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Saturday, March 1, 2025

Post #7152 J

 Pandemic Report

The latest weekly stats from CDC:



We are still seeing a lag in latest COVID statistics but continuing to show declining statistics overall nation wide and a particularly nasty flu season finally peaking. A new Republican congresswoman-elect María Elvira Salazar is another recent COVID-infected celebrity.

The latest related news items includes;

  • "During pandemic, ivermectin use rose 10-fold, hydroxychloroquine use doubled" 
  • "Scientists find clues on why COVID vaccine causes chronic health problems in some. Yale researchers recently made some discoveries about why certain people experience this condition, which they have dubbed "post-vaccination syndrome" (PVS), People with this condition may suffer from excessive fatigue, exercise intolerance, brain fog, insomnia and dizziness, according to the Yale researchers. .These typically develop within a day or two of vaccination and can worsen over time. Post-vaccination syndrome is real, and has been found [to occur] from many vaccines, including COVID.
  • "Public Health Command Europe Officials have seen a sharp increase of a trio of respiratory illnesses, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19, in the last month"
  • Remember Buffalo Bills safety Bills safety Damar Hamlin and anti-vaxxer rubbish over his cardiac issue during a key game? "Cardiac Arrest in Athletes Did Not Increase During COVID Pandemic"
  • "COVID-19 led to high rates of mortality, reducing life expectancy in many countries. These reductions have not recovered yet, and some regions still experience excess deaths post-2021. However, not all countries experienced equal declines—while most saw a decrease, some, such as Ireland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, showed marginal improvement or stability in life expectancy."
  • "Scientists have identified a new coronavirus in bats, but it’s not a public health threat"
  • "Vaccine hesitancy has increased since COVID-19"
  • "COVID survivors nearly twice as likely to have ongoing symptoms as those with flu"
  • "A pair of new scientific papers flagged by Ars Technica — one of them by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another agency targeted by Trump — has revealed what COVID-19 vaccinations actually do to children and teens.Shockingly, they both show that annual shots not only greatly lower the risk of developing long COVID, but that they aren't linked to sudden cardiac death in young people, as many conspiracy theories have claimed. In short, it's even more evidence demonstrating the importance of COVID vaccines, not just for adults, but for kids as well."

Other Notes

\Well, I fell a blog post short of my target of 40. l did publish a post on immigration I had been working working on that for over a week. There were more things I wanted to do with the essay (like compare my Franco-American culture and Latino-American culture, more detailed discussion on Trump's nativism, the history of nativism, etc.) But I also had to put the post out there because Trump is deporting people and not just violent criminals. As I write, he's still sending more troops to the border. I can address these or other talking points in a follow-up post. But Friday's Trumper tantrum in the Oval Office with Zelensky is an obvious post. I still want to do one on tariffs, and I've been planning to do one or more on Trump's inaugural address. On Twitter/X, my followers seem to change almost daily but I haven't broken 80 followers yet  I had my first 8k+ impression in a while, merely quoting a doctor saying Trump's executive order cutting aid for school with COVID vaccine mandates didn't do anything because there weren't any such schools.

I filed my first FBI incident over a spammer texting me threatening to pull my driver's license if I didn't pay an alleged EZPASS toll. I haven't driven through a toll road in 8 months and I know I have an existing balance that gets replenished when the balance falls below like $25 dollars. So I had to wait in a phone queue of close to an hour to find out they know about the scammers, they don't  operate that way, and my account is in good standing.

Well, the renewed WD disk I bought from Amazon malfunctioned within 30 days or so. It's a shame. Amazon didn't give me a hassle returning and refunding the purchase. I've purchased a new external 2 TB SSD. Although more expensive , these can be tiny little things perfect for my new laptop. I have several layers of redundancy. I'm going to think again whether to trust a reconditioned drive.

WWE held its last pre-Wrestlemania PLE, Elimination Chamber. By far the most noteworthy item is John Cena turned heel for the first time ever in this, his final year of competition, landing the right to challenge Cody Rhodes, also a babyface/good guy, for his unified WWE heavyweight championship. The story of Cena's final season was to earn a record-breaking title count. Cena does a lot of charity work and it was thought playing a heel/bad guy wouldn't work with that. The other big development was 2 big returns; Orton and Cargill. Jade Cargill had been taken out in a story injury. Naomi replaced her as Bianca Belair's women's tag team partner. So Jade showed up and took out Naomi, suggesting Naomi had been the one taking her out before.

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