Return of the MASK: COVID 2.0 is already snaking its way across the country



If you thought the pandemic was over, we're sorry to say that you're wrong.

As the 2024 election looms closer and the presidential candidates are increasingly at each others' throats, so it seems COVID is at ours. And Lauren Chen is well aware.

“It does seem like COVID part two is back. That’s right, the pandemic strikes back,” Chen says. “A lot of people, if you ask me, have been a little too quick to move on and forget that hey, you actually had neighbors who are calling the police on you if you tried to have guests over.”

“There were actually people who were dying that were prevented from seeing their loved ones,” she adds.

We need to remember, because if we don’t, then it could easily all happen over again. And in some ways, it already is.

Lionsgate, a production company based in California, has re-implemented a mask mandate for some employees after a few employees tested positive for COVID.

The employees were told in an email to “wear a medical grade face covering (surgical mask KN95 or N95) when indoors except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace.”

“If you are still afraid of COVID in this day and age, you haven’t been paying attention and you should probably go see some sort of mental health professional, rather than place all of your concern in something like COVID,” Chen says.

It’s not only the Hollywood studio that’s making a big deal out of re-implementing mask mandates. Morris Brown College has also reintroduced a mask mandate for both students and staff.

The college made this decision because there have been reports of students testing positive for COVID.

“Yes, the fatality rates for COVID are very similar to that of the flu. Do we institute mask mandates for the flu now? Absolutely not. It’s just something we live with and we understand that we live in a society. People get sick. So, the fact that some people out there still have this irrational fear when it comes to COVID,” Chen says. “It’s not based in science. It’s not based in medicine. This is an ideological thing.”


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Horowitz: Record infections in super-vaxxed UK seniors as double-vaxxed show negative efficacy against COVID death



Just because Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the new Fauci, it doesn’t mean COVID is over. In fact, cases are surging in many European countries, and U.K. seniors are now experiencing record numbers. “Covid infections surge to record high for over-70s in UK” was the title of a Financial Times article from Friday. But how can there be record infections precisely after nearly every senior was vaccinated and 90% were boosted, even though many already have had prior infection? Or are the record infections because of the shots, not despite them, and does this mean that they are preventing people from achieving immunity?

Ireland is one of the most vaccinated countries in the European Union, yet hospitalizations are rising.

Ireland - The situation is worrying \n\nHospitalization rate is now going vertical \n_\nH/T @amused_as_hellpic.twitter.com/ORw3N2gIgK
— Gabriel H\u00e9bert-Mild\u2122 \u24e5 (@Gabriel H\u00e9bert-Mild\u2122 \u24e5) 1647860251

There are now more people in Irish hospitals than at any point in 12 months. Nearly 95% of all adults are fully vaccinated, and nearly 100% of seniors are vaccinated and boosted.

The number of COVID cases has nearly tripled in the U.K. since the nadir of the post-winter drop four weeks ago. Moreover, deaths are still hovering around 125 a day, whereas after the 2021 winter wave (with a much lower prior infection rate), deaths were nearly reduced to zero. Furthermore, Scotland, which has the highest vaccination rate of anywhere in the U.K. and is the only region with mask mandates, seems to be worse off than ever before. “Scotland recorded its highest infection rates of the pandemic so far, with one in every 14 people infected with the virus in the week to mid-March, up from one in 18 a week earlier,” reported the Financial Times.

Roughly 90% of all people over age 12 in Scotland have two shots, and 73% have boosters. Among seniors, boosters are nearly universal. Thus, there is nowhere to run or hide from the vaccine failures. The negative efficacy is out of control. What about protection against death? Well, we can’t exactly see where the deaths are coming from because Scotland conveniently stopped providing that data, but the U.K. government will still offer the weekly reports for a few more weeks.

According to the latest U.K. health surveillance report, roughly 95% of those over 70 are double-vaccinated and about 90%-93% of the age cohorts over 70 are boosted. Just 1.6% of the senior cases between weeks 7 and 10 of this year were among the unvaccinated, which is below the 5% share of the population pie they compose. The triple-boosted are 90% of the cases.

