Good for you YOUTUBE! Now it’s time for all social media to follow suit and end this deadly disinformation campaign. Time to stop all this anti-vax disinformation in all media and on all levels that are killing millions around the world. Cry “bullshit” when someone tries to shove their agenda down your throat. No one has the right to spread deadly diseases.
Support life. Stop worshipping the death cult. Get your Covid vaccine and save lives. Stop following the anti-vax/anti-mask death cult and vote for love, vote for life by getting vaccinated. Show your support for humanity and the world. When you get the vaccine you show that you empathize with the tragedy this pandemic is creating for everyone. Think beyond yourself and care about people everywhere.
He co-founded an anti-vax mandate group (Aloha Freedom Coalition). Then he caught COVID, and his views changed“We were told the COVID virus was not that deadly. It was nothing more than a little flu. I can tell you it’s more than a little flu,” he said. “I was in a bed. I can’t move, I can’t breathe,” he recalled about the experience. “I was afraid I was going to die.” “Probably getting COVID again would be more dangerous than getting the reaction from the vaccines,” he said. Wikoff is now sharing his story to warn others not to take part in rallies and protests his coalition is helping to organize,https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/
Lawrence O’Donnell’s Last Word w/Josh Green 9/24/21, 3 min videohttps://www.msnbc.com/the-
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New Word: covidiot
| Which vaccine prevents more hospitalizations?Big gap between Pfizer, Moderna vaccines seen for preventing COVID hospitalizations (msn.com) Musician Nicki Minaj hesitates to get a COVID vaccine because it ‘caused a friend of a friend to become impotent’. Let’s review the evidence Viewpoint: ‘Digital version of snake-oil salesmen’ — Vaccine hesitant ‘Frontline Doctors’ group charging up to $700 for inexpensive ivermectin treatments Arkansas Researchers Find Potential Cause of ‘Long Haul’ COVID-19 Symptoms ‘Brah, be akamai!’: Kauai woman’s message about COVID carelessness goes viralhttps://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/ BEST MASKS and how they test. Ones that fit best are most protective.https://www.epa.gov/ What will Covid look like in the years ahead? Young children could be most vulnerable to new variants Israel’s COVID-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest C19 will probably become endemic (“regularly found”): https://www.huffpost.com/ Child Covid-19 hospitalizations & long term effectsMore kids were hospitalized with Covid-19 this month than any other time this past year — proving how seriously the Delta variant can hit any age group. Pediatricians should watch out for residual or long-term Covid-19 problems such as respiratory symptoms, which can last three months or more; heart issues, including a type of heart inflammation known as myocarditis; cognitive problems such as “brain fog”; headache; fatigue and mental health issues. Children who had moderate or severe Covid-19 may be at greater risk for subsequent heart disease, the pediatrician group said. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/ They’re starting to give free antigen tests on Oahu, as well as c19 tests, same place. Hopefully soon on Maui. SDate: Monday, September 13, 2021 at 7:59 AM Subject: FDA leaders join other experts in arguing against COVID-19 booster shots/ The Hill None of the current evidence on the COVID-19 vaccines shows a need for booster doses in the general population, according to an international group of vaccine experts, including officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).https://thehill.com/policy/ Unvaccinated Americans 11 times as likely as the vaccinated to die of COVID, research finds, bolstering case for mandatory shots This could have been avoided: An estimated 119,000 children across the country have lost a primary caregiver due to COVID-19 associated death, and more than 140,000 children experienced the death of a primary or secondary caregiver, defined as co-residing grandparents or kin, according to data in an internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention document https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ Anatomy of a vaccine and the immune system.Unvaccinated or even having had Covid does not protect enough. This is an elementary way of explaining why vaccinated people can handle breakthroughs better. https://amp.theatlantic.com/ COVID-19: why infection rates among double-vaccinated older adults look worse than they are SARS-like viruses may jump from animals to people hundreds of thousands of times a year Mu: everything you need to know about the new coronavirus variant of interest Although we have a fundamental right to make our own healthcare decisions, the ACLU says that these rights are not absolute because they do not include the right to inflict harms on others… For this reason, vaccine mandates rarely if ever run afoul of civil liberties when they involve highly infectious diseases such as COVID-19, In 1905 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a vaccine mandate in Massachusetts as Constitutional. The ruling basically said one man’s liberty cannot deprive others of their liberty — in this case by allowing disease to spread How Covid affects the brain/ WEBMDThe most comprehensive molecular study to date of brain tissue from people who died of COVID-19 provides clear evidence that SARS-CoV-2 causes profound molecular changes in the brain. “we were very surprised to learn that no matter which type of cell we studied (different types of nerve cells, immune cells, or different support cells in the brain) there were prominent changes” compared with brain tissue samples from controls who died of other causes https://www.webmd.com/lung/ |
Mother of four who proudly proclaimed her anti-vax status dies of COVID
After a devastating year spent locked down and dreaming of vaccines, there are growing reports of the unvaccinated triggering “scorn” and “resentment” among the vaccinated. Some analysts now say this anger is already visible in elections. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by political strategist Chai Komanduri to discuss this growing anger and how it can be used as a political tool. Komanduri argues “it’s about time Democrats” use anger to mobilize voters.
