2 New Deaths, 1 New Hospitalization
Press release from Humboldt County Public Health:
Humboldt County Public Health reported today the deaths of two residents, including one in their 50s and one aged 80 or older. A resident aged 80 or older was also hospitalized. An additional 33 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 were announced as well as 22 new probable cases for the period between Tuesday, Jan. 24 and Tuesday, Jan. 31. The total number of confirmed cases in the county stands at 23,268. An additional 6,029 cases are reported as probable.*
Humboldt County COVID-19 vaccination data is available at the California Department of Public Health’s Tracking COVID-19 in California Data Dashboard. Residents can scroll down to the “County and statewide data” section and input “Humboldt County” to get local vaccination data.
OptumServe continues to offer rapid antigen testing and PCR testing services at the Wharfinger Building in Eureka five days a week. Walk-ins will receive only rapid antigen testing unless the attendee specifically states they require a PCR test. Appointments for antigen testing can be made by calling 888-634-1123. Wharfinger testing runs Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and is closed from 11 a.m. to noon and 4 to 5 p.m. Flu testing is also available.
OptumServe’s COVID-19 testing sites in McKinleyville, Trinidad and Arcata officially closed Jan. 22. The Eureka site is expected to close sometime before the end of February, although the specific date has not yet been determined by the state. The closing comes as California’s COVID-19 State of Emergency winds down with an official end date of Feb. 28.
Children 6 months and older are eligible for the COVID vaccine and bivalent boosters. To learn more or to book an appointment, talk to your child’s health care provider. Scheduling for children ages 6 months through 5 years is also available on MyTurn.ca.gov.
See the schedule below for specific Public Health vaccination and testing clinic dates, times, locations and available services. Bivalent boosters will be provided at all.
Arcata — Thursday, Feb. 2, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
D Street Neighborhood Center (1301 D St.)Willow Creek — Thursday, Feb. 2, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Willow Creek Public Health (77 Walnut Way)Petrolia— Friday, Feb. 3, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Mattole Resource Center (167 Sherman St.)Bridgeville— Saturday, Feb. 4, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Bridgeville Family Resource Center (38717 Kneeland Road)Eureka — Monday, Feb. 6, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Closed from noon to 1 p.m.)
Public Health Main (529 I St.)Blue Lake — Tuesday, Feb. 7, 10 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Blue Lake Resource Center (111 Greenwood Ave.)McKinleyville — Wednesday, Feb. 8, 1:30 to 4:15 p.m.
The Center at McKinleyville (1615 Heartwood Drive)* “Confirmed cases” represent the total confirmed positive PCR test results or detection of SARS-CoV-2 by genomic sequencing, and “probable cases” are individuals who:
- Have a positive antigen (Ag) test for COVID-19, or
- Were diagnosed with COVID-19 disease by a health care provider, or
- Have symptoms of COVID-19 disease after being in close contact with a person having a PCR-confirmed test result, or
- Were a decedent whose death certificate lists COVID-19 as a cause or significant contributing factor of their death, in the absence of a positive PCR test result.
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Lao Tzu
What Is COVID Actually Doing to Our Immune Systems?
The research sounds scary. It’s not bunk—but it’s important to understand its purpose.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/immunity-covid-research-airborne-aids-debunk.html
— A new study has been published that links the increase in heart attacks amongst adults between the ages of 25 and 44 to COVID-19.
https://www.khon2.com/local-news/heart-attacks-on-dramatic-rise-for-25-44-age-group/
It’s a fairly worthless article or study to me, since i was looking for whether or not these heart-problem people had been vaccinated. Although the risk is said to be very small– a handful in millions of people– it is recognized that the chances of heart inflammation (myocarditis) is increased after a second shot or a booster. So, wondering whether these excess deaths now reported in the mainstream might be connected with the vaccine rather than the Covid itself, i am left uninformed.
Of course, the fact that people may have been vaccinated and soon died of heart attacks does not mean the vaccination or booster caused the trouble. But neither does the fact that they had Covid and died of heart attacks. Same reasoning: correlation does not mean causality.
The study is just confirmation that heart attack deaths rose, especially steeply in the male 25-44 age group, during the time period of late 21-early 22. It doesn’t link the effect to any particular cause.
Claiming otherwise is just spreading propaganda. GF seems to think his preferred propaganda is a positive while bemoaning other propaganda. Neither is helpful.
Thank you for telling me what I think..
You’re welcome
Actually the chances of “severe” complications from the vaccine is not a chance in millions, it’s a chance in less than 1,000.. For the moderna vaccine it’s a chance one out of every 800 This information is in the press release that Pfizer and Moderna have released themselves. Several vaccines over the last decades have been pulled off the shelves because of severe complications risks ranging in the 1 and 100 thousands..
https://youtu.be/-FK17NU4_r8
yes its the vaxxxxxxxxxxx…. its been proven using CDC data. Data regression using counties w most vaxxxx and counties w most excess death correlate 1-1
great your quoting Chinese war experts and pushing the Pfizer poison… WW3 it is.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-01/merck-s-mrk-covid-drug-linked-to-viable-spreading-mutants-study-says
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Talk about “unsettling”…
Call it… “Job Security”
https://www.science.org/content/article/could-popular-covid-19-antiviral-supercharge-pandemic
“A widely used COVID-19 drug may be driving the appearance of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, sparking concerns it could prolong and even reinvigorate the pandemic. The drug, molnupiravir, produced by Merck & Co., is designed to kill the virus by inducing mutations in the viral genome. A survey of viral genomes reported in a new preprint, however, suggests some people treated with the drug generate novel viruses that not only remain viable, but spread.”
“It’s very clear that viable mutant viruses can survive [molnupiravir treatment] and compete [with existing variants],” says virologist William Haseltine, chair of ACCESS Health International, who has repeatedly raised concerns about the drug. “I think we are courting disaster.”…
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“WTF?”
-Guest-
Dec.16, 2021…
https://kymkemp.com/2021/12/16/1-hospitalization-27-new-cases-reported/#comment-1460728
” ‘Molnupiravir’ is a mutagen, made by Merck.”
“A MUTAGEN !?!?!?”
“For the treatment of Covid19…WTF?”
“And Hoffman is ok with that?”
“That is so sketchy…”
“And don’t forget, only 30% effective, after being represented as 50% effective, and only tested on the unvaccinated, not the vaccinated…”
Please, please, please Kym, implement an emergency rule that if people are going to make pseudofactual statements, they should be accompanied by a link to a credible source.
It’s getting really old hearing this bunkum and balderdash about how people are actually getting killed by the vaccine, or that these were just heart attacks being falsely labeled as Covid, or that they were killed by the pharmaceutical company ninjas to bolster their profits.
I see only two comments without links…?♂️
Just wait.
Do you believe everything the government propagandists tell you?
Ah yes. The government, the scientists, and the doctors: the holy trinity of the propaganda cabal.
There’s been divergent views on how to counter covid amongst scientists and doctors from the beginning
Yeah, and there’s scientists who claim anthropogenic climate change don’t exist. You get the drift.
I mean recently the Cochrane group came out with a study of how masks are ineffective.. I don’t have the link, but y’all can Google I’m sure
The Cochrane study concluded that masks have “little to no effect.” If you have a family member with Stage IV cancer – or you have some immune system destroying condition – you will take a “little” protection over none at all.
I need to see the methodology, as I am interested as to how they controlled for those wearing no masks, or those stupid handkerchiefs for study participants circulating in the real world.
These press releases from DHS suck. What killed the 50 year old person and 80 year old person?
https://www.latimes.comNorthridge Hospital/archives/la-xpm-2009-dec-06-la-me-nurses6-2009dec06-story.html
“Firms that supply temporary nurses to the nation’s hospitals are taking perilous shortcuts in their screening and supervision, sometimes putting seriously ill patients in the hands of incompetent or impaired caregivers.”
