Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

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Speaking of international travelers, Vaccinated individuals are free to roam across the globe again? What if they're carriers of the new strain? They should still undergo testing before and after their flights. How accurate is the PCR-based testing these days?
 

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With all of the vaxxed politicians and sports figures testing positive, the breakthroughs must be a lot more common than what they're telling us.

I track breakthroughs from several different States that put up honest (they don't play games like citing January 1st data) numbers. Breakthrough consistently runs around 25%, typically 22% - 28% + - a bit.

Here is a sample, at a glance, seems higher than normal;

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Opinion piece on fauxi, link goes to Newsweek;

How Fauci Fooled America | Opinion

When the pandemic hit, America needed someone to turn to for advice. The media and public naturally looked to Dr. Anthony Fauci—the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, an esteemed laboratory immunologist and one of President Donald Trump's chosen COVID advisers. Unfortunately, Dr. Fauci got major epidemiology and public health questions wrong. Reality and scientific studies have now caught up with him.

Here are the key issues:

Natural immunity. By pushing vaccine mandates, Dr. Fauci ignores naturally acquired immunity among the COVID-recovered, of which there are more than 45 million in the United States. Mounting evidence indicates that natural immunity is stronger and longer lasting than vaccine-induced immunity. [Eds.: Long-term trends are still unclear. A recent study reached the opposite conclusion, but was criticized by an author of this op-ed.] In a study from Israel, the vaccinated were 27 times more likely to get symptomatic COVID than the unvaccinated who had recovered from a prior infection.

We have known about natural immunity from disease at least since the Athenian Plague in 430 BC. Pilots, truckers and longshoremen know about it, and nurses know it better than anyone. Under Fauci's mandates, hospitals are firing heroic nurses who recovered from COVID they contracted while caring for patients. With their superior immunity, they can safely care for the oldest and frailest patients with even lower transmission risk than the vaccinated.

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Best comment:
“My son is vaccinated and has to wear a mask all day at school. Why???” asked another.

Because your son has a weak, gutless parent, that's why, who allows the strong to dictate the behavior of his children, and then cries about it on social media. When the son is older, he will look back with shame at how his parents buckled and allowed him to be masked, sent home, and ultimately, vaccinated, while the powerful -- the Jake Tappers of the world -- lived freely, did what they wanted, and laughed at those who followed these insane dictates.
 

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Internal CDC Emails Show WHY They Changed the Definition of “Vaccine” Again
Summary: The right wing covid deniers (those nasty citizens that know how to read) are pointing out that our own definition says the covid shot isn't a vaccine. We therefore need to change the definition, pronto.
 
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