Aug 292021
 


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Covid Cases In England Are 26 Times Higher Than A Year Ago (G.)
Vaccine-Resistant Viruses Are Driving ‘Breakthrough’ Covid Infections (MN)
Antibody-Resistant SARS-CoV-2 Variants In Vaccine Breakthrough Cases (Medrxiv)
Impact Of Daily High Dose Oral Vitamin D Therapy On Covid 19 Patients (Nature)
1 in 4 COVID Patients Hospitalized While Vitamin D Deficient Die – Study (ToI)
Is It Time To Stop Obsessing Over Covid Figures? (DM)
Differentiation of Long-Lived SARS-CoV-2-Specific CD8+ T Cells (JoI)
Contaminant In 1.63m Moderna Vaccine Doses In Japan Believed To Be Metal (R.)
Covid Vaccine Doubter Alex Berenson Permanently Banned From Twitter (NYP)
Escapes From Afghanistan, Coordinated From A Home Office In Connecticut (CTM)

 

 


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So what happened? Well, we vaccinated everyone…

Covid Cases In England Are 26 Times Higher Than A Year Ago (G.)

Coronavirus infections in England are now 26 times the levels that were experienced this time last year, according to the Office for National Statistics. Scientists described the figures as “sobering”. They warned that the reopening of schools in England this week was likely to trigger further rises in Covid cases – with more to follow when students return to universities and colleges. A fresh wave of infections could, in turn, lead to new social restrictions being imposed as winter approaches. As a result, pressure is mounting on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation to approve the deployment of booster jabs for vulnerable people and the extension of vaccinations to most 12- to 15-year-olds.

The latter move would bring the UK into line with the US and most large European nations and is backed by most ministers. Simon Clarke, associate professor in cellular microbiology at Reading University, said that in the week ending 20 August, the ONS estimated that 756,900 people in England were infected with Covid-19, which equated to one person in 70. “This time last year, the ONS estimated that 28,200 people in England were infected. That is the equivalent of one person in 1,900 being infected with Covid-19. That means that community infections are 26 times more common now than they were a year ago, when the population was unvaccinated and the country was three months into its reopening.”

The fact that deaths and hospital admissions from Covid-19 are a fraction of their levels in August 2020 demonstrates the protective power of the vaccines – more than 60% of the UK population has had two jabs. “The last time infections were at their current level in England was late January,” said Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics at the Open University. “There were around 2,300 daily hospital admissions and 1,100 deaths a day then. By contrast, the most recent daily figures for England are about 770 hospital admissions and about 80 deaths.”

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“People who never develop symptoms during a “breakthrough” infection carry very low levels of virus..”

Vaccine-Resistant Viruses Are Driving ‘Breakthrough’ Covid Infections (MN)

Waning immunity and ferocious contagion are known to be fueling the troubling surge in “breakthrough” COVID-19 cases among vaccinated people. But a new UC San Francisco analysis of 1,373 Bay Area cases reveals a third, and more ominous, problem: The coronavirus is learning to outsmart our immune system. Variants with antibody-resistant mutations are playing an ever-larger role in our highly vaccinated region’s pandemic, according to research by prominent virologist Dr. Charles Chiu. His team found that 78% of infections in fully vaccinated people among the study were caused by variants with these mutations, compared to 48% of the cases among unvaccinated people, who remained an easier target for earlier generations of the virus. Overall, the proportion of cases linked to these variants more than doubled between February and June.

The findings add to a growing list of studies that are unraveling why the vaccinated are still so susceptible to infection — and provide a deeper understanding of what we may encounter in the future. Vaccinated people are still much more protected from serious illness, hospitalization and death than unvaccinated people, the study confirmed. “But I worry that as long as the virus is circulating, it will continue to mutate and evolve, which will, in turn, allow it to continue spreading,” he said. The study suggests that new iterations of the virus will likely become even more resistant, over time, “until, eventually, you’re going to see the vaccine not work, or its efficacy will be reduced significantly,” he said. Our vaccines won’t suddenly become useless, he added. So far, it appears to be a gradual process. The resistant variants will slowly dominate over time, he predicted.

The team’s second major finding was more reassuring: People who never develop symptoms during a “breakthrough” infection carry very low levels of virus – a finding that should ease concerns that vaccinated people are unknowingly fueling the pandemic. However, vaccinated people who do have symptoms had the same levels of virus as infected unvaccinated people – so can spread the virus. This confirms a finding first revealed weeks ago by a CDC study in Provincetown, Massachusetts. “You’re essentially as infectious as someone who was unvaccinated,” he said. [..] Vaccination is not to be blamed for the increase in variants with these mutations, Chiu said. Because we naturally produce antibodies in response to exposure and infection, the virus is constantly changing to survive. “The virus is going to evolve to become antibody resistant, whether or not you deploy a vaccine,” he said. “But because we have a vaccine, there’s a way to prevent the virus from spreading and evolving further.”

