Breaking pandemic news --> We are (again) 100% certain that MichaelE does **not** have COVID-19 today (09/22/21) ...

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > MichaelE wrote:
> >
> >
> > > http://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDrights/comments/psxdso/college_campuses_have_the_craziest_covid19/
> > >
> > >
> > >College Campuses Have the Craziest COVID-19 Restrictions of All
> > >Here's why that should terrify the rest of us, too.
> > >ROBBY SOAVE | 9.21.2021 11:04 AM
> > >
> > >dreamstime_xxl_184045450
> > >(Syda Productions | Dreamstime.com)
> > >Last week, Brown University implemented strict new COVID-19 mitigation
> > >protocols following 82 confirmed positive (including asymptomatic)
>cases
> > >among students.
> > >
> > >Until the number of cases decreases, students are forbidden to
>gather in
> > >groups of more than five, whether indoors or outdoors. They are no
> > >longer permitted to eat in the cafeteria, and must instead pick up
>their
> > >meals and eat elsewhere, keeping a mask on at all other times. But they
> > >can't go out to eat at bars or restaurants; this is strictly
>prohibited.
> > >The university doesn't want students to mingle with anyone from outside
> > >the campus, but administrators would also prefer if students
>declined to
> > >make new friends among their peers.
> > >
> > >
> > >"Students are expected to consistently engage with the same small
>social
> > >group, rather than attending or 'hopping' among multiple small-group
> > >gatherings over the course of a day or short period of time," according
> > >to the university.
> > >
> > >Students will also be tested every four days.
> > >
> > >It should be noted that the overwhelming majority of Brown University
> > >teachers, staff, and students are vaccinated. Vaccination is a
> > >requirement. Since vaccines offer excellent protection against severe
> > >disease and death, COVID-19 outbreaks at Brown are unlikely to
>seriously
> > >harm anyone.
> > >
> > >"On a campus where the vast majority of students and faculty are fully
> > >vaccinated, I think the university should instead return to something
> > >near-normal," one student, Adam Shepardson, told Campus Reform.
> > >
> > >This is a reasonable expectation. Campus environments, where the
> > >populace skews younger and the vaccination rate is 90-plus percent, are
> > >ideal places to ease into the post-pandemic reality: They are extremely
> > >safe from the threats of mass death and crowded hospitals. University
> > >authorities would be well-advised to treat the diminishing threat of
> > >COVID-19 as an opportunity to lift restrictions, ease up on masking,
>and
> > >let students enjoy the social and educational experiences they're
>paying
> > >for.
> >
> > However, the professors, being advanced in age, are still at
> > significant risk of suffering breakthrough COVID-19 infections that
> > could either disable them or worse still kill them despite their being
> > fully vaccinated.
>
> So they have no confidence in the vaccine, then.

Being professors, they are knowledgeable about statistics and what it
means for vaccines to not be 100% protective **and** for there to be
waning immunity that is more pronounced when advanced in age.

Only the full armor (Ephesians 6:11) of GOD is 100% protective against
everything including COVID-19 even when advanced in age.

Moreover, they likely have both the access and the insight into the
meaning of data concerning COVID-19 outcomes as a function of
vaccination status.

For example:
https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccination-outcomes.aspx
> > >Instead, something close to the opposite is happening: Far from
> > >returning to normal at an accelerated rate, many colleges are
> > >implementing some of the most authoritarian mitigation efforts out of
> > >anywhere in the country. Harvard has encouraged students to keep "close
> > >contacts to a minimum" and wear masks at all times; Yale instructed
> > >students to wear masks in their own dorm rooms if any friends are
> > >visiting; the University of Southern California prohibited all indoor
> > >eating and drinking and asserted that if students need to hydrate
>during
> > >class they should first leave the building.
> > >
> > >"The exception to this rule is limited to instructors, who may briefly
> > >hydrate while teaching but must re-mask immediately," said the dean of
> > >USC's law school in an announcement.
> >
> > That is because the professors, being advanced in age, need to
> > rehydrate more frequently especially with their needing to do more
> > speaking than students during a class. Moreover, a professor leaving a
> > class to rehydrate is much more disruptive of the entire class than a
> > student leaving to rehydrate.
> >
> > >In an effort to completely disrupt illicit socializing, Columbia
> > >reprogrammed key cards so that they would only grant access to
>students'
> > >individual residence halls. The campus is currently in the midst of a
> > >"temporary" two-week ban on hanging out with other people.
> > >
> > >Guidance from campus administrators is often authoritarian in tone.
> > >Boston University's recent missives to students emphasize the need for
> > >obedience to random testing requirements and warn that serious
> > >punishment will occur "should you fail to become compliant."
> > >
> > >Journalist Michael Tracey has been tracking COVID-19 restrictions on
> > >campuses and notes that many administrators are creating vast
> > >surveillance networks to keep students in line. "University of Michigan
> > >requires all students/staff and visitors to acquire the 'ResponsiBLUE'
> > >app which reveals their vaccination status and 'health screening'
> > >results," he writes. "This must be presented on command when entering
> > >facilities. There's every indication it will be made permanent."
> > >
> > >One might have expected students to rebel against these measures: Many
> > >campuses contain a loud and active contingent of injustice-minded
> > >protesters. But if young people at Columbia, Harvard, and elsewhere are
> > >fed up with mandatory masking and social distancing, they certainly
> > >aren't saying so. In fact, some students seem to be eagerly reporting
> > >each other for COVID-19 noncompliance. And at campuses where the
> > >mitigation efforts are less militant, students have actually protested
> > >the lack of enforcement. University of Iowa students recently held a
> > >"die-in" to demand that the administration pause "all non-essential in
> > >person events" and implement a mask mandate.
> > >
> > >This is madness. Few people are safer from COVID-19 than vaccinated 18-
> > >to 22-year-olds, yet campus administrators (and sometimes students) are
> > >acting like any amount of non-masking or basic socializing is likely to
> > >get people killed.
> > >
> > >I've written quite a bit about cultural trends in higher education, and
> > >how the illiberal values of campus activists have come to dominate all
> > >professional spaces where elite opinion holds sway. Progressive young
> > >people who view basic free speech principles with antipathy or even
> > >disdain are in the process of fundamentally changing the workplace. "We
> > >should look to the campus activist culture of the present to discover
> > >what our broader culture might resemble a few years from now," I wrote
> > >in a recent article for the Deseret News.
> > >
> > >If recent history is any guide, we should be terrified that the current
> > >crop of college students might leave campus possessed of the notion
>that
> > >the most insane version of pandemic oppression is perfectly normal and
> > >desirable.
> >
> > Sadly, the far right media, ever fearful of being called "fake" news
> > by TFG (aka hangry DJT) is given over to his hyperbole.
> >
> > In the interim, the only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby
> > saving lives, in the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly (
> > http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) finding out at any given moment,
> > including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly contagious
> > (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
> > http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12) for them to call their
> > doctor and self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this
> > pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the
> > worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the
> > Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
> > combining to form hybrids that render current COVID vaccines no longer
> > effective.
> >
> > Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
> > and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
> >
> > So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/xE_TQoI2SKU/m/ElEbQKHOAQAJ

Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Laus DEO !

Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ

Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test

Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:

http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all
glory ( http://HeartMDPhD.com/Psalm117_ ) to GOD, Who causes us to
hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a)
thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT from around the heart

...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
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Cardiologist with an http://HeartMDPhD.com/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/WonderfullyHungryPresident
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which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDrights/comments/psz6ht/academia_is_establishing_a_permanent_surveillance/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Academia Is Establishing A Permanent Surveillance Bureaucracy That Will
>>> Soon Govern The Rest Of The Country
>>>
>>> Michael Tracey
>>> 20 hr ago
>>> 98
>>> 62
>>>
>>> Image by Mark Breck via GettyImages
>>> Having now received a tsunami of messages from people across the US (and
>>> a few internationally) about the surveillance regimes being permanently
>>> installed at their educational institutions — in contravention of
>>> earlier assurances that the current academic year would mark a
>>> long-awaited “return to normalcy,” thanks to the onset of mass
>>> vaccination — there are a few conclusions to draw.
>>>
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>>> First: unless and until COVID “cases” are abandoned as a metric by which
>>> policy action is presumptively dictated, these institutions are destined
>>> to continue flailing from irrational measure to irrational measure for
>>> the foreseeable future. Just turn your gaze over to one of America’s
>>> most hallowed pedagogical grounds: As of September 17, Columbia
>>> University has newly forbidden students from hosting guests, visiting
>>> residence halls other than their own, and gathering with more than ten
>>> people. The stated rationale for these restrictions? Administrators have
>>> extrapolated from the “contact tracing” data they’ve compulsorily seized
>>> that a recent increase in viral transmission is attributable to
>>> “students socializing unmasked at gatherings in residence halls and at
>>> off-campus apartments, bars, and restaurants.” (Socializing at
>>> apartments, bars, and restaurants in the middle of Manhattan — gee, I
>>> can’t imagine anything more heinous.)
>>>
>>> Just like Connecticut College and so many other institutions I’ve been
>>> taking flurries of messages about, Columbia has already mandated
>>> vaccination for all students, faculty, and staff, and is approaching
>>> 100% compliance. But as has now been made abundantly clear, for many
>>> people in positions of bureaucratic authority, universal vaccination was
>>> never going to be sufficient for a transition away from the “Permanent
>>> Emergency” mode of COVID exegetical theology. The perverse incentives
>>> are easy to grasp. These administrators have so much invested in the
>>> infrastructure of “case” detection they’ve constructed over the past
>>> year and a half — not to mention the wider ideological project of
>>> “stopping the spread” at all costs — that it’s impossible to imagine
>>> conditions under which they’d voluntarily move to dismantle the
>>> surveillance systems over which they preside. And not just because the
>>> new powers conferred by this infrastructure — the ability to micromanage
>>> the private lives of young adults, track and adjudicate the propriety of
>>> their movements, etc. — is probably creepily intoxicating on a level
>>> these administrators may not be overtly conscious of, and in any event
>>> would almost certainly never publicly admit.
>>>
>>> No, the infrastructure won’t be dismantled any time soon because doing
>>> so would also require accepting a major paradigm shift in how COVID is
>>> understood. And for certain segments of society, that whole system of
>>> thought is just too all-consuming. Benign instances of transmission —
>>> i.e. transmission that results in no severe disease, which is almost
>>> invariably the case with vaccinated young adults at astronomically low
>>> risk from COVID — would have to stop being portrayed as alarming
>>> “outbreaks,” necessitating a never-ending stream of frenzied Zoom
>>> strategy meetings and swift, all-hands-on-decks interventionist tactics.
>>> The very word outbreak would also probably have to be ditched, given its
>>> alarmist connotations. I would suggest instead that outbreak be applied
>>> to these frantic upswells of bureaucratic overreaction. Perhaps the
>>> epidemiological origins of this diseased mentality could be “contact
>>> traced.”
>>>
>>> Share
>>>
>>> Why should anyone be alarmed by an alleged “outbreak” of overwhelmingly
>>> asymptomatic or mild “cases” among a population of healthy vaccinated
>>> undergrads — “cases” which would never have been detected at all if not
>>> for the superfluous “surveillance testing” structures that these
>>> institutions require students submit to? And before anyone chimes in
>>> with the standard “because they can transmit to others” response: the
>>> “others” they’re surrounded by have had the opportunity to get
>>> vaccinated at no cost for the past eight months. Even the US prestige
>>> media is beginning to reject the utility of using “cases” as a benchmark
>>> for anything of consequence, so you’d think college administrators would
>>> eventually follow suit, but a combination of bureaucratic inertia and
>>> weirdly flamboyant zeal appears to be preventing that from happening.
>>>
>>> Having read way too much administrative jargon recently, there are a
>>> number of obnoxious rhetorical strategies they employ to engender
>>> acceptance of edicts that more and more people seem to recognize are
>>> wildly, overbearingly arbitrary. “We all have to hold each other
>>> accountable,” these administrators will often pronounce, or some
>>> variation thereof, which ironically shields them from accountability for
>>> their own capricious and intrusive actions. Their orders are often
>>> cloyingly filled with artificial appeals to “the community,” which
>>> raises the question of who elected these surveillers and snoops to be
>>> spokespersons for “the community,” and how they even define
>>> “communities,” which seem to contain growing segments of unwilling
>>> inhabitants.
>>>
>>> One key thing to know is that despite their pretension of acting at the
>>> direction of “expert” epidemiologists and public health officials, the
>>> day-to-day decisions about practical implementation at these places
>>> often come down to the individual discretion of officials who in no sane
>>> world would ever be deferred to on questions of infectious disease
>>> protocol, or really anything else of significance. The latest
>>> restrictions at Columbia were promulgated by the “Dean of Undergraduate
>>> Student Life,” one of those titles which you know must encompass a whole
>>> slew of useless, indecipherable makework — and now tends to include a
>>> never-ending cycle of COVID monitoring. In her official bio, Dean
>>> Cristen Scully Kromm of Columbia is described as having an esteemed
>>> background in something called “residence life and leadership
>>> oversight.” I don’t know about you, but I can think of few things more
>>> unappealing than to have my personal activity surveilled by official
>>> busybodies who have dedicated their careers to learning the majesties of
>>> “leadership oversight,” which sounds like a field invented specifically
>>> for people who actually enjoy receiving LinkedIn emails.
>>>
>>> Thanks to my trusty network of informants, I was able to listen in on a
>>> Zoom meeting held Sunday night by Dean Victor Arcelus, the chief COVID
>>> decider at my old stomping grounds of Connecticut College. I apologize
>>> again for the unrelenting focus on this obscure liberal arts college in
>>> southeastern Connecticut, but it’s just become irresistible. Dean
>>> Arcelus convened a panel of all his subordinate Deans involved in the
>>> crafting of COVID rules; studying the credentials of these people sure
>>> is fascinating.
>>>
>>>
>>> One member of the ad hoc infectious disease task force, Ariella Rabin
>>> Rotramel, currently serves as the College’s “Interim Dean of
>>> Institutional Equity and Inclusion,” and is also Associate Professor of
>>> Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies, with a specialty in
>>> “Queer Theory and Activism.” Here is Rotramel answering a Zoom question
>>>from an anonymous student:
>>>
>>>
>>> I’m sure they is a lovely person, but it’s unclear why Rotramel should
>>> be endowed with authority to issue virology-related policy
>>> pronouncements. Either way, they gave some indication that they is
>>> perhaps not up for the task, describing the whole situation as
>>> “exhausting” — that familiar exasperated rallying cry of activists
>>> demanding acquiescence.
>>>
>>> Demonstrating his unparalleled leadership abilities, however, Dean
>>> Arcelus stated that he was “quite disappointed” at reports that parties
>>> had been rudely held this past weekend at an on-campus residential
>>> facility. “There will be conduct consequences,” he warned. “Suspension
>>> is most definitely on the table.” Though the most extreme variation of
>>> the Australia-style lockdown had been lifted just hours after my visit
>>> last week, students are still being ordered not to partake in normal
>>> social gatherings such as parties (gasp) or going to bars (gasp).
>>>
>>> “If you have parties, if you go to the bars, you’re not going to be able
>>> to have everything else,” the Dean exhorted, threatening that those who
>>> misbehave could prompt a return to lockdown for everybody. However, he
>>> did leave a glimmer of hope, enticing students that “if we were able to
>>> see that you all were actually being really good” about acceding to his
>>> prohibitions, then “things could potentially change.”
>>>
>>>
>>> “The power in preventing this from happening again is in you and in
>>> holding each other accountable,” Dean Arcelus continued. There’s that
>>> ubiquitous feature of the contemporary college administrator jargon —
>>> presumably tailored to the sensibilities of “accountability”-minded
>>> young adults. Again with the added irony that these invocations of
>>> “accountability” serve to deflect scrutiny from those who wield the real
>>> decision-making power. In the name of “accountability,” students become
>>> scapegoats for the irrational policy choices of the people actually in
>>> charge. “Accountability” is usually also demanded on behalf of some
>>> imagined “community,” so you are not to comply solely at the behest of
>>> Dean Arcelus, but rather at the behest of some diffused assemblage of
>>> individuals who are claimed to represent a unified community. There’s
>>> always this incredibly annoying pretense that bureaucratic operatives
>>> and public health “experts” are alone the most exalted guardians of
>>> “community safety,” and if you don’t agree with them on moral,
>>> practical, or epidemiological grounds, you are a menace.
>>>
>>> “Moving forward, none of you should be OK with people not having a mask
>>> on inside, or not having it properly worn,” the Dean inveighed, again
>>> appealing to the shockingly pervasive snitch culture being fertilized at
>>> this and other academic institutions. Deans at Georgetown University and
>>> the University of Southern California have also been sending out these
>>> imperious injunctions for students to rat out the alleged violators
>>> among them, or as USC Law School Andrew T. Guzman put it in that
>>> typically manipulative style: “non-compliant members of our community.”
>>> What’s a “non-compliant member” of the USC “community,” exactly? Someone
>>> who engages in unsanctioned indoor “hydration.” No, I’m not kidding.
>>>
>>> Do you find any of this arbitrary or ridiculous? Tough luck. Because
>>> nowadays all public and private officials apparently have to do is
>>> incant the magic word “Delta,” and people whose dictates about proper
>>> interpersonal behavior would otherwise be ignored are suddenly imbued
>>> with this awesome, unchallengeable power. Their decrees must be obeyed,
>>> preferably with effusions of gratitude. Forcing masks on crying
>>> two-year-olds? “Delta.” Forbidden to remove your mask for a few seconds
>>> in order to take a sip of water at USC, even as a lavish and unmasked
>>> Emmys extravaganza just took place right down the road? “Delta.”
>>> Shutting down a special needs school in East Harlem less than a week
>>> into the academic year? “Delta.” Concerned about the privacy
>>> implications of being made to walk around with your health information
>>> stored on mandatory smartphone apps, as is the current policy at the
>>> University of Michigan, and being made to display this information on
>>> command? “Delta.” Also, I just saved a bunch of money on my car
>>> insurance by switching to Delta.
>>>
>>> For all his foibles, at least Dean Arcelus nicely encapsulates the
>>> mindset which is now running rampant at major US educational
>>> institutions — the same institutions producing the graduates who will
>>> soon be governing the rest of the country. At the disciplinary Zoom
>>> meeting, the good Dean admitted: “I know all of us thought, going into
>>> getting vaccinated in April and May, we thought that we would be able to
>>> come back to campus and live campus differently [sic] having been
>>> vaccinated… But as I’ve said multiple times now, the Delta Variant just
>>> presents a whole new level of challenge to us. And that’s why we can’t
>>> do what we thought we were going to be able to do back when we got
>>> vaccinated in April and May.”
>>>
>>> Well, there you have it. Vaccination was never the gateway to normalcy
>>> it was presented to be, and the only option is apparently to instate
>>> “Permanent Emergency” protocols with no cognizable “off-ramp” in sight,
>>> as a Duke University “expert” helpfully conceded this week. Reneging on
>>> these prior assurances is portrayed as some inherently unavoidable fait
>>> accompli, rather than a conscious policy choice undertaken to the
>>> exclusion of other vastly more sensible options. Choosing another option
>>> would mean re-assessing the underlying logic of constantly surveilling a
>>> 99% vaccinated population of healthy young adults with these
>>> increasingly dubious “tests,” and gathering their private data so as to
>>> opine about the permissibility of their social activities. College
>>> administrators are totally committed — politically, professionally,
>>> metaphysically — to that logic. There’s also an entire financial
>>> infrastructure that’s been erected to sustain the endless provision of
>>> nonsensical testing services. Ultimately, these officials can’t or won’t
>>> extricate themselves from the scolding surveillance paradigm — and why
>>> would they? That would entail the relinquishment of power.
>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/mo1lHD8XQck/m/OTI5UjeNBAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Branimir Maksimovic wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>> Branimir Maksimovic wrote:
>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>>>> Branimir Maksimovic wrote:
>>>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>>>>>> Branimir Maksimovic wrote:
>>>>>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>> This gentile (Rv3:9) Christian disciple enjoyed 32 oz of a delicious
>>>>>>>> variety of foods yesterday and is http://bit.ly/wonderfully_hungry
>>>>>>>> while really satisfied (Lk6:21a) knowing that the LORD provided his
>>>>>>>> body with all the needed good food and his mind with knowing to
>>>>>>>> http://HeartMDPhD.com/BeHungry which are words from His mouth (Dt8:3).
>>>>>>>> Let us continue to http://HeartMDPhD.com/BeWise about this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Go on Brother, but you have to have DIABETES TYPE ONE in order to understand :P
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am simply wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) and
>>>>>> hope you, Branimir, also have a healthy appetite too.

>>>>>>
>>>>>> So how are you ?
>>>>>

>>>>> Excellent. I started to preach over INTERNET, as God woke me
>>>>> up, from pretending to be an ATHEIST, two Months AGO :P
>>>>
>>>> Taking your "excellent" to mean "yes, you have a healthy appetite," I,
>>>> as a cardiologist, share with you, Branimir, that it's really
>>>> Wonderful (Isaiah 9:6) knowing through our hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3)
>>>> that we're both being blessed right now as it's written in the Gospels
>>>> in red&white at Luke 6:21a **and** as evident by our both not having a
>>>> heart attack (aka myocardial infarction) at the moment in accordance
>>>> with pure logic {healthy=wonderful & appetite=hunger} and advise that
>>>> you try to write that you're "wonderfully hungry" since we've
>>>> established here that you are:
>>>>
>>>> So now how are you ?
>>>
>>>I should have heart attack since June.2000 :P
>>>Jesus and all that :P
>>>1. no wars
>>>2. no hunger
>>>3. no Gods name on money
>>
>> Again, I advise that you, Branimir, really try to write that you're
>> "wonderfully hungry" since we've established here that you are:
>>
>> So now again, how are you ?
>
> I AM WONDERFULLY HUNGRY, as mine HeartDoc, Andrew SAYS.

Source:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/GUbwkKGdkUc/m/V-Ke4orLBAAJ

Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy

8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Branimir, not only don't have

COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (

http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD, in the name (John 16:23) of LORD

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDrights/comments/pw80xb/hawaii_moves_the_goalposts/
>>>
>>> Delta variant ends 70% vaccination goal for removing COVID restrictions
>>> CORONAVIRUS
>>> by: Max Rodriguez
>>>
>>> Posted: Sep 24, 2021 / 09:44 PM HST / Updated: Sep 26, 2021 / 04:07 PM HST
>>>
>>> HONOLULU (KHON2) — Many were looking forward to the state reaching the
>>> 70% vaccination rate in order to drop COVID restrictions, but the Delta
>>> variant turned those plans upside down.
>>>
>>> At least for now, there is no end to restrictions.
>>>
>>> Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for
>>> News 2 You
>>>
>>> Reopening tiers are a plan of the past.
>>>
>>> Oahu moved away from those metrics to adopt a more flexible system to
>>> meet the mitigation needs for COVID. Now Kauai is separating from the
>>> tiers as well.
>>>
>>> “The elimination of the tier system, all that it signals is that we
>>> acknowledge that the delta variant is still a high level of concern for
>>> us,” Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami said. “We’re taking a look at the
>>> different metrics. We are more so concerned about our healthcare
>>> capacity, not only here on Kauai but statewide as well.”
>>>
>>> The old plan was to drop restrictions when Kauai reached a 70%
>>> vaccination rate.
>>>
>>> Honolulu wedding rules force Hawaii couple to set third date
>>> Governor David Ige also had said a 70% statewide vaccination rate had to
>>> be met in order to fully reopen travel. His office now said the
>>> benchmark must be higher, and there is no set threshold at this time.
>>>
>>> Kauai is defaulting to state rules, 50% capacity at restaurants, bars
>>> and gyms. Social distancing and masking indoors remains in effect. But
>>> Kawakami diverted when it comes to structured events like weddings.
>>>
>>> Kawakami said, “We set a capacity limit of 40 indoors and 100 outdoors
>>> for our professionally organized events, which means there is a point of
>>> contact.”
>>>
>>> Indoor events larger than 40 people and outdoor events larger than 100
>>> people will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test on Kauai.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Big Island Mayor Mitch Roth said they will
>>> be revisiting restrictions and anticipate a public announcement sometime
>>> next week.
>>>
>>> Hawaii governor considering more restrictions, says COVID surge was
>>> ‘preventable’
>>> Maui is also looking at the current level of cases to decide what is next.
>>>
>>> “The numbers as we have seen have been dipping a little lower, what
>>> mayor says he will be looking at restrictions,” Maui County Managing
>>> Director Sandy Baz said. “I can’t detail what these restrictions might
>>> be at this point, but we hope that we can loosen up.”
>>>
>>> Check out what’s going on around the nation on our National News page
>>>
>>> Oahu remains under the program Safe Access Oahu, that required proof of
>>> vaccination at restaurants, gyms and theaters through Oct. 19.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Hawaii & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/f2pzCczkYD0/m/LVpM6x5wBQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Branimir Maksimovic wrote in part:

> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>> Branimir Maksimovic wrote in part:

>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>>>> @Chaos wrote in part:
>>>>
>>>>> TDS on full throttle...

>>>>
>>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>>>

>>>>> @Chaos, I am simply wonderfully hungry and hope you, TDS,
>>>>> and others reading my comment at the very top, also have a

>>>>> healthy appetite too. So how are you ?
>>>>

>>>> @M wrote in part:
>>>>
>>>>> Please reply to me ...

>>>>
>>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>>>

>>>>> @M, taking your interest here to mean "yes,

>>>>> you have a healthy appetite," I, as a cardiologist, share with you,

>>>>> Em, that it's wonderful knowing through our hunger that
>>>>> we're both not having a heart attack (aka myocardial infarction)

>>>>> at the moment in accordance with pure logic {healthy=wonderful &
>>>>> appetite=hunger} and advise that you try to write that you're
>>>>> "wonderfully hungry" since we've established here that you are:
>>>>> So now how are you ?
>>>>

>>>> @M wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> (nothing for 14 minutes)

>>>>
>>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>>>

>>>>> @M, your not being able to write that you're "wonderfully hungry"
>>>>> when greeted here means, Em, you're #StatCOVID19Test *positive*
>>>>> indicating that it's possible you're unwittingly contagious
>>>>> (i.e. pre-symptomatic) needing to call your doctor & to self-quarantine
>>>>> per CDC guidelines.
>>>>
>>>> Source:
>>>> https://tinyurl.com/Positive092621b
>>>>
>>>> Negative control on USENET:
>>>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/p1OywBTJAAAJ

>>>>
>>>> Suggested further reading:
>>>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
>>>>
>>>> Shorter link:
>>>> http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
>>
>>

>>>bmaxa
>>>bah one suicide, one dead mother around mine friend
>>>he bielieves he had stomach form of corona :P
>>>spits blood now :P
>>>bah crazy people...

>>
>>I am simply wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) and
>>hope you, Branimir, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>>So how are you ?
>

> I don't wont to test, because test is all where it starts, you start
> to have faith in desease and then you get it :p

If you don't hope for disease, you've not faith in disease.

"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what
we do not see." (Hebrews 11:1)

Source:
https://biblehub.com/hebrews/11-1.htm

> I am wonderfully hungry now, with my wife, child and dog,
> happy and all that :P

Source:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.bible.prophecy/c/xufZaqEm4XA/m/UKHU0n6rAQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/pwd7i5/black_lives_matter_leader_calls_bill_de_blasios/
>>>
>>>
>>> Black Lives Matter leader calls Bill de Blasio's vaccine mandate 'modern
>>> day freedom papers'
>>> Newsome says the organization plans to 'demonstrate' until the NYC
>>> vaccine mandate is 'abolished'
>>> Kyle MorrisBy Kyle Morris , Breck Dumas | Fox News
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>>> New York governor to health care workers: 'You're replaceable'
>>> Democrat Kathy Hochul says she will refuse to budge on a coronavirus
>>> vaccine mandate for nurses. Sarah Klein of the University of Rochester
>>> Medical Center with reaction.
>>>
>>> A leader of the Greater New York chapter of the Black Lives Matter
>>> movement is chastising New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over a
>>> COVID-19 vaccine mandate and vaccine passport process for residents,
>>> equating it to "modern day freedom papers."
>>>
>>> Chivona Newsome, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Greater NY who also
>>> ran as a candidate for New York’s 15th Congressional District in 2020,
>>> spoke out against the "racist" mandate in a statement to Fox News.
>>>
>>> "Although Mayor Bill De Blasio ran on progressives values, nothing in
>>> his tenure will attest to his campaign promises," Newsome said. "The
>>> September 13th vaccine mandate is racist and specifically targets Black
>>> New Yorkers. The vaccination passports are modern day Freedom Papers,
>>> which limit the free will of Black people."
>>>
>>>
>>> NY GOVERNOR REFUSING TO BUDGE ON VACCINE MANDATE FOR NURSES: YOU'RE
>>> REPLACEABLE
>>>
>>> Newsome also accused De Blasio of failing "to protect New York’s most
>>> vulnerable" throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that the "social
>>> distancing and mask requirements resulted in Black New Yorkers being
>>> brutalized and arrested while their White neighbors received masks and
>>> refreshments."
>>>
>>> "The vaccination mandates infringe upon the civil liberties of the Black
>>> community," Newsome claimed. "It’s more than where we can dine or enjoy
>>> entertainment, it will result in loss of income. As of Monday, September
>>> 27, Black health care workers and educators will lose their jobs."
>>>
>>> According to Newsome, De Blasio was "fully aware of the hesitancy and
>>> distrust people of African descent have about vaccination and their
>>> interactions with government and law enforcement," yet he still "chose
>>> to disenfranchise and force the very people who elected him into poverty
>>> and second-class citizenship."
>>>
>>> Newsome vowed to prevent the vaccine mandate from being used as "a free
>>> pass to racism" and said that Black Lives Matter Greater NY plans to
>>> "demonstrate" until the vaccine mandate is "abolished."
>>>
>>> CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
>>>
>>> "It is the duty of Black Lives Matter Greater NY to fight for the
>>> liberty of Black people," Newsome told Fox News. "The vaccination
>>> passport will not be a free pass to racism. Our organization pledges to
>>> demonstrate until the vaccine mandate is abolished."
>>>
>>> The mandate, announced by de Blasio in early August, requires that both
>>> workers and customers of certain categories of businesses like
>>> restaurants, gyms and movie theaters provide proof that they have been
>>> vaccinated against the coronavirus in order to enter.
>>>
>>> But since the rule went into effect, there have been reports of disputes
>>> at several establishments, which have also been burdened with manning
>>> the front lines of its enforcement.
>>>
>>> Such a dispute was the reason BLM Greater NY held a demonstration on
>>> Monday in front of Carmine's Italian Restaurant, where protesters
>>> demanded justice for the Black women who were purportedly denied entry.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> NYC & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/fYS_dFCJlsA/m/ol95-G7kAgAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Branimir Maksimovic wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>> Branimir Maksimovic wrote:
>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>>>

>>>> Taking your being on a "DIET" to mean "yes, you have a healthy
>>>> appetite," I, as a cardiologist, remind you, Branimir, that it's

>>>> really Wonderful (Isaiah 9:6) knowing through our hunger (Deuteronomy
>>>> 8:3) that we're both being blessed right now as it's written in the
>>>> Gospels in red&white at Luke 6:21a **and** as evident by our both not

>>>> having heart attack (aka myocardial infarction) at the moment in

>>>> accordance with pure logic {healthy=wonderful & appetite=hunger} and
>>>> advise that you try to write that you're "wonderfully hungry" since

>>>> we've re-established here that you are:

>>>>
>>>> So now how are you ?
>>

>> Source:
>> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.bible.prophecy/c/x2ppLZmrLwM/m/4HWkUZ40BAAJ
>>
>>> Evything 10!
>>
>> Again, I advise that you, Branimir, really try to write that you're
>> "wonderfully hungry" since we've re-established here that you are:

>>
>> So now again, how are you ?
>>
>>

>i AM WONDERFULL HUNGRY, and like TO STAY LIKE THAT :p

Source:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.atheism/c/n6H_sT8YTmI/m/M7ecsacIAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/q06zmn/all_covid_passes_in_israel_are_about_to_be/
>>>
>>>
>>> Explained | Israel's New COVID Pass: Everything You Need to Know
>>> All Israeli Green Passes currently in use were meant to expire on
>>> Sunday, but due to technical glitches on the Health Ministry's website,
>>> Israelis will have a few more days to get them reissued. Who is eligible
>>> for the new pass, and how can they get it?
>>>
>>> Ido EfratiOct. 3, 2021 1:35 PM
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>>> A man receives his COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, Israel, today.
>>> A man receives his COVID-19 vaccine in Jerusalem, Israel, today.Credit:
>>> Ohad Zwigenberg
>>>
>>>
>>> The rules for Israel's proof of vaccination pass – called the Green Pass
>>> – will change this Sunday with new regulations determining who is
>>> eligible for the pass.
>>>
>>> From Sunday, all Green Passes currently in use were meant to expire and
>>> those eligible for new passes must get them reissued. However, technical
>>> glitches on the Health Ministry's website overnight into Sunday,
>>> apparently due to heavy traffic to it, meant many people couldn't
>>> register for new passes. The ministry said the old passes will remain in
>>> effect "for the next few days."
>>>
>>> In general, the new eligibility rules stipulate that those reissuing
>>> their Green Pass must have received their third jab of the coronavirus
>>> vaccine, or their second dose in the past 6 months. In some stickier
>>> situations, keep reading for information on the specifics.
>>>
>>> As of Thursday, some 1.6 million Israelis who are entitled to receive
>>> the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine still have not done so,
>>> meaning they will be ineligible for the new green passport. The new
>>> Green Pass documents will include a digital signature, which business
>>> owners are supposed to scan before granting holders entry.
>>>
>>> - Advertisment -
>>>
>>> Why is the Green Pass being changed?
>>>
>>> Starting in July, an increasing amount of vaccinated people became
>>> infected with COVID-19, mostly above the age of 60.
>>>
>>> Studies showed that this was due to a drop in the effectiveness of the
>>> vaccine, as a result of a decline in the antibodies in those vaccinated.
>>>
>>> Serious cases - just for outside image. not the actual info
>>> The graphs that prove Pfizer vaccine works
>>> ? The 10% unvaxxed fueling the COVID catastrophe; account for 89% of
>>> ECMO patients, 65% of serious cases and 60% of deaths
>>>
>>> Read more
>>> ? All COVID passes expire. Here's why and how to get a new one
>>> ? Israel to study link between menstrual irregularities and vaccinations
>>> ? Booster shot increases protection elevenfold, data shows
>>> ? Prominent Israeli anti-vaxxer dies of COVID
>>>
>>> Data from the drug company Pfizer, which developed the vaccines Israel
>>> largely used to inoculate its population, found the vaccine was 90
>>> percent effective in preventing infection from the delta variant of the
>>> virus. The Health Ministry also released similar data early on in their
>>> vaccine campaign – but later announced that the effectiveness of the
>>> vaccine had decreased and reached only 40 percent in July.
>>>
>>> - Advertisment -
>>>
>>> The drop in the vaccine’s effectiveness led to a rise in infection, and
>>> as a result, to a rise in the number of patients hospitalized in serious
>>> condition and in the number of deaths.
>>>
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>>> As a result, the Health Ministry decided to administer booster shots –
>>> and so far it seems that those who have received a third dose of the
>>> vaccine are significantly more protected than others, including those
>>> who have received two shots.
>>>
>>> Because of the effectiveness of the third dose and the decrease in
>>> effectiveness of the first two doses, the Health Ministry has decided
>>> that only people who have received the third dose (or their second dose
>>> within the past 6 months) will be eligible for the Green Pass as of
>>> Sunday. This new green passport will be valid for six months starting
>>>from the date of the third vaccination. The Health Ministry has not yet
>>> formulated a policy on what will happen after these six months.
>>>
>>> - Advertisment -
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>>>
>>> What happens if I received only the first two doses?
>>>
>>> According to studies, the effectiveness of the second dose of the
>>> vaccine decreases a few months from after it is received, so those who
>>> have received the second shot of the vaccine within the past six months
>>> will be considered protected and vaccinated.
>>>
>>> Open gallery view
>>> Museum goers peruse an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel,
>>> in July.
>>> Museum goers peruse an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel,
>>> in July.Credit: Hadas Parush
>>> Those newly vaccinated with two doses will receive the Green Pass for
>>> six months, after which they will be required to take the third dose to
>>> maintain the green passport. To receive the Green Pass under the
>>> circumstances, one must wait a week after receiving a second shot of the
>>> Pfizer vaccine, or two weeks after receiving the second Moderna jab.
>>>
>>> I’ve recovered from the coronavirus. Am I eligible for the green passport?
>>>
>>> With new COVID policy, Israel redefines what it means to be vaccinated
>>> Israel to require recovered COVID patients to have booster shot for
>>> Green Pass
>>> These unvaccinated 10% fuel Israel's COVID crisis
>>> The Health Ministry recommends that those who have recovered from the
>>> virus receive a single dose of the vaccine.
>>>
>>> Formerly, recovered COVID-19 patients have been eligible for the Green
>>> Pass even if they did not receive the vaccine. But this week, the Health
>>> Ministry announced that those who have recovered will be eligible for
>>> green passports in the six months following their recovery, after which
>>> they will be required to receive a single dose of the vaccine to
>>> maintain the pass.
>>>
>>> Prof. Nachman Ash, the director general of the Health Ministry, made the
>>> decision after evidence showed that immunity to the virus among
>>> recovered COVID-19 patients faded over time.
>>>
>>>
>>> The Green Pass for those who have recovered and received a vaccine shot
>>> will remain valid until March 31, 2022, and after that the matter will
>>> be reexamined.
>>>
>>>
>>> Research conducted by the Gertner Institute for epidemiology and health
>>> policy research, which advises the Health Ministry, showed that people
>>> who recovered from COVID-19 and were vaccinated with a single dose have
>>> protection similar to those who have been vaccinated with three doses.
>>> The data was presented at the beginning of the month to a COVID-19
>>> advisory team – which decided at the time not to recommend requiring
>>> vaccination after recovery from the virus as a condition for receiving
>>> the Green Pass.
>>>
>>> Those who have been infected by the virus after testing positive for
>>> coronavirus antibodies in a serological test, and who have received at
>>> least one dose of the vaccine are also considered to be protected and
>>> eligible for the Green Pass.
>>>
>>> What happens if I became ill with COVID-19, was vaccinated, and six
>>> months has passed since then?
>>>
>>> A person who has recovered from the coronavirus and was vaccinated
>>> (meaning has received two shots of the vaccine) is described as
>>> “recovered-vaccinated,” even if more than six months have passed since
>>> they received the vaccine. For now, the recovered and vaccinated are not
>>> required to receive further doses of the vaccine.
>>>
>>> What if I came down with the coronavirus after being vaccinated?
>>>
>>> A person who was vaccinated and infected with the virus later is
>>> considered to be protected from the virus regardless of how many doses
>>> of the vaccine they received, or how much time has passed since then.
>>>
>>> What about children who are unable to be vaccinated?
>>>
>>> Open gallery view
>>> Parents and children wait in line for COVID tests
>>> Parents and children wait in line for COVID testsCredit: Rami Shllush
>>> The Green Pass is required from children aged three and up. Children
>>> 12-years-old and under who tested negative for the coronavirus through a
>>> PCR test as part of the “Education Shield” (Magen Hinuch) program are
>>> eligible for the Green Pass for seven days. Other children can undergo
>>> rapid COVID-19 tests to receive a Green Pass valid for 24 hours.
>>>
>>> Where will I be required to show my green passport?
>>>
>>> Places that operate according to the Green Pass program are supposed to
>>> inspect it at the entrance, including cultural and sports events,
>>> festivals, halls, conferences and exhibitions, hotels, gyms, closed
>>> swimming pools, houses of worship that hold over 50 people, restaurants,
>>> bars, cafes, museums, libraries, tourist attractions, amusement parks,
>>> universities and institutions of higher education.
>>>
>>> Will I need to show the Green Pass at the entrance to medical institutions?
>>>
>>> No. But some hospitals recently began asking for a Green Pass from
>>> people who require non-urgent medical treatment and visitors.
>>>
>>> The Health Ministry announced that the issue of denying entrance to
>>> those who do not have green passports is being discussed in court,
>>> addressing "the problematic nature of keeping any medical treatment from
>>> a person who does not follow the guidelines of the Green Pass.” Ash said
>>> he is aware that preventing infection inside hospitals is important,
>>> however the Green Pass program stipulates that medical institutions are
>>> exempt from the program's admission regulations as they are an essential
>>> service
>>>
>>> At the same time, Ash added that the hospitals are allowed to ask a
>>> patient to take a rapid COVID-19 test – at their own expense – before
>>> carrying out a medical procedure that could lead to infections.
>>> Hospitals are also allowed to postpone a medical procedure that is not
>>> urgent, but they must not prevent the procedure from taking place.
>>>
>>> Ash said that hospitals need to use their judgement when determining
>>> whether to allow a visitor in to accompany a patient if they do not meet
>>> the conditions for the green passport, “for example if they show
>>> symptoms of the disease.” In any case, hospitals have been forbidden to
>>> allow patient's caregivers into hospitals to assist them.
>>>
>>> How can I receive the new Green Pass?
>>>
>>> The green passport can be issued either on the Health Ministry’s website
>>> or through the Ramzor (Stoplight) app. Other possibilities include
>>> self-service stations, through Kol Habriut call center representatives
>>> by calling *5400, or through the interactive voice response service at
>>> phone number (02) 508-2000.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Israel & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current

>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.

>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7GEDkEQea8I/m/ZNHemfXvAAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDrights/comments/q16zxs/public_health_officials_blew_up_their_credibility/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Vaccine hesitancy can, in part, be laid at the feet of experts who
>>> betrayed the public’s trust.
>>> J.D. TUCCILLE | 10.4.2021 7:00 AM
>>>
>>> zumaamericasthirtytwo496507
>>> (Patrick Gorski/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom)
>>> With COVID-19 still sickening and killing people even though effective
>>> vaccines have been widely available for all since the spring, it's
>>> frustrating to see vaccination rates creep up only slowly against a
>>> head-wind of widespread resistance. It's even more frustrating that much
>>> of that resistance can be attributed to self-inflicted wounds on the
>>> part of public health experts and government officials. Having
>>> effectively discarded their own credibility since the beginning of the
>>> pandemic, the powers-that-be find that much of the population no longer
>>> places faith in what they have to say.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Why aren't tens of millions of eligible Americans fully vaccinated
>>> against COVID-19?" The Economist and YouGov asked in a recent poll.
>>> "Most who haven't started the vaccination process say it's a matter of
>>> trust."
>>>
>>> "Americans who are sure they will not get the vaccine are especially
>>> likely to say their lack of trust in the government is their major
>>> reason for rejecting the vaccine," the polling firm adds, with 22
>>> percent of respondents giving that as their reason for refusing
>>> vaccination, second to concerns about side effects.
>>>
>>> Critics are certain to wave off the findings as the unfounded concerns
>>> of low-information knuckle-draggers who need to be poked and prodded
>>> into compliance. But, while such dismissal may confer a warm and fuzzy
>>> feeling of superiority, it doesn't explain why health professionals also
>>> have lost faith in public-health officials.
>>>
>>> "Trust in the CDC and FDA has decreased dramatically during the COVID-19
>>> pandemic among health care professionals," WebMD/Medscape noted in June.
>>> "Out of nearly 2,000 U.S. nurses surveyed on Medscape (WebMD's sister
>>> site for health care professionals) between May 25 and June 3, 77% said
>>> their trust in the CDC has decreased since the start of the pandemic,
>>> and 51% said their trust in the FDA has decreased. Similarly, out of
>>> nearly 450 U.S. doctors surveyed in the same time period, 77% said their
>>> trust in the CDC has decreased and 48% said their trust in the FDA has
>>> decreased."
>>>
>>> Respondents to the WebMD/Medscape poll cited concerns about politics
>>> affecting public health decisions as well as contradictory messaging
>>> about masks, vaccination, and proper conduct to avoid infection. Both of
>>> those concerns were on display last year when public health officials
>>> went from condemning anti-lockdown protests to promoting protests
>>> against police brutality and racial injustice.
>>>
>>> "Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who's Protesting
>>> What," The New York Times headlined an article on the whiplash-inducing
>>> change in messaging over the potential health risks of public gatherings.
>>>
>>> "I certainly condemned the anti-lockdown protests at the time, and I'm
>>> not condemning the protests now, and I struggle with that," Catherine
>>> Troisi, an epidemiologist at the University of Texas Health Science
>>> Center, conceded to the Times. "I have a hard time articulating why that
>>> is OK."
>>>
>>> "It's one thing to protest what day nail salons are opening, and it's
>>> another to come out in peaceful protest, overwhelmingly, about somebody
>>> who was murdered right before our eyes," New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
>>> huffed in an open assertion that only protests with which he agreed were
>>> acceptable.
>>>
>>> To large numbers of Americans, it's obvious that many of the people
>>> issuing public health dictates base their proclamations not on science
>>> but on their personal biases. Those seeking actual medical guidance, or
>>> who entertain different values, might feel perfectly justified in
>>> ignoring public health officials who reveal themselves as just another
>>> class of activists.
>>>
>>> Hypocrisy also plays a powerful role in eroding trust for officialdom.
>>> Last month, San Francisco Mayor London Breed was caught partying at a
>>> nightclub unmasked, in defiance of her own orders.
>>>
>>> "No, I'm not going to sip and put my mask on, sip and put my mask on,
>>> sip and put my mask on, eat and put my mask on. While I'm eating, and
>>> I'm drinking, I'm going to keep my mask off," Breed told a reporter. She
>>> also kept her mask off while dancing, which she defended by saying she
>>> "wasn't thinking about a mask, I was thinking about having a good time."
>>> It was a sentiment that many regular people no doubt share, but which
>>> could get them fined if they were caught acting on it.
>>>
>>> Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser also exempted herself from the rules
>>> when it was convenient.
>>>
>>> "Despite the mayor's order, the wedding reception featured hundreds of
>>> unmasked guests served by dozens of wait staff, including a
>>> conspicuously unmasked Bowser," the Washington Examiner noted at the end
>>> of July.
>>>
>>> Breed and Bowser are hardly alone, since pandemic rules have
>>> overwhelmingly been applied only to the little people and ignored by
>>> those who make them and their friends. It's difficult to imagine a more
>>> effective way of eroding officialdom's standing with the general public.
>>>
>>> "Even if institutions manage to walk back their mistakes, this
>>> self-destructive behavior will have serious long-term consequences,"
>>> Zaid Jilani observed last week for Persuasion on the flurry of recent
>>> own-goals scored by supposedly reliable experts. "If institutions
>>> continue to undermine their own credibility, people may start going to
>>> less reliable sources for information instead."
>>>
>>> Jilani didn't even address the ongoing fiasco of pandemic-era guidance,
>>> but instead focused on politicization in museums, think tanks, and
>>> universities. The effect is the same, though: abandoning objectivity and
>>> substituting ideological preferences for consistent standards damages
>>> trust. It took a long time for experts and officials to build whatever
>>> standing they had with the public; too many of them seem dead-set on
>>> burning it as quickly as possible.
>>>
>>> One end result of destroyed credibility, as we've seen, is resistance
>>> among part of the population to vaccination for COVID-19, with trust
>>> cited as the reason for that hesitancy. The fact is, millions of
>>> Americans simply distrust the people who tell them that the vaccines are
>>> safe and effective for reducing the dangers of the disease and have
>>> turned to alternative sources that echo the public's disdain for the
>>> powers-that-be while also peddling bad medical information. Yes,
>>> anti-vaxxers are making bad choices, but they've been strongly nudged in
>>> that direction by self-destructive experts.
>>>
>>> Officials are justified in complaining about vaccine hesitancy among the
>>> general population. But, when they're looking for somebody to blame
>>> about the public's resistance to medical advice, they should look in the
>>> mirror.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/CoqZmcnLmek/m/XpLFxdoWAQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>>http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/q0sd71/fauci_says_its_too_soon_to_know_if_us_families/
>>>
>>>
>>>Frustration as Fauci says it's 'too soon to tell' if families can gather
>>>for Christmas - and says immigrants are 'absolutely not' responsible for
>>>COVID spread
>>>Dr. Anthony Fauci said it was 'too soon' to say whether Americans can
>>>gather for Christmas in an interview Sunday on Face the Nation
>>>CBS News' Margaret Brennan asked Fauci about the December holiday after
>>>he voiced cautious optimism about the country's COVID-19 numbers going down
>>>Fauci warned that the country needed to remain vigilant
>>>'You know, Margaret, it's just too soon to tell,' Fauci said about
>>>Christmas
>>>He added, 'We've just got to keep concentrating on continuing to get
>>>those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months'
>>>On CNN's State of the Union, Fauci knocked down a belief on the right
>>>that immigrants share a high degree of responsibility for the spread of
>>>COVID-19
>>>'Certainly immigrants can get infected, but they're not the driving
>>>force of this, let's face reality here,' Fauci said
>>>By NIKKI SCHWAB, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
>>>
>>>PUBLISHED: 13:25 EDT, 3 October 2021 | UPDATED: 22:27 EDT, 3 October 2021
>>>
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>>>Dr. Anthony Fauci said it was 'too soon' to say whether Americans can
>>>gather for Christmas in an interview Sunday on Face the Nation.
>>>
>>>CBS News' Margaret Brennan asked Fauci about the December holiday after
>>>he voiced cautious optimism about the country's COVID-19 numbers going
>>>down - however warned that the country needed to remain viligant.
>>>
>>>'You know, Margaret, it's just too soon to tell,' President Joe Biden's
>>>chief medical expert said about Christmas. 'We've just got to keep
>>>concentrating on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to
>>>jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we're going to do at a
>>>particular time.'
>>>
>>>Read More
>>>
>>>Fauci was doing the rounds on the Sunday shows.
>>>
>>>On CNN's State of the Union, he knocked down a belief stoked by
>>>Republicans saying that immigrants were 'absolutely not' driving the
>>>COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.
>>>
>>>Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on Face the Nation that it was 'too soon'
>>>to say whether American families can gather for Christmas +1
>>>Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on Face the Nation that it was 'too soon'
>>>to say whether American families can gather for Christmas
>>>
>>>'When you have 700,000 Americans dead and millions and million and
>>>millions of Americans getting infected, you don't want to look outside
>>>to the problem. The problem is within our own country,' Fauci said.
>>>'Certainly immigrants can get infected, but they're not the driving
>>>force of this, let's face reality here.'
>>>
>>>CNN's Dana Bash had asked Fauci about a Kaiser Family Foundation poll
>>>that found 55 per cent of Republicans and 40 per cent of unvaccinated
>>>respondents blamed immigrants and tourists for bringing COVID-19 into
>>>the country and for the country's high case rates.
>>>
>>>Republicans also ranked immigrants as the biggest factor impacting
>>>COVID-19 transmission.
>>>
>>>Fauci was also asked about Title 42, which allows the U.S. government to
>>>quickly deport border crossers due to the ongoing pandemic.
>>>
>>>'I am not as familiar with the intricacies of that to make any comment
>>>about that rule,' Fauci first said before adding, 'my feeling has always
>>>been that focusing on immigrants, expelling them or what have you, is
>>>not the solution to an outbreak.'
>>>
>>>Bash also asked Fauci if he believed former President Donald Trump
>>>should get a COVID-19 booster shot on-camera.
>>>
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>>>Fauci didn't immediately say yes.
>>>
>>>'Well, first of all, I would think everybody should get their boosters
>>>anyway, whether the president does it or not,' Fauci answered. 'I am
>>>sure that there are people who religiously follow what former President
>>>Trump says and does, that that - they may look at that and say, OK, I
>>>will get vaccinated.'
>>>
>>>Fauci also offered a 'we will see' and 'I don't know.'
>>>
>>>'I just think we need to appeal to the rationale of why it's important,
>>>whether Trump gets vaccinated or not,' he continued.
>>>
>>>'There are very, very good reasons, beyond someone specifically getting
>>>vaccinated, for people to get vaccinated with a booster shot,' Fauci
>>>said. 'The protection is waning, as we know. And boosters are going to
>>>be something that will be very helpful to contain the outbreak and to
>>>protect people.'
>>>
>>>'That's the reason why they should get boosted,' Fauci added.

>>
>>The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>>the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>>finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>>among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>>asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>>15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>>doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>>best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>>mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>>Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>>COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>>Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>>and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>>So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/f0fO8NXAXQw/m/W3xNzdOzAQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Branimir Maksimovic wrote in part:

> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>> Branimir Maksimovic wrote in part:

>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>>>> Branimir Maksimovic wrote in part:

>>>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>>>>>> Branimir Maksimovic wrote in part:

>>>>>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>> I am simply wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) and
>>>>>>>> hope you, Branimir, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So how are you ?
>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> In religious trans currently, in LOVE with G'od and W"HOle WORLD!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Taking your "in LOVE with GOD" to mean "yes, you have a healthy

>>>>>>appetite," I, as a cardiologist, remind you, Branimir, that it's
>>>>>>really Wonderful (Isaiah 9:6) knowing through our hunger (Deuteronomy
>>>>>>8:3) that we're both being blessed right now as it's written in the
>>>>>>Gospels in red&white at Luke 6:21a **and** as evident by our both not

>>>>>>having a heart attack (aka myocardial infarction) at the moment in

>>>>>>accordance with pure logic {healthy=wonderful & appetite=hunger} and
>>>>>>advise that you try to write that you're "wonderfully hungry" since
>>>>>>we've re-established here that you are:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So now how are you ?
>>>>>

>>>>> I can eat sugar now without problem

>>>>
>>>> Again, I advise that you, Branimir, really try to write that you're
>>>> "wonderfully hungry" since we've re-established here that you are:
>>>>
>>>> So now again, how are you ?
>>>

>>> better and better everyday...
>>
>> Source:
>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/fzPRuJVBAQAJ
>>
>> Again, I really advise that you, Branimir, **really** try to write

>> that you're "wonderfully hungry" since we've re-established here that
>> you are:
>>
>> So now again, how are you ?
>

> I AM WONDERFULLY HUNGRY, mine DOCTOR!

Source:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/Vf1FfJ8ll1o/m/2iY7eDy7AQAJ

Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Branimir, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (

http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD in the name (John 16:23) of LORD

[Branimir Maksimovic]

Thank Doctor, it is OUR DUTY to SERVE GOD!
LOVE&PEACE to THE WORLD!

--

7-77-777
Evil Sinner!
to weak you should be meek, and you should brainfuck stronger
https://github.com/rofl0r/chaos-pp

[HeartDoc Andrew]

>Thank Doctor...

Source:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.christnet.christianlife/c/tQq0n0Mrq6E/m/xq4k4yaEAAAJ

Laus DEO ( http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ )

[Branimir Maksimovic]

On 2021-10-06, HeartDoc Andrew <ach...@emorycardiology.com> wrote:
>

> HeartDoc Andrew <><
> --
> Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
> Cardiologist with an http://HeartMDPhD.com/EternalMedicalLicense
> 2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
> http://HeartMDPhD.com/WonderfullyHungryPresident
> and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
> http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewCare
> which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis

Thank Doctor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsWVT6uNd2E
Thank Doctor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsWVT6uNd2E
LOVE

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=334088&p=4516217#post4516217
>>>
>>>
>>> "I went to the Giant Eagle in Rocky River today.
>>>
>>> There was a sign on the front door announcing a MASK MANDATE.
>>>
>>> To the best of my knowledge, neither of the stores in Berea, nor the one
>>> in North Olmsted requires masks, certainly not a week ago when I was in
>>> Berea. I believe the sign said it was implemented on 08/16 or 08/26. It
>>> was getting late, so I got the mask out of my car. Never going back to
>>> that store. No reason to with a Walmart literally on the other side of
>>> the parking lot from me and TWO Giant Eagle stores in Berea that don't
>>> require masks."- Christopher Charles Morton, dba Deanimator
>>>
>>> http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=334088&p=4516402#post4516402
>>>
>>> "I'm not interested in being the Black guy in the YouTube video that the
>>> cops beat, taze and maybe shoot to death because I "reached for my
>>> waistband" while refusing to wear a mask.
>>>
>>> Its a lot easier to just go to EVERY OTHER GROCERY STORE that apparently
>>> doesn't require masks. Even the Giant Eagles closer to me didn't require
>>> them as of a week or two ago. I only went to that one because I went to
>>> Books-A-Million in Fairview Park first.
>>>
>>> Other than the Cleveland Clinic, it's the ONLY place I've seen that
>>> requires masks since Poindexter lifted the state mandate months ago. And
>>> I really can't avoid the clinic unless I decide to become a Christian
>>> Scientist."- Chris

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/1ccQ5ceEJBE/m/ys6HuPzxAQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDrights/comments/q5k692/analysis_universal_health_care_advocates_turn_on/
>>>
>>>
>>> ANALYSIS: Universal Health Care Advocates Turn On The Unvaccinated
>>> US-HEALTH-VIRUS-VACCINE-BOOSTER
>>> Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> VARUN HUKERI
>>> GENERAL ASSIGNMENT & ANALYSIS REPORTER
>>> October 08, 2021
>>> 9:30 PM ET
>>> FONT SIZE:
>>>
>>> The financial cost of remaining unvaccinated ?against COVID-19 is rising
>>> as more companies and health insurance providers are now proposing
>>> insurance surcharges and other healthcare costs as a tool to drive up
>>> vaccination rates.
>>> Such measures have been backed by proponents of universal healthcare and
>>> programs like Medicare for All, even though such policies are, in
>>> theory, meant to offer all Americans healthcare at little to no cost
>>> regardless of their medical status.
>>> Elisabeth Rosenthal, the editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News, has
>>> argued unvaccinated people should be charged higher insurance rates as a
>>> penalty in The New York Times, CNN and MSNBC. Yet she is a proponent of
>>> universal healthcare, writing in a New York Times op-ed in May 2019 that
>>> the point of healthcare “is to treat patients, not to buttress the economy.”
>>> Arthur Caplan, a prominent medical ethicist, said in an August interview
>>> with WBUR that unvaccinated people should “pay a financial penalty” or
>>> otherwise be held liable for the cost of avoidable treatment. Yet during
>>> the height of the Obamacare debate in 2010, he co-authored an academic
>>> paper arguing that healthcare is a “right” and universal health
>>> insurance “makes sense.”
>>> Democratic California Rep. Ted Lieu invoked criticism on social media
>>> when he tweeted Oct. 2 that unvaccinated people “engage in riskier
>>> actions that increase health care costs and health care burdens on all
>>> of us,” and in turn “should be the one paying for the increased risk.”
>>> Ted Lieu
>>> @tedlieu
>>> If you are going to engage in riskier actions that increase health care
>>> costs and health care burdens on all of us, then you should be the one
>>> paying for the increased risk.
>>> Kyle Griffin
>>> @kylegriffin1
>>> Ochsner Health, Louisiana's largest healthcare provider, will raise
>>> health insurance premiums for employees whose spouses or domestic
>>> partners covered under its benefits plan are not vaccinated against
>>> COVID. https://bit.ly/39WT1lI
>>> 6:59 PM · Oct 2, 2021
>>> 8.8K
>>> See the latest COVID-19 information on Twitter
>>> Lieu, a supporter of Medicare for All, appears to be contradicting a
>>> basic premise of universal healthcare. The New Republic, a liberal
>>> outlet, noted in an article opposing additional financial costs on
>>> unvaccinated people that under a universal healthcare system,
>>> “individual health care use shouldn’t determine how much anyone pays
>>> into the system.” (RELATED: Progressives Applaud Alabama Doctor Who
>>> Refuses To Treat Patients Unvaccinated Against COVID-19)
>>> Some critics have compared penalties for unvaccinated patients,
>>> including denying them treatment altogether, to targeting patients with
>>> health conditions such as obesity, a group that almost certainly would
>>> use more healthcare services.
>>> The relationship between health conditions like COVID-19 and obesity are
>>> not unfounded, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
>>> concluded in a March study that 78% of people hospitalized due to
>>> COVID-19 were overweight or obese.
>>> Lieu’s office did not comment at the time of publication to a request
>>>from the Daily Caller. His office didn’t respond to questions about the
>>> Body Mass Index (BMI) sliding scale and whether financial costs for the
>>> unvaccinated is comparable to similar costs for obese people.
>>> As supporters of universal healthcare begin to turn on unvaccinated
>>> people, companies and health insurance providers are also moving forward
>>> with plans to impose insurance surcharges and other financial costs.
>>> Delta Airlines announced in late August that unvaccinated employees will
>>> face a $200 premium surcharge per month on their health insurance.
>>> Airlines have been among the most aggressive companies in targeting
>>> unvaccinated employees.
>>> WHAT DO YOU THINK?
>>> ?Open Menu
>>> To what extent, if at all, are you concerned about the effectiveness of
>>> your vaccination diminishing over time?
>>> To what extent, if at all, are you concerned about the effectiveness of
>>> your vaccination diminishing over time?
>>>
>>> Very concerned
>>>
>>> Somewhat concerned
>>>
>>> Not at all concerned
>>>
>>> Other / No opinion
>>> NEXT
>>> In a memo to employees, Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the surcharge “will be
>>> necessary to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is
>>> creating for our company.”
>>> VICTORVILLE, CA - MARCH 24: A Delta Air Lines jet taxis to be parked
>>> with a growing number of jets at Southern California Logistics Airport
>>> (SCLA) on March 24, 2020 in Victorville, California. As the coronavirus
>>> pandemic grows, exponentially increasing travel restrictions and the
>>> numbers of people in quarantine, airlines around the world are
>>> scrambling to find places to park a majority of their fleet as they wait
>>> to see how the situation will play out. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
>>> A Delta Air Lines jet taxis to be parked with a growing number of jets
>>> at Southern California Logistics Airport (SCLA) on March 24, 2020 in
>>> Victorville, California (David McNew/Getty Images)
>>> Ochsner Health, the largest healthcare provider in Louisiana, announced
>>> earlier in October that employees will be charged a $200 premium
>>> surcharge per month if a spouse or partner covered under an Ochsner plan
>>> is unvaccinated, The Times-Picayune reported.
>>> JPMorgan Chase announced Monday that unvaccinated employees will not
>>> only be required to pay higher payroll contributions next year for
>>> health insurance, but will also be banned from business travel, Reuters
>>> reported.
>>> At the onset of the pandemic, most private insurance providers waived
>>> cost-sharing for patients under their plans. Around 88% of insured
>>> people in November 2020 had their out-of-pocket costs waived if they
>>> were hospitalized for COVID-19, according to the Kaiser Family
>>> Foundation (KFF).
>>> But vaccines have become more easily available in recent months, and
>>> more than 70% of insurance providers in turn no longer waive
>>> out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 treatment, the KFF concluded.
>>> Companies and insurance providers are likely willing to place additional
>>> financial costs on unvaccinated people because much of the cost for
>>> COVID-19 treatment comes from that group. A CDC report in August found
>>> that the hospitalization rate of unvaccinated people infected with
>>> COVID-19 is 29 times that of vaccinated people. (RELATED: ‘The Only
>>> Pandemic We Have Is Among The Unvaccinated’: Biden Says Facebook
>>> Misinformation Is ‘Killing People’)
>>> Experts believe insurance surcharges and other costs could become a more
>>> common tool in limiting financial risks for companies and insurance
>>> providers, as well as incentivizing people to get the vaccine.
>>> HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA - AUGUST 07: Lisa Taylor receives a COVID-19
>>> vaccination from RN Jose Muniz as she takes part in a vaccine study at
>>> Research Centers of America on August 07, 2020 in Hollywood, Florida.
>>> Research Centers of America is currently conducting COVID-19 vaccine
>>> trials, implemented under the federal government's Operation Warp Speed
>>> program. The center is recruiting volunteers to participate in the
>>> clinical trials, working with the Federal Government and major
>>> Pharmaceutical Companies, that are racing to develop a vaccine to
>>> potentially prevent COVID-19. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
>>> Lisa Taylor receives a COVID-19 vaccine on August 07, 2020 in Hollywood,
>>> Florida (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
>>> “Now that COVID-19 is largely preventable for most adults and employers
>>> are pushing people really hard to get vaccinated, it makes a lot less
>>> sense for those employers to be giving people who do get infected a
>>> break,” said KFF Health Care Marketplace director Matthew Rae.
>>> Some experts also dismissed criticism that financial costs for the
>>> unvaccinated are similar to charging more for people with obesity or
>>> other underlying health conditions.
>>> “Your chronic illness isn’t going to jump to the person in the next
>>> cubicle,” said Kenneth Campbell, an assistant professor at the Tulane
>>> School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
>>> “This is a wakeup call for people to get vaccinated,” he continued.
>>> “We’re talking about bad decisions in terms of not getting vaccinated
>>> and these are the consequences.”
>>> Polling data indicates Americans are split on whether companies and
>>> insurance providers should be able to charge unvaccinated people more in
>>> health insurance premiums in order to cover for potential associated
>>> medical costs from contracting COVID-19.
>>> In a Harris poll conducted in August, 51% of respondents said they
>>> oppose charging unvaccinated people more compared to 49% who said they
>>> support the idea. Among those polled, 61% of vaccinated respondents said
>>> they support the idea while 27% of unvaccinated respondents said the same.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/CDTY8CnBFJI/m/jfzyrWlEAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=380436&p=4520059#post4520059
>>>
>>>
>>> "People around me have lost their fucking minds. My mother is totally
>>> bamboozled. If Biden said that a return to slavery would end the Chinese
>>> Communist Flu, she'd be standing in a cotton field with a sack the next
>>> day. The wife of my best friend literally screamed at and cursed me
>>> because I refuse to get the dubious (and endless) series of
>>> vaccinations. She actually told me I was going to die"- Christopher
>>> Charles Morton, dba Deanimator
>>
>> Suggested reading for anti-vaxxer Chris Morton:
>> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.atheism/c/IP2h2a7mC0k/m/HXl3-qC2AQAJ
>
> Immunity from prior infection is natural immunity.

