Dec 29, 2021 07:30 PM
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https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/28/10-l...-pandemic/
EXCERPT: . . . The official Covid death toll in the United States is nearing 820,000, a figure that is certainly an underestimate, though by how much remains unclear.
A truly stunning fact about those deaths is that more of them occurred in 2021 than in 2020. Covid vaccine doses were in short supply in the first quarter of 2021, but soon thereafter anyone who wanted to be vaccinated could get jabbed. And this fall, anyone 16 years and older who wanted to get boosted could get a third shot.
And still, more people died from Covid in 2021 than died from Covid in 2020. In 2021, swaths of the country fought mask mandates, opposed vaccination mandates, objected to any measure designed to slow the spread of Covid that they perceived as an impediment on their ability to resume pre-pandemic activities.
This insistence on returning to life as normal came at an unfathomable cost — the loss of hundreds of thousands of parents, grandparents, great-grandparents. Aunts and great-aunts, uncles, and great uncles. Cousins. Friends. Coworkers and supervisors. And still, big chunks of the population refused to get vaccinated, refused to wear masks, insisted SARS-2 was a hoax, or was no more threatening than the flu.
“It almost is inexplicable,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told me when I asked him about this last month... (MORE - missing details)
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Operation Warp Speed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed
EXCERPT: . . . The official Covid death toll in the United States is nearing 820,000, a figure that is certainly an underestimate, though by how much remains unclear.
A truly stunning fact about those deaths is that more of them occurred in 2021 than in 2020. Covid vaccine doses were in short supply in the first quarter of 2021, but soon thereafter anyone who wanted to be vaccinated could get jabbed. And this fall, anyone 16 years and older who wanted to get boosted could get a third shot.
And still, more people died from Covid in 2021 than died from Covid in 2020. In 2021, swaths of the country fought mask mandates, opposed vaccination mandates, objected to any measure designed to slow the spread of Covid that they perceived as an impediment on their ability to resume pre-pandemic activities.
This insistence on returning to life as normal came at an unfathomable cost — the loss of hundreds of thousands of parents, grandparents, great-grandparents. Aunts and great-aunts, uncles, and great uncles. Cousins. Friends. Coworkers and supervisors. And still, big chunks of the population refused to get vaccinated, refused to wear masks, insisted SARS-2 was a hoax, or was no more threatening than the flu.
“It almost is inexplicable,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told me when I asked him about this last month... (MORE - missing details)
RELATED:
How a Kennedy built an anti-vaccine juggernaut amid COVID-19
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-11443-...l#pid47977
Trump booed for saying he received COVID booster shot
https://www.newsweek.com/anthony-fauci-s...er-1663229
Operation Warp Speed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed