Some are expressing pleasant surprise that the Pfizer vaccine has proven to work on teens. My question is, why was there any doubt? Teens are human...a little off-base in behavior at times, but still mostly human. Of course the vaccine works.
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Some are expressing pleasant surprise that the Pfizer vaccine has proven to work on teens. My question is, why was there any doubt? Teens are human...a little off-base in behavior at times, but still mostly human. Of course the vaccine works.
I am not sure that anyone was surprised. We just didn’t have the data on that population group for safety and efficacy.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
What do you expect when your ideological kind can’t even tell the gender of the teens in this population group studied.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Looks as if these human controlling, “One World”, no borders, one currency, eventual one government, one world religion of earth worshippers and worthless organizations are kicking in full throttle again. Get us out of WHO and the UN!!!
Published April 6, 2021
WHO: No guarantee that vaccines prevent COVID-19 transmission
U.N. agency explains why 'at this stage' it opposes 'passports'
https://www.wnd.com/2021/04/no-guara...62c0cf50967720
4.6 million vaccines given yesterday...new record.
Biden saving us
This was obvious in July and December of 2020. The panic worked. Bad orange man gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
Frisco probably deleted his post because once he fact-checked it, he realized he got snookered. Johns Hopkins certainly doesn’t say what his post claimed. A student-led newsletter once did, and it was retracted for being misleading.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/articl...ue-to-covid-19Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Proof of the snookering.
You were part of the cry wolf and hate Trump club before China decided to unleash this on the world. Congratulations, you killed a lot of peeps but you got rid of bad orange man.
You are right. I posted it, and then did some more checking and deleted it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
I do however stand behind my post that shows multiple polls the vast majority of Americans actually support voterID laws.. including a majority of democrats.
CoolQuote:
Originally Posted by FriscoDog
A pause in the JNJ vaccine seems imminent.
Yahoo wrote an article about Faucci has worn out his welcome
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More than a year ago, Americans welcomed Anthony Fauci into their homes as a sober scientist who was helping them make sense of a deadly new virus. But he has worn out that welcome.
It’s true that Fauci has enjoyed an illustrious career, advising every president since Ronald Reagan and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008. There’s much to admire in his overall leadership since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, as director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he has a serious job that’s not supposed to involve being a media spokesman so ubiquitous that it’s hard to believe he ever turns down any media requests.
As he’s maintained a media schedule worthy of a serious presidential candidate or an actor in a new major studio release, Fauci has gradually stopped standing apart from the contentious debate about the pandemic, lockdowns, restrictions, precautions, and what is safe and what is risky. Instead, he has become part of the acrimony, offering murky and sometimes contradictory recommendations. This goes well beyond his initially discouraging the use of masks in January and February 2020, like most U.S. public health officials, or his mid-March 2020 reassurance: “The guidelines are a 15-day trial guideline to be reconsidering. It isn’t that these guidelines are now going to be in effect until July.”
Fauci doesn’t write or establish the quarantine policies being enforced by cities and states; he can only advise other people in and out of government. But his voice carries a lot of weight, and, more or less willingly, he has become the face of America’s quarantine policies. Frustratingly, his perspective always seem to be that the right time to open up is another six weeks from now, no matter how low caseloads get or how much the national vaccination program accelerates.
And it’s hard to shake the sense that Fauci makes recommendations based on how he thinks people will react. Fauci admitted in December that he had changed his assessments about herd immunity, based on what he thought the public could handle hearing. In the pandemic’s early days, Fauci tended to cite the same 60 to 70 percent estimate that most experts did, but Fauci gradually boosted it to 85 percent. In an interview with the New York Times’ Donald McNeil Jr., Fauci “acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.”
At the beginning of March, Fauci forcefully criticized the state of Texas for ending its statewide mask mandate, declaring, “It’s risky and could set us back to a place that’s even worse than where we are now . . . and lead to additional surges.” And yet, Texas has seen its caseload continue to decline. When asked about the lack of an increase in that state, he answered, “You know, there are a lot of things that go into that. I mean, when you say that they’ve had a lot of the activity on the outside like ball games, I’m not really quite sure. It could be they’re doing things outdoors.”
Earlier this month, after GOP lawmakers asked Fauci about the risk of outbreaks in migrant detention facilities, he said, “I have nothing to do with the border. . . . Having me down at the border, that’s really not what I do.” Except Fauci has weighed in on travel restrictions and border closures plenty of times in the past year. It’s self-evidently obvious that having lots of migrants of all ages cramped into detention facilities is a formula for a rapid spread of the virus. Fauci just didn’t want to criticize the Biden administration, so he dodged the question.
But perhaps most frustrating is Fauci’s recent comments suggesting that getting vaccinated doesn’t alter the risk of catching COVID-19 much and can’t justify changes in behavior. Fauci said that even though he’s vaccinated, he still won’t eat indoors at a restaurant, go to a movie theater, or “go into an indoor, crowded place where people are not wearing masks.” He said he still won’t be traveling, either.
Vaccinated people are protected against serious health problems from COVID-19 and we’ve known for a month that vaccinated people, if infected, shed dramatically less virus — perhaps 75 percent to 90 percent. If results like that don’t make going to a restaurant or movie theater safe, what will? If getting vaccinated doesn’t allow you to return to something like normality, what’s the point?
We can overlook the Hollywood-style poolside photo shoot, or his unmasking while watching a baseball game. But Fauci has turned into the perpetually pessimistic, overcautious, position-shifting, administration-pleasing face of the pandemic recovery. At this point, he’d do himself a favor by sitting out the next opportunity to appear on a TV show or podcast and focus on his day job.
Whoever this person from yahoo is....
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I always admit it when I am wrong...it happens so rarely I enjoy acting as one of great, unwashed masses! hah! Anyway, I thought after Trump had the election stolen from him and especially after Harris-Biden took office that the risks of the China virus would kind of magically go away. Certainly, by February the economy would be moving full speed ahead and things would have returned to normal. It is true a good portion of the country has reopened, but that thanks to people just taking the ball and running with it, and in some cases Repub guvnars relaxing restrictions. But the administration and the Demwits in Congress and in the lamestream media have maintained a lockdown mentality.
Could be it is part of grand scheme to divert attention away from the crisis on the border...only, if that was their aim, they would be better served allowing people to return to normalcy...folks getting drunk in bars and fussing about their favorite sports' teams serves nicely as distractions.
So...I was wrong in my prediction. Oh well...it happens from time to time.