Happy Reformation Day!

 

It's the weekend, time to practice kneeling

 

F is for Fauci: Lancet publishes study finding that vaccination does not prevent transmission of the India variant after elites blamed the August surge on the unvaccinated for months

... our findings suggest that vaccination is not sufficient to prevent transmission of the delta variant in household settings with prolonged exposures.

 

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LOL, Drudge gets his ungrammatical headline straight from the comments section to the story

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amazing he can spell "Kaepernick" but can't come up with "equates".

I turn on the radio just before the bottom of the hour, and what are Clay and Buck talking about?

 Halloween candy.

Not a serious country.

Tucker Carlson chalks up new illegal immigrant reparations scheme to Biden just acting in keeping with his other craziness, but this widely misses the mark

And of course, pretty much every morning, what we had assumed was a joke turns out to be entirely real. It's actually happening. The Biden administration really is that crazy. They really are firing thousands of nurses in the middle of a pandemic, firing thousands of cops in the middle of a crime wave. No, they're not kidding, even in the slightest, when they tell you that's a genuine female four-star admiral standing right there. Joe Biden isn't giggling. He tells you Rachel Levine's promotion is a victory for women everywhere, and he means it when he says it.

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Like the full court press by the federal government to exaggerate the January 6 debacle as an insurrection, the "reparations" scheme is designed to do just one thing: Paint the record of Donald Trump in the worst possible light.

One of the most distinctive features about America is how its leadership on both sides fails to take seriously the real problems facing the country while taking too seriously merely imaginary ones.

This is how a nation declines and falls.

Somewhere, out there, there's an iceberg, waiting for its moment.

Feynman lives: Ann Bauer believes in the ignorance of the experts because they helped kill her autistic son

 If you read nothing else about COVID-19 ever again, make sure you at least read this.

I Have Been Through This Before:

In the end, what I believe doesn’t really matter. History will out. Ten or 15 or 25 years from now there will a reckoning, deep research, a spate of biographies and memoirs from the people who spent 2020-21 under the sway of gurus. News media that trumpeted their wisdom and methods will issue brisk, researched, documentary-style reports. People will swarm out of the shadows to claim they didn’t really believe the experts embodied science and were secretly resisting all along; even those who preached their gospel and strong-armed the public’s obedience will insist they actually did not.

 

Jesse Kelly is a hot mess: An accident was a war crime, for which an acceptable consequence would be resignation

Draco will have to do better than that.

FDA panelist admits C19 vaccines are just one giant experiment on the American people

 Here.

 

 

Liberalism: Just shut up

 

Hells Angel in the Senate

 

Whitey gonna be hearin' about this: Community college enrollments down 14.1% in two years, elite college enrollments are back up to pre-pandemic levels

There were roughly 17.5 million students enrolled as of the last tally.

Combined with last autumn’s declines, the number of undergraduate students in college is now down 6.5% compared to two years ago — the largest two-year enrollment drop in the last 50 years, the report found. ...

Only the most selective colleges notched enrollment gains — up 4.3% — to return to pre-pandemic levels. ...

Community colleges remain the most adversely affected sector, experiencing a 14.1% total enrollment decline since fall 2019. ...

Community college students likely are older, lower-income and often balancing work, children and other obligations — and they are also disproportionately students of color. These are all groups that the pandemic hit especially hard.

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Montana school teacher and breakthrough case "mad that people won't get vaccinated" like she did and got sick anyway

 A lifelong Democrat.

Clay Travis, whose favorite holiday is Halloween, is the poster child for unserious America

 

Breakthrough cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in wretched data manipulating Tennessee in Sep 2021: 16%, 13%, 15% respectively

Breakthrough hospitalizations and deaths showed modest declines compared to August proportions of 14% and 17% respectively. Since hospitalizations and deaths are lagging indicators, however, the rise in breakthrough cases from 14% to 16% may be a harbinger of more bad news in Tennessee.

