Oust the Democrat Communists!!!
I’ve seen people get sick and die from this shot.
COVID Vaccine Data (openvaers.com)
Just wondering if the government will label their death as “the Delta variant” or some such nonsense to cover their sin. What we have playing out now is a battle for vaccine supremacy. It’s Sinovac vs Pfizer and Moderna for global vaccine dominance. Knowing this and a lot of what we see in the news about ‘variants’ makes sense.
Delta variant accounts for 83% of new cases in US, CDC director says
CDC’s Walensky: Delta Variant Sees ‘Dramatic Increase,’ Responsible for Over 80% of Coronavirus Cases
VAERS REPORTING CAN COME FROM YOU
From the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons…
If you experienced an adverse reaction to a COVID-19 shot, or have first-hand knowledge of an adverse reaction, please consider reporting it to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Reporting System (VAERS).
Who can report? “VAERS accepts reports from anyone. Patients, parents, caregivers and healthcare [professionals] (HCP) are encouraged to report adverse events after vaccination to VAERS even if it is not clear that the vaccine caused the adverse event,” explains the HHS VAERS FAQ. The HHS also states that, “information identifying the person who received the vaccine and the person who filed the report is not made available to the public.”
Historically, adverse events are significantly underreported, but when policies like mandates and door-to-door vaccine campaigns are being considered and implemented, it is especially important to make sure to file a report so policymakers can be aware of the implications of their decisions.
Please note: it is a crime to file an intentionally misleading report with VAERS, under federal law (18 U.S. Code § 1001), and AAPS supports only the filing of accurate reports to the best of the filer’s knowledge.
To file a report online, visit: https://vaers.hhs.gov/esub/index.jsp
Additional information about the process and an alternate reporting option are available at: https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html
Americans have an easy way to crush Covid-19, but myths and misunderstandings about vaccinations might stop the US from reaching herd immunity — one that would let more businesses fully reopen safely, reduce the need for masks and help prevent more dangerous variants from emerging. But many don’t want to get vaccinated as myths and misunderstandings spread. A tenth of Americans still say they’re waiting to see how the vaccine works for others before they make up their minds about getting it, according to polling released in mid-July by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
That’s a big problem for several reasons:
— More than 97% of people now entering the hospital with Covid-19 are not vaccinated, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in mid-July. They include children and young, previously healthy adults. (More on that later.)
— Unless more people get vaccinated, we may never reach herd immunity.
— The longer people stay unvaccinated, the more chances a virus has to mutate. And if the mutations are significant, they could lead to more troubling strains that might evade vaccines.
— ‘Long Covid’ is real. Even young athletes have suffered brain fog, chest pains and shortness of breath months after infection.
When it’s time for a gut cleanse: – brain fog – bad breath – hard to focus – pale, dull skin – acne breakouts – digestive issues – difficulty sleeping – get headaches often – irritable mood swings – low energy, tired a lot – frequent constipation – bloating after every meal,
Q. If COVID is so horrible why is there no guidance on how to properly dispose of masks?
A. There is regulatory guidance, they just ignore it. Dispose in biohazard bag after single use. Then biohazard bag autoclaved in a cycle that has been validated to a SAL of 10-^6, (sterility assurance level).
Q. What probiotics do you recommend?
A. It depends. They have vaginal or gut health. I recommend Florajen. for either or and if you have gut issues or IBS – get digestive advantage daily probiotic by Schiff. Garden of Life Wobenzym N 800 Tabs systemic enzymes for inflammation & pain.
Q. Do you think it would be able to help anxiety as well as overthinking?
A. Absolutely. It’s why we need gut cleanses and to eat foods for a healthy gut. It’s the second brain and affects our stress, anxiety and even depression. Anxiety and depression can be directly linked to gut health in many people.
Q I have low blood sugar and the last time I tried a fasting detox I passed out on the 2nd day. Definitely not an option for me.
Is there a way to do a gut cleanse without fasting?
A There’s no fasting in this holistic gut cleanse guide. It’s eating raw fruits and veggies along with smoothies. this way you’re getting your fiber in and your body is breaking down the right foods properly. Arielle Símone – Gut Check: A Holistic Guide to Healing Your Gut (arielle simone.co)
That’s also why food combining, the times you’re consuming certain foods & beverages, the brand of foods & beverages you buy, etc. matter.
I learned about food combining from Tony Robbins. Went through all of school and never heard, read it once.
“Even for young people who consider their risk of severe Covid to be low, the long-term consequences can be quite serious,” said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health. But rampant myths and unnecessary concerns stand in the way. Here are some of the most popular arguments for not getting vaccinated and why doctors want to set the record straight:
‘I don’t want to get Covid-19 from the vaccine.’ It’s literally impossible to get Covid-19 from any of the vaccines used in the US because none of them contains even a piece of real coronavirus.