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“Fully vaccinated were more likely than unvaccinated persons to be infected by variants carrying mutations associated with decreased antibody neutralization [..] but not by those associated with increased infectivity..”

Antibody-Resistant SARS-CoV-2 Variants In Vaccine Breakthrough Cases (Medrxiv)

Associations between vaccine breakthrough cases and infection by SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants have remained largely unexplored. Here we analyzed SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome sequences and viral loads from 1,373 persons with COVID-19 from the San Francisco Bay Area from February 1 to June 30, 2021, of which 125 (9.1%) were vaccine breakthrough infections. Fully vaccinated were more likely than unvaccinated persons to be infected by variants carrying mutations associated with decreased antibody neutralization (L452R, L452Q, E484K, and/or F490S) (78% versus 48%, p = 1.96e-08), (L452R and/or N501Y) (85% versus 77%, p = 0.092). Differences in viral loads were non-significant between unvaccinated and fully vaccinated persons overall (p = 0.99) and according to lineage (p = 0.09 – 0.78).


Viral loads were significantly higher in symptomatic as compared to asymptomatic vaccine breakthrough cases (p < 0.0001), and symptomatic vaccine breakthrough infections had similar viral loads to unvaccinated infections (p = 0.64). In 5 cases with available longitudinal samples for serologic analyses, vaccine breakthrough infections were found to be associated with low or undetectable neutralizing antibody levels attributable to immunocompromised state or infection by an antibody-resistant lineage. These findings suggest that vaccine breakthrough cases are preferentially caused by circulating antibody-resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants, and that symptomatic breakthrough infections may potentially transmit COVID-19 as efficiently as unvaccinated infections, regardless of the infecting lineage.

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May 2021

60,000 IU per day.

Impact Of Daily High Dose Oral Vitamin D Therapy On Covid 19 Patients (Nature)

COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus has created an unprecedented hardship in the recent times1,2. Serious consequences of COVID-19 were attributed to the immune dysregulation leading to the enhanced production of pro inflammatory mediators (cytokine storm). In the absence of a specific vaccine or a treatment, strategies to minimize the effects of COVID-19 have become extremely important. Recent observational studies have reported that the patients with higher levels of serum vitamin D (vit.D) had less severe symptoms and vice versa and have postulated the usefulness of vit.D in prevention and treatment of COVID-19. The beneficial effects of vit.D in COVID-19 were attributed to be mediated through its multiple actions on the immune system.

Vit.D is known to enhance the production of various anti-microbial peptides by the immune cells and vit.D modulates the immune system according to the internal milieu. It reduces the dysregulated production of self-damaging pro-inflammatory cytokines and promotes the expression of anti-inflammatory cytokines by immune cells. The dynamic role of vit.D can be of immense value in the context of immune dysfunction observed in COVID-19 patients with cytokine storm and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Though the protective immuno-modulatory effects of vit.D were explored in many autoimmune diseases and respiratory tract infections, there is a dearth of information from the randomised clinical trials in COVID-19.

Pulse D therapy is a targeted approach to increase the serum vit.D level by using high dose (60,000 IUs) oral supplementation of vit.D daily for a specific period of time determined by the individual’s BMI, initial level of vit.D and the formulation19. This study aims to objectively investigate the role of vit.D and the impact of Pulse D therapy in reducing the inflammatory biomarkers of COVID-19.

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June 2021

Anyone seen any vit. D campaigns yet?

1 in 4 COVID Patients Hospitalized While Vitamin D Deficient Die – Study (ToI)

Hospitalized COVID-19 patients are far more likely to die or to end up in severe or critical condition if they are vitamin D-deficient, Israeli researchers have found. In a study conducted in a Galilee hospital, 26 percent of vitamin D-deficient coronavirus patients died, while among other patients the figure was at 3%. “This is a very, very significant discrepancy, which represents a big clue that starting the disease with very low vitamin D leads to increased mortality and more severity,” Dr. Amir Bashkin, endocrinologist and part of the research team, told The Times of Israel. For much of the pandemic, many scientists have suggested that the so-called sunshine vitamin may help people fight the disease. The new study represents one of the most compelling pieces of supporting research yet.

“In short, after conducting this study I would say to people that during this pandemic, you certainly want to make sure that you have adequate vitamin D, because if you contract the coronavirus it will help you,” said Dr. Amiel Dror, who led the research. He analyzed data on 1,176 patients admitted to the Galilee Medical Center, 253 of whom had vitamin D levels on record, for a study that has been published online but not yet been peer-reviewed. Half of those with recorded levels were vitamin D-deficient. “We were very interested to see just what a big difference this made, with these patients some 14 times more likely, on average, to end up in severe or critical condition,” said Dror, who, like Bashkin, is a physician at Galilee Medical Center, as well as a researcher at Bar Ilan University.