Anti-vaxx couple dies of virus days after claiming they survived pandemic despite being unvaccinated
| An excellent explanation about the Delta Virus, Worth Reading. An expert explains why delta is different and more dangerous. Dr. J. Stacey Klutts is a clinical associate professor of pathology and clinical microbiology at the University of Iowa and is the chief of the Pathology and Laboratory Service for the Central Iowa VA Health Care System: I am in a unique position to report on what is going on with COVID-19, particularly the delta variant and why it’s so dangerous, and how it interacts with the vaccines. I’m the Special Assistant to the National Director of Pathology and Lab Medicine for the entire Veterans Affairs system, with a specific role in advising on elements of COVID testing for the system. As such, I have a front-row seat to all of the latest data since we use that information to make our national-policy decisions. So, here are a few important points that help explain why you should get vaccinated and wear a mask. I’ll do my best to stitch this all together so it makes sense: 1. Like Gorilla Glue. The delta variant (lineage B.1.617.2) has a particular collection of mutations in the spike protein (that knob-like projection you see in renderings of the virus) that makes it extremely effective in attaching to human cells and gaining entry. If the original COVID strains were covered in syrup, this variant is covered in ultrafast-drying Gorilla Super Glue (industrial strength). 2. 1,000 times higher. There are two recent publications that demonstrate that the viral loads in the back of the throats of infected patients are 1,000 times higher with the delta than with previous variants. I can tell you from data in my own labs, that is absolutely true. We are seeing viral signals we never saw last year using the exact same assays 3. Much more infectious. This much higher load plus the ultra “stickiness” of the delta strains for adhering to human cells make it remarkably more infectious than previous strains. You may have heard of R0 (Pronounced R naught) which is, in a nutshell, the number of people to which an infected person would be expected to transmit the virus. Early versions of the virus had a 2 to 2.5 R0 value. So one infected person would infect two or so people on average. Delta has an R0 of about eight! In the infectious disease world, that’s almost unheard of. Chickenpox and measles are about all we have ever seen that spread that efficiently from human to human. This changes the storyline completely from earlier in the pandemic and makes this surge, in many ways, like a completely different pandemic event. 4. Five days. There is another recent publication out of Singapore with data that confirms something we suspected. I will explain more about the “why” on this below when I talk about vaccines, but the gist is this: The viral loads in the throats of vaccinated persons who become infected with delta rises at identical rates as in unvaccinated persons, but only for the first few days. After five days or so, the viral loads in the vaccinated person start to quickly drop whereas those in the unvaccinated person persist. This key set of observations is important for several reasons relating to vaccinated persons serving as vectors for spread (see below). 5. Young people This pandemic, Round 2, is primarily being observed in younger patients than in Round 1. Our children’s hospitals are even already filling up or full. Because of the delta viral dynamics, it is much more capable of causing severe disease in a larger swath of the population. You spew enough of any human pathogen on someone without immunity, and it’s not going to end well. This sets up very poorly for the beginning of the school year — which has already started in Florida — and it scares me. Check that. It is actually terrifying. I sure hope we have vaccines for the 5- to 11-year-olds soon. 6. Vaccines work! Speaking of vaccines. Are they working? Yes! They are absolutely doing their expected job. We know a lot about vaccines for upper respiratory viruses, as we have been giving the population one every year for decades (influenza). To explain all of this, I need to provide some biological context. When you get a vaccine as a “shot,” the “antigen” in the vaccine leads to the formation of an antibody response. You probably knew that. What’s important, though, is that it primarily leads to a specific Immunoglobulin G (IgG) response. That’s the antibody type that circulates around in really high numbers in the blood, is located some in tissues, and is more easily detectable by blood tests, etc. What that shot does not do is produce an Immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibody response to the virus at the surface of the throat mucosa. That’s the antibody type that could prevent the virus from ever binding in the first place. As such, in a vaccinated person, the virus can still attach like it’s about to break into the house, but it doesn’t realize that there is an armed homeowner on the other side of the door. When that virus is detected, the IgG beats it up and clears it before the person gets very ill (or ill at all). (Sidebar: Anyone ever had their kid — or themselves — get the “Flumist” vaccine as their annual flu booster? The idea here is to introduce the antigens at the surface of the throat mucosa leading to that IgA response that will prevent infection from happening at all. Sounds good and still has a place, but it isn’t quite as effective overall as the shot.) 7. Preventing disease and death. The COVID-19 vaccines are designed to prevent disease/death through that IgG response (though it does also reduce infections somewhat). How good are the vaccines at doing all of this with delta? