California Encourages Families to Vaccinate 12 to 15 Year Olds Against COVID-19

Covid-19 vaccinePress release from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH):

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) today released the latest “On the Record” ethnic media column, in which California State Epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan encourages California families to vaccinate their 12 to 15-year-olds against COVID-19 – an age group comprising about 2.1 million Californians. Protecting adolescents with vaccinations will help move the state closer to ending the pandemic and ease its toll on their mental health and social-emotional wellbeing.

 

“The past year has been hard on all of us, but especially difficult for our teens who have had to put their lives on hold. Now that eligibility has expanded, we can confidently give our kids a shot at being kids again with the comfort of knowing they are protected from COVID-19,” wrote Dr. Pan in the column. “When more Californians become vaccinated, we can feel safer as restrictions are lifted and life begins to return to a sense of normalcy. When 12 to 15-year-olds are vaccinated, families can be safer as they venture out more, go on vacations and get back to doing the things they love.”

 

The latest column is attached.

 

California expanded eligibility for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to 12 to 15-year-olds last month after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) vaccine safety review panel and the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup recommended that the vaccine is safe and effective in protecting this age group against severe illness, hospitalization and death. In the weeks since the eligibility expansion, approximately 27.5 percent of 12 to 15-year-olds have received at least one dose.

 

In the column, Dr. Pan addresses potential questions and concerns teens and their parents or guardians may have about the vaccine. Dr. Pan explains that clinical trials have proven the vaccine to be safe and effective for youth in this age group, and that the technology used to make the vaccine has been developed over the last 20 years. Vaccinated individuals may experience mild side effects such as a sore arm, fever or fatigue.

 

A parent of two eligible adolescents, Dr. Pan discusses the stress and isolation youth have experienced due to the pandemic, and how getting vaccinated is a critical step to getting back to our normal lives, including more opportunities to safely spend time with friends and family.

 

Dr. Pan also highlights the state’s new $116.5 million Vax for the Win incentive program, in which all Californians who have had at least one COVID-19 dose – including youth – are eligible to receive $50 prepaid or grocery cards and are entered into randomized cash prize drawings. A total of 30 winners will receive $50,000, and on June 15, 10 will win $1.5 million as the state fully reopens. $750,000 has already been awarded in the first round of cash prize drawings last week, and the next 15 winners will be selected this Friday.

 

Dr. Pan underscores the state’s work to ensure equitable access to the vaccine, including partnerships with local health departments, community-based organizations and school districts to reach underserved youth in foster care or those experiencing homelessness, as well as efforts to improve access in rural communities through mobile clinics, free transportation and more. Vaccines are free, regardless of immigration status and those who don’t have health insurance.

 

To promote easy access, the Administration established a portal where schools and other community sites can request support to set up mobile and pop-up clinics. Schools – especially larger districts – can also become providers by following the steps outlined here and in a school-specific recorded webinar. For resources to support outreach, schools and other community organizations can access the messaging toolkit.

 

Parents, legal guardians or emancipated young people can check vaccine availability and book an appointment at MyTurn.ca.gov or by calling California’s COVID-19 Hotline at 1-833-422-4255. They can also contact their family doctor, local community health clinic or public health office for more information.

 

More information on the Vax for the Win program can be found here. If you encounter a possible vaccine incentive scam, please email [email protected] or call the Vax for the Win incentives hotline at 1-833-993-3

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Guest
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Guest
2 years ago

Must have reached the 2 million first dose mark already?
Must be close?
How many $50.00 incentives are left?
Any?
How many?
What is the projected end date?

If they are still using this as an incentive, and it’s already over, that would be very wrong.

It should be well advertised when the $50.00 incentive is no longer available.

It could easily be over already.

It wouldn’t surprise me, at all.

They announced it on May 27,
two weeks ago.

When will it be over?

Asking for a friend.

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

I’m not sure when it’s over guest, but I could use that fifty bucks to buy half a tank of gas for my 40 year old truck.
Sweet deal Uncle Sam.

Conversely, I still intuit it’s important for most people stay home and out of sight for at least the rest of their lives, considering the potential for Covid variants and recidivism.

Better safe than sorry👍🏿

4Trinity
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4Trinity
2 years ago

Since they are sooo much at risk. 🙄

Was this age group even used in earlier phases of these ongoing trials?

