“Might he spread the disease to other players? Sure. As with many other diseases from time immemorial. But the vast majority of NFL players have been vaccinated, so that risk mostly reflects the fact that the vaccines aren’t very effective at stopping the virus from spreading.
Pressure on those who have not been vaccinated to get the shot, coming mostly from the Left, has become crazed even as evidence mounts that the vaccines, unfortunately, don’t work as well as expected. You can see that from the CDC’s chart showing daily trends in new covid infections. When the vaccines first became widely available around the beginning of 2021, covid cases were about to peak. New cases declined rapidly after that, presumably due in part to the vaccines, but also to the natural ups and downs of the disease. Beginning in late summer, cases rose sharply again, reaching another peak in September. This would not have happened if the vaccines had been as effective as advertised:
Currently the CDC says that 78.6% of Americans have received at least one shot of an anti-covid vaccine, but at the moment cases appear to be rising again.
At Healthy Skeptic, Kevin Roche comments:
[I]t might be helpful if we had vaccines that appeared to actually make a difference in terms of reducing the number of cases and the rate of spread. The current ones don’t appear to do that for any length of time. It might also be helpful if a vaccine limited serious disease in the elderly who are most at risk. …
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Part of the problem is our continued absurd testing regimens where we constantly are testing people who have no symptoms. The inevitable result is lots of low and false positives and disruption of the lives of people who likely are not infectious. It is also pretty clear, as noted above, that the vaccines aren’t keeping people from getting infected, at least according to the definition of infected used in our over-sensitive tests. So no matter what the public health “experts” say, we are headed to an epidemic of the vaxed. Vaccinating more and more people isn’t a long run exit plan.
Experience indicates that the vaccines are useful primarily for limiting the severity of breakthrough infections, not for limiting the spread of the disease. But that puts vaccines squarely in the category of self-interest. If people think getting vaccinated is the best bet for their own health, as I do, great. But there is little or no argument for forcing them to get vaccinated for the sake of someone else’s well-being.
Which brings us to Joe Biden’s new OSHA rule (an “Emergency Temporary Standard”) requiring all employers of 100 or more people to, in turn, require their employees to be vaccinated or undergo constant covid testing. This rule Emergency Temporary Standard raises at least two separate legal issues: first, does it lie within the constitutional authority of the federal government, and second, is it authorized by the OSHA statute?”
“I wrote here about the fact that, unfortunately, the anti-covid vaccines do not reliably stop those who get them from either contracting or spreading covid. This negates the argument in favor of vaccine mandates and passports, since the real benefit of a vaccine is in reducing the severity of infection, not in preventing its spread to others.
But data released yesterday by the Minnesota Department of Health cast doubt on the effectiveness of the vaccines, even as to those who receive them. For the week ending November 8, 111 out of 168 newly announced “covid deaths”–66%–were among the fully vaccinated. Likewise, 347 out of 883 hospital admissions for covid (or with covid)–39%–were of the fully vaccinated. (Via Healthy Skeptic.) There is nothing unique about Minnesota, so I assume that these numbers are being replicated, more or less, elsewhere.
Here in Minnesota, our state government is relentlessly pressing everyone to be vaccinated, including small children. The state is offering $200 to kids who get vaccinated, and entering them in a lottery to win $100,000 in college scholarships. Given how little effect covid has on children–possibly less, in some cases, than the vaccines themselves–this is madness. But the machine of state rolls on, demanding that all of us be vaccinated even as the case for mandatory vaccination has fallen apart, and the prudential case for vaccination grows weaker.
A final point: watch for leftists like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to tell us that the number of vaccinated “covid deaths” should be disregarded because the vast majority of those people didn’t actually die on account of covid. They died of cancer, fatal accident, etc., and coincidentally tested positive for covid. The same with hospitalizations.”
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But when we pointed out the same co-morbidities about counted Covid deaths under Trump, we were anti-science conspiracy nuts.
I also don't believe the people saying this have watched much or any of the trial. They're instead demanding a now-18-year-old be imprisoned for life because they know their political followers want to hear that or they're looking for positive social media attention: both gross.