Numerous studies have been conducted on the association between vitamin D levels and the SARS-CoV-2 infection, and they have produced mixed results. Most of them measured vitamin D levels once patients were already sick, which can complicate interpretation of the results. Israel’s centralized health record-keeping has allowed Bar Ilan researchers to easily access patient vitamin levels that are on record from before infection. This data led to an important study that lauded vitamin D’s prospects for fighting the disease last year, as well as the new study.

“This study is important because of the results, because of the fact that it uses data from before admission, and also because we were careful to isolate all factors like age and diabetes,” Dror said. “We saw that vitamin D deficiency is an independent factor that significantly influences the status of the patient.” Dror added that the fact that such a large proportion of patients were vitamin D-deficient in Israel, despite the abundance of sunshine, highlights the value of people around the world monitoring and potentially boosting their levels.

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So soon?

Is It Time To Stop Obsessing Over Covid Figures? (DM)

They’re the figures that have ruled our lives for the past 18 months; decided our freedoms; deepened our fears. The Covid dashboard published on the UK Government website has offered the public a window into the state of the UK’s epidemic, displaying daily Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths, both nationally and regionally, since April 2020. Some people have avoided looking at the figures – published at 4pm every day, including weekends. But a surprising number of us have become secretly addicted to poring over them. Back in January, the dashboard attracted 76 million views in a single day. In more recent months, the dashboard has offered a source of celebration, thanks to the addition of the vaccination tally.

Scientists and politicians alike agree the UK’s Covid dashboard has been a resounding success, allowing the public to draw their own conclusions about the level of threat the virus poses to them. It’s also been a crucial yardstick for how stretched the NHS is, providing exact figures of how many Covid patients are in each hospital around the country. But now, with nearly eight in ten Britons protected against getting seriously ill, thanks to the vaccine, are daily Covid figures still necessary? After all, as Health Secretary Sajid Javid said of the virus earlier this summer: ‘We cannot eliminate it, instead we have to learn to live with it.’ There is growing concern from experts that the endless figures do more harm than good. Some have declared the tally of daily infections ‘completely meaningless’.

‘It shouldn’t really matter how many people are catching the virus – as long as they are protected,’ says Professor Jackie Cassell, public health expert at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Other scientists have warned of the psychological impact of constant reminders of how many people are still catching Covid. ‘There’s a worry, that in the scramble to get out these daily updates, we’re alarming people disproportionately,’ says Professor Robert Dingwall, sociologist at Nottingham Trent University and former Government scientific adviser. ‘People see spikes in the data, and this is often the cause of great anxiety, which might lead them to limit their daily activities unnecessarily.

‘It stops people being able to acclimatise to a post-vaccine world, which is exactly what the jabs were intended to do. And if you look more widely you’ll find the majority of infections are in the younger, festival-going age groups, and didn’t reach the vulnerable or elderly.’ Others argue that the continued obsession over Covid figures overshadows the record-high demands on the NHS.

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Journal of Immunology.

Differentiation of Long-Lived SARS-CoV-2-Specific CD8+ T Cells (JoI)

CD8+ T cells can potentiate long-lived immunity against COVID-19. We screened longitudinally-sampled convalescent human donors against SARS-CoV-2 tetramers and identified a participant with an immunodominant response against residues 322 to 311 of nucleocapsid (Nuc322–331), a peptide conserved in all variants of concern reported to date. We conducted 38-parameter cytometry by time of flight on tetramer-identified Nuc322–331–specific CD8+ T cells and on CD4+ and CD8+ T cells recognizing the entire nucleocapsid and spike proteins, and took 32 serological measurements. We discovered a coordination of the Nuc322–331–specific CD8+ T response with both the CD4+ T cell and Ab pillars of adaptive immunity.


Over the approximately six month period of convalescence monitored, we observed a slow and progressive decrease in the activation state and polyfunctionality of Nuc322–331–specific CD8+ T cells, accompanied by an increase in their lymph node–homing and homeostatic proliferation potential. These results suggest that following a typical case of mild COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2–specific CD8+ T cells not only persist but continuously differentiate in a coordinated fashion well into convalescence into a state characteristic of long-lived, self-renewing memory.

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It reacts to magnets. Welcome to graphene oxide.

Contaminant In 1.63m Moderna Vaccine Doses In Japan Believed To Be Metal (R.)

A contaminant found in a batch of Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccines delivered to Japan is believed to be a metallic particle, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported, citing sources at the health ministry. Japan on Thursday suspended the use of 1.63 million doses shipped to 863 vaccination centres nationwide, more than a week after the domestic distributor, Takeda Pharmaceutical, received reports of contaminants in some vials. NHK, in a report published late on Thursday, cited ministry sources as saying the particle reacted to magnets and was therefore suspected to be a metal. Moderna has described it as “particulate matter” that did not pose a safety or efficacy issue. A health ministry official said the composition of the contaminant has not been confirmed.

