BBC: China pneumonia outbreak: COVID-19 Global Pandemic

[Springfield]

I heard the mouthwash thing in like March of 2020. Specifically Oasis mouthwash for dry mouth. Killed off the Covid like it’s nothing.

 

This guys spouting old news. We already knew the old mouthwash trick.

[GhostofSparta]

11 hours ago, China said:

 

I want to mock this, but if this can finally get these Republican mouth breathers around here to actually use mouthwash, maybe I won't be able to smell their rotting teeth from 50 feet away for once.

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[skinsmarydu]

It's anti-septic, not anti-viral.

 

Damn, they're all ****in' stupid.

[zCommander]

At least with the minty mouthwash the Coronavirus will smell minty fresh. 

 

Edited December 10, 2021 by zskins

[tshile]

Nah this is fine. We just need to clear up the confusion. 
 

the virus is in your lungs not your mouth. So you gotta swallow it but you have to do it in that way where you cough and go “wrong pipe” so it gets in there with the virus. But you gotta put enough in there at one time that it can overwhelm the virus.  So for an average adult male we’re looking at like 1.5 liters of mouthwash. Average, non-southern woman would be like a liter. 

I recommend for men they try to get a whole 2 liters in there because naturally some will wind up in your stomach and that messes the math all up, you won’t hit the right ratio. 

[Renegade7]

7 minutes ago, tshile said:

Nah this is fine. We just need to clear up the confusion. 
 

the virus is in your lungs not your mouth. So you gotta swallow it but you have to do it in that way where you cough and go “wrong pipe” so it gets in there with the virus. But you gotta put enough in there at one time that it can overwhelm the virus.  So for an average adult male we’re looking at like 1.5 liters of mouthwash. Average, non-southern woman would be like a liter. 

I recommend for men they try to get a whole 2 liters in there because naturally some will wind up in your stomach and that messes the math all up, you won’t hit the right ratio. 

 

Sounds like a tik tok challenge targeted to anti-vaxers, i approve.

 

  "Lick the Virus" challenege. "Get the Vaccine" challenege.

 

I want a tv show with nothing but flat-earthers going to the south pole to prove it isnt real.

[Dan T.]

Let's get 'em to believe that the real cure is mouthwash enemas.

[skinsmarydu]

31 minutes ago, Dan T. said:

Let's get 'em to believe that the real cure is mouthwash enemas.

I was going to say something similar, but it had a more, true, 'shove it up their ass" kinda vibe to it...I deliver directly, sir. 

[China]

Jabbed in the Back: Mapping Russian and Chinese Information Operations During COVID-19

 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spread disinformation about the efficacy of vaccines and the virus’s origins, a shift from Beijing’s previous disinformation campaigns, which had a narrower focus on China-specific issues such as Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Most of Beijing’s COVID-19 narratives aimed at shaping perceptions of China’s response to the pandemic and only rarely targeted other countries specifically.

Russia recycled previous narratives and exacerbated tensions in Western society while attempting some propaganda about Russian scientific prowess.

The Kremlin and the CCP learned from each other. While limited evidence exists of explicit cooperation, instances of narrative overlap and circular amplification of disinformation show that China is following a Russian playbook with Chinese characteristics. Russia is simultaneously learning from the Chinese approach.

The largest difference between China’s and Russia’s information warfare tactics remains China’s insistence on narrative consistency, compared with Russia’s firehose of falsehoods strategy.1 Even with substantially greater resources, this largely prevents Chinese narratives from swaying public opinion or polarizing societies.

The two authoritarian countries’ information operations have evolved over the last 18 months and will continue to do so with the spread of variants, vaccines, and inquiries into the virus’s origins.

 

 

Click on the link for the full article

[skinsmarydu]

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/georgia/third-georgian-has-contracted-omicron-variant-dph-says/4O7FCBQIBJEWNJ4F64WYCQAADY/

[Toe Jam]

Got the Moderna booster yesterday and had a really rough night. Fever, chills.. the usual. 
 

Strong immune response ftw!

But please no more boosters for awhile lol 

[China]

Here' some fear mongering which I guess is intended to urge people to get their booster shots:

 

The Pandemic of the Vaccinated Is Here

 

Even before the arrival of Omicron, the winter months were going to be tough for parts of the United States. While COVID transmission rates in the South caught fire over the summer, the Northeast and Great Plains states were largely spared thanks to cyclical factors and high vaccination rates. But weather and the patterns of human life were bound to shift the disease burden northward for the holidays—and that was just with Delta. Enter a new variant that appears better able to evade immunity, and that seasonal wave could end up a tsunami.