If that were true, then COVID-19 immunity from prior infection with
the adenoviruses in the COVID-19 J&J and Astrazeneca vaccines would be
natural immunity.

Instead, immune rejection of a transplanted heart is natural immunity
(aka immunity that is present at birth) that requires powerful
immune-suppressing medications to prevent the rejection.

Everything about a person that happens after birth is acquired and not
natural.

Some examples:

(1) Chicken-pox scars are acquired and not natural.
(2) Obesity is acquired and not natural.
(3) Diabetes is acquired and not natural.

It's not naturally curly hair if the curly hair wasn't present at
birth.

>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/gf-DtpvTAZc/m/2j7SwZKSAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/q7qo6w/why_manhattan_happily_complied_neat_take_on_what/
>>>
>>>
>>> Why Manhattan happily complied
>>> BY THE MILLENNIAL POSTED ON 11 OCT 2021
>>> A little more than a year has passed since the lockdowns were first
>>> announced in NYC over the pandemic and little did I know looking back
>>> that it was just the start. At first, a lot of us enjoyed the privilege
>>> of working from home and no longer having to get up early on a cold
>>> morning to take the crowded subway where you were likely to encounter a
>>> crazy homeless person on drugs. Work from home became quite a gift,
>>> other than the fact that the bars we drank at were also closed.
>>>
>>> Overtime, what started out as lockdowns started to wane a bit. Things
>>> were starting to get back to “normal”, especially during July of this
>>> year when they said that NYC has officially reopened since the vaccine
>>> has been released. Only a month later, vaccine mandates were passed
>>> meaning that if you wanted to sit inside for a meal at a restaurant or
>>> go to the gym, you had to show proof of vaccination.
>>>
>>> Now, I am in a part of the country where none of that is happening (yet,
>>> and I hope it stays that way). What gets me about NYC, at least
>>> Manhattan where I lived the whole time, how very few people actually
>>> pushed back when all of it was announced. It’s like whether the
>>> lockdowns happened or whether the mandates happening, everyone went with
>>> it. Not only did people just go with it, they also turned on those who
>>> would not get the jab or practice whatever the CDC preached.
>>>
>>> Little by little, NYC started to fall apart as crime rates spiked and
>>> rents continued to get higher. I personally saw how building before the
>>> pandemic which were full and lively with people partying on Fridays were
>>> empty during the pandemic. How well NYC bounces back is anyone’s guess
>>> but that was not the question on my mind. The questions I asked along
>>> with the many that fled NYC is why did those living in Manhattan not do
>>> a damn thing? Why did they not resist? Why did just take it? More of
>>> all, why did they turn on their fellow man and woman as opposed to
>>> pushing back against the government? They didn’t have to resist, but why
>>> did they so happily comply?
>>>
>>> Quite a few of us asked this question, how the so called tough New
>>> Yorker who is known for being brash somehow just dropped to both knees
>>> for big government. More of all, how the city became so divided against
>>> itself instead of pushing back against nonsense from the local
>>> government. As I left, these were questions that left me potentially
>>> thinking that I should never return to the city. After all, who is to
>>> say that if the next pandemic comes along, the cycle doesn’t repeat
>>> itself? Yet, I had to have my answer and after thinking about it for
>>> weeks and comparing NYC to my new home, I started to realize some
>>> reasons as to why the people of Manhattan never pushed back.
>>>
>>> Instant gratification.
>>>
>>> Life in Manhattan moves fast and most of all, it runs on instant
>>> gratification. Whether it is quickly getting my lunch from a Halal cart
>>> or quickly getting my slice, I need to have it now and have it fast.
>>> Hurry it up, I got work here, I gotta get to my meeting, fast! The
>>> people of Manhattan have no time for nonsense but really, they don’t
>>> have time for much of anything. Once you are done with a long workday,
>>> you go home after a long subway ride into your overpriced yet tiny
>>> studio if you are lucky (likely a 3 bedroom you are sharing with
>>> roommates if you are in your 20s) and go to bed.
>>>
>>> There is no time to think, you have to move fast. You might miss that
>>> next train or miss that cab you are trying to get the attention of
>>> (because Ubers are damn expensive). In some ways, this also works out in
>>> the favor of some of us, culturally that is. Hookup culture in Manhattan
>>> is better than most college towns and everyone is looking for Mr. or Ms.
>>> Right Now instead of Mr. and Ms. Right. It’s a blur and it moves faster
>>> than it would in any other city out there because you barely have time
>>> for much of anything.
>>>
>>> I notice how now I have more time to blog and actually cook my own meals
>>> which has been better for my health. Meanwhile, in Manhattan I ran on
>>> Uber Eats and delivery or just fast foods while rarely grocery shopping.
>>> The life comes with its pros and cons but the one major downfall it had
>>> for me was that I barely had time to think about this sort of stuff. I
>>> almost lost myself in a way as well as the big picture idea of my goals.
>>>
>>> Life in Manhattan for me consisted of climbing the work ladder, making
>>> the big bucks, getting some drinks after a long hard day at work,
>>> getting laid, and then partying hard on the weekends. Once that was all
>>> done, I had time for basic chores but barely much time for anything
>>> else. People like me are too distracted to think that much about
>>> politics because most of us are too busy just getting our lives together
>>> and surviving in a place everyone wants to live in.
>>>
>>> Who cares if I have to wear a mask, just give me my damn slice of pizza.
>>> Who cares if I have to stay home, I prefer it, just let the government
>>> handle it so we can get “back to normal”. Who cares if I have to get a
>>> jab, it’s just a poke, get it so we can “get back to normal”. “Hurry it
>>> up over here” and “come on already!” are things frequently said in
>>> Manhattan. We want it now, we want it fast, and we don’t care what has
>>> to happen for us to get it.
>>>
>>> Lack of ownership amongst a transient population.
>>>
>>> Most people living in Manhattan are in their 20s or maybe 30s and
>>> renting an apartment, likely with roommates, as they try to make their
>>> careers and extend their youth of partying and drinking as much as
>>> possible. I don’t blame them, I am that guy myself at heart who plans to
>>> keep the party going throughout his 30s if he can. This is one of the
>>> reasons why Manhattan went overwhelmingly blue in the past election.
>>>
>>> When you don’t really own anything, you don’t think much about the
>>> consequences because it’s not really yours. I even saw it with my
>>> roommates who’d occasionally have parties and thrash the place because
>>> it wasn’t actually their home, they’d move out and at the end have a
>>> good chunk of their security deposit deducted and that was it.
>>>
>>> Most people in Manhattan are not actually local to Manhattan, they are
>>> usually from elsewhere. A lot of people from small town and small city
>>> USA go to Manhattan to enjoy their 20s and 30s as they build a career,
>>> drink hard, party hard, and leave no fun behind before old age. I know
>>> that feeling, I am that guy. What this really means is that whatever
>>> happens, you don’t really have to live with it because Manhattan is not
>>> your home. This is why the people of the more residential Long Island
>>> tend to be far more Conservative.
>>>
>>> This means who cares if things get bad in NYC? You can just leave. You
>>> don’t really have to live with the consequences of much of anything
>>> because you know that you are not going to buy a house or raise your
>>> kids there. Why push back? Why resist? Who really cares about NYC
>>> itself? You’re there for the partying, drinking, and networking for your
>>> career, not because its your home.
>>>
>>> An easy life.
>>>
>>> There is a saying that goes something like this: Tough times make for
>>> strong men, strong men make for easy times, easy times make for weak
>>> men, and weak men make for tough times. What you will notice for the
>>> population of Manhattan and the more hipster parts of Brooklyn is that
>>> they come from affluence. Majority were raised in wealth and are
>>> immensely privileged, ever been to Westchester County? Filthy rich
>>> people there in some of those places, it makes Long Island look like
>>> Mississippi.
>>>
>>> When you have lived a life of that much privilege, you tend to get
>>> scared of a lot of stuff that normal people have become accustomed to. A
>>> certain illness may be laughed off by some but someone who lived an easy
>>> life will look at it and get scared shitless. The other downfall of an
>>> easy life is that you believe whatever the mainstream media tells you
>>> because the established institutions have always been in your favor, so
>>> you trust them more.
>>>
>>> Why question any authority or government entity? They almost always came
>>> through for you and rarely bothered you.
>>>
>>> This is why the mandates themselves were not taken so well by the
>>> working class communities of color in Manhattan compared to the
>>> privileged white and Asian communities. Notice a trend? The former have
>>> seen certain horrors while the latter have lived a very easy life.
>>>
>>> When you live an easy life, it is easier to make up enemies where they
>>> might not exist. Your biggest threat is no longer an actual criminal
>>> that wants to kill you, a gang member that wants to ruin your community,
>>> or a bunch of violent men who want to break into your house, rather its
>>> the guy who doesn’t agree with your politics and refuses to take the
>>> jab. When you grow up in rough circumstances and make it, you are a
>>> survivor who has a lot to be proud of. Meanwhile, the privileged bunch
>>> who had everything handed to them in life see getting the jab as their
>>> chance to be superheroes.
>>>
>>> Overtime, it did become less of a mystery to me, now I wonder what I
>>> want to do about it.
>>>
>>> I am starting to enjoy my new city but obviously, there is a honeymoon
>>> period here. I have no doubts in my mind that soon, I am going to find
>>> quite a few shortcomings here. Originally, I thought that I simply stick
>>> it out here for a year or two until things get “back to normal” in
>>> Manhattan but I know that is not happening. I’ve learned that the
>>> underlying issues with the social fabric of Manhattan will bring back
>>> the same restrictions that came about in 2020. In other words, we yet
>>> another pandemic or tough year away from Empire State of Mind turning
>>> into Escape From New York. Time will tell.
>>>
>>> Plus, I am not even sure if I could live with myself knowing that when
>>> things went from bad to worse in Manhattan, I could no longer stick it
>>> out and moved. Quite a lot to come in these next few years but I remain
>>> open to all possibilities.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> NYC & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/UDr1lBsnz2M/m/7pcWgcoFBgAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/q8hvsx/italy_braced_for_unrest_as_covid_pass_becomes/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Coronavirus – latest updates
>>> See all our coronavirus coverage
>>> An employee at an optician shop shows her Covid-19 ‘green pass’ a day
>>> before it becomes obligatory for all workers either to show proof of
>>> vaccination, a negative test or recent recovery from infection to access
>>> their workplaces.
>>> An employee at an optician shop shows her Covid-19 ‘green pass’ a day
>>> before it becomes obligatory for all workers either to show proof of
>>> vaccination, a negative test or recent recovery from infection to access
>>> their workplaces. Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters
>>> Angela Giuffrida in Rome
>>> Thu 14 Oct 2021 10.35 EDT
>>>
>>> Italy is bracing itself for further unrest and labour market mayhem as
>>> the strictest vaccine mandate in Europe takes effect on Friday.
>>>
>>> All workers will be obliged to present a coronavirus health pass before
>>> entering their workplaces, a move that is expected to leave some
>>> industries struggling with staff shortages.
>>>
>>> The measure, an expansion of the “green pass” introduced in August, will
>>> require public and private sector workers to have been double
>>> vaccinated, to show proof of a negative test taken within the previous
>>> 48 hours or of having recently recovered from Covid-19.
>>>
>>> Those who flout the rules face being suspended without pay or fined up
>>> to €1,500 (£1,270). Employers face fines for failing to check if staff
>>> are complying.
>>>
>>>
>>> More than 80% of the population over the age of 12 has been
>>> double-vaccinated and the majority of Italians have taken the green pass
>>> – also required for dining inside restaurants, entering museums,
>>> theatres and cinemas, and for use on planes and long-distance trains –
>>> in their stride.
>>>
>>> However, protests over the workplace rule have gathered pace in recent
>>> weeks, with a demonstration in Rome last weekend turning violent as
>>> neofascist groups exploited the discontent.
>>>
>>> The motive behind Italy’s green pass is to boost inoculations and
>>> contain infections in the hope of avoiding another lockdown.
>>>
>>> Although there was an increase in the number of people booking
>>> vaccinations when the measure was first announced, especially among
>>> young people, an estimated 2.5 million workers have not yet had the jab.
>>> The majority of those refusing the vaccination are over the age of 50.
>>>
>>> The issue has caused divisions among workers, with some vaccinated
>>> people choosing to stay away from the workplace due to the presence of
>>> non-vaccinated colleagues.
>>>
>>> Confindustria, the Italian business lobby, strongly supports the
>>> workplace measure. However, various industries are envisaging staff
>>> shortages from Friday as workers hold strikes or simply choose to stay home.
>>>
>>>
>>> Port workers across Italy have threatened to go on strike, while the
>>> transport sector is facing a potential shortage of 130,000 workers.
>>>
>>> “Out of 400,000 drivers, we estimate that 30% do not have the green
>>> pass,” said Ivano Russo, the director general of Confetra, the transport
>>> and logistics federation. “On top of that, we fear for the foreign
>>> workers, many of whom have been vaccinated with Sputnik or other
>>> vaccines not approved by the European or Italian medicines agencies. We
>>> therefore foresee a risk of severe blockage in the sector.”
>>>
>>> The agriculture sector is facing a similar dilemma with foreign farm
>>> workers, the majority coming from eastern Europe, who have had the
>>> unapproved Sputnik vaccine.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, an estimated 20% of Italy’s police force are unvaccinated, as
>>> are between 10% and 20% of public transport workers.
>>>
>>> Bar and restaurant workers also require the pass, although industry
>>> officials say vaccine take-up has been high in a sector that was
>>> severely affected by lockdowns.
>>>
>>> Green pass opponents are planning further protests over the next few
>>> days. Meanwhile, CGIL, Italy’s oldest trade union, has organised a
>>> demonstration against fascism in Rome on Saturday after its headquarters
>>> were ransacked by neofascists during the green pass protests last weekend.
>>>
>>> The violence prompted calls for the extreme right party Forza Nuova and
>>> other neofascist movements to be banned.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Italy & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/bVa1DtR-a6M/m/AFWQ3MpUBgAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.facebook.com/RabidFeminist/photos/a.371249409573054/4699580140073271/?__cft__[0]=AZUnYjfsRmlc5a-4US3f_UUQ4r_QzwQISgA-JBXGfbRQPs74j1gjDQDGuf9OZJZSXJkQGc4fGLB2sVfCj4c3W7i92wYfjQtRx3tMNVb02yjRz7nD8P_q7qonWG_k-VeXVo6r7b90rLG53uqWHRkBps5Z&__tn__=%2CO*F
>>>
>>> "I think it's, culturally, time for us to re-frame how we think about
>>> the uterus.
>>>
>>> It's not a nurturing organ, it doesn't need to be; a fetus is
>>> frighteningly good at getting the resources it needs to nurture itself;
>>> if they are implanted anywhere other than the womb, (most often the
>>> fallopian tube, but also sometimes the bladder, the intestine, the
>>> pelvic muscles and connective tissue, and the liver) placental cells
>>> will rip through a body, slaughtering everything in their path as they
>>> seek out arteries to slake their hunger for nutrients. Fetal cells will
>>> happily grow in any of these places, digesting and puncturing tissue,
>>> paralyzing and enlarging arteries, raising blood pressure to feed itself
>>> more, faster; but it will be unable to be ejected. It's no coincidence
>>> that genes involved in embryonic development have been implicated in how
>>> cancer spreads.
>>>
>>> Rather than a soft cozy nest, a womb is a fortress designed to protect
>>> the person from the developing cells inside them. Because of our huge
>>> and (metabolically speaking) expensive brains, human fetal development
>>> requires unrestricted access to a parent's blood supply, which makes
>>> pregnancy (and miscarriage too btw) incredibly dangerous for the
>>> carrier. The uterus has evolved to control and restrict whether
>>> placental cells can get that access, and to eject it before it develops
>>> enough to kill the host. The function of the womb is to protect the
>>> parent's life. The very structure of the womb very firmly prioritizes
>>> the life of the parent over the life of the fetus.
>>>
>>> Even with modern medical care, at least 800 people die EVERY DAY from
>>> pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes. Among developed countries, the
>>> United States has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the
>>> world, and Texas has one of the highest rates within that. The rate is
>>> even higher when viewed among BIPOC only.
>>>
>>> Pregnancy may be necessary for the continuation of the species, but it
>>> is not a joke. It is a life-threatening event, a parasitic attack on a
>>> human body; just one we have romanticized and been desensitized to. The
>>> "miracle" of birth is that we have a protective organ designed to, if
>>> all goes well, let us survive it. It doesn't always go well. It is life
>>> or death. Someone who chooses to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and carry
>>> a fetus to delivery is legitimately choosing to risk their life to do
>>> it. Nobody else has the right to make anyone do that, and nobody should
>>> be punished or vilified for not wanting to do it. Forcing someone to
>>> carry a pregnancy, ANY pregnancy, is attempted murder.
>>>
>>> Abortion is a human right."- Rabid Feminist
>>>
>>> http://www.facebook.com/RabidFeminist/photos/a.371249409573054/4699580140073271/?comment_id=4732633993434552&reply_comment_id=4732709430093675&__cft__[0]=AZUnYjfsRmlc5a-4US3f_UUQ4r_QzwQISgA-JBXGfbRQPs74j1gjDQDGuf9OZJZSXJkQGc4fGLB2sVfCj4c3W7i92wYfjQtRx3tMNVb02yjRz7nD8P_q7qonWG_k-VeXVo6r7b90rLG53uqWHRkBps5Z&__tn__=R*F
>>>
>>> "Michael Ejercito , from the perspective of those of us who are
>>> physicians, the purpose of the uterus is to nurture the implanted embryo
>>> just as the purpose of the ovaries is to produce the ovum which after
>>> united with a spermatocyte becomes an embryo. In the interim, I am
>>> simply #WonderfullyHungry and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy
>>> appetite too. So how are you ?"- Dr. Andrew B. Chung
>>
>> The "versus" of Roe v. Wade reminds us that abortions are the terrible
>> consequence of terribly hungry people misbehaving terribly like
>> "Jan621" Insurrectionist "hangry DJT" and motivates us to redouble our
>> efforts to "Convince It Forward" to stop being hangry in hopes of
>> stopping the "Mourning In America."
>
> I will quote my Facebook friend and world-renowned legal ethicist,
>Jack Marshall.
>
>http://ethicsalarms.com/2021/01/06/ethics-observations-on-the-pro-trump-rioting-at-the-capitol/
>
>"First and foremost, anyone who did not condemn all of the George
>Floyd/Jacob Blake/Breonna Taylor/ Black Lives Matters rioting that took
>place this summer and fall is ethically estopped from criticizing this
>episode.

Those who witnessed the murder of George Floyd, which is practically
all of America, really cannot ethically condemn the peaceful protests
that followed demanding justice (Amos 5:24).

That which happened outside of the peaceful protests including the
tragic event that incited them reminds us that acts of violence are
the terrible consequence of terribly hungry people misbehaving
terribly like "Jan621" Insurrectionist "hangry DJT" and motivates us
to redouble our efforts to "Convince It Forward" to stop being hangry
in hopes of stopping the "Mourning In America."

>That means I can, and will, condemn it as stupid, useless,
>self-destructive and anti-democratic violence, but most Democrats,
>progressives and media pundits cannot."- Jack Marshall

"But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a
never-failing stream!" (Amos 5:24)

Source:
https://biblehub.com/amos/5-24.htm

Without justice and righteousness, there is no ethics.

Suggest further reading:
https://twitter.com/WDJW/status/1446425726195048449

>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/YSp3b90lwrQ/m/hPoXYUgjBwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qaie28/new_zealand_extends_auckland_lockdown_in_battle/
>>>
>>> New Zealand extends Auckland lockdown in battle on Delta variant
>>> By Praveen Menon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2 minute read
>>> New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern participates in a televised
>>> debate with National leader Judith Collins at TVNZ in Auckland, New
>>> Zealand, September 22, 2020. Fiona Goodall/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
>>> New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern participates in a televised
>>> debate with National leader Judith Collins at TVNZ in Auckland, New
>>> Zealand, September 22, 2020. Fiona Goodall/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
>>>
>>> WELLINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - New Zealand's biggest city of Auckland
>>> will retain its lockdown for two more weeks in the battle on the Delta
>>> variant of coronavirus, as the country pushes to step up vaccinations,
>>> Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.
>>>
>>> Once the poster child for stamping out COVID-19, New Zealand is now
>>> fighting a Delta outbreak that has spread across Auckland and
>>> neighbouring regions despite tough lockdown and border closures.
>>>
>>> Ardern said there would be no changes to social curbs, the toughest in
>>> the OECD grouping of 34 leading economies, that have run for 62 days in
>>> Auckland.
>>>
>>> "Any interim easing of restrictions ... will not work towards our plan
>>> of minimising cases while we increase vaccinations," Ardern told a news
>>> conference.
>>>
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>>> "But the biggest thing that will make a difference right now, alongside
>>> vaccines, is that everyone continue to comply with restrictions."
>>>
>>> The lockdown in the city of 1.7 million began in mid-August, in the
>>> effort to halt the outbreak.
>>>
>>> Some curbs were eased to let people leave home and meet loved ones
>>> outdoors in groups limited to 10, as well as permitting visits to
>>> beaches and parks.
>>>
>>> But schools, businesses and offices remain shut, and gatherings indoors
>>> are not allowed.
>>>
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>>> New Zealand's tally of infections in the current outbreak rose to 2,005
>>> with Monday's 60 new community cases, consisting of 57 in Auckland and
>>> three in the Waikato region.
>>>
>>> The Pacific nation was among just a handful of countries to reach zero
>>> COVID-19 cases last year, staying largely virus-free until the Delta
>>> outbreak in August frustrated efforts to stamp out transmission.
>>>
>>> Amid mounting political pressure to reopen the country and its economy,
>>> Ardern switched from her tough elimination strategy to a model of
>>> learning to live with the virus, much like rest of the world.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> N.Z. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>

>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/lqbHwy8-DJk/m/WIRXjY4_BwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDrights/comments/qbcpnn/san_francisco_closes_innout_burger_after_defying/
>>>
>>>
>>> SAN FRANCISCO CLOSES IN-N-OUT BURGER AFTER DEFYING CITY’S VACCINE RULE
>>> By Jefferey Jaxen and Patrick Layton
>>>
>>> In-N-Out Burger’s Chief Legal and Business Officer, Arnie Wensinger, is
>>> set to release a statement after the San Francisco Department of Health
>>> closed one of the Top California Burger Restaurant’s locations.
>>>
>>> “Today, the San Francisco Department of Health closed our restaurant…”
>>> he wrote. According to Wensingers statement, In-N-Out Burger employees
>>> were allegedly “not preventing the entry of customers who were not
>>> carrying proper vaccination documentation.”
>>>
>>> Beyond the famous California institution’s location “properly and
>>> clearly” posting signage to communicate local vaccination requirements,
>>> the SFDH has attempted to require In-N-Out Burger employees to act as
>>> health police and enforcement personnel for the city.
>>>
>>> He explains, “After closing our restaurant, local regulators informed us
>>> that our restaurant Associates must actively intervene by demanding
>>> proof of vaccination and photo identification from every
>>> customer…barring entry for any Customers without proper documentation.”
>>>
>>> Wensigner opened up further in the statement saying they are committed
>>> to the highest level of customer service & making all feel welcome.
>>>
>>> “We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government. It is
>>> unreasonable, invasive, and unsafe to force our restaurant associates to
>>> segregate customers,” wrote Wensigner.
>>>
>>> In late August, San Francisco became one of the first major U.S. cities
>>> to require proof of full COVID-19 vaccination to enter indoor
>>> restaurants, bars, gyms, theaters, and other entertainment venues.
>>>
>>> New York City’s policy went into effect on August 17, and the city began
>>> to enforce the requirements as of September 13. Inspectors for New York
>>> City have reportedly given numerous violations of $1,000 for failing to
>>> check vaccination cards.
>>>
>>> Some fast-food chains shut their seating areas altogether, sacrificing
>>> sales and bottom lines to appease city health rules.
>>>
>>> Federal and State Vaccine Mandates have fueled a great divide in the
>>> U.S., pitting businesses, unions, legislators, and neighbors against one
>>> another based on their firmly held beliefs on the issue.
>>>
>>>
>>> Further fueling the division are inconsistent actions from public
>>> officials like CA Governor Gavin Newsom. It was recently reported that
>>> Newsom, who is publicly driving Lockdowns and Vaccine mandates, does not
>>> vaccinate his own daughter. In addition to that, CA Assemblyman Kevin
>>> Kiley tweeted that the embattled Governor is fighting to remove the
>>> vaccine mandate for a union that reportedly gave over $1 million to his
>>> campaign.
>>>
>>>
>>> For In-n-Out Burger, they are not alone as employees, employers, unions,
>>> public employees, and even Governors across the nation are signaling
>>> their distaste for a mandate Arnie Wensinger describes as a “government
>>> dictate that forces a private company to discriminate against customers
>>> who choose to patronize their business.”
>>>
>>> The statement concludes with a declaration that leaves no doubt about
>>> where the famous Burger Institution stands.
>>>
>>> “This clear governmental overreach and is intrusive, improper, and
>>> offensive.”

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Cali & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/MRBhstEcJI4/m/s24047ncBwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>> MichaelE wrote in the subject line:
>>
>>> "Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ladapo: Highest quality data does not support any clinical benefit
>>> for masking children in schools | Masking a child is no one else's decision except for their parents
>>>
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qcfdr8/florida_surgeon_general_dr_ladapo_highest_quality/
>>
>> Actually, there is no quality data to either support or refute
>> Florida's political assertion that there's no "clinical benefit for
>> masking children in schools."
>>
>> Source:
>> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8014099/

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Florida & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/qIjnV1v08Ig/m/SCMMEiO4IAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>> MichaelE wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/25/1048202711/covid-economic-pain-black-latino-native-american
>>>
>>>
>>> October 25, 20212:53 PM ET
>>> Laurel Wamsley at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., November 7,
>>> 2018. (photo by Allison Shelley)
>>> LAUREL WAMSLEY
>>>
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>>>
>>> Los Angeles International Airport and SoFi Stadium employers spoke with
>>> potential job applicants at a job fair in Inglewood, Calif., in
>>> September. About 19% of all households in an NPR poll say they lost all
>>> their savings during the COVID-19 outbreak, and have none to fall back on.
>>> PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
>>> Jonathan Eta had managed to keep his head above water after he lost his
>>> job as an auto detailer in Southern California at the start of the
>>> pandemic. But last month, the emergency unemployment benefits he relied
>>> on expired.
>>>
>>> "Basically, now we're just out on our own, you know?" he says.
>>>
>>> Eta, who was born in Honduras, lives in the San Fernando Valley, where
>>> he's a single father to his three school-aged children. The financial
>>> strain he'd staved off for 17 months has arrived. He's now three months
>>> behind on rent for the one-bedroom apartment where the four of them
>>> live, and he's behind on his credit cards and electric bill, too.
>>>
>>> "Man, it's just hard to find work, constantly worrying about catching
>>> the virus. You know, my kids have caught it. My mother, too. So it's
>>> really been real, real rocky, you know. I don't know which way to go,"
>>> Eta says.
>>>
>>> He's far from the only one feeling that pressure. Thirty-eight percent
>>> of households across the U.S. report facing serious financial problems
>>> over the last few months. That's according to a poll by NPR, the Robert
>>> Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
>>> Health. And among Black and Latino households, more than 55% reported
>>> serious financial problems. That's compared with 29% of white households.
>>>
>>> Article continues after sponsor message
>>>
>>>
>>> Impact of the racial wealth gap: "I've got to start all over"
>>> For Eta, the financial strain has made it hard to sleep, and it has
>>> stymied his hopes of moving his family to a bigger place.
>>>
>>> "I had some kind of progress going on. Now that's pretty much over with,
>>> so I've got to start all over. And it's just been pretty rough, you
>>> know, to not have any kind of surety of where we're going or when this
>>> is going to be over," he says. The little savings he had are now gone.
>>>
>>> That lack of savings is a major factor in the unequal financial toll of
>>> the pandemic.
>>>
>>> About 19% of all households say they lost all their savings during the
>>> COVID-19 outbreak, and have none to fall back on. Among Black
>>> households, the number is higher: 31% reported losing all their savings.
>>> And among Latino and Native American families, more than more than a
>>> quarter of households report having depleted their savings.
>>>
>>> "The racial wealth gap is real, and one of its most basic manifestations
>>> is not having liquid assets," says William Spriggs, professor of
>>> economics at Howard University and chief economist to the AFL-CIO.
>>>
>>> The additional federal aid that expired last month gave people a sense
>>> of security, Spriggs says, so they could continue to consume.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "That's all gone away," he says. "So that is, I think, the number one
>>> reason you saw special stress in Latino and Black households — because
>>> without the boost to the unemployment check, without the stimulus checks
>>> still being there, these households simply don't have the savings to
>>> endure and be resilient during downturns."
>>>
>>> "It is incredibly hard"
>>> Melissa is a single mom in Brooklyn. She's asked we only use her first
>>> name because she's ashamed of being unable to provide for her children
>>> and doesn't want it widely known how much she is struggling.
>>>
>>> "This has been hell," she says. "I'm trying to survive without a job,
>>> without assistance, with two young children. It is incredibly hard."
>>>
>>> When the pandemic started, she was working as a home health aide. But
>>> because she was caring for her kids, checking in on her mother in a
>>> nursing home, and looking after her aunts and uncles, she didn't want to
>>> work directly with COVID-19 patients.
>>>
>>> Article continues after sponsor message
>>>
>>> "And they didn't want to hear that, so I was forced to take a leave,"
>>> she says.
>>>
>>> Around the same time, her wallet was stolen, and with it, the state ID
>>> and social security card she needed to apply for various government
>>> assistance. Getting replacements for those documents has been slow, with
>>> government offices backed up during the pandemic.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When she became eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine earlier this year,
>>> Melissa wasn't able to get the protective shot for underlying health
>>> reasons. But that's raised her ongoing vulnerability to the coronavirus.
>>>
>>> Without income, she's leaned on extended family, gone to food pantries
>>> and made the most of her supply of canned goods while she looks for a job.
>>>
>>> "I've applied at Target, Kmart, H&M — everything. I've applied
>>> everywhere. And you know, it is difficult with my two children because I
>>> still have to make sure they go to daycare. And without a voucher ...
>>> you're looking at six, seven hundred dollars in daycare a week."
>>>
>>> Glimmers of hope
>>> She says the pandemic has erased the life she knew before — when she
>>> could take care of others in her extended family, instead of just
>>> scraping by herself.
>>>
>>> But there are glimmers of hope: That underlying health issue has at last
>>> healed, her doctors now tell her, so she should be able to get
>>> vaccinated against the coronavirus, and be able to look for a
>>> better-paying job in health care.
>>>
>>> Until then, she says, her kids are what keep her going. "They wake up
>>> every day and look at me like, 'OK, let's go.' They're happy and they
>>> help make me happy. They motivate me."
>>>
>>> And soon, she hopes, the whole family can return to some measure of
>>> stability.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Cali & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6jYaIEaVfW8/m/ldaSVOPtIQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://millennialbachelor.com/2021/10/26/how-i-saw-nyc-change-throughout-the-pandemic/
>>>
>>> How I saw NYC change throughout the pandemic
>>> 26 Oct 2021The Millennial
>>> March 2020, or around that time as I like to imagine it, it was like a
>>> normal night. I was in West Village having drinks with a girl I was
>>> casually seeing as her brother and his friends were in town. As bad as
>>> it sounds looking back at it now, so many people joked about COVID-19
>>> and how it won’t be serious. Then we all got an announcement that
>>> weekend or around that time to stay at home, we would be working remote.
>>> For a while, it seemed like no one wanted to be back in the office since
>>> well, working remote has its perks.
>>>
>>> My friend and I walked around, may have been April or May of that year,
>>> and we could not believe it. NYC, Manhattan itself, the bumbling haven
>>> of activity was now a ghost town. Rats became more prominent on the
>>> streets as there was less foot traffic and the drugged out homeless
>>> stuck out more. Never would anyone have thought that a city like NYC
>>> would be turned into a ghost town, it was something else entirely. All
>>> of the city had gone into lockdown. As the spring turned to summer,
>>> racial tensions boiled over due to the murder of George Floyd.
>>>
>>> I watched as once lively apartment buildings went empty in neighborhoods
>>> that used to be full of energy. Even my own building saw a change as
>>> Friday nights and Saturdays were drop dead silent. You heard almost
>>> nothing anymore and rows of stores were now boarded up. Yet I stayed,
>>> the truth is that very few cities can rival what NYC offers to a single
>>> guy in his twenties.
>>>
>>> Tensions got bad as cop cars in Union Square were set on fire and I
>>> lived through it, seeing the riots happen all over the city. Some were
>>> peaceful protests but as night came, those turned violent. Meanwhile,
>>> the city was on lockdown, almost all of the bars closed and nightlife
>>> dead. The parties still went on at the apartments and in some
>>> underground destinations where you had to have an invite but it was
>>> nothing like when the city was open. Most people with the means to do so
>>> left NYC and opted to get out of the state entirely. I don’t know much
>>> of the city outside of Manhattan, for all I know, Queens and other
>>> boroughs are the same.
>>>
>>> I loved working remotely and not having to go to the office but it was
>>> something else as the city had changed. The lockdowns, fear of COVID,
>>> tensions boiling over, and restriction after restriction had changed
>>> NYC. I don’t mean change as in your favorite spots being closed, I mean
>>> change as in change the character of the city and of Manhattan. At its
>>> very core, New York was different because New Yorkers became different.
>>> Maybe the tough times exposed traits of New Yorkers you do not see when
>>> you are too busy trying to catch the train in the crowd, but it was
>>> different.
>>>
>>> What I witnessed were not just lockdowns but a roller coaster of rights.
>>> At one moment, it’s back to normal, and at the other it is mandate after
>>> mandate. NYC has recovered from a lot but this was kind of different, I
>>> saw New Yorkers change.
>>>
>>> New Yorkers went from kinda rude to hostile.
>>>
>>> New Yorkers are stereotypically rude, they can be downright mean, but
>>> they are not exactly hostile. In fact, I’d say New Yorkers are good
>>> people as a whole who want to help. I remember arriving here and
>>> strangers happily helped me with directions and gave me feedback on
>>> neighborhoods. There was a degree of trust in most strangers in
>>> Manhattan, you felt it, and knew that there were good samaritans abound
>>> in the city.
>>>
>>> A New Yorker will be blunt with you and talk shit to your face but he is
>>> never hostile in a territorial sort of way, at least not in Manhattan.
>>> Waiting for food, being in line for groceries, and waiting on your
>>> coffee were different experiences now. Perhaps the one demographic in
>>> NYC that I saw change and become unbearable were older white women,
>>> particularly in Manhattan, they took being Karen to a whole new level.
>>>
>>> I remember waiting for the cashier to bag my groceries around April of
>>> last year as an older woman accidentally bumped into me. She made eye
>>> contact and immediately said “get away from me, get the fuck away from
>>> me” as I was standing arm’s length away from her. Very unusual as the
>>> cashier watched along with others. Throughout the city, I saw these
>>> instances happening more and more often. In all fairness, this did come
>>>from the older white population in the city.
>>>
>>> In the younger population, there was frustration. We hated how the same
>>> old people at risk for COVID were outside wondering around for their
>>> walks while locking down was encouraged, some were even unmasked.
>>> Frustration grew in the younger population as we dealt with the economy
>>> being mostly shut down while those at risk wandered around carelessly,
>>> expecting us to cater to their demands.
>>>
>>> The less flattering aspects of the city became even more prominent.
>>>
>>> I remember walking with a friend to see how the city looked like during
>>> the lockdowns when they allowed us out. We got too close to a garbage
>>> bag which had not been collected and saw about ten rats inside running
>>> around, that scared the shit out of me. When NYC was open, you wouldn’t
>>> encounter this as much or even notice it because so much was going on.
>>>
>>> The homeless struggles became a lot more prominent as well because you
>>> could no longer ignore it compared to moving through crowds of people on
>>> their way to work. You had a lot of instances where it would just be you
>>> walking down the street and the only person you would encounter is a
>>> homeless guy asking for change. I also noticed that the homeless
>>> population started to become a lot more aggressive than usual, now
>>> cursing at you more when you ignored their requests for change, which
>>> brings me to my next point.
>>>
>>> Crime went up.
>>>
>>> While statistics will bring up the rise in hate crimes and rise in
>>> shootings in the city, the truth is that NYC as a whole began to feel a
>>> lot less safe. You did not want to take the subway during the pandemic,
>>> especially not the one in Union Square. Walking around, especially at
>>> night, felt a lot less safe as well. I noticed more shoplifting
>>> happening at pharmacies and convenient stores, all of this in parts of
>>> Manhattan that were usually seen as being safe.
>>>
>>> The spike in crime is shown as being in areas where crime was already
>>> bad, I think it is naive to think this way. The truth is that crime in
>>> NYC as a whole went up, especially in safer parts of Manhattan. I used
>>> to be able to walk around my neighborhood at night and it would be
>>> people walking their dogs and everyone getting their evening walk in as
>>> well. During the pandemic, I started noticing more homeless drug addicts
>>> and overall a vibe that was a lot less safe. It’s no surprise that when
>>> the mayoral race happened, the winner on the Democrat side was a former
>>> cop with more centrist policies.
>>>
>>> The incompetent leadership was no longer tolerable.
>>>
>>> It doesn’t matter where you stand on the political spectrum, New York
>>> has not elected good leaders recently. Our previous few governors seem
>>> to always get caught up in some sort of scandal and our mayor is
>>> considered to be one of the worst in America. In all fairness, the
>>> mayors before the current mayor did do a good job. When things were
>>> open, you kind of tolerated it. The drinking, partying, and hooking up
>>> with attractive women took your mind off of how incompetent and corrupt
>>> some of the people running the city were.
>>>
>>> Once the lockdowns happened, nightlife ended, jobs gutted, crime
>>> skyrocketed, and the rich fled; you were forced to pay attention to it.
>>> The chickens came home to roost for the leadership which became a
>>> laughing stock of the entire country. Now New Yorkers were forced to ask
>>> where the hell those tax dollars were actually going. New Yorkers hit
>>> the polls and selected someone different for mayor, but it was a tale of
>>> two New Yorks.
>>>
>>> Racial tensions got much worse.
>>>
>>> While it does not get talked about as much and might catch others by
>>> surprise, NYC has quite a lot of racism going on under the surface. The
>>> wealthy whites who vote Democrat in the city will play up the hero act
>>> but there is a reason they prefer not to live too close to Harlem. I
>>> won’t take the time to bash out of touch liberals too much.
>>>
>>> As it showed in the race for mayor and Democrat primary, well-off whites
>>> in the city do not vote like minorities do. One group was facing rising
>>> crime rates and found defunding the police to be a baffling proposal.
>>> Meanwhile, the Uber Eats Work From Home class was all onboard for
>>> defunding the police as they hid out in their doorman secured buildings.
>>>
>>> While wealthy whites cheered for vaccine mandates, minorities who are
>>> less vaccinated on average were not nearly as enthusiastic. The Carmine
>>> Incident represented these tensions boiling over, even though the family
>>> was from Texas. Vaccine mandates were a tale of one privileged side
>>> cheering for them while the other side which was less privileged did not
>>> see as much value in them because they had pressing issues like rising
>>> crime staring them in the face.
>>>
>>> For decades, these tensions existed. Many New Yorkers of color were
>>> aware of what I will call the Reddit New Yorker for the sake of this
>>> post, the type to pretend to care about people of color but only hang
>>> with their white and/or hipster crowd. Somehow, during the pandemic, the
>>> tensions bubbled up to the surface. Vaccine mandates almost gave some of
>>> the wealthy closet racists a way to be prejudiced while just hiding
>>> behind the “they’re unvaccinated” act.
>>>
>>> People got nosier.
>>>
>>> New Yorkers are stereotyped as being in their own world and out of
>>> everyone’s business. As the mandates came, New Yorkers got nosier and
>>> nosier. Once again, the biggest culprit here were middle-aged and older
>>> white women being Karens. Now, it became their duty to ask everyone if
>>> they were vaccinated and then give them a lecture if they were not. Your
>>> conversations had a much bigger chance of being overheard.
>>>
>>> As angry as I was at these types, I felt for them now looking back at
>>> it. So many of these people lived easy lives in their Manhattan bubbles,
>>> believing every word of what mainstream media told them, and once the
>>> pandemic came it was as if their world had been shattered. I may have
>>> been annoyed and angry at first but I realized that these people were
>>> just really scared and adversarial as a result.
>>>
>>> More people questioned why they live in the city now, and many moved.
>>>
>>> In all fairness, a lot of people have also moved into NYC because they
>>> think that things will be back to normal soon. Rents have gone up in
>>> Manhattan for a reason and in my heart, NYC will always hold a special
>>> place. Despite the love I had for NYC, I realized that with being able
>>> to work remote and nightlife being mostly closed, there was very little
>>> incentive to pay the high taxes and high rents.
>>>
>>> You paid the high taxes and high rents because you loved the nightlife
>>> the city offered and the fact that it attracted a non-judgmental crowd
>>> that didn’t care if you weren’t married with kids by 35. Once nightlife
>>> started to close down and the mandates kicked in, you started to
>>> question why you lived in the city. When jobs allow you to work remote
>>> and nightlife becomes more stringent on proof of vaccination, you really
>>> start to second guess what you are actually paying for.
>>>
>>> What does the future hold?
>>>
>>> I moved out of NYC and seeing how the city handled the pandemic, am left
>>> wondering how they might handle future crises. Some of what NYC offers
>>> in the form of a great hookup culture will be tough to rival for most
>>> cities. NYC has its charm and it will always attract tourists from
>>> across the world. With remote work being the norm now, it is anyone’s
>>> guess how much livelier Manhattan will be. Given the good years it gave
>>> me, I will always be in NYC’s corner and rooting for it. I am only left
>>> asking if I would want to go back.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> NYC & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/VSCrhWF88SI/m/nKJuHhuLDQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://globalnews.ca/news/8333159/toronto-covid-survivor-returns-icu-message/
>>>
>>> ‘Thank you for everything’: Toronto COVID-19 survivor returns to ICU
>>> with message for care team
>>>
>>> By Caryn Lieberman Global News
>>> Posted October 29, 2021 6:00 am
>>> Updated October 29, 2021 6:24 am
>>> Global News at 5:30 Toronto: October 28, 2021
>>> close video
>>> The very first COVID-19 patient in Humber River Hospital’s intensive
>>> care unit returned a year and a half since he was first admitted to
>>> thank the medical team that saved his life. Caryn Lieberman reports.
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>>> A year and a half since Mario Castillo was taken off a ventilator at
>>> Humber River Hospital after spending nine weeks intubated, fighting
>>> COVID-19, he returned to thank the medical team that saved his life.
>>>
>>>
>>> “Want to say thank you for everybody taking care of me … thank you for
>>> everything,” he said.
>>>
>>> Seeing Castillo healthy is a huge morale boost for the front-line
>>> health-care workers who cared for him during the first wave of the pandemic.
>>>
>>> “The team is overwhelmed. I have a nurse that stayed overnight just to
>>> see Mario. She took care of him and hearing Mario speak today, I had
>>> goosebumps,” said Cecile Marville-Williams, program director with
>>> responsibility for critical care, cardiology, respiratory and oncology.
>>>
>>> Marville-Williams lost her mother to COVID-19, so seeing Castillo
>>> thriving is even more meaningful.
>>>
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>>>
>>> READ MORE: ‘This is my second chance’: COVID-19 survivor who defied odds
>>> recovering in rehab centre
>>>
>>> “To see him today walking, talking, to be able to come back and give
>>> back to us by sharing his experience just made me feel very
>>> overwhelmed,” she said.
>>>
>>> Castillo was the first COVID-19 patient to be intubated in the intensive
>>> care unit at Humber River Hospital.
>>>
>>> In late March of 2020, the mechanic went to the emergency room after
>>> leaving work early one day with a fever and runny nose and spending a
>>> week sick in bed.
>>>
>>> Within hours of arriving in hospital, Castillo’s symptoms worsened.
>>>
>>> READ MORE: ‘I’m scared’: Toronto COVID-19 survivor who defied odds
>>> updates recovery, expresses fear
>>>
>>> “I saw him the first time that he came with shortness of breath and we
>>> had a flood of patients with COVID. So everyone that came with shortness
>>> of breath and low oxygen saturations was most likely a COVID patient,”
>>> recalled Flor Guevara, respiratory therapist.
>>>
>>> The next day, Guevara said Castillo had been moved to the ICU from the
>>> emergency department.
>>>
>>> “I remembered that I had a Spanish background and I said, ‘I need to
>>> talk to him.’ So I went inside and I spoke to him and I explained to
>>> him, ‘We need to give you a medication to put you into sleep’ and then
>>> he said, ‘How long I’m going to be down?’ and I said, ‘We don’t know’,”
>>> she said.
>>>
>>> STORY CONTINUES BELOW ADVERTISEMENT
>>>
>>> Seeing Castillo all these months later was emotional for Guevara, who
>>> called his recovery “a miracle.”
>>>
>>> Click to play video: 'Ontario lifts capacity limits for outdoor public
>>> events'
>>> 2:16
>>> Ontario lifts capacity limits for outdoor public events
>>> Ontario lifts capacity limits for outdoor public events
>>> Critical care physician Dr. Keren Mandelzweig was part of the medical
>>> team that performed the intubation on Castillo.
>>>
>>> “Really what stands out to me is all the preparation that went into
>>> preparing to perform the intubation, all the new protocols that had to
>>> be put in place, the whole team coming together to learn how to do
>>> everything in a different way to keep, of course, the patients safe, but
>>> also everyone safe,” she recalled.
>>>
>>> Mandelzweig said she remembers feeling worried about Castillo.
>>>
>>> “We didn’t know that much about the disease and we didn’t know what his
>>> outcome was going to be. I remember just basically a lot of unknowns,”
>>> she said.
>>>
>>> STORY CONTINUES BELOW ADVERTISEMENT
>>>
>>> READ MORE: ‘I’ll live to see another day’: COVID-19 survivor describes
>>> effects of virus 8 months later
>>>
>>> Seeing Castillo after all this time was thrilling for Mandelzweig.
>>>
>>> “It almost took my breath away,” she said.
>>>
>>> Castillo is planning to return to work soon. He has not yet fully
>>> recovered but can walk again and has regained strength in his hands.
>>>
>>> He said he will also visit St. John’s Rehab at Sunnybrook Hospital one
>>> day soon to thank the team there.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Toronto & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > MichaelE wrote:
> >
> >

