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To: John Vosilla who wrote (180590)	11/22/2021 2:07:13 PM
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it doesn't matter what each state does or doesn’t do... Except, obviously... it does... for all of those other reasons... fostering the pols totalitarian instincts... Was going to post yesterday, and didn't... that my read on the Covid BS is that they're getting ready to surrender on the Vax... That's going to occur, mostly, as the science is forcing them to admit the failure...as at the same time that the Vax is being exposed as a fraud... to the degree it is now driving violent resistance... the small molecules and biologics are also now proving a superior ability to solve the problem with simple oral treatments... And, as I was posting... Bloomberg droning in the background.... the moron Bill Gates pops up as a "health expert" to tell us... there are now simple orally delivered drugs that can treat the Covid... so we have to shift focus from trying to prevent Covid... to trying to eradicate the Flu... because that's the next probable source of pandemic risk... I'd not tend to take what Gates "warns" you about as a "random" concern....

To: John Vosilla who wrote (180590)	12/5/2021 10:42:06 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 218257

Looks to be a very bad year. I do not think this is happening in a vacuum. Boston-area coronavirus wastewater levels are skyrocketing: ‘This is pretty worrisome’ COVID cases are surging across the state By RICK SOBEY \| rick.sobey@bostonherald.com \| Boston Herald December 5, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. The Boston-area coronavirus wastewater tracker is showing skyrocketing record levels as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge across the Bay State. The virus wastewater levels were climbing quickly in the days after Thanksgiving, and now the wastewater viral levels are through the roof — at about the same record-high average levels as in January during the height of the winter surge. “This is pretty worrisome,” said Davidson Hamer, a Boston University specialist in infectious diseases. “The wastewater data closely mirrors community transmission rates, and all the indicators are not good right now.” The north of Boston region had a record-high wastewater level recorded on one day last week, and the south of Boston region had its second highest ever recording last week. The viral levels south of Boston are about 23% higher than in the northern region as of now. The wastewater levels indicate future virus cases in the community. “The wastewater is predictive, and when it’s going up like this, you expect a significant surge in cases,” said Todd Ellerin, director of infectious diseases at South Shore Health. “Then in the weeks to follow, you see an increase in hospitalizations and an increase in deaths.” Infections and hospitalizations have been spiking in Massachusetts for weeks. The state Department of Public Health reported more than 5,000 daily cases on Thursday and Friday, which were the first days exceeding 5,000 infections since January. Then the state’s hospitalization total surpassed 1,000 patients on Friday — the first time that had happened since mid-February. The wastewater tracker’s high levels mean the numbers are expected to keep on going up. “We’re going to see a lot of breakthrough infections,” Hamer said, urging people to get boosted as soon as possible. “If we want things to continue to be as close to normal as possible, we need to have an indoor mask mandate to limit transmission,” he added. RELATED ARTICLES Senator says businesses bearing burden of unemployment fraud Fauci: U.S. is rethinking southern Africa travel ban amid omicron variant: ‘We all feel very badly’ Omicron variant’s unusual mutations could mean it spread from an animal, scientists suggest Omicron coronavirus variant found in Massachusetts Hair loss after coronavirus infection common, but very rare after vaccination Cases are surging amid the spread of the delta variant, and as the first omicron variant case was detected in Massachusetts over the weekend. “I think we have to remember that we haven’t had a delta winter yet, and that is formidable,” Ellerin said. “The prospects that there could be a hybrid of delta and omicron as they compete for viral dominance is certainly concerning, and something that we want to be proactive about.” Ellerin, like Hamer, stressed the importance of getting vaccinated and boosted. “We need our antibody levels high right now,” Ellerin said. “We know the higher our antibody levels, the higher our protection will be.” Researchers at Biobot Analytics have been tracking the COVID-19 sewage samples in Greater Boston — in partnership with the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. The Cambridge firm recently announced that their researchers have detected the influenza virus, which causes the flu, in wastewater. Mariana Matus, Biobot’s CEO and co-founder, said, “While more research needs to be done, we are encouraged by these early pilot results and are hopeful that the communities already testing for COVID-19 can tap into the same wastewater monitoring infrastructure to also monitor influenza in the near future.”