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just released data addressing that very question. Punchline: They’re remarkably good! The vaccine shows an 8-fold reduction in the development of any symptomatic disease secondary to the delta. For hospitalization, it is a 25-fold reduction. That’s 25 times! Remarkable. For death, it is also 25 times! This is a very effective pharmaceutical class when looking at overall efficacy toward the intended/expected purpose. When looking at the very tiny side effect profile, I’d personally consider it one of the best overall pharmaceuticals on the market in any class of drugs. 8. So, you’re vaccinated? First of all, a sincere, heartfelt thank you! But you may now ask, so why do I again need to wear a mask? We talked about disease, hospitalizations, and death above, but what about infections themselves? The vaccines are now estimated to provide a 3-times reduction in infection. For reasons that I tried to make clear above, it isn’t surprising that the vaccine is less effective at preventing infection vs. preventing disease. We are indeed seeing detectable viruses, at high levels, in asymptomatic, vaccinated persons when we test them prior to procedures, etc. We have a few that are mildly symptomatic, too. While we now understand that the virus fades from the back of the throat pretty quickly in a vaccinated person, we also know that an infected, vaccinated person can transmit this very infectious virus to others for at least a couple of days. So, as before, you are being asked to wear a mask to primarily protect others. We need you again to interrupt the transmission cycle of the virus, as you don’t know when you might be infectious. The vaccine alone cannot interrupt this cycle when there is a lot of virus in the community within unprotected persons. 9. What’s next? I live and practice in Iowa, and I see the tsunami wave on the horizon. It’s typical for respiratory viruses to begin in the southern United States (where it is hot and everyone clusters indoors in the air conditioning to escape the heat) and then creeps north to affect those areas when it gets colder (and people go inside because it’s getting colder). If you live in the north and are not vaccinated, it is not too late, but it’s getting damn close. It’s also time to start wearing masks in public again (ugh…I hate it, too). Those of you in the south, particularly in Florida, know that the tsunami is already on your shores. If you weren’t already off the beach, you might be in trouble. However, if you are there and haven’t yet been affected, run like hell to metaphorical higher ground — get vaccinated, wear a mask. I beg of you, watch that wave and don’t ignore it. I have zero political agenda (I hate politics). I’m just a nerdy scientist and physician who loves you all, and I certainly don’t want to see a mass of my friends grieving — or dead — because I didn’t yell loud enough to get you and your families off that beach. So, run! (to your pharmacy … driving is allowed). You don’t want any part of this thing without vaccines onboard. Dr. J. Stacey Klutts is a clinical associate professor of pathology and clinical microbiology at the University of Iowa and is the chief of the Pathology and Laboratory Service for the Central Iowa VA Health Care System. He is the past president of the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists (ACLPS) and chairs the National VA Clinical Microbiology Council in addition to his national roles referenced above. |
Earliest used inoculationsSeveral accounts from the 1500s describe smallpox inoculation as practiced in China and India (one is referred to in volume 6 of Joseph Needham’s Science and Civilisation in China). Glynn and Glynn, in The Life and Death of Smallpox, note that in the late 1600s Emperor K’ang Hsi, who had survived smallpox as a child, had his children inoculated. That method involved grinding up smallpox scabs and blowing the matter into the nostril. Inoculation may also have been practiced by scratching matter from smallpox sore into the skin. It is difficult to pinpoint when the practice began, as some sources claim dates as early as 200 BCE.
President George Washington was the first to order Vaccine MandateAmong the Continental regulars in the American Revolution, 90 percent of deaths were caused by disease, and Variola the smallpox virus was the most vicious of them all. On the 6th of January 1777, George Washington wrote to Dr. William Shippen Jr., ordering him to inoculate all of the forces that came through Philadelphia. https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/GW&smallpoxinoculation.html
Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology in the West in 1796, after he inoculated a 13 year-old-boy with vaccinia virus (cowpox), and demonstrated immunity to smallpox. In 1798, the first smallpox vaccine was developed.
Unvaccinated COVID-19 hospitalizations cost billions of dollars. Are avoidable covid health care costs bankrupting US Hospitals?From June through August 2021, preventable COVID-19 hospitalizations among unvaccinated adults cost over $5 Billion
‘No Issue of Constitutionality’: Legal Experts Give Biden’s ‘Certainly Constitutional’ Vaccine Mandates/ Law & Crime, 9/10/21
“This is not about freedom or personal choice,” Biden said during a press conference. “It’s about protecting yourself and those around you, the people you work with, the people you care about, the people you love. My job as president is to protect all Americans.”
In 1905 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a vaccine mandate in Massachusetts as Constitutional. The ruling basically said one man’s liberty cannot deprive others of their liberty — in this case by allowing disease to spread.
