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“Covid isn’t polling well”

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It's not what it sounds like. They are pushing for expanded testing + vaccine mandates

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I just got fired today for resisting. I'd almost be a bit selfishly disappointed if the house of cards came down at the same time. :)

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From the article: "The authors also said that vaccine mandates should be imposed more broadly, including for schoolchildren, and that N95 masks should be made free and readily available to all Americans, as should oral treatments for Covid." and "the authors also call for every person in the United States to have access to low-cost testing... and “comprehensive, digital, real-time” data collection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"

This is NOT "virus gonna virus." This is more medical intrusions, more biosurveillance, more mandates, and masks forever.

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“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.'” ― St. Antony the Great

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Ho hum....again. Let's see....they're pushing for testing BUT tests are in short supply AND tests are highly unreliable. They're pushing for so-called "vaccines" that also don't appear to work well, if at all. I'm really really tired of all this hokum.

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Sadly, this feels more like "government gonna government harder" than virus gonna virus.

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I'm guessing all 35% who took the boosters represent Biden's actual approval rating. No one else is getting duped into a booster, thus the pivot.

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Jan 6, 2022·edited Jan 6, 2022

I don't see them hitting the brakes anytime soon. 2022 is only going to get worse with the totalitarianism. Alex - maybe you can speak to what's happening in NYC. Condo buildings are now sending notices to residents that they are responsible for checking the vaxx passports of their housekeepers and nannies. Apparently, you don't have to verify your housekeeper's legal status, but you must check their vaxx passport or you will be fined $1k. Not only that, realtors are being told that they need to be double jabbed to do a showing and that buyers wanting to look at property must show proof of vaxx. They are basically saying you can't sell or buy real estate in NYC without the jab. No way this is ending without a civil war.

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They are looking for ways to increase booster uptake. They aren't talking about walking back their mandates either.

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Anyone else catch this "artsy" gem:

One fork of Biden's tongue: "Stay away from The Unvaccinated. They're dangerous."

Other fork: "If your kids are too young to be vaccinated, surround them with people who are."

Now Brandon wants to "endanger the vaccinated" by surrounding them with little plague rats?

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Another variant? I still have my omnicron decorations up. 🤣

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You know, whenever I see an article in the MSM that states "here's what you need to know", I usually don't bother reading it. I mean who do you think you are that you presume to tell me what I ought to be thinking?

As (semi-fictional) Longshanks once said: "Who is this person who speaks to me as though I needed his advice?"

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My old boss used to say “convenience equals compliance”. One shot and your safe from the virus is convenient. Three shots and you still need a mask and a passport and testing and you still will get the virus and your kids will go back to remote learning soon - not convenient.

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Is he going to apologize to the trump administration now after he was so convinced he could shut down the virus? 😂

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jabs don't prevent infection. jabs don't prevent transmission. more jabs doesn't change either of these facts.

Brandon needs to mumble out some statement about how he got us through the worst of it and the risk is now equivalent to the common cold. 3 cheers for Brandon. That's the only path to declaring victory.

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This entire period has been one giant cluster fuck. The saddest thing I've gotten out of this is that our government cant even run a depopulation conspiracy without fucking it up.

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An entirely new strategy would require booting Dr. Tony out the door, and surely he will not go quietly into that good night. Gonna be fun to watch.

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Why should anyone get these vaccines? Do they prevent you from illness? No. Do they prevent you from being contagious on enyou have the illness? No. Do they prevent fatalities? Omicron isn't fatal, so, no. Do they lessen the strain on the healthcare system? Omicron is the equivalent to a common cold, which doesn't place strain on the healthcare system, so, no.

What is the justification for these shots?

I'm unvaccinated, immunocompromised and disabled. I have covid. I had a plan to begin an early treatment protocol and supportive treatments for my disability should I get covid. None of it required. My biggest covid symptom has been testing positive on multiple tests. No runny/blocked nose, no cough or congestion, no headache, body ache, sore throat or fever. No exhaustion. I feel something but it's so mild as to escape description. The taste you have when breathing in deeply while it snows.