The data isn't presented in a straightforward manner. Subtract the percentages shown in the table from 100 to get the breakthrough figures. I can imagine some idiot looking at that table, wondering what the hell he's lookin' at.

Vaccines do not make one bulletproof, as story after story makes plain. This is especially the case for the elderly, for whom the risk of death is the highest, vaccinated or not. Waning vaccine effectiveness is only the second biggest concern facing this group.

But in Tennessee you wouldn't know risk of death is highest if you are old anyway, if you relied on Tennessee's COVID statewide dashboard, hilariously entitled "unified command". You won't find death information visualized anywhere, let alone by age. Cases are visualized by age, which is even more misleading to the elderly since cases abound among the younger tranches, not the older.

You really have to hunt for the death data on a different page and download the data in XLS format from a long list of available data sets entitled "Daily Age Group Outcomes- Statewide case outcomes by age group", and then do the math. And do you see the word "death" in there anywhere?

It's really irresponsible. It's almost like Tennessee is trying to hide the deaths from its old people, and throw shade on the vaccines, by publishing the breakthrough data in a weird way, at the same time. A conspiracy theorist would say they're tryin' to get rid of 'em, real quiet like.

I count 13,119 deaths in TN to date from COVID in people 61 years of age or older, which is about 82% of all the pandemic deaths in the state.

Tennessee really, really sucks at this.

 

 

Suddenly Oklahoma is not showing breakthrough data like it had been

Last week's PROPORTION OF BREAKTHROUGH CASES BY MONTH OF ONSET AS OF OCTOBER 11, 2021 showed the percent of cases vaccinated for October to date at 9.8%, the highest for any month yet.

This week the table is missing, with this message:

At this time, we are currently working on refining the process for identifying breakthrough infections and reinfections. Once we have finalized this process, we will resume providing tables on breakthrough infections and reinfections.

I'm sure it's nothing. 

 

Meanwhile The Grauniad can't decide whether record STDs constitute a crisis which is serious or waning

While neglected, the STI crisis presents a serious public health problem. ...

But Harvey warns that a coordinated effort by national health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is needed to combat the waning STI crisis.

Here.

You can always count on THE GRAUNIAD to be clear as mud.

Something special about white people: STD cases make sixth consecutive new annual high in 2019, but it is not a non-Hispanic White heterosexual people problem according to CDC

Maybe we should cut down on the immigration:

 

 

More than 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea & syphilis reported in 2019.

Rates for African American or Black people were 5-8 times that of non-Hispanic White people.

Rates for American Indian or Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander people were 3-5 times that of non-Hispanic White people.

Rates for Hispanic or Latino people were 1-2 times that of non-Hispanic White people.

Gay and bisexual men make up nearly half of all 2019 primary and secondary syphilis cases.

Gonorrhea rates were 42 times that of heterosexual men in some areas.

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CDC is capitalizing White people now.

Thank you.

You people just don't understand performance art when you see it, especially this rich tapestry of intersectionality combining race, class, and gender issues

A Mount Holyoke College professor of art and Asian studies has been sentenced to 10-12 years in the slammer for nearly killing her female colleague who "should have known" she was in love with her:

Rie Hachiyanagi, an arts professor at Mount Holyoke College, was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison on Wednesday over the 2019 attack on fellow professor Lauret Savoy, MassLive reports. ...

When the victim let her in, Hachiyanagi bludgeoned her with a rock, fireplace poker and garden shears during a twisted, four-hour attack. ...

Hachiyanagi — who specializes in handmade paper crafts and performance art — had allegedly driven to the victim’s house uninvited the night of Dec. 23, claiming she “wanted to talk about her feelings,” according to a police report.

Once inside, she began attacking the victim, who is over the age of 60, with a myriad of household objects, including rocks, garden clippers and a fire poker, WWLP reported.

More here and here.

Price of one year at Mount Holyoke College in 2019-20: $67,578 for tuition, room, and board. Performance art included at no extra charge.

