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[BillyCarpenter]

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... why do you keep hanging onto the past? It does not really matter anymore four five years ago. People need to earn an income today.

The corrupt ex President is never coming back and you have nothing in common with him.

Run-away inflation has already started to happen under Joe Biden. You don't know enough about the economy to understand what that means and I don't have the energy to explain it to you. By the time 4 years has passed, the USA will be lucky if we survive. Impending disaster is upon us. Write it down.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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Run-away inflation has already started to happen under Joe Biden. You don't know enough about the economy to understand what that means and I don't have the energy to explain it to you. By the time 4 years has passed, the USA will be lucky if we survive. Impending disaster is upon us. Write it down.

... we have heard "the sky is falling message" and "blame it all on Biden" story from you a dozen times.

Inflation right now is global event caused by the pandemic disruption to the the world's economy and interest rates that are probably too low.

[BillyCarpenter]

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... we have heard "the sky is falling message" and "blame it all on Biden" story from you a dozen times.

Inflation right now is global event caused by the pandemic disruption to the the world's economy and interest rates that are probably too low.

We need some intelligent liberals on this site. At least ones with a basic understanding of the economy. Is that asking too much?

Inflation is back. Biden should be worried


New York (CNN Business)It's time to sound the inflation alarm inside the White House.


From used cars and gasoline to lumber and food, prices are surging. The return of inflation, after a decades-long absence, is squeezing families and businesses recovering from the pandemic.
In many ways, higher prices can be seen as evidence that President Joe Biden's economic and health policies are working. The successful rollout of vaccines is allowing companies to reopen and Americans to resume traveling, spending and working. Growth is being turbo-charged by rock-bottom interest rates and unprecedented fiscal stimulus.
I pray the Fed will be right. I hope it's transitory. It's not clear it will be."


FORMER DALLAS FED PRESIDENT RICHARD FISHER


For many years, the nightmare for the US economy was a Japanese-style spiral of falling prices. Now, the risk for the White House is an economy that overheats, forcing the Federal Reserve to cool it down by raising interest rates so aggressively that it short-circuits the Biden boom, both on Main Street and Wall Street.

"The cruel thing about this is, once again, the little guy is being hurt," Richard Fisher, former president of the Dallas Federal Reserve, told CNN Business.
Summers: 'The inflation risk is real'
Larry Summers, the Clinton-era Treasury secretary, is sounding the alarm on inflation via a series of increasingly urgent warnings.
In an op-ed titled "The inflation risk is real," Summers wrote in the Washington Post Monday that overheating is now the "primary risk" facing the US economy. The former Obama official said the Fed may need to begin to tighten policy and urged the Biden administration to "move past emergency policies," including addressing a growing shortage of workers.




Noting that inflation spikes "disproportionately hurt the poor" and are linked to diminished trust in government, Summers reminded progressives that inflation played a big role in electing Republican presidents in 1968 and 1980.
The good news is that the Fed, and many economists, expect prices to cool off after the initial shock of the reopening passes.
The bad news? There is no inflation playbook following a once-in-a-century pandemic. No one truly knows how "transitory" inflation will be.
"We were never good at forecasting. Nobody is, not even the brilliant minds at the Fed," Fisher said. "I pray the Fed will be right. I hope it's transitory. It's not clear it will be."
Biden official: No sign of long-term inflation
The White House is pushing back on these inflation jitters.
"We expect temporary imbalances between supply and demand, whether it is fewer rental cars available at first or fewer airline flights as airlines move back to their regular schedules," a White House official told CNN Business on Tuesday. "These are signs of recovery."
Although the Biden official acknowledged specific supply chain bottlenecks will take time to sort out, the official added: "We do not see signs of persistent dislocation or long-term inflation."
"Our team closely monitors inflationary pressures but inflation is first and foremost under the purview of the Federal Reserve," the White House official told CNN Business.

[Phil B.]

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We need some intelligent liberals on this site. At least ones with a basic understanding of the economy. Is that asking too much?

Why yes, yes it is Billy. I'm afraid no such creature exists in our known universe.

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[slimslob]

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Why yes, yes it is Billy. I'm afraid no such creature exists jn our known universe.

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What is even harder to find is an honest one.

[Phil B.]

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European Scientists: Scientists In Wuhan Lab Created SARS-CoV-2, Has ‘No Credible Natural Ancestor’ | The Daily Wire

[bsm2]

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Run-away inflation has already started to happen under Joe Biden. You don't know enough about the economy to understand what that means and I don't have the energy to explain it to you. By the time 4 years has passed, the USA will be lucky if we survive. Impending disaster is upon us. Write it down.

Ok Billy is a Failure No need to write it down.
The Sky is Falling

[bsm2]

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Funny how some Folks want to blame China but fail to blame the past Failed Administration handling of Covid19

[bsm2]

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As of 6 a.m. EDT May 28, a total of 133,532,544 Americans had been fully vaccinated, or 40.2 percent of the country's population, according to the CDC's data.

[BillyCarpenter]

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Interesting.

Texas hospital faces lawsuit over coronavirus vaccination mandate


A Texas hospital is facing a lawsuit by 117 unvaccinated employees over its recently announced COVID-19 vaccine mandate, according to reports.


Houston Methodist Hospital, which manages eight hospitals, gave employees a June 7 deadline to receive the vaccine or risk suspension and termination, the lawsuit claims.





