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Fauci opposed mandates before he supported them, watch.

Biden follows Afghanistan disaster with surrender of southern U.S. border

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Covid is politics. Dirty Democrat politics. Like border politics. Democrat.

Biden is a foreign policy genius. The adults are back in charge and they are returning us to normal.

France RECALLS ambassadors from US and Australia, citing ‘exceptional gravity’ of AUKUS submarine deal

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FDA panel 16 – 2 against Covid booster

FDA panel rejects plan to administer Pfizer’s Covid booster doses to general public

“…An influential Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Friday resoundingly rejected a plan to administer booster shots of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to the general public, saying they needed more data.

The panel, however, could still clear the shots for older populations. Scientists continued debating the need for a third dose of the vaccines for older populations after their initial vote, leaving open the possibility of other votes.

“It’s likely beneficial, in my opinion, for the elderly, and may eventually be indicated for the general population. I just don’t think we’re there yet in terms of the data,” Dr. Ofer Levy, a vaccine and infectious disease specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital, said after voting against the original proposal. The final tally failed 16-2…”

I think this is a good decision. It’s time to ignore the media-driven hysteria and slow things down.

Study – “…Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin…”

American Journal of Therapeutics: July/August 2021 – Volume 28 – Issue 4 – p e434-e460

Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines

Conclusions:

Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.

Biden Administration shut down Fox News drone so the American public won’t know about the Biden Border disaster. Local law enforcement provided a helicopter to keep reporting going.

This is America. It is like the Biden Administration is trying to destroy our country. It appears they would rather hide it then take action to resolve it.

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Mayor of Democrat warzone Chicago has figured it out…

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she is going to curb violence by SUING the city’s violent gangs

Democrat.

Democrats up and down the political ladder.

No Republicans for decades, literally decades.

Democrat.

Video of Biden’s border disaster in Del Rio, Texas. Border Patrol under stand down orders.

A New Beachhead Opens in the Biden Border Crisis

10,000 Haitians and Cubans mass in Del Rio, Texas, amid obvious Border Patrol stand-down orders

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“…Biden Administration has opened the flood gates…”

Another Covid dictator self identifies as a virtue signaling fraud

Maskless San Francisco mayor breaks health order, seen partying with BLM co-founder at nightclub

She was seen partying with a Black Lives Matter co-founder.

Democrat nomenklatura and BLM petty tyrants are immune to the terror virus.

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Californians risk all to escape liberal insanity. Is this satire?

Californians Desperate To Escape Cling To Landing Gear Of Last Jet Leaving LAX

“…LOS ANGELES, CA—One day after Governor Newsom fended off recall and secured the continuation of his reign, swarms of Californians descended upon Los Angeles International Airport desperate to escape. As planes filled and people began getting turned away, mothers attempted to pass their babies over the fence of the tarmac, and others clung to the landing gear of the last departing planes.

Timothy Sawchuck of Pomona, who released his grip on the landing gear just before it became too late, said, “Grabbing the landing gear is what you do when you’re fleeing an authoritarian regime, right?  I’m pretty sure I saw that on TV recently.” When asked why he felt such urgency to get out of California, he explained: “Newsom has been playing it cool during the recall, but now all bets are off. There’s going to be lockdowns, water rationing, power outages—all that third-world stuff California has become famous for.”

Rebecca Anderson of Encino agreed: “Fire season is coming. From what I’ve seen, Newsom spent all his time preparing for that by calling Larry Elder a white supremacist and claiming that he was running against Donald Trump. Not sure how that’s going to thin out the dead trees and brush. I have to get out of here before the rest of the state goes up in flames!”

Those lucky enough to make it out are being transported to military bases around the country to await relocation to one of the remaining states that have not been completely run into the ground…”

Petty tyrant authoritarians use Covid for their own aggrandizement and virtue signaling. Covid is politics.