Can't we all just get along?

 

 

WaPo: Republicans have taken vulgarity to a whole other level (maybe because Joe Biden sucks really bad?)

The current eruption of anti-Biden signs and chants, however, is on another level, far more vulgar and widespread. 

It's the widespread that upsets them, not the vulgarity.

Welcome to what, wave 6?, in which Doris gets her oats, but not in China

 

Anthony Fauci actually predicted at least three times that mass vaccination against C19 would prevent a case surge

Fauci predicted this on December 15, 2020 and again on April 28, 2021.

It turns out he said the same thing as late as June 3:

Having about 50% of adults fully vaccinated and about 62% of adults having received at least one dose across the US as a whole means “as a nation, I feel fairly certain you’re not going to see the kind of surges we’ve seen in the past,” Fauci said. 

Three strikes, NPR, WSJ, CNN, and you are out!

Tuberculosis bacteria spread through tiny aerosolized particles in the air, just like SARS-CoV-2

The report indicated scientists believe as much as 90% of the tuberculosis disease released by an infected person could be carried in the aerosol particles. ...

It was previously believed transmission primarily occurred through coughing, which sprayed heavy droplets containing the bacteria onto others, according to the New York Times report.

Research throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic increasingly found the virus also spread through the air in tiny particles, though that mode of transmission was not fully appreciated in the early stages of the pandemic.

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This Drudge headline from Oct 12 is utterly false and irresponsible and doesn't represent what the story or the Feds say about aspirin

"However, this Task Force recommendation is not for people already taking aspirin for a previous heart attack or stroke; they should continue to do so unless told otherwise by their clinician."

The word "stop" never occurs in the story.

When liberty is gone

 When liberty is gone,

Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish.

-- Joseph Addison

By the way, there was no fresh kale, or broccoli crowns, at the grocery store yesterday

Frozen green beans again tonight. 

This shortage business is really weird.

I'm thinking it's not a shortage of product but of help. The store manager was actually working the produce section, spreading out the cabbages where what I was looking for went so that the shelves didn't look so barren.

Checkout was handled by another store manager, who complained "no one wants to work on weekends".

Delaware has added over 300 deaths since achieving 52% fully vaccinated on July 22

 

Vermont was 66% fully vaccinated by July 4th, total announced deaths took off in August anyway

 

Climate Update for KGRR: September 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Climate Update for KGRR: September 2021

Max T 86, Mean 88

 

Min T 47, Mean 37 (tied for second highest minimum temperature on record with 1933; only 2019 and 2016 had higher minimums at 48; once again, so-called "global warming" is more a story of moderating at the cold end of the spectrum than of heating at the high end)

 

Av T 65.6, Mean 62.8 (actual to date is running 4.2% above mean to date)

 

Rain 3.34, Mean 3.59 (actual to date is down to just 0.69 above mean to date, or 2.6%; but October precipitation is already well ahead of normal to date, by 1.4; La Nina!)

 

Cooling Degree Days 70, Mean 75

CDD to date 870, Mean 691 (26% higher; the season will crack the list of warmest 20 summers on record; recall that the previous Heating Degree Day season was the 15th mildest winter on record)

 

Oceanic Nino Index shows a moderate La Nina in the 2020-2021 year just past

 

 

The anomaly at or below -0.5 persisted for 10 out of 12 overlapping periods in the 2020-2021 measuring season. For the first two periods of the 2021-2022 measuring season the anomaly continues in the negative at sum -0.9. The deepest anomaly in the last season was -1.3 in the October-November-December period, which is considered neither weak nor strong, but middling.

The trend toward lower ONI values since 1951 is consistent with wetter conditions in the Upper Midwest of the US, and greater incidence of tropical storms in the Atlantic from the 1980s. There is no need to adduce "global warming":

the historical tropical storm count record does not provide compelling evidence for a greenhouse warming induced long-term increase.

