Continuing The Covid Panic Porn

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Biden Top Health Official Warns Of A ‘Resurgence’ Of COVID Variants Starting This Fall​

“Come the fall and winter,” Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), told a reporter. “Most everyone who is an expert on pandemics and these viruses will tell you that there’s a strong chance we will see a resurgence of the virus — whether it’s the variants that we have now or the new variants.”

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Since he took his position shortly after Biden assumed office last year, Becerra has extended the public health emergency orders five times.

The Republican National Committee shared Becerra’s latest comment adding the Biden Administration promised to shut down the virus.

“But it was all a lie,” the committee said.

Twitter users flooded the tweet with comments saying the so-called resurgence would rise from the “midterm variant,” as Becerra hinted the spike could happen around the 2022 Midterm elections in November.

Becerra’s COVID concerns emerged the same day legacy media circulated reports of scientists warning Americans of a new coronavirus mutant spreading in India and other countries — including the United States.

The Associated Press reports that scientists said the new variant, BA.2.75, may stand against immunity, previous infections, and vaccines. However, the effects of the mutation remain unclear.

 

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Biden Administration Planning to Extend Covid Public Health Emergency​

One day, I will no longer write about covid.

But today is not that day.

After two years of covid lockdowns, restrictions, and progressive virtue signaling with promises of being able to contain an uncontainable virus, the country is seeing a surge in covid cases.


Laughably, officials say they “know how to manage it.”

Top U.S. health officials warned Tuesday that a surge of COVID-19 cases driven by the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.5 has arrived, but stressed that the country has the tools — like vaccines and antiviral treatments — to prevent people from getting seriously ill.
“We know how to manage it,” Dr. Ashish Jha, coordinator of the White House’s COVID-19 response, said at a virtual press briefing. “We can prevent serious illness. We can save lives and we can minimize disruptions caused by COVID-19.”

As I predicted, the world will experience wave after wave of covid until we have built up enough immunity so future variants will join the very long list of common cold viruses. In fact, in my personal experience, I know many people who are now recovering from covid infections who did not believe me when I said that we would all, eventually, get the disease.

I have heard the phrase, “Leslie, you were right,” quite a bit in the last three weeks.

But the reality is not stopping the Biden administration from extending the covid emergency.

The Biden Administration is set to extend emergency measures that enable people to ward off or fight an infection with the novel coronavirus, according to a new report.
The public health emergency has been in effect, with extensions, since January 2020.
Besides providing access to Medicaid for millions of Americans who wouldn’t otherwise be eligible, the measures help clear vaccines, medications and diagnostic tools for use. An emergency declaration also makes telehealth services more accessible.

 

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Los Angeles County Enters CDC’s “High” Covid Alert – Mask Mandate to Kick in On July 29​

 

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Fauci, Top Biden Officials Forced To Give Depositions In COVID-19 Censorship Case​

Chief Medical Advisor to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci will be deposed alongside nine other federal officials as part of an ongoing lawsuit brought by a pair of Republican state attorneys general alleging that the federal government colluded with social media companies to suppress protected free speech about COVID-19, according to a court order granting the deposition request.

The depositions would require Fauci, alongside other top White House officials such as former Senior COVID-19 Advisor Andrew Schlatt and former Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki, to testify about their interactions with social media companies, according to the court order. The plaintiffs, most notably Republican Attorneys General Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana, alleged in their request that requiring the officials to testify was necessary because written communications between federal officials and social media companies had shown that oral conversations were federal officials’ most effective means to pressure companies to censor speech.

“[P]laintiffs argue that even if Dr. Fauci can prove he never communicated with social-media platforms about censorship, there are compelling reasons that suggest Dr. Fauci has acted through intermediaries, and acted on behalf of others, in procuring the social-media censorship of credible scientific opinions,” wrote the Trump-appointed Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana. “Plaintiffs argue that even if Dr. Fauci acted indirectly or as an intermediary on behalf of others, it is still relevant to Plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion. The Court agrees.”

 

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Scholarship condemning lockdowns is slowly, steadily increasing, a relentless “drip, drip, drip” that must amount to a sort of Chinese water torture for anyone truly concerned with the future of public health. On Thursday, the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal ran a story about the failures of lockdown policy:



It’s not just some heterodox musings by a conservative think tank. The article described two substantial new analyses of near-universal lockdown policies enacted in every country but one (Sweden, the control group). Both reports concluded lockdown policy made little or no difference in saving lives, but had massive destructive effects.

The first analysis was published in book form, after researchers reviewed over twenty thousand separate studies. Think about that number, twenty thousand. That is a LOT of lockdown studies. The book, authored by three respected economists and published last month, was simply titled, “Did Lockdowns Work?”

The answer is no. “Most likely lockdowns represent the biggest policy mistake in modern times,” explained one of the three authors, Lars Jonung of Lund University in Sweden.

The second report, authored by three former White House economic advisors, was published in February, and compared U.S. states’ rates of covid mortality, excess mortality, and lockdown policies. After adjusting for a bunch of variables, like age distribution, they found NO statistically significant benefit from lockdown restrictions.

But non-covid excess deaths increased by +100,000 annually and worse, disproportionately hitting working-age adults. Excess deaths were only one of the negative effects. Rates of smoking, drinking, and obesity also increased. States with more stringent pandemic restrictions had bigger declines in their economic output and higher rates of unemployment.

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Article shows how substantial anti-lockdown scholarship is getting; WSJ links covid censorship to dead Americans; startling SADS stories; cluster bombs for Ukraine's kids; and lots more.

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But non-covid excess deaths increased by +100,000 annually and worse, disproportionately hitting working-age adults. Excess deaths were only one of the negative effects. Rates of smoking, drinking, and obesity also increased. States with more stringent pandemic restrictions had bigger declines in their economic output and higher rates of unemployment.

Well duh - If the government had been monitoring this forum, they would have made better decisions. A lot of us here could see what was happening and what a bad idea lockdowns were.