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In two week time, Omicron has gone for only 1% of the new cases to now over 70% in the U.S. Crazy, unbelievable speed.

Omicron is likely the fastest spreading disease known to man. Its only competitor is measles.

However, measles has a generation time of 15 days vs less than 5 days for Omicron. This works out to the following:

60 days after 1 case:
Measles: 50,600
Omicron: 244,000,000

Models are estimating there will be 3 billion cases of Omicron in the next 2 months worldwide.

If there wasn’t a vaccine available that mutes its worse effects and if the disease was say 10% or more lethal, it probably would have marked the end of modern civilization.

Aren’t you a ray of sunshine! Looks like we’re all going to be exposed to it, give your immune system all the help it can get, even if you think its media hype. Plenty of sleep, exercise and take some zinc and Vitamin D… Oh ya Merry Christmas

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Ha! Cheer up! We do have the vaccine that prevents hospitalization and death, the FDA in the U.S. just approved a couple of effective anti viral medications(must be given early to work), and a new super broad vaccine produced by the U.S. Army was just announced that is very protective against all known COVID and SARs variants and is ready to enter Phase II human trials. My hunch is that this particular vaccine will likely be what ends the pandemic especially if it is made widely available. It appears to work so well that it changes my prediction about the pandemic not going away in our life times. So Merry Christmas! (Note: A credible report came out that properly adjusts for the various co-factors that shows fairly definitively that Omicron is about 8 to 12% milder than Delta although it will likely appear to be much milder with something like 90 to 95% of the population already having antibodies from COVID from either a vaccine or an infection or both.)

EDIT: Pretty devastating study out. Shows the COVID stays in various organs pretty much indefinitely causing systematic low grade inflammation. Translation-over the long term, COVID will age you. Successful anti-aging strategies all involve controlling systematic inflammation basically already present in modern humans. COVID will add just more insult to injury effectively shortening everyone’s lifespan. SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence throughout the human body and brain | Research Square

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Since the 44 individuals in this study all died of Covid, it is not surprising they had virus present in other areas of the body. Furthermore, the abstract stated there was a paucity of inflammation outside of the respiratory system. I don’t see this study as devastating.

No. They used a mix of patients who simply had mild COVID and those that died of COVID. It certainly confirms at a minimum that the millions that now have long COVID still have the virus tucked away. (More likely everyone who has COVID still has it similar in someway to chicken pox hiding out to become Shingles later in life.)

“We show that SARS-CoV-2 is widely distributed, even among patients who died with asymptomatic to mild COVID-19”

Mike, I think you should read these studies before posting. The results here were based on autopsies - all of the subjects in the study had died of covid.

No. For many in the study, covid was incendental.to their death as it waa mild and/or asymptomatic.
Yes they have to be dead in order to take brain tissues etc.

Why are reputable doctors saying vaccines do not work? Are they all stupid?

The evidence of our government’s alarmist decision is coming out every day.

When reputable doctors stop arguing about this, then I’ll consider the vaccine. NOBODY knows the long-term effects. Nobody. If a person wants to take the vaccine, that’s fine by me - but why the need to force it on others? It doesn’t stop the spread (see the reason above), and it doesn’t stop the transmission. Screw up the rest of my God-given immune system based on a hope? Nah. Easy decision.

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Mike, You may benefit from looking at more than one side of what is actually being discussed globally.
Sharyl Attkisson mentioned numerous concerns about adverse effects of Covid-19 Vaccines. Adverse events are little different from those who have recovered from any variants of this virus, or just the vaccine. You seem to want to single out only the most sensational one sided “official version”. Did you review any of the material in the links already presented? It is the spiked proteins attaching and attacking all organs regardless whether they come from a vaccine or a recovered patient. Yes, these spike proteins cause inflammation and an immune response, or can lay dormant for long periods of time. Independent press articles are hard to locate, but here is one that has been widely reiterated in various platforms, and of course is labeled as misinformation and censored in this country as you repeat what the MSM, FDA and CDC hide behind as a lack of data. The data is there in the VAERS reporting, which is only a partial data set. These views aren’t necessarily mine, but they should be given exposure and consideration before only following a singular thesis and blindly setting health policies. There is more than one viewpoint that needs evaluation. I thank you for bringing yours so fervently to this forum.

