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Who needs Klaus Schwab, …
Mr. Xi Plays Davos Man
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/mr-xi-plays-davos-man/… snip:
Xi’s key message, when it comes to addressing “Davos Man” – the trademark WEF audience – was unmistakable: China is and will continue to remain the safest of havens for global Capital. The Masters of the Universe – from BlackRock down – duly nodded their approval.
But then, there are “countercurrents”.
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@WES, #98463 – Xi is trapped in his own zero covid policy trap!
_____________________Yes, but there is a lot, lot more in that article: … Xi ( … Klaus Schwab’s pal?) is insisting that China is absolutely, the most critically important for globalization to march forward!
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The Climate-Change Trip to Abilene
“Climate change is not the biggest problem facing the world. It is a symptom of the much larger problem of overshoot. Overshoot means that humans are using natural resources and polluting at rates beyond the planet’s capacity to recover.
The main cause of overshoot is the extraordinary growth of human population made possible by fossil energy. Concerns about overshoot and population raised more than 40 years ago were dismissed. Climate change has captured public awareness more recently although many doubt that it is an emergency.
Overshoot is more difficult to dispute: the destruction of rainforests, the extinction of other species, the pollution of land, river and seas, the acidification of the oceans, and loss of fisheries and coral reefs.[…]
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Who knew?
“In a special address to the WEF’s 2022 Davos Agenda virtual event, Xi [Chinese President Xi Jinping] also urged concerted efforts to defeat the pandemic and promote steady recovery of the world economy, as the world continues to face a still raging COVID-19 pandemic. He called for the equitable distribution of vaccines, faster vaccination, as well as a continuation of economic globalization, stressing protectionism and unilateralism can “protect no one.” – bold added for emphasis.
No ‘countercurrents’ can stop globalization trend: Xi
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202201/1246218.shtmlF.S.
From Valdai Club today: John Mearsheimer, Malcolm Rifkind, Sergei Ryabkov.
It’s about relation between Russia and the West.
(Mearsheimer’s remark starts at about 32:45 mark.)
… stand-by for a significant event, … soon!
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Meantime, in the financial-corporate world:
BLACKROCK INC.
– On January 14, BlackRock reported 4Q21 adjusted earnings of $10.42 per share, up from $10.18 a year earlier and above the market consensus of $10.15. Revenue rose 14%, with total assets under management (AUM) rising 15% to more than $10 trillion. [Note: … that’s trillion, a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 10^12)
– Long-term net inflows were strong at $169 billion, though they included $49 billion of fixed-income inflows from a single insurance company mandate.
… what’s to fret about?
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Here we go, Alastair Crooke:
[W]ill the U.S. practitioners of meme-politics, absorb and comprehend that this latest stance by the Russia – in riposte to its real security concerns – may not be some same-ilk, meme-mobilisation, but rather, that their ‘red lines’ are ‘red lines’ … literally?
Unfortunately, probably not.
Dialogue of the Deaf in Geneva
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Here is how investment community is looking at COVID, … just an example of:
Moderna: High Upside Potential At Current Prices
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4479930-moderna-high-upside-potential-at-current-prices?mailingid=26395560&messageid=must_reads&serial=26395560.371310&utm_campaign=Must%2BRead%2BJanuary%2B17%2C%2B2022&utm_content=seeking_alpha&utm_medium=email&utm_source=seeking_alpha&utm_term=must_reads… snips:
Summary
Moderna has a significant first mover competitive advantage by not only developing the COVID-19 vaccine but also by scaling the company’s mRNA manufacturing capacity.
Moderna recently reported the preliminary COVID-19 estimate for product sales in 2021 as being approximately $17.5 billion.
Recently, Singapore released data showing that COVID-19 deaths were the lowest among Moderna vaccine takers.
One of the ways that Moderna is keeping ahead of potential mRNA competition is using its $15.3 billion in cash and $3.2 billion in Free Cash Flow to continue building out significant mRNA manufacturing capability across the world.
The 58% pullback from Moderna’s all-time high of $497.49 gives aggressive growth investors a chance to buy into a company with significant upside potential. […]Between Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines, Moderna had the least death rates:
11 deaths per 100,000: Sinovac
7.8 deaths per 100,000: Sinopharm
6.2 deaths per 100,000: Pfizer/BioNTech
1 death per 100,000: ModernaF.S.