To: John Vosilla who wrote (180590)	12/6/2021 8:20:41 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 218257

Good morning John Here is a good joke as Central America run by Cartels switches to bitcoin. El Salvador to build Bitcoin city El Salvador plans to construct a “Bitcoin City” near a volcano that will be funded by the cryptocurrency, the country's President Nayib Bukele announced Saturday. The city will have residential and commercial areas, services, entertainment, restaurants and an airport.Nov 22, 2021 MS13 has run central America for 40 or more years. Along with every other cartel in the Americas. SHELDON WHITEHOUSESummit for Democracy will follow the money One of the key issues at the summit will be to crack down on global money laundering. El Salvador plans to create a ‘Bitcoin City’ and raise $1 billion via a ‘Bitcoin Bond’ PUBLISHED MON, NOV 22 20213:00 AM EST Arjun Kharpal @ARJUNKHARPAL SHAREShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email KEY POINTS El Salvador plans to construct a “Bitcoin City” near a volcano that will be funded by the cryptocurrency, the country’s President Nayib Bukele announced Saturday.The city will have residential and commercial areas, services, entertainment, restaurants and an airport.El Salvador also plans to raise about $1 billion via a “Bitcoin Bond” in partnership with Blockstream, a digital assets infrastructure company. In this article BTC.CB=-480.75 (-0.98%) President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, gestures during his speech at the closing ceremony of the Latin Bitcoin conference (LaBitConf) at Mizata Beach, El Salvador, where he announced “Bitcoin City”, on November 20, 2021. Marvin Recinos \| AFP \| Getty Images El Salvador plans to construct a “Bitcoin City” near a volcano that will be funded by the cryptocurrency, the country’s President Nayib Bukele announced Saturday. The city will have residential and commercial areas, services, entertainment, restaurants and an airport and will be built near Conchagua volcano in south eastern El Salvador. Construction will begin in 2022 and the city will have no taxes except from value added tax (VAT). In June, El Salvador passed a law making it the first country in the world to accept bitcoin as legal tender. But not all of its population is on board with the move. In September, thousands of people took the streets to protest against the law, fearing the introduction of the cryptocurrency could lead to instability in the central American nation. The country has also launched a bitcoin wallet to allow citizens to use the cryptocurrency. Separately, El Salvador plans to raise about $1 billion via a “Bitcoin Bond” in partnership with Blockstream, a digital assets infrastructure company. Half of the funds will be used to buy bitcoin, while the other $500 million will go toward energy and bitcoin mining infrastructure, the government said. Mining is the energy-intensive process of creating new bitcoin by solving cryptographic puzzles. El Salvador said it plans to use geothermal energy from the volcano to power this. WATCH NOW VIDEO08:42 Why does bitcoin use so much energy? Samson Mow, chief strategy officer at Blockstream, said that there is a five-year lock-up on the bond which is designed to take $500 million of bitcoin off the market for that period of time. Investors in the bond will get an annual special dividend, Blockstream said. Bitcoin has fallen about 16% from its record high of $68,990.90 which it reached earlier this month, but it is still up more than 90% this year. Each morning, the “Beyond the Valley” newsletter brings you all the latest from the vast, dynamic world of tech – outside the Silicon Valley.