I wish everyone a very peaceful and safe Christmas that extends throughout the coming New Year!
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US FDA’s sins of omission allegedly lead to massive COVID-19 vaccine death toll

By Jan Raphael

12 September 2021

Allegations have been made that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has deliberately misled America and the world over the purported safety of the COVID-19 vaccines being currently rolled out at breakneck speed.

America’s health watchdog allegedly knew about the dozens of potentially deadly adverse side effects of the vaccines but kept mum.

Worse, they are now trying to fast-track COVID-19 boosters as they find the original vaccines are not working to prevent people from catching and spreading the COVID-19 virus.

And the FDA appears to be playing a game with their recent green light to a Pfizer vaccine – sending a message that their “approval of a vaccine may now instill additional confidence to get vaccinated,” as their staff reportedly squabble over dangers and efficacy behind closed doors.

CENSORED NARRATIVE

The true horror of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is being revealed by doctors, researchers and lawyers aware of the alleged fraud – not by the media, which continues to hype up the fear around the virus and what they say is the need for masking, social distancing and lockdowns, attempting - with success - to funnel people towards taking the vaccine.

Largely hidden from view by governments and the media, hundreds of thousands of people have been suffering and many dying from the COVID-19 vaccines – a casualty rate tallied on adverse reporting systems publicly available for all to see if they know where to look.

And if a prime culprit is to be identified, it is the America’s FDA that allegedly through the sin of omission – failing to expose the adverse effects that they knew about back in October 2020 - gave the green light in December 2020 to the emergency use of vaccines that are potential killers.

NO EMERGENCY?

According to critics, the whole COVID-19 pandemic response has been fraudulently handled by governments around the world, the pandemic based on a faulty PCR Test that is misused and typically comes up with 90 percent false positives, and the fearful stage-managed restrictions based on a virus which – while dangerous to some - has a 99.5 percent survival rate.

The public have been misled. With adequate virus treatment protocols available, there is no “emergency” and no need for a vaccine – particularly a vaccine that does not work and has the potential to kill people in large numbers.

The FDA’s alleged culpability and the horrific predicament they have put vaccine recipients in is now coming back to haunt them as they struggling to explain and gloss over their role.

FDA KNEW THE DANGERS IN 2020

Just how America’s health watchdog found itself in hot water can best be analyzed by focusing on three main developments as they sought to fast-track the COVID-19 vaccines to the American public and send a message about what they claimed were the “safety” and “efficacy” of these shots.

October 22, 2020 should go downs in the annals of history as the day the FDA discussed and then moved to cover up arguably “the biggest health threat to the American public in modern-day history” – its repercussions rattling around the world given how the USA has haphazardly led the charge in tackling the pandemic.

When it comes to playing with people’s lives, the leaked video of an internal FDA meeting in October 2020 on the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines – a recording how available to the public - is chilling viewing.

At the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) Meeting, Steve Anderson, PhD, MPP Director, Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) gave a presentation on CBER “Plans for Monitoring COVID-19 Vaccine Safety and Effectiveness”.

His presentation on this Zoom video call included Slide 16 (see image), about COVID-19 vaccine adverse event outcomes - injuries and deaths - which the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would be specifically monitoring. But he did not show the slide to VRBPAC, or the viewing public. He clicked right by it.

OVER 100 ADVERSE EFFECTS

Dr Bryan Ardis takes issue with this, as do a growing number of health professionals and lawyers doing their own research into how governments and medical authorities have been misleading the public about the nature of the pandemic, the testing and counting of cases, and the potential dangers of the vaccines.

“In this presentation on slide number 16 the FDA listed 110 possible diseases and neurological conditions and deaths, listed as expected side effects from the vaccines. These (were) expected to be reported when COVID-19 vaccines (became) available in December 2020. This FDA report was published in October two months before the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) was published by the FDA (in December), which includes none of the Serious Listed Side Effects listed in their internal report in October,” Dr Ardis says.

