Some Covid-19 thoughts
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UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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Originally posted by second:
make no use of intelligence
Soundz like a good slogan for 2024 GoP candidates!
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The Supreme Court can’t get its story straight on vaccines
The Court is barely even pretending to be engaged in legal reasoning.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed down a pair of unsigned opinions that appear to be at war with each other.
The first, National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, blocks a Biden administration rule requiring most workers to either get vaccinated against Covid-19 or to routinely be tested for the disease. The second, Biden v. Missouri, backs a more modest policy requiring most health care workers to get the vaccine.
There are some things that differentiate the two cases. Beyond the fact that the first rule is broader than the second, the broader rule also relies on a rarely used provision of federal law that is restricted to emergencies, while the latter rule relies on a more general statute.
But the Court gives little attention to substantive differences between the laws authorizing both rules. Instead, it applies an entirely judicially created doctrine and other standards in inconsistent ways. The result is two opinions that are difficult to reconcile with each other.
The NFIB case relies heavily on something known as the “major questions doctrine,” a judicially invented doctrine which the Court says places strict limits on a federal agency’s power to “exercise powers of vast economic and political significance.” As the NFIB opinion notes, the vaccinate-or-test rule at issue in NFIB applies to “84 million Americans” — quite understandably a matter of vast economic significance.
But, if this manufactured doctrine is legitimate, then it’s not at all clear why it doesn’t apply with equal force in both cases. As Justice Clarence Thomas points out in a dissenting opinion in the Missouri case, the more modest health workers’ rule “has effectively mandated vaccination for 10 million healthcare workers.” That’s still an awful lot of Americans!
What if the Biden administration had pushed out a rule requiring 20 million people to get vaccinated? Or 50 million? The Court does not tell us just how many millions of Americans must be impacted by a rule for it to count as a matter of “vast economic and political significance.” And it’s hard to draw a legally principled distinction between 10 million workers and 84 million.
Similarly, in NFIB, the Court notes that the agency which created the broad rule at issue in that case is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) which, as its name suggests, deals with health threats that arise in the workplace, and Covid-19 is not unique to the workplace. “COVID–19 can and does spread at home, in schools, during sporting events, and everywhere else that people gather,” the majority opinion notes.
But, as the three liberal justices point out in dissent, OSHA regulates threats that exist both inside and outside the workplace all the time, including “risks of fire, faulty electrical installations, and inadequate emergency exits.” It’s not at all clear why Covid-19 is any different. And the only explanation that the majority opinion gives — that a vaccination “cannot be undone at the end of the workday,” unlike the donning of fire-safety gear — applies with equal force to both the OSHA rule and the narrow health worker’s rule that the Court refused to block. Doctors’ vaccinations can’t be undone any more than an office worker’s can be.
The Court, in other words, appears unable to articulate a principled reason why some vaccination rules should stand and others should fall.
In the past, when the Court was unable to come up with principled ways to separate good rules from bad ones, it deferred to the federal agencies that promulgated those rules. The Court reasoned that it is better to have policy decisions made by expert agencies that are accountable to an elected president than to have purely discretionary decisions made by unelected judges with no relevant expertise.
But the one thing that is apparent from NFIB and Missouri is that this age of deference is over. The opinions suggest that th
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Originally posted by second:
The Supreme Court can’t get its story straight on vaccines
Yeah. Tell me about it.
Here's three lies:
1. Sotomayor straight up lied and said “Those numbers show that omicron is as deadly and causes as much serious disease in the unvaccinated as delta did. … We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition and many on ventilators.”
CDC Director Walenski said 5,000 children with covid were in the hospital. The vast majority of them were admitted for something non-covid related.
2. Kagan said "Workers have to get vaccinated so that you’re not transmitting the disease that can kill elderly Medicare patients, that can kill sick Medicaid patients. I mean, that seems like a pretty basic infection prevention measure.”
This is either a lie or she's just stupid. Not even the media or Pfizer's own CEO is not spreading the falsehood that getting a vaccination prevents spreading Covid anymore.
3. Breyer said that the day before 750 Million new cases of covid happened yesterday, even though there are only 330 Million people in America.
Either that's the stupidest thing a Supreme Court Justice has ever said, or he's got the real numbers of Illegal Aliens that Biden's let in and our population more than doubled in the last year.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, it is actually a mortal sin to lie as you do.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody dies of Covid, so this is ultimately a pissing contest between two empty bladders.
Not a lie.
How's that jab treatin' ya, mudblood?
