Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook.
He was 84.”General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19,” the Powell family wrote on Facebook.”We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” they said, noting he was fully vaccinated.
The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association’s filing Friday also asked for an immediate hearing on the request before a federal court in Dallas, claiming the carrier has continued to take unilateral actions that violate terms of the Railway Labor Act, which governs airline-union relations. Those steps include the Covid-19 vaccination requirement.
“The new vaccine mandate unlawfully imposes new conditions of employment and the new policy threatens termination of any pilot not fully vaccinated by December 8, 2021,” the legal filing said. “Southwest Airlines’ additional new and unilateral modification of the parties’ collective bargaining agreement is in clear violation of the RLA.”
— Read on www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/southwest-air-pilots-seek-to-block-covid-vaccination-mandate/ar-AAPjkrB
Many of the country’s biggest food makers are telling grocers that they will have limited quantities of a number of their products, including things like Rice Krispies Treats, Sour Patch Kids, some Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors, McCormick gourmet spices, and Marie Callender’s pot pies because of labor, commodity and transportation constraints throttling supply chains, according to emails viewed by CNN and interviews with grocers. Some suppliers are also telling grocers to cancel their promotions of these items and more over the holidays so these items won’t disappear from store shelves as quickly.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/business/grocery-stores-food-supply-chain/index.html
That’s quite a number of common products that may just vanish with a poof. It’s also notable that a new saying has been coined, the “before times”. This statement and that title signifies life prior to 2019, when COVID-19 began to spread across the planet. The lock down to 2020 was one thing, but the great grocery store famine of 2021 is another.
The fearful question is what’s next? If it’s the before times what is the after times looking like?
At what point does disco from a pest and annoyance to a serious crisis with ramifications to the point of tyrannical government shut downs, military checkpoints, famines and few feasts?
Does that sound a little too tinfoil for you? Not having sour patch kids would’ve sounded pretty tinfoil two years ago.
For weeks now people on Facebook may have been seeing a sponsored post written by the Wall Street Journal. Perhaps you did not see it if your news feed is not attuned to COVID-19 or stories about the pandemic..
But this is very interesting, because there have been countless people who have said that Facebook stop them from monetizing posts about Covid, the pandemic, or anything related to the vaccine.
As we have long saw, major corporations or news media outlets get more of a pass than individuals or freelancers.
It would be interesting to find out just how much the Wall Street Journal actually paid for the sponsor ship, especially given the fact that this article was written a month ago.
But even more, the headline has not aged very well with time. Yes, there have been countless conspiracy theories that Bill Gates is behind the diabolical plot to microchip everyone on the entire planet or create a big giant depopulation program to wipe us out by 70%. On the flipside, other media outlets have praised him beyond any accuracy and treated him like a second coming of a Christlike figure.
The truth in between also is troubling, with revelations because of his divorce coming out about that interesting and friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, despite his public interviews in which he said he distance himself many years ago. Others have found evidence to the contrary.
So to see this long running sponsored ad from the Wall Street Journal focusing on how Bill Gates, and no one else, does not believe we’re ready for the next pandemic only will play further into the hands or minds of conspiracy theorist that already think either has too much power or knows more than what he’s letting on.
Fake news, half-baked news, fancy full praise and invalid or half assed reactions. Welcome to the world of pandemic coverage. What you see may not be real and could be very well different with an a year. We’re living in the misinformation age. Embrace it, and get ready for that next pandemic that Bill Gates is warning of.
A woman in her late 30s has died of a rare blood clotting condition nearly two weeks after receiving a single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in Washington, according to state health officials. The woman is the first confirmed death in King County, and the fourth person to die nationwide out of the nearly 15 million people who have received the J&J shot since it became available in the U.S.
“We at Public Health are saddened by this loss and offer condolences to the woman’s family and loved ones,” the county’s public health department said in a statement released Tuesday. “As with many medications, the risk of serious adverse events is small, but not zero. It is vital for people to have this information in order to make their own informed decisions.”
The news release indicates that she received her vaccine in late August and died some two weeks later, right around the same mark that previous deaths had occurred from this rare disorder.
Read more at: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/coronavirus/article254781422.html#storylink=cpy
While the media publication is reporting this as a bombshell report, it has been a long rumored possibility. Some have argued that the virus originated as early as September, with other stating that it was around Italy in mid 2019.
The Wuhan games is included thousands of athletes from around the world, and as cases began to pop up in different portions of the planet in December 2019 and January 2020, it gives credence to the possibility that this was a mass super spreader event that truly began the pandemic officially before we even realized it was occurring.
There have also been documented reports of athletes becoming sick, and some athletes showing similar signs of the COVID-19 virus…
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COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000.
The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country. But the COVID-19 crisis is by any measure a colossal tragedy in its own right, especially given the incredible advances in scientific knowledge since then and the failure to take maximum advantage of the vaccines available this time.
The United States’ ‘known death toll’ from COVID-19 will surpass the number of dead from the Spanish Flu within the next day or two, according to the side-by-side numbers ..
While both viruses (and times that took place in) are different, the fact we are Close to Surpassing the Spanish flu death toll in modern society is alarming..
COVID-related U.S. deaths as of Sunday night are at 673,763, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
That’s just over 1,200 fewer than died in the 1918 Spanish Flu, which took an estimated 675,000 lives in the U.S. Before this, that flu pandemic was the most lethal since the United States was formed. With an 1,800-per-day death average, the number who’ve died of COVID-19 could surpass the previous scourge by Monday.
Hard to believe that it felt like just yesterday that news publications like Time magazine were featuring a 200,000 death toll on their cover.
Now it seems like it’s a toll that the old media has forgotten to keep counting?
Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and generates a “robust” immune response in a clinical trial of kids ages 5 to 11, the drugmakers announced Monday.
The companies tested a two-dose regimen of 10 micrograms — about a third the dosage used for teens and adults — administered three weeks apart. They said the shots were well tolerated and produced an immune response and side effects comparable to those seen in a study of people ages 16 to 25
Former Minecraft YouTuber Bashur (also known as Toasty) has reportedly died of COVID..
Real name Brandon Dylan Asher.
This is a developing situation with a lot of online commentary praising him for past videos, speaking about past controversies, but lamenting the passing of the gamer…