Here’s how each vaccine was made.
‘We don’t know what the long-term side effects are. Any adverse side effects from vaccines almost always “show up within the first two weeks, and certainly by the first two months,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. That’s why he and many other health experts asked the US Food and Drug Administration to wait at least two months after trial participants had been inoculated before considering whether to give emergency authorization to Covid-19 vaccines.
“If there were going to (be) problems … they would become apparent within two months of people getting vaccinated,” he said. “That’s what the FDA waited for.” The most serious vaccine side effects in history have all been caught within six weeks, said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and a member of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.
“I would say, please tell me what vaccine has ever been shown to cause a long-term side effect that was not picked up in the first two months,” said Offit, a co-creator of the rotavirus vaccine who has studied vaccinology for more than four decades. “The smallpox vaccine could cause inflammation of the heart muscle. The oral polio vaccine was a rare cause of polio — it occurred in roughly
1 in 2.4 million doses. …
The yellow fever vaccine is a rare cause of … yellow fever.
All those occurred within six weeks of getting a dose,” he said. There may be very rare side effects that aren’t immediately found in clinical trials. But that’s due to the extreme rarity of those side effects — “not because it’s a long-term problem,” Offit said. “Sometimes you’re not going to pick it up initially because it’s extremely rare, so you aren’t going to pick up a one-in-a-million risk in a trial of 44,000 people,” he said.
Pfizer/BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson had about 44,000 participants in each of their trials. Half the volunteers got vaccinated, and the other half got placebos. The Moderna trial had about 30,000 participants, with half receiving vaccines and half receiving placebos. And because coronavirus is highly contagious — killing more than half a million Americans and leaving many survivors with long-term complications — you’re much better off getting the vaccine.
‘I’ve already had Covid-19, so I don’t need to be vaccinated.’
Even if you’ve had coronavirus, you should still get vaccinated because the immunity
you get from vaccination will likely be longer or stronger than the immunity you got after getting infected, health experts say. “That’s true for a number of vaccines — the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine induces immunity better than natural infection. The tetanus vaccine does,” he said.
When it comes to the two-dose vaccines — those from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna — people who’ve already had coronavirus should still get both doses, emergency medicine physician Dr. Leana Wen said. Those vaccines were studied in people taking both doses, and that’s what experts know to be effective. It’s not clear how long protection after just one dose might last.
“We also don’t know how long protection will last after having coronavirus, so you should still be (fully) vaccinated,” Wen said.
‘The vaccine might hurt my fertility’
This is pure nonsense, Offit said. There’s no evidence that people have lost any fertility because of the Covid-19 vaccines. The rumor apparently started with the myth that the coronavirus spike protein, which is mimicked when you get a vaccine, also mimics the protein on the surface of placental cells, Offit said.
“So the false notion was that when you’re making an immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, you also were inadvertently making a response to a placental protein — which would then make you less likely to be fertile,” Offit said.
“So it’s all nonsense. It’s not true.”
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said there’s no link between any vaccines and fertility. “If you are trying to become pregnant now or want to get pregnant in the future, you may receive a COVID-19 vaccine when one is available to you,” the CDC says. “There is currently no evidence that any vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems.” The benefits of getting vaccinated if you’re pregnant or trying to become pregnant far outweigh the risks, because pregnancy puts a person at higher risk for severe Covid-19 illness.
And some research suggests Covid-19 vaccines provide some level of protection to newborns. ‘It’s none of your business if I don’t get vaccinated.’
Refusing the Covid-19 vaccine actually impacts a lot of people — yourself, your loved ones, even the country as a whole. “When people say, ‘What do you care about? You’re vaccinated. I’m going to choose not to be vaccinated. You’re vaccinated, so you’re good'” — that makes three false assumptions, Offit said.
“First of all, the vaccines aren’t 100% effective.” So even if your friends and family are vaccinated, but you’re not vaccinated, you can still carry and spread the virus to your loved ones. And as Americans go back to crowded bars, concerts, sporting events and movie theaters, the need for mass vaccination becomes even more important.
Second, it’s a mistake to think everyone who wants a vaccine can just get one.
“Some people are on cancer chemotherapy. They can’t be vaccinated — they depend on the herd to protect them,” Offit said. So many of the most vulnerable Americans are counting on fellow Americans to get vaccinated.
