind of. There are two vaccines, the old one that contains the whole killed bacteria, and the new one, with only a few proteins. The old one was blamed for various side effects, including the time it was mixed into the gulf war anthrax vaccine. The old one worked quite well against transmission, the new one not so much. It's not terrible, and lasts a few years against obvious (i.e. not a cold) disease, but the old one was better.
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There's one thing that I don't get.
Wouldn't vaccines that utilize the whole pathogen generally be more effective? Why would you just use a piece?
Wouldn't vaccines that utilize the whole pathogen generally be more effective? Why would you just use a piece?
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They probably would be. You can't load the sequence into your fancy mRNA tech or your fancy moth cell protein growing tech though. Instead, you actually have to grow the virus in question, inactivate it in a way that works and does not cause ADE, and make sure none of it is still alive otherwise it could cause the disease in question. Not a good idea if it's something like Ebola, or even worse, a chimeric mock-up for a future pandemic virus.
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Alrighty kids, haven't seen this posted yet. But whaaaaat the French fuck is this?
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Wed, December 22, 2021, 5:50 AM·8 min read
Bobbie Ann Sison, a registered nurse and nurse manager at Singing River Health System’s Pascagoula hospital, wore a silver necklace with an off-white stone as she moved swiftly through her medical-surgical floor on a recent December afternoon.
The necklace peeked beyond her scrubs as she checked in with staff, preparing for the next day when the hospital would temporarily open a wing of their floor to accommodate an influx of surgeries. The wing closed in early November when the health system lost 70 Mississippi Emergency Management Agency contract nurses and couldn’t staff at normal levels.
It swung as she leaned over to care for the seemingly endless number of COVID patients through the previous waves of the virus, when she had to facilitate last goodbyes between community members and their loved ones over FaceTime and place rosaries in the hands of elderly patients as they passed.
The stone isn’t unnecessarily lavish. It’s an urn, large enough to hold the ashes of Sison’s son who died of COVID complications shortly after she delivered him at 33 weeks, at the beginning of the pandemic.
“He goes everywhere I go,” Sison said.
It’s been nearly two years since he passed on March 3, 2020, the same day Singing River saw its first COVID case.
“I gave birth to my son the same day we admitted our first COVID patient. That’s how I always remember.”
In the aftermath of her loss, Sison, who took over medical surge staffing in September, is attempting to hold onto her work “family,” the community of Pascagoula nurses quickly vanishing amid the onset of the rapidly spreading omicron variant.
“To be quite frank, I hope this new variant doesn’t come through like the last few have. I’m not sure how, you know, the nursing field would be able to survive. We'd be inoperable," she said.
Health professionals couldn’t determine her illness and didn’t test for COVID as the virus was brand new, and supplies and knowledge were limited.
An autopsy would show that her son passed due to the coronavirus.
“I had been sick. We thought it was just the regular sick. He passed from heart failure due to viral infection that was the same kind of bacteria that COVID was.”
She took off for three weeks before coming back to work during the thick of COVID’s first wave in South Mississippi.
The early return came amid an outpouring of support from her work family. During her time off, fellow nurses made the urn necklace for her, planted a magnolia tree outside the vast pond in front of the Pascagoula hospital and leaders and doctors called constantly to check in.
Sison said she begged the hospital to come back to work, she couldn’t sit by while her community suffered during the virus’ initial wave.
“I became a nurse to save lives. I told everyone, you have got to let me go back,” she said.
“The loyalty is real. The family is real. And you know, we most, most of our staff, we are from our community … So when we come in here, we’re not only taking care of, you know, the community, but we’re taking care of our friends. We’re taking care of our neighbors, we’re, you know, everybody knows everybody.”
Her vigor to return didn’t slow the shock of how many community members were hospitalized and died, however.
“It was rough. I mean, I would be lying to tell you that it wasn’t but I wanted to save people and to try to prevent them from doing things that I had dealt with. To keep people from dying.”