 

LOL Trump is still president: Biden to reimplement Remain in Mexico policy for migrants after a federal court ruling in August

 Story.

 

 

Hi, I'm Matt Drudge and welcome to my site where I promote estrogen

 

WaPo: 4 women and a guy named Hasan from Canada say "country music bad" lol

Gina from San Jose, Christina from South Dakota, Candy from Oklahoma, and Jackie from San Diego.

Story.

 

LOL, supply shortage hits reporting: CNBC relies on Reuters, a blog, and FOX Business for shipping container transportation costs data

 

On Oct. 7, there were reportedly around 60 container ships waiting in open water outside Los Angeles and Long Beach for berths to dock in and unload their goods. Before the pandemic, it was unusual to see even one vessel waiting for a slip. ...

Skyrocketing costs are also part of the problem. Over the past year, the cost to have one container shipped by freighter from China to the West Coast has soared from around $3,000 in Aug. 2020 to more than $20,000 in September of this year.

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Breakthrough hospitalizations climbing in Minnesota "could reflect waning immunity"

Breakthrough COVID-19 cases in fully vaccinated Minnesotans have been increasing amid the rise of the delta variant, which is responsible for more than 99% of new infections in the state.

The rise could reflect waning immunity in the earliest vaccine recipients, which include seniors and people with underlying illnesses who tend to have weaker immune system responses to the shots. ...

Minneapolis-based Allina Health reported 249 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 on Monday, and that 77 (31%) were fully vaccinated. Among 51 patients receiving intensive care, six (12%) were fully vaccinated. ...

Bloomington-based HealthPartners similarly reported that it cared for 424 COVID-19 patients in its hospitals over the past 30 days, and that 25% were fully vaccinated. Among the 74 requiring intensive care, 19% were fully vaccinated.

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How to get the most out of your credit cards to save money this holiday season

 Don't use them.

Yale History Department Chair pretends 800 years of Muslim plunder, domination, Sharia Law, persecution and violence in Spain didn't exist to inform ANY of Christopher Columbus' presuppositions about his world

 

Al-Andalus in 1000 A.D.

 

 You have to be a total loser to buy this history by omission.

For safe, conventional opinion, it's hard to beat Joe Concha @joeconchatv: If mommy says wear a mask outdoors, we wear a mask outdoors

 

The idea that Steve Scalise is some right wing nut with his hair on fire about Election 2020 is crazy

Scalise thinks several states did not follow their election laws existing at the time and that state legislatures were by-passed in the process of changing such laws, which is prohibited by the constitution,  in the fit of coronavirus hysteria gripping the country in 2020.

These things are demonstrable but blacked out by the powers that be, which could care less about following Article 1, Section 4.

Scalise has a good voting record when it comes to immigration issues, but he can hardly be described as Trumpian. His voting record has helped maintain the status quo on spending and he is frequently bemoaned as just another RINO.

He joined with most Republicans after all, including Liz Cheney, to pass a resolution condemning the QAnon wackos in October 2020.

The effort by the media to make Republican reasonableness look radical is outrageous, but that is where we are.

The problem for Scalise and for those who make the same argument, however, is that no Republican state legislature had the gumption post-election to do anything about it. They all acquiesced, just as they had acquiesced to allow state bureaucrats to whom they had delegated authority usurp their prerogatives in the first place.

This abdication of responsibility is what is killing the country, all over the place. Into the vacuum sweep the radical forces which would overturn everything.

We're screwed.

How come US C19 cases EXPLODED in August even though the country was 49% fully-vaccinated by Aug 1?

Anthony Fauci, The Wall Street Journal, Apr 28, 2021:

"When you get to somewhere between 40 -50%, I believe you’re going to start seeing real change, the start of a precipitous drop in cases”.

Obviously cases exploded because Fauci was wildly mistaken about the vaccines and 165 million fully-vaccinated Americans were as capable of spreading C19 from Aug 1 as were the fewer than 500 fully-vaccinated but infected Provincetown, MA, revelers on Jul 4. Half of those revelers were vaccinated only 6-86 days before they became infected there.