In a statement, Takeda said it asked Moderna to investigate the issue and that it would work with the health ministry to replace the affected vaccine supply. News of the contaminant could provide a fresh setback for Japan’s inoculation drive as it struggles to persuade many – particularly young people — to get vaccinated. On Friday, eight more prefectures entered a state of emergency meaning about 80 per cent of Japan’s population is under coronavirus restrictions. The government reported nearly 25,000 new infections and severe cases at a record 2,000 for Thursday. The ministry has said the suspension of the Moderna batches was a precaution but it prompted several Japanese companies to cancel worker vaccinations and the European drugs regulator to launch an investigation.

Airline ANA Holdings Inc said it had secured more Moderna supplies and would resume inoculations on Saturday after a two-day suspension of the shots. Spanish pharma company Rovi, which bottles Moderna vaccines for markets other than the United States, said the contamination could be due to a manufacturing issue on a production line. A spokesperson said the company could not say anything more while it was investigating. Moderna put the lot in question and two adjacent ones on hold. Another health ministry official said it would take “some time” to confirm how many shots from the contaminated batch had been administered in Japan. Kyodo News reported that at least 176,000 shots have been used based on its own tally of figures reported by municipalities.

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Misinformation? Really?

Covid Vaccine Doubter Alex Berenson Permanently Banned From Twitter (NYP)

Conservative commentator and vaccine doubter Alex Berenson has reportedly been permanently suspended from Twitter for violating the social media platform’s COVID-19 misinformation rules. Berenson’s account was banned Saturday after “repeated violations” of the rules, a Twitter spokesperson told NBC News in a statement. Berenson, a one-time New York Times reporter, addressed the suspension in a Saturday night post to his Substack page, blaming his removal from Twitter on a recent post where he was critical of the coronavirus vaccine. “It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a vaccine,” the tweet read.


“Think of it — at best — as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS.” Berenson, in his Substack post, defended the tweet in question as “entirely accurate.” In a statement to The Post, the Yale-educated writer and novelist blasted Twitter’s decision. “We have reached a dangerous moment. Social media companies that have audiences which dwarf any other are now actively censoring reporters at the behest of governments,” he said. “I will continue to fight to get out the truth and am considering all legal options.”

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In the wire.

Escapes From Afghanistan, Coordinated From A Home Office In Connecticut (CTM)

Across the hall from his twin daughters’ sun-splashed bedroom, where Mickey Mouse and a menagerie of stuffed animals stand watch from bunk beds, Alex Plitsas typed furiously on his iPhone, relaying encrypted messages to a terrified Afghan family outside the airport at Kabul. The Afghan father had been beaten the previous day by the Taliban, his pregnant wife whipped across the back. Plitsas sent a signal to them to flash to American personnel who would admit them to the airport gate. To the Americans at the airport gate, he relayed a photo of the family, a hollow-eyed selfie. They were just four meters from the gate, an exit from Afghanistan.

Improbably, they had been guided there by Plitsas, an Army veteran and suburban dad standing in stocking feet in a home office in a tidy neighborhood on the other side of the world. He is one of the many players in a crowd-sourcing exercise that, at least for Plitsas, would reach a crescendo Thursday night. An interpreter he helped already had flown to safety. The pregnant woman was under the care of American medics. And a more difficult case, coordinating the rescue of four unaccompanied minors whose plight had been the subject of a CNN story, had found a happy ending. At 11:07 p.m., a text message arrived with a picture of four children and three words: “In the wire.”

The wire was the fence separating the American-controlled portion of Hamid Karzai International Airport from the chaos and carnage of Kabul. On a day when suicide bombers killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of Afghan civilians outside the airport gate, four kids were saved. There were others, their stories certain to unfold over time. All were beneficiaries of a network of military veterans and others with contacts in Afghanistan. They used social media, off-the-shelf encryption communication apps and satellite maps in what’s been dubbed the “Digital Dunkirk,” a nod to the civilian flotilla that evacuated trapped British troops after the fall of France. As midnight approached, the end of a frenetic 36 hours, Plitsas struggled to explain what he felt. It had been a day of frustration, false starts, grievous losses and scattered gains. Finally, he said, “I could throw up right now.”

Killed by US

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  • #85737
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    Surely the whole control-through-vaccine-passports schtick falls apart if many of the the double-jabbed kick the bucket when they get their third shot?

    Many people are thinking that sleepy Joe won’t make it through the autumn, after all, a fall guy is needed. I got to thinking that maybe he won’t make it physically: He’s clearly suffering from advanced dementia, so that could carry him off (or it could be conveniently ‘accelerated’); He could catch a nasty virus that’s apparently doing the rounds – that would be quite‘poetic’; or, if someone wanted the chasm between red and blue to widen to breaking point, then he could be shot by a sniper on a bridge in, say, a major city in Texas, but the blame could be pinned on some MAGA-hat wearing redneck holding an antique rifle in a nearby warehouse. That ought to do it.

