Mandate..

 

The rapidly spreading omicron variant poses a problem for the White House as officials try to convince a skeptical public that vaccine mandates are necessary. 

Opponents of mandates are seizing on early evidence that shows vaccines are not as effective at stopping transmission of the new strain, which they say undermines the administration's key arguments for championing them. 

Scientists do not yet know whether vaccines will continue to protect people from Omicron. The variant contains many mutations that suggest the shots may be less effective against Omicron than against other variants, though evidence to support those fears has yet to be established.

In the mean time, Big Pharma are very quite about a vaccine for the new Variant. They have vaccine for children, etc.

The main question is, what cause the breakthrough seen? Just a thought.

Sucka

 

Andy Cohen tore into outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) in a rant standing alongside Anderson Cooper during CNN's televised New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, where he called de Blasio a "horrible mayor" in remarks that included a salute while saying, "Sayonara, sucka."

"Watching Mayor de Blasio do his 'victory lap' dance after four years of the crappiest job as the mayor of New York," Cohen said, with Cooper interjecting, "Oh, don't go on a rant."

"The only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor he has been," Cohen continued. "Sayonara, sucka."

Ain't that the truth.  Just a"Sucka" thought.

Saint ..

 

Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint.

Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid.

Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. 

Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. 

Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. 

Man may have been made in the image of God,

but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Stephen King , The Stand.

Filth..

 

 We're talking about the end of Bill de Blasio as mayor of New York City — undoubtedly the worst mayor in American history. 

So tonight, we say "goodbye." Now, Bill de Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm Jr., and he did what no other mayor dreamed possible. In just a few short years, he has completely ruined New York City. 

By almost every measure, he has been a complete and utter disaster. Since Bill de Blasio took over, murders in New York City have spiked by nearly 50 percent.

Rapes are up by 26 percent. According to a report by BusyBee, which looked at data from the American Housing Survey along with other federal data, New York City is by far the dirtiest city in the country. New York City also had more than 2 million homes with pest infestations, which include rats, roaches, and mice. 

A state audit confirmed the filth, with most inspected city blocks and sidewalks found to be dirty. 

During his failed run for president, de Blasio cost taxpayers $320,000 by using the NYPD as security detail. Now he still hasn't paid that back and his office hasn't said if he ever will. That's in addition to the 850 million taxpayer dollars de Blasio's wife supposedly lost track of while overseeing her Thrive NYC mental health scheme.

These are just a few of the reasons why we'll be happy to see Bill de Blasio leave. 

Cluster..

 

The investigation into a cluster of omicron infections in Nebraska suggests the heavily mutated variant has a shorter incubation period and causes similar or milder symptoms compared to past variants for people who are vaccinated or previously infected, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC released findings from an epidemiological investigation into six omicron cases confirmed from a single household in Nebraska.

A 48-year-old man who returned to the U.S. on Nov. 23 from a conference in Nigeria experienced symptoms a day later and tested positive for the virus on Nov. 26. The man, who was unvaccinated and had a prior history of symptomatic infection in 2020, reported he was not wearing a mask when he had close contact with a masked individual who was coughing at the international conference on Nov. 20.

Not vaccinated, not wearing a mask, and visiting Nigeria got a mild disease of Covid Omicron. Just a thought.

Ironic..

 

The rapidly spreading omicron variant poses a problem for the White House as officials try to convince a skeptical public that vaccine mandates are necessary. 

Opponents of mandates are seizing on early evidence that shows vaccines are not as effective at stopping transmission of the new strain, which they say undermines the administration's key arguments for championing them. 

This week, airlines were forced to cancel thousands of flights as COVID-19 swept through its flight crews and other employees.

Many U.S. airlines require their employees to be fully vaccinated, and anti-mandate groups claimed that hundreds of otherwise-healthy crew members were sidelined, unable to help alleviate the worst of the shortages because of their vaccination status.

So with failure of the current vaccine, Firing thousands in healthcare and other industries, who didn't want to be vaccinated, and start training the National guard to perform jobs of these people who have years of experience. Ironic Huh.  Just a thought.

Anti Vaxx..

 

A total of 2.49 million COVID-19 cases within the past week outpaced the previous record of 1.7 million cases from Jan. 3-9, 2021, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins data.  The entirety of November had just 2.55 million cases, the analysis shows.

The U.S. recorded 647,067 million cases Thursday; more than 2 million were notched in the last four days. 

With both the omicron and delta variants infecting people, the U.S. is now averaging about 356,000 cases per day – and more than four cases every second.  

The relatively low number of deaths in contrast to high case counts may support early evidence that omicron is more contagious but less severe. 

So vaccinations didn't help millions who got infected though they are vaccinated.

Many unvaccinated people end up hospitalized, but what other diseases they have that landed them in there? 

Should we get new vaccine to target the new variant? 

Should the politicians continue with the same song and dance that started when we had the vaccines?

Should we change our way of lives in the large dense Cities by improving the Quality of Lives, and reduce the dense populations in Buses, Trains, workplaces? 

Or we just keep singing the same song?

 Just a "lost" thought.

Wonderful..

 

 Truly the most wonderful time of the year, cheers Reason’s C.J. Ciaramella, because Mayor de Blasio, “a bumbling punchline of a politician, is finally leaving office.” And though “it’s tempting to . . . focus on the clownish moments,” we’d be missing out on “the spectacular failures and hypocrisies of his policy initiatives.”

 Indeed, “his only real flashes of political acumen were when he was rubbing disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a thin-skinned blowhard and fellow authoritarian who couldn’t help but take the bait.” Hizzoner’s “ ‘progressive’ tendencies only manifested themselves in authoritarian diktats against New Yorkers who weren’t powerful enough to fight back.” 

Yet the mayor “never had a real interest in taking on the injustices perpetrated by the government he ostensibly controlled. nor fixing anything with housing, transportation etc.”
Just "Somone's" thought.

History..

 

Horrific scenes seen in previous Covid-19 waves are “now history,” according to John Bell, a regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford and the U.K. government’s life sciences advisor.

Bell analyzed data from the U.K., where cases are breaking records and hospital admissions are at their highest since March. He said that the number of people in ICUs who are vaccinated remains “very, very low

The horrific scenes that we saw a year ago intensive care units being full, lots of people dying prematurely that is now history in my view and I think we should be reassured that that’s likely to continue.”

He added: “The disease does appear to be less severe, and many people spend a relatively short time in hospital. They don’t need high-flow oxygen, average length of stay is apparently three days, this is not the same disease as we were seeing a year ago.”

Out..