Psaki Dismisses Concerns About Making Kids Wear Masks Because Her Daughter Can ‘Wear a Mask All Day’

This is our federal government. This woman is spokesperson for the president.

Apparently the government does not have qualified personnel who can respond to perfectly reasonable questions about children’s health risks from government policy mandates.

Texas Borderland Doctor States the Obvious: The COVID Surge Is Coming From Biden’s ‘Grossly Irresponsible’ Border Policies

An American Story: Tennessee Girl Discards Christianity, Becomes Climate Change Activist, Joins ISIS

Rabbi Michael Barclay

On the New York City Vaccine Passport:

“…History always has a sad way of repeating itself, and it is frightening that the “yellow badge” of persecution is once again finding its way into our society. This time, it’s in the form of vaccine passports…”

Dems Need Mask/Vax Panic to Screw Up at Least Two More Elections

Georgia ballots rejected by machines were later altered by election workers to count

See disputed Georgia ballots where election workers decided a vote was for Biden, not Trump

“…State policy appears to allow subjective worker judgment in divining voter intent where vote is unclear…”

Vindication for the Swedish model of non-coercive pandemic mitigation?

 

We’ll never know why the Capitol cops killed themselves so stop blaming the Trump riot: Veteran Sgt. slams the left for ‘politicizing’ suicides and says cops EVERYWHERE are at ‘mental boiling point’ after being ‘vilified’ for a year

• • Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith is the spokesperson for the National Police Association and worked as a Chicago cop for 29 years
  • She says there is no proof that the four Capitol cops who killed themselves did so because of January 6
  • Two of the cops worked for DC Metropolitan Police Department and had done for 5 and 18 years
  • She said in that work, they’d have been exposed to ‘lots of crime and depravity’ because DC has high crime
  • The other two cops worked for the Capitol Police; None of the four who killed themselves left notes or if they did, their families have not disclosed them
  • Brantner Smith says cops around the country are disgusted by how the four suicides have been politicized
  • The suicide rate among cops is 17 out of 100,000 whereas in the wider population it is 13 out of 100,000
  • Brantner Smith says Washington Democrats are only focused on the Capitol cops’ plight because it suits their anti-Trump agenda but that they should widen it to look at cop suicide in general and not just from the riot

Coronavirus in Israel: COVID-19 outbreaks detected at 118 nursing homes

These two are Democrats.

 

People are trying to cancel Joe Rogan because of this video where he cites a scientific study proving lab rats are more at risk than those who think for themselves. They are losing the narrative.
https://t.co/hECK3lsGze

— Men of Veritas (@menofveritas) August 7, 2021

‘Obama’s party was fine, it was a sophisticated, Vaccinated crowd’

Democrat elite are immune

White House Refuses to Endorse Vaccine Mandate for Migrants Released into U.S.

Illegals have more rights than citizens.

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Free admission for illegals. Authoritarian mandates for citizens. What can’t last, won’t last.

Fauci: Sturgis Will Likely Cause COVID Surge — Public Heath Should Supersede Freedoms

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Hypocrisy: Barack Obama Dances Maskless Among Hundreds of Guests

What about Obama’s birthday bash? Will that cause a Covid surge? Oh, I forgot, Elite Democrats are immune from regulations, mandates, bureaucratic orders, and American law. Because reasons.

University of Wisconsin removes 42-ton ‘racist rock’

Biden warns COVID ‘knows no boundaries’ as COVID+ migrants are released at southern border

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More than 1 million people entered U.S. illegally in first six months of 2021

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Inventor of COVID vaccine technology says Biden vaccine policy will ’cause more harm than good’

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— James Lindsay, full varsity (@ConceptualJames) August 7, 2021

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Fully-vaccinated protesters in Italy are burning their vaccine passes in a powerful display of solidarity against the tying of civil liberties to vaccination status.https://t.co/HMeyaeHMUo

— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) August 7, 2021

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Rules don’t apply to elite Democrats. They are immune!

