Month: November 2021

Who among us hasn’t played that children’s game where the phrases “You’re hot” or “you’re getting colder” are used?  Here these phrases provide clues as to whether or not the individual is getting closer to or further away from the hidden object. Obviously in this game “getting hotter” is a good thing, whereas “getting colder” is a bad thing.  In real life does this also hold true?

From the New York Post:

“Heat deaths are beguilingly click-worthy, and studies show that heat kills about 2,500 people every year in the United States and Canada. However, rising temperatures also reduce cold waves and cold deaths. 

Those deaths are rarely reported, because they don’t fit the current climate narrative. Of course, if they were just a curiosity, the indifference might be justified, but they are anything but. Each year, more than 100,000 people die from cold in the United States, and 13,000 in Canada — more than 40 cold deaths for every heat death.

The same pattern holds, including in countries not typically associated with frigid winters. In India, cold deaths outnumber heat deaths 7 to 1. Globally, 1.7 million people die of cold each year, dwarfing heat deaths (300,000).

For now, rising temperatures likely save lives. A landmark study in the medical journal Lancet found that climate change over the past decades has across every region averted more cold deaths than it has caused additional heat deaths. On average, it saves upwards of 100,000 lives each year.

For the United States: The share of hot days has increased since 1960 and affected a steadily larger population. Yet the numbers of heat deaths have halved over the same period — thanks to technology. The rest of the world needs access to the same simple technologies to drastically reduce heat deaths.

Tackling cold deaths turns out to be much harder, because it requires well-heated homes over weeks and months. Moreover, heavy-handed climate policies will increase heating costs and make cold deaths even more prevalent.”

From Paul Driessen on Townhall:

“Public Health England calculated  that one-tenth of all “excess winter deaths” in England and Wales are directly attributable to fuel poverty, and 21.5% of excess winter deaths are attributable to the coldest 25% of homes. 30,000 to 40,000 people died each year in England and Wales since 1990 who would not have perished if their homes hadn’t been so cold, researchers estimated.

(Adjusted for population, this is equivalent to 165,000 to 220,000 excess American winter deaths per year.)

In 2017, Germany endured172,000 localized blackouts; in 2019,350,000 German families had their electricity cut off because they couldn’t pay their power bills.

Coal, oil, natural gas, electricity and home heating costs have risen significantly since those studies were prepared, likely increasing the excess winter death toll markedly. In fact, 2021 European gas prices skyrocketed nearly 600%over 2020 prices, and Rotterdam coal futures soared from $60/ton in October 2020 to $265/ton in September 2021.”

So with winter coming, now under Joe Biden, the United States is already on a trajectory to Europe’s real climate crisis: unaffordable, unreliable energy. President Biden is committing all of us to energy policies that favor wind and solar over fossil fuels. These “green” policies beget “fuel poverty” that can make adequate heating impossible, causing numerous health problems and deaths. 

Poor, minority, elderly and fixed-income families are most severely and inequitably affected. For those, it could be a very painful and deadly winter. Again another instance where Democratic policies hurt those on the lower edges of the economic spectrum, the most!

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11/10/21

The following is from an article in the journal, Science, 11/4/21 titled:“SARS-CoV-2 vaccine protection and deaths among US veterans during 2021.”

The abstract reads as follows:

We report SARS-CoV-2 vaccine effectiveness against infection (VE-I) and death (VE-D) by vaccine type (n = 780,225) in the Veterans Health Administration, covering 2.7% of the U.S. population. From February to October 2021, VE-I declined from 87.9% to 48.1%, and the decline was greatest for the Janssen vaccine resulting in a VE-I of 13.1%. Although breakthrough infection increased risk of death, vaccination remained protective against death in persons who became infected during the Delta surge. From July to October 2021, VE-D for age 65 years was 73.0% for Janssen, 81.5% for Moderna, and 84.3% for Pfizer-BioNTech; VE-D for age ≥65 years was 52.2% for Janssen, 75.5% for Moderna, and 70.1% for Pfizer-BioNTech. Findings support continued efforts to increase vaccination, booster campaigns, and multiple, additional layers of protection against infection.

