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[Phil B.]

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According to the local Saturday evening news, there will be delivery shortages to clinics using the J&J for a few weeks. Just as a couple of clinics here in Kern County announced that they would be offering the J&J single dose option starting this weekend. CSUB and possibly Kern County Fair Grounds. CSUB Vaccination Hub providing free COVID-19 vaccines in southeast Bakersfield Sunday | KGET 17All Kern County residents 16 and older now eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccine | Kern Valley Sun Of course you may have to make an appoint. Vaccination appointments now available at Kern County Fairgrounds | News | bakersfield.com

Good to see they do phone appointments.. cuz according to Biden blacks don't have internet access and the don't know how to use the internet.

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Did you have any side effects?

Same as the first shot finger tips in the shot arm feel weird and fatigue at night.
Only lasted a day for me.

My wife gets the chills and fatigue hers lasts a couple of days.

So. 14 more days before vaccine take full effect.
Yes we both still going to wear masks until CDC changes its recommendations.

[Tricky]

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Same as the first shot finger tips in the shot arm feel weird and fatigue at night.
Only lasted a day for me.

My wife gets the chills and fatigue hers lasts a couple of days.

So. 14 more days before vaccine take full effect.
Yes we both still going to wear masks until CDC changes its recommendations.

It's been a week since my first shot and my appetite is still not right, I had the astra one.

[Phil B.]

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But according to Dr. Fauxci these vaccines are safe and not to worry about.


4th US Site Pauses COVID-19 Vaccinations After Adverse Reactions

A fourth vaccination site in the United States has paused giving shots after a batch of adverse reactions.
Injections at the Cumming Fairgrounds in Forsyth County have been halted after eight people experienced adverse reactions post-vaccination, the GeorgiaCCP (Chinese Communist Party) viruswas shut down earlier this week, as was a site in North Carolina

launched a studysaid Friday

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Face masks are polluting the world's beaches and oceans, pose potential health risks to humans: 'Really concerning'

Disposable face masks are flooding into the oceans, which could release dangerous microplastics into the environment and our food.

This month marks the anniversary of San Francisco implementing the first face mask mandate in the United States. Since then, nearly all states have implemented mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. By October, 93% of Americans said they sometimes, often, or always wear a mask or face covering when they leave their home and are unable to socially distance.
"Humanity is going through 129 billion face masks a month, which works out to three million a minute," according to Big ThinkOcean Conservancy released new data detailing how personal protective equipment has polluted beaches and oceans all over the planet. Volunteers who were cleaning beaches all over the world tracked the number of PPE they found on the shore. From late July until December 2020, volunteers collected 107,219 items of personal protective equipment from beaches and waterways worldwide.

The Ocean Conservancy notes that the number is "likely a vast undercount of what was and remains out there" because many volunteers recorded discarded PPE as "Personal Hygiene" or "Other Trash."
"The amount of personal hygiene litter recorded in the app between January and July 2020 was three times higher than what was recorded in that same time period for each of the previous three years despite significantly lower participation levels due to the pandemic lockdowns."
The report found that 94% of the volunteers encountered PPE pollution during their cleanup efforts, and over 80% of respondents identified face masks as the most common waste PPE. There were 37% of cleanup participants who reported PPE in waterways.
"This is the first time we have some very hard evidence to shed a spotlight on the magnitude of the PPE component of the plastic pollution issue, and really underscores how this is a new additive component to our existing global crisis," Nick Mallos, senior director for the group's Trash Free Seas program, told KING-TV.
"This was not a typical type of litter that we saw more than a year ago," said Amber Smith, litter prevention coordinator for the Washington Department of Ecology. "This is a brand-new thing related to COVID, and it's really concerning."

