Pfizer and Moderna want FDA approval in less than two?
What, me worry?
Sunday, August 1, 2021
July 2021: US COVID-19 deaths hit their lowest level yet since March 2020, with 8,473
The death pace has really picked up in the last week of July, however, to about 360 per day, from fewer than 250 per day for the previous three weeks, an increase of 44%.
Saturday, July 31, 2021
LOL, CNBC a week ago said vaccinations in India, home of the Delta variant, helped to bring about the decline in cases
Public health experts told the Financial Times in late May that regional lockdowns, reduced social interaction and an increasing number of antibodies against Covid among the general population were helping to bring down the infection rate in India. Vaccinations too have helped to continue the downward trend in cases.
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Cases per million plummeted 91% between May 7 and July 23, at which point just 7% of India's massive population of 1.3 billion had been fully vaccinated.
The vaccines had nothing to do with the crash in cases, but they may have helped cause this debacle in India.
Vaccination temporarily weakens the immune system, making it more vulnerable to infection, which is why it is inadvisable to vaccinate en masse when infections are raging around you. Mind you, in India on February 18th they were not. It would have been as safe a time as any to start vaccinating.
Yet is it mere coincidence that the massive explosion in cases in India after the approximate bottom around February 18th dovetails perfectly with the commencement of mass vaccinations in India around February 13th?
Well?
I think Nottle.
As for the antibody hypothesis, the faith placed in it after all this time is quite simply precious.
Antibody tests can miss previous COVID-19 infection
Antibody tests do not reliably confirm that someone has had COVID-19, which means global estimates of infection rates are likely inaccurate, according to researchers. "We studied the blood of over 120 people with confirmed COVID-19 and measured levels of antibodies ... using 14 different tests" up to three months after diagnosis, said Michael Peluso of the University of California, San Francisco. "All of these people definitely had COVID-19, but not all of them had positive COVID-19 blood tests." The accuracy of the tests at confirming prior COVID-19 varied by how sick the person had been, how much time had passed since the illness and which test had been used. "People who were less sick and in whom more time had passed were less likely to test positive using certain tests," Peluso said. "Since most people have mild (or even asymptomatic) infection with SARS-CoV-2, this study has important implications for our interpretation of several of the large studies that have been done ... to try to estimate the number of people who have had COVID-19." In a report published on Friday in the journal Science Advances, his team advises, "Individual patients or providers using these assays to assess the presence or absence of prior infection and/or immune status should take these considerations into account, given the poor negative predictive value of some tests."
Friday, July 30, 2021
Anthony Fauci falsely stated on MSNBC that with the Delta variant "the level of virus in their nasopharynx is about 1,000 times higher than with the alpha variant"
Nope. He's wrong. CDC says 10 times higher than with the Alpha, not 1,000 times.
Infection with the Delta variant produces virus amounts in the
airways that are tenfold higher than what is seen in people infected
with the Alpha variant, which is also highly contagious, the document
noted.
The amount of virus in a person infected with Delta is a thousandfold more than what is seen in people infected with the original version of the virus, according to one recent study.
The C.D.C. document relies on data from multiple studies, including an analysis of a recent outbreak in Provincetown, Mass., which began after the town’s Fourth of July festivities. By Thursday, that cluster had grown to 882 cases. About 74 percent were vaccinated, local health officials have said.
From The New York Times here.
Here is Fauci getting it wildly wrong.
Is he just getting too old for this, or is this a deliberate attempt to whip up hysteria about Delta?
Thursday, July 29, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is a phenomenon among those under 50, not over
Compared with the flu, COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy is a phenomenon of those under 50 years of age, not over.
Average % vaccinated for flu 2010-20 vs. for C19 through May 22, both per CDC:
18-49: 32.25% flu vs. 25.5% C19
50-64: 45% vs. 44.5%
65 years and up: 65.6% vs. 69.3%.
All the scare tactics and non-stop advertizing to persuade people to get vaccinated for COVID-19 have budged senior citizens barely three points
Maybe seniors are wiser to the game.
Senior citizens from 2010-2020 underwent flu vaccination at an average rate of 65.6%, the highest of any age group.
