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2021-10-27 at 3:39 AM UTCfake chink is fake
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2021-10-27 at 4:27 AM UTC
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2021-10-27 at 4:29 AM UTCLOL
covid survival rate is actually higher
Alec Baldwin is more dangerous than covidThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-10-27 at 6:10 AM UTCMaybe we should
All say a prayer for all of the
Grandmas and grandpas who should be
Alive today except for Donald J. Trump
Business Insider
Trump's White House ignored advice on COVID-19 that could've saved over 130,000 lives, Birx said
insider@insider.com (John Haltiwanger)
Trump's COVID-19 response led to many preventable deaths, Deborah Birx told House lawmakers.
Over 130,000 lives could've been saved if Trump's White House followed the science, she said.
Birx also testified that the 2020 election distracted Trump from the pandemic.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the former White House COVID-19 response coordinator, in testimony to the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis said that former President Donald Trump's approach to the pandemic led to a massive number of preventable deaths.
"No," Birx said when asked if Trump did everything in his power to curb the spread and save lives, per excerpts of her testimony released by the committee on Tuesday.
"And I've said that to the White House in general, and I believe I was very clear to the president in specifics of what I needed him to do," she added.
Birx, who testified before the committee in mid-October, said that over 130,000 lives could've been saved in the early stages of the pandemic had Trump's White House adhered to the science and pushed for measures advocated by experts.
"I believe if we had fully implemented the mask mandates, the reduction in indoor dining, the getting friends and family to understand the risk of gathering in private homes, and we had increased testing, that we probably could have decreased fatalities into the 30% less to 40% less range," Birx said.
She also suggested that the 2020 election distracted Trump and took attention away from the nation's pandemic response.
"The governors and mayors and others that were campaigning, as well as the White House that was campaigning, just took people's time away from and distracted them away from the pandemic in my personal opinion," Birx said. "They were actively campaigning and not as present in the White House as previously."
Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
From the earliest days of the pandemic, Trump downplayed the threat of COVID-19 and repeatedly spread misinformation on the virus. He routinely pushed against public health recommendations, including wearing a mask or face covering. Trump during an interview with veteran journalist Bob Woodward admitted that he deliberately sought to downplay the dangers of the virus in an effort to avoid inducing "panic."
Top public health experts have excoriated Trump over his pandemic response, saying that his approach led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
By the time Trump left office, there had been over 400,000 reported COVID-19 deaths in the US. -
2021-10-27 at 7:25 AM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 "I believe if we had fully implemented the mask mandates, the reduction in indoor dining, the getting friends and family to understand the risk of gathering in private homes, and we had increased testing, that we probably could have decreased fatalities into the 30% less to 40% less range," Birx said.
And the fact that there is no evidence any of those things work simply doesn't bother anyone.
Just like how places with high vaccination rates, like Ireland, Israel and Singapore have as bad or worse transmission as places with low vaccination rates doesn't stop them blaming unvaccinated people for all their problems.
"Trust the science! No, we don't need evidence, logic, rationality or reason! There is no need for us to test our hypothesis or prove our positions! We have science!"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-10-27 at 7:28 AM UTCback in high school you got penalized for not 'showing your working'
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2021-10-27 at 7:52 AM UTC
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2021-10-27 at 3:39 PM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump And the fact that there is no evidence any of those things work simply doesn't bother anyone.
Just like how places with high vaccination rates, like Ireland, Israel and Singapore have as bad or worse transmission as places with low vaccination rates doesn't stop them blaming unvaccinated people for all their problems.
"Trust the science! No, we don't need evidence, logic, rationality or reason! There is no need for us to test our hypothesis or prove our positions! We have science!"
when the vaxxination hits 100% theyre going to blame you for not getting your boosters fast enough.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-10-27 at 5:35 PM UTCLet's see if STD1 is a big enough boy to swallow some of his own medicine without kicking up a fuss.
Source: None other that the Democrat mouth piece, The Washington CompostFact Checker Analysis
Terry McAuliffe keeps inflating coronavirus numbers
By Glenn Kessler
The Fact Checker
Yesterday at 3:00 a.m. EDT
“Just this week, 8,000 cases on Monday in Virginia. We in Virginia today, 1,142 children are in ICU beds.”
— Former governor Terry McAuliffe, [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN-ucRM9QUg&t=1380sinterview on WAVY, Oct. 7
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“Today, 1,100 children are in hospitals here in Virginia.”
— McAuliffe, interview with WJLA, Oct. 13
“We just had 4,000 cases yesterday here in the Commonwealth of Virginia. … We’ve just 1,142 children in serious, in hospitals, in ICU beds.”
— McAuliffe, remarks at WRIC gubernatorial forum, Oct. 21
“Here in Virginia, you should understand, 1,142 of our children have been in hospitals because they got covid.”
— McAuliffe, event with former president Barack Obama at Virginia Commonwealth University, Oct. 23
How to respond to the coronavirus pandemic has been a major issue in the Virginia’s governor’s case.
Democrat Terry McAuliffe, the former governor seeking his old job, has supported vaccine mandates, while Republican Glenn Youngkin has opposed them. Youngkin has been vaccinated, and has encouraged coronavirus vaccination. But McAuliffe haslabeled him an “anti-vaxxer” because, McAuliffe charges, Youngkin sends a different message when he goes on right-wing radio or speaks to conservative audiences.
In speaking about the threat of the coronavirus to the state, McAuliffe frequently touts numbers — often wrong numbers about the impact on children. When we first queried the McAuliffe campaign about his figures, we were told it was a slip of the tongue. Okay, we understand that, and so we passed on a fact check. But then his tongue kept slipping.