 

Back in July, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced that COVID had become “a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” an unfortunate turn of phrase that was soon picked up by the president. Now the flaws in its logic are about to be exposed on what could be a terrifying scale. Unvaccinated Americans will certainly pay the steepest price in the months to come, but the risks appear to have grown for everyone. The pandemic of the vaccinated can no longer be denied.

 

The 60 percent of Americans who are fully vaccinated could soon find their lives looking very different. For much of the summer and fall, those who had received two Pfizer or Moderna doses or one Johnson & Johnson shot were told that they were essentially bulletproof, especially if they were young and healthy. But preliminary data from South Africa and Europe now suggest that two vaccine doses alone might still allow for frequent breakthrough infections and rapid spread of the disease—even if hospitalization and death remain unlikely. Getting three shots, or two shots plus a previous bout of COVID, seems to offer more protection. For Saad Omer, the director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, that’s enough evidence to justify changing the CDC’s definition of full vaccination. “With Omicron and the data emerging, I think there is no reason why we shouldn’t have a pretty strong push for everyone to have boosters,” he told me.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

Covid-19 patients at this hospital are dying 'at a rate we've never seen die before' -- and it's taking a toll on health care workers

 

Nurse Katie Sefton never thought Covid-19 could get this bad -- and certainly not this late in the pandemic.

 

"I was really hoping that we'd (all) get vaccinated and things would be back to normal," said Sefton, an assistant manager at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan.

But this week Michigan had more patients hospitalized for Covid-19 than ever before. Covid-19 hospitalizations jumped 88% in the past month, according to the Michigan Health & Hospital Association.

"We have more patients than we've ever had at any point, and we're seeing more people die at a rate we've never seen die before," said Jim Dover, president and CEO of Sparrow Health System.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

Marin County businesses threatened with arson over COVID rules

 

A pair of businesses in Marin County has been facing backlash over COVID-19 restrictions. 

 

Notes have been left behind by someone threatening to burn the businesses down over their health rules. 

 

The threats have come as Marin County is experiencing a spike in COVID-19 cases. 

 

The owner of one of the threatened businesses says he understands the frustrations some people might have over COVID-19 restrictions but threatening arson is going way too far.

 

A menacing message was taped to the door of a San Rafael gym. It reads:

 

“If the vaccine mandate isn’t lifted within one week, this place burns”

 

Just days before, a nasty handwritten note was found and a similar threat popped up at the Papermill Creek Saloon in Forest Knolls. 

 

The saloon is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and a conviction of the suspect. 

 

Marin County deputies and San Rafael police are investigating.

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

Edited December 11, 2021 by China

[China]

People in red states are bound and determined to try and get themselves a slow, lingering, breathless death.

 

Local health departments in Missouri halt 'all COVID-19 work' after court ruling, AG letter

 

Multiple local health departments in rural Missouri have halted most or all of their COVID-19 tracking and prevention work after Attorney General Eric Schmitt ordered agencies to comply with a recent court ruling this week.

 

Those departments' decisions follow the lead of Laclede County, whose health authorities said Thursday it would discontinue contact tracing, case investigations and its quarantine policy. Schmitt sent letters to local health agencies this week ordering that they repeal mask mandates, isolation and quarantine require"and other public health orders."

 

McDonald County, in the far corner of southwest Missouri, said Thursday it had "ceased all COVID-19 orders," including isolation and quarantine policies.

 

"While this is a huge concern for our agency, we have no other option but to follow the orders of the Missouri Attorney General at this time," the department wrote. "We are awaiting additional direction from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, but have no timeline or expectations that this ruling will be changed.

 

"While our agency remains determined to protect the health of our county residents, it should be understood that this ruling greatly affects how we will be able to proceed and stop the spread of COVID."

 

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[China]

No word on condition of Washington state Sen. Doug Ericksen after COVID treatment

 

No information has been available for three weeks about the location or condition of Republican state Sen. Doug Ericksen of Ferndale, who was reportedly being treated for COVID-19 at a Florida hospital after testing positive for the virus in El Salvador.