Dog be praised! Hallelujah, …
Health Canada approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 therapeutic
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/health-canada-pfizer-therapeutic-1.6317505Health Canada has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 therapeutic for use in adults 18 and older, paving the way for the distribution of a potentially lifesaving drug at a time when the country’s hospitals are overwhelmed. […]
Canada has placed an order for an initial quantity of one million treatment courses. Some of that supply will start to arrive in the coming weeks. With global interest in antivirals running high as the Omicron variant wreaks havoc, Pfizer is promising to churn out 120 million courses of the treatment by year’s end.[…]
“This treatment, the first treatment taken orally and at home, will be in high demand,” […]”We anticipate supply at the beginning will not be great anywhere.”, says Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer!
… fwiw,
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Greet Tweet – 9:12 AM · Jan 17, 2022
https://mobile.twitter.com/GVDBossche/status/1483110026583715854/photo/1
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Bright Light News on “from” and “with”
Deaths ‘With’ and ‘From’ Covid-19 and the Inflation of DataF.S.
@Maxwell Quest: … God help us if Russia backs down.
I don’t believe back down is an option for Russia. If one has been paying a close attention to the most recent batch of messages from Russia, … Russia will not back down! Latest message from Russian FM Lavrov reinforces that further. Here is a translation of just one question asked Lavrov the other day by the media:
Question: You have already spoken about the outcome of the talks concerning Russian proposals on security guarantees in Brussels and Geneva. We are now waiting for formal answers, from the United States next week, and from NATO, within a week. At the same time, we can see that our partners are critical and sometimes overtly negative about the provisions that are important to us. What actions will Russia take if the US and NATO reject the proposals?
Sergey Lavrov: We are waiting for a written response. We have reason to believe that our partners have realised the need to do this quickly, with specificity, and in writing. We won’t wait forever. There are plans to drag out this process. Frankly, everyone knows that reaching an agreement depends on the United States. Whatever they are telling us about the need to consult with their allies and involve all OSCE members in the talks, those are excuses and attempts to drag out the process.
When Russia and NATO were establishing relations, when they signed the Founding Act and reached a decision to establish the Russia-NATO Council – Moscow and the North Atlantic Alliance reached some political agreements in the process, which had to do with how we would behave in terms of the configuration of armed forces and weapons going forward – no one had to be consulted. It never occurred to anyone. Neither with the OSCE, nor with the European Union, which now gets bitter whenever it feels left out (as conveyed by Josep Borrell). This is a whole new topic for discussion.
We want to see their position on paper, to get a specific comment on each of our points in both documents – which of them are acceptable, which aren’t and why. If something needs to be added, they could formulate amendments.
You have mentioned something that tops the headlines across the media – the Western reaction has consisted primarily of a categorical rejection of ending NATO’s open door policy. But Russia is not bound by any agreements within NATO. We, the Americans, Europeans, NATO members, and neutral states, are firmly bound by agreements and political commitments within the OSCE framework. In this context, OSCE provides us with a legal framework solely because in the 1990s, an agreement was reached to the effect that undermining indivisible European security and strengthening one’s own security at the expense of others is unacceptable. Those documents (in particular, the Charter for European Security signed at the highest level in 1999 in Istanbul) contain three components. Everyone shared them and signed off on them.
The first of them, which the West loves talking about now, is the right to freely choose how to ensure one’s own security, including treaties of alliance. After all, these documents say that each state has the right to be neutral. This should not be forgotten, either. Then follows a paragraph that is an inalienable part of this compromise, notably, the agreement binding each state to respect the rights of other countries and not to bolster its own security at the expense of the security of others. There is a special stipulation that no single state, group of countries or organisation can be primarily responsible for the maintenance of peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic region and cannot view any part of it as a sphere of its influence.
Pocketing the first part of this inseparable package (the right of each state to choose alliances), our US and NATO colleagues then try to cross out all the rest, without which the first part is invalid. We are not bound by this norm (respect for the right to choose alliances) if it is applied in flagrant violation of the other parts of this inseparable package. We have explained this in sufficient detail. Now we are awaiting responses in writing, after which this issue will move to the fore if it becomes clear that it makes sense to resume the talks.