“And third, by not being vaccinated, or being part of a reasonably sized group of people who are choosing not to get the vaccine, you’re allowing the virus to continue to replicate. When it’s allowed to continue to replicate, it will create mutations, which could then cause variants that are completely resistant to the immunity induced by natural infection or immunization.”
In other words: Failing to get a vaccine could make the vaccines less effective. And that could ruin everyone’s vaccinations — throwing the country backward in this pandemic. ‘I’m young and healthy, so I don’t need to get vaccinated.’ It’s critical for young, healthy people to get vaccinated, Collins and other doctors say. Here’s why:
Young people can get long-term Covid-19 complications. Young, healthy people have turned into Covid-19 “long-haulers,” suffering chronic fatigue, chest pain, shortness of breath and brain fog months after their infection. A study this year found that 30% of people who had Covid-19 still had symptoms up to nine months after infection.
“Covid-19 doesn’t have to kill you to wreck your life,” said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University.
Young people can be easy transmitters of coronavirus. There have been multiple Covid-19 outbreaks at youth summer camps. And with the more contagious Delta variant spreading, hospitals in less-vaccinated states are seeing more children and teens hospitalized with Covid-19.
“This year’s virus is not last year’s virus,” said Dr. Catherine O’Neal, an infectious disease specialist at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “It’s attacking our 40-year-olds. It’s attacking our parents and young grandparents. And it’s getting our kids.” By mid-July, O’Neal’s Covid-19 unit now had more patients in their 20s who were previously healthy, she said.
In Missouri, “people in their late teens and even early 20s are being hospitalized and needing the use of ventilators,” said Katie Towns, acting director of Springfield-Greene County Health Department. Young adults can be victims of their strong immune systems. Doctors have noticed some young, previously healthy patients suffer from Covid-19 cytokine storms.
That’s basically when someone’s immune system overreacts — potentially causing severe inflammation or other serious symptoms.
“We’ve certainly seen people come into our hospital, very young people (in their early 20s) … need to be put on ECMO, which is basically a heart-lung machine, for days or even weeks because they come in with cardiomyopathy, which is a response to a cytokine storm,” Reiner said. ‘These vaccines only have emergency use authorization, not full FDA approval.’
It’s true that the Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines have emergency use authorization from the FDA and not full approval yet. But that’s only because not enough time has passed to show how long the vaccines stay effective, Offit said. “Frankly, the only real difference was in length of follow-up,” he said. “Typically, you like to see efficiency for a year or two years.”
But with Covid-19 vaccines, “you couldn’t do that. You couldn’t do a one- or two- or three-year study … because the virus was killing hundreds of thousands of people. So we wanted to get it out there.” He stressed that the vaccines’ EUA status doesn’t mean they’re less safe. As a member of the FDA vaccine advisory committee, Offit said the vaccines are reviewed with the same level of scrutiny as they would to get full approval.
Offit said he’s confident vaccines will get full FDA approval. “The effectiveness and efficacy data in the Phase 3 trials and now in the real world … is excellent,” he said. Also, the vaccine trials showed “excellent cellular immune responses — meaning so-called T helper cells.”
Offit said that’s a good sign these vaccines give strong, long-lasting protection.
‘My faith will protect me, so I don’t need to get vaccinated’
Among religious groups in the US, “white evangelical Protestants stand out as the most likely to say they will refuse to get vaccinated (26%), with an additional 28% who are hesitant,” according to a study this spring by the Public Religion Research Institute and Interfaith Youth Core. Some experts say anti-Covid-19 vaccine sentiment among evangelicals is fueled by a distrust in government, ignorance about how vaccines work and misinformation.
“If you believe that God created us in his image, including being able to think and reason, we’ve been able to think and reason a lot of these diseases away” thanks to vaccination, he said. “We don’t die from smallpox anymore. Children aren’t permanently paralyzed by polio anymore in the United States. It’s a good thing. That’s because God gave us a brain to think and reason with. So use it.”
Opinion: Covid-19 vaccines are an answered prayer for all faiths.
‘I might not be able to afford a vaccine.’ “It’s all free. The government is paying for this,” Offit said. This is one message public officials could do a better job explaining, he said. “I never hear them described as free, I think because it’s always assumed that people know they’re free,” Offit said.
But “maybe for all those commercials you see on TV … they should make it clear you don’t have to pay this.”
For those who might lack internet access, Offit said it’d be a good idea for state or local health departments to send flyers in the mail explaining when and how people can get vaccinated — and reminding them it’s free. The bottom line: Not getting vaccinated could set everyone back. If you want to protect yourself, your friends, your family and the economy, get vaccinated. Otherwise, you’ll be part of the problem — not the solution.
