Covid Pandemic

[Glacier]

I think my wife has Covid for the 2nd time. She has no symptoms except she can't taste. This has been going on for two days.

[SouthSardiswx]

I think my wife has Covid for the 2nd time. She has no symptoms except she can't taste. This has been going on for two days.

Oh dear Glace did you cook tonight. joking aside hope she'll be fine.
On another note here we go again l knew this would happen. Next lockdowns mask mandates more scare tactics to get the boosters.

https://fortune.com/2022/07/09/is-covid ... s-ba4-ba5/

[AbbyJr]

Title: Health experts are quitting the NIH and CDC in droves because they're embarrassed by 'bad science' - including vaccinating children under 5 to 'make their advice palatable to the White House,' doctors claim
Author: Mansur Shaheen U.S. Deputy Health Editor for DailyMail.com
Date: July 14th, 2022
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... ience.html

• The NIH and CDC are reportedly facing staffing shortages as low morale drives away employees

• Decisions like the closure of schools and then requiring face masks once they reopened led to many questioning leadership

• Lately, the authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children four years old of younger has confused some in America's top medical agencies

• Bari Weiss' 'Common Sense' Substack reports that data from both Pfizer and Moderna's clinical trials for jabs in under-5s show limited effectiveness

Two of America's top health agencies are reportedly hemorrhaging staff as poor decision-making, described by staff as 'bad science,' has led to low morale.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are both suffering staff shortages, according to Dr. Marty Makary, a top public-health expert at Johns Hopkins University, writes at Common Sense, the Substack run by former New York Times columnist, Bari Weiss.

Major decisions made by the agencies that hurt morale included support for masking in schools, school closures during the pandemic and the authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children four and under.

Both agencies, along with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been mired in controversy throughout the pandemic for inconsistent messaging and for decision-making that didn't seem to line up with available science.

'They have no leadership right now. Suddenly, there's an enormous number of jobs opening up at the highest level positions,' an anonymous NIH scientist told Common Sense.

Schools became a battleground of the COVID-19 pandemic in America.

When the virus stormed the world in 2020, many officials immediately shut things down - schools, retail stores, entertainment venues, restaurants - out of an fear of the unknown.

Initial data showed children suffered limited risk when they contracted the virus, though, and that it was mainly the elderly and severely immunocompromised that bore the virus's burden.

Despite the evidence, the CDC still recommended schools stay closed until the end of the 2019-2020 school year.

While individual school districts were allowed to make decisions for themselves - and many Republican leaning counties did quickly reopen schools - many major metropolitan areas under Democratic control kept schools closed for extended periods of time.

Earlier this year, Makary told DailyMail.com that the decision to keep schools closed was one of the worst made in the pandemic, specifically citing that minority communities who disproportionately lived in these areas were set the furthest behind academically.

'CDC failed to balance the risks of COVID with other risks that come from closing schools,' an anonymous CDC scientist told Common Sense.

'Learning loss, mental health exacerbations were obvious early on and those worsened as the guidance insisted on keeping schools virtual. CDC guidance worsened racial equity for generations to come. It failed this generation of children.'

When schools did reopen, many required children to remain masked at all times outside of lunch periods, following guidance from the CDC.

COVID tsar Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly warned that lifting mask mandates from children was 'risky,' while simultaneously saying it was time to return back to normal. That was in February.

On July 13, Fauci flip-flopped again, recommending that masks still be work in indoor public gatherings while telling Americans they shouldn't let the BA.5 COVID-19 variant 'disrupt our lives.'

Makary, however, warned masks may've harmed kids' social and emotional development as they couldn't properly read human emotions or the facial expressions of covered faces.

The decision that seemed to raise the most commotion was the authorization of COVID-19 jabs for children aged six months to five years old.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky signed off on those vaccines in June, after a panel of advisors to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 12 to 0 in favor of COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months on June 18.

'We now know, based on rigorous scientific review, that the vaccines available here in the United States can be used can be used safely and effectively in children under five. Vaccinating children is a critical opportunity to protect them against hospitalization and death from COVID-19,' she said.

Makary criticized the data submitted by Pfizer and Moderna to receive the green-light, saying it was lacking: Pfizer's trial included under 1,000 children and didn't show any efficacy against infection, he reports.

Moderna reported just a four percent reduction in infection in their trial of around 6,000 children.

'A more honest announcement would have been: 'We approved the vax for babies & toddlers based on very little data. While we believe its safe in this population, the study sample size was too low to make a [conclusion] about safety. Note that studies were done in kids w/o natural immunity,'' Makary told DailyMail.com about the decision in June.

'The public has no idea how bad this data really is. It would not pass muster for any other authorization,' an FDA official said.

Amid the many controversies the agency was facing at the time, the CDC announced in April that it would reevaluate its structure and processes in the hopes of developing better processes to communicate with Americans.

It is unclear what changes, if any, were made as a result of the evaluation.