We will insist that our partners clarify how they view their commitments, especially those adopted at top level. If our proposals are rejected, we will evaluate the situation and report to President of Russia Vladimir Putin. He said at the annual news conference that we will make decisions with due account of all factors, primarily in the interests of reliably ensuring our security. I am not going to engage in any of the guesswork that our partners attempt. I consider it counterproductive. It is important for us to receive a detailed response or counterproposals on the issues raised in our documents. These issues are key to preventing negative developments in our common region – in Europe. The response of our colleagues will show us how serious they are.
The chief US negotiator in Geneva, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, said in an interview that it was more about evaluating positions rather than talks. This is telling. We arrived at these talks with the positions that we formulated in writing a month before the meeting in Geneva. During this month, the Americans failed to study our proposals in order to arrive at a specific position. They limited themselves to questions and verbal explanations. We are past that stage.
… rest is in following vid:
Best,
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On NATO, Russia, USA: … look-back to 2017 – what was written and said back then:
Member states taken in since the late 1990s cannot, of course, be expelled. But NATO expansion could be demilitarized, its forces withdrawn back to Germany, from which they crept to Russia. This may have been possible in the late 1990s or early 2000s, as promised in 1997. Now it is mostly a utopian idea, but one without which the world is in ever graver danger—a world with less and less real security.
Have 20 Years of NATO Expansion Made Anyone Safer?
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/have-20-years-of-nato-expansion-made-anyone-safer/… fwiw.
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Re, Sergei Lavrov’s, Russia’s Foreign Minister, interview referred to in Helmer’s today included above article. Full English translation:
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1794264/?lang=en
… I say, it’s diplomatic, but quite harsh and to the point!
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@ timfoilhatted Canuck #97953 – I highly recommend the Vineyard of the Saker’s blog
I would be careful with that one! Andrei is not a type of a person who sports a deerstalker-type of hat! You know, a hat sporting two bills or visors, … front and rear. He strictly is a single-bill-hat, … a Russophile, and so his opinion is pretty much, … most frequently skewed. His maxim is: Stop the Empire’s war on Russia
Anyway, … a bit of personal question, … since you sport a hat: Is your tinfoil hat double-billed? Sherlock Holmes-like?
Best,
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Dr. Day @97950 – Cuban Missile Crisis -II
Hmmn, … not likely. I think Russia will simply now negotiate with Western Europe’s nations individually, … stress to Germans, French and Brits that any kind of military action will become a disaster for them – in the end,… that is, if they fail to persuade US to a compromise, … accommodate Russian issues.
But, … what do I know, anyway? Here is a latest muse from John Helmer:
US OPENS NATO NEGOTIATING POSITION IN GENEVA – BROTHEL OPEN, SEVERAL EUNUCHS AVAILABLE
“[Wendy] Sherman made eight points indicating that the “core security interests” which the Russian side has placed at the top of the agenda are now in negotiation with the US.”
US OPENS NATO NEGOTIATING POSITION IN GENEVA – BROTHEL OPEN, SEVERAL EUNUCHS AVAILABLE
Earlier musings by Helmer are equally interesting and interestingly accurate, btw.
… fwiw,
Best,
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@ Dr. Day, #97945
Well, Alastair Cooke’s essays are on my favourite reading list! Real, honest source of opinions and information.
As well, I find MoA interesting, too. Mind you, I find b bit stiff, inflexible. Still, good source of info, … mostly.
In this latest case, I think b went too, too far criticizing Alastair. He ignored the entire essay, … and just picked one single point, …
Anyway, … from your blog posts, I sense that we frequent very similar-type of oddball websites! A good thing, I presume, …
Best,
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Latest view from “‘Strayla“, … by a redneck car guy (mechanical engineer) – but this is not about cars! Worth-a-watch:
Omicron, Australia & the incompetence of leadership | Auto Expert John Cadogan
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@ Dr. Day post # 97825
Gripping, … I read Alastair Crooke‘s essay last night. Most excellent. Also, I read MoA, … a critique of Crooke.
The Danger Of Subjective Reading Of Covid News
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/01/the-danger-of-subjective-reading-of-covid-news.html#more
… just bringing it up here for further look, … especially because this whole thing is being linked to this:
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron VOC Transmission in Danish Households
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v1.fullBest,
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FWIW, … Russian side of Russia/U.S. strategic talks in Geneva.
Note: … start this vid at about 15:20 time point.
… and as to US side view, just watch the news in your local.