    #85738
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    Well written piece over at ClubOrlov. This kind of clarity is a penetrating force. notice how it invites and enables objective analysis? Perhaps more folks can wake up to the idea that lies are the root cause of all the failure and those generating the lies are the real enemy. Try applying the failure test to any of your “favorite causes” – Covid, Afghanistan, NineEleven, the Economy, the Weather, fire management – you will end up with the same root cause. The question then becomes, how to respond?

    The Afghanistan Rout and American Glasnost’

    “I believe that the extreme and apparent incompetence of the Americans in Afghanistan is the result of the corrosive effect of lies. A foundation of lies is inevitably a shaky one and can only be kept from crumbling under carefully controlled circumstances.”

    “Poor old Joe Biden…laboring under the crushing load of these lies, can do no better than assume the fetal position right in the middle of a press conference. Can you imagine what Bedlam would break out if he were to suddenly stop lying?” “Sooner or later the truth will spill over this giant dam brimming with lies. The ensuing flood is sure to sweep away everything in its path.”

    Do you not feel more grounded and centered after reading and contemplating this piece? Cause and effect. You can control how you respond….do what you can. Grateful for this site and all who contribute.

    Day 14 of my Covid experience. The extreme impacts are behind me. Fever, nausea, headaches, runny nose/stuffy nose, zombie state of being + beyond tired, and weight loss have mostly ended. At full lung capacity with no cough (please send your leftover clean air/still between many fires). Will coffee and beer ever taste good again? So strange to have been in a place of zero energy/motivation, something very new for me.

    #85739
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The ‘News Media” is nonexistent meaning in a snazzy vapid shell.

    The Lancet burned their bridges FOREVER with the totally fraudulent piece on how the Virus That Has Yet to Be Truly Isolated Anywhere on Planet Earth two years running, could *Never* have come from a lab.

    You don’t get your trust horizon back, ever, after a stunt like that.

    The Lancet editor, Richard Charles Horton, is an incompetent pompous ManWhore.

    He deserves to have his career garroted with a piano wire.

    I wouldn’t believe anything he publishes, ever.

    I regard pointing to the Lancet as a truthful source as spreading medical misinformation propaganda.

    The Lancet needs to change it’s name to Medical ManWhore.

    It’s will be marketed like Playboy magazine for Big Pharma pimps and medical voyeurs.

    Masthead cheesecake shot of Lancet Editor Richard Charles Horton

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.2bE91VBiSzBCXRNz1ZAIxAHaFj?pid=ImgDet&rs=1

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    #85740
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    Good news, Susmarie, glad you are feeling better. 🙂

    #85741
    Bill7
    Participant

    Yesterday I got an email from JustCare, and outfit that I think does good work.
    One of the main links within it was headed ‘Get Your Booster Shot Now!’, with the title
    slightly changed in fro the article itself.

    Reading the article around two-thirds of the way down was this:

    “..Is a booster safe? Some experts say it is safe. Others question whether it could lead to severe side effects. Some also think that younger people might be better off for now without the booster. People who get the booster could be more likely to develop inflammation of the heart, for example..”

    Coronavirus: Why you should get a booster shot

    #85742
    Dimitri
    Participant

    Plot thickens

    #85743
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Thanks Susmarie for reminding me of Orlov.

    Yes lies are the Axis Mundi of the Plandemic, and the Afghan fiasco, and the debt bomb, etc.

    “Sooner or later the truth will spill over this giant dam brimming with lies. The ensuing flood is sure to sweep away everything in its path.”

    #85744
    Oroboros
    Participant

    An even better ‘lies breaking over the dam’ clip

    #85746
    Bill7
    Participant

    The piling on on Biden/Afghanistan happening now is reminding me much of the extreme narrative shift on the origin of the virus.

    This article seems to have some explanatory value, but who can say, these days:

    Lara Logan Carries a Big Trumpet About Afghanistan – If The U.S. Government Wanted it to be Different, It Would Be

    Thanks to the source of the link- I don’t remember where I got it.

    #85747
    slimyalligator
    Participant

    Letter to the editor. The Morning Call (Lehigh Valley. PA) 8/29/21.
    “Let’s do Our Civic Duty”
    “I am unvaccinated because it is my civic duty to help combat COVID-19 and I respect myself, my family and friends, and I am unselfishly participating in a COVID 19 vaccine ‘experiment’ to protect the world. How about you?” Denise Wilz, Lower Macungie Township, PA.
    Sweet!