The Facts
We first became interested in this issue when McAuliffe in the second and final debate on Sept. 28 said that there were 8,000 coronavirus cases “yesterday in Virginia.” He then repeated the statement the next day and a week later, on Oct. 7.
But when we checked the records, you had to go back to January to find a single day when a combination of confirmed and probable cases in Virginia got close to 8,000. On Sept. 27, there were fewer than 2,000 confirmed cases.
Nevertheless, the McAuliffe campaign came back with what appeared to be a plausible explanation. During the debate, he was speaking on a Tuesday and a spokesman said he was referring to the weekend numbers released the day before. The new caseload between Friday morning and Monday morning was 7,987 on Sept. 27 and 7,762 on Oct. 4.
One could argue that citing a weekend number in this fashion — “We had 8,000 cases yesterday in Virginia” and “Just this week, 8,000 cases on Monday in Virginia” — certainly would leave the misleading impression he was talking about a one-day number. But we got busy with other stuff and chose not to do a fact check. On Oct. 11, the Youngkin campaign released a video calling attention to McAuliffe’s remarks and the disconnect with the actual daily figures.
And what about McAuliffe’s Oct. 7 comment that 1,142 children were in ICU beds? That number seemed totally off-kilter. (For the week ended Oct. 2, the number of children in hospitals, not necessarily in intensive care, was just 35.)
The McAuliffe campaign said that he simply misspoke. Okay, we moved on.
But then he said it again, on Oct. 21: “We’ve just 1,142 children in serious, in hospitals, in ICU beds.” That was still wrong: on that day there were only 334 people (of all ages) in ICU beds in Virginia, according the state health department data.
(McAuliffe also said “we just had 4,000 cases yesterday here in the Commonwealth of Virginia,” which again appears to be a weekend total, though he was speaking on a Thursday. Virginia has not experienced more than 4,000 confirmed or probable cases in a day since Sept. 20.)
A week earlier, on Oct. 13, McAuliffe used a slightly different figure regarding children, but it was still too high: “Today, 1,100 children are in hospitals here in Virginia.” The confirmed hospitalizations for all ages on that day was 1,471, and of course a smaller percentage of children get really sick with covid-19 than adults.
Finally, during the rally with Obama on Oct. 23, McAuliffe said: “Here in Virginia, you should understand, 1,142 of our children have been in hospitals because they got covid.”
This phrasing suggests that McAuliffe is talking about not a daily figure, as he frequently indicated — but a total since the beginning of the pandemic.
That certainly would be closer to reality. From March 15, 2020, to Oct. 16 of this year, Virginia reports a total of 952 hospitalizations and 10 deaths of children 0 to 17 years of age.
Why has McAuliffe repeatedly used a higher number than that? Good question. A spokesman for his campaign did not respond to emails and text messages over a period of four days.
The Pinocchio Test
We can understand the occasional misspeak, especially in the heat of a campaign. Moreover, as readers know, we generally do not award Pinocchios when a politician admits error.
But this has happened too many times for McAuliffe’s language to be an accident. He repeatedly mentions a weekend number for cases, but suggests it’s a one-day figure. He offers wildly inflated figures for child hospitalizations, suggesting again that these were daily figures and claiming twice that these many children were in ICUs. Instead, he appears to be citing a figure for all of the children hospitalized with covid-19 in Virginia over the past 19 months — which is still inflated.
The pandemic will continue to be a serious policy challenge for the next Virginia governor but there’s no reason for McAuliffe to hype the numbers. He earns Four Pinocchios.
Four Pinocchios
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2021-10-27 at 11:07 PM UTCThey should have a turquoise pill.
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2021-10-28 at 11:37 PM UTChttps://www.rt.com/news/538695-coronavirus-variant-vaccine-antibodies/
According to the study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cellular & Molecular Immunology this week, the A.30 variant showed improved ability to enter most host cells, including kidney, liver, and lung cells.
The mutation “enters certain cell lines with increased efficiency and evades antibody-mediated neutralization,” the study found.
“In summary, A.30 exhibits a cell line preference not observed for other viral variants and efficiently evades neutralization by antibodies elicited by ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 [AstraZeneca] or BNT162b2 [Pfizer] vaccination.”
ADE is real
will find the actual study later, it wasn't linked -
2021-10-29 at 6:24 AM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Let's see if STD1 is a big enough boy to swallow some of his own medicine without kicking up a fuss.
I got on the internet TODAY to sign up for my booster shot from CVS Pharmacy. To my surprise, they offered shots the very same day, so...I got my third Moderna stick today (actually yesterday as is tomorrow now). I had no adverse reactons at all so far as the booster is only a half dose...except for that second head growing out of my left arm where they stuck me! lol -
2021-10-29 at 12:54 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 I got on the internet TODAY to sign up for my booster shot from CVS Pharmacy. To my surprise, they offered shots the very same day, so…I got my third Moderna stick today (actually yesterday as is tomorrow now). I had no adverse reactons at all so far as the booster is only a half dose…except for that second head growing out of my left arm where they stuck me! lol
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2021-10-29 at 1:29 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra ADE is real
will find the actual study later, it wasn't linked
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-021-00779-5The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies with high efficiency
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Collectively, our results suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 can evade control by vaccine-induced antibodies and might show an increased capacity to enter cells in a cathepsin L-dependent manner, which might particularly aid in the extrapulmonary spread. As a consequence, the potential spread of the A.30 variant warrants close monitoring and rapid installment of countermeasures.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-10-29 at 2:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-021-00779-5
i look forward to another paid lockdown.
the last one was lit. -
2021-10-29 at 2:52 PM UTCGoing to get my second dose in a few hours and then I am fully 100% vaxxed. I might get another one next week.
Then I can start making the big bucks
