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Allow me to translate: "We're gonnna keep you locked down for a long, long time in the name of science and when the folks start to get pissed off, we'll simply blame Trump."

Here let me translate for You

"It was very clear what President Biden wanted ... and that is that science was going to rule," Fauci says. "That we were going to base whatever we do, our recommendations or guidelines ... on sound scientific evidence and sound scientific data."

How refreshing

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[BillyCarpenter]

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Joe Biden completely ignores science.

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Joe Biden completely ignores science.


“Can’t fly into USA w/o showing negative test for virus but Pres Biden will let people who illegally walked across the border do so w/o testing,”

“Is that protecting our citizens?”

Of coarse Thanks for Pointing out another Trump Administration FAILURE

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J&J CEO says people may need annual Covid vaccine shots for the next several years


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• People may need to get vaccinated against Covid-19 annually, just like seasonal flu shots, over the next several years, Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky told CNBC on Tuesday.
• “Unfortunately, as [the virus] spreads it can also mutate,” he told CNBC’s Meg Tirrell during a Healthy Returns Spotlight event.

People may need to get vaccinated against Covid-19 annually, just like seasonal flu shots, over the next several years, Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky told CNBC on Tuesday.

“Unfortunately, as [the virus] spreads it can also mutate,” he told CNBC’s Meg Tirrell during a Healthy Returns Spotlight event. “Every time it mutates, it’s almost like another click of the dial so to speak where we can see another variant, another mutation that can have an impact on its ability to fend off antibodies or to have a different kind of response not only to a therapeutic but also to a vaccine.”

Public health officials and infectious disease experts have said there is a high likelihood that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease, meaning it will become present in communities at all times, though likely at lower levels than it is now. Health officials will have to continuously watch for new variants of the virus, so scientists can produce vaccines to fight them, medical experts say.

J&J is also continuing work on a two-dose coronavirus vaccine, Gorsky said. The company expects two-shot vaccine data from clinical trials in the second half of 2021, he said.

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Double-masking with surgical and cloth reduces Covid exposure up to 96%: CDC
Published Wed, Feb 10 2021 12:55 PM EST
Cory Stieg
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 06: A man wears a double mask as he walks in Times Square on April 6, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 06: A man wears a double mask as he walks in Times Square on April 6, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)
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Wearing a well-fitting surgical mask underneath a cloth mask reduces potential exposure to Covid-containing respiratory droplets and aerosols by up to 96%, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control.

The CDC tested two different ways of wearing masks on dummies to see how they could make masks more effective: one was layering a cloth mask over a surgical mask (aka "double-masking"), and the other was knotting the ear loops of a surgical mask, then tucking in and flattening the material so it fits close to the face.


Both methods increased the effectiveness, and the researchers found that if two people are wearing tight-fitting surgical masks or double masking it can reduce exposure by about 96%.

To put this in perspective, N95 respirators that are used by healthcare workers and medical first responders fit very close to the face, forming a seal that filters 95% of airborne particles.

Surgical masks are made from a plastic-derived material called polypropylene. They're used to block splashes and keep germs from spreading in sterile medical environments. In experiments, a surgical mask blocked 42% of the particles from a simulated cough.

But the effectiveness of surgical masks can vary, "in part because air can leak around their edges, especially through the side gaps," according to the CDC. Adjusting the fit so that the surgical mask fit tightly around the face with no gaps reduced exposure by 82.2%.


There are other ways to make masks more effective, according to the CDC. Wearing a "mask fitter," which is a solid or elastic piece that fits over a surgical mask to create a tighter seal, can potentially increase the wearer's protection by 90%. Adding "a sleeve made of sheer nylon hosiery material" around your neck and over your nose and mouth on top of your surgical or cloth mask can also make the mask more effective.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases, said that double-masking likely does provide enhanced protection, and called it "common sense," during an interview with NBC News' TODAY on Jan. 25.

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J&J CEO says people may need annual Covid vaccine shots for the next several years


Key Points


People may need to get vaccinated against Covid-19 annually, just like seasonal flu shots, over the next several years, Johnson & Johnsonan endemic disease, meaning it will become present in communities at all times, though likely at lower levels than it is now. Health officials will have to continuously watch for new variants of the virus, so scientists can produce vaccines to fight them, medical experts say.

J&J is also continuing work on a two-dose coronavirus vaccine, Gorsky said. The company expects two-shot vaccine data from clinical trials in the second half of 2021, he said.

They were able to cure polio, measles, chicken pox, etc with way less technology than they have today. Why can't scientists seem to cure anything anymore? Why can they only come up with ways to treat these diseases?

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They were able to cure polio, measles, chicken pox, etc with way less technology than they have today. Why can't scientists seem to cure anything anymore? Why can they only come up with ways to treat these diseases?

they know once they 'cure' something there will be little income from then on.

if they find something that will TREAT not cure they will have all those infected will be on their poison for the rest of our lives.

Have you ever watched commercials for a new drug? you can't do this/that... watch out for the bad reactions.... can't go out in bright sunlight ... half of the reactions to the drug are actually worse than the problem infection.

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Many of these viruses and diseases come from nature. AIDS is believed to have come from a monkey. Covid from a bat. And who know about the man-made variety.

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Where do I get one????

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Where do I get one????

When I was 18, I went to work for a painting and sandblasting company that was owned by my best friend's dad. We worked in Denver for a summer and were sandblasting a water storage tank on the side of a mountain. We had to wear a sandblasting hood that looked very similar. The only real difference is that it had an air hose attached to it.

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When I was 18, I went to work for a painting and sandblasting company that was owned by my best friend's dad. We worked in Denver for a summer and were sandblasting a water storage tank on the side of a mountain. We had to wear a sandblasting hood that looked very similar. The only real difference is that it had an air hose attached to it.

By the way, after returning from Denver, I continued to work as a sandblaster and painter for about another year and this was a pivotal point in my life....I just didn't know it yet.


One day while setting up the rope falls in preparation for sandblasting a tank at International Paper Mill in Bastrop, Louisiana, I was about 85ft. in the air and there was no place to attach my saftey harness until I crawled across a 10ft I-beam. The beam was only about 10 inches wide and even though I was crawling, I lost my balance for a second and almost fell. I would have died after bouncing off serveral pipe racks and eventually falling to my death.


It was at this point that I made my way back to the ground and walked up to my foreman and quit on the spot and went back to school to study electronics.

During my brief career as a sandblaster I saw some terrible accidents. The sand coming out of the hose will turn your skin into hamburger meat if the hose gets away from you and if the nosssel of the hose hits your head, it's gonna knock you silly or kill you. Very high pressure hose.


This is a tank like we did in Denver. And I'm scared of heights. If you've ever done this, you'll never complain about your job again.