Brown suspends in-person gatherings despite nearly 98% vaccination rate, no COVID outbreak

“…Vaccinated students have also been told to wear masks inside their off-campus residences except when eating alone…”

Covid is politics. Dirty Democrat politics. There will be winners (Democrat governors) and losers (Republican governors).

Biden Administration Moves to Take Over Monoclonal Antibody Distribution

“…I have often asserted that more focus should be given to developing treatments for COVID-19 options and making them readily available to the public. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been doing just that, by opening monoclonal antibody treatment centers.

Initially, DeSantis was slammed for this approach, but the media may have to backtrack on the attacks. It turns out the godlet of COVID, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has deemed the treatment effective.

After Biden spent a good portion of his 6-prong COVID plan deriding DeSantis (albeit not by name), his administration is now moving to take over monoclonal antibody distribution across the county.

The US government is buying more doses of monoclonal antibody treatments for Covid-19, and the Biden administration is taking over distribution in order to avoid shortages of the key therapeutics.

The moves come as demand for monoclonal antibodies has increased as cases surged due to spread of the Delta variant and low vaccination rates in some areas of the country.

Monoclonal antibodies are lab-engineered immune system proteins that kickstart an immune response against an infection. The US Department of Health and Human Services says that as of September 10, 2.17 million doses of monoclonal antibodies have been shipped to all sites, and 938,000 doses have been used since December. About 43% of the distributed doses have been used as of September 3.

An HHS spokesperson said seven states have accounted for 70% of orders for the therapy. Those seven states are Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana.

“Given this reality, we must work to ensure our supply of these life-saving therapies remains available for all states and territories, not just some,” the HHS spokesperson said…”

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Democrat education – Baltimore style

Former Baltimore Principal Alleges City Schools Have Fake Classes, Enrolling Dead Students

“By keeping students enrolled, a school can increase the funding it receives from taxpayers. At Claremont, that included students who were dead.”

Covid is politics, not science…

Why is COVID Natural Immunity Being Ignored?

Brian C.Joondeph, MD:

“…Immunity, according to the CDC website, is “Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without being infected.” They explain that “Immunity to a disease is achieved through the presence of antibodies to that disease in a person’s system.” These antibodies are “disease specific.”

There are two types if immunity, active and passive. “Active immunity results when exposure to a disease organism triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to that disease.”  This occurs “through infection with the actual disease, resulting in natural immunity, or introduction of a killed or weakened form of the disease organism through vaccination.”

COVID has added a twist to the vaccine concept by using messenger RNA rather than attenuated virus to create immunity. This is a new approach to “vaccination” and if validated as safe and effective, opens the door to disease prevention on a previously unimaginable scale. But with all new technologies, like self-driving cars, the proof is in the pudding.

In addition, breakthrough infections, on the rise, challenge the definition of immunity as “being exposed without being infected.” This would explain the CDC’s recent decision to change the definition of vaccine from immunity to only protection.

These immunology basics are taught in high school biology classes and if understandable to teenagers, they should be clear to the medical establishment and leaders of our national health institutions.

Yet Dr. Anthony Fauci appears to struggle with these basic concepts, as he had difficulty discussing natural immunity in a recent interview with CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

I must add the standard and unfortunately necessary disclaimer that I am not anti-vaccine, having been personally vaccinated before Christmas of last year. Nor am I offering medical advice. Instead, I’ll emphasize that the current vaccines reduce the risk of severe COVID illness – hospitalization and death – and for those at highest risk, make good sense, in conjunction with consultation with one’s own physician. Sorry, but this is a necessary paragraph these days…

…The Israel study mentioned above found that “fully vaccinated” individuals are 27 times more likely to become COVID-infected and symptomatic, and seven times more likely to be hospitalized compared to those unvaccinated but with natural immunity. These results suggest that natural immunity is far more robust than vaccine immunity, which was what Dr. Gupta was asking Dr. Fauci about. I wonder if Dr. Gupta will be reported to his state medical board for asking such a question?