“Emboldened by a chronic nursing shortage and scant regulation, the firms vie for their share of a free-wheeling, $4-billion industry. Some have become havens for nurses who hopscotch from place to place to avoid the consequences of their misconduct.”
“An investigation by the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times found dozens of instances in which staffing agencies skimped on background checks or ignored warnings from hospitals about sub-par nurses on their payrolls. Some hired nurses sight unseen, without even conducting an interview.”
“As a result, fill-in nurses with documented histories of poor care have fallen asleep on the job, failed to perform critical tests or stolen drugs intended to ease patients’ pain or anxiety.”
” “A lot of them are really bad nurses,” said Sandra Thompson, a nursing supervisor at Northridge Hospital Medical Center and Sherman Oaks Hospital, both in the San Fernando Valley. “Sometimes I see them here [at Northridge] and think, ‘I wonder how long before I see them over’ ” at Sherman Oaks?”
“Some agencies are diligent about checking nurses’ records, said Joey Ridenour, executive director of the Arizona State Board of Nursing.”
“Others are not. As a result, if wayward nurses want to work, “I think it’s easier to hide in the registries,” Ridenour said. “Some just sign them up.” ”
“Among reporters’ findings, based on disciplinary records, personnel files, court documents and interviews:”
“* Firms hired nurses who had criminal records or left states where their licenses had been restricted or revoked. At least three firms employed a nurse in California whose license had been suspended in Minnesota for stealing drugs at a string of temp jobs. One used him after he’d been convicted of doing the same thing at a Santa Rosa nursing home.”
“* Temp agencies shuffled errant nurses from one hospital to another, even as complaints mounted. A Culver City agency continued sending one nurse to hospitals despite more than a dozen warnings that she was ignoring her patients and sleeping on the job. Before she was hired, the nurse had been convicted of 12 crimes, including prostitution, carrying a concealed weapon and possessing cocaine.”
“* Nurses who got in trouble at one agency had no problem landing a job at another. An Oklahoma nurse cycled through at least four Southern California agencies in a year, accused of pilfering drugs while at each. Before her final stop, she was arrested in her home state for calling in prescriptions while posing as a doctor’s office employee.”
Study from December of 2009?
Most commonly obesity and old age. Wonder if they were vaccinated
‘California ends plans for kids’ Covid vaccine mandate’
https://edsource.org/2023/california-ends-plans-for-kids-covid-vaccine-mandate/685077?amp=1
“California state leaders seem to be quietly closing the door on the Covid-19 vaccine mandate for schoolchildren.”
“The California Department of Public Health hasn’t made an announcement, but officials told EdSource that the end of the state’s Covid-19 state of emergency on Feb. 28 effectively ends its current plan to add Covid-19 vaccinations to the list of 10 vaccinations children are required to have to attend school in person.”
What should be kept off-limits in a virology lab?
New rules around gain-of-function research make progress in striking a balance between reward — and catastrophic risk.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/2023/2/1/23580528/gain-of-function-virology-covid-monkeypox-catastrophic-risk-pandemic-lab-accident
‘Former CDC director: It’s ‘very disappointing’ that US continues to fund high-risk research’
https://news.yahoo.com/former-cdc-director-very-disappointing-223026884.html
‘Former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield shares his thoughts on a potential lapse in oversight by the N.I.H. in tracking a group studying coronaviruses, [ EcoHealth Alliance], on ‘The Story with Martha MacCallum.’
Fake Nursing diplomas… from 2016 – 2021…
https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/washington-applicants-florida-fake-nursing-diploma/281-b75bc5df-e9a1-4146-bd46-1a45712b4cdd
‘150 Washington applicants connected to Florida-based nursing diploma scheme’
“According to the DOJ, a multiyear, multimillion dollar scheme allowed people to buy fake nursing diplomas and other credentials, allowing them to apply for licenses.”
Any in California…???
Any “traveling nurses”…???
(I guess that would remain to be seen…)
It wouldn’t surprise me…
This calls for a thorough investigation…!!!
Thanks for posting a link, but…
I guess it would be too much to ask for people to remain on topic.
Oh well. At least no one has brought up Hunter Biden’s laptop yet.
*edit: Spoke too soon. I just saw the Squirrely guy’s comment.
You don’t get the, “Covid deaths and hospitalizations”- “Traveling Nurses”- “fake Nursing diploma and other credentials”, connection…???
It’s there…
Not that it’s really necessary…?♂️
Only 15.5% of Americans have chosen to be fully boosted so does that make the other 84.5% anti-vaxxers? And is it true the UK and other countries have dropped their vaccine recommendation for those under 50 yo as reported in places?
Source?
And I’m going to call horse pucky on you 15.5% statistic. The credible sources I found say thet 68% is fully vaccinated and 79% have received at least one dose. https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states
According to the CDC, “The definition of fully vaccinated does not include a COVID-19 booster.” https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html
Before you call horse pucky, perhaps you should reread the original comment.
He said “fully boosted” not “fully vaccinated”
Your stats and links say nothing about how many people have received all three boosters.
Darn me and my pre-coffee reading abilities!
I respectfully ammend my comment to point out that Squirrely is claiming a false equivalence. Failing to keep up on boosters does not make someone an anti-vaxxer.
And if a person constantly makes false claims it’s hard to believe anything they say.
It was a question, not a statement…
However, it may have been a rhetorical question…
It’s a bit nuanced…
Are you trying to suggest that,”failing to keep up on boosters”, makes one a Pro-Jabber?
I kinda don’t think that would be true…
Take your pick…
Yep. 15.5% is accurate…
https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/afp-community-blog/entry/maintaining-the-momentum-for-covid-19-vaccination.html
“…bivalent booster; only 15.5% of the U.S. population has received the bivalent booster…”
Looks like an apology is in order, D’Tucker Jebs…
Weren’t you called out for accusing St. Joe nurses for homicide? Did you ever apologize to the St. Joe nurses?
calling you out for calling people out. Plus quoting Lao Tzu when we had a huge security meeting about Pooh Bear’s balloon….
Whats in those shots you keep pushing huh greyfox???
Answering your question here: No (the answer is No)
UK booster eligibility for healthy under 50 yr olds ends February 12, 2023…
So the answer is actually, “Soon”, not “No”.
In a short ten days, the answer will be “Yes”.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/u-k-end-covid-boosters-people-under-reports
“Once in effect, only people over the age of 50 will be able to get a booster, although people who are younger and immunosuppressed will qualify.”
Don’t shapeshift things. His/her posed question:
“Only 15.5% of Americans have chosen to be fully boosted so does that make the other 84.5% anti-vaxxers?”
Question answered. Move on.
No shapeshifter here…
That’s only one of GS’s two different questions…
You only answered one unspecific question.
You should have specified the question you were answering, but you didn’t.
Don’t blame me for that oversight.
That’s not on me…
Did you not notice this question, that your answer was just as likely to have been directed towards…???
“And is it true the UK and other countries have dropped their vaccine recommendation for those under 50 yo as reported in places?”
Now apply my answer to that question…
It works.
And as far as his other question, specifically…
“Only 15.5% of Americans have chosen to be fully boosted so does that make the other 84.5% anti-vaxxers?”
The answer to that would also not exactly be “No”, as a matter of fact…
I’d say “Yes” would be more true than untrue…
Only 15.5% of Americans getting the Bivalent Booster, would mean that 84.5% of Americans would be, “Anti-Bivalent-Booster”, that’s for sure…
Now you just have to decide if in fact the Bivalent Booster is a “vaccine”, making them “Anti-Vaxxers”…
“Yes”would be truer than “no”.
