Not The Onion.
Not Babylon Bee.
"That, just as medicines have side effects, almost all actions produce collateral consequences, often collateral damage."
His remarks are a cavalcade of crazy, not the least of which is:
"We can overcome even the biggest obstacles and be the masters of our fates and our futures."
You know, just like Amelia Earhart and Gus Grissom.
Feeling they had to say something about the Derek Chauvin verdict, the Republicans in Congress seemed to take their cues from Pontius Pilate. “I think the jury did its job,” said Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst all too typically, “and I would – I did not follow, of course, all the parts of the trial, but I would say that given the information they received, they did their job, and I guess I’m in agreement.” The sound of hands being washed echoed throughout Capitol Hill.
I find in him no fault at all. -- John 18:38
Know that I find no fault in him. -- John 19:4
I find no fault in him. -- John 19:6
From thenceforth Pilate sought to release him. -- John 19:12
From: Preventing Fecal-Oral And Fecal-Aerosol Transmission Of Covid-19
Though the main way Covid-19 spreads will always be from person to person, exposure to infectious waste and sewage has a part to play in starting outbreaks, especially in apartment buildings or schools where many people share close quarters at regular intervals of the day. ...
Fecal-aerosol transmission, according to a research paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine in December 2020, was suspected to be the cause of a Covid-19 outbreak in a high-rise apartment building in Guangzhou, China that infected at least nine people across three separate households. ...
Almost all of the environmental samples that came back positive were from the master bathrooms, giving the researchers reason to believe that the drainage pipes connecting the three units were to blame.
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| same as in Sep 2020 but not a new low |
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| bouncing off 4% without equaling the Jun 2020 low |
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"In 2017, 16,358 people with HIV died, and 5,534 of those deaths were from HIV-related causes."
COVID-19 has wiped out that many since April 18th.
A gasoline pipeline hack, inflation, and Liz Cheney are bigger news.
South Korea, which has 7.2% of its population vaccinated with at least one dose, uses the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on its frontline medical workers and the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on the more numerous population in the long-term care arena:
By the end of March, authorities plan to complete injecting the first doses to some 344,000 residents and workers at long-term care settings, who will receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, and 55,000 frontline medical workers, who will receive shots developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
COVID-19 cases fell without the aid of vaccines in South Korea, and rose again despite them.
Since vaccination began on Feb 25, deaths per million stands today only where it was when the effort first began two and a half months ago.
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The Chinese COVID vaccine is not preventing much of anything in Chile after three months.
84% of the COVID vaccine doses administered in Chile to date have been Chinese. The effort began in earnest in early February.
44% have received at least one dose of any COVID vaccine in Chile since that time.
Unfortunately, daily new cases per million is still up 44% since the vaccination effort began in early February. And daily new cases per million remains highly elevated compared with the lows of last November, achieved naturally long before any vaccines were available.
Why isn't vaccination producing a low rate similar to that?
Meanwhile deaths per million is still up, 17% since early February when the vaccination effort began. The rate is more than twice as high as it was last November when no vaccines were available at all.
Yet China is distributing these things like hotcakes, over 100 million doses so far, and the WHO is authorizing them for emergency use for the first time.
WHY?
Greenspan: Let more skilled immigrants in :
"Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world," he said. "If we open up a significant window for skilled workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage level and end the concentration of income."
Yeah, the problem isn't millionaires and billionaires concentrating wealth in their hands, it's the goddamn skilled laborers who must be stopped, the engineers, scientists, doctors and teachers, the crane operators, CDL truck drivers, machinists, drafters, plumbers, craftsmen, cooks and accountants.
The claim that COVID-19 vaccines save lives is not substantiated by declining cases and deaths.
Africa is a good example because it's the least vaccinated continent.
Daily new cases per million fell from 24 in January to 6 now, 75%, even though just 1% of its 1.34 billion people have been vaccinated with one dose.
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Compare North America, population 0.592 billion, the most vaccinated continent.
Over the exact same time period, daily new cases per million have fallen 79%, only just slightly more than in Africa.
The shape of the case graph is damn near indistinguishable from Africa's. You don't have to accept that it's even good data in Africa. Even its bad data, if it is bad, is a mirror image of so-called good North American data.
The idea that North American cases have fallen is because 31% have been vaccinated is preposterous.
Seasonal factors likely play the dominant role in this pandemic, and everything we do to influence it is just pushing on a string.
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