Remember when the White House saved us from a winter of death

The only reason this hasn't become as famous as "I am not a crook" "weapons of mass destruction","no new taxes" or "it depends on what the definition of is is" is our media is owned by the same people.



and they are still pushing it this year.

Who is still getting boosted?

www.wxyz.com...

(WXYZ) — Holiday celebrations are underway, and many people hope they’ll side-step the tridemic viruses. However, the White House is warning Americans that a COVID-19 wave is possible and that we must protect ourselves.

Our COVID-19 case numbers are heading in the wrong direction. If you look at the data from the last couple of weeks, COVID-19 cases have risen by 53%. Hospitalizations rose by 31%. We’re also seeing more virus levels in wastewater.

Wastewater surveillance detects and measures the amount of virus that is present in certain areas, and it’s often an early indicator when it comes to future surges.

But how bad will this winter be? That, we can’t predict. On the plus side, we have widespread vaccination and previous infection, which means we have a decent wall when it comes to immunity.

Even if cases do surge, it appears that fewer people will develop severe illness. Still, there are many factors at play. We have new dominant variants: omicron’s BQ.1 and BQ.1.1. And none of the monoclonal antibodies work against them.

This could really affect folks who are immunocompromised. Also, we have low booster rates, which means that widespread immunity I just mentioned is fading.

This White House loves gloom, doom and fear mongering.

The messages from the White House are consistently depressing and full of horror predictions for the future of the US under the watch of Uncle Joe.

The most depressing President in my quite long lifetime who only foresees and predicts darkness, gloom and death for the nation under his watch, and the guidance of his political party.

originally posted by: The2Billies
This looks 2 years old to me.

No they are still pushing it

www.cnn.com... YY25FkCXocMldk6&bt_ts=1671105409337

Interesting how things come full circle. Last year they said it was the winter of death for the unvaccinated. This winter people are dropping like flies from the vaccine.

When was the last time you personally knew someone who died from covid?

Now when was the last time you personally knew someone who recently suffered a stroke or any other cardiovascular/heart issue?

I personally know of 6 people who had strokes in the last couple months. It's like living amongst a bunch of ticking time bombs.

And here I thought we'd all go down fighting...

Wait a damn minute...

On the plus side, we have widespread vaccination and previous infection, which means we have a decent wall when it comes to immunity.

You mean they're FINALLY going to admit that natural immunity is as good as the magic potion ?

a reply to: putnam6


I would laugh , but the matter is tooserious....they spread the propaganda virus with their cheap lies and fear porn.


Judge Dredd needed to bring justice ?

originally posted by: DAVID64
Wait a damn minute...

On the plus side, we have widespread vaccination and previous infection, which means we have a decent wall when it comes to immunity.

You mean they're FINALLY going to admit that natural immunity is as good as the magic potion ?

quietly. very quietly.

a reply to: putnam6

I wonder if Uncle Joe remembers that time FDR went on TV to calm the nation after the stock market crash at Pearl Harbor by telling us we were all screwed? Pepperidge Farm remembers ....

originally posted by: putnam6
The only reason this hasn't become as famous as "I am not a crook" "weapons of mass destruction","no new taxes" or "it depends on what the definition of is is" is our media is owned by the same people.

and they are still pushing it this year.

Who is still getting boosted?

www.wxyz.com...

(WXYZ) — Holiday celebrations are underway, and many people hope they’ll side-step the tridemic viruses. However, the White House is warning Americans that a COVID-19 wave is possible and that we must protect ourselves.

Our COVID-19 case numbers are heading in the wrong direction. If you look at the data from the last couple of weeks, COVID-19 cases have risen by 53%. Hospitalizations rose by 31%. We’re also seeing more virus levels in wastewater.

Wastewater surveillance detects and measures the amount of virus that is present in certain areas, and it’s often an early indicator when it comes to future surges.

But how bad will this winter be? That, we can’t predict. On the plus side, we have widespread vaccination and previous infection, which means we have a decent wall when it comes to immunity.

Even if cases do surge, it appears that fewer people will develop severe illness. Still, there are many factors at play. We have new dominant variants: omicron’s BQ.1 and BQ.1.1. And none of the monoclonal antibodies work against them.

This could really affect folks who are immunocompromised. Also, we have low booster rates, which means that widespread immunity I just mentioned is fading.

$20 says if I randomly walk around town polling the public like those social experiment videos on tiktok, less than 5 people can recall this quote or point to the dialogue it was first mentioned. Feel free to test my hypothesis if you have money and time to waste.