> >http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qmimr7/political_theology_and_covid19_agambens_critique/
> > >
> > >
> > >Political Theology and COVID-19: Agamben’s Critique of Science as a New
> > >“Pandemic Religion”
> > >Guillermo Andrés Duque Silva and Cristina Del Prado Higuera
> > > From the journal Open Theology
> > >https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0177
> > >Abstract
> > >The philosopher Giorgio Agamben has reacted to the coronavirus
>crisis in
> > >a way that markedly contrasts with most other positions in contemporary
> > >political philosophy. His position has been described as irrational,
> > >politically incorrect, and unfair toward the victims of COVID-19. In
> > >this article, we delve into the foundations of this peculiar,
> > >pessimistic, and controversial reaction. From Agamben’s conceptual
> > >framework, we will explain how state responses to the COVID-19 crisis
> > >have turned science into a new religion from the dogmas of which
>various
> > >strategies have been developed in order for states to exercise
> > >biopolitical power under theological guises.
> > >
> > >Keywords: state of exception; political theology; COVID-19; sovereignty
> > >1 Introduction
> > >At the beginning of 2020, an important philosophical debate took place
> > >on the COVID-19 crisis. Various contemporary thinkers such as Slavoj
> > >Žižek, Roberto Esposito, and Jean-Luc Nancy put forward their positions
> > >regarding the critical situations then developing. In February 2020,
>the
> > >Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben intervened with a press release
>that
> > >aroused the most relentless criticism from the philosophical community.
> > >The title of the publication: The invention of an epidemic revealed the
> > >critical position that Agamben advanced against the measures that have
> > >been imposed by states within their responses to the health emergency.
> > >In that publication, the renowned philosopher called the state
>responses
> > >to the pandemic crisis “frantic, irrational and completely
>unjustified.”
> > >Agamben questioned why the media and the authorities were making an
> > >effort “to spread a climate of panic, causing a true state of
>exception,
> > >with serious limitations on movements and a suspension of the normal
> > >functioning of living and working conditions in entire regions.” From
> > >Agamben’s perspective, those measurements were totally out of
>proportion
> > >to what, according to him, was simply a typical common flu.
>
> > A coronavirus is simply different from a flu virus whether the latter
> > is either typical or common.
>
> > >A wave of criticism was quickly levied against Agamben and we shall
> > >examine in this article the most important elements thereof. We will
>not
> > >discuss the virus’s destructive capacity since Agamben’s classification
> > >of COVID-19 as “simply flu” falls by itself. What interests us is the
> > >link Agamben makes between the emergence of COVID-19 and what he
> > >conceptualizes as a resultant permanent state of exception.
> > >
> > >Agamben has devoted himself for more than twenty years to the scholarly
> > >study of the state of exception in Western culture. While his study of
> > >the subject began solely on a theoretical and abstract plane, it
> > >suddenly took life before his eyes in the form of the worldwide
>response
> > >to COVID-19. For this reason, quite beyond Agamben’s controversial
> > >position on the lethality of the virus, we are interested in the
> > >argument that the philosopher puts forward about a growing tendency of
> > >states to use the state of exception as a standard paradigm of
> > >government, a propensity of theirs for which the cover given by
>COVID-19
> > >is ideally suited, as he explains in his most recent work.[1]
> > >
> > >This article will fulfill three purposes, arranged into three sections.
> > >First, we will examine Giorgio Agamben’s theoretical proposal of the
> > >state of exception as a dialogue, on the one hand, with the criticisms
> > >received from other philosophers, and, on the other hand, with the
> > >possible applications that this theory would have in concrete
>situations
> > >generated by the COVID-19 crisis. Second, we will analyze the
>conceptual
> > >framework of political theology and economic theology in Giorgio
> > >Agamben’s work, especially that developed in The Kingdom and the Glory:
> > >For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government. Finally, we will
> > >put this theory in the context of the health crisis and the question of
> > >the origin and legitimacy of laws and measures that affect social life
> > >in the state of emergency generated by the coronavirus. In Section
>4, we
> > >will draw attention to the scope of the current state of exception
>that,
> > >in the Agambenian theoretical framework, will not be overcome with the
> > >end of the pandemic, in the same way, that it did not begin with it.
> > >
> > >2 Pandemic and homo sacer: Our neighbor has been abolished
> > >The Italian philosopher has attempted to carry further the
>philosophical
> > >project dealing with biopolitics and their underlying genealogical
> > >considerations that was initiated by Michel Foucault. Agamben describes
> > >the contemporary age as a time that manages to materialize the
>diagnosis
> > >that Foucault hinted at in reference to the concept of “biopolitics” in
> > >his last works. The notion of biopolitics has been used to describe the
> > >administration of power in human life as a government paradigm in
> > >Western culture. According to Foucault’s conception of human powers:
> > >these act in two ways:[2] those that boost life or those that end
>it.[3]
> > > From the first perspective, that of the impulse of life, human beings
> > >are, for those in power, simply raw material to be preserved; however,
> > >in the second case, those in power are compelled to exercise mechanisms
> > >that end the life of a part of the population that they administer. The
> > >two visions are complementary because, ultimately, the deaths of some
> > >subjects may serve to protect the lives of others. Giorgio Agamben
> > >revives the concept of biopolitics in order to describe contemporary
> > >society and goes one step further: he focuses his attention on a
> > >pessimistic perspective of biopolitics. Agamben dedicates himself to
> > >understanding the criteria for the administration of death that are
> > >exercised in the history of the West so as to identify biopolitical
> > >patterns in the governments of Western societies, as well as the
>reduced
> > >possibilities of resistance that may emerge in a world that has been
> > >turning into a “gigantic concentration camp.”[4]
> > >
> > > From Agamben’s perspective, the most reprehensible cruelties that have
> > >taken place in the exercise of power in the West, instead of being
> > >exceptional anomalies, constitute instances inherent in the process of
> > >the social construction of modernity.[5] In this way, Giorgio Agamben
> > >interprets Ernst Nolte’s position on Auschwitz: history seems to resist
> > >being left in the past. Indeed, Auschwitz constitutes the obscene
> > >paradigm of the modern that Agamben turns into the founding myth of a
> > >biopolitical era. This paradigm refuses to “remain in the past” and
> > >gives meaning to contemporary forms of government. The Italian follows
> > >the weak but the constant beat of the Musselman [6] of Auschwitz. The
> > >philosopher carries out, in a research program over a decade and
> > >producing six books, a prodigious archaeological excavation of power so
> > >as to identify among its meanings what is the essential core of the
> > >modern, an explanation of the question of “how did we get to
>Auschwitz?”
> > >and through that genealogy journey finds the origins of the concept of
> > >“Nuda Vita.”[7]
> > >
> > >Contemporary life, in the concept of biopolitics proposed by Agamben,
> > >has become a bare life. Life thus conceived is reduced to what is
> > >produced and managed by law. The individuals in a concentration camp
>are
> > >stripped of all rights and political–legal status; their life is
> > >treated, by the agents of power, as matter without human form, naked
> > >life: they are data, figures, biological units that are always
> > >disposable, as opposed to the greater value of the future and the
> > >preservation, paradoxically, of other lives.[8] Under the rule
>exercised
> > >by the agents of power, Nuda Vita, according to Agamben, gives rise to
> > >the pauperization of human life in general. Among the concentration
>camp
> > >subjects, Agamben focuses on two figures; the Musselman, on the one
> > >hand, represents the most powerless figure in the concentration camp.
> > >Resigned to dying, he is engulfed in humiliation, fear, and horror. On
> > >the other hand, there is the homo sacer, who lives trapped in the
>middle
> > >of an incongruity; on the one hand, he bears the burden of a crime, but
> > >he is legally unsacrifiable. That is, it is forbidden to subject him to
> > >death at the same time that he has to live knowing that others are
> > >allowed impunity if they kill him.[9] Agamben advances and relates the
> > >nuda vita and the homo sacer as metaphors of modern life and the
> > >concentration camp as its paradigm. In this regard, Múnera and
>Benavides
> > >indicate that:
> > >
> > >Bared life [as life for death] is not the simple natural life, but a
> > >politically unprotected life, permanently exposed to death or the
> > >humiliations caused, with total impunity, by the sovereign power or by
> > >those who compose it as citizens.[10]
> > >
> > >It is inevitable to compare Agamben’s bare life concept with his
> > >statements about the disease and the states of emergency that COVID-19
> > >has generated.
> > >
> > >In particular, the intergenerational differences that are promoted in
> > >defense of general well-being are striking. All, but particularly the
> > >older generations, have experienced, in a certain way, being locked
>in a
> > >politically unprotected life, permanently exposed to death. The older
> > >adult has become a Musselman of the twenty-first century, resigned to
> > >death but while being unsacrifiable. His death is an expected result
> > >that, however, is not directly ordered. The death is, in this case,
> > >expected as a natural result of the isolation offered, in European
> > >nursing homes, for instance. His death is considered a natural and
> > >inevitable result. The fact that consideration of the option of
>saving a
> > >patient with a ventilator leans naturally to a question as to who
>“has a
> > >whole life ahead of him,” at no time admits the other option of
> > >considering that choice as a criminal act in respect of other patients
> > >not so saved, puts us face to face with biopower. If the meaning of
>that
> > >choice seems justifiably natural, it is because in that
>normalization of
> > >horror lies the essence of the administration of power in the
> > >contemporary age, a power that conserves one life and ends another.
>This
> > >is the meaning of the criticism that Agamben makes of the health
> > >emergency’s political background, which not only affects the elderly as
> > >Musselman of the XXI century but, in general, is directed at all
> > >individuals of Western civilization destined to become a contemporary
> > >homo sacer. For Agamben, the message that sustains the biopolitics of
> > >COVID-19 is based on the promotion of horror: the governmental machine
> > >tells us that “our neighbour has been abolished.”[11]
> > >
> > >To analyze how life in the West has been transformed into a simple
>naked
> > >life due to the pandemic, we have systematically studied all of Giorgio
> > >Agamben’s discourse on the health emergency and the changes that are
> > >taking place in some Western democracies. After studying the sixteen
> > >chapters of the book A che punto siamo? L´epidemia come politica we
>have
> > >come upon an interesting finding: not only can it be verified that we
> > >live in a permanent state of exception, as Agamben presented in his
> > >research, but the pandemic has created a particular religious need to
> > >which the church cannot respond, but to which science can. That is, in
> > >the pandemic crisis science has become the new religion and takes from
> > >religion its forms and strategies of governing life, all the while
>using
> > >scientific arguments.
> > >
> > >The author presented his arguments in the face of the COVID-19 crisis,
> > >as quarantines and restrictions on movement were being put into
>place in
> > >Europe, being presented as the most plausible means of handling the
> > >peaks of contagion during 2020. In our study, we have identified that
> > >the progression of Agamben’s argument follows three basic stages, the
> > >first of which is present in his February 2020 publications. Here we
>can
> > >identify the notion of a fear of contagion as a key element.
> > >
> > >The central idea raised by Agamben indicates that the management of the
> > >COVID-19 crisis has generated “a perverse vicious circle: the
>limitation
> > >of freedom imposed by governments is accepted in the name of a desire
> > >for security that has been induced by governments themselves, the same
> > >governments that are now intervening in order to satisfy that
> > >desire.”[12] In this sense, this fear of contagion forms the
>fundamental
> > >basis of a new form of the traditional transaction between protection
> > >and obedience that has characterized the relationships between modern
> > >states and their citizens.
> > >
> > >In his March 11 publication, at one of the most critical moments of the
> > >pandemic, Agamben explains that the fear of contagion has made citizens
> > >accept unprecedented restrictions on their freedoms, fuelled by the
> > >uncertainty generated by not being able to identify materially the
> > >source of risk and harm. The second group of arguments follows from the
> > >previous ones and supposes the transition from collective fear to
> > >individual isolation, with the deterioration in human relationships
>that
> > >this produces. These two elements, collective fear and individual
> > >isolation, support the third argument, which leads to the
>culmination of
> > >Agamben´s criticism of governments. More specifically, in Riflessioni
> > >sulla pestee the author claims that the pandemic has reactivated a need
> > >for religion that the church cannot satisfy. This demand for
>religiosity
> > >is met today by what we refer to as science.
> > >
> > >In summary, beyond confirming that we live in a permanent state of
> > >exception, the interesting finding that we would like to highlight is
> > >the emergence of a need for religion that the Church can no longer
> > >satisfy but that science can, even if only through theological
> > >strategies of government.
> > >
> > >Agamben describes the theological form of science as a new religion
>made
> > >evident through a discourse disseminated via the media that combines
> > >religiosity with science. The author affirms that the obsessive appeal,
> > >“especially in the American press, to the word ‘apocalypse’ and to the
> > >end of the world is an indication of this.”[13] However, blind faith in
> > >science is not only evident in the media’s discourse, but is also
> > >transferred to politics and decision making, that is, to the terrain of
> > >sovereignty. The decisions that promote life or end it in the
>context of
> > >the pandemic have been supported by scientific reasons that are
> > >sometimes contradictory. This reveals to us a science of differing
> > >opinions and prescriptions that range “from the heretical minority
> > >position (also represented by prestigious scientists) of those who deny
> > >the seriousness of the phenomenon to those within the mainstream
> > >orthodox discourse who affirm it and yet radically diverge among
> > >themselves in their opinions on how to deal with the pandemic.”[14]
> > >
> > >Contrary to what the essence of science would indicate, some experts
>(or
> > >some self-defined as such) act like governmental commissioners to
>define
> > >how life is to be promoted or ended. This situation is similar to that
> > >of a religious conflict, where the role of experts is not always to
> > >reach the best solution but rather “to ensure the favor of the monarch,
> > >who at the time of the past religious disputes that divided
> > >Christianity, took sides according to his interests with one current or
> > >another and imposed his solutions.”[15] In other words, this new
> > >“science” of religion comes interweaved with a new biopolitical
> > >government relying on theological strategies. In this article, we will
> > >analyze arguments that explain this change based on Agamben’s work,
> > >mainly his genealogy of sovereignty in his work Il regno e la gloria.
> > >
> > >It is indispensable to compare Agamben’s bare life concept with his
> > >statements about the disease and the states of emergency that COVID-19
> > >has generated. In particular, the intergenerational differences that
>are
> > >promoted in defense of general societal well-being are striking. All,
> > >but particularly the older generations, have experienced, in a certain
> > >way, being locked into a politically unprotected life, permanently
> > >exposed to death. The older adult has become a Musselman of the
> > >twenty-first century, resigned to death, while being unsacrifiable. His
> > >death is an expected result that, however, is not directly ordered. The
> > >death is, in this case, expected as a natural result of the isolation
> > >they offer, in Europe, for instance, in nursing homes. His death is
> > >considered a natural and inevitable result. The fact that the choice
> > >between saving a young patient with a ventilator leans naturally to who
> > >“has a whole life ahead of him,” at no time admits the option of
> > >considering it as a criminal act, puts us face to face with
>biopower. If
> > >the meaning of that choice tends to naturalize, it is because in that
> > >normalization of horror lies the essence of the administration of power
> > >in the contemporary age, a power that drives one life and ends another.
> > >This is the meaning of the criticism that Agamben makes of the health
> > >emergency’s political background, which not only affects the elderly as
> > >Musselman of the XXI century but, in general, is directed at all
> > >individuals of Western civilization destined to become a contemporary
> > >homo sacer. For Agamben, the message that sustains the biopolitics of
> > >COVID-19 is based on the promotion of horror: the governmental machine
> > >tells us that “our neighbor has been abolished.”[16]
> > >
> > >The sovereignty exercised by the governmental powers in this
> > >interpretation by Agamben does not require greater legitimacy than the
> > >very fact of being able to dispose of the lives of subjects. That is,
> > >the decisions of government agents are considered legitimate “by the
> > >simple fact of their sovereignty.”[17] This is what grounds as legal
>and
> > >legitimate the sovereign decision of the attribution of the ventilator
> > >referred to above, where reasons may be given or not since the symptom
> > >and the expression of sovereignty do not need reasons in order to be
> > >exercised.
> > >
> > >For Agamben, where this sovereignty is developed is closely related to
> > >the duality between normality and exception that Carl Schmitt raised;
> > >however, it breaks the dichotomous scheme that characterized
> > >Plettenberg’s jurist. Agamben indicates that the sovereign is not the
> > >one who decides in and on the state of exception but rather is the one
> > >capable of maintaining exceptional actions as an area subject to his
> > >control and presenting them as standard actions. Thus, to the old
>logic:
> > >normality – exception – new normality that we would long for with
> > >Schmitt’s scheme, Agamben proposes a notion of permanent
>exceptionality.
> > >If Carl Schmitt went so far as to affirm that “the sovereign is at the
> > >same time, outside and inside the legal order”[18] for his ability to
> > >suspend normality with the declaration of a state of exception and
> > >reinstitute a new legal order, Giorgio Agamben goes one step
>further: He
> > >affirms that his sovereign acts under a self-justifying imperative,
> > >which indicates: “the law is outside itself, and I, the sovereign, who
> > >am outside the law, declare that there is no outside the law.”[19]
> > >
> > >While in the Schmittian approach, exceptionality and sovereignty are
> > >attributes of the political struggle,[20] in Agamben, the place of
>power
> > >and its exercise are transcendent to political groups and actors.
> > >Authority and administration are expressed from a permanent
> > >exceptionality. For that reason, the sovereignty in Agamben is a place,
> > >not a specific actor. The government is a verb rather than a noun. So,
> > >while the sovereign for Schmitt may be a political party, a monarch, a
> > >populist leader, or even, in its last stage, a guerrilla group that
> > >decides in and on the state of exception, for Agamben, that role is the
> > >experience of governing, not a specific social actor.[21] That is,
>it is
> > >not the result of a specific decision-maker but of the social and legal
> > >order that has been built in the West.[22] This form of exceptionality
> > >is expressed permanently, without breaks or claims of new normalities.
> > >For Agamben, sovereignty and the right that emanates from it do not
> > >arise from the pauses of exceptionality that Schmitt proposes because,
> > >in the contemporary West, there is nothing more normal than living in a
> > >permanent state of exception. In other words, the state of exception in
> > >Giorgio Agamben’s thought is not characterized by its abnormality and
> > >contingency, and it is not explained in terms of “normality to come,”
> > >but instead by its permanence, which is why it is, in most cases, an
> > >imperceptible exceptionality.[23]
> > >
> > >Although the approach to a permanent state of exception places the
> > >COVID-19 crisis in a broad panorama, the criticisms received by another
> > >biopolitics researcher, Roberto Esposito, reflect that it is still too
> > >early to see beyond the “death toll,” as Agamben urges. It is not yet
> > >time to analyze the qualitative effect that the decision to quarantine
> > >humanity and its freedoms will leave in the long term. Specifically,
> > >Esposito indicates to Agamben that the comparison between spending a
>few
> > >days in isolation in a comfortable Italian middle-class house and the
> > >horror of a concentration camp is implausible and irresponsible.[24]
> > >Esposito is right. However, we should add to his reply that the way
> > >COVID-19 restrictions are assumed is not the same in regions of the
> > >world where, for example, washing hands with soap and water has been a
> > >luxury for centuries. So, Esposito seems to lose sight of the fact that
> > >the exceptional is not dictated by the circumstances in which isolation
> > >is assumed but comes from how we internalize in customs what should not
> > >under any circumstances be accepted.[25] For example, we have
> > >incorporated as something “normal” that enormous regions of the world
> > >live under the quarantine imposed by hunger and misery. Agamben reminds
> > >us that the genuine plague is none other than the meekness with
>which we
> > >accept to live with exceptional and reprehensible situations.[26]
> > >Finally, this “normalization of the exceptional” is a consequence of
> > >sovereignty in the biopolitical era and the permanent state of
> > >exception, and the emergence of COVID-19 is settling into it, like its
> > >most advanced chapter.
> > >
> > >3 COVID-19 and democracy: A people that can reign but not govern
> > >Many of the criticisms that Agamben received sought to label him as
>part
> > >of the “conspiracy theorist paranoiacs” who assign to the states and
>the
> > >capitalist elites the responsibility of having spread fear amongst
> > >citizens when, in fact, capitalism and its government elites have been
> > >highly affected by the crisis capitalism and its government elites have
> > >been the main affected by the crisis. Žižek’s criticism of Agamben, for
> > >example, questioned the benefit that the state of emergency could bring
> > >to governments and capitalist elites because, in the end, the emergency
> > >has accentuated, on the one hand, general distrust in the governments
> > >and, on the other hand, an unprecedented economic crisis. Žižek asks
> > >Agamben: what elite would be interested in promoting such a movement
> > >against their interests? The answer in favor of Agamben to this
>question
> > >can be found in the criticism that Paolo Flores d’Arcais made of
>Agamben
> > >in MicroMega. For Flores d’Arcais, COVID-19 has not strengthened the
> > >state or capital’s power. This position coincides with that of Žižek.
> > >However, the pandemic has been characterized by the appearance of a new
> > >“conspiracy of white coats”: doctors and scientists who appear today as
> > >depositaries of the “last word” in government on the lives of its
> > >citizens. According to Flores d’Arcais, this is/represents a power more
> > >significant than the interests of governments and capital.[27]
> > >
> > >If we focus on the way decisions are made in the COVID-19 state of
> > >exception, and in the Agambenian theoretical framework, we will see
>that
> > >governments rely on the medical-scientific argument to justify their
> > >decisions with two benefits to them, such administrators; on the one
> > >hand, they avoid the need to submit their proposals to the demanding
> > >deliberation of democratic systems and, on the other hand – with that
> > >shortcut and delegation to the scientists – the governments exempt from
> > >their original responsibilities; as simple “operators” of a scientific
> > >decision that, after all, is alien to them. So, that last decision of
> > >the “white coats” to which Flores d’Arcais refers is not taken in some
> > >way above the governments themselves but is instead used by the latter
> > >as an argument of authority that operates theologically. If we consider
> > >the theological background in which the scientific decisions that
> > >subsequently sustain government actions arise, we see a correlation
> > >between earthly government authorities and “scientific sovereignty.”
> > >This self-power justifies coercive decisions under the irrefutable halo
> > >that medicine offers. In the long term, contrary to what Žižek says,
> > >those measures that in principle seem to affect capital and the states
> > >will strengthen them notably, since the exceptional will become
>routine,
> > >in an accelerated way and with a high democratic cost that will be
> > >difficult to recover. In the end, with the irrefutable and self-imposed
> > >argument of “medical reason,” the governments that have sustained the
> > >temporary suspension of the legal order will have been able to justify
> > >unprecedented control over the individual and society to protect them
> > >from an unprecedented danger. In summary, by dint of the
> > >medical–political duality, in the crisis of COVID-19, a contemporary
> > >version of the theological–political duality that Agamben studied is
> > >forged to explain that who governs, in the occidental democracies is
> > >that power capable of converting the state of exception into order, and
> > >the world – into a gigantic “concentration camp.” Seen like this, the
> > >relationship between theology and politics that can be established in
> > >the decisions taken to contain COVID-19, coming from Agamben, does not
> > >correspond in any way with a conspiratorial agenda.
> > >
> > >In Agamben’s viewpoint, the world configured as a concentration camp
> > >predates COVID-19; in fact, it is as old as Western societies’ very
> > >formation. How does Agamben explain why we got to this point? Agamben
> > >considers that the West’s history is the history of creating a bipolar
> > >biopolitical “governmental machine” that operates theologically on
>human
> > >lives, despite having eliminated the need to sustain its actions in
>some
> > >essence or primary political substance: the machinery of government
>that
> > >does not need to refer to a divine foundation and, nevertheless, is
> > >always presented as a sacred institution.[28]
> > >
> > >The biopolitical government is clothed with celestial majesty without
> > >properly a divine substance from which its authority emanates. In Il
> > >regno e la gloria, Agamben performs a genealogical exercise of modern
> > >government. He explains the emergence of this governmental machine,
> > >moving back to the Judeo-Christian theological origins. This
> > >genealogical development is highly relevant for understanding Agamben’s
> > >criticism of the global state of exception that has unleashed through
> > >COVID-19. Agamben’s research allows us to understand that modern
>Western
> > >culture has built a type of government that can dispense with the need
> > >to refer its decisions to a fundamental, essential, and superior power
> > >and, even so, operate under theological principles. The modern
> > >understood in this way does not presuppose, much less arise from, the
> > >rupture between substance and form, nor the separation between
> > >auctoritas and potestas. Rather, the modern invokes the discovery of an
> > >absent, immobile divine power, whose sacredness depends not on itself,
> > >but on the glorification of those who, without being God, have assumed
> > >the management of its praxis on earth.
> > >
> > >In modern government the providential and scientific levels?–?that of
> > >power and that of authority–make up two poles that cooperate: they
> > >maintain the place of the sacred as an empty throne, that is, without a
> > >specific substance and, at the same time, they preserve the sacredness
> > >in the management rites that, “in the name of the sacred,” are carried
> > >out by angels, ministers, shepherds, saints for each prayer and, in
> > >general, all the bureaucratic machinery responsible for religious
> > >praxis. To reach this conclusion, Agamben faces the task of creating a
> > >genealogy of government, similar to that carried out by Foucault while
> > >going beyond Foucault’s work. Concurrently, the French philosopher
>finds
> > >in the pastoral work of the first two centuries of Christianity the
> > >authentically modern moment that found the birth of political power in
> > >the theological contamination of the human government’s world. Let us
> > >remember that for Foucault, this moment is characterized by
>transforming
> > >power into a properly human management attribute, that is, detached
>from
> > >transcendental sovereignty. Modern political power, that is, the
> > >capacity to provide security, administration, and management to the
> > >state, would be born, in Foucault’s perspective, from that pastoral
> > >power, in essence, private, and oriented to the economic technique that
> > >the priests and first Christian leaders carried out on their flock and
> > >over each one his “sheeps.”[29] For his part, in various theological
> > >treatises, Agamben analyzes how the political is also present in the
> > >origins of Jewish and Christian religious dogmatic discourses. Agamben
> > >explains, for example, that the term oikonomia, which characterizes the
> > >first private management of the “pater familias,” not only has the
> > >political implications that we know today in the states but also had
>and
> > >has profound theological implications to which Foucault did not pay
> > >enough attention. Thus, the domestic administration to which modern
> > >oikonomia refers is part of both the theological and the political.[30]
> > >For example, the Holy Trinity expresses a form of political management
> > >of the world; the economy is applied as an internal articulation that
> > >favors its praxis. Due to the internal connection that the three
> > >elements that compose it are unity and, at the same time, plurality of
> > >actions; here, the economy not only acts as a metaphor, of the modern
> > >separation of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers – as
> > >Foucault indicated – but they constitute – according to Agamben – its
> > >historical origin since it took place first in theology and later in
> > >politics.[31] In summary, through an analysis of theological treatises,
> > >which are in themselves an invaluable finding,[32] Agamben
>overcomes, on
> > >the one hand, the causal link between theology and politics and, on the
> > >other hand, questions the overvalued secularization of present
> > >theological concepts, for example, those of Carl Schmitt. For Agamben,
> > >theology is at the base of politics in the same way that politics
>was at
> > >the base of theology from its origins. The problematic issue has been
> > >that the bureaucratic apparatus of “domestic administrators,” those who
> > >today issue movement restriction orders, for example, has evolved to
>the
> > >current forms of absolute control over a social life, without the
> > >substance or foundation of those measures coming from absolute power.
> > >
> > >Although Agamben refers to ancient theological texts, he argues that
> > >these texts have implications for understanding the current political
> > >decline, the tendency to authoritarianism, and the crisis of liberal
> > >democracies. He considers that the contemporary era is characterized by
> > >the total triumph of life’s economic government in all its dimensions.
> > >With his genealogy, Agamben shows that life’s objectification as an
> > >administrable good has not always been the prevailing paradigm. On the
> > >contrary, Agamben explains that the birth of the modern perspective on
> > >power is located precisely in the separation between two paradigms and
> > >the subsequent autonomy of one over the other: political theology and
> > >economic theology. In the first, God’s will is the origin of sovereign
> > >power; that is, where the divine plan of salvation resides in the
> > >Judeo-Christian culture. In the second, both God’s and human life are
> > >manageable matter: objects of an economy of life administered by
>experts
> > >and authorities authorized to resolve human vicissitudes.[33] In God’s
> > >figure, political theology found the symbol of sovereign power, and
> > >economic theology substitutes the said transcendence with the idea
>of an
> > >oikonomia conceived as an immanent order.[34] The contemporary
>political
> > >crisis, the one that has led to the creation of this gigantic
> > >concentration camp, exacerbated by COVID-19, would be based on the fact
> > >that political theology has lost almost all ground to economic
>theology,
> > >a field of power that acquires independence and that does not need
>to be
> > >justified in the will of God, that is in, authentic and transcendent
> > >power, to rule. In this fracture between God and his praxis, Agamben
> > >identifies the emergence of the “western governmental machine,” a
> > >bipolar machine that separates God’s omnipotence from the world’s
> > >rational government, that is, absolute power, from its worldly
>exercise.
> > >
> > >To better explain the above, Agamben analyzes the motto of
> > >constitutional monarchies with which kingdom and government differ,
>thus
> > >graphically describing his finding of the fracture of God: in the same
> > >way that “the king reigns, but does not rule,” God reigns, but does not
> > >rule in modern societies of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Economic
> > >theology gains greater independence as the field of government is
> > >abrogated, sustaining its exclusivity overall “that which God cannot
> > >do,” that field between the challenges of day-to-day human life and the
> > >mystery of divine truth, “becomes in the paradigm of the distinction
> > >between power and its exercise, between kingdom and government.”[35]
> > >
> > >This division presents us with a powerless God before his creation
>since
> > >“he can only act through the natural order that he has
>established.”[36]
> > >He can do everything, but he cannot do anything that is not an
>automatic
> > >response to his wisdom and to the logic of the order that he has
> > >established. A God powerless in the face of the daily demands of his
> > >creature since his logic does not belong to the world of the contingent
> > >but of the transcendent. For its part, in the human world, changing and
> > >unpredictable, everything is manageable from the understanding between
> > >humans; that is why this is a world that fits the possibility of
> > >government. Through a journey between primitive and medieval Christian
> > >texts, Agamben argues that modern government is present to administer
> > >the intermediate space between the particular and unpredictable events
> > >of men and the general providence or absolute power of God. The
> > >decisions of the men who govern that terrain will tend to apply general
> > >providence to the situations they live, making a calculation,
>ultimately
> > >an interpretation, of their decisions regarding the unknown plan of
> > >salvation. In Agamben’s words, the first rulers of modern oikonomy
> > >“would assume an idea of an order founded on the contingent play of
> > >immanent effects.”[37]
> > >
> > >This distinction between the divine, inaccessible, and incomprehensible
> > >realm and human government may find an application in the case of the
> > >coronavirus crisis. The truth about the origin and ultimate solution to
> > >the pandemic seems to escape our frame of thought. Beyond the hope of a
> > >vaccine, comprehensive knowledge about the COVID-19 phenomenon seems to
> > >be sheltered in a place that is alien to us, before which we have left
> > >only the interpretations and improvisations of human management. For
> > >this reason, Jean-Luc Nancy’s criticism of Agamben, in which he replies
> > >to the Italian philosopher that the experience we are living is a
>“viral
> > >exception and not a political–legal exception.”[38] Nancy’s
> > >differentiation reflects the duality between earthly management and the
> > >mysterious core of power that Agamben describes in Il regno e la
>gloria.
> > >In the distinction made by Nancy in his question to Agamben, a current
> > >application of the difference between kingdom and government is
> > >installing itself, a reflection of our natural inability to access the
> > >origin of the problem, in such a way that we seek for the unknown,
> > >stratagems and euphemisms such as that of the “viral exception,” behind
> > >which we hide our impotence in the face of a problem that surpasses us
> > >in understanding and control. It is certainly not truly clear what
>Nancy
> > >means by a “viral exception” and how it differs from a political–legal
> > >exception. What is clear is that, since we are not, as humanity,
>capable
> > >of accessing a transcendent power to handle the problem of COVID-19
>with
> > >that power’s full knowledge, we use restrictions on liberties like the
> > >exact measures of the imperfect world of government that we have built.
> > >Only that explains the response to the crisis through quarantines and
> > >impositions of authority that have not changed focus since the pest
> > >control we did centuries ago, for example, to the Spanish flu. To this
> > >same economic management of life belong, in fact, categories such as
> > >Nancy’s, related to a supposed “viral exception,” since with them an
> > >attempt is made to provide a mysterious legitimacy to the old and
> > >precious political–legal shackles of the West. In summary, if the state
> > >of exception in which we live has been based on the management of
> > >calculations and interpretations of a transcendent power that is
> > >inaccessible to us, then the contingent games of immanent effects that
> > >we create around emergencies such as COVID-19, and not only in it,[39]
> > >deserve questioning.
> > >
> > >4 Promises of glorification
> > >The Agambenian genealogy takes an unexpected and provocative turn when,
> > >in the second part of The Kingdom and the Glory, the Italian
>philosopher
> > >asks himself about the bureaucratic circle closest to the power of God;
> > >the Angels. He wonders: what happens to them and their functional
> > >specialization when doomsday arrives? The question is posed to the
> > >theological tradition. However, the answer is found in the Heideggerian
> > >ontology: according to Agamben, the angels who, in principle, would not
> > >fulfill more functions than to satisfy the demands of humanity, would
> > >remain limited to performing their most essential function. That is:
> > >glorify God, keeping him isolated for his glory. What a paradox that
> > >Agamben discovers; not even a hypothetical day of judgment would break
> > >the logic of the government machine’s bipolarity by revealing the
> > >absolute power of God. This paradox has implications in the current
> > >coronavirus crisis and in the proposals for an alternate world to be
> > >built.[40] With a hypothetical end of the world, the place of absolute
> > >power would continue to be isolated by its splendor and by the acclaim
> > >that the angels would do around and about it. From an imperfect
> > >humankind point of view, this separation from the core-power would
> > >reveal that pure power ever is, in essence, an empty place, a nothing
> > >that to “be power” needs the glorification of the angels at the end of
> > >the world, such as his earthly stewards did during normal times. Glory
> > >is, consequently for Agamben, the essence of the concept of the
> > >political that affects the supreme power of God in a different way than
> > >what it can do over men since it contains a correlation: on the one
> > >hand, God depends on the glory and glory of God and, on the other hand,
> > >glory becomes glory only through glorification. That is to say, the
>only
> > >sure thing, consequently, is that the human power resides in those who
> > >can glorify the sacred and mysterious nucleus. In other words, Agamben
> > >identifies that the power of the western governmental machine, the one
> > >that has acquired current absolute dominance over social and individual
> > >life, is sustained by the constant ovation and acclaim of men
>themselves
> > >in order for it to exist.[41] In summary, the purest elemental power is
> > >an empty nucleus surrounded by the veil of Glory. That veil, on the one
> > >hand, glorifies it; that is, it elevates Glory to the place of absolute
> > >power and, on the other hand, hides such pure power from humanity under
> > >a halo of mystery. Agamben transfers this theological metaphor to the
> > >level of the individual. The humankind without politics is like that
> > >God, in essence, innocuous and isolated, described by Agamben as a
>being
> > >at rest, immobile and oblivious to the tasks of government, his life
> > >acquires a meaning when he is surrounded by Glory, at the same time
>that
> > >it becomes his condemnation: he leads him to pursue, through politics,
> > >utopias that, as such, are inaccessible; like promises about a kingdom
> > >that, written with strokes of glorification, mark our political
> > >identities with their indelible stamp.
> > >
> > >For Agamben, the inaction of Glory brings together what we call
> > >politics: it surrounds the simplicity of the human species, its natural
> > >condition of lack of identity is overcome thanks to it. Politics
> > >understood as Glory provides us with a purpose that, although it is
> > >devoid of divine purity, justifies the absolute control over life as,
> > >after all, our purpose. It could be said that theology and politics
>live
> > >in the prelude to an “empty throne.” To build that anteroom full of
> > >government mechanisms while simultaneously glorifying the inaccessible
> > >sacred is the purpose of modern politics.
> > >
> > >In conclusion, Glory as inaction unites the sacred and the profane
>gives
> > >rise to the political as a meaning imposed on biological life. At
> > >present, in Western culture the hegemonic power of Glory is expressed,
> > >for example, in what we know under the name of “public opinion,” which
> > >is constructed by the media, the social networks, and, in general, by
> > >the mass media. The force of this public opinion hides an empty center
> > >of truth that, despite its emptiness, rules over dissenting positions:
> > >it does not possess pure truths and, nevertheless, its inertia affects
> > >all political positions, even the best-supported ones, in such a way
> > >that consistently tend to conform to it as a paradigm of “politically
> > >correct.” The politicians’ or governmental agencies’ extreme
>sensitivity
> > >to public opinion leads them to approach these views as more pressing
> > >and deserving of justice.
> > >
> > >Agamben questions the “pseudoscientific” claims of the approaches that
> > >try to name, explain, and deify Glory. On the one hand, he questions
> > >Habermas, who proposes certain idolatry in the search for consensus as
> > >an “achieved utopia” of institutional channeling of sovereignty.[42]
> > >According to Habermas, the public sphere and deliberation refer to the
> > >pole of government. However, for Agamben, this is only one of the
>modern
> > >forms that the old glorifying acclaim of modern oikonomy acquires. On
> > >the other hand, he questions the power of the decision legitimized by a
> > >“cheering people” that Schmitt exalts as sovereign in Constitutional
> > >Theory; the acclamation of the demos around the ruler is just the other
> > >pole of glorification, according to Agamben. [43] Both Habermas and
> > >Schmitt try to impose a statute of logic and divinity on what, for
> > >Agamben, is an inaccessible substance. Deliberation and decision are
> > >nothing more than liturgical spectacles, two euphemistic artifacts
> > >created by man to explain what has no explanation; to place in the
>place
> > >of the “empty throne” that we described before, a role of authority
>that
> > >does not belong to them and to present them as the “discovered” origins
> > >of the power of governments. The truth, according to Agamben, is that
> > >the origin of a general acceptance of laws that, for example, define
>the
> > >life or death of thousands of people is unknown; what makes such a law
> > >an obligation accepted by the citizenry does not arise from debate or
> > >prior deliberation or from the simple fact of deciding. Deliberation
>and
> > >decision are parts of an economy of power that do not constitute
> > >transcendent sovereign power since there is nothing so rational and
> > >indisputable within a decision or deliberation that can explain the
> > >general acceptance of orders that define who lives and who does not.
> > >
> > >Slavoj Žižek’s proposal regarding a humanistic emergence from which
> > >“true communism” would result does not stop attracting attention; in
> > >some way, it would adjust to one of the possible answers Agamben
> > >analyzes about the hypothetical apocalyptic situation. We should ask
> > >Žižek more than Agamben if the proposal of a “post-covid communism”[44]
> > >is not another accommodation of modern oikonomia to maintain the
> > >original divide between kingdom and government? Wouldn’t this new
> > >communism be another form of glorification?
> > >
> > >It is possible to find ourselves in front of another “mirage of
> > >divinity,” another earthly “performance” such as that of Habermarsian
> > >deliberation and Schmittian decisionism. It must be said that Agamben
> > >does not offer an alternative to lockdowns and quarantines, beyond
> > >criticizing the coercive response and warning of the totalitarian risk
> > >that the crisis and the state of emergency is generating. It is not
> > >clear that there really is an alternative proposed by Agamben to handle
> > >the pandemic without it being also a biopolitical response. The
> > >so-called herd immunity strategy, for example, or the actions that seek
> > >to save the economy are also responses coming from the government
> > >regarding people’s lives. Agamben’s argument does not suppose a miracle
> > >solution with regard to the public management of COVID-19, it is simply
> > >a warning that governments are taking advantage of the state of
> > >exception to replace constitutional rights and to self-abrogate an
> > >authority that goes beyond what is allowed by law.
> > >
> > >5 Conclusion
> > >When Agamben indicates that States’ response to COVID-19 is
> > >disproportionate, he does so from an understanding and from
>genealogical
> > >knowledge of the processes of government; it is not resulting from a
> > >conspiracy theorist-paranoid or irrational approach. From that
> > >perspective, governments’ authoritarian attributions are only the most
> > >recent radicalization of the forms of absolute domination over social
> > >life that has characterized Western culture since its origins.
> > >
> > >For Agamben, modern biopolitics is expressed in the crisis of how
> > >COVID-19 reinforces a status of obligational? Control over human life
> > >grounded on in-determinacy and un-founded power. This indeterminacy of
> > >the “place” and foundation of power is more aggressive concerning the
> > >control that can be exercised, for example, in concrete forms of
> > >government such as “totalitarianism” or “dictatorship.” The state of
> > >exception that we experience is presented as a “threshold of
> > >indeterminacy between democracy and absolutism,”[45] as Agamben has
> > >proposed for decades. The West, according to Agamben, has built a state
> > >of exception that “is not a dictatorship, but a vacuum space of law.
> > >That is a zone of anomie in which all legal determinations are
> > >deactivating.”[46] As a result of perverse and “intimate solidarity
> > >between democracy and totalitarianism.”[47] So, the state of exception
> > >generated by COVID-19 is just the continuity of that order.
> > >
> > >Agamben has been wrong on one point: COVID-19 is not a regular flu: it
> > >has been the “most important of all the flus” that he has been able to
> > >witness since he began his research program in 1996. For better or
> > >worse, COVID-19 has allowed the materializing for his critics to see
>“in
> > >vivo” the meaning of his extensive and abstract work on the permanent
> > >state of exception. Perhaps the harsh reality that forces us to
> > >experience biopolitical decisions first-hand today allows us to
> > >understand why the world, according to Agamben, has become a “place
> > >where the state of exception perfectly coincides with the rule and
>where
> > >the extreme situation becomes the very paradigm of everyday life.” In
> > >other words, it allows us to see how and why the world is transforming
> > >into a gigantic concentration camp.

> > The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

> > U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

> > finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
> > among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
> > asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
> > 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
> > doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
> > best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
> > mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
> > Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
> > COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
> >
> > Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
> > and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
> >
> > So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qmb94z/cdc_emails_our_definition_of_vaccine_is/
>>>
>>>
>>> CDC Emails: Our Definition of Vaccine is "Problematic"
>>> CDC: Problematic Vaccine? No, Problematic Definition of Vaccine.
>>>
>>> Techno Fog
>>> Nov 2
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>>>
>>> Pic unrelated :)
>>> The CDC caused an uproar in early September 2021, after it changed its
>>> definitions of “vaccination” and “vaccine.” For years, the CDC had set
>>> definitions for vaccination/vaccine that discussed immunity. This all
>>> changed on September 1, 2021.
>>>
>>> The prior CDC Definitions of Vaccine and Vaccination (August 26, 2021):
>>>
>>> Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce
>>> immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.
>>> Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can
>>> also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.
>>>
>>> Vaccination: The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce
>>> immunity to a specific disease.
>>>
>>> The CDC Definitions of Vaccine and Vaccination since September 1, 2021:
>>>
>>> Vaccine: A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune
>>> response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through
>>> needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into
>>> the nose.
>>>
>>> Vaccination: The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce
>>> protection from a specific disease.
>>>
>>> People noticed. Representative Thomas Massie was among the first to
>>> discuss the change, noting the definition went from “immunity” to
>>> “protection”.
>>>
>>> Twitter avatar for @RepThomasMassie
>>> Thomas Massie
>>> @RepThomasMassie
>>> Check out @CDCgov’s evolving definition of “vaccination.” They’ve been
>>> busy at the Ministry of Truth:
>>> Image
>>> September 8th 2021
>>>
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>>> To many observers, it appeared the CDC changed the definitions because
>>> of the waning effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines. For example, the
>>> effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine falls over time, with an Israeli
>>> study reported in August 2021 as showing the vaccine being “only 16%
>>> effective against symptomatic infection for those individuals who had
>>> two doses of the shot back in January.” The CDC recognizes the waning
>>> effectiveness, thus explaining their promotion of booster shots.
>>>
>>> Of course, the usual suspects defended the CDC. The Washington Post, for
>>> example, cast doubt that the CDC changed the definition because of
>>> issues with the COVID-19 vaccines. The CDC tried to downplay the change,
>>> stating “slight changes in wording over time … haven’t impacted the
>>> overall definition.”
>>>
>>> Internal CDC E-Mails
>>>
>>> CDC emails we obtained via the Freedom of Information Act reveal CDC
>>> worries with how the performance of the COVID-19 vaccines didn’t match
>>> the CDC’s own definition of “vaccine”/“vaccination”. The CDC’s Ministry
>>> of Truth went hard at work in the face of legitimate public questions on
>>> this issue.
>>>
>>> In one August 2021 e-mail, a CDC employee cited to complaints that
>>> “Right-wing covid-19 deniers are using your ‘vaccine’ definition to
>>> argue that mRNA vaccines are not vaccines…”
>>>
>>>
>>> After taking some suggestions, the CDC’s Lead Health Communication
>>> Specialist went up the food chain to propose changes to the definitions:
>>> “I need to update this page Immunization Basics | CDC since these
>>> definitions are outdated and being used by some to say COVID-19 vaccines
>>> are not vaccines per CDC’s own definition.”
>>>
>>>
>>> Getting no response, there was a follow-up e-mail a week later: “The
>>> definition of vaccine we have posted is problematic and people are using
>>> it to claim the COVID-19 vaccine is not a vaccine based on our own
>>> definition.”
>>>
>>>
>>> The change of the “vaccination” definition was eventually approved on
>>> August 31. The next day, on September 1, they approved the change to the
>>> “vaccine” definition from discussing immunity to protection (seen below).
>>>
>>>
>>> There you have it. Affirmative action for the multinational
>>> corporations. Why have them improve their vaccines when you can just
>>> change the definition of vaccine to fit their ineffective vaccines?
>>>
>>> Congrats to all the skeptics out there – you raised enough hell that the
>>> the CDC went and tried to change reality.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/HlIJ6_XVZws/m/oH2z2UnlAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
>HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/COVIDrights/comments/qobdik/la_county_mask_mandate_likely_to_last_through/
>>>
>>>
>>> L.A. County mask mandate likely to last through next year: Ferrer
>>> Prostock Studio/Getty Images
>>> Photo credit Prostock Studio/Getty Images
>>> By Jake Flanagin, KNX 1070 Newsradio
>>> KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO
>>> a day ago
>>>
>>> Los Angeles County’s Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer announced
>>> this week that mask mandates in the county are likely to remain in place
>>> into 2023.
>>>
>>> Mortality rates for vaccinated residents of L.A. County have remained
>>> steady for months, but deaths rates for the unvaccinated continue to
>>> rise, Ferrer warned at a press conference on Thursday.
>>>
>>>
>>> Podcast Episode
>>> KNX All Local
>>> New state health figures show low demand for booster shots; Getting
>>> businesses ready to enforce LA city's new vax mandate; A court hearing
>>> underway on relocating a convicted sexual predator in Lancaster
>>>
>>> Listen Now
>>> “By October, the risk of death for unvaccinated people was 41 times
>>> higher than the risk of death for vaccinated people,” she noted.
>>>
>>> Ferrer said it was still too early to determine whether the county was
>>> experiencing a fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The county’s lead
>>> health official also explained that cooler temperatures heading into
>>> winter may be slowing down infection rates; but those could spike again
>>> once spring arrives.
>>>
>>> “I think we have to do what we know will work,” Ferrer said. “Vaccinate
>>> more people and wear masks when indoors. Again, because it is a powerful
>>> way to prevent infection.”

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/_x6ueJwAf4E/m/RXEC4NSUBAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reuters.com/world/europe/unvaccinated-greece-face-new-restrictions-covid-cases-soar-2021-11-06/?taid=6186ebacdc5dd300010555e5&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter&utm_source=reddit.com
>>>
>>>
>>> Unvaccinated in Greece face new restrictions as COVID cases soar
>>> Reuters
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2 minute read
>>> A shop employee checks customers’ vaccination certificates against the
>>> coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as the government imposed further
>>> measures for unvaccinated citizens, in Athens, Greece, November 6, 2021.
>>> REUTERS/Stelios Misinas
>>> A shop employee checks customers’ vaccination certificates against the
>>> coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as the government imposed further
>>> measures for unvaccinated citizens, in Athens, Greece, November 6, 2021.
>>> REUTERS/Stelios Misinas
>>> A private security employee checks customers’ vaccination certificates
>>> against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as the government imposed
>>> further measures for unvaccinated citizens, in Athens, Greece, November
>>> 6, 2021. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas
>>>
>>>
>>> 1/3
>>> A shop employee checks customers’ vaccination certificates against the
>>> coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as the government imposed further
>>> measures for unvaccinated citizens, in Athens, Greece, November 6, 2021.
>>> REUTERS/Stelios Misinas
>>>
>>>
>>> ATHENS, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Queues formed outside shops in Athens on
>>> Saturday on the first day of new restrictions to curb soaring
>>> coronavirus infections which require the unvaccinated to have negative
>>> COVID-19 tests.
>>>
>>> COVID-19 infections in Greece hit a new daily high almost every day in
>>> November, prompting authorities to announce new measures on Tuesday,
>>> which also restrict access to cafes and restaurants, state services and
>>> banks to those who are either vaccinated or have a negative test.
>>>
>>>
>>> Report ad
>>> Those vaccinated against COVID-19 also have to present their vaccination
>>> certificates, triggering long lines outside shops in the capital's
>>> busiest shopping street, Ermou.
>>>
>>> "I don't like it," said Soula Tsaousi as she waited in line outside a
>>> clothes shop in central Athens. "We don't live in a jail, we're
>>> civilized human beings and I don't like it at all."
>>>
>>>
>>> Report ad
>>> Greece reported 6,909 new coronavirus infections on Friday, breaking a
>>> previous single-day record of 6,808 recorded on Thursday. This took the
>>> total infections to 774,265 since the pandemic began last year. Some
>>> 16,200 death people have died.
>>>
>>> Some Greeks were in favour of the new rules.
>>>
>>>
>>> Report ad
>>> "They will be effective as long as they are implemented correctly and by
>>> all," said Giorgos, a customer in a cafe who declined to give his last
>>> name. "I think they were late in coming too, they should have
>>> implemented these measures a lot sooner."
>>>
>>> As part of the new measures, all unvaccinated workers should also test
>>> negative twice a week. Most unvaccinated in Greece are now required to
>>> present a negative test once a week to get to their workplace.
>>>
>>> SAP
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>>> Report ad
>>> About 60.5.% of a population of about 11 million are fully vaccinated
>>> against COVID-19, according to the latest data.
>>>
>>> Health Minister Thanos Plevris said Greece will soon send letters and
>>> text messages as part of a new campaign to boost vaccination take up.
>>>
>>> Reporting by Phoebe Fronista Writing by Karolina Tagaris Editing by Ros
>>> Russell

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Greece. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/0OBB0bXsj3I/m/v3HNxSjZBAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://variety.com/2021/biz/news/los-angeles-covid-vaccination-proof-movie-theaters-restaurants-1235105494/
>>>
>>>
>>> L.A. Movie Theaters, Restaurants Will Require Proof of COVID-19
>>> Vaccination Starting Monday
>>>
>>> By J. Kim Murphy
>>>
>>> Plus Icon
>>> COVID-19 Safety Rules For Theaters
>>> Variety
>>> On Monday, the city of Los Angeles will introduce SafePassLA, a vaccine
>>> verification program that will require proof of full COVID-19
>>> vaccination for all patrons and employees to enter movie theaters,
>>> indoor restaurants and other businesses.
>>>
>>> Proof of full COVID-19 vaccination and photo ID became requirements on
>>> Thursday for indoor entry to bars, breweries, wineries, distilleries,
>>> nightclubs and lounges across L.A. county, which includes cities like
>>> Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and Burbank. Along with restaurants and
>>> theaters, the L.A. city order that goes into effect Monday will include
>>> coffee shops, gyms, spas, nail salons, barbershops, shopping malls and
>>> entertainment and recreation venues. The requirements also extend to
>>> official city facilities, such as city hall, senior centers, recreation
>>> centers and service centers.
>>>
>>>
>>> Related Stories
>>>
>>> VIP
>>> What ‘Eternals’ Means for the Future of Marvel
>>>
>>> Disney Plus to Launch 13 Marvel Movies in Imax’s Expanded Aspect Ratio
>>> A virtual training and certificate program on the requirements of
>>> SafePassLA will be introduced to L.A. businesses in the next week,
>>> according to a statement by the county’s government.
>>>
>>> Similar ordinances had already been passed in West Hollywood, New York
>>> and San Francisco before Los Angeles County’s was voted into law on Oct.
>>> 6. The city attorney was compelled to draft the ordinance on Aug. 11 by
>>> a unanimous 13-0 vote.
>>>
>>> “If we ever want to get back to normal, to what Los Angeles was like
>>> pre-COVID, we need to stop the spread,” council president Nury Martinez
>>> said at the time. “If individuals want to go to their gym, go to their
>>> local bar without a mask, you need to get vaccinated. And if you want to
>>> watch a basketball game, a baseball game, go to a concert in a big
>>> venue, or even go into a movie theater, you need to get a shot.”

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> L.A. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/qPacq0_2pzQ/m/fMFk0uH-BAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qqiojq/more_than_half_of_us_states_have_sued_to_stop/
>>>
>>> More than half of US states are suing to stop Biden's COVID-19 vaccine
>>> mandate
>>> Kevin Shalvey Nov 6, 2021, 3:33 AM
>>> President Joe Biden stands behind microphones and points toward the
>>> camera in front of a vaccine sign
>>> President Joe Biden promoting vaccines at the White House on Wednesday.
>>> His vaccine mandate plans are now under legal attack by most US states.
>>> Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
>>> At least 26 states on Friday filed or joined lawsuits opposing President
>>> Joe Biden's vaccine mandate.
>>> "This mandate is unconstitutional, unlawful, and unwise," said a filing
>>> by a coalition of 11 states.
>>> The White House on Thursday made official its plan to require vaccines
>>> for employees of big companies.
>>> More than half of US states on Friday filed or joined lawsuits opposing
>>> President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate for employees of large companies.
>>>
>>> Twenty-six states cosigned four petitions, amounting to perhaps the most
>>> sweeping legal challenge to pandemic-era safety requirements since Biden
>>> took office. Three Democrat-led states are among the 26.
>>>
>>> The lawsuits, filed in four federal appeals courts, take aim at Biden's
>>> requirement that all companies with more than 100 employees mandate
>>> COVID-19 vaccines for their staff, or implement weekly testing.
>>>
>>> "This mandate is unconstitutional, unlawful, and unwise," said a lawsuit
>>> filed by Missouri and 10 other states in the US Court of Appeals for the
>>> Eight Circuit.
>>>
>>> The states said in the filing that Biden's mandate "will cause injuries
>>> and hardship to working families, inflict economic disruption and
>>> staffing shortages on the states and private employers, and impose even
>>> greater strains on struggling labor markets and supply chains."
>>>
>>> Biden's mandate, which would affect about two of every three
>>> private-sector workers, was officially rolled out on Thursday. It is set
>>> to take effect January 4.
>>>
>>> The lawsuits argue that the federal government doesn't have the
>>> constitutional authority to put a vaccine mandate in place. The
>>> Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) also lacks the
>>> statutory authority to enforce it, they say. The issue should be left to
>>> states to decide, they argue.
>>>
>>> "States have been leading the fight against COVID-19 from the start of
>>> the pandemic," said Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, one of several Democratic
>>> leaders to join the suits. "It is too late to impose a federal standard
>>> now that we have already developed systems and strategies that are
>>> tailored for our specific needs."
>>>
>>> At least one lawsuit argues that Biden's requirements have been
>>> "shoe-horned" into workplace safety statutes.
>>>
>>> The White House on Friday pushed back against that characterization,
>>> saying it wanted to be "crystal clear" that the requirement was a
>>> workplace-safety measure, not a vaccine mandate.
>>>
>>> "That would be, on its face, incorrect," Karine Jean-Pierre, principal
>>> deputy press secretary, told reporters in a briefing. "As has been
>>> explicit for months, it is a standard for a safe workplace to either
>>> comply with weekly testing or to be vaccinated."
>>>
>>> Missouri was joined in its Eighth Circuit petition by Arizona, Nebraska,
>>> Montana, Arkansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, New
>>> Hampshire, and Wyoming.
>>>
>>> Kentucky filed in the Sixth Circuit with Idaho, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma,
>>> Tennessee, and West Virginia.
>>>
>>> Texas filed a petition in the Fifth Circuit, joined by Louisiana, South
>>> Carolina, Utah, and Mississippi.
>>>
>>> Georgia filed in the Eleventh Circuit with Florida and Alabama.
>>>
>>> At least two other lawsuits were filed last week against the Biden
>>> administration's vaccine requirements. Mississippi on Thursday joined a
>>> separate lawsuit with Louisiana and Indiana. And Florida, which had
>>> announced plans to sue in October, filed a solo complaint in US District
>>> Court in Tampa.
>>>
>>> "We started with fifteen days to slow the spread and now it's, 'Get
>>> jabbed or lose your job,'" Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a press
>>> conference, adding that the OSHA requirement was "500 pages" of
>>> government bureaucracy.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/pqfnBOJBekQ/m/qEgKgdh1BQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qr8cey/manhattan_office_workers_not_returning_after/
>>>
>>>
>>> Study: Only 1 in 6 Manhattan Office Workers Will Return Full Time by End
>>> of January
>>> Large Manhattan employers expect to cut their office space and their
>>> staff in the post-pandemic era, the Partnership for New York City found
>>> Published November 10, 2021 • Updated on November 10, 2021 at 1:21 pm
>>>
>>> Office buildings in midtown manhattan
>>> Spencer Platt/Getty Images
>>> Manhattan's office workers are slowly returning to the city's towers,
>>> but at such a snail's pace that most still won't be back by the end of
>>> January, according to a new survey released Wednesday.
>>>
>>> In fact, the Partnership for New York City found half of the city's
>>> largest employers now expect some of their workforce to spend a majority
>>> of their time working remotely. About one in three expect to reduce
>>> their NYC office space and roughly one in six said they would cut their
>>> New York City-based staff.
>>>
>>> The nonprofit, which represents more than 300 of the city's largest
>>> businesses, found that only 8% of the 1 million-plus office workers are
>>> back to work full-time now. By the end of January, employers expect that
>>> just 13% will be back five days a week.
>>>
>>> When counting hybrid schedules, only 28% of office workers are at their
>>> desk at least one day a week now, and that's expected to rise to just
>>> 49% by the new year.
>>>
>>> News
>>>
>>> ROCKEFELLER CENTER CHRISTMAS TREE
>>> 6 HOURS AGO
>>> First They Said ‘No Way' — Now Rock Center Tree Cut From Md. Family's
>>> Yard for NYC Journey
>>>
>>> CROTONA PARK
>>> 5 HOURS AGO
>>> 13-Year-Old Walking Home From School Grabbed in NYC Park in Terrifying
>>> Sex Attack
>>> Among the largest employers, those with 5,000 workers or more, just 46%
>>> are expected to be back in the office at any frequency two months from now.
>>>
>>> The numbers stand in stark contrast to prior Partnership surveys that
>>> found a growing return-to-work trend. But as the pandemic has dragged on
>>> and many major employers have been forced to repeatedly delay their
>>> return plans, attitudes appear to have shifted as well. (In March, for
>>> example, employers had projected that at least 45 percent of their
>>> employees would be back by now.)
>>>
>>> The survey was conducted between Oct. 19 and 29. Among the data (source:
>>> Partnership for New York City):
>>>
>>> On an average weekday, 28% of Manhattan office workers are in the
>>> workplace as of late October 2021.
>>>
>>> 8% of Manhattan office workers are in the office full time (five days a
>>> week)
>>> 10% are in four days per week
>>> 12% are in three days per week
>>> 8% are in two days per week
>>> 8% are in one day per week
>>> 54% of Manhattan office workers are still fully remote
>>> 49% of Manhattan office workers are expected to be in the workplace on
>>> an average weekday by the end of January 2022.
>>>
>>> 13% of Manhattan office workers are expected to be in the workplace five
>>> days per week by the end of January 2022
>>> 11% will be in four days per week
>>> 33% will be in three days per week
>>> 15% will be in two days per week
>>> 7% will be in one day per week
>>> 21% of Manhattan office workers will still be fully remote

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/x2t_EP0yxYE/m/FmwNybK9BwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qs897v/hollywoods_covid_protocols_mandatory_vaccinations/
>>>
>>>
>>> Hollywood’s Covid Protocols & Mandatory Vaccinations Extended To January 15
>>> By David Robb
>>>
>>> November 11, 2021 7:28pm
>>> 1
>>> COMMENTS
>>> Services to share this page.
>>> Share on Facebook
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>>> covid-19-molicule-closeup-microscope-virus
>>> Covid-19 close up
>>> CDC
>>> Hollywood’s Covid-19 safety protocols have been extended to January 15.
>>> The protocols, which had been set to expire on Oct. 31, include testing
>>> and vaccination mandates.
>>>
>>> Established in September 2020 by an agreement between the AMPTP and
>>> Hollywood’s unions – the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, the Teamsters and the
>>> Basic Crafts – the return-to-work protocols had originally been set to
>>> expire on April 30, but were extended with no major modifications and
>>> contained all of the original agreement’s provisions, including strictly
>>> enforced testing regimens, physical distancing, Covid compliance
>>> officers, diligent use of personal protective equipment and a “Zone”
>>> system to ensure that different sections of productions are tightly
>>> controlled based on proximity to cast, who often can’t wear masks or
>>> maintain social distancing while working.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> See the protocols here.
>>>
>>> Vaccinations as a condition of employment were first allowed last July
>>> when producers were given “the option to implement mandatory vaccination
>>> policies for casts and crew in Zone A on a production-by-production
>>> basis.” Zone A, where unmasked actors work, is the most restrictive of
>>> the safe work zones on sets.
>>>
>>> Labor and management agree that the protocols have enabled jobs and
>>> productions to safely rebound during the pandemic.
>>>
>>> California Extends Covid State of Emergency Through March 2022

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/WfdKRIDx0JM/m/VRf7_grrCAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://ethicsalarms.com/2021/11/14/the-fifth-circuit-says-the-biden-administration-abused-its-power-and-the-constitution-better-impeach-him-then/
>>>
>>>
>>> The Fifth Circuit Says The Biden Administration Abused Its Power And The
>>> Constitution. Better Impeach Him, Then!
>>> NOVEMBER 14, 2021 / JACK MARSHALL
>>> Vaccine mandate
>>>
>>> Just kidding! Presidents often try to stretch the already rubber
>>> boundaries of what the Constitution and even the law requires, only to
>>> get slapped down by the courts. This kind of thing was only grounds for
>>> impeachment (according to the Trump Deranged, the mainstream media
>>> pundits and Democrats) when Donald Trump did it.
>>>
>>> But President Trump never tried anything as egregiously dictatorial as
>>> the vaccine mandate.
>>
>> Actually, if it were true that vaccine mandates were dictatorial, Mr.
>> Jack Marshal would have named dictators like Stalin, Hitler, etc
>> issuing such mandates. He can't because the realm of public health is
>> about compassion for society's vulnerable and dictators lack such
>> compassion for others b/c they're attracted to only having power for
>> themselves and see compassion for others as only weakness.
>>
>> Bottom line:
>> Mr. Jack Marshal is an unethical liar. May GOD continue to kill folks
>> like anti-vaxxer anti-masker (i.e. disease spreading evil-doer) Mr.
>> Marshall with COVID-19 in order to continue to convince others to not
>> be like them, in the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of
>> Nazareth. Amen.
>>
>> "It will continue to be done as you've asked." -- Holy Spirit
>> (referring to John 16:23)
>>
>> "In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Very truly I tell
>> you, My Father will give you **whatever** you ask in My name." (John
>> 16:23 w/ added **emphasis**)
>>
>> Source:
>> https://biblehub.com/john/16-23.htm
>>
>> Laus DEO.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/QxSHMGgSpTQ/m/-vQrOir9CAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://millennialbachelor.com/2021/10/27/the-pandemic-of-the-self-righteous/
>>>
>>> Millennial Bachelor
>>>
>>> Unfiltered thoughts, stories, and experiences of an unattached man in
>>> his twenties
>>
>> "For out of the heart come evil (i.e. unfiltered) thoughts -- murder,
>> adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander."
>> (Matthew 15:19 w/ parenthetical clarification)
>>
>> Source:
>> https://biblehub.com/matthew/15-19.htm
>>
>>> ABOUT ME
>>> CONTROVERSIAL · CULTURE · LIFESTYLE · POLITICS · REFLECTION
>>
>> Referring to "ABOUT ME" is indeed a referral to the self in
>> "self-righteous."
>>
>>> 27 Oct 2021The Millennial
>>> Two more weeks to flatten the curve, a phrase we all heard so much when
>>> this all began. Yet, two more weeks have turned into forever now.
>>
>> "false testimony" (Matthew 15:19).
>>
>> Now the time from 2020 to 2021 has been a span of 1 year which is not
>> forever.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qxe5zr/army_to_begin_forcing_out_soldiers_who_refuse/
>>>
>>>
>>> New policy bars unvaccinated soldiers from re-enlistment, promotions as
>>> Oklahoma governor says National Guard need not obey Biden's vax mandate.
>>> TARA COPP | NOVEMBER 18, 2021 03:41 PM ET
>>> ARMY CORONAVIRUS
>>>
>>> Updated at 8:09 p.m.
>>>
>>> Soldiers who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine and have not requested
>>> an exemption will no longer be allowed to re-enlist or be promoted,
>>> effectively ending their military careers. The new directive applies to
>>> active-duty troops as well as reservists and National Guardsmen,
>>> including those serving in states whose governors do not require the
>>> vaccine.
>>>
>>> The Nov. 16 memo, signed by Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, says
>>> troops’ service records will be flagged the day they make their final
>>> vaccine refusal, which follows a meeting with a medical professional and
>>> a secord order to get vaccinated. This flag will bar them from being
>>> promoted, reenlisting, continuing to receive enlistment bonuses,
>>> attending service-related schools, or receiving tuition assistance.
>>>
>>> “I authorize commanders to impose bars to continued service…for all
>>> soldiers who refuse the mandatory vaccine order without an approved
>>> exemption or pending exemption request,” Wormuth wrote in the memo. “The
>>> Soldier will remain flagged until they are fully vaccinated, receive an
>>> approved medical or administrative exemption, or are separated from the
>>> Army.”
>>>
>>> The issue of vaccinating the force, including the hundreds of thousands
>>> of soldiers in the Army National Guard, has come to a head in recent
>>> days. Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt has rebuffed President Joe Biden’s
>>> directive that all federal employees, including troops in uniform, be
>>> vaccinated, and his state’s adjutant general has told Oklahoma National
>>> Guardsmen that they need not comply with the directive.
>>>
>>>
>>> “We are getting to this point where the federal government and state
>>> governments are essentially fighting over who has control of the force,”
>>> said Anthony Kuhn, a managing partner at the Tully Rinckey law firm and
>>> a New York State Army reservist who specializes in military law.
>>>
>>> National Guard troops are largely under Title 32 orders, which puts them
>>> under the control of their state governors. When they are activated
>>> under Title 10, such as when they deploy overseas, they are under
>>> federal control. To retain that ready force for overseas missions—for
>>> example guard units were heavily relied upon throughout the miltary’s
>>> campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan—the federal government foots the bill
>>> for those troops even though they report to their governors,
>>> complicating who has authority to direct those Guardsmen to be vaccinated.
>>>
>>>
>>> In 2020, the National Guard was used more heavily than it has been since
>>> World War II, with members called up to respond to wildfires, domestic
>>> unrest, to give COVID shots and respond to flooding and hurricanes.
>>>
>>> But the use of the Guard has become more contentious. The issue of who
>>> has ultimate authority over the Guard is likely to end up in the courts,
>>> said Eugene Fidell, a military law professor at the NYU School of Law.
>>>
>>> “There are two clauses in the Constitution, the militia clauses. We,
>>> over the decades—centuries, really—we've developed a kind of modus
>>> operandi, where, you know, ultimate questions have been avoidable. But
>>> we're getting to the point where these questions are not avoidable. And
>>> that is a crisis,” Fidell said.
>>>
>>> Kuhn said the Army’s decision to cut funding for soldiers and Guardsmen
>>> who do not get vaccinated “was not surprising.”
>>>
>>> “It’s kind of a backdoor way to force this policy on the states,” Kuhn
>>> said.
>>>
>>> About 77 percent of the total Army—active duty, Reserve, and Guard—has
>>> received at least one shot, and 72 percent are completely vaccinated,
>>> according to the latest data provided by Army spokesman Lt. Col. Terence
>>> Kelley. Many of the unvaccinated soldiers are in the National Guard or
>>> reserves. Only 51.84 percent of the Army National Guard is fully
>>> vaccinated; 60.72 percent have received at least one dose of the
>>> vaccine, according to data provided to Defense One by the National
>>> Guard. There are 329,709 Army National Guardsmen serving in all 50
>>> states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.
>>>
>>> It has been unclear whether the Pentagon could force Guardsmen, who
>>> serve under both federal and state control, to be vaccinated if the
>>> governors they serve do not require a vaccine.
>>>
>>> Related articles
>>>
>>> The Army Brief: Vaccine mandate delay; Project Convergence; Tracking
>>> brain injuries; and more...
>>>
>>> Pentagon Orders Troops to Get COVID Vaccine
>>>
>>> The new Army guidance asserts that no service member who refuses to get
>>> vaccinated or to procure an official exemption may continue to serve
>>> without limits in the Army, and thus in the National Guard.
>>>
>>> Soldiers flagged for refusing the vaccine will be allowed to pursue
>>> separation from the military through disability evaluation, retirement,
>>> resignation, or separation after completion of service, the Army said.
>>>
>>> This story has been updated with the latest Army numbers on vaccinations.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/qzhj3c/memphis_grizzlies_dropping_proof_of_vaccination/
>>>
>>>
>>> MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES DROPPING PROOF OF VACCINATION, NEGATIVE TESTS FOR HOME
>>> GAMES
>>> by MEG TURNER
>>> 2 days ago
>>> Videos by OutKick
>>> The Memphis Grizzlies’ next home game will come with a slightly
>>> different experience for fans.
>>>
>>> FedEx Forum announced that beginning Nov. 24, fans will no longer be
>>> asked to provide either a negative COVID-19 test or show proof of
>>> vaccination to enter the arena.
>>>
>>> FedEx Forum, home to both the NBA team and the NCAA basketball’s Memphis
>>> Tigers, will also modify the COVID-19 Entry Policy for the Tigers, as well.
>>>
>>> The Grizzlies will re-evaluate the policy on or before January 7, 2022,
>>> with updates provided accordingly, the statement reads.
>>>
>>>
>>> The Mask Policy was updated a day earlier to be consistent with CDC
>>> guidelines, per the news release.
>>>
>>> While masks remain highly encouraged for all fans in attendance, they
>>> are no longer required for children or adults. Working staff for all
>>> events at FedExForum, including Grizzlies games, will continue wearing
>>> masks for the foreseeable future.
>>>
>>> There is a health screening for fans seated within 15 feet of the court.
>>>
>>> “All fans 12 and older attending any Grizzlies or Tigers games at
>>> FedExForum have the option to present either proof of a negative
>>> COVID-19 test taken 72-hours prior to the scheduled event or proof of at
>>> least one dose of the vaccination,” the release reads.
>>>
>>>
>>> While the requirements vary for the NCAA and NBA games, Grizzlies fans
>>> seated within 15 feet of the court must follow NBA Health & Safety
>>> requirements — fans 2 or older must either provide proof of negative
>>> COVID-19 test 48-hours prior to the scheduled game or proof of
>>> vaccination for those 12 and over.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/_NG646MKmmU/m/F5soK6VeBwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://patch.com/california/los-angeles/mystery-emerges-among-covid-19-patterns-los-angeles-county
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Officials are trying to understand why some of LA's highest coronavirus
>>> case rates are currently in communities with high vaccination rates.
>>> Paige Austin's profile picture
>>> Paige Austin,
>>> Patch Staff
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>>> Posted Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 5:47 pm PT
>>> Replies (74)
>>> During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
>>> County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
>>> communities that have higher than average vaccination rates.
>>> During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
>>> County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
>>> communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. (Mario
>>> Tama/Getty Images)
>>> LOS ANGELES, CA — While unvaccinated people continue to become infected,
>>> hospitalized and killed by the coronavirus at dramatically higher rates,
>>> a peculiar pattern is developing in Los Angeles County that has health
>>> officials puzzling for an explanation.
>>>
>>> During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
>>> County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
>>> communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. Authorities
>>> aren't quite sure why that would be. Differences in behavior or waning
>>> immunity from vaccines may be factors. People in those communities may
>>> also have lower levels of natural immunity due to historically low
>>> levels of coronavirus exposure.
>>>
>>> Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said authorities are
>>> trying to examine what factors are in play in individual communities
>>> that have above-average vaccination rates but still had among the
>>> highest new-case rates. One common denominator appears to be age.
>>> Younger people are driving this pandemic, Ferrer said.
>>>
>>>
>>> The median age of people becoming infected ranges from 26 to 36, meaning
>>> young people are driving the numbers. More than half of the county's
>>> confirmed COVID-19 cases to date have been among people 18 to
>>> 49-year-old, according to county health officials.
>>>
>>> "I will say the one thing that does jump out -- the average ages were
>>> very low in all these communities," she said. "This is, essentially, in
>>> the communities with the highest rates, this is a pandemic that is in
>>> fact fueled by younger people."
>>>
>>> Find out what's happening in Los Angeles with free, real-time updates
>>>from Patch.
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>>> Let's go!
>>> Given the young median age of infected people, "we know that
>>> intermingling both socially and at work sites is contributing," she said.
>>>
>>> "Whoever you are and wherever you live, whether you live in a community
>>> with a high vaccination rate or with not-so-high vaccination rates, the
>>> most important thing you as a person are going to need to do is get
>>> yourself vaccinated, the people you love vaccinated, and then be
>>> sensible about precautions around intermingling while transmission rates
>>> remain relatively high across the county," Ferrer said.
>>>
>>> Of the 10 communities that had the highest rate of new cases, seven had
>>> vaccination rates that exceed the countywide rate, according to Ferrer.
>>> She insisted, however, the numbers don't mean vaccines aren't effective.
>>>
>>> "If you're not vaccinated, you've got a much higher risk of ending up
>>> infected, ending up in the hospital and tragically passing away. That's
>>> crystal clear and it hasn't really changed for months now," Ferrer said
>>> during a media briefing.
>>>
>>> She said current figures show unvaccinated people are nine times more
>>> likely than vaccinated people to get infected, and 67 times more likely
>>> to be hospitalized.
>>>
>>> Communities such as Lancaster, Palmdale, Studio City and Santa Clarita
>>> were among the 10 Los Angeles County areas that had the highest rates of
>>> new COVID-19 infections during a two-week period that ended Nov. 6, even
>>> though most of the areas that made the list have above-average
>>> vaccination rates, the county's health director said Thursday.
>>>
>>> The top two communities on the list with the highest new case rates --
>>> Lancaster and Palmdale -- have below-average rates of fully vaccinated
>>> residents, at 58% and 66%, respectively. But Studio City, with the
>>> third- highest new case rate, has a 79% vaccination rate, and Santa
>>> Clarita, placing fourth on the list, has a 75% vaccine rate.
>>>
>>> The countywide number of fully vaccinated residents is 73%.
>>>
>>> Of the other communities on the top 10 list of highest new-case rates,
>>> only Willowbrook, at 62%, falls below the countywide vaccination rate.
>>>
>>> "Some of our communities that have right now these higher case rates are
>>> in fact communities that have really decent coverage in terms of
>>> vaccination ... and they still have a problem with high case rates,"
>>> Ferrer said.
>>>
>>> She said a variety of factors could be at play in different communities,
>>> among them the possibility that some areas had large numbers of people
>>> who were never previously infected with COVID-19 and remain
>>> unvaccinated, leading to higher current infection numbers.
>>>
>>> "That certainly is possible, although we have to look at more data to
>>> draw that conclusion," Ferrer said.
>>>
>>> The county reported another 26 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, raising the
>>> overall virus-related death toll to 26,949. Another 1,088 cases were
>>> reported, giving the county a cumulative pandemic total of 1,515,324.
>>>
>>> The rolling average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus
>>> in the county was 1.1% as of Thursday.
>>>
>>> According to state figures, there were 611 COVID-positive patients being
>>> treated in county hospitals as of Thursday, down from 616 on Wednesday.
>>> Of those hospitalized, 148 were in intensive care, down from 155.
>>>
>>> Ferrer said 82% of county residents aged 12 and over have received at
>>> least one dose of COVID vaccine, and 73% are fully vaccinated. Of the
>>> county's overall population of 10.3 million people, 71% have received at
>>> least one dose, and 63% are fully vaccinated.
>>>
>>> She said the number of people who received a first dose of vaccine in
>>> the past week jumped up sharply, due primarily to the expansion of
>>> vaccine availability to include children aged 5-11.
>>>
>>> Black residents continue to have the lowest vaccination rates, at 54%,
>>> followed by Latina/o residents at 59%, whites at 72% and Asians at 80%.
>>>
>>> Of the roughly 5.99 million residents who were fully vaccinated as of
>>> Nov. 16, 75,249 have subsequently tested positive for the virus, for a
>>> rate of 1.26%, Ferrer said. Of the vaccinated population, 2,528 have
>>> been hospitalized, for a rate of 0.042%, and 422 have died, a rate of
>>> 0.007%.
>>>
>>> Ferrer noted that the county has not seen a spike in COVID infections
>>> following Halloween, unlike the situation last year when cases began
>>> rising sharply. She said she is hopeful that residents will continue to
>>> exercise caution over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.
>>>
>>> "We will need to take a cautionary note from what we're currently seeing
>>> in other parts of the United States and in other parts of the world
>>> right now," Ferrer said. "In the Mountain West and throughout Europe,
>>> cases are rising and hospitals are once more flooded with COVID cases,
>>> almost all of them among unvaccinated people. These trends remind us
>>> that the virus is much more easily transmitted when people are indoors
>>> and intermingling without protection from vaccines and other mitigation
>>> measures."
>>>
>>> City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/pediatric-cancer-diagnosis-delays-covid-wcba-1.6253093?cmp=rss
>>>
>>>
>>> Late diagnosis of tumours in children collateral damage of COVID-19,
>>> doctors say
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>>> Lack of in-person visits with family doctor a factor in diagnosis,
>>> treatment delays
>>> CBC Radio · Posted: Nov 21, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: November 21
>>>
>>> Dr. Sheila Singh, a pediatric neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's
>>> Hospital in Hamilton, says the health-care system should be able to stay
>>> on top of cancers and all of the other diseases that have been given
>>> less priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Submitted by Dr. Sheila Singh)
>>>
>>> 930
>>> comments
>>> Dr. Sheila Singh is used to explaining complex medical situations in
>>> simple terms. The pediatric neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital
>>> in Hamilton says that lately, she's seeing too many oranges and
>>> grapefruits and fewer ping pong balls.
>>>
>>> That's not good, and it could signal that the COVID-19 pandemic has
>>> delayed the diagnosis of many pediatric diseases, sometimes with
>>> devastating results.
>>>
>>> "You can imagine a tumour that's the size of a ping pong ball, it's
>>> easier for me to work around and remove it," she said. "But if that ping
>>> pong ball-sized tumour grows to the size of an orange or a grapefruit,
>>> the tumour has grown to a size where it's much more difficult now to
>>> deal with."
>>>
>>> Singh told Dr. Brian Goldman, host of White Coat Black Art, that she is
>>> now seeing two to three times more oranges and grapefruits than before
>>> the pandemic. In other words, the tumours have been left to grow much
>>> longer due to delays in diagnosis.
>>>
>>> Singh says she believes the delays in diagnosis have been caused by
>>> patients staying away from hospitals because:
>>>
>>> They are afraid of catching COVID-19.
>>> There is a lack of in-person visits with their family doctor.
>>> There is an anchor bias to look for COVID-19 symptoms to the detriment
>>> of flagging other serious diseases.
>>> "There's no doubt there will be collateral damage," she said, "and some
>>> of that will be death and poor outcomes from diseases that could have
>>> had better outcomes."
>>>
>>> Singh says she remembered a recent patient, a young girl who had a
>>> tumour that typically grows in one place in the brain. "This little girl
>>> came in and this tumour was actually in four places in her brain. And
>>> let me put it this way, two out of those four places I'd never seen this
>>> brain tumour in before." Instead of doing one surgery, Singh had to do
>>> several risky and difficult operations.
>>>
>>> Doctors worry they won't be able to help every cancer patient diagnosed,
>>> treated late due to COVID-19
>>> THE DOSEStudies reveal the unintended consequences of delaying
>>> surgeries, drop in ER visits due to pandemic
>>> As a pediatric doctor, Singh says that it has been heartbreaking to see
>>> some of the children whose cancers have progressed much further than the
>>> pre-pandemic norm. "I feel like I've been practising in a Third World
>>> country. I have seen disease that has spread so far that it's almost
>>> like cases I've read about in rural India. It's been quite difficult and
>>> alarming."
>>>
>>> Pediatric cancer specialists at CHEO, formerly the Children's Hospital
>>> of Eastern Ontario, in Ottawa also saw fewer patients coming in the
>>> early days of the pandemic, when parents said they feared going to the
>>> hospital.
>>>
>>>
>>> 26:30
>>> The COVID fallout: tumours as big as oranges
>>> Dr. Sheila Singh, a pediatric neurosurgeon at McMaster Children’s
>>> Hospital talks about the enormous collateral damage caused by the
>>> pandemic. She's now seeing tumours as big as oranges and grapefruits,
>>> instead of ping pong balls. Dr. Singh blames it on prioritizing COVID
>>> over all else, telling people not to come to hospital, and relying too
>>> much on virtual health care -- all lessons for the future. 26:30
>>> Early signs of widespread diagnosis delays
>>> Early research suggests that later diagnosis of illness in children due
>>> to the pandemic may extend to other serious illnesses, not just cancer.
>>> In a study published earlier this year in the medical journal Pediatric
>>> Diabetes, researchers in Alberta found that more children are being
>>> treated for diabetic ketoacidosis, a serious and potentially fatal
>>> complication of diabetes.
>>>
>>> The authors suggest that parents may have been reluctant to access
>>> medical services because of fear of COVID-19 and that "increased virtual
>>> visits resulted in reduced face-to-face contact with health-care
>>> providers and may have contributed to the under-recognition of the
>>> severity of illness."
>>>
>>>
>>> Pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Patrick McDonald says he wants to make sure
>>> that lessons are learned from what was done right and what was done
>>> wrong in providing adequate care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
>>> (Submitted by Dr. Patrick McDonald)
>>> Dr. Patrick McDonald says he remembers the challenges of the lockdowns.
>>> For much of the pandemic, McDonald headed up the pediatric neurosurgery
>>> division at B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver. In the early days of
>>> COVID-19, "I think all of us struggled with the issue [of] how do we
>>> make sure that families know that they can still access care. It might
>>> be a little more challenging, and we might have to do it initially by
>>> phone."
>>>
>>> He said that "it's a legitimate concern that people might not be able to
>>> or might not be accessing care in a timely fashion."
>>>
>>> Push for more in-person care
>>> In October, the Ontario Ministry of Health and the College of Physicians
>>> and Surgeons of Ontario issued a letter that encouraged doctors to
>>> resume in-patient visits over virtual appointments.
>>>
>>> "The standard of care is often difficult to meet in a virtual care
>>> environment," the letter stated. "In-person care is essential for
>>> certain conditions and services or where physical assessments are
>>> necessary to make an appropriate diagnosis or treatment decision."
>>>
>>>
>>> Singh says it's imperative that children undergo an in-person physical
>>> exam to receive a proper diagnosis. (JD Howell)
>>> That's particularly true when examining a young patient, Singh stressed.
>>> "There's so much room to miss a diagnosis when you're staring at a child
>>> on a screen."
>>>
>>> One of the common symptoms of a brain tumour in a child is macrocephaly,
>>> a technical term for an enlarged head, which Singh said can be a
>>> challenge to identify during a virtual visit.
>>>
>>> "Depending on the angle at which you're looking at a child, you might
>>> not even notice how big their head is or even be alarmed about it,
>>> whereas if that child walked into a room, it'd be the first thing you'd
>>> notice about them."
>>>
>>> McDonald says he believes that it may be another year before the full
>>> impact of delayed diagnosis due to COVID-19 is really understood. When
>>> the data does emerge, he stressed that we need to carefully examine what
>>> happened to understand why people may not have sought out the care their
>>> children needed.
>>>
>>> "There may be another pandemic, and we want to make sure that we learn
>>> appropriate lessons for what we did right and what we did wrong in
>>> providing adequate care," he said.
>>>
>>> 700 families waiting for children's health services at Toronto hospital
>>> as pandemic backlog grows
>>> In the meantime, Singh offered two pieces of advice to parents. First,
>>> she said, "It's safe to go to your hospital." And second, "I would
>>> really encourage parents not to accept a virtual visit as being a proper
>>> way to diagnose your child."
>>>
>>> Singh stressed that when parents are concerned about their child, an
>>> in-person physical examination is imperative to receive a proper diagnosis.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Canada & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > MichaelE wrote:
> >

> > >http://www.bbc.com/news/health-59378849
> > >
> > >
> > >Covid: Can UK avoid a Europe-style return to lockdown?
> > >
> > >Nick Triggle
> > >Health correspondent
> > >@nicktriggleon Twitter
> > >
> > >Published14 hours agocommentsComments
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> > >Covid infection rates have started rising sharply in parts of Western
> > >Europe, prompting the introduction of fresh restrictions and lockdowns.
> > >
> > >It has triggered fears the UK could follow suit. But there are
>plenty of
> > >reasons to believe Britain will escape the worst of what is being seen
> > >on the continent. In fact, the UK may well be in the strongest position
> > >of all to weather Covid this winter.
> > >
> > >To understand why that could be the case, you need to look at the
> > >reasons why cases have started to take off in Western Europe.
> > >
> > >Unlike the UK - and England in particular - many parts of Europe kept
> > >major restrictions in place for much longer.
> > >
> > >Whereas England fully unlocked in mid-July, parts of Europe did not do
> > >this until the autumn, and in many places kept tougher restrictions in
> > >place even as they did.
> > >
> > >Part of this was to do with timing. The UK was hit by the more
> > >infectious Alpha variant and then Delta sooner, meaning it was in a
> > >position to push ahead with unlocking before others.
> > >
> > >
> > >Chart showing infection rates
> > >Presentational white space
> > >Chart showing Covid deaths
> > >Presentational white space
> > >But it was also a conscious choice backed by the government's top
> > >scientists, Prof Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance.
> > >
> > >The logic - along with the benefit of ending restrictions that
> > >themselves cause harm to health - was that it was better to have the
> > >rebound in infection, the so-called exit wave, in the summer.
> > >
> > >It was felt the increase in the spread of the virus would be mitigated
> > >by the better weather, meaning more time spent outdoors, and would
>avoid
> > >the winter crunch when pressure on the health system increases across
> > >the board.
> > >
> > >UK has high levels of immunity
> > >The UK has, in effect, already had the wave the rest of Europe is
>seeing
> > >and has managed to avoid being swamped by it.
> > >
> > >That is mainly because of the amount of immunity built up.
> > >
> > >A combination of good vaccine rollout, particularly among the older
>more
> > >vulnerable groups who are the ones most at risk of serious illness, and
> > >natural immunity from infection means there is likely to be a much
> > >smaller pool of vulnerable people for the virus to infect.
> > >
> > >Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have
> > >been trying to quantify this by looking at what would happen if
>everyone
> > >was suddenly exposed to the virus in one go.
> > >
> > >They modelled this for England - although there is nothing to suggest
> > >Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would be any different - and 18
> > >other European nations.
> > >
> > >If this hypothetical situation happened, England would have by far the
> > >fewest people ending up in hospital - 62 per 100,000 people -
>because of
> > >immunity built up by vaccination and infection. That compares with more
> > >than 300 in Germany, largely because of their lower levels of infection
> > >to date, and more than 800 in Romania, which has struggled to convince
> > >its public to come forward for vaccination.
> > >
> > >Chart showing modelling of hospital cases
> > >Presentational white space
> > >This was the picture at the end of October. If the same analysis was
> > >done at the end of November it is likely the situation would be even
> > >more favourable for England, says lead researcher Dr Lloyd Chapman.
> > >
> > >That's because the UK is ploughing ahead faster than other nations with
> > >boosters. Again part of this is related to timing. As the UK was
>quicker
> > >off the mark with Covid vaccinations initially, there are greater
> > >numbers of people becoming eligible for a booster.
> > >
> > >"We are giving those boosters to the very people who are most at
>risk at
> > >perhaps the best time - they will have the best protection in winter."
> > >
> > >Chart showing booster uptake
> > >Presentational white space
> > >But Dr Chapman also points out this has come at a price - the high
>rates
> > >of infection have resulted in a greater amount of serious illness and
> > >death in recent months than many of our Western European neighbours.
> > >
> > >And he adds the research should not be seen as a guarantee we will
> > >escape the winter without seeing a surge in cases. "We may be in the
> > >strongest position - but we could still see cases double and that would
> > >cause problems."
> > >
> > >'Public playing key role in UK'
> > >But is that likely? What is perhaps most remarkable about the UK is
>just
> > >how stable infection levels have been. Ever since the sharp rise
>seen in
> > >early summer peaked in mid-July, infection rates have bobbled along,
> > >small rises being followed by similar drops.
> > >
> > >There is no other part of Europe that has seen Covid infections held so
> > >stable with very few restrictions in place.
> > >
> > >Instead, when other nations have seen cases surge restrictions have
> > >tended to be reimposed. This is happening now in parts of Western
>Europe
> > >and follows on from what happened in Eastern Europe early in the
>autumn.
> > >
> > >Romania, for example, saw a sharp rise in cases in September and
>October
> > >and reacted by introducing a night curfew, sending children home from
> > >school and introducing health passes for access to public venues.
> > >
> > >It is telling that those nations that have had the most problems as
> > >winter arrives are the ones identified by the London School of Hygiene
> > >and Tropical Medicine as having the greatest pool of vulnerable people.
> > >How far this pattern spreads across Europe remains to be seen.
> > >
> > >Doctor administering injection to young woman
> > >IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
> > >But immunity alone does not explain why the UK, and in particular
> > >England, has seen such stable rates, says Prof Graham Medley, who
>chairs
> > >the government's infectious disease modelling group.
> > >
> > >Prof Medley, speaking in a personal capacity, believes it is more
> > >complex than that. "I think we are seeing the public playing an
> > >important role."
> > >
> > >He says a combination of limiting mixing and frequent use of rapid
> > >tests, which are more easy to access here than in many other countries,
> > >seems to be doing just enough to keep the virus in check.
> > >
> > >"The government has passed the risk management to the public - and
>we've
> > >been able to do that better than other countries."
> > >
> > >The big question is whether that will last throughout winter - Scotland
> > >and Northern Ireland are already talking about the possibility of
> > >tightening of restrictions. Prof Medley says it is "delicately"
> > >balanced, but with every passing week the chances are getting better.