 

Calls to Ericksen have not been returned recently, leading to public speculation about his condition. Several of Ericksen’s constituents have written The Bellingham Herald, wondering why there has been no updated information.

 

Well-wishers have also sent messages to his public Facebook page, which has not been updated recently.

 

Ericksen’s legislative staff members have told The Bellingham Herald that they can’t comment.

 

“I really don’t have any information. It’s all going through the family now,” Ericksen’s legislative assistant Sandy Ruff said Thursday, Dec. 9.

 

On Nov. 19, Ericksen was reported in stable condition at a Fort Lauderdale hospital and improving after receiving treatment for COVID-19, according to former state Rep. Luanne Van Werven, who said she had spoken with the Ericksen family.

 

 

The Herald has made multiple unsuccessful attempts to reach the family.

 

Ericksen wasn’t listed as a patient in large Fort Lauderdale hospitals on Friday.

 

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[China]

 

[China]

One year after FDA authorized Pfizer's COVID vaccine, cases are on the rise

 

Saturday marks one year since the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine — the first of three COVID-19 vaccines now in use in the United States.  

During that time, more than 480 million shots have been administered, and just over 60% of eligible Americans are fully vaccinated. But even with those protections, case numbers have gone up 22% in the past two weeks. 

 

Confirmed COVID cases showed up this week at an average rate of 120,000 per day, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ninety-nine percent of those new cases are from Delta variant, not Omicron.

 

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[China]

On 8/18/2021 at 11:54 PM, China said:

14 children with disabilities file first federal lawsuit against Gov. Abbott over mask mandate ban

 

Fourteen child plaintiffs and their families — including three from central Texas — have filed the first federal lawsuit against Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath, advocacy group Disability Rights Texas said Wednesday.

 

The suit alleges the state’s executive order, which prohibits school districts from enforcing mask mandates, puts children with disabilities “at significant risk, is discriminatory, and violates the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act.”

 

According to the lawsuit, the order discriminates against students with disabilities and their rights to public education programs. Several of the plaintiffs, which have varying degrees of disabilities, could be at an increased risk of medical complications and death due to their underlying medical conditions, the lawsuit states.

 

The lawsuit seeks a federal temporary restraining order which would cease enforcement of the executive order and allow school districts and local public health authorities the ability to freely require masks.

 

There are 14 anonymous child plaintiffs ranging from seven to 11 years old. Three plaintiffs are from central Texas, including Travis, Hays and Williamson counties.

 

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Texas schools can again set their own face mask rules after federal judge overrules Gov. Greg Abbott's ban

 

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order prohibiting mask mandates in schools violates the Americans with Disabilities Act — freeing local officials to again create their own rules.

 

The order comes after a monthslong legal dispute between parents, a disability rights organization and Texas officials over whether the state was violating the 1990 law, known as the ADA, by not allowing school districts to require masks. U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel barred Attorney General Ken Paxton from enforcing Abbott’s order.

 

“The spread of COVID-19 poses an even greater risk for children with special health needs,” Yeakel said. “Children with certain underlying conditions who contract COVID-19 are more likely to experience severe acute biological effects and to require admission to a hospital and the hospital’s intensive-care unit.”

 

The judge said the governor's order impedes children with disabilities from the benefits of public schools’ programs, services and activities to which they are entitled.

 

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[China]

Norway introduces new COVID restrictions, bans serving alcohol in bid to curb Omicron outbreak

 

Norway will ban the serving of alcohol in bars and restaurants, impose stricter rules in schools and speed up vaccinations as part of new efforts to limit an expected surge of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

 

Presenting the country's fourth round of measures in two weeks, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said there was "no doubt the new variant changes the rules".

 

"That's why we need to act fast and we need to act again," he said.

 

"For many, this will feel like a lockdown, if not of society then of their lives and of their livelihoods."

 

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[Captain Wiggles]

Now what will the Norwegians drink with the Lutefisk? 🤢

 

 

[LD0506]

3 hours ago, clietas said:

Now what will the Norwegians drink with the Lutefisk? 🤢

 

 

 

Pepto?

 

[Larry]

3 hours ago, clietas said:

Now what will the Norwegians drink with the Lutefisk? 🤢

 

 

 

10 minutes ago, LD0506 said:

 

Pepto?

 

Ipecac?  

[TradeTheBeal!]

4 hours ago, clietas said:

Now what will the Norwegians drink with the Lutefisk? 🤢