Dr Ardis, an American doctor and head of Ardis Labs, has spent over a year researching the pandemic and its treatment, initially sparked by anomalies he saw in the medical treatment of his father-in-law who he alleges died from an inappropriate medical protocol.

Slide 16 shows the predicted 110 adverse effects (including subsects of disease) include Guillain-Barre syndrome, Myocarditis, Autoimmune disease and death that some recipients of the vaccines could expect from taking the vaccines the FDA was set to approve under emergency use.

As Dr Ardis points out, this list includes a new disease never seen before – Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, or MIS-C. This can attack the main organs of children.
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Vaccines typically take five to 15 years to test and develop for safety and efficacy but the vaccines under discussion by the FDA were only months in development – and could only get the green light for use if they could block the promotion of any other effective COVID-19 treatments.

Examination of the leaked video of this meeting in October shows the chairperson of the meeting deliberately cutting panelists short and forcing them to move on – notably when slide 16, the adverse effects slide, was shown. Although some panelists appeared to try to raise safety concerns, the chairperson cut them short.

Despite the long list of possible adverse effects detailed in this presentation, none of them were disclosed by the FDA when they gave the green light to the vaccine programme in December 2020.

“Why would they exclude these expected horrible side effects in December, that they knew were to be expected in the October report?” Dr Ardis asks.

NUMBERS TICK UP ON VAERS

During the October 2020 internal FDA presentation, Dr Anderson said these side effect choices were not random. He explained they were based on evidence from the clinical trial data and from known science on the vaccine platform and components.

What is clear now, nearly one year later, is the exact same adverse side effects are publicly showing up on the reporting systems that indicate the extent of the adverse effects of vaccines.

The Voluntary Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS) in the United States now shows that over a million people have suffered adverse effects and 14,000 people have died from the COVID-19 vaccines as of August 2021.

But, as Dr Ardis and many other health professionals point out, this VAERS tally is just the tip of the iceberg.

VAERS is a voluntary reporting system that is hard to use and is often skipped over by doctors – in part due to their heavy workload and a possible reluctance to admit they administered a vaccination that had a negative effect, according to Dr Ardis. Members of the public can use the system but, again, it is hard to use.

What this means is there is a massive underreporting of adverse effects from vaccines.

According to a study in 2010 by MIT, it is estimated that less than one percent of the adverse effects of vaccines are recorded in the voluntary reporting systems.

With this in mind, a cursory glance at the VAERS figures should prompt serious alarm.

Health professionals, lawyers, researchers and journalists are raising concerns about the potential dangers of the COVID-19 vaccines given the large numbers coming in.

Ohio attorney Thomas Rens has joined other lawyers and doctors in filing a lawsuit against the US federal government for covering up the true number of deaths from the COVID-19 vaccines. According

to Rens, a whistle-blower – referred to as Jane Doe – who is an insider and has seen information on VAERS allegedly passed on the numbers and relevant information to him. At an event hosted by Awaken America, Renz said: “We have someone that has sworn under penalty of perjury that there have been at least 45,000 deaths.”

And these deaths reportedly happened within four days of receiving the shot.

This is just one of thousands of legal challenges being made around the world concerning the alleged dangers posed by the COVID-19 vaccines still in trial.

Dr. Michael Yeadon former VP and chief science officer for Pfizer has testified countless times about the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccines and the irresponsibility of its emergency use authorization. He is angry at the collapse of medical ethics that permitted the dangerous experimental “vaccine” to be administered to two billion people so far.

As Dr Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA vaccines, points out, the COVID-19 vaccines are not vaccines. They are, as the manufacturers admit, gene therapy. They do not prevent a person from catching COVID-19 or passing it on.

Rather, they could be a vaccinologist’s worst nightmare, a vaccine that comes with the risk of antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), Dr Malone says. These therapies may actually increase the ability of a virus to enter cells and cause a worsening of disease through the mechanism of ADE.

In simple terms, COVID-19 vaccine recipients may be setting themselves up for their bodies to overreact to viruses and pathogens, causing serious damage to their body and possible death.

