COVID-19 Viruses and Vaccines

[Spartacus]

15 hours ago, Foxx said:

If True, Alarming

 

of course it's not true

it doesn't support the fear porn narrative that the jab is 100% safe and effective to save you from covid.

 

also -

the above blurb left out the scariest number, that those with 1 jab had a 145% higher mortality rate

 

Edited April 8, 2023 by Spartacus

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

18 hours ago, Foxx said:

If True, Alarming

 

 

Deaths per 100k "person years."

 

That's important - it's a rate not per people, but per people weighted towards an older population.  (I.e. a 16-year old only counts a quarter as much as a 64-year old in the calculation).  

 

Which also means that if your vaccination rates are skewed towards an older population, so will your "mortality" rates (in reality, it's not a "mortality" rate at all, being age-weighted.)  You really can't derive anything epidemiologically useful from it without an age-adjusted vaccination rate.

[Spartacus]

Switzerland goes off the reservation

 

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/switzerland-stops-recommending-covid-19-vaccination_5180835.html?utm_source=healthnoe&src_src=healthnoe&utm_campaign=health-2023-04-10&src_cmp=health-2023-04-10&utm_medium=email&est=EE80KKyDSTPdrjFc5kNrLlg5A5XpaQeA0konPxL2pADj7e6LTWaXF30BKB9Hnzk%3D

 

 

Swiss authorities have stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccination, including for people who are designated at high risk from COVID-19.

 

Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health now says that “no COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for spring/summer 2023.”

 

People designated at high risk also aren’t recommended to get a COVID-19 vaccine, authorities said.

 

Officials attributed the change to the number of citizens who have received a vaccine, recovered from COVID-19, or have received a vaccine and also enjoy natural immunity from post-recovery protection.

“Nearly everyone in Switzerland has been vaccinated and/or contracted and recovered from COVID-19. Their immune system has therefore been exposed to the coronavirus. In spring/summer 2023, the virus will likely circulate less. The current virus variants also cause rather mild illness,” Swiss health officials said.

 

Seroprevalence data from mid-2022 show that more than 98 percent of the Swiss population had antibodies against the COVID-19 virus, indicating that people had immunity from prior infection, vaccination, or both.

 

The Omicron coronavirus variant of the COVID-19 virus, which started circulating around the world in late 2021, causes less severe cases than its predecessor, Delta. The available COVID-19 vaccines have performed increasingly worse against Omicron and its subvariants, providing little or even negative protection against infection and quickly waning shielding against severe disease.

 

 

[Foxx]

Better late than never

 

[Foxx]

You know...

 

[Spartacus]

1 hour ago, Foxx said:

You know...

 

everyone knows that multiple masks eliminated the flu

[Spartacus]

if only people would get more jabs, we could have these variants spread like wildfire

 

Rapidly Spreading New ‘Arcturus’ COVID Strain Detected in 20 States (msn.com)

 

Last week, the World Health Organization said that it was monitoring a variant dubbed XBB.1.16, or “Arcturus.” This is an Omicron subvariant, similar to the most transmissible COVID variant yet -- XBB.1.5,, nicknamed “Kraken.

[Ann]

Covid is over as of yesterday.  Biden signed to end it.

[devnull]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/new-covid-variant-arcturus-emerges-29690205

[IDBillzFan]

6 hours ago, devnull said:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/new-covid-variant-arcturus-emerges-29690205

 

Right on cue.

[B-Man]

On 4/12/2023 at 10:44 AM, Ann said:

Covid is over as of yesterday.  Biden signed to end it.

 

 

WHY NOW? 

 

White House invests $5 billion in new COVID vaccines and treatments as national emergency ends.

 

 

 

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

2 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

WHY NOW? 

 

White House invests $5 billion in new COVID vaccines and treatments as national emergency ends.

 

 

 

 

Because they have money left over from prior congressional appropriations and have to spend it or they get less money come October.

[Foxx]

3 minutes ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

Because they have money left over from prior congressional appropriations and have to spend it or they get less money come October.

They couldn't find something useful to spend it on?

[Spartacus]

 

1 hour ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

Because they have money left over from prior congressional appropriations and have to spend it or they get less money come October.

Testing?

We don't need no stinking testing

We know the jab was not designed to stop Covid

 

 

https://www.popsci.com/health/white-house-nextgen-covid-vaccine-treatment/

 

Previous vaccine funding requests have been repeatedly denied by Congress, with Republicans insisting that the Biden Administration use funds left over from previous pandemic aid packages. The White House directed HHS to free up $5 billion for Operation Next Gen and the agency responded by shifting funds from testing and other priorities. 

 

 

 

[devnull]

1 hour ago, Foxx said:

They couldn't find something useful to spend it on?

 

The way Government spending works is if your budget is $100M but you only spend $90M this year, next years budget is reduced to $90M because that's how much you spent

 

However if your budget is $100M but you actually spent $110M, next years budget is increased so you don't come in over budget again

[Foxx]

12 minutes ago, devnull said:

 

The way Government spending works is if your budget is $100M but you only spend $90M this year, next years budget is reduced to $90M because that's how much you spent

 

However if your budget is $100M but you actually spent $110M, next years budget is increased so you don't come in over budget again

I understand that. What I'm saying is, they probably could have spent the money better. But, the government spending money better, is an oxy-moron.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

15 minutes ago, Foxx said:

I understand that. What I'm saying is, they probably could have spent the money better. But, the government spending money better, is an oxy-moron.

 

Probably not, because if it's properly appropriated (i.e. by Congress), it's for a specific purpose and can be hard to move around.  Odds are this was appropriated "COVID funding" and had to be used as such, so they threw it at more vaccine research.

 

That happens a lot more than people realize.  I got into a vicious argument on Twitter several years ago with someone who should have known better, about Trump's "cancellation" (I forget the exact word) of a half-billion in Ebola treatment funding appropriated for the 2014-2016 outbreak.  She bitched Trump was being vindictive in not using it for other purposes (West Nile or something - completely unrelated to Ebola at any rate); I pointed out that the funding was specifically earmarked for the Sierra Leone/Liberia/Guinea outbreak and couldn't be repurposed.  

 

Most people only hear about cost overruns, not "under"-runs.

[Fansince88]

On 4/13/2023 at 7:21 PM, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

Probably not, because if it's properly appropriated (i.e. by Congress), it's for a specific purpose and can be hard to move around.  Odds are this was appropriated "COVID funding" and had to be used as such, so they threw it at more vaccine research.

 

That happens a lot more than people realize.  I got into a vicious argument on Twitter several years ago with someone who should have known better, about Trump's "cancellation" (I forget the exact word) of a half-billion in Ebola treatment funding appropriated for the 2014-2016 outbreak.  She bitched Trump was being vindictive in not using it for other purposes (West Nile or something - completely unrelated to Ebola at any rate); I pointed out that the funding was specifically earmarked for the Sierra Leone/Liberia/Guinea outbreak and couldn't be repurposed.  

 

Most people only hear about cost overruns, not "under"-runs.

Probably shared this hear before but, a friend of mine was a private contractor installing computer systems all over Fort Drum. They asked him for a bid on a particular reorder program and setup. He quoted them 65k. They told him they were alloted 110k and if they didnt spend it all they would be hardpressed to get that funding next year. He made 45k more then he expected because of that. This was in the mid 90s so that was really good money.

[Ann]

 

 

[IDBillzFan]

Trust the science! (Until it evolves.)

 

So grateful my family avoided this crap.