> > The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

> > the UK & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

> > finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
> > among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
> > asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
> > 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
> > doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
> > best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
> > mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
> > Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
> > COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
> >
> > Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
> > and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
> >
> > So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/r2t6kd/covid_chris_whitty_worried_about_whether_public/
>>>
>>>
>>> Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty. Picture date: Monday
>>> November 15, 2021.
>>> Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty. Picture date: Monday
>>> November 15, 2021. Leon Neal
>>> Chief Medical Officer for England tells panel his concerns about whether
>>> the Government could 'maintain public support' if new restrictions are
>>> introduced
>>> Samantha Haynes
>>> DIGITAL PRODUCER
>>> PUBLISHED Friday 26 November 2021 - 17:03
>>>
>>> England’s chief medical officer has said his “greatest worry” is whether
>>> the public would accept fresh restrictions in the face of a new Covid-19
>>> variant.
>>>
>>> Professor Chris Whitty told a panel discussion hosted by the Local
>>> Government Association that he worried whether the Government could
>>> still “take people with us”.
>>>
>>> It comes as Belgium became the first European Union country to announce
>>> a case of the variant B.1.1.529, which has been identified in other
>>> places including South Africa, Botswana, Hong Kong and Israel.
>>>
>>> It is not yet known if the new variant is more deadly, or even more
>>> transmissible, than previous variants.
>>>
>>> “My greatest worry at the moment is that people… if we need to do
>>> something more muscular at some point, whether it’s for the current new
>>> variant or at some later stage, can we still take people with us?” Prof
>>> Whitty said.
>>>
>>> Covid variant: Travel sector fury over restrictions for arrivals from
>>> southern Africa
>>> Covid variant: Travel sector fury over restrictions for arrivals from
>>> southern Africa
>>> He admitted that some of the changes the public has had to make have
>>> been “very destructive” to society and the economy.
>>>
>>> However, despite his worries, the chief medical officer struck a
>>> positive note, saying he believed the Government will be able to
>>> maintain public support for coronavirus measures.
>>>
>>> “I think the extraordinary thing has been the ability of the UK
>>> population, with very, very small exceptions, to just accept that there
>>> are things we collectively have to do to protect one another and do
>>> collectively, including things that have been very destructive to social
>>> and economic situations for individuals and families,” he said.
>>>
>>> “Obviously, we want to avoid having to do those at all if we can, and to
>>> do the minimum ones necessary, but will we be able to maintain public
>>> support?
>>>
>>> “And I think my overall view is, I think we will.
>>>
>>> “Provided you are clear with people what the logic is, provided they
>>> feel that we’re being entirely straight with them as to all the data…
>>> but I think that’s always a worry.”
>>>
>>> Prof Whitty added that the longer the pandemic goes on, the harder it is
>>> to know what the public’s response will be.
>>>
>>> “It’s easier to be confident of people’s response right at the beginning
>>> than it is after people put up with two years of their lives being
>>> interfered with.”

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the UK & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
>> Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
>> COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/jM7kRxwN8Ig/m/TAtU60umCAAJ

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MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/r3z6vw/australias_first_two_cases_of_omicron_variant/
>>>
>>> Australia’s first two cases of Omicron variant detected in Sydney
>>> By Jenny Noyes and Mary Ward
>>> Updated November 28, 2021 — 5.23pmfirst published at 6.47am
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>>>
>>> Two international flight passengers who tested positive to COVID-19
>>> after arriving in Sydney have been confirmed as Australia’s first cases
>>> of the new Omicron variant of concern, after urgent genomic sequencing
>>> was completed on Sunday.
>>>
>>> The pair were passengers on Qatar Airways flight QR908 from Doha which
>>> landed at Sydney Airport at about 7pm on Saturday. They have been in
>>> isolation in special health accommodation since their arrival.
>>>
>>> Premier Dominc Perrottet giving an update on COVID-19 quarantine in NSW.
>>> Premier Dominc Perrottet giving an update on COVID-19 quarantine in NSW.
>>> CREDIT:NINE NEWS
>>>
>>> In a statement, NSW Health said the pair were asymptomatic and both
>>> fully vaccinated.
>>>
>>> The other 260 passengers on the flight are now considered close contacts
>>> of a COVID-19 case and have been directed by health authorities to isolate.
>>>
>>> Advertisement
>>>
>>> “It is an offence not to comply with a Public Health Order and penalties
>>> can apply,” NSW Health said. “Close contacts will be contacted
>>> regularly, and compliance checks will be undertaken.”
>>>
>>> In a statement on Sunday morning, NSW Health confirmed testing on
>>> arrival at Sydney Airport had identified two of the 14 passengers on the
>>> flight who had recently been in southern Africa had COVID-19, and urgent
>>> genomic sequencing was being carried out to determine whether they were
>>> infected by the new Omicron B.1.1.529 variant.
>>>
>>> It came hours after federal Health Minister Greg Hunt announced a
>>> two-week ban on non-citizens arriving from South Africa, Namibia,
>>> Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Seychelles, Malawi and Mozambique.
>>>
>>> Australian citizens arriving from those countries are now required to
>>> enter 14 days of supervised quarantine upon arrival in Australia.
>>>
>>> Another 15 arrivals from southern Africa arrived at Sydney Airport on an
>>> Emirates flight which landed around 11pm. All 29 have entered hotel
>>> quarantine.
>>>
>>> Advertisement
>>>
>>> “The clear point today is that this clearly demonstrates the pandemic is
>>> not over,” Premier Dominic Perrottet said earlier on Sunday.
>>>
>>> “We need to learn to live alongside the virus and to live alongside the
>>> various strains of the virus that will come our way, and the best thing
>>> we can do is get vaccinated and get booster shots.”
>>>
>>> The Premier added that there were “limits” to what the government could
>>> do going forward to keep new variants out of Australia.
>>>
>>> “These variants will get into the country, it is inevitable,” Mr
>>> Perrottet said.
>>>
>>> Health Minister Brad Hazzard said it was possible the Omicron variant
>>> has already entered NSW, where fully vaccinated international arrivals
>>> have not been required to enter hotel quarantine since November 1.
>>>
>>> Advertisement
>>>
>>> RELATED ARTICLE
>>> The World Health Organisation has named the latest variant Omicron.
>>> Updated
>>> Coronavirus pandemic
>>> What we know about Omicron, the new coronavirus variant
>>> “This Omicron variant of the COVID virus is not well understood at this
>>> point,” Mr Hazzard said, noting that it only took three weeks for the
>>> Delta variant to spread to 53 countries.
>>>
>>> “We have to expect that Omicron may already be here.”
>>>
>>> NSW has so far recorded no cases of the Omicron variant in its genomic
>>> sequencing program.
>>>
>>> The state recorded another 185 cases of COVID-19 and zero deaths in the
>>> 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday, NSW Health reported Sunday morning.
>>>
>>> Advertisement
>>>
>>> Anyone who has already arrived in Australia and has been in any of the
>>> countries within the past 14 days, must immediately isolate themselves
>>> and get tested.
>>>
>>> Mr Hazzard asked anyone who had been in southern Africa in the past 14
>>> days to immediately contact NSW Health.
>>>
>>> In addition, both NSW and Victoria moved on Saturday night to introduce
>>> 72-hour isolation requirements for all fully vaccinated international
>>> arrivals, regardless of their country of departure.
>>>
>>> On Sunday, the Premier stressed this was a “short-term precaution” in
>>> light of the changing situation.
>>>
>>> Europe, Britain and a host of other countries have also closed their
>>> borders to non-residents arriving from the same countries due to the
>>> emergence of the variant.
>>>
>>> Advertisement
>>>
>>> Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said there was one existing case of
>>> COVID-19 from southern Africa currently isolating at the Howard Springs
>>> quarantine facility in the Northern Territory, and that case will also
>>> be examined further to determine whether it is the concerning new variant.
>>>
>>> Despite concerns Omicron may be highly transmissible – even more so than
>>> Delta – Mr Perrottet said the state government was not planning to make
>>> any changes to the post-lockdown reopening road map, with restrictions
>>> still set to ease for unvaccinated people on December 15.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Australia/elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage

>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via slip-replication to

>> form hybrids that render current COVID vaccines/pills no longer
>> effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/J5-cvGRVnJA/m/lR2n6JRdCQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/r4gn2g/covid_south_africas_president_calls_for_lifting/
>>>
>>>
>>> Covid: South Africa's president calls for lifting of Omicron travel bans
>>>
>>>
>>> Published2 hours ago

>>> Share
>>> Related Topics
>>> Coronavirus pandemic
>>>

>>> Media caption,
>>> Cyril Ramaphosa: "We are deeply disappointed by the decision of several
>>> countries to prohibit travel."
>>> South Africa's president has condemned travel bans enacted against his
>>> country and its neighbours over the new coronavirus variant Omicron.
>>>
>>> Cyril Ramaphosa said he was "deeply disappointed" by the action, which
>>> he described as unjustified, and called for the bans to be urgently lifted.
>>>
>>> The UK, EU and US are among those who have imposed travel bans.
>>>
>>> Omicron has been classed as a "variant of concern". Early evidence
>>> suggests it has a higher re-infection risk.
>>>
>>> ADVERTISEMENT
>>>
>>> The heavily mutated variant was detected in South Africa earlier this
>>> month and then reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) last
>>> Wednesday.
>>>
>>> The variant is responsible for most of the infections found in South
>>> Africa's most populated province, Gauteng, over the last two weeks, and
>>> the number of cases of "appears to be increasing in almost all
>>> provinces" in the country, according to the WHO.
>>>
>>>
>>> South Africa reported 2,800 new infections on Sunday, a rise from the
>>> daily average of 500 in the previous week.
>>>
>>> Government adviser and epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim said he
>>> expected the number of cases to reach more than 10,000 a day by the end
>>> of the week, and for hospitals to come under pressure in the next two to
>>> three weeks.
>>>
>>> But Health Minister Joe Phaahla said there was "absolutely no need to
>>> panic".
>>>
>>> "We have been here before," he added, referring to the Beta variant
>>> identified in South Africa last December.
>>>
>>> On Monday, Japan became the latest country to reinstate tough border
>>> restrictions, banning all foreigners from entering the country from 30
>>> November.
>>>
>>> The WHO has warned against countries hastily imposing travel curbs,
>>> saying they should look to a "risk-based and scientific approach".
>>>
>>> How worrying is the new Covid variant?
>>> South Africans fear impact of new variant measures
>>> Covid variants: Do we need new vaccines yet?
>>> WHO's Africa director Matshidiso Moeti said on Sunday: "With the Omicron
>>> variant now detected in several regions of the world, putting in place
>>> travel bans that target Africa attacks global solidarity."
>>>
>>> However, numerous bans have been introduced in recent days, with Rwanda
>>> and Angola being among the African states to restrict flights to and
>>>from South Africa.
>>>
>>> Foreign ministry spokesman Clayson Monyela described their decision as
>>> "quite regrettable, very unfortunate, and I will even say sad".
>>>
>>>
>>> Media caption,
>>> Watch Dr Angelique Coetzee, the doctor who first spotted Omicron,
>>> describe "extremely mild" symptoms in patients
>>> In his speech on Sunday, Mr Ramaphosa said there was no scientific basis
>>> for the travel bans and that southern Africa was the victim of unfair
>>> discrimination.
>>>
>>> He also argued that the bans would not be effective in preventing the
>>> spread of the variant.
>>>
>>> "The only thing the prohibition on travel will do is to further damage
>>> the economies of the affected countries and undermine their ability to
>>> respond to, and recover from, the pandemic," he said.
>>>
>>> He called on countries with bans in place to "urgently reverse their
>>> decisions... before any further damage is done to our economies".
>>>
>>> Mr Ramaphosa said South Africa would not impose new restrictions, but
>>> would "undertake broad consultations on making vaccination mandatory for
>>> specific activities and locations".
>>>
>>> Current regulations in South Africa make it mandatory to wear face
>>> coverings in public, and restrict indoor gatherings to 750 people and
>>> outdoor gatherings to 2,000.
>>>
>>> There are no vaccine shortages in South Africa itself, and Mr Ramaphosa
>>> urged more people to get jabbed, saying that remained the best way to
>>> fight the virus.
>>>
>>> Health experts said that Gauteng, which includes Johannesburg, had
>>> entered a fourth wave, and most hospital admissions were of unvaccinated
>>> people.
>>>
>>> Omicron has now been detected in a number of countries around the world,
>>> including the UK, Germany, Australia and Israel.
>>>
>>> In other developments:
>>>
>>> In the Netherlands, Omicron was detected in 13 people who arrived in
>>> Amsterdam on two flights from South Africa.
>>> Separately, Dutch police said they detained a couple who had escaped
>>>from a quarantine hotel. According to the Dutch newspaper Het Parool,
>>> the Spanish man and Portuguese woman were arrested on a plane that was
>>> about to depart to Spain
>>> Israel banned all foreigners from entering the country for 14 days from
>>> midnight Sunday
>>> The UK called for an emergency meeting of the G7 group of nations on
>>> Monday to discuss the new variant
>>> Voters in Switzerland backed the government's measures to tackle Covid,
>>> according to preliminary results.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Africa/elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via slip-replication to

>> form hybrids that render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills

>> no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/IXhaeUeAMeM/m/36Q99SOJCQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10269235/NFL-suspends-Bucs-Antonio-Brown-lying-vaccine-status.html
>>>
>>>
>>> NFL suspends Tom Brady's Buccaneers teammates Antonio Brown and Mike
>>> Edwards for three games without pay for lying about their COVID-19
>>> vaccination status
>>>
>>> Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown was suspended
>>> three games without pay on Thursday for misrepresenting his vaccine status
>>> Brown's Tampa Bay teammate, safety Mike Edwards, and free agent
>>> John Franklin III, a former Bucs receiver, were also suspended three
>>> games apiece
>>> All three bans are effective immediately. The players waived their
>>> right to appeal
>>> Brown was previously accused by his former chef of trying to obtain
>>> a fake vaccine card in order to skirt the NFL's rules for unvaccinated
>>> players
>>> Tom Brady and the Bucs host the Falcons at Raymond James Stadium on
>>> Sunday
>>> Brown's lawyer Sean Burstyn has stressed that his client is vaccinated
>>>
>>> By ALEX RASKIN SPORTS NEWS EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
>>>
>>> PUBLISHED: 16:45 EST, 2 December 2021 | UPDATED: 17:47 EST, 2 December 2021
>>>
>>> e-mail
>>>
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>>>
>>> Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown and two other players
>>> have been suspended three games without pay by the league for
>>> misrepresenting their vaccination statuses.
>>>
>>> Brown was previously accused by his personal chef of attempting to pay
>>> for a fake COVID-19 vaccine card before the season in an effort to skirt
>>> the NFL's rules for unvaccinated players.
>>>
>>> Along with Brown, one of quarterback Tom Brady's favorite targets, two
>>> other players were suspended three games without pay: Bucs safety Mike
>>> Edwards and free agent receiver John Franklin III, who was released by
>>> Tampa Bay earlier this year.
>>> 0:00 / 0:00
>>>
>>> The league hasn't specified the allegations against the players. An NFL
>>> spokesman did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for
>>> clarification on the accusations against Brown, Edwards, and Franklin III.
>>>
>>> The suspensions are effective immediately and the players have waived
>>> their right to appeal. Franklin can only serve his suspension if and
>>> when he is signed by another team.
>>> Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown was suspended three
>>> games without pay on Thursday for misrepresenting his vaccine status
>>> +6
>>>
>>> Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown was suspended three
>>> games without pay on Thursday for misrepresenting his vaccine status
>>> Bucs safety Mike Edwards
>>> +6
>>>
>>> Free agent wide receiver John Franklin III, who previously played for
>>> the Bucs
>>> +6
>>>
>>> Brown's Tampa Bay teammate, safety Mike Edwards (left), and free agent
>>> John Franklin III (right), a former Buccaneers receiver, were also
>>> suspended three games apiece. Franklin can only be forced to serve that
>>> suspension if a team signs him
>>>
>>> Brown, Edwards, and Franklin III were all represented by the NFL Players
>>> Association to review the recent allegations, which were not specified
>>> in the NFL's press release, other than to say they misrepresented 'their
>>> vaccination status under the NFL-NFLPA COVID-19 Protocols.'
>>>
>>> A subsequent review supported the allegations.
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>>> 'The health and safety of players and personnel is our top priority,'
>>> the NFL and NFLPA said in a joint statement. 'The protocols were jointly
>>> developed working with our respective experts to ensure that we are
>>> practicing and playing football as safely as possible during the ongoing
>>> pandemic.
>>>
>>> 'The NFL-NFLPA jointly reinforce their commitment and further emphasize
>>> the importance of strict adherence to the protocols to protect the
>>> well-being of everyone associated with the NFL.'
>>> Brown's former personal chef, Steven Ruiz, claimed Brown's girlfriend,
>>> model Cydney Moreau (pictured), texted him, asking for fake COVID-19
>>> vaccination cards
>>> +6
>>>
>>> Brown's former personal chef, Steven Ruiz, claimed Brown's girlfriend,
>>> model Cydney Moreau (pictured), texted him, asking for fake COVID-19
>>> vaccination cards
>>>
>>> Brown was allegedly interested in paying his personal chef $500 for a
>>> fake COVID-19 vaccination card so he could avoid the league's rules for
>>> unvaccinated players.
>>>
>>> Brown's model girlfriend Cydney Moreau allegedly texted Los
>>> Angeles-based chef Steven Ruiz asking for a fake card - a violation of
>>> federal law - on July 2
>>> Antonio Ruiz shared the story with the Tampa Bay Times after falling out
>>> with Brown over a $10,000 debt
>>>
>>> Antonio Ruiz shared the story with the Tampa Bay Times after falling out
>>> with Brown over a $10,000 debt
>>>
>>> 'Can you get the COVID cards?' Moreau asked.
>>>
>>> 'I can try,' replied Ruiz, who had been working for Brown.
>>>
>>> 'JNJ shot. Ab said he would give you $500,' Moreau added, expressing
>>> preference for a card claiming that Brown got the one-shot Johnson &
>>> Johnson vaccine.
>>>
>>> Ruiz provided the text exchange to the Tampa Bay Times, which verified
>>> the phone numbers, after he fell out with Brown over an unpaid $10,000 debt.
>>>
>>> The Bucs said Brown's card passed muster and doesn't have any
>>> irregularities.
>>>
>>> 'After an extensive educational process conducted throughout our
>>> organization this past offseason highlighting the benefits of the
>>> COVID-19 vaccines, we received completed vaccination cards from all
>>> Tampa Bay Buccaneers players and submitted the required information to
>>> the NFL through the established process in accordance with league
>>> policy,' read the Bucs' November statement. 'All vaccination cards were
>>> reviewed by Buccaneers personnel and no irregularities were observed.'
>>> Brady and the Buccaneers host the Atlanta Falcons at Raymond James
>>> Stadium on Sunday
>>> +6
>>>
>>> Brady and the Buccaneers host the Atlanta Falcons at Raymond James
>>> Stadium on Sunday
>>>
>>> In his own November statement, Brown's lawyer Sean Burstyn stressed that
>>> his client is vaccinated.
>>>
>>> 'Antonio Brown appreciates the severity of the pandemic, which is why he
>>> got the vaccine and supports everyone for whom it is advisable to get
>>> the vaccine,' Burstyn told the Times.
>>>
>>> 'Coronavirus has hit close to home as it took him out of a game. He is
>>> healthy, vaccinated, and ready to win another Super Bowl.'
>>>
>>> The NFL does not require players to be vaccinated, but the league has
>>> set out rules for teams with unvaccinated players that penalize them,
>>> and the opposing teams, with hefty fines for lost games due to outbreaks.
>>>
>>> Unvaccinated players are facing many of the same protocols they had last
>>> season, before the vaccines were released, including daily testing as
>>> well as mask and social distancing requirements.
>>>
>>> More than 93 percent of all NFL players are vaccinated according to the
>>> league.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via slip-replication to
>> form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>

> Antonio Brown and Mike Edwards should consider a career in public
>health.
>
> Public health is far more tolerant of dishonesty than professional
>football.

A public health official presenting a fake COVID vaccination card
would be fired instead of just suspended so that there really would be
no future for either Antonio Brown and Mike Edwards in public health
because they wouldn't be hired in the first place.

Instead, they should be thankful that they aren't incarcerated for the
federal crime of presenting fraudulent vaccination cards.

>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/VACsPalL7Zc/m/W13txnOJAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

MichaelE wrote:
>HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/r9rtx5/covid_rules_are_set_to_be_extended/
>>>
>>>
>>> We'll be wearing masks until the new year: Covid rules are set to be
>>> extended in bid to fend off even tougher curbs amid ongoing concerns
>>> over Omicron variant
>>> Laws requiring people to wear face masks in shops could stay until New Year
>>> Final decision on extending use may not be taken until as late as
>>> December 18
>>> But Whitehall sources say it's likely they will stay for at least
>>> another three weeks
>>> Contingency plan would involve vaccine passports and working from home
>>> By JASON GROVES POLITICAL EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL
>>>
>>> PUBLISHED: 17:00 EST, 5 December 2021 | UPDATED: 19:46 EST, 5 December 2021
>>>
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>>> Laws requiring masks in shops and on public transport are set to stay
>>> until the New Year, as ministers try to fend off demands for tougher
>>> restrictions in the run up to Christmas.
>>>
>>> Emergency regulations last week reintroduced mandatory masks until
>>> December 21 to help slow the spread of the Omicron variant.
>>>
>>> A final decision on whether to extend their use may not be taken until
>>> as late as December 18.
>>>
>>>
>>> Read More
>>>
>>> But Whitehall sources said it was likely masks would stay mandatory for
>>> at least another three weeks to give scientists more time to assess the
>>> threat posed by Omicron.
>>>
>>> Other restrictions, such as travel tests and compulsory ten-day
>>> quarantine for those in close contact with an Omicron case, are also set
>>> to be extended.
>>>
>>> However, sources said Boris Johnson is resisting pressure to move to the
>>> Government's Plan B until at least the New Year.
>>>
>>> Emergency regulations last week reintroduced mandatory masks until
>>> December 21 to help slow the spread of the Omicron variant (file image) +11
>>> Emergency regulations last week reintroduced mandatory masks until
>>> December 21 to help slow the spread of the Omicron variant (file image)
>>>
>>> The contingency plan would involve the use of vaccine passports and
>>> ordering millions to work from home (file image) +11
>>> The contingency plan would involve the use of vaccine passports and
>>> ordering millions to work from home (file image)
>>>
>>> The contingency plan would involve the use of vaccine passports and
>>> ordering millions to work from home.
>>>
>>> Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab yesterday urged people to press ahead
>>> with their plans for the festive season, saying it was 'going to be a
>>> great Christmas'.
>>>
>>> A Whitehall source said: 'In terms of Plan B, we are not there yet. The
>>> ambition is that people can have a much more normal Christmas than last
>>> year.
>>>
>>> 'That depends on what the data shows about the new variant. But
>>> certainly the hope is that things stay as they are in the next couple of
>>> weeks.'
>>>
>>> Mr Raab urged people to get their booster jabs, saying it was the most
>>> important measure in heading off further restrictions.
>>>
>>> But he said ministers did not want to follow Germany in making
>>> vaccinations mandatory.
>>>
>>> And he ruled out restricting medical treatment for the unvaccinated,
>>> despite warnings from the medical profession that their needs are
>>> crowding out other vital care.
>>>
>>> Nicki Credland, chairman of the British Association of Critical Care
>>> Nurses, told The Sunday Times: 'All nurses understand they have to
>>> provide non-judgmental care.

>>>
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>>>
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>>> Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab yesterday urged people to press ahead
>>> with their plans for the festive season, saying it was 'going to be a
>>> great Christmas' +11
>>> Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab yesterday urged people to press ahead
>>> with their plans for the festive season, saying it was 'going to be a
>>> great Christmas'
>>>
>>> 'But what we find difficult is that giving care to patients who have
>>> chosen not to be vaccinated has a knock-on effect on other patients.
>>>
>>> 'We are still human beings and we still get angry at things that we
>>> think aren't just.'
>>>
>>> Her comments came after figures revealed more than 90 per cent of Covid
>>> patients needing the most specialist care have not been vaccinated.
>>> Doctors have warned that some transplant surgery is not going ahead and
>>> that vital cancer operations are being delayed.
>>>
>>> Mr Raab told Times Radio: 'I would not countenance some sort of
>>> suggestion that we would refuse access to vital services for people who
>>> have not had a jab.'
>>>
>>>
>>> Britain's Omicron outbreak grows by more than 50% in a day: 86 new cases
>>> take total to 246 as scientist warns its 'too late' to halt spread and
>>> overall Covid cases rise by 16% in week to 43,992
>>>
>>> James Gant for MailOnline
>>>
>>> The number of new Omicron cases reported in the UK rose by 86 on Sunday,
>>> bringing the total cases to 246 - an increase of more than 50 per cent
>>> in the space of a day.
>>>
>>> The UK Health Security Agency, who publish the figures, said 18 of the
>>> new cases are in Scotland taking their total to 48.
>>>
>>> The remaining 68 cases were recorded in England, according to the UKHSA.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, a further 43,992 Covid cases were recorded in the UK this
>>> week, an increase of 6,311 on last week's figures.
>>>
>>> The increase marks a 16.7 per cent rise since last Sunday while a
>>> further 54 deaths were recorded.
>>>
>>> The number of people who have died within 28 days of testing positive
>>> for Covid rose by 5.8 per cent from 51 last week.
>>>
>>> +11
>>> +11
>>> +11
>>> 'It doesn't look there's a great degree of severity': Dr Fauci says
>>> Omicron may be LESS dangerous than Delta
>>> White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci says early
>>> indications from South Africa suggest that the Omicron variant may not
>>> be as severe as previously feared.
>>>
>>> 'Thus far - though it's too early to really make any definitive
>>> statements about it - it does not look like there's a great degree of
>>> severity to it, but we've really got to be careful before we make any
>>> determinations that it is less severe or really doesn't cause any severe
>>> illness comparable to delta,' he said.
>>>
>>> 'But thus far, the signals are a bit encouraging regarding the severity.
>>> But again we've got to hold judgement until we get more experienced.'
>>>
>>> President Joe Biden locked eight South African countries out of the US
>>> last Monday in fear of the new super mutant COVID variant, and the ban
>>> remains in place despite travel remaining open to other foreign countries.
>>>
>>> But Fauci said Sunday that the restrictions were made during a time when
>>> an explosion of Omicron cases were rocking South Africa as the severity
>>> of the variant remained unknown.
>>>
>>> He said US officials are now reevaluating the restrictions.
>>>
>>> 'When the ban was put on, it was put to give us time to figure out just
>>> what is going on,' Fauci told CNN's Jack Tapper.
>>>
>>>
>>> It comes as a leading scientist warned Britain has left it 'too late' to
>>> halt the spread of the Omicron super-variant.
>>>
>>> Professor Mark Woolhouse said bringing in new curbs on travel was 'a
>>> case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted'.
>>>
>>> The Edinburgh University epidemiologist said it was 'spreading pretty
>>> rapidly' and could become the world's dominant strain.
>>>
>>> Professor Woolhouse, who is a member of the Scientific Pandemic
>>> Influenza Group on Modelling which advises the Government, said the
>>> measures would not make a 'material difference' as the variant is
>>> already 'spreading pretty rapidly'.
>>>
>>> He told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday: 'I think that may be a
>>> case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
>>>
>>> 'If Omicron is here in the UK, and it certainly is, if there's community
>>> transmission in the UK, and it certainly looks that way, then it's that
>>> community transmission that will drive a next wave.
>>>
>>> 'The cases that are being imported are important, we want to detect
>>> those and isolate any positive cases we find, as we would for any case
>>> anywhere.
>>>
>>> 'But I think it's too late to make a material difference to the course
>>> of the Omicron wave, if we're going to have one.'
>>>
>>> The president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has also warned
>>> the NHS will be in a 'very, very difficult position' if the Omicron
>>> variant were to lead to a surge in hospital admissions.
>>>
>>> Dr Katherine Henderson said hospitals were already struggling to cope as
>>> they enter winter.
>>>
>>> 'It is pretty spectacularly bad now, it will get worse - and if the new
>>> variant becomes a thing in terms of numbers and translates into
>>> hospitals admissions we are going to be in a very, very difficult
>>> position,' she said.
>>>
>>> 'We will always still be there. We still want patients to come but we do
>>> have to help people to understand that really at the moment the service
>>> is so stretched that an extra push could be very very difficult.'
>>>
>>> The World Health Organization (WHO) has said there have been no deaths
>>> linked to the super mutant variant despite the strain being spotted in
>>> 38 countries.
>>>
>>> However, it warned it could take weeks to determine how infectious the
>>> variant is, whether it causes more severe illness and how effective
>>> treatments and vaccines are against it.
>>>
>>> 'We're going to get the answers that everybody out there needs,' WHO
>>> emergencies director Michael Ryan said on Friday.
>>>
>>> Many of the Omicron cases surfacing in the states - and across the globe
>>> - look to be connected to people who had traveled to South Africa
>>> recently, including the first person in the US to have an identified
>>> case of the variant, a resident of San Francisco.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via slip-replication to
>> form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>

>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/nJ6POkcFlAI/m/fSgI84lwBAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/the-covid-insanity-has-to-end/
>>>
>>>
>>> The Covid Insanity Has to End
>>> By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
>>> January 1, 2022 6:30 AM
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>>>
>>> People wait in line to receive free rapid at-home Covid testing kits at
>>> a vaccination clinic run by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health
>>> in Philadelphia, Pa., December, 21 2021. (Hannah Beier/Reuters)
>>> Trying to strong-arm reluctant people into compliance with increasingly
>>> irrational protocols is not working.
>>> NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE
>>> The illogic of the Pandemic Reign of Error is long past the point of too
>>> much to bear.
>>> As Covid infections have surged beyond control — breaking through
>>> vaccines and boosters — the CDC now says that we have to reduce the
>>> number of isolation days for people who test positive for the virus but
>>> are basically asymptomatic. Our Phil Klein has elaborated on the
>>> arbitrariness of it all. Naturally, leave it to our Janus-faced
>>> megalomaniac, Dr. Anthony L’Science C’est Moi Fauci, to supply the
>>> risible rationalization du jour: “If you are asymptomatic and you are
>>> infected, we want to get people back to the jobs, especially those with
>>> essential jobs.”
>>> If we were dealing with a real plague, the insanity of this would be so
>>> obvious even the media-Democrat complex would not be able to speak of it
>>> without snickering.
>>> With an infectious disease that posed a serious threat of lethality to
>>> the average person, a credible positive test would call for isolation
>>> until the person was certifiably cleared of infection. Here, by
>>> contrast, the government is now saying that the certifiably infected
>>> need to get back into the general population faster. This, even though
>>> the government (a) insists on treating non-vaccinated people as if they
>>> were lepers (including those who have had Covid, even though their
>>> natural immunity makes their risk comparable to that of vaccinated
>>> people); and (b) has been coercing even people who are “fully”
>>> vaccinated (whatever that means from moment to moment) to mask up and
>>> take other precautions because being vaccinated and asymptomatic is no
>>> guarantee against transmitting the virus.
>>> MORE IN CORONAVIRUS
>>> EXCLUSIVE: AOC Spotted in Miami Beach as NYC Reports Record Covid Cases
>>> When Does Trump Get His Apology?
>>> AOC Responds to Miami Beach Photo Controversy: ‘Where’s DeSantis?’
>>> We’ve lost our minds.
>>> Just to be clear on where I’m coming from, I am enthusiastically
>>> pro-vaccination. I got the jab as soon as it was available to me, and
>>> was boosted weeks ago. I’ve insisted that family members whom I’m either
>>> responsible for or have influence over do likewise. I lost family and
>>> friends in the early months of the epidemic. I would like to prevent
>>> everyone from getting Covid, even in what early reports indicate is the
>>> milder new Omicron iteration, and even though our wondrously evolved
>>> world of vaccines and improved therapeutics makes the chance of death or
>>> serious illness vanishingly small.
>>> Then again, I’d similarly like to prevent everyone from catching the
>>> scourges of viral rhinitis (also known as the common cold) and
>>> influenza. But I don’t want to prevent that outcome, an inevitable one
>>> for all of us at some point(s), nearly as much as I want us to live in a
>>> free society. By nature, liberty entails risks, an enormous number of
>>> which are more perilous than Covid. Freedom is America’s foundation, but
>>> it necessarily involves no small amount of annoyances and
>>> inconveniences, aches and pains, large and small. A risk-free society is
>>> stifled and inert. It is no society at all.
>>> All Our Opinion in Your Inbox
>>> NR Daily is delivered right to you every afternoon. No charge.
>>>
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>>> Following a pattern of viral mutation that Jim Geraghty explained a
>>> year-and-a-half ago, Covid appears to become less lethal as it becomes
>>> more transmissible. (To be sure, it is still too early for settled
>>> conclusions, opinions vary — see, e.g., here and here — and the CDC is
>>> characteristically confused about whether we’re in the onset of Omicron,
>>> the depths of Delta, or both.) The virus is now spreading like the
>>> common cold and seasonal flu, with both of which we long ago learned to
>>> live. For the former, there is no cure but many well-known mitigation
>>> strategies. For the latter, which Mario Loyola fittingly described in
>>> our pages as a relatively “prolific killer,” we have perennially
>>> adjusted vaccines that are no guarantee against infection but reduce its
>>> likelihood and ameliorate most cases.
>>> People who roll the dice, ignoring precautions against cold and failing
>>> to get a flu shot, sometimes escape unscathed and sometimes get bad
>>> cases. The number of them who get seriously sick is small, and the
>>> number who die is negligible. For the most part, moreover, their
>>> ignorance or negligence is a threat to themselves, not to the rest of us
>>> — or at least not much of a threat, and not nearly enough of one to
>>> justify jamming the gears of a free society.
>>> Covid fits this pattern. It is impossible to calculate a perfectly
>>> accurate mortality risk since there are many more infections than
>>> reported cases (including more deaths attributable to Covid than deaths
>>> reported as such). But even if we grossly inflated the death rate by
>>> using reported cases as a crude metric, it would still be just 1.4
>>> percent (about 801,000 deaths out of about 55.5 million cases); and the
>>> real risk varies widely — almost none for those under 30, much higher
>>> for the elderly and those with comorbidities.
>>> Elected officials and bureaucrats are well aware of this; they just
>>> don’t want to say it aloud. But in the places where they figure you
>>> won’t look and where the media won’t report, they make admissions they
>>> hope you’ll never hear about. So it is with the Justice Department,
>>> which is laboring to defend President Biden’s indefensible vaccine
>>> mandate — issued on a purported “emergency” basis by the Occupational
>>> Security and Health Administration two years after the pandemic began
>>> and one year after vaccines were developed . . . though before the
>>> president suddenly conceded on Monday that there is no federal solution
>>> to the virus, which he now regards as principally a matter of state
>>> regulation.
>>> Based on the government’s own data, crunched by the CDC, Justice
>>> Department lawyers have acknowledged to the federal appellate courts
>>> that unvaccinated workers between the ages of 18 and 29 bear a risk
>>> roughly equivalent to that posed to vaccinated persons between 50 and
>>> 64. Yet the Biden administration — the same administration that
>>> venerates abortion as a private health-care matter to be weighed by a
>>> woman (or “birthing person”) and her doctor free of government
>>> interference — is hell-bent on extorting the young to get vaccinated, on
>>> pain of lost livelihood and pariah status.
>>> That is beyond absurd. It’s tyrannical.
>>> It is not that the vaccines are ineffective. They are great. Still, like
>>> anything else that is defamed and overhyped, as the Left has done to the
>>> vaccines (first talking them down as unreliable because they were
>>> developed under the Trump administration, then talking them up as the
>>> silver bullet that would empower Biden to make good on his vow to “shut
>>> down the virus”), they are not quite as advertised. They are settling
>>> into what they will be in a future era of endemic Covid (an era that is
>>> already under way): an invaluable mitigation tool for an infectious
>>> virus that, like the flu, we must learn to live with and manage.
>>> It is high time that we, too, live with and manage Covid, just as we do
>>> with the rest of life’s tribulations. Things that are a spot of bother
>>> the vast majority of the time but tragically lethal in outlier cases.
>>> Conditions that are nuisances for most of us but mortally threaten a few
>>> of us who have underlying conditions — threats that, fortunately, we
>>> learn more about, and about how to treat, every day.
>>> Having finally discovered federalism, perhaps President Biden could take
>>> the next step and discover liberty. If he did, he’d accomplish more of
>>> what he wants — higher vaccination rates and lower incidence of serious
>>> illness and death, fewer disruptions and better economic performance —
>>> by trusting Americans to care for themselves. Trying to strong-arm
>>> reluctant people into compliance with increasingly irrational protocols
>>> is not working on them, and it is strangling all of us.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via

>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest

>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/qHSQvpFA4k4/m/8t2baEsdAgAJ

Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy

8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as circling eagles don't have COVID) and

pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in
Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit
(Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to always
say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including

especially caring to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12

as shown by http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (

http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in

the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Laus DEO !

Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ

Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test

Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:

http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger

(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby

removing the http://tinyurl.com/HeartVAT from around the heart

...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD

Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense

2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:

http://WonderfullyHungry.org

and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:

http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-health-official-suggests-ending-quarantine-allowing-israelis-to-catch-covid/
>>>
>>>
>>> Ex-health official suggests ending quarantine, allowing Israelis to
>>> catch COVID
>>> 26 December 2021, 6:12 pm
>>> Health Ministry Deputy Director General Itamar Grotto at a press
>>> conference about the coronavirus, May 29, 2020. (Screen capture: Facebook)
>>> Health Ministry Deputy Director General Itamar Grotto at a press
>>> conference about the coronavirus, May 29, 2020. (Screen capture: Facebook)
>>> Itamar Grotto, the former deputy director of the Health Ministry,
>>> suggests that it could be to Israelis’ benefit to be infected by the
>>> Omicron variant of COVID-19.
>>>
>>> “It could be that we should think about such a policy… of letting people
>>> get infected,” Grotto tells the Kan public broadcaster.
>>>
>>> The ex-health official suggests that in the face of the ultra-contagious
>>> Omicron variant, the policy of quarantine, even for those who are not
>>> vaccinated, is no longer effective.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> He says early data from abroad shows that while many Israelis will
>>> become infected, rates of hospitalizations will not shoot up “like they
>>> did in the last wave, we won’t see that again.”
>>>
>>> “It has to become more of an individual problem than a public problem,”
>>> says Grotto, lamenting constant quarantining of school-age students when
>>> a classmate tests positive.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Israel & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/TiFh4AP6S5c/m/pkf2sq58AgAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/rv1lbq/covid_lincolnshire_hospitals_declare_critical/
>>>
>>> Covid: Lincolnshire hospitals declare 'critical incident' over staff
>>> shortages
>>> Published1 hour ago

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>>> Coronavirus pandemic

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>>> Image caption,
>>> General visiting has been banned at hospitals in Lincoln, Boston and
>>> Grantham
>>> A critical incident has been declared at four Lincolnshire hospitals
>>> because of staff shortages due to Covid-19.
>>>
>>> United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust said it was taking "additional
>>> steps to maintain services" at all its hospitals in Lincoln, Boston and
>>> Grantham.
>>>
>>> The trust's medical director, Dr Colin Farquharson, said there were
>>> "significant staffing pressures due to absence related to Covid-19".
>>>
>>> But he said essential services "remain fully open".
>>>
>>> Last month, visiting restrictions were brought in at Lincoln County,
>>> Grantham and District, Pilgrim Hospital Boston and County Hospital Louth
>>> to slow the spread of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus.
>>>
>>> 'Unprecedented'
>>> In a statement, Dr Farquharson said: "As a result of significant
>>> staffing pressures due to absence related to Covid-19, we are having to
>>> take additional steps to maintain services.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Our staff continue to work exceptionally hard and we would like to
>>> reassure our patients and the public that in spite of the challenges
>>> faced, essential services remain fully open for anyone who needs them,
>>> so people should continue to come forward for care."
>>>
>>> He added people could "reduce pressure on health services" by getting a
>>> booster vaccine.
>>>
>>>
>>> The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.
>>> View original tweet on Twitter
>>> According to a leaked email seen by The Sunday Times, the trust declared
>>> a critical incident on Saturday night "due to extreme and unprecedented
>>> workforce shortages".
>>>
>>> It issued an "urgent appeal" for clinical and non-clinical staff to
>>> offer extra time supporting colleagues "over the next 72 hours".
>>>
>>> It also asked staff to "consider limiting social contacts with people
>>> outside of work".
>>>
>>> 'Burnt out'
>>> Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents
>>> trusts, said a critical incident was "an indication of very serious
>>> pressure" at a trust which may "not be able to provide" a range of
>>> priority services.
>>>
>>> Helen Monday, a nurse at the trust, said hospitals were busy but were
>>> "not being inundated with Covid-positive patients".
>>>
>>> She said colleagues were "helping out as much as they can" as a result
>>> of absences caused by staff self-isolating due being in contact with
>>> someone who tested positive.
>>>
>>> "Staff are absolutely exhausted," said Ms Monday.
>>>
>>> "People are now getting to the point where they're burnt out."
>>>
>>> 2px presentational grey line
>>> Analysis box by Nick Triggle, health correspondent
>>> The situation in Lincolnshire is not unique.
>>>
>>> It is understood at least half a dozen NHS trusts have declared critical
>>> incidents over the past week.
>>>
>>> That is not that unusual in the depths of winter - the NHS is entering
>>> what is traditionally its busiest time of year.
>>>
>>> But the scale and nature of the challenges are, of course,
>>> unprecedented, with growing rates of staff absences due to Covid.
>>>
>>> At this time of year the NHS can see around 1,000 admissions a day for
>>> all types of respiratory illness - and it is getting more than that just
>>> for Covid, and the number is rising.
>>>
>>> A critical incident does not mean emergency care stops being provided,
>>> rather it is an alert to the wider system that the trust is under acute
>>> pressure and needs help, such as getting staff redeployed from elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Many of these incidents will be over in a few days.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/NpXEewGUrSE/m/mRtmkOmtAgAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

T K (tommy***ATgmailDOTcom) wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>> T K (tommy***ATgmailDOTcom) wrote:
>> > HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> >

>> >> I am simply wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) and hope you, Tommy (T.K.), also have a healthy appetite too.

>> >>
>> >> So how are you ?
>> >>

>> >> Doing very good for an older 80+ guy...Saw a few of your videos and liked your conversational approach leading to the Ideals
>> >> set forth in the Bible echoed by the Word made Flesh Jesus Christ.
>>
>> Taking your "very good" to mean "yes, you have a healthy appetite," I,
>> as a cardiologist, share with you, TK, that it's really Wonderful
>> (Isaiah 9:6) knowing through our hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) that we're
>> both being blessed right now as it's written in the Gospels in
>> red&white at Luke 6:21a **and** as evident by our both not having a
>> heart attack (aka myocardial infarction) at the moment in accordance
>> with pure logic {healthy=wonderful & appetite=hunger} and advise that
>> you try to write that you're "wonderfully hungry" since we've
>> established here that you are:
>>
>> So now how are you ?
>>
>> Right on Andrew...I am "wonderfully hungry" and that wonderful hunger has
>> showed me how to "open" my mind and heart to the Spirit of God within me...
>> to such a degree that I no longer even take BP medication :)

Source:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.support.diabetes/c/Q6eH9i9pZZo/m/6v2RTxO1DQAJ

Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy

8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, TK, are rapture ready (Luke 17:37

means no COVID just as circling eagles don't have COVID) and pray (2
Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven
continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians
5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write
that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially
caring to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (

http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD in the name (John 16:23) of LORD

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10364503/Denmark-health-chief-says-Omicron-bringing-END-pandemic.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Denmark health chief says Omicron is bringing about the END of the
>>> pandemic and 'we will have our normal lives back in two months'
>>> Tyra Grove Krause is the chief epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum
>>> Institute
>>> Speaking Monday, she said Omicron's hospitalisation risk was half that
>>> of Delta
>>> This, she said, could spell the end of the pandemic in around two months
>>> By CHRIS JEWERS FOR MAILONLINE
>>>
>>> PUBLISHED: 07:46 EST, 3 January 2022 | UPDATED: 11:06 EST, 3 January 2022
>>>
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>>> A Danish health chief has said the Covid-19 Omicron variant is bringing
>>> about the end of the pandemic, saying 'we will have our normal lives
>>> back in two months'.
>>>
>>> Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause - the chief epidemiologist at
>>> Denmark's State Serum Institute - said a new study from the organisation
>>> found that the risk of hospitalisation from Omicron is half that seen
>>> with the Delta variant.
>>>
>>> This, she said, has given Danish authorities hope that the Covid-19
>>> pandemic in Denmark could be over in two months.
>>>
>>> Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause (pictured) - the chief
>>> epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said that a new
>>> study from the organisation found that the risk of hospitalisation from
>>> Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant +5
>>> Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause (pictured) - the chief
>>> epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said that a new
>>> study from the organisation found that the risk of hospitalisation from
>>> Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant
>>>
>>> +5
>>> 'I think we will have that in the next two months, and then I hope the
>>> infection will start to subside and we get our normal lives back,' she
>>> said on Monday.
>>>
>>>
>>> Despite early fears that Omicron could prolong the pandemic due to its
>>> increased level of infection, Ms Krause said it actually could spell the
>>> end of the pandemic.
>>>
>>> According to the study: 'Omicron is here to stay, and it will provide
>>> some massive spread of infection in the coming month. When it's over,
>>> we're in a better place than we were before.'
>>>
>>> But while infection numbers in countries with the variant are soaring,
>>> the expert said that the highly infectious Omicron appears milder than
>>> the Delta variant, and therefore more people will be infected without
>>> having serious symptoms.
>>>
>>> As a result, she said, this will provide a good level of immunity in the
>>> population.
>>>
>>> Denmark has seen a spike in new cases in recent weeks, and on Sunday
>>> recorded its highest ever seven-day average infections, recording an
>>> average of 20,886 across the previous week, or 3,592.74 per million
>>> people - one of Europe's highest rates.
>>>
>>> It reported its highest ever new infections on December 27 (41,035).
>>>
>>> By comparison, the UK's seven-day average daily new confirmed Covid-19
>>> cases per million people sits at 2,823.31 as on Monday, while in the
>>> United States, that number is 1,215.76 - lower than many countries in
>>> Europe.
>>>
>>> Ms Krause stressed that there was still work to be done to beat the
>>> pandemic in the coming months, however.
>>>
>>> 'Omicron will peak at the end of January, and in February we will see
>>> declining infection pressure and a decreasing pressure on the health
>>> care system,' she said.
>>>
>>> 'But we have to make an effort in January, because it will be hard to
>>> get through.'

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>>> Pictured: People queue for rapid COVID-19 test in the center of Aalborg,
>>> Denmark, to the test site at Budolfi Church, Thursday, December 23,
>>> 2021. Danish officials are hopeful that Omicron could spell the end of
>>> the pandemic +5
>>> Pictured: People queue for rapid COVID-19 test in the center of Aalborg,
>>> Denmark, to the test site at Budolfi Church, Thursday, December 23,
>>> 2021. Danish officials are hopeful that Omicron could spell the end of
>>> the pandemic
>>>
>>> The epidemiologist said Danes should continue to follow the now
>>> well-known measures to help slow the spread, such as good hygiene,
>>> social distancing where possible, and staying at home when symptoms
>>> present themselves.
>>>
>>> Omicron's increasing spread will continue to put pressure on Denmark's
>>> healthcare system, she said. 'This is definitely what will be the
>>> challenge in the future.'
>>>
>>> Professor Lars Østergaard, chief physician at the Department of
>>> Infectious Diseases at Aarhus University Hospital, also looked towards
>>> the end of the pandemic in comments made on January 1.
>>>
>>> He said that while the coronavirus will not be characterised as a
>>> pandemic forever, it will likely never fully disappear.
>>>
>>> I never think we'll ever wave goodbye to the corona,' he said.
>>>
>>> 'But we want such a good immunity in the population - partly because of
>>> new vaccines, partly because people have been infected - that we can
>>> handle it as another of the infections we know that come especially in
>>> the winter month.'
>>>
>>> +5
>>> +5
>>> Ms Krause agreed, saying: 'In the long run, we are in a place where
>>> coronavirus is here, but where we have restrained it, and only the
>>> particularly vulnerable need to be vaccinated up to the next winter
>>> season.'
>>>
>>> Ms Krause's optimistic comments came three days after the World Health
>>> Organisation made a similarly hopeful statement about Omicron.
>>>
>>> 'If we put an end to inequality, we will put an end to the pandemic and
>>> the global nightmare that we have all gone through,' WHO chief Tedro's
>>> Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a speech on New Years Eve.
>>>
>>> But the WHO also warned warned of trying times ahead, saying Omicron
>>> could lead to 'a tsunami of cases'.
>>>
>>> 'This... will continue to put immense pressure on exhausted health
>>> workers, and health systems on the brink of collapse,' Ghebreyesus said.
>>>
>>> Many Western leaders have been hesitant to reimpose strict controls seen
>>> in 2020, for fear of sparking a new economic downturn.
>>>
>>> But on-again-off-again restrictions have still prompted frequent, vocal
>>> and occasionally violent anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine and anti-government
>>> protests.
>>>
>>> Experts and non-experts alike hope that 2022 may be remembered as a new,
>>> less deadly phase of the pandemic.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Denmark & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/sSwMoEknj2I/m/sSUdGA7_AgAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/rvsthb/cornell_universitys_covid_overreach_with/
>>>
>>>
>>> Cornell University’s Covid Overreach
>>> By MATTHEW SAMILOW
>>> January 4, 2022 6:30 AM

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>>> Students walk across the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
>>> (Jupiterimages/Getty Images)
>>> With virtually all students vaccinated, Cornell continues to act like
>>> it’s still March 2020.
>>>
>>> NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE
>>> The college student in the age of the coronavirus is used to putting up
>>> with quite a bit: regular surveillance testing, vaccine (and now
>>> booster) mandates, mask mandates, remote classes, restrictions on social
>>> gatherings, the cancellation of university events and traditions. At the
>>> beginning of the pandemic, most students, myself included, were willing
>>> to accept these burdens, owing to the real risk Covid posed. However,
>>> now that we have vaccines, campus restrictions have taken on an
>>> increasingly absurd character — ruining the college experience in a
>>> (failed) attempt to control a virus that poses minimal risk to students.
>>> Indeed, all too many universities, including Cornell University, where I
>>> am currently a senior, seem dedicated to an unrealistic “zero-Covid”
>>> strategy that will prevent normal campus life from resuming for the
>>> foreseeable future.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On December 13, as final exams were beginning, the Cornell
>>> administration, facing an Omicron-driven outbreak that had seen over
>>> 1,000 students become infected (out of about 15,000 total), announced
>>> that the campus would be shutting down. All in-person exams would be
>>> moved online, and all student social gatherings, “formal or informal,”
>>> were to be canceled. These were the most stringent virus-related
>>> restrictions Cornell had imposed since sending students home in March
>>> 2020. The campus was stunned: Cornell mandated vaccines, required masks,
>>> and tested regularly, yet was having its worst outbreak thus far.
>>>
>>> Buried within the frenzy over the number of student cases, however, was
>>> the reality that all of them were mild. Hospitalizations in Tompkins
>>> County, N.Y., where Cornell is located, had barely ticked up despite an
>>> exponential rise in cases. It placed in sharp relief the absurdity of
>>> Cornell’s case-centric strategy. What research we have suggests that the
>>> vaccines do not provide all that much protection against infection, but
>>> they do provide strong protection against severe illness and death.
>>> Considering that 18–22 year-olds are already at low risk from the virus,
>>> it makes little sense to obsess over every case in a young, vaccinated
>>> population.
>>>
>>>
>>> Since the fall 2020 semester, Cornell students have heard countless
>>> times from the administration how adherence to the university’s policies
>>> would eventually allow campus to return to normal. In fact, in an email
>>> just before the fall 2021 semester, the Cornell administration promised
>>> to “discontinue [surveillance testing] for vaccinated individuals as
>>> soon as we are confident of low virus prevalence on campus.” Despite
>>> cases remaining low for most of the semester, the administration
>>> maintained the testing requirement and never explained what criteria
>>> would need to be met to drop it. Similarly, the administration has
>>> declined to say when, or even if, the indoor mask mandate might end.
>>>
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>>> SCOTUS Should Nix Biden’s Vaccine Mandates
>>> So long as Cornell continues to test asymptomatic, vaccinated students,
>>> it is likely to detect enough cases to justify maintaining its
>>> restrictions. (And the claim that these restrictions work is designed to
>>> be unfalsifiable: If cases are low, the administration says it’s because
>>> the restrictions are working; if cases are high, they say it’s because
>>> students aren’t following the restrictions enough. Either way, the
>>> question of whether the restrictions actually work is never answered.)
>>> The new variants of Covid are extremely transmissible. Many
>>> well-vaccinated localities (including Tompkins County) are recording
>>> their highest case rates of the pandemic. Cornell, like many other
>>> institutions, is struggling to change its outlook to reflect the new
>>> reality.

