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2022-02-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

FDA is considering FOURTH dose of COVID-19 vaccine and making it an annual shot as cases across the US drop 43% over the past week and 87% since the peak of the Omicron variant

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-22 00:14|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 I notice they are still counting cases with covid. So roofers who fall of the roof and die are being counted as covid deaths.

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-02-22 01:02|| 2022-02-22 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Same in our area. Fellow shot himself dead. Wife who caused his anxiety is awarded $200,000 insurance money for his accidental death. Insurance providers once flush with money now in negative territory.

Posted by Dale 2022-02-22 04:05|| 2022-02-22 04:05|| Front Page Top

#3 re#1 , they have been the entire pandemic.

Posted by Chris 2022-02-22 08:43|| 2022-02-22 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Speaking of life insurance, that industry's CEOs know their statistics and (unlike the CDC or Fauxi) do not attempt to bullshit anyone.

Deaths have soared since the vaccine was introduced -- not just in Indiana but in muktuolle states around the country. Here's a dispatch from Indiana, as of January 2022:

Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64

Jan. 1, 2022
(The Center Square) – The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.

“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”

OneAmerica is a $100 billion insurance company that has had its headquarters in Indianapolis since 1877. The company has approximately 2,400 employees and sells life insurance, including group life insurance to employers nationwide.

...At the same news conference where Davison spoke, Brian Tabor, the president of the Indiana Hospital Association, said that hospitals across the state are being flooded with patients “with many different conditions,” saying “unfortunately, the average Hoosiers’ health has declined during the pandemic.”

In a follow-up call, he said he did not have a breakdown showing why so many people in the state are being hospitalized – for what conditions or ailments. But he said the extraordinarily high death rate quoted by Davison matched what hospitals in the state are seeing.

The number of hospitalizations in the state is now higher than before the COVID-19 vaccine was introduced a year ago, and in fact is higher than it’s been in the past five years, Dr. Lindsay Weaver, Indiana’s chief medical officer, said at a news conference with Gov. Eric Holcomb on Wednesday.

Just 8.9% of ICU beds are available at hospitals in the state, a low for the year, and lower than at any time during the pandemic. But the majority of ICU beds are not taken up by COVID-19 patients – just 37% are, while 54% of the ICU beds are being occupied by people with other illnesses or conditions.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-22 08:52|| 2022-02-22 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 At this point, the politicians are washing their hands of it. The bureaucr@ps are lagging indicators. The pols are looking at the next election. The bureau types are watching the permanant gravy train head for the siding outside the shop where old rolling stock is broken up.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 09:17|| 2022-02-22 09:17|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ yes. Magoo will declare "victory" next Tuesday in his SOTU. Walensky and crew will pull an Emily Litello.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-22 09:25|| 2022-02-22 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Fauxi is too much of a maglomaniac to go quietly. He gets the Ron Brown plane ride...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 09:29|| 2022-02-22 09:29|| Front Page Top

#8 [Europe]
Fourth Jab Inbound: Vulnerable and Over-75s to Get Fourth COVID Booster in Spring

Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-22 12:02|| 2022-02-22 12:02|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't see how a booster of the same design as the previous shots will provide significant benefit, since the virus has mutated away from what that vaccine targeted. (Regardless of relative risks of vaccine and infection for a given demographic.)

Posted by Glenmore 2022-02-22 12:39|| 2022-02-22 12:39|| Front Page Top

#10 The UK government will no longer provide public Covid testing starting April 1.

“Because we know Omicron is less severe, testing for Omicron on the colossal scale we have been doing is now much less valuable in preventing serious illness,” Boris Johnson explained.

Which puts an end to mass surveillance.

Which puts a spike through the COVIDiocy: No mo' testing = no mo' pandemic. It's over. Just seasonal flu now.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-22 12:51|| 2022-02-22 12:51|| Front Page Top

#11 "Ron Brown plane ride" That's gonna leave a mark..as in a big grease stain.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-02-22 14:08|| 2022-02-22 14:08|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't see how a booster of the same design as the previous shots will provide significant benefit, since the virus has mutated away from what that vaccine targeted. (Regardless of relative risks of vaccine and infection for a given demographic.)

I liked the part when they said you can mix and match brands, no biggie, trust us.

Are they the same formula? Are there medication conflicts? Don't know.

Kind of miss being called a Flat-Earther, had some zing to it at least. Vaccine Hesitant is so 90's corporate speak, like Friends will be on after the commercial. Maybe get Oasis to do a PR piece.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-22 16:44|| 2022-02-22 16:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Unless they can stick me in a camp for refusing, I'll never take any booster of that garbage. Channeling Quint: "I'll never go in the water with a life jacket again..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 16:54|| 2022-02-22 16:54|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm not getting anymore, I had two shots total but I don't trust it now and wish I hadn't.

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-02-22 17:11|| 2022-02-22 17:11|| Front Page Top

#15 They are going to talk tough but do nothing that might illuminate the fact it's just talk. COVID is over and the vaxx mandates will mainly be applied to people who need to work in a specific setting or cross a border.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 17:22|| 2022-02-22 17:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Silentbrick, I suspect you are far from alone.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-22 21:59|| 2022-02-22 21:59|| Front Page Top

#17 ^
heh

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-02-22 22:45|| 2022-02-22 22:45|| Front Page Top

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