All Things Coronavirus (Part 2)

[Dashinka 24,494]

13 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Annnnnd it begins anew:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/health/article/Houston-Methodist-becomes-first-Texas-hospital-to-16764908.php

Heck, by the time the booster mandate is required, Omicron will be long gone.  

[TBoneTX 45,288]

Won't matter.  Trust me.

[TBoneTX 45,288]

 

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Stores Refusing To Sell Chicken Noodle Soup After Rumor COVID Patients Are Using It To Feel Better

January 12th, 2022

 

U.S.—Supermarkets nationwide are no longer selling chicken noodle soup in an attempt to combat COVID-19 self-medication with unauthorized treatments.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/stores-refusing-to-sell-chicken-noodle-soup-after-rumor-covid-patients-are-using-it-to-feel-better  

 

Edited January 13, 2022 by TBoneTX

[TBoneTX 45,288]

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Pfizer, Moderna Sue Human Immune System For Patent Infringement

January 11th, 2022

 

U.S.—Vaccine manufacturers Pfizer and Moderna have filed a suit for patent infringement against the human immune system.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/pfizer-moderna-sue-human-immune-system-for-patent-infringement  

 

Edited January 13, 2022 by TBoneTX

[Dashinka 24,494]

Hasn't omicron already peaked in the US?  Additionally, I am curious as to how Pfizer is going to get people to populate their third group of test subjects (Moderna's testing does not include an unvaccinated group).  Maybe a big financial incentive?

 

Pfizer and Moderna are testing COVID vaccines specifically for omicron

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/pfizer-and-moderna-are-testing-covid-vaccines-specifically-for-omicron/ar-AATbdht

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

Millions of people were duped the first round, so statistically speaking, there remain hundreds of thousands who will fall for it again.

[Dashinka 24,494]

8 hours ago, LIBrty4all said:

Millions of people were duped the first round, so statistically speaking, there remain hundreds of thousands who will fall for it again.

Hard to say really.  Looking back at it, I do see an out for Pfizer as they were saying the third group would consist of individuals that had not had a Pfizer shot, so I guess those that had J&J or Moderna would qualify.

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HUNDREDS of Canadians cheer on 'Freedom Convoy' of 50,000 truckers driving toward the capital to protest vaccine mandate: Lawmakers are told to 'lock your doors' and avoid the protest
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10449587/American-truckers-join-Canadas-Freedom-Convoy-protesting-vax-mandate-rigs-stretch-45-MILES.html

[Ban Hammer 13,336]

2 hours ago, Dashinka said:

HUNDREDS of Canadians cheer on 'Freedom Convoy' of 50,000 truckers driving toward the capital to protest vaccine mandate: Lawmakers are told to 'lock your doors' and avoid the protest
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10449587/American-truckers-join-Canadas-Freedom-Convoy-protesting-vax-mandate-rigs-stretch-45-MILES.html

the canadians will probably impeach trump afterwards..........

[Dashinka 24,494]

Zero Covid, what a joke.

 

Pregnant New Zealand journalist is forced to turn to the TALIBAN for help after she was left stranded in Afghanistan because of Jacinda Ardern's draconian Covid laws

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10454667/Pregnant-New-Zealand-journalist-turns-Taliban-remains-stranded-Afghanistan.html

[Neonred 3,562]

The government and especially the media have pushed some folks to hysteria.  Just this week I had a woman, a snowbird here visiting from the northeast, freak out.  She is vaccinated and boosted and was wearing a mask.  She entered the waiting area and saw an older couple already there, also vaccinated but not wearing a mask.  She wouldn't stay in the waiting area and complained bitterly about how she might get COVID because of them!  LOL

 

I also get a chuckle from people wearing a face shield thinking that's going to protect them fully.

[Dashinka 24,494]

3 hours ago, Neonred said:

The government and especially the media have pushed some folks to hysteria.  Just this week I had a woman, a snowbird here visiting from the northeast, freak out.  She is vaccinated and boosted and was wearing a mask.  She entered the waiting area and saw an older couple already there, also vaccinated but not wearing a mask.  She wouldn't stay in the waiting area and complained bitterly about how she might get COVID because of them!  LOL

 

I also get a chuckle from people wearing a face shield thinking that's going to protect them fully.

I saw a person wearing two masks and a shield while out shopping.  Still wondering why if they were so scared they would even enter the store instead of doing delivery or pickup.

[Dashinka 24,494]

Time for an update. Still not entirely down to the average of the pre-covid years, but definitely heading in the right direction as opposed to the 4th quarter 2020/1st quarter 2021.

 

 

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Scientists have released three studies that reveal intriguing new clues about how the COVID-19 pandemic started. Two of the reports trace the outbreak back to a massive market that sold live animals, among other goods, in Wuhan, China1,2, and a third suggests that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spilled over from animals — possibly those sold at the market — to humans at least twice in November or December 20193. Posted on 25 and 26 February, all three are preprints, and so have not been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

 

These analyses add weight to original suspicions that the pandemic began at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which many of the people who were infected earliest with SARS-CoV-2 had visited. The preprints contain genetic analyses of coronavirus samples collected from the market and from people infected in December 2019 and January 2020, as well as geolocation analyses connecting many of the samples to a section of the market where live animals were sold. Taken together, these lines of evidence point towards the market as the source of the outbreak — a situation akin to that seen in the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002–04, for which animal markets were found to be ground zero — says Kristian Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and an author on two of the reports. “This is extremely strong evidence,” he says.

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Nevertheless, some virologists say that the new evidence pointing to the Huanan market doesn’t rule out an alternative hypothesis. They say that the market could just have been the location of a massive amplifying event, in which an infected person spread the virus to many other people, rather than the site of the original spillover.

 

“Analysis-wise, this is excellent work, but it remains open to interpretation,” says Vincent Munster, a virologist at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a division of the National Institutes of Health in Hamilton, Montana. He says that searching for SARS-CoV-2 and antibodies against it in blood samples collected from animals sold at the market, and from people who sold animals at the market, could provide more-definitive evidence of COVID-19’s origins. The number of positive samples from the market does suggest an animal source, Munster says. But he is frustrated that more-thorough investigations haven’t already been conducted: “We are talking about a pandemic that has upended the lives of so many people.”

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00584-8

 

As the article says, not definitive, but more data points to consider. These are pre-prints so I am waiting for peer review to be complete to consider the reliability of the research. I have never thought it was a slam dunk in either direction -- wet market or lab leak -- and have purposely kept an open mind. Right now, the evidence coming from reliable sources is bending the needle towards the market but who knows.

[Dashinka 24,494]

4 hours ago, laylalex said:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00584-8

 

As the article says, not definitive, but more data points to consider. These are pre-prints so I am waiting for peer review to be complete to consider the reliability of the research. I have never thought it was a slam dunk in either direction -- wet market or lab leak -- and have purposely kept an open mind. Right now, the evidence coming from reliable sources is bending the needle towards the market but who knows.

Who paid for the studies?  Fauci, Collins or Daszak?