Another one bites the dust...

[Raoul_Luke]

Just a week after the last nail was driven into the coffin of "mask mandates:"

'Gold standard' scientific study finds masks are useless against COVID (msn.com)

The case for mandatory vaccination of everyone, even those with natural immunity, blows up in the lefts' faces:

Post-infection protection—known widely as natural immunity—was strong and remained significant over time, researchers found. Against the Wuhan, Alpha, and Delta variants, the protection against re-infection was 85 percent at four weeks, 78 percent at 40 weeks, and 55.5 percent at 80 weeks.

That protection dropped more quickly against the Omicron BA.1 subvariant, declining to 36 percent by 40 weeks, and protection against symptomatic disease also waned below 50 percent.

But shielding against severe disease was strong against all strains, including the BA.1 subvariant, researchers found. The naturally immune enjoyed 88.9 percent protection against BA.1 at 40 weeks, which was actually higher than against earlier strains.

“Our analysis found significantly reduced protection against re-infection from the omicron BA.1 variant but that levels of protection against severe disease remained high,” Dr. Stephen Lim of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, and his co-authors, said in the study.

Dr. Brett Giroir, a former Trump administration health official whose post on natural immunity was censored by Twitter on behalf of Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb, said the study “demonstrates robustness of natural immunity.”

Dr. Vinay Prasad, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco who was also not involved in the study, said that the paper made a “compelling case that we can effectively stop boosting average risk individuals (most adults) who have had covid.”

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

This in the face of solid evidence that the vast majority of people (especially the young and middle aged) faced only a minute risk of death from covid:





It is clear from the SCIENCE that the physicians and scientists who authored the Great Barrington Declaration, as well as the Swedish government, both of which I put forth repeatedly as counter arguments to the pro-mandate crowd here, were 100% spot on!

But I won't hold my breath waiting for the Board's mandate mavens to line up here to admit I was right and they were wrong from the get go.

 

[Dawg]

Yet Mask are mandated in Small gatherings (hospitals, nursing homes) and few if any seen at Large gatherings (Super Bowl and where people set shoulder to shoulder and I think I seen ONE at farm show with 10,000+ walking side by side) and IMO Mask have more to do with CONTROL than Protection.

 

[Raoul_Luke]

Yet Mask are mandated in Small gatherings (hospitals, nursing homes) and few if any seen at Large gatherings (Super Bowl and where people set shoulder to shoulder and I think I seen ONE at farm show with 10,000+ walking side by side) and IMO Mask have more to do with CONTROL than Protection.

Indeed, Dawg, and I actually forgot one - the lockdowns - which pretty much everyone agrees now not only had little to no effect on the path of the virus in communities, but actually did irreparable harm to mostly the poor and working poor. And yet not one mandate maven will come forward to admit that.

About everything related to covid - the skeptics were 100% right and the mandate mavens were 100% wrong!

 

[Dawg]

Indeed, Dawg, and I actually forgot one - the lockdowns - which pretty much everyone agrees now not only had little to no effect on the path of the virus in communities, but actually did irreparable harm to mostly the poor and working poor. And yet not one mandate maven will come forward to admit that.

About everything related to covid - the skeptics were 100% right and the mandate mavens were 100% wrong!

Since it's a PJ theme, when will repartions be paid to the Poor and Working Poor and especially to todays school kids that are now so far behind in education they will never gain what they lost due to lockdowns?

 

[Raoul_Luke]

Since it's a PJ theme, when will repartions be paid to the Poor and Working Poor and especially to todays school kids that are now so far behind in education they will never gain what they lost due to lockdowns?

Ahhhh, I'll go with never because the left will never admit they were wrong.

 

[Sickofleft]

Just a week after the last nail was driven into the coffin of "mask mandates:"

'Gold standard' scientific study finds masks are useless against COVID (msn.com)

The case for mandatory vaccination of everyone, even those with natural immunity, blows up in the lefts' faces:

Post-infection protection—known widely as natural immunity—was strong and remained significant over time, researchers found. Against the Wuhan, Alpha, and Delta variants, the protection against re-infection was 85 percent at four weeks, 78 percent at 40 weeks, and 55.5 percent at 80 weeks.

That protection dropped more quickly against the Omicron BA.1 subvariant, declining to 36 percent by 40 weeks, and protection against symptomatic disease also waned below 50 percent.

But shielding against severe disease was strong against all strains, including the BA.1 subvariant, researchers found. The naturally immune enjoyed 88.9 percent protection against BA.1 at 40 weeks, which was actually higher than against earlier strains.


Dr. Brett Giroir, a former Trump administration health official whose post on natural immunity was censored by Twitter on behalf of Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb, said the study “demonstrates robustness of natural immunity.”