    #85748
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    • Vaccine-Resistant Viruses Are Driving ‘Breakthrough’ Covid Infections (MN)

    Related to my earlier comment today, here are some examples of how the mainstream news (The Mercury News article, above) slants their reporting to fit the narrative:

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    The Mercury News:
    “Vaccinated people are still much more protected from serious illness, hospitalization and death than unvaccinated people, the study confirmed.”

    From the actual study report:
    “…there were fewer hospital admissions and no deaths in vaccinated patients as compared to unvaccinated patients, though these differences were not statistically significant due to low case numbers.”

    —————————
    The Mercury News:
    “The team’s second major finding was more reassuring: People who never develop symptoms during a “breakthrough” infection carry very low levels of virus – a finding that should ease concerns that vaccinated people are unknowingly fueling the pandemic.”

    From the actual study report:
    [Number of people in the study population who never developed symptoms during a “breakthrough” infection]: 10

    —————————
    The Mercury News:
    “Vaccination is not to be blamed for the increase in variants with these mutations, Chiu said.”

    From the actual study report:
    “The predominance of immune-evading variants among breakthrough cases indicates selective pressure for immune-resistant variants locally over time in the vaccinated population concurrent with ongoing viral circulation in the community… In summary, our results reveal that selection pressure in a highly vaccinated community (>71% fully vaccinated as of early August 2021) favors more infectious, antibody-resistant VOCs [Variants of Concern]“.

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    The Mercury News:
    “Ultimately, we will control this pandemic by vaccinating as many people as possible, Chiu said.”

    From the actual study report:
    Targeted booster vaccinations for vulnerable populations [not everyone]… will likely be needed in the near future to control viral spread in the community.
    —————————

    https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/27/new-ucsf-study-vaccine-resistant-viruses-are-driving-breakthrough-covid-infections/

    #85749
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Xiden and his cokehead manwhore excuse for a son made their deal with Chinese a while back, in the millions at least.

    After the American Billionaire Boys Club dismantled and outsourced the US industrial base to China over the last decades, the ‘mop up crew’, Xiden and muppet masters et al, are in office to finish the final disintegration of the U.S. into a back water plantation.

    The three things that define a ‘country’ are gone in the US

    No Borders (wide open and unprotected)
    No Currency (just unlimited keyboard created fiat)
    No Rule of Law (Constitution, laws & courts ignored or optional)

    Xiden, he’d sell a rat’s assh*le to a blind man as a wedding ring

    China Joe Go Go Go!

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/mao-biden-768×768.jpg

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    #85750
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Also, while the Mercury News calls the study “a new UC San Francisco analysis,” six of the study’s authors have competing interests (the lead author receives funding from Abbott Laboratories, two of the co-authors are employees and shareholders of Abbott Laboratories, and three other co-authors are employees of another Covid testing company.)

    #85751
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #85752
    zerosum
    Participant

    How to make friends
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/explosion-rocks-kabul-rocket-reportedly-hits-house-near-airport
    Biden Drone Strike Reportedly Kills Multiple Children In Kabul, Family Claims ‘Not ISIS-K’
    Update (1605ET): The Associated Press is reporting that three children were killed in a Sunday drone strike on a vehicle in Kabul, which American officials say was carrying “multiple suicide bombers.”

    Family denies being ISIS, says six children died

    Muslim Shirzad, an International relations & Security expert and former senior presenter for political news, has interviewed the family of the deceased, who say nine individuals – including six children – were actually killed, and that they aren’t ISIS.

    “I just spoke with family members, 9 people killed (Zamaray 40, Naseer 30, Zameer 20, Faisal 10, Farzad 9, Armin 4, Benyamin 3, Ayat 2 and Sumaya 2 years old),” he tweeted.

    #85753
    VietnamVet
    Participant

    As Dr. D linked, the Saudis signed a Military Cooperation Agreement with Russia at the same time as the fall of Kabul. This is not happenstance. Nor is the inability to exterminate coronavirus. Western governments have ceased to function. Democracy and the rule of law has been flushed down the toilet as oligarchs and cultists wanted. The resulting corporate state has one and only one goal, make the rich richer.

    Lies, lies, lies and lies destroyed the Soviet Union. And so too the United States of America. The utter incompetence isn’t a conspiracy of the best and brightest, it is dumb and dumbest getting paid not to see the truth. The powerful and arrogant thought they could create their own reality. Instead, the Western Empire is no more.

    Mother Nature is laughing at human beings for burning millions of years of fossil fuel in 300 years. 16 Years after Hurricane Katrina, to the day, Gulf Coast Residents confront disaster with the landfall of Category 4 Hurricane Ida. Five Hurricanes hit Louisiana last year.

    Chaos rules the West.