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Corbevax’s clinical trial data has yet to be released due to resource constraints, but Texas Children’s Hospital said the vaccine was over 90% effective against the original Covid-19 strain and over 80% effective against the Delta variant. The vaccine’s efficacy against the Omicron variant is currently being tested.
Biological E, an Indian pharmaceutical company accustomed to producing hepatitis B vaccines with Texas Children’s, has already produced 150m doses of the new Corbevax vaccine and will soon be able to produce 100m doses every month.
Crucially, storing the Corbevax vaccine only requires standard refrigeration, unlike the Pfizer vaccine, which requires ultra-cold storage in transit.
After being overlooked by government organizations for funding, the developers behind Corbevax relied on philanthropic donations to get them over the finish line. The Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development is an academic and scientific institution in nature, but developing Corbevax had forced them to stretch their resources in order to gain visibility as a serious candidate for Covid vaccine development.
Drs Peter Hotez and Maria Bottazzi from the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at Baylor College of Medicine, has been developing vaccine prototypes for Sars and Mers since 2011, which they reconstructed to create the new Covid vaccine, dubbed Corbevax, or “the world’s Covid-19 vaccine”.
Although more than 60 other vaccines are in development using the same technology, Bottazzi said their vaccine is unique because they do not intend to patent it, allowing anyone with the capacity to reproduce it.
“Pretty much anybody that can make hepatitis B vaccines or has the capacity to produce microbial-based protein like bacteria or yeast, can replicate what we do,” Bottazzi said.
“When you have a situation of such gravity around the world, you don’t pick and choose a solution – you try to use all solutions,” Bottazzi said.
Bottazzi hopes her move will incentivize others to follow suit and make affordable and accessible vaccines for other diseases and viruses, like hookworm.
“We need to break these paradigms that it’s only driven by economic impact factors or return of economic investment. We have to look at the return in public health.”
More at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/15/corbevax-covid-vaccine
-texas-scientists
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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That's actually a really nice thought.
Still no way in hell that I'm going to get that jab, but it's about time that somebody came around and decided that they'd make billions of people sick and/or die and not making billions of dollars while doing it.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Deaths
849,566
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Quote:Don't be silly. Not until after the Election Theft 2022. Those flies who dropped will still vote by Mail-In.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Or maybe the Moronic variant is just the first side-effect of the vaccination.
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Omicron is spreading at lightning speed. Scientists are trying to figure out why
You wouldn't have a fucking clue since The CDC keeps changing their estimates of who's got which one now.
If something bad is going to happen, it might as well be sooner than later.
At least I'd like to think that TPTB would put an immediate end to any vaccine mandates if people who were vaxxed started dropping like flies."
The Faulty Logic remains in force.
Kiki and similar disagree with CDC/Fauci and say the vaxx never was an innoculation, it was only to prevent death among the vaxxed. Even if the vaxxed clog the hospitals.
Everybody who wants the Vaxx has gotten the Vaxx.
Vaxx doses are expiring in storage without infecting the unwilling.
Hospital worker shortages are only caused by hospitals firing everybody who can think for themselves, everybody who is not a card carrying Libtard Lemming.
Plus those who were forced to vaxx are also vaxxed.
The remaining unvaxxed have chosen to be so.
So any mandate to get the Demonicron vaxx is for what?
The unvaxxed have already chosen the freedom to Live Free or Die. And they continue to have the freedom to change their mind, at any time. Without having any effect on the vaxxed.
What is the logical purpose to force anybody else to get vaxxed?
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Comedian Kathleen Madigan's career is full of surprises as she navigates the unexpected that comes with touring from venue to venue and city to city, all with different Covid-19 protocols for hosting live entertainment:
I won’t say the name, but a big venue asked me what I’d like the (covid-19) policy to be. I’m like, “Sorry, you dialed the number of a lady who was a waitress until she decided to become a comedian.” I shouldn’t be deciding public health decrees. Don’t you have a public health department? Try the mayor’s office. Or if you want a comedian, try Dr. Ken. He’s an actual doctor who spent 185 years at Duke. He’s a real doctor. You’re going to leave this up to me and some country singer? What’s happened to us? The breakdown of who’s deciding (expletive) has gone too far. I’m willing to admit, I’m a moron on this subject matter. Why won’t they believe me? I’m telling you: I do not have any information on this. The problem is there’s no consistency. I was telling Ron White, who’s my little buddy, it’s like when you have a dream and there’s no segues. One minute you’re fishing at the pond and the next you’re at a shopping mall in the ’80s. That’s how one day on the road seems right now. You leave a city in a serious lock-down and get to a casino gig and it’s game on, like COVID never happened there.
https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/theater/comedian-kathleen-madigan
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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