Volunteers with New Jersey's Clean Ocean Action environmental group removed 1,113 masks and other pieces of coronavirus-related protective gear from New Jersey beaches last fall.
A report from OceansAsia from last year estimated nearly 1.6 billion face masks flooded the oceans in 2020. The group suspects that discarded face masks would result in an additional 4,680 to 6,240 metric tons of marine plastic pollution. The Hong Kong-based marine conservation organization claims that the face masks would take as long as 450 years to break down.
"Most of these face mask wastes contains either polypropylene and/or polyethylene, polyurethane, polystyrene, polycarbonate, polyacrylonitrile, which add plastic or microplastic pollution to the environment," ScienceDirect reports.
Single-use face masks are believed to be a source of microplastic pollution, which could pose health risks to humans.
"A newer and bigger concern is that the masks are directly made from microsized plastic fibers (thickness of ~1 to 10 micrometers)," according to a study by doctors Elvis Genbo Xu of the University of Southern Denmark and Zhiyong Jason Ren of Princeton. "When breaking down in the environment, the mask may release more micro-sized plastics, easier and faster than bulk plastics like plastic bags. Such impacts can be worsened by a new-generation mask, nanomasks, which directly use nano-sized plastic fibers (with a diameter smaller than 1 micrometer) and add a new source of nanoplastic pollution."
"Single-use polymeric materials have been identified as a significant source of plastics and plastic particle pollution in the environment," another study claimed. "Disposable face masks (single use) that get to the environment (disposal in landfill, dumpsites, freshwater, oceans or littering at public spaces) could be emerging new source of microplastic fibers, as they can degrade/fragment or break down into smaller size/pieces of particles under 5 mm known as microplastics under environmental conditions."

"Obviously, PPE is critical right now, but we know that with increased amounts of plastic and a lot of this stuff getting out into the ocean, it can be a really big threat to marine mammals and all marine life," said Adam Ratner, an educator at the Marine Mammal Center, a conservation group that rescues and rehabilitates mammals.
"It is noted that face masks are easily ingested by higher organisms, such as fishes, and microorganisms in the aquatic life which will affect the food chain and finally chronic health problems to humans," one study noted.
"Researchers believe masks could compound that issue, as the spun plastic fibers break down into smaller and smaller particles that evade filters," KING-TV reported. "Small fibers and particles are widely found in drinking water, and such contamination can bio-accumulate in marine life, causing problems for the creatures themselves, and those higher up the food chain that consume them."
A 2019 report by Australia's University of Newcastle found that the largest source of plastic ingestion by humans were drinking water and eating shellfish.

"Plastic pollution is so widespread in the environment that you may be ingesting five grams a week, the equivalent of eating a credit card," Reuters reported.

"Because research into microplastics is so new, there's not yet enough data to say exactly how they're affecting human health, says Jodi Flaws, a professor of comparative biosciences and associate director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Toxicology Program at the University of Illinois," according to a 2019 report from the Washington Post. "Flaws says microplastic particles can also accumulate polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), other chemicals that are linked to harmful health effects, including various cancers, a weakened immune system, reproductive problems and more."
The article warns that microplastics can disrupt hormones and reduce fertility.
Another issue is that disposable masks can't be recycled with typical recyclables, which makes disposing of PPE even more challenging.
"Used correctly PPE saves lives; disposed of incorrectly it kills marine life," said Cindy Zipf, the executive director of New Jersey's Clean Ocean Action. "PPE litter is a gross result of the pandemic, and 100% avoidable. Use PPE properly, then dispose of it properly in a trash can. It's not hard and it's the least we can do for this marvel of a planet we all live on, not to mention ourselves."

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Face masks are polluting the world's beaches and oceans, pose potential health risks to humans: 'Really concerning'

Disposable face masks are flooding into the oceans, which could release dangerous microplastics into the environment and our food.

This month marks the anniversary of San Francisco implementing the first face mask mandate in the United States. Since then, nearly all states have implemented mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. By October, 93% of Americans said they sometimes, often, or always wear a mask or face covering when they leave their home and are unable to socially distance.
"Humanity is going through 129 billion face masks a month, which works out to three million a minute," according to Big ThinkOcean Conservancy released new data detailing how personal protective equipment has polluted beaches and oceans all over the planet. Volunteers who were cleaning beaches all over the world tracked the number of PPE they found on the shore. From late July until December 2020, volunteers collected 107,219 items of personal protective equipment from beaches and waterways worldwide.

The Ocean Conservancy notes that the number is "likely a vast undercount of what was and remains out there" because many volunteers recorded discarded PPE as "Personal Hygiene" or "Other Trash."
"The amount of personal hygiene litter recorded in the app between January and July 2020 was three times higher than what was recorded in that same time period for each of the previous three years despite significantly lower participation levels due to the pandemic lockdowns."
The report found that 94% of the volunteers encountered PPE pollution during their cleanup efforts, and over 80% of respondents identified face masks as the most common waste PPE. There were 37% of cleanup participants who reported PPE in waterways.
"This is the first time we have some very hard evidence to shed a spotlight on the magnitude of the PPE component of the plastic pollution issue, and really underscores how this is a new additive component to our existing global crisis," Nick Mallos, senior director for the group's Trash Free Seas program, told KING-TV.
"This was not a typical type of litter that we saw more than a year ago," said Amber Smith, litter prevention coordinator for the Washington Department of Ecology. "This is a brand-new thing related to COVID, and it's really concerning."