This actually all started with Russiagate. They wanted people like Michael Flynn imprisoned for years for a "crime" — lying to the FBI — that liberals like Ruth Bader Ginsburg long argued shouldn't even be a crime. The only crime they want punished is rejection of liberalism.
For those who have watched the trial: did the evidence presented remotely vindicate the claims in this mega-mega-viral tweet last year from a member of Congress about Kyle Rittenhouse and Joseph Rosenbaum?
Yes, by all means let's pass a law whereby you're rightfully entitled to defend yourself via the best means feasible, EXCEPT in a dangerous situation where you might be harmed. pic.twitter.com/JDcNk8Y449
They don’t care what you think or want, their agenda is all that matters.
There is no one on Earth as rapacious, greedy, and materialistic as a socialist politician. Dems understand that grabbing our money ends a political battle. Once the spending bills are passed, budget baselines rise, and government employees are hired, there is no going back.
And what's so bad about losing your seat, really? The Party will take care of you. Dems have vast sums of money from donors and taxpayers to lavish on loyal footsoldiers who fall in political battle. Cozy sinecures in bureaucracy, academia, and media await election losers.
Every billion the Dems grab from productive America will be sunk into money pits that can only get deeper. You'll be told we can never let what they spend today "go to waste," no matter how much of an obvious disaster it is. We must spend more, forever, until it starts working.
Losing a few seats for an election or two is a very reasonable price to pay for grabbing the money and power needed to put more inches on the Leviathan State's flabby waistline. Temporary political setbacks for permanent changes to American life? Who wouldn't take THAT deal?
That's the bottom line: less to vote on, less to discuss, more of our lives shifted into the untouchable authoritarian core that will power the Great Reset model of limited democracy. You are allowed to vote on less, and even talk about less, than you were 10 years ago.
Many Dems will march into 2022 knowing their seats are lost. They'll grab what they can on the way out. Angry voters will change Congress for a few years – but the Democrat Party will change the voters forever. You will never be free of the debt they inflict on you. /end
I watched a whole lot of the trail and was very surprised at the testimony that varied so much with what has been shown in the news. To have people in office talk in such an irresponsible way is terrible. I really don’t care what their party affiliation is; it is a violation of ‘do unto others.’ It is especially hypocritical of those who claim to love others and do justice. It is also the reason there is so little trust for the media in general.
But the media hacks in the MSM are strangely silent…..
See above, this guy has the wrong ideology too, so off with his head….
If 10 FBI agents showed up at dawn at the home of a NY Times reporter, handcuffed them, and confiscated iphones full of notes and source material, it would rightfully generate national outrage. But since it happened to James O'Keefe, we get crickets.
“Russiagate has fallen apart, with special counsel John Durham exposing the notorious Steele Dossier as a collection of lies and made-up stories. But you wouldn’t know it by reading most of the media, which have mostly ignored the story.
More importantly, they haven’t faced up to their own part in pushing this witch hunt. Relying on one anonymous source — ex-British spy Christopher Steele — they spun a supposed conspiracy between Donald Trump and Russia. But they never revealed the fact that Steele was being paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign for opposition research, and they never examined Steele’s sources, who were unreliable or nonexistent.”
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“The media’s coverage of the Trump campaign, fueled by the Steele Dossier, finds a Russian under every bed. But in the end, little comes of it. Michael Flynn is fired as national security adviser after media outcry over his pre-inaugural conversations with the Russian ambassador, but such outreach is typical of incoming administrations. Papadopoulos pleads guilty to one count of making false statements to the FBI, with no suggestion that he worked with the Russians. Carter Page, despite months of wiretaps, is not charged. The most serious charges are against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, but are entirely related to tax and bank fraud with his own businesses.In the end, the Mueller report finds no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. The dossier is debunked. Yet these stories remain unflagged by Twitter or Facebook. The headlines are still there.”