>>>
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>>> A close examination of Cornell’s policies reveals how little sense they
>>> make. First, Cornell has been adamant that little to no transmission is
>>> occurring in classroom environments. It claims the vast majority of
>>> transmission is from off-campus gatherings. So it makes little sense to
>>> force students and faculty to suffer through masked classes all day all
>>> so they can pack together unmasked in bars, restaurants, and private
>>> residences.
>>>
>>>
>>> Second, our testing policies make little sense. This year, vaccinated
>>> students must test once per week, a frequency that fails to detect cases
>>> early, but also finds enough cases to justify maintaining the
>>> restrictions. Many students who test positive do not even realize they
>>> are infected and most fear the consequences of testing positive far more
>>> than the disease itself. Given the proliferation of mild cases among the
>>> vaccinated, some institutions, such as the National Football League, are
>>> coming to the obvious conclusion that, at this point, testing
>>> asymptomatic, vaccinated people causes more harm than good.
>>>
>>> Third, Cornell has used Covid cases as an excuse to cancel events that
>>> are safe to hold. For example, the administration announced that the
>>> outdoor homecoming weekend fireworks show would be canceled, even though
>>> that weekend’s football game would proceed at full capacity. The
>>> administration did not even attempt an explanation of how this made any
>>> sense.
>>>
>>>
>>> So far, Cornell’s response to its outbreak has been to mandate the
>>> booster for the spring semester, doubling down on the same policies that
>>> have thus far failed. Considering that boosted individuals still
>>> regularly test positive, it’s very difficult to see the booster changing
>>> anything. Ultimately, no level of vaccination will produce the
>>> Covid-free environment the administration desires. The initial
>>> vaccination mandate was sold as a tool that would allow for a return to
>>> normal, but the mask mandate and testing requirement remained. It seems
>>> unlikely that Cornell will be lifting those requirements anytime soon,
>>> no matter how mild student cases are or how many doses of vaccine
>>> students receive.
>>>
>>> The coming semester will mark the beginning of year three of Covid.
>>> Soon, very few students on campus will even remember a time before the
>>> virus. Because of case-centric policies that ignore the minimal risk
>>> Covid poses to vaccinated, mostly young, people, college students are
>>> facing the near-permanent diminution of their college experience.
>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, at
>> Cornell & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/bWBK5pgQHWw/m/nyxxyVAEAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10367323/Anorexic-woman-dead-doctors-failed-monitor-condition-lockdown-inquest-hears.html
>>>
>>>
>>> A concerned friend found Louise Cooper, 44, dead at home after forcing entry
>>> Inquest into her death found she died from complications caused by anorexia
>>> Coroner has filed Prevention of Future Deaths report after care concerns
>>> raised
>>> Report found she was not monitored by medics during the national lockdown
>>> By KATIE FEEHAN FOR MAILONLINE
>>>
>>> PUBLISHED: 06:42 EST, 4 January 2022 | UPDATED: 06:42 EST, 4 January 2022
>>>
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>>> An anorexic woman was found dead at home after doctors failed to monitor
>>> her condition during lockdown, an inquest heard.
>>>
>>> Louise Cooper, 44, died from severe malnutrition after suffering from an
>>> eating disorder 'for many years' and had an 'extremely low' body mass
>>> index (BMI), the hearing was told.
>>>
>>> A friend forced entry to her home while trying to deliver some shopping
>>> after failing to make contact and discovered she had died on her bed.
>>>
>>>
>>> The inquest held last month found that an administrative error meant
>>> Louise did not receive the monitoring she was expected to receive during
>>> the 2020 lockdown which had also impacted her treatment.
>>>
>>> The court found that had she received that monitoring as envisaged,
>>> there was a good chance she would not have died when she did.
>>>
>>> A Prevention of Future Deaths report which has now been filed by Senior
>>> Coroner Alan Wilson, noted that before her death, Louise told friends
>>> 'all of the mechanisms that she had for coping with her condition' were
>>> removed during lockdown.
>>>
>>> The report has been sent to the Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS
>>> Foundation Trust, the Blackpool Clinical Commission Group and the Fylde
>>> & Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group who must respond with actions taken.
>>>
>>> The coroner heard Louise, described as 'thoughtful, caring and
>>> intelligent', had been admitted to hospital on a number of occasions as
>>> part of her treatment for anorexia.
>>>
>>> Pictured: Louise Cooper, 44, was found dead at home after doctors failed
>>> to monitor her anorexia during lockdown, a coroner heard as he filed a
>>> prevention of future deaths report +2
>>> Pictured: Louise Cooper, 44, was found dead at home after doctors failed
>>> to monitor her anorexia during lockdown, a coroner heard as he filed a
>>> prevention of future deaths report
>>>
>>> She was last discharged in July 2019 after which time she received care
>>>from an eating disorder service until January 2020.
>>>
>>> The coroner stated: 'Louise knew that the clinical psychologist with
>>> whom she had worked over a number of years was due to go on maternity leave.
>>>
>>> 'She did not wish to work with any other members of the Eating Disorder
>>> Service team.'
>>>
>>> She was then discharged from the eating disorder service on the
>>> understanding she would be monitored by her GP.
>>>
>>> At the time, her body mass index (BMI) was at 12.5. Anything below 15 is
>>> considered extreme anorexia and adults are considered underweight if
>>> they are below 18.5.
>>>
>>> Charity: 'This tragic case highlights need for urgent support'
>>> Around 1.25 million people in the UK suffer from an eating disorder,
>>> according to Beat, the national charity which offers a support helpline
>>> and aims to raise awareness and campaign for better services.
>>>
>>> Tom Quinn, Director of External Affairs at Beat, said: 'The pandemic has
>>> had a devastating impact on people with eating disorders with increased
>>> isolation leading to more people developing eating disorders; and for
>>> many who were already struggling Covid-19 and the resulting lockdown has
>>> led to their illness becoming even more severe.
>>>
>>> 'This tragic case highlights the urgent need to ensure there is enough
>>> support in the community for people with eating disorders, and that GP
>>> surgeries are effective in carrying out medical monitoring of
>>> individuals at risk.'
>>>
>>> If you are worried about yourself or a loved one, the Beat helpline 0808
>>> 801 0677 is open 365 days a year.
>>>
>>>
>>> While the GP surgery in Blackpool was notified, an administrative issue
>>> meant 'the need for Louise to be monitored was not appreciated', the
>>> coroner found.
>>>
>>> The report added: 'During the weeks preceding Louise's death, her health
>>> went into further decline. This was in part contributed to by the
>>> coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 which left her more isolated.
>>>
>>> 'Having last exchanged text messages with Louise on May 15, 2020, a
>>> friend attended her home address at approximately 12.30pm on May 16,
>>> 2020 to deliver some shopping as previously arranged.
>>>
>>> 'Unable to obtain a reply he forced entry and he found Louise to be
>>> deceased on her bed in the rear bedroom.'
>>>
>>> Recording a narrative conclusion at an inquest on December 17, the
>>> coroner said: 'Louise Cooper's condition had not been monitored by
>>> medical professionals by the time she died on May 16, 2020 as a result
>>> of complications of her previously diagnosed anorexia nervosa.'
>>>
>>> In his subsequent report, Mr Wilson noted a number of concerns regarding
>>> the care Louise received.
>>>
>>> He said: 'It is reported that she stated to friends that the nationwide
>>> lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic had removed all of the mechanisms
>>> that she had for coping with her condition.
>>>
>>> 'A trust review would later find that as Louise was self-isolating due
>>> to Covid, this may have impacted upon her mental and physical wellbeing
>>> due to reduced social contacts.
>>>
>>> 'Louise did not receive the monitoring she was expected to receive
>>> during 2020.
>>>
>>> 'The court found that had she received that monitoring as envisaged,
>>> there was a good chance she would not have died when she did, but was
>>> unable to say that she would have survived.'
>>>
>>> The report noted that as part of her care Louise received one-to-one
>>> support whereby a health professional would visit her once a week and
>>> sit with her while she ate a meal.
>>>
>>> Louise's father said during the hearing that had this support continued
>>> then the outcome might have been different.
>>>
>>> The coroner added: 'There will be many patients such as Louise who
>>> appear to make minimal if any improvement in a hospital setting but who
>>> may benefit - according to the clinicians treating them - from sustained
>>> supported eating.
>>>
>>> 'If that option is not available, these patients may be left with no
>>> realistic chance of any meaningful improvement.'
>>>
>>> Pictured: Louise, who worked for Impact Computing, was described by
>>> colleagues as a 'very thoughtful, caring, intelligent and determined
>>> individual who always put others before herself +2
>>> Pictured: Louise, who worked for Impact Computing, was described by
>>> colleagues as a 'very thoughtful, caring, intelligent and determined
>>> individual who always put others before herself
>>>
>>> Both the Department of Health and Social Care and Gillian Keegan MP have
>>> also been sent a copy of the report.
>>>
>>> A spokesperson for the Department for Health and Social Care said the
>>> department would respond to the report in due course.
>>>
>>> The coroner requires a response, including details of proposed changes
>>> or improvements within 56 days.
>>>
>>> A spokesperson for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
>>> said: 'We would like to offer our condolences to Louise Cooper's family
>>> at this difficult time.
>>>
>>> 'We have received a copy of the Regulation 28 report and will work to
>>> implement any recommendations that have been outlined.'
>>>
>>> Bosses at Impact Computing, where Louise worked in the finance and admin
>>> department, paid tribute to her following her death back in May 2020.
>>>
>>> 'Today our company mourns the loss of Louise Cooper, who sadly passed
>>> away this Saturday the 16th of May 2020,' the company posted on Facebook.
>>>
>>> 'Louise worked in our finance and admin department and was instrumental
>>> in the company's growth during the long period that she worked with us.
>>>
>>> 'Louise was a very thoughtful, caring, intelligent and determined
>>> individual who always put others before herself.
>>>
>>> 'She fought hard to address the injustices she saw in this world in an
>>> effort to help as many people as she could throughout her life. She will
>>> be sorely missed by us all.'
>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-60023560
>>>
>>>
>>> Retired GP broke Covid rules to hug bereaved woman at clinic
>>> Published2 hours ago

>>> Share
>>> Related Topics
>>> Coronavirus pandemic

>>> Dr Prit Buttar
>>> IMAGE SOURCE,DR PRIT BUTTAR
>>> Image caption,
>>> Dr Prit Buttar's post has generated hundreds of responses from people
>>> with their own stories
>>> A retired GP says he has been "humbled" by the response to a social
>>> media post on why he broke Covid rules to hug a bereaved woman at a
>>> vaccine clinic.
>>>
>>> Dr Prit Buttar's Twitter thread has generated hundreds of responses and
>>> thousands of likes and retweets.
>>>
>>> He said he had been prompted to post by the political row surrounding
>>> gatherings at 10 Downing Street.
>>>
>>> Dr Buttar said that showed a "huge disconnection" from the lives of
>>> ordinary people.
>>>
>>> He retired to near Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway in 2016 but
>>> worked part-time in practices across the region until 2019.
>>>
>>> However, he volunteered to assist - helping to set up local Covid hubs -
>>> when the coronavirus pandemic began a year later.

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.
>>> View original tweet on Twitter

>>> He told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme why he
>>> decided to breach social distancing regulations.
>>>
>>> "This was just under a year ago," he said.
>>>
>>> "I was working in one of the vaccine clinics and one of the reception
>>> staff came through and asked if we could fit in somebody who should have
>>> come a few days before but had missed her appointment.
>>>
>>> "Of course, we said that's fine and when she came in - this was a lady
>>> in her late 60s or early 70s, I can't remember the details now - she was
>>> so apologetic that she had wasted an appointment and apologised again
>>> and again and we reassured her."
>>>
>>> He said they had told the woman someone else would have used the slot
>>> she had missed and then she had explained why she had not attended.
>>>
>>> Vaccination
>>> IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
>>> Image caption,
>>> Dr Buttar was working at a vaccination clinic when he decided to hug the
>>> woman
>>> "She and her husband had moved to Scotland just immediately before the
>>> pandemic broke and as soon as they arrived in Scotland, her husband
>>> discovered that he had cancer," said Dr Buttar.
>>>
>>> "She had cared for him through the first lockdown and through the summer
>>> that followed and he had died shortly before her appointment to come to
>>> see us.
>>>
>>> "Because her son lived in England and his wife had Covid, he was unable
>>> to come up to be with her."
>>>
>>> He said that meant she had had to deal with the death of her husband
>>> having had little chance to establish a friend network in the area.
>>>
>>> "This poor woman was very, very much alone," he said.
>>>
>>> "And I just took the decision that this was an occasion where I was
>>> going to break the rules, and I leaned forward and embraced her.
>>>
>>> "This poor person just dissolved into tears and as she sobbed, she told
>>> me that I was the first person who had embraced her since her husband
>>> had died."
>>>
>>> 'Tremendous fortitude'
>>> He explained why he had taken to social media to share his experience.
>>>
>>> "I posted on Twitter about this just to make the point that, you know,
>>> ordinary people dealt with their loss and their loneliness with
>>> tremendous fortitude and resignation and stoicism and what a contrast to
>>> the behaviour of the prime minister and his entourage," he said.
>>>
>>> Dr Buttar said many people had responded to the story.
>>>
>>> "Everyone in the thread who said they'd broken the rules had done so in
>>> order to help somebody else, not because they wanted to have a party,"
>>> he said.
>>>
>>> "The other thread of it was the people who hadn't broken the rules who
>>> had watched loved ones die over an iPad and now bitterly regretted that
>>> they hadn't taken that moment just to say goodbye to their loved one.
>>>
>>> "One of the universal comments that I have seen when I've looked at the
>>> thread from people is that the gulf between everyday experiences and the
>>> behaviour of the prime minister is so vast.
>>>
>>> "This is not something for which an apology - a promise to do better -
>>> will ever suffice."
>>>
>>> Boris Johnson admitted at Prime Minister's Questions last week that he
>>> had joined colleagues for drinks in the Downing Street garden on 20 May
>>> 2020 for around 25 minutes, to thank them for their hard work during the
>>> pandemic, but had "believed implicitly" it was a work event.
>>>
>>> He apologised for his handling of the event, saying he understood
>>> people's "rage".
>>>
>>> Civil servant Sue Gray has been appointed to investigate allegations of
>>> parties held at Downing Street while the UK was in lockdown due to Covid.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://ethicsalarms.com/2022/01/23/the-pandemic-post-i-never-wrote/
>>>
>>>
>>> The Pandemic Post I Never Wrote
>>> JANUARY 23, 2022 / JACK MARSHALL
>>>
>>> [This post is dedicated to Michael Ejercito.]
>>>
>>> For months, veteran prolific Ethics Alarms commenter Michael Ejercito
>>> peppered the blog with various versions of the same question: “When are
>>> you going to finish “The Pandemic Creates a Classic and Difficult Ethics
>>> Conflict…”? He was referring to this post, which went up way back in May
>>> of 2020. The rest of the title was “…But The Resolution Is Clear.” It
>>> was designated as Part I, with a Part II supposedly coming soon that
>>> would explain what that resolution was and why. It never arrived.
>>>
>>> Stalling, I posted a Prelude to Part II. It was so long and covered so
>>> much territory that I doubt anyone read it all the way to the end
>>> (except Michael). It didn’t inspire a single comment. Here’s a precis...
>>>
>>> No, I am not satisfied with the current draft of Part II, but I trust
>>> it’s obvious what the resolution referred to is. The lock-down has to
>>> end, and before vaccines, cures, or adequate medicine are available….It
>>> is quite striking: the arguments for continuing the lockdown
>>> indefinitely are almost entirely authored by progressives, and are
>>> without exception characterized by bad logic, emotionalism, manipulated
>>> facts, biased analysis, fearmongering, and suspect motives. The majority
>>> of the arguments for opening up the economy soon are markedly more
>>> logical, unemotional, and based on sound statistics and analysis…
>>>
>>> It is not “plausible” that the pandemic will continue forever; pandemics
>>> don’t. And indeed, if they did, it would be an irrefutable reason to
>>> open up now. Freedom has always had a price…
>>>
>>> …As I discussed in Part I, health experts focus almost exclusively on
>>> health. Health is not the only priority involved in the policy
>>> trade-offs involving the lockdown. The health experts don’t care about
>>> the other issues—literally, they don’t care—because it isn’t their job
>>> to care about the economy, or unemployment, or ruined careers and
>>> diminished quality of life. They should care about increased suicides
>>> during depressions, and inadequate preventative health care, and the
>>> deaths those and other consequences of the lockdown will cause, [or]…the
>>> U.S. having a catastrophic expansion of its national debt… !
>>>
>>> …Right: nobody knows how it will play out. We do know, however, how it
>>> will play out if we lock down the economy much longer, never mind until
>>> there’s a vaccine…On this 75th Anniversary of V-E Day, it shouldn’t be
>>> hard to understand that lost lives can be acceptable when the most
>>> rational, responsible policies involve unavoidable risk.
>>>
>>> But “Part II,” when it arrived six months later, still didn’t deliver
>>> the promised resolution. Except for the (again, long) introduction, in
>>> fact, it was a dud, but a dud that illustrated the problem with the
>>> topic. I wrote about the non-media coverage of a Johns Hopkins study
>>> that seemed to indicate that the despite the daily lists of pandemic
>>> deaths, the total deaths had not varied significantly from the previous
>>> year. As it turned out, the study was flawed, and its conclusions were
>>> not supported, though the Ethics Alarms indictment of the bias and
>>> partisan agenda indicated by the news media’s lack of coverage still
>>> applies.
>>>
>>> So what was going to be Part II was then going to be Part III, and again
>>> stalling, I wrote a prelude to that as well. This one was mercifully
>>> short, and endorsed a statement by then President Trump as the Ethics
>>> Quote of the Century. He had said via Twitter in October, “Don’t be
>>> afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.” The post concluded,
>>>
>>> “President Trump is among the Americans I would view most unlikely to
>>> utter an ethical statement, much less a great one, but this was a great
>>> statement, essential, inspirational, and right. I assume this is
>>> sufficient notice of what the conclusion of Part III will be.”
>>>
>>> But there was no Part III, much to Michael’s disappointment and annoyance.
>>>
>>>
>>> In May of 2020, my conclusion regarding what we should have done about
>>> the pandemic is exactly the same as it is today. The only difference is
>>> that my resolution was politically and logically impossible in May of
>>> 2020, and thus not ethical. (What is impossible isn’t ethical, it’s just
>>> ethics static).
>>>
>>> We should not have closed the schools. We should not have shut down the
>>> economy. We should not have been subjected to the relentless
>>> fearmongering by the media in its efforts to ensure slavish obedience to
>>> the panicky edicts of power-mad governors, mayors, and CDC officials.
>>> The fact that these measures also had the tertiary salutary side effect
>>> of making it easier to push Donald Trump out of office by blaming him
>>> for the economic and social secondary side effect of them was, no doubt,
>>> considered a bonus.
>>>
>>> The United States of America allowed its health experts who had, we now
>>> know, no idea what they were dealing with then and little more now, and
>>> who were driven as much by politics as “science,” force perhaps
>>> permanent damage on all levels of society because it proved impossible
>>> to do otherwise. What made this worse is that it was done in the name of
>>> priorities that reversed those that made the existence of the United
>>> States possible, and that sustained its excellence and success for
>>> centuries.
>>>
>>> In my first draft of the Post I Never Wrote, I looked at the risks
>>> undertaken by the founders of the nation—not The Founders but the
>>> ordinary, courageous, sometimes desperate people who settled the land
>>> between the continents. If they had begun with the fearfulness and
>>> aversion to risk of their perpetually terrified descendants who now wear
>>> cloth mask talismans alone in their automobiles, they would have stayed
>>> in Europe. They would have never rebelled against England. They would
>>> have definitely never moved West, an adventure that cost the lives of
>>> 20-25% of the families that tried. They would not have fought to keep
>>> the south from seceding. They would not have fought Hitler and Japan;
>>> they would have negotiated for concessions and to Hell with Europe. They
>>> would definitely not have risked nuclear war with the USSR: Better Red
>>> than Dead after all.
>>>
>>> In the quest for liberty, which included, they believed, great economic
>>> opportunity, better lives for their children, and strong, unique nation
>>> that celebrated what its citizens could do if left alone to do it, they
>>> took far worse risks than braving a China-bred virus that had a death
>>> rate of less than 1% for those infected beneath the age of 35, and that,
>>> when it did kill, overwhelmingly killed the old, obese and unhealthy.
>>>
>>> In 2020 I started listing all of the ways the fear of the Wuhan virus
>>> was ruining almost everything, just as our enemies foreign and domestic
>>> would have wished. I makes me sick to have to feature Bill Maher
>>> approvingly in the video above: he’s the same toxic creep who said on
>>> the same show three years ago that it would be worth destroying the
>>> economy to get rid of Trump. The economy, I guess, but not the supply
>>> chain, art, sports, movies, theater, education, the mental and emotional
>>> health of children, law enforcement, trust in each other, the national
>>> spirit, what remained of the credibility of journalism, support for due
>>> process and the rule of law, and everything else, right, Bill?
>>>
>>> There were various studies by economists of the “value” of each human
>>> life in terms of realistic costs that society could responsibly bear,
>>> but in an era when Obama’s “if it saves one life” nonsense is applauded
>>> as compassionate and profound, I decided they were futile to mention.
>>>
>>> The course we were taking nauseated me in May, 2020, and I was certain
>>> that it was a tragic, disastrous mistake. I was also certain that my
>>> position would be characterized by many readers as a brutal “let the old
>>> and sick people die” shrug. Would I be willing to set that fate for
>>> myself to avoid the consequences the lockdown has had?, I expected many
>>> to ask, eyebrow raised in skepticism.
>>>
>>> And my answer would be “Absolutely.” Of course absolutely. I never had
>>> the opportunity to fight for my country and its values, but my father
>>> did. He and his whole generation put their lives at risk so that his
>>> unborn children and whole unborn generations could experience and
>>> improve upon what our brave ancestors built for us. If I had to die in
>>> the last third of my life so that children could see each other smile
>>> and have the chances I did to grow up learning from face to face
>>> encounters rather than a damn Zoom screen, not to mention feeling that I
>>> had the freedom to succeed or fail without being hobbled by the
>>> government, I would regard it as a price gladly paid. I would shuffle
>>> off this second, if it would undo all the damage cowardice, ignorance,
>>> flawed expertise and abusive power has done to the nation I love.
>>>
>>> You don’t believe that? Bite me. It’s true.
>>>
>>> Donald Trump doesn’t understand much, but I think he understood how
>>> disastrous the reaction to the virus was and would be. He also knew, I
>>> feel sure, that this was a situation where, in the words of my father’s
>>> favorite obituary,
>>>
>>> “He was right, dead right, as he sped along
>>> But he’s just as dead as if he were wrong.”
>>>
>>> The news media and Democrats were going to blame every death on him, no
>>> matter what the President did. If he did nothing, if he fought a
>>> lock-down, and impeded the efforts to close schools, which anyone should
>>> have been able to see would cause a chain reaction of unemployment, the
>>> accusation would be that he deliberately let people die. Joe Biden and
>>> others repeatedly claimed that Trump had had the power to stop the
>>> pandemic at our borders, and had “blood on his hands” even while he was
>>> capitulating to Dr, Fauci’s “let’s see what the dart hits” orders and
>>> advice base on “science.” Now Joe Biden, by his own standards, has more
>>> blood on his hands than Trump did.
>>>
>>> Condign justice.
>>>
>>> And here we are. I’m not a gloom and doom guy, so I’m not inclined to
>>> say all has been lost. But nearly all will be lost if there isn’t a
>>> national realization that we screwed ourselves, our children and future
>>> generations in 2020 far more certainly and unnecessarily than an our
>>> non-response to climate change speculation has or perhaps even will.
>>> When I read that New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul compared
>>> children wearing face masks in schools to the requirement that they wear
>>> shoes, I felt like I had seen the Grim Reaper smile
>>>
>>> “My daughter had a meltdown about having to put sneakers on to go to
>>> kindergarten,” the governor said yesterday during a press conference
>>> after being asked about a timeline for removing mask mandates in
>>> schools. “She got used to wearing sneakers in school. They adapt better
>>> than adults do.”
>>>
>>> This is what we let the virus do to us. I knew that it was the wrong
>>> course, but I also knew, given the erosion and rot in the American
>>> spirit, that no other course was possible.
>>>
>>> That’s why I never finished the post, Michael.
>>>
>>> I’m sorry.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> New York & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://thepostmillennial.com/spotify-covid19-content-advisories-podcast-episodes-combat-misinformation
>>>
>>>
>>> BREAKING: Spotify will add COVID-19 content advisories to podcast
>>> episodes to 'combat misinformation'
>>> In an effort to "combat misinformation," Spotify will now add content
>>> advisories to podcast episodes that discuss COVID-19, following growing
>>> criticism of Joe Rogan's popular podcast.
>>>
>>> ADVERTISEMENT
>>>
>>> BREAKING: Spotify will add COVID-19 content advisories to podcast
>>> episodes to 'combat misinformation'
>>> Hannah Nightingale
>>> Hannah Nightingale
>>> Washington DC
>>> January 30, 2022 1:46 PM
>>> 2 Mins Reading
>>> Following growing criticisms of the "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast and
>>> its COVID-19 discussions, Spotify announced Sunday it will be adding
>>> content advisories to podcast episodes that discuss the coronavirus.
>>> ADVERTISEMENT
>>>
>>> According to The Verge, the advisory would link to the platform’s
>>> COVID-19 hub, which contains up-to-date information about the pandemic.
>>>
>>> In an effort to "combat misinformation," the platform will also be
>>> making its COVID-19 content policy and general platform rules publicly
>>> available on its site, saying any content creator who breaks the rules
>>> may have the content removed, and repeated violations could result in
>>> account suspension or banning.
>>> ADVERTISEMENT
>>>
>>> According to the policy obtained by The Verge, Spotify prohibits content
>>> that says "AIDS, COVID-19, cancer or other serious life threatening
>>> diseases are a hoax or not real." The platform also bans content that
>>> encourages the public "to purposely get infected with COVID-19 in order
>>> to build immunity" and doesn’t allow content that suggests vaccines "are
>>> designed to cause death."
>>> However, a line which is present in the internal document is not there
>>> in the version available on Spotify's website, which prohibits
>>> "Suggesting that wearing a mask will cause the wearer imminent,
>>> life-threatening physical harm."
>>> "You've had a lot of questions over the last few days about our platform
>>> policies and the lines we have drawn between what is acceptable and what
>>> is not," Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said in a blog post published Sunday.
>>> "We have had rules in place for many years but admittedly, we haven’t
>>> been transparent around the policies that guide our content more
>>> broadly...Based on the feedback over the last several weeks, it’s become
>>> clear to me that we have an obligation to do more to provide balance and
>>> access to widely-accepted information from the medical and scientific
>>> communities guiding us through this unprecedented time," the Spotify
>>> executive added.
>>> ADVERTISEMENT
>>> The move comes after numerous singers have pulled their music from the
>>> platform in protest of Rogan's podcast, with criticism skyrocketing
>>> after the popular podcaster had alleged mRNA vaccine creator Dr. Robert
>>> Malone on as a guest.
>>> Joni Mitchell announced on her website on Friday night that she was
>>> removing her music, writing: "Irresponsible people are spreading lies
>>> that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil
>>> Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue."
>>> "I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about
>>> vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the
>>> disinformation being spread by them, Please act on this immediately
>>> today and keep me informed of the time schedule," Neil Young wrote.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
>HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://thecovidworld.com/israel-is-now-1-in-covid-cases-per-capita-proving-all-the-draconian-measures-are-utterly-worthless/
>>>
>>> THE COVID WORLD
>>> Because Everyone's Story Should Be Heard
>>>
>>> Latest News
>>> The Shell Game Continues: Moderna’s ‘FDA Approved’ Vax Is Not Available
>>> To Americans, And It’s Not Scrutinized For Omicron |
>>> We Need Your Help (End Of Month Fundraising Drive!) |
>>> Italian Teacher In CRITICAL CONDITION After Setting Himself on Fire In
>>> Protest Of The Country’s Vaccine Mandate |
>>> Lukashenko: Vaccine Mafia Is Dividing Markets And Sorting People |
>>> Law of Unintended Consequences Series – Disinfectant Spray Causing Harm |
>>> The Shell Game Continues: Moderna’s ‘FDA Approved’ Vax Is Not Available
>>> To Americans, And It’s Not Scrutinized For Omicron |
>>> We Need Your Help (End Of Month Fundraising Drive!) |
>>> Italian Teacher In CRITICAL CONDITION After Setting Himself on Fire In
>>> Protest Of The Country’s Vaccine Mandate |
>>> Lukashenko: Vaccine Mafia Is Dividing Markets And Sorting People |
>>> Law of Unintended Consequences Series – Disinfectant Spray Causing Harm |
>>>
>>>
>>> FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedIn
>>> The COVID World post date: January 27th, 2022
>>>
>>> By JD Heyes
>>>
>>> Despite the fact that Israel has implemented some of the most draconian
>>> COVID-19 pandemic measures in the world, the country is now number one
>>> in the world in new cases, according to local reports.
>>>
>>>
>>> According to the Times of Israel, a leading health expert in the country
>>> said that 0.6% of the population was testing positive daily for the
>>> virus — most likely the latest variant, omicron, which is highly
>>> contagious but also very mild.
>>>
>>> Prof. Eran Segal of The Weizmann Institute said at that rate, Israel
>>> currently leads the world in per capita infection rates, even though the
>>> population is required to get the latest version of vaccines available
>>> and despite heavy quarantine and lockdown regimes.
>>>
>>> However, Segal tried to excuse the high infection rate:
>>>
>>> But Segal noted it was likely that Israel was not truly the country with
>>> the highest infection rate. Rather, he attributed the figures to Israel
>>> being a leading country in the number of tests performed each day,
>>> relative to its population size.
>>>
>>> Israel is followed in the highest daily cases worldwide ranking by
>>> Mongolia, Peru, Canada and Georgia.
>>>
>>> The fact is, either you’re the number one country, per capita, in daily
>>> infections — or you’re not. And right now, Israel is No. 1, period, no
>>> matter how you look at the data.
>>>
>>>
>>> But instead of realizing that this novel coronavirus is not the
>>> world-ender that the world has been propagandized to believe, Israeli
>>> Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is quadrupling down on idiot policies
>>> that have not worked yet and are never going to work (because viruses
>>> virus — that’s what they do and nothing humans do will stop them from
>>> spreading).
>>>
>>> The PM announced Thursday that mandatory quarantine for schoolchildren
>>> who were exposed to coronavirus carriers would be scrapped entirely.
>>> According to the plan, starting next Thursday, children up to the age of
>>> 18 will no longer need to isolate after being exposed.
>>>
>>> “Instead, all students — both vaccinated and unvaccinated — will need to
>>> conduct two antigen tests a week — on Sundays and Wednesdays — and
>>> present negative results when entering educational institutions.
>>> Children who test positive for COVID-19 will still need to isolate until
>>> testing negative.”
>>>
>>> Bennett said that the government will begin distributing “millions” of
>>> test kits so that testing can be done at home, an endeavor that is
>>> costing tens of millions of dollars to carry out.
>>>
>>> Bennett’s order comes as 146,000 school-aged children were already in
>>> quarantine due to testing positive for the virus, while another 142,000
>>> were forced into quarantine because they had been ‘exposed’ to the virus
>>> (which means nothing considering the virus is literally everywhere).
>>>
>>> Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said:
>>>
>>> “Wherever we can make it easier for the public, we will. We are taking
>>> Omicron seriously, but also looking at the bigger picture.”
>>>
>>>
>>> Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz
>>> Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton called Bennett’s order “a brave
>>> decision,” while noting further that “it would have been easier to close
>>> the education system, but our duty is to save every boy and girl” from
>>> the damage of repeated quarantines — even while ordering them into
>>> repeated quarantines.
>>>
>>> These lunatics literally have no self-awareness at all when it comes to
>>> their pandemic decisions.
>>>
>>> But that’s not all. Regarding the overall state of the pandemic, Segal
>>> predicted that the current outbreak sweeping the country will end soon.
>>>
>>> “We are very close to the height, or even at the height of the Omicron
>>> wave.”
>>>
>>> What about the next variant? And the next? And the ones after that?
>>>
>>> Why haven’t any of these measures ever been implemented for influenza,
>>> which sweeps the globe annually, showing up as a different strain?
>>>
>>> Viruses… are going to virus. ‘The science’ has shown us this for
>>> centuries. Why civilized democracies can’t seem to understand this
>>> elementary scientific principle when it comes to COVID-19 is mind-boggling.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Israel & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/Of4_Zmeyiuk/m/6kKjH2kPAQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:

>>> http://jonathanturley.org/2022/02/02/study-lockdowns-did-little-to-combat-covid-mortality
>>>
>>>
>>> Study: Lockdowns Did Little to Combat Covid Mortality
>>>
>>>
>>> A new study from Johns Hopkins University found that the lockdowns in
>>> 2020 did little to combat Covid-19 mortality. Given the huge economic
>>> and personal costs of these lockdowns, the study obviously raises
>>> questions about the basis for these extreme measures. However, as will
>>> come as no surprise to anyone on this blog, I view the study as much a
>>> statement against the censorship of commentators and researchers who
>>> were banned or attacked for questioning the lockdowns. Once again, it
>>> would have been better for public health to have this debate than to
>>> shut down any opposing views in the name of science.
>>>
>>>
>>> The researchers declared “We find no evidence that lockdowns, school
>>> closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable
>>> effect on COVID-19 mortality.”
>>>
>>> The study refutes the claim of researchers at the Imperial College
>>> London, for example, who predicted that such steps could reduce death
>>> rates by up to 98%.
>>>
>>> They did find that “closing nonessential businesses seems to have had
>>> some effect (reducing COVID-19 mortality by 10.6%), which is likely to
>>> be related to the closure of bars.”
>>>
>>> The most striking aspect of this study is that is part of a discussion
>>> that we never really had. Social media companies were banning or tagging
>>> anyone expressing doubts over such measures.
>>>
>>> We have seen various journalistic and scientific figures banned for
>>> expressing skepticism over pandemic claims from the origins of the virus
>>> to the efficacy of certain treatments. For example, when many people
>>> raised the possibility that the virus may have been released from the
>>> nearby Chinese virology lab (rather than the “wet market” theory), they
>>> were denounced as virtually a lunatic fringe. Even objections to the
>>> bias of authors of a report dismissing the lab theory were ridiculed.
>>> The New York Times reporter covering the area called it “racist” and
>>> implausible. Now, even W.H.O. admits that the lab theory is possible
>>> and Biden officials are admitting that it is indeed plausible.
>>>
>>> The same is true with the debate over the efficacy of masks. For over a
>>> year, some argued that the commonly used masks are ineffective to
>>> protect against the virus. Now, the CDC is warning that the masks do not
>>> appear to block these variants and even CNN’s experts are calling the
>>> cloth masks “little more than facial decorations.”
>>>
>>> Yet, the W.H.O. head is now embracing censorship as a means of combating
>>> the “infodemic.” There are also calls, including from the White House,
>>> for Spotify to ban or curtail Joe Rogan’s show for allowing dissenting
>>> views to be aired on Covid or its treatment.
>>>
>>> If there had not been such extensive censorship of dissenting
>>> viewpoints, there might have been more discussion on the costs and
>>> science behind the lockdowns. Instead, there was a chilling effect on
>>> such dissenting voices and anyone expressing doubts were labeled
>>> extremists or conspiracy theorists. Recently, for example, scientists
>>> have come forward to admit that they also suspected the Wuhan lab was
>>> the origin of virus but were silenced by the backlash at the CDC and
>>> universities.
>>>
>>> I do not know what the data will show on these issues and I readily
>>> recognize that, in the early days, many wanted to take the most
>>> protective course. However, we could have taken that course without
>>> actively seeking to censor or silence those who had doubts on these
>>> measures.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/ZVNVorySchw/m/d0mC1s8JBgAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/world/asia/hong-kong-covid-social-distancing.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DPDm4SiPsSGYyMvE7WZKMkZ9w10HGYQ9lOdbQoWv1-i_RYNE1kT0yko4CYkZIOIiM674KvW2d8l7T8YYcFyx64JG-oNLU4g7SloxONNDX3WK3d0XMgIAp6osMxd0WtjX1c2qbORbZq24F4jaohDs99FjcKdzDK66ezc2h2ONuMax7Y6gY8SrsZDWmVxYjAnupGJAZCClvGT2d94nI-4L5eONAXPaX9LH0waZa0wOVRWiEzctDfV9BmTJPUlr5qrbfMtRSPrcO1zP40H6xU16jWvLPhxMp8TRUZfWi3eAoH8w
>>>
>>>
>>> Hong Kong announces its toughest social-distancing rules yet as cases
>>> reach record highs.
>>>
>>> Waiting at a makeshift Covid-19 testing center in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
>>> Waiting at a makeshift Covid-19 testing center in Hong Kong on
>>> Tuesday.Credit...Lam Yik/Reuters
>>> By Austin Ramzy and Rebecca Robbins
>>> Feb. 8, 2022
>>> Updated 2:35 p.m. ET
>>> Hong Kong will institute its tightest social-distancing rules since the
>>> start of the pandemic to curb its largest coronavirus outbreak so far,
>>> as a wave of Omicron cases has raised questions about how long the city
>>> can continue its strict Covid-control policies.
>>>
>>> Hong Kong will require hair salons and places of worship to close for
>>> two weeks starting Thursday, and no more than two households will be
>>> allowed to meet in private, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive,
>>> said on Tuesday. Public gatherings will be limited to two people.
>>>
>>> Shopping malls, grocery stores and markets will join the list of public
>>> places where visitors must register with an official contact tracing
>>> app. People visiting those sites, which include restaurants, will have
>>> to prove they have been vaccinated. Fines for not following mandatory
>>> testing orders will be doubled to nearly $1,300.
>>>
>>> The city of 7.5 million has largely managed to avoid the worst of the
>>> pandemic, recording 213 Covid deaths over the past two years. But the
>>> spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant since late December
>>> now threatens to overwhelm Hong Kong’s aggressive contact tracing and
>>> quarantine efforts. Since last week it has set several daily highs for
>>> new case totals, with more than 600 added on Monday and again on Tuesday.
>>>
>>> ADVERTISEMENT
>>>
>>> Continue reading the main story
>>>
>>> The surging number of cases has forced the city to stop hospitalizing
>>> all Covid patients. On Tuesday it began sending some people with few or
>>> no symptoms to the government quarantine center at Penny’s Bay. And some
>>> close contacts who were previously required to go to Penny’s Bay will
>>> now be allowed to quarantine at home.
>>>
>>> Hong Kong Coronavirus Cases
>>> All time
>>> Last 90 days
>>> Feb. 2020
>>> Mar.
>>> Apr.
>>> May
>>> Jun.
>>> Jul.
>>> Aug.
>>> Sept.
>>> Oct.
>>> Nov.
>>> Dec.
>>> Jan.
>>> Feb. 2021
>>> Mar.
>>> Apr.
>>> May
>>> Jun.
>>> Jul.
>>> Aug.
>>> Sept.
>>> Oct.
>>> Nov.
>>> Dec.
>>> Jan.
>>> Feb. 2022
>>> 50
>>> 100
>>> 150 cases
>>> 7–day average
>>> Source: Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns
>>> Hopkins University. The daily average is calculated with data that was
>>> reported in the last seven days.
>>> Mrs. Lam has resisted suggestions that the latest wave of cases will
>>> force Hong Kong to abandon its strategy, which she calls “dynamic zero
>>> Covid.”
>>>
>>> “In our fight against the epidemic we need to stand by a philosophy,
>>> otherwise we will see measures being change all the time,” she said on
>>> Tuesday. “So at this moment, we will stand by the dynamic zero
>>> containment strategy.”
>>>
>>> The risk to older people is of particular concern, Mrs. Lam said,
>>> because less than half the population over age 70 have been vaccinated.
>>> “The risk is increasing because there are more cases in residential
>>> homes and among their workers,” she said.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> H.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/saEn3N2b3kk/m/RCOjewpWAQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://archive.vn/WrSEO
>>>
>>>
>>> ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters shut down third border crossing as Ottawa
>>> police warn of arrests ‘without a warrant’
>>>
>>> Listen to article
>>> 6 min
>>> Line of truckers block U.S.-Canada border for miles
>>> Video captured in Port Huron, Mich., on Feb. 8 showed a line of trucks
>>> stalled on the highway as protesters continued to block U.S.-Canada
>>> border crossings. (Reuters)
>>> By Amy Cheng, Jennifer Hassan and Miriam Berger
>>> Today at 6:11 a.m. EST|Updated today at 10:37 a.m. EST
>>>
>>>
>>> Police in Ottawa are warning that any protesters blocking streets for
>>> the self-described “Freedom Convoy” may be “arrested without a warrant,”
>>> as raucous protests against vaccine mandates and coronavirus
>>> restrictions blocked a third border crossing with the United States
>>> early Thursday.
>>> The protests, which have led to at least 23 arrests and 80 criminal
>>> investigations in the capital, are sparking debate among officials over
>>> how best to de-escalate the situation there and at U.S.-Canada border
>>> crossings, where blockades have disrupted the flow of goods and people.
>>> Some are warning that mass arrests could prove counterproductive or even
>>> lead to violence.
>>> Early Thursday, a convoy of trucks with passengers shouting “Freedom!”
>>> and “Fake news!” descended on Ottawa International Airport, causing
>>> traffic disruptions and delays.
>>> Soon afterward, police in Manitoba province said the typically bustling
>>> Emerson crossing into North Dakota was “shut down” after a convoy of
>>> vehicles and farm equipment blocked traffic heading both north and
south.
>>> “It is a criminal offence to obstruct, interrupt or interfere with the
>>> lawful use, enjoyment, or operation of property,” Ottawa police said in
>>> a news release issued Wednesday. “You must immediately cease further
>>> unlawful activity or you may face charges,” the police department told
>>> protesters.
>>> [‘Freedom Convoy’ in Canada inspires vaccine-mandate protests from New
>>> York to New Zealand]
>>> 'Freedom Convoy' creates frustration amid resolve in seized Ottawa
streets
>>> Residents express frustration over noise as the 'Freedom Convoy'
>>> occupies the streets of downtown Ottawa with one goal in mind: Make
>>> Trudeau resign. (Zoeann Murphy, James Cornsilk/The Washington Post)
>>> Police said those found to be taking part in criminal activity — which
>>> could include blocking streets or “assisting others in the blocking of
>>> streets” — could be arrested. Police are also giving notice that
>>> vehicles could be seized and possibly forfeited if people are convicted.
>>> Law enforcement officials are under pressure to use tougher measures to
>>> disperse demonstrations, including those that continue to clog traffic
>>> arteries between the United States and Canada. So far, two major ports
>>> of entry — the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario,
>>> and the Coutts crossing linking Montana to Alberta — have been closed or
>>> partially blocked.
>>> [Auto industry already feeling the pinch from Canadian bridge blockade]
>>> Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has been widely targeted by
>>> protesters denouncing his response to the pandemic, called the
>>> obstruction of border crossings an economic crisis. He tweeted that the
>>> blockades in Windsor and the capital, Ottawa, where a state of emergency
>>> was declared over the weekend, “must stop” — but he didn’t elaborate on
>>> how this could be achieved.
>>> The blockades, he said, “are endangering jobs, impeding trade,
>>> threatening the economy, and obstructing our communities.” Business
>>> groups and experts reported that the bridge blockades are hurting supply
>>> chains. Goods worth approximately $300 million cross the Ambassador
>>> Bridge every day.
>>> Despite the warning from Ottawa police, some local law enforcement
>>> officers seemed to acknowledge the fraught implications of mass arrests.
>>> “You can’t arrest your way out of the choices that people are making. …
>>> The best thing is for them to make the decision to leave,” a Royal
>>> Canadian Mounted Police superintendent in Alberta, Roberta McKale, told
>>> reporters Wednesday at one of the protest sites near Coutts. “And
>>> they’ve got to go.”
>>> Still, McKale said, asking the protesters to leave has so far not
>>> worked: “We’re going to have to use our enforcement options in order to
>>> have that happen.”
>>> Windsor’s mayor, Drew Dilkens, warned that arresting people could lead
>>> to violence, telling local outlets that Windsor police must be
>>> “calculated and appropriately balanced” in how they handle protesters.
>>> “At this time, our focus is on maintaining security and de-escalating
>>> the situation as much as possible,” he said during a news briefing.
>>> Some protesters believe that “they are fighting for a cause that is
>>> worth dying for,” Dilkens said. “That type of sentiment translates into
>>> different behaviors than any normal protests.”
>>> In Ottawa, where more than 1,000 tickets for offenses including
>>> excessive noise and red-light violations have been issued, municipal
>>> authorities are stepping up enforcement. They can now issue fines up to
>>> nearly $800 for setting fires or creating noise, a steep increase for
>>> those types of offenses, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
>>> [Here’s what you need to know about the ‘Freedom Convoy’ in Canada]
>>> The Ambassador Bridge is temporarily closed, while the delay at the
>>> Coutts land crossing is estimated at seven hours, according to Canada’s
>>> border service agency. Dilkens said in an interview Wednesday that local
>>> police have tried to keep at least one lane open in each direction on
>>> the Ambassador Bridge so that goods could be transported across the
>>> border while respecting people’s right to protest.
>>> The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is also monitoring a campaign
>>> in which truckers in the United States are potentially planning to block
>>> roads in major metropolitan areas in protest of vaccine mandates. The
>>> Super Bowl in Los Angeles on Sunday and President Biden’s State of the
>>> Union address March 1 could be affected.
>>> In New Zealand, an anti-vaccine rally outside Parliament in Wellington
>>> led to mass arrests, after crowds gathered to protest myriad reasons,
>>> including lockdown restrictions and alleged media corruption.
>>> “We stand with Ottawa,” read the message on the side of one truck at the
>>> scene, while others held signs attacking the media and calling the
>>> global health crisis “a plandemic.”
>>> [Canada’s capital is jammed, its border crossings are blockaded, and
>>> there’s no end in sight]
>>> The Wellington district commander, Superintendent Corrie Parnell, told
>>> reporters that 120 people were arrested Thursday as the protest there
>>> went into its third day.
>>> Similar demonstrations — seemingly energized by Canada’s convoy — have
>>> also been held in Australia, France, Alaska and across Europe in recent
>>> days.
>>> [Paris and Brussels to ban ‘Freedom Convoy’ inspired by Canadian
protest]
>>> As the protests drag on, concerns are growing for the number of children
>>> who have been present.
>>> About 25 percent of attendees inside some 400 trucks stationed at the
>>> scene are believed to be children, police say, which could complicate
>>> the ways in which officers respond to those protesting. Ottawa Police
>>> Deputy Steve Bell cited sanitation, noise levels and carbon monoxide
>>> fumes as some of the risks that children who are spending so much time
>>> inside the trucks could face.
>>> “It’s something that greatly concerns us.” Bell told reporters Tuesday,
>>> adding that the children could be “at risk during a police operation.”
>>> The Ottawa Police Service said Wednesday that it was aware of the
>>> welfare concerns and working with the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa
>>> to “ensure the safety” of the children present. The force said it would
>>> be sharing information with the CASO and that the organization “has a
>>> duty to investigate whenever there are allegations of abuse or neglect
>>> that suggest a child or youth may be in need of protection.”

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Ottawa & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/Au17R8Fu8bs/m/Fi-I4XqcAAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://reason.com/2022/02/27/snl-to-liberals-its-ok-to-question-nonsensical-mask-mandates/
>>>
>>>
>>> SNL to Liberals: It's OK To Question Nonsensical Mask Mandates
>>> Mocking COVID public health theater is finally going mainstream.
>>> ERIC BOEHM | 2.27.2022 1:40 PM
>>>
>>> Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditShare by emailPrint
>>> friendly versionCopy page URL
>>> SNLCOVID3
>>> John Mulaney and Kate McKinnon in the February 26 episode of "Saturday
>>> Night Live." (Screenshot from YouTube)
>>> The best Saturday Night Live sketches feel like funhouse-mirror versions
>>> of real life容choes of conversations or situations we've experienced,
>>> but with comedic exaggerations. I mean, who hasn't seen lobster on a
>>> menu in a diner and wondered: "Why?"
>>>
>>> The best sketch in last night's show, hosted by former SNL writer and
>>> recently out-of-rehab standup superstar John Mulaney, is a perfect
>>> example. It could have been yanked out of probably thousands of
>>> conversations around the country this week after the Centers for Disease
>>> Control and Prevention (CDC) finally loosened their guidelines for
>>> masking揚uidelines that have been used to justify all sorts of local and
>>> state polices that often make little sense. Like, say, the rules in D.C.
>>> and several other major cities requiring you to wear a mask to enter a
>>> restaurant even though you're going to take it off as soon as you sit
>>> down to eat.
>>>
>>>
>>> That's where the sketch begins, with six friends gathered for dinner.
>>> One of them, Keenan Thompson, is still wearing his mask when we join the
>>> group mid-conversation. After he removes it, fellow diner Heidi Gardner
>>> cautiously mentions an article she'd read suggesting that "mask mandates
>>> had, I don't know, little to no effect on COVID."
>>>
>>> "It's not like I'm anti-mask or anything," Gardner quickly clarifies, "I
>>> just sometimes wonder if any of the things we did actually helped."
>>>
>>> That sets off a chain reaction around the table, with each member of the
>>> group rest of the table reacting in exaggerated, GIF-tastic
>>> horror傭efore slowly, even painfully admitting that they, too, are
>>> questioning the effectiveness of the pandemic theater that we've endured

>>> over the past two years.
>>>
>>>
>>>

>>> It's an unexpectedly subversive sketch from a show that rarely aims its
>>> fire these days at the liberal political consensus. It's five minutes of
>>> saying aloud thoughts that a lot people have been condemning as off-limits.
>>>
>>> Kate McKinnon's character is "personally so relieved to be vaccinated"
>>> but then wonders aloud whether those who are vaccine-hesitant might not
>>> have a valid reason for refusing the shot? Mulaney timidly suggests that
>>> maybe "we"羊ead: the show's liberal audience揺ave been too quick to
>>> demand that the unvaccinated lose their jobs and get shunned from public
>>> life.
>>>
>>> From there, it becomes a rapid-fire unraveling of the logic behind much
>>> of what's happened in the past year. Outdoor dining? "Oh, you mean when
>>> they built a smaller restaurant in the street, how is that outdoors?"
>>> asks Mulaney. The CDC's ever-changing and confusing guidance? "When I
>>> make a mistake at work, I don't get to say 'the science changed,'"
>>> complains Thompson.
>>>
>>> But it's McKinnon who delivers the final blow with a long story about
>>> how she attended a child's birthday party in which all the kids were
>>> masked while doing gymnastics預nd then took off the masks to eat pizza.
>>>
>>> "So did they really need the mask?" she says, looking like she's about
>>> to vomit simply by stating the question out loud. "Did any of us ever
>>> need the mask?"
>>>
>>> These are, of course, questions that a lot of us have been asking for
>>> months, even years. And while masking in some circumstances helps slow
>>> the spread of coronaviruses, it's also true that mask mandates are
>>> mostly about virtue signaling and haven't been shown to work. As
>>> McKinnon points out, there's little logic behind masking in some
>>> settings and then immediately unmasking in the same setting. And
>>> officials' disregard for their own COVID policies has only further
>>> demonstrated how silly many of these rules were in the first place.
>>>
>>> Good on SNL for telling viewers that it's fine to question, and to laugh
>>> at, all this.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/eN7SoQjGVlI/m/tKEZNbu-AwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://ethicsalarms.com/2022/02/27/more-amazing-stories-of-the-great-stupid-fema-tells-us-how-to-avoid-getting-the-wuhan-virus-during-a-nuclear-attack/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> More Amazing Stories Of The Great Stupid! FEMA Tells Us How To Avoid
>>> Getting The Wuhan Virus During A Nuclear Attack…
>>> FEBRUARY 27, 2022 / JACK MARSHALL
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you wonder why fewer and fewer Americans trust their government?
>>
>> See Jeremiah 17:5-8 and http://T3WiJ.com

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or

>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John

>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://reason.com/2022/02/28/two-years-to-slow-the-spread/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Two Years To Slow the Spread
>>> Government can't stop moving the COVID-19 goal posts.
>>> MATT WELCH | FROM THE MARCH 2022 ISSUE

>>>
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>>> featureWelch
>>> (Photo: Luis Alvarez/Getty)
>>> On December 6, 2021, in his last major act as mayor of New York City,
>>> Democrat Bill de Blasio announced that, to stop the spread of the
>>> omicron variant of COVID-19, all 184,000 private businesses in the city
>>> would henceforth be commanded to enforce vaccine mandates on their
>>> employees, and all children ages 5 and up (including tourists from
>>> countries that hadn't yet approved pediatric vaccines) would need to
>>> show proof of full immunization before entering most indoor venues.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Look at a country like Germany right now—shutdowns, restrictions," de
>>> Blasio explained in a follow-up interview. "We cannot let that happen.
>>> So we had to take decisive action."
>>>
>>> Five days later, as the Northeast was experiencing a third consecutive
>>> winter surge of coronavirus cases, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul
>>> announced that all businesses in New York would be required to ensure
>>> their employees and customers were either provably vaccinated or masked
>>> indoors at all times; each violation would be subject to a $1,000 fine.
>>> The new rules were applicable through January 15, "after which the State
>>> will re-evaluate based on current conditions."
>>>
>>> Hochul's announcement came almost six months to the day after her
>>> predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, had lifted almost all statewide COVID
>>> restrictions, including most indoor masking, on the occasion of New York
>>> meeting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) target of
>>> having 70 percent of adults receive at least one vaccination dose. "We
>>> can now return to life as we know it," Cuomo crowed then. By the time of
>>> Hochul's reversal, the one-shot rate among adult New Yorkers had risen
>>> to 93 percent.
>>>
>>> The goal posts on pandemic policy haven't just been shifted, they've
>>> been uprooted, hitched to a helicopter, and transported to a different
>>> county. Joe Biden as president-elect on December 4, 2020, said, "I don't
>>> think [vaccines] should be mandatory." His spokeswoman Jen Psaki on July
>>> 23, 2021, added, "That's not the role of the federal government." CDC
>>> Director Rochelle Walensky stated unequivocally on July 31 that "there
>>> will be no federal mandate."
>>>
>>> Biden announced a federal vaccine mandate on private employers with 100
>>> or more workers five weeks later.
>>>
>>> "I've tried everything in my power to get people vaccinated," the
>>> president maintained. "But even after all those efforts, we still had
>>> more than a quarter of people in the United States who were eligible for
>>> vaccinations but didn't get the shot….So, while I didn't race to do it
>>> right away, that's why I've had to move toward requirements." Look at
>>> what you made him do.
>>>
>>> It was easier to make fun of presidential dissembling about pandemic
>>> policy back when Donald Trump was holding extemporaneous bull sessions
>>> about COVID every day on the White House lawn, or when he infamously
>>> unveiled on March 16, 2020, a bullet-pointed presentation titled "15
>>> Days to Slow the Spread." Even factoring in hindsight bias, that was an
>>> absurdly irresponsible prediction to make about a virus already ripping
>>> through every continent at a time when testing (especially in the U.S.)
>>> was woefully inadequate.
>>>
>>> Law & Contemporary Problems Symposium on "Sex in Law" Publishes Disputed
>>> Article
>>> But Trump back then, like his then-lionized, now-disgraced rival Cuomo,
>>> was operating in an environment exponentially more impoverished, in
>>> terms of both knowledge and mitigation strategies, than what public
>>> officials enjoy now. The one-shot vaccination rate for American adults
>>> was not 86 percent (as it is as this magazine goes to press) but 0
>>> percent. We were still being reminded to wash our hands several times a
>>> day for 20 seconds at a time and implored to studiously avoid touching
>>> our faces. And perhaps because the idea of government dictating most
>>> human activity outside the home was then still novel, politicians tended
>>> to tether restrictions to specific metrics. (Cuomo's "flatten the curve"
>>> mantra referred to the trajectory of hospitalizations vs. the hard
>>> number of hospital beds.) Immediate-term discomforts were routinely sold
>>> with visions of long-term relief.
>>>
>>> "If everyone makes…these critical changes and sacrifices now," Trump
>>> said on "Slow the Spread" day, as a phalanx of top public health
>>> officials looked on, "we will rally together as one nation, and we will
>>> defeat the virus, and we're going to have a big celebration all
>>> together. With several weeks of focused action, we can turn the corner
>>> and turn it quickly."
>>>
>>> As the families of 800,000 dead Americans can grimly attest, no such
>>> corners were ever turned. Yet what has replaced those naive and
>>> prematurely optimistic projections is something no less cruel.
>>>
>>> Benchmarks for lifting restrictions have been serially rewritten or
>>> quietly dropped, often with little explanation. Major policy promises
>>> have been made and broken within the same week. And you can't just blame
>>> the capriciousness on the shifting viral facts on the ground—bureaucrats
>>> have been agonizingly slow to recognize advances in knowledge that
>>> support policy loosening yet lightning-fast when reacting to any new
>>> source of fear. It took the Biden administration and his fellow
>>> Democrats in New York no time at all to put the clampdown on the omicron
>>> variant, but it took the CDC and most coastal state governments more
>>> than a year to internalize that people are not catching COVID-19 outdoors.
>>>
>>> By making a zig-zagging series of arbitrary and far-reaching edicts,
>>> officials have squandered public trust in allegedly neutral scientific
>>> institutions and effectively abandoned persuasion for coercion. Instead
>>> of a light at the end of the tunnel—or even endemic coping at the end of
>>> pandemic panic—we're being offered a future of politicians reluctantly
>>> handing out a carrot or two before reaching once again for the stick.
>>>
>>> The 1-2 Punch in the Mouth
>>> "Everybody has a plan," former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson famously
>>> said, "until they get punched in the mouth." Not only did COVID-19 punch
>>> millions of people in the mouth, but government reaction to the virus
>>> proved a second blow from which scores of millions of businesses and
>>> families have been painfully slow to recover.
>>>
>>> In December 2020, Gavin Newsom, California's Democratic governor, banned
>>> outdoor dining in regions where available hospital ICU capacity was
>>> below 15 percent. A judge opined (accurately) within a week that the
>>> policy was "not grounded in science, evidence, or logic." Newsom then
>>> rescinded the order seven weeks later without the threshold having been
>>> met in most of the state.
>>>
>>> De Blasio shut down New York City public schools in November 2020
>>> because the rate of positive tests among all New Yorkers had risen above
>>> 3 percent, even though that community spread threshold was far below
>>> those recommended by international health authorities, and weekly tests
>>> inside school buildings were showing a miniscule positivity rate of 0.18
>>> percent. The mayor removed that consideration for elementary schools 10
>>> days later and for middle schools and high schools four months later.
>>> Science!
>>>
>>> Imagine being a landlord during the past two years. First, COVID
>>> suddenly increases the chances that your tenants will be unable to pay
>>> their rent and prompts millions of renegotiated leases. Then, six months
>>> later, the Trump administration makes the absurd and facially
>>> unconstitutional decision to put the CDC in charge of enforcing a
>>> federal moratorium on evictions. Set aside for a moment that gross
>>> violation of property rights, and visualize instead what it must have
>>> been like to try to make any plan at all about residential real estate.
>>>
>>> On June 24, 2021, the CDC made what it described as "the final extension
>>> of the moratorium," pushing it out to July 31. At an August 2 White
>>> House press briefing, Psaki announced that "CDC Director Rochelle
>>> Walensky and her team have been unable to find legal authority for a
>>> new, targeted eviction moratorium." Literally the next day, the CDC
>>> announced a new, targeted eviction moratorium covering 90 percent of the
>>> country. (The Supreme Court would at the end of month swat that reversal
>>> down.)
>>>
>>> With the exception of the occasional court ruling, governmental bodies
>>> have largely given up on the idea that there is any limiting principle
>>> to their vast new pandemic powers. Relatedly, they no longer sell
>>> today's restrictions as a ticket to tomorrow's freedoms. Whenever a new
>>> wave forms, politicians brace constituents for a quick slap now to put
>>> off yet another mouth-punch later.
>>>
>>> Hochul portrayed her December mask-and-vaccine crackdown as a way to
>>> "prevent business disruption"; de Blasio sold his new mandates by
>>> saying, "We cannot let those restrictions come back. We cannot have
>>> shutdowns here in New York City. We've got to keep moving forward."
>>>
>>> Vaccinations have helped decouple infections from hospitalization and
>>> death, especially with the more infectious but less lethal omicron
>>> variant. Yet elites kept focusing on case rates instead of serious
>>> illness, sowing panic and clampdowns in the process. "Massachusetts is
>>> the most vaccinated state in the country and yet here we are in a surge
>>> of COVID that is just as bad as where we were last year at this point,"
>>> University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care President Eric Dickson
>>> said in an NBC Nightly News scare story in December. At the time of
>>> Dickson's startling claim, the Bay State's seven-day average of deaths
>>> was 17, compared to 51 the year before.
>>>
>>> All of which contributes to the suspicion that governmental
>>> interventions will just stretch out forever. "It is good policy and
>>> practice to establish off-ramps for interventions that aren't meant to
>>> be permanent," Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Jennifer Nuzzo wrote in
>>> November 2021. "We should be able to answer what conditions would enable
>>> an end."
>>>
>>> But politicians and public health officials, particularly in
>>> Democratic-controlled institutions, are increasingly unable to spell out
>>> any such conditions. For them there is no end in sight.
>>>
>>> Ripping the Mask Off
>>> The first vaccine shots for 5- to 11-year-olds were made available
>>> November 3. On November 5 came reports that a new therapeutic from
>>> Pfizer preliminarily demonstrated a remarkable ability to prevent
>>> serious illness and death in people already sick from COVID. That same
>>> day, Walensky chose to release an "Ask the Expert" video replying to the
>>> question, "Why do I still need to wear a mask?"
>>>
>>> "The evidence is clear," responded the country's highest-ranking public
>>> health scientist. "Masks can help prevent the spread of COVID-19 by
>>> reducing your chance of infection by more than 80 percent, whether it's
>>> an infection from the flu, from the coronavirus, or even just the common
>>> cold. In combination with other steps, like getting your vaccination,
>>> hand washing, and keeping physical distance, wearing your mask is an
>>> important step you can take to keep us all healthy."
>>>
>>> It was a breathtakingly irresponsible remark.
>>>
>>> For two years, as the country has engaged in bitterly partisan and
>>> intensely moralistic debates over nonpharmaceutical interventions
>>> (NPIs)—masking, social distancing, business closures—the single greatest
>>> difference maker by far in blunting the lethal impact of the virus has
>>> been vaccination. Unvaccinated Americans were 10 to 20 times more likely
>>> to die from COVID-19 in fall 2021 than those who had received their shots.
>>>
>>> Yet here was Walensky, the very week immunization became available to
>>> most elementary school kids, putting vaccination on the same list as the
>>> mostly (and rightfully) forgotten NPIs of hand washing and social
>>> distancing, in order to counteract any possible erosion in support for a
>>> far inferior NPI. By relegating the vaccine to the status of an
>>> afterthought, not only did the CDC director snuff out hope among many
>>> parents that their children's masks will ever come off, but she also
>>> butchered the science.
>>>
>>> There does not exist a study showing masks to reduce wearers' COVID
>>> infectiousness by anything close to 80 percent. In fact, most studies
>>> conducted at that time had not even found the vaccines to be 80 percent
>>> effective at stopping transmission in the delta era (although they did
>>> better at stopping symptomatic cases and hospitalizations). Choosing the
>>> arrival of pediatric vaccines as an opportunity to greatly exaggerate
>>> the effectiveness of face coverings sent the implicit message to parents
>>> that no amount of compliance will free their kids from masks.
>>>
>>> In a tweet promoting the video, Walensky touted the non-COVID virtues of
>>> wearing face coverings forever. "Masks," she wrote, "also help protect
>>>from other illnesses like common cold and flu." There was a time when
>>> having a smiling government doctor suggest open-ended masking for cold
>>> and flu seasons would have been seen as too implausibly authoritarian.
>>>
>>> Yet when the CDC talks, governments in the kinds of places where people
>>> have "In this house, we believe in science" yard signs tend to
>>> rubber-stamp the recommendations. As of mid-December, 15 states had mask
>>> mandates for K-12 schools; all 15 voted for Biden in November 2020. (The
>>> two states with also problematic school-mask-mandate bans both voted for
>>> Trump.) In New York, children 2 and older are required by law to wear
>>> masks all day long in any public or private school or daycare setting,
>>> despite being in the age cohort with the lowest COVID hospitalization
>>> rate, and despite the fact that their teachers must be vaccinated by
>>> law. (The vaccinated Hochul, who at age 63 is much more vulnerable to
>>> COVID than is an unvaccinated 4-year-old, has infuriated her critics by
>>> appearing in countless social media photos indoors, amid crowds, unmasked.)
>>>
>>> Colorado, a purple state with a libertarian-leaning Democratic governor,
>>> has taken a considerably different approach. "There was a time when
>>> there was no vaccine, and masks were all we had, and we needed to wear
>>> them," Democratic Gov. Jared Polis told Colorado Public Radio in
>>> December. "The truth is we now have highly effective vaccines that work
>>> far better than masks. If you wear a mask, it does decrease your risk of
>>> getting COVID, and that's a good thing to do indoors around others. But
>>> if you get COVID and you are still unvaccinated, the case is just as bad
>>> as if you were not wearing a mask. Everybody had more than enough
>>> opportunity to get vaccinated….At this point, if you haven't been
>>> vaccinated, it's really your own darn fault." Was that so hard?
>>>
>>> For the rest of the country, the scenes playing out in restrictionist
>>> states look alien, dystopian: kids shivering while eating lunch outside
>>> in frigid Portland, Oregon; high schoolers in New York City (where the
>>> positive COVID rate among regularly tested unvaccinated kids was less
>>> than 0.3 percent this fall) still holding debate tournaments on Zoom;
>>> glum TV commercials warning parents that "without the vaccine, when your
>>> child's teammates take the field, they'll miss out. Or when their
>>> friends go off to the movies, a concert, or get a bite to eat, your teen
>>> will miss out."
>>>
>>> Asked about some of those images in December, White House spokeswoman
>>> Psaki replied, "I will tell you, I have a 3-year-old who goes to school,
>>> sits outside for snacks and lunch, wears a mask inside, and it's no big
>>> deal to him….These are steps that schools are taking to keep kids safe."
>>>
>>> Yet the evidence that Psaki's kid is actually safer because of such
>>> precautions has proven damnably difficult for the CDC to produce.
>>> America's school masking guidance is a global outlier—the World Health
>>> Organization recommends against masking children aged 5 and younger, and
>>> only a handful of countries in the European Union were masking
>>> elementary school students in fall 2021. In trying to persuade the
>>> public that it's actually rational and prudent, the country's public
>>> health agency has never once cited a masking study that included a
>>> meaningful control group. Officials are operating on intuition, and as a
>>> result tens of millions of children are degrading their physical
>>> comfort, social development, and language acquisition. All to avoid
>>> contracting and spreading a virus they are far less susceptible to than
>>> are vaccinated adults.
>>>
>>> Misrepresenting science to produce a preferred policy outcome is a
>>> terrible way to build trust during a pandemic. Adding to that sense of
>>> suspicion is the fact that the CDC at the beginning of the pandemic
>>> actively downplayed the effectiveness of masks, out of worry that scared
>>> consumers would hoard the then-scarce supply of medical-quality
>>> protective equipment needed by doctors and nurses. "Seriously
>>> people—STOP BUYING MASKS!" tweeted then–Surgeon General Jerome Adams on
>>> February 29, 2020. "They are NOT effective in preventing [the] general
>>> public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can't get
>>> them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"
>>>
>>> The Biden administration was supposed to bring more scientific rigor
>>> into the building, yet Walensky has repeatedly massaged research
>>> findings to fit her policy desires for Americans to be swathed in real
>>> and metaphorical prophylactics. The CDC dropped its guidance for outdoor
>>> masking only in April 2021, and even then only among vaccinated people.
>>> The moderately populated state of Washington, with its spectacular
>>> forests, coastline, and mountains, still has an outdoor mask requirement.
>>>
>>> As America braced for the omicron wave before Christmas, the blue-state
>>> mandates started to emerge: vaccine passports for Philadelphia,
>>> booster-shot requirements at several elite universities, a renewed
>>> indoor mask mandate in California. "The imperative is to get through
>>> this winter surge," Newsom said. "And to do so in a way where we come
>>> out the other side and we have a chance to reevaluate."
>>>
>>> Schools in heavily Democratic districts—Cleveland, Ohio; Newark, New
>>> Jersey; West Chicago, Illinois; Prince George's County,
>>> Maryland—preemptively responded to the omicron surge after Christmas
>>> break by once again shifting to remote-only learning. At the Brooklyn
>>> elementary school that my first-grader is zoned for, teachers staged a
>>> post-break sickout that precipitated a last-minute closure. "We are
>>> demanding," they wrote in a letter to outraged parents, "the city and
>>> our union take…actions to stop the spread."
>>>
>>> So just a few more weeks to stop the spread. Or months. Or years.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/Prophecy010621

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> NYC & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > Michael Ejercito wrote:
> >
> >

> >https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-leader-calls-calm-after-supermarkets-emptied-ahead-mass-covid-testing-2022-03-01/?utm_source=reddit.com
> > >
> > >
> > >Hong Kong leader calls for calm, after supermarkets emptied ahead of
> > >mass COVID testing
> > >Reuters
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >2 minute read
> > >HONG KONG, March 1 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam called for
> > >calm on Tuesday after residents emptied supermarkets, stocking up on
> > >produce ahead of reports of compulsory mass COVID-19 testing and
>rumours
> > >of a city-wide lockdown.
> > >
> > >Local media reported compulsory COVID testing would start after March
> > >17, sparking concerns many people will be forced to isolate and
>families
> > >with members testing positive would be separated.
> > >
> > >Lam appealed to the public "not to fall prey to rumours to avoid
> > >unnecessary fears being stirred," with the supply of food and goods
> > >remaining normal, according to a statement on Tuesday.
> > >
> > >Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com
> > >
> > >
> > >Report ad
> > >"There is no need for members of the public to worry, they should stay
> > >vigilant and pay attention to the information disseminated by the
> > >government so as to avoid being misled by rumours."
> > >
> > >Officials are planning to test the city's 7.4 million people three
>times
> > >over nine days, with the government recommending that people stay home
> > >during the period, Sing Tao newspaper reported, citing unidentified
>sources.
> > >
> > >
> > >Report ad
> > >Exemptions would be made for those who buy food, seek medical treatment
> > >and maintain societal operations. Hong Kong's stock market would
> > >continue to operate, the paper said.
> > >
> > >COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong
> > >Customers wearing masks shop in front of partially empty shelves at a
> > >supermarket in Hong Kong
> > >A customer wearing a mask shops in front of partially empty shelves
>at a
> > >supermarket in Hong Kong
> > >
> > >
> > >1/6
> > >Customers wearing masks shop in front of partially empty shelves at a
> > >supermarket during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Hong
> > >Kong, China February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
> > >
> > >
> > >Lam had previously said she was not considering a city-wide lockdown.
> > >
> > >The Chinese ruled city has seen coronavirus infections surge some 34
> > >times to over 34,000 on Monday from just over 100 at the start of
> > >February. Deaths are also climbing, with facilities for storing dead
> > >bodies at hospitals and public mortuaries at maximum capacity. read
>more
> > >
> > >
> > >Report ad
> > >Hong Kong continues to stick to a COVID policy of "dynamic zero", the
> > >same as mainland China, which seeks to curb all outbreaks at any cost.
> > >The Chinese ruled territory has implemented its most draconian measures
> > >since the start of the pandemic in 2020.
> > >
> > >The rules have exacerbated separation fears among many families, with
> > >many fleeing ahead of the mass testing scheme and the build out of tens
> > >of thousands of isolation centres. read more
> > >
> > >
> > >Report ad
> > >Lam, who inspected a mainland Chinese built isolation centre on Monday,
> > >said the team had raced against the clock to "create a miracle" in the
> > >city's construction industry.
> > >
> > >The Tsing Yi facility, located in the northwest of the city, would
> > >provide around 3,900 rooms for infected people with mild or no symptoms
> > >and others who need to isolate, she said.

