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2022-02-05 at 5:06 PM UTCJOLLY GREEN GIANT MAN BAD
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2022-02-05 at 5:09 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Newsweek
Unvaccinated Man Almost Killed by COVID Regrets Not Getting Shots: 'I Was Terribly Wrong'
Aristos Georgiou
they should run stories like this, except of people who got deathly ill even after 'vaccination
Vaccinated Man Almost Killed by COVID Regrets Getting Shots: 'Why Did I Bother'The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2022-02-05 at 5:11 PM UTC
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2022-02-06 at 5:25 AM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump The sick fucks are vaccinating pregnant women. No studies have been done, but it looks to me that as many as 80% are suffering miscarriages as a result. You can also miscarry from covid - a good reason to avoid social contact when pregnant.
Anything related to covid is rigidly censored, but consider the known risks of other vaccines during pregnancy.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/9758-vaccination-during-pregnancy
Google are censoring. jedi murderers.
https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/de-klimaatverandering-verandert-baby-s-in-de-baarmoeder-ze-worden-vatbaarder-voor-hartziekten~b36d581d
The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2022-02-06 at 12:39 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Newsweek
Unvaccinated Man Almost Killed by COVID Regrets Not Getting Shots: 'I Was Terribly Wrong'
Aristos Georgiou
for every 1 person who reggretted not getting vaxxinated (not that vaxxination has been proven being able to lessen the severity of covid of any strain) there are 23 people who reggretted having voted for joe "serial sniffer" biden.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2022-02-06 at 1:18 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/de-klimaatverandering-verandert-baby-s-in-de-baarmoeder-ze-worden-vatbaarder-voor-hartziekten~b36d581d
Don't forget systemic racism. -
2022-02-06 at 5:33 PM UTCThe Washington Post
The 1918 flu didn’t end in 1918. Here’s what its third year can teach us.
Jess McHugh
In New York City in 1920 — nearly two years into a deadly influenza epidemic that would claim at least 50 million lives worldwide — the new year began on a bright note.
The 1918 flu didn’t end in 1918. Here’s what its third year can teach us.
“Best Health Report for City in 53 Years,” boasted a headline in the New York Times on Jan. 4, 1920, after New York had survived three devastating waves of the flu virus. The nation as a whole, which would ultimately lose 675,000 people to the disease, believed that the end might finally be in sight.
Within a few weeks, however, those optimistic headlines began to change. Before the end of the month, New York City would experience a surge in influenza cases. Chicago and other urban centers reported the same.
Residents should prepare themselves for an “influenza return,” New York City health commissioner Royal S. Copeland warned. He predicted that the virus variant responsible for the surge would be milder and that those who had fallen ill the previous year would be immune. He was wrong, at least in part: While many places worldwide did not see a fourth wave of the great influenza pandemic, several metropolises — including New York City, Chicago and Detroit — had another deadly season in store.
As the coronavirus pandemic creeps into its third year, the 1918 influenza pandemic can offer some insight into how this chapter of history might draw to a close. But an “ending,” when it comes to viruses such as these, is a misleading word. Eventually, experts say, the novel coronavirus is likely to transition from a deadly and disruptive pathogen to a milder, more seasonal nuisance.
In the meantime, though, the country’s experience a century ago suggests that we could be in for a lot more pain — especially if we let our guard down.
The 1918 flu lasted far beyond 1918. Two years after it began, just as officials such as Copeland were declaring victory and cities were easing restrictions, a fourth wave hit parts of the country, bringing punishing caseloads that pushed some hospitals to the brink of collapse and left many more Americans dead.
The virus did not seem so menacing when it began: The first wave in the spring of 1918 was relatively mild. But it returned with a vengeance in the fall, probably having mutated. That second wave burned through patients around the world. Street cars were converted into hearses, and priests collected bodies with horse-drawn carriages.
First U.S. vaccine mandate in 1809 launched 200 years of court battles
During the second wave alone, more Americans were killed by the flu than died in the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined.
The flu pandemic seemed to affect young people in particular, for reasons that historians and scientists are still debating. When the first recorded cases arrived, World War I was raging, and the cramped conditions of the trenches meant that the virus could pass rapidly from soldier to soldier, and the conditions in field hospitals often hastened the spread. Other experts have suggested that people in their 20s and 30s were less likely to have prior immunity to similar flu viruses.