FDA GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO PFIZER

The second major worry with the behavior of the FDA concerns their latest messaging on the alleged safety of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Last month, the FDA publicly approved the use of the Pfizer vaccine, a move that would appear to indicate their COVID-19 vaccine is off the “emergency use” list and now safe to use.

As the FDA said in their 23 August press release, the vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals.

“The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. While this and other vaccines have met the FDA’s rigorous, scientific standards for emergency use authorization, as the first FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine, the public can be very confident that this vaccine meets the high standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality the FDA requires of an approved product,” said Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, M.D. “While millions of people have already safely received COVID-19 vaccines, we recognize that for some, the FDA approval of a vaccine may now instill additional confidence to get vaccinated. Today’s milestone puts us one step closer to altering the course of this pandemic in the US.”

As the FDA notes, since 11 December 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine has been available under EUA in individuals 16 years of age and older, and the authorization was expanded to include those 12 through 15 years of age on May 10, 2021. EUAs can be used by the FDA during public health emergencies to provide access to medical products that may be effective in preventing, diagnosing, or treating a disease, provided that the FDA determines that the known and potential benefits of a product, when used to prevent, diagnose, or treat the disease, outweigh the known and potential risks of the product.

BAIT & SWITCH?

The message from the FDA appears to indicate that the Pfizer vaccine is safe. Comirnaty has been given the green light, but this is new product and stocks are not yet available. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is available – but it is still under emergency use.

Just how this process in the FDA was worked out under the acting commissioner is unclear, but two top FDA vaccine regulators resigned — a decision that one former official said was rooted in anger over the agency’s lack of autonomy in the booster planning so far. A current health official said the pair, Marion Gruber and Philip Krause, left over differences with FDA’s top vaccine official Peter Marks. Now the agency is facing a potential mutiny among its staff and outside vaccine advisers, several of whom feel cut out of key decisions and who view the plan to offer boosters to all adults as premature and unnecessary, according to news reports.

The FDA appears to be backing itself into a corner as more evidence of their wrongdoing is revealed. The approval of a vaccine – as against the opaqueness provided by “emergency use” - means they have to outline both what is in the vaccine and the potential adverse effects.

It is unclear whether full transparency will be provided.

NOW BOOSTERS

As the official COVID-19 narrative continues to collapse and more information on the fraud is revealed, the FDA and the medical authorities are now pushing for vaccine boosters – compounding the original problem surrounding the alleged dangers of the vaccines.

As researchers have pointed out, during this COVID-19 crisis, both America’s FDA and CDC have made decisions that have not been in the best interests of the population or individuals. They have approved investigational products without sufficient safety or efficacy data, and they have actively censored or ignored existing treatments and natural immunity. They are actively partnering with the COVID-19 vaccine makers. And they are pushing back against medical products and treatments that help cure COVID-19.

Researchers claim that ever since the 1986 National Vaccine Injury Act passed in the USA, removing from vaccine makers liability for injury or death for products recommended to children and pregnant women, the CDC has been in charge of vaccine safety and utterly failed in their duties. Biological studies are almost non-existent. The CDC prefers to use weaker epidemiological studies that are easily manipulated to desired outcome, to try to claim reported events are not associated.

The FDA and CDC have clearly failed in their duty to protect the public and their handling of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is leading to a barrage of legal challenges.

Fortunately, during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers around the world have been awakened to the capture and corruption of public health agencies and they are beginning to do their own, independent studies. They are starting their own journals that have no ties to governments or the drug industry.

A revolution is beginning within the ranks of doctors and scientists who believe in honest and ethical science and medicine.

This may be encouraging. But it may be too late for the millions lured by the false promises of safety and efficacy of the vaccines by the FDA. Only time will tell how these recipients will fare.

As Dr Joel S. Hirschhorn, author of Pandemic Blunder, put it: “The FDA is leading the way for many thousands of Americans and other people worldwide to suffer and die from the Pfizer vaccine and its competitors that will also surely get approved. Many will die from ‘breakthrough infections’ after taking these vaccines.”

Jan Raphael is the pseudonym of a writer who covers Asian and world affairs.

The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of Mizzima Media.