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If 1 in 10 Fully-Vaxxed Don’t Take Boosters, Will Unconstitutional Mandates Eventually Fall?
If 1 in 10 fully vaccinated people in Canada–of which there are 29,524,726 people–fail to take the succession of boosters now slated for them, Canada’s 81% uptake of all eligible 5+ citizens will drop precipitously to about 50% by shot #6 (not including vaccinations slated for 0-4-year-olds.)”
If 1 in 10 Fully-Vaxxed Don’t Take Boosters, Will Unconstitutional Mandates Eventually Fall?
Note: I, for one, know more than a dozen folks, who are fully vaxxed – currently – but are claiming will not be getting the next jab. Period. Mind you, … those who still fight my position regarding vaccination, outnumber this dozen by factor of about three (3).
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Don’t you just love Kunstler’s way with words? Example:
The Party-of-Chaos (the one headed by the ectoplasmic “Joe Biden”) does not want to let go of Covid-19, its Swiss army knife of destruction. With Covid-19, you can push people around and mess with their lives every which way, shut down their businesses, lock them in their homes, screw them out of their livelihoods, delete their reputations, board-up their social venues, cancel their careers, revoke their licenses, drag them into court, fine them into penury, cram them into prison camps, and much more.
Anyway, … Kunstler today:
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Report from a front line worker in Alberta hospital, a working RN, fully vaccinated – who have been firmly in the ‘Get Vax, follow the rules’ camp – 01.10.22 at 6:27 a.m. posting:
“ENOUGH with the unVaxx’d Demonization.
A little perspective before you start throwing unvaccinated into the street without care-and mandating vaccines.
Multiple credible studies indicate current vaccines no match for this variant.
(Sample
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211223151542.htm)To those who see unVaxx’d as the root of all pandemic evil-VAXX’d are currently the Omicron target and hence the ones spreading Covid 19, albeit a much different animal than Delta.
AHS Covid data Jan. 6/22:
New cases – 80.92-fully vaccinated. 17.8% unvaccinated.
Alberta fully vaccinated 85.4 %, 89.5 single dose.Currently hospitalized-52.78 % fully vaccinated (266) , 43.25 % (216) unvaccinated.
ICU numbers -Declined from 95 on Nov. 22/21 to 65 Jan. 5/22
With 80+% new cases fully vaccinated the vaccinated hospitalized will likely continue to increase.
Hospital numbers include ‘incidental Covid’ numbers-increased now with Omicron’s often less severe presentation.ICU numbers -Declined from 95 on Nov. 22/21 to 65 Jan. 5/22
– DESPITE active reported case numbers surging from 4982 Nov.22/21. to 43,414 Jan. 6/22.
(most estimate new cases currently vastly underreported)Does not appear that mandating current vaccines will stop Omicron, but it may help break Canadians into warring factions. From what I am seeing in the comments, it already has.
fwiw,
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Globe & Mail today – behind the paywall, so I’m just pasting it all:
PUBLISHED JANUARY 8 2022, 8:00AM
UPDATED JANUARY 8 2022, 9:30AM
COVID-19 hospitalizations look different in the Omicron wave, and vaccination status is playing a part
In early December, emergency room staff at Bluewater Health in Sarnia, Ont., began seeing a troubling change in patients coming to the hospital with serious COVID-19 symptoms. Unlike during earlier waves, multiple people were showing up at once. Sometimes entire families came in, all sick, likely with the newly identified Omicron variant of the virus.
Now, the hospital’s intensive-care unit is at capacity, with 70 per cent of patients there as a result of COVID-19 infections. About 90 per cent of the COVID-19 patients in the ICU are unvaccinated, chief of staff Michel Haddad said in an interview this week. Among the hospital’s entire population of COVID-19 patients, both inside and outside the ICU, two-thirds are unvaccinated.
In the past two weeks, the number of COVID-19 patients admitted to Bluewater has quadrupled. Meanwhile, a significant chunk of the staff – nearly five times the typical number – is on sick leave, in many cases because of Omicron. This has forced others to work double shifts and postpone holidays.
The situation is so urgent the hospital sent an open letter this week in which it urged community members to get vaccinated and limit social contacts.
Canada’s health care system ‘stretched too thin,’ health minister says, as hospitals grapple with Omicron wave
Versions of this are playing out at hospitals around the country. On Friday, Ontario said 2,472 people were hospitalized as a result of COVID-19, a new provincial record. The same day, Quebec officials said more than 2,100 patients were in the hospital as a result of the disease, also a new record. The Quebec government expects that figure to reach 3,000 by mid-January.
