Introducing 21 Ways COVID Changed the World

[Stryder50]

As you see, it's from Scientific American, yet it had some shortages on the objective scale. Still, an interesting read of sorts and the article has links to other COVID articles.

Introducing 21 Ways COVID Changed the World​

The pandemic didn’t bring us together, but it did show us what we need to change the most
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In the spring of 2020 a cartoon was making the rounds on social media. It showed a city perched on a tiny island, surrounded by ocean. A speech bubble emerged from the skyline: “Be sure to wash your hands and all will be well.” Not far out at sea, a giant wave labeled “COVID-19” was about to crash over the city. Behind it was an even bigger wave marked “recession.” And beyond that one was a tower of water that threatened to swallow it all: “climate change.”

I’ve often thought of that statement, by Canadian cartoonist Graeme MacKay, in moments that seem to define our pandemic disorientation: the botched messaging, willful unpreparedness and exhausted confusion. In America, though, the cartoon didn’t play out exactly as drawn. The economy actually grew in 2021. Does that mean the damage wasn’t as bad as many predicted? That question can only be answered in the context of another superlative: the U.S. claims the highest reported number of COVID cases—as well as COVID deaths—in the world.
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Introducing 21 Ways COVID Changed the World

The pandemic didn’t bring us together, but it did show us what we need to change the most

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[MaryL]

I got Covid. I sneezed. I coughed. I mostly kept kept singing the refrain from Peggy Lee's song "is that all there is" to Covid? We locked down our society and had these paranoid restrictions over...THIS?

 

[Stryder50]

I got Covid. I sneezed. I coughed. I mostly kept kept singing the refrain from Peggy Lee's song "is that all there is" to Covid? We locked down our society and had these paranoid restrictions over...THIS?

I hear you.
My wife and I got it just after last Easter. It was few days of a bad case of flu, though I think we have had worse in the past. Still, we isolated for the 10 days required.

Would appear to be a case of over-reaction, or "Never let a (potential) crisis go to waste".
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More Than 140 Million Americans Have Had COVID-19: CDC​

By Zachary Stieber

March 2, 2022 Updated: March 3, 2022
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Some 140 million Americans have had COVID-19 in the past, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The estimate is drawn from blood tests and would mean 43 percent of the American population has strong and long-lasting protection against COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

The blood samples are from commercial laboratories that have been working with the CDC to conduct seroprevalence surveys. They are testing for antibodies to the CCP virus, also known as SARS-CoV-2.

About 6 percent of the U.S. population was estimated in August 2020 to have antibodies to the virus. That number crept up over time, and jumped from 33.5 percent to 43 percent between December 2021 and late January, the latest results reported. Nearly 60 percent of children 18 or younger have had COVID-19, according to the estimates, along with close to half of Americans aged 18 to 49, 37 percent of people aged 50 to 64, and a little under a quarter of those 65 and older.

In 13 states, a majority of residents are estimated to have had COVID-19. In 19 others, more than 40 percent of residents are pegged as having had the disease.

Wisconsin has the highest estimate, 56 percent. Vermont has the lowest, 18 percent.
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More Than 140 Million Americans Have Had COVID-19: CDC

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[Harpy Eagle]

I got Covid. I sneezed. I coughed. I mostly kept kept singing the refrain from Peggy Lee's song "is that all there is" to Covid? We locked down our society and had these paranoid restrictions over...THIS?

My wife's uncle got COIVD and was dead in less than a week.

Seems personal anecdotes do not really prove a thing

 

[Stryder50]

My wife's uncle got COIVD and was dead in less than a week.

Seems personal anecdotes do not really prove a thing

Did your wife's uncle have other comorbidities?

Personal anecdotes prove to those whom experienced them*. Prior to "Covid" the annual flu produced the same small range of fatalities and much larger range of those whom had it and got over it.

* Your "wife's uncle" is an example of personal anecdote.

 

[Stryder50]

The King Who Ordered a Quarantine to Flatten the Curve 4,000 Years Ago​

Little was known about the mystery disease that was ravaging the ancient kingdom of Mari. But King Zimri-Lim knew the key to stopping it was social distancing — and no small amount of patience.
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The King Who Ordered a Quarantine to Flatten the Curve 4,000 Years Ago

Little was known about the mystery disease that was ravaging the ancient kingdom of Mari. But King Zimri-Lim knew the key to stopping it was social distancing — and no small amount of patience.

getpocket.com

 

[Harpy Eagle]

* Your "wife's uncle" is an example of personal anecdote.

yes I know, that was the whole point.