(https://mizzima.com)

And if I’ve seen articles like the below once I’ve seen it a thousand times:

(1) Vaccines causing all the heart/vascular problems and deaths.
(2) Hospitals firing all the unvaccinated nurses, thereby reducing capacity.
(3) Unvaccinated patients being branded up front and discriminated against by hospitals.
(4) ICUs full of the heart problems caused by the vaccines, not Covid cases.

All very consistent - and to be expected in my opinion.

How long will this cr@pola continue?

“Why are reputable doctors saying vaccines do not work? Are they all stupid?”

I would say they should have their license to treat revoked except we need their help to treat all the unvaccinated that currently have filled up all the hospitals.

Dr. Robert Malone - co-inventor of the mRNA vaccines?

Dr. Pierre Kory - founder/leader of FLCCC?

Dr. Ryan Cole?

Dr. Peter McCullough?

All those doctors who signed the Barrington Accord?

Why so threatened by their mere words?

THE REAL REASON: Nobody on your side can effectively counter what they say - and your ONLY response is to try and shut them up with whatever threat you can conjure up. You do know it can work both ways, right? I don’t agree with everything Alan Dershowitz has to say, but at least he understands “the shoe on the other foot” rationale. You might want to open your mind and be receptive. The bad deeds people on your side? I’m thinking people will not forget.

What exactly are you trying to say? Do you advocate that we don’t get vaccinated, throw away our masks and just roll over and die? Or like the more than 50% of those that get COVID, suffer from brain damage(aka long COVID) and bad health possibly for the rest of their lives? Think a zinc pill and dewormer is better option or how about the malaria drug? Is that what you are saying?

In an atmosphere where NOBODY can even pretend to know the long-term effects of the vaccines, I advocate for FREEDOM to choose and against discrimination. And the mere fact that you STILL refer to IVM as “dewormer” exposes your willful ignorance and/or your political bent on the issues. Very reputable doctors (see above) advocate for prophylactics which studies across more than 30 countries have shown work, and you criticize lay people for wanting to believe them against the back-drop of a federal government which has admittedly LIED to us on multiple occasions (“noble” lies, reverse transcription process, no money given to Chinese/University of NC gain of function research, etc.) and vaccines which have caused more DEATHS in the last year than all vaccines put together have caused in 30+ years. Not a good look on you. I think you’re smarter than that. I certainly hope the US Supreme Court is.

I guess I didn’t make myself clear on this. Natural immunity is at least, or more effective than any vaccine. It makes no difference regarding long Covid whether the adverse effects arose from the spiked proteins in the vaccine, the fully vaccinated recovered reinfected patient, or those who never took the vaccine and recovered. These patients all have a built up immunity that should result in increasingly mild symptoms if reinfected. Vaccines are an important initial part of the solution for the most vulnerable in the population which does not include most children, but definitely not the only solution. Vaccination does more harm to the health and economy if broadly mandated to the population. The greater harm evidenced by overreaching “recommendations” and mandates may not be reversible.

Children have a strong native immunity to Covid viruses in general (read - seasonal colds). Unless directed by a physician because of chronic conditions, children have as much of an additional risk from the vaccine, as from an asymptomatic, or symptomatic recovery from variants of the virus. Adverse effects to unvaccinated and recovered children from the virus are extremely rare. Benefit vs risk of harm should be carefully weighed and left up to each child’s personal physician.

Regarding omicron, it has been circulating in various animal reservoirs for more than a year which accounts for the large number of spiked protein mutations across species. The mere fact that there are not large populations of animals dropping dead around the world may be a good sign. This variant does not warrant the widespread fear that was the initial knee jerk response by many governments.

For children and adults alike, early use of therapeutics may be all that is needed to minimize severity of Covid, including omicron. The pandemic is behaving very much like an endemic with many milder cases and fewer deaths. Reports (see VAERS and anecdotal accounts) show there is a definite risk associated with vaccines in a small segment of the administered population. Long term effects of the vaccines are likely to be unknown for years, but may be similar to the effects of the disease itself expressing as a multitude of adverse effects from the Capillary Leak Syndrome. Zinc works as a strong anti-viral only when present inside the cytoplasm of a cell. If zinc is administered early on before a virus can exponentially replicates, it is not in a form permeable to crossing through the cell membrane. Arresting a full blown viral infection is difficult. Absent a strong response from the immune system, or in the absence of an effective therapeutic, there is an overload of virus replication in lung tissue. The immune system’s overreaction is often exhibited as a cytokine storm. The spiked protein when attached to other organs may result in an immune system response exhibited as inflammation, i.e. “long-covid” that is also largely reported anecdotally and under investigation.

