December 22, 2021
Well, with Omicron now becoming dominant, time for a new installment.
Israel is recommending a second booster. It was the first country to recommend a booster shot in general.
The CDC warns that the Omicron may see 140,000,000 new cases in the United States in the next couple of months.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has stated that it is a moral duty to be vaccinated. The Catholic Bishop of Cairns, Australia, decried the role of ignorant and divisive parishioners in spread vaccine myths.
In a rare instance of some unity in politics, former President Trump stated in an interview how pleased he was that President Biden mentioned his administration's role in developing the vaccine. Trump went on to state that healing of the nation's divides needed to occur and urged people to get vaccinated, while also stating that he though mandates counterproductive.
December 31, 2021
An additional 200+ Marines have been discharged for refusing orders to take the vaccine.
Israel has approved a 4th booster shot.
January 10, 2022
Listening to the weekend shows, it's become clear that the new Coronavirus strategy is now "learn to live with it". Going forward, it's going to be treated with annual (if not more frequent) vaccinations and treated upon infection.
Perhaps this was inevitable, but it also represents a global public health failure. In the developed world, large numbers of the population refused to acknowledge the disease as fundamentally different and overall the world in general failed to act to prevent the spread of the disease in the Third World. If there's a bright spot, a big if, it seems to be evolving towards less lethal.
Which doesn't mean it isn't lethal. This will mean we'll have a period of years in which the unvaccinated and those who were vaccinated but who slip into disregard will in fact get killed by the disease until vaccination becomes general.
January 14, 2020
The US Supreme Court ruled that OSHA lacks the authority to impose mask mandates on conventional workplaces under the existing laws and regulations applying to it.
January 22, 2022
The state has hit an all-time new high for new infections.
February 3, 2022
The Army is discharging soldiers who refused to get the vaccine. The discharges are for misconduct, so they are in fact bad conduct discharges, which will therefore carry some lifelong negative implications.
The Secretary of the Army also replied to Governor Gordon, and some other Governors, that this applies to National Guardsmen in spite of their letters of protest.
New Zealand is reopening its boarders.
Justin Trudeau and his family apparently have COVID. His infection is coincident with a massive trucking industry protest over new rules applying to unvaccinated truckers.
February 11, 2022
The United States has sustained 900,000 deaths due to COVID 19.
A spike in deaths has occurred since January, principally due to the Omicron variant in the unvaccinated. The US has the highest reported deaths of any country on earth, which is due to the resistance to getting vaccinated.
The American death toll now exceeds the number of deaths due to the Spanish Flu, which is a reported 675,000, although in reality due to the lingering effects of the disease, it was higher than that. Put in context, however, given the population at the time, that would equate to approximately 2,000,000 Americans today.
Put back in context, it's clear the US is going to exceed 1,000,000 deaths due to COVID 19.
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