Regardless, the virus alone lowered life expectancy in the United States by more than 12 years. As many as 10 percent of all young adults living through the time of the flu pandemic may have died of it, according to historian John M. Barry in his book “The Great Influenza.”
By the winter of 1919-1920, Americans were weary of the limitations on daily life. Nearly all of the public health restrictions — such as mask-wearing, social distancing and the closure of schools and churches — had been lifted. A hasty return to public gatherings led to an increase in case numbers. Politicians either blamed people’s carelessness for the reemergence of the virus or downplayed the seriousness of it.
The fourth wave was not front-page news in the way that prior spikes had been. The coverage was often relegated to small paragraphs deep inside newspapers, reporting thousands of new cases on a weekly or even daily basis. By February 1920, there was an epidemic in a state prison in New Jersey, and some courts were forced to halt proceedings because of illness.
One physician wrote a letter to the editor in the New York Times in the winter of 1920, begging people to avoid “needless exposure to influenza” through unnecessary social contact. The doctor warned that anyone who visited someone who was ill was then “capable of spreading the disease to any number of others who might have escaped, thereby putting an extra drain upon the already overburdened hospitals, nurses, and doctors.”
But if the fourth wave failed to generate the kinds of headlines and fear of its predecessors, it wasn’t for a lack of lethality. In New York City, more people died in the period from December 1919 to April 1920 than in the first and third waves, according to a research paper on influenza mortality in the city. Detroit, St. Louis and Minneapolis also experienced significant fourth waves, and severe “excess mortality” was reported in many counties in Michigan because of the flu.
Ben Franklin’s bitter regret that he didn’t immunize his 4-year-old son against smallpox
Local governments’ public health interventions actually may have contributed to the fourth wave by limiting the virus’s spread in prior waves. Letting the virus run rampant, however, would not have been advisable either, said Wan Yang, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University and an author of the paper on New York City influenza mortality. “More infection could also lead to more mutation, so that could generate a new virus variant that can then erode your prior immunity, so it’s an interplay depending on how the virus is going to evolve, which is really unpredictable,” Yang said.
Influenza viruses and coronaviruses are genetically different, so it’s not possible to make a one-to-one comparison with the 1918 pandemic. Yang noted that the novel coronavirus appears to mutate far faster than the 1918 influenza virus. Management of the current pandemic also has benefited from many scientific developments that were not available a century ago, including more-sanitary hospital conditions, better access to clean water, and — perhaps what is most notable — a vaccine.
Still, we can get a glimpse into our future by looking at the past. The 1918 flu virus, after lingering in a deadly form for more than two years, eventually grew milder. Now it is “part of every seasonal flu we have,” said Ann Reid, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education, who helped sequence the genome of the 1918 influenza virus in the 1990s. Her research found that some genetic aspects of the 1918 virus continued to be present in new outbreaks, including pandemics in 1957 and 1968. People with immunity to the 1918 virus were therefore likely to have some protection from its genetic cousins.
“Eventually, everyone in the world will have some base level of immunity to this coronavirus, so even when it mutates into a new strain, people won’t be entirely vulnerable to it,” Reid said.
The best we can hope for with the current pandemic is an evolution that is to the flu virus’s. “I think it’s going to stay,” Yang said of the novel coronavirus. “I don’t think elimination is feasible or even realistic at this point. Hopefully we can live more peacefully with this virus.” -
2022-02-06 at 5:53 PM UTCRadical leftist nutjobs will never voluntarily give up their grip on the political exploitation of a common cold.
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2022-02-07 at 3:33 PM UTCUnvaccinated dad loses custody of kids, including immunocompromised child
Michelle Shen, USA TODAY
An unvaccinated father in New Brunswick, Canada, lost custody of his three children, one of which is a 10-year-old immunocompromised child, according to reports from the CBC.
The father presented research to the judge that he believed questioned the safety and efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but the judge ruled against it.
"His own anecdotal research on such a highly specialized topic carries little to no weight in the overall analysis when measured against the sound medical advice of our public health officials," wrote Justice Nathalie Godbout of the Court of Queen's Bench.
