Some Covid-19 thoughts
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‘People aren’t taking this seriously’: experts say US Covid surge is big risk
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/covid-19-coronavirus-us-
surge-complacency
World COVID leaders no longer: Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan down in 2022
https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/world-covid-leaders
-no-longer-australia-new-zealand-and-taiwan-down-in-2022,17121
'We need to call them out’: PM on conspiracy theories
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That number is the one thing I'll defend Joe* on.
All of those Covid deaths under Biden*'s watch are just as much bullshit as the ones under Trump's were.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibusQuote:Quote:
USA 62,661,000+
India 35,875,790
Brazil 22,558,695
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
428,000 + Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office and promised to "shut down the virus."
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/biden-covid-death-tracker/]
Now its
USA 89,527,000 +
India 43,513,117
Brazil 32,476,920
and
608,887 Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office. He promised the American people he would "shut down the virus." (Fact check: He has not.)
France and Germany are rising with Covid numbers now
USA is still number one while Brazil has fallen to fifth place, the USA, Brazil, India still have the highest 'Total Deaths' but in Total Cases Brazil has fallen compared to the rising numbers from the rest of the world.
'White House Continues To Slam Congressional Republicans For Opposing Military Vaccine Mandate'
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lol... No.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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14 DAYS TO ...became 4 years?
UK health chiefs crank up plans for spring AND autumn Covid vaccine roll-outs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11675253/UK-health-chiefs-c
rank-plans-spring-autumn-Covid-vaccine-roll-outs.html
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USA 89,527,000 +
India 43,513,117
Brazil 32,476,920
and
608,887 Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office. He promised the American people he would "shut down the virus." (Fact check: He has not.)
links
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
,
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/biden-covid-death-tracker/
meanwhile 1000,000 dying of drugs smuggled across the border
Brazil has dropped to fifth place
1USA
2India
3France
4Germany
5Brazil
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New FAA cardiac health rules not prompted by COVID-19 shots
CLAIM: The Federal Aviation Administration loosened the requirements that airline pilots must meet for cardiac health because a large number have heart damage caused by the COVID-19 vaccines.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-faa-pilots-heart-covid-373861551
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AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. In October, the FAA widened the acceptable parameters it uses when screening pilots for a specific heart condition, the agency said in a statement to The Associated Press. However, the FAA explained that this change was made in response to new scientific evidence about the condition from its cardiology consultants, not adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines.
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Trump’s Policies Resulted In The Unnecessary Deaths Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans: Lancet Report
Decades of policy failures that the Trump Administration exacerbated resulted in more than 450,000 unnecessary American deaths in 2018, with tens of thousands of additional deaths in other years also attributable to President Donald Trump's actions, according to a report published Thursday from a commission of health experts convened by the British medical journal The Lancet.
The Lancet launched the commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era in April 2017, tasking the group with chronicling the administration’s actions.
The commission's analysis found that 461,000 fewer Americans would have died in 2018 if the United States’ death rate had been equivalent to those of the other G-7 nations.
The 49-page report also concludes that Trump’s “hostility” to environmental regulations (including the rollback of at least 84 separate environmental and workplace protections) significantly worsened pollution, resulting in more than 22,000 extra deaths in 2019 alone.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/02/11/trumps-policies-resu
lted-in-the-unnecessary-deaths-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-americans-lancet-report/?sh=73311b9e77e8
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Let us not forget.
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Dr. Deborah Birx Testified The Trump WH Could Have Reduced Covid Deaths
In closed-door testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Dr. Deborah Birx said the Trump White House failed to take steps that could have prevented tens of thousands of deaths.
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The US is currently running at about 350 COVID deaths per day.
Measured in daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people, the US is doing worse than the other countries on the graph.
https://jabberwocking.com/covid-update-us-deaths-are-low-but-everyone-
else-is-lower/
Our World In Data Covid-deaths
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Some even suggest +10,400 Russians died of Covid in a region near Ukraine last month? Arab and Czech and Pakistani Mercenary +1,700 died of Covid because they forgot to take the jab before joining their Army-For-Hire?
Right before they died they all made a big Covid sounding 'cough' its true they say, 'trust the science' !!!
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This article contains spoilers for The Last of Us, Episode 9, “Look for the Light.”
For its entire first season, The Last of Us attempts to sell the audience (and one of the show’s two protagonists, the teenage Ellie) on a promise: that her immunity to the Cordyceps fungus means that her freeze-dried and then crushed-into-powder brain is the main ingredient for a vaccine to save humanity. However, it isn’t until the series’ final episode, “Look for the Light,” that we hear about the actual plan to make that cure from her brain. . . .
After interviewing many scientists, long story short: Ellie doesn’t need to die to save humanity—in fact, it’d be better if she didn’t. Real-life science would preclude the need for Joel’s rampage (to save Ellie's life from the Firefly gang's insane vaccine manufacturing process), a morally queasy deed that acts as both the culmination of Season 1’s plot and the instigating incident that defines the tone of the show’s future. But in a way, this fact-check of the show’s science only further proves the show’s artistic success.
All season long, The Last of Us has depicted a humanity that’s barely worth saving, where, though there are some exemplary people, nearly every attempt at banding together is corrupt and every solitary leader (and beloved gruff guardian) is some varying degree of murderous. The Fireflies’ plan being an awful one fits the show’s worldview perfectly. If you look at the Fireflies’ idea as ridiculous and ill-informed, as these scientists do, this ending is even grimmer. Living through this pandemic has bred a climate of desperation so strong that the hope that something could be the ticket out is more than enough to ignore ethical considerations to try the most fanciful plan. Marlene doesn’t regret killing her friend’s daughter for a chance at a vaccine that’s not likely to work, and Joel doesn’t regret killing the Fireflies to stop it from happening, even though there’s the slimmest chance it could. “Look for the Light” simply drives home the idea that The Last of Us isn’t about surviving a terrifying reality, but rather clinging to the dreams, and people, we use to cope with existing within it.
https://slate.com/culture/2023/03/last-us-finale-hbo-season-1-vaccine-
ending.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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New DNA analysis adds strong evidence for natural origin of COVID-19 virus
The Atlantic reports https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-rese
arch-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/ that three researchers have performed a re-analysis of swabs taken at the Huanan Market in Wuhan early in the COVID-19 pandemic. The original analysis, done last year by a Chinese team, drew no conclusions about the origin of the virus, but the new analysis strongly suggests that the virus developed naturally and then jumped to humans from raccoon dogs:
A new analysis of genetic sequences collected from the market shows that raccoon dogs being illegally sold at the venue could have been carrying and possibly shedding the virus at the end of 2019....The genetic sequences were pulled out of swabs taken in and near market stalls around the pandemic’s start. They represent the first bits of raw data that researchers outside of China’s academic institutions and their direct collaborators have had access to.
....Within about half a day of downloading the data from GISAID, [the researchers] discovered that several market samples that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 were also coming back chock-full of animal genetic material—much of which was a match for the common raccoon dog. Because of how the samples were gathered, and because viruses can’t persist by themselves in the environment, the scientists think that their findings could indicate the presence of a coronavirus-infected raccoon dog in the spots where the swabs were taken.
“This is a really strong indication that animals at the market were infected,” said Seema Lakdawala, a virologist at Emory University who wasn’t involved in the research. “There’s really no other explanation that makes any sense.”
https://jabberwocking.com/new-dna-analysis-adds-strong-evidence-for-na
tural-origin-of-covid-19-virus/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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