Pertinent details from the article:

For the period February 1, 2021 to October 1, 2021, vaccine effectiveness against infection (VE-I) declined over time, even after adjusting for age, sex, and comorbidity. VE-I declined for all vaccine types, with the largest declines for Janssen followed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Specifically, in March, VE-I was 86.4% for Janssen; 89.2%; 89.2% for Moderna; and 86.9% for Pfizer-BioNTech. By September, VE-I had declined to 13.1% for Janssen; 58.0% for Moderna; and 43.3% for Pfizer-BioNTech.

What about the Delta variant? Again from the same Science article:

Importantly, endurance of VE-I in the face of the Delta variant in this large, population-based sample was dependent upon vaccine type, and this was consistent across all age groups and time since vaccination. Most studies of VE-I have examined Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines and our study adds to this literature by showing dramatic declines in VE-I for the Janssen vaccine. Similarly, we found VE-D for the Janssen vaccine was much lower– about 50% – compared to the randomized trial. These findings are consistent with the better neutralizing antibody response observed following vaccination with Moderna or Pfizer-BioNtech compared to Janssen vaccines, and in response to the Delta variant (34). In addition, differences in immune response to mRNA vaccines by type of immunity support the more enduring protection against death (via cellular immunity) compared to protection against infection (more dependent on antibodies).

The summary from this same Science article:

In summary, although vaccination remains protective against SARS-CoV-2 infection, protection waned as the Delta variant emerged in the U.S., and this decline did not differ by age. The Janssen vaccine showed the greatest decline in VE-I. Breakthrough infections were not benign as vaccinated persons and who were subsequently infected had a higher risk of death compared to vaccinated persons who remained infection-free. Importantly, vaccination still provided protection against death in infected persons, and this benefit was observed for the Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Janssen vaccines during the Delta surge, although the benefit was greater for Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech compared to Janssen vaccines. Our findings support the conclusion that COVID-19 vaccines remain the most important tool to prevent infection and death. Vaccines should be accompanied by additional measures for both vaccinated and unvaccinated persons, including masking, hand washing, and physical distancing. It is essential to implement public health interventions, such as strategic testing for control of outbreaks, vaccine passports, employment-based vaccine mandates, vaccination campaigns for eligible children as well as adults, and consistent messaging from public health leadership in the face of increased risk of infection due to the Delta and other emerging variants.

Although a very impressive study with a massive number of patients studied, at the end opinion was interjected concerning vaccine passports, employment-based vaccine mandates, and vaccination campaigns for eligible children as well as adults. Please note that in the spirit of fairness and completeness that I have included these opinions, even though I am not convinced that mandates and vaccine passports will turn out to be legal. Be that as it may, I found it interesting that the authors commented on vaccines for children, although I am pretty certain that there are no children in the VA system of healthcare.

11/9/21

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Well it took me long enough, and I am chagrined to say that I have worn blinders to the obvious for such a long time. Most of us are aware of the blinders that are put on horses so that they can only look straight ahead and cannot lose focus by glancing off to the side. It finally dawned on me that the health/disease gurus who “know best” are all wearing blinders. They are narrowly focused on the only thing in which they supposedly have expertise. Their blinders do not allow them to do anything but look straight ahead, and that is why they cannot glance at those things which are outside of their focused, “only look straight ahead” view. 

Blinders   

I will surmise that it will be years into the future before we can all look back on this pandemic, and wonder why we wore blinders for so long.

Remember back in the beginning when we were told that we should all lockdown for a few weeks in order to stop the spread of the virus. Giving a gratuitous benefit of the doubt to them, I think that those who knew best were trying their best at that time. Well, okay … that didn’t work, but those few weeks turned into a few months and now we are all into a few years. 

In the beginning I thought that President Trump also wore blinders because to me it seemed that he only paid attention to Dr. Fauci. What should have been the foreseen consequences of only paying attention to Fauci were apparently hidden by blinders. The vast downsides of only paying attention to Fauci were enormous and some are still with us … unemployment, suicides, drug overdoses, depression, business closings, etcetera … and the ultimate topper … the death rates from Covid are worse in 2021.