Dr. Vinay Prasad, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco who was also not involved in the study, said that the paper made a “compelling case that we can effectively stop boosting average risk individuals (most adults) who have had covid.”

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

This in the face of solid evidence that the vast majority of people (especially the young and middle aged) faced only a minute risk of death from covid:

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It is clear from the SCIENCE that the physicians and scientists who authored the Great Barrington Declaration, as well as the Swedish government, both of which I put forth repeatedly as counter arguments to the pro-mandate crowd here, were 100% spot on!

But I won't hold my breath waiting for the Board's mandate mavens to line up here to admit I was right and they were wrong from the get go.

Still very common in NY to see people wearing them, still (sadly) common to see people in cars alone wearing them.

It's insane, yet people will still insist that you wear them.

 

[Raoul_Luke]

Still very common in NY to see people wearing them, still (sadly) common to see people in cars alone wearing them.

It's insane, yet people will still insist that you wear them.

And not one lefty will step forward and say "yeah, maybe we over reacted a bit." I guess that's too much to ask.

 

[Dawg]

Ahhhh, I'll go with never because the left will never admit they were wrong.

I forgot to mention SOTU Mask were not Mandated
It's the DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO crowd

 

[Dawg]

Still very common in NY to see people wearing them, still (sadly) common to see people in cars alone wearing them.

It's insane, yet people will still insist that you wear them.

Fools in cars alone with Mask should stay at home if that scared

 

[Sickofleft]

And not one lefty will step forward and say "yeah, maybe we over reacted a bit." I guess that's too much to ask.

Actor Tim Robbins did actually, he admitted that the religion of the Vaccine thing was a mistake.

So that is 1 guy out of....ummmm several several million.

 

[Raoul_Luke]

Actor Tim Robbins did actually, he admitted that the religion of the Vaccine thing was a mistake.

So that is 1 guy out of....ummmm several several million.

Yeah, Dr Wen as well:

Dr. Leana Wen slammed after admitting there's been 'overcounting' of COVID deaths: ‘TWO AND A HALF YEARS LATE’ | Fox News

But not one single lefty here. They pretend none of this (solid scientific evidence that the covid policies they supported were a bunch of tin horn authoritarian hooey) exists.

 

[Raoul_Luke]

Actor Tim Robbins did actually, he admitted that the religion of the Vaccine thing was a mistake.

So that is 1 guy out of....ummmm several several million.

And now Woody Harrelson:

Woody Harrelson takes a jab at COVID vaccine mandates in 'SNL' monologue (msn.com)

 

[Raoul_Luke]

And yet another:

Lab Leak Most Likely Caused Pandemic, Energy Dept. Says

The conclusion, which was made with “low confidence,” came as America’s intelligence agencies remained divided over the origins of the coronavirus.

www.nytimes.com

Remember when it was a "crazy conspiracy theory" to suggest the pandemic came about as a result of a lab leak? Yeah, the left was wrong about that too.

 

[RickWA]

And yet another:

Lab Leak Most Likely Caused Pandemic, Energy Dept. Says

The conclusion, which was made with “low confidence,” came as America’s intelligence agencies remained divided over the origins of the coronavirus.

www.nytimes.com

Remember when it was a "crazy conspiracy theory" to suggest the pandemic came about as a result of a lab leak? Yeah, the left was wrong about that too.

Expect no contrition or even modest introspection. That gene is lacking among lefties. They just don’t do that. Serial shirkers, they simply blame others. Always…through the ages. Democrats…from being the chief practitioners of slavery in the USA…to the architects of Jim Crow…to Tammany Hall… to the origination of the KKK… to the Chicago Daley machine… to mass opposition of the Civil Rights Act - were THE locus of racism.

What do you get from lefty? “Nuh uhhh…all those bad bigots made an exodus to the GOP and we’re spotless now…we get a do-over.”

These people cannot NOT shirk and blame others. They are allergic to any and all accountability. They can’t even own HISTORICAL events.

 

[EatTheRich]

Expect no contrition or even modest introspection. That gene is lacking among lefties. They just don’t do that. Serial shirkers, they simply blame others. Always…through the ages. Democrats…from being the chief practitioners of slavery in the USA…to the architects of Jim Crow…to Tammany Hall… to the origination of the KKK… to the Chicago Daley machine… to mass opposition of the Civil Rights Act - were THE locus of racism.

What do you get from lefty? “Nuh uhhh…all those bad bigots made an exodus to the GOP and we’re spotless now…we get a do-over.”

These people cannot NOT shirk and blame others. They are allergic to any and all accountability. They can’t even own HISTORICAL events.

I mean, it is accurate to say that the conservative racist wing of the Democratic Party has largely left that party. And there is plenty of racism outside the party, for example in the Republican Party from the days of Orville Hubbard and earlier, going all the way back in fact to Lincoln who only looked good compared to your favorite Democrat, Jefferson Davis.