The CDC reversed itself on masks far too late, on Jul 27, after it realized that Provincetown showed that the vaccines do not stop the spread.

This is the dirtiest little secret of the year, too dirty to be repeated in public.

 

 

Why isn't The Vaccine Church declaring victory?

 

HA HA HA!

 

US C19 deaths from big bad UK and India variants over the last six months are still DOWN almost 28% from Apr-Sep 2020: 146,330 vs. 202,548.

 

Why isn't The Vaccine Church declaring victory?

 

 

 

Brendan O'Neill is worth reading because he knows about the clerisy, not to mention Luther

 Chappelle won’t be cancelled. He can’t be. ... He values the truth and just being funny more highly than the shrivelled respect you win when you succumb to the diktats of the clerisy.

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The big news in the huge Qatar study of 907k is NOT that Pfizer effectiveness against infection fell to only 20% in months five to seven after the second dose

In a huge Qatar study of 907k, Pfizer effectiveness against infection fell to only 20% in months five to seven after the second dose, which is admittedly pretty shocking (but don't get distracted by the shiny object -- boosters!):

The results indicated that vaccine effectiveness against any SARS-CoV-2 infection was 36.8% (95% CI, 33.2-40.2) in the third week after the first dose, peaking at 77.5% (95% CI, 76.4-78.6) in the first month following the second dose. Effectiveness gradually waned thereafter, then dropped after the fourth month to reach about 20% in the fifth through seventh months, according to the researchers.  

“These findings suggest that a large proportion of the vaccinated population could lose its protection against infection in the coming months, perhaps increasing the potential for new epidemic waves,” Chemaitelly and colleagues wrote.

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But these claims fly in the face of the Provincetown incident of July 4th, where there was mass infection among fully vaccinated individuals, a plurality of whom had received Pfizer. Loss of protection against infection appears to be coterminous with vaccination "protection", not something which occurs after month seven, for example. The median interval from completion of vaccination to symptom onset in that incident was 3 months, which means half of the infected symptomatic cohort had been recently vaccinated (6-86 days!):

Among fully vaccinated symptomatic persons, the median interval from completion of ≥14 days after the final vaccine dose to symptom onset was 86 days (range = 6–178 days).

 

Despite achieving 50% of population fully vaccinated by July 2 (59.3% one dose), new cases per 

 

million in Qatar nearly doubled by August 22, from 43.14 to 81.36. 

 

Fully vaccinated people can and do spread the virus right away, not six months later after their shots 

 

"wear out".

 

What idiot blames waning vaccine effectiveness on the bad behavior of vaccinated people?

 The Qatar study people, apparently:

The vaccine's weakening protection may be due to people's behavior, the study authors noted.

"Vaccinated persons presumably have a higher rate of social contact than unvaccinated persons and may also have lower adherence to safety measures," they wrote. "This behavior could reduce real-world effectiveness of the vaccine as compared with its biologic effectiveness, possibly explaining the waning of protection."

The studies were published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

 

Like my tetanus shot wanes in effectiveness because I went on a bender last weekend.

 

If the damn thing works, it works. Pfizer's vaccine clearly isn't a vaccine.

 

A golden opportunity to blame SPREAD on bad behavior wildly missed.

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-10-07/studies-show-power-of-pfizer-vaccine-starts-to-wane-after-two-months

Pfizer funded study shows effectiveness against infection tumbles from 88% to 47% by month seven: Like they never knew this from the trials?

Do you think the campaign to scare everyone into getting vaccinated would have succeeded if that had been reported up front before the FDA gave emergency use authorization?

The chicanery here is very deep, but at least the big bad Delta variant bullshittery is disposed of:

The decline in efficacy for infection is “most likely due to waning and not caused by delta or other variants escaping vaccine protection,” Pfizer chief medical officer for vaccines Dr. Luis Jodar said.