Tucker Carlson: “A rapist called Joseph Rosenbaum was released from a mental hospital and then went directly to join the mob that was burning downtown Kenosha. … Rosenbaum died as he had lived, trying to touch an unwilling minor.” pic.twitter.com/i6UZfscVRG
This is Joseph Rosenbaum, the first man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse. He was convicted for raping five separate children ages 9 to 11 and spent over a decade in prison. While in prison he committed over 40 violations including assaults on staff. https://t.co/y5uQiOAsDXpic.twitter.com/mLfIX9g5cz
— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) November 11, 2021
“Turns out that even when you say something is made of Steele, it still falls apart.
The media built four years of “Russia, Russia, Russia” with the Steele dossier. The press claimed President Donald Trump was a Russian “asset” or “agent.” Several outlets used the fancy Russian word “kompromat,” meaning he was compromised because they had dirt on him—including the media obsession with the so-called “pee tape.”
Journalists loved the idea of throwing mud at the man who called them “fake news,” even if every allegation proved Trump right.
Then the Russian narrative collapsed.
The “primary researcher” for the dossier, Igor Danchenko, was “charged with lying to the FBI about his sources,” wrote The New York Times. The paper described the dossier as “a compendium of rumors and unproven assertions suggesting that Mr. Trump and his 2016 campaign were compromised by and conspiring with Russian intelligence officials to help him defeat Hillary Clinton.”
It sure got a lot of coverage given that description.
A year after the presidential election, it’s easy to forget just how much the legacy press freaked out about Trump and Russia—every report designed to undermine his presidency and prevent a second term.
The airwaves were filled with stories. ABC, CBS and NBC evening news programs devoted 2,634 minutes in two years. That’s more than 100 minutes a month.
Print was just as bad. The Washington Post lists more than 900 Trump and Russia stories from the date of his election. The paper ran just three pieces since the story fell apart—and only one admitting the media’s responsibility.
The whole conspiracy was just like one of those Russian dolls, but with lies hidden within other lies. The Steele dossier was designed to destroy a presidency, even if it crushed what little credibility the traditional media had left. Sure, this latest news doesn’t erase every Russia story of the last five-plus years. Just most of them, and guts many others.
The problem now is the dossier was disproven and few in the press are honest enough to admit it. If they do admit it, many couldn’t care less.
Because it worked. Journalists swept their lies under the rug. The broadcast network evening news shows didn’t report the fall of Steele whatsoever for five straight nights. They’d be more likely to report on Danielle Steel than this.”
In response to yesterday’s posts by Tychicus about luciferase:
“COVID vaccines do not contain luciferase, and the chemical is not named after any of the versions of Lucifer that have dotted human stories since pre-Christian times. Rather, the name is taken from the Latin meaning of “lucifer,” which is “light bearer.” Luciferases are enzymes that act on high-energy molecules in animals like fireflies. The released energy from this breakdown gives these animals their glow, or bioluminescence.
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This unexpected focus on bioluminescence offers a teachable moment about how researchers have borrowed these enzymes to use as lab tools, including in animal studies of some COVID vaccines.”
Wandering Views 
Good morning, AJ.
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Good Morning RKessler. 🙂
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And we’re off…..
Vax You, part 1…..
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/vax-you.php
“Might he spread the disease to other players? Sure. As with many other diseases from time immemorial. But the vast majority of NFL players have been vaccinated, so that risk mostly reflects the fact that the vaccines aren’t very effective at stopping the virus from spreading.
Pressure on those who have not been vaccinated to get the shot, coming mostly from the Left, has become crazed even as evidence mounts that the vaccines, unfortunately, don’t work as well as expected. You can see that from the CDC’s chart showing daily trends in new covid infections. When the vaccines first became widely available around the beginning of 2021, covid cases were about to peak. New cases declined rapidly after that, presumably due in part to the vaccines, but also to the natural ups and downs of the disease. Beginning in late summer, cases rose sharply again, reaching another peak in September. This would not have happened if the vaccines had been as effective as advertised:
Currently the CDC says that 78.6% of Americans have received at least one shot of an anti-covid vaccine, but at the moment cases appear to be rising again.