Okay, mea culpa for me also wearing blinders in the past. However we are still wearing blinders by paying attention to the king and the queen of blinders. Both the king, Dr. Fauci (don’t visit with family over the holidays), and the queen, CDC’s Dr. Rochelle Walensky (“Children should continue to wear masks in schools even when they are vaccinated.”) are themselves speaking while wearing their own blinders. The problem, however, continues to be that the American public are still wearing their own blinders by solely paying attention to these two clucks.

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11/8/21

On 11/2/21 two upsets occurred in New Jersey … one major and one minor. Following a previous Sunday theme I am going to relate the incredible stories of Edward R. Durr and Nicholas Seppy. Granted some of you may have heard of these two upsets, one major and one minor, but not on MSM.

First the minor upset.

Nicholas Seppy, a 19-year-old graduate of Egg Harbor Township High School, trounced his opponent, sitting board member Terre Alabarda, by about 18 percentage points in New Jersey’s election on 11/2/21.

Seppy reportedly garnered 59% support with 4,042 votes, while Alabarda earned just 41% with 2,830 votes, according to Atlantic County’s election results webpage.

In conversation with the College Fix, Seppy slammed the shutdowns as “awful” and said that he decided to run for a seat on the school board “out of a desire to serve in [his] community” and to “give parents a voice in the district.”

It gets better. Next the major upset.

On Tuesday, November 2, Mr. Edward Durr defeated Steve Sweeney in New Jersey’s Third District. Okay, okay some guy in New Jersey beat some other guy in New Jersey … so what.

To start with Steve Sweeney is the longest-serving president of the state Senate in New Jersey’s history, while Edward Durr is a 58 year old truck driver who has never held office.

But it gets even better!

Records show that Sweeney and his Assembly running mates had spent more than $1 million as of late October. Meanwhile Ed Durr, of Logan Township, and his running mates raised just $10,460, according to an Oct. 27 campaign finance report. [By contrast, when New Jersey’s largest teachers’ union sought to unseat Sweeney in 2017, it spent about $5 million, and Sweeney won anyway. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)]

Speaking to “Fox News Primetime,” Durr noted that his victory is one by the people, not him.

“I didn’t beat him. We beat him,” Durr said. “The state of New Jersey, the people of New Jersey beat him. They listened to what I had to say and I listened to what they had to say, and it’s a repudiation of Governor Murphy [who] went and locked us down and ignored the people’s voice and senator Sweeney chose to do nothing for those 18 months.”

Durr also vowed to continue being a voice for the people. 

“I’m going to guarantee one thing. I will be the voice and people will hear me because if there is one thing people will learn about me, I got a big mouth and I don’t shut up when I want to be heard. I’m going to be heard,” he said.

But it gets even better!

One hundred and fifty-three dollars.

Reportedly that’s all truck driver Edward Durr spent on his New Jersey state Senate campaign — $66.64 to buy food and drinks for staff and $86.67 for paper flyers and business cards, according to WCAU-TV.

He built his bare-bones campaign at the grassroots level, walking door-to-door throughout the district, wearing jeans and tennis shoes and introducing himself to voters. In ads, Durr is hopping down from his commercial-grade truck or revving the engine on his motorcycle, appearing like the quintessential suburban dad — and in stark contrast to Sweeney, often besuited and photographed over lecterns in the state capital.

What does Mr. Durr stand for?

It gets better and better.

From Townhall:

“I’ve said this before: I’m as blue-collar as you’re ever going to find,” Durr said to WTXF.

To Politico Durr said, “You have the debacle of unemployment. The masking of the kids in school. You have Senator Sweeney trying to take away people’s medical freedom rights,” Durr added. “I think the perfect storm was that he stepped into a pile of you-know-what and couldn’t get out of it because he didn’t know which way to turn. I just tapped into the right focus.”

