Clots...

 

Denmark is suspending the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for two weeks as it investigates reports of some patients developing blood clots after being inoculated, days after several other EU countries suspended use of a specific batch of the vaccine.

Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said authorities were looking into "signs of a possible serious side effect in the form of fatal blood clots," though he made clear it was a "precautionary measure," saying it was not possible yet to conclude whether the clots were linked to the vaccine.

"We act early, it needs to be thoroughly investigated," he said in a tweet.

Over...

 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,  said that the influx of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border was a “humanitarian crisis.” 

Pelosi’s remarks came one day after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will begin sheltering and transferring children who arrive at the southern border.

“The Biden administration is trying to fix the broken system that was left to them. “The Biden administration will have a system, based on doing the best possible job, understanding this is a humanitarian crisis.”

President Joe Biden’s administration has stopped short of calling the situation on the border a crisis.

On his first day in office, Biden terminated Trump’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, which the former president had used as a legal mechanism to divert extra funds toward the construction of a wall.

During a press briefing at the White House earlier this month, Mayorkas told reporters that he did not believe the situation on the border was a crisis.

“The answer is no,” the DHS secretary said. “I think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing, and we have our resources dedicated to managing it.”

Biden campaigned on a wholesale reversal of Trump’s hardline immigration policies, but a swelling number of children in Customs and Border Protection custody has posed a challenge for the nascent administration.

More than 3,700 children were in CBP custody as of last week, CNN reported, a record number, with about 450 being apprehended every day. Many of those children are being held in facilities that resemble jails, according to the outlet.

 Well, fix it then. Just a thought.

Intense...

 

When you first get to know a partner, everything is new and exciting. Both of you make an effort to impress and charm each other. 

 More and more, you notice imperfections you hadn’t seen before, until you finally realize that the knight in shining armor is just the local village boy, and the beautiful princess on that high balcony is just the girl from the farmer’s market. 

 These intense feelings are not permanent. Good thing, too, because they barely scratch the surface of what is important about loving.

The excitement and thrill has been replaced with a new normal. Your partner might still be the same person, but the feelings are different than they were. As a result, people can begin to wonder if something went wrong. Maybe the reason they don’t feel the same as before is because the relationship is not working out. Eyes begin to wander; breakups loom.

Nothing Changed except the feelings.  Just a thought.

Laugh...

 

Sadly most people fail in their quest for happiness for one simple reason: They seek it where there is nothing to be found. 

Empty success, shallow pleasures, and immediate gratification seem to dominate our culture more and more.

When you laugh, you release happy hormones called oxytocin and endorphins. These are hormones that uplifts us as we share experiences with others.

 Even just making yourself smile will put you in a better place. ... These are things that make you happy.

Butt...

 

The sound of the pandemic, was the sound of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s (D) voice. Between March 2 and May 31, 2020, he averaged one lengthy news conference a day almost all broadcast in full on my public radio station.

 By the end of March 2020, 87 % of New Yorkers approve of his handling of the pandemic, but his newfound popularity spurred talk of federal office. He appeared on CNN nine times  with anchor/brother Chris Cuomo in the comedy series “Mom Loves Me Better.” 

 New York Attorney General Letitia James (D)reported that the state had undercounted Nursing Homes deaths by as much as 50 %,  that the state’s initial policy allowing covid patients to return to nursing homes before they recovered had put other residents at risk.

Then the undercount began to look like a Coverup. Soon after that, a former aide published an essay accusing Cuomo of sexual harassment; . Once the subject of late-night TV fawning, Cuomo has become the butt of its jokes.

Cuomo may have a darker side.    He talked and talked and talked. He asked his own questions and then answered them.... In October: “The fall is here. …  The Virus goes up. The leaves come down.

Emergency...

 

Vaccines for COVID-19 will start out being used under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the FDA. An EUA makes the vaccine available for public health emergencies. It means that the vaccine is available outside of a research study but is not yet approved. This is the usual first step for a new vaccine. 

The vaccine can continue to be used as long as people benefit from it. The research continues as it moves toward full approval.

In a setback to Europe’s ailing vaccination campaign, seven other countries have also suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot: Norway, Iceland, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia.

Thailand on Friday became the first Asian country to halt the use of the jab over safety concerns, shortly after Denmark announced a two-week pause to its nationwide rollout after reports of blood clots and one death.

So there is many questions here regarding the emergency approval of Covid Vaccines. But the politicians are filling the air with all the benefits and nothing related to caution. Covid Vaccines is under emergency approval only. 

Just a thought.

 

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Wizzout...

 

Visit...

 

The CDC agency’s guidance state those who have received a full course of COVID-19 vaccine may get together with other fully vaccinated individuals in small groups inside their homes without masks or physical distancing. They can also visit with unvaccinated people from one other household who are at low risk for severe disease.

The guidelines also say fully vaccinated people don’t need to quarantine or take a COVID-19 test if they’ve been exposed, unless they’re symptomatic. However, they should still monitor for symptoms for 14 days even if they're not in quarantine. 

“You can visit your grandparents if you’ve been vaccinated and they have been, too,” CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a White House briefing Monday. “If grandparents have been vaccinated, they can visit their daughter and her family even if  they have not been vaccinated, so long as the daughter and her family are not at risk for severe disease.”

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