Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus
30 May 2022, 12:40 am
For the first time in American history a president, governors, mayors, hospital administrators and federal bureaucrats are determining medical treatments based not on accurate scientifically based or even experience based information, but rather to force the acceptance of special forms of care and “prevention”—including remdesivir, use of respirators and ultimately a series of essentially untested messenger RNA vaccines. For the first time in history medical treatment, protocols are not being formulated based on the experience of the physicians treating the largest number of patients successfully, but rather individuals and bureaucracies that have never treated a single patient—including Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, EcoHealth Alliance, the CDC, WHO, state public health officers and hospital administrators.
The media (TV, newspapers, magazines, etc), medical societies, state medical boards and the owners of social media have appointed themselves to be the sole source of information concerning this so-called “pandemic”. Websites have been removed, highly credentialed and experienced clinical doctors and scientific experts in the field of infectious diseases have been demonized, careers have been destroyed and all dissenting information has been labeled “misinformation” and “dangerous lies”, even when sourced from top experts in the fields of virology, infectious diseases, pulmonary critical care, and epidemiology. These blackouts of truth occur even when this information is backed by extensive scientific citations from some of the most qualified medical specialists in the world.
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Neither Anthony Fauci, the CDC, WHO nor any medical governmental establishment has ever offered any early treatment other than Tylenol, hydration and call an ambulance once you have difficulty breathing. This is unprecedented in the entire history of medical care as early treatment of infections is critical to saving lives and preventing severe complications. Not only have these medical organizations and federal lapdogs not even suggested early treatment, they attacked anyone who attempted to initiate such treatment with all the weapons at their disposal—loss of license, removal of hospital privileges, shaming, destruction of reputations and even arrest.
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Never in the history of American medicine have hospital administrators dictated to its physicians how they will practice medicine and what medications they can use. The CDC has no authority to dictate to hospitals or doctors concerning medical treatments. Yet, most physicians complied without the slightest resistance.
The federal Care Act encouraged this human disaster by offering all US hospitals up to 39,000 dollars for each ICU patient they put on respirators, despite the fact that early on it was obvious that the respirators were a major cause of death among these unsuspecting, trusting patients. In addition, the hospitals received 12,000 dollars for each patient that was admitted to the ICU
Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/
30 May 2022, 6:26 am
The information was out there. People just needed to learn the facts and not listen to what the main stream media was telling them.
Beginning around April of 2020, I knew what to do. I went out to movie theaters and watched movies. It was safe. The thing about our movie theaters was that they had actually installed equipment into the theaters to make them fairly safe. The other thing was that as the pandemic grew, people just stopped going to movie theaters, so mine was fairly empty anyways. During the pandemic I took my wife and went out to eat at restaurants. They were fairly safe also provided you followed the primary rule. DO NOT EAT INDOORS. So we would find restaurants that provided outdoor seating and we ate outdoors. We would go to grocery stores but followed the rule of wearing N95 masks indoors. There was almost nothing that was unsafe, provided we were able to protect ourselves. We were able to stay safe even thought the virus could be spread around 50 feet. AND IT WORKED.
Beginning in 2021, when good vaccines first started becoming available, we were one of the first in line to get them. That really made life a lot easier at that point. So now I am in a state of preparing for the next virus. N95 masks are easy to buy now and they have developed really good ones. My home air purifiers are still working fine even after 2 years of running 24/7. I just have to clean them once per month. I make sure that during the winter when the humidity levels in my home tend to drop below the 40 percent levels that I add a little moisture back in the home using a humidifier. So the steps I followed worked just fine.
On the other hand, the outside world was chaos. In 2021 they put me into a COVID ward of a hospital during the height of the pandemic. I was about to have a heart attack not COVID. People were dying all around me, and I was stuck in a COVID ward until they determined that I did not have COVID. What a strange world.
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30 May 2022, 8:36 am
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
I doubt they would've released COVID-19 deliberately, especially not first into their own cities. But I could believe they had a viral research lab that was sloppy with safety precautions and this led to an accidental release of the virus.
