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2022-05-27 Science & Technology

Newest COVID Variant May Be the Most Deadly!

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Posted by Bobby 2022-05-27 11:20|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 'might', 'can', and 'it's too early'
Losts of solid reporting there.

Posted by ed in texas 2022-05-27 11:38|| 2022-05-27 11:38|| Front Page Top

#2 DeltaChronLGBTQWERTY

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 11:39|| 2022-05-27 11:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Elections must be coming soon. Then again scientists have again projected another apocalyptic hurricane season.

Posted by Dale 2022-05-27 11:52|| 2022-05-27 11:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Booster shots can provide strong protection against the new mutants

Bullshit. They are made from the same Alpha strain from 2020. They are like the goggles. They do nothing.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-05-27 12:09|| 2022-05-27 12:09|| Front Page Top

#5 They were trying to get more "covid relief money". Who wants to bet they try pushing that shit through again?

Posted by Chris 2022-05-27 12:13|| 2022-05-27 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 I will need a hip replacement at some point. Won't be getting it until my "vaccination status" is not a factor in getting into the hospital.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-27 12:16|| 2022-05-27 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 I wanted to squeeze "unexpectedly" into the headline, but I was on my way out the door.

Posted by Bobby 2022-05-27 14:22|| 2022-05-27 14:22|| Front Page Top

#8 PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC

Posted by Tom 2022-05-27 14:32|| 2022-05-27 14:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Chicago is put on 'high' Covid alert as average daily infections hit 1,100 and deaths from the virus jump 6% in a week: Masks are 'recommend' but officials do NOT set a mandate

Posted by Skidmark 2022-05-27 15:24|| 2022-05-27 15:24|| Front Page Top

#10 What is WCIA? CIA radio/tv station east of the Mississippi...?

Posted by Glenmore 2022-05-27 15:33|| 2022-05-27 15:33|| Front Page Top

#11 The Appropriated Funds Varient! Moneypox!

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-05-27 15:59|| 2022-05-27 15:59|| Front Page Top

#12 One of the reasons China is on lockdown is China asked the price for vaccine and these producers wanted $3 trillion from China.

Posted by 3dc 2022-05-27 16:39|| 2022-05-27 16:39|| Front Page Top

#13 RE: #4

Bullshit. They are made from the same Alpha strain from 2020.

You are correct, the shots are completely worthless now. In fact, they have negative efficacy. All one needs to do is look at the highly vaccinated countries rates of infections and deaths and compare to places that didn’t vaccinate much, like most African countries. South Africa, which vaccinated the most in Africa, looks as bad as western countries. Covid in US has a 300/100,000 death rate. Most unvaccinated African countries are in the single digits per 100k.

In San Diego I track the weekly Covid statistics and when Omicron hit the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated numbers looked bad so they just split the vaccinated into 2 groups. Those with 2 shots and those with 3 (boosted). So for example, last week for a population of 100,000 people, .31 unvaccinated people will be hospitalized, .17 vaccinated (2 shots) and .17 boosted (3 shots) will be hospitalized. Then they give you a headline number saying “unvaccinated” are twice as likely to be hospitalized as “vaccinated and boosted”. In reality, most normal people consider 2 or 3 shots “vaccinated”. So if you add the people with 2 shots and the people with 3 shots together you get your “vaccinated” group. Which, in San Diego, was .34 per 100k vaccinated were hospitalized. So if you are vaccinated in San Diego and get Omicron you are equally as likely to be hospitalized as unvaccinated. (Plus, they spike the unvaccinated group with anyone where vaccinated status is unknown (homeless people, drug OD’s, illegal aliens, etc)

Posted by Jolugum Jeamble7083 2022-05-27 16:48|| 2022-05-27 16:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Going out on a limb here - no, it isn’t.

Posted by Ebbaise Brown5939 2022-05-27 17:28|| 2022-05-27 17:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Bill Gates in Davos says Vaccinations are Pointless

🔥 Bill Gates, of COURSE, attended this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he has been outgassing his pie hole again. Apparently he’s an expert on vaccine science because he finagled the rights to the source code for Windows out of his developer business partner back in the day.

The first thing Gates opined about was vaccine passports, which apparently are now “out.” Speaking on a WEF panel, Gates, looking thoughtful and throwing his hands up in frustration, ventured that “the idea of checking if people are vaccinated; you know, if you have breakthrough infections, what’s the point?”

Yes, Bill, that’s the point: there is no point. So I guess this means we can question vaccine passports on Facebook now without going to virtual jail?

Then Gates made some other interesting comments — as an expert on pandemics — about how pathetic the current vaccines are. I am not making that up. Chuckling ruefully, he complained, “we should have much better therapeutics … as we do come up with vaccines, we want vaccines that are infection-blocking and long-duration, which, today — you know, the vaccines have saved millions of lives — but they DON’T, uh, have much in the way of duration, and they’re not, they’re not good at infection blocking.”

No duration? Not good at preventing infection? How DARE he! Anti-vaxxer! Hesitant! Science denier!

Here’s a fact about the world we live in: He who has a checkbook is an expert on whatever subject he says he is.

Posted by Eddie Der Eagle 2022-05-27 17:40|| 2022-05-27 17:40|| Front Page Top

#16 /\ I need absolutely no input on anything from Bill & Melinda. Not now, not ever.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-27 17:43|| 2022-05-27 17:43|| Front Page Top

#17 ^#10 WCIA sounded familiar to me, because my wife is from Champaign, IL, where it is a TV and radio station. But the article was in the Dallas Morning News with an AP credit. WCIA is just the first place I found it on the web.

Posted by Bobby 2022-05-27 18:00|| 2022-05-27 18:00|| Front Page Top

#18 Never got the shot and I'll never wear a mask again. Fool me once, shame on you--fool me twice, shame on me.

Posted by Crusader 2022-05-27 18:21|| 2022-05-27 18:21|| Front Page Top

#19
Had one of my IT Security Team get infected in Dublin Ireland. He was in lockdown for weeks until his tests came back negative twice. He said being there the last few weeks was a like a jail.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-05-27 18:32|| 2022-05-27 18:32|| Front Page Top

#20 If the vaccines were saving "millions" they'd have affected the death rate, and we had a second half million dead the second year of the pandemic.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-05-27 19:17|| 2022-05-27 19:17|| Front Page Top

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