It is claimed the two-dose regimen is 90% effective against hospitalization for six months.

But there is not one single word in this story about how vaccinated people still spread the virus.

Not one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/04/pfizer-covid-vaccine-protection-against-infection-tumbles-to-47percent-study-confirms.html

Finland suspends use of Moderna in men 30 and under

 Story.

Bloomberg casually reinforces the hysteria: "Covid survivors, who number in the hundreds of millions globally"

 NNNNNNNNNNNah.

Global cases to date:  236,600,132. As in a couple of hundred million.

Rational people usually don't speak of "hundreds" until you get well past a "few", which is typically three.

Story.

 

Remember October 2020 when Kamala Harris said 220 million had died of COVID?

 I remember.

Haven't heard much from her lately.

Cackles, mostly.

 

Remember June 2020 when Joe Biden said 120 million had died of COVID?

 I remember.

Remember September 2020 when Biden said 200 million had died from COVID?

 I remember.

 

LOL, Biden is portrayed as "Live from the White House" when this is a set across the street at the Executive Office Building

 

Denmark suspends use of Moderna for those 18 and under

Sweden has suspended the use of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for under 30s following reports of rare side effects, while Denmark has said it will no longer offer the shot to under 18s. ...

Denmark’s health agency also blamed concerns over myocarditis for its decision to suspend the use of the Moderna vaccine for people under 18 years.

In April it became the first European country to cease using the AstraZeneca vaccine over concerns about rare cases of blood clots.

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Sweden suspends use of Moderna in ages 30 and under

Swedish health authorities on Wednesday suspended the use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for those ages 30 and under, saying the move was done out of precaution.

The reason for the pausing is “signals of an increased risk of side effects such as inflammation of the heart muscle or the pericardium” — the double-walled sac containing the heart and the roots of the main vessels, Sweden’s Public Health Agency said in a statement. “The risk of being affected is very small.” ...

U.S. and European regulators caution, however, that both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines appear linked to a rare reaction in teenagers and young adults — chest pain and heart inflammation. ...

New preliminary Nordic analyzes indicate that the connection is especially clear when it comes to Moderna’s vaccine, especially after the second dose, the agency said. ...

The Swedish agency said the vaccine from Pfizer is recommended for these age groups instead. 

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Year over year through Oct 4, 2021, the C19 vaccines have been a miserable failure, and Joe Biden hasn't shut down the virus

 Year over year through October 4, 2021, the C19 vaccines have been a miserable failure.

Year to date we've had 23.802 million cases and 0.357312 million deaths.

7.1% of the population has been infected, and 0.107% have died.

Population 332.809 million per the US Census clock.

 

For the same period in 2020 we had 7.445 million cases and 0.209606 million deaths.

2.2% of the population had been infected, and just 0.063% had died.

Population 331.868 million.

 

The full year 2020 comparison isn't much better.

There were 20.024 million cases in 2020, so 6% of the population of 332.084 million infected.

There were 0.346050 million deaths, so 0.104% of the population dead.

On October 4, 2021, we are already well past these 2020 full year benchmarks.

We already have 3.778 million more cases with 3 months left to go, and 11,262 more deaths. 

 

All C19 figures are from The New York Times.

 

 

 

The latest conspiracy theory is that deaths of vaxxed patients are designated flu deaths by hospitals in order to avoid throwing shade on the C19 vaccines

 Which is kinda funny when they've been telling us for months that hospitals designate every death they can as a C19 death in order to collect a government check. 

I really wish they'd make up their mind.

As of the end of September just 7.04% of the US population has been infected with COVID-19 in 2021

332.805 million people (US Census)

23.434 million cases (New York Times)

7.04% 

Influenza incidence averages 8% (CDC, Scientific American).

 

CDC estimates average annual flu cases 2010-2020 at 29.63 million.

Population for the period averaged 321.6 million, so incidence for the period averaged a little higher than the commonly cited 8%:  9.2%.