“And it’s that’s part of why I got the vaccine after having that and then being in it. You know, and being a mom of two girls and seeing people die the way that we have.”
She’s stayed, partly because of the loyalty displayed to her by the health system through the death of her son, and is currently the only nursing manager left in the Pascagoula hospital. Before COVID, there were three.
During the pandemic, Sison said about 40 people left the Pascagoula hospital, a low number compared to other locations in the Singing River health system. She had to close down two of the medical surge floors because of the lack of nurses.
Now her already bare-boned staff is leaving at higher rates than during the worst of the previous waves.
“During the thick of it said that they felt badly (leaving) when their team was in need and now that’s kind of eased up, people are starting to do vaccines. And so now they want to go.”
Blakeney Obrien is a registered nurse who started her nursing career at the beginning of the fourth wave. She’s stayed at the hospital because of the environment Bobby Ann described– family-oriented and supportive.
Obrien, from Lucedale, graduated from nursing school at the University of Southern Mississippi in May. As a new nurse, she said she’s leaned on Sison during the really difficult, deadly days of Delta’s surge.
“You know that when your patient is crashing, you’re not going to be by yourself. You know that you can call them or someone else. You know that when you’ve had a bad day, and you’re at your breaking point, you can pick up your phone at nine o’clock at night and she’s gonna answer and talk me through it,” Obrien said.
But Obrien, who began working in May, thinks she’s one of a few nurses who have been on the med-surge floor the longest.
The arrival of the Omicron variant will exasperate the shortage, Sison said. Travel nursing contracts will continue to be more competitive as Singing River’s resources are wearing thin.
“I think the staffing situation is going to get worse before it gets better. I think, before we’re going to be OK again, it’s gonna take several classes of new nurses,” she said.
Singing River leadership, along with a number of the state’s mostly non-profit health systems, have pleaded with Mississippi leadership to boost their worker retainment efforts. A Singing River spokesperson said nothing has moved forward legislatively, however.
“We’re gonna have to have some type of government assistance or federal aid ... some incentive that’s going to bring us nurses,” Sison said. “We’re still living in a pattern where every day is kind of a panic. Most days, I have exactly what I need or I’m one nurse short. So every day I still have a panic attack."
But across the country and the world, increased numbers of the omicron variant is spreading rapidly with unknown implications.
“We’ve had a couple of cases now of Omicron but we haven’t seen as big of an explosion yet,” he said. If the state’s Omicron trends follow that of other parts of the country, spread could really strain Mississippi health care systems.
“If we do have a sudden increase in the overall number of cases, we will have vulnerable people who are hospitalized. And if we have a whole, whole lot of cases, that’s going to lead to more pressure on the health care system and certainly might lead to more deaths.”
The best defense against the omicron variant is being fully vaccinated with a booster shot, according to Ochsner health officials. Byers said Mississippi residents should really consider their first shots if they haven’t yet.
“We don’t want to wait until we’re in a really bad position again,” he said.
And because the loss of just one nurse would be detrimental for the hospital’s staffing, Jonathan Smith, a registered nurse and patient care coordinator, said he’s also anticipating the closure of floors due to short term-nurse absences because of omicron infection.
“I don’t know what we’d do if we do get another wave, because how we would be able to sustain with the staff we have presently ... we would not be able to have two or three floors,” he said.
“You increase the numbers, you increase exposure to the nurses. So once you experience it, you don’t have a nurse, so it’s gonna happen. So a nurse would come down and contract COVID as well makes us and we’re short.”
This article and live event is supported by the Journalism and Public Information Fund, a fund of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation.
What I'm mostly intrigued by is this blurb. What the FUCK does a GODDAMN RN mean by this? "The same bacteria COVID was?" That makes ZERO fucking sense. And sick for months? What?
Also, I am a humble new fag phone sperg, not sure how to archive.
ETA: Fixed double posting of article
COVID took her newborn. Now, every day is ‘panic’ for Coast nurse battling worker shortage.
Wearing her son’s ashes around her neck, she is committed to Singing River, even though she could be making triple her salary as a travel nurse. But she’s worried omicron’s spread will leave local hospitals “inoperable.”