The problem with zinc is that it does not transport easily through the cell wall without help. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Ivermectin do nothing to inhibit viral replication, but in the presence of zinc, they act as ionosphores and carry the zinc ion through the cell membrane where it can stop the replication of the virus and prevent a cytokine storm. Early treatment is essential. In severely impacted patients with a high viral load and and a strong immune system response ,exhibited as a cytokine storm, monoclonal antibodies are much more effective. Remdesvir, commonly used to treat hospitalized patients often results in kidney failure and death of the patient. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), such as casirivimab, imdevimab, and sotrovimab have been shown to be highly effective treatments as an adjunct to both vaccinated and unvaccinated patients. They have recent EUA status by the FDA under certain conditions, such as Regeneron’s antibody treatment approval for post exposure prophylaxis.

This is exactly why mandating extreme vaccination measures at this point in the US is senseless, especially when ignoring individual contraindications due to existing medical conditions. The decision to vaccinate or not should only be after informed consent, as advised by a patient’s personal physician. No one should be losing their job over not revealing vaccination status.

Exactly right, Easy. Intellectual curiosity is a good thing.

And allow me to add what I believe are ADDITIONAL reasons the vaccines do NOT work:

"Vaccines that are injected into the muscle – i.e., the interior of the body – will only induce IgG and circulating IgA, not secretory IgA."

This is from the article posted by me 3 days ago above - and is the conclusion of the German doctors who did the autopsies. U.S. government bureaucrat doctors who have admittedly LIED to us before, and we’re supposed to just ignore all this evidence? To approve the vaccine, Fauci et all RELIED upon foreign data - but NOW we’re supposed to discount THIS data because it comes from Germany?

People who disagree with the current government-ordered death march are NOT stupid - they have very good medial/scientific back-up for their reasoning, not to mention anecdotal evidence from UK undertakers (who are not regulated by local government and can speak up).

If my side of this turns out to be wrong, I will HAPPILY admit it and swallow my pride, as there is NO ego in it for me. I’m just looking to keep my family members (including a 13 year-old daughter) alive. Don’t worry, I will not shut down the intelligent and well-meaning thoughts/opinions of others, and in fact welcome the opportunity to address/refute them - or maybe even learn that I have been wrong all along. I wish this thought process was coming from the other side - but it ain’t. That bothers me - and should bother everybody else.

Public awareness is starting to change when MSM turns negative on the overreach of bureucrats. Jan Crawford criticizes coronavirus restrictions and their effects on children while appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Dec. 26, 2021.
Here some what she said on face the nation …

“I mean school closures, lockdowns, cancellation of sports. You couldn’t even go on a playground in the D.C. area without cops shooing the kids off,” she said. “Tremendous negative impact on kids, and it’s been an afterthought. It’s hurt their dreams, their future, learning loss, risk of abuse, their mental health.”
(Full transcript of "Face the Nation" on December 26, 2021 - CBS News)

Overreaching Federal policies are failing to end this Pandemic/endemic. Solutions are already coming from individual states as the endemic is winding down by becoming less lethal, even as transmission is increasing. The number of cases will become increasingly less important except as focused on and supported by bureaucratic policy makers. " With an R0 of 5.7, at least 82 percent of the population needs to be immune to COVID-19 to stop its transmission through vaccination and herd immunity." (see Healthline link) We are already there with the vaccines and natural immunity from unvaccinated and recovered individuals. I couldn’t find a valid citation for R0 of the “common cold,” but Wikipedia lists 2-3 (medical citation needed). What IF customary precautions for reducing the spread of common colds and influenza in the schools is all that is needed for protecting children? This age group already has an amazingly strong immune system and easily recovers without long lasting effects from these types of illnesses. Wouldn’t it be great if that is all that is needed, along with antiviral therapeutics to lessen the severity of infections/reinfections in adults too?

