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[Tricky]

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This is what you need to wear, bsm2.

Sometime ago the US made a spacesuit that protected Neil Armstrong against a vacuum and extreme heat / cold., Sixty years later we are arguing about the effectiveness of a bit of cloth, that's progress.

I don't wear one if avoidable.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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FDA places all alcohol-based hand sanitizers from Mexico on "import alert"


The US Food and Drug Administration has placed all alcohol-based hand sanitizers coming from Mexico on a nationwide "import alert" until the agency is able to review the products’ safety.

"Over the course of the ongoing pandemic, the agency has seen a sharp increase in hand sanitizer products from Mexico that were labeled to contain ethanol (also known as ethyl alcohol) but tested positive for methanol contamination," the FDA said in a news release on Tuesday.

According to the FDA, methanol, or wood alcohol, is a substance that can be toxic when absorbed through the skin and can be life-threatening if ingested. This substance is not an acceptable ingredient in hand sanitizer or other any drugs in the United States.

"Consumer use of hand sanitizers has increased significantly during the coronavirus pandemic, especially when soap and water are not accessible, and the availability of poor-quality products with dangerous and unacceptable ingredients will not be tolerated," said Judy McMeekin, FDA Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs.

From April through December 2020, the FDA found that 84% of the samples that were analyzed were not in compliance with the FDA’s regulations.

More than half of the samples were found to contain toxic ingredients, including methanol and/or 1-propanol, at dangerous levels.

This is the first time the FDA has implemented a countrywide import alert for any drug product. Under this import alert, alcohol-based hand sanitizers from Mexico will be subject to heightened scrutiny, and the FDA may detain the shipments.

[BillyCarpenter]

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Sometime ago the US made a spacesuit that protected Neil Armstrong against a vacuum and extreme heat / cold., Sixty years later we are arguing about the effectiveness of a bit of cloth, that's progress.

I don't wear one if avoidable.

I read this morning that Fauci said that even after getting the vaccine that he recommends wearing 2 masks. Why? Makes no sense. I'm sure a liberal will be along shortly to show me that I'm being foolish.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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I read this morning that Fauci said that even after getting the vaccine that he recommends wearing 2 masks. Why? Makes no sense. I'm sure a liberal will be along shortly to show me that I'm being foolish.

... he recommendations are sensible. No vaccine is a 100% guarantee that you are safe from the virus nor that you can be a asymptomatic carrier.

A person who gets the vaccine maybe asymptomatic. It takes a few days for the virus to become partially effective, It could be another 30 days+ before a person gets their 2nd vaccine. There are now mutations of COVID-19 and no one really knows how effective the current vaccine is against them.

Long story short, expect to wear masks for years to come.

[BillyCarpenter]

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... he recommendations are sensible. No vaccine is a 100% guarantee that you are safe from the virus nor that you can be a asymptomatic carrier.

A person who gets the vaccine maybe asymptomatic. It takes a few days for the virus to become partially effective, It could be another 30 days+ before a person gets their 2nd vaccine. There are now mutations of COVID-19 and no one really knows how effective the current vaccine is against them.

Long story short, expect to wear masks for years to come.

Your post reminds me of a song by R.E.M: "It's the end of the world as we know it."

[SalesServiceGuy]

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Your post reminds me of a song by R.E.M: "It's the end of the world as we know it."

Yes, it is the end of the world as we know it, probably for the rest of our lives.

Would you want to go to a crowded event with strangers talking loudly and exhaling strongly anytime in the next couple of years?

[BillyCarpenter]

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Yes, it is the end of the world as we know it, probably for the rest of our lives.

Would you want to go to a crowded event with strangers talking loudly and exhaling strongly anytime in the next couple of years?

Liberals are clamping down on us. They're gonna tax us away from gasoline powered cars. Get rid of racist highways. Force us to wear a mask indefinitely. Schools will teach kids that all white folks are privileged and bigoted Raise middle class taxes to pay for their climate change agenda. Sounds lovely.

[bsm2]

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Liberals are clamping down on us. They're gonna tax us away from gasoline powered cars. Get rid of racist highways. Force us to wear a mask indefinitely. Schools will teach kids that all white folks are privileged and bigoted Raise middle class taxes to pay for their climate change agenda. Sounds lovely.

The Sky is Falling its only been a week
HILARIOUS
Suck it up cupcake

[BillyCarpenter]

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The Sky is Falling its only been a week
HILARIOUS
Suck it up cupcake

I know it's only been a week. That's the scary part. I've longed believed that the best way to defeat liberalism/socialism is the let them implement their agenda and let it be no doubt that they don't work and will be a disaster.

[bsm2]

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I know it's only been a week. That's the scary part. I've longed believed that the best way to defeat liberalism/socialism is the let them implement their agenda and let it be no doubt that they don't work and will be a disaster.

Still Better than the past idiot

[BillyCarpenter]

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This should scare everyone.



The Cuomo administration is withholding data on nursing home vaccinations as well as deaths



The Cuomo administration’s resistance to sharing pandemic data from nursing homes has broadened to withholding vaccination numbers as well as full death counts.

Although the state’s vaccine progress reports have become more detailed and frequent – appearing daily since Jan. 15 – they notably leave out any information about nursing homes residents or staff, who were made a top priority for immunization because of residents’ high infection and mortality rates from COVID-19.