COVID took her newborn. Now, every day is ‘panic’ for Coast nurse battling worker shortage.
Isabella MurrayWed, December 22, 2021, 5:50 AM·8 min read
Bobbie Ann Sison, a registered nurse and nurse manager at Singing River Health System’s Pascagoula hospital, wore a silver necklace with an off-white stone as she moved swiftly through her medical-surgical floor on a recent December afternoon.
The necklace peeked beyond her scrubs as she checked in with staff, preparing for the next day when the hospital would temporarily open a wing of their floor to accommodate an influx of surgeries. The wing closed in early November when the health system lost 70 Mississippi Emergency Management Agency contract nurses and couldn’t staff at normal levels.
It swung as she leaned over to care for the seemingly endless number of COVID patients through the previous waves of the virus, when she had to facilitate last goodbyes between community members and their loved ones over FaceTime and place rosaries in the hands of elderly patients as they passed.
The stone isn’t unnecessarily lavish. It’s an urn, large enough to hold the ashes of Sison’s son who died of COVID complications shortly after she delivered him at 33 weeks, at the beginning of the pandemic.
“He goes everywhere I go,” Sison said.
It’s been nearly two years since he passed on March 3, 2020, the same day Singing River saw its first COVID case.
“I gave birth to my son the same day we admitted our first COVID patient. That’s how I always remember.”
In the aftermath of her loss, Sison, who took over medical surge staffing in September, is attempting to hold onto her work “family,” the community of Pascagoula nurses quickly vanishing amid the onset of the rapidly spreading omicron variant.
“To be quite frank, I hope this new variant doesn’t come through like the last few have. I’m not sure how, you know, the nursing field would be able to survive. We'd be inoperable," she said.
‘I became a nurse to save lives.’
Sison said she had been sick for “months” while she was pregnant with her son, who would have been her third child and only boy.Health professionals couldn’t determine her illness and didn’t test for COVID as the virus was brand new, and supplies and knowledge were limited.
An autopsy would show that her son passed due to the coronavirus.
“I had been sick. We thought it was just the regular sick. He passed from heart failure due to viral infection that was the same kind of bacteria that COVID was.”
She took off for three weeks before coming back to work during the thick of COVID’s first wave in South Mississippi.
The early return came amid an outpouring of support from her work family. During her time off, fellow nurses made the urn necklace for her, planted a magnolia tree outside the vast pond in front of the Pascagoula hospital and leaders and doctors called constantly to check in.
Sison said she begged the hospital to come back to work, she couldn’t sit by while her community suffered during the virus’ initial wave.
“I became a nurse to save lives. I told everyone, you have got to let me go back,” she said.
“The loyalty is real. The family is real. And you know, we most, most of our staff, we are from our community … So when we come in here, we’re not only taking care of, you know, the community, but we’re taking care of our friends. We’re taking care of our neighbors, we’re, you know, everybody knows everybody.”
Her vigor to return didn’t slow the shock of how many community members were hospitalized and died, however.
“It was rough. I mean, I would be lying to tell you that it wasn’t but I wanted to save people and to try to prevent them from doing things that I had dealt with. To keep people from dying.”
“And it’s that’s part of why I got the vaccine after having that and then being in it. You know, and being a mom of two girls and seeing people die the way that we have.”
Staff is starting to travel more
Like all South Mississippi nurses, Sison has had the opportunity to leave and take travel nursing contracts, making over triple what her salary is in the non-profit Jackson County community hospital.She’s stayed, partly because of the loyalty displayed to her by the health system through the death of her son, and is currently the only nursing manager left in the Pascagoula hospital. Before COVID, there were three.
During the pandemic, Sison said about 40 people left the Pascagoula hospital, a low number compared to other locations in the Singing River health system. She had to close down two of the medical surge floors because of the lack of nurses.
Now her already bare-boned staff is leaving at higher rates than during the worst of the previous waves.