Glad you caught on

 

[Stryder50]

The Coronavirus’s Next Move​

Here are four shapes that the next variant might take—which will also dictate the shape of our response.
By Katherine J. Wu
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If the coronavirus has one singular goal—repeatedly infecting us—it’s only gotten better at realizing it, from Alpha to Delta to Omicron. And it is nowhere near done. “Omicron is not the worst thing we could have imagined,” says Jemma Geoghegan, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Otago, in New Zealand. Somewhere out there, a Rho, a Tau, or maybe even an Omega is already in the works.

Not all variants, though, are built the same. The next one to trouble us could be like Delta, speedy and a shade more severe yet still trounceable with existing vaccines. It could riff on Omicron’s motif, eluding the defenses raised by infections and shots to an extent we’ve not yet seen. It could merge the worst aspects of both of those predecessors, or find its own successful combo of traits. Each iteration of the virus will require a slightly different set of strategies to wrangle it—the ideal approach will depend on “how sick are people getting, and which people are getting sick,” Angela Shen, a vaccine-policy expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told me.

Our actual response won’t just depend on the mix of mutations that the virus lobs our way. It will also hinge on how seriously we take those changes, and what state the virus finds us in when it slams us—immunologically, psychologically. While the next spotlight-hogging variant is still brewing, we can sketch out, in broad and not-at-all-comprehensive strokes, a subset of the cast of characters that could arise, and what it would take to fend off each one.
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The Coronavirus’s Next Move

Here are four shapes that the next variant might take—which will also dictate the shape of our response.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Stryder50]

Anyone whom wishes is free to place the following in any other COVID thread;

CDC Tries to Pull Fast One, Eliminates MASSIVE Amount of COVID Deaths Overnight​

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Political bureaucrats, disguised as caring, healthcare professionals have flat out lied to the American people. Through CDC recommendations and policies, public life was manipulated like never before in history. The lies and manipulations have devastated an entire generation.

Draconian quarantines and lockdowns have been proven to be virtually useless. Masks were equally ineffective. But one of the biggest distortions of the truth involved the reporting of COVID deaths. The CDC misrepresented deaths from the pandemic for different reasons.

One motive was to coerce people into getting vaccinated out of fear. It turned out the vaccine wasn’t nearly as effective as the CDC and other medical bureaucrats claimed it would be. The second motive for misrepresenting deaths also involved fear.

The CDC has been steadily trying to manipulate how the public viewed the pandemic’s effect on children. There were thousands of documented pages of bonafide research insisting that children were at little risk of getting seriously sick from the virus.
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Because of this, the CDC has tried to clean up the trail of manipulation it has left behind. The CDC recently removed approximately 25 percent of the pediatric COVID deaths from their database. So, what was the excuse? Was it a change in scientific data involved?

No, according to the CDC, a coding error was responsible for 25 percent of pediatric deaths. We’re not buying this bogus excuse. We might accept a minimal percentage of incorrect death entries, say between two and five percent, as coding errors.

But there is no logical person who will believe that over a quarter of these mistakes were due to some type of coding error. Like the majority of the failed policies and recommendations from the CDC, this is just another manipulative lie.
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[Stryder50]

Banned Film Exposes the Real Reason for the COVID Pandemic​

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Prior to 2020, if you heard the term “lockdown” you might think of something that happens in a prison — not in a free society. This mechanism of control has since become commonplace — not among prisoners but among the free — with repercussions that are only beginning to be understood.

The film Planet Lockdown explores this unprecedented time in history, speaking with epidemiologists, scientists, doctors and other experts to uncover the real motives behind the increasing totalitarian control taking over the globe. Already banned by Facebook and YouTube, the film starts at the beginning of the pandemic, when we were told lockdowns were necessary to “flatten the curve.”