And, along those lines, Brictoria has a post that highlights a heck of a coincidence.
If a lab did accidentally let a dangerous virus loose I find it very easy to believe they would try very hard to cover up their incompetence.
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30 May 2022, 10:04 am
That would be my opinion. China let it loose to the world due to poor quality control. One small mistake on their part lead to millions of deaths. And then they covered it up to hide their roll in causing the pandemic.
But the other side question is what role did the U.S. or other countries have in generating this pandemic. Did the U.S. or other countries have a part in conducting this research (that then got away from them and brought great turmoil to the world. In other words was there a cover up of a cover up.
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30 May 2022, 10:30 am
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
I doubt they would've released COVID-19 deliberately, especially not first into their own cities. But I could believe they had a viral research lab that was sloppy with safety precautions and this led to an accidental release of the virus.
And, along those lines, Brictoria has a post that highlights a heck of a coincidence.
If a lab did accidentally let a dangerous virus loose I find it very easy to believe they would try very hard to cover up their incompetence.
Understanding the depravity of humans especially those that gain power in a rough system such as the Chinese Communist party I do not rule out the possibility this was deliberate. I find the views of many “it was an accidental lab leak” inconsistent.
At first the conventional wisdom was that it came out of a wet market and anybody claiming it came from an accidental lab leak was a conspiracy theorist. A lot of tin foil hat jokes. Then came the revelations and Fauci’s involvement in Gain of Function research in China and the revelations of the deliberate campaign to silence lab leak theory supporters and any wet market theory skeptics for that matter. While this was not proof of a lab leak it sure made arguing against a lab leak difficult. The lab leak theory supporters held a written version of a victory parade. Supporters of the lab leak theory took joy when their most fierce critics and even Fauci was forced to admit an accidental lab leak was a possibility.
I found the cocky self assured reactions to the revelations nauseating but understandable. What I did not understand is the dismissal usually with one sentence of a deliberate release. You have just proven that the wet lab supporters are naive sheeple, that key wet market supporters are ruthless and depraved. Having done that going to the next level is something most of you accidental lab leak theorists seem unable to do. What I was seeing was the same condescending self assurance as I had just seen from the wet market theorists.
The only explanation I can think of is the consequences any future revelations it was deliberate are so catastrophic one shuts off the even the possibility. Because of the potential consequences are so dire a part of me wants to dismiss it. There are many practical and moral reasons for the Chinese not to do it. I do not think a deliberate release is the most likely explanation. That said going to the next level seems like the obvious next step for my brain.
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30 May 2022, 10:41 am
That would be my opinion. China let it loose to the world due to poor quality control. One small mistake on their part lead to millions of deaths. And then they covered it up to hide their roll in causing the pandemic.
I wouldn't neccesarily put it down to poor quality control: It was more likely an accident - such things have occurred in many countries over the years, so it's not unknown for such to occur, and in other countries these types of events are referred to as accidents (poor quality control comes across as a "systemic" issue, rather than an isolated instance). The fact that they (and so many willing pawns) went to such efforts to distract from this possibility is of concern, as in doing so they were working to prevent researchers having access to materials\information which may have helped slow\stop the outbreak if they had been available.
Well it seems possible (likely, even) that certain US organisations may have had a hand in the research (either at the time, or leading up to it), for which information is slowly coming out...
There's also the question around the complicity of many in actively working to prevent mitigation activities (preventing action being taken to restrict entry to the country by those from affected areas, for example).
As I recall, there were videos of people collapsing in the street in China (almost certainly staged, as I don't recall seeing\hearing of such events in other countries, yet certainly effective in getting people worried about the disease), yet at the same time there were people campaigning to allow others from the affected area to enter the country with no quarantine in place (This may not have done much more than slow the entry of the disease - and hence spread through the community - but that extra time may have helped get a better idea of what this disease was, and what the affect was).
