Fair enough. I read somewhere else (can't remember where) that it was a father/daughter, which is why I said that. But since I can't verify the source, lets go with "it" and "its child."
(Using "their" when referring to a single individual is a pet peeve of mine.)
They may get what they deserve, but it's the rest of us that will pay the price.
Sorry, ambulance chasers: J&J got the same immunity deal as the other vaccine makers.
Either that or they are clearing the field of all but the mRNA vaccines: Moderna & Pfizer.
(Astra Zeneca is also being banned in some countries out of cloud clot concerns.)
Yeah, but I don't think this is about taxes. I think the dad just wants to legally have sex with his daughter.
I think they watched too much Game of Thrones and fancy themselves Targaryens.
Okay, seriously, 8 cases of Deep Vein Thrombosis out of seven million recipients?
That is a rate of 0.00000114 or 0.000114%.
Allowing for the J & J vaccine only having been available for a month or two, if you multiply the J&J's supposed DVT rate by 12 to get an annual rate, you get 0.0000137 or 0.00137%.
By comparison, there are a total of 600,000 cases of DVT in the US annually. Out of a US population of roughly 330,000,000, that rate is 0.00182 or 0.182%.
So, the rate of people supposedly getting DVT from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is 132 times lower than the rate of getting DVT in the general population. Even allowing for significant under-reporting of vaccine side effects, it looks like the J&J shot is protecting people from DVT!
Now, I am not advocating for the J&J vaccine, but stopping use of it due to supposedly elevated DVT risk doesn't even pass the smell test for "an abundance of caution."
(The blood clotting concern excuse is also why Astra Zeneca is being banned in some countries, but I haven't looked at the numbers for the A-Z vaccine.)
Is this really just a method to steer people to the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines? Damn, I sound like a paranoid whacko, but the numbers don't lie.
This thought crossed my mind, too. The Astra Zeneca vaccine is also being banned in some countries due to blood clot risk. It seems unlikely to me that two different vaccines would cause the same rare complication.
I hate to be so paranoid, but I have to wonder if people in high places are steering everyone to the mRNA vaccines.
Of course, it might not be some insidious plot - maybe Moderna and Pfizer are just better at bribery?
I agree that the current trend of vaccinating infants and children for illnesses that are rarely (if ever) fatal and rarely (if ever) cause permanent disability is wrong. As is the practice of vaccinating all infants for sexually transmitted diseases (the HPV vaccine). Especially when those vaccines are mandated for school attendance.
However, vaccines for severe diseases such as smallpox, polio, pertussis, diptheria, and tetanus, and other diseases have saved millions of lives and untold amounts of suffering. Some specifics:
The biggest vaccine success story is smallpox. Thanks to the smallpox vaccine, smallpox - which had a 30% fatality rate and often left survivors terribly scarred - has been eradicated worldwide. It exists only in laboratory samples. The ancient curse, "A pox be upon you!" was no joke - it literally meant that you were wishing a horribly painful death to that person.
Polio is almost eradicated and exists in the wild in only a few places. Before vaccines, it was endemic worldwide. Polio has caused limb deformities or permanent paralysis in millions; one of my husband's aunts had a deformed arm and damaged lungs from a childhood bout of polio. Due to her damaged lungs, she was hospitalized with pneumonia multiple times during her life, and it was pneumonia that finally killed her.
Pertussis (whooping cough) has a very low fatality rate in adults and older children, but kills about 1% of infected infants under 1 year of age (that figure rises to 4% in developing countries due to inaccessible or inferior medical care). Nearly half of all infants under 1 year old who get pertussis require hospitalization. Even in older children and adults, the cough can last up to 10 weeks and be debilitating for 2-4 of those weeks. Plus, the coughs are so intense that you can puke from coughing and up to 4% of teens and adults with whooping cough fracture ribs from the sheer ferocity of the coughing.
Diptheria has a fatality rate of 5%-10%, though it can be up to 20% in infants and older adults. Widespread vaccination has led to about a 90% reduction in cases.
Tetanus (lockjaw) still has a fatality rate of about 10% in developed countries, though that risk is concentrated in people aged 55+. In addition to dirty puncture wounds, tetanus can be contracted by the mother and/or child during childbirth. Tetanus produces weeks of frequent, painful muscle contractions that are so severe that they can stop breathing. There is no cure; treatment consists of managing the symptoms as well as possible. Cases have been reduced by 95% and deaths by 99% since 1947 (when tetanus reporting became mandatory). Since most of the cases occur in people who were never vaccinated or were not current on their boosters, vaccines are given credit for most of these reductions.
Rabies is a special case because exposure is so rare. But if you do get bitten by a rabid animal, getting vaccinated promptly is the only thing that can save you from near-certain death.
I could go on. The current fear of being coerced into getting an undertested, unapproved COVID vaccine is rational. Being concerned with the massive numbers of vaccines being pushed into infants and young children for diseases that don't affect them (HPV) or that aren't particularly dangerous is also rational. Rejecting all vaccines out of hand is not.
