But boosters dramatically increase protection against infection, which can help reduce the spread of the virus.
Gibraltar, 100% vaccinated with Pfizer since the spring, did not escape the summer outbreak.
And with 35% already given the booster from early October, they are having an even bigger outbreak now.
Three jabs, but the virus still spreads.
The insanity is remarkable.
100% of Gibraltar's ~40k residents were fully vaccinated by May 1, but infections took off again starting around Jul 1, as in many places invaded by the India variant.
The current, larger outbreak than in July coincides almost exactly with the commencement of its booster shot program after Oct 10. Over 14k booster doses have been administered so far.
95% of Gibraltar's 98 deaths to date had occurred already by mid-March, lending support to the idea that vaccination prevents bad outcomes, if not infection and spread.
Gibraltar is using Pfizer.
So-called Democrat moderates in the House voted for it anyway, 220-213, undermining Republican claims their votes could be peeled away once the infrastructure bill had been passed separately.
Between the $250 billion cost of the infrastructure bill and the $367 billion cost of the Build Back Better bill, the optimistic CBO estimated combined ten year costs will dig a $617 billion hole in addition to the $6.8 TRILLION in fiscal year deficits for 2020 and 2021 spent since the onset of the pandemic to alleviate it.
The pandemic spending orgy, which was bipartisan, makes this all seem like a kerfuffle about relatively little.
Already pared back from $3.5 trillion or more in spending, the BBB faces an uncertain future in the Senate. The wild spending dreams of progressives may have been dashed, but anyone who pretends any of this makes any sense is crazy.
The country is currently holding at $28.9 TRILLION in debt, and is set to explode higher pending the raising of the debt ceiling.
From the story:
The final outcome wasn't much in doubt after centrist Democrats' deficit concerns largely melted away.
The vote came hours after the Congressional Budget Office issued its official cost estimate of the sweeping legislation, which moderate Democrats eagerly awaited to ease their concerns over the fiscal impact. The Biden administration and Democratic backers of the bill have insisted it would pay for itself and not add to federal deficits.
The nonpartisan CBO, the official scorekeeper, offered a cost estimate with a little wiggle room. It said the measure would increase deficits by $367 billion over 10 years — but that doesn't count additional revenue that could come from increased IRS tax enforcement.
How much new revenue that effort would yield has been hotly debated. The White House has said increased enforcement, aided by an additional $80 billion in IRS funding, would produce $480 billion in new revenue over a decade. The CBO took a more cautious view, saying the effort might produce $207 billion.
Can't make it up.
I guess those wildfires weren't exactly wild.
This guy is the exception to the rule that those who can, do, and those who can't, teach.
More condolences to Eric Topol, who thinks this can't possibly happen without vaccinating 90-95% of the population.
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... starting Feb. 1, the country will also make vaccinations mandatory.
Philadelphia — Federal health authorities on Wednesday
confirmed the discovery of some frozen vials labeled "Smallpox" in a
freezer at a facility in Pennsylvania that conducts vaccine research. ...
The CDC would not confirm where in Pennsylvania the vials were found. ...
There are two sites designated by the World Health Organization where stocks of variola virus are stored and used for research: the CDC facility in Atlanta and a center in Russia. ...
In July 2014, officials said a government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a Bethesda, Maryland, research center found six decades-old glass vials containing freeze-dried smallpox samples packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box. Officials called it the first discovery of unaccounted-for smallpox in the country.
The insanity of this ought to be plain.
A jab every 6 months means 145 shots throughout an average lifespan of 78 years.
And have fun at Thanksgiving thinking your vaccinations through May still protect you and your loved ones this November.
You might as well be Nick Chevotarevich.
The ratio of Pfizer to Moderna administered in Canada is currently 3.5:1.
Canada disproves Eric Topol's alarms about Delta. He calls Delta so formidable and hyper-contagious that 90-95% vaccine coverage is required.
At a level far less than that, however, Delta came, and more importantly went, in Canada, as if the vaccines made not the slightest bit of difference.
Virus gonna virus.
But Eric Topol doesn't want to talk about that, because it doesn't fit the narrative.
He'd rather talk about Japan, which made "full return to baseline after their worst outbreak, by the combination of high level of vaccination and the continued use of masks and mitigation measures."
How did India do it, Eric?
In The Grauniad:
Noteworthy is Belgium with 74% fully vaccinated and one of the hardest-hit countries in the world, now at 79/100,000, currently 10th highest caseload globally. That alone tells us 74% isn’t enough, and that prior Covid (without vaccination, what some refer to as “natural immunity”) is unreliable for representing a solid immunity wall against the Delta variant. In fact, it has been projected for Delta that any country needs to achieve 90-95% of its total population fully vaccinated (or with recent Covid) in order to have population-level immunity that covers, providing relative protection, for the others.
Actually what it tells us is that the Pfizer vaccine, which is what Belgium overwhelmingly uses, does not stop the spread.
The CDC and Anthony Fauci have held since late in 2020 that the reproduction rate for COVID-19 of 2.5 means a 60% vaccination level should stop the pandemic.
The vaccines haven't done that.
The United States is 57.6% fully vaccinated to date, plus 13.9% who have survived infection to date, thus 71.5% "immune".
Yet here we are, into the sixth wave:
We have known since July 30th from the Provincetown, MA outbreak on July 4th that the vaccines do not stop the spread, but the insane powers that be continue to insist that the jab is all we need.
Since the CDC considers the basic reproduction number for this disease to be 2.5, herd immunity should have been achieved in Massachusetts at about 60% fully vaccinated/survived infection. This is why Anthony Fauci had kept insisting that getting the country to 50% would prevent a surge.
But on July 4th Massachusetts was already at 71.9% fully vaccinated/survived infection (692k total announced cases minus total announced deaths, 4.28 million fully vaccinated, population of 6.912 million).
If the vaccines work to inhibit spread, which is what people expect of a vaccine worthy of the name, Massachusetts shouldn't have had a Delta surge after July 4th AT ALL, let alone the high level of daily new cases it has experienced continuously since then.
And in the United States as a whole on July 4th, the fully vaccinated plus those who survived infection totaled 193.787 million, or 58.3% of the population of 332.4 million.
The Delta surge shouldn't have happened in the country at large either, if the vaccines work as INCESSANTLY sold to us.
They obviously do not inhibit spread, but because people commonly think that they do, the pandemic continues.
We're insane.