Here's the esteemed New York Times on the current COVID situation do the case totals or hospitalization look as dire as they are trying to make it sound?

Makes no sense at all

www.nytimes.com...

State of the virus
Update for December 15

By any metric, conditions have worsened markedly at the national level this month. Reported cases and hospitalizations have seen particularly large increases, with both figures more than 40 percent higher in recent days than they were at Thanksgiving.
Most states have seen cases and hospitalizations increase in the past two weeks, and population centers like New York City and Los Angeles continue to be troubling hotspots.
However, there are some promising signs, especially in the Southwest. The region was experiencing the worst outbreak in the country for most of November, but conditions there are now improving. Though cases remain high in Arizona and New Mexico, they have fallen by more than 10 percent over the past two weeks, and in New Mexico, hospitalizations have decreased by more than 20 percent.
How to read Covid data now
Higher test positivity rates are a sign that many infections are not reported — even if they are tested for at home. This results in a more severe undercount of cases. The number of hospitalized patients with Covid is a more reliable measure because testing is more consistent in hospitals. Read more about the data.

What to Know About the Bivalent Booster Shots

lead art for article titled What to Know About the Bivalent Booster Shots
The current available boosters target the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, which are no longer dominant. Here’s what experts say about who should get them and how well they still work.

a reply to: putnam6

People voted for Republicans, duh.

originally posted by: TzarChasm

originally posted by: putnam6
The only reason this hasn't become as famous as "I am not a crook" "weapons of mass destruction","no new taxes" or "it depends on what the definition of is is" is our media is owned by the same people.

and they are still pushing it this year.

Who is still getting boosted?

www.wxyz.com...

(WXYZ) — Holiday celebrations are underway, and many people hope they’ll side-step the tridemic viruses. However, the White House is warning Americans that a COVID-19 wave is possible and that we must protect ourselves.

Our COVID-19 case numbers are heading in the wrong direction. If you look at the data from the last couple of weeks, COVID-19 cases have risen by 53%. Hospitalizations rose by 31%. We’re also seeing more virus levels in wastewater.

Wastewater surveillance detects and measures the amount of virus that is present in certain areas, and it’s often an early indicator when it comes to future surges.

But how bad will this winter be? That, we can’t predict. On the plus side, we have widespread vaccination and previous infection, which means we have a decent wall when it comes to immunity.

Even if cases do surge, it appears that fewer people will develop severe illness. Still, there are many factors at play. We have new dominant variants: omicron’s BQ.1 and BQ.1.1. And none of the monoclonal antibodies work against them.

This could really affect folks who are immunocompromised. Also, we have low booster rates, which means that widespread immunity I just mentioned is fading.

$20 says if I randomly walk around town polling the public like those social experiment videos on tiktok, less than 5 people can recall this quote or point to the dialogue it was first mentioned. Feel free to test my hypothesis if you have money and time to waste.

Make sure you wear a mask while doing your survey.

You do know there is long COVID now as well as COVID brain fog, I have no doubt it's affecting a large percentage of people's memories. This is why it's imperative to get boosted every 6 months and maintain proper sanitization protocols.

a reply to: putnam6

"You can't just add a sci fi word to a car word and hope it means something" - Rick Sanchez

originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: putnam6

"You can't just add a sci fi word to a car word and hope it means something" - Rick Sanchez

Evidently, all it takes is a world full of a chit-ton of evil Morty's, we could use some help from Mr. NImbus or the Vidacators

Here's the Atlantic's new take on COVID, either thier subscribers eat this stuff up, or they are pushing an extreme agenda. Read the article it's full of paranoia and overreaction. It is extremely difficult for me to read the whole article without giving it the double finger, it's nothing but brainwashing at this point

www.theatlantic.com...

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Another COVID Surge

Once again, our pandemic numbers are creeping in the wrong direction.

When I called the epidemiologist Denis Nash this week to discuss the country’s worsening COVID numbers, he was about to take a rapid test. “I came in on the subway to work this morning, and I got a text from home,” Nash, a professor at the City University of New York, told me. “My daughter tested positive for COVID.”