At Healthy Skeptic, Kevin Roche comments:
[I]t might be helpful if we had vaccines that appeared to actually make a difference in terms of reducing the number of cases and the rate of spread. The current ones don’t appear to do that for any length of time. It might also be helpful if a vaccine limited serious disease in the elderly who are most at risk. …
***
Part of the problem is our continued absurd testing regimens where we constantly are testing people who have no symptoms. The inevitable result is lots of low and false positives and disruption of the lives of people who likely are not infectious. It is also pretty clear, as noted above, that the vaccines aren’t keeping people from getting infected, at least according to the definition of infected used in our over-sensitive tests. So no matter what the public health “experts” say, we are headed to an epidemic of the vaxed. Vaccinating more and more people isn’t a long run exit plan.
Experience indicates that the vaccines are useful primarily for limiting the severity of breakthrough infections, not for limiting the spread of the disease. But that puts vaccines squarely in the category of self-interest. If people think getting vaccinated is the best bet for their own health, as I do, great. But there is little or no argument for forcing them to get vaccinated for the sake of someone else’s well-being.
Which brings us to Joe Biden’s new OSHA rule (an “Emergency Temporary Standard”) requiring all employers of 100 or more people to, in turn, require their employees to be vaccinated or undergo constant covid testing. This rule Emergency Temporary Standard raises at least two separate legal issues: first, does it lie within the constitutional authority of the federal government, and second, is it authorized by the OSHA statute?”
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And part 2….
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/vax-you-part-two.php
“I wrote here about the fact that, unfortunately, the anti-covid vaccines do not reliably stop those who get them from either contracting or spreading covid. This negates the argument in favor of vaccine mandates and passports, since the real benefit of a vaccine is in reducing the severity of infection, not in preventing its spread to others.
But data released yesterday by the Minnesota Department of Health cast doubt on the effectiveness of the vaccines, even as to those who receive them. For the week ending November 8, 111 out of 168 newly announced “covid deaths”–66%–were among the fully vaccinated. Likewise, 347 out of 883 hospital admissions for covid (or with covid)–39%–were of the fully vaccinated. (Via Healthy Skeptic.) There is nothing unique about Minnesota, so I assume that these numbers are being replicated, more or less, elsewhere.
Here in Minnesota, our state government is relentlessly pressing everyone to be vaccinated, including small children. The state is offering $200 to kids who get vaccinated, and entering them in a lottery to win $100,000 in college scholarships. Given how little effect covid has on children–possibly less, in some cases, than the vaccines themselves–this is madness. But the machine of state rolls on, demanding that all of us be vaccinated even as the case for mandatory vaccination has fallen apart, and the prudential case for vaccination grows weaker.
A final point: watch for leftists like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to tell us that the number of vaccinated “covid deaths” should be disregarded because the vast majority of those people didn’t actually die on account of covid. They died of cancer, fatal accident, etc., and coincidentally tested positive for covid. The same with hospitalizations.”
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But when we pointed out the same co-morbidities about counted Covid deaths under Trump, we were anti-science conspiracy nuts.
Nice to see them coming around to reality.
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This is why you can’t take these clowns too seriously….
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So what’s changed, other than the color of the defendant?
Reverse racism is still racism clown.
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The stupid…..
It hurts…
That is exactly the time you want a gun morons.
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They don’t care what you think or want, their agenda is all that matters.
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I watched a whole lot of the trail and was very surprised at the testimony that varied so much with what has been shown in the news. To have people in office talk in such an irresponsible way is terrible. I really don’t care what their party affiliation is; it is a violation of ‘do unto others.’ It is especially hypocritical of those who claim to love others and do justice. It is also the reason there is so little trust for the media in general.
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I should specify that I meant the Rittenhouse trial.
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But the media hacks in the MSM are strangely silent…..
See above, this guy has the wrong ideology too, so off with his head….
The media sucks at this journalism thing….
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Unless of course it’s their favorite kind of journalism, yellow journalism.
That’s their specialty.
“Anatomy of a media hit job — how press pushed Clinton’s lies against Trump”
https://nypost.com/2021/11/09/how-the-media-pushed-hillary-clintons-lies-against-trump/
“Russiagate has fallen apart, with special counsel John Durham exposing the notorious Steele Dossier as a collection of lies and made-up stories. But you wouldn’t know it by reading most of the media, which have mostly ignored the story.