Although the shots do offer some protection for some people against critical illness for a certain period of time, numerous data points have shown that the protection not only wanes but goes negative. The U.K. data now shows that the double-vaccinated have negative protection and the triple-vaxxed are headed in that direction.

Table 12b shows COVID deaths within 60 days of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test during weeks 7 through week 10 of this year.

As you can see, 15% of all the deaths were among the double- (but not triple-) jabbed, whereas only about 4% of this population falls into that category. That is straight-up negative efficacy even against death. Thus, they placed people into a position forcing them to get boosters; otherwise they would be worse off than with nothing! But what does that portend for the triple-jabbed? Remember how early on, it looked like the boosters accorded broad protection against death, even though cases skyrocketed among them? Well, now, 77% of all deaths among those over 70 are triple-jabbed! That is still somewhat below their share of the population, but not by much, and the gap is closing with every subsequent weekly report.

When it comes to case rates, the U.K. is now reporting that in some age cohorts, the triple-jabbed are more than four times as likely to test positive, which would net an efficacy rate of -300%!

Hence, they needed Ukraine to distract from the narrative, because clearly there is something unsettling going on with these shots. One would think that by now there would be enough built-up immunity from prior infection to preclude waves like this. Yet the data raises the question: Are the shots sliding back people’s natural immunity and creating some form of original antigenic sin and antibody dependent disease enhancement, in which the shots wipe out their T cells and innate immunity, thereby preventing them from enjoying durable immunity from prior infection? In other words, can this keep going forever in a vicious cycle of more cases inducing more vaccine campaigns, which in turn create more infections?

A recent study from Stanford published in Cell might shed light on this phenomenon. Researchers observed a decreased immune response to new variants among those vaccinated for the original strain because the shots are teaching the body to respond improperly. “We find that prior vaccination with Wuhan-Hu-1-like antigens followed by infection with Alpha or Delta variants gives rise to plasma antibody responses with apparent Wuhan-Hu-1-specific imprinting manifesting as relatively decreased responses to the variant virus epitopes, compared with unvaccinated patients infected with those variant viruses,” observed the Stanford pathologists. They note that the extent to which this causes original antigenic sin “will be an important topic of ongoing study.”

Contrast the week 11 report to the week 5 report from just six weeks ago. You will see that in most age groups, the case rates among the triple-vaxxed were between 1.5 and 2 times greater, not between 3 and 4 times greater as they are today.

One would think that with so much infection for so many months among this group, at some point it would exhaust the pool of eligible people and perhaps revert back to the unvaccinated having a higher case rate. But in fact, the opposite is true; it’s getting worse every week for the triple-jabbed, especially among seniors.

And we already know from an Israeli study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that the fourth shot won’t make things better. "We observed low vaccine efficacy against infections in health care workers, as well as relatively high viral loads suggesting that those who were infected were infectious,” concluded the authors of the study comparing quadruple-jabbed Israeli health care workers to those with fewer shots.

It’s also important to remember that any degree of vaccine efficacy gleaned from any hard data or studies is factoring in the first 14 days post-vaccinated as “unvaccinated” and the first 14 days of the booster as double-vaccinated. It is already proven that this is a period of immunosuppression on the front end of the efficacy curve. Some have estimated that if you factor in those 14 days with elevated risk, there is negative efficacy for these shots out of the gate.

At the end of the day, we are 11 billion doses into this unparalleled global mass injection regime, and yet more than 72% of 6.1 million confirmed COVID-19 deaths have occurred since vaccine rollout. Half the deaths have occurred since mid-April, after all of the vulnerable population had ample time to get fully vaccine.

Perhaps this is why the U.K. Health Security Agency announced in this week’s report (p. 37) that “from early April onwards this section of the report will not be updated.” That’s the section with case and death rates by vaccination status.