Because of herd immunity, if a small percentage of the population opts out of all vaccines, everyone is still protected. (Except of course, for tetanus which is acquired through wounds, and rabies from bites from infected animals.) But if a large enough percentage of the population opts out of vaccines for communicable diseases, we will again see epidemics of diptheria, whooping cough, pertussis, polio, and other diseases.
Yes, the necessary infrastructure and logistics network is going to take years to build. Amazon didn't build their system overnight, either. Remember they started as an online bookstore, then branched out into music and movies, and then over time they expanded into selling everydamnthing.
Hopefully Lindell doesn't try to run before he can walk, so to speak. He should focus on providing fair prices (he won't be able to undercut Amazon) and good service with a limited selection of products at first so customers have a good experience. (That's important, because customers who have a bad initial experience will probably never come back.) He can build his product lines from there as his logistics resources grow.
Accurate, but many normies aren't ready to believe that (yet) and will dismiss you as a crazy conspiracy theorist for saying it.
What JoanneLaRe said is for the benefit of the general populace, many of whom can be influenced by arguments that gun control just doesn't work to reduce murders and violent crime.
This. Large blue cities in red states aren't immune, either.
It's safest to stay away from all large cities this summer if possible.
The best thing about this suit is that, if successful, it will put the first limit on the powers illegally assumed by the CDC.
That will open the floodgates for more people to push back against CDC overreach.
God bless my governor, and may Florida succeed in this suit!
Kek - well played!
Even in a red area like mine, NextDoor attracts a disproportionate number of leftists and general busybodies. I left it months ago and haven't missed it.
Good luck voting those down, Dallas pedes!
Brenda Snipes was Broward's SoE for decades, and she was one of the two who got fired. The day she got canned was a very happy day for me.
I know the Bee is satire, but damn it's uncomfortably close to the truth on this.
Also, It kills me how the progressives fought for decades to free women from having to conform to stereotypical feminine interests, dress, grooming, and behavior. But now the progressives enforce absolutely rigid gender stereotypes!
When a girl shows any interest, appearances, or behaviors that aren't stereotypically feminine, instead of supporting her as a female who doesn't conform, they try to convince her she's a "man trapped in a woman's body" who needs to transition to male.
And of course the same progressives also enforce rigid gender roles on boys and young men by trying to convince boys who take any interest in "girl stuff" that they are really girls and need to transition to "female."
In either case it's horrific child abuse.
The "lucky" ones successfully label themselves as "nonbinary," which at least relieves some of the pressure for hormonal and surgical self-mutilation.
It did happen. Governor DeSantis got rid of the corrupt county supervisors of elections in both Palm Beach and Broward counties, which is where the biggest fraud was happening.
Remember "hanging chads" in the 2000 election? That was those two counties. Remember how votes used to show up for days or weeks after the election in South Florida? That was mostly in those two counties. They almost caused DeSantis to lose in 2018 with the same late votes bullshit.
So as soon as he was sworn in, the SoEs for those two counties were fired. And that is why 2020 went smoothly (all results reported by midnight of Election Day) and why Florida went farther red.
I am not saying there is no cheating in Florida now - that would be absurdly naive. We have to be ever-watchful in the future. The Orlando area counties particularly concern me. But DeSantis put a BIG dent in the industrial-scale election fraud that had been going on in Palm Beach and Broward counties for decades.
Agreed.
But at least in Florida, Governor DeSantis' executive order makes private businesses that mandate vaccine passports ineligible for state contracts and grants.
If you did that, you'd be flopping about randomly like a fish out of water, because Fauci contradicts himself constantly.
The smart move is to just ignore everything coming out of his mouth.
In addition to what everyone else said about cheating, Ron DeSantis has greatly improved his public speaking skills (and hopefully his campaigning skills) since 2018.
He also made a couple of unforced errors during the 2018 gubernatorial campaign that were gleefully pounced on by the media. One in particular was his use of the phrase "monkey this up" - actually a common phrase in parts of the South which does NOT have any racial connotations. But the media ran with it and used it as "proof" that he is racist. Read more here if interested: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/ron-desantis-monkey-remark-democrats-play-race-card/
I remember thinking when that happened that he might have lost. Thank God he won!
It's still ridiculous that the election was that close, especially since Gillum was already under investigation for corruption at the time!
I've remarked to my husband more than once about this irony:
The same people who were terrified of and avoided GMOs at all costs...
...are now lining up for the vaccine so they can become one.
Uh...I'm not following the pretzel logic behind that statement.
I was wondering when the "woke" would get around to ruining archaeology and anthropology by denying that the race and gender of deceased persons can be easily determined by simply looking at their bones.
I have also been wondering whether it was the race part or the gender part that would prove problematic to the "woke" first. I guess race wins the race!
Nor is it oppression to help your husband to remain healthy (by packing him a nutritious lunch instead of leaving him to get fast food) or help the family finances stay healthy (packing lunch is cheaper).