Volunteers with New Jersey's Clean Ocean Action environmental group removed 1,113 masks and other pieces of coronavirus-related protective gear from New Jersey beaches last fall.
A report from OceansAsia from last year estimated nearly 1.6 billion face masks flooded the oceans in 2020. The group suspects that discarded face masks would result in an additional 4,680 to 6,240 metric tons of marine plastic pollution. The Hong Kong-based marine conservation organization claims that the face masks would take as long as 450 years to break down.
"Most of these face mask wastes contains either polypropylene and/or polyethylene, polyurethane, polystyrene, polycarbonate, polyacrylonitrile, which add plastic or microplastic pollution to the environment," ScienceDirect reports.
Single-use face masks are believed to be a source of microplastic pollution, which could pose health risks to humans.
"A newer and bigger concern is that the masks are directly made from microsized plastic fibers (thickness of ~1 to 10 micrometers)," according to a study by doctors Elvis Genbo Xu of the University of Southern Denmark and Zhiyong Jason Ren of Princeton. "When breaking down in the environment, the mask may release more micro-sized plastics, easier and faster than bulk plastics like plastic bags. Such impacts can be worsened by a new-generation mask, nanomasks, which directly use nano-sized plastic fibers (with a diameter smaller than 1 micrometer) and add a new source of nanoplastic pollution."
"Single-use polymeric materials have been identified as a significant source of plastics and plastic particle pollution in the environment," another study claimed. "Disposable face masks (single use) that get to the environment (disposal in landfill, dumpsites, freshwater, oceans or littering at public spaces) could be emerging new source of microplastic fibers, as they can degrade/fragment or break down into smaller size/pieces of particles under 5 mm known as microplastics under environmental conditions."

"Obviously, PPE is critical right now, but we know that with increased amounts of plastic and a lot of this stuff getting out into the ocean, it can be a really big threat to marine mammals and all marine life," said Adam Ratner, an educator at the Marine Mammal Center, a conservation group that rescues and rehabilitates mammals.
"It is noted that face masks are easily ingested by higher organisms, such as fishes, and microorganisms in the aquatic life which will affect the food chain and finally chronic health problems to humans," one study noted.
"Researchers believe masks could compound that issue, as the spun plastic fibers break down into smaller and smaller particles that evade filters," KING-TV reported. "Small fibers and particles are widely found in drinking water, and such contamination can bio-accumulate in marine life, causing problems for the creatures themselves, and those higher up the food chain that consume them."
A 2019 report by Australia's University of Newcastle found that the largest source of plastic ingestion by humans were drinking water and eating shellfish.

"Plastic pollution is so widespread in the environment that you may be ingesting five grams a week, the equivalent of eating a credit card," Reuters reported.

"Because research into microplastics is so new, there's not yet enough data to say exactly how they're affecting human health, says Jodi Flaws, a professor of comparative biosciences and associate director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Toxicology Program at the University of Illinois," according to a 2019 report from the Washington Post. "Flaws says microplastic particles can also accumulate polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), other chemicals that are linked to harmful health effects, including various cancers, a weakened immune system, reproductive problems and more."
The article warns that microplastics can disrupt hormones and reduce fertility.
Another issue is that disposable masks can't be recycled with typical recyclables, which makes disposing of PPE even more challenging.
"Used correctly PPE saves lives; disposed of incorrectly it kills marine life," said Cindy Zipf, the executive director of New Jersey's Clean Ocean Action. "PPE litter is a gross result of the pandemic, and 100% avoidable. Use PPE properly, then dispose of it properly in a trash can. It's not hard and it's the least we can do for this marvel of a planet we all live on, not to mention ourselves."

Look at all the Cola bottles and cans your going to save with YOUR boycotting

[Phil B.]

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Look at all the Cola bottles and cans your going to save with YOUR boycotting

WHO in the hell said I was boycotting anything?

I don't drink soda's.... I refill my travel with my well water.. so no plastic. bottles.

All metal cans I use get sent straight to re-cycling center.

But you wear masks... do you dispose of them properly or are you like most of the young people I see taking them off and dropping them on the ground as soon as they exit the store? Or do you ride around in your car with one on too?

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(CNN)The US just hit a record high of about 4.6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines reported administered in one day, according to data published Saturday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"Amazing Saturday! +4.63M doses administered over total yesterday, a new record," Dr. Cyrus Shahpar, the Covid-19 data director at the White House, wrote on Twitter. "More than 500K higher than old record last Saturday. Incredible number of doses administered."