Horowitz: Don’t say COVID? Why the media is now avoiding COVID coverage like the plague



Florida media figures have been accusing Gov. Ron DeSantis of promoting a phantom bill they dishonestly call the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. But, in fact, they would like him to abide by a bizarre new dictate in the world of media censorship: “Don’t say COVID.” Yes, the very topic that they held like a shark grasping its prey for nearly two years is suddenly taboo, as the USA Today-owned Palm Beach Post ran a headline titled, “Is Ron DeSantis addicted to COVID?” Yet if you understand what is going on with the safety and efficacy of the shots, it’s quite obvious why they no longer want to discuss the issue, which is precisely why we should never stop talking about it.

Throughout the past two years, whenever there was a spike in deaths in a given part of the world, every American was treated to an endless barrage of panic porn warning them to take “precautions” to ensure we were not hit next. That paradigm has magically changed. As the virus continues to rage throughout east Asia, a region that was largely spared from the wrath of the pathogen until now, the media no longer wants to warn of impending doom.

“Well, that’s because we already have natural immunity here, whereas in east Asia, many people are being exposed for the first time,” you might retort. That is a very logical hypothesis, but to suggest it necessarily concedes the point that it is natural immunity, not the vaccines, that convey protection, given that most east Asian countries have higher vaccination rates than the U.S.

From day one, South Korea was touted as the country that did everything right – from sophisticated contact tracing and quarantine to disciplined mask-wearing and high vaccination rates. Yet, for the first time, South Korea now has more people critically ill with COVID than the United States.

Wild that it took a vaccine to be introduced into South Korea for it to finally, for the first time in 2 years, Surpass the US in total Covid ICU patients\n\nYup, just exactly how they told us this would work.pic.twitter.com/u3toxQjJ5B
— Mommar (@Mommar) 1647258694

Obviously, one would still rather be in South Korea’s position overall during the past two years, but the new trend begs the obvious question. Why is South Korea, by far, worse off than ever before, precisely after nearly all adults are vaccinated? 87% of the population has at least one shot and 62% have boosters, which likely means nearly everyone within the age range that could possibly experience bad outcomes has three shots. Just like Israel, the country is now administering fourth boosters. So, what gives? Why South Korea and other east Asian countries skated by without many deaths until now is still unclear — possibly the result of a healthy population, prior partial immunity, or sheer luck. But either way, why would it be worse than ever after having these shots?

Since January 2021, mask compliance in South Korea has consistently remained high \u2014 well over 90%, yet cases have risen ~20,000% since October\n\nHow much longer are experts going to get away with pretending that mask usage actually matters?pic.twitter.com/ySXTJP9swB
— Ian Miller (@Ian Miller) 1647195578

Hong Kong has just reached its peak, but it has now suffered the worst death curve in the world over the past few weeks, after barely experiencing any deaths since 2020. While its vaccination rate is lower than that of South Korea, it’s still higher than the rate in the U.S.

At 280 deaths per day, Hong Kong is averaging the equivalent of over 12,000 daily deaths in the U.S., a number we’ve never reached.

As such, one can understand why the COVID fascists no longer want to discuss COVID. Not only were lockdowns and masks repudiated as effective tools to stop the spread, but the vaccine, at minimum, has been proven ineffective, if not downright harmful with possible pathogen priming or antibody dependent disease enhancement. Not exactly a record to brag about. Yet we must continue talking about it because American soldiers and health care personnel are still losing their jobs for not getting this jab. What if it’s these very shots that are responsible for more COVID cases?

Cases appear to be going up in some Western countries as well, including in the U.K. Where are they coming from? Every successive UKHSA Vaccine Surveillance Report released on Thursdays appears to show the negative efficacy of the vaccine intensifying each week. The data now show that between Feb. 13 and March 6, the infection rate per capita was the lowest among the unvaccinated for every age group. It was the highest in the triple-jabbed in almost every age cohort. For most age groups, the booster is now between -200% and -250% effective.