But this new flood of COVID-19 hospitalizations is different from those in previous waves. High vaccination rates, combined with a variant that appears to cause less severe disease than previous versions of the virus, have led to a situation where patients being admitted are often unvaccinated, and many are vaccinated but suffering from chronic health conditions that make them more vulnerable.
Despite growing evidence that the Omicron variant is less likely to lead to severe illness requiring hospitalization or mechanical ventilation, its highly contagious nature poses a major threat.
“There’s so many people that are infected out there that a smaller percentage of a larger number is still a big number,” Dr. Haddad said.
Physicians say there’s no typical patient in the Omicron wave. People who are unvaccinated are much more likely to be hospitalized or end up in the ICU and experience severe outcomes. But people with compromised immune systems or other serious health problems are also being admitted.
“What we’re seeing during this wave, I would say, is a wider spectrum of disease,” said Jessica Liu, an internal medicine physician at Toronto’s University Health Network.
B.C. to end classroom alert for COVID-19 exposures, monitor school attendance instead
Under a COVID-19 curfew in Montreal, a lonely doorman stands watch over an empty city
According to the Ontario Science Table’s online dashboard, the hospital occupancy rate for the unvaccinated was 611 per million unvaccinated people in the province’s population as of Jan. 7, compared to 129 per million among those who had received at least two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. The ICU occupancy rate among the unvaccinated was 153 per million, compared to about 11 per million among those who have received at least two vaccine doses.
It seems as though Omicron infections are leading to fewer cases of severe COVID-19-related pneumonia, compared with infections seen in earlier waves of the pandemic, said Vikram Kapoor, hospitalist and site division head at William Osler Health System’s Brampton Civic Hospital.
“It’s not a uniform pattern. It’s very specific to each individual patient and their own specific risk profile,” Dr. Kapoor said.
For instance, many frail, elderly patients who get infected are coming to the hospital because they can no longer manage to take care of themselves, he said. In other cases, people with chronic illness, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, experience flare-ups of symptoms after a COVID-19 infection, resulting in hospitalization.
Some people are testing positive for COVID-19 despite being admitted for something else. But from a hospital perspective, it doesn’t make much difference, because the same isolation protocols are put in place for everyone who tests positive, Dr. Kapoor said.
At Bluewater, according to Dr. Haddad, unvaccinated ICU patients often range in age from 40 to 60. The hospital’s vaccinated COVID-19 patients include people undergoing chemotherapy and transplant recipients, he said.
While some patients are still experiencing breathing problems and respiratory distress severe enough to require mechanical ventilation, the overall proportion of patients needing this kind of treatment appears to be less during this wave than in previous ones, said Bram Rochwerg, site lead at the Juravinski Hospital ICU in Hamilton.
About 20 to 30 per cent of patients in the hospital’s ICU have classic COVID-19 pneumonia, Dr. Rochwerg said. Others have multiple health problems, along with COVID-19 infections.
The less-severe nature of Omicron appears to be leading to shorter hospital stays. Kieran Moore, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, said in a briefing on Thursday that the average length of a stay for a COVID-19 ICU patient has dropped from 13 days in early December to six.
“That, to me, is a very good trend,” Dr. Moore said. He added that shorter stays will give the province more flexibility to treat higher numbers of patients.
The stress on the hospital system is being exacerbated by the fact that many health workers are isolating or taking sick leaves because of COVID-19, while many others are off the job because of pandemic fatigue and burnout.
Quebec health minister Christian Dubé said on Thursday that 20,000 health care workers are absent as a result of COVID-19 in the province. That’s on top of 50,000 health care workers who are on longer-term leave because pandemic burnout and other issues, he noted.
“Everyone is exhausted in the health system,” Mr. Dubé said.F.S.
@ Mr. House: … even the sober minded no longer believe the FED
————————-Well, … true that. I have been trying to hear out few sober minds on FED. The best analysis – so far – I think is from Michael Pento. Following is two-parts-long interview of him. It’s well worth to consider his thinking.
