What a complete scumbag you are. If that were De Santis or Trump or abbott...you would be vilifying them for months.
Did DeSantis or Abbott require all of their guests to be both vaccinated and tested prior to attending one of their political get-togethers. LOL
that distinction would not have made a difference to you... you would have started new thread an called vilified them for months. Like the Trumps Rose Garden ceremony. And by the way... that was not some sort of poltical event for the nation's new Justice... it was a birthday party. (so even that was a deceitful framing by you.) But... just so you know. I am not critiquing Obama on it. I fine with as long as it was low risk healthy people. ---
[Emphasis added] It's one thing to debate what another has said; but to debate another based on what you guess they would have said ... is special. You are essentially talking to with yourself.
https://greatgameindia.com/covid-over-in-norway/ COVID Is Over In Norway Declares National Health Chief He added to newspaper VG: “Here in Norway, the pandemic is so to say over. We can start to prepare ourselves for corona taking very little space in our everyday lives.” Hospital admissions and deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic have plummeted in Norway over the summer. In July, there were only five deaths, and there are now 14 hospitalised patients throughout the country, the newspaper Nettavisen reported. Estimates from Aavitsland indicated that the IFR (infection fatality rate), or the proportion who die as a result of infection, for COVID-19 was about 0.05 percent during the May – July period this year. “In May, June and July, we had a total of 23,877 proven cases, of which 25 died,” Aavitsland told Nettavisen. For the sake of comparison, IFR during a normal flu season is about 0.1, as calculated by pandemic researcher Svenn-Erik Mamelund at the University of Oslo. Citing uncertainty due to unreported numbers, Aavitsland instead cited a bracket between 0.05 and 0.2 percent. Earlier in June, Norway had announced that you are at a greater risk of dying from AstraZeneca vaccine branded as Covishield in India than from COVID-19.
Vaccines can win the race against COVID-19 variants. Here's how https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/vaccines-win-race-against-covid-19-variants
Children are now dying for Republican 'freedom' Apparently, the bodies of sick or dead children are not a motivator for today's Republicans. Then again, when were they? When 20 children were gunned down at Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012, Republicans didn't fight to end gun violence — they doubled down on unfettered gun access. When scientists warned decades ago that generations of children would grow up with the perils of climate change, Republicans didn't lead the charge for clean energy — they called the scientists liars and increased their support for oil and gas companies. And now, as pediatric hospitals overflow with children hospitalized by the delta variant, Republican leaders aren't coming to the rescue — they are the ones still refusing mask mandates and pandering to anti-vaxxers under the guise of freedom. Whose freedom, exactly? Setting aside the impacts of COVID-19 on adults, I could write all day about how the delta variant is looking worse for kids. I could point out the increased transmissibility, noting that for every infected person the delta variant now infects an average of six or seven new people — not two or three like last year's strain. Coupled with new evidence that suggests younger children might actually be more likely to spread the disease, it's easier than ever for young people to get sick from this virus. I could point out how the delta variant has led to a near sevenfold increase in pediatric cases over 30 days from July to August — a time when children haven't been in school — and how children now make up about 15% of overall cases in the United States. With precautions getting thrown out the window, classrooms are already becoming hotbeds of viral transmission as schools reopen. I could point out how vaccinations among American teenagers are the lowest of all eligible age groups, and nowhere near the amount needed to resume activities as normal. As of just a few weeks ago, only 25% of children ages 12 to 15 were fully vaccinated. I could highlight how at least 1,902 children have been hospitalized for COVID as of Saturday, or share the deaths of five school children in Mississippi who recently contracted the virus. I could remind everyone that many of these children are not yet eligible for the vaccine, and they are wholly reliant on the adults around them to make safe decisions. I'd point out that refusing to impose mask mandates and strong quarantine measures in schools is akin to inviting the “Outlook does not look good" response from a Magic 8 Ball. I could then go on to make very reasonable, science-informed policy proposals for universal masks — they work — and vaccines — they work, too — to reduce transmissions. I'd provide graphs and cite experts to show how it's easier to prevent outbreaks than control them, and why that's better for the economy. Most of all, I'd point out that refusing to impose mask mandates and strong quarantine measures in schools is akin to inviting the “Outlook does not look good" response from a Magic 8 Ball. And if I did all this, would it matter? I don't know. It feels like despite all the deaths in the past year and a half, too many American adults would still rather protect their perceived right to do whatever they please over protecting the right of a child to live. Republican leaders — and all adults — prove me wrong. Prove to me that mandating a thin piece of cloth over your nose and mouth isn't too much effort to save the life of a child. Prove to me that you'll strongly support vaccinations, because you understand that the best path to a child's long-term health is overcoming this pandemic as quickly as possible. Prove to all of us that your mantra isn't “Freedom for me, but not for thee." There was a time I thought protecting children and future generations was a shared value. Now, I'm not so sure — if you wouldn't change your policies to save children before, why would you change your policies to save them now?
Trump talks about Covid on Fox Business: 'It was virtually gone when I left — it was over' Former President Donald Trump ranted against vaccine booster shots and falsely insisted that the Covid-19 virus was "virtually gone" when he left office. During an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday, Trump said that he was "proud" to have taken the Covid vaccine. "When I was president, you didn't have this problem with people not wanting to take it," he said. "They don't take it because they don't trust Biden and they don't trust the Biden administration. When I was president, you didn't have people protesting the vaccine." "He's now president and he's doing a lousy job with coronavirus," the former president continued. "Coronavirus is back. If that ever happened to me where it came back, ok, when I left it was virtually gone. It was over. Now it's coming back through the delta [variant] and I don't know if you even want to call it that. All you call it is the China virus." According to the CDC, Covid-19 cases were peaking in the United States when Trump left office. Trump also expressed doubt about the need for vaccine booster shots. "That sounds to me like a money-making operation from Pfizer," Trump opined. "Think of the money involved. A booster shot, that's tens of billions of dollars. How good of business is that? If you're a businessman, you say, 'You know what? Let's give them another shot.'" "You wouldn't think you would need a booster," he added. "When these first came out, they were good for life. Then they were good for a year or two. And I could see the writing on the wall, you could see the dollar signs in their eyes." Watch the video below from Fox Business.
Once again this is fake news — the CEO of Pfizer took the Covid vaccine as soon as he was eligible for it. He was stating he was not going to cut the line of recommended groups to get his early — which shows proper social responsibility.