Is this perhaps why the U.K. is dropping all its restrictions on travel, despite the fact that cases are beginning to go up again? Authorities can’t afford to have us focus on the atrocities that have been committed over the past two years.

Although Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is pushing for universal fourth shots, he knows that the public is not buying it. He even conceded that his vaccine is “not that good against infections. It doesn’t last very long." Which is why the media has moved on to the new fourth vaccine – Ukraine – so we forget about everything that occurred the past two years.

Aussie police spark outrage after barging into church and stopping mass to enforce COVID mask mandate



Churchgoers found themselves stunned after Perth, Australia, police stopped mass to see whether parishioners were wearing masks during a recent church service.

What are the details?

The Daily Mail reported that a photo uploaded to social media showed at least one police officer standing near a dais alongside a priest at St. Bernadette's Catholic Church at Mount Hawthorn in Perth on Thursday night.

Authorities were said to have arrived at the church after receiving a tip that worshippers were not following mask mandates.

One churchgoer named Matthew said that everyone in the church was "pretty surprised" and that it was "troubling to see the liturgy that you love being stopped by police."

"It was pretty confronting," he recalled. "Everyone was sort of pretty stunned, I suppose. Then as soon as it started it was sort of over as he left."

The outlet reported that leaders believe the incident was a massive overreach.

In a statement on the interruption, authorities said that at least four people were found to be non-compliant with the region's mask mandate.

"Police responded to a report from a member of the public of people not wearing masks inside a church in Mount Hawthorn," the statement read. "Upon attendance, five people were spoken to by police and complied in wearing a mask. One person provided proof of an exemption."

CHURCH PAPERS CHECK: Patrick Horneman reported that in Perth, Australia a policeman entered a church "demanding correct mask behavior and checking exemptions."pic.twitter.com/zs0Wl5W2iQ
— Apex World News (@Apex World News) 1643980604

According to a Friday report from news.com.au, the church took to its social media pages to announce that masks are required inside the building.

“Please ensure that you are wearing a mask when you are attending mass/adoration,” the post said, according to the outlet. “You are not permitted to enter the church unless you are wearing a mask. If you have an exemption letter from your doctor, then please make certain that you carry this on you at all times. Heavy fines on the parish priest, our parish, and individuals will be incurred if you are caught without wearing your mask. Please co-operate with this request so as to avoid any complications.”

In a statement, Catholic Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe said that the incident was "regrettable."

“It is highly regrettable that the police felt themselves obliged to intervene during a religious service in one of Perth’s Catholic parishes in order to enforce the mask-wearing mandate,” he said. “The celebration of the Eucharist is the central act of Catholic worship and is sacred to all Catholics. It is my hope that other ways can be found to deal with this delicate issue in future and my office stands ready to co-operate with the police in this manner.”

The statement added, “The office of the Archbishop will continue to provide all Catholic parishes and other agencies with very clear advice as to their obligations to act in compliance with the government‘s directives.”

The country's COVID-19 response has been strict to say the least.

According to National Review, such mitigation measures have included "prolonged lockdowns, closely monitored quarantine and isolation, state surveillance of citizens, testing checkpoints, and barring unvaccinated residents from certain activities.”

COVID-19 hospitalizations rising in northern states, dropping fast in the South



There has been a significant shift in areas of the United States regarding COVID-19 hospitalizations in the past two weeks. COVID-19 hospitalizations have markedly declined in the South while at the same time have noticeably increased in northern states.

In the continental U.S., the states that have seen the largest drop in COVID-19 hospitalizations are southern states. In the last two weeks, hospitalizations have plummeted by 41% in Louisiana, 39% in South Carolina, 39% in Florida, 36% in Alabama, 35% in Georgia, and 32% in Tennessee, and there was a 30% reduction in both Mississippi and Kentucky, according to Becker's Hospital Review.