This was supposed to be a short-term, 15-day event in the U.S., but the narrative soon changed to ongoing restrictions. As Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., a former vice-president and chief scientific adviser of the drug company Pfizer and founder and CEO of the biotech company Ziarco, now owned by Novartis, explained, people have historically quarantined the sick, but quarantining healthy people, as has occurred for the past two years, has no scientific backing or historic precedence.2

“Given this virus represents, at most, a slightly bigger risk to the old and ill than seasonal influenza, and a less risk, a smaller risk, to almost everyone else who’s younger and fit,” Yeadon says, “it was never necessary for us to have done anything. We didn’t need to do anything — lockdowns, masks, testing, vaccines even.”3

The filmmakers of Planet Lockdown are allowing a free viewing of this film (for a limited time). CLICK HERE to learn more about their important mission and see how you can help!
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Banned Film Exposes the Real Reason for the COVID Pandemic

Prior to 2020, if you heard the term "lockdown" you might think of something that happens in a ...

www.theepochtimes.com

 

[Stryder50]

While there are several threads dealing with COVID, this seems the broader and more generic one for this;

I'm a Virus Expert and Most People Catch the Virus This Way Now​

It's vital for the public to be aware of the dangers of SARS-CoV-2 because it is a highly infectious virus with a high death rate and there are still questions about whether and when future variants will emerge. Using the Spanish Flu as a parallel, it devastated the world for approximately two to three years; then, the population developed some immunity, not perfect immunity but some immunity, with the influenza we have now. The same thing will eventually happen with COVID-19. So, if you fast forward 100 years, we will still have the coronavirus in some form as it will have continued to mutate. Still, we will have better natural immunity, better preventative measures and better therapeutics.
Over time we may improve on vaccines and develop good therapeutics, but much like influenza, we will deal with COVID-19 to some degree forever. Therefore, the more we know, the better we can protect ourselves from the next big outbreak. Read on to find out more—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don't miss these Sure Signs You've Already Had COVID.
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MSN

www.msn.com

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Cardiologist Says 30 Percent of Vaccinated Pilots Would Fail Health Screenings Due to Vaccine Injuries › American Greatness

Joshua Yoder, an airline pilot and co-founder of the U.S. Freedom Flyers said during an interview Wednesday that a cardiologist told him that if the airlines were conducting certain health screenings…

amgreatness.com

 

[LordBrownTrout]

While there are several threads dealing with COVID, this seems the broader and more generic one for this;

I'm a Virus Expert and Most People Catch the Virus This Way Now​

It's vital for the public to be aware of the dangers of SARS-CoV-2 because it is a highly infectious virus with a high death rate and there are still questions about whether and when future variants will emerge. Using the Spanish Flu as a parallel, it devastated the world for approximately two to three years; then, the population developed some immunity, not perfect immunity but some immunity, with the influenza we have now. The same thing will eventually happen with COVID-19. So, if you fast forward 100 years, we will still have the coronavirus in some form as it will have continued to mutate. Still, we will have better natural immunity, better preventative measures and better therapeutics.
Over time we may improve on vaccines and develop good therapeutics, but much like influenza, we will deal with COVID-19 to some degree forever. Therefore, the more we know, the better we can protect ourselves from the next big outbreak. Read on to find out more—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don't miss these Sure Signs You've Already Had COVID.
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MSN

www.msn.com

And the spanish flu was much deadlier. In 1918-1920 there were about 1.7 billion people worldwide and 50 million people died from that flu compared to 6 million deaths worldwide today and a population of almost 8 billion.

 

[Stryder50]

And the spanish flu was much deadlier. In 1918-1920 there were about 1.7 billion people worldwide and 50 million people died from that flu compared to 6 million deaths worldwide today and a population of almost 8 billion.

Which underscores the value of understanding "Then vs. Now" and how a century(+) ago we faced something worse than current and survived !!!

 

[Stryder50]

FWIW, and may be subjective ...

The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths​

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Officially, the U.S. will almost certainly reach an awful milestone in the next two weeks: its one millionth recorded Covid-19 death.


In reality, this milestone was likely unofficially crossed days or weeks ago, and we’ll never know the exact toll or the identity of the pandemic’s actual millionth victim. Nor are humans well-equipped to fully grasp loss on this scale, let alone the magnitude of a global toll estimated to be as high as 14.9 million.


One way to start understanding how a country as advanced as the U.S. lost so many people is to look at the ocean of public health data that was gathered as 1 million individual tragedies rippled through civic life.

Analysis of the data will continue for years, but it is clear that, when it comes to deadliness, there were five different pandemics — depending on when and where you lived, and who you were.