Good luck proving that “no” would be truer than “yes”…
But of you are inclined to attempt it, please provide “sourced evidence”…
Like this…
“…bivalent booster; only 15.5% of the U.S. population has received the bivalent booster…”
That means that those who have chosen to get the Bivalent Booster, have been outnumbered by over 5 to 1…
You might want to reconsider the significance of Americans overall negative evaluation of the wisdom of the Bivalent Booster.
It has been rejected by five times as many Americans as it has been injected into…
It has also been rejected by roughly 150% as many of those elderly who it was injected into…
Meaning that those who got injected with it are either in the minority, or they are in the vast minority…
Food for thought…
Not relevant, don’t live in UK.
As usual, poor slanted journalism has been a source of anti vaxxer misinformation. Although it is hard to tell from that linked article, all this means is that the government will not buy and stock the boosters for free. Mostly because they were not being utilized en masse anyway. And those uless likely to get very sick from covid or spread it to others who are vulnerable don’t derive much benefit from them as they do from the initial series. But all are still urged to get the original series.
“However, a spokesperson for the agency, which oversees infectious disease response in the United Kingdom, told The Associated Press that boosters are “definitely not being banned” and described as “nonsense” the claims the United Kingdom is banning them for people under 50. ”
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/31/viral-image/uk-targeting-older-adults-its-upcoming-covid-19-va/
” “definitely not being banned” ”
That’s just splitting hairs.
Bottom line…
“UK booster eligibility for healthy under 50 yr olds ends February 12, 2023…”
“Once in effect, only people over the age of 50 will be able to get a booster, although people who are younger and immunosuppressed will qualify.”
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No reason to insist it doesn’t say, what it doesn’t say…
” “definitely not being banned” ”
That’s just complete nonsense, even if you do have a link to it…
What’s your guess as to why some 130 million people who originally accepted the vaccines have opted out of “staying up to date”?
It’s a pain in the butt to get a booster even for relatively savvy folks like me and we’re all lazy and everyone is running around without a mask and good lord COVID is so last year and the folks online are saying the boosters are bad and and and
I mean, we live in a pretty extremely deprived area from a medical services perspective. Do you really believe that inconvenience explains the 120 million+ decline in booster uptake?
My parents both see their Dr’s regularly. They are both done getting boosters based on what they believe are adverse events they’ve experienced/observed. I’d bet $100 they’ll both still vote Biden on 2024. It seems like a lot of people are seeing things that concern them
I do think some folks, your parents included, are persuaded by those they love or the media they consume or things they believe they see that boosters are dangerous.
But here’s what Medpage says, “Previously vaccinated adults in the U.S. who have not received the bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine were often unaware they were eligible, didn’t know it was available, or thought they already had immunity, according to survey data from the CDC…When asked why they did not get it, 23.2% said they were unaware they were eligible, 19.3% said they didn’t know where or that it was available, and 18.9% said they thought they already had immunity against infection, reported Alyssa H. Sinclair, MA, of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues….After being provided with eligibility and availability information, 67.8% of respondents who had not received the bivalent booster said they would…” https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/102726
Thanks for digging up some hard numbers. So that leaves about 32% who aren’t intending to get it. I noticed the article didn’t explain why. I also noticed that even though 67% said they intended to, less than 30% actually did within a month. Even after all their confusion was cleared up. Seems like their might be some bias of people telling the surveyor what they think they’re supposed to say instead of what they honestly think.
But even taking the survey results at face value. That leaves us with something like 40 million Americans who have decided to stop taking the advice of public health on this topic for some reason over the last two years. That’s a pretty significant shift of attitude from a portion of the population bigger than the whole state of California.
I am sure you can factor in all the misinformation that was put out..IE:
Sports people dropping like flies etc. etc. etc.
“From Nov. 1 to Dec. 5, Australian researchers collected more than half a million conspiratorial and misleading English-language tweets about Covid, using terms such as “deep state,” “hoax” and “bioweapon.” The tweets drew more than 1.6 million likes and 580,000 retweets.
The researchers said the volume of toxic material surged late last month with the release of a film that included baseless claims that Covid vaccines set off “the greatest orchestrated die-off in the history of the world.”
NY Times-
So you’re saying that public health agencies have such low levels of public trust or are so poor at communicating to the public that tens of millions of people ignore their advice and choose to listen to random internet stories instead?
The public trust failures of various public health agencies must play some role, but I’m not convinced it’s that large. Although the poll data Kym shared certainly indicates that they’ve failed miserably at communicating the qualification criteria to people.
maybe they just dont want to be on the wrong list 🙂
And the variants aren’t as deadly, the treatments more effective, etc.
What treatments? You think people are skipping boosters because they have faith in paxlovid?
If you think it’s a pain in the butt, I’d change the clinic you’re going to.
I got my shots in the arm.
I got the new dairy air version which protects against bullshit, too.
we like you Kym and your journalism…. Don’t get boosted. If you ever lived in the east coast (and didn’t just dump product) getting boosted is basically the same thing as “having a party”
dunno, maybe what k said, plus maybe the 130 mil weathered the worst initial variation just fine, maybe been taking the vit c, d, even maybe zinc many took before pandemy. butt shirly some polls are in order.
So give us your take on things…You seem to know what I am thinking, so what are those people thinking?
I’m guessing a number of them just don’t think covid is a serious risk anymore. I’ve seen in my own circle that some people no longer trust the boosters to be useful/are worried about side effects. There are also, obviously, some number of people who experienced side effects themselves. There’s probably a lot of apathy in the mix too.
A poll could be interesting. I think we can bet there are 10 million, at least, people in each of those groups.
Lying in hospital with Covid is a pretty serious side effect of getting Covid.
Dying from Covid is a pretty serious side effect. Long Covid is a pretty serious side effect.
Compare the risk factors.
Its a risk assessment everyone needs to make for themselves.
Unfortunately, there has been a big push to categorically shut down discussions of the actual rates of adverse vaccination outcomes and a general trend of overstating the risks associated with infection.
That’s the type of public trust violations that ruins faith in the statements from public health agencies.
Case in point. Grey fox is generally much more snarky than the folks she disagrees with, and diesnt usualky wanna have an adult discussion.
One could call those 15.5% “Anti-Survivalists”
Hunter Biden’s Metabiota Labs Received Tens of Millions of Dollars in DOD Contracts – Experimented with Bat Viruses in at least One Biolab https://t.co/8HHaC6AYGC
The US was funding bat virus gain of function research in Wuhan and Ukraine both? Where else?
Remember when the Pentagon confirmed the US partnered w/46 Ukrainian Bioweapon labs?
And Hunter Biden secured millions for 1 of the labs – Metabiota?
Well now we have a 2/24/22 letter from Zelensky ordering the destruction of all gov’t files for Metabiota
I’m sure it’s nothing https://t.co/KUZhgcHPoc
And an attempted coverup? See documentation
Well, for one, right here in the good ole USA…
That’s where it all began…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan/
“Baric asked Shi if he could have the genetic data for SHC014. “She was gracious enough to send us those sequences almost immediately,” he says. His team introduced the virus modified with that code into mice and into a petri dish of human airway cells. Sure enough, the chimera exhibited “robust replication” in the human cells—evidence that nature was full of coronaviruses ready to leap directly to people.”
“While Baric’s study was in progress, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would temporarily halt funding for “gain of function” research—experiments that make already dangerous viruses more virulent or transmissible—on SARS, MERS (which is also caused by a coronavirus), and influenza until the safety of such research could be assessed. The announcement brought Baric’s work to a standstill.”
“-Ralph Baric, University of North Carolina
Baric asked Shi if he could have the genetic data for SHC014. “She was gracious enough to send us those sequences almost immediately,” he says. His team introduced the virus modified with that code into mice and into a petri dish of human airway cells. Sure enough, the chimera exhibited “robust replication” in the human cells—evidence that nature was full of coronaviruses ready to leap directly to people.”
