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CDC demotes vaxx solution (eternal protocol?) + Hair loss epidemic of the pandemic

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CDC shifts pandemic goals away from reaching herd immunity
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/20...d-immunity

EXCERPT: . . . “Thinking that we’ll be able to achieve some kind of threshold where there’ll be no more transmission of infections may not be possible,” Jones acknowledged last week to members of a panel that advises the CDC on vaccines.

Vaccines have been quite effective at preventing cases of COVID-19 that lead to severe illness and death, but none has proved reliable at blocking transmission of the virus, Jones noted. Recent evidence has also made clear that the immunity provided by vaccines can wane in a matter of months.

The result is that even if vaccination were universal, the coronavirus would probably continue to spread. “We would discourage” thinking in terms of “a strict goal,” he said... (MORE - missing details)


The pandemic has been a near-perfect mass hair-loss event
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...ts/620696/

EXCERPT: . . . This story isn’t about a medical mystery. The pandemic was a near-perfect mass hair-loss event, and anyone with the most basic understanding of why people lose their hair could have spotted it from a mile away. The actual mystery, instead, is why almost no one has that understanding in the first place.

Hair loss, I eventually learned from my diligent Googling, can be temporary or permanent, and it has many causes—heredity, chronic illness, nutritional deficiency, daily too-tight ponytails. But one type of loss is responsible for the pandemic hair-loss spike: telogen effluvium. TE, as it’s often called, is sudden and can be dramatic. It’s caused by the ordinary traumas of human existence in all of their hideous variety. Any kind of intense physical or emotional stress can push as much as 70 percent of your hair into the “telogen” phase of its growth cycle, which halts those strands’ growth and disconnects them from their blood supply in order to conserve resources for more essential bodily processes. That, in time, knocks them straight off your head.

The pandemic has manufactured trauma at an astonishing clip. Many cases of TE have been caused by COVID-19 infection itself, according to Esther Freeman, a dermatologist and an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and the principal investigator for the COVID-19 Dermatology Registry, which collects reports of COVID-19’s effects on skin, nails, and hair. That doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with something unique about the disease, she told me—any illness that comes with a high fever can cause a round of TE, including common illnesses such as the flu. Among the millions of Americans who have been infected by the coronavirus, hair loss has been a common consequence, she said, both for patients whose symptoms resolve in a couple of weeks and for those who develop long COVID. Researchers do not yet know exactly how prevalent hair loss is among COVID-19 patients, but one study found that among those hospitalized, 22 percent were still dealing with hair loss months later.

COVID-19 infections are only part of the picture. Throughout the pandemic, millions more Americans have suffered devastating emotional stress even if they’ve never gotten sick: watching a loved one die, losing a job, going to work in life-threatening conditions, bearing the brunt of violent political unrest. Feelings can have concrete, involuntary physical manifestations, and these traumas are exactly the kinds that leave people staring in horror at the handfuls of hair they gather while lathering up in the shower.

All of these factors have led to what Jeff Donovan, a hair-loss dermatologist in Whistler, British Columbia, described to me as a “mountain” of new hair-loss patients since the pandemic began... (MORE - missing details)
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(Nov 14, 2021 04:59 PM)C C Wrote: CDC shifts pandemic goals away from reaching herd immunity

The health bureaucracy isn't likely to ever willingly release their death-grip on American civil liberties. They (and all of their state and local clones with their "lockdowns" and "mandates") enjoy the power that the epidemic gives them too much, so the epidemic will never go away if they have any say in the matter. I have just about zero confidence in the CDC at this point.

Quote:EXCERPT: . . . “Thinking that we’ll be able to achieve some kind of threshold where there’ll be no more transmission of infections may not be possible,” Jones acknowledged last week to members of a panel that advises the CDC on vaccines.

I'd like to hear a clear and trustworthy explanation of why. The vaccines are supposed to prevent virus replication in the body, aren't they? So if the virus isn't replicating, how are vaccinated people contagious?

I've heard two explanations --

1. First is breakthrough infections. If the vaccines are only 90% effective, 10% of vaccinated individuals who subsequently become infected might still develop viral loads such that they are contagious. That wouldn't necessarily contradict the "herd immunity" idea.

2. The claim that while the vaccines keep the virus from entering the lungs or the blood stream and causing more severe infections, they don't prevent the virus from multiplying in the nasal pharynx. Interestingly, the same person who told me that also said that natural post-infection immunity also extends to the nasal pharynx.

The health bureaucracy seems strangely reluctant to talk about natural immunity. But if a significant proportion of the population is infected, and the idea that strangers are dangerous and everyone needs to "mask-up" presupposes that's probably so, and if the bulk of those infections are asymptomatic, then it would seem that immunity is naturally spreading through the population at very little cost in actual illness. And if it's even better immunity... why hush that up?

Quote:Vaccines have been quite effective at preventing cases of COVID-19 that lead to severe illness and death, but none has proved reliable at blocking transmission of the virus, Jones noted. Recent evidence has also made clear that the immunity provided by vaccines can wane in a matter of months.

3. And there's a third explanation implicit in that. The vaccines stop transmissability, but the prevention of viral replication wears off.

Quote:The result is that even if vaccination were universal, the coronavirus would probably continue to spread.

OK, here's the real question: If the data the government is putting out is believable (I have zero trust in the US federal government) then the vaccines are very good at protecting people against severe life-endangering illness. Vaccinated people would seem to have less chance of dying of covid than dying of the flu in a normal year. That's implicit in the panic narrative that the media is trying to spin up: the public around you is dangerous even if they are showing no symptoms of illness and feel just fine. They still might infect you!

Why people need to be afraid of that is still a mystery. If even on the off chance they are infected, chances are that they will never show any symptoms and even if they do, their chances of dying are microscopic, who cares?

Certainly more vulnerable populations might need to take additional measures, but a full-on societal over-reaction, just like an overactive immune response, can cause more harm than good.

So yes, it does look like covid might be with us for the foreseeable future. But there's no point in scaring ourselves to death over it. There's no point in destroying the economy and eliminating people's civil liberties either.

Just accept that there are going to be covid viruses circulating out there just as there are cold and flu viruses. It isn't going away. People are going to have to get yearly covid jabs like they get flu immunizations. The Chinese genetic engineers indirectly funded by Anthony Fauci who enhanced its transmissability to humans did too good a job for it to ever go away. (Yes, I'm inclined to favor that account of its origins.)
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In the UK, with relatively little private health care, we have an open source covid barometer in the form of public hospital beds occupied by covid patients. Currently about 8% of beds are taken up by covid patients and our leader, blessings of God be upon him and his progeny and grant him peace, is going with an aggressive vaccination policy and minimal restrictions. To an extent schools are being used as the canary - anecdotally covid is rife in schools (Mrs C2 teaches in one) yet the hospital admission rate is stable. If we accept 8% of hospital beds (and associated resources) will be allocated to covid patients as the new normal then it looks like we're (in the UK) good to go.
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