Part 1: https://youtu.be/UmHkNiuSveo
Part 2: https://youtu.be/QMoyEiTEeSk… and here is his latest commentary to his clients:
https://pentoport.com/pento-in-the-news/fwiw,
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From a bankster I normally bank with, the latest health advise. Yes! Canadian banisters now dispense health device! Anyway, hear this shill* out:
The Omicron variant: A setback or the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic?
The Omicron variant: A setback or the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic?
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*) shill: … Dr. Vipan Nikore, Chief Medical Director, TD Bank.
Vaxxters News for today:
• Johnson & Johnson: The company said on Thursday that a real-world study showed its single shot COVID-19 vaccine protects against breakthrough infections and hospitalizations for up to six months. The study, sponsored by the vaccine developer, was conducted between Jan. 1 and Sept. 7 last year, before the Omicron variant was discovered. It is also yet to be peer-reviewed.
• Moderna Inc: The efficacy of boosters against COVID-19 is likely to decline over the next few months and people may need another shot in the fall of 2022, Moderna Chief Executive Officer Stephane Bancel said at a Goldman Sachs-organized healthcare conference. Bancel said the company is working on a vaccine candidate tailored to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, but is unlikely to be available in the next two months.
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Here we have our Booster-Boy – he got his booster on the 4th January – preaching COVID-19 vaccine programme:
… relentless dump truck!
… fwiw
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@ Doc Robinson: Thanks a bunch for stepping up to the rescue. Earlier this a.m., when I saw this photo, … my first thought was, ‘How perfect, … how most fitting for this January 6th! AD!
Best,
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@ RIM – strange stuff, link works for me outside of TAE, … but not inside. Anyway, the picture is of, … entitled:
The sunset lights up the sky behind the U.S. Capitol dome on the eve of the first anniversary of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, in Washington, January 5.
… just perhaps DuckDuckGo! will fetch it?
OK, … if above didn’t work, maybe this one:
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BioNTech SE & Pfizer Inc. in the News – Jan. 6, 2022
“The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it expanded the eligibility of Pfizer and BioNTech’s booster doses to those 12 to 15 years old. The move came after a panel of outside experts advising the CDC voted earlier to recommend booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine be made available for ages 12 to 15. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 13 to 1 to recommend that the U.S. health agency support booster shots for those aged 12 to 15 at least five months after their second dose. Separately, Pfizer expects the latest results from a clinical trial for kids under the age of 5 of the COVID-19 vaccine it developed with Germany’s BioNTech by April, a top company scientist said on Wednesday.”
… so you’re all newsed up!
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Dept: Just For Laughs!
Following is independent media advise to us Canadians on Omicron:
Omicron is spreading rapidly, and hospitalization rates have ominously begun to climb. As a result, deathly sick patients have begun to monopolize hospital beds in the U.K. and New York. That means big trouble ahead for Canadian health-care systems already wearied by the pandemic.
But many Canadian public health officials along with dangerously incompetent premiers such as Alberta’s Jason Kenney and Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe have once again ignored the obvious. There is always a three-week lag between the beginning of the wave and its impact on hospitals and ICU units.
The math is simple. The more people the virus is allowed to infect, the larger the percentage of the infected will end up in hospital. …
… the rest:
How Citizens Should Respond to Omicron
Seven prescriptions for cutting through the confusion to endure the big fifth wave.… who needs CBC.
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So, 2020 year of the virus, 2021 year of the vaccine, and 2022 year of the adverse effects of the vaccines?! And/or a grand awakening?
______________________Just for fun, … here is Greer with his A New Year’s Divination
… snip:
“This year, 2022, is a 6 year — 2 + 0 + 2 + 2 = 6. In that same system of numerology, 6 is ruled by Jupiter, and it’s a number of harmony and peace. It’s a favorable time for ease and comfort, for settling disputes amicably, for following precedents and using established approaches. It’s a bad time for conflict, which will prove ruinous for those who start it, and unfavorable for direct action, sudden changes, or new beginnings. Slow and easy is the motto of a 6 year.”… more here: https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/164394.html
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@ Dr. Day: New Brunswick’s Disease
__________________Here is CBC’s investigation into this mystery illness:
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Justin Trudeau Calls the Unvaccinated ‘Racist and Misogynistic Extremists’
________________The way I see this: … Justin Trudeau simply shocked me with his ’emotional unintelligence’. Yes, … having ( … or displaying!) a lack, or even smallest amount of intelligence!
Some fine maroon, this my prime minister!
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