30 May 2022, 11:30 am
There were so many mistakes made, so much bad advice given. Those with some knowledge were sidestepped by the media and the internet. For many leaders throughout the world, it was so incredibly wrong in the advice they gave and followed.
This pandemic could have been brought under control if proper precautions were implemented. But they were not. So the only choice was to understand HOW IT WAS CREATED, HOW THE VIRUS IS PASSED TO OTHERS (up to 50 foot distance) and HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM GETTING IT.
So now my focus is on the next one. Are we going to see A REPEAT. Some new pandemic that comes from nowhere. We have the technology to protect ourselves and our family. Protection is not just going to the hospital when you get a deadly virus. It is protecting yourself FROM EVER GETTING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. And that falls inside the lines of ENGINEERING and HOUSE/BUSINESS/and WORKPLACE CONSTRUCTION. It is a function of the right mask (N95), the right ventilation systems that can destroy very small viruses (UVC filters), and knowing how to control the indoor air humidity levels. In a way it is a simple process. And it works.
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31 May 2022, 11:36 am
There is an interesting paper dated 19 May 2022 called
A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202769119
published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Here is a small portion of this paper:
Since the identification of theSARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China, in January 2020 (1), the origin of the virus has been a topic of intense scientific debate and public speculation. The two main hypotheses are that the virus emerged from human exposure to an infected animal [“zoonosis” (2)] or that it emerged in a research-related incident (3). The investigation into the origin of the virus has been made difficult by the lack of key evidence from the earliest days of the outbreak—there’s no doubt that greater transparency on the part of Chinese authorities would be enormously helpful. Nevertheless, we argue here that there is much important information that can be gleaned from US-based research institutions, information not yet made available for independent, transparent, and scientific scrutiny.
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Much of the work on SARS-like CoVs performed in Wuhan was part of an active and highly collaborative US–China scientific research program funded by the US Government (NIH, Defense Threat Reduction Agency [DTRA], and US Agency for International Development [USAID]), coordinated by researchers at EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), but involving researchers at several other US institutions. For this reason, it is important that US institutions be transparent about any knowledge of the detailed activities that were underway in Wuhan and in the United States. The evidence may also suggest that research institutions in other countries were involved, and those too should be asked to submit relevant information (e.g., with respect to unpublished sequences).
Participating US institutions include the EHA, the University of North Carolina (UNC), the University of California at Davis (UCD), the NIH, and the USAID. Under a series of NIH grants and USAID contracts, EHA coordinated the collection of SARS-like bat CoVs from the field in southwest China and southeast Asia, the sequencing of these viruses, the archiving of these sequences (involving UCD), and the analysis and manipulation of these viruses (notably at UNC). A broad spectrum of coronavirus research work was done not only in Wuhan (including groups at Wuhan University and the Wuhan CDC, as well as WIV) but also in the United States. The exact details of the fieldwork and laboratory work of the EHA-WIV-UNC partnership, and the engagement of other institutions in the United States and China, has not been disclosed for independent analysis. The precise nature of the experiments that were conducted, including the full array of viruses collected from the field and the subsequent sequencing and manipulation of those viruses, remains unknown.
EHA, UNC, NIH, USAID, and other research partners have failed to disclose their activities to the US scientific community and the US public, instead declaring that they were not involved in any experiments that could have resulted in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. The NIH has specifically stated (6) that there is a significant evolutionary distance between the published viral sequences and that of SARS-CoV-2 and that the pandemic virus could not have resulted from the work sponsored by NIH. Of course, this statement is only as good as the limited data on which it is based, and verification of this claim is dependent on gaining access to any other unpublished viral sequences that are deposited in relevant US and Chinese databases (7,8). On May 11, 2022, Acting NIH Director Lawrence Tabak testified before Congress that several such sequences in a US database were removed from public view, and that this was done at the request of both Chinese and US investigators.