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Well, no one needs to look for Jan Crawford’s comments anymore, it has conveniently “disappeared”. Crawford is CBS News’ chief legal correspondent and contributes regularly to the “CBS Evening News,” “CBS This Morning,” and “Face the Nation,” as well as CBS News Radio and CBS News.com. I wonder how often she will continue to appear on CBS? I don’t think her comments were BS and should have been retained. Here’s the transcript of her comments as written up and reported before being removed:

CBS News correspondent blasts ‘crushing’ COVID policies on kids: ‘They have suffered and sacrificed the most’
Jan Crawford blamed the policies for mental health issues, increased suicide rates

CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford pulled no punches Sunday when it came to how restrictive coronavirus measures had negatively impacted the lives of children around the country.

During an appearance on “Face the Nation,” Crawford blasted the “crushing” policies, blaming them for a number of problems affecting children today, including the ongoing mental health crisis, an increase in suicide rates and learning loss due to school closures.

“My kids hear me rant about this everyday, so I may as well tell you guys. It’s the crushing impact that our COVID policies have had on young kids and children, by far the least serious risk for serious illness,” Crawford said after host Margaret Brennan asked what she thought was the most underreported news story throughout 2021.

She noted that healthy teenagers have “a one-in-a-million chance” of catching and dying from the coronavirus and added that they have a greater chance of dying in a car accident.

“They have suffered and sacrificed the most, especially kids in underrepresented, at-risk communities. And now we have the surgeon general saying there’s a mental health crisis among our kids,” Crawford said. “The risk of suicide attempts among girls now up 51% this year. Black kids nearly twice as likely as White kids to die by suicide.”

“I mean school closures, lockdowns, cancellation of sports. You couldn’t even go on a playground in the D.C. area without cops shooing the kids off,” she said. “Tremendous negative impact on kids, and it’s been an afterthought. It’s hurt their dreams, their future, learning loss, risk of abuse, their mental health.”

Crawford added that, considering knowledge about vaccines, if policies didn’t reflect “a more measured and reasonable approach” for children, then they would be paying for her generation’s decisions for the rest of their lives.

Crawford’s view on restrictions appeared to run in stark contrast to other media figures who have heralded lockdowns as a positive path that should continue amid the rise of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

I think all views should be “heard” and that people are intelligent enough to not have decisions made for them by agenda driven bureaucrats. Having only one side of an argument IS MISINFORMATION!

The facts are coming out, and the plaintiff attorneys are sharpening their teeth. Not gonna be good for many in the medical profession (and medical administration) - total loss of credibility. You thought lawyers were bad? At least lawyers aren’t killing people. See the following review of many of the issues, from durable healthcare POAs to the failed Remdesivir being on the treatment protocol (STILL) to the various financial incentives for patients to DIE of Covid in hospitals:

https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/hospital-death-camps-exposed/article_97776276-674f-11ec-85d0-f33f634331c8.html

An inconvenient truth that you brush aside is the bodies of the unvaccinated continue to pile up. As mentioned before, go to a creamatorium and see for yourself. I’ve been there and spoke with the guy who loads the bodies into the retort. (Side note…this guy got covid which was bad enough that it forced him to retire a short time later.)

What about the millions who have long COVID? Do you know how devastating that is? If you don’t have at least several friends with this condition you must not get out much.

You do realize that COVID is devastating countries all over the globe right? You seem to be suggesting that the greatest conspiracy ever X 10 is ongoing fooling all but the wisest who can see through all that big pharmacy malarkey? Call me stupid but I plan on continuing to get vaccinated and wear my N95 mask and suffer under all the massive inconvenience that inflicts on me.(hint…I’m being sarcastic…saying that it is inconvenient is a stretch especially considering it protects me from a horrible covid death or brain damage)

One final remark. Do you actually believe the nonsense you are posting or are you just saying it to show that you oppose the politics of the other party?

Edit: The latest Barrington Preprint is out explaining how SARS-COV-2 turns into Rhinovirus over night…what a hoot.

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