“While Baric’s study was in progress, the National Institutes of Health announced that it would temporarily halt funding for “gain of function” research—experiments that make already dangerous viruses more virulent or transmissible—on SARS, MERS (which is also caused by a coronavirus), and influenza until the safety of such research could be assessed. The announcement brought Baric’s work to a standstill.”
“Baric was a legend in the field, but no matter how many safety precautions are taken, there is always a chance that a never-before-seen virus can escape and trigger an outbreak. Baric felt that the extreme measures he took in the lab minimized the risk, and in fact made his work categorically different from the high-risk influenza work the NIH had been targeting. He also felt that his research was urgent: new cases of MERS, spread by camels, were even then popping up in the Middle East. Eventually the NIH agreed, waving him forward.”
His 2015 paper, “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence,” was a tour de force, utilizing bleeding-edge genetic technology to alert the civilized world to a looming danger on its periphery. It also revived concerns about gain-of-function experiments, which Baric had known it would. In the paper, he spelled out the extra precautions he’d taken and held up the research as a test case. “The potential to prepare for and mitigate future outbreaks must be weighed against the risk of creating more dangerous pathogens,” he wrote. “Scientific review panels may deem similar studies building chimeric viruses based on circulating strains too risky to pursue.”
The NIH decided the risk was worth it. In a potentially fateful decision, it funded work similar to Baric’s at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which soon used its own reverse-genetics technology to make numerous coronavirus chimeras.
Unnoticed by most, however, was a key difference that significantly shifted the risk calculation. The Chinese work was carried out at biosafety level 2 (BSL-2), a much lower tier than Baric’s BSL-3+.
What caused the covid-19 pandemic remains uncertain, and Shi says her lab never encountered the SARS-CoV-2 virus before the Wuhan outbreak. But now that US officials have said the possibility of a lab accident needs to be investigated, the spotlight has fallen on American funding of the Wuhan lab’s less safe research. Todaya chorus of scientists, including Baric, are coming forward to say this was a misstep. Even if there is no link to covid-19, allowing work on potentially dangerous bat viruses at BSL-2 is “an actual scandal,” says Michael Lin, a bioengineer at Stanford University. ”
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COVID could have escaped Baric’s lab…
Covid is not over if people are still dying from it. My big worry is that in march the president is deeming it over. It’s always about capitalism!!!$$$$$
What is your criteria for the “end” of the formal covid emergency
I try to keep safe by making sure I have all of the jabs. If I get worms, I may try the de-worming medication Ivermectin.
Will you try ALL the deworming medications, pre- worm-“emergence”…???
(It means, even if you don’t have worms…???)
You know, take ALL the deworming medications, “just in case” you “might” get worms…
Like taking ALL the jabs “just in case” you get Covid…???
Are you gonna get chemo, and radiation, just in case you might someday get cancer…???
Assuming you are an adult, you could always get all your teeth pulled, just so you don’t get any more cavities…
Unlike the jabs, that would at least be 100% effective…
Right, so don’t have smoke alarms, don’t wear seatbelts, don’t slow down on icy roads, don’t get a tetanus vaccine or the ones for numerous other diseases. Bit by a rabid animal don’t get rabies shot.
The list goes on and on
“just in case”you hadn’t noticed..
They make rabies shots for people?
MIT Professor Calls for an Immediate Stop to the COVID mRNA Vaccination Program
“This is clearly the most failing medical product in the history of medical products both in terms of efficacy and safety”
https://twitter.com/thechiefnerd/status/1619968474889216003
I nearly spit my coffee out when I saw that you posted a link to Twitter as your “source.”
Thanks for the morning laugh.
Come on! It is every bit as reliable as Facebook!
Joke going around.
Facebook Twitter merge.
Called TwitFace.
Twitter more reliable than CNN
Stop, please!
This time it was my soda.
My keyboard really can’t take many more of these spit takes.
Yeah … but meh. That dude has some good stuff … and some iffy stuff. For example, he co-cooked up a fad diet thing, they gave it their own name. But it’s just a Mediterranean style diet thing, which is great, except they cut the carbs out, Mediterranean folks laughing (like cut pasta and bread? no way!).
(In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and before there were any approved vaccines for COVID-19, [MIT dude] Malhotra published a book[11] claiming that following his dietary advice could grant “metabolic optimization” which would, in 21 days, decrease the risk of viral infection. [Buy My Book!]. David Gorski criticized the book[1] because the biggest single risk factor for COVID-19 infection is age, which people cannot change. Gorski said that while Malhotra had a germ of a good point and that it was undeniable that losing weight for someone who is obese would reduce their risk of complications, the claims about the book were massively exaggerated and there was no specific evidence for the impact of lifestyle recommendations on the risk of COVID-19 or that Malhotra’s version of a healthy diet was better or worse than any other healthy lifestyle recommendation. – wiki)
https://www.kcra.com/article/california-wont-require-covid-19-vaccine-to-attend-schools/42762432
‘California won’t require COVID-19 vaccine to attend schools’
“That’s a reversal from Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2021 announcement that the state would add the COVID-19 vaccine to its list of mandated vaccinations for kids to attend school.”
FAUCI FARTS PFIZER
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A clear and present danger!
We Are Babylon’: Dozens of Congress Members Participate in Anti-LGBTQ Prayer Service.
Dozens of members of Congress joined an audience of religious-right activists and Christian nationalists at the Museum of the Bible this morning for a national gathering for prayer and repentence”
Sponsored by various anti-LGBTQ religious-right groups.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/we-are-babylon-dozens-of-members-of-congress-join-religious-right-prayer-service-to-repent-for-the-united-states/
I see Ms Kemp has a new security system..Cloudflare..Wonder if this is in addition to WP.
Now if there was just a security system for some of the BS that gets posted on here.
Yeah, I got a red pop-up asking me to “prove I was a human being.” Hell, I can’t even do that for my in-laws.
I just soldiered through a bought of “upper GI covid”. We don’t know if it was a covid specific virus… just tested positive on the common antigen nasal swabs. Anyway..this flu won’t let you hold down anything..or if you hold it down..it won’t stay in. Dehydration is the problem. Later.. got a prescription anti nausea…like they give chemo patients..and my body fought back. I went to long without the anti nausea drug… 4 days. Anyway.. I can’t smell or taste the food much..but that will pass. I’m non mRNA… just natural immunity.
There have been hospital intake cases here from the same bug…. and mostly the dehydration portion was the cause of the medical emergency.
Yikes!
Sounds bad!
Co-infection?
COVID-flu?
Hope you feel better soon…
I feel better, thank you for your good wishes.
So..it was probably a covid mutation… just based on diagnosed cases in the area. Anyway..the key is to stop the nausea. Apparently..if you take in water..then throw it up… you donate some electrolytes every time. Then.. you run out of the nerve operation minerals… cramps… weakness..all that.
The problem symptom I had is you could drink a 32 ounce electrolyte sports drink…and it would leave 8 ounces at a time just how it went in.
So.. an anti nausia prescription is key. For some people CBD and other natural methods may work well. I took a pharmeceutical… a chemo nausea drug. Worked great. I also did the Zelenko protocol for inflamation/flu… zinc, z querecitn, d3, c, ivermicitn. My lungs stayed clear of the flu…and at the worst..no harm was done by that treatment. Again..it was hard to keep anything down… some of it was absorbed.
All better now.
Good, you’re welcome.
Hope you feel better. Cannabis is well-documented as an anti-nausea agent and appetite enhancer. Just sayin’
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/102923#:~:text=The%20monovalent%20Moderna%20COVID%2D19,according%20to%20a%20Swiss%20study.
Cont…
The monovalent Moderna COVID-19 booster vaccine may be associated with an elevated risk for new-onset chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU), or hives lasting more than 6 weeks, according to a Swiss study.
Nice try no cigar.