Blanket denials from the NIH are no longer good enough. Although the NIH and USAID have strenuously resisted full disclosure of the details of the EHA-WIV-UNC work program, several documents leaked to the public or released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have raised concerns. These research proposals make clear that the EHA-WIV-UNC collaboration was involved in the collection of a large number of so-far undocumented SARS-like viruses and was engaged in their manipulation within biological safety level (BSL)-2 and BSL-3 laboratory facilities, raising concerns that an airborne virus might have infected a laboratory worker (9). A variety of scenarios have been discussed by others, including an infection that involved a natural virus collected from the field or perhaps an engineered virus manipulated in one of the laboratories (3).
The article then goes on to discussing the evidence that COVID was man made.
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31 May 2022, 12:54 pm
There are currently no reports of monkeypox in China. The "coincidence" ends.
Research on monkeypox is not a Chinese patent.
A hot topic will be studied in many laboratories around the world. It's hard to believe that China's most important research lab would miss it.
The COVID-19 outbreak is arguably coincidental in the city where China's most important virus lab is located.
But it would be a coincidence if a not-so-rare virus was not studied in this lab.
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31 May 2022, 4:18 pm
I hope China had nothing to do with it and I hope China...and as many other nations as possible...avoid this Monkey Pox outbreak. But I agree with Brictoria. Even if China is absolutely innocent and proven to be innocent, the timing was unfortunate—even if the timing was purely innocent and accidental.
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31 May 2022, 6:59 pm
Not welcoming an inquiry into the origins and not acknowledging the existence of a deadly epidemic are entirely different things in Chinese logic.
The latter means causing damage to the life safety of random people. This would immediately attract the attention of the whole country.
The early missteps of COVID were more of a miscalculation of its contagiousness by confronting it for the first time. Also, the local government did not immediately connect with the central government. Monkeypox does not repeat these two problems.
We have a very strict focus on murder or other events that directly result in death. both at the social level and at the government level. This can lead to the removal of senior officials.
Murder/accidental-death may be a completely different concept in China and the US. One of the few praiseworthy qualities of our government.
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31 May 2022, 8:51 pm
Beloved Principal Who Fought DeSantis Over In-Person Learning Dies After Long COVID Fight
When the Florida governor sparked outrage by calling students and teachers back to schools in July 2020, Jimbo Jackson pushed back. He died after a two-year struggle.
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01 Jun 2022, 5:12 am
The central problem is that the coronavirus has become more adept at reinfecting people. Already, those infected with the first Omicron variant are reporting second infections with the newer versions of the variant — BA.2 or BA2.12.1 in the United States, or BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa.
Those people may go on to have third or fourth infections, even within this year, researchers said in interviews. And some small fraction may have symptoms that persist for months or years, a condition known as long Covid.
“It seems likely to me that that’s going to sort of be a long-term pattern,” said Juliet Pulliam, an epidemiologist at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
“The virus is going to keep evolving,” she added. “And there are probably going to be a lot of people getting many, many reinfections throughout their lives.”
This is not how it was supposed to be. Earlier in the pandemic, experts thought that immunity from vaccination or previous infection would forestall most reinfections.
The Omicron variant dashed those hopes. Unlike previous variants, Omicron and its many descendants seem to have evolved to partially dodge immunity. That leaves everyone — even those who have been vaccinated multiple times — vulnerable to multiple infections.
“If we manage it the way that we manage it now, then most people will get infected with it at least a couple of times a year,” said Kristian Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. “I would be very surprised if that’s not how it’s going to play out.”
The new variants have not altered the fundamental usefulness of the Covid vaccines. Most people who have received three or even just two doses will not become sick enough to need medical care if they test positive for the coronavirus. And a booster dose, like a previous bout with the virus, does seem to decrease the chance of reinfection — but not by much.
At the pandemic’s outset, many experts based their expectations of the coronavirus on influenza, the viral foe most familiar to them. They predicted that, as with the flu, there might be one big outbreak each year, most likely in the fall. The way to minimize its spread would be to vaccinate people before its arrival.
Instead, the coronavirus is behaving more like four of its closely related cousins, which circulate and cause colds year round.