[John]

Title: Health experts are quitting the NIH and CDC in droves because they're embarrassed by 'bad science' - including vaccinating children under 5 to 'make their advice palatable to the White House,' doctors claim
Author: Mansur Shaheen U.S. Deputy Health Editor for DailyMail.com
Date: July 14th, 2022
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... ience.html

Covid = hoax

[John]

But why arent you getting your 3rd dose? U decided to get the 1st two...and apparently they do little after 6 months or so to protect us..
We are all scientific puppets!!

Then the 4th dose will be next

Hawk’s coming around

[Forrest Gump]

Unless someone brings up the subject I don't even think about covid anymore , not getting no boosters, Pfizer can take that loyalty card with the free toaster and shove it....

[SouthSardiswx]

Unless someone brings up the subject I don't even think about covid anymore , not getting no boosters, Pfizer can take that loyalty card with the free toaster and shove it....

Yes exactly my thoughts as well Skipper Gimps, TBH, just had enough of it.
If the booster is needed down the road perhaps but it has to be a pretty darn good reason not just cause it's due after my 2nd shot.

[Bonovox]

Meh, looking forward to getting my booster. To each their own.

[SouthSardiswx]

Meh, looking forward to getting my booster. To each their own.

Glow in the dark by then Bones, or Monkeypox experiment.

[Antares]

Glow in the dark by then Bones, or Monkeypox experiment.

[SouthSardiswx]

BA.5 yah, right l have been wearing my mask in crowds grocery shopping entering restaurants sure alot of folks have ditched the mask. I'd rather the mask than booter shot #20 Ants is it time to put your snows on soon.

[AbbyJr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEqOUxiPJBc

[AbbyJr]

Title: Ontario hospitals plan to uphold COVID-19 vaccine policies amid 'crisis' staffing shortages
Author: Hannah Alberga
Date: Aug. 8, 2022 2:02 p.m. PDT
Source: https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-hosp ... -1.6018882

Ontario hospitals are upholding their mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies for employees as staff shortages mount to a “crisis” with more emergency departments temporarily closing over the weekend.

The province dropped the vaccine mandate at hospitals in March, but dozens kept their own policies in place, which ultimately led to the termination of members who refused to get vaccinated. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health said these organizations are at liberty to “choose” to implement their own vaccination policies.

CTV News Toronto asked more than a dozen of those hospitals if they are considering lifting their mandates as the province faces a staffing “crisis,” as Ontario Health Executive Vice-President Dr. Chris Simpson described the current situation last week.

In each response, hospitals said that dropping their vaccination policies was not currently under consideration.

“Health-care workers deserve to feel safe and to deliver patient care in an environment that requires the highest level of protection available against COVID-19,” Ontario Hospital Association President and CEO Anthony Dale told CTV News Toronto.
“Having unvaccinated workers in the workplace would not be supported by the tens of thousands of vaccinated staff working in Ontario’s hospitals today,” Dale said.

In a statement, Dale went on to acknowledge that this group only accounts for a “very small number” of providers who choose to remain unvaccinated.

At University Health Network, up to one per cent of the workforce – 153 of their 17,500 employees – did not comply with their policy and left the workplace.

“UHN cares for many immune-compromised patients and immune-suppressed patients so we must provide as much protection as possible for patients and our staff,” UHN spokesperson Gillian Howrad said.

Dr. Jeff Powis, medical director of infection prevention and control at Michael Garron Hospital (MHG), acknowledged the current staffing “pressures” hospitals are facing across the province. However, he said MGH has no plans to change its stance on mandatory vaccination.
North York General Hospital and William Osler Health System echoed similar remarks. “For the safety of everyone who walks through our doors, Osler’s policy will continue to be implemented as planned.”

Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children also said they don’t have plans to change their vaccine mandate or bring back staff who are on leave. They said that almost 100 per cent of their staff have been fully vaccinated and it’s just “a very small number of staff on leave due to SickKids’ vaccine mandate policy.”

Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) CEO Doris Grinspun said she stands by the hard line hospitals are taking with their vaccine policies.

“The numbers are minimal, compared to the people who have left because of Bill 124 or the number of registered nurses, registered practical nurses and nurse practitioners who are waiting on the sidelines to be processed to practice, 26,000 of them,” Grinspun said.
“Those are the solutions and not short changed solutions which would put patients at risk.”
With files from CTV News Toronto's Abby Neufeld

[SouthSardiswx]

Title: Ontario hospitals plan to uphold COVID-19 vaccine policies amid 'crisis' staffing shortages
Author: Hannah Alberga
Date: Aug. 8, 2022 2:02 p.m. PDT
Source: https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-hosp ... -1.6018882

l've been great throughout this whole ordeal Jr. man no Covid eating healthy fruits and veggies l got 2 vaxx's that's it unless the bottom drops out big time.

[Forrest Gump]

l've been great throughout this whole ordeal Jr. man no Covid eating healthy fruits and veggies l got 2 vaxx's that's it unless the bottom drops out big time.

I've also been trying to eat healthy , dark chocolate and honey doughnuts.