More importantly, they haven’t faced up to their own part in pushing this witch hunt. Relying on one anonymous source — ex-British spy Christopher Steele — they spun a supposed conspiracy between Donald Trump and Russia. But they never revealed the fact that Steele was being paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign for opposition research, and they never examined Steele’s sources, who were unreliable or nonexistent.”
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“The media’s coverage of the Trump campaign, fueled by the Steele Dossier, finds a Russian under every bed. But in the end, little comes of it. Michael Flynn is fired as national security adviser after media outcry over his pre-inaugural conversations with the Russian ambassador, but such outreach is typical of incoming administrations. Papadopoulos pleads guilty to one count of making false statements to the FBI, with no suggestion that he worked with the Russians. Carter Page, despite months of wiretaps, is not charged. The most serious charges are against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, but are entirely related to tax and bank fraud with his own businesses.In the end, the Mueller report finds no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. The dossier is debunked. Yet these stories remain unflagged by Twitter or Facebook. The headlines are still there.”
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They’re garbage.
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He’s not wrong…..
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Being a hack means never admitting you were wrong, and lied, and spread false info…
And where have all the lying Never-Trumpers gone?
“Dishonest press go dark on discredited dossier designed to divide and destroy
It’s easy to forget just how much the legacy press freaked out about Trump and Russia”
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gainor-steele-dossier-russia-media-trump
“Turns out that even when you say something is made of Steele, it still falls apart.
The media built four years of “Russia, Russia, Russia” with the Steele dossier. The press claimed President Donald Trump was a Russian “asset” or “agent.” Several outlets used the fancy Russian word “kompromat,” meaning he was compromised because they had dirt on him—including the media obsession with the so-called “pee tape.”
Journalists loved the idea of throwing mud at the man who called them “fake news,” even if every allegation proved Trump right.
Then the Russian narrative collapsed.
The “primary researcher” for the dossier, Igor Danchenko, was “charged with lying to the FBI about his sources,” wrote The New York Times. The paper described the dossier as “a compendium of rumors and unproven assertions suggesting that Mr. Trump and his 2016 campaign were compromised by and conspiring with Russian intelligence officials to help him defeat Hillary Clinton.”
It sure got a lot of coverage given that description.
A year after the presidential election, it’s easy to forget just how much the legacy press freaked out about Trump and Russia—every report designed to undermine his presidency and prevent a second term.
The airwaves were filled with stories. ABC, CBS and NBC evening news programs devoted 2,634 minutes in two years. That’s more than 100 minutes a month.
Print was just as bad. The Washington Post lists more than 900 Trump and Russia stories from the date of his election. The paper ran just three pieces since the story fell apart—and only one admitting the media’s responsibility.
The whole conspiracy was just like one of those Russian dolls, but with lies hidden within other lies. The Steele dossier was designed to destroy a presidency, even if it crushed what little credibility the traditional media had left. Sure, this latest news doesn’t erase every Russia story of the last five-plus years. Just most of them, and guts many others.
The problem now is the dossier was disproven and few in the press are honest enough to admit it. If they do admit it, many couldn’t care less.
Because it worked. Journalists swept their lies under the rug. The broadcast network evening news shows didn’t report the fall of Steele whatsoever for five straight nights. They’d be more likely to report on Danielle Steel than this.”
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They are an enemy of the people.
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In response to yesterday’s posts by Tychicus about luciferase:
“COVID vaccines do not contain luciferase, and the chemical is not named after any of the versions of Lucifer that have dotted human stories since pre-Christian times. Rather, the name is taken from the Latin meaning of “lucifer,” which is “light bearer.” Luciferases are enzymes that act on high-energy molecules in animals like fireflies. The released energy from this breakdown gives these animals their glow, or bioluminescence.
.
This unexpected focus on bioluminescence offers a teachable moment about how researchers have borrowed these enzymes to use as lab tools, including in animal studies of some COVID vaccines.”
https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20211103/covid-vaccines-dont-make-you-glow
There are many more pieces also debunking the luciferase rumor.
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I see on TV where Biden says we are buying too much.
With someone else, I wouldn’t believe it.
But I knew from the beginning that Biden is not all there.
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