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[BillyCarpenter]

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It's almost 24-hours later. I've felt no after effects of the vaccine other than my arm is a little sore. They really jab the needle in your arm hard and deep into the muscle. Still, it's not that sore.

[Phil B.]

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It's almost 24-hours later. I've felt no after effects of the vaccine other than my arm is a little sore. They really jab the needle in your arm hard and deep into the muscle. Still, it's not that sore.

good to hear...

I won't go down THAT ROAD

fine for thee ... not for me

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Covid-19: California and Florida Prepare to Open Vaccine Access to All Adults - The New York Times

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48. Mississippi slips in the ranks in Vaccinations this week
Doses distributed to state: 1,557,815
Doses administered: 1,049,528
Percentage of distributed vaccines that have been administered: 67.37


States ranked by percentage of COVID-19 vaccines administered: March 26

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Hampton: Dr. Dobbs, is there anything you can do to convince our Governor that a mask mandate is absolutely needed?

Dr. Dobbs: I was happy that he was willing to push it hard when we were most desperate. To be honest, I think he’s made some hard calls and been criticized for it. I’m proud to see that Mississippians are doing better with masking now without a mandate than we did in the summer with the mandate. I think we’ve learned. So, what we will continue to do is really push not only for individuals to do it but also for church groups, businesses, school operations, industries, chicken plants, production, and restaurants with a vested interest in their businesses. The best way to protect your business is not to spread COVID. The mask is very important. We learn more and more how important that is. Part of the equation is if we pair that with the vaccinations, I think we will be in great shape going into the summer.

Science works

[BillyCarpenter]

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Arizona governor lifts mask mandates, reopens bars

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Your internet kind of slow


Despite ability to lift rules on masks and distancing, many Arizona businesses will keep them for now

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Even after the governor's order lifting restrictions went public on Thursday, patrons of Bull Shooters pool hall and sports bar in west Phoenix were still coming wearing masks, owner Mike Bates said.
Even after the governor's order lifting restrictions went public on Thursday, patrons of Bull Shooters pool hall and sports bar in west Phoenix were still coming wearing masks, owner Mike Bates said.
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Many businesses in Arizona on Thursday said they would continue to implement safeguards including mask requirements and social distancing even as Gov. Doug Ducey gave them the OK to stop doing so.


The governor's order to lift remaining restrictions intended to stem the spread of COVID-19 allows businesses to decide how to proceed. Most of those contacted by The Arizona Republic indicated they would move forward with caution, keeping requirements and plexiglass barriers in retail locations, along with encouraging employees to get the vaccine.

Cities and counties across Arizona enacted mask mandates last summer as the state experienced a spike in cases. Those mask requirements are no longer enforceable, except for in government buildings and public transportation, according to the governor's order, though some city leaders dispute that.

Businesses including Fry's and Safeway, along with some small establishments, said they plan to keep the rules in place, however. Many Arizonans have gotten used to wearing masks and likely won't discard them overnight, either.


But mask enforcement could be tougher without the shield of local mandates.

By and large, compliance has fallen to individual businesses, which can place cashiers, clerks and managers in tough spots as they try to enforce mask use. Those confrontations with customers who refuse to wear masks may escalate now.

"I predict that more people will feel that they have the right or the cause to not wear a mask," said Cindy Dach, co-owner of Changing Hands Bookstore. Dach said Changing Hands will continue to require customers and employees to wear masks because "it’s our due diligence to keep our community safe."

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How grocery stores will respond
Phoenix-based Sprouts Farmers Market will continue to require face masks at stores, with plexiglass barriers still the norm at cashier stations.

Bashas’, Food City and AJ’s Fine Foods, all part of Bashas’ Family of Stores, plan to keep current safety and sanitation protocols in place, including mask use, spokesperson Susy Ferra said. So, too, will Safeway and Albertsons.

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It's almost 24-hours later. I've felt no after effects of the vaccine other than my arm is a little sore. They really jab the needle in your arm hard and deep into the muscle. Still, it's not that sore.

It will be 5 days for me later this afternoon. A little tenderness to touch the injection point for a couple of days but no muscle discomfort. Full mobility of the arm. I got the J&J. Drive through clinic. Didn't even have to get out of the car.

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[Phil B.]

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Ex-CDC Director Declares COVID 'Most Likely' Escaped from a Wuhan Lab

The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says he believes that the coronavirus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, despite claims from the World Health Organization to the contrary.
Dr. Robert RedfieldCNNfirst case appearedthe virusthe labPoliticoWHO teamNewsweek

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Ex-CDC Director Declares COVID 'Most Likely' Escaped from a Wuhan Lab

The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says he believes that the coronavirus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, despite claims from the World Health Organization to the contrary.
Dr. Robert Redfield, who directed the CDC from 2018 to the beginning of 2021 and was on the front lines of the Trump administration’s efforts to deal with the beginning of the pandemic, made his comments in an interview with CNN that aired Friday.
“If I was to guess, this virus started transmitting somewhere in September, October in Wuhan,” he told CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

The virus was not reported to the world until early January 2020 and the first case appeared in the U.S. on Jan. 21, 2020.
Redfield noted in the interview that he was speaking for himself.