“This virus is continuing to mutate,” Offit said. “The thing I’m most worried about is that this virus will mutate to the point that immunity induced by natural infection or vaccination doesn’t work at all. That’s the most important reason to vaccinate.” The longer a virus circulates among unvaccinated people, the more opportunities it has to mutate. And if the mutations are significant, they can lead to more problematic variants — including some that could partially or fully escape vaccine protection.
“It’s already starting to happen,” Offit said, citing the B.1.351 and P.1 variants.
While vaccines are still effective against those strains, “these variants have now started to escape from the immunity of natural infection or immunization. They don’t completely escape, but they’ve started to escape.” So the key to ending this pandemic isn’t just getting vaccinated.
It’s getting vaccinated as soon as possible, before the virus mutates into variants that we can’t control with our current vaccines. “The vaccine is the most important pathway to ending this pandemic. That means we’ve got to get everyone in our country vaccinated,” US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said.
“Now what we’ve got to do is, No. 1: Get the vaccine. No. 2: Turn around and look at our family and friends and ask if they’re going to get vaccinated. If they need help, that’s what we’ve got to do.” Covid vaccine myths debunked: These reasons for not getting a shot don’t hold up. In fact, they’ll set the US back
Unvaccinated Americans Say Vaccines Are Riskier Than COVID-19, Poll Finds By Elliott Davis
A large share of unvaccinated Americans say the COVID-19 vaccine poses a greater risk to their health than the virus itself, according to a poll released Tuesday – contradicting broad agreements among scientists about the safety of the vaccines. The new survey from Yahoo News/YouGov paints an alarming picture of vaccine hesitancy across the country – despite a scientific study finding six months after the first injections in December 2020 that the safety of the vaccines is “remarkable” – as cases rise largely due to the delta variant.
Tuesday’s poll found that 37% of unvaccinated respondents believe the vaccines represent a greater health risk than COVID-19. Nearly 35% of those surveyed say they’re not sure, and only 29% say getting the virus is more risky than getting vaccinated, according to the Yahoo News/YouGov poll, which reached 1,715 U.S. adults between July 13-15. The survey has a margin of error of 2.7%.
With cases spiking in many states recently and vaccination rates slowing,
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky referred to COVID-19 on Friday as now the “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Walensky noted during that same press briefing that 97% of new hospitalizations are patients who are unvaccinated. During a Senate hearing on Tuesday, the CDC director said the delta variant is responsible for more than 80% of new coronavirus infections, while nearly two-thirds of U.S. counties have vaccine coverage rates under 40%.
“In areas where vaccine coverage is low, cases and hospitalizations are starting to climb again,” Walensky said during the hearing.
The findings of the Yahoo News/YouGov poll connect with data released last Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics from the bureau’s Household Pulse Survey show that while hesitancy nationwide has declined from 21.6% between Jan. 6-18 to 10.8% between June 23 and July 5, rates remain high in certain states. The populations most hesitant to get vaccinated are in Wyoming (25.6%), West Virginia (22.4%), North Dakota (22.2%) and Alaska (20.5%), according to the bureau.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Tracking data.
The most common reasons for hesitancy nationwide are concerns about side effects (50.6%) and a lack of trust in COVID-19 vaccines (47.6%), according to the bureau’s survey. The Yahoo News/YouGov poll similarly found that 45% of unvaccinated respondents don’t trust the vaccines, while 12% say they’re not worried about getting the virus and 9% say they already had it.
Another ominous finding of the poll is that a majority of unvaccinated Americans might not be swayed. More than 50% of respondents say they will never get vaccinated, while 22% say they aren’t sure and 20% say they are going to keep waiting “to see what happens to others before deciding,”
Vaccine-hesitant people have legitimate concerns that must be addressed. By Kaylee McGhee White
National Review’s Michael Brendan Dougherty faced a torrent of criticism (much of it made in bad faith) over the weekend for pointing out the obvious: Vaccine outreach efforts will continue to fail if the people doing the reaching out treat vaccine skeptics like they’re ignorant oafs. As is so often the case, Dougherty’s critics proved his point. This is what they think of you backcountry, churchgoing, tinfoil hat-wearing bumpkins:
The hostility toward the vaccine hesitant makes much more sense once you understand why there are still so many in the vaccine-hesitant camp. They’re not all conspiracy theorists, and they’re not morons. They’re people who have been let down and lied to by public health officials, and the concerns that have arisen from this breach of trust are legitimate. Dougherty’s critics know this, but they’d rather write off the skeptical as unserious loons than admit that maybe, just maybe, they have a point.
We were told the country would be shut down for two weeks to slow the spread of COVID-19 and prevent the healthcare system from being overrun by positive cases. Those two weeks turned into nearly a year and a half. We were also told not to buy or wear masks because they were ineffective against the virus, only to be told a few months later that we needed to wear them at all times.