To: John Vosilla who wrote (180590)	12/6/2021 9:07:18 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 218257

Omicron variant’s unusual mutations could mean it spread from an animal, scientists suggest In this photo illustration, a phone screen shows a text that says Omicron COVID-19. (Photo by Mykola Tys / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) By ALEXI COHAN \| alexi.cohan@bostonherald.com \| Boston Herald PUBLISHED: December 5, 2021 at 5:49 p.m. \| UPDATED: December 5, 2021 at 5:49 p.m. The unusual multitude of mutations on the omicron variant’s spike protein could suggest some level of animal transmission, scientists suggest, as the coronavirus has been found to spread to dogs, cats, mink, deer and many others. “If the virus moves into an animal host and is transmitted and widespread in that animal host, it has a new opportunity to change,” said Dr. Jonathan Runstadler, professor and chair of the department of infectious disease and global health at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. The new omicron variant has “a very unusual constellation of changes” with greater than 30 of them in the spike protein, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, which differs greatly from other coronavirus variants such as delta. Runstadler said coronavirus “spillover” into animals, and then back into humans could be a possible explanation for omicron, though it has not yet been determined how the variant came about. “It has a number of mutations and differences from the virus that has been circulating that are not easily explained,” Runstadler told the Herald. Suresh Kuchipudi, professor of emerging infectious diseases at Penn State also said omicron could have come from an animal host in a recent opinion piece. He wrote, “In a study that is not yet peer-reviewed, an international team that I lead recently reported widespread infection by SARS-CoV-2 in free-living and captive white-tailed deer in the U.S. Therefore, we also cannot rule out the possibility that the omicron variant emerged in an animal host through rapid evolution.” Although the risk of coronavirus spread to animals is low, reports of infected animals have included cats, dogs, mink, ferrets, otters, tigers, hyenas and most recently, white-tailed deer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many of the animals can spread the disease to others of the same species in laboratory settings. In the case of farmed mink in several countries including the United States, the animals often caught the virus from human caretakers, spread it to other mink and it even spilled back into humans in certain cases. Most animals don’t get ill in the same way humans do, and animal transmission is not a large driver of spread, said Runstadler. However, he said if someone does get infected with coronavirus, it’s best not to have close contact with household pets to be safe. “As long as we have extensive circulation in humans, we have the potential for animal hosts and additional animal hosts to be infected. That’s probably not good for anybody,” Runstadler said. The most recent finding of the coronavirus in white-tailed deer in the United States was surprising, said Runstadler, considering they have little to no close interactions with humans. A study done with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture looked at 481 deer and found 158 of them tested positive for the coronavirus, the most in Michigan. It remains unknown how they were exposed, but Runstadler said it could be through other animals or the environment, such as contact with sewage or contaminated water. While the spread of the coronavirus to animals isn’t currently an area of concern, Runstadler said keeping the virus out of our furry friends is the smart thing to do, and it could avoid variants in the future. 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To: John Vosilla who wrote (180590)	12/8/2021 6:18:57 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 218257

Florida rocks in their head 0 seconds of 12 secondsVolume 0% 00:00 00:35 More Videos Researchers at the University of Florida allegedly felt pressured to delete COVID-19 data while working on a study for an undisclosed state entity, according to a report released on Monday by the Faculty Senate committee. The report stated that staff felt "external pressure to destroy" data and "barriers to accessing and analyzing" data in a timely manner. The document added that staff said there were "barriers to publication of scientific research which inhibited the ability of faculty to contribute scientific findings during a world-wide pandemic." Other challenges reported to the committee included "palpable reticence and even fear on the part of faculty to speak up on these issues." In addition, faculty "often engaged in self-censorship and chose not to 'rock the boat' for fear of retaliation," according to the report. University of Florida employees were reportedly told "not to criticize the Governor of Florida [Republican Ron DeSantis] or UF policies related to COVID-19 in media interactions." However, the Faculty Senate committee said that they "did not have the resources or the time to fully investigate these reports or their legal and policy implications. Faculty did express discontent about political interference with our mission, that academic freedom is under attack, and that we will likely lose faculty as a result." The six-person panel was convened to investigate academic freedom issues after the university decided to bar three professors from testifying in a federal lawsuit against the state over a recently enacted elections bill. A spokesperson from the University of Florida did not have any further comment on the report when reached for additional information by The Hill. A spokesperson for DeSantis told The Hill that "The report referenced contains plenty of unsourced allegations and innuendo, but zero evidence that Governor DeSantis or anyone connected to the governor’s office has exerted or attempted to exert improper influence on UF. This is because it did not happen." A fourth University of Florida professor alleged in November that the school rejected his request to testify against state leaders and provide his expertise on the impact of COVID-19 on children. Jeffrey L. Goldhagen, a University of Florida professor and pediatrician, was asked to testify against DeSantis, the Florida commissioner of education, the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Board of Education for a case in which Florida parents and children sought to overturn the state’s ban on mask mandates in schools. However, after he submitted conflict-of-interest disclosures to the university, his requests to testify were denied. Faculty also expressed concern over funding being pulled if the university's activities didn't align with the DeSantis administration, the Tampa Bay Times reported. "We knew there was more silencing and pressure coming from above. The Big Above. There was grave concern about retaliation and a sense that anyone who objected to the state of affairs might lose his or her job or be punished in some way," Danaya Wright, a constitutional law professor and former Faculty Senate chairperson, told The Tampa Bay Times on Tuesday. WHO expecting more hospitalizations with omicron now detected in 57... Fauci says Santa Claus is 'good to go' for Christmas with booster shot "COVID research, it is life and death to not be able to do your job," Wright continued. "To have your research that you’ve trained for so many years to be able to do, to have that research tabled, put on the shelf and ignored and not get it out there to the academic community to get it out there and see if it’s going to do any good." University of Florida spokeswoman Hessy Fernandez previously told The Hill that the university has "a long track record of supporting free speech and our faculty’s academic freedom." DeSantis recently signed legislation aimed at curbing vaccine mandates for several groups of employees.

