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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #6950 on: August 27, 2022, 06:36:46 AM »
If you want. If you REALLY want... You can find the non-formulary shot.
 
Do you really think you need it?
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #6951 on: August 27, 2022, 07:57:13 AM »
Unfortunately, my choice is either to get boosted, or not to get boosted. I get most of my health care through the VA hospital, and they're locked into Pfizer and Moderna.
At least around here you can go to pretty much any pharmacy, walmart, or target and get the shot/booster for free.

When I got my booster I picked where I was going based on which shot they had. If you were interested in getting another shot, but wanted the J&J I'd be shocked if there wasn't a free one somewhere pretty close to your house.

I think the risk profile for the ba.5 that seems to be the thing now is lower than it was earlier.  Long or bad COVID vs vax side effects is just comparing two very low probability events. 

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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #6952 on: August 30, 2022, 08:58:00 AM »
He should learn some Spanish and walk across the border.

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Djokovic, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, will miss the U.S. Open over his refusal to get vaccinated.
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Biden has been widely criticized for continuing to allow illegal immigrants to be released into border towns while displaying symptoms of the coronavirus, and the number of migrants infected with the virus has surged almost 1,000% in some border sectors.

White House says unvaccinated migrants allowed in US and tennis player who isn’t are 'two different things’
https://www.foxnews.com/us/white-house-says-unvaccinated-migrants-allowed-tennis-player-who-isnt-are-two-different-things

"Two different things"
Yeah, one will be leaving in a few days, the other will be given dem voter cards and driven to polling stations
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #6953 on: August 31, 2022, 11:16:25 AM »
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse. Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

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« Reply #6954 on: August 31, 2022, 11:33:55 AM »
Through the fog of data, so it goes, deaths from pneumonia and the flu fell during the COVID era, classified instead as COVID deaths. According to the hoax theory, the actual danger posed by COVID was greatly overstated, because deaths caused by COVID were overstated. But there is one thing that cannot be as easily obscured via errors in classification, and that is total deaths from all causes.

Referred to by statisticians and epidemiologists as “excess deaths,” this is a far less controversial data point. After all, it has an unambiguous essence: you are dead, or you are not dead. What may ail you or how you died is irrelevant. Since the COVID era began in 2020, using weekly reports issued by the CDC, I’ve been tracking total deaths in the United States. Using these same CDC reports, which go back to 2013, I’ve been comparing total deaths over the past 2.5 years to the averages based on the six years preceding 2020. The chart below clearly shows that something terrible has been happening and that it may not be over.
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If you compare how many people died in America during the COVID era to how many people would normally have died based on six years of prior year CDC data on deaths from all causes, the excess deaths are 25 percent over normal. Twenty five percent. With the sole exception of the Spanish Flu pandemic a century ago, there has never been a die-off in the United States on this scale.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #6955 on: August 31, 2022, 11:47:57 AM »
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse. Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

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« Reply #6956 on: August 31, 2022, 12:43:09 PM »
From Dittohead's link:

By any standard, what has happened has been catastrophic for this country. We may never know how many of these excess deaths were from COVID, from deferred treatment for other ailments, from elevated numbers of people committing suicide, or from adverse reactions to the vaccines. But one thing must be understood unequivocally, and it ought to go without saying: This has been a tragedy on an epic scale and one from which we can only hope we have learned a great deal.

For starters, and while avoiding a socialist overreaction, we may begin keeping a closer eye on the pharmaceutical industry. The accomplishments of this industry must be acknowledged. Precision medicine is coming, and the days of many dread diseases are numbered. But that day will come sooner if Americans can root out the corruption in this industry, as well as in its supposed overseers.

It is important to recognize that not all players in the pharmaceutical industry are guilty of corruption, but some of the biggest have a sordid record indeed. They have hooked half the nation on anti-anxiety medications, they’ve pushed medication onto millions of children, they’ve pushed opiates out to masses of people, they’ve arguably oversold vaccines of all kinds, and they exercised far too much influence over the COVID response—including the shameful suppression of any experimental treatments or therapies they couldn’t control. Now some of them are pushing “gender confirmation” drugs, which transsexuals have to take for the rest of their lives. If that’s not enough, as we learned over the past few years, American pharmaceutical manufacturers have offshored production of many of our most essential drugs to China.

Meanwhile, it’s necessary to continue to investigate what has caused millions of excess deaths. But what is indisputable is this: In just over two years, over 1.5 million people are dead in America who in normal times would have been alive today. Even now, based on the most recent data available, deaths from all causes in America are still not quite 15 percent above normal.