As of May 22, they underwent COVID-19 vaccination at a rate of 69.3%.
Since seniors are by far the most likely to die of C19 infection, you might think they would be taking this somewhat more seriously than that. In California 73% of the deaths have been 65+.
But seniors constitute roughly 16.6% of the US population, or about 55 million people, 3.7% of which is an extra 1.6 million seniors vaccinated for C19 than for flu. The hype doesn't appear to be moving them much, but it is moving them.
The same can't be said for younger people.
People 50-64 are sort of holding up their end to get vaccinated for C19 at 44.5% vs. an average of 45% for flu.
But people 18-49 are way behind, getting vaccinated for flu at an average rate of 32.3% vs. only 25.5% for C19.
Younger tranches represent a far richer target environment for the pharma-companies, which is why billion$ are being spent to reach them, interminably and everywhere.
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| flu vaccine coverage per CDC |
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| COVID-19 vaccine coverage per CDC |
The fools were predicting 1-2" of heavy rain after 3 am, and another 3/4" by 8 am, and instead we got BUPKIS
They can't predict the weather overnight, and yet you believe in fantastic theories of global warming caused by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and assorted tall tales of unprecedented extreme weather events urged on you by these charlatans.
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Three weeks ago the New York Post was pooh-poohing "hysteria" over the Delta variant in the UK
Rising cases even prompted Prime Minister Boris Johnson to delay the end of restrictions. But the huge case spike didn’t lead to similar hospitalization or death spikes, so Britain’s back on track to lift regulations July 19.
The seven-day average of new UK cases is above 25,000, the highest since late January, when the weekly average had just dropped from a peak of 50,000. But only 2,000 COVID cases are hospitalized, vs. nearly 40,000 in January. Daily deaths average under 20, vs. more than 1,000 in January.
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OK, well, daily new cases coincidentally rolled over after July 18th, so there's that, but hospitalizations are up over 542% in two months, and 179% in the three weeks since the editorial. And daily new deaths aren't in the 20s anymore. They were 131 yesterday.
The confident pronunciamentoes of a month ago don't look so firm today. They were premature, as is typical during this pandemic, which has made fools of us all.
Debates about severity aside, the main point is still that the vaccines prevented none of this in merry old England in July, where 66% were fully (49%) and partially vaccinated as of the end of June.
We are witnessing vaccine failure in place after place, even as the progress of the pandemic changes as the virus mutates and host populations experience transformation. The low hanging fruit easily picked off and killed by the virus in the past will likely not be matched in magnitude going forward by the deaths of what are by definition sturdier hosts. It would be a mistake to miss that and credit the so-called vaccines instead, which are not preventing disease.
ROFLMAO: Iceland has way over 75% of its population fully-vaccinated but is now experiencing a coronavirus moonshot outbreak
Herd immunity schmamunity.
If vaccines are supposed to prevent illness, these aren't vaccines.
h/t Alex Berenson
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The CDC Follies
First we were told, most publicly by Fauci in February 2020, that masks won't protect you from the COVID virus. Wash your hands, we were told. Fauci lied to us because PPE was in short supply and was needed by hospitals. They were trying to conserve supplies for hospital workers, because masks work in hospitals, you know.
After the first hospitalization wave subsided, masking gradually became cool again. People wanted to get out and about, so wearing a mask and practicing social distancing became the default position. The authorities realized this would help to keep a lid on things while vaccines were developing.
America divided over this politically, to state the obvious.
When the vaccines began to roll out in late December, the same psychology took over. The vaccine, like a mask, became a ticket back to normalcy. At first, however, the CDC had said a mask would still be necessary after vaccination, but eventually bowed to pressure from freedom advocates, and to overcome the vaccine hesitancy into which the advice to keep wearing a mask kept feeding. The authorities finally relented in May after vaccination enthusiasm had peaked in April and declined quickly, and said the vaccinated could in fact retire their masks after all.
This was too little, too late.
The share of population dosed at least once moved fewer than ten points from mid-May to July 4th, from 47% to 55%.
The Biden administration severely undershot its goal of 70% vaccinated by July 4th. It completely miscalculated that vaccine enthusiasm would peak in mid-April.