From the article
“ Notably, The currant bivalent Moderna and Pfizer were introduced in late 2022, after the conduct of the present study. After their introduction in the U.S., the original monovalent products were discontinued”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/19/1067092/crispr-alligator-gene-catfish/
The alligator gene, which Dunham’s research turned up as a potential answer, codes for a protein called cathelicidin. The protein is antimicrobial, says Dunham—it’s thought to help protect alligators from developing infections in the wounds they sustain during their aggressive fights with each other. Dunham wondered whether animals that have the gene artificially inserted into their genomes might be more resistant to diseases.
Dunham and his colleagues also wanted to go a step further and ensure that the resulting transgenic fish couldn’t reproduce. That’s because genetically modified animals have the potential to wreak havoc in the wild should they escape from farms, outcompeting their wild counterparts for food and habitat.
Transgenic survivorsDunham, Baofeng Su (also at Auburn University), and their colleagues used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to insert the alligator gene for cathelicidin into the part of the genome that codes for an important reproductive hormone, “to try to kill two birds with one stone,” says Dunham. Without the hormone, fish are unable to spawn.
The resulting fish do seem to be more resistant to infections. When the researchers put two different types of disease-causing bacteria in water tanks, they found that gene-edited fish were much more likely to survive than their counterparts that had not undergone gene editing. Depending on the infection, “the survival rate of the cathelicidin transgenic fish was between two- and five-fold higher,” says Dunham.
The transgenic fish are also sterile and can’t reproduce unless they are injected with reproductive hormones, say the researchers, who published their findings online at the preprint server bioRxiv. The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed.
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More at the link
What happens when people eat these catfish?
What happens to wildlife that eat these fish?
Are you the next catfish?
Will transgenic be the next gender?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/19/1067092/crispr-alligator-gene-catfish/
These people are in for a big surprise when they run across one of those genetically modified catfish.
What is Noodling? Simply put, noodling involves finding a Catfish hiding underwater, sticking your arm in its mouth, and dragging it out of the water with your bare hands. You use your own fingers as bait and the Catfish’s bite as the hook.
Google~
What do you think the genetic effect is on the wildlife or people that eats them?
Ain’t nobody gonna mess with them catfish.
Posted By COVVHA – AO2GEN Kelly L. Derricks On October 1, 2014 ·
World Leaders Promote GMOs While They Eat Organic!If world leaders are promoting genetic but eating organic it means they are aware of the health dangers of processed foods in general and genetically modified foods in particular. The question is why have their knowledge of these dangers not trickled to their conscious minds in agreeing to sign detrimental policies to the foods that ordinary people end up eating.
⇒President Obama eats organic and the First Lady Michelle Obama makes sure all vegetables are grown inhouse or bought from suppliers who grow organic. President Obama overrode the USA Supreme Court to allow GM alfalfa and sugar beets.
⇒President George Bush and family eats ONLY organic
⇒President Bill Clinton insists on an organic diet with grass-fed beef (Walter Scheib, executive chef White House personal honor of serving two unique and interesting first families, but the professional challenge of fulfilling Hillary Clinton’s mandate of bringing contemporary American cuisine and nutritionally responsible food to the White House.”)
⇒Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney eats only organic.
⇒The British Prime Minister David Cameron’s food his wife Samantha ensures comes from Daylesford Farm Shop, a resolutely organic store that proudly never stocks GM foods and sells organic vegetables, meat, baked goods and dairy products produced on the farm.
more…………..
https://covvha.net/world-leaders-promote-gmos-eat-organic/
FOUR BASIC ELEMENTS:
♦Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national outputs (harvests and raw materials), and ancillary industries, of developed industrial western nations. {example}
♦The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks. (*note* in China it is the communist government underwriting the purchase)
♦The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation state(s).
♦With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.
For three decades economic “globalism” has advanced, quickly. Everyone accepts this statement, yet few actually stop to ask who and what are behind this – and why?
Don’t forget insurance companies and Viatical Life Settlements…Someone making money off all the death. Flowers and Deathcare.
@Sheril
Well, it’s Groundhog Day, again.*
“Only in America do we accept weather predictions from a rodent but deny #ClimateChange evidence from scientists.”
Conagra Brands recalls over 2.5 million pounds of canned meat, poultry products
A packaging defect that might cause contamination was found.
more
https://abcnews.go.com/US/conagra-brands-recalls-25-million-pounds-canned-meat/story?id=96830396
Amazing how much food has been destroyed since last Thanksgiving.
Bird flu, manufacturing co. fires, lettuce rot, Hmm.
We live in a veritable cornucopia. Our region does not need to rely on multinational food giants.
Support your local farmers, especially grain producers and holistically minded ranchers. Grow some of your own for the psycho/spiritual benefit. And begin to explore the abundant wild foods left to us from the prior land managers.
We can remove a lot of our dependence on vulnerable centralized systems.
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WTF?
Law barring people with domestic violence restraining orders from having guns is unconstitutional, court rules.
CNN~
New study finds people that think they’re unattractive more likely to continue wearing masks in the post-covid times
Tru fer sum
How quickly does COVID immunity fade? What scientists know.
Vaccination, infection with SARS-CoV-2 and a combination of both provide varying degrees of protection.
New evidence suggests that ‘hybrid’ immunity, the result of both vaccination and a bout of COVID-19, can provide partial protection against reinfection for at least eight months1. It also offers greater than 95% protection against severe disease or hospitalization for between six months and a year after an infection or vaccination, according to estimates from a meta-analysis2. Immunity acquired by booster vaccination alone seems to fade somewhat faster.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00124-y
Sounds like just another way to say the vaccines and boosters didn’t work, don’t work and never will work.
WTH? GOP rep Boebert.
Lauren Boebert Dismayed Americans Only Own 46 Percent of World’s Firearms.
“ATF. Alcohol, tobacco and firearms,” the congresswoman continued. “In western Colorado, we call that a fun weekend. But D.C. bureaucrats have used this agency to infringe on the rights of the American people.”
Newsweek~
Trump/Boebert 2024!
I have a shrine to the ATF in my house. In fact, the little woman CALLS it the ATF room… it’s the room where the safe full of guns is, where I keep my humidors and racks of good wine and good whiskey.
Damn, it’s good to be me…
My, what a CUTE little table for all that, all that … HARDware. The my-my what-a-big-bullet of a stogie you have, the sofisticated swill, the … g g g gun. Don’t, stop, don’t stop. Add laptop and life is SO good.
Aw! You sound just like Dear Leader trying to get through a press conference!
Bless BOTH your lil’ hearts!
Yep Saturday night. Light up a cigar, get drunk and shoot up the town.
Hope the little woman has a key to lock you in the room when need be.
Yeah, but it’s Friday night. Gotta go to mass.
Amen
My condolences to their families and friends. May they RIP.
They finally got a closeup of that Chinese spy balloon Biden is allowing to cruise wherever the CCP chooses over Montana, Kansas, Missouri, over ICBM and stealth bomber bases, and then… what might it carry and why not incinerate it?
Only meme in many days
It the size of 3 buses. Wouldn’t want to be under the debris field after it was shot down.
Chinese low orbit satellites gather more information.
But it gives the conspiracy people something to talk about.
Or it could be this..
Globophobia is an extreme, overwhelming and irrational fear of balloons…
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3843167-hawley-calls-for-investigation-of-bidens-baffling-response-to-chinese-surveillance-balloon/
“Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is calling for the Senate Homeland Security Committee to investigate what he says is the Biden administration’s “baffling response” to a Chinese surveillance balloon that floated over U.S. missile installations in Montana, triggering alarms at the Pentagon.”
” “We have an obligation to obtain a full understanding of the surveillance that the Chinese government is currently conducting” and the Biden administration’s “baffling response thus far,” Hawley said. “
Seriously? Josh Hawley? ? More globophobia.
