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I have been living my life through all of this and have avoided covid, but somehow think I have it now. I’m not going to get tested though, because I do not consent. Husband sick with fever and body aches. 10 year old woke up with low grade fever, body aches and headache today. I’m better after a day and a half nebulizing hydrogen peroxide and saline. (We live in a pretty vaccinated county in central IL) I wish we would just stop testing and start staying home when they don’t feel well.

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So, they count people who died WITH but not FROM covid as a covid death, but now count only those treated with certain medications as covid hospitalizations, regardless of the fact you are in the hospital for covid symptoms.

Fudge the data to scare everyone into getting the shots, then fudge the data to hide the fact the shots don't work...

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I bet a regression analysis of the county-level data would show that population density and vaccination rate together account for almost all of the variance, with vaccination rate being the dominant factor. Since vaxx rate is itself partly a function of population density (urban tends to be liberal tends to vaxx at a higher rate) it might well be that the population density effect disappears almost entirely once vaxx rate is controlled for.

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Again and again and again I count my blessings that I was never swayed by all the fear porn and the restrictions that even to this day continue here in Canada. Fuck the jab!

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As Geert Vanden Bossche has explained it, these highly vaxxed people are producing antibodies that can bind, but not neutralize their infections, hence, these antibodies actually promote infection by leaving the spike in an open confirmation position, allowing it to more easily bind with ACE2 receptors. The same antibodies that are causing mild-ish disease in the upper respiratory tract are also currently not permitting cell to cell fusion (“trans- fusion”) in the lower respiratory tract. Meanwhile, infection rates are very, very high and the virus is having ample opportunity to select mutations that will help it overcome the suppression of cell to cell fusion in the lower respiratory tract. Once the virus crosses this “valley of fitness” and is able to form syncytia and infect very well cell to cell in deep lung, folks, the fat lady will be about to sing and all of us unvaccinated folks will be blamed mightily and better run for the hills. Even though it won’t be one iota our fault, but rather the fault of the mass vaccination promoters! Ugh. Get yourselves ready to be scapegoated once again. I wish I could see that NOT happening, but seeing how we have been treated up to now… (abominably), it doesn’t look promising.

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Kind of stunned to learn New Hampshire changed its definition of covid hospitalization. So in the category of major definitional changes to suit the public health/political narrative we now have: 1) Changed def of pandemic by WHO (ok, it happened a few years ago; 2) Changed def of vaccine by CDC; 3) Changed def of what it means to be sick (positive reading from a dubious test; 4) Changed def of cause of death (of vs with covid); Changed def of hospitalization to no longer mean simply being hospitalized. I’m sure I’m missing something but this is gettIng pretty crazy.

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regarding a map of booster rates, I pulled data from covidactnow which has a column for additional doses of covid (doesn't show 3rd, 4th, 5th booster, just an additional dose). When I ran an x/y chart - it's something on the order of slope of .5 with high R^2. Places that got the vaxxed in the first place got boosted, places that didn't didn't.

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I live in the Upper Left, out in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, where masking in public indoor spaces, in one’s car while alone, and even masking up while hiking on the beach is still the reality for the majority of people. Our county has the highest infection rate in the state, perfectly aligning with our very high compliance rate for the poke. Kids are no longer required to wear masks to school but must still be tested before sporting events and even last night’s prom. It seems that every time someone sneezes they test, test, test. Having Covid now is a badge of honor, like you’re finally taking one for the team… businesses run gofund me campaigns when one of their staff tests positive so that they can close for ten days and not lose revenue… restaurants still want proof of the poke in order to eat inside… the social pressure to wear a mask is worse now than ever before… I swear, we’re living in The Twilight Zone. Thanks for keeping us unvaxxed Gen Xers who still live here a little bit sane.

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May 22, 2022·edited May 22, 2022

el gato malo, I can't seem to get the link to be exact or to post a screen shot.

The booster map you are looking for is on the same page as the vaccinated map you show above. They have 3 options tabs: Fully vaccinated; Fully vaccinated, 65+; Boosted.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html

There is also a percentage table further down the page on the NYTimes interactive.

Also this percentage table:

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/pharmacy/states-ranked-by-booster-rates.html

Hope this helps. No surprise, the highest fully vaccinated areas are also the highest boosted. Where I am in Boulder, CO the boosted rate is 50%, 87% for age 65+!!!

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My anecdote tangentially related - after getting the initial two-shot regimen last spring (ugh) I suddenly became VERY susceptible to severe reactions to poison oak and poison ivy, which had never happened before and I've gardened here my whole life. I could barely work in my garden last year even it was just relentless. I ended up having to get on prednisone and still it took weeks to clear. This year I just went for it, I don't know, I couldn't help myself - I've been gardening and clearing brush like normal. No problems at all. And I AM seeing ivy and pulling it up! So ... interesting?

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Maybe blindness is a side effect of jabbing….do you have these maps in braille?

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Great insight! Yet many countries are actually still persuing to introduce a tax for the unvaccinated to increase vaccination rate and to cover higher health costs - hideous!

https://changeandevolve.substack.com/p/special-issue-16?s=w

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Something that occurs to me: with all the vaxxed ppl with weakened immune systems does it make it more likely that "rare" diseases like monkey pox become more prevalent?

And

Shingles is a related pox (but not in the same genus or something) and there are piles of ppl getting shingles after vaxxing - each time they vax even though the have been inoculated with shingrix. So their weakened immune system lets those dormant and suppressed things come to life.

Final and

I wonder how many ppl getting monkey pox have been jabbed for COVID.

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Check out the BC CDC dashboard, you may get very similar data. 91% of deaths in the last month are jabbed. This was predicted by GVB, and ignored by all health authorities, media, government, and brainwashed KARENs.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/bccdc/viz/BCCDCCOVID-19SurveillanceDashboard/Introduction

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We unvaccinated have been spitting into envelopes and mailing them to random people in the highly vaccinated areas.

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Vermont: "The COVID-19 Surveillance Report focuses on the data and indicators most useful to help monitor and determine risk of COVID-19 in Vermont. It is updated every Wednesday by 1:00 p.m. These weekly reports replace the COVID-19 case dashboard. The final dashboard update was May 18.

COVID-19 data sets are still accessible through the Vermont Open Geodata Portal, including case counts, hospitalizations, deaths, PCR testing and more. The Geodata Portal is updated on Wednesdays."

From: https://www.healthvermont.gov/covid-19/covid-19-activity-and-surveillance

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