He also told the outlet that he views himself as a “constitutional conservative” who’s in favor of cutting taxes (income, corporate, and other state taxes) to help “businesses to grow” and reducing property taxes. Durr also wants abortion stopped and favors a law that would outlaw it if a fetal heartbeat is detected, Politico added.

Plus, he’s a big Second Amendment backer who said in a recent YouTube interview that running into roadblocks getting a concealed carry permit spurred him to run for office.

Congrats to both Edward R. Durr and Nicholas Seppy. They are my kind of guys. While I will not moving to New Jersey, perhaps N.J. could clone both of them and send copies to California!

11/7/21

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The COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow is over. In their quest to save the planet from greenhouse gases, the top brass of the different countries traveled to Scotland for COP26 and in doing so generated a staggering amount of emissions by using their private planes for the trip. It was reported that over 400 private planes flew to Glasgow … in other words instead of Zooming, over 400 world leaders zoomed by private jets to Glasgow, and then, of course zoomed home.

I cannot truthfully say that I followed much of went on after Joe Biden fell asleep during the pre-recorded message from South African activist Eddie Ndopu. However, I did catch some of the important points:

-Narendra Modi of India promised that India will achieve zero emissions by 2070. (Most of us, including Mr. Modi will be long gone by 2070, but thank you, Mr. Modi, for taking one for the team!)

-Ireland will need to cull 1.3 million cattle to reach climate goals. (Rumor has it that in Ireland the eating corned beef will soon be outlawed, and most of the cows will be given birth control pills.)

-Greta Thunberg, the eighteen year old juvenile Swedish climate activist, stood outside the building where COP26 was being held and sang in English, “You can shove your climate crisis up your arse.” (Luckily right after singing, she said, “I am pleased to announce that I’ve decided to go net-zero on swear words and bad language. In the event that I should say something inappropriate I pledge to compensate for that by saying something nice.”)

Speaking of saying something nice, this is the answer given by Greta Thunberg on how to get China to decrease fossil fuel usage … 

“I would ask them.”

 (The following is a purported more detailed  interchange between a Scottish reporter and Greta T. on the same subject.)

Reporter: “Considering that China is responsible for 32.6% of the world’s fossil fuel emissions, and this percentage is increasing, how do you propose to get them to decrease their use of fossil fuels?

Greta T: “I would ask them … nicely.”

Reporter: “It seems like a dichotomy that the raw material necessary for green energy production comes almost exclusively from China, and 84% of China’s economy is run on fossil fuels. What say you on this?”

Greta T: “In Sweden only those who have gone to college would dare to use such a big word. My answer to this ‘dicot’ would be to ask them extra politely … “decrease your fossil fuel usage, pretty please!”

Reporter: “China is presently building a new coal fired plant every week. How do you respond to this?”

At this point, Greta T (obviously becoming more flustered by these continuing questions) loudly answered, “Stop your stupid-ass questions!” … then she started singing: “You can shove your climate crisis up your arse!” (Apparently this time for emphasis, she sang in both English and Swedish.)

11/6/21

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At first you all may think that the following is mindless chitchat. To you I say, “Get woke! … what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” This is especially true when the goose is middle/older aged white women, and the gander is young mostly black tall men.

First off, what has happened (the Goose):

The Art Institute of Chicago fired all of its trained volunteers and guides last month, who were mostly older White women, to diversify its team. 

“We were surprised, we were disappointed,” Gigi Vaffis, president of the docent council, said in an interview with radio station WBEZ of the firings. “There is an army of very highly skilled docents that are willing and ready and able to continue with arts education.” 

The Art Institute used to have more than 100 docents, 82 of whom were active, until an executive director of learning and engagement, Veronica Stein, sent an email on Sept. 3 firing them all, the Wall Street Journal reported. Docents are trained volunteers who lead tours of museums, and at the Art Institute, they averaged 15 years of unpaid service. 

The firings were apparently sparked by the fact that most of the docent staff was composed of older White, financially well-off women, the outlet reported. Stein said that the museum needed to take a new path “in a way that allows community members of all income levels to participate, responds to issues of class and income equity, and does not require financial flexibility.” 