More than likely it’s a runaway weather ballon.
Do people actually think the Chinese would use a frigging ballon to spy. ?
I could use Google Earth to get the same information..
Get a grip people. SMH
I agree with you wholeheartedly, gf. Anyone ever hear of a Chinese fire drill? This is a Chinese ballon race. The Chinese reputation for fucking up EVERYTHING is well known and well deserved. The only other inept entity that could compare would be the Biden Administration*.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/suspected-chinese-balloon-us/index.html
‘The latest on the suspected Chinese spy balloon over the US’
“• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed his upcoming trip to China in response to the flying of a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the United States.”
“• The Pentagon said Friday evening that another Chinese spy balloon has been spotted over Latin America.”
“• The Pentagon said the balloon over the US is being used for surveillance, rejecting China’s claim that the aircraft is a “civilian airship” for research that deviated from course.”
https://www.kulr8.com/news/report-another-chinese-surveillance-balloon-traveling-over-latin-america/article_cb4d11b6-a328-11ed-83cb-fbf1388f61fe.html
‘Report: Another Chinese surveillance balloon traveling over Latin America’
This may be unconfirmed…
https://www.yourbigsky.com/billings-beat/explosion-over-billings-posted-on-social-media-friday-night/
This seems to call the report into question…
https://twitter.com/KULR/status/1621696599813677060?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
This winter’s U.S. COVID surge is fading fast, likely thanks to a ‘wall’ of immunity.
Infections, hospitalizations and deaths did increase in the U.S. after New Year’s. But the number of people catching the virus and getting hospitalized and dying from COVID soon started to fall again and have all been dropping now for weeks, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/03/1153970427/u-s-covid-winter-surge-fading-fast
Lol! No, it’s just that the Chinese efforts at augmenting a virus amounts to their reputation of building durable products. Either that or they just took Fauci’s money and acted like they were doing serious clinical research…
More words of wisdom from GOP rep Marjorie “Peach Tree” Greene.
Marjorie Taylor Greene lamented “there’s not people fighting for regular Americans” such as “the average white male trying to climb the corporate ladder when his problem is being white and male.”
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A New York man who pleaded guilty Wednesday to leaving threatening voicemails for right-wing GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene dared her to press charges and even spelled out his full name and left his phone number on one of the menacing calls, federal prosecutors say.
Joseph F. Morelli, 51, admitted that he called Greene’s office three times from his Endicott home on March 3, 2022, according to the US Attorney’s Office in New York.
According to court records, Morelli pled guilty to three counts of interstate threatening communications. He also identified himself in the voicemails in federal court.
Prosecutors say Morelli admitted he left Greene a voicemail saying, “I’m gonna have to take your life into my own hands… I’m gonna hurt you. Physically, I’m gonna harm you.”
According to the feds, Morelli admitted he said in another voicemail: “You promote violence, and I think as a true patriot and humanitarian and human being, I think I’m gonna have to show you, to your face, right up front, what violence truly is and I don’t think you’re gonna like it.”
At one point, Morelli even spelled out his name and told Greene’s office where he lived, according to court records.
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-man-pleads-guilty-marjorie-taylor-greene-threatening-voicemails-2023-2
Must be all of that dangerous left wing inflammatory social media rhetoric…
There sure is Plenty of it …….
Might just explain WHY MTG would want to have a gun.
They should take that gun away from her. She keeps shooting herself in the foot every time she open her mouth.
‘Miserable’ Marjorie Taylor Greene Whines That Her Congressional Salary Is Too Low.
They make $174,000 a year.
Last year congress was only in session half the year.
Daily Beast-
And voted from Va-ca spots the other half of the year.
And Nancy P set the schedule.
Now Congress has to actually show up, especially to vote.
I guess you forgot AOC whining about not being able to afford DC rent…and asking for money.
https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/about-a-dozen-oregon-nurses-connected-to-fake-diploma-scheme-board-says/
Who is watching the ones that are supposed to be watching the watchers…???
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-nursing-board-falsified-records-on-investigations-into-allegations-against-nurses-report/
“The California board that regulates the nursing industry falsified its records to make it appear it was properly investigating allegations made against the state’s nurses, including serious complaints such as patient harm that can lead to nurses losing their licenses.”
“That was revealed in a scathing new report on Tuesday from the California State Auditor, who in 2016 found the board was slow to assign and review complaints that ranged from medical misconduct to the death of a toddler. The audit directed the board to get a move on clearing its backlog of pending investigations against nurses.”…
“In 2016, the auditor said the backlog of cases led to nurses who were a risk to patients keeping their jobs. Typically, complaints against licensed nurses can include unprofessional conduct, drug use and negligence, according to the board.”
“In one case, the board took a year and a half to assign a complaint that alleged a nurse caused the death of a toddler by giving the wrong dosage of a medication. The nurse was allowed to practice for over three years while the complaint was being processed.”
We saw who watches the Watchers during Deep Horizon, when the Watchers were having orgies and a drug fest on site, with those they were supposed to be watching.
Fact-checked
, Ocasio-Cortez told the New York Times shortly after her Nov. 6 general election win that she won’t be able to afford an apartment in the Washington, D.C., area until her new $174,000-a-year salary kicks in next year…
Google~
Like implying St Joe’s nurses were purposely killing patients on social media?
Those left-wing people?
Biden Says He’ll Shoot Down Chinese Spy Balloon As Soon As He’s Done Letting It Spy
@BabylonBee
https://t.co/rdYAnALclI
Wait, that’s what really happened, Xi leisurely drifted across three ICBM bases and the stealth strategic bomber base in Missouri, uploading spy data continuously, then sank it in the Atlantic. What a national embarrassment!
And how were the Chinese planing on retrieving this data?
Tell us you’re kidding, right?
Here is a screenshot of the Air Force base people are so worried about from Google Earth.
You can zoom down to parking lot level.
Google even gives you directions which can be translated into Chinese.
Does Google Maps map pick up communications also?
Or how fast we can scramble during an EMP attack?
But A Chinese EMP attack would help with Biden’s Energy destruction plan.
LOL communications are being monitored by the US 24/7.
EMP attacks? You mean like those caused by solar flares?
Should we declare war on the sun?
Just Googled this. Can be translated into Chinese.
The current ICBM force consists of Minuteman III missiles located at the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming; the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana; and the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.
Do people seriously think you can install missile silos and keep it a secret? I am sure somebody is going to notice.
So, you’re saying China wouldn’t mind at all if we fly balloons over their missile silo’s?
Yeah, right. LOL
Umm how do you think the US keeps track of say North Korea or Iranian nuclear sites?
With satellite imagery…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-weighing-decision-shoot-down-chinese-spy-balloon-atlantic-ocean-official-tells-fox-news
“The U.S. is considering a plan to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon once it crosses over the Atlantic Ocean, where it could fall without causing harm to anyone below and potentially be recovered, a senior U.S. official told Fox News.”
Gets me thinking about all the US and Canada planes grounded for a technical breakdown a couple of weeks ago, Hmm.
And this balloon entered over Alaska, crossed Canada, entered continental US.
It’s about time Joe…
China must hav already got whatever they wanted…
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/politics/china-spy-balloon-tick-tock/index.html
‘Inside Biden’s decision to ‘take care of’ the Chinese spy balloon that triggered a diplomatic crisis’
Whose got the floppy disk now?
Yuge spy balloons been flying for years.
I think China, Russia, Iran and N Korea can tell the difference between China’s balloon and The West’s balloon mocking ourselves.
Does it make you feel good when we help them by disrespecting our own Western Countries?
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Michael Shellenberger takes Hunter Biden APART for demanding his dad’s DOJ investigate whistleblower
Posted at 2:36 pm on February 3, 2023
Nobody ever accused Hunter Biden of being that smart … well, except his dad.