Why would anyone get shots at this point? I sincerely see no point.

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Jan 6, 2022·edited Jan 6, 2022

I think people are exhausted with the panic and fear mongering. They want their old lives back. People I know who got jabbed in the first round, do not want boosters. People I know who won't get the jab, never will. It's a standoff at this point. There will never be 100% compliance no matter how much coercion, manipulation, gaslighting, sweepstakes, punishment or rewards get doled out.

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to retire or not to retire .... this may be the answer

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No strategy change is necessary. As Dr. Malone, co-inventor of the mRNA vaccine technology, said to Ingraham, "Omicron looks like a live-attenuated vaccine (A real vaccine) that a vaccinologist might design on purpose". In other words as the Omicron circulates rapidly we are all getting vaccinated with a vaccine that works like a vaccine is supposed to by giving immunity (Not just protection as the FDA now describes a vaccine) to the virus.

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They’re just “following the science”.

1) Science has shown, vaccines don’t prevent illness…so let’s call it a pandemic of the unvaccinated

2) Science has shown, vaccines don’t prevent transmission…so let’s MANDATE them

3) Science has shown, vaccine injury/death is higher than other vaccines combined…so let’s push vaccines onto younger and younger people

4) Science has shown the vaccines wane…so let’s keep adding boosters and adding them sooner

5) Science has shown children have little to no risk of death…so let’s make sure we keep kids in masks, schools closed and mandate the vax for entry to colleges

6) Science has shown natural immunity has always existed…so let’s make sure to ignore it

7) Science has shown HCQ and IVM are effective therapeutics…so let’s make sure those are not available for use

8) Science has shown that gov’t actions have caused mental health issues, business closures, unemployment, financial ruin, and more…so let’s double down on all the same actions

9) Science has shown airline ventilation systems help prevent transmission…so let’s mandate masks on flights

10) Science has shown Omicron has mild symptoms…so let’s enforce policies that existed in March 2020

11) Science has shown testing is inaccurate...so let’s make sure we spend billions on tests

12) Science has shown you can test negative one hour(or minute) and positive the next...so let’s continue to act like testing is critically important

13) Science has shown the virus is airborne(unlike STD’s)…so let’s make sure to “contact trace” the vast number of unknown people we randomly come in contact with daily. And, let’s pick some arbitrary distance people need to keep in between them.

14) Science has shown CDC data tracks people dying “with” NOT “of” covid, so let’s make sure not to change the counting methodology

15) Science has shown masks have little to no effect on transmission…so let’s make sure they are required

16) Alternatively, science has NOT shown the virus only infects people when not eating, after 10pm, at a certain height…so let’s make sure to enforce masks accept when eating, set curfews, require masks when entering (vs seating) at restaurants.

17) Science has NOT shown that immigrants crossing the border are immune from Covid…so let’s make sure not to test/mandate vaccines for them

I’m sure glad they’re following the science

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Alex, this site is worth a look. He's taking the VAERS data and sorting it by lot number.

https://www.howbadismybatch.com/

Turns out, for both Pfizer and Moderna, about 5% of the lots account for all of the reported deaths. That cannot be a coincidence.

It looks like the pharma companies are running tolerance studies on the vaccines during the rollout under the EUA. A tolerance study is used to determine toxicity and dosage limits. That would mean that they fully intend to overdose some recipients in order to better understand their product.

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The population has been split into mindless drones and those who think for themselves. Only the first group give a darn what the government thinks we should do.

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This does not sound promising at all. There's wising up and then there's doubling down.

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Then kill the stupid illogical dangerous experimental gene therapy mandates!

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Please stop amplifying the NYT. If I wanted a lobotomy, I'd get my own subscription.

Thanks.

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To me, this means things can get much more draconian. Not sure why Alex thinks this means it is over.

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Whoopie: The “View” co-host went on to muse on how COVID-19 won’t end until more people are vaccinated and boosted. ... In response to what? "Wait, what?" ... Goldberg went on to say “it was a shock” to receive the diagnosis considering that she’s “triple-vaxxed” and had not “been anywhere or done anything” beyond what was absolutely necessary. So, let's get her logic. More vaxx. All better. Because Vaxx no work, we must have more vaxxs. More. More. Maybe Arthur Caplan could have a word with her. Wait, what? Vaxxs have failed, but we must punish the unvaxxed. .... THEY ARE ALL NUTS!!!