The docents sent a letter on Sept. 13  detailing the staff “engaged in eighteen months of twice-a-week training to qualify as a docent, five years of continual research and writing to meet the criteria of 13 museum content areas, and monthly and bi-weekly trainings to further educate ourselves with the materials, processes and cultural context” of the museum’s pieces.

In the spirit of “wokeness,” I guess the Art Institute can do what it pleases. Granted they will be exchanging these educated devoted women, who obviously have a great interest in art for … for whom? 

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If interest in art and knowledge of the artists are not criteria for these unpaid docent jobs, then I would guess that the Art Institute could just go out onto Michigan Avenue or better yet into the non-white, non-affluent neighborhoods of Chicago and randomly choose just about any non-white female to fill these non-paid docent “jobs.” It sounds to me that the main criteria to be a docent will be skin color and sex … seemingly to be a new docent at the now woke Art Institute, one needs to be other than a nonwhite female. Skill in what docents are supposed to do is no longer necessary. 

So what about the Gander? In the NBA there is a predominance of young black males. In the spirit of what Veronica Stein of the Art Institute said, shouldn’t the NBA  “allow community members of all income levels to participate” … white, short, nearsighted, farsighted, etc. Of course the WNBA would then be held to the same high woke standards. Why should a short white person be eliminated from a place on an NBA or WNBA team? Just like with the Art Institute, why should skill, expertise, and experience matter? After all “what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander!”

11/5/21

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Dr. Ben Carson, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon, who served as Housing and Urban Development Secretary under former President Donald Trump, blasted the “giant experiment” of vaccinating children against COVID-19 during Sunday’s broadcast of Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

When asked by host Maria Bartiromo whether he believes young children should receive the COVID-19 vaccine, Carson fired back, “Absolutely not.”

Carson expounded, “The fact of the matter is, the mortality rate for children from COVID-19 is 0.025, which is very similar to the rate for seasonal flu,” he insisted. “And we haven’t been for years and years going through all these things for seasonal flu.”

He added that the long-term implications of the vaccines for children are currently unknown, which ought to send up red flags for parents.

“Plus, we don’t know what the long-term impact of these vaccines is, so this is really sort of a giant experiment,” Carson explained. “Do we want to put our children at risk, when we know that the risk of the disease to them is relatively small, but we don’t know what the future risks are? Why would we do a thing like that? It makes no sense whatsoever.”

The FDA on 10/29  announced its emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech in children ages 5 to 11 years old and in a statement said, “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet to discuss further clinical recommendations,”

In the ongoing study, a total of 1,444 vaccine recipients were followed for safety for at least 2 months after the second dose.” (The key points here are underlined by me … namely “ongoing” and “two months”.) At this point there is no long term follow up.

Similarly, Dr. Eric Rubin, a voting member of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee, admitted last week that the vaccine’s ultimate safety profile won’t be known fully until it begins being administered to children. “We’re never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it,” said Rubin. “That’s just the way it goes.”

Not exactly a stunning recommendation,and others, respected in their field, have a similar take.

From Townhall:

Famed Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch, who up until about 18 months ago was one of the most respected scientists in the world, before he came out as a covid realist. Here’s what the good doctor said in a recent interview when asked about the jabs for children:

“If the child has chronic conditions that make their risk appreciable, then there’s reason they should be considered for vaccination. Other than that, if it were my child, I would homeschool them….On the average, the benefit is higher for homeschooling than it is for vaccination and being in school.”

As a nation we are already feeling the easily foreseen ill effects of vaccine mandates. Will the next shoe to drop be vaccine mandates for children in elementary school? Perhaps the liberal vaccine mandaters should pay attention to what Bill Maher said concerning the Virginia election … “parents also vote!”

11/4/21

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The big news in sports is that yesterday the Atlanta Braves won the World Series. Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball got what it deserved – a truly symbolic poke in the eye! … “yes, there is a God!”

