More expert sciency science from the scientific experts
COVID-19 Virus Might Be ‘Just a Few Mutations Away’ From Evading Vaccines, CDC Warns
Why all the hype about vaccines then?
Idiots. We are governed by idiots.
Democrat. This is who they are.
Bottom headline of the day
Democrat union in Democrat controlled state rejects Democrat governor’s Covid dictum
SEIU, California’s biggest state worker union, challenges Gavin Newsom’s vaccine order.
Have fun, media! pic.twitter.com/02wZcpvJAR
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 29, 2021
What if.. hey hear me out… vaccine refusal isn't left vs right – as CNN and media is invested in making it out to be.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 29, 2021
Covid is politics facilitated by expert sciency science from scientific experts
Did Fauci Just Accidentally Let the Cat Out of the Bag on Recovered Immunity?
“…One of the most frustrating elements of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been the complete lack of attention given to recovered immunity. Health bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci rarely mention the fact that individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 infections likely maintain robust antibodies to protect against the virus for many months. These antibodies, along with T cells and B cells, may persist for years or even decades—or even a lifetime—based on what we know about other coronaviruses, including SARS. Yet Fauci and Co. are still urging everyone, whether or not they’ve been previously infected, to get the vaccine—a novel approach to infectious disease management.
The medical community, for the most part, has been remarkably incurious about recovered immunity, aided and abetted by Democrats, the legacy media (and their social-media fellow travelers) who have stubbornly refused to question public health officials about the topic. A Cleveland Clinic study (still in preprint, not yet peer-reviewed) of more than 50,000 caregivers found that infection rates for those who had recovered immunity and those who received the vaccine were essentially the same. In fact, none of the previously infected caregivers monitored during the study were reinfected. Not a single one.
The cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection remained almost zero among previously infected unvaccinated subjects, previously infected subjects who were vaccinated, and previously uninfected subjects who were vaccinated, compared with a steady increase in cumulative incidence among previously uninfected subjects who remained unvaccinated. Not one of the 1359 previously infected subjects who remained unvaccinated had a SARS-CoV-2 infection over the duration of the study. In a Cox proportional hazards regression model, after adjusting for the phase of the epidemic, vaccination was associated with a significantly lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among those not previously infected (HR 0.031, 95% CI 0.015 to 0.061) but not among those previously infected (HR 0.313, 95% CI 0 to Infinity). [Emphasis added]
The study concluded that “Individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination, and vaccines can be safely prioritized to those who have not been infected before.”
After pushback by the media and public health officials, the Cleveland Clinic hastened to advise people to ignore the data, ignore the science, and get the vaccine anyway…”
Uncontrolled emotional alarmism is no way to run a country
Despite ‘Delta’ Alarmism, US COVID Deaths Are at Lowest Level Since March 2020, Harvard and Stanford Professors Explain
“…Far more people were dying from COVID-19 months ago as we were winding down restrictions than are dying today as some call to reinstate them…”
“…If you judged the US’s current COVID-19 situation only by the headlines, you’d come away thinking that we’re spiraling back into pandemic disaster. Localities like Los Angeles County and St. Louis have reimposed mask mandates on their citizens, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just revised its “guidance” to say that, actually, fully vaccinated individuals should still wear masks in certain situations. Meanwhile, mainstream media coverage of the rise of the “Delta variant” is soaked in alarmism.
Yet at the same time that all this alarm is mounting, the actual number of COVID-19 deaths is at a nadir. Harvard Medical School Professor Martin Kulldorff pointed this out on Twitter, writing that “In [the] USA, COVID mortality is now the lowest since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.”
He shared this graph from OurWorldInData which clearly shows how COVID deaths per million are at, relatively speaking, extreme lows. Far more people were dying from COVID-19 months ago as we were winding down restrictions than are dying today as some call to reinstate them.
Now, some would cite rising COVID-19 case counts or hospitalizations in certain parts of the country as evidence that the pandemic is indeed once again spiraling out of control. But many COVID-19 cases recorded as positive are either asymptomatic or come with very mild symptoms—especially the cases confirmed among vaccinated individuals—so high case counts are not necessarily proof of a serious problem. Hospitalizations are concerning, yes, but primarily insofar as they lead to high numbers of deaths, which, thankfully, is not the case so far with the Delta variant.
Others would say that deaths are a “lagging indicator” that come in several weeks after the increased spread of the disease. But the Delta variant has been spreading in the US for months now, and deaths have remained relatively flat, in part due to widespread vaccination.
“It is striking that COVID mortality is at such low levels despite the fact that we are seeing an increase in cases of late,” Stanford Professor of Medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya tells FEE. “By immunizing the elderly and many other vulnerable people, we have provided them with excellent protection against severe disease in case they get infected. Also contributing is widespread natural immunity from recovered COVID patients. Though cases may rise, deaths will no longer follow in proportion. We have effectively defanged the disease with our successful vaccination rollout.”
So, there’s simply no reason to expect the long downward trend in deaths shown in the above graph to suddenly spike upwards. And we can’t make public policy based on worst-case scenarios.
That’s right: despite all the alarmism and clamor for renewed restrictions on our liberty, there’s not really been a resurgence in the state of the COVID-19 crisis itself…”
Expert sciencey science from scientists with scientific expertise. Or in plain English, we are governed by idiots.
CDC justified new mask guidance based on vaccine study listed as failing peer review
“…Journal changes status of submitted India study from “reject” to “revise” after CDC highlights it
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited an unpublished study from India to justify its recommendation Tuesday that fully vaccinated people “wear a mask in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high transmission” of COVID-19.
