“While the situation of coronavirus in the world is deteriorating, Israel is safe and protected,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement. “In order to maintain this, and to safeguard the continuity of normal life, we must continue to closely monitor the situation and prepare for any scenario.”
The number of seriously ill Israelis suffering from Covid-19 dropped from around 700 at the end of August to 149 on Nov. 10, while the number of daily new infections fell from around 10,000 a day to just under 500.
— Read on www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-holds-e2-80-98war-games-e2-80-99-to-prepare-for-more-lethal-covid-strain/ar-AAQzQDK
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Israel Holds ‘War Games’ to Prepare for More Lethal Covid Strain
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NPR reports that hospital emergency rooms across the nation are suddenly filled with sicker people than ever before who don’t have COVID-19
Except for initial hot spots like New York City, many ERs across the U.S. were often eerily empty in the spring of 2020. Terrified of contracting COVID-19, people who were sick with other things did their best to stay away from hospitals. Visits to emergency departments dropped to half their normal levels, according to the Epic Health Research Network, and didn’t fully rebound until the summer of 2021.
But now, they’re too full. Even in parts of the country where COVID-19 isn’t overwhelming the health system, patients are showing up to the ER sicker than they were before the pandemic, their diseases more advanced and in need of more complicated care.
— Read on www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/26/1046432435/ers-are-now-swamped-with-seriously-ill-patients-but-most-dont-even-have-covid -
In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan; Vanity Fair reports
On Wednesday, the NIH sent a letter to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that acknowledged two facts. One was that EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City–based nonprofit that partners with far-flung laboratories to research and prevent the outbreak of emerging diseases, did indeed enhance a bat coronavirus to become potentially more infectious to humans, which the NIH letter described as an “unexpected result” of the research it funded that was carried out in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The second was that EcoHealth Alliance violated the terms of its grant conditions stipulating that it had to report if its research increased the viral growth of a pathogen by tenfold.
— Read on www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-risky-virus-research-in-wuhan -
Colin Powell dead of COVID-19
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.
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Southwest Air Pilots Seek to Block Covid Vaccination Mandate
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 -
Experts and media agree: Grocery store shelves aren’t going back to normal
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.htmlThat’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.
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The sponsored post that won’t go away!
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..
Here is the article for your enjoyment
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.
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Hospital system says it will deny transplants to the unvaccinated in ‘almost all situations’
A Colorado-based health system says it is denying organ transplants to patients not vaccinated against the coronavirus in “almost all situations,” citing studies that show these patients are much more likely to die if they get covid-19.
The policy illustrates the growing costs of being unvaccinated and wades into deeply controversial territory — the use of immunization status to decide who gets limited medical care. The mere idea of prioritizing the vaccinated for rationed health resources has drawn intense backlash, as overwhelmingly unvaccinated covid-19 patients push some hospitals to adopt “crisis standards of care,” in which health systems can prioritize patients for scarce resources based largely on their likelihood of survival.
The future of medicine only for some…?
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Chinese defector claims Wuhan Military Games was first Covid-19 superspreader event
But defector and democracy campaigner Wei Jingsheng made a stunning accusation in Sky News’ new documentary, What Really Happened In Wuhan, telling reporter Sharri Markson – who has also penned a book by the same name – that he believed the first Covid superspreader event could have occurred as early as October.
— Read on www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/allegations-first-superspreader-covid-event-occurred-in-wuhan-military-games-in-october-2019/news-story/d7a612421bc888367020b7e3b8f5f072While 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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SPANISH FLU VS COVID
The “Do’s and Don’t’s” from the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic….
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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.