• • Earlier vs. later
  • Older vs. younger (but there’s fine print)
  • Unvaccinated vs. vaccinated
  • Rural vs. urban
  • Poorer vs. wealthier

Earlier vs. later​

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The 'five pandemics' driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths

STAT analyzes the data to show how five key factors worked to drive U.S. Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic, yielding "five pandemics."

www.statnews.com

 

[Stryder50]

Following likely contradicts the "official party line" and would likely be tagged by the "official experts" as disinformation, such as what the paused 'Ministry of Truth' was intended to thwart. Submitted here for those with more open and objective minds whom can think for themselves, wish to weigh all the data.
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COVID Vaccines May Bring Avalanche of Neurological Disease​

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EXCERPT;
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE​

• The typical unprecedented vaccine takes 12 years to develop, and of all the unprecedented vaccines in development, only 2% are projected to ever make it through all Phase 2 and 3 clinical phases of testing
• The COVID-19 vaccine was developed with Operation Warp Speed in less than one year, which makes it virtually impossible to assess safety and efficacy, as the vaccine has not been adequately tested
• In the next 10 to 15 years, we are likely to see spikes in prion diseases, autoimmune diseases, neurodegenerative diseases at younger ages, and blood disorders such as blood clots, hemorrhaging, stroke and heart failure

In this interview, return guest Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at MIT for over five decades, discusses the COVID-19 vaccines. Since 2008, her primary focus has been glyphosate and sulfur, but in the last year, she took a deep-dive into the science of these novel injections and recently published an excellent paper [1] on this topic.
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COVID Vaccines May Bring Avalanche of Neurological Disease

www.theepochtimes.com

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‘These Aren’t Normal Cancers’: What Doctors Are Seeing After COVID Shots​

‘These Aren’t Normal Cancers’: What Doctors Are Seeing After COVID Shots

www.theepochtimes.com

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Are Recombinant Covid Vaccines Causing These Deaths?​

Are Recombinant COVID Vaccines Causing These Deaths?

www.theepochtimes.com

 

[Stryder50]

Rubio Grills Dr. Fauci: How Is It Americans with COVID Can't Get in Country, But Illegals Can?​

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Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida asked Dr. Anthony Fauci — director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease — Tuesday to explain why Americans cannot return to the country if they test positive for COVID-19, but illegal aliens apprehended at the southern border can enter.

“I believe the United States is the only major Western country that now requires its citizens to test negative for COVID before they can get on an airplane and reenter the country,” Rubio told Fauci during Fauci’s appearance at a hearing of a subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Rubio went on to note that this dichotomy is taking place even as the Biden administration looks to end the implementation of Title 42, a section of the public health law that facilitated quick deportations for those entering the country illegally who pose a danger of spreading the coronavirus. ...
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Rubio Grills Dr. Fauci: How Is It Americans with COVID Can't Get in Country, But Illegals Can?

'We obviously know we have a problem on our southern border, where, every day, people are entering the country illegally.'

www.westernjournal.com

 

[Stryder50]

8 Ways Spike Protein Harms the Body and How to Remove It​

The signature protein of COVID-19 and the vaccine can undermine cell function with long-lasting effects
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world more than two years ago, more than 4.5 billion people worldwide have become fully vaccinated against it. Now more and more people are concerned that the spike proteins used in the vaccines and present in the virus are the cause of long COVID syndrome.

The spike protein, also known as the S protein, is the largest structural protein in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. It’s a signature structure that protrudes from the surface of the virus, creating the crown-like shape that coronaviruses get their name from. Corona is Latin for “crown” or “wreath.”

When the pandemic first started to spread, people’s understanding of the spike protein was very limited. It was thought that the spike protein only played the role of invading our cells by binding to the ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme) receptors on our cell walls. However, scientists have slowly discovered that the effects of this protein are multifaceted, and it interacts with other cellular tissues besides the ACE2 receptors.

8 Ways Spike Protein Harms the Body​

During more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, many studies have analyzed the effects of the spike protein from different aspects and have discovered that it’s harmful to the human body in several ways, including:

1. Damaging the lung cells (including the pulmonary alveoli and pulmonary endothelial cells).
2. Damaging the mitochondria and DNA structures.
3. Damaging cardiovascular cells.
4. Increasing the risk of blood clots.
5. Damaging brain cells.
6. Promoting inflammation.
7. Suppressing immunity.
8. Increasing the risk of cancer.

We’ll go into the details of each of these points.
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8 Ways Spike Protein Harms the Body and How to Remove It

Since the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world more than two years ago, more than 4.5 billion people ...

www.theepochtimes.com