 

[Sickofleft]

And now Woody Harrelson:

Woody Harrelson takes a jab at COVID vaccine mandates in 'SNL' monologue (msn.com)

I saw that, I am glad he did that I wish more people would go public.

The left sticks to its talking points no matter what, bad week for them, masks don't work (the sane have always known that) and COVID came from the lab, something the MSM/Left/Dems always told us was a racist conspiracy theory........

Hear that?....... Crickets.......

 

[Raoul_Luke]

Expect no contrition or even modest introspection. That gene is lacking among lefties. They just don’t do that. Serial shirkers, they simply blame others. Always…through the ages. Democrats…from being the chief practitioners of slavery in the USA…to the architects of Jim Crow…to Tammany Hall… to the origination of the KKK… to the Chicago Daley machine… to mass opposition of the Civil Rights Act - were THE locus of racism.

What do you get from lefty? “Nuh uhhh…all those bad bigots made an exodus to the GOP and we’re spotless now…we get a do-over.”

These people cannot NOT shirk and blame others. They are allergic to any and all accountability. They can’t even own HISTORICAL events.

Yep - if the left was conscientious enough to do that they wouldn't be lefties any more. Every single policy they prescribe results in the opposite of its intended effect. I saw a report this morning that today, despite all the government's efforts to increase it, the percentage of Black homeowners is lower than it was in 1960. I wonder if that could have anything to do with their welfare agenda that destroyed the African American nuclear family?

 

[RickWA]

I mean, it is accurate to say that the conservative racist wing of the Democratic Party has largely left that party. And there is plenty of racism outside the party, for example in the Republican Party from the days of Orville Hubbard and earlier, going all the way back in fact to Lincoln who only looked good compared to your favorite Democrat, Jefferson Davis.

Lefty doesn’t get a clean slate for UNRIVALED Democratic Party evils over the centuries. NO. DICE.

 

[middleview]

Just a week after the last nail was driven into the coffin of "mask mandates:"

'Gold standard' scientific study finds masks are useless against COVID (msn.com)

The case for mandatory vaccination of everyone, even those with natural immunity, blows up in the lefts' faces:

Post-infection protection—known widely as natural immunity—was strong and remained significant over time, researchers found. Against the Wuhan, Alpha, and Delta variants, the protection against re-infection was 85 percent at four weeks, 78 percent at 40 weeks, and 55.5 percent at 80 weeks.

That protection dropped more quickly against the Omicron BA.1 subvariant, declining to 36 percent by 40 weeks, and protection against symptomatic disease also waned below 50 percent.

But shielding against severe disease was strong against all strains, including the BA.1 subvariant, researchers found. The naturally immune enjoyed 88.9 percent protection against BA.1 at 40 weeks, which was actually higher than against earlier strains.


Dr. Brett Giroir, a former Trump administration health official whose post on natural immunity was censored by Twitter on behalf of Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb, said the study “demonstrates robustness of natural immunity.”

Dr. Vinay Prasad, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco who was also not involved in the study, said that the paper made a “compelling case that we can effectively stop boosting average risk individuals (most adults) who have had covid.”

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

This in the face of solid evidence that the vast majority of people (especially the young and middle aged) faced only a minute risk of death from covid:

View attachment 74055



It is clear from the SCIENCE that the physicians and scientists who authored the Great Barrington Declaration, as well as the Swedish government, both of which I put forth repeatedly as counter arguments to the pro-mandate crowd here, were 100% spot on!

But I won't hold my breath waiting for the Board's mandate mavens to line up here to admit I was right and they were wrong from the get go.

Testing face masks: Lab tests reveal the safest and most effective (Marketplace) - YouTube

 

[Raoul_Luke]

Testing face masks: Lab tests reveal the safest and most effective (Marketplace) - YouTube

Again, measuring particle containment is not the same thing as testing for virus transmission.

From my link:

So it was no surprise that the release of the 2023 Cochrane Review, which determined that masking is ineffective against the spread of respiratory illnesses such as influenza or COVID-19, was greeted by a chorus of crickets in the media. The review analyzed the findings of 78 other studies that involved more than half a million people from across the globe and found that wearing a medical or surgical mask “probably makes little or no difference” in reducing the spread of respiratory viruses.

This is significant because Cochrane reviews are the most esteemed of their kind. The National Institutes of Health describes them as “the gold standard for meta-analytic reviews” because of their low vulnerability to bias and generally higher quality. So when they say masks made no difference in the effort to minimize the damage of the pandemic, it’s probably accurate.

What part of "gold standard for meta-analytic reviews" is so hard for you to understand?