As you all may recall, in April MLB’s commissioner, Rob Manfred, pulled the All-Star game out of Atlanta. This move cost the city of Atlanta upwards of  $100 million dollars … err, perhaps better said Manfred’s cowardly move cost the people of Atlanta close to $100 million dollars. 

Why did Manfred make a decision that so harmed the “little guys” in Atlanta? Basically, it was because he was being threatened by “woke” politicians who did not like Georgia’s new voting laws that required a picture I.D. to vote. Apparently, when Commissioner Manfred did not have enough testosterone or integrity to stand up for what was right, “little guy,” Joe Cobb decided that he had had enough. He then said he was done with MLB, despite his undying love for the Atlanta Braves.

Well that was all good back in the spring, but once the Atlanta Braves were in the World Series, how did Joe Cobb respond? Did  he have the the backbone that the MLB Commissioner lacked? What was he doing? What was he saying?

From Townhall:

‘Little guy,’ Joe Cobb recently reiterated, “I publicly said I would not watch the Braves, and I meant what I said. I know I’m just one voice. To me, the problem is that so many people caved, and now what do we have? Well, we have the World Series. That’s great. And we’ve got full stadiums. That’s great. But you know what else we have? Major League Baseball wasn’t penalized. They got away with it. They were able to dictate and change people’s lives, and there’s no penalty for it.”

Cobb said that before the controversy happened, he was pretty pumped about the prospects for this season. “I was really, really excited,” he said. “And when this whole controversy blew up, I was like, I don’t own a team. I don’t own a newspaper. I don’t have a public outlet. The only way that I can make my feelings known that I cannot reward a company when they do something so bad to other people is just not give them any of my money.”

His stance had become a running joke with his family and friends, who asked him the day after every game whether he watched it. He had not watched, attended or streamed any game, not even the highlights.

“I’m just one person, but you know what? It is a principled stand, and I will stick by it. In good conscience, I couldn’t do it if someone came up to me today and said, ‘Here, Joe, here are two tickets to the World Series.’ I would donate them. I’d give them to somebody else, but in principle, I just couldn’t go.”

Are there a lot more Joe Cobbs in this country? “Little guys” who have taken what they think are lonely stances against the big guys. Guys that are mostly silent. Guys that you won’t find at a protest, or as online warriors, but guys that are collectively affecting our cultural curators’ bottom line, beginning with the loss of consumer trust that they’ll do the right thing — the most important relationship they have with their consumers, and one they cannot afford to lose.

Kudos to Joe Cobb – just one “little guy” … one “little guy” with principles.

Are there more “little guys” out there that will stand up for principles? Not necessarily the Atlanta Braves, but “principle” in general.

Do you have any Joe Cobb in you?

11/3/21

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Today an older friend of mine just told me that his fully vaccinated middle-aged son came down with Covid. The son works from home, has no children, is in good physical condition without risk factors, and does not live in a city. It is unlikely that he will ever know just where he got it, but the interesting and important thing to me is that he was fully vaccinated. With all of the current hullabaloo about mandated vaccinations, one might ask if this scenario is unusual.

As fate would have it on the same day I read an article from the Irish Times printed on 10/22/21, the title of which was “Waterford city district has State’s highest rate of Covid-19 infections … County also has highest rate of vaccination take-up in the Republic.”

(For those not familiar with Ireland, it is divided into different counties which are similar to states here in the U.S.)

The article continued:

“Waterford has the highest rate of vaccination in the country with 99.7 per cent of adults over the age of 18 (as registered in the last census) fully vaccinated. The county has gone from having one of the lowest rates of Covid-19 infection in Ireland to one of the highest.”

Waterford has the highest incidence rate of anywhere in Ireland. The COVID case rate is three times the national average, which in itself has been increasing steadily in recent weeks, despite 91% of Irish adults being vaccinated.”

Again a headline from an Irish Times article on 10/29/21:

“Covid-19: Number in hospital with the disease reaches highest level in seven months”

The article continues:

“The number of people in hospital with Covid-19 moved past 500 for the first time since March as public health officials expressed increasing concern about the rising number of infections.