BIDEN SAYS 165M ADULTS RECEIVED COVID-19 VACCINE DOSE


The lawsuit cited the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorization, which is for emergency use and is not yet fully FDA approved and licensed.


The complaint also cites the Nuremberg Code, which bans forced medical experimentations, again in effect arguing that the vaccine is experimental and potentially unsafe.


Attorney Jared Woodfill, who filed the lawsuit, claims the hospital is trying to vaccinate employees in a bid to boost profitability.


ARIZONA GROUPS WORK TO VACCINATE 5,000 CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRANTS





However, medical experts have pushed back against labeling the vaccine as "experimental."


"This claim is absurd indeed," Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University, told the Post in an email. "There were tens of thousands of people who were in the Phase 3 clinical trials for the mRNA vaccines, and no safety concerns were found."


CDC LOOSENS MASK REQUIREMENTS FOR SUMMER CAMPS





"It is unfortunate that the few remaining employees who refuse to get vaccinated and put our patients first are responding in this way," Boom said. "It is legal for health care institutions to mandate vaccines, as we have done with the flu vaccine since 2009. The COVID-19 vaccines have proven through rigorous trials to be very safe and very effective and are not experimental."


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Woodfill noted that most of the plaintiffs are not health care providers. While some are nurses, none are doctors, the Houston Chronicle reported.

[bsm2]

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Man your internet is Slowwwwwww

[SalesServiceGuy]

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Now proven against coronavirus, mRNA can do so much more


When the final Phase 3 data came out last November showing the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna were more than 90% effective, Dr. Anthony Fauci had no words. He texted smiley face emojis to a journalist seeking his reaction.

This astonishing efficacy has held up in real-world studies in the US, Israel and elsewhere. The mRNA technology -- developed for its speed and flexibility as opposed to expectations it would provide strong protection against an infectious disease -- has pleased and astonished even those who already advocated for it.

The messenger RNA, or mRNA, platform may be new to the global public, but it's a technology that researchers had been betting on for decades. Now those bets are paying off, and not just by turning back a pandemic that killed millions in just a year.

This approach that led to remarkably safe and effective vaccines against a new virus is also showing promise against old enemies such as HIV, and infections that threaten babies and young children, such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and metapneumovirus. It's being tested as a treatment for cancers, including melanoma and brain tumors. It might offer a new way to treat autoimmune diseases. And it's also being checked out as a possible alternative to gene therapy for intractable conditions such as sickle cell disease.

The story of mRNA vaccines dates back to the early 1990s, when Hungarian-born researcher Katalin Kariko of the University of Pennsylvania started testing mRNA technology as a form of gene therapy. The idea is similar whether scientists want to use the mRNA molecule to cure disease or prevent it; send instructions to the cells of the body to make something specific.

Kariko was unable to drum up much interest in this idea for years. But for the past 15 years or so, she's teamed up with Dr. Drew Weissman, an infectious disease expert at Penn Medicine, to apply mRNA technology to vaccines. Since scientists started focusing on the threat of a pandemic caused by a new influenza or coronavirus, they've recognized the promise of mRNA vaccines for quickly turning around a pandemic vaccine.

"If you want to make a new influenza vaccine using the traditional methods, you have to isolate the virus, learn how to grow it, learn how to inactivate it, and purify it. That takes months. With RNA, you only need the sequence," Weissman told CNN.

Researchers like to use a cookbook analogy. The body's DNA is the cookbook. Messenger RNA is a copy of the recipe -- one that disappears quickly. In the case of genetic disease, it can be used to instruct cells to make a healthy copy of a protein. In the case of mRNA vaccines, it's used to tell cells to make what looks like a piece of virus, so the body produces antibodies and special immune system cells in response.

The recipe disappears while the cooked product -- the body's immune response -- lasts.

Other potential vaccines include malaria, tuberculosis and rare viruses such as Nipah virus, Weissman said -- all made more possible by the mRNA technology. Effective vaccines against these infections have eluded scientists for various reasons.

The mRNA approach might also work against some tickborne diseases, Weissman said.

[BillyCarpenter]

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Corona has been defeated. It's over. For those of you that haven't done so yet...burn your masks. Feel free to cough in public. It's over. I'd also like to send out a big Thank You to the USA for playing a lead role in defeating the virus. The USA is simply amazing.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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Canada recommends mixing and matching AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines

Canada is changing its guidelines on mixing and matching second doses of COVID-19 vaccines and is now advising Canadians to combine either the AstraZeneca-Oxford, Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna shots interchangeably in certain situations.

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) updated its guidance to provinces and territories Tuesday and recommended that a first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine can be followed by either Moderna or Pfizer.

For Canadians who have had a first dose of Moderna or Pfizer, NACI recommends they can now take either of the two shots as a second dose — because they both use a similar mRNA technology — if the same first dose is unavailable or unknown.

... my first shot was AZ and I am scheduled for my second shot Aug 11. With the new guidance I can probably get a second shot of Pfizer or Moderna shot later this month.

[bsm2]

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Corona has been defeated. It's over. For those of you that haven't done so yet...burn your masks. Feel free to cough in public. It's over. I'd also like to send out a big Thank You to the USA for playing a lead role in defeating the virus. The USA is simply amazing.

Yep thank you President BIDEN and the New Administration
Glad you agree