What exactly does Hunter think will happen if they go after the whistleblower? It only makes Hunter look worse, and that he’s trying to use his dad’s DOJ to make it happen kinda sorta totally proves corruption and abuse of power.
Just sayin’.
Michael Shellenberger of course said it far better in a thread:
It’s here…..
twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/02/03/michael-shellenberger-takes-hunter-biden-apart-for-demanding-his-dads-doj-investigate-whistleblower/
twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/02/03/michael-shellenberger-takes-hunter-biden-apart-for-demanding-his-dads-doj-investigate-whistleblower/
Not a good idea………..
WATCH – The intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities of high-altitude spy balloons.
What information was the Chinese spy balloon gathering?
https://t.co/FeAx5bU7ow https://t.co/hpex2dXGaB
Educational video included
Since the reporting of the ballon there has been a run of aluminum foil at local stores.
So, which stores have you been to?
The Dollar Twenty Five Store of course..
They also sell spy balloons.
Good capture, Thanks
Feb 4 (Reuters) – A federal law prohibiting marijuana users from possessing firearms is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Oklahoma has concluded, citing last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that significantly expanded gun rights.
U.S. District Judge Patrick Wyrick, an appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump in Oklahoma City, on Friday dismissed an indictment against a man charged in August with violating that ban, saying it infringed his right to bear arms under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ban-marijuana-users-owning-guns-is-unconstitutional-us-judge-rules-2023-02-04/
Protect yourself against the next Chinese ballon attack.
A poor man’s Faraday shield room can be made inside a house by lining a small closet with heavy-duty aluminum foil, covering all four walls, the floor, the ceiling, and the inside of the door. Overlap and tape the seams using either conductive or regular cellophane tape.
Google@~
Do the Chinese not realize Google Earth also gives you the latitude and longitude of sites?
Why waste a ballon when you can just download the app….?
Perhaps #China was simply giving the #US a balloon. Much like one would give a child to make them feel better! #balloon #Saturdayvibe https://t.co/wPLXasGFXd
@CGMeifangZhang
That’s the Chinese government official response, balloon for Hunter’s birthday
“Gestapo Soup” Greene shoots self in foot again.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene??
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Literally every regular person I know is talking about how to shoot down the Chinese Spy Balloon.
It would be great if an average Joe shot it down because China Joe won’t.
Regular Americans can do everything better than the government and actually care about our country.
1:48 PM · Feb 3, 2023
Ummm it was at 60,000 feet. Not quite in the range of your AK47…
Maybe she meant this..
@scottjshapiro
Meeting tonight to authorize the downing of the Chinese Spy Balloon with the Jewish Space Laser.
If it was right for Biden to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon then wouldn’t it have been immensely better to have shot it down when it first entered US sovereign territory in Alaska instead of allowing it to transmit surveillance data crossing the US for a week? The damage was done then shot down for meaningless optics.
https://earth.google.com/web/@0,-12.3896,0a,22251752.77375655d,35y,0h,0t,0r
Why do you think the last two presidents have allowed a Chinese balloon to fly over the states?
I’ve seen unattributed reports to that effect and several denials by Trump administration officials. If it happened during past administrationsthen I trust we’ll see those photos. If it happened repeatedly in the past than why weren’t there similar reports from citizens and pilots observing these large surveillance balloons drifting across continental America?
As in Biden and Trump, or as in Trump and Obama…???
I don’t remember ever hearing about it before…
But maybe this is why…???
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/politics/chinese-spy-balloons-trump-administration/index.html
‘Chinese spy balloons under Trump not discovered until after Biden took office’
It sounds like Biden’s theme song is “chop sticks”, not Trump’s or Obama’s…!!!
“The damage was done then shot down for meaningless optics.”
But wait, according to likes of herself, past posts, we’ve the Commie-friendly BidEN Regime. Meaning, right, Biden wanted his buddy Xi to see all, shot it down only after it’d passed. So obvious, the Authoritarian-CCCP-Hunter-Ukraine-10%-Bluh-Bluh-Bluh or, maybe, you know it’s all been Hot Air that stuff. Yeah. So, if it comes down to Trump vs Haley, you for Haley right?
Critical Cupcake
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Teachers in 1930s Germany hid books to avoid being arrested.
Teachers in republican Florida are hiding books to avoid being arrested.
Any questions?
Latest ‘Gold Standard’ Review Puts The Final Nail In The Coffin For Masks
https://t.co/q4aV00UvZE
So the whole mask thing was a waste?
Links going over Pfizer’s press release concerning the re-examination of pre-release studies done on vaccine side effects. In other words these were side effects Pfizer knew about before the vaccines were released to the public based on their own studies and clinical trials.
And another video of German studies on heart damage as a side effect to vaccines.
https://youtu.be/j_DdSMn55cA
https://youtu.be/JYR1wz-Cf_M
https://youtu.be/-FK17NU4_r8
Here’s a link going over a study from Israel that examined a huge group of people as it relates to myocarditis after catching covid but before vaccines were available.
https://youtu.be/RMMA9bwDklQ
A link to a study from Thailand about vaccines and complications affecting the heart.
https://youtu.be/ekTR0w2M9-U
We recognize that those experiencing vaccine adverse effects are struggling to get proper diagnosis and care.
The tests in this guide often help paint a clearer picture amongst our community. Work with your provider to determine which are right for you.
https://t.co/d4jsIGBEae
Guide to appropriate medical tests if adverse vaccine symptoms suspected
People should be worried about the side effects of believing all these “studies” put forth on Twitter and YouTube….
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973313
‘New Data Confirm Risk of Guillain-Barre With J&J COVID Shot’
Simply more anti-vaccine porn…
“ Pointing to the fact that GBS is “an extremely rare” side effect of the COVID vaccine, Putrino said the new warning shouldn’t affect someone’s decision to get vaccinated. “The benefit of being vaccinated still far outweighs the risk of GBS from the vaccine,” Putrino said.
Dr. Kolson agreed: “This risk is very, very low, and the benefit of the vaccine in preventing COVID and its complications is huge”
Health-
Ever since the ballon went over, I have had this craving for Chinese food…..
That’s racist.
Good screen name.
At least I’m not racist
But you are
Personal attacks aren’t allowed. Not even sneaky ones.
I’m sure you know the rule # since you’re always pointing it out to others.
LOL He calls me racist yet you blame the victim?
His screen name is misguided, so he is misguided.
Like your post is.
You seen to enjoy battling with others
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/asia/china-balloon-latin-america-intl/index.html
‘Balloon over Latin America belongs to China, Beijing says’
Wait until this happens. People will be freaking out!
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta®
October 7 – 15 2023
New Rule: A Woke Revolution
The problem with communism – and with some very recent ideologies here at home – is that they think you can change reality by screaming at it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yysKhJ1U-vM&t=65s&ab_channel=RealTimewithBillMaher
US media whips up anti-Chinese hysteria over balloon flight………..
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Over the past four days, the American population has been subjected to a barrage of war propaganda over the claim that China sent a huge balloon visible to the naked eye to spy on US nuclear bases.
The media machine is operating at full throttle. Since the balloon’s existence was publicly announced last week, breathless coverage has provided minute-by-minute updates on the progress of the floating white balloon as it slowly traversed across the continental United States. The story led every newspaper for days, was the first item on the evening news broadcasts, and dominated the 24-hour cable news networks.
WSWS~
CBS News finds children mining cobalt for batteries in the Congo
March 5, 2018 / 7:40 AM / CBS News
A CBS News investigation has found child labor being used in the dangerous mining of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The mineral cobalt is used in virtually all batteries in common devices, including cellphones, laptops and even electric vehicles.
A report by Amnesty International first revealed that cobalt mined by children was ending up in products from several companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Tesla and Samsung.