“That’s my own view. And it’s only opinion. You know, I’m allowed to have opinions now,” he said, having been replaced as part of the Biden administration’s housecleaning of Trump appointees.
“I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory — you know, escaped,” he said.

“Other people don’t believe that. That’s fine. Science will eventually figure it out.”
“It’s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect the laboratory worker,” he said.

“That’s not implying any intentionality,” Redfield said. “It’s my opinion, right? But I am a virologist. I have spent my life in virology.”
Redfield said the actions of the virus and the tale told of its origins do not align.
“I do not believe this somehow came from a bat to a human and at that moment in time, the virus that came to the human, became one of the most infectious viruses that we know in humanity for human-to-human transmission,” he said.

Usually, when a virus leaps from animals to humans, Redfield explained “it takes a while for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient in human-to-human transmission.”
“I just don’t think this
Redfield said that it does make sound sense, however, that the lab in Wuhan that does research on viruses was working on one that later escaped.
“Yeah, let’s just say, I have coronavirus and I’m working on it. Most of us in the lab are trying to grow a virus. We try to help make it grow better and better … so we can do experiments and figure out about it. That’s the way I put it together,” he said.

White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, however, said Redfield “was just expressing an opinion” about the possible origins of the virus, according to Politico.
“I think what he likely was expressing is that there certainly are possibilities … of how a virus adapts itself to an efficient spread among humans,” Fauci said.
“One of them is in the lab. And one of them — which is the more likely, which most public health officials agree with — is that it likely was below the radar screen, spreading in the community in China for several weeks, if not a month or more, which allowed it when it got recognized clinically to be pretty well-adapted,” he said.
A WHO team that went to Wuhan has called the lab origin theory “extremely unlikely,” according to Newsweek.

Peter Ben Embarek, who led the team, said that somehow the virus was transmitted from bats to humans long before the virus was first noted in December.
“Our initial findings suggest that the introduction through an intermediary host species is the most likely pathway and one that will require more studies and more specific targeted research,” Embarek said at a news conference.

makes biological sense,” he said.

False BS CONSPIRACY Theory
But you still believe Mexico will pay for the Wall

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U.S. sets new vaccine record with 3.4 million doses administered in one day



The U.S. broke its previous record for most COVID-19 vaccines administered in a single day, with 3.4 million doses reported on Friday, according to the White House.

Why it matters: President Biden on Thursday set a new goal of 200 million doses administered in his first 100 days in office. At the current seven-day average, which increased to 2.62 million daily doses with the new record on Friday, the U.S. would comfortably reach that goal before his 100th day on April 30.

By the numbers: States have reported a total of 133.3 million vaccine doses, with about 117 million administered since Biden was inaugurated, according to Bloomberg's vaccine tracker.

• 26.3% of Americans have received at least their first dose, and 14.3% have been fully vaccinated.
• Biden has called on every state to make every adult eligible to receive a vaccine by May 1, and over 40 have already said they plan to meet or beat that deadline.

Yes, but: That doesn't necessarily mean states have enough vaccine supplies to offer appointments to everyone in the new groups, which could slow down the pace of vaccinations.

[BillyCarpenter]

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U.S. sets new vaccine record with 3.4 million doses administered in one day



The U.S. broke its previous record for most COVID-19 vaccines administered in a single day, with 3.4 million doses reported on Friday, according to the White House.

Why it matters: President Biden on Thursday set a new goal of 200 million doses administered in his first 100 days in office. At the current seven-day average, which increased to 2.62 million daily doses with the new record on Friday, the U.S. would comfortably reach that goal before his 100th day on April 30.

By the numbers: States have reported a total of 133.3 million vaccine doses, with about 117 million administered since Biden was inaugurated, according to Bloomberg's vaccine tracker.

• 26.3% of Americans have received at least their first dose, and 14.3% have been fully vaccinated.
• Biden has called on every state to make every adult eligible to receive a vaccine by May 1, and over 40 have already said they plan to meet or beat that deadline.

Yes, but: That doesn't necessarily mean states have enough vaccine supplies to offer appointments to everyone in the new groups, which could slow down the pace of vaccinations.

Notice that SSG never talks about Canada? Shall we check in with them? I think so.....




The cumulative percent of the population who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada was 6.80%, as of March 13, 2021.

The cumulative percent of the population who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the USA was 26.3%, as of March 13, 2021.


Embarrassed yet, SSG?

[BillyCarpenter]

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Notice that SSG never talks about Canada? Shall we check in with them? I think so.....




The cumulative percent of the population who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada was 6.80%, as of March 13, 2021.

The cumulative percent of the population who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the USA was 26.3%, as of March 13, 2021.


Embarrassed yet,SSG?

Is Joe Biden that much better than Trudeau? No wonder you're so in love with Biden. He must look like a God compared to Trudeau.....