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But according to Dr. Fauxci these vaccines are safe and not to worry about.


4th US Site Pauses COVID-19 Vaccinations After Adverse Reactions


A fourth vaccination site in the United States has paused giving shots after a batch of adverse reactions.
Injections at the Cumming Fairgrounds in Forsyth County have been halted after eight people experienced adverse reactions post-vaccination, the GeorgiaCCP (Chinese Communist Party) viruswas shut down earlier this week, as was a site in North Carolinalaunched a studysaid Friday

I wonder how much of the adverse reactions are because to lack of proper diligence on the part of those conducting those clinics. When my daughter made appointments for herself, my wife and I, they emailed us a registration packet that included a check sheet of items that are known to indicated potential reaction problem. Depending to what you checked off you were directed to either a line that had a 10 to 15 minute wait time between getting the shot and departing the parking and a line that held you for at least 30 minutes. Since it was at the community college the shot were being done by nursing students under the supervision of nursing (licended nurses) instructors. With the same at the holding points to leave. They were constantly checking each vehicle to make sure no one was showing early signs of any reaction or in the case of people like my wife who takes blood thinners no sign of bleeding at the injection point. For many of the government ran clinics they may have medical related professionals doing the injections but the rest of those staffing the location are volunteers who don't give a damn.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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I wonder how much of the adverse reactions are because to lack of proper diligence on the part of those conducting those clinics. When my daughter made appointments for herself, my wife and I, they emailed us a registration packet that included a check sheet of items that are known to indicated potential reaction problem. Depending to what you checked off you were directed to either a line that had a 10 to 15 minute wait time between getting the shot and departing the parking and a line that held you for at least 30 minutes. Since it was at the community college the shot were being done by nursing students under the supervision of nursing (licended nurses) instructors. With the same at the holding points to leave. They were constantly checking each vehicle to make sure no one was showing early signs of any reaction or in the case of people like my wife who takes blood thinners no sign of bleeding at the injection point. For many of the government ran clinics they may have medical related professionals doing the injections but the rest of those staffing the location are volunteers who don't give a damn.

... gov't health officials have to "go to the show" with what they have available now. The USA is in a race against the COVID-19 variant B117. Up to 3M+ people per day are being vaccinated and ideal vaccination sites are probably rare. There is a job there waiting for anyone willing to work.

Right now the USA is doing a far better job at getting its population vaccinated than almost any other country in the world.

[Phil B.]

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... gov't health officials have to "go to the show" with what they have available now. The USA is in a race against the COVID-19 variant B117. Up to 3M+ people per day are being vaccinated and ideal vaccination sites are probably rare. There is a job there waiting for anyone willing to work.

Right now the USA is doing a far better job at getting its population vaccinated than almost any other country in the world.

problem I see is we don't have a vax for B117... I doubt Biden can get it pushed out as fast as Trump did.

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problem I see is we don't have a vax for B117... I doubt Biden can get it pushed out as fast as Trump did.

All three current approve US vaccines protect you from B117

All three companies are also working on a booster shot if need.

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problem I see is we don't have a vax for B117... I doubt Biden can get it pushed out as fast as Trump did.

... are you totally from another planet!

"The US just set a record high of 4.6 million vaccine doses reported administered in a 24-hour period, according to data published Saturday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

All of the current vaccines have proven in lab tests to be effective against the B117 variant.

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Blinken criticizes China's failure to 'provide real transparency' earlier in pandemic


Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticized China Sunday for not disclosing information on Covid-19 and its aggression in Taiwan and said that the US has "real concerns" about Russia's actions on the Ukraine border.

"I think China knows that in the early stages of Covid, it didn't do what it needed to do, which was to in real time give access to international experts, in real time to share information, in real time to provide real transparency," Blinken said on NBC's "Meet The Press."

The top diplomat added that a result of that failure was that the virus got "out of hand, faster and with, I think, much more egregious results than it might otherwise." He did not answer whether he believes China knows the origins of Covid-19 and is withholding that information.

Blinken also said the US has a "significant responsibility," to get the world vaccinated, saying that the US will be a leader in that effort when it's all said and done.

"Unless and until the vast majority of people in the world are vaccinated, it's still going to be a problem for us, because as long as the virus is replicating somewhere, it could be mutating and that it could be coming back to us but similarly, the world has a very strong interest in making sure that we're vaccinated," he said. "Because the same thing applies, if the vaccine, if the virus is replicating here and mutating here that's going to be a problem for the rest of world."