A July report by Israel’s Health Ministry described recent COVID cases. Fewer than one percent were among individuals previously infected and recovered, while 40 percent involved those who were vaccinated, contradicting the media-driven “pandemic of the unvaccinated” narrative.

Dr. Fauci acknowledged that this was “a really good point” but had no firm answer to explain it. If Dr. Fauci was told that seat belts reduce the risk of death from car crashes by 45 percent, would he brush it off the same way saying there is no firm answer to explain it?

Dr. Fauci then went on to question the durability of protection from natural versus vaccine immunity. While no one can predict the future with absolute certainty, we do have a good idea of durability.

Dr. Fauci’s employer, the NIH, announced in January 2021, “The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection.” At that time, COVID had been prominently on the scene since March 2020, 10 months previously. Allowing time for the NIH to gather data and report it, in essence they are saying that thus far, immunity in the infected has not waned.

Another study, published in the prestigious journal Nature, demonstrated that T-cell immunity in patients recovering from 2003 SARS (similar to our current SARS-CoV-2 infection) was still robust 17 years post infection. This study was performed 17 years after the 2003 SARS outbreak meaning that immunity showed no signs of waning to date and could potentially last a lifetime.

While antibodies may fade “below the limit of detection within 2 to 3 years”, as this scientific paper suggests, T-cell immunity likely lasts far longer. Interestingly this immunity from 2003, according to the paper, displayed “robust cross-reactivity to the N protein of SARS-CoV-2”, our current scourge. Why is this important?

There are six coronaviruses known to infect humans, four causing a common cold and two causing severe pneumonia and “all of these coronaviruses trigger antibody and T cell responses in infected individuals.” This could explain why some individuals infected today had mild or no symptoms, based on immunity from previous similar infections in the past.

The FDA also acknowledges waning durability of the Pfizer vaccine in a report this week evaluating a booster dose, saying several times in the executive summary, “confirming the waning of vaccine effectiveness over time.”

Is Dr. Fauci not aware of this research and likelihood of natural immunity with potentially extremely long durability? Compare this to vaccine immunity durability, which Dr. Fauci hints may be more durable than natural immunity despite the FDA saying clearly, “Vaccine protection against COVID-19 infection wanes approximately 6 to 8 months following the second dose.”

A Yale infectious disease specialist had a good answer, “We can only say that a vaccine is protective as long as we are measuring it” which is now only about eight months. Yale Medicine went on to say that “studies from the CDC suggested vaccine protection against infection is waning.”

Common sense suggests that booster injections would not be necessary unless vaccine protection is dropping. Dr Fauci acknowledged this in his shift from every eight to every five months COVID booster shot recommendations. Simply put, why would he recommend booster shots if the vaccines provided long-acting immunity?

We have good evidence that natural immunity is long lasting, decades or more, and that vaccine immunity is short lived, months at best, hence the talk of booster shots before the vaccine has even been in use for year.

Where is the thoughtful research and analysis from the medical establishment on natural immunity? Could current vaccines be engendering mutations and variants through immune escape as this paper suggests?

Vaccines target only the spike protein, which can mutate, unlike natural immunity which targets dozens of viral proteins, making mutation or resistance far less likely. In addition, natural infection provides “mucosal immunity,” according to this microbiology paper published last month, providing a first line of defense in our airways, something that vaccine immunity does not offer.

As we enter Fall with unpopular vaccine mandates and passports, dividing society in a new form of apartheid, why are basic immunology concepts like natural immunity being tossed aside?

Not by everyone though. Spectrum Health in Michigan is granting temporary exemptions from employee vaccine mandates for those who can demonstrate natural immunity to COVID.

A recent blood bank study published in JAMA found that 83 percent of Americans have COVID antibodies, either natural or vaccine-induced. We should be celebrating rather than continuing to wring our hands in fear.

Leave it to the Brits, in a British Medical Journal article, to ask the question not asked here in the US, “Vaccinating people who have had covid-19: why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?” Why indeed?…”

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