But now, two months since May, the CDC today is back to saying that masking is necessary after vaccination, ostensibly because the India variant is so virulent that even vaccinated people could still catch it and transmit it.
Talk about poking the hornets' nest.
The real reason is that breakthrough cases at elite levels are calling attention to a wider spread phenomenon everyone knows about anecdotally but can't quantify because the CDC in May conveniently refused to count all the breakthrough cases like it counts cases generally. These vaccines are failing all over the place in the basic sense of preventing illness.
Of course, this isn't going to convince anyone to get vaccinated, because vaccines are supposed to prevent illness, and if they aren't, well, why bother?
These aren't real vaccines like the childhood vaccines are real vaccines. Their power peters out quickly and people can and do get COVID-19 anyway. At best these are therapeutic medications which might turn out to be appropriate for certain people, but certainly not as a panacea for the whole nation.
NBC actually did a pretty good story laying out many of these details, here, draped in the usual propaganda.
The future outlook, unfortunately, remains very uncertain.
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
US COVID-19 hospitalizations have soared 143% in less than a month
US COVID-19 hospitalizations have soared 143% in less than a month, from 12.2k on June 27 to 29.6k on July 23.
Peak hospitalization was 133.2k on January 14, falling to 33.2k on March 20, or 75%.
Vaccination levels on March 20 were merely 13% fully vaccinated and 24% dosed once vs. 49% and 56% respectively right now.
The vaccines had little if anything to do with the declines then and are not preventing the rise now.
Texas, California, Florida and Missouri are the states with the highest numbers of hospitalized, roughly 3.9k, 2.5k, 1.7k, and 1.7k respectively.
Prevalence of variants is mixed in Texas and Florida, where it is not obvious that the India variant is to blame as it appears to be in Missouri. And shouldn't California have more hospitalized than Texas if the India variant is so much more serious and clearly more dominant?
Texas: 43/38% India/UK.
California: 50/23% India/UK.
Florida: 34/39% India/UK.
Missouri: 52/9% India/UK.
Monday, July 26, 2021
Alex Berenson: COVID-19 deaths started dropping long before most people had received shots
Vaccine advocates rarely acknowledge the fact that deaths started dropping long before most people had received shots. In reality, even acknowledging that many people who received vaccines in January and February were older and vulnerable, seasonality and herd immunity seem to have had a greater impact on broad Covid trends than vaccinations.
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You idiots who attend the Vaccine Church have just helped mint 9 new pharma-billionaires
Pandemic sweeps the nation.
Fascist America under Trump mobilizes pharmaceutical industry to rush vaccines into development, investing billions of dollars in the efforts.
Industry resurrects a discredited drug delivery mechanism and calls it a vaccine. Smelling $$$, it prepares for mass vaccination but doesn't run trials proportionate to that effort, and then cuts off the placebo arm prematurely, making a complete hash of it.
Government gives Emergency Use Authorization, not FDA Approval, to permit these corporations to experiment on the US population during an "emergency".
The corporations, and the government, are exempted from liability.
A fearful population whipped into a hysteria by propaganda paid for with borrowed dollars lines up like sheep to take the vaccine under a new administration but the same old fascism.
Presto! 9 new billionaires:
The 9 new vaccine billionaires, in order of their net worth are:
- Stéphane Bancel, Moderna’s CEO (worth $4.3 billion)
- Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech (worth $4 billion)
- Timothy Springer, an immunologist and founding investor of Moderna (worth $2.2bn)
- Noubar Afeyan, Moderna’s Chairman (worth $1.9 billion)
- Juan Lopez-Belmonte, Chairman of ROVI, a company with a deal to manufacture and package the Moderna vaccine (worth $1.8 billion)
- Robert Langer, a scientist and founding investor in Moderna (worth $1.6 billion)
- Zhu Tao, co-founder and chief scientific officer at CanSino Biologics (worth $1.3 billion)
- Qiu Dongxu, co-founder and senior vice president at CanSino Biologics (worth $1.2)
- Mao Huihua, also co-founder and senior vice president at CanSino Biologics (worth $1 billion)
The 8 vaccine billionaires who saw their wealth increase are:
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Why is the US Vaccine Church pushing mandatory jabs instead of celebrating its amazing success?