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"Leave 'we the people' the hell alone." Just an idea for a new domestic strategy.

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Why take booster when booster doesn't work against the Omicron. At this time just handout inexpensive therapeutic generics to everyone with positive test and only treat the most serious cases at the hospital. The virus is endemic so why fight it so hard. Unless the oligarchs support more authoritarian government.

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It's either going to be stop the mandates and back to normal or put us all in camps. My money is on camps.

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Dare I ask why a year after inauguration he still has a transition team?

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Always read the article. Instead of pretending that the war is over and Covid is going to go away by allowing the public to get back to the old normal, these advisers want to continue the spending spree and fight what now likely amounts to a seasonal cold. Free testing for a cold, and free antivirals which will probably turn into a repeat of murder by AZT in the 80s and 90s. This is what Biden's experts want, plus a national vaccine passport system.

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"The authors also said that vaccine mandates should be imposed more broadly, including for schoolchildren"

These people are idiots.

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Jan 6, 2022·edited Jan 6, 2022

Stop shoving MRNA "vaccines" down our throats. If you want more people to get vaccinated, concentrate on MORE OPTIONS and true vaccine tech. Geez, you'd think that would be no-brainer.

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Alex, at least give us a little more context than these truncated screens

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Virus gonna virus. And, in other news, water is wet.

Let's hope Brandon takes their advice. 'Cause the rhetoric coming from Trudeau and Macron is sounding very dystopian.

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Just read this article.

They seem to grudgingly admit we have to live with COVID, but, then, double down on testing & mandates (even for children) & masks & everything that hasn't worked.

Should we really ask the people who screwed it up, to fix it?

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Failing to admit there is any election fraud period is as much a denial of reality as saying you have no biases at all. EVERY election has some fraud so making the claim "..chasing potential election fraud, which seemed then and now to be a fantasy" and saying before that that in "your limited reporting" is not an excuse to then make the blanket statement that protentional election fraud is a fantasy as you did in you previous (and restricted) post.

Claiming you admit your biases and try to work as best as you can around those is not supported when you make the claim that any protentional election fraud is a fantasy. If you take the stance that it's a fantasy to think there is enough of it to change the outcome then your taking an honest approach but ruling out any/all as fantasy is just being self-deceptive.

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They want more testing to show more cases so they can push for universal mail in ballots for the mid-terms

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Had no idea Biden was transitioning, but let me be the first to say, stunning and brave! Definitely rethinking my opposition to his policies in light of his new victim status.

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So people are wising up??

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What changed? Covid policy has been determined by science from the begining.

Political science, that is.

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What the what is a "Biden Transition Team"? Is the US president changing sex or what?

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they could end this with therapeutics but they wont because of 2022 election. Just evil!

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Perfect example of doubling down on bad policy. Triple down is next. Upside is more middle / independent voters are getting sick of being told what to do based on old / bad information. The negative side of big government is becoming more obvious as something like Covid moves fast and, well government doesn't. Plus FJB and his cronies are part of a really dark grift related to election fraud and economic reset. The coming money printing binge will only make things much worse. The Fed is out of control and the elites need much more control to pull all this off. Covid is the tool of choice. Resist as if your life depends on it. It surely does. Pray. Plan. Prepare. Resist.

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Happy January 6 everyone. Remember, don't protest Democrats or you'll be thrown in a gulag without trial, medicated against your will, and the nation's capital will be surrounded by barbed wire for 3 months while her soldiers sleep on the fucking floor.

If you want to protest, make sure to burn courthouses, police stations, and minority-owned businesses, and make sure to condemn Trump. Absolutely no charges of sedition or terrorism will be leveled against you.

Oh, and don't forget to mask, quarantine, and get vaccinated and boosted. We're all in this together.

Until we aren't. And then we have a list.

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