If reinfection turns out to be the norm, the coronavirus is “not going to simply be this wintertime once-a-year thing,” he said, “and it’s not going to be a mild nuisance in terms of the amount of morbidity and mortality it causes.”
Reinfections with earlier variants, including Delta, did occur but were relatively infrequent.
Omicron seems to be evolving new forms that penetrate immune defenses with relatively few changes to its genetic code.
“This is actually for me a bit of a surprise,” said Alex Sigal, a virologist at the Africa Health Research Institute. “I thought we’ll need a kind of brand-new variant to escape from this one. But in fact, it seems like you don’t.”
An infection with Omicron produces a weaker immune response, which seems to wane quickly, compared with infections with previous variants. Although the newer versions of the variant are closely related, they vary enough from an immune perspective that infection with one doesn’t leave much protection against the others — and certainly not after three or four months.
Still, the good news is that most people who are reinfected with new versions of Omicron will not become seriously ill. At least at the moment, the virus has not hit upon a way to fully sidestep the immune system.
Each infection may bring with it the possibility of long Covid, the constellation of symptoms that can persist for months or years. It’s too early to know how often an Omicron infection leads to long Covid, especially in vaccinated people.
To keep up with the evolving virus, other experts said, the Covid vaccines should be updated more quickly, even more quickly than flu vaccines are each year.
“Every single time we think we’re through this, every single time we think we have the upper hand, the virus pulls a trick on us,” Dr. Andersen said. “The way to get it under control is not, ‘Let’s all get infected a few times a year and then hope for the best.’”
COVID subvariants may fuel more frequent surges
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“Intermittently getting COVID is going to be a way of life for the foreseeable future,” said Dr. Bruce Farber, chief of public health and epidemiology at Northwell Health.
Many experts had hoped there would be one major COVID-19 surge a year, in the late fall-winter period, that vaccines would protect most immunized people from getting infected, and that anyone who did get infected would usually be protected against reinfection for months.
The multiple waves of subvariants were unexpected, Farber said.
Farber said it’s not surprising that the new subvariants are more easily transmissible than the original omicron. Their higher level of contagiousness allows them to “outcompete” earlier versions, he said.
Subvariants emerge because the coronavirus constantly replicates inside the body as it destroys cells, but those copies are not always exact, said Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Stony Brook Medicine. When someone transmits the virus through, for example, a cough, that changed — or mutated — version of the virus may be passed on to another person, she said.
Only a tiny number of mutations are so significant that they eventually become subvariants, Nachman said. And some mutations never spread because, for example, the person carrying the mutation may be isolating or wearing a mask, which both prevent the spread to others, she said.
A totally different variant — such as omicron, which followed delta — involves more mutations than a subvariant, Nachman said.
From the beginning, omicron and its subvariants have had a key advantage over their predecessors: They are much more easily able to infect people who are vaccinated, who had recent COVID-19 infections, or both, said Sean Clouston, an associate professor of public health at Stony Brook University.
“What’s amazing is how fast COVID has been able to adapt and how fast it is now able to spread between individuals,” Clouston said.
COVID-19 has spread much more widely this May compared with the previous two springs. Long Island’s positivity rate has been above 10% for weeks. The positivity rate was below 1% in late May of last year.
This year, the new subvariants and the widespread shunning of masks, especially in schools, where kids are indoors together for hours, is causing a surge, Clouston said. Children then pass on the virus to adults, he said.
Nearly 6,000 students in Long Island schools tested positive in the two weeks ending Friday, six times the 981 who did so during the two weeks ending March 17, state data shows.
COVID-19 hospitalizations overall on Long Island nearly quadrupled over the past two months, from 125 on April 1 to 490 on Tuesday, falling to 445 by Thursday. More than half of those hospitalizations were of people admitted for reasons other than COVID-19, state data shows, although COVID-19 can exacerbate preexisting conditions.
Nachman said the large majority of COVID-19 patients at Stony Brook University Hospital are unvaccinated.