Obama just had tons of people at his party. Maskless. No vaxx mandate.

They are laughing at you. pic.twitter.com/5AyUQAQO3R

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 7, 2021

The same celebrities and politicians that have lectured you to STAY HOME and MASK UP—
The ones that have lectured you about the planet and climate change and doom…

There is something almost poetic about them arriving in their private jets to enjoy an unmasked bashed. https://t.co/wsQDXgutXT

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 7, 2021

Memes Make It Clear: New York City’s Vaccine Passport Is the Real Jim Crow 2.0

“…New York City became the first major metro to require proof of vaccination to access restaurants, gyms, and other venues last week. Mayor Bill de Blasio proudly announced the “Key to New York City” pass, a vaccine passport, effective August 16. As Karol Markowicz pointed out, the vaccine passport erased children under 12 from public life because they cannot be vaccinated. The mayor’s office updated the policy to exempt them from the vaccine requirement and mandate masks for children instead.

Public policy is often full of unintended consequences. And while de Blasio and others like him are just sure they are sticking it to white Trump supporters with vaccine passports like these, nothing could be further from the truth. According to New York City’s tracking, only 32% of black residents are fully vaccinated, and 43% of Hispanic residents have taken the complete doses. White New Yorkers are not too much further ahead with 46% participation, but the unvaccinated are probably not some reservoir of Trump support since the city went for Biden — he got 76% of the NYC vote.

Reality is often very different than the preferred narrative on CNN. Several commentators on Fox and Twitter have pointed out the vaccine disparities by race. Now someone has taken to making memes to drive the point home. The series uses quotes from Ibram X. Kendi and displays all the difficulties unvaccinated minorities will face beginning August 16. While there is no confirmation that a Black Lives Matter chapter created them, the points are valid, and the hashtag #vaccinepassportsareracist is using them:

With the current vaccination rates and the diversity of New York City, it is not clear how Mayor de Blasio expects businesses to run, let alone have a significant number of patrons. Boston’s acting Mayor Kim Janey made some very pointed comments when asked about de Blasio’s vaccine passport:

“During slavery, post-slavery, as recent as, you know, what the immigrant population has to go through here, we’ve heard Trump with the birth certificate nonsense,” Janey told WCVB. “Here, we want to make sure that we are not doing anything that would further create a barrier for residents of Boston or disproportionally impact BIPOC communities.”

The truly ridiculous part of the policy is de Blasio did not even give the unvaccinated the time to become fully vaccinated. The mayor’s policy says one dose of the vaccine is required to obtain a Key, but even that makes zero sense. It is just a test to see if residents will do what they are told when politicians make their lives miserable enough.

According to the CDC, with Pfizer and Moderna it takes 35 and 42 days, respectively, to receive the two doses and become fully vaccinated. The Johnson and Johnson shot is effective after two weeks, but that brand is the least available in the U.S. by far. What happens if a New York City resident gets one mRNA vaccine, has a reaction, and decides to forego the second dose? Is their vaccine passport taken away? What about those with valid medical reasons that prohibit them from receiving the vaccine, such as Offspring drummer Pete Parada? The lawsuits are going to be a nightmare for the city…”

https://twitter.com/RanIsraeli/status/1423322271503028228

Dr. Kobi Haviv, Director of Jerusalem Hospital – “Vaccinated account for 95% of severe Covid hospitalizations. Vaccine effectiveness is fading.”

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Quick update on the Israeli vaccine data

Alex Berenson:

“…As you can see, new serious cases have risen 10-fold since the beginning of July – from roughly five a day to about 40 over the last week. The overall number of patients has soared too – from 30 to more than 200.

But how many of those people are vaccinated?

The vast majority. Israel has broken out the data in various ways at various times, but throughout July most new patients were vaccinated.

In an effort to play down that reality, Israel has begun to provide data comparing RATES of serious illness in older people who were not vaccinated and those who were. And those show that as of now, unvaccinated people are still becoming seriously ill significantly more frequently than those who aren’t.

But that comparison hides a very big problem.