Here we go again: For the first time in several months, another wave seems to be on the horizon in the United States. In the past two weeks, reported cases have increased by 53 percent, and hospitalizations have risen by 31 percent. Virus levels in wastewater, which can provide an advance warning of spread, are following a similar trajectory. After the past two years, a winter surge “was always expected,” Nash said. Respiratory illnesses thrive in colder weather, when people tend to spend more time indoors. Thanksgiving travel and gatherings were likewise predicted to drive cases, Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at UCLA, told me. If people were infected then, their illnesses will probably start showing up in the data around now. “We’re going to see a surge [that is] likely going to start really increasing in velocity,” she said.

Winter has ushered in some of the pandemic’s worst moments. Last year, Omicron’s unwanted arrival led to a level of mass infection across the country that we had not previously seen. The good news this year is that the current rise will almost certainly not be as bad as last year’s. But beyond that, experts told me, we don’t know much about what will happen next. We could be in for any type of surge—big or small, long or short, national or regional. The only certain thing is that cases and hospitalizations are rising, and that’s not good.

The pandemic numbers are ticking upward across the country, but so far the recent increases seem especially sharp in the South and West. The daily average of reported cases in Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, South Carolina, and Alabama has doubled in the past two weeks. Hospitalizations have been slower to rise, but over the same time frame, daily hospitalizations in California have jumped 57 percent and are now higher than anywhere else in the United States. Other areas of the country, such as New York City, have also seen troubling increases.

Whether the nationwide spike constitutes the long-predicted winter wave, and not just an intermittent rise in cases, depends on whom you ask. “I think it will continue,” Gregory Poland, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, told me. “We will pour more gas on the fire with Christmas travel.” Others hesitated to classify the uptick as such, because it has just begun. “It’s hard to know, but the case numbers are moving in the wrong direction,” Rimoin said. Case counts are unreliable as people have turned to at-home testing (or just not testing at all), though hospitalizations and wastewater readings remain reliable, albeit imperfect, metrics. “I’ve not seen a big enough change to call it a wave,” Susan Kline, an infectious-diseases expert at the University of Minnesota Medical School, told me.

We can do little to predict how the ongoing surge might develop other than simply wait. Soon we should have a better sense of whether this is a blip in the pandemic or something more serious, and the trends of winters past can be helpful, Kline said. Last year, the Omicron-fueled surge did not begin in earnest until mid-December. “We haven’t even gotten to January yet, so I really think we’re not going to know [how bad this surge will be] for two months,” Kline said. Until then, “we just have to stay put and watch.”

It is maddening that, this far into the pandemic, “stay put and watch” seems to be the only option when cases start to rise. It is not, of course: Plenty of tools—masking, testing, boosters—are within our power to deploy to great effect. They could flatten the wave, if enough people use them. “We have the tools,” said Nash, whose rapid test came out negative, “but the collective will is not really there to do anything about it.”

a reply to: putnam6

I can't believe as an unvaccinated person I survived!

How funny...what a bunch of crap!!!

"...severe illness and death..." ...still makes me chuckle!!!

a reply to: jerryznv

reminds me of that time when my wife got sick- she had us both go out and get tested for the ronies...

she tested negative and was in bed all week. I tested positive and barely had a head cold.
She was jabbed and boosted, I refuse to touch these newfangled untested BS shots.

Common sense is proving itself worth more than "the science"

originally posted by: lordcomac
a reply to: jerryznv

reminds me of that time when my wife got sick- she had us both go out and get tested for the ronies...

she tested negative and was in bed all week. I tested positive and barely had a head cold.
She was jabbed and boosted, I refuse to touch these newfangled untested BS shots.

Common sense is proving itself worth more than "the science"

My dad always said to me growing up, "Common sense isn't so common..."!!!

He might of taught me a thing or two along the way!

Many of my friends bought into or I call it "sold out" to this vaccine nonsense...here I am...still unvaccinated and with a whole lot less to worry about than they're worrying about today!

I'm over 50, asthmatic with chronic bronchitis, who got covid long at the very beginning. Not vaccinated.

Have been an essential worker all along...

I didn't mask, except when going to the market, because it was the only way to get in in peace...

Maybe I should be afraid and get vaccinated? haha

Everywhere around the world, I see newspapers tell the same "scary" stories told by doctors. Most of the time, the first half of the articles contradict the second half, but not many people seem to notice it...

But hey, those articles are written for the brainwashed, not for the likes of me, so I'm not feeling concerned aside from the fact everybody's getting in a stupor, the polite way to say stupid...

Has Winter arrived yet? We will need to be extra alert for people who are suddenly stricken, and pass out in the street. Frostbite could kill them before Covid does.