A mass die-off is still happening in America and reportedly around the world as well, and we have no idea what’s coming next.

That would seem to be a relatively level-headed statement that should seem reasonable to most people.

So of course, there's zero chance our government will do what it suggests.

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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #6957 on: August 31, 2022, 12:58:08 PM »
If Zeihan is right excess worldwide deaths from Covid will barely be perceptible by the time another year or two has gone by and famine sets in for most of the developing world, and a good chunk of the developed world too.

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« Reply #6958 on: August 31, 2022, 01:10:05 PM »
"and we have no idea what’s coming next."

Yeah, because before COVID we had 100% comprehension what was coming next.

WFT?  ;/
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« Reply #6959 on: August 31, 2022, 02:15:28 PM »
Pre COVID we had a pretty decent idea how yearly deaths would happen when looking at a nation sized population.  (see pretty pictures in the article)

Now we aren't sure if we are returning to that baseline next week, next year, or not at all.  That's all he was saying.

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« Reply #6960 on: August 31, 2022, 04:07:45 PM »
"and we have no idea what’s coming next."

Yeah, because before COVID we had 100% comprehension what was coming next.

WFT?  ;/
I am not sure what we knew.  What we were told was millions of deaths.  Maybe that happened over a couple years, but people responded as if it would happen in a month.
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« Reply #6961 on: August 31, 2022, 04:50:50 PM »
"Now we aren't sure if we are returning to that baseline next week, next year, or not at all.  That's all he was saying."

OK, that makes sense.

I read it as if he was sort of expecting an infestation of fire-breathing zombie plague ants...
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #6962 on: August 31, 2022, 04:57:57 PM »
I read it as if he was sort of expecting an infestation of fire-breathing zombie plague ants...

What are you? Some kind of infestationoffirebreathingzombieplagueants-denier?
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #6963 on: August 31, 2022, 04:59:14 PM »
Cause by climate change
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« Reply #6964 on: August 31, 2022, 06:40:32 PM »
Cause by climate change

Well, that goes without saying...
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« Reply #6965 on: August 31, 2022, 06:55:03 PM »
And Trump  :rofl:
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« Reply #6966 on: August 31, 2022, 06:57:25 PM »
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« Reply #6967 on: September 01, 2022, 08:43:26 PM »
This has been stated before and I believe it may be correct.
Many people have opined that this corona virus was "modified" to make it more infectious and that it started in mainland China.
What is the single, biggest problem the Chinese have now??  Overpopulation !!  :O

Can you think of a better way to rid yourself of excess population?  ;/

The problem is that there haven't been enough Chinese fatalities - YET.
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« Reply #6968 on: September 01, 2022, 09:04:20 PM »
And here... It killed the hell out of geezers, and SOME folks who where expensive...
 
Nowhere near all of 'em... I figure we're going to be seeing damn near every death in a nursing home listed as the 'Rona.
 
But they won't say anything about nursing homes.
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« Reply #6969 on: September 03, 2022, 12:13:59 AM »
And here... It killed the hell out of geezers, and SOME folks who where expensive...
 
Nowhere near all of 'em... I figure we're going to be seeing damn near every death in a nursing home listed as the 'Rona.
 
But they won't say anything about nursing homes.

Of course not.  Most of those facilities are sucking at the teat of government "largess" and, like so many others, will do as they are told !!
And the "libs/dems/commucrats" want to reduce and eliminate all the "non-producing" people that they can and reduce the cost to the government.  Then, the funds that they save there can be "shifted" to all those boondoggle "social service programs" they keep pushing.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #6970 on: September 03, 2022, 10:51:40 AM »
So, it is looking like that horse dewormer actually has efficacy around the 'vids...
 
Is anyone gonna apologize?
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« Reply #6971 on: September 03, 2022, 10:54:33 AM »
So, it is looking like that horse dewormer actually has efficacy around the 'vids...
 
Is anyone gonna apologize?

 :rofl:

More likely it'll be they were for it the whole time and it was those darn Rs and Trump that were against it. Think of all the people, POC the most, who died because they were blocking it.
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« Reply #6972 on: September 03, 2022, 11:56:49 AM »
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #6974 on: September 05, 2022, 09:16:28 PM »
Past couple of months, I think that St. Louis City (approx 300k population) has had two people die WITH the 'rona.
 
I'm officially FAR more worried about getting my ass shot by some thug wearing a covid mask.
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