Clouston and other experts are casting a wary eye at Portugal and South Africa, where the subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are causing new spikes in cases.
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control this month warned that those subvariants are adept at evading immunity from vaccination and previous infection and predicted that their high level of contagiousness means they may cause a major surge in cases throughout Europe in the coming months.
Clouston said BA.4 and BA.5 likely then will spread widely in the United States, where a small number of cases already have been reported.
Nasal vaccines now being studied in clinical trials could potentially be more effective at decreasing the chance of infection, she said.
A big unknown is whether a variant will emerge that is more likely to cause severe illness and death and even better at evading the immune protection from the vaccine or previous infection, El-Sadr said. What is clear is that mask-wearing and avoiding large crowds are still effective ways to limit transmission and protect older adults and others who are at higher risk, she said.
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01 Jun 2022, 6:14 am
Back on 21 December 2021 I wrote to the NAA (Aphasia Organization) the following:
"Since my stroke around 8 months ago, I have been mostly offline. It took away my ability to read. The letters broke apart into entirely new letters in an alphabet that I could not read. Luckily I worked hard and recovered some of my reading/writing abilities back. I know the world is in disarray and COVID is running terror in many hearts. But maybe there is a small bit of hope in the near horizon. At the moment there appears to be two types of Coronavirus attacking the world. These are the Delta variant and the latest variant called the Omicron variant.
It is stated that:
The Omicron Covid-19 variant is now the most dominant strain in the US, accounting for over 73% of new coronavirus cases less than three weeks after the first was reported, according to estimates posted Monday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the week ending December 18, Omicron accounted for 73.2% of cases, with Delta making up an additional 26.6%.
From the little bit that I have read, the Omicron variant is less deadly and causes less damage than the Delta variant. So what does this mean. From my perspective, good news might be in the forecast. Omicron may become the dominant virus but Omicron appears to be less of a threat. It doesn’t carry the same umpppp as Delta, therefore good news may be in the horizon."
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02 Jun 2022, 7:55 am
Reported COVID-19 infection levels nearly 6 times higher than last Memorial Day
It marked a return to normalcy for many and a chance to gather with family and friends.
But in reality, the situation was far from normal -- with confirmed COVID-19 cases nearly six times higher than last Memorial Day, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And case totals are likely even higher that are being reported this year with the widespread availability of at-home testing.
This week also marks the eighth consecutive week of increasing COVID-19 cases in the U.S., the data shows.
On average, the U.S. is reporting nearly 110,000 new cases every day, and for the seventh consecutive week, COVID-19 cases among children have also increased. Last week, 112,000 additional pediatric COVID-19 cases were reported, a doubling of case counts from the four weeks prior, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA). Last year, at this time, the U.S. was reporting around 10,000 pediatric cases a week.
The U.S. also continues to see an increase in the overall number of patients requiring care for COVID-19. On average, more than 3,500 virus-positive Americans are being admitted to the hospital each day.
However, the hospitalization level is nowhere near its peak, and while virus-related deaths are ticking up, they are not near peak levels either.
Last week, updated CDC data also revealed that more than half of the U.S. population is now living in a county that has a high or medium community risk level for COVID-19.
There are signs that some areas of the country may be seeing a slow of infections. In New England, new case rates have declined by 18% in the last week, according to CDC.
However, many areas of the region — including counties in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, as well as the northern part of Pennsylvania — are still considered high risk.
Amid the rise in infections, a growing list of school districts and universities are now moving to bring back mask requirements.
Last week, students in Philadelphia and Providence, Rhode Island, were made to put their masks back on, ahead of the end of the school year amidst increasing infection rates in the community.
Americans may be done with COVID but COVID is far from done with us.
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02 Jun 2022, 3:43 pm
Actually, this may be a good thing. The current strain of COVID is more infectious but at the same time it is becoming less deadly. So eventually everyone will either get COVID or get vaccinated for it and have some immunity. They may still get the disease but it will be less of a killer and destroyer. Then the world will return to a state of normal.
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