A chart released on Jan. 18 gave considerable detail on the situation in nursing homes, including the fact that 57,601 or 67 percent of residents and 48,758 or 37 percent of staff members had received at least one shot (see below).
Since then, officials have occasionally released partial information, such as the fact that 44 percent of nursing homes staff have been vaccinated. Most numbers in the Jan. 18 chart have not been updated since.

The statistics on the state’s vaccine tracker – which showed that a total of 1.4 million doses had been administered as of Jan. 26 – do not reflect doses going to nursing home residents or staff. Few if any other states are reporting in this way.

The governor’s aides have indicated that they intend to add long-term care numbers to their reporting, but have not given a timeline.
The omission adds to the confusion surrounding the vaccine rollout in New York and raises new questions about the quality of care being provided in nursing homes.

The situation mirrors the state’s incomplete reporting on nursing homes deaths throughout most of the pandemic. In a practice used by no other state, the Health Department’s official nursing home toll counts only deaths that occurred physically within the facilities, leaving out thousands more that happened after sick residents were transferred to hospitals.

In September, the Empire Center sued to force release of the full death toll under the Freedom of Information Law.
The Cuomo administration’s vaccine reporting – both in and out of long-term care facilities – got off to a slow and skimpy start, with officials providing only seven official updates over the first 30 days.

Reporting gradually became more thorough and regular in the middle of this month, and for several days the governor’s Twitter account posted updates that included a subtotal for long-term care. That practice ended on Jan. 13.

The state’s recently launched vaccine tracker gives running totals of first and second doses administered in each of 10 regions of the state. But it specifies that those numbers do not include immunizations in long-term care facilities, which are being delivered by a federal collaboration with CVS and Walgreens pharmacies.

As the tracker also acknowledges, all vaccinations that happen in New York must be reported to the Health Department, regardless of the venue or provider.

During his televised briefings, the governor frequently specifies what share of health-care workers have been vaccinated at individual hospitals across the state – but he has given no comparable numbers for nursing homes.

The state also discloses how many doses of vaccine have been delivered to the state in each week. These numbers, too, leave out long-term care.
The state’s vaccine reporting is incomplete in other ways, too.

The vaccine tracker declares, for example, that the state has used 93 percent of the first doses delivered by the federal government so far. However, that ratio leaves out doses that were delivered for and administered to long-term care facilities. A nationwide tracker maintained by Bloomberg showed that New York had used 66 percent of its total doses as of 12:45 a.m. on Jan. 27.

Many states are also giving a demographic breakdown of vaccinations by age, gender and racial group. New York is not.

The impact of the pandemic on nursing home residents has been a sore spot for the Cuomo administration since March 25, when the Health Department directed the facilities that they should not turn away COVID-positive transfers from hospitals. The policy was widely criticized for putting vulnerable residents at risk, and the state overturned it in early May.

In July, the Health Department issued a report declaring that the policy had not significantly contributed to the high death rate in nursing homes. But experts dismissed the report as flawed, in part because it relied on state’s incomplete mortality data.

Since then, he governor and his state health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, have refused to provide the full nursing home toll – despite bipartisan inquiries from the Legislature and multiple requests under the Freedom of Information Law, including one filed by the Empire Center on Aug. 3.
The Health Department has repeatedly postponed answering the Empire Center’s request, most recently to March 22. The center sued the department to force release of the data, and the case has been awaiting a judge’s ruling since Oct. 30.

This week, state Sen. James Skoufis, D-Queens, threatened to subpoena the missing nursing home death records from the Health Department unless Commissioner Howard Zucker agreed to provide them at an upcoming legislative hearing on the budget. Shortly after that statement, the Legislature rescheduled the hearing from Feb. 3 to Feb. 25.

[Phil B.]

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Wasn't Kamala's family involved in slave owning and trading?

her grandfather was an owner /trader

[Phil B.]

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... if the losses are on the State level why are you trying to throw shade on the Federal gov't?

...in a healthcare system stressed out to the max trying to deal with the equivalent of 911 scale deaths everyday from COVID-19, I am certain a few healthcare workers make bad decisions. The daily and monthly stress on healthcare workers is intense.

most hospitals here are wondering where all the patients are they are sitting at around 15% capacity

but yet Gov Pooper keeps us in lockdown and masked.

I had no problem with the way the federal gov't has been handling it.. it's you fucking liberals that blame EVERY LITTLE THING on Trump even when it wasn't.

[Phil B.]

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Trump's Operation Warp Speed Staffers Debunk Claim Biden Admin Was Left with No COVID Vaccine Plan

highlightedOperation Warp SpeedsaidFaucitold the National Review that the Trump administration spent time explicitly focusing on the transition to a new administration in terms of the coronavirus and the vaccine.





vaccinesStat NewsYet statistics from Our World in Data showinauguration, the U.S. was already administering about 900,000 vaccines per day.


Even Vox, a decidedly left-wing outlet, published an article on Jan. 22 questioning whether Biden had set the bar too low for administering vaccines.
Now that word has reached Biden about his blatant liesCNNarticleplanreportedmaybe SnifferJoe should play with his dog and get a BREAK in his foot!

[bsm2]

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Western Journal Hilarious Why don't you get the news straight from Putin