Israel did an excellent job convincing people over 60 to be vaccinated. Only about 1 person in 15 in that age range didn’t receive at least one dose. Fewer than 1 in 10 is not fully vaccinated.

Why should you care? Because the tiny fraction of older people who are unvaccinated in Israel at this point are almost certainly materially different than the vast majority who are. As far as I know, the Israel government hasn’t broken out the differences. But given the pressure to vaccinate, a significant number of those older unvaccinated people are likely simply too sick to tolerate the vaccine – especially those over 80, where overall vaccination rates are even higher.

But if they are too sick to tolerate the vaccine, they are obviously at much higher risk from Covid than the vaccinate. In other words, ability (and propensity) to be vaccinated is likely a marker for overall health. Researchers know this is true of the influenza vaccine – once they adjust for the fact that older people who get the vaccine are healthier to start than than those who don’t, the advantage the vaccine seems to offer mostly disappears.

So the comparison between vaccinated and unvaccinated isn’t useful.

What is useful is examining the trend among serious illness in older vaccinated people.

And it is terrible. The rate of cases has risen 12-fold IN A MONTH. On July 4th, fewer than 1 older vaccinated person in 100,000 became seriously ill. Today the rate is 10 in 100,000.

Remember – comparing unvaccinated and vaccinated at this point hardly matters. THE DARK GREEN LINE IS THE ONE THAT COUNTS:

And though we cannot be sure what will happen next, it is worth noting that rates of serious illness among the vaccinated are now as high as they were among the unvaccinated only TWO WEEKS AGO. Perhaps that’s why the Israeli government is now predicting a further quadrupling of new serious cases by the end of August…

…A quadrupling would represent 800 serious cases, approaching the peak of the winter surge (which was itself probably FUELED by a spike in cases following the first vaccine dose) – and far more than at this time last year.

And remember, Israel CANNOT BLAME THE UNVACCINATED FOR THIS SPIKE – around 85 percent of adults over 30 are fully vaccinated. That’s well above the range experts said would provide herd immunity.

And yet instead of pulling back and at least considering a pause on vaccinations as it digests the disaster of the last month, Israel is going the other way – pushing a third dose on the elderly. Meanwhile the cry to mandate or quasi-mandate vaccinations in the United States is only getting louder.

What on earth is going on?…”

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Antibody Evolution after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination

Summary

“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection produces B-cell responses that continue to evolve for at least one year. During that time, memory B cells express increasingly broad and potent antibodies that are resistant to mutations found in variants of concern¹. As a result, vaccination of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) convalescent individuals with currently available mRNA vaccines produces high levels of plasma neutralizing activity against all variants tested^1, 2. Here, we examine memory B cell evolution 5 months after vaccination with either Moderna (mRNA-1273) or Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) mRNA vaccines in a cohort of SARS-CoV-2 naïve individuals. Between prime and boost, memory B cells produce antibodies that evolve increased neutralizing activity, but there is no further increase in potency or breadth thereafter. Instead, memory B cells that emerge 5 months after vaccination of naïve individuals express antibodies that are equivalent to those that dominate the initial response. We conclude that memory antibodies selected over time by natural infection have greater potency and breadth than antibodies elicited by vaccination. These results suggest that boosting vaccinated individuals with currently available mRNA vaccines would produce a quantitative increase in plasma neutralizing activity but not the qualitative advantage against variants obtained by vaccinating convalescent individuals…”

Hat tip to Kane

Report: Denver Spends Double on Homeless Than on One K-12 Student

Homelessness is a racket for preferred Democrat constituencies, contractors, and new government hires. It is not intended that the problem be solved. There is too much money to be made. Instead they mouth woke platitudes to virtue signal to the right politicians and voters, and ask for more money to solve the intractable problem.

COVER STORY: A doomsday COVID variant worse than Delta and Lambda may be coming, scientists sayhttps://t.co/PUhsfcIrMh pic.twitter.com/pGwojRNJin

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) August 4, 2021