 

CDC estimates average annual flu deaths 2010-2020 at 35,900. 

Flu deaths therefore averaged ~ 0.121% on 29.63 million average annual cases over the period, slightly higher than the commonly cited 0.1%.

 

C19 deaths year to date are 351,938 or ~ 1.5% of cases year to date, 12.4x worse than for the flu in the last ten years.

C19 is still the third leading cause of death in the US, right behind heart disease and cancer.

For the six months Apr-Sep 2021 the combined UK/India variants produced 83% more cases compared with the same six months in 2020, despite Fauci's claims that mass vaccination would cause a steep downturn in cases

Cases and deaths Apr-Sep 2020 were 7.074m and 0.2025m respectively, for a cfr of 2.863%.

Cases and deaths Apr-Sep 2021 were 12.979m and 0.1463m respectively, for a cfr of 1.127%.

The C19 case fatality rate year over year Apr-Sep 2021 was therefore down over 60%. Total deaths period over period were down almost 28%. The theory that the so-called Delta is more transmissible yet less deadly seems to hold up. The virus has evolved to spread, at the expense of its ability to kill.

That there were comparatively FAR more cases in the 2021 period, nearly 6 million more cases, despite a mass vaccination effort is remarkable. How could that be?

The powers that be are blaming the unvaccinated.

But the timeline of events indicates that the vaccinated are implicated in the latest surge in cases, and therefore also in the deaths, which at over 57k in September are almost as bad as in April 2020.

CDC removed its mask guidance for the vaccinated in mid-May, which the president and vice-president both lauded with great enthusiasm.

And by June 1, 50% of the US population had received at least one dose of a C19 vaccine.

Vaccinated people took off their masks and enjoyed their summer.

Meanwhile Anthony Fauci had indicated on at least two occasions, in December 2020 and again in April 2021, that we would start to witness a decline in cases after achieving that level. But daily new cases just seemed to shrug their shoulders for a month instead, skipping along in a tight range for all of June. Then in July they began to soar, just as the India variant became dominant.

It's important to emphasize how fantastically wrong Fauci was about this.

In December 2020 Fauci had merely said a 50% vaccination level would need to be reached before an  impact on the infection numbers would be observed, but by late April, with cases in another steep decline, he really doubled down on his claim and amplified it:

"When you get to somewhere between 40 -50%, I believe you’re going to start seeing real change, the start of a precipitous drop in cases .”

Instead of that precipitous drop he was about to get 9.8 million new cases in Jul-Sep vs. 3.1 million in Apr-Jun.

The dirty truth in all this is that the wildly growing numbers in the vaccinated population unknowingly spread the virus for 2.5 months, from mid-May through July, before the CDC reversed itself on mask guidance at the end of July after the Provincetown, MA, study showed that the virus was spreading like wildfire among vaccinated people. A Texas prison inmate study has shown the same thing since then.

Many vaccinated people have continued to spread the disease since the CDC reversed itself, however, as numerous incidents of masklessness involving celebrities and government officials demonstrate. My own veterinarians saw no need to wear masks when I took my cats in for appointments in early and late August. The late August one even asked if that was OK with me, which was hardly part of the new guidance. Mask wearing by vaccinated people, especially professionals, should have been de rigueur in close quarters in public by then.

With Pfizer vaccine effectiveness falling off to undetectable levels by month seven, we have an awful lot of people walking around who think they are bulletproof when they are not. They are instead dangerous to public health.

The surge in cases beginning in the seventh month of the year proves it.

 

 

LOL, Pfizer vaccine wears out by month seven

Six months after receiving the second dose of the two-shot vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, many recipients no longer have vaccine-induced antibodies that can immediately neutralize worrisome variants of the coronavirus, a new study suggests. ... neutralizing antibodies that can block infection against coronavirus variants such as Delta, Beta, and Mu were undetectable at six months after the second dose.

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