    #85754
    John Day
    Participant

    From Yesterday’s comments:
    Thanks for the kind words, Dr.D.
    @My Parents said Know: The clinic officially is making COVID vaccination mandate “for the community good over the individual prerogative”. There is not actually a desire to do more than have good PR while following the narrative. Some would clearly prefer that this be unanimous, but are willing to forge ahead in political correctitude.
    What hurt more deeply was being shut down and muted by my Buddhist sangha leader this morning, when I offered the factual counterpoint to the narrative (schadenfreude, “poor people died thinking COVID wasn’t real”) several were putting forth in a kind-ish sort of way, by stating that the tragedy is that there are effective treatments, that I have prescribed to over 60 people, none of whom got worse or hospitalized. I was sternly told that “This is not the place for that kind of talk and opinion”.
    To say that there are treatments that work is too deeply disturbing of a political view for a medical doctor to voice in a Buddhist meditation group, when it followed the context of talking-about-poor-people-sick-and-dying-from-COVID (smugly).
    Then, during the Dharma talk, I generated love and compassion into their midst (heh, heh, heh…)

    #85755
    John Day
    Participant

    @Susmarie 108: Glad you are on the mend, Sister!

    #85756
    John Day
    Participant

    January through June 2020 was just before delta hit the scene.

    “Fully vaccinated were more likely than unvaccinated persons to be infected by variants carrying mutations associated with decreased antibody neutralization [..] but not by those associated with increased infectivity..”

    #85757
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    @ John Day

    So very sorry to hear of your treatment at the hands of people who should know better; however, it is also a clear example of a failure of understanding at a most basic level…
    It is not a failure of the Dharmma…
    Too often people make religion out of a simple teaching…
    The Dharmma teaches; the failure is not applying the teaching…

    They played all the notes, and sang all the words; but never quite learned the song…

    #85758
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    @VietnamVet: am with you.

    “Western governments have ceased to function” – YES.

    “The utter incompetence isn’t a conspiracy of the best and brightest” – YES, agree completely.

    “It is dumb and dumbest getting paid not to see the truth” – not exactly, they are being paid to BELIEVE, to agree. That’s how they retain their importance and value. It’s a small price to pay for admission to the insiders club. I believe Charles Hugh Smith refers to it as a self-reinforcing feedback loop (which will eventually implode/collapse into itself).

    #85759
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    @V. Arnold: such kind, thoughtful, and true words for John Day.

    #85760
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    A human being can be aware of its own ignorance. We can know that there is something that we don’t know and want to do something about it. It’s called curiosity.

    Machines cannot do that, because there is “no one home” capable of wanting anything. Thus, no curiosity. No matter how closely a machine imitates or emulates the actions which characterize curiosity, the inescapable fact remains that there is no actual curiosity existing therein.

    It should be clear by now to just about everyone that the forces of evil over there in the wilds of Davos and Silicon Valley are running their entire campaign as an Artificial Intelligence operation (with the help of the good folks at Google , CIA, Baidu, WEF and so on) . The sophistication and fine-grain predictive accuracy of their Event 201 covid pandemic simulation showed you everything you need to know about their level and degree of preparedness and attention to forward running prediction. They’ve been working out and war gaming this thing for a LONG time.

    In other words, their AI knew a lot more than we thought it did about pulling off the Big con. That first trick they pulled was a masterpiece. Nevertheless there are a lot of things that their AI doesn’t know, too. And due to its complete lack of actual curiosity it will never make an effort to find out.

    The same can be accurately said about the empty head hubris infected elites who are using that AI like a bludgeon right now. They reckon they don’t have to really know anything because experts and computerized artificial intelligence models will do all of that for them. Wrong! It won’t.

    In an ironic sort of way , the bad guys are the first Trans-Humans : They are a melding of human bosses and computerized artificial intelligence algorithms which do most of the thinking and decision making for them, the AI’s living masters. The quasi-organism created by this symbiosis is , of course, mentally ill. In fact its a classic paranoid schizophrenic with antisocial traits, but that’s beside the point.

    There’s something else that an AI literally can not know. It can not contain that which no one puts in. Computers can not calculate with data that is not put into them in some way. No data in equals no data out, so that means that AIs are utterly oblivious to ALL data except the teensie weensie microscopic little bit of data that it’s designers and operators allow for. Stuff like all of your cell phone’s everything is easy. Data like why you love being alive and free is quite a bit harder to digitize and steal. Therefore AI has none of that.

    Because its data is so faulty it’s answers will be faulty too, and its solutions for addressing the consequences of those faults and mistakes will also be wrong. And yes, it does go exponential pretty quickly. That’s the chaos we see rising at such alarmingly accelerating rate across the globe. Classic feed-back loop.

    In other words, the forces of evil in this case have a built-in fatal flaw that’s unwinding it like a dirvish: The electronics based artificial intelligence modeling that they (our rulers) depend on for REALITY, is itself totally oblivious to reality. An AI can calculate using the faulty data that it is fed. . . and that’s all.