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Gen. George Washington Ordered Smallpox Inoculations for All Troops
George Washington rallies his troops at the Battle of Monmouth in a painting by Emanuel Leutze, 1857 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress).
8/16/2021By: Janet A. Aker, MHS Communications
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In late 1776, as Gen. George Washington led his troops through the opening battles of the American Revolution, it was not necessarily the enemy fighters who posed the biggest risk to the fledgling U.S. Army.
An estimated 90% of deaths in the Continental Army were caused by disease, and the most vicious were variants of smallpox, according to the U.S. Library of Congress.
That’s why Gen. Washington made the controversial decision to order the mass inoculation of his soldiers, an effort to combat the spread of the disease that was at the time a major deterrent to enlistments and posed the risk of debilitating his army and tipping the balance of power against America’s first warfighters.
According to the U.S. Library of Congress’s Science, Technology, and Business Division, the smallpox inoculations began Jan. 6, 1777, for all of Washington’s forces who came through the then-capital of Philadelphia, and through Morristown, New Jersey, following the Battle of Princeton.
Smallpox is a potentially fatal disease that starts with fever and vomiting and an outbreak of ulcers in the mouth and a skin rash. The skin rash turns into highly contagious fluid-filled blisters. The fatality rate was very high.
Inoculations were far more primitive – and dangerous – than today’s vaccinations. The most common method was to cut a person’s skin and rub the minor incision with a thread or cloth contaminated with a less-virulent version of smallpox, which in this case was a strain known as “variola.”
At the time, most English troops were immune to variola, and their immunity gave them an “enormous advantage against the vulnerable colonists,” according to the library. By contrast, less than a quarter of the American colonial troops had ever had the virus.
Washington knew a mass inoculation campaign could backfire and might cause more disease than it prevented. He also feared the mandatory inoculations would harm recruitment.
Nevertheless, after weighing the odds, Washington informed Congress on Feb. 5, 1777, of his plans for mass inoculation. The general’s plans contraindicated a 1776 proclamation by the Continental Congress prohibiting inoculations.
A Feb. 6 letter to Dr. William Shippen from Washington states: “Finding smallpox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running through the whole of our Army, I have determined that the troops shall be inoculated. This expedient may be attended with some inconvenience and some disadvantages but yet I trust its consequences will have the happiest effects. Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure, for should the disorder infect the Army in the natural way and rage with its usual virulence, we have more to dread from it than from the sword of the enemy.”
Throughout February, the inoculations across the entire force were carried out in the model of the initial efforts in Morristown and Philadelphia.
Washington’s strategy was largely successful.
“The isolated infections that sprung up among Continental regulars during the southern campaign failed to incapacitate a single regiment,” the Library reported.
You can read more on the first mass military inoculation at the Library of Congress’s Science section.
Vaccine mandates have been around for decades. Every state in America has vaccine mandates. No religious exemptions. We don’t have measles, polio, rubella outbreaks anymore. We have virtually eliminated many diseases. Vaccines work. Stop politicizing vaccines. You are creating a health crisis for America. We keep getting stronger mutations because unvaccinated humans serve as incubators.
As much as people like to debate the issue, the only way to stop Covid is to vaccinate the masses. We need X, a certain percentage (80%, 90%? What percent?) to stop Covid and end Covid for all time. We did it with polio, smallpox, and other deadly diseases. But we need to start caring about other people and not simply ourselves. When did so many people lose their empathy for the suffering of others? Time to feel our loving oneness. Time for unity consciousness.
Time to protect the public and the children who can not yet be vaccinated. It’s not ok to spread disease and death. It was illegal to spread AIDS. Now it should be a crime to spread COVID.
Soon people begin suing those who spread diseases. Coming soon to the world, health passes for this and all future pandemics that threaten the liberty of all to move freely in the world without masks. We need to educate our children. They need to go to school. And yes, masks can come off if enough of us are vaccinated. We need more people vaccinated.
We eliminated many diseases, like smallpox, mumps, measles, polio, etc. We can eliminate COVID and all diseases like these but we need to think not only of ourselves but about all those around us that may get hurt and killed by catching these deadly diseases.
Covid’s not the first pandemic and it will not be the last. Our planet has a history of pandemics.
Vaccines have been around for hundreds of years. Washington required his troops to be vaccinated against smallpox so they could win the war and not be defeated by diseases. We’ve all been vaccinated. We are required to get vaccines to go to school. Babies are vaccinated at birth. We get vaccinated for jobs, travel, military. This is nothing political. This is about the health and welfare of the citizens of our planet.
Meanwhile, Denmark is taking off the masks and removing Covid restrictions. They have a vaccination rate of 80%. Perhaps the US is close but we just need to push this a little bit further, coast to coast. Wouldn’t it be great to go back to the way it was pre-Covid in 2019?
