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LeoMC said:
PHE released a series of reports with the title "SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation in England": look for them, open an Excel/Numbers or whatever and calculate for yourself.

Medrixv published in 23.12.2021 a Danish study, showing negative protection after 91 days after the 2nd dose for people that had 2 jabs.
Every western country: over 80% of people deceased with covid has had at least one chronic condition; under 65 the percentage goes way over 90%.
CDC - study on efficacy for children vaccination has not met the criteria - stopped from publishing.
Oxford University and NHS: the risk for a young healthy unvaccinated person to catch and die from covid is 1 in 200.000 (they even made an application, based on UK data, for everyone to calculate the risk).

The super-sad thing (criminal actually), is that studies are starting to come out (and had been all along) on how much impact a few simple things would have been, like making sure people's vitamin D levels has been good (and supplementing), bumping up basic exercise, especially outdoors (like a 30-min walk a couple times per week), trying to reduce stress (especially encouraging less hysteria... hello gov't & MSM), etc.

And, yes, in context a large portion of Covid-19 deaths would have been deaths anyway, just from something else. When you weigh the remaining deaths against deaths caused by the restrictions, once again, it is criminal. So much needless pain and suffering.

This will all come out eventually, it will just take time. Sadly, people, by then, will probably have lost the motivation to be sure the responsible parties pay... just like we just had multi-billion $ criminal charges against big-pharma for the opioid crisis, and no one goes to jail. It's just a cost of doing business. Make hundreds of billions, pay tens of billions in fines, laugh all the way to the bank.

crowley said:
Either way, I've been engaging in good faith while you are clearly more interested in being an edge lord, so it's not worth continuing this.

Anyone who's even given the slightest effort to trying to be objective, and is still sticking to the gov't/legacy-media narrative anymore, isn't operating in 'good faith.' Sorry

Everything down the line has been largely wrong. PCR testing, lockdowns, universal masking, smacking down early treatment/prevention, pushing a vax-only solution, pushing mandates on a failed solution, etc. One might argue a point here or there, and the anti-vax/mandate crowd certainly gets things wrong here and there or also goes too far. But, the truth isn't all that hard to find if you want to look. The censorship hasn't been that absolute (yet).

GeorgeBMac said:
Bullshit

In what regard? Droplet vs aerosol transmission? Or, you don't think coughing is more an issue in medical situations (where the patients are sick)?

jcs2305 said:
So the setting of this study you provide is in close quarters ( 1m = 3.28 ft ) and admits that the actual use of masks was inconsistent. Close quarters for extended periods of time and not using a masks consistently is the very example of how to spread COVID. wow...

I think you'd better read it a bit more carefully, instead of just looking for some 'gotcha' you think you found.

lonestar1 said:
But you force other people to be exposed to your viruses. You think that people who don’t believe in modern medicine and science are the only ones who have rights.

There’s an old saying, “Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.” Your “right” to damage or destroy other people’s lives and property is not a right, it’s a wrong.

It’s not all about you, 

I'd agree, except that most of the pandemic policies were based on no/faulty science, and aren't without cost/harm on the other side of the equation. It isn't OK to harm people just so you can make yourself feel better/safer either. (That said, masks certainly aren't the hill I'd die on here in terms of importance. The vaccine mandates are the real human rights violation. I wear a mask 8+ hours per work day, so I've lots of mask-wearing experience over the last couple of years.)

GeorgeBMac said:

I just scrap any debris off -- although I avoid touching the grills.

I finally figured out my biggest problem though:  My Airpods repeatedly developed a problem where one would not only not charge but actually discharge while in the case.

It turned out (I think) that it was sweat on the Airpod after a workout (mostly running) where the sweat would run down and corrode the terminal in the bottom of the case.   The case tested fine but the Airpod was not working right -- so Apple kept replacing the Airpod when the case was the problem.

Now I wipe them off before returning them to the case.

I'll have to watch for that. I've been having uneven charging/discharge issues as well. But, it must be something like that, as it isn't 100% consistent. The other weird thing, is I can take them out, both 100% charged (or really close), and one might die quite some time before the other. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. It isn't 100% consistent either, though I'd say it is one ear more often than the other (so many one battery is weaker... but it doesn't always do it).

In other news, Iceland (super-highly vaccinated) drops all restrictions.
Ministry of health says, "Widespread societal resistance to COVID-19 is the main route out of the epidemic. To achieve this, as many people as possible need to be infected with the virus as the vaccines are not enough, even though they provide good protection against serious illness."
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/iceland-lift-all-covid-19-restrictions-friday-media-reports-2022-02-23/

Many of we conspiracy theorists have been booted from social media, temporarily or permanently, for saying such things.

I'm glad to see this, and I'm been impressed with some of the advances, especially concerning the watch and detection of issues.

But, if they want to make a really big impact, they are going to have to address food/nutrition. I'm not sure how they can do this in a meaningful way. All the fitness stuff is nice, but is a fraction of the problem compared to what we eat (and not a simple/problematic metric like calories!).