    Of course as new data arrives ( such as “How mad ARE those peasants whose kids we just lured to their deaths ?”) that new data gets fed right back into the AI , which then re-calculates possible solutions and predicted outcomes and issues the next set of instructions. The elite translate these proposals into operational commands and faithfully send them down through their various institutional chains of command as orders. And there ya go. Every employee knows what flows downhill.

    These would-be demigods are as “trans human” as it is currently possible to be, but don’t worry. They’re working hard to make it as worsely possible as possible, as quick as they can.

    Their reach extends not one inch further than the bureaucratic institutions that they own from the top down. Beyond that they are cripples. Beyond the tips of their spears they are absolutely powerless. And the clarity of their world view is as fuzzy and limited as what the AI tells them it is. Beyond that they are blinder than bats.

    So here is a temporary two part work-around :

    1. Just keep putting truths out there and repeated as broadly as you can and as often as you can, because the AI modeling and proposed solutions MUST try to stop it, and every time it succeeds it creates a new opponent. In other words, use the AI’s automaticity as a weapon against it. If undesired truthful information continues to be circulated outside of their control, then they will feed that unacceptable situation into the AI calculation the derived solution will include more lies and censorship, and make new opponents. It’s a computer based program. It has no choice.

    2. Continue building whatever you feel like building, but build it OUTSIDE of the dwindling authority of the captured and dying institutions. If you’re a doctor, for example, then just go on being a doctor. SCREW the license. If that means you’re going to need legal help then hire a disbarred lawyer. You get the idea. Just go on living until further notice.

    #85761
    zerosum
    Participant

    @John Day

    REJOICE!

    You cannot save the stupid people from doing stupid things.

    #85762
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Susmarie108

    @V. Arnold: such kind, thoughtful, and true words for John Day.

    …and thank you for your kind words…
    Very happy to have you here as a commenter also…

    #85763
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    To say that there are treatments that work is too deeply disturbing of a political view for a medical doctor to voice in a Buddhist meditation group, when it followed the context of talking-about-poor-people-sick-and-dying-from-COVID (smugly).

    It’s like the US Professional-Managerial Class wants to be flushed down history’s toilet. They may just get their wish.

    #85764
    zerosum
    Participant

    Great news. Income will not go to buy guns
    USA mfg will replace and make more profits
    Just think of the part replacement market

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/shocking-infographic-reveals-magnitude-military-hardware-biden-handed-taliban
    Viral Infographic Reveals The Shocking Amount Of Military Hardware Biden Handed To The Taliban

    #85765
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    zerosum

    Just think of the part replacement market
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/shocking-infographic-reveals-magnitude-military-hardware-biden-handed-taliban
    Viral Infographic Reveals The Shocking Amount Of Military Hardware Biden Handed To The Taliban

    …and the Russians supplied the blueprint for an orderly and dignified withdrawl from Afghanistan…but some of us just refuse to learn history…

    #85766
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Fun with anecdotes!

    My sister’s friend (S) went out with a woman in her mid-fifties a few weeks ago. After the secod date she refused to go out again with S unless he got vaccinated. S declined to go out with her again. Recently, S spoke with the woman, who told him that she has been now been diagnosed with breast cancer, and has multiple tumors throughout her breasts.

    This same friend of my sister, S. is acquainted with a man who works at Game Stop, (G), age 31. G was so scared of covid that within a short time frame he was quadruple jabbed – two jabs of Pfizer! Two jabs of Moderna! G was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer. He also is having a life threatening problem in his lungs. (My sister didn’t recall the pulmonary diagnosis.)

    #85767
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Some stats from the UK; and they ain’t good…
    https://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2021/08/shocking-u-k-government-release-30th-report-on-adverse-reactions-to-the-covid-19-vaccines-2676206.html?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com&utm_campaign=dbr

    Yeah, yeah, Before its news, total bullshit name but, seems to be pretty informative…
    We’ll let Doc Robinson weigh in and see what he thinks…

    #85768
    Keith
    Participant

    If you’re upset, think how upset the double vaccinated are?
    Many saw vaccination as an act for taking one, or should I say two, for the team.
    Hence the vaccine passports, to encourage the third, forth, fifth…
    The “vaccine” is all about the economy, not Granny or Grand-Dad.
    I’ve heard it many times referred to as another tool in the tool box, akin to masks, hand washing, social distancing.
    Stay strong.
    I envision greater enlightenment this winter from the general population.

    #85769
    ₿oogaloo
    Participant

    If you’re upset, think how upset the double vaccinated are?

    In my experience they are not upset at all, at least not so far. Rather, they almost all share the “just get a booster” mindset, with very few thinking about long term consequences. We’ll see what happens once we have more data on the safety, efficacy and efficacy duration of the third shot.

    I have been careful in my conversations with people, avoiding debate, just asking a lot of questions. I find that people like to talk, and the more they talk, the more you can ascertain who they rely on for their sources of information. Just keep asking questions . . .

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