CBS News traveled to the DRC to follow the complex supply chain. As CBS News correspondent Debora Patta reports, it’s been two years since that damning Amnesty report was published, but the DRC is a country embattled in conflict, and it is difficult and sometimes dangerous to report from there.
On a recent trip to the southern part of the country, CBS News found what looked like the Wild West. There were children digging in trenches and laboring in lakes — hunting for treasure in a playground from hell.
#Children are seen washing cobalt in a lake at a mine in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. CBS News
The work is hard enough for an adult man, but it is unthinkable for a child. Yet tens of thousands of Congolese kids are involved in every stage of mining for cobalt. The latest research by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates 40,000 children are working in DRC mines.
More than half of the world’s supply of cobalt comes from the DRC, and 20 percent of that is mined by hand, according to Darton Commodities Ltd., a London-based research company that specializes in cobalt.
Patta and her team traveled along collapsing dirt roads and saw children everywhere, digging for cobalt among abandoned open pit mines. It was clear that security officials in charge there — only some of them in uniforms — have something to hide.
There’s such sensitivity around cobalt mining in the DRC that every few hundred feet the CBS News team was stopped, with security personnel requesting letters and documentation, even though we had official permission to be there.
But for the Chinese middlemen who buy the cobalt, there were no such constraints; they have free access.
In the mines, women and children help with the so-called artisanal mining, but don’t be fooled — it is no quaint cottage industry. At barely 10 years old, children lug heavy sacks of cobalt to be washed in rivers. From as early as four, they can pick it out of a pile.
Even those too young to work — dust-covered infants clinging to their mothers and playing on the dirty ground — spend much of the day breathing in toxic fumes.
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The corporate lies of going green
The article above is : From March 5, 2018 / 7:40 AM / CBS News
Ya think Joe Biden, Kerry and Al Gore know about this?
New article…….
How ‘modern-day slavery’ in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy
February 1, 202312:38 PM ET
Heard on Fresh Air
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It’s interesting that they all live on the beach, I’d say they’re not to worried about climate change, but would enjoy the change they can put in their pocket.
What is it the Democrats keep saying about slavery and equity?
https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-such-hand-washing-or-wearing-masks-stop-or-slow-down-spread-respiratory-viruses
41% of Americans say they’re financially worse off after two years of Biden, the worst outcome in 37 years of the polling question.
Crazy Joe Biden did that. He said a couple days ago that he inherited Bidenflation when he entered office but record books demonstrate inflation was a modest 1.4% in January 2021 and we all know what it’s been since, Bidenflation’s 13% devaluation of our money
On the other hand, the January jobs report on Friday showed the U.S. economy gained 517,000 jobs last month, with the unemployment rate falling to a 54-year low of 3.4% from 3.5%. The report “ends U.S. recession fears,” one economist said.
@MW~
Ok and yet organic butter is 11$.. gas is at an all time high still..what is it you are trying toa rogue?
Trying to charge your electric car in the Winter…
https://twitter.com/ThevoiceAlexa/status/1622082372211556353
Drop in gas prices gives cost advantage back to ICE-powered vehicles for the first time since the second quarter of 2021.
https://www.andersoneconomicgroup.com/cars-gas-powered-cheaper-to-fuel-than-electric-in-late-2022/
Just 14% of Americans believe their lives are better off after two years of the Biden administration, those apparently billionaires and other benefactors of Biden’s green deal crony capitalism. Never before have more Americans needed a 2nd job just to survive. People understand Biden’s neverending monstrous deficits, $8 trillion of new spending in just first two years, assure hyper Bidenflation and the economic calamity of the collapse of the world reserve dollar in this first half century.
Joe Biden did that! Elections have consequences
GOP rep “Peach Tree” Greene wants to probe Trump.
“ Greene calls for probe into why Trump was unaware of previous Chinese balloons”
The Hill~
Trump/Greene 2024! ?
https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-such-hand-washing-or-wearing-masks-stop-or-slow-down-spread-respiratory-viruses
Recent poll finds only 37% of DEMOCRATS want Biden on 2024 ballot. Trump leads in recent head-to-head poll
‘Ol cog dec Joe, yep. But as to other sentence snuggied up against first one, which poll exactly has Donny leading head-to-head?
Biden 2024? Most Democrats say no thank you: AP-NORC poll
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Democrats now think one term is plenty for President Joe Biden, despite his insistence that he plans to seek reelection in 2024.
1 day ago In a hypothetical rematch, Trump held a 48 percent to 45 percent advantage over Biden, an outcome that is within the new poll’s margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
https://news.yahoo.com/little-enthusiasm-biden-trump-rematch-123213781.html
If those were the choices and the election were today, the poll suggests it could be close: Among all adults, 48 percent support Donald Trump and 44 percent are for Biden; it’s a similar 48-45 percent among registered voters. The differences are within the poll’s margin of sampling error.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/record-numbers-worse-off-recipe-political-discontent-poll/story?id=96884607
Seriously? That poll was how many people? 1,003…..
But let’s hope Trump does run..
Trump/Santos 2024! ?
They could run as Independent. The Liars Party…
A recent poll found that just over 40% of Americans consider themselves political pundits.
This is interesting, because the same poll found that just under 15% of Americans know what the word pundit means.
Unknown~
Trump and Biden tied in a hypothetical 2024 matchup: poll….
5% for Biden, 5% for Trump, and 90% said, “God no.”
Unknown~
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L O L G O P
@lolgop
It would be nice if the press noted that Republicans are threatening to destroy America’s full faith and credit, crash the economy and put millions of Americans out of work — all to get demands that they can’t name in public.
82% of Americans are cutting into savings just to get by and 64% are living paycheck to paycheck all because of Bidenflation and exorbitant interest rates caused by Biden administration policies.
Joe Biden did that!
Family of three in PA commits suicide after losing their minds due to Trumps lies…
Suicide pact of husband, wife and daughter commenced on their property that was “littered with MAGA and anti-abortion signs”.
Make Afterlife Great Again
Trump lies and Christian extremism did that!
Not telling whole story. Cherry-picking.
Story doesn’t say what you said
82% of middle-income households have cut down on the amount of money they’re savings or reached into existing savings to make up for the shortfall in their incomes in the last three months of 2022 due to the higher cost of living.
So I am assuming your 64% is wrong also.
Each American taxpayer owes a quarter million dollars of the national debt under current Biden administration and Biden is planning on adding to the debt for each of us rapidly, each and every year going forward. How long can Joe continue doing this to America until he sends us into economic collapse, endless hyper Bidenflation, skyhigh interest rates that drive interest expense on our debt above a trillion a year making it nearly impossible to fund essential domestic and defense programs, until new American debt is so risky that no one will buy it, and then… things get even worse.
Joe Biden did that!
Nope, more BS unless you have proof of that quarter million dollar amount.
. President Biden’s predecessor passed a nearly $2 trillion unpaid for tax cut with benefits skewed to the wealthy and large corporations, and the deficit went up every single year under his watch. Under President Biden, the deficit has fallen by $1.7 trillion, and his reforms to take on Big Pharma, lower prescription drug costs, and make the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share will reduce the deficit by hundreds of billions more.
Google News~
Trump Admins* 6th State of the Onion speech, gonna Yuge.
Each “household”…
($239,741)
Each “person”…
($94,082)
https://www.justfacts.com/nationaldebt.asp
•$94,082 for every person living in the U.S.[8]
•$239,741 for every household in the U.S.[9]
•67% more than the combined consumer debt of every household in the U.S.[10]
•6.4 times annual federal revenues.[11]
124% of annual U.S. economic output (GDP).[12]
Each “taxpayer”…
$155,280.09
(My figure)
National debt… $31,000,000,000,000…
Based on US population of 333,287,557…
59.9% pay taxes….
(199,639,246 “taxpayers”)