“As of 10/29/21, just over 91 per cent of the Irish population aged 12 and over have been vaccinated.

The State’s chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said he was ‘increasingly worried about the rising incidence of the disease nationwide’ and that the primary focus ‘must be to protect the most vulnerable from Covid-19.’ He continued, ‘We are seeing a continuing increase in hospitalisation and intensive care admissions – a substantial amount of whom are not fully vaccinated.’”

(BTW, I am always suspicious when statements include words like “substantial,” instead of actual percentages and numbers, as “substantial” could include  anything from 10% to 90%. If “substantial” here means 50% were non-vaccinated, then it means that 50% were vaccinated, and this would mean that vaccination had not provided any significant protection.) 

It is interesting that a similar phenomenon is occurring in the U.K. While cases in all age groups are getting less, during the past 4 weeks in the UK, for all ages > 30 years, the vaccinated were more likely to become infected. For those between 40 and 80 years old, the vaccinated were more than twice as likely to test positive.

But this vaccination bad news is extending to other nations. 

From Dr. Eli David:

“After vaccinating over 85% of its population, Singapore 

finally flattened the curve, but along the wrong axis,” as cases in Singapore have skyrocketed in the last month.

As Daniel Horowitz queries, “Could it be that the vaccine not only fails to stop transmission, but causes viral immune escape and makes more virulent variants. A recent analysis of the emergent A.30 strain published in Nature shows that “the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies with high efficiency.”

Hmmm!

Yet despite what is happening in Ireland, England and Singapore, those in charge in the U.S. are continuing to push for more and more mandated vaccinations. They still continue to call it “following the science,” but continue to ignore the facts of what is actually happening in various other countries.

I doubt that vaccination status and corresponding infection rates in Ireland are any different from those in the U.S. … namely, that the number of vaccinated individuals in the hospital or ICU is substantial.

11/2/21

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Bill Maher, is a hard core liberal. He doesn’t hide it. He proudly says it. However, Maher is also a believer in something the far-left does not believe in namely, “common sense,” and that’s why I am commenting on what he said on his “Real Time” show.

First I actually watched a portion of “Real Time,” and then read about that same portion of his show.

From Fox News:

“Real Time” host Bill Maher railed against ongoing COVID restrictions, declaring the pandemic “over. Just resume living,” Maher told his audience. “I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic, but you know what? It’s over. There’s always going to be a variant. [common sense]

You shouldn’t have to wear masks. Also, vaccine, mask, pick one! You’ve got to pick. You can’t make me mask if I’ve had the vaccine,” Maher added. [common sense]

Maher then pressed his guest, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., since “it’s the Democrats” that keep enforcing COVID restrictions. “I travel in every state now, back on the road, and the red states are a joy and the blue states are a pain in the a–. For no reason,” Maher said.  [fact]

Maher the added, “The world recognizes natural immunity. We don’t, because everything in this country has to go through the pharmaceutical companies. Natural immunity is the best kind of immunity. We shouldn’t fire people who have natural immunity because they don’t get the vaccine. We should hire them. Yes?” [common sense]

“If someone is having tested with antibodies,” Coons conceded. 

“Well, OK. But you know, people who’ve had it – I’ve had it,” Maher said. “I mean, I shouldn’t be tested anymore. [Maher common sense!]

The HBO star complained about the “messaging” regarding COVID, pointing to people he had seen outside “alone walking with a mask,” stressing “it’s so stupid.”

Maher went on to slam Democrats over a poll that showed “41%” of them believed unvaccinated people have “over 50%” risk of hospitalization when it’s actually “0.89%,” adding that it’s “0.01%” for vaccinated people. 

“So in both cases, the correct answer is less than 1%. They thought it was over 50. How do people, especially of one party, get such a bad idea? Where did that come from?” Maher asked. 

Now let’s be clear. I do not usually watch Bill Maher. I do not agree with a lot of what he says … however, a liberal actually using common sense. We need Maher of it.

11/1/21

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