A while back, I made the mistake of posting joke on Facebook. I wrote, “Apparently, walking around Walmart with an Alka-Seltzer in my mouth and yelling ‘THE VACCINE HAS SIDE EFFECTS’ isn’t funny?”. This set off a chain reaction of fact-checking, to the point that it appears the code got caught up in an infinite loop and was basically fact-checking the fact-check:
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According to a Politico article entitled “Psaki excoriates criticism of Biden administration work on vaccine misinformation” by Nick Niedzwiadek on July 16, 2021, it is posts like this one that cause Biden press mouthpiece and former “Obama Scold” Jen Psaki to become so filled with rage that it is a wonder that all of a sudden, gouts of foam don’t come pouring out of her mouth while she spins around on the floor chewing off her own leg!
Going to that article, we have as follows:
White House press secretary Jen Psaki forcefully defended the Biden administration’s growing offensive on vaccine-related misinformation spreading on Facebook and other social media platforms.
“Our biggest concern, and frankly I think it should be your biggest concern, is the number of people who are dying around the country because they are getting misinformation that is leading them to not take a vaccine,” Psaki said during Friday’s daily press briefing.
“Young people, old people, kids, children … a lot of them are being impacted by misinformation.”
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Thus, it seems only a matter of time before the Biden-istas get the Cape Charles Mirror in their crosshairs for this post above here for posting a joke on Facebook that said “Apparently, walking around Walmart with an Alka-Seltzer in my mouth and yelling ‘THE VACCINE HAS SIDE EFFECTS’ isn’t funny.”
Getting back to the article:
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Thursday declared falsehoods and conspiracy theories proliferating online as an “urgent threat to public health” because of their effect on people’s willingness to get a Covid vaccine.
Murthy’s advisory set off a firestorm in some conservative-leaning circles where such misinformation has circulated and contributed to stubbornly low vaccination rates in certain regions.
Top Republican lawmakers accused the Biden administration of being in cahoots with social media companies to censor speech.
Public health officials have sounded the alarm in recent weeks because the overwhelming number of people hospitalized and dying from Covid-19 now are unvaccinated.
The White House decided to more aggressively respond to those who are discouraging vaccinations and create more pro-vaccine content, including spots featuring Gen Z pop star Olivia Rodrigo.
President Joe Biden took a shot at platforms including Facebook while leaving the White House on Friday afternoon.
“They’re killing people,” he told reporters in response to a question about Facebook.
“The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and they’re killing people.”
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Which statement by goofy old Joe Biden takes us to a Reuters story entitled “Vaccinated people make up 75% of recent COVID-19 cases in Singapore, but few fall ill” by Aradhana Aravindan and Chen Lin on July 23, 2021, where we have as follows concerni ng the fate of those who are vaccinated, to wit:
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Vaccinated individuals accounted for three-quarters of Singapore’s COVID-19 infections in the last four weeks, but they were not falling seriously ill, government data showed, as a rapid ramp-up in inoculations leaves fewer people unvaccinated.
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I don’t know about anybody else, but when I read that, and this is keeping in mind that there have been break-through COVID infections among the vaccinated right in the white house, where there shouldn’t be any COVID, at all, I wonder at what protection these vaccines really give us, which takes us back to the story, as follows:
While the data shows that vaccines are highly effective in preventing severe cases, it also underscores the risk that even those inoculated could be contagious, so that inoculation alone may not suffice to halt transmission.
Of Singapore’s 1,096 locally transmitted infections in the last 28 days, 484, or about 44%, were in fully vaccinated people, while 30% were partially vaccinated and just over 25% were unvaccinated, Thursday’s data showed.
Infections in vaccinated people do not mean vaccines are ineffective, experts said.
“As more and more people are vaccinated in Singapore, we will see more infections happening among vaccinated people,” Teo Yik Ying, dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
“It is important to always compare it against the proportion of people who remain unvaccinated…Suppose Singapore achieves a rate of 100% fully vaccinated…then all infections will stem from the vaccinated people and none from the unvaccinated.”
“We’ve got to accept that all of us will have to have some restrictions, vaccinated or not vaccinated,” said Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases physician and microbiologist at Canberra Hospital in the Australian capital.
“It’s just the restrictions are likely to be higher for those unvaccinated than vaccinated people, but that may still mean they have mask mandates indoors, for instance.”
The Singapore data also showed that infections in the last 14 days among vaccinated people older than 61 stood at about 88%, higher than the figure of just over 70% for the younger group.
Linfa Wang, a professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, said elderly people had been shown to have weaker immune responses upon vaccination.
In Israel, which also has a high vaccination rate, about half of the 46 patients hospitalised in severe condition by early July had been vaccinated, and the majority were from risk groups, authorities said.
It was not immediately clear if the Singapore data reflected reduced protection offered by vaccines against the Delta variant, the most common form in the wealthy city state in recent months.
Singapore uses the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in its national vaccination programme.
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So can we believe goofy old Joe Biden when he says “The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated?”
Or is that just some more “Joe Biden” we are being fed there?