We were told schools needed to be shut down for an entire school year because of the virus even though almost everyone knew children were not at risk. We are still being told that young children ineligible for the vaccine must be forced to wear masks even though they are still not at risk.
Guess who undermined public confidence in vaccines?
VP Harris and MSM flip-flop on vaccine rhetoric in just under a year
We were led to believe by Vice President Kamala Harris and several other Democratic officials that the vaccines developed by the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed might not be safe. And the Food and Drug Administration led us to believe the Johnson & Johnson vaccine could cause severe, potentially fatal side effects when the agency pulled it temporarily due to reports about rare blood clotting. And a couple of months after the FDA reinstalled the J&J vaccine, the agency was forced to warn the public about a potential link between the vaccine and Guillain-Barre syndrome.
The point is this: The government lied to us repeatedly, imposed long-lasting restrictions that often were not backed by scientific data, oversold the risk of COVID-19 to children and young adults, and downplayed the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine that was supposed to signal the end of the pandemic. Given the extent and magnitude of the mistakes made by public health officials throughout the pandemic, it’s actually a wonder that more aren’t skeptical of vaccines.
This is not to say the vaccines themselves are untrustworthy. All of the available scientific research confirms the coronavirus vaccines are both safe and effective. But the officials pushing the vaccines are untrustworthy, and it is impossible to blame those on the fence for not taking them at their word.
This is why it’s so important for those of us who don’t represent the government and its many failures to reach out to the vaccine hesitant and meet them where they are. They have lost faith in Dr. Anthony Fauci, but they might listen to a close friend. The CDC’s credibility is shot, but the confirmed experiences of family members who have already gotten the vaccine might help bridge the gap.
Not everyone will be convinced, and that’s OK. But a genuine attempt to understand the fears many still hold, and an acknowledgment of the many ways public health officials have failed them, is the only approach that might work. Flaming Lips stage unique ‘space bubble’ concert in Oklahoma
The Flaming Lips have staged a unique pair of gigs in Oklahoma, with both the band and their audience inside individual inflatable balls.
Each show accommodated 100 bubbles, holding up to three people each, with the band inside their own capsules. The concept came from frontman Wayne Coyne, who often rolls over the crowd in a Zorb ball during the band’s gigs. Speaking ahead of the concerts, Coyne said they would be “safer than going to the grocery store”.
Inside each bubble was a high frequency supplemental speaker – which helped prevent the sound being muffled – as well as a water bottle, a battery-operated fan, a towel and a “I gotta go pee/hot in here” sign. If it got too hot, the bubble was refilled with cool air using a leaf blower, and fans who needed the bathroom were escorted by venue staff once they had put on a mask and stepped outside their cocoon.
“It’s a very restricted, weird event.
But the weirdness is so we can enjoy a concert before putting our families and everybody at risk,” Coyne told Rolling Stone last month. “I think it’s a bit of a new normal – you might go to a show, you might not, but I think we’re going to be able to work it out.” Friday’s show saw the band play classics including Do You Realize, She Don’t Use Jelly and Race For The Prize alongside tracks from last year’s American Head album.
They also played a cover of Daniel Johnston’s True Love Will Find You in the End on what would have been the singer’s 60th birthday. The gigs were filmed by a professional crew, and cameraman Nathan Poppe documented the process of putting the show together on Twitter. He explained that the ground floor of The Criterion theatre was divided into a 10×10 grid, with a space bubble inside each square.
Poppe added that, because the sound of the audience was muted, clapping was replaced by people “punching the top of their bubble”.
The success of the concerts raises the question: Could other bands replicate the experience?
The answer seems to be yes, as long as the right venue is found and staff and audience members take reasonable precautions.
Speaking to TMZ last year, Coyne explained that you need a lot of open space around the venue so that masked ticket holders can remain socially-distanced before they get into the bubbles – a process that takes about 20 minutes.
The bubbles, he added, hold enough oxygen for three people to breathe for “over an hour and 10 minutes” before they need to be refreshed, although a towel is needed to wipe down the condensation. According to an instructional video posted on the singer’s Instagram feed, the concert ends with everyone rolling their bubbles to the exit door, where they must re-attach masks before unzipping and leaving the venue. “Safety, safety, safety,” Coyne told fans.
“But fun too!”
Vaccinated people: Your odds of a COVID ‘breakthrough’ infection have gone up. That doesn’t mean you need to panic.
The Flaming Lips – The World’s First Space Bubble Concert
The Flaming Lips – Assassins of Youth [Live Video]