“During the thick of it said that they felt badly (leaving) when their team was in need and now that’s kind of eased up, people are starting to do vaccines. And so now they want to go.”
Blakeney Obrien is a registered nurse who started her nursing career at the beginning of the fourth wave. She’s stayed at the hospital because of the environment Bobby Ann described– family-oriented and supportive.
Obrien, from Lucedale, graduated from nursing school at the University of Southern Mississippi in May. As a new nurse, she said she’s leaned on Sison during the really difficult, deadly days of Delta’s surge.
“You know that when your patient is crashing, you’re not going to be by yourself. You know that you can call them or someone else. You know that when you’ve had a bad day, and you’re at your breaking point, you can pick up your phone at nine o’clock at night and she’s gonna answer and talk me through it,” Obrien said.
But Obrien, who began working in May, thinks she’s one of a few nurses who have been on the med-surge floor the longest.
The arrival of the Omicron variant will exasperate the shortage, Sison said. Travel nursing contracts will continue to be more competitive as Singing River’s resources are wearing thin.
“I think the staffing situation is going to get worse before it gets better. I think, before we’re going to be OK again, it’s gonna take several classes of new nurses,” she said.
Singing River leadership, along with a number of the state’s mostly non-profit health systems, have pleaded with Mississippi leadership to boost their worker retainment efforts. A Singing River spokesperson said nothing has moved forward legislatively, however.
“We’re gonna have to have some type of government assistance or federal aid ... some incentive that’s going to bring us nurses,” Sison said. “We’re still living in a pattern where every day is kind of a panic. Most days, I have exactly what I need or I’m one nurse short. So every day I still have a panic attack."
Omicron is on the horizon
State epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers said on Friday during a Mississippi State Medical Association discussion that there are two confirmed cases of the omicron variant in the state, with some others under investigation.But across the country and the world, increased numbers of the omicron variant is spreading rapidly with unknown implications.
“We’ve had a couple of cases now of Omicron but we haven’t seen as big of an explosion yet,” he said. If the state’s Omicron trends follow that of other parts of the country, spread could really strain Mississippi health care systems.
“If we do have a sudden increase in the overall number of cases, we will have vulnerable people who are hospitalized. And if we have a whole, whole lot of cases, that’s going to lead to more pressure on the health care system and certainly might lead to more deaths.”
The best defense against the omicron variant is being fully vaccinated with a booster shot, according to Ochsner health officials. Byers said Mississippi residents should really consider their first shots if they haven’t yet.
“We don’t want to wait until we’re in a really bad position again,” he said.
And because the loss of just one nurse would be detrimental for the hospital’s staffing, Jonathan Smith, a registered nurse and patient care coordinator, said he’s also anticipating the closure of floors due to short term-nurse absences because of omicron infection.
“I don’t know what we’d do if we do get another wave, because how we would be able to sustain with the staff we have presently ... we would not be able to have two or three floors,” he said.
“You increase the numbers, you increase exposure to the nurses. So once you experience it, you don’t have a nurse, so it’s gonna happen. So a nurse would come down and contract COVID as well makes us and we’re short.”
This article and live event is supported by the Journalism and Public Information Fund, a fund of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation.
What I'm mostly intrigued by is this blurb. What the FUCK does a GODDAMN RN mean by this? "The same bacteria COVID was?" That makes ZERO fucking sense. And sick for months? What?
Also, I am a humble new fag phone sperg, not sure how to archive.
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You copied and pasted the article twice and left image links in (lol @ sneed.yimg), it was a bit hard to read.
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You copied and pasted the article twice and left image links in (lol @ sneed.yimg), it was a bit hard to read.
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Hmm, in the preview none of that had shown up. I'll fix it.@Lady Round Buns
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You copied and pasted the article twice and left image links in (lol @ sneed.yimg), it was a bit hard to read.
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Lol South Africa's chilling out while other places freak out over a nothingburger
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So having a significant number of people under 30 rush to the doctor because of their heart issues is not going to use up resources?