Sure looks like there could be an effect on reproductive organs.

But the eugenicist creators wouldn’t want that now, would they?

Mike
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Mike
2 years ago
Reply to  4Trinity

Progressives are oddly ok with effects on children’s reproductive organs. That might actually count as a win for them.

Reader
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Reader
2 years ago
Reply to  Mike

You get it. Considering the very real scientific concerns about spike proteins gathering in the ovaries, having your teenage daughter take this is criminal.

Bushytails
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Bushytails
2 years ago
Reply to  Reader

Know what else has spike proteins, and more of them?

Reader
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Reader
2 years ago
Reply to  Bushytails

The “virus” that any normal 12-15 year old’s immune system can fight off without breaking a sweat? It also doesn’t generate a huge concentrated spike protein dump, which is what the mrna vax does.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
2 years ago
Reply to  Bushytails

“More of them” again Bushy?

How do you know that?

And again, do you know what the jab is supposed to do?

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Reader

I agree, let the child become an adult first, and then let the individual decide on their own.

It violates the Hippocratic Oath.
It’s medical malpractice.

Tim
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Tim
2 years ago
Reply to  4Trinity
Reader
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Reader
2 years ago
Reply to  Tim

I’m sure you also scoffed at the people who said this was an engineered virus for the past year, because authority links like that one told you to. All despite the basis for the virus being engineered being rooted in all of the same stuff that is now being broadcast on acceptable mainstream sources.

In short, you’re over a year behind. Last year, that was inconvenient but this year, that’s dangerous. Make choices for yourself, but giving a questionable and experimental and completely unnecessary treatment to a child under your care is a clear failure to protect them and from the perspective of many people, outright abuse.

Tim
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Tim
2 years ago
Reply to  Reader

To be clear, there is as yet no evidence that the COVID-19 virus engineered in Wuhan or elsewhere. There is circumstantial evidence that the corona virus being studied may have leaked inadvertently from the lab but there’s no clear evidence that it did. This story keeps re-emerging because of the lack of transparency from China. But to say it *could* have come from a lab is not the same thing as saying it was engineered. The virus itself shows no clear evidence of alteration from the kind of corona virus found naturally in the wild beyond the normal kinds of expected mutations.

If you refuse to protect a child from a potentially serious disease, or from being a vector to others susceptible to serious health impacts, by not getting them vaccinated by a safe, effective vaccine then you are being negligent at best.

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Tim,

C’mon man,

Think about the relative risk.

There is a very real chance that jabbing children will do more harm than good.

300 0-17 died from Covid19.
10.6 5-17yrs. per 100,000 were hospitalized, the lowest of any group.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
2 years ago
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Those numbers don’t matter, what about me? And my health, those little heathens carry germs and could give ME covid, I’m worried about ME. All that matters is ME not any possible long term side affects on a child , who cares about them. Get your child vaccinated for ME.

Tim
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Tim
2 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

You clearly do not understand the concept of herd immunity so there’s no real point in arguing about it.

There are possible long-term impacts of children getting COVID-19, often called long-COVID syndrome that is significantly higher than potential side-effects of the vaccine based on the studies that have been done thus far. And the vulnerable group are children and their related family members who are not protected by vaccines because of other conditions.

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
2 years ago
Reply to  Tim

I understand the concept of herd immunity, but I’m unclear on the efficacy of herd mentality.

Free estimates
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Free estimates
2 years ago
Reply to  Canyon oak

👍

Reader
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Reader
2 years ago
Reply to  Tim

“there is as yet no evidence that the COVID-19 virus engineered in Wuhan or elsewhere.”

You must live under a rock. There is abundant evidence of that very thing. There is evidence of it in the genome, there is evidence of it in the locality and spread, there is evidence for how it was developed, who funded it, etc etc. Real, public, first-hand evidence.

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Protect a child from becoming a vector?

The truth comes out.

That would be protecting others, by an unnecessary risk to that child.

Who are you really trying to protect?

It’s not the child’s responsibility to protect others.

The responsibility is to protect the children.

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Sorry, Tim,
That is super porous and weak logic being used in that link.

Here is an example,

Quote,

‘ “Several” subjects in the Pfizer trial who were previously infected got vaccinated without ill effects. ‘

Unquote.

Ooooh! Several! That’s weak!

