Conavirus......

[Yppej]

I am always suspicious of info coming out of Africa or India. They manipulate information and have been shown to outright lie when the facts do not support their position. However, it does seem that the new variant of the virus is potentially less virulent. However, still appears as dangerous to those with underlying conditions and the unvaccinated.

ps: I have a sinus infection type cold for over a week and would not want anything else. This is bad enough.

I would be suspicious of China or Russia, but not the democracies in India or South Africa. I give major kudos to South Africa for warning the world about omicron. In response Fauci imposed travel restrictions on them which he did not lift even after it came out that omicron was discovered in the Netherlands before it was discovered in South Africa. Even with South Africa over its omicron peak the loathsome Fauci and Biden have kept those restrictions in place while Biden lifted restrictions on foreign nationals traveling to the US from hard hit European countries. It's racism pure and simple.

[rosarugosa]

I don't cower in fear. I take universal precautions. You do you. And if it makes you feel superior, please, by all means keep correcting my spelling and grammar. I find it amusing. Pro Tip: Make your corrections in red.

Same here. No "cowering in fear," just living my life pretty happily and taking reasonable precautions.

[Rogar]

Discretion is the better part of valor.

[ApatheticNoMore]

Living one's life happily is definitely not taking the same level of precaution as in spring 2020. But we are supposed to avoid all gatherings again etc.. Mind you that I got the booster in part because there was a gathering of 8 at a restaurant I didn't want to miss. So I'm a bad bad girl but ..

By the way though I don't necessarily buy the omicron is mild thing. Maybe it is at least for the vaccinated, but they repeatedly lie to us to preserve xmas celebrations and shopping (well really they only care about the buying things). Who? THEY. THEY. You know. Ok, ok, my actual beefs had particulars, this time last year governor Newsom, didn't shut down while the wave grew and grew because xmas shopping season I highly suspect. The wave became scary beyond all measure, they only shut things down after xmas shopping. Hospitals became overwhelmed, people died unnecessarily. But xmas shopping. So now I think that's all anyone in authority really cares about. The business of America is consumerism. And they will say it's mild until the day after xmas or so, when woops, this thing is NOT MILD. Oopsie ... (And then I had to hold my nose to keep Newsom lest complete lunatics take over the asylum, sigh, talk about someone I did not want to vote "for")

[JaneV2.0]

I don't know anyone who is "cowering in fear," though probably some should be.

[bae]

I don't know anyone who is "cowering in fear," though probably some should be.

I see plenty "cowering in fear". They seem to be afraid that there are nanobots in vaccines, that there's a world-wide conspiracy about covid, that this is all Another Scheme By The Government to rule them with an iron first, that sort of thing.

[Yppej]

Preserving Xmas shopping - somewhat, but it doesn't hold a candle to preserving pharma profits. Why else can't the patents created with massive taxpayer subsidies be released to the rest of the world to save lives? Why instead the push for boosters we were told just a couple months ago are not needed unless one is immunocompromised? Why the push for boosters that may not even work on omicron?

[bae]

Pharma profits....

OK, how profitable is the pharma industry, compared to other common sectors? Where does this show up, in their bottom line? Is it reflected in dividends, or ...? Like, is pharma the above-everything-else investment sector of choice? If so, is capital seeking out these above-the-norm returns?

Interested people want to know...

[Rogar]

Our governor has proposed eliminating the term booster, that it should just be a part of the three shot regime to be fully vaccinated.

[Yppej]

Our governor has proposed eliminating the term booster, that it should just be a part of the three shot regime to be fully vaccinated.

Will all the childhood boosters for things like measles, mumps and rubella be renamed too in order to be politically correct?

You know, the 69 different doses of vaccines excluding covid that are required by the time a child reaches age 18. Or the 50 doses required by age 6.

Do you think the recent issues that led to J&J being unrecommended in the US are a fluke? Or could perhaps the skyrocketing numbers of autoimmune disorders be related to the proliferation of shots?

Don't ask the government, the universities, the scientific journals, the medical institutions, or the pharmaceutical companies if you want an objective answer. It reminds me of a joke I heard about Rhode Island - the church, the government, and the mob there are all one and the same.