To: John Vosilla who wrote (180590)	12/26/2021 9:30:05 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 218257

Johnny V I wish you for the new year exactly what you wished for me! Enjoy:0) Thank you for that! Florida corona virus December 12th thru 25th 2021 = 151,000

To: John Vosilla who wrote (180590)	12/26/2021 10:07:33 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218257

COVID Surge Expected in Florida, Peaking in February . University of Florida researchers predict that COVID-19 cases in the Sunshine State could peak in February with more than 30,000 reported cases a day from the omicron variant. By Associated Press \| Dec. 22, 2021, at 12:01 p.m. Study: COVID Surge Expected in Florida, Peaking in February Lenarco Velasco gets a COVID-19 PCR test, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, in Miami. The omicron variant has unleashed a fresh round of fear and uncertainty, for travelers, shoppers and party-goers around the U.S. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — With Floridians lining up by the tens of thousands for COVID tests across the state this week, University of Florida researchers predict that cases in the Sunshine State, driven by the new omicron variant, could peak in February with more than 30,000 reported cases a day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- US Govt. Sends Hundreds of Ventilators to Florida as COVID-19 Surges DeSantis Seeks Florida Paramilitary Force Outside Federal Control Florida Does Have a Covid-19 Problem: Sen. Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The report by three UF researchers said the actual number of infections, both symptomatic and asymptomatic, could be significantly higher — up to 150,000 infections a day — under the most likely scenario in Florida. “The number of projected infections is much larger than the number of reported cases because many infections are not reported, especially if they are asymptomatic or mild," the report released late last week said. At the beginning of the month, Florida had a seven-day average of just over 1,400 cases, though that number has grown significantly as the omicron variant has spread. As of Monday, Florida had a seven-day average of more than 8,600 cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Political Cartoons View All 372 Images “We have seen this omicron variant rapidly spreading like wildfire, especially as we head into the holiday season,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Wednesday at a news conference announcing new efforts to combat the virus in Florida's most populous county. Those efforts include a return to requiring masks at all county buildings and the opening of more COVID testing sites since demand has exploded in the past week across the county, as well as the state. Levine Cava also said she has asked the federal government for more monoclonal antibody treatments, which are used to treat those who have fallen ill with the virus. There has been a shortage of the treatment across the country. The Miami-Dade mayor said the best thing anybody could to protect against the new variant is to get vaccinated. Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Tags: Associated Press, infectious diseases, health, public health, coronavirus, Florida, lung disease