TL;dr: fascism.
The data are clear.
Deaths from COVID-19 have been in free-fall from the January peak when over 95k perished to just over 10k dead in June, with July poised to come in even lower than that, near 6.5k.
The Vaccine Church should be CROWING over this success, especially when it accomplished this feat with just 36% vaccinated with one dose and only 22% fully vaccinated on April 13, the date of peak US vaccination.
April's not quite 24k deaths were equivalent to last year's lows in June, September and October.
And May, June and July 2021 are coming in even lower than that, now that vaccination levels have reached about 50% of the population.
Instead the Vaccine Church is wringing its hands about the Indian variant and preaching,
preaching, preaching to the people to get vaccinated, and using borrowed
funds by the billion to do it, too.
The Vaccine Church knows the vaccines had damn little to do with this decline in deaths, and has too much invested in this fascist scheme to look back now.
Sunday, July 25, 2021
To California oil is like slavery and must be banned everywhere
But Californians see Texas as a mortal threat not merely to their state’s business model and way of life but to humanity itself. Drilling is killing. Texas cannot be allowed to be Texas because if Texans get their way, the planet will superheat, destroying us all. You may think that’s ridiculous hyperbole, and maybe it is, but Californians believe it and will not be talked out of it. Hence peaceful coexistence is, for them, possible only on their terms.
The Golden State is no longer down with living and letting live but must impose its will, against the express wishes of others, in fundamentally transformative ways. There’s a word for that.
But Michael Anton can't see how this is just like Lincoln in the North imposing his will on the South in 1861. A Lincoln worshiper in denial.
California is nothing if not Lincolnesque.
Claremont Review of Books, here.
FBI had at least a dozen "informants" involved prodding along the Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot
But as it was revealed that the FBI had at least a dozen informants heavily involved in the Watchmen — including that Iraq veteran — critics say the G-Men did as much to prod the plot as they did to prevent it from happening in the first place.
The agents took an active part in the scheme from its inception, according to court filings, evidence and dozens of interviews examined by BuzzFeed. Some members of the Wolverine Watchmen are accusing the feds of entrapment. ...
Since the 9/11 attacks, the FBI has reportedly recruited thousands of informants. Some, according to a recent investigation in The New York Times that centered on the dubious arrest and conviction of the so-called “Herald Square Bomber” by the use of an informant, said they were retaliated against if they refused. ...
Coulson said he and others are “very upset” the FBI hasn’t arrested anti-government and anti-fascist protesters who have been leading violent demonstrations in Portland and Seattle for more than a year — yet are bearing down so hard on those arrested for the insurrection at the Capitol.
Read it all here.
Looks more and more like a replay of the FBI's Michigan Hutaree Militia fiasco from 2010.
"Insurrectionists" were on the FBI payroll
The so-called “Proud Boys,” often
cited as a “far-Right” organization and said to be somehow responsible
for January 6, was led by one Enrique Tarrio, an FBI informant. The
so-called Oath Keepers, the group most cited and said by government
sources to be most involved in that day’s events, is led by one Stewart
Rhodes, another FBI asset.
In fact, the Justice Department lists some 15 participants in the event against whom it brings no charges, either for “insurrection” or even for trespassing, because these individuals are paid infiltrators. They work for the FBI or other U.S. intelligence agencies. The U.S. government refuses to expose what these persons did because they did it on the government’s behalf.
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The FBI never changes. Its sting operations are legion, without which it would have no successes. It should be abolished.
Saturday, July 24, 2021
Peak vaccination against COVID-19 in mid-April coincided with surges in testing positivity, cases, and hospitalizations in Michigan and nationally
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| Michigan testing positivity peaked 4/9/21 |
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| Michigan second wave cases peaked 4/13/21 |
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| Michigan C19 hospitalizations peaked 4/17/21 |
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| Michigan vaccinations peaked 4/11/21 |
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| Nationally there was a case spike peaking 4/13/21 |
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| Peak vaccination nationally occurred on . . . 4/13/21 ! |
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| Testing was low but had popped to 5.2% nationally on 4/13 |
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| And hospitalizations nationally briefly stopped months of progress by 4/20 |
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