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I never thought it would be in the news again. Weren't we over that three years ago? I planned a small dinner party for this Friday night to share a moment of thankfulness and celebration for Hungarian friends who have lived here since 1986 and have decided to move back to Budapest. After making this decision, they wisely chose to maintain a small home here and move back and forth depending on a variety of personal factors related to their family in Hungary and here in the US. So this will not be the last time we see them.
The one couple we most wanted to share this celebration with called today to say that they could not attend because they had tested positive for Covid after going to a wedding in NYC last weekend. I believe they had cold symptoms and fatigue and taken every dose of the original vaccine and each booster since Covid started. Just like Joe Biden. This was their third bout.
Anecdote is not evidence, but I was stunned that they even were able to test themselves for Covid. I had saved a few tests to display on the Christmas tree along with some masks, but Mrs. Pessimist threw them out a long time ago.
I thought Covidiocy was over.
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I’m with you. Will people “test” themselves forever? And i still see people wearing masks in supermarkets. And their children.
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Were I not to feel well, it wouldn’t even occur to me to test for Covid. I’d do what I do whenever I get sick: get some rest and avoid people. Depending on symptoms, I might start some zinc, Quercetin, etc.
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I suspect that the next most lucrative market in healthcare will be home testing for every possible ailment whether or not there is any practical treatment available. Fear is the most powerful emotion that drug companies can channel.
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I don't know if they self tested or went to their doctor for a test but if they went to their doctor I am sure they are being treated with paxlovid again instead of ivermectin. That is what happened the first two times they got sick.
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My new women's group usually has about 45 members show up for a monthly luncheon.
In May, 2/3rds of the group had recovered from recent COVID infections.
There is a scientific explanation for the phenomena of getting a corona virus after receiving a corona virus vaccine. That is called "antibody dependent entrancement."
Corona viruses mutate. That happens regardless if they are the regular old common flu or COVID itself.
The corona virus vaccine entrains a person's immune system to look for one and only one variation of that virus. So if the original corona virus vaccine was to ward off the original strain of COVID, then once the virus mutated, the vaxxed person's immune system cannot identify that new strain as being a problem. So it doesn't set off the cascade of effects that would prevent the new strain from taking over and causing the person to be infected.
Also I discovered this: Most of these women are Democrats, as I found out when one woman discussed a recent visit to Washington DC.
"As I was out sightseeing for the day, Air Force One flew overhead. I almost dropped to my knees in gratitude that our wonderful president was holding his own in that office." Some of the women hearing this applauded. (We are per our charter not supposed to discuss politics, but I guess there are exceptions if you are reporting religious experiences!)
Anyway almost these people have been jabbed to the hilt.
As I have gotten to know people, a common thread of conversation regards how many have lost husbands or best friends over the last 3 years. I guess among the older women like myself that might not be a cause for concern that some effect of a vaccine took place. After all, if a women lives to be in her mid-seventies, then the older spouse does have a statistically better chance of dropping dead.
But tragically women in their forties and fifties also seem to have become widows after quite a few "he died suddenly" experiences.
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