COVID-19 hospitalizations have unfortunately surged in northern states. New Hampshire has suffered a 42% upswing of coronavirus hospitalizations in the past 14 days; Michigan is experiencing a 22% increase; Colorado is up 14%; Vermont has a rise of 13%; and Minnesota COVID-19 hospitalizations have climbed by 10%.

Cases of COVID-19 have also spiked in the north. Vermont has seen a 26% increase of COVID-19 cases in the past two weeks, followed by New Hampshire at 16% and Colorado with a rise of 14%, according to the New York Times.

Vermont is the most vaccinated state in the country, with over 70% of the population fully vaccinated – including 99.99% of Vermonters over the age of 65 – and more than 78% partially vaccinated.

Meanwhile, cases have tumbled in the South. Cases are down 50% in Georgia, 48% in South Carolina, 43% in Tennessee, and 43% in Florida, and there was a 40% drop in Texas and Louisiana.

Based on regions, the South has 17 cases per 100,000 as of Oct. 21, the Northeast has 24, the West 25, and the Midwest has 30 cases per 100,000, according to data from the New York Times.

Overall, the 7-day average of cases in the United States is at 75,498, as of Oct. 21 – which is a steep decrease from the recent high of 175,822 on Sept. 13.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 are also trending downward in the United States, with a 7-day average of 56,759 on Oct. 21 – which is down from a recent high of 103,009 on Sept. 4.

As of Oct. 21, the 7-day average of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. was at 1,509.

The Washington Post said of the shift, "The data mirrors trends of last fall and winter when new-case numbers diminished in Southern states that were hit hard by the virus before it devastated colder-weather states."

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Florida Health Department calls out CDC after agency pushed false claim that state set daily COVID case record: 'Wrong again'



The Florida Department of Health fired back at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Monday after the national public health agency amplified false information about the COVID-19 surge in the Sunshine State.

What did the CDC claim?

As the White House and Democrats continue targeting Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for his leadership amid the COVID pandemic, the CDC claimed Monday that Florida recorded 28,317 daily COVID cases on Sunday, Aug. 8.

The number, if true, would have set a new record for daily cases in Florida.

But what is the truth?

According to the Florida Department of Health, the CDC circulated not just a misleading number but one that was entirely false. The state health agency said the CDC combined multiple days worth of cases and reported that number as a single-day count.

"Wrong again. The number of cases @CDCgov released for Florida today is incorrect. They combined MULTIPLE days into one," the FDOH said. "We anticipate CDC will correct the record."

In fact, Florida recorded 15,319 COVID cases on Sunday, more than 13,000 fewer than what the CDC claimed. The three-day average over the weekend was 18,795 daily cases, the FDOH said.

The daily case counts for Florida currently posted on the CDC COVID Tracker are incorrect. The current listing stat… https://t.co/GMb0ijsy2m

— Florida Dept. Health (@HealthyFla) 1628561974.0

It's not clear why the CDC published a miscalculation.

According to the Miami Herald, the CDC published the figure after combining, then dividing, the weekend case total.

One lawyer noted that the CDC has been updating Florida's case numbers from the weekend on Tuesdays, making Monday's update uncharacteristic. Still, the lawyer explained the CDC has been adding Florida's weekend total, then dividing it by the number of weekend days to formulate an average number of daily weekend cases.

The FDOH confirmed this is how COVID case reporting works for weekend data.

"Florida follows CDC guidelines reporting cases Monday through Friday, other than holidays. Consequently, each Monday or Tuesday, there will be two or three days of data reported at a time," the agency explained. "When data is published, it is attributed evenly to the previous days."

Why the weekend total was seemingly divided by two, instead of three, is not clear.

A spokeswoman for DeSantis wrote from her personal Twitter account Tuesday that she does not believe the CDC intentionally reported miscalculated figures, but called on the agency to immediately correct its data.

"To be clear: I don't have any evidence that the CDC reported the wrong COVID case number for Florida intentionally," Christina Pushaw said. "It could have been an honest mistake, so I don't want to jump to conclusions. But to clear things up, @CDCgov needs to correct the record & explain to the public."

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