A long-term perspective on immunity to COVID/ Nature

 https://brownstone.org/articles/a-note-to-my-well-credentialed-friends/Skip to content BY THOMAS HARRINGTON   DECEMBER 17, 2021   PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY   3 MINUTE READ It really isn’t that complex.  The injections you and many others were dragooned into taking under the threat of losing your job and your basic civil liberties do not protect you from getting Covid or passing it on.  Nor have they liberated you from mask-wearing, social…

 Last week, live-blogging the ACIP meeting, I learned to my dismay that CDC wanted its advisory committee to sign off on frequent Covid vaccine booster doses–in the absence of supportive data!  Perhaps the CDC was anxious to avoid data because the data suggest that boosters are unnecessary?  Here are excerpts from a June 28 NYT article describing…

It is pretty exciting for me that Florida’s governor says Florida won’t require vaccine passports.  Might this be the start of a trend?  Can legislatures enshrine this in law?  How long does de Santis have in office?   We can only hope that vacation spots and airlines compete with each other on the vaccine passport–which to…

Whistleblowers have some protections under US law.  In fact, those who report on corruption that costs the government money are entitled to a large chunk of what $ is recovered as a result of their whistle-blowing.  This often results in multimillion dollar payouts from what are termed “qui tam” or False Claims Act lawsuits. But…

from  What the demise of the CIA’s anti-Assad program means Washington Post Opinion by David Ignatius July 20, 2017 “What did the CIA’s covert assistance program for Syrian rebels accomplish? Bizarrely, the biggest consequence may be that it helped trigger the Russian military intervention in 2015 that rescued President Bashar al-Assad — achieving the opposite…

First CNBC set up the story.  It provided facts that actually don’t mean very much. but sound frightening.  It said the virus is 1,000 times more transmissible than the original. In fact, precisely this strategy was used in the early days of Covid.   The variant is highly contagious, largely because people infected with the…