That study, which claimed the Delta variant produced an unusually large viral load in more than 100 vaccinated healthcare workers with “breakthrough infections,” was listed as having failed peer review in the journal Nature when the CDC cited it.
Archives of the study’s page on Research Square, a preprint server for unpublished research, show that it was marked “reject” on July 9 and remained so at least through the evening of July 26, Eastern Daylight Time.
That version was still live early Wednesday morning, the day after the CDC cited the study in its July 27 updated science brief, according to a Twitter user who posted a screenshot.
The “reject” status and review notes were removed by mid-morning and replaced with “posted,” suggesting Nature had approved the paper without revisions, which drew controversy on Twitter. The notes were quickly restored and status changed to “revise,” bearing the same date — July 9 — as the original “reject” status…”
Note also the flummoxy nonsense from what purports to be a scientific journal. The journal changed the status of the paper multiple times during the day when sunlight focused on it.
Related:
Here’s the truth America:
The “game changer” data the CDC used for the mask mandate is from a single study from India.
The study was rejected in peer review.
But CDC used it anyway. pic.twitter.com/uqirPTCZUE
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) July 28, 2021
Even worse, the study followed healthcare workers vaccinated with a vaccine not allowed in the US. pic.twitter.com/lflItnHFz6
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) July 28, 2021
The French people are fed up with Covid crazy
BREAKING: Massive crowd outside the Eiffel Tower chanting “Macron Demission, Macron Demission!” (Macron Resign)
pic.twitter.com/3nkuqasHXL— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 25, 2021
Dr. Robert Malone discusses antibody dependent enhancement of virus replication resulting from the Pfizer vaccine
“Democrats want to mandate, they want to impose. They want to tell you when you can go to school, when you can eat.”
Rep. Kevin McCarthy after mask mandate in the House: "[Democrats] want to mandate, they want to impose. They want to tell you when you can go to school, when you can eat." https://t.co/o7qqVVyLwU pic.twitter.com/gzp5kCNjAe
— The Hill (@thehill) July 28, 2021
Jason Whitlock, the good stuff starts at about the 3:30 mark. He calls it straight. Stay with it for at least 10 minutes. It’s worth it.
The Democrats’ intense focus on nonsense…
6 democrat states ban gaming computers
Working on the important issues between pronoun debates.
Covid is politics. Hysterical Democrat politics.
More mask madness from the CDC
“…Just over a week ago, the Centers for Disease Control advised that vaccinated teachers and students don’t need masks. On Tuesday, it reversed that, recommending that all staff and K-12ers mask up, regardless of vax status. It also switched to saying indoor-mask mandates make sense, at least in areas experiencing spikes in cases.
This is nonsense — and pernicious, too: The vax-hesitant lose a big reason to get jabbed if the shot doesn’t let them breathe freely. Indeed, such reversals also undermine the CDC’s entire claim to be making calls purely on the science.
Especially since the science is clear: Kids under 12 clearly don’t much get or transmit COVID, and ones over 12 can get jabbed — as can all but a tiny handful of adults who work in schools.
The CDC cites the Delta variant, which seems more able to give (mild) COVID to the jabbed, as reason for its reversal. But that looks more like political/bureaucratic panic than science: Delta-saturated England has now seen seven straight days of declining cases even though it ended its main restrictions more than a week ago…”
Tucker Carlson on the hysterical media/Democrat rush to force vaccination on everyone
https://youtu.be/mNh5Cos4RDs
We live in the age of stupid and we are governed by idiots
President Biden reveals what he missed most during the four years he was a professor
Biden: “You know what I missed most, for real, in those 4 years of being a Professor? The PDB. You think I’m joking, I am not. And so now I have access again, and as to the chagrin of many of you, I read it in detail. (laughs)”
— F (@PoliticalGeeker) July 27, 2021
Biden says that he was a professor during the 4 years between being VP and POTUS
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) July 27, 2021
He held an honorary professor position at Penn and didn’t teach any classes
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) July 27, 2021
Fact-check: True.
At UPenn, Biden made less than a dozen public appearances over three years—and earned more than $900,000 as the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor.
Biden’s also recently named University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann (left) as ambassador to Germany. pic.twitter.com/tcHWGVfYk3
— Jonathan Guyer (@mideastXmidwest) July 26, 2021
But has been paid in the area of $1M.
— Cathy Sheffler (@CathySheffler) July 27, 2021
No wonder tuition is so expensive.
— Cathy Sheffler (@CathySheffler) July 27, 2021
It has come to this…
Public health leaders get sciency. White House spokesperson has a deep understanding of the sciency science.
DOOCY: "If vaccines work — then why do people who have the vaccine now need to wear masks?"@PressSec: "Because the public health leaders in our administration have made the determination — that is a way to make sure they are protected, their loved ones are protected…" pic.twitter.com/Io6uQoivWH
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 27, 2021
Here is our sciency science advisor getting all sciency and explaining why people should not wear masks, should wear masks, should not wear masks, should wear masks, etc.
Video: Fauci talking out of both sides of his mouth. The mask charade is over. What a fiasco! pic.twitter.com/JHJJ5ijReS
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) July 27, 2021
Very persuasive. Next step, force. Good luck with that.
The right response to Covid crazy
The CDC shifts their position AGAIN.
South Dakota's cases remain low. If you're worried about the virus, you're free to get vaccinated, wear a mask, or stay at home. But we won't be mandating anything. And the CDC's inconsistency doesn't help the American people.
— Governor Kristi Noem (@GovKristiNoem) July 27, 2021