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Every sign but the billions of dollars in Pharma bank accounts, that is, those billions of dollars say the end of the world is at hand if we don't have more lockdowns and vaxx mandates.
I wasn't aware there were two vaccines. Is the second vaccine related to the reappearance of whooping cough in the developed world in recent years? A lot of is blamed on "muh antivaxxers" but while that's no doubt partially true, there's also a lot of third world immigration (especially illegals) who no doubt are transmitting this shit too and I guess in this case the new vaccine simply isn't as good? I think also in this case it's because vaccines are usually sold as "for life" (usually you need to be very elderly or immuno-compromised to get sick from something like measles after being vaccinated) but whooping cough mutates fast enough that be it vaccine or natural immunity, it only lasts for a few decades.
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There is zero indication that baby died of covid. Very sad though no one should ever have to bury a child. Shes coping theough fear mongering and through her nursing job giving her purpose.
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It is truly amazing how you can watch narratives shift in real time online in regards to COVID if you pay attention.
Western social media changes dramatically once places are on the precipice of new lockdowns or restrictions. Overnight you go from people being reasonably civil and some dissenting opinions allowed, to full on propaganda, fear mongering, and silencing of those in opposition.
None of this is organic, but it helps manufacture consent so it's done anyway and it's not like the average person is aware enough to see what's being done right in front of them.
It absolutely maddening being one of the people who can observe this because no amount of shouting into the void can overcome it.
Western social media changes dramatically once places are on the precipice of new lockdowns or restrictions. Overnight you go from people being reasonably civil and some dissenting opinions allowed, to full on propaganda, fear mongering, and silencing of those in opposition.
None of this is organic, but it helps manufacture consent so it's done anyway and it's not like the average person is aware enough to see what's being done right in front of them.
It absolutely maddening being one of the people who can observe this because no amount of shouting into the void can overcome it.
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Something downed on me. But first a little background. Several years ago I was attending a conference related to mental health. I was young and innocent then, but I noticed certain things that I found disturbing. The conference was swarming with pharma reps. One of the slides in presentation boasted that one of the biggest companies in the world is Pfizer, among giant oil companies (as I mentioned it was several years ago). Lots of time was devoted to tout a new neuroleptic, although they admitted that 40% of psychotic patients still hallucinate after taking it. I even got a Viagra sample (I didn't use it, it expired). A little later I've learned that in 2013 the most sold drug was Abilify, but its patent expired in 2014 so now rheumatoid arthritis drugs dominate...
Now, back to the future: we mock their apparent stupidity in producing vaccines which effectiveness wanes within months if not weeks. However, it is most certainly what attracted them to this business model. I think they knew very well that no lasting coronavirus vaccine is possible, and that is exactly why they decided to launch this cash cow. It is all by design. The only small problem was how to sell it to the public. But it's not that hard if you own the media and you can spin whatever story you want to your liking. Pump the numbers, present scary cases in relatively young people. Just to sell the drug they know that it is not going to work.
Now, back to the future: we mock their apparent stupidity in producing vaccines which effectiveness wanes within months if not weeks. However, it is most certainly what attracted them to this business model. I think they knew very well that no lasting coronavirus vaccine is possible, and that is exactly why they decided to launch this cash cow. It is all by design. The only small problem was how to sell it to the public. But it's not that hard if you own the media and you can spin whatever story you want to your liking. Pump the numbers, present scary cases in relatively young people. Just to sell the drug they know that it is not going to work.
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And they all come from China... Imagine, people in the west have to ask the CCPs permission to do life.
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Pretending that death by the Chinese virus is ever confirmed by autopsy. Pretending that anyone is at appreciable risk of dying from the Meme flu. I believe you Dr Quincy, really I do. You chose to inject yourself with poison so you could keep your job. What a faggot.
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The data from South Africa mirrors this exactly. It's become glaringly obvious with Omicron Covid that the majority of 'severe cases' are incidental infections and I strongly suspect the same is true of Delta.
The problem is mass asymptomatic screening. It needs to stop.