> > The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

> > H.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

> > finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
> > among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
> > asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
> > 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
> > doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
> > best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
> > mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
> > Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
> > slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids that render current COVID
> > vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
> >
> > Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
> > ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
> >
> > So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.cnn.com/2022/03/13/health/who-ukraine-war-covid-19/index.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> By Jen Christensen, CNN
>>>
>>> Updated 9:39 PM ET, Sun March 13, 2022
>>> Woman who was inside bombed hospital gives birth
>>>
>>>
>>> Woman who was inside bombed hospital gives birth 02:02
>>> (CNN)The World Health Organization (WHO) said Sunday it is concerned the
>>> war in Ukraine could worsen the Covid-19 pandemic, and it is trying to
>>> do more to limit the spread of infectious diseases.
>>>
>>> Cases in the region are down from the previous week, but there's
>>> significant risk there will be more severe disease and death due to low
>>> vaccination rates in Ukraine, as well as among the more than two million
>>> who've fled the country to surrounding areas, regions also with low
>>> vaccination rates. Ukraine's Covid-19 vaccination rate is around 34%,
>>> while neighboring Moldova's is around 29%, according to Our World In Data.
>>> Here&#39;s what could lie ahead for the third year of the pandemic
>>> Here's what could lie ahead for the third year of the pandemic
>>> There have been a total of 791,021 new cases of Covid-19 and 8,012 new
>>> deaths in Ukraine and in surrounding countries between March 3 and 9, a
>>> WHO situation report published Sunday said.
>>> "Unfortunately, this virus will take opportunities to continue to
>>> spread," said Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead on Covid-19,
>>> during a Wednesday news briefing. "We as an organization recognize that
>>> countries are in very different situations; they're facing different
>>> challenges. There's a lot of movement and refugees associated with this
>>> crisis."
>>>
>>> Also on Wednesday, Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO's health
>>> emergencies program, said there will be a rise in Covid-19 in Ukraine,
>>> "without a doubt." He attributed the predicted increase to lack of
>>> testing, halted vaccinations, and a stressed, war-weary population with
>>> already low vaccination rates.
>>> As a child of war, I know what the Ukrainians are going through
>>> As a child of war, I know what the Ukrainians are going through
>>> Ryan added the world should avoid stereotypes around refugees and disease.
>>> "Let us be very careful with our rhetoric because this always arises,"
>>> he said, "that in some way people fleeing the horrors of war are going
>>> to bring stuff with them. Europe has plenty of Covid as it stands, and
>>> it has got to deal with that, and Ukrainian refugees are not going to
>>> change the dial on that."
>>> Sunday's report said the WHO has purchased therapeutics for Covid-19 and
>>> is recommending vaccination campaigns and enhanced surveillance for
>>> Covid-19 and other infectious diseases.
>>> Former President Barack Obama tests positive for Covid-19
>>> Former President Barack Obama tests positive for Covid-19
>>> Hungary is providing Ukrainian refugees with free Covid-19 vaccines, and
>>> the WHO has also offered lab support that includes Covid-19 testing.
>>> The Romanian ministry of health has sent medical teams to test and give
>>> Covid-19 vaccines to Ukrainians who have fled their country.
>>> Covid-19 treatment is provided free of charge in Slovakia. Covid-19
>>> vaccinations are also free in Moldova for Ukrainians, with its ministry
>>> of health testing and monitoring Covid-19, among other diseases.
>>> In a joint statement with UNICEF and UNFPA, the WHO called for an end to
>>> attacks on Ukraine's health care systems. As of Sunday, there had been
>>> 31 verified attacks on health care facilities, with more suspected.
>>> Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter
>>> Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every
>>> Tuesday from the CNN Health team.
>>>
>>> "Humanitarian partners and health care workers must be able to safely
>>> maintain and strengthen essential health service delivery, including
>>> immunization against Covid-19 and polio, and the supply of life-saving
>>> medicines for civilians across Ukraine as well as to refugees crossing
>>> into neighboring countries," the WHO statement said. "Health services
>>> should be systematically available at border crossings, including rapid
>>> care and referral processes for children and pregnant women."
>>> CNN's Jacqueline Howard contributed to this report

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Ukraine & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via

>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID

>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/tjhpwp/uk_covid_case_numbers_no_particular_cause_for/
>>>
>>>
>>> CORONAVIRUS
>>>
>>> new
>>> Chris Smyth, Whitehall Editor
>>> Monday March 21 2022, 12.00pm GMT, The Times
>>> Sajid Javid said it was time to treat the virus in the same way as all
>>> other infectious diseases
>>> Sajid Javid said it was time to treat the virus in the same way as all
>>> other infectious diseases
>>> WIKTOR SZYMANOWICZ/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES
>>> People who think they have Covid should “socialise a bit less”, the
>>> health secretary has said as he dismissed concerns about a rise in
>>> hospital admissions.
>>> Sajid Javid said it was time to treat the virus in the same way as “all
>>> other infectious diseases” and suggested there was no particular need
>>> for people to pay for a test once lateral flow kits were no longer free.
>>> Covid infection rates in the elderly are at their highest level but
>>> Javid insisted the recent rise in cases was “no particular cause for
>>> concern”.
>>> With fourth Covid jabs for the over-75s beginning today, Javid said that
>>> all over-50s were likely to be offered a booster in the autumn as
>>> ministers pin their faith on vaccines rather than social distancing rules.
>>> Confirmed cases rose 38 per cent last week and the Office for National
>>> Statistics found that among over-70s infections are now at their highest
>>> ever level, with rates in the elderly traditionally the best predictor
>>> of hospital admissions.
>>> However, Javid said that of the 11,500 people in hospital in England
>>> with Covid “almost 60 per cent are not there because of Covid — they are
>>> there for something else. That might be a hip operation or something,
>>> but they happen to be Covid-positive.”
>>> He told Times Radio: “That does give us a lot of confidence that we are
>>> learning to live with Covid.”
>>> Lateral flow tests will stop being free on April 1 for all but the most
>>> vulnerable. The government has not specified who will be eligible or
>>> what the advice will be for others with Covid symptoms.
>>> Javid said: “Post-April 1, if people have Covid symptoms then they
>>> should just behave sensibly — like you would expect someone to really
>>> behave if they had flu symptoms in the past — and that is to socialise a
>>> bit less, stay indoors and wait till you feel better.”
>>> Asked if people should still get tested, even if they have to pay for
>>> it, Javid said that would be “a decision for that individual”.
>>> He said that paying “something like £2” for a test from a high street
>>> pharmacist would remain an option for those who wanted to be tested.
>>> Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Javid said that “when it comes
>>> to someone that may be having to take time off work or socialising less
>>> because they believe they might be positive, that is handled in the same
>>> way that all other infectious diseases are handled.”
>>> Asked if Covid was now in the same category as other infections, Javid
>>> replied: “That’s right.”
>>> He attributed the recent rise in cases to increased social mixing after
>>> all restrictions were lifted as well as the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.
>>> He said the subvariant was “on the one hand more infectious but on the
>>> other hand, we know that our vaccines work just as well against this
>>> subvariant. And so taking all that into account, of course we keep the
>>> data under review, but there’s no particular cause for concern at this
>>> point.”
>>> Professor Graham Medley, who chaired the modelling committee of the
>>> Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies before it was stood down,
>>> said: “There is another wave of infections, in which, for the first
>>> time, we are seeing older people being infected at the same rate as
>>> younger people.
>>> “We have seen previous peaks of prevalence from ONS [infection survey]
>>> at over 8 per cent previously, and the prevalence in the 70-plus age
>>> group is currently less than 5 per cent. This suggests that there is
>>> considerable scope for further increases leading to hospital admissions.”
>>> Medley said that “there remains great uncertainty as to how high
>>> admissions will peak in an epidemic with high vaccination coverage,
>>> reduced access to testing and reduced self-isolation”.
>>> A health source defended ministers’ approach, saying: “It’s not just the
>>> politicians, but the senior clinicians. We have asked them whether we
>>> should be worried and they don’t think so… We are keeping an eye on it
>>> but most [admissions are] incidental at the moment, and when you look at
>>> number of people on ventilation it remains very low.”

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://boston.cbslocal.com/2022/03/25/massachusetts-reports-1109-new-covid-cases-9-additional-deaths-march-25/
>>>
>>>
>>> Massachusetts Reports 1,109 New COVID Cases, Positivity Rate Back Over 2%
>>> By CBSBoston.com StaffMarch 25, 2022 at 5:00 pmFiled Under:Coronavirus
>>>
>>> BOSTON (CBS) – The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported
>>> 1,109 new confirmed COVID cases on Friday. The seven-day weighted
>>> average of positive tests in Massachusetts has now increased to 2.08%,
>>> marking the first time the positivity rate has been over 2% during the
>>> month of March.
>>>
>>> Still, there are 222 people currently in the hospital with COVID and 32
>>> patients currently in intensive care, which are both down from Thursday.
>>>
>>> ADVERTISING
>>>
>>> There was nine additional COVID-related deaths reported on Friday.
>>>
>>> Health officials said the total number of confirmed cases in the state
>>> is now 1,558,358. The total number of confirmed deaths in the state is
>>> now 18,969.
>>>
>>> There were 60,516 total new tests reported.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > Michael Ejercito wrote:
> >
> >

> >http://www.stripes.com/covid/2022-03-28/guests-and-crew-test-positive-for-covid-19-aboard-cruise-ship-5505067.html
> > >
> > >
> > >Guests and crew members test positive for COVID-19 aboard Princess
> > >Cruise ship
> > >BY COLLEEN SHALBY• LOS ANGELES TIMES • MARCH 28, 2022
> > >
> > >A small fishing boat passes by the cruise ship, Ruby Princess on May 7,
> > >2020, in the waters of Manila Bay, Philippines.
> > >A small fishing boat passes by the cruise ship, Ruby Princess on May 7,
> > >2020, in the waters of Manila Bay, Philippines. (Ezra Acayan, Getty
> > >Images/TNS)
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >(Tribune News Service) — Passengers and crew members tested positive
>for
> > >COVID-19 aboard a 15-day Princess Cruise trip to the Panama Canal that
> > >returned Sunday to the Port of San Francisco.
> > >
> > >Those affected aboard the ship the Ruby Princess were either
> > >asymptomatic or showed mild symptoms of COVID-19 and were isolated and
> > >quarantined, Princess Cruises said in a statement. The cruise line did
> > >not say how many guests and crew members tested positive, or at what
> > >point in the trip they did so.
> > >
> > >The ship has since departed San Francisco for a 15-day cruise to
>Hawaii.
> > >
> > >The cruise line requires guests to show a negative COVID-19 test and
> > >proof that they were fully vaccinated at least 14 days before the start
> > >of the trip. Vaccination rates for guests and crew members on the Ruby
> > >Princess were at 100%, Princess Cruises said.
> > >
> > >The Port of San Francisco also requires that at least 95% of both
> > >passengers and crew members onboard are vaccinated.
> > >
> > >The cruise line said guests with positive test results who had not
> > >completed the required isolation period had returned home or were
> > >provided hotel rooms for isolation and quarantine.
> > >
> > >Princess Cruises suspended voyages for more than a year after COVID-19
> > >outbreaks in 2020. Coronavirus cases remain relatively flat nationwide,
> > >but health experts are concerned about a potential rise linked to the
> > >new BA.2 COVID-19 variant.
> > >
> > >The CDC was not immediately available for comment and a dashboard that
> > >tracks ships’ COVID-19 test positivity rates has not been updated since
> > >Thursday.

> > The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
> > the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
> > finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
> > among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
> > asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
> > 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
> > doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
> > best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
> > mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
> > Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
> > slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
> > http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
> > vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
> >
> > Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
> > ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
> >
> > So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://archive.ph/dA63S
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The ‘zero-Covid’ approach got bad press, but it worked – and it could
>>> work again
>>> Laura Spinney
>>> The places that chose to pursue elimination suffered less overall.
>>> Unfortunately, few had the determination to do so
>>> A sign in front of UC Davis Medical Center.
>>> ‘Eighteen months into its No-Covid experiment, Davis, California, is
>>> puzzled that other US towns haven’t followed suit.’ Photograph: Peter
>>> Dasliva/EPA
>>> Mon 28 Mar 2022 08.22 EDT
>>> It was the alt-history, the policy that didn’t get enacted. No-Covid,
>>> zero-Covid or elimination aimed to stamp out community transmission of
>>> Covid-19 in a given area, rather than just reduce it to “manageable”
>>> levels. Most of the world eschewed it, and it got bad press from the
>>> start. Only autocratic regimes could pull it off, one mantra went.
>>> Countries like China and ah, New Zealand and, oops, that notorious
>>> police state Davis in California.
>>> There was something of the self-fulfilling prophecy about this. Many
>>> people thought No-Covid was impossible, but the handful of places that
>>> embraced it proved them wrong. Now that some of those places are
>>> themselves shifting to a reduction or mitigation strategy, countries
>>> that opted for mitigation from the beginning are enjoying a “we told you
>>> so” moment. But No-Covid’s early champions had to shift in part because
>>> other countries let the virus rip. Even if their strategy didn’t remain
>>> the optimal one, it bought them time to prepare others. It’s important
>>> that we remember that when the next pandemic sidles along.
>>> The power of language is terrifying sometimes. We talk about pandemics
>>> “erupting” – I’ve done it myself – but sidling seems a more appropriate
>>> verb for something that grows quietly in the dark before exploding into
>>> the light. The concept of exponential growth is one we have trouble
>>> grasping, yet grasping it empowers us. It means that for a time the
>>> disease spread is limited and potentially controllable. It means that
>>> explosive growth falls off rapidly once it is deprived of fuel. And it
>>> means that not everybody has to pursue elimination for it to succeed –
>>> as long as a critical mass do.
>>> We’ve found one factor that predicts which countries best survive Covid
>>> Thomas Hale
>>> Read more
>>> No-Covid was dogged by problems of definition. People confused
>>> elimination with eradication, for example. Only one human disease,
>>> smallpox, has been eradicated, but plenty have been eliminated. The UK
>>> was measles-free until 2017, when partly, due to low vaccine uptake, it
>>> lost that status. Elimination is not an unattainable dream, but it does
>>> require a concerted effort. In the current pandemic, the word often
>>> applied to such efforts was “restrictions”, as if the efforts themselves
>>> deprived us of liberty. No. The virus deprives us of liberty; the
>>> efforts preserve it. That’s why nobody in Davis is complaining, 18
>>> months into their No-Covid experiment, and why they’re puzzled other US
>>> towns haven’t followed suit.
>>> Though lockdowns might have been necessary in the beginning, because we
>>> had no other shields against the virus, they soon stopped being
>>> synonymous with elimination. Cheap mass testing plus isolation of the
>>> infected, ventilation, masking, distancing and – importantly – social
>>> and financial support for those inconvenienced by these measures, became
>>> the preferred tools, used most effectively in combination.
>>> The claim that elimination exacerbates inequality is a red herring; it
>>> doesn’t, with the right support. A circulating virus certainly does, on
>>> the other hand, by preferentially encountering gig workers, keeping kids
>>> out of school, and closing mental health clinics.
>>> It’s true that some diseases are easier to eliminate than others. Many
>>> western countries assumed that Covid would behave like flu, and decided
>>> that elimination would be too difficult. China assumed that it would
>>> behave like Sars, which it successfully beat 20 years ago. It actually
>>> behaves a bit like both, but not exactly like either. Countries tended
>>> to get the outcome they aimed for.
>>> Last June, a study in The Lancet showed that those that chose
>>> elimination over mitigation did a better job of protecting life, the
>>> economy and civil liberties – the hat-trick. But no country is an island
>>> to a highly transmissible virus – even those that are islands – and the
>>> emergence of Delta and Omicron variants of the Sars-CoV-2 virus,
>>> combined with the rollout of vaccines that protect against severe
>>> disease and death, was bound to change the calculus. Some who favoured
>>> elimination previously now think it has outlived its usefulness.
>>> New Zealand, for example, has switched to a mitigation strategy.
>>> Epidemiologist Michael Baker expects his country’s high levels of
>>> vaccination will protect it from a wave of hospitalisations and deaths
>>> as Omicron sweeps the country. Hong Kong, which also pursued No-Covid
>>> until recently, has tragically not avoided that fate, due to its
>>> relatively low vaccination rates.
>>> The lesson from Hong Kong is not that elimination doesn’t work, it’s
>>> that you need a plan B in case the context changes. Baker and economist
>>> Donald Low, who has chronicled Hong Kong’s experience, agree that
>>> elimination was the right strategy for the first 18 months of the
>>> pandemic. Baker stands by his analysis of December 2020 that,
>>> “Elimination might be the preferred strategy for responding to new
>>> emerging infectious diseases with pandemic potential and moderate to
>>> high severity, particularly while key parameters are being estimated.”
>>> What we’re learning about long Covid – or post-Covid-19 condition as the
>>> World Health Organization (WHO) now calls it – only strengthens that
>>> case, since it’s looking increasingly likely that countries that
>>> tolerated high infection rates, including the UK, are facing a sizeable
>>> burden of long-term disability. The vaccines do not stop transmission
>>> completely, and by abandoning the non-pharmaceutical interventions that
>>> do, those countries also increase the likelihood – far from trivial, as
>>> scientists highlighted again this month – that a variant more severe
>>> than Omicron or its “stealth” subvariant could arise.
>>> These emerging facts demonstrate how pointless it is to cost
>>> elimination, or any other containment strategy. How do you measure what
>>> it has saved you? In speculative fiction terms, what’s the counterfactual?
>>> The right way to respond to an unknown disease is to fix a goal and work
>>> towards it, adjusting your strategy as you learn. Because there’s
>>> another unknown in the equation, human determination, no response should
>>> be ruled out initially. As Nelson Mandela said, and the WHO itself likes
>>> to quote: “It’s only impossible until it’s done.”
>>> Laura Spinney is a science journalist and the author of Pale Rider: The
>>> Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the UK & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-60928806
>>>
>>>
>>> End of Scottish face mask rules delayed until Easter
>>> Published12 hours ago

>>> Share
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>>> Coronavirus pandemic

>>> man wearing face mask
>>> IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
>>> Scotland's mandatory face covering rules will now remain in force until
>>> 18 April, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
>>>
>>> The legal requirement to wear masks in shops and on public transport had
>>> been expected to be lifted next week.
>>>
>>> But the first minister told MSPs that the changes would now not take
>>> effect until 18 April.
>>>
>>> She said this was due to there still being a very high level of
>>> infection in Scotland, and because masks provide extra protection.
>>>
>>> However, the requirement to wear a face covering in places of worship
>>> and while attending marriage and funeral services will end on 4 April.
>>>
>>> Ms Sturgeon said this phased approach struck a "sensible balance between
>>> our desire to remove this one remaining legal measure and the common
>>> sense need for continued caution".
>>>
>>>
>>> Live: Nicola Sturgeon updates MSPs on Covid plans
>>> Case numbers have hit record levels in Scotland in recent weeks, with
>>> one in 11 people estimated to have had the virus in the week to 20 March.
>>>
>>> Both Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Justice Secretary Keith
>>> Brown tested positive on Wednesday morning, just hours before Ms
>>> Sturgeon made her announcement.
>>>
>>> Ms Sturgeon said the daily figures remained high but were "perhaps
>>> stabilising", with a 15% fall from about 12,000 cases to 10,200 over the
>>> past week.
>>>
>>> She said there was therefore "grounds for optimism that this latest wave
>>> of infection may now have peaked".
>>>
>>> However she said the high levels of infection and the pressure it was
>>> placing on the NHS meant the planned lifting of the law on face
>>> coverings would be delayed until 18 April.
>>>
>>> She told MSPs that this would be a "proportionate precautionary measure
>>> while we pass the peak of this latest wave".
>>>
>>> This is the second time the first minister has delayed lifting the face
>>> mask laws, which had originally been due to be removed on 21 March.
>>>
>>> All of Scotland's other legal restrictions have already been phased out.
>>>
>>> nicola sturgeon

>>> IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
>>> Image caption,

>>> Ms Sturgeon said a delay was needed until Scotland passed the peak of
>>> the latest wave
>>> Dr Christine Tait-Burkard, a leading infections expert at University of
>>> Edinburgh, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that cotton masks
>>> offered "much less protection" from the BA.2 subvariant because far
>>> fewer virus particles needed to be inhaled to catch it.
>>>
>>> She said: "The surgical and cotton masks just allow for a little more of
>>> the virus to get through. They are still very good for people who are
>>> lower risk - they stop them shedding a lot of virus into the environment.
>>>
>>> "For people who are more vulnerable it is probably the moment to
>>> increase to an FFP2 mask just until the pressure in the environment from
>>> so many people infected actually decreases."
>>>
>>> Dr Tait-Burkard said she did not believe legal enforcement of face masks
>>> was needed any more, and that recommending people wear them in high risk
>>> environments was the right thing to do.
>>>
>>> 'Bitterly disappointing'
>>> The mask laws will now be phased out, with the requirement to wear them
>>> in places of worship and at services to be dropped on 4 April.
>>>
>>> Ms Sturgeon was pictured without a mask at a memorial service for Prince
>>> Philip on Tuesday, but insisted that she wore one on the train and
>>> "abided by the rules" while in England.
>>>
>>> The Scottish Licensed Trade Association said it would have set a better
>>> example for the first minister to wear a face covering, adding that it
>>> was "bitterly disappointing" the changes had been delayed in Scotland.
>>>
>>> Managing director Colin Wilkinson said the pause would ultimately make
>>> little difference as "the lack of use of face coverings is already
>>> clearly evident in many settings".
>>>
>>> And the Scottish Chambers of Commerce said the "prolonging of Covid-19
>>> rules" might make Scotland a less attractive tourist destination.
>>>
>>> How have infection rates changed recently in Scotland? Seven-day average
>>> to 30 March. Showing cases by date of test. Includes PCR and LFT results.
>>> Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said Scotland's case rate
>>> being higher than other parts of the UK showed that the first minister's
>>> "strategy is clearly failing".
>>>
>>> He said: "She is keeping restrictions in place here in Scotland weeks
>>> after they have been removed elsewhere.
>>>
>>> "We believe that anyone who wants to keep wearing a face mask should do
>>> so, but it should be down to individual choice as it is in other parts
>>> of the UK.
>>>
>>> "We should leave it up to people and businesses to decide what is best
>>> for them based on public health advice - Nicola Sturgeon has to start
>>> trusting the people of Scotland."
>>>
>>> Ms Sturgeon accused the Tory leader of being "seriously out of step with
>>> the vast majority of people".
>>>
>>> She said: "Particularly in public places where people don't always have
>>> a choice about being, people have to go to shops and therefore if we all
>>> wear face coverings in shops right now we help protect each other.
>>>
>>> "For a couple of weeks more while we see this wave of infection peak and
>>> start to fall I think that is a sensible thing to do."
>>>
>>> The testing system is also being wound down in Scotland, with the
>>> population-wide contact tracing system to be shut down by the end of April.
>>>
>>> Scottish Labour's deputy leader Jackie Baillie said infection levels
>>> were concerning, calling for more details about future support and
>>> testing for vulnerable people.
>>>
>>> She said: "While life is returning to near normality for many, that is
>>> not the case for those who are immunocompromised and the 180,000 who
>>> were on the shielding list."
>>>
>>> Ms Sturgeon said vulnerable people were being offered extra booster
>>> jabs, and that testing would continue to be used in a targeted way to
>>> support them.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Scotland & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://thefederalist.com/2022/03/30/as-the-country-returns-to-normal-college-campuses-double-down-on-covid-19-restrictions/
>>>
>>>
>>> As The Country Returns To Normal, College Campuses Double Down On
>>> Covid-19 Restrictions
>>> BY: JACK ELBAUM
>>> MARCH 30, 2022
>>> 6 MIN READ
>>> GWU
>>> Why is George Washington University treating fully vaccinated and
>>> boosted college-aged students as if we are the most vulnerable
>>> population to Covid-19?
>>>
>>> Author Jack Elbaum profile
>>> JACK ELBAUM
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>>> If you happen to stumble onto the campus of George Washington University
>>> in Washington, D.C., you will find that Covid-19 is a greater part of
>>> our everyday lives than it is almost anywhere else in the country. The
>>> only possible exceptions to this are other college campuses — many of
>>> which have remained equally as, or more, restrictive.
>>>
>>> While many campuses are getting back to normal, there are more than a
>>> few holdouts. At Connecticut College — which went virtual last year amid
>>> uber-restrictive Covid-19 policies — students are not only required to
>>> wear masks in all indoor settings, but also outside when they are
>>> “socializing in particularly close proximity to others.” Even in their
>>> own dorm, students must mask unless only with a roommate and the door is
>>> closed. Places such as New York University still have full mask mandates
>>> in place, while many others — such as University of Illinois and
>>> Michigan — still require them in class, but have relaxed the mandate in
>>> other situations.
>>>
>>>
>>> GW, where I am a sophomore majoring in international affairs and
>>> economics, has decided to keep a full mask mandate in effect “until
>>> further notice,” and the university “strongly recommends the use of N95
>>> or KN95 masks.” This means masks are required in every class, every dorm
>>> hall (even in individual rooms when socializing with people one does not
>>> live with), and every school building, with no exceptions. At the
>>> beginning of the semester, the people in charge of my dorm building sent
>>> an email warning students that a failure to wear a mask — even if one
>>> was eating or drinking — would result in being reported to the school.
>>>
>>> On top of this mask mandate, on-campus students are required to take
>>> part in GW’s “asymptomatic surveillance testing” program. In practice,
>>> this means that they are required to take a Covid-19 test approximately
>>> every week and a half, even if they are completely asymptomatic. If one
>>> misses the deadline, his access to nearly every university building
>>> (except for their dorm hall) is removed until he gets the test.
>>>
>>> GW’s Approach Is Illogical
>>> These Covid-19 measures are in place despite a few important factors.
>>> First, young people (i.e., the population of GW) are at, by far, the
>>> lowest risk to become severely ill or die from Covid-19. Second, all
>>> students at GW have been required to provide proof to the school that
>>> they are vaccinated and boosted. If the near-100 percent natural
>>> protection from being young was not enough, the fact that all students
>>> are thrice-vaxxed surely means Covid-19 poses, in practical terms, no
>>> threat to them.
>>>
>>> Moreover, GW can no longer use DC’s law — nor the CDC’s guidance — to
>>> justify their policy. After all, the mask mandate in DC is now gone and
>>> the CDC only recommends masks in “high-risk” areas — a classification
>>> that does not apply to DC. In fact, DC falls into the “low risk”
>>> category, which means that people should “Wear a mask based on your
>>> personal preference, informed by your personal level of risk.” The last
>>> time DC had a seven-day average of over 100 cases per day was back in
>>> February, and GW has a positivity rate hovering around 1.0 percent.
>>>
>>>
>>> So why is GW treating fully vaccinated and boosted college-aged students
>>> — in a city with minimal Covid-19 transmission — as if we are the most
>>> vulnerable population to Covid-19 when, in fact, we are the least
>>> vulnerable?
>>>
>>> GW Can’t Justify Masking
>>> On March 21, I emailed the university president, GW’s dean of health
>>> affairs, and GW’s dean of students, asking why they thought GW’s
>>> restrictive Covid-19 measures remained necessary. I hoped to get insight
>>> and clarity that the university’s previous public statements had not
>>> provided.
>>>
>>> As of today, I have received only one reply. The email came from a
>>> representative of GW’s Division for Student Affairs, and he declined to
>>> answer my question. Instead, the representative directed me to GW’s
>>> Office of Media Relations. Upon further inquiry with the Office of Media
>>> Relations, I was, first, directed to the university’s previous
>>> statements and, second, informed that GW has not changed its Covid-19
>>> restrictions because of “our

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/lAMsFJCBWF4/m/rrveAiAEAwAJ

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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://archive.ph/gAekF
>>>
>>>
>>> Judge Blocks COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Entire Navy
>>> By Zachary Stieber March 29, 2022 Updated: March 29, 2022?bigger?smaller
>>> ?Print
>>> The U.S. military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate has been blocked for all
>>> Navy members seeking religious exemptions.
>>> A preliminary injunction that previously covered 35 Navy SEALs now
>>> covers some 4,000 others.
>>> U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, a George W. Bush appointee who
>>> entered the original ruling in January, agreed to expand it in part
>>> because all members who have applied for religious exemptions “have all
>>> been harmed in essentially the same way.”
>>> “Each is subject to the Navy’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Each has
>>> submitted her religious accommodation request, and none has received
>>> accommodation. Without relief, each servicemember faces the threat of
>>> discharge and the consequences that accompany it. Even though their
>>> personal circumstances may factually differ in small ways, the threat is
>>> the same—get the jab or lose your job,” he said in a 27-page order.
>>> The Supreme Court recently sided with the Pentagon in the case, ruling
>>> that Navy commanders can consider a members’ vaccination status when
>>> deciding on deployment.
>>> The new ruling means “anyone in the U.S. Navy whose religious
>>> accommodation from the vaccine mandate was denied is now protected from
>>> any sort of punishment or involuntary separation, things like that,”
>>> said Mike Berry, a lawyer with First Liberty Institute, which represents
>>> the plaintiffs in the case.
>>> Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in August 2021 ordered all U.S. troops to
>>> get a COVID-19 vaccine, asserting vaccination would help the force stay
>>> ready and prevent contraction of the virus that causes COVID-19 vaccine.
>>> The mandate has remained in place even as the three vaccines available
>>> in the United States have proven increasingly ineffective against
>>> infection from the virus, SARS-CoV-2, and have also waned against severe
>>> disease.
>>> As of March 23, 3,320 active-duty Navy members have requested a
>>> religious exemption from the mandate, along with 864 reserve members.
>>> Zero religious accommodation requests have been approved.
>>> The Navy has declined to comment on court orders, referring comment to
>>> the Department of Justice. A government lawyer did not respond to a
>>> request for comment.
>>> Berry told The Epoch Times his organization wanted to expand the case to
>>> cover all service members seeking religious accommodation but under
>>> federal rules, they were not able.
>>> The case is currently proceeding on multiple fronts. While O’Connor
>>> ruled on the motions for an expanded injunction and to certify a class,
>>> the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is considering an appeal
>>>from the Navy from the original injunction.
>>> The Navy has kicked out 630 members so far for refusing to get a
>>> COVID-19 vaccine.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/4UfsjQk9T2k/m/Lpb0tXAEAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/11/what-do-we-do-about-covid-now
>>>
>>>
>>> What Do We Do About COVID Now?
>>> America’s battle with the pandemic has been more damaging than we like
>>> to think. And it is still ongoing.
>>>
>>> By Dhruv Khullar
>>>
>>> April 3, 2022
>>> “If I look at the mass, I will never act,” Mother Teresa once said. “If
>>> I look at the one, I will.” During the pandemic, we’ve all grappled with
>>> this dynamic. Our country is on the cusp of a grim milestone: soon, a
>>> million people in the United States will have died of covid-19. Yet for
>>> many Americans this reality seems vague, abstract—a group problem for
>>> which we must take individual responsibility. We struggle to see the
>>> crisis we’re in.
>>>
>>> COVID as flowers blooming on tree overlooking the city
>>> Illustration by João Fazenda
>>> Part of the problem is fatigue. Another is that the coronavirus has
>>> exacted its toll unevenly. covid is relatively unthreatening to younger
>>> people, but has killed one in seventy-five older Americans; residents of
>>> long-term-care facilities make up less than three per cent of the
>>> population, but have accounted for about one in five covid deaths. The
>>> death rate for Blacks and Hispanics has been twice that for whites. And,
>>> owing to divergent immunization rates, people in the reddest counties
>>> have been dying at more than three times the rate of those in the
>>> bluest. For some of us, the pandemic may feel over, but more Americans
>>> died of covid in 2021 than in 2020. So far in 2022, the virus has taken
>>> another hundred and thirty thousand lives.
>>>
>>> Sign up for This Week’s Issue
>>> The week’s must-read stories, delivered every Monday.
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>>>
>>> It can be hard to grasp the meaning of such numbers. We might come to
>>> terms with them by noting that U.S. life expectancy has now fallen by
>>> nearly two years—the sharpest single-year decline since the Second World
>>> War. We might count lost time, years forgone with family, friends, and
>>> colleagues. An eighty-year-old who died during the pandemic lost an
>>> average of almost eight years of life; a forty-year-old lost nearly four
>>> decades. This means that a million deaths will have expunged tens of
>>> millions of years of life—a mass erasure of new, strange, and wonderful
>>> possibilities.
>>>
>>> One of the most prevalent false beliefs about the pandemic is that the
>>> government has exaggerated the number of deaths; in fact, the official
>>> count is an underestimate. Since the pandemic began, at least a hundred
>>> thousand more people have died in this country than would have during
>>> normal times. Many of these “excess deaths” are uncounted covid
>>> fatalities. Others are the result of missed care for conditions such as
>>> heart attacks and strokes. Drug overdoses have risen to record levels;
>>> skipped cancer screenings and childhood vaccinations will add to the
>>> virus’s collateral damage in the years to come. The truth is that
>>> America’s battle with covid-19 has been more damaging than we like to
>>> think. And it is still ongoing.
>>>
>>> VIDEO FROM THE NEW YORKER
>>>
>>> A Beloved Scottish Tradition Returns After Quarantine
>>>
>>>
>>> In parts of the country, cases are rising again. Reopening plays a role.
>>> So does B.A.2, a subvariant of Omicron that is now dominant in the U.S.
>>> and around the world, and is thought to be thirty to fifty per cent more
>>> contagious than B.A.1, the version that swept across the U.S. this
>>> winter. B.A.2 doesn’t appear to be more lethal, and vaccines remain
>>> effective at averting the most serious consequences of infection; still,
>>> it promises to cause breakthrough infections, and presents a serious
>>> threat to the elderly, the immunocompromised, and the unvaccinated. Last
>>> month, B.A.2 nearly tripled coronavirus cases in the U.K.; at one point,
>>> one in thirty older Britons was thought to be infected. covid
>>> hospitalizations and deaths rose, though not as dramatically—preëxisting
>>> immunity softened the blow.
>>>
>>> It’s not clear exactly how America’s B.A.2 story will unfold. Our
>>> vaccination rates are lower than those of many European nations: just
>>> two-thirds of Americans are fully vaccinated, and although the F.D.A.
>>> has now approved a second booster for people over fifty, just sixty per
>>> cent of them have received their first. Meanwhile, many states have done
>>> away with most pandemic restrictions, and people are increasingly
>>> returning to their pre-pandemic routines. Still, because immunity
>>> against B.A.1 appears to protect against B.A.2, the U.S. may escape the
>>> worst consequences: according to one estimate, nearly four in five
>>> Americans have some Omicron immunity.
>>>
>>> In 2020, when the virus arrived, the government’s response was halting
>>> and disorganized. With time, however, something like consistency
>>> emerged: Americans knew what was allowed and what wasn’t. We’re now
>>> reverting to the Wild West phase. The Centers for Disease Control and
>>> Prevention has indicated that less than one per cent of the population
>>> currently needs to wear masks. Some states are shutting down their
>>> testing and vaccination sites. Earlier this year, the Biden
>>> Administration asked for thirty billion dollars in pandemic funding, but
>>> Congress agreed only to some fifteen billion, and has so far failed to
>>> authorize even that. As a result, the federal government has reduced
>>> shipments of monoclonal antibodies to states and delayed the purchase of
>>> more antiviral pills. It no longer has the funds to pay for tests or
>>> vaccines for uninsured Americans, or to secure booster shots for the
>>> fall. Politicians and policymakers hold powerful tools for curbing the
>>> virus; increasingly, they are declining to use them. They’re also
>>> stymied by the murkiness of our moment: the country contains within it
>>> such a diversity of immunity, vulnerability, and attitude that no policy
>>> prescription seems to fit.
>>>
>>> Amid the uncertainty, individuals, organizations, and institutions must
>>> do their best. This means giving people the resources to confront covid
>>> not as an abstraction but through the decisions of daily life. During
>>> moments of high viral spread, this effort might entail providing rapid
>>> tests in the workplace, time off after exposure, outdoor spaces for
>>> events, high-grade masks for all who want them, ??and a culture that
>>> respects varying levels of risk tolerance and medical vulnerability.
>>> Decades of behavioral-science research have revealed that our
>>> decision-making depends crucially on our environment; even as
>>> politicians discard mitigation measures, communities at school, work,
>>> church, and elsewhere can make it easier for people to do the right thing.
>>>
>>> For individuals, fighting the pandemic can feel a bit like combatting
>>> climate change. Why recycle when policymakers allow carbon emissions to
>>> rise inexorably? And, indeed, to defeat this and future pandemics, we’ll
>>> need investments in ventilation and air-filtration systems, paid sick
>>> leave, disability benefits, disease-surveillance programs, and more. But
>>> it’s also true that individuals retain some agency. We can get booster
>>> shots and persuade others to do so; we can make plans for accessing
>>> monoclonal antibodies or antiviral pills. When cases rise, as they will,
>>> we can consider how we might lower the chances that we’ll pass on the
>>> virus to someone for whom the consequences could be catastrophic. After
>>> two years of ebbs and flows, of surges, variants, vaccines, and
>>> boosters, our choices matter, perhaps now more than ever. ?

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/QSGU8ER1nRc/m/QduYY7MEAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/tviqe7/i_really_had_hope_i_thought_once_a_vaccine_was/
>>>
>>>
>>> I really had hope, I thought once a vaccine was discovered all the
>>> covid19 restrictions would end and normality will come back.
>>> Mental Health
>>> I really thought once a vaccine was discovered life would eventually go
>>> back normal in which there will be no more mask wearing, lockdowns and
>>> all the covid19 restrictions. Despite a vaccine roll out programme in
>>> the UK people especially in my life and the wider community i live in,
>>> still do not want to go back to normal. This is what makes me so upset
>>> and even angry once in a while.
>>>
>>> My local Catholic Church still enforces mask wearing, banning of shaking
>>> hands during the sign of peace and hand sanitiser booths are in every
>>> corner of the church even though everyone is now vaccinated. The priest
>>> wears a facial shield when administering Holy Communion ,he looks like
>>> he is going is succba diving. A couple of weeks ago I started my driving
>>> lessons and I didnt wear the mask. I told my driving instructor I have
>>> had my booster shot he said in a panicked disapproving tone " so that's
>>> OK then" I didn't even answer and just wore the mask in the next couple
>>> of lessons . Last lesson the mask during his I sneezed he asked "Is that
>>> covid19"
>>>
>>> In London even though it is no longer compulsory to follow covid19 rules
>>> many physical aspects of the restrictions introduced in the pandemic
>>> still remain showing how there is an unwillingness amoung society and
>>> local government to move on and go back to normality.
>>>
>>> Look at the transport. On the TFL trains there still stickers on all the
>>> windows telling you to wear the mask. On the floors of train stations
>>> especially my area and many train stations there is stickers on the
>>> floor telling you to social distance.
>>>
>>> The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan kept telling us the people of London to
>>> wear a mask when using the transport in the city. Sadiq Khan attended a
>>> boxing match and he caught in a packed audience not wearing the mask.
>>> The camera zoomed in on the Mayor sitting in the audience, that was
>>> embarrassing to see on the TV.
>>>
>>> My local jobcentre still has all the covid19 secure measures. The social
>>> distancing tape all across the centres still exists along with many
>>> signs telling you about covid19, the glass screen which the advisors sit
>>> behind that was never there and was introduced during the pandemic.
>>>
>>> What psees me off about the mask wearing is that it is a total fcking
>>> sham. The Queen of England doesn't wear the mask, the leaders of the G7
>>> were not wearing the mask at the G7 summit, the wealthy celebrities at
>>> the met gala were not wearing the mask but the waiters and waitresses
>>> serving the rich people the food and drink were made to wear the mask.
>>> The Mayor of London was telling us the people of London to wear the mask
>>> when using public transport. This is the same Mayor who attended a
>>> boxing match and was caught in a packed audience not wearing the mask.
>>> The camera zoomed in on the Mayor, it was so embrassing he has kept
>>> quiet ever since.
>>>
>>> So why the f*ck should I wear one?
>>>
>>> The covid19 signs in public yes are signs but their existence is
>>> symbolic of the unwillingness of society to move on and go back to
>>> normal. We are still living in the shadow of covid19 and no where near
>>> close enough to normality.
>>>
>>> I want to do a masters degree. A couple of months earlier during the
>>> autumn season I decided to vist some university open days. A lot of
>>> universities in England were having their open evenings online only
>>> which a lecturer would appear on Zoom explaining the what university
>>> offers and the course itself. Prior to the pandemic people who wanted to
>>> go university were allowed to vist the university buildings to see what
>>> facilities the universities offered.
>>>
>>> I was upset my life was wasted in the lockdown however I now embrace the
>>> years of life I have ahead of me. Before the pandemic came to the world
>>> we had it so good and now it's all gone I deeply regret taking it all
>>> for granted.
>>>
>>> I really had hope normality would come back maybe that was the problem
>>> all along.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the UK & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/azd2i_UeBxc/m/PapuooqbAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-s-canada-day-parade-cancelled-for-third-year-in-a-row-1.5849545
>>>
>>>
>>> Montreal's Canada Day parade cancelled for third year in a row
>>> A man waves a flag during a Canada Day parade in Montreal, on July 1,
>>> 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham HughesA man waves a flag during a Canada
>>> Day parade in Montreal, on July 1, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
>>> Lillian Roy
>>> CTVNewsMontreal.ca Digital Reporter
>>> Contact
>>> Updated April 5, 2022 1:56 p.m. PDT
>>> Published April 5, 2022 1:55 p.m. PDT
>>> Share
>>>
>>> Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as well as funding issues,
>>> Montreal’s 2022 Canada Day parade has been cancelled, according to event
>>> organizers.
>>>
>>> Although government health restrictions do not prohibit parades,
>>> organizers say the current situation makes it too risky to put on a
>>> full-scale event.
>>>
>>> ADVERTISEMENT
>>>
>>> It’s the third year in a row organizers have cancelled the parade, which
>>> usually includes 170,000 spectators and between 8,000 and 9,000
>>> participants.
>>>
>>> According to an email sent to participants, a lack of sufficient funding
>>>from one of the parade’s main sponsors also played a role in its
>>> cancellation.
>>>
>>> "[Heritage Canada] has expressed they are unable to keep up the current
>>> amount of funds given to make the parade a success," it reads, adding
>>> that costs have increased as a result of inflation.
>>>
>>> The Department of Canadian Heritage has yet to respond to CTV News about
>>> the cancellation.
>>>
>>> Organizers said Tuesday they will work to resolve funding setbacks in
>>> time for the 2023 festivities.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Montreal & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/4Y37Wdz6_ss/m/SQpF31J-BAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.news24.com/channel/gossip/royal-news/watch-queen-elizabeth-admits-she-felt-exhausted-from-covid-19-20220411
>>>
>>>
>>> WATCH | Queen Elizabeth admits she felt 'exhausted' from Covid-19
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>>> Queen Elizabeth opens up about COVID scare
>>> Queen Elizabeth has revealed she was left “very tired and exhausted”
>>> after her recent battle with Covid-19. She discussed her experience with
>>> a former patient whose brother and father died from the virus.
>>> TICKER NEWS
>>> Queen Elizabeth has spoken of serious fatigue after she contracted
>>> Covid-19 in February despite aides downplaying her illness.
>>> The monarch revealed her struggles on Wednesday, when she spoke to staff
>>> and patients by video-link to mark the opening of a hospital unit named
>>> in her honour in east London.
>>> The queen's appearance comes after she withdrew from the the Royal
>>> Maundy Service at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle on Thursday.
>>> Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who turns 96 soon, has spoken of serious
>>> fatigue after she contracted Covid-19 in February despite aides
>>> downplaying her illness.
>>>
>>>
>>> At the time, Buckingham Palace said the vaccinated monarch had "mild,
>>> cold-like symptoms".
>>>
>>> But she was forced to cancel a series of appointments with foreign
>>> diplomats, at the start of her record-breaking 70th year on the throne.
>>>
>>>
>>> Queen Elizabeth recalled her experience on Wednesday when she spoke to
>>> staff and patients by video-link to mark the opening of a hospital unit
>>> named in her honour in east London.
>>>
>>> Speaking to one former Covid-19 patient who required ventilation, the
>>> queen said about the virus: "It does leave one very tired and exhausted,
>>> doesn't it?"
>>>
>>> "This horrible pandemic. It's not a nice result," she added, according
>>> to footage released by the palace on Sunday.
>>>
>>> The unit at the Royal London Hospital was built in record time to cope
>>> with an influx of Covid-19 sufferers.
>>>
>>> The construction team hailed the "Dunkirk spirit" that inspired them,
>>> referring to the World War II retreat of British and allied forces from
>>> northern France, in the face of a Nazi onslaught.
>>>
>>> "Thank goodness it still exists," the queen replied.
>>>
>>> "It is very interesting, isn't it, when there is some very vital thing,
>>> how everybody works together and pulls together - marvellous, isn't it?"
>>>
>>> WATCH THE VIDEO HERE:
>>>
>>>
>>> Fears for the queen's health have lingered since she had an unscheduled
>>> overnight stay in hospital last October, which was only revealed by the
>>> palace later.
>>>
>>> Her public appearances have become rarer since, and she has complained
>>> of mobility problems, as her 96th birthday approaches on 21 April.
>>>
>>> The queen's virtual appearance also comes after she withdrew from the
>>> the Royal Maundy Service at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle on
>>> Thursday.
>>>
>>> Prince Charles is said to be stepping in to represent his mother at the
>>> service, which marks the start of Easter weekend, and is normally a
>>> fixture in the queen's calendar.
>>>
>>> Play Video
>>> Queen Elizabeth pulls out of Easter church service 'with regret'
>>> Queen Elizabeth II is pulling out “with regret” of an Easter event
>>> marking Maundy Thursday at Windsor's St George's Chapel

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-61093246
>>>
>>>
>>> Covid caution urged as Scots gather for Easter
>>> Published1 day ago

>>> Share
>>> Related Topics
>>> Coronavirus pandemic

>>> Crowds in Glasgow
>>> IMAGE SOURCE,PA MEDIA
>>> Image caption,
>>> Footfall across Scotland is expected to surge over the busy Easter weekend
>>> A leading public health expert has urged people to keep following
>>> Covid-19 advice over the busy Easter weekend.
>>>
>>> Prof Linda Bauld told the BBC there were still high levels of infection
>>> due to the BA.2 Omicron variant.
>>>
>>> She said public health advice on the virus would be around for "months
>>> to come" despite the rule on face masks becoming guidance on Monday.
>>>
>>> Traffic jams and rail disruption have already impacted commuters across
>>> the UK over the long weekend.
>>>
>>> Family gatherings, a rise in church attendance and events including the
>>> Musselburgh races are expected to contribute to higher social
>>> interaction across Scotland.
>>>
>>> Crowds will also have gathered at Hampden for the Scottish Cup
>>> semi-finals with Hearts playing Hibs on Saturday and Celtic clashing
>>> with Rangers on Sunday.
>>>
>>>
>>> Crowds at Hearts vs Hibs at Hampden on Saturday
>>> IMAGE SOURCE,PA MEDIA
>>> Image caption,
>>> Hearts supporters pictured at Hampden on Saturday during the semi-final
>>> clash
>>> Earlier this week the Office for National Statistics sampling showed a
>>> slight decrease in the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in
>>> Scotland for the third week in a row.
>>>
>>> However, Prof Bauld said despite the encouraging figures, infection
>>> levels were still high due to the highly transmissible BA.2 variant.
>>>
>>> Speaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: "Reinfections are increasingly
>>> common - they're accounting for around 11% of infections certainly in
>>> Scotland.
>>>
>>> "So if you're in indoor places with others you don't normally live with,
>>> of course people may pick it up.
>>>
>>> "They're unlikely to become severely unwell but I think in time when
>>> we've lifted basically all the protective measures and it's down to
>>> people's decisions, we still just need to be aware of that."
>>>
>>> infedction rates
>>> On Thursday Public Health Scotland reported 4,196 further cases of
>>> Covid-19 and 40 deaths of people who had tested positive.
>>>
>>> Fewer people are becoming severely unwell with only 20 patients with
>>> Covid requiring intensive care on Friday, although more than 2,000
>>> Covid-positive patients are in hospital across Scotland.
>>>
>>> On Monday, the legal requirement to wear face masks in many indoor
>>> settings in Scotland will become guidance.
>>>
>>> 'Protect the clinically vulnerable'
>>> The move had been delayed twice amid record levels of Covid cases and
>>> high numbers of people in hospital with the virus.
>>>
>>> Speaking about the matter to the PA news agency on Sunday, First
>>> Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she had confidence in the "good sense and
>>> responsibility" of people in Scotland.
>>>
>>> She said: "We can't keep things in law beyond a point where that is
>>> deemed to be proportionate, so we will move the face covering
>>> requirement out of law and into guidance.
>>>
>>> "Wearing a face covering is a bit of protection you can give, not only
>>> to yourself but to the people you might be around - including people who
>>> might be more clinically vulnerable."
>>>
>>> Covid cases in Scotland fall for third week
>>> Lifting of Scottish face mask laws confirmed
>>> Covid in Scotland: The latest cases
>>> Prof Bauld echoed the Scottish government's advice for people to
>>> continue wearing masks in crowded indoor places and on public transport.
>>>
>>> She said: "Wearing a face covering indoors even if it's not a legal
>>> requirement, thinking about being in well ventilated places and finally
>>> just making sure everyone is up to date with their vaccines before they
>>> travel - this is practical advice we're going to here around the country
>>> for some months to come.
>>>
>>> "If you had Delta for example you might pick up Omicron, and you could
>>> still become quite poorly even if you don't become severely unwell."
>>>
>>> Prof Bauld added that new hybrid variants were still being identified
>>> through the government's testing surveillance.
>>>
>>> She said: "They certainly are transmissible and in fact some of them may
>>> be a little bit more transmissible than what we've got at the moment but
>>> they're not causing more severe disease."

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> Scotland & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>

> We celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
> the Only Begotten Son of HaShem, Lord of Lords, Jehovah Incarnate, King
> of Kings, Creator Eternal, Lamb of God, the Way, the Truth, and the Life!

Our resurrected LORD proves His resurrection even right now (Luke
6:21a) by being http://WonderfullyHungry.org as explained at
http://bit.ly/Lk2442

>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> https://archive.ph/60aoK
>>>
>>>
>>> Anger Over Covid Lockdowns Mounts in Shanghai
>>>
>>> Restrictions have strained nerves and livelihoods in China’s largest and
>>> wealthiest city, eroding some residents’ trust in authorities; ‘I’ve
>>> lost confidence in this government’
>>> By Stella Yifan Xie and Natasha Khan
>>> April 15, 2022 12:15 pm ET
>>> Discontent is deepening across Shanghai, China’s largest and wealthiest
>>> city, now several weeks into a rigid lockdown aimed at crushing a Covid
>>> outbreak that is straining the nerves and affecting livelihoods of its
>>> 25 million residents and eroding the public’s trust in authorities.
>>> The effects that have played out in recent weeks—food shortages, lack of
>>> access to medical care, overcrowded quarantine centers and infants
>>> separated from their parents—have frayed nerves across a city that has
>>> long prided itself as a pragmatic financial hub at the forefront of
>>> China’s decadeslong shift to a market economy.
>>> “I’ve lost confidence in this government,” said one 36-year-old Shanghai
>>> native surnamed Chen, who declined to provide his given name because it
>>> remains risky to openly criticize political leaders. “Only during a
>>> crisis can you make a proper evaluation of the government’s performance.”
>>> Mr. Chen, who has been confined at home for more than a month, said he
>>> hasn’t been able to feed his family of four on the government-supplied
>>> rations of vegetables and milk. While he has managed to order some
>>> groceries online, soaring prices and scarce supplies of bread and other
>>> essentials risk draining his savings as the lockdown drags on, he said.
>>> “We’ve waited patiently for the lockdown to get lifted. When will this
>>> end?” he said.
>>> Shanghai eased rules in some neighborhoods this week, but most residents
>>> remain confined to their homes. Some expressed worries about food and
>>> said they are increasingly disillusioned by the prospect of an
>>> open-ended Covid lockdown.
>>> Among more than two dozen residents who spoke from lockdown, some said
>>> they are reaching a breaking point more than two years into the
>>> pandemic. Some are considering leaving the country for good.
>>> “The damage has been done,” said Liu Yun, a 34-year-old Shanghai native
>>> and technology entrepreneur who said he has begun contemplating
>>> emigrating to Singapore while confined at home with his wife and two
>>> children. “More elites will start re-evaluating their relationship with
>>> the city and this country.”
>>> Even those who aren’t considering leaving said they expect some economic
>>> and psychological scars to endure, along with resentment toward Beijing.
>>> China has stuck to a zero-Covid policy under Chinese leader Xi Jinping,
>>> who is widely expected this fall to extend his rule for at least another
>>> five years.
>>> Eighty-seven of China’s biggest 100 cities, from Changchun in the
>>> country’s far northeast to its southern metropolis of Guangzhou,
>>> collectively accounting for more than half of China’s population and
>>> overall economic output, have imposed restrictions on movements and
>>> activities because of the current outbreak, according to an estimate by
>>> Gavekal Dragonomics, a research firm. On Friday, Xi’an, which earlier
>>> this year emerged from a monthlong lockdown, tightened restrictions again.
>>>
>>> Residents lined up for Covid tests in a compound in Shanghai this week.
>>> PHOTO: LIU JIN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
>>> Few cities in China have the economic and political importance of
>>> Shanghai, which for most of the past century has been a base of
>>> prosperity at the forefront of the country’s engagement with the world.
>>> Shanghai has served as a laboratory for many of China’s most important
>>> market reforms. It is home to the world’s largest container port, the
>>> country’s main stock exchange and many of its leading scholars, writers
>>> and artists.
>>> The city has been a crucial steppingstone for generations of China’s
>>> leaders, including Mr. Xi, who was appointed the city’s top party
>>> official in 2007.
>>> Shanghai earlier had a more lenient Covid strategy, using targeted
>>> lockdowns for affected residences, but tightened and extended
>>> restrictions amid a visit by
>>> Sun Chunlan, a vice premier, beginning April 2. Residents see the change
>>> as a sign Beijing demanded full compliance with China’s zero-Covid
>>> policy, which Mr. Xi has touted.
>>> A spokesperson for the Shanghai government didn’t respond to a request
>>> for comment.
>>> Even as Covid cases spread in the city this spring, authorities insisted
>>> that a citywide lockdown wouldn’t be necessary—right up until the day
>>> before the abrupt March 27 announcement of mass lockdown measures that
>>> caught tens of millions of residents unprepared.
>>> That initial lockdown was set to last four days for the eastern half of
>>> the city, then four days for the western half. With case counts still
>>> soaring to new highs, however, authorities then said the lockdown would
>>> be extended indefinitely. Many of those confined to their homes because
>>> of potential contact with Covid cases before the citywide lockdown have
>>> already been kept at home for more than a month, with no clear prospect
>>> of release soon.
>>> Residents said they worry that even after the citywide restrictions are
>>> lifted, the Omicron variant’s transmissibility means sudden lockdowns
>>> and tough tactics could return at any time, casting a cloud of
>>> uncertainty that could last for years.
>>> Since the broad lockdowns began in late March, food shortages have
>>> spread as pandemic measures upended supply chains, leaving some reliant
>>> on bartering and the goodwill of neighbors to survive. Some patients
>>> with non-Covid medical needs have been left to fend for themselves,
>>> while many have resisted being sent to the city’s chaotic and in some
>>> cases unhygienic makeshift quarantine centers.
>>> Shanghai on Thursday reported a record 27,000 new daily infections for
>>> the prior day, bringing the city’s total official caseload since March 1
>>> to more than 220,000 so far. While no deaths have been reported by
>>> authorities, at least three large elderly care hospitals have been
>>> overwhelmed by Covid outbreaks, resulting in patient deaths.
>>> Authorities have been swift to censor people’s complaints and what they
>>> call rumors online. On March 22, two men who shared information about
>>> Shanghai’s coming lockdown were investigated by the police on suspicions
>>> of “spreading fabricated information.” As the lockdown continues, more
>>> people are venting frustration at the Covid restrictions, saying they
>>> are harming people’s livelihoods and straining medical resources,
>>> despite potential repercussions.
>>> In a viral online post, one Shanghai resident complained that the
>>> endurance of residents had “reached its limit,” listing a litany of
>>> tragedies and grievances. “Are there officials who still listen to the
>>> people?” wrote the person, who identified herself only as An Ordinary
>>> Citizen. “How much more do we have to pay in exchange for truly putting
>>> people first?”
>>> The post was blocked on Thursday for a few hours before being restored
>>> that evening. The person didn’t respond to a request for comment.
>>>
>>> Community workers delivered food rations on Tuesday.
>>> PHOTO: ALEX PLAVEVSKI/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK
>>> Frank Tsai, a longtime Shanghai resident who hosts business and cultural
>>> events through his company China Crossroads, initially supported the
>>> country’s strict Covid measures, but said he was shocked by the food and
>>> supply bottlenecks in Shanghai, which is widely regarded as one of
>>> China’s most progressive and best-managed cities.
>>> “This regime from its very founding was built on the elimination of
>>> material anxiety, so it’s ironic that food insecurity is happening in
>>> Shanghai of all places,” he said.
>>> People must “firmly hold on to its pandemic policy without wavering,”
>>> China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency said Thursday in an editorial,
>>> calling on the public to “look at the big picture” despite the
>>> hardships. “Persistence is victory,” Mr. Xi was quoted saying.
>>> The People’s Daily, the Communist Party organ, implored citizens to
>>> “grit their teeth” and put their faith in government officials.
>>> Some expatriates said the current lockdown is the final straw after
>>> several years in which they felt China was turning increasingly inward.
>>> “We are at a critical point. People are really fed up,” said Bettina
>>> Schoen-Behanzin, vice president of the European Union Chamber of
>>> Commerce in China.
>>> Mr. Liu, the technology entrepreneur, was first confined to his home
>>> with his wife and two children on March 14, when the entrance to his
>>> residential compound was abruptly sealed after several neighbors were
>>> identified as “close contacts” with infected individuals. Later, the
>>> stringent citywide lockdowns began.
>>>
>>> Li Bing said he worried about what would happen to his cats if he tests
>>> positive.
>>> PHOTO: LI BING
>>> Mr. Liu’s social-media feed became filled with videos and messages of
>>> physical conflicts between residents and health workers tasked with
>>> keeping people at home, making him more anxious and pessimistic.
>>> “I’m afraid that this fight against the pandemic will evolve into some
>>> kind of social movement, where people at the bottom of the society end
>>> up hurting each other,” said Mr. Liu. “That’s terrifying.”
>>> Mr. Liu said he also worries about the roughly 200 employees at the
>>> company he founded 10 years ago, a business-to-business e-commerce
>>> platform, many of whom are struggling to get enough food during the
>>> lockdown. His company, too, is struggling from waning demand that he
>>> attributes in part to the country’s lockdowns.
>>> Li Bing, a 33-year-old employee at a different technology company, said
>>> he felt emotionally weighed down after reading numerous online pleas
>>>from residents struggling to get enough food and medical help. Last
>>> week, a video showing a pandemic prevention worker in a hazmat suit
>>> beating a corgi to death after its owners were sent to a centralized
>>> quarantine center sparked online fury.
>>> “What would happen to my cats? Would they be beaten to death?” said Mr.
>>> Li, a native of Xi’an who has lived in Shanghai for six years with his
>>> girlfriend and two cats. He said the prospect of testing positive for
>>> Covid has stirred his anxiety and made him more eager to leave China
>>> than ever.
>>> “We have witnessed so many humanitarian disasters already,” said Mr. Li.
>>> “I simply want to live as a normal person, with dignity.”

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> China & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>

>> So how are you ?
>>
>>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://archive.ph/OLLHi
>>>
>>> Nicola Sturgeon reported to police for breaking her own face mask rules
>>> First Minister accused of ‘disdain and sheer arrogance’ as police assess
>>> footage which appears to show her mingling without a face covering
>>> By
>>> Daniel Sanderson,
>>> SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENT
>>> 17 April 2022 • 2:50pm
>>> Image of Nicola Sturgeon without a face mask on
>>> Video footage shared on social media appears to show the First Minister
>>> mixing indoors without a legally-mandated face covering
>>> Scottish police are assessing a complaint against Nicola Sturgeon over
>>> footage which appeared to show her breaking her own face mask law.
>>> The First Minister visited an East Kilbride barbers shop on Saturday,
>>> for an SNP campaign event ahead of next month’s local elections.
>>> She wore a tartan mask when photographers and camera crews were present
>>> for the photo-op, during which she shaved off a man’s beard.
>>> The First Minister shaves a man's beard whilst wearing a face mask
>>> The First Minister was initially seen to be wearing a tartan face mask
>>> during the visit to the barber's shop CREDIT: Mick McGurk
>>> However, mobile phone footage, apparently taken by a customer in a
>>> barber’s chair, later emerged of Ms Sturgeon mingling at close quarters
>>> with her face uncovered.
>>> She appears to approach the man taking the video and brazenly strokes
>>> his head while mimicking the sound of an electric razor.
>>> Face mask laws in Scotland, which will be lifted on Monday after Ms
>>> Sturgeon twice delayed their abolition, state that members of the public
>>> must cover their faces in indoor public settings including barber shops.
>>> Jane Lax, a former Scottish Tory treasurer who was suspended from the
>>> party in 2019 for making “unacceptable” comments about the First
>>> Minister online, said she had reported Ms Sturgeon to the police.
>>> She accused Ms Sturgeon of showing “disdain and sheer arrogance” and
>>> said she had complained about the SNP leader because the opposition
>>> parties were not doing enough to hold her to account.
>>> Nicola Sturgeon
>>> Nicola Sturgeon is then seen in the same setting captured by the
>>> previous photographer, this time without a mask
>>> A Police Scotland spokesman said on Sunday: “We can confirm that we have
>>> received a complaint which is currently being assessed.”
>>> Despite finally agreeing to lift the final legal Covid restrictions from
>>> Monday, Ms Sturgeon has urged the public to continue wearing masks
>>> voluntarily.
>>> She claimed on Saturday that the “vast majority” of Scots would continue
>>> to follow her advice even when they were no longer under a legal
>>> obligation to do so.
>>> Those who break face mask laws can be issued with a £60 fixed penalty
>>> notice by police, which is reduced to £30 if paid within 28 days.
>>> Ms Sturgeon previously admitted to breaking her own face mask rules in
>>> December 2020 when she was pictured having a conversation at a funeral
>>> wake with her face uncovered.
>>> She issued an apology for what she described as a “stupid mistake” and
>>> did not face police action.
>>> Last month, she did not wear a face mask at Westminster Abbey, at a
>>> memorial service for Prince Philip.
>>> Although she was not under a legal obligation to wear one due to
>>> different rules in England, at the time Ms Sturgeon’s rules mandated
>>> their use in places of worship in Scotland.
>>> ‘Virtue signalling for official photos’
>>> Craig Hoy, the Scottish Tory MSP, posted a video of the barber shop
>>> incident on his Twitter account:
>>> Craig Hoy MSP
>>> @CraigWHoy1
>>> Vote SNP for cuts and double standards.
>>> Jamie Halcro Johnston MSP
>>> @jhalcrojohnston
>>> Facemasks are still legally required in Scotland.
>>> Embedded video
>>> 9:52 AM · Apr 17, 2022
>>> 601
>>> Reply
>>> Copy link
>>> Read 159 replies
>>> The SNP has been approached for comment.
>>> Dr Sandesh Gulhane, health spokesman for the Scottish Tories, said: “The
>>> video clearly shows Nicola Sturgeon isn’t practising what she preaches
>>> on face masks.
>>> “She’s happy virtue signalling for official photos, but behind closed
>>> doors it’s clear she doesn’t believe in her own rules so why should
>>> anyone else.
>>> “This is blatant hypocrisy from the First Minister who has now shown her
>>> true colours.
>>> “The public, who have been under these legal Covid restrictions for over
>>> two years, deserve an apology for this rule break.”

