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To: gg cox who wrote (182824)	1/17/2022 11:47:42 PM
From: jazzlover2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217750

Today's liquid is not your Grandpa's liquid.

To: gg cox who wrote (182824)	1/18/2022 1:35:38 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217750

Human trial for trust tee-ed up, and ‘might’ affect supply chain Am agnostic Let’s see zerohedge.com Make Preparations! Canadian Cross Border Trucking Vaxx Mandate Now In Effect, Domestic Trucking Mandate Starts Next Week Authored by 'Sundance' via TheConservativeTreehouse.com, The cross border vaccine mandate for truckers in/out of Canada is now in effect. The U.S. vaccine mandate takes effect on January 22nd. It will take a few days to see the consequences, but there will be consequences. Keep in mind, any impact is taking place in a supply chain system that is already tenuous and unstable at best. A small disruption that may have been minimally significant against a fully operational supply chain, is more likely to be a much bigger disruption in a supply chain that is already under a severe amount of demand side stress. Somewhere in the range of 16,000 to 38,000 daily loads are likely to be impacted. When questioned about this, Canadian Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic *Leblanc says the trucking industry “has had adequate time to prepare for this.”* Keep in mind, the mandate was announced 45 days ago (November 30th). According to the Canadian government, changing the structural rules for all the logistics and commerce in cross border shipping, 45 days is enough notice. CANADA – […] “I think you probably won’t see that movement … that the government’s looking for,” retail expert Bruce Winder told CTV News Channel on Saturday when asked if the effort will encourage truckers to get vaccinated. […] The mandate throws a “major wrench” in the Canadian and North American supply chains, he added, with grocers, food producers, the auto parts industry and building materials among the sectors expected to be most affected. “I really hope that we’re not at the stage where you see food insecurity, where you’re actually going to grocery stores and there’s nothing on the shelf,” Winder said. “That could be the worst-case scenario.” Mike Millian, president of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada, told CTV News Channel on Saturday that there were as many 23,000 vacancies at the end of the third quarter of 2021, with his group’s own studies showing that roughly 20 per cent of Canadian truck drivers operating across the border are unvaccinated. […] “If we remove a fifth of that workforce, we’re going to see shortages on shelves and we’re going to see inflation of prices, because the cost to bring this stuff here is going to go up.” ( read more) The truth is no one knows how bad the disruption will be. What we do know is that there will be disruption, and there is no infrastructure for a level of rig-switching at the border crossing region that could accommodate changing rigs, drop-offs and/or pick-ups or driver transfers on the scale that is being discussed. The logistics here are a total mess. Keep your fingers crossed, but prepare for FUBAR. Sent from my iPhone

To: gg cox who wrote (182824)	1/18/2022 12:39:22 PM
From: Horgad	2 Recommendations Recommended By pak73 Pogeu Mahone Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217750

I believed that is called a straw man argument. You replaced the valid question of "Did the new technology used to create the Covid-19 vaccines, result in a safe and effective vaccine?" with an invalid question that contains a false comparison between two dissimilar things. IE "If you trusted and took these other vaccines, clearly you should trust the Covid-19 Vaccine. So what possible reason could you have not to trust and take it?" P.S. I fully support your decision to get the Covid-19 vaccine and I am against locking you up even though every time you leave the house you might infect others.

To: gg cox who wrote (182824)	1/19/2022 9:18:23 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217750

Re <<liquid>> Am ambivalent about no longer being in Cape Town. Am not surprised that the liquids do not very much in protection against omicron. Am pinning hope on the possibility that Omicron is either as gentle as a cold or gentler Am agnostic Let’s wait and see. Am not religious about a position I know little about. Happy to change mind when truth becomes clearer than evolving facts bloomberg.com MRNA Boosters Don’t Block Omicron, South African Study Shows Researchers viewed infections in German visitors to Cape Town Only mild and moderate disease was experienced by subjects Antony Sguazzin January 19, 2022, 8:31 PM GMT+8 Booster shots with mRNA vaccines such as those made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE failed to block infection with the omicron coronavirus variant in the first study of its kind, South African researchers said. Seven German visitors to Cape Town experienced so-called breakthrough Covid-19 infections between late November and early December despite being boosted, the researchers, whose investigation was authorized by the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University, said in findings published in The Lancet on Jan. 18. The findings add to evidence of the ability of omicron to evade the antibodies generated by Covid-19 vaccines. Still, other protections such as T-cells appear to combat the strain and so far hospital and mortality data has been less severe than with the delta variant. The rapid global spread of omicron, first identified in Botswana and South Africa in late November, has spurred countries such as the U.K., the U.S. and South Africa to step up or introduce booster programs. However, the latest research suggests the plan may only be having a limited impact. The Germans, four of whom were participating in training at Cape Town hospitals and three of whom were on vacation, were between the ages of 25 and 39, according to the researchers. Five were women and two were men. None were obese. Of the seven, five had received three doses of the Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech. One had received a dose of Moderna Inc.’s mRNA shot followed by Pfizer’s inoculation. Another received the AstraZeneca Plcvaccine before shots of Pfizer. None reported a prior Covid-19 infection. MRNA vaccines are the breakthrough technology of the Covid-19 pandemic. The shots use messenger RNA to instruct cells to produce antibodies. More traditional inoculations use inactivated or dead viruses to stimulate a response from immune systems. ‘Unique Opportunity’“The presence of this group from Germany presented a unique opportunity to study omicron breakthrough infections in individuals with mRNA vaccine boosters,” the researchers said. All of the subjects reported an onset of respiratory symptoms between Nov. 30 and Dec. 2, and ultimately experienced mild or moderate disease, they said. “Robust CD4 and CD8 T-cell responses” were detected in the subjects, the researchers said in reference to an additional line of the human immune system’s defenses aside from the production of antibodies. “The mild to moderate course of illness suggests that full vaccination followed by a booster dose still provides good protection against severe disease caused by omicron,” they said. Better vaccines will ultimately be needed to stop symptomatic infections with omicron, they said. — With assistance by Rene Vollgraaff Sent from my iPad