Where I am PCR testing is now required for most interstate and all international travel, add on routine occupational testing and hospital screening and we're being inundated with scary case numbers that have absolutely no relationship to the actual severity of the illness. Politicians are being dragged into making short sighted and irrational decisions to placate hysterical segments of the population who're consuming non stop media produced fear porn.
Anyway take the numbers reported in my last post and at least half them. Omicron isn't even a flu, it isn't even a bad cold, it's a very mild case of the sniffles. That's it. And for this the UK is about to enter a 4 week 'circuit breaker' lockdown. Jesus wept, enough already.
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Left Wing Fantasy: Covid is killing their ideological opponents in great numbers as a direct result of their poor ability to make good decisions.
Reality: Covid is a mild illness that kills mostly a small fraction of people who are over the average life expectancy.
Reality: Covid is a mild illness that kills mostly a small fraction of people who are over the average life expectancy.
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Having a time machine, I would have bring Lee Harley Oswald to take care of them.
Btw, American Thinker is still on a roll with two articles about "pandemania".
‘Pandemania’ And The Psychology Of Fear
America’s bipolar approaches to COVID—with one side seeking totalitarianism, health paranoia, and division, and the other side seeking personal liberty—remind us that the lessons of history are not easily learned. If we are to retur...
December 24, 2021
‘Pandemania’ And The Psychology Of Fear
By Jennifer Jones
America’s bipolar approaches to COVID—with one side seeking totalitarianism, health paranoia, and division, and the other side seeking personal liberty—remind us that the lessons of history are not easily learned. If we are to return to a normal America, one that encourages people to be mentally resilient when it comes to their physical health and is predicated upon health autonomy, we have very little time to stop the modern-day American despots.
The 20th century was defined, in significant part, by despotic leaders implementing propaganda campaigns to vilify certain groups of people deemed dirty or diseased. The despots didn’t accomplish these campaigns at once but, instead, did so slowly, by conditioning one group of people to believe their ills were caused by another group of people, while conditioning that second group of people to accept increasing levels of human rights violations. Leaders and governments, often working with the healthcare community, carried out campaigns to divide nations and eradicate those deemed “unclean” for the country’s “welfare” and the “future good.”
Today, the same divisive, unrelenting propaganda tactics that past fascists and tyrants used are producing a divided world and prompting actions by some that border on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). What was once considered hypochondriac behavior—masking, social distancing, and repeated hand washing—has become normalized. It identifies the good citizen, even in the face of a waning, weakened virus, heavily mutated from its original strain and far less deadly.
Many people have not only accepted the new hypochondria protocols, but they have also embraced them as talismanic actions that ward off death. Society, the government, the medical community, and the media have cultivated these actions in the general population. The result? Normalizing the fear of being close to another person because the latter carry germs and disease.
These OCD thought processes have been driving the response to the COVID pandemic since the first few months of 2020 and have controlled our lives for nearly two years now. Fear, emanating from a faulty risk meter, has created a bondage characterized by compulsive behaviors and irrational thought processes, all propelled and maintained by an endless cycle of variants. Many, in exchange for a false sense of safety garnered from following every edict and guideline, have willingly abandoned their freedoms for this promised “salvation” from COVID.
In his recently released book, Where Are We Now? The Epidemic as Politics, Giorgio Agamben observes that
You are the ideal citizen if you avoid others, wear a cloth on your face, and take as many jabs as the government deems necessary. Every citizen’s freedom to make healthy choices has been replaced with a legal obligation to be healthy—an obligation that must be fulfilled at all costs, without considering the individual, and without liability for those pushing these “healthy measures” when they cause harm.
Image: Two paths, edited with text. Piqsels.
This has created tunnel vision. Many have disregarded the fact that hundreds of thousands of people die annually from cancers, obesity, starvation, and medical errors in numbers that far exceed the current pandemic. Instead, they hyper-focus on the threat the media constantly raises of COVID, COVID, COVID.