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61154106
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Published10 hours ago

>>> Share
>>> Related Topics
>>> Coronavirus pandemic

>>> Picture of a waiting room

>>> IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
>>> Image caption,

>>> People will now be able to sit next to each other in waiting rooms
>>> Patients in waiting rooms in England are no longer required to socially
>>> distance.
>>>
>>> The new "stepping down" rules apply to NHS hospitals, GP surgeries and
>>> emergency departments.
>>>
>>> People will still be encouraged to wear face masks and practise good
>>> hygiene.
>>>
>>> In a letter to local health services, NHS England bosses said rules
>>> needed to "adapt" with Covid-19, because the virus was widely
>>> circulating and likely to remain endemic for some time.
>>>
>>> Who can still get free Covid tests?
>>> What's the guidance if I have Covid now?
>>> Cleaning routines in England's hospitals have also been changed.
>>>
>>> Patients with Covid will have to isolate for a week instead of 10 days.
>>>
>>>
>>> And those exposed to the virus but without symptoms will not have to
>>> isolate at all.
>>>
>>> Testing rules were changed in England earlier this month, as part of the
>>> government's Living with Covid plan.
>>>
>>> 'Vulnerable people'
>>> Senior NHS bosses said they were changing the rules because of "the
>>> pressure from Covid-19 continuing".
>>>
>>> Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS providers, which represents
>>> hospital trusts, said: "We need to keep reviewing our infection-control
>>> measures.
>>>
>>> "We know at the moment that they are very important to protect
>>> vulnerable people but they also make it a lot more complex to run a
>>> hospital, get through care backlogs and provide emergency care.
>>>
>>> "What these rules are saying is each individual hospital needs to review
>>> where it is up to in terms of local infection rates but also seeing how
>>> many rooms they have in a hospital too."
>>>
>>> 'Unprecedented pressure'
>>> There is much concern over accident-and-emergency waiting times and a
>>> backlog of planned surgeries.
>>>
>>> Asked in Parliament, on Tuesday afternoon, about backlogs in the NHS,
>>> Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: "The NHS and social care are facing
>>> unprecedented pressure because of the pandemic.
>>>
>>> "In NHS settings and adult social care, there has been a necessity for
>>> infection-protection controls.
>>>
>>> "Staff absences have been higher than in normal times but the NHS has
>>> been stepping forward to bring support with the record funding that the
>>> government is providing both to the NHS and to adult social care."

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > Michael Ejercito wrote:
> >
> >

> >http://amp.dailycaller.com/2022/04/20/rhode-island-democrat-proposes-doubling-income-tax-for-unvaccinated
> > >
> > >
> > >Rhode Island Democrat Pushes Bill That Would Double Income Tax For
>Those
> > >Who Don’t Comply With Vaccine Mandate
> > >
> > >[Shutterstock/PhotobyTawat]
> > >BRIANNA LYMAN
> > >REPORTER
> > >April 20, 2022
> > >2:17 PM ET
> > >A Democratic state senator from Rhode Island is urging the state to
>pass
> > >his COVID-19 vaccine mandate that would double income taxes for those
> > >who don’t comply with the mandate.
> > >
> > >Sen. Sam Bell, citing a poll showing Rhode Islanders “still strongly
> > >support a universal vaccine mandate,” said “it’s time for us to pass my
> > >mandate bill. Cases are rising again. Surrender isn’t working.”
> > >
> > >
> > >The bill, introduced in March, would mandate everyone 16 and older who
> > >is eligible for the vaccine and lives in, works in or pays personal
> > >income taxes to the state get the jab. Those under 16 or “under
> > >guardianship shall be required to be immunized against COVID-19, with
> > >the responsibility for ensuring compliance falling on all parents or
> > >guardians with medical consent powers.”
> > >
> > >For individuals who fail to comply with the mandate, the legislation
> > >proposed a “monthly civil penalty of fifty dollars” and violators
>“shall
> > >owe twice the amount of personal income taxes as would otherwise be
> > >assessed.”
> > >
> > >Employers who do not require proof of vaccination would be subject to
> > >monthly $5,000 fines for every violation. (RELATED: Vaccines, Masks,
> > >Staying At Home Did Not Make A Major Difference In COVID Case Rates,
>NYT
> > >Writer Says)
> > >
> > >Two senators who signed onto the bill have since removed their names,
> > >NBC 10 News reported. Locals aren’t too happy with the proposal either,
> > >with Dhimitris Lusiano telling the outlet he “can’t advise anybody
> > >because everybody is different” and that he doesn’t agree with the
>bill.
> > >
> > >Republican State Sen. Jessica de la Cruz said it was “amazing” that a
> > >senator would even propose legislation like this in an exclusive
> > >statement to the Daily Caller.
> > >
> > >“I’ve been against any of the mandates, if anyone looks through my
> > >social media I was quite the prolific poster. I’m not anti-vaccine, I’m
> > >anti-coercion. It’s amazing that a state senator from Rhode Island, a
> > >state that was founded on personal and religious liberty, would
>impose a
> > >special tax on people for exercising their religious or conscientious
> > >belief, especially at a time when families are experiencing inflation
> > >and rising prices.”
> > >
> > >De la Cruz said many of her constituents have raised the alarm over the
> > >legislation but that the bill has “little chance” of passing.
> > >
> > >The Daily Caller has reached out to Bell but did not receive a response
> > >at the time of publication.

> > The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

> > the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

> > finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
> > among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
> > asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
> > 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
> > doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
> > best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
> > mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
> > Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
> > slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
> > http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
> > vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
> >
> > Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
> > ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
> >
> > So how are you ?
> >
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.the-sun.com/news/5168424/unsettling-footage-children-shanghai-hazmat-suits-school/
>>>
>>>
>>> LESSON IN FEAR Unsettling footage shows children in Shanghai wearing
>>> HAZMAT SUITS on way to school amid bonkers zero Covid regime
>>> Aliki Kraterou
>>> 21:17 ET, Apr 20 2022Updated: 21:20 ET, Apr 20 2022
>>> UNSETTLING footage appears to show young children in Shanghai dressed in
>>> hazmat suits amid China's zero Covid policy.
>>>
>>> The dystopian clip shows a group of youngsters covered from head to toe
>>> heading to school during the world's strictest lockdown.
>>>
>>> Little ones are going to school dressed in hazmat suits
>>> 5
>>> Little ones are going to school dressed in hazmat suits
>>> They are also wearing face masks
>>> 5
>>> They are also wearing face masks
>>> The children in Shanghai are forced to go to school covered as the city
>>> is under strict lockdown
>>> 5
>>> The children in Shanghai are forced to go to school covered as the city
>>> is under strict lockdown
>>> The kids, who seem to be of primary school age, are also wearing face
>>> masks, leaving only their eyes visible.
>>>
>>> The worrying scenes come as earlier this month heartbreaking images
>>> showed toddlers screaming their heads off after they were forcibly
>>> removed from their parents and kept in cages.
>>>
>>> Shanghai's 26 million residents have been plunged into an extremely
>>> strict lockdown for more than five weeks with Chinese authorities
>>> justifying it as a way to get the city's Covid cases under control.
>>>
>>> China's most populated city reported a record number of positive cases
>>> on Saturday and other areas across China tightened controls as the
>>> country kept up its zero Covid approach.
>>>
>>> Shanghai is struggling to contain the outbreak with more than 20,000
>>> Covid cases a day being reported over at least 10 days.
>>>
>>> Most of the city’s residents are trapped in their homes, with chilling
>>> footage showing ordinary citizens screaming spontaneously from
>>> desperation, after being forbidden to leave their homes for over a week.
>>>
>>> Under China's draconian Covid rules, anyone found positive - even if
>>> asymptomatic or with a mild infection - must be isolated from
>>> non-infected people.
>>>
>>> Earlier this week a sickening clip showed police in Shanghai stuffing
>>> dozens of live cats in bags to be slaughtered.
>>>
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>>> 'before killing her'
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>>> I’m a gardening pro - how to get a super green lawn using a cheap
>>> kitchen item
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>>> cheap kitchen item
>>> Horrific footage also showed police in hazmat suits dragging a man out
>>> of his apartment in Shanghai.
>>>
>>> In a video filmed from a nearby building, the man backs onto his balcony
>>> to get away, before he appears to be brought down by some sort of stun gun.
>>>
>>> The cruel approach to handling Covid has rocked the city to its core,
>>> sparking mass panic, anxiety and outrage amongst horrified residents.
>>>
>>> In a shocking video that went viral on Chinese social media, starving
>>> shoppers raided a Shanghai supermarket.
>>>
>>> It comes as earlier this week a pet corgi was filmed being beaten to
>>> death by a health care worker after its owner tested positive for Covid.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, drones are flying over buildings telling residents to
>>> “control your soul’s desire for freedom,” reports the South China
>>> Morning Post.
>>>
>>> READ MORE ON THE SUN
>>> I have to knock down my £50,000 extension because of a nosey neighbour
>>> NEIGH IT AIN'T SO I have to knock down my £50,000 extension because of a
>>> nosey neighbour
>>> On Wednesday, President Xi Jinping said “prevention and control work
>>> cannot be relaxed” indicating that the city had a long road ahead before
>>> the lift of the measures.
>>>
>>> Diplomats from more than 30 countries have written to the Chinese
>>> foreign ministry demanding an immediate end to the brutal policy.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> China & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://archive.ph/YdWxj
>>>
>>>
>>> L.A. County homeless deaths surged 56% in pandemic’s first year.
>>> Overdoses are largely to blame
>>> People, tents and piles of belongings on a city sidewalk
>>> From April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021, 1,988 deaths of homeless people
>>> were reported in L.A. County, including 715 overdose deaths. Above, a
>>> homeless encampment on skid row in downtown Los Angeles. (Luis Sinco /
>>> Los Angeles Times)
>>> BY CHRISTIAN MARTINEZ, RONG-GONG LIN II
>>> APRIL 22, 2022 7:06 PM PT
>>> Deaths of homeless people in Los Angeles County soared by 56% in the
>>> year after the start of the pandemic, driven primarily by an increase in
>>> overdoses, according to a study published this month.
>>> Between April 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021, 1,988 deaths of people
>>> experiencing homelessness were reported, up from 1,271 in the 12 months
>>> prior, pre-pandemic, according to the Department of Public Health study.
>>> The numbers in L.A. County mirror figures recorded in San Francisco over
>>> a similar time period; between March 2020 and March 2021, 331 homeless
>>> people died in the city, more than twice the number reported in any
>>> previous year, according to a study coauthored by scientists at UC San
>>> Francisco, the San Francisco Department of Public Health and New York
>>> University.
>>> The L.A. County report, unlike past years, does not provide a homeless
>>> death rate due to restrictions put on the annual homeless count.
>>> “The findings in this report reflect a true state of emergency on the
>>> streets across our County,” First District Supervisor Hilda L. Solis
>>> said in a release. “In a civil society, it is unacceptable for any of us
>>> to not be profoundly disturbed by the shocking needs documented in this
>>> year’s homeless mortality report.”
>>> In the year surveyed, 179 homeless people died of COVID-19, accounting
>>> for about a quarter of the increase in overall deaths from the year prior.
>>> Still, a surge in fatal overdoses was the primary driver of the
>>> increase. In the pre-pandemic year, the Department of Public Health
>>> reported just over 400 overdose deaths. In the year after the outbreak,
>>> that figure nearly doubled, to 715.
>>> For some homeless advocates, the results are disturbing but not unexpected.
>>> “Increases in overdoses are not surprising; we’ve seen it anecdotally,”
>>> said Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles medical director Dr. Susan Partovi.
>>> “We’re trying to give everyone Narcan [an overdose-reversing nasal
>>> spray] as much as possible.”
>>> MONTEBELLO, CA - OCTOBER 14: Bill Bodner, DEA Special Agent in Charge
>>> for the Los Angeles Field Division at a news conference held to announce
>>> the largest domestic seizure of methamphetamine in the division's
>>> history. According to DEA the seizure of controlled substances, 2,224
>>> pounds of methamphetamine, 893 pounds of cocaine and 13 pounds of heroin
>>> occurred on Oct. 2 by agents who served search warrants at multiple
>>> narcotic stash houses in Moreno Valley and Perris. The operation was the
>>> result of an investigation into a large-scale drug-trafficking
>>> organization with ties to the Sinaloa Cartel. warehouse on Wednesday,
>>> Oct. 14, 2020 in Montebello, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
>>> CALIFORNIA
>>> Seven charged with distributing fentanyl that killed 10 in Orange County
>>> April 22, 2022
>>> The pandemic likely exacerbated an already growing overdose issue,
>>> driven primarily by the prevalence of fentanyl, by making it more
>>> difficult for people experiencing homelessness to access care.
>>> It’s harder to make an appointment for Suboxone, a medication used to
>>> treat opioid addiction, and to access any type of resources, Partovi said.
>>> Partovi called for the implementation of safe injection sites, like
>>> those in New York City, to combat the opioid epidemic. Such sites allow
>>> the use of drugs while providing clean needles and other medical
>>> treatment as well as monitoring users for overdoses.
>>> “We need to stop vilifying people who are addicted to drugs,” Partovi said.
>>> Young, Latino and Black people experiencing homelessness bore the brunt
>>> of the increase in deaths, according to the report.
>>> Overall deaths increased by more than 105% among those ages 18 to 29, by
>>> 69% among Latinos and by 58% among Black people.
>>> Nearly 200 more Black homeless people died in the year after the start
>>> of the pandemic than in the year prior, while there were 334 more deaths
>>> among Latinos.
>>> Soledad Enrichment Action community health outreach worker Maria Mejia,
>>> 53, left, gives information about COVID-19 vaccines
>>> CALIFORNIA
>>> ‘Alarming’ disparities leave parts of L.A. County hit hard by COVID-19
>>> March 2, 2022
>>> Young, Latino and Black homeless people were also most affected by
>>> overdose deaths, with increases of more than 112% for both 18- to
>>> 29-year-olds and 30- to 49-year-olds, 84% for Latinos and 74% for Black
>>> people.
>>> In addition, homicide deaths rose by nearly 50%, and deaths from traffic
>>> injuries rose by more than 30%.
>>> The county has attempted to address barriers to care during the pandemic
>>> and worked to provide services and support to homeless people, including
>>> crisis response teams to connect unhoused people to coronavirus testing
>>> and vaccinations, said public health director Barbara Ferrer.
>>> An estimated 65% of people experiencing homelessness in L.A. County have
>>> received at least one dose of vaccine, a decent but not ideal
>>> percentage, Ferrer said.
>>> The county has made efforts to offer unhoused residents places where
>>> they can quarantine or be isolated, Ferrer said, and Project Roomkey
>>> hotel rooms can prevent medically vulnerable people from living in a
>>> situation that would create more danger for them because of COVID-19.
>>> LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 27: (Editor's note: This photo is initially
>>> for a Hayley Smith story.) Gabriela Martinez, right, is preparing a
>>> vaccination for Blandly Amaya at South Central Family Health Center on
>>> Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. The center is located in a
>>> neighborhood with the highest Omicron case rates in the county.
>>> (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
>>> SCIENCE
>>> How many California lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines? Scientists
>>> have an answer
>>> April 22, 2022
>>> “So I do want to give the county a lot of credit and all of the workers
>>> — and we’ve got a lot of private organizations as well helping — that
>>> have done everything we can,” she said. “But I still think the root of
>>> the problem of homelessness has, during the pandemic, led to an increase
>>> in mortality among people experiencing homelessness.”
>>> The county plans to expand harm-reduction services with a focus on
>>> Latino and Black homeless people, increase the distribution of naloxone
>>> and expand investments in other areas of care.
>>> But the report also notes that deaths of homeless people have been
>>> trending upward for years, without the aid of a pandemic.
>>> “This recent increase, while notably large, is consistent with a
>>> longer-term trend … since 2014,” the report said.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > Michael Ejercito wrote:
> >
> >

> >http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/04/covid-vaccine-is-effective-immunocompromised/629596/
> > >
> > >
> > >‘It’s Just Scaring People, and It’s Not Saving Lives’
> > >Stories about the pandemic’s continuing risks for immunocompromised
> > >people may create unintended harms.
> > >
> > >By Benjamin Mazer
> > >A photo of someone in a mask, looking out a window
> > >Igor Alecsander / Getty
> > >APRIL 19, 2022
> > >SHARE
> > >As the United States nears its numbing, millionth COVID death and
>shrugs
> > >its shoulders at a rise in cases, some Americans are feeling left
> > >behind. Immunocompromised people have suffered disproportionately
> > >throughout the pandemic, and even those who have been fully vaccinated
> > >wonder if they’re really safe. News stories highlight their
>struggles to
> > >adapt to a society that “doesn’t seem to care whether they survive.” “I
> > >could just go outside and within two weeks, I could be dead,” a
> > >fibromyalgia sufferer told ABC News last month. She went on to say, “It
> > >kind of feels like immunocompromised people are getting sacrificed.”
> > >
> > >This dramatic coverage underscores the continuing risks of the
>pandemic,
> > >especially for those who are most vulnerable: Immunocompromised people
> > >who get vaccinated aren’t quite as safe as the general vaccinated
> > >population. (The degree of added risk depends on the underlying
> > >condition.) But well-intentioned stories on this issue sometimes
> > >overstate the case, claiming that COVID shots for the immunocompromised
> > >are “ineffective” or “cannot work on everyone.” That is incorrect, and
> > >it hinders uptake of vaccines. The shots do provide these patients with
> > >very meaningful protection as a rule, Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of
> > >the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health, told
> > >me. To suggest otherwise “is just a complete distortion … It’s just
> > >scaring people, and it’s not saving lives.”
> > >
> > >When the mRNA vaccines finally arrived, at the end of 2020, their value
> > >for immunocompromised people remained unclear. Members of this
>high-risk
> > >group were specifically excluded from the first trials performed by
> > >Pfizer and Moderna. Patients and their doctors had only scientific
> > >scraps to guide them in the months that followed: small, preliminary
> > >studies that recorded antibody levels after shots. The initial results
> > >weren’t promising at all. One study found that just 54 percent of
> > >organ-transplant patients, who require the most powerful
> > >immune-dampening drugs, had detectable antibodies after two vaccine
> > >doses; and when present, these protective proteins accumulated in much
> > >lower quantities than were observed in the general population. Some
> > >astute patients had their own antibody levels measured and declared
> > >themselves “vaccinated but not protected” when the results came up
>short.
> > >
> > >Sure enough, when Omicron arrived last fall, immunocompromised people
> > >were hit the hardest. A study conducted by Kaiser Permanente in
> > >California showed that immunocompromised patients who had received
>three
> > >Moderna doses were just 29 percent protected from Omicron infection—as
> > >compared with the 71 percent protection afforded others. Some patients’
> > >antibody levels can still be low after three, four, or even five
>vaccine
> > >doses. (Three primary doses and two boosters are now recommended for
> > >this population.)
> > >
> > >Yet there’s a silver lining. Antibodies matter, but they matter most
>for
> > >preventing illness, at any level of severity. Regarding the most
> > >dangerous outcomes from disease, recent research from the CDC indicates
> > >that—shot for shot—the immunocompromised achieve most of the same
> > >benefits as healthy people. One study, published in March, looked at
>the
> > >pandemic’s Delta wave and found that three doses of an mRNA vaccine
>gave
> > >immunocompromised people 87 percent protection against hospitalization,
> > >compared with 97 percent for others. Another CDC report, also out last
> > >month, suggested that on the very worst outcomes—the need for a
> > >breathing tube, or death—mRNA vaccines were 74 percent effective for
> > >immunocompromised patients (including many who hadn’t gotten all their
> > >shots), and 92 percent effective for the immunocompetent. A
> > >10-to-20-percentage-point gap in safety from the most dire outcomes is
> > >consequential, especially for those who are most susceptible to the
> > >disease. Still, these results should reassure us that the
> > >immunocompromised are not fighting this battle unarmed.
> > >
> > >
> > >That reassurance means all the more when so many members of the
> > >chronic-disease community feel left for dead by the casual reversals of
> > >pandemic funding and restrictions. But in place of measured consolation
> > >from the experts, they find offhanded comments saying that the vaccines
> > >“don’t work” for them (as one public-health-school dean tweeted earlier
> > >this month). This despairing rhetoric can’t be helping to encourage
> > >vaccination. The CDC hasn’t published data on what proportion of the
> > >immunocompromised remain unvaccinated or undervaccinated, but one
>survey
> > >of 21,000 autoimmune patients taking immunosuppressive medications,
> > >conducted by a network of rheumatology clinics, found that, as of last
> > >September, one in four hadn’t received any shots. Several clinicians
> > >involved with this population told me that, even now, many patients are
> > >unvaccinated.
> > >
> > >RECOMMENDED READING
> > >Bales of hay dressed up to look like a bride and groom
> > >The Pre-wedding Parties Where Couples Charge Admission
> > >JULIE BOGEN
> > >An excavation of human remains
> > >An Ancient Case of the Plague Could Rewrite History
> > >SARAH ZHANG
> > >
> > >The Way American Parents Think About Chores Is Bizarre
> > >JOE PINSKER
> > >Read: America is zooming through the pandemic panic-neglect cycle
> > >
> > >When Anne Mills, a physician in Virginia with rheumatoid arthritis,
>went
> > >public with her inoculation experience last year, she hoped to reassure
> > >her friends in the autoimmune community that the shots are safe and
> > >effective. “We’re still looking at very high response rates and very
> > >robust protection against severe disease,” she told me. Now that her
> > >entire family is vaccinated, Mills feels better able to mentally
> > >compartmentalize her condition, and she is working and traveling again
> > >while maintaining some precautions. But she worries that many
> > >immunocompromised people have gotten the message that vaccination isn’t
> > >worth it.
> > >
> > >Michael Putman, a rheumatologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin
>who
> > >cares for many patients receiving immunosuppressive medications for
> > >autoimmune diseases, confirms that it’s a battle to get his patients
> > >inoculated. “The idea that the vaccines don’t work for
>immunocompromised
> > >people has definitely contributed to hesitancy,” he told me. Many
> > >autoimmune sufferers worry that the shots might lead to a flare-up of
> > >their disease symptoms. Some of Putman’s patients have decided not to
> > >take that risk after reading news stories suggesting that the
>injections
> > >wouldn’t help them much anyway. Ironically, patients with rheumatologic
> > >conditions, like Putman’s, are generally among the most protected
>within
> > >the immunocompromised cohort, as measured both by antibody production
> > >and clinical outcomes.
> > >
> > >
> > >A large CDC analysis of two-dose vaccine regimens within the
> > >immunocompromised population found that rheumatologic patients saw
>an 81
> > >percent decrease in their risk of COVID hospitalization. Next came
> > >solid-cancer patients (79 percent protection), blood-cancer patients
>(74
> > >percent), and those born with immune deficiencies (73 percent).
> > >Organ-transplant recipients were the least safe from COVID after
> > >vaccination, with just 59 percent of their hospitalizations prevented
> > >after two doses. Robert Rakita, a transplant-infectious-disease
> > >specialist at the University of Washington, told me that some of his
> > >patients have died from COVID despite having had three or four mRNA
> > >injections. He recommends that all vaccinated organ recipients continue
> > >to wear a mask and avoid crowded indoor activities. But such patients
> > >make up just 8 percent of the 7 million Americans estimated to be
>taking
> > >medications that weaken their immune system. When COVID reporting
> > >casually lumps together all “immunocompromised” patients, it papers
>over
> > >these differences. Readers are left to think that a fibromyalgia
>patient
> > >and a kidney recipient face similar risks.
> > >
> > >For chronically ill people, political power derives in part from group
> > >solidarity; the larger the contingent, the louder the voice. Yet in
> > >pursuit of visibility and justice, the “vaccinated but vulnerable”
> > >category may be expanded well beyond what the science suggests, to
> > >include not only organ-transplant patients, but also people with
> > >diabetes, asthma, obesity, or high blood pressure. According to this
> > >paradoxical arithmetic, half of the country can end up in the “high
> > >risk” category by some definition. In truth, we all remain
>vulnerable to
> > >COVID; inoculation isn’t 100 percent effective in any demographic. The
> > >threat of long COVID also lingers. But the peril is far more
> > >concentrated than generic references to “chronic conditions” or
> > >“comorbidities” would suggest. Age continues to be, far and away, the
> > >most powerful risk factor for becoming seriously ill from the
> > >coronavirus. Putman, the rheumatologist, uses an example of a
> > >64-year-old doctor counseling a 24-year-old autoimmune patient to take
> > >precautions. The patient should probably be admonishing the doctor
> > >instead, he told me.
> > >
> > >When the vaccine campaign began, with shots for the oldest Americans in
> > >nursing homes and elsewhere, news coverage emphasized seniors’ feelings
> > >of joy and relief. But the immunocompromised have been described in
>very
> > >different terms, even as vaccines are saving their lives too. Stories
> > >focus on their uncertainty and fear—and may end up adding to the same.
> > >
> > >Benjamin Mazer is a physician specializing in laboratory medicine.

> > The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
> > the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
> > finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
> > among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
> > asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
> > 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
> > doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
> > best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
> > mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
> > Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
> > slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
> > http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
> > vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
> >
> > Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
> > ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
> >
> > So how are you ?
>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/04/21/1094123780/battle-over-cdcs-powers-goes-far-beyond-travel-mask-mandate
>>>
>>> Battle over CDC's powers goes far beyond travel mask mandate
>>> April 21, 20225:42 PM ET
>>> Pien Huang
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>>> A discarded mask is seen on the floor inside New York's John F. Kennedy
>>> Airport on Tuesday, a day after a federal judge in Florida struck down
>>> the CDC's mask mandate for public transportation.
>>> Spencer Platt/Getty Images
>>> In a startling rebuke to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
>>> a federal judge in Florida on Monday struck down an agency order that
>>> required people nationwide to wear masks on public transportation to
>>> prevent the spread of COVID-19.
>>>
>>> The travel mask mandate had been in place for 14 months, implemented
>>> shortly after President Biden's inauguration, and was a key part of the
>>> country's response to the pandemic. The decision strikes at the heart of
>>> the CDC's mission.
>>>
>>> In court documents, the judge described the order as "unlawful" and
>>> claimed "the Mask Mandate exceeds the CDC's statutory authority."
>>>
>>> The news of the ruling was celebrated by some – videos of airline
>>> passengers ripping off their masks and rejoicing trended online.
>>>
>>> The judge who tossed mask mandate misunderstood public health law, legal
>>> experts say
>>> SHOTS - HEALTH NEWS
>>> The judge who tossed mask mandate misunderstood public health law, legal
>>> experts say
>>> But the decision against the CDC raised concerns in the public health
>>> community. It's the latest in a series of challenges to the agency's
>>> authorities that could hamstring its ability to respond to this pandemic
>>> and public health crises to come.
>>>
>>> "It's stunning, the extent to which the courts are reading federal
>>> statutes in the most cramped, narrow way possible to sharply limit the
>>> powers that the federal government can exercise now or in response to
>>> future emergencies," says Lindsay Wiley, a health law professor at
>>> University of California, Los Angeles.
>>>
>>> Sponsor Message
>>>
>>> The CDC and Justice Department disagree with the mask ruling and are
>>> proceeding with an appeal. In the CDC's assessment, "an order requiring
>>> masking in the indoor transportation corridor remains necessary for the
>>> public health," the agency said in a statement. Further, "CDC believes
>>> this is a lawful order, well within CDC's legal authority to protect
>>> public health."
>>>
>>> In the face of an unprecedented pandemic, the public health agency has
>>> flexed its regulatory powers to issue sweeping, legally binding orders
>>> that have affected travel, housing and migration. The agency is now
>>> facing a backlash over some of its actions from courts and Congress.
>>>
>>> Limits on public health powers may be gaining popularity now, but health
>>> law experts say the moves are shortsighted; they warn that the
>>> restrictions could undercut the ability of health officials to respond
>>> effectively now and in the future.
>>>
>>> Supreme Court slapdown on the eviction ban
>>> If the reasoning behind this week's travel mask mandate ruling was hazy,
>>> the Supreme Court decision last August on the CDC's eviction moratorium
>>> was clear: in a 6-3 decision, the court found that the CDC had "exceeded
>>> its authority" in banning landlords across the country from ousting
>>> delinquent renters.
>>>
>>> The rationale for the moratorium was that evictions could contribute to
>>> the spread of COVID-19 by making it harder for people to isolate or
>>> quarantine.
>>>
>>> That the CDC put a stay on evictions in the first place was a move that
>>> surprised many, says Wiley. "I think the eviction moratorium really
>>> pushed the limits of what CDC is authorized to do," she says,
>>> "Intuitively, a lot of the general public and a lot of federal judges
>>> felt that this isn't exactly what CDC's role should be – that it should
>>> be left to state and local governments to think about how to handle
>>> evictions during the pandemic."
>>>
>>> The Supreme Court's majority opinion hammered home the point: "[T]he
>>> C.D.C. has imposed a nationwide moratorium on evictions in reliance on a
>>> decades-old statute that authorizes it to implement measures like
>>> fumigation and pest extermination," it reads, "It strains credulity to
>>> believe that this statute grants the C.D.C. the sweeping authority that
>>> it asserts."
>>>
>>> The CDC's regulatory powers stem from the Public Health Services Act of
>>> 1944 – "a very old statute that hasn't been updated since," says Larry
>>> Gostin, director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health
>>> Law at Georgetown University. The law, signed by President Franklin D.
>>> Roosevelt, predated the founding of the CDC by two years. It gave the
>>> public health branch of the federal government powers to, for instance,
>>> enforce quarantine laws.
>>>
>>> Decades later, those legal powers are in need of an update: "There's so
>>> much that has changed, but CDC's powers haven't," Gostin says, citing
>>> world travel, mass migration and other factors that contribute to global
>>> disease spread.
>>>
>>> The increasing conservatism of the courts also factored into the Supreme
>>> Court rebuke over the eviction moratorium, UCLA's Wiley says. The stay
>>> on evictions, which was first issued in September 2020, "was upheld by
>>> federal courts when it was being defended by the Trump administration,"
>>> Wiley notes. It was only "when it was being defended by the Biden
>>> administration before a changing judiciary," that court challenges
>>> started skewing against the government, and the Supreme Court struck it
>>> down, she says.
>>>
>>> The Supreme Court decision set a precedent that may empower lower courts
>>> to further limit public health powers, says James Hodge, a health law
>>> professor at Arizona State University. It puts the CDC's powers under a
>>> microscope, and opens it up to other challenges. "I think courts will
>>> take the [Supreme Court] decision and say things like, 'It's clear the
>>> Supreme Court does not envision [the CDC] having the direct federal
>>> authority to do what states should be doing," he says. The decision was
>>> cited in the district court ruling this week that struck down the
>>> federal mask mandate.
>>>
>>> It also forces the CDC to rethink its strategies as it faces other court
>>> challenges. "You get cold feet when you see what can happen to your
>>> scope and authority, when an entity like the Supreme Court gets hold of
>>> it," Hodge says, "Especially in a more conservative court that ... is
>>> issuing opinions that are about less about what's in the public health
>>> interest, and more about agency authority."
>>>
>>> Other public health orders challenged
>>> The CDC has issued some broad and far-reaching nationwide orders during
>>> the pandemic. Beyond issuing travel requirements and banning evictions,
>>> it has banned migrants at the borders and grounded the cruise industry
>>> for periods during the pandemic. These orders were punishable by fines
>>> and criminal penalties.
>>>
>>> "This has been the largest and most expansive use of regulatory
>>> authority [by CDC], given the unprecedented nature of this pandemic
>>> threat," Dr. Martin Cetron, director of the CDC's division of global
>>> migration and quarantine, told NPR in March 2021, "While we've been
>>> reshaping and modernizing our public health authorities for decades –
>>> and we've used them in smaller ways, on an individual basis, in the past
>>> – this pandemic has called for the more broad, population-based use of
>>> public health authorities."
>>>
>>> The CDC did not make anyone available for comment for this story despite
>>> multiple requests.
>>>
>>> While the CDC's authorities from Congress haven't changed in decades,
>>> there have been efforts by the CDC to more clearly define them, most
>>> recently with a set of rules, created at the tail end of the Obama
>>> administration that spelled out the CDC's authority to detain and
>>> quarantine individuals that might be harboring dangerous infectious
>>> diseases.
>>>
>>> "Those regulations were firmly entrenched pre-COVID," says Arizona
>>> State's Hodge, who serves as a regional director for the Network for
>>> Public Health Law. "Those rules are what CDC attempted to follow. But
>>> they got tripped up on political hurdles, and got into some hot water
>>> related to their breadth and scope."
>>>
>>> The cruise industry pushed back against a months-long "no-sail" order
>>> and the CDC's long list of requirements for restarting, alleging unfair
>>> treatment from the agency. Immigration advocates railed against a CDC
>>> order under Title 42 that turned migrants away at U.S. land borders for
>>> the stated purpose of limiting the spread of COVID-19.
>>>
>>>
>>> Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky
>>> made the decision on April 1 to rescind immigration restrictions related
>>> to COVID-19 that were first implemented during the Trump administration.
>>> Greg Nash/AFP via Getty Images
>>> The CDC announced earlier this month that it's winding down its Title 42
>>> order – now set to expire May 23. The introduction of COVID-19 from
>>> migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border has "ceased to be a serious danger to
>>> the public health," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky wrote in the decision.
>>>
>>> Health law experts say the public health rationale for establishing it
>>> in the first place was shaky, and made the agency appear politicized.
>>> "Recently, a judge said, I think quite rightly, 'This has nothing to do
>>> with public health. This is just to do with politics and border policy,'
>>> " Georgetown's Gostin says. While a ban on migrants may serve a
>>> president's immigration policy goals, using public health rationale as
>>> political cover can weaken the agency, he says. "CDC must always act
>>> with evidence, and they must always show a scientific rationale for what
>>> they do – never a political one and never stretch beyond what CDC was
>>> designed to do, which is to protect the American public in ways that
>>> individual states can't."
>>>
>>> Losing the bully pulpit
>>> When the CDC's travel masking order was invalidated by the federal
>>> judges in Florida, the agency was only able to recommend that travelers
>>> continue wearing masks.
>>>
>>> When the agency issues advice – on masks, on testing, on quarantining
>>> and isolation – its guidance is routinely questioned and many states go
>>> on to craft their own policies.
>>>
>>> As the CDC's hard powers get challenged in court, the CDC's soft powers
>>> – its ability to persuade through reputation and reason – have also
>>> taken a hit.
>>>
>>> In the past, "CDC has never had national authority over what states do
>>> in public health, and yet we haven't had the problems we're having now,"
>>> Dr. William Foege, a former CDC director, said during a panel discussion
>>> this month. "If there was even an outbreak investigation, CDC had to be
>>> asked by the state or a county or a city or a tribe to do that
>>> investigation ... and yet the system worked so well that it was never a
>>> problem. We didn't need more authority."
>>>
>>> Previously, states took CDC guidance as a basis to regulate. "Even
>>> though CDC wasn't passing the laws, the fact that the CDC said, 'this is
>>> what we think people should do' carried a lot of weight," says Liza
>>> Vertinsky, a health law professor at Emory University.
>>>
>>> But the agency's reputation has been tarnished by perceptions of
>>> politicization during the pandemic. The CDC has lost public confidence
>>> and trust, and its guidance is now frequently treated as a suggestion by
>>> some states and as a trigger for active opposition by others. "I think
>>> they can do less than they should be able to do," Vertinsky says of the
>>> CDC, "because when they issue the guidance, it no longer carries the
>>> weight."
>>>
>>> Limits on public health powers have risks
>>> The conundrum for public health officials, tasked with navigating a
>>> pandemic while their powers and popularity wane, extends to state and
>>> local authorities. Some legislatures are limiting the scope and duration
>>> of public health orders on masking, vaccinations and gatherings, and
>>> requiring more public and political input for disease mitigation measures.
>>>
>>> "There's no question that the nation's public health authorities are
>>> being challenged at all levels," says Dr. Georges Benjamin, head of the
>>> American Public Health Association. "We are tying the hands of our
>>> nation's public health officials, and we need to stop and think about
>>> that because you cannot manage an emergency by committee."
>>>
>>> The move to curb so many public health powers strikes some as myopic.
>>> "People on all parts of the political spectrum need to understand that
>>> the next pandemic might look very different," says Wendy Parmet, health
>>> law professor at Northeastern University, "What if the next disease
>>> kills kids, not adults? Are we going to force kids to go to school in
>>> person?"
>>>
>>> In the next pandemic, the political dynamics could be flipped.
>>> Republicans might prefer to be more aggressive at disease control than
>>> Democrats, as happened with the Ebola outbreak in 2014, when
>>> "Republicans [wanted] more quarantines, and Democrats were arguing for a
>>> much more lenient approach," Parmet says. "We need to prepare for the
>>> unknown. We need to have the imagination to understand that what comes
>>> next might not look either epidemiologically or politically like what
>>> we've seen."
>>>
>>> The CDC must "tread carefully" as it determines how to respond to court
>>> challenges to its powers, Arizona State's Hodge says. The agency has
>>> asked the Justice Department to appeal this week's travel mask mandate
>>> ruling, to help preserve the agency's public health authorities.
>>>
>>> There are big benefits to winning an appeal – and clear risks to losing.
>>> Currently, the district court ruling is a limited decision with "very
>>> little precedential value," Hodge says. A failed appeal in a higher
>>> court could put permanent limits on the CDC's regulatory powers.
>>>
>>> For the future, the CDC's authorities should be clearly defined,
>>> Georgetown's Gostin says. "The CDC needs to have power, so it doesn't
>>> always have to look behind its shoulder at what some governor, some
>>> congressperson, or some judge is saying. They need to act decisively and
>>> flexibly," he says. "But they also need to respect individual liberty
>>> and act with evidence and always act using the least restrictive
>>> alternative."
>>>
>>> He says these principles, stretched and magnified by COVID-19, should be
>>> assigned to the agency as part of a modernization act from Congress,
>>> which hasn't significantly updated the CDC's powers since 1944. "We need
>>> to make sure that they have the kind of modern legal tools that any
>>> public health agency needs to do a good job."
>>>
>>> But in the current political climate, when public health mandates are
>>> unpopular and public health workers are facing attacks, "it's just as
>>> likely CDC would be curtailed as expanded" as part of a congressional
>>> reexamination of its powers, Gostin says.
>>>
>>> By all accounts, including its own, the CDC has acted imperfectly in its
>>> response to this pandemic. The agency has much work ahead in evaluating
>>> how it could do better and how to regain public trust.
>>>
>>> Even so, the push to restrain the CDC's regulatory powers is misguided,
>>> and could lead to dangerous repercussions, Hodge warns. "When the next
>>> threat hits us, everybody is going to turn right back to CDC and say,
>>> 'What are you doing about this? How are you responding?' "
>>>
>>> Having less authority to issue orders to contain health threats could
>>> backfire on the nation.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/mIrzcblxXPw/m/CEOucnrCAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/protesters-call-for-chicago-to-reinstate-mask-mandate-due-to-rising-covid-cases/2815290/
>>>
>>>
>>> Protesters Call for Chicago to Reinstate Mask Mandate Due to Rising
>>> COVID Cases
>>> Both Illinois and Chicago rescinded their mask mandates in February
>>> following decreases in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations
>>> By Christian Farr • Published April 24, 2022 • Updated on April 24, 2022
>>> at 6:08 pm
>>>
>>>
>>> 0:01/ 2:06
>>>
>>> Share Expand
>>>
>>> A number of Chicago residents stood together in the Little Village
>>> neighborhood Sunday, pleading for the city to reinstate its COVID-19
>>> mask mandate to prevent a possible surge following another uptick in cases.
>>>
>>> Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, of the city's 25th Ward, along with members of
>>> the People's Response Network, expressed concerns about mask mandates
>>> being lifted locally and nationwide.
>>>
>>> In late February, both the state of Illinois and city of Chicago
>>> rescinded their mask mandates after sustained decreases in the number of
>>> new cases and hospitalizations.
>>>
>>> Protesters argue Chicago's Department of Public Health didn't do a good
>>> job at handling the pandemic and said the city's Black and Brown
>>> communities are still at risk. The group also presented a list of
>>> demands, including reintroducing the mask mandate across the city and in
>>> Chicago Public Schools.
>>>
>>> “We need to make sure that we prioritize the well being and the health
>>> of our students and staff in CPS," Sigcho-Lopez said. "We have schools
>>> like in Pilsen in the 25th Ward, where we still have vaccination rates
>>> that don't even reach 50% 30%? In some cases, higher. Is it possible
>>> that we're still insisting on lifting a mandate?”
>>>
>>> The group is also pushing for the expansion of free COVID-19 testing for
>>> at-risk communities on the South, Southwest and West sides of the city.
>>>
>>> The Illinois Department of Public Health in early April issued a COVID
>>> public health warning, saying "case rates are slowly rising in many
>>> areas of the state." Health officials advised people to pay attention to
>>> the conditions in their communities and to stay up-to-date on their
>>> vaccinations.
>>>
>>> Local
>>>
>>> CORONAVIRUS ILLINOIS
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>>>
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>>> Chicago, too, has seen a recent uptick in cases.
>>>
>>> The city was averaging 521 daily COVID cases as of Friday, a 15% hike
>>>from a week earlier, according to data from CDPH. However, both
>>> hospitalizations and deaths were down from the week prior.
>>>
>>> Chicago's community level status remains low, the least severe of the
>>> three risk levels as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and
>>> Prevention.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/-5Br4eX19qM/m/UaM_99LCAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
>HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://reason.com/2022/04/27/anthony-fauci-thinks-scientific-expertise-trumps-the-rule-of-law
>>>
>>> Anthony Fauci Thinks Scientific Expertise Trumps the Rule of Law
>>> The president’s COVID-19 adviser embodies the arrogance of technocrats
>>> who are sure they know what’s best for us.
>>> JACOB SULLUM | 4.27.2022 12:01 AM

>>>
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>>> Anthony-Fauci-1-11-22
>>> (CNP/AdMedia/Sipa/Newscom)
>>> Anthony Fauci was "surprised and disappointed" by last week's ruling
>>> against the mask mandate for travelers issued by the Centers for Disease
>>> Control and Prevention (CDC). "This is a CDC issue," President Joe
>>> Biden's top medical adviser told CNN. "It should not have been a court
>>> issue."
>>>
>>> Fauci, who objects to federalism as well as judicial review, embodies
>>> the mild-mannered arrogance of technocrats who assume their scientific
>>> expertise trumps the rule of law. Because they believe they know what is
>>> best for us, they are dismayed by any attempt to limit their influence
>>> or restrain their power.
>>>
>>>
>>> Fauci did vaguely criticize the substance of U.S. District Judge Kathryn
>>> Kimball Mizelle's decision, calling her reasoning "not sound" and "not
>>> particularly firm." But his main point was that she had no business
>>> determining whether the CDC had complied with the law, because courts
>>> should not be "getting involved in things that are unequivocally public
>>> health decisions."
>>>
>>> White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki concurred: "Public health
>>> decisions shouldn't be made by the courts. They should be made by public
>>> health experts."
>>>
>>> But Mizelle did not make a public health decision; she made a legal
>>> decision, based on her understanding of the relevant statutes. Contrary
>>> to Psaki's implication, courts are not only authorized but obligated to
>>> make such decisions, as she surely would have conceded had Mizelle ruled
>>> in the CDC's favor.
>>>
>>> The Justice Department is appealing Mizelle's ruling, but it did not
>>> seek a stay that would have restored the mask requirement while the case
>>> is pending. Although that omission may seem puzzling given the CDC's
>>> claim that the mandate "remains necessary for the public health," it
>>> makes sense if the administration's goal is to facilitate future power
>>> grabs by keeping the agency's statutory authority as vague as possible.
>>>
>>> If there is "no place for the courts" to assess the legality of
>>> disease-control edicts, as Fauci maintains, it follows that the Supreme
>>> Court erred not only by blocking the CDC's nationwide eviction
>>> moratorium but even by taking up the issue. Evidently, it also should
>>> have stayed out of the dispute over the federal vaccination-or-testing
>>> requirement for private employees, which it likewise deemed illegal.
>>>
>>> Fauci's impatience with legal niceties has been apparent for some time.
>>> "The states are very often given a considerable amount of leeway in
>>> doing things the way they want to do it," he complained in a 2020
>>> interview with BBC Radio 4, "as opposed to in response to federal
>>> mandates, which are relatively rarely given."
>>>
>>> The result, Fauci explained, was "a considerable disparity, with states
>>> doing things differently in a nonconsistent way." That "disparity," he
>>> averred, "has been a major weakness in our response" to the pandemic.
>>>
>>> The "leeway" that bothers Fauci is required by the Constitution, which
>>> leaves states with the primary responsibility for addressing public
>>> health threats under a broad "police power" that the federal government
>>> was never given. So his beef is not simply with the way COVID-19 policy
>>> happened to play out in the United States; it is an objection to our
>>> system of government.
>>>
>>> Biden Begins Using Clemency To Ameliorate the Damage Done by the
>>> Draconian Drug Policies He Long Supported
>>> That system limits the federal government to specifically enumerated
>>> powers, which do not include a general mandate to fight communicable
>>> diseases or protect public health. At the same time, the Constitution
>>> and Supreme Court precedent prohibit states as well as the federal
>>> government from violating certain rights, even during a public health
>>> emergency.
>>>
>>> That explains why courts heard and sometimes upheld objections to
>>> COVID-19 control policies that restricted religious gatherings, the
>>> right to keep and bear arms, and access to abortion. If Fauci is right
>>> that such policies should be left to government experts, all of those
>>> interventions were misbegotten, regardless of their legal merits.
>>>
>>> "It's a bad precedent when decisions about public health issues are made
>>> by people [who] don't have experience or expertise in public health,"
>>> Fauci told Fox News on Saturday. Americans should be thankful that the
>>> courts do not share his confusion.

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/sJ5a1g5WCTM/m/h5zsnpP1AQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://archive.ph/aOMrh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Committee says international travel should not be singled out in
>>> response to any future pandemics
>>> An empty check-in area at Heathrow airport on 1 April 2020
>>> An empty check-in area at Heathrow airport on 1 April 2020. Photograph:
>>> Paul Childs/Reuters
>>> Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent
>>> @GwynTopham
>>> Sun 24 Apr 2022 19.01 EDT
>>> International travel should be protected in future pandemics, MPs have
>>> urged, describing the Covid restrictions imposed by the UK government as
>>> confusing, arbitrary and disproportionate.
>>> The Commons transport select committee said the government should learn
>>> lessons from the coronavirus pandemic to create a predictable and
>>> transparent system for future public health crises, to support
>>> travellers and the aviation industry.
>>> In a critical report, it said the curbs on foreign travel during the
>>> pandemic were “disproportionate to the risks to public health”.
>>> The cross-party committee said restrictions should be comparable to
>>> those applied domestically, and international travel should not be
>>> “singled out”.
>>> The report concludes that the “decision-making process was not
>>> transparent or consistent, nor based on scientific consensus”, resulting
>>> in rules that caused “a severe financial shock to the sector”.
>>> The committee also criticised ministers for abdicating all
>>> responsibility for the queues, cancellations and delays seen this Easter
>>> as airlines and airports struggled to recruit staff in time for a
>>> resurgence in passenger demand, after the sudden lifting of all Covid
>>> isolation and testing requirements.
>>> It said the government was attempting to “lay the blame on an aviation
>>> sector decimated by restrictions and a lack of certainty offered by
>>> ministers”, but should review its own recruitment and training
>>> processes. Airlines and airports have complained of delays in government
>>> security checks for job applicants.
>>> The committee’s chair, Huw Merriman, said: “Government action was
>>> inconsistent. It left industry and passengers confused and unable to
>>> plan ahead. This resulted in a severe economic deficit for the aviation
>>> sector.
>>> “Ministers must get on with protecting the sector against future
>>> economic shocks and reassuring passengers that future restrictions will
>>> only be implemented in extreme circumstances. Legislation is urgently
>>> needed to give the industry more flexibility to recruit new staff for
>>> the summer, to give the regulator more teeth to intervene on behalf of
>>> consumers and to provide protection from airline insolvencies.”
>>> He added: “Above all, we want ministers to be transparent with industry
>>> and passengers. Over Easter we witnessed a sector in the early stages of
>>> recovery and vulnerable to disruption. The increase in demand is
>>> encouraging but a sustained and supportive approach from government is
>>> vital to nurse the sector back to recovery.”
>>> The report calls for measures including publishing a promised aviation
>>> recovery plan; introducing an airline insolvency bill to protect
>>> consumers, employees and taxpayers; and giving the regulator more powers
>>> to fine airlines for not refunding customers when required.
>>> The Airport Operators Association said the report was “welcome
>>> recognition of the devastating impact the pandemic had on aviation”. Its
>>> chief executive, Karen Dee, said: “We join the committee in calling for
>>> a comprehensive recovery package that allows our sector to recover
>>> sustainably and prevents the UK from falling behind our international
>>> competitors.”
>>> The latest indictment of the UK’s Covid travel policies follows a
>>> critical National Audit Office report last week that found central
>>> government lost track of spending and made up rules on the hoof – as
>>> well as leaving the taxpayer on the hook for around £400m for quarantine
>>> hotels that ministers thought would be paid for by travellers.
>>> Sign up to First Edition, our free daily newsletter – every weekday
>>> morning at 7am
>>
>> Again, the only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving
>> lives, in the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly (

>> http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) finding out at any given moment,
>> including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly contagious
>> (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>> http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) for them to call
>> their doctor and self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping
>> this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the
>> worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the
>> Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage
>> mutations combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest

>> ) and again hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So again, how are you ?

>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.bbc.com/news/health-61270786
>>>
>>> Covid infections in record drop of nearly one million, says ONS
>>> Published1 day agocommentsComments

>>> Share
>>> Related Topics
>>> Coronavirus pandemic

>>> Women wearing masks in London
>>> IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
>>> There has been a record drop in the number of Covid infections in the
>>> UK, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National
>>> Statistics.
>>>
>>> Around 2.87 million people would have tested positive in the week to 23
>>> April - 900,000 fewer than the week before.
>>>
>>> Covid levels are declining in England, Scotland and Wales but are
>>> unchanged in Northern Ireland.
>>>
>>> Despite the decreases in all age groups in most of the UK, the ONS said
>>> infections remained high.
>>>
>>> "We are yet to see if this is part of a larger trend," said Kara Steel,
>>> senior statistician for the Covid-19 Infection Survey.
>>>
>>> One in 23 would test positive for the virus under the latest estimates,
>>> down from one in 17 the week before - a 24% decrease.
>>>
>>>
>>> That equates to the largest week-on-week fall in total infections since
>>> the ONS started its survey in July 2020.
>>>
>>> UK infections continue to fall - ONS
>>> The figures are an estimate, based on tests on thousands of people in
>>> random households across the UK.
>>>
>>> They provide the most accurate picture of Covid now that free testing
>>> for the public in England has come to an end.
>>>
>>> Some free testing will continue in Scotland until the end of April, and
>>> in Wales and Northern Ireland until the end of June.
>>>
>>> The ONS research found:
>>>
>>> One in 25 people in England has Covid (down from one in 17)
>>> One in 18 in Wales has Covid (down from one in 15)
>>> One in 25 in Northern Ireland has Covid (which is little changed from
>>> the week before)
>>> One in 25 in Scotland has Covid (down from one in 19)
>>> Infections fell in all regions of England. They are highest in the North
>>> East (6.1% testing positive) and lowest in London (3.6%).
>>>
>>> And infections in England are coming down among the over-70s (to 5%),
>>> younger adults and children, with the steepest falls among the youngest
>>> - those aged two to 10 (2%).
>>>
>>> Official UK data shows the number of people being admitted to hospital
>>> with Covid continues to fall.
>>>
>>> Figures had risen from about 1,100 a day in mid-February to nearly 2,400
>>> by the end of March, but they have since dropped to about 1,455
>>> admissions each day.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, the number of hospital patients with the virus in
>>> intensive-care beds is now around 325.
>>>
>>> Data for mid-April shows 1,150 people died during the previous week with
>>> Covid-19 on their death certificate - suggesting it is very likely to be
>>> the underlying cause of death.
>>>
>>> There were 1,673 deaths a week in mid-January.
>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest

>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?

>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
> > Michael Ejercito wrote:
> >

> > >http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-61272252
> > >
> > >
> > >People with Covid in Scotland no longer need to self-isolate
> > >Published1 day ago

> > >Share
> > >Related Topics
> > >Coronavirus pandemic

> > >Girl looking out of window
> > >IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
> > >People with Covid in Scotland no longer need to self-isolate and
>contact
> > >tracing has come to an end as case numbers continue to fall.
> > >
> > >Covid-19 infections have dropped for the fifth successive week, with
> > >about one in 25 people having the virus, compared with one in 19
>last week.
> > >
> > >Following a change in Scottish government guidance, anyone feeling
> > >unwell with Covid symptoms is now advised to just stay at home.
> > >
> > >Why do we no longer need to self-isolate?
> > >A woman looks out her window
> > >IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
> > >Health Secretary Humza Yousaf says Scotland is now in a "different
>phase
> > >of the pandemic" and is "focused on reducing severe harm of the virus".
> > >
> > >Covid-19 is effectively now being treated in the same way as any other
> > >virus.
> > >
> > >What is happening with testing?
> > >Covid testing
> > >IMAGE SOURCE,PA MEDIA
> > >You will no longer be advised to take a PCR test, mass testing has
> > >ended, testing sites are closing and test and trace has finished. Free
> > >lateral flow tests for the general population have already come to
>an end.
> > >
> > >
> > >The Protect Scotland app will be closed down but users are advised to
> > >keep the app on their phones in case it is needed again at a future
>date.
> > >
> > >What are the Covid symptoms?
> > >New recognised symptoms
> > >Scotland's list of official Covid-19 symptoms has now been expanded,
> > >bringing it closer in line with guidance in the rest of the UK.
> > >
> > >The original signs of a Covid infection that were recognised in the UK
> > >were fever, new continuous cough and loss of sense of smell or taste.
> > >
> > >Additions to the list in Scotland now include: shortness of breath,
> > >unexplained tiredness, lack of energy, muscle aches or pains, unusual
> > >hunger, headaches, sore throat, stuffy or runny nose, and diarrhoea,
> > >feeling sick or being sick.
> > >
> > >What do I do if I have symptoms?
> > >Woman sneezing
> > >IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
> > >Adults who have symptoms of Covid and other respiratory illnesses and
> > >have a high temperature, or do not feel well enough to go to work or
> > >carry out normal activities, will be advised to stay at home until
>their
> > >fever has gone or they feel well enough.
> > >
> > >Children and young people aged 18 and under with mild symptoms such
>as a
> > >runny nose, sore throat, or slight cough who are otherwise well, do not
> > >need to stay at home and can continue to attend education settings.
> > >
> > >The Scottish government says this reflects the fact that children and
> > >young people generally have a higher likelihood than adults of regular
> > >instances of respiratory symptoms from non-Covid illnesses.
> > >
> > >How is the NHS affected?
> > >woman in mask being swabbed by person in visor

> > >IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
> > >Image caption,

> > >Health and social care workers are among those who can still be tested
> > >NHS Scotland has now also been taken out of emergency footing as Covid
> > >cases continue to fall.
> > >
> > >However, testing will remain available to certain groups including
> > >health and social care workers, care home and hospital visitors,
> > >patients groups eligible for treatment, hospital patients, unpaid
>carers
> > >and people in prison.
> > >
> > >What is the expert opinion?
> > >linda bauld
> > >IMAGE SOURCE,UNIVERSITY OF EDINBUGH
> > >Public health expert Prof Linda Bauld says people can still become
> > >really unwell with Covid and those with a high temperature are strongly
> > >advised to stay at home. If they still have lateral flow tests in the
> > >house and test positive, adults should isolate for five days and
> > >children for three days.
> > >
> > >She warns that the pandemic is not over yet and says measures may need
> > >to be reassessed if a new Covid-19 variant "really challenged" the
> > >progress made.
> > >
> > >Are vaccinations still happening?
> > >elderly woman given vaccine
> > >IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
> > >Those eligible for the spring booster are adults aged 75 years and over
> > >(or who will turn 75 by 30 June 2022), residents in care homes for
>older
> > >adults and individuals aged 12 years and over who have a weakened
>immune
> > >systems.
> > >
> > >For some immunosuppressed people this may be their fifth jab, as extra
> > >doses were given to those with certain health conditions.
> > >
> > >All five to 11-year-olds in the UK are eligible for a low-dose Covid
> > >vaccine.
> > >
> > >What is the situation with masks?
> > >Woman on a train in a mask
> > >IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
> > >People in Scotland are no longer legally required to wear face
>coverings
> > >in crowded indoor places such as shops and restaurants, or on public
> > >transport. However, the Scottish government and health experts are
>still
> > >strongly advising people to continue to wear masks voluntarily.

> > The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
> > the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
> > finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
> > among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
> > asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
> > 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
> > doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
> > best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
> > mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
> > Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
> > slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
> > http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
> > vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
> >
> > Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
> > ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
> >
> > So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-61276303
>>>
>>> Covid breach court case criticised by Bedford gym owner
>>> By Jon Ironmonger
>>> BBC Look East
>>>
>>> Published19 hours ago
>>> Share
>>> Alex Lowndes
>>> IMAGE SOURCE,GAINZ FITNESS & STRENGTH
>>> Image caption,
>>> Alex Lowndes said gyms should never have been closed
>>> A gym boss who is among more than 20 people who overturned a prosecution
>>> for a gym-related Covid breach said the case against him was a waste of
>>> time.
>>>
>>> Alex Lowndes refused to close his Gainz Fitness & Strength in Bedford in
>>> November 2020, when restrictions were imposed in England.
>>>
>>> Bedford Borough Council's case collapsed but the authority said it had
>>> acted in the public interest.
>>>
>>> A lawyer told the BBC she had successfully defended 23 similar cases.
>>>
>>> Under Covid regulations at the time - the second national lockdown in
>>> England - sports venues could only open in limited circumstances, such
>>> as for the training of elite athletes.
>>>
>>> Gainz Fitness and Strength
>>> IMAGE SOURCE,BEDFORDSHIRE POLICE
>>> Image caption,
>>> Police gave a prohibition notice to Gainz Fitness & Strength in Bedford
>>> in November 2020
>>> Infection rates and hospital admission were rising in the area but Mr
>>> Lowndes said he felt strongly that gyms should remain open.
>>>
>>>
>>> 'Based on principle'
>>> "It became clear it was an airborne disease, you're more prone to it if
>>> you're unhealthy, overweight, etc, and gyms contributed a very small
>>> amount to the spread of the virus," he said.
>>>
>>> "From a mental health point of view, gyms are really important, people
>>> depend on them, and I think people underestimate that.
>>>
>>> "[Contesting the case] was based on principle. We should never have shut
>>> in the first place and we stand by what we did at the time."
>>>
>>> The gym was raided in November 2020 and Mr Lowndes charged with a breach
>>> of lockdown regulations, which he denied.
>>>
>>> He faced a £10,000 fine and was due to stand trial last in March but the
>>> council failed to gather enough evidence.
>>>
>>> The authority requested an adjournment, which was rejected by magistrates.
>>>
>>> presentational grey line
>>> Cases successfully defended
>>> Lucinda Nicholls
>>> IMAGE SOURCE,NICHOLLS & NICHOLLS
>>> Image caption,
>>> Lucinda Nicholls said the prosecutions "make no sense"
>>> Gyms in England and Wales were forced to close over various periods
>>> during the pandemic but many defied the measures to stay open.
>>>
>>> London-based criminal defence lawyer Lucinda Nicholls said she had
>>> represented 25 cases involving an alleged gym-related Covid breach, 23
>>> of which were found in favour of her client.
>>>
>>> In most cases, a fixed penalty notice was issued when there was an
>>> exception or reasonable excuse argument, she said.
>>>
>>> "The biggest issue is enforcement of the legislation - the law hasn't
>>> been followed, but councils and prosecutors doggedly insist on
>>> proceeding, it makes no sense," she added.
>>>
>>> "We've been in scenarios where costs have just added and added, and
>>> we've written to the local authority saying, 'Why are you doing this?'
>>> This is completely unnecessary'."
>>>
>>> Local Authorities as well as the police or Crown Prosecution Service
>>> have the power to issue and pursue fixed penalty notices in the courts.
>>>
>>> The CPS said each case was considered based on its "individual merits"
>>> and prosecutions followed "whenever our legal test is met".
>>>
>>> The Local Government Association did not wish to comment.
>>>
>>> presentational grey line
>>> Mr Lowndes claimed the council case was "flimsy" and "inept", and that
>>> it was also "ludicrous" to continue to prosecute people for exercising
>>> after details of the "partygate" gatherings in Westminster emerged.
>>>
>>> "They [the council] should have looked at it even six months in and gone
>>> 'this is a waste of time'," he added.
>>>
>>> "But they kept going and they kept going, they brought in an external
>>> barrister, they kept spending money, and it just got out of control."
>>>
>>> Gainz Fitness & Strength in Bedford
>>> IMAGE SOURCE,GAINZ FITNESS & STRENGTH
>>> Image caption,
>>> Gainz Fitness & Strength in Bedford is a 24-hour gym
>>> Bedford Borough Council said regulations were enforced in line with its
>>> duty at the time.
>>>
>>> "We brought this case because there was ample evidence for a successful
>>> prosecution following the non-payment of a fixed penalty notice and
>>> because it was in the public interest," said a council spokesman.
>>>
>>> "It is important that we remember that the threat posed by the virus
>>> then was very different to that which we face now."
>>>
>>> "The pandemic isn't over but the combination of immunity from prior
>>> infection, vaccinations and antivirals has made it possible for us to
>>> return cautiously to the activities that we love."