Vaccinated after infection?

And why would that be?

It sure wouldn’t have shit to do with efficacy, that’s for damn sure.

Apparently they missed the Cleveland Study from 5 months before your links most recent “Update”.

Here’s another example,

Quote,

‘Fact:’

“…May this… , …May benefit… ,
…May that …”

Unquote.

Fact my ass…, May? That’s Bullshit.

I could have told you that.

I read enough of that in about 30 seconds.

You must be joking, right.

John Hopkins? That actually alarms me. Let’s hope you ain’t buying any of that.

You needed to use the facetious font.

Tim
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Tim
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

I’d wager the folks at John Hopkins know a damn sight more than you do about the virus, the vaccine, and the health implications. So yeah, I’m going to trust them over a random anonymous Internet commenter.

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Sounds very scientific.

Their your dice, roll em if you must.
Be careful rolling them if you must, especially for someone else, like a kid.

Did you read the Cleveland study?

It’s about not needing the vaccination if you’ve already recovered from Covid19.

Maybe you should consider getting a test for antibodies before consenting to the jab for you or for someone else that might not need it.

Do you know what “contraindicated” means?

“Indicated”?

Just curious.

Any medical training?

Unless you’re a paramedic, I might be equally trained.

Ever been an EMT?

The Cleveland study happened almost 6 months before the last update on the link you posted and there is no other date on the information you provided.

Is it even current info?

Are you representing it as current info?

Maybe you can tell me the date it was written, because I couldn’t find where it mentioned it.

I like current info, not old and busted.

Remember, I’m the guy that’s been saying it was a lab leak all along.

What did John’s Hopkins say about that?

Did you believe it was natural?

Do you feel any different about getting the jab based on if Covid19 is man made rather than naturally occurring?

Man made means it’s an antidote, even if it’s a pre-emergent antidote.

Why take a post exposure vaccine?

Too little, too late.

What’s the use?

Plus, there may be a greater long term benefit of natural immunity over the jab for the young.

Remember, by vaccination, you may be creating an opportunity for community passthrough adaptation, vaccine resistant mutation, and the associated risk of serial passaging.

It’s not that simple.

Tim
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Tim
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Part of science is knowing when to trust folks who are experts in their field and when to question folks who aren’t. Part of the problem with the current discussion is with self-“educated” folks who simply do not understand the fundamentals of a field of study and yet think they are experts after watching a few YouTube videos by other self-“educated” folks.

The folks at Johns Hopkins are transparent about their education and their experience. Random internet commenters? Not so much.

With a complicated topic it’s easy to pick out questions and terms taken out of context and then blowing up their importance because you don’t understand their significance — which is what you’ve been doing. Education and experience would help with that but it’s far quicker and easier to watch some videos and pretend you’re an expert.

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Tim, with all due respect, you can’t judge a book by it’s cover.

Trusting folks has absolutely nothing to do with science.

Unless it is a Gullibility Study.

Just because it’s got John’s Hopkins on the cover doesn’t mean it doesn’t contain lies,
And, it certainly doesn’t mean it’s full of Truths.

A person that knows, doesn’t necessarily need to trust anything.

A person that trusts,
doesn’t necessarily need to know anything.

I forgot to mention
another semi-definitive descriptor from your go to source for “facts” to stand by, ‘John’s Hopkin’s’,

“Appears”?

How solid is that?

“Appears”?

If it appears that way to them , then it just naturally appears that way to you?

I picked every descriptor out of their origin theory, hypothesis, assertion.
EVERY ONE.

“Appears”,
“Uncertain”,
“Invoked”,
“Implicated”,
“Potential”,
“Closely”,

And my favorites,

“Bridge”, for the,
“Jump”,

And I totally understand the significance of them, or rather the insignificance they imply.

Because any conclusion as far as a natural origin is concerned, you are going to have to jump to, and if you don’t have a problem jumping that far, the bridge is meaningless.

As far as any person’s
“conviction” that the
origin information provided by your go to, John’s Hopkin’s,
proves anything, it’s clearly baseless, and complete conjecture.

Their position is only an illusion, and they conveniently leave out the alternative explanation, that it was engineered.

They are clearly speculating, albeit narrowmindedly, or even deceptively.

Any “conviction”, based on that speculation, is
totally unmerited.

It’s not evidence.