Some, guided by their dear leaders, even go so far as to chastise those who may dare to question the mandates and edicts. They hurl insults, attack the questioners’ humanity by claiming they are the cause of the ills, shun them from participating in basic daily activities in a theatrical display of morally superior citizenship, and even publicly shame them.
It’s no wonder emotions are running high. Given the less-than-stellar outcomes of the edicts and vaccines in the past year, coupled with what science has learned about COVID since its emergence two years ago, internal conflicts and cognitive dissonance are bound to arise. Even those who willingly took the vaccine and the booster now question why natural immunity is widely and routinely ignored, why antibody testing is not encouraged, and why the government and hospitals ignore or even block safe and effective therapeutics.
Why is the vaccine pushed as the only answer to an incredibly complex and ever-changing situation and touted as the way to end the pandemic when it does not stop contracting or transmitting the virus? Why is the second dose of the vaccine pushed on those who had a severe adverse reaction to the first dose? Why are vaccine companies immune from liability for injuries their products cause? Why are adverse events and deaths reported after vaccinations ignored or brushed aside as an acceptable casualty count?
Most elected leaders will not answer or they will ignore these questions, even as they continue to push us further and further down the rabbit hole of edicts and mandates, whether for power or to salvage their pride. Certainly, they refuse to admit their mistakes or acknowledge their faults.
As C.S. Lewis wrote in God In The Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (a quotation many of us have read more than once this year), “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. …those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” After close to two years of decisions being made for our own good, his words could not be more poignant.
At this point in the pandemic, there are two distinct paths: (1) Continue down the government’s rabbit hole of lockdowns, vaccine passports, triple jabs, quadruple jabs, segregation, masking, isolation, and divisive rhetoric erroneously blaming one group of people for the woes of the pandemic or (2) common-sense risk acceptance predicated on the belief that medical autonomy based upon being an informed consumer is a God-given right.
One would think that our political leaders, looking at the failed outcomes flowing from their policies and at the number of people clamoring for liberty, would abandon their top-down, one-size-fits-all approach to this pandemic. Too many of us have realized that basing decisions around the idea of being germ-free and safe will never lead to health or happiness and will always destroy freedom. This insight is what allows Americans to return to normal life with individuals making their own calls about acceptable risk.
There’s still time to learn from history to avoid dividing society into citizens and pariahs—especially when the “pariahs” are the ones making sense. It is not too late to embrace the lessons of the past, as well as the lessons learned in the present so that all Americans can overcome discordant and unrealistic fears.
In Denmark, an omicron pandemic of the vaccinated
Covid cases are rampaging in Denmark, which has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. According to the numbers on omicron, it is the vaccinated who account for a disproportionate share of the infections. In other words, vaccines are maki...
December 24, 2021
In Denmark, an omicron pandemic of the vaccinated
By Thomas Lifson
Covid cases are rampaging in Denmark, which has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. According to the numbers on omicron, it is the vaccinated who account for a disproportionate share of the infections. In other words, vaccines are making things worse, instead of helping. Raymond Wolfe reports in LifeSiteNews:
79 percent of Danes infected with Omicron by December 15 were fully jabbed, according to a report released Tuesday by the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), a Danish health ministry that tracks COVID-19 variants. The double-vaccinated accounted for more than 14,000 of 17,767 Omicron infections recorded in Denmark since the country’s first reported case on November 22.
Those with a booster shot made up another 10.6 percent of cases of the new variant, and people with one jab were an additional 1.8 percent. The unvaccinated – around one-fifth of the Danish population – were just 8.5 percent of Omicron infections. [emphasis added]
Here is the data:
See also: https://twitter.com/MakisMD/status/1472856530139561987
This is the most worrisome part:
I have all along been deeply worried by the lack of long-term study of the mRNA pseudo-vaccines. The emergency use authorization necessarily bypassed any long-term study based on the panic that was fostered by our media and governments. Getting the body to manufacture spike proteins could well have unforeseen consequences.
Let us hope and pray that these worries are unfounded. But the data from Denmark are not encouraging.
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