1/ Our 4 Americas:
Free America celebrates the energy of the unencumbered individual.
Smart America respects intelligence & welcomes change.
Real America commits itself to a place & has a sense of limits.
Just America demands a confrontation with what the others want to avoid.
2/ "In Free America, the winners are the makers, and the losers are the takers who want to drag the rest down in perpetual dependency on a smothering government."
3/ "In Smart America, the winners are the credentialed meritocrats, and the losers are the poorly educated who want to resist inevitable progress."
1/ Dr. David Baltimore, the Nobel laureate who claimed there was a “smoking gun” supporting the lab-leak theory, now says he regrets using the phrase and doesn’t agree that it validates the lab-leak theory. latimes.com/business/story…
2/ The now-famous "furin cleavage site" of SARS-CoV-2 doesn't prove the lab-leak theory either way:
3/ There's nothing really special about the furin cleavage site:
1/ The 1+ year-old COVID pandemic meets the 40+ year-old HIV pandemic: latimes.com/science/story/…
36-year-old woman with HIV was unable to clear COVID for 8 months. The virus mutated and mutated and mutated.
2/ The SARS-CoV-2 virus infecting this woman developed 13 mutations in its Spike protein and at least 19 other mutations elsewhere in its genetic code.
3/ COVID is surging in other African regions... countries where the prevalence of HIV/AIDS is high: theguardian.com/world/2021/jun…
3/ This is why the UK has reduced the interval between 1st and 2nd doses from 12 weeks to 8 weeks for persons over 50 and others at high-risk for severe disease: reuters.com/world/uk/engla…
1/ Vaccinated people are protected.
BUT UN-vaccinated people are NOT protected.
Take for instance Washington state. COVID case rate among unvaccinated people is as HIGH as it was in LATE JANUARY, near the PEAK of SARS-CoV-2 infections:
2/ The COVID case rate,
hospitalization rate,
and death rate
for UNvaccinated persons
are similar to what they were on December 31, 2020. washingtonpost.com/health/interac…
3/ COVID is concentrating in COC in part due to lower vaxx rates.
- Before we had COVID vaccines: 1/3 of new cases were among POC in MD/DC
- Now that we have COVID vaccines: 1/2 of new COVID cases in MD and >80% of COVID cases in DC are among POC