It’s only the power of suggestion.

What they only suggest, you have been led to believe.

The proverbial water trough is now before us, the only questions remain, do we drink?

Or, are we already, full
of it?

Follow the Monet
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Follow the Monet
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Follow the Monet

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Tim,
Here is what John’s Hopkins said about the origin of SarsCov2, for what it’s worth,

Quote,

“SarsCov2 appears to be a zoonotic infection that has adapted to humans.”

“Origin is uncertain, although bats implicated as this virus most closely related by genetic analysis to bat
SARS-like coronavirus.”

“An intermediary, the scaled mammal pangolin, has also been invoked as a potential bridge for the jump to humans.”

End Quote.

Be careful of who you trust.

That doesn’t sound too solid, either.

It’s probably from the same era as your link.

I wouldn’t trust it.

That all.

Either one.

John’s Hopkins for that matter.

They sound compromised.

“Uncertain”?
“Invoked”?
“Implicated”?
“Potential”?
” Closely”?

And my favorites,

“Bridge”? for the,
“Jump”?

Yeah,
because bridges are for jumping, just like trampolines are for crossing.

How very scientific!

Emphasis on the John’s.

That’s where all that belongs.

“Bats”?
“Pangolins”?

Sounds about right.

There’s a reason it’s called a wager.🤔

I’d rather not gamble at all, less losing involved. 🤔

Remember, I’m the one who has been saying that it was a lab leak all along.

John’s Hopkins, not so much.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Speaking of Johns Hopkins:

With such hefty backing from the gates foundation, would you expect anything different? Of course they are following The Plan.

Speaking of Plan:

Weren’t they a major contributor, with the gates foundation, of Event 201?

Of course! Dot-connecting time.

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants?q=johns%20hopkins

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
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🤔Hey, where’d my other comment go?🤔

I gotta stop using proper nouns before impersonal pronouns.

It keeps getting me into trouble.

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago

So yeah, it’s me again just to be clear.

The average doses administered lately is 132,649 per day.

For the 14 days since May 27, including today, we will hit 1,857,086.

By the end of tomorrow, we will hit 1,989,735.

And 37 minutes into Friday it will have been 2,000,000.

But there is a catch.

You don’t get the $50.00 if it’s your second dose. You got Hosed!!!

It’s only for first doses.

Near as I can tell, we will hit 948,842 first dose over the last 15 days by the end of the day.

At that rate it will be over on June 27 or so.

I was sorta right, but sorta wrong.

Such is life…

There is another catch.

Unless you get a one dose jab, like the J&J, you won’t get the loot until after you get your second dose.

So much for quick gas money.

If you get the J&J, You won’t be as protected from the Delta Variant as you would be if you got the Pfizer double jab series.

Anon
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Anon
2 years ago

….” confidently ‘give our kids a shot’ (at being kids again with the comfort of knowing they are protected from COVID-19,”)

…Blah fucking blah di blah. That’s one bad pun.

California can s$uKkk my 🍆..

PS: Any adult that subjects their minor DEPENDENT child, whose RISK from the Covid is basically ZERO, to these unproven, DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTAL injections needs their parenting card revoked.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
2 years ago
Reply to  Anon

Agreed Anon.

In a sane world it would be criminal.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
2 years ago

We have reached vaccine surplus , about right 42 percent fully vaccinated. That would be all the boomers and a few Karens, sounds good. Time to move past covid and on to the next deadly lamedemic.

Mike
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Mike
2 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

Don’t worry theyre already transitioning to white supremacy, global warming and gun control. Like clockwork. Unless they can figure out that they can fine China for the lab leak, then that will get them salivating and sidetracked for a little while.

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

We have just about reached the expiration date on the leftover J&J jabs.

There trying to figure out how to extend it.🤔🤥🤥🤥.

J&J anyone???

No wonder they are paying $50.00 for a first jab, only, and not for a second jab.
Of course people are going to opt for the J&J. $50.00 is probably cheaper than replacing them.

They probably get paid a lot more than $50.00 to put each one in an arm.

But what about the Delta Variant?

J&J is the least effective vaccine.

J&J works less well against Delta, so why push it for $50.00 if Delta is the current threat?

Seems risky, and unadvisable.

J&J doesn’t work as well as the other vaccines even on the less dangerous Alpha.

It doesn’t make sense.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

And J&J jab costs $10 per.

Moderna $16

Pfizer $19.50

Seems a bad business plan to pay out $50 more per. Where does that flip come from anyway?

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
2 years ago

https://nypost.com/2021/06/09/gop-pol-tells-fauci-to-cut-the-crap-after-doc-lashes-out-at-critics/

Sen. John Kennedy warned White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci to “cut the crap” Wednesday night after Fauci described criticism of him as “attacks on science.”

“I know Dr. Fauci, I like Dr. Fauci, I respect Dr. Fauci,” Kennedy (R-La.) told Fox News’ “Hannity.” “But Dr. Fauci needs to cut the crap. This isn’t about Dr. Fauci. It’s not about his feelings, and I’m sorry if his feelings were hurt. You know, maybe he ought to buy an emotional support pony.

“But we’re not debating dance moves on TikTok here,” the colorful senator continued. “We’re talking about millions of human lives.”

Fauci has been criticized in recent days on a number of issues related to the coronavirus pandemic following the release of thousands of his emails, including his changed stance on the effectiveness of masks and his early dismissal of the possibility that the virus accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/09/gop-pol-tells-fauci-to-cut-the-crap-after-doc-lashes-out-at-critics/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9670965/Sen-John-Kennedy-slams-Fauci-claiming-COVID-animal.html

‘It’s been a year, where’s the smoking bat?’: Sen. John Kennedy slams Fauci for claiming COVID is from an animal as he warns ‘the American people are going to trust Dr Pepper more than Dr. Fauci’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9670965/Sen-John-Kennedy-slams-Fauci-claiming-COVID-animal.html

LOL just perfect!

4Trinity
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4Trinity
2 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

“Smoking bat”. 😆

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
2 years ago

Snip from

https://fee.org/articles/15-states-are-moving-to-curb-public-health-agency-powers-following-lockdown-carnage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FEE-Freeman+%28Foundation+for+Economic+Education+-+Latest+Articles%29

Reining in Public Health Agencies

In May, the Network for Public Health Law published a report showing that in recent months no fewer than 15 state legislatures have passed or are considering passing measures that would restrict the legal authority of public health departments.

Among the provisions passed or considered are the following:

● Prohibitions on requiring citizens to wear masks;

● Prohibiting health agencies from closing businesses or schools;

● Banning the use of quarantines for people who have not been shown to be sick;

● Preventing state hospitals and universities from requiring vaccinations for employees and students;

● Preventing local governments from exercising emergency powers that are inconsistent with state health department guidelines;

Earlier this year, for example, North Dakota passed legislation making it unlawful for state officials to force citizens to wear masks—just one of a growing number of states to place restrictions on mask orders. In March, Kansas’s legislature passed legislation that removes the governor’s ability to shut down businesses during a public health emergency.

Meanwhile, more than 40 states passed legislation that made it unlawful for health departments to mandate COVID-19 vaccination.

The Lesson of Lockdowns

The devastating impact of lockdowns, combined with their failure to slow the spread of the virus, demonstrates why states are right to curb the powers of public health agencies.

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s the danger of unchecked executive power. Using emergency powers, governors and public health bureaucrats across the country took unilateral, sweeping, and indefinite measures that massively damaged livelihoods and infringed on the rights of millions of Americans. People were fined and arrested for simply gathering privately or exercising outside, walking a pet, paddling a boat on the water (alone), or taking a child to the park—even though most transmissions took place in homes and the coronavirus is rarely transmitted outdoors.

Americans may disagree on the precise role public health departments should play in society today. But the pandemic reminded us why checks and balances on concentrated power are so important.

The American constitutional system was deliberately designed to avoid concentrated power because the Framers feared it above all else.

“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty,” wrote John Adams.

The authors of the Network for Public Health Law report express concern that public health agencies are being stripped of the power to act by dangerous radicals. The truth is that dangerously radical government agencies are being put in check.

Ohio, for example, passed a law in March that limits the length of a public health emergency order to 90 days unless it’s extended by the legislature. The same month, lawmakers in Utah passed legislation allowing the state legislature to override state health agency orders during public health emergencies. Missouri, meanwhile, has proposed a law that limits lockdowns to 15 days, after which extensions must be approved by legislative bodies.