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7k0g8A-Owuc/m/hoCzU_yoAQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.bbc.com/news/health-61349651
>>>
>>>
>>> Hepatitis in children mystery still being investigated as cases rise
>>> By Philippa Roxby
>>> Health reporter
>>>
>>> Published22 hours ago

>>> Share
>>> Related Topics
>>> Coronavirus pandemic

>>> A child in hospital
>>> IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
>>> UK health officials say they are still no clearer on the cause of a rise
>>> in liver inflammation, or hepatitis, in children.
>>>
>>> A common adenovirus is thought to play a role, but other possibilities
>>> are still being investigated.
>>>
>>> In the UK, 163 cases have now been identified, and 11 children have
>>> received liver transplants.
>>>
>>> Cases have been detected in 20 countries worldwide, with nearly 300
>>> children affected, and one death.
>>>
>>> "It's important that parents know the likelihood of their child
>>> developing hepatitis is extremely low," said Dr Meera Chand, from the UK
>>> Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
>>>
>>> She said parents should still be alert to the signs - particularly
>>> jaundice, a yellow tinge in the whites of the eyes - and they should
>>> contact a doctor if concerned.
>>>
>>>
>>> Since last week, another 18 children in the UK with hepatitis have been
>>> identified - 118 live in England, 22 in Scotland, 13 in Wales and 10 in
>>> Northern Ireland.
>>>
>>> The children's most common symptoms were jaundice and vomiting - and
>>> most have been under five years old.
>>>
>>> Hepatitis in children: What is causing it?
>>> Hepatitis detected in nearly 300 children worldwide
>>> Child hepatitis cases falsely linked to Covid jab
>>> The UKHSA's latest report on cases says there is "some apparent
>>> reduction in confirmed cases in the past two weeks overall in the UK".
>>>
>>> What's puzzling scientists is that the most likely cause - adenovirus -
>>> doesn't normally make children seriously unwell. Passed from person to
>>> person via coughs and sneezes, it can cause colds, vomiting and diarrhoea.
>>>
>>> However, it's very unusual for adenovirus to be a cause of severe
>>> hepatitis in otherwise healthy children, but it has been circulating at
>>> high levels since the start of the year after virtually disappearing
>>> during the pandemic.
>>>
>>> Genetic analysis of samples from some children has found a type of virus
>>> called AAV-2 - but it doesn't typically cause illness either, the report
>>> says.
>>>
>>> Scientists are also keeping a close eye on another type of adenovirus,
>>> called F41.
>>>
>>> "Our investigations continue to suggest that there is an association
>>> with adenovirus, and our studies are now testing this association
>>> rigorously," Dr Chand said.
>>>
>>> "We are also investigating other contributors."
>>>
>>> These include whether a new variant of adenovirus has developed which is
>>> making children more ill, or whether a previous infection, such as
>>> Covid, could be a factor.
>>
>> The latter is highly probable given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
>> especially in the U.K. and the known post-COVID inflammatory syndrome
>> (MIS-C) that happens in some children and can affect GI organs, which
>> includes the liver.
>>
>> Suggested reading:
>> https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2020/han00432.asp
>>
>>> Another possibility is that the pandemic, by delaying young children's
>>> exposure to a number of different viruses because of reduced social
>>> mixing, may have made them more prone to becoming ill.
>>>
>>> And health officials are also exploring whether there could be a link
>>> with dogs. A number of families affected said they owned dogs or had
>>> come into contact with them, but UKHSA also acknowledges that having a
>>> pet dog is common in the UK.
>>>
>>> The UKHSA says there is no evidence of any link to the Covid-19 vaccine,
>>> because most children with hepatitis were too young to receive it.
>>
>> It's impossible for the COVID-19 vaccines to cause anything in
>> children who did not receive them.
>>
>> In the interim, the only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby

>> saving lives, in the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly (
>> http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) finding out at any given moment,
>> including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly contagious
>> (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>> http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) for them to call
>> their doctor and self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping
>> this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the
>> worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the
>> Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage
>> mutations combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/_u-KhdaNyM0/m/U002ZEpaAwAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://ethicsalarms.com/2022/05/07/andrew-sullivan-on-the-dobbs-leak-freakout
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrew Sullivan On The Dobbs Leak Freakout
>>> MAY 7, 2022 / JACK MARSHALL
>>>
>>>
>>> It has been fascinating to watch Andrew Sullivan, a conservative turned
>>> Trump-deranged progressive during from about 2015 on, express his rising
>>> dismay at his adopted “side’s” drift to totalitarianism as it uses lies
>>> as metaphorical oars in the stream of public opinion.. Sullivan is too
>>> emotional to be a reliable pundit, but he’s smart and writes like an
>>> angel. His current essay about how Democrats and progressives have
>>> abandoned even the pretense of rationality is instructive.
>>>
>>> He also mounts an impressive list of ridiculous statements by abortion
>>> fans and supposedly trustworthy progressive commentators that are
>>> signature significance. Nobody should trust people who say or write
>>> garbage like this. Ever. Here are some of Andrew’s gems, only some of
>>> which I had stumbled over earlier (the comments in parentheses are mine,
>>> not Sullivan’s):
>>>
>>> Roxane Gay tweeted:“I have typed and deleted a great many comments What
>>> do you say when nine people can dictate what happens to your body? It’s
>>> ridiculous and hateful.” [That is not, of course, what a reversal of Roe
>>> would mean, but disinformation has always been at the heart of the
>>> “pro-choice” position.]
>>>
>>> “The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer announced that the court had abolished the
>>> entire 20th century. Yep: no more suffrage for women! Jim Crow now!”
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jessica Valenti: “Stripping women of their humanity and rights isn’t a
>>> consequence of the ‘pro-life’ agenda, it’s the entire point.”
>>>
>>> The Washington Post’s now thoroughly insane Jennifer Rubin: “The
>>> right-wing justices and their supporters appear ready to reject one of
>>> the Founders’ core principles: that religion shall not be imposed by
>>> government edict.” (The smear that opposing Roe constitutes a religious
>>> edict is truly despicable, and a lot of abortion fans are stooping to it.)
>>>
>>> Kurt Andersen another one:“It really is kind of remarkable that only one
>>> in five Americans call themselves Catholic, but of the Supreme Court
>>> majority apparently about to permit abortion to be outlawed, all but one
>>> are Catholic and that one was raised Catholic.”
>>>
>>> Kamala Harris (who supports her adversary’s position every time she
>>> tries to counter it, whatever the topic) was, predicably, Kamala-like:
>>>
>>> Those Republican leaders who are trying to weaponize the use of the law
>>> against women. Well we say, ‘How dare they?’ How dare they tell a woman
>>> what she can do and cannot do with her own body? How dare they? How dare
>>> they try to stop her from determining her own future? How dare they try
>>> to deny women their rights and their freedoms?
>>>
>>> To this and more, Sullivan observes,
>>>
>>>
>>> The premise here is that all women support abortion rights. But there is
>>> no serious gender gap on this question. In fact, a majority of
>>> “pro-lifers” are women, not men. So Harris is effectively saying: how
>>> dare women be allowed a voice in this debate?
>>>
>>> Within minutes of the SCOTUS leak, moreover, we were told it means that
>>> before long, interracial marriages will be banned … in a country where
>>> 94 percent support them! Imagine Clarence Thomas divorcing himself by
>>> jurisprudence….What strikes me most in these takes is the underlying
>>> contempt for and suspicion of the democratic process — from many of the
>>> same people who insist they want to save it. How dare voters have a say
>>> on abortion rights! The issue — which divides the country today as much
>>> as it has for decades — is one that apparently cannot ever be put up for
>>> a vote. On this question, Democrats really do seem to believe that seven
>>> men alone should make that decision — once, in 1973.
>>>
>>> Of course Sullivan, being Sullivan, has to ring the obligatory “a pox on
>>> both their houses” bell lest he risk being tagged as Republican or a
>>> conservative by his LGBTQ peer group. “The emotive hyperbole [is] par
>>> for the course in a country where every discourse is now dialed to
>>> eleven,” he writes. In fact, Democrats and progressives have lapped the
>>> other side of the political spectrum and some since November 2016, and
>>> it would be ennobling if Sullivan had the courage and integrity to admit
>>> it. But he doesn’t. Too bad.
>>>
>>> He also repeats a current bit of spin and misinformation that the Left
>>> has been bellowing this week. “If you look at polling, there is very
>>> little support in America for a total ban — let alone one that doesn’t
>>> make exceptions for rape and incest, ” he writes. “Gallup’s polling
>>> suggests that a whopping 80 percent of Americans want to keep abortion
>>> legal, either entirely (32 percent) or with some restrictions (48
>>> percent). Only 18 percent want it banned entirely — a position many
>>> Republicans are now forced to take. That should be a Democratic dream!”
>>>
>>> 1. Well,you know, polls.
>>>
>>> 2. That’s one way of looking at it.
>>>
>>> 3. It buries the real polling revelations.
>>>
>>> Over at the Washington Examiner, Tim Carney points out that on both the
>>> issues of , Mississippi’s abortion law (banning abortions after 15
>>> weeks, contrary to Roe) and the substance of Roe v. Wade itself, the
>>> draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito represents the majority view of
>>> the public:
>>>
>>> Begin with the law in question here: Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban.
>>> A very recent YouGov poll on abortion found that 21% would ban all
>>> abortions, an additional 20% would ban abortions after a heartbeat is
>>> detected (six weeks), another 13% would ban them after the first
>>> trimester (13 weeks), and an additional 10% would ban abortion after 15
>>> weeks — which is what Mississippi does.
>>>
>>> Add it together, and it means that 64% of people in the United States
>>> believe Mississippi’s law is either the right call or too liberal on
>>> abortion. To uphold this law is to side with the opinion of nearly
>>> two-thirds of America on abortion policy.
>>>
>>> Would Andrew’s description give you that impression?
>>>
>>> On the matter of abortion itself, Carney writes,
>>>
>>> A poll on Roe and the Supreme Court from YouGov… asked whether the
>>> federal government or the state governments should set abortion law, and
>>> opinions were fairly split — leaning 44% to 36% in favor of the federal
>>> government setting it. Of those who said the federal government should
>>> set abortion policy, only 24% said that within the federal government,
>>> the judicial branch “is best suited to deciding on abortion’s legality.”
>>> Combine those last two questions, and that’s 24% of 44% (about 11%) of
>>> the country that believes the Supreme Court should be setting abortion
>>> policy. Only that blue slice in the poll below sides with Roe on the
>>> constitutional question.
>>>
>>> Carney concludes, “So why do so many people tell pollsters they think
>>> Roe shouldn’t be overturned? It’s because most people don’t understand
>>> Roe and don’t understand that overturning it returns the issue to
>>> lawmakers and the states.”
>>>
>>> And Democrats, the news media and abortion fanatics want to keep as many
>>> people confused and furious as possible.
>>>
>>> Sullivan concludes,
>>>
>>> Leftists, if they could only snap out of their disdain for democracy,
>>> can make a powerful case for moderation on this issue against
>>> right-extremism. To do that, of course, they will have to back some
>>> restrictions on abortion in some states — which some seem very reluctant
>>> to do — and even allow some diversity of opinion within their own ranks.
>>> There are forces aiming to prevent that — forces that Biden could
>>> confront if he hadn’t long been beaten into learned helplessness. But
>>> surely someone can take the initiative.
>>>
>>> So let’s stop the hyperventilation and get back to democracy. Persuade
>>> people, if you can. Get them out to vote. Stop demonizing those you
>>> disagree with and compromise with them in office, however difficult that
>>> may be. What Roe did was kickstart the extreme cultural polarization
>>> that has defined and blighted the last few decades of American politics.
>>> Maybe the end of Roe can mark the beginning of a return to living
>>> together, and negotiating a way to make that bearable.
>>
>> Tragically, abortions are the terrible consequence of
>> http://bit.ly/terribly_hungry (Genesis 25:32) people misbehaving
>> terribly like http://bit.ly/h_angry DJT.
>>
>> Suggested further reading:
>> https://tinyurl.com/Psalm0201
>>
>> The only healthy way to stop abortions is to
>> http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) to be
>> http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) instead.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/Philippians4_12 )

>> and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://ethicsalarms.com/2022/05/08/the-dishonesty-and-desperation-of-pro-choice-advocates-in-the-wake-of-the-dobbs-leak-part-i-anything-but-the-issues
>>>
>>> The Dishonesty And Desperation Of “Pro-Choice” Advocates In The Wake Of
>>> The Dobbs Leak, Part I: Anything But The Issues
>>> MAY 8, 2022 / JACK MARSHALL
>>>
>>>
>>> Another one of the ironic boons from the despicable Supreme Court leak
>>> of Justice Alito’s draft majority opinion portending that Roe v. Wade is
>>> about to be overruled is how vividly it has exposed the intellectually
>>> dishonest and unethical nature of “pro choice” arguments. This comes as
>>> no surprise to anyone who has been following the abortion debate
>>> diligently, but in their fury and panic, abortion advocates are
>>> revealing just how weak their case is. They are also revealing that
>>> those who are willing to sacrifice nascent human lives for other
>>> objectives tend to have no compunction about using rationalizations, ad
>>> hominem attacks, classic logical fallacies and fearmongering as well as
>>> outright lies, when they finally have to defend their positions.
>>>
>>> The reappearance of the costumes from “The Handmaiden’s Tale” is a neat
>>> symbol of the whole phenomenon. (How many of such protesters haven’t
>>> read Roe, the Alito draft, or Margaret Atwood’s novel? My guess: most of
>>> them.) To be fair, prominent Democrats like this guy endorsed the hysteria:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That delusion was apiece with the suggestion that women could force men
>>> to support abortion on demand by going on a sex strike. Similarly
>>> ducking the issues are the illegal demonstrations at the homes of
>>> Justices before it is even known who voted to end Roe, and President
>>> Biden’s moronic declaration in response to the leak that “this MAGA
>>> crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed
>>> in American history—-in recent American history.”
>>>
>>> Since Roe v. Wade has been almost unanimously regarded in legal and
>>> academic circles as a badly reasoned opinion (even Ruth Bader Ginsburg
>>> conceded it was a botch), the epitome of flagrant judicial activism and
>>> legislation by judges, those trying to defend the decision now have had
>>> to resort to distractions, diversions, straw men and fictional slippery
>>> slopes. “Next those fascists will ban inter-racial marriage and Brown v.
>>> Board of Education!” more than a few Democratic officials and pundits
>>> have proclaimed, apparently forgetting that just a few weeks ago they
>>> were demanding that Justice Thomas, the dean of the Court’s
>>> conservatives, recuse himself because of the activities of his very
>>> white wife.
>>>
>>>
>>> Others have blamed the Catholic Church and argued that the maybe-ruling
>>> is a violation of the Constitution’s separation of church and state
>>> because four of the five assumed majority members, plus Chief Justice
>>> Roberts, are Catholics. The reversal would “deepen America’s divide”
>>> warned the New York Times. Heh. “Can’t have that!” sayeth the
>>> publication that didn’t concern itself with such division when it was
>>> covering a false case that President Trump had conspired with Russia to
>>> steal the 2016 election, or when their favorite political party was
>>> illicitly impeaching Trump twice.
>>>
>>> The Obamas, predictably, despite their legal education, resorted to the
>>> facile claim that no Roe would “relegate the most intensely personal
>>> decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues.
>>> “Whims!” The Obamas, of all people, now don’t think that politicians
>>> respond to the will of the people? When did “personal decisions” become
>>> off-limits for the law? Deciding to rob banks is a personal decision.
>>> Raping a date is the result of a personal decision. Killing an abusive
>>> spouse is a personal opinion, just like ending the life you are carrying
>>> because it will disrupt your plans is a personal decision.
>>>
>>> I have seen opinion pieces that defend Roe on the basis that abortion
>>> slows climate change. Many defenders have argued in print and on the
>>> MSNBC/CNN echo chambers that the motive behind a reversal is racism
>>> (though a disproportionate number of the human lives ended by abortion
>>> are black). Another tack is that retiring the contrived Constitutional
>>> right is hypocritical, since Republicans don’t support more federal
>>> assistance for children who are allowed to be born. The Times ran one
>>> op-ed that argued that fewer abortions would be bad for the economy.
>>>
>>> Levi Strauss was among several companies that chose market-pleasing
>>> virtue-signaling over honest debate when it defended Roe as a “critical
>>> factor to the workplace gains and contributions women have made over the
>>> past 50 years,” and argued that “restricting or criminalizing access” to
>>> rubbing out unborn children in the womb “will jeopardize that progress.”
>>> Legalizing the murder of men would also presumably add to workplace
>>> gains for women: this is the same unethical “the ends justify the means”
>>> rationalization that pro-abortion activists and feminists have been
>>> using for decades to avoid trying to balance the competing interests
>>> that have makes the issue so difficult. (It’s easy, though, if you
>>> pretend one of the interests doesn’t exist or matter.)
>>>
>>> Today Maureen Dowd resolutely refuses to acknowledge one of those
>>> interests, attributing the potential reversal of Roe to–get
>>> this—“priggishness.” Yes, it’s all about discouraging sex: Dowd’s hook
>>> is that the Court will be rejecting the sexual mores of Marilyn
>>> Monroe—I’m not kidding!— and thus is “yanking away the right of women to
>>> control their own bodies, strapping us into a time machine hurtling
>>> backward.”
>>>
>>> “Spoken like the brave former fetus she is” was how Fox’s Laura Ingraham
>>> characterized similar remarks from another furious abortion activist
>>> last week.
>>>
>>> Some of the other detours from legitimate debate include:
>>>
>>> Abortion can be good for the aborted child: “People who don’t want to be
>>> pregnant aren’t always capable of or willing to provide a healthy
>>> gestational environment—and that could be terrible for the children they
>>> eventually give birth to. Sometimes women abort because it is the more
>>> compassionate option. They know that alcoholism, addiction issues,
>>> mental health problems, or other circumstances will prevent them from
>>> adequately nourishing a fetus or protecting it from harm during
>>> gestation….If abortion is banned, we would likely start to see a lot
>>> more children born with severe birth defects and developmental issues.
>>> Some may say, “Hey, they were born, that’s all that matters.” But is
>>> setting up a person for a lifetime of suffering really a moral or humane
>>> choice?”
>>> Tell it to Christy Brown. The pro-abortion pundit who wrote that, you’ll
>>> notice, avoided using the word “women.” “People who don’t want to be
>>> pregnant,” she writes. You know, I’m pretty sure men who don’t want to
>>> be pregnant don’t have a problem achieving that objective
>>>
>>> Eliminating Roe will make miscarriages “more traumatic.”
>>> Reversing Roe will “grow the government.” I especially like this one,
>>> because the vast majority of pro-abortion politicians want to increase
>>> the size of government.
>>> There are many more. Send the ones you encounter into the comments.
>>>
>>> I’ll end Part I by noting that Justice Alito, in his draft, states
>>> directly that the decision to reverse Roe implies no opposition to
>>> either the pro-abortion or the anti-abortion position. Of course, one
>>> has to actually read the opinion to know that.
>>>
>>> http://ethicsalarms.com/2022/05/09/the-dishonesty-and-desperation-of-pro-choice-advocates-in-the-wake-of-the-dobbs-leak-part-2-reason-should-be-ashamed-of-itself/
>>>
>>>
>>> The Dishonesty And Desperation Of “Pro-Choice” Advocates In The Wake Of
>>> The Dobbs Leak, Part 2: Reason Should Be Ashamed Of Itself
>>> MAY 9, 2022 / JACK MARSHALL
>>>
>>>
>>> It is not a great surprise to see that the libertarian magazine Reason
>>> opposes abortion restrictions; one would assume so, given the
>>> libertarian creed. (Libertarians Ron Paul, a former House member, and
>>> his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky), however, both oppose abortion, and take
>>> the position that life begins at conception.) However, if the
>>> publication is going to declare that Justice Alito’s draft opinion in
>>> Dobbs is badly reasoned (and a publication named “Reason” should be
>>> careful when it makes such a claim if it wants to maintain a reputation
>>> for integrity) it has an obligation to rebut that reasoning competently
>>> and fairly.
>>>
>>> Thus when I saw the headline on Reason’s website, “Alito’s Draft Opinion
>>> That Would Overturn Roe Is a Disaster of Legal Reasoning,” I clicked on
>>> it eagerly. Legitimate legal analyses of the draft have been in short
>>> supply, with even supposedly respectable legal scholars from the
>>> pro-abortion camp resorting to hysterical pronouncements rather than
>>> dispassionate argument.
>>>
>>> Inexcusably, the author of the article under the clickbait headline
>>> doesn’t come close to making the case that the Justice’s draft fits that
>>> hyperbolic description. Worse, it is quickly apparent that she wouldn’t
>>> know a “disaster of legal reasoning” if, to quote Matt Hooper in “Jaws,”
>>> one swam up “and bit [her] in the ass.” As I read her mess, I thought,
>>> “Elizabeth Nolan Brown can’t possibly be a lawyer.” Indeed she isn’t.
>>> Her graduate degree is in theater.
>>>
>>> Oh. One of those.
>>>
>>>
>>> Why would Reason allow a non-lawyer to author a piece with that
>>> headline? Good question. Since Brown has no authority (or the skills) to
>>> make such a case, she resorts to appeals to other authorities. (Appeal
>>> to authority is a classic logical fallacy.) The scholarly authorities
>>> she chooses are a colleague at Reason (more on him shortly), and two
>>> unqualified commentators. University of Maryland history professor Holly
>>> Brewer didn’t analyze Alito’s opinion (though she probably could have
>>> done a better job than Brown, a low bar), but just cherry-picked one
>>> small part of it, the Justice’s argument that there is no historical
>>> justification for determining that abortion is one of the “unenumerated
>>> rights” protected by the Ninth Amendment. The other authority not on
>>> Reason’s staff is Jason Kuznicki, editor in chief of the think tank
>>> TechFreedom. Mirabile dictu, he’s also not a lawyer, but he’s a good
>>> social justice warrior, so he plays the race card. “The more we
>>> privilege deep roots in history, the more weight we have to give to some
>>> terribly illiberal ideas,” says Kuznicki. “Rights for white people have
>>> deeper roots than rights for black people, and no amount of time can
>>> change that.”
>>>
>>> So Kuznicki would invalidate all legal history as a component of legal
>>> analysis because of slavery. How CRT of him!
>>>
>>> Then Brown cites political “authorities,” and reduces her argument to a
>>> joke: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who despite being a former law professor,
>>> has made no substantive arguments to counter Alito, just her usual
>>> demagoguery; Sen. Bernie Sanders (also not a lawyer), who embraces so
>>> many crazy positions that his opposition to the draft opinion would be
>>> the equivalent of an endorsement; Senator Amy Klobuchar, whose
>>> contribution to the debate is to predict a dire backlash at the polls,
>>> Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, who is an ignoramus and couldn’t comprehend Alito’s
>>> draft if there were a Cliff Notes version, and Senator Susan Collins,
>>> who had no substantive contribution to make but claimed that Justices
>>> Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett lied in their hearings if they voted to
>>> overturn Roe (which is itself a lie; as many have pointed out including
>>> Ethics Alarms, all of the Justices carefully avoided making any such
>>> assurances, only saying that Roe was “the law of the land” and thay they
>>> respected precedent), and most risible of all, Kamala Harris, who said
>>> the Republicans”want to take us back to a time before Roe v. Wade, back
>>> to a time before Obergefell v. Hodges, back to a time before Griswold v.
>>> Connecticut.” That’s some legal reasoning there, Madam Vice-President.
>>> At least “Reason” thinks so.
>>>
>>> Clarification: I meant “most risible of all” of the politicians Brown
>>> cited to support her proposition. She also cited esteemed legal
>>> authority Whoopi Goldberg.
>>>
>>> If Brown had gone to law school, she would have learned that when you
>>> include ostentatiously lame authorities—or, as in this instance,
>>> ridiculous ones— in your memo, brief or oral argument, the judge will
>>> conclude that you don’t have a case.
>>>
>>> Now let’s examine the only relevant authority Brown uses to show that
>>> Alito’s draft is “a disaster of legal reasoning.” This one is Damon
>>> Root, who is a legitimate legal scholar and fully capable of performing
>>> a critical analysis of Alito’s reasoning. He didn’t do one, though; I
>>> assume that like me, he prefers to devote the time and energy necessary
>>> to the actual opinion and not a leaked draft. The only qualified legal
>>> authority, then, that Brown cites for her proposition that Alito’s
>>> reasoning is a “disaster” doesn’t claim that Alito’s reasoning is a
>>> “disaster” at all. Huh!
>>>
>>> What Root does argue, in an earlier Reason article titled “What the
>>> Leaked Abortion Opinion Gets Wrong About Unenumerated Rights” is put
>>> this way:
>>>
>>> The author of the leaked draft opinion, Justice Samuel Alito, makes the
>>> standard conservative argument against abortion rights. “The
>>> Constitution makes no reference to abortion,” Alito writes, “and no such
>>> right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including
>>> the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due
>>> Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That provision has been held
>>> to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but
>>> any such right must be ‘deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and
>>> tradition’ and ‘implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.'” Alito
>>> continues: “The right to an abortion does not fall within this category.”
>>>
>>> But there is at least one big way in which the unenumerated right at
>>> issue in Dobbs may very well fall into this category. Namely, the right
>>> to terminate a pregnancy may be justly seen as a subset of the right to
>>> bodily integrity.
>>>
>>> “May very well fall into this category”? “May justly be seen as a subset
>>> of the right to bodily integrity”? “At least one”? If Alito’s reasoning
>>> is such a disaster, why is Root so equivocal? I know why: his argument
>>> is also weak, and he knows it.
>>>
>>> “Bodily integrity”? How does that translate into a right to have a
>>> medical procedure that removes another living organism from one’s body?
>>> Root doesn’t explain that himself—he also pivots to an appeal to
>>> authority. Yup: Brown’s claim that Alito’s legal reasoning is a disaster
>>> hands off its argument to Root, who also hands off the argument, this
>>> time to a Prof. Sheldon Gelman—it’s an appeal to authority that appeals
>>> to authority!
>>>
>>> Root also quotes Gelman to the effect that “the right to bodily
>>> integrity may be traced back to the Magna Carta.” Wait—didn’t Brown use
>>> as another authority the guy who said historical references to rights
>>> were inevitably racist? How can Brown use both opinions to criticize
>>> Alito’s draft? Well, she can’t, or shouldn’t, but she doesn’t know what
>>> she’s talking about.
>>>
>>> Now Root’s sole authority for the “bodily integrity” theory is a
>>> 28-year-old law review article by the afore-mentioned Prof. Gelman. As
>>> it happens, I had read this thing when it was first published. Try to
>>> read it yourself: I dare you. It is almost a parody of scholarly
>>> Authentic Frontier Gibberish in which the high weeds of philosophical
>>> nit-picking obliterate any useful observations.
>>>
>>> However, I can summarize the portion that Root is relying on simply:
>>> “life,” as in “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” means more
>>> than just the right to live, but also the right to live a productive and
>>> free life. The Magna Carta forbade the king from cutting off the legs
>>> and arms of citizens as a breach of a basic right: a man without a limb
>>> was still alive, but his life was much diminished. That’s the right to
>>> “bodily integrity.” Thus, Gelman argues, abortion is included among the
>>> “unenumerated rights” mentioned in the Ninth Amendment, because the
>>> burden of having an unwanted child permanently and materially diminishes
>>> the woman’s life—you know, just like losing a leg.
>>>
>>> Interesting. But isn’t it strange, indeed hypocritical, to argue for the
>>> right to abortion based on an expanded interpretation of the right to
>>> life when abortion by definition involves ending a life?
>>>
>>> Here’s Gelman’s answer:
>>>
>>> One might argue that fetuses have lives, and that a conflict, therefore,
>>> exists between the woman’s and the fetus’ rights of life. No
>>> Justice has ever endorsed that argument, and the considerations
>>> cited in Roe-for example, that abortion is not generally
>>> regarded as murder and that fetuses are not counted in the
>>> census, counsel strongly against it.
>>>
>>> One might argue that fetuses have lives, might one? The fiction that
>>> fetuses don’t have lives is central to the one-life-only fiction
>>> inherent in the “pro-choice” euphemism, but if it hadn’t been thoroughly
>>> debunked by 1994, and I’d be shocked if it hadn’t, it certainly is now.
>>> Furthermore, the two arguments Gelman cites from Roe are infamous—talk
>>> about including weak authorities in your brief! It is not unusual for
>>> someone who kills a child in the womb to be prosecuted for murder, when
>>> the means of killing isn’t an abortion. 38 states recognize the fetus
>>> or “unborn child” as a crime victim, with the crime being homicide or
>>> feticide. The census argument is too silly to even debate. Whoever
>>> decided that counting the unborn in the census was not likely to be
>>> thinking about whether a fetus was alive of not. That the unborn aren’t
>>> included in the census proves nothing regarding whether they are alive
>>> or not.
>>>
>>> Yes, Gelman’s law review article is a disaster of legal reasoning.
>>> Brown’s article is a disaster of journalism and punditry, and Reason
>>> should hide its metaphorical head in a bag for publishing it.
>>
>> Tragically, abortions continue to be the terrible consequence of

>> http://bit.ly/terribly_hungry (Genesis 25:32) people misbehaving
>> terribly like http://bit.ly/h_angry DJT.
>>
>> Suggested further reading:
>> https://tinyurl.com/Psalm0201
>>
>> The only healthy way to stop abortions is to
>> http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) to be
>> http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) instead.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/Philippians4_12 ) and
>> hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10804993/SAGE-models-scary-held-weight-says-lockdown-architect-them.html
>>>
>>>
>>> SAGE models were too 'scary' and held too much weight... says lockdown
>>> architect behind them! No10 Covid expert admits death forecasts were
>>> 'eye watering' and should have considered economy
>>> Professor John Edmunds said Covid models were only supposed to be 'one
>>> component' of decision-making
>>> He accepted models failed to account for the economic and health harms
>>> that Covid lockdowns caused
>>> SAGE member admitted these harms 'in principle' could have been factored
>>> in 'but in practice they were not'
>>> By EMILY CRAIG HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE
>>>
>>> PUBLISHED: 11:20 EDT, 11 May 2022 | UPDATED: 12:59 EDT, 11 May 2022
>>>
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>>>
>>> Professor John Edmunds (pictured), a SAGE modeller, said scientists'
>>> projections of Covid infections, hospitalisations and deaths was only
>>> 'one component' of decision-making but were leaned on too much by ministers
>>> +5
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>>> Professor John Edmunds (pictured), a SAGE modeller, said scientists'
>>> projections of Covid infections, hospitalisations and deaths was only
>>> 'one component' of decision-making but were leaned on too much by ministers
>>>
>>> Britain relied too much on 'very scary' SAGE models to decide on
>>> lockdowns, according to the man behind some of those very projections.
>>>
>>> Just months after SAGE predicted 6,000 deaths per day and called for a
>>> Christmas lockdown in response to Omicron, Professor John Edmunds said
>>> the models were only supposed to be 'one component' of decision-making
>>> but were leaned on too much by ministers.
>>>
>>> He accepted the models failed to account for the economic harm and the
>>> knock-on health effects that lockdowns caused.
>>>
>>> Professor Edmunds admitted that these harms 'in principle' could have
>>> been factored into models 'but in practice they were not'.
>>>
>>> His remarks come as Britons face the harsh reality of two years' of
>>> shutting down the economy and health service, with the NHS grappling a
>>> backlog crisis that has seen one in nine people in England stuck on an
>>> NHS waiting list for treatment and inflation at its highest point in 30
>>> years.
>>>
>>> The epidemiologist, who was among the most outspoken members of SAGE,
>>> said some of the death projections in the model were 'truly eye-watering'.
>>>
>>> Speaking at a medical conference on Tuesday, he said: 'The
>>> epidemiological model is only one component [of decision-making] and I
>>> wondered and I worried that we’d had too much weight.'
>>>
>>>
>>> READ MORE
>>>
>>> He added: 'There is of course an enormous economic impact from many of
>>> the interventions and other indirect impacts on psychological health and
>>> so on. Now these in principle could be included but in practice they
>>> were not.'
>>>
>>> Professor Edmunds called for the first lockdown to be extended in summer
>>> 2021, warning Britain was 'taking a risk' by unlocking while still
>>> logging 8,000 cases per day and that the decision was 'clearly' political.
>>>
>>> And he warned against easing the third national lockdown in early 2021,
>>> warning it would be a 'disaster' and put 'enormous pressure' on the
>>> health service.
>>>
>>> Professor Edmunds' team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical
>>> Medicine were among four modelling groups that fed into Government
>>> recommendations.
>>>
>>> Professor Neil Ferguson - dubbed Professor Lockdown for his gloomy
>>> forecasts - worked within another modelling team at Imperial College
>>> London.
>>>
>>> The chair of the SPI-M modelling group has previously admitted the
>>> groups did not consider optimistic scenarios because 'that doesn't get
>>> decisions made'.
>>>
>>> SAGE's modelling team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
>>> Medicine presented projections on infections (purple), hospitalisations
>>> (red) and deaths (black) under different scenarios between now and
>>> August 2022. The top graph shows hospital admissions from the beginning
>>>from the pandemic. They estimated there could be 10,400 hospitalisations
>>> in England per day at the peak of the outbreak in February in a
>>> worst-case scenario (far right red graph), if Omicron escapes immunity
>>>from vaccines and previous infection and the boosters have a low
>>> efficacy. They assumed that Omicron will continue to grow exponentially
>>> even under Plan B curbs, two jabs offer just 50 per cent protection
>>> against severe disease from the mutant strain and boosters just 80 per cent
>>> +5
>>> View gallery
>>> SAGE's modelling team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
>>> Medicine presented projections on infections (purple), hospitalisations
>>> (red) and deaths (black) under different scenarios between now and
>>> August 2022. The top graph shows hospital admissions from the beginning
>>>from the pandemic. They estimated there could be 10,400 hospitalisations
>>> in England per day at the peak of the outbreak in February in a
>>> worst-case scenario (far right red graph), if Omicron escapes immunity
>>>from vaccines and previous infection and the boosters have a low
>>> efficacy. They assumed that Omicron will continue to grow exponentially
>>> even under Plan B curbs, two jabs offer just 50 per cent protection
>>> against severe disease from the mutant strain and boosters just 80 per cent
>>>
>>> Imperial College London modelling from March 2020 showed Covid
>>> restrictions individually were insufficient to bring down virus
>>> hospitalisations to a level that hospitals could cope with
>>> +5
>>> View gallery
>>> Imperial College London modelling from March 2020 showed Covid
>>> restrictions individually were insufficient to bring down virus
>>> hospitalisations to a level that hospitals could cope with
>>>
>>> Warwick University scientists calculated there would be 6,000 deaths a
>>> day if Plan B alone remains implemented and there is 'extreme pressure'
>>> on the NHS. The graph shows death estimates if Plan B has low
>>> effectiveness (top row of graphs) to high effectiveness (bottom row),
>>> while the columns show death projections based on Omicron's severity
>>> (low to high, left to right)
>>> +5
>>> View gallery
>>> Warwick University scientists calculated there would be 6,000 deaths a
>>> day if Plan B alone remains implemented and there is 'extreme pressure'
>>> on the NHS. The graph shows death estimates if Plan B has low
>>> effectiveness (top row of graphs) to high effectiveness (bottom row),
>>> while the columns show death projections based on Omicron's severity
>>> (low to high, left to right)
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>>> Most recently, in the winter Omicron surge, the teams warned that daily
>>> hospitalisations could reach 10,000 — more than four times higher than
>>> actual peak of around 2,400. Deaths peaked 20-times lower than the
>>> experts' worst-case scenario.
>>>
>>> Ahead of Freedom Day last July, SAGE modelling suggested there could be
>>> another 200,000 UK deaths in the year June 2022 in a worst-case
>>> scenario, which was quickly disputed by other scientists who said it
>>> underestimated the power of the vaccines.
>>>
>>> And ahead of the winter 2020 surge, they warned deaths could hit 4,000
>>> per day. A peak of 1,820 was logged.
>>>
>>> Speaking at the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases 40th
>>> annual conference, which is taking place in Athens this week, Professor
>>> Edmunds admitted there are weaknesses to scientific models.
>>>
>>> WHO chief slams China's for its 'unsustainable' zero Covid policy
>>> The head of the World Health Organization has finally criticised China's
>>> Zero Covid strategy and urged it to change its policy, as millions in
>>> Shanghai enter their seventh and most brutal week of lockdown yet.
>>>
>>> In a rare rebuke of the Communist party, which is one of the biggest
>>> financial contributors to the health agency, WHO director-general Tedros
>>> Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the strategy was unsustainable.
>>>
>>> 'As we all know, the virus is evolving, changing its behaviours,
>>> becoming more transmissible,' he said. 'With that changing behaviour,
>>> changing your measures will be very important.
>>>
>>> 'When we talk about the zero-Covid strategy, we don't think it's
>>> sustainable.' He added: 'Considering the behaviour of the virus I think
>>> a shift [in China's strategy] will be very important.'
>>>
>>> The WHO had previously been slammed as too 'China-centric' during the
>>> pandemic and was accused of failing to publicly challenge Chinese
>>> misinformation in early 2020.
>>>
>>> Chinese censors have already censored Dr Tedros' comments, with searches
>>> for the hashtags 'Tedros' and 'WHO' on the popular Weibo social media
>>> platform displaying no results.
>>>
>>> Users of the WeChat app have also been unable to share articles posted
>>> on an official United Nations health agency's account.
>>>
>>> Official Chinese modelling used to justify sticking to Zero Covid has
>>> warned that ditching it now would unleash a 'tsunami' of infections and
>>> kill 1.6million people this summer.
>>>
>>>
>>> He said: 'One of the issues is that it’s only one component in
>>> decision-making. So the epidemiological model is only one component and
>>> I wondered and I worried that we’d had too much weight.'
>>>
>>> There was an 'enormous economic impact' as well as harm to mental health
>>>from lockdowns, which saw people unable to mix outside their household,
>>> schools close and mandatory working from home.
>>>
>>> He said they were left out because the link between Covid cases and
>>> damage to the economy was 'really unclear'.
>>>
>>> And the social and psychological impact of the restrictions are 'still
>>> not clear' and were 'certainly not clear ahead of time', Professor
>>> Edmunds said.
>>>
>>> He added: 'So these things were not included. And I actually think in
>>> many respects it was a great failure of health economics to not really
>>> contribute to this field during the epidemic.'
>>>
>>> Yet dozens of scientists warned throughout the pandemic about the toll
>>> of lockdowns and restrictions on mental and physical health, as well as
>>> the economy.
>>>
>>> Professor Edmunds noted that Covid models fail to include factors that
>>> are 'unknowable at the time' such as the severity of Omicron when it
>>> emerged.
>>>
>>> During the winter Omicron wave, SAGE models did not take account of the
>>> variant's reduced severity, despite real-world data from South Africa
>>> showing the strain caused milder illness.
>>>
>>> He also noted that it is not possible to accurately predict how the
>>> public will act in an outbreak.
>>>
>>> Professor Edmunds has previously hit out at the Government for not going
>>> into lockdowns earlier and easing restrictions too quickly, including
>>> the scrapping of mandatory self-isolation.
>>>
>>> He was one of the leading scientific voices when the first lockdown was
>>> imposed in early 2020.
>>>
>>> Detailing the response to the first wave, Professor Edmunds said: 'We
>>> looked at different interventions and came out with truly eye watering,
>>> very scary results, in terms of deaths, perhaps 300 to 4,000 [daily]
>>> deaths in the UK alone if we just let the epidemic run its course.
>>>
>>> 'That’s of course without changing behaviour.
>>>
>>> 'Probably, the individual would have changed their behaviour anyway. But
>>> huge numbers of deaths, huge numbers of intensive care beds usage.'
>>>
>>> But Professor Edmunds said there are questions around how much modelling
>>> helped in the UK's initial response, as the UK brought in the
>>> stay-at-home order later than other nations.
>>>
>>> He said: 'It certainly didn’t help us move very fast here and, in fact,
>>> I wonder whether because we had these tools and policymakers could ask
>>> us questions — "what about if we did this and what about if we did that"
>>> — that that might have actually contributed to us actually making a
>>> decision quite slowly.
>>>
>>> 'And in fact the speed of that lockdown was certainly the biggest
>>> contributing factor to total numbers of deaths in the first wave.'
>>>
>>> SAGE scientists have previously claimed their official projections have
>>> not come to fruition due to behavioural changes among the population,
>>> who cut their contacts when cases are on the rise, as well as high
>>> levels of immunity following multiple waves.
>>>
>>> The models have come under fire from other experts, who have criticised
>>> SAGE for failing to talk to sociologist and economists when doing their
>>> modelling, meaning they failed to incorporate 'things other people know
>>> about'.
>>>
>>> Professor Graham Medley, who chairs Spi-M, a modelling group that feeds
>>> into SAGE, admitted modelling has failed to reflect the reality of how
>>> waves unfold because they do not factor in behaviour changes, one of the
>>> Government's chief pandemic advisers has admitted.
>>>
>>> 'The epidemic is dynamic,' he said. 'People's responses to the situation
>>> in March 2020 were very different to those in November 2020 and very
>>> different again in January 2021.'
>>>
>>> Professor Medley, based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
>>> Medicine, added: 'The modelling is there to understand the process and
>>> what's going on. We know we cannot accurately predict the numbers but we
>>> can give insight into the processes that determine the outcomes.'
>>>
>>> Professor Edmunds echoed his comments at the conference yesterday,
>>> noting it is 'not currently possible' to accurately take people's
>>> behaviours into account in scientific models.
>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>

>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest

>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/10/legal-challenges-cdc-public-health-policy-00031253
>>>
>>>
>>> ‘It’s a tsunami’: Legal challenges threatening public health policy
>>> Court battles over Covid-19 safety measures and recent court rulings
>>> will impact the government’s ability to keep Americans safe, experts warn.
>>>
>>> NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 19: A mask is seen on the ground at John F.
>>> Kennedy Airport on April 19, 2022 in New York City. On Monday, a federal
>>> judge in Florida struck down the mask mandate for airports and other
>>> methods of public transportation as a new COVID variant is on the rise
>>> across parts of the United States. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
>>> In April, a federal judge in Florida struck down the mask mandate for
>>> airports and other methods of public transportation as a new COVID
>>> variant is on the rise across parts of the United States. | Spencer
>>> Platt/Getty Images
>>>
>>> By KRISTA MAHR
>>>
>>> 05/10/2022 04:30 AM EDT
>>>
>>> Mounting legal challenges to pandemic public health rules — and judges’
>>> increasing willingness to overrule medical experts — threaten to erode
>>> the influence of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
>>> other government health authorities.
>>>
>>> In the last year, four court rulings against the CDC, including one from
>>> the Supreme Court, have forced the agency to stop or change its pandemic
>>> mitigation orders. Most recently, a Florida district judge ordered a
>>> national injunction ending the agency’s mask mandate on public transport.
>>>
>>>
>>> “Litigation invites litigation invites litigation,” said Wendy Parmet,
>>> faculty co-director at the Center for Health Policy and Law at
>>> Northeastern University. It’s a cycle that “creates enormous uncertainty
>>> about what CDC could do going forward should the pandemic worsen again,
>>> or should another pandemic or even a more regional outbreak arise.”
>>>
>>>
>>> The high-profile challenges to the CDC sit atop thousands more lawsuits
>>> against state and local health authorities that have been filed during
>>> the pandemic, experts say, seeking to end localized social distancing
>>> and mask orders, vaccine mandates and business closures.
>>>
>>> The constant threat of being dragged into court is having a chilling
>>> effect on local health officials that may last well beyond the Covid-19
>>> crisis, leading health commissioners or board of health members to think
>>> twice about enacting public safety measures.
>>>
>>> “It’s a tsunami,” says James Hodge, a law professor at Arizona State
>>> University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. “Anything that limits
>>> you as an American from doing something you don’t want to do … It all
>>> got a challenge.”
>>>
>>> The flood of legal challenges is part of a profound antagonism many in
>>> the U.S. have felt toward public health officials since the early days
>>> of the pandemic, when the rapid spread of Covid-19 put government
>>> authority and America’s fierce defense of individual freedoms on a
>>> collision course.
>>>
>>> A sign on a door asks people to wear masks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
>>> CDC strategy on masks could haunt the country
>>> BY RACHAEL LEVY
>>> Political meddling in the CDC’s Covid-19 response and the agency’s own
>>> unforced errors in testing and communication stiffened many Americans’
>>> resistance to the government’s involvement in their personal health,
>>> even as nearly one million Americans have died. In addition to lawsuits,
>>> bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the nation to
>>> limit public health authorities’ power, and scores of public health
>>> officials have left their jobs in frustration.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Every stage of the crisis has brought a new challenge to public health
>>> workers.
>>>
>>> In Massachusetts, public health officials fended off a stream of
>>> lawsuits in the early days of the pandemic, getting in the way of work
>>> like finding shelters for homeless Covid-positive residents. In Ohio,
>>> the state legislature passed a bill in 2021 to allow lawmakers to
>>> override the governor’s health orders or emergency declarations. And in
>>> Washington, one of the last states to end its indoor mask order in
>>> March, local public health officials worried about trying to enforce
>>> future regional orders on their own, if cases rose again in their community.
>>>
>>> “Health authorities need to know that they can’t run amok. Judicial
>>> review is an important deterrent against overreach and abuse,” says Parmet.
>>>
>>> “On the other hand, you don’t want judicial review to be so threatening,
>>> and so omnipresent… that when a health emergency arises, officials are
>>> paralyzed by fear of litigation, and they’re so worried about what the
>>> court will do, when their lawyers are saying, ‘You can’t do this and you
>>> can’t do that’… Then you get into a situation where lives will be in
>>> danger.”
>>>
>>> Future authority
>>> Threats to the CDC’s authority came into focus in April when a federal
>>> judge in Florida ruled the agency did not have the authority to order a
>>> national mask mandate on public transportation and issued a nationwide
>>> injunction against the order.
>>>
>>> The ruling from the judge, a Trump appointee who the American Bar
>>> Association deemed was “not qualified” when she was nominated for the
>>> bench, came as national Covid-19 cases were rising, and prompted a
>>> cascade of private transportation companies to lift their own
>>> requirements on facial coverings.
>>>
>>> The Department of Justice appealed the ruling in the 11th Circuit Court
>>> of Appeals, in part to protect the CDC’s authority to issue similar
>>> orders in the future. On May 3, the mandate ran out anyway, and the CDC
>>> recommended that people continue to mask up on planes, trains and buses.
>>>
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>>>
>>> Since then, another federal judge in Florida reached the opposite
>>> conclusion, saying the CDC was within its power to order the mandate. In
>>> Texas, yet another challenge to the defunct requirement is still pending.
>>>
>>> The 11th Circuit has weighed in on the CDC’s pandemic authorities
>>> before. In July, it upheld a lower Florida court order prohibiting the
>>> agency from imposing Covid-19 restrictions on cruise ships in the state.
>>> The next month, the Supreme Court rejected the CDC’s pandemic-related
>>> eviction moratorium, ruling the agency did not have the authority to
>>> impose it.
>>>
>>> Other federal agencies that watch over Americans’ health have also come
>>> into the courts’ crosshairs. In January, the Supreme Court struck down
>>> an order by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration that
>>> mandated employees in businesses with over 100 workers be vaccinated or
>>> tested, though it upheld the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’
>>> vaccine mandate for workers in Medicare and Medicaid participating
>>> facilities. The court is also considering a case that could limit the
>>> Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate air pollution,
>>> among other things.
>>>
>>> Many of these decisions fit a worrying pattern, public health experts
>>> said, in which judges do not appear to be taking scientific evidence or
>>> expertise on board.
>>>
>>> “Historically, there’s been some level of deference to experts who are
>>> using their legal authority to save lives,” said Joshua Sharfstein,
>>> professor of the practice in health policy and management at Johns
>>> Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “But that has been eroding.
>>> The courts have increasingly not really cared to assess the implications
>>> of the decisions for health.”
>>>
>>> At the local level, state and local public health agencies have won most
>>> of the challenges to their authority, says Hodge of ASU, who provides
>>> legal guidance to public health agencies and others through The Network
>>> for Public Health Law, an expert entity that helps organizations
>>> navigate laws and regulations.
>>>
>>> But after vaccines were introduced, some courts started to ask
>>> authorities more questions on why mitigation measures are necessary, he
>>> said.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Courts have also intervened over Title 42, the CDC order stopping
>>> migrants from entering the U.S. immigration system in order to prevent
>>> the spread of Covid-19. The policy has drawn the ire of judges and
>>> critics, who have said it is a legitimate public health rule that has
>>> been politicized in both the Trump and Biden administrations.
>>>
>>> Since it was enacted under Trump in March 2020, public health experts
>>> say the order is an ineffective way to prevent transmission of the
>>> virus, and immigration advocates say it violates international
>>> humanitarian law by turning away asylum seekers fleeing danger at the
>>> border.
>>>
>>> A U.S. Border Patrol agent instructs immigrant families as they prepare
>>> to board transport to a processing center after crossing the U.S.-Mexico
>>> border.
>>> WHITE HOUSE
>>>
>>> Biden to comply with forthcoming order to keep Covid border restrictions
>>> in place
>>> BY EUGENE DANIELS AND LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ
>>> Some courts have been sympathetic with those perspectives. On March 4, a
>>> D.C. Circuit Court judge questioned what, if any, public health purpose
>>> the policy serves at this stage in the pandemic and ruled that the CDC
>>> did not have the authority to send families back to danger without
>>> giving them the chance to apply for protection against persecution and
>>> torture.
>>>
>>> Others have sided with states seeking to keep the order in place as an
>>> immigration-control measure. Not long after the D.C. Circuit Court
>>> ruling, the CDC said it would end the order for all migrants on May 23.
>>> That effort is being challenged in a Louisiana court by states worried
>>> about the surge in migrants that its end could bring. A federal judge
>>> issued a temporary restraining order preventing the CDC from phasing out
>>> the order before then and could soon seek to stop the administration
>>>from ending it altogether.
>>>
>>> “It’s dangerous to start manipulating the public health laws,” says Lee
>>> Gelernt, an ACLU attorney representing the families in the case in D.C.
>>> Circuit Court. “At this point, there’s no longer even the pretense that
>>> Title 42 is needed for public health; it’s being discussed openly as a
>>> border-control measure.”
>>>
>>> Landscape of ‘anger and vehemence’
>>> In Washington state, Secretary of Health Umair Shah says this litigious
>>> atmosphere, and particularly a decision like the Florida injunction
>>> against the CDC’s travel mask mandate, “has ramifications for public
>>> health policy across the nation.”
>>>
>>> He says it’s part of a broader landscape of “anger and vehemence”
>>> against public health officials and public health policies that is
>>> making it harder for them to do their jobs.
>>>
>>>
>>> “I know that those things — everything together — has had an impact on
>>> people,” said Shah. “It may not have changed necessarily what they’re
>>> doing, but it may have changed how they’ve gone about it, or how public
>>> they’ve been, or how careful they’ve been, because nobody wants to have
>>> that onslaught launched against them.”
>>>
>>> In Massachusetts, having to constantly fend off lawsuit threats was a
>>> “complete time suck” in the early days of the pandemic, recalls Cheryl
>>> Sbarra, executive director and senior staff attorney at the
>>> Massachusetts Association of Health Boards.
>>>
>>> Sbarra, who provides legal guidance to health boards across the state,
>>> says two years later, the threats have not stopped. Board meetings are
>>> more contentious. There’s more “bashing.” People wearing masks during
>>> the latest rise in Covid cases are harassed.
>>>
>>> “It’s not as hot as it was, but there’s still a lingering feeling with
>>> some people that we violated their rights,” Sbarra said. “And I don’t
>>> know if that’s ever going to go away.”

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

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[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://ethicsalarms.com/2022/05/12/ethics-observations-on-the-failed-womens-health-and-protection-act/
>>>
>>>
>>> Ethics Observations On The Failed “Women’s Health And Protection Act”
>>> MAY 12, 2022 / JACK MARSHALL
>>>
>>>
>>> I just didn’t think the Democratic Party’s ethics rot had progressed
>>> this far. I’m still stunned. Yesterday the Senate Democrats attempted to
>>> pass a pro-abortion bill that would have legalized a vague medical
>>> standard permiting late-term abortions right up until birth, prohibited
>>> states from restricting abortions until after 23 weeks gestation, and
>>> eliminated parental notification laws for minors, among other
>>> restrictions. Every Democratic Senator voted for the provision except
>>> West Virginia’s pariah of the Left, Joe Manchin. Every Republican
>>> Senator voted against the unethical monstrosity, so the bill was blocked
>>>from coming to the Senate floor for debate, 51-49.
>>>
>>> However, the ethics story is how the Democratic Party has allowed the
>>> pro-abortion fanatics in its ranks and among its “base” to thoroughly
>>> corrupt it to the point at it would openly endorse allowing unborn human
>>> beings to be killed at a point in their progress toward full citizenship
>>> when they are physiologically indistinguishable from newborns. (That’s a
>>> third-trimester fetus above). Not only that, the Party appears to think
>>> the majority of Americans are similarly inert ethically (or too
>>> apathetic and ignorant to deserve a democracy), and will support a
>>> position that is hostile to the concept of human rights and the
>>> foundational national principle of the right to life.
>>>
>>>
>>> Democrats can’t possibly be correct that the nation’s values have sunk
>>> so far, can they? But what do I know? Back in 2006, writing on The
>>> Ethics Scoreboard about a strange and ugly late-term abortion case in
>>> Virginia, where an unwilling mother shot herself in the stomach on the
>>> day her child was supposed to be delivered in order to kill her baby.
>>> (It worked.) I concluded the analysis by writing that I hoped…
>>>
>>> Left will restrain itself from diverting accountability from Skinner
>>> long enough to agree with the basic proposition that shooting an unborn
>>> child on its birthday is wrong.
>>>
>>> That can’t be too difficult.
>>>
>>> Can it?
>>>
>>> Apparently after 50 years of moral and ethical rot caused by Roe v. Wade
>>> making the killing of the unborn seem benign, reasonable, and a “right,”
>>> it is too difficult. In fact, the Democrats put the bill forward to
>>> create a “trap” by forcing Republicans to vote against it. Then they
>>> could say, “Look at these fanatics! They really think that birthing
>>> people shouldn’t be able to snuff out a nascent human being for any
>>> reason whatsoever, and treat it like a wart, a tumor or a parasite!”
>>> (Except for the bills name, “women” doesn’t appear anywhere in the
>>> language of the bill. The Democrats are counting on nobody reading it.)
>>>
>>> Sure enough, President Biden or his ventriloquists quickly responded to
>>> the entirely predictable defeat of the bill by demagoguing that the vote
>>> “runs counter to the will of the majority of American people” and that
>>> congressional Republicans, who cast the Democratic bill as a radical
>>> overreach, “have chosen to stand in the way of Americans’ rights to make
>>> the most personal decisions about their own bodies, families and lives.”
>>> Combine this with Sen. Schumer’s fatuous squeal,
>>>
>>> “Elect more pro-choice Democrats if you want to protect a woman’s
>>> freedom and right to choose. Elect more MAGA Republicans if you want to
>>> see a nationwide ban on abortion, if you want to see doctors and women
>>> arrested, if you want to see no exceptions for rape or incest.”
>>>
>>> And there we have it. The leaders of the Democratic Party now officially
>>> and openly take the position that there is no competing interest in the
>>> abortion debate. Biden made that statement after referring to the target
>>> of an abortion as “a child” last week. Fetuses don’t matter until the
>>> woman carrying them says so, and no human life is involved other than
>>> the mother’s mental, emotional or career well-being. Schumer’s focus on
>>> rape and incest makes that clear: a gestating child’s life has no value
>>> if the manner in which it came into being involved a crime. All human
>>> life, however, has the same value regardless of its origins—at least to
>>> people who have an ethical value toward life. Slavers and slave-owners,
>>> in contrast, regarded the life of human being conceived by blacks as
>>> less than human. It’s a similar point of view.
>>>
>>> Biden’s statement, as usual of late, is a lie. The bill allows abortion
>>> at will well into the second trimester, and polls indicate that most
>>> Americans think abortion should only be legal within the first
>>> trimester. In the case of late-term abortion, a 2019 survey conducted by
>>> You.gov found that 66% of U.S. adults who identify as pro-choice
>>> opposed third-trimester abortions, with 68% oppose abortions the day
>>> before a baby is born.
>>>
>>> Yes, only 68%. 50 years of forced abortion sanctification has done that
>>> much damage to pro-abortion Americans.
>>>
>>> The applicable provision of the defeated bill prevents
>>>
>>> (9) A prohibition on abortion after fetal viability when, in the
>>> good-faith medical judgment of the treating health care provider,
>>> continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant
>>> patient’s life or health.
>>>
>>> The words are so vague they would allow a physician to interpret “life”
>>> as broadly as necessary (in good faith, of course, always good faith!)
>>> to justify killing a completely viable fetus, and “health” to include
>>> the mother’s emotional or mental health. Neither “Life” nor “Health” are
>>> defined by the bill. That’s not, as they say, a bug but a feature.
>>>
>>> Then the mainstream media set out to perform its function last night,
>>> lying outright about the bill and the vote. MSNBC claimed a “GOP
>>> filibuster” had “derail(ed)” a bill “to codify Roe v. Wade protections.”
>>> That’s bad even for MSNBC. There was no filibuster–the bill was shot
>>> down by majority vote. The bill also went far beyond Roe v. Wade. Was
>>> the MSNBC tweet announcing this fabricated version of the event pulled
>>> by Twitter “factcheckers”? Does a bear relieve itself in the AMEX
>>> executive washroom?
>>>
>>> The Associated Press’s Zeke Miller endorsed both of these lies, saying
>>> it was a GOP-led filibuster that defeated the thing, and describing the
>>> Democratic bill as being designed to turn Roe v. Wade into law. Facts
>>> Don’t Matter to these people.
>>>
>>> Neither, we now know, do human lives.

>>
>> Tragically, abortions continue to be the terrible consequence of
>> http://bit.ly/terribly_hungry (Genesis 25:32) people misbehaving

>> terribly like http://bit.ly/h_angry (2 Kings 6:29) DJT.

>>
>> Suggested further reading:
>> https://tinyurl.com/Psalm0201
>>
>> The only healthy way to stop abortions is to
>> http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) to be
>> http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12) instead.
>>

>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/Philippians4_12 ) and

>> hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>>
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/4qCI227lsbU/m/O9EjDK9IBQAJ

Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as circling eagles don't have COVID) and
pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in
Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit
(Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to always
say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including
especially caring to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12

as shown by http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest ) with all glory (

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>

>>> http://www.bbc.com/news/health-61524055
>>>
>>>
>>> Covid infections down again to one in 50, says ONS

>>> By Philippa Roxby
>>> Health reporter
>>>

>>> Published6 minutes agocommentsComments

>>>
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>>> Coronavirus pandemic

>>> People walking along Oxford Street
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>>> Covid infections have fallen again to one in 50 people in the UK,

>>> according to the latest estimates from the Office for National

>>> Statistics (ONS).
>>>
>>> That means around 1.27 million people had coronavirus in the week to 13
>>> May - down 14% from the week before.
>>>
>>> Infections have been coming down steeply since the end of March, after
>>> the Omicron variant pushed up cases.
>>>
>>> Over-65s and health and care staff are among groups to be offered a
>>> vaccine in the autumn to top up protection.
>>>
>>> Clinically vulnerable adults aged 16 to 64 will also be offered a Covid
>>> jab ahead of the winter, when the virus could spread more widely.
>>>
>>> A form of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, called BA.2, is the most
>>> common cause of Covid, but two others - BA.4 and BA.5 - have now been
>>> named 'variants of concern' by UK health officials.
>>>
>>>
>>> "They are likely to have a growth advantage over BA.2," says the UK
>>> Health Security Agency in its latest report on variants.
>>>
>>> However, it cautions that this is based on a small number of cases, and
>>> there is still a lot of uncertainty.
>>>
>>> BA.4 and BA.5 are currently causing another Covid wave in South Africa.
>>> In the UK, levels are very low.

>>>
>>> UK infections continue to fall

>>> Covid infections are now at their lowest level since mid-December, the
>>> ONS says, based on swab tests of thousands of people in households
>>> across the UK, whether they have symptoms or not.
>>>
>>> Since free testing has now ended in England, and is restricted in
>>> Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the ONS survey is the most
>>> accurate picture of the spread of Covid-19.
>>>
>>> From the positive tests collected, the ONS estimates that infections
>>> fell in all four UK nations in mid-May.
>>>
>>> Current rates are:
>>>
>>> one in 55 in England - down from one in 45 the week before
>>> one in 40 in Wales - down from one in 35 the week before
>>> one in 60 in Northern Ireland - down from one in 55 the week before
>>> one in 45 in Scotland - down from one in 35 the week before
>>> However, the ONS found that infections may no longer be falling in the
>>> south-east and south-west of England. And among under-35s, the drop in
>>> infections looks to be slowing down.
>>>
>>> Sarah Crofts, head of analytical outputs for the Covid-19 Infection
>>> Survey, said: "Today's figures continue to show a welcome decline in
>>> infections across the UK, reaching their lowest point in England since
>>> the start of December last year.
>>>
>>> "While younger age groups continue to be the lowest infected, there are
>>> early signs of the decrease slowing for under-35s.
>>>
>>> "We will continue to monitor these patterns over the coming weeks, since
>>> it is too early to say if this is part of a longer trend."

>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in

>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )

>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>

>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest

>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/xz8VKUj9pUg/m/q0HwSw2DAAAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>

>> I am simply wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) and

>> hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/e7LSvgR1KkA/m/QbV_7hlDAQAJ

[HeartDoc Andrew]

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:

>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-johnsons-guilt
>>>
>>>
>>> Boris Johnson’s guilt
>>> From magazine issue: 28 May 2022
>>> Boris Johnson’s guilt
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> An ability to survive narrow scrapes has been one of Boris Johnson’s
>>> defining qualities. The pictures of Downing Street’s lockdown social
>>> events included in the Sue Gray report were so dull as to be almost
>>> exculpatory: staid gatherings of half a dozen people around a long table
>>> with sandwiches still in their boxes, apple juice poured into a whisky
>>> glass. Far worse happened in No. 10 but Gray did not publish those
>>> photos or look into (for example) the ‘Abba’ party in the No. 10 flat,
>>> saying she felt it inappropriate to do so while police were
>>> investigating. Luckily for Johnson.
>>>
>>> The more damaging material came from the emails intercepted, with No. 10
>>> staff being clear that they knew they were breaking the rules they had
>>> collectively designed and enforced on the country. The emails show No.
>>> 10 staff asked to hide wine bottles from the cameras – then joked that
>>> they seemed to have ‘got away with’ drinks parties that broke the law.
>>>
>>> But in the end, they did not get away with it. The Prime Minister
>>> remains guilty – most explicitly of misleading the House of Commons when
>>> he denied that any parties took place. He has shown a serious failure,
>>> too, in not learning from his mistakes. It is no use him or anyone else
>>> in government complaining about the triviality of the charges. His
>>> government put the lockdown laws on the statute book in the first place,
>>> framing them in such a way as to criminalise everyday interactions.
>>>
>>> Now the Prime Minister’s allies plead for clemency. It is in human
>>> nature, they say, to gather to bid farewell to a departing friend or
>>> colleague, to offer friendship and succour. Quite so. Johnson’s allies
>>> further argue that, as he raised his glass in a toast, he did so in a
>>> work capacity – as evidenced by the presence of his red box. This
>>> Jesuitical defence would be more plausible if the government’s laws had
>>> not seen ordinary people dragged to court and found guilty of far milder
>>> offences. Let us consider his defence for the leaving party:
>>>
>>> “
>>> I briefly attended such gatherings to thank them for their service –
>>> which I believe is one of the essential duties of leadership.
>>> Particularly important when people need to feel that their contributions
>>> had been appreciated and to keep morale as high as possible.
>>> Does he realise, even now, that he made it illegal for anyone to do this
>>> during lockdown? Where, in his lockdown rules, was the exemption for the
>>> ‘essential duties of leadership?’ Where was the clause allowing those
>>> outside the ruling elite to have a regular ‘wine-time Friday?’ Does he
>>> realise that he personally used the powers of his office to send the
>>> police after anyone else who would have attended a gathering to salute a
>>> departing colleague? Or, for that matter, to console a friend, visit a
>>> dying relative or even attend a funeral in numbers greater than
>>> stipulated by the staff of No. 10.
>>>
>>> The Prime Minister said it was ‘right’ to salute former colleagues in a
>>> leaving party. He’s quite correct in that it is a decent, humane thing
>>> to do. But consider the childminder in Manchester who was fined for
>>> delivering a birthday card to a child in her care: was it ‘right’ for
>>> her to do so? Of course. Did this help her, when police intercepted her
>>> to enforce the Prime Minister’s rules and took her to court? Not one
>>> bit. His needless, draconian lockdown rules were enforced by police upon
>>> millions of people, with tens of thousands taken to court. No one – not
>>> the pensioner in his allotment, not the mother celebrating her child’s
>>> birthday with two friends – had the chance to argue before the
>>> magistrates that what they were doing was ‘right’.
>>>
>>> When police went after two women in Derbyshire for the crime of walking
>>> through a park with takeaway coffee, one might also ask: was it ‘right’
>>> for them to seek each other’s company and avail themselves of the basic
>>> liberty of a free country? Of course. Did Johnson’s laws prohibit this?
>>> Unforgivably: yes. And this is the point.
>>>
>>> Most popular
>>> Gavin Mortimer
>>> Marine Le Pen is right to defend Liverpool fans
>>> Marine Le Pen is right to defend Liverpool fans
>>> So to hear him now talk about what was ‘right’ and ‘decent’ is hard to
>>> swallow. This magazine argued for him to decriminalise lockdown rules,
>>> to offer guidance and leave people to judge what is ‘right’ – as was
>>> being done with much success in Sweden and several states of America.
>>> But Johnson refused to do so, preferring to turn Britain into a police
>>> state. While having every intention of flouting the laws when he
>>> considered it opportune to do so.
>>>
>>> How ironic that in the November 2020 photograph of Boris Johnson raising
>>> a toast to the spin doctor he had forced to resign, a copy of The
>>> Spectator can be seen resting on the table. This magazine had argued
>>> against that month’s lockdown and its needless criminalisation of
>>> everyday life. By then, the logic for lockdowns had collapsed. But,
>>> thanks in part to a supine opposition, No. 10 pressed ahead anyway.
>>> Those leaving drinks took place when all other social gatherings had
>>> been banned under pain of huge fines.
>>>
>>> Lockdowns involved the passing of the most damaging, illiberal laws in
>>> British postwar history. The social and economic cost is still being
>>> counted. Johnson is guilty not simply of breaking his own rules, but of
>>> failing to assess if those rules even worked. The sheer scale of the law
>>> demanded a rigorous assessment of the policies behind it, but no serious
>>> cost-benefit analysis was conducted. Nor were studies commissioned to
>>> ask why infections seemed to have peaked before the previous lockdown.
>>> And no one is now asking why, if lockdown was the only means of holding
>>> back a Covid wave, Sweden has done so well without ever imposing one.
>>>
>>> The Prime Minister has not been ‘vindicated’ as he claims. No one who
>>> spent months trying to abide by his lockdown laws is under any doubt of
>>> what went on. He is guilty of presiding over a gung-ho culture in which
>>> lockdown advocates were never properly challenged. He allowed himself to
>>> be bounced into taking deeply damaging decisions. His own instinct to
>>> resist lockdown was not enough: he could have assembled ‘red-team’
>>> advisers to challenge Sage. He could have asked the Treasury for a
>>> cost-benefit analysis of lockdown. He could have made the second
>>> lockdown a matter of guidance, not of law. Instead he closed society
>>> down over and over again, asking his aides to implement laws they
>>> themselves regularly flouted.
>>>
>>> Johnson has further opened himself to charges of hypocrisy through his
>>> confected fury about his former spokeswoman Allegra Stratton, who
>>> resigned after being caught on camera making light of the parties that
>>> were being held in No. 10. There is no suggestion that she broke any
>>> rules. She was poking fun at the absurdity of the law and of being asked
>>> to defend such a ridiculous situation.
>>>
>>> Her laughter, Johnson declared, had caused national anger – an anger
>>> that he said he shared. He was shocked – shocked! – to find any such
>>> behaviour was happening in No. 10. Stratton resigned on principle, the
>>> only person in No. 10 to have done so.
>>>
>>> It is a damning – and accurate – charge against the Prime Minister that
>>> he is no man of principle. Weakness in personal conduct need not
>>> necessarily make a bad prime minister – Johnson’s hero Winston Churchill
>>> drank to excess for most of the second world war. The important part of
>>> leadership is getting the big decisions right. Johnson is often said to
>>> be a leader who manages to do just that – and certainly on Ukraine that
>>> claim can reasonably be made. But on Covid and lockdowns (and, recently,
>>> tax rises) he got some big decisions very wrong. His predicament over
>>> partygate is testament to that.
>>>
>>> His failure to be guided by his instinctive liberalism has led him to
>>> the worst and most avoidable disasters of his premiership. He can still
>>> learn from these mistakes. But we are more than halfway through this
>>> parliament: he does not have much time left.

>>
>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
>> finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>> http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest

>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

Source:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/rJgj-bTgHes/m/I1sr9qEJAgAJ

Shorter link:
https://tinyurl.com/Negative053022