The order allows the father to interact with the children over Zoom and reevaluate the sentencing if he does get vaccinated, but the mother can overrule his lack of parental consent to get her children vaccinated, according to the ruling, CBC reports.
For weeks, protesters opposed to vaccine mandates and other restrictions have held rallies in cities across Canada.
More children across the world are testing positive for the coronavirus. The most recent wave of the virus is driven by the omicron variant, which research suggests causes less severe disease but is more transmissible. Even with the new variant, kids are still far less likely than adults to be hospitalized or die from COVID-19.
In a report last month by the World Health Organization, experts recommended that even if children have less severe symptoms for COVID, they should still get vaccinated to avoid disruptions to their education. They recommended that children who have possible comorbidities get vaccinated and boosted as soon as possible to reduce risk.
Children who have diabetes, Down Syndrome or cardiac, lung and kidney diseases are at a much higher risk of severe COVID-19, according to the WHO report.
This isn't the first case that parents have struggled in custody battles over vaccination.
In August 2021, a judge in Chicago barred Rebecca Firlit, the mother of an 11-year-old boy, from seeing her son under partial parental custody because she is not vaccinated against COVID-19.
Firlit appealed the decision, claiming the judge was placing his views onto her, and it was later reversed.
“I’ve had adverse reactions to vaccines in the past and was advised not to get vaccinated by my doctor. It poses a risk,” Firlit told the Chicago Sun-Times. “I was confused because (the hearing) was just supposed to be about expenses and child support. I asked him what it had to do with the hearing, and he said, ‘I am the judge, and I make the decisions for your case.’ ”
VACCINATION CUSTODY CASES: Chicago judge rules mom cannot see her 11-year-old son because she’s not vaccinated
Firlit’s lawyer, Annette Fernholz, told several Chicago media outlets that Firlit and her former husband have been divorced for seven years and that the ex-husband did not address the lack of vaccination as a problem. The two share custody.
The father's attorney, Jeffery M. Leving, said he supported the judge’s decision. "There are children who have died because of COVID,” Leving told The Washington Post. “I think every child should be safe. And I agree that the mother should be vaccinated.” -
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2022-02-07 at 4:21 PM UTCLOL
they fucked it up so badly that they're deploying the military as orderlies/nurses in nursing homes. banning the unvaccinated and forcing you to isolate/stay away from work for two weeks after a positive test (with the RATs you don't even need to prove it, you just register your positive test online) has vaporised the workforce.
we get 2 weeks of sick leave a year and most people only legitimately take a day or two off on average, so claiming you have COVID is like an extra holiday
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-07/australian-defence-force-to-be-sent-into-aged-care/100810630Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the government will send the Australian Defence Force into aged care homes to ease severe staff shortages in the sector.
Up to 1,700 Defence staff may be asked to support the sector, with three different kinds of ADF teams being sent in: clinical, general support and logistical.
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2022-02-07 at 4:23 PM UTCAll part of the depopulation and control agenda. The New World Order is here, folks.
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2022-02-07 at 4:25 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra LOL
they fucked it up so badly that they're deploying the military as orderlies/nurses in nursing homes. banning the unvaccinated and forcing you to isolate/stay away from work for two weeks after a positive test (with the RATs you don't even need to prove it, you just register your positive test online) has vaporised the workforce.
we get 2 weeks of sick leave a year and most people only legitimately take a day or two off on average, so claiming you have COVID is like an extra holiday
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-07/australian-defence-force-to-be-sent-into-aged-care/100810630
imagine joining the military (or reserves probably) to be deployed to ass wiping duty
love your country like you love your parents.
that includes changing diapers and wiping prematurely excreted human wastes. -
2022-02-07 at 4:27 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra we get 2 weeks of sick leave a year and most people only legitimately take a day or two off on average, so claiming you have COVID is like an extra holiday
I just remembered, sick leave doesn't normally accrue (because why would it?), but it does in some government jobs, probably thanks to unions. A friend's dad works for the post office, and he had like 6 months of accrued sick leave when he retired - the guy could've feasibly 'caught covid' and taken half the year off -
2022-02-07 at 4:28 PM UTC
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