These reforms are not radical. They are both reasonable and sensible. They do not represent an attack on science—which tells us what is, not what we ought to do—but are prudent checks on power from lawmakers acting within their rightful province.

more

https://fee.org/articles/15-states-are-moving-to-curb-public-health-agency-powers-following-lockdown-carnage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FEE-Freeman+%28Foundation+for+Economic+Education+-+Latest+Articles%29

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
2 years ago

Hmm…. seems even liberal SF is getting fed up………

Fed-up Californians are calling for a million state residents to burn their masks on June 11th with a celebration of freedom.
About this event

Fed up Californians are calling for a million state residents to burn their masks on June 11th to “mark that date with a celebration of freedom.”

“You are invited to the Million Maskless March and Mask Burning,Friday June 11th, 2021 at 6pm at Ocean Beach Stairwell 17” This is at the beach directly from Beach Chalet and Brewery.

June 11th marks one year and 2 months of mask tyranny in San Francisco County and we will mark that date with a celebration of freedom! We say its time to remove the masks at work and schools. We also want to bring awareness of the medical apartheid that the so called Vaccine passports are going to create. Help spread the word. You are not alone. The globalist will not win! See you there!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mask-burning-event-tickets-157892092499

Wonder how that will turn out.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
2 years ago

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/china-ramps-up-vaccinations-as-other-countries-back-away-from-its-vaccines/

Despite a sluggish start, China is now vaccinating its people against COVID-19 at an impressive clip, currently averaging nearly 20 million doses administered per day. As of Friday, the country had given more than 720 million vaccinations since mid-December, with nearly 400 million of those given in May alone.

The dramatic ramp up comes at an awkward time, however. Early adopters of China’s vaccines have seen dramatic surges in COVID-19 cases—despite high vaccination rates—and are now backing away from the country’s offerings.

In Bahrain, for instance, officials are now offering high-risk people who have already received two doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine a third vaccine dose—but one made by Pfizer-BioNTech. The apparent vote of no confidence by officials is striking: Bahrain was one of the first countries to back and rollout Sinopharm’s vaccine, and it has had a highly successful vaccination campaign. Nearly 58 percent of the Persian Gulf country has received at least one dose of a vaccine, and most of the vaccines given in Bahrain are from Sinopharm. But the country is now seeing its worst wave of COVID-19 yet and the government has recently issued a two-week lockdown to try to get transmission under control.

The Seychelles went through a similar struggle. The archipelago saw a dramatic spike in cases in mid-May, despite having around 70 percent of its population vaccinated with at least one dose. Like Bahrain, the Seychelles had largely relied on the Sinopharm vaccine.

Dubai, which has also relied on Sinopharm’s vaccine, is now quietly offering residents who have been fully vaccinated with the Sinopharm vaccine the opportunity to get re-vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Efficacy “not high”

In a study published on May 26 in JAMA, Sinopharm researchers reported results suggesting that their inactivated virus vaccine was up to 78 percent effective against symptomatic COVID-19 cases. But the study was done mainly in young, healthy men, and the results were not conclusive regarding whether the vaccine was effective against severe disease or asymptomatic cases.

more

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/china-ramps-up-vaccinations-as-other-countries-back-away-from-its-vaccines/

Amazing what you find out when you wait and see….

Guest
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Guest
2 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

And coincidentally, they raise the child limit quickly to 3. From what? 1?

Out with the old, in with the new.

Just like Trump said, “Oh we’ll be dealing with entitlements”.

According to AARP:
Over 95% of Covid19 deaths were over 50 yrs old.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
2 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Hi Guest,
more players on the field.

‘Wake-up call for Canada’: Security experts say case of 2 fired scientists could point to espionage
Couple shared information, virus samples from high-security lab with Chinese institute

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6059097

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2 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

The can of worms has been opened, finally.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
2 years ago

I’m watching Biden in England…. good grief! Patting himself on the back
for sharing the jab.

cu2morrow
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cu2morrow
2 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

roflmao

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
2 years ago
Reply to  cu2morrow

So is the rest of the world!!

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2 years ago

That’s a really bad idea.

Whose idea was it? Whitey Pete’s?

Masks are plastic, etc.

The atmosphere will be toxic.

Probably windy.

And then add alcohol.

Flirting with disaster.

Pyro Mania.

Bad call.