Good morning C&C family. It’s Wednesday, and our roundup today includes: the FDA approved kid shots; the CDC suggests a fourth shot might be in the offing for some people, but its messaging is kind of murky; Boston loses lots of City workers; thousands protest mandates in New York City; the White House hasn’t heard about a popular new slogan; a new NIH animal torturing scandal emerges; thoughts about the new scandals; Fauci disappears from the news; the real “doomsday variant” might be around someplace, making the injections obsolete; Florida keeps crushing Covid, annoying haters; Alabama’s governor pushes back; and Montana’s Attorney General offers some comfort for federal contractors.

🗞*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY* 🗞

💉 Surprising exactly no one who’s been paying attention, in a 17-0 vote yesterday (1 abstaining) the FDA magically approved the Pfizer injection for kids aged 5 to 11 years old. Bllliiiiing! Presto! During the discussion before the vote, one of the members, Dr. Eric Rubin, admitted they have NO IDEA whether the shots are safe for kids or not. “We’re never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it,” Rubin said during the hearing. “That’s just the way it goes.”

That’s just the way it goes! Oh well! They were baffled; there’s just NO OTHER WAY to find out of the drugs are safe except by injecting kids with it. It’s simple.

Another member, Dr. Cody Meissner, expressed profound concern about the decision. He said that the risk/reward ratio just wasn’t there. He said it wasn’t clear that the injections would reduce infections. He also worried publicly that it would lead to mandates for school kids, saying it would be “an error at this time, until we get more information.” Of course it will lead to school jab mandates. Still, Meissner voted in favor of the jabs.

It’s NOT rigged. Why would you even think that.

Eggs and omelets, as Comrade Stalin used to say. Eggs and omelets.

💉 Have you had your booster yet? Because if not, you may be falling behind. Yesterday the CDC prepared the way for a FOURTH shot, saying “moderately to severely immunocompromised” folks might need it. You never know.

After an August study from Johns Hopkins showed that injected immunocompromised folks were a staggering 485 times more likely to be hospitalized and die — and far more likely to transmit the virus to others than healthy injected people — the CDC recommended the first booster, which it called a “third dose.”

Now the CDC is suggesting that a fourth dose might be necessary for people in that category. But the CDC’s website has some conflicting information. “A person should not receive more than three mRNA vaccine doses,” it says, for example. And it says, “There is limited information about the risks of receiving an additional dose of vaccine, and the safety, efficacy, and benefit of additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine in immunocompromised people continues to be evaluated.”

Well. As Dr. Rubin always says, there’s no just no other way to find out about how safe the injections are until we start giving them to people. So. Jabs away.

Link: [COVID-19 Vaccines for Moderately to Severely Immunocompromised People | CDC](https://tinyurl.com/3x6f9csy)

🔥 Boston, Mass., now has over 800 city workers on unpaid leave due to the city’s vaccine mandate, which is now expanding to include first responders. City departments are starting to activate “contingency plans” to deal with the loss of about 5% of the City’s total workforce. While I’m typically in favor of reducing the size of government, I would normally favor reducing the numbers of NON-ESSENTIAL folks. It should be interesting to see how this experiment plays out.

💉 Thousands of city workers and first responders protested against vaccine mandates in New York City on Monday. The protestors included members of New York City’s fire and police departments and other emergency services. They were chanting slogans like “Let’s go Brandon,” “F*** de Blasio,” “Hold the line,” “U.S.A.,” and “We will not comply.”

😷 Congressman Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) wore a bright-red designer face mask Monday night on the House floor, featuring the cheerful slogan “Let’s Go Brandon.”

It’s funny how these memes start up, isn’t it? The reporter who originally coined the slogan “Let’s go Brandon” was actually trying to cover up a less polite chant from fans. Now “Let’s go Brandon” seems to be a movement or something. Ironic AND hilarious.

On Saturday, White House spokesman Andrew Bates a Washington Post reporter, “I had never heard of that chant until you explained it to me. I guess I’m not spending enough time on 8chan or whatever.”

Lalalalalalala I can’t hear you!

🥼 What exactly is going on at the NIH? After puppy-gate last week, in which NIH scientists tortured beagle puppies by letting giant insects sting them to death, newly-released video shows NIH scientists torturing more defenseless animals. In the new videos, the lunatic experimenters attempt to terrify monkey to see how frightened they can make the defenseless primates:

> “[R]eleased video footage of the testing showed distraught primates chained in tiny cages as researchers surprised them with rubber spiders and mechanical snakes – objects they instinctively fear – to observe their reactions.”

It gets worse. It wasn’t just some loopy NIH scientists pranking some tied-up monkeys. They messed with the animals’ brains to increase their fear levels:

> “The NIH scientists then removed portions of their brains or destroyed them with acid to ‘intentionally worsen the primates’ fear’.”

And it wasn’t just a short or small experiment, either. The fear tests are now going on $20 million dollars worth of reprehensible and immoral science spread over an excruciating five-year period:

> “The videotaped experiments, according to the group, took place at he National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland and have ‘cost taxpayers over $16 million since 2007 and $1.7 million in 2019 alone.’”

Here’s what I really want you to think about, hard: the people who approved and designed these Frankensteinian torture sessions are the exact same experts who designed our national Covid response.

Now we’re the puppies. We’re the monkeys. WE are the NIH’s new experiment.

So.

🔥 You remember what happened when they wanted to get rid of Cuomo, right? It wasn’t about all the thousands of grandmas he killed. It was about antique MeToo allegations. Going after him that way allowed the leftwing groups and democrats to organize against him without reinforcing “right-wing talking points.” Could that be what’s happening to Fauci now? These experiments aren’t new. I noticed that PETA called for his resignation yesterday. PETA. Not exactly a Trump backer.

Actually, PETA went farther than Fauci. “Yes, I think everybody who heads an NIH agency right now should resign,” said PETA senior vice president Kathy Guillermo, when asked if Fauci should resign during an interview with Newsmax. I don’t usually agree with PETA much. This time I can’t find any flaw in their logic.

🪳 You know who isn’t giving a lot of interviews just now? Puppy-torturing monkey-scarer Dr. Anthony Frankenstein, I mean Fauci. I did my best googling and all I could come up with was a three-minute segment from Sunday where George Stephanopoulos “interviewed” him briefly to let him insist that the NIH’s funding of EcoHealth’s weaponization of coronaviruses with the Chinese military never hurt anybody. They got him off the show fast.

🔬 It’s here. The Doomsday Variant. A study published Monday in Cellular & Molecular Immunology reports “The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variant A-30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies with high efficiency.”

Uh-oh.

For link junkies: [The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies with high efficiency | Cellular & Molecular Immunology](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-021-00779-5)

I suggest booster shots. That would probably work. At least, we won’t know until we start injecting people with them, am I right?

🦩 Just a reminder: 34 days ago, Florida’s new surgeon general and the Department of Health issued a rule that let parents opt out of mask mandates, eliminated healthy quarantines, and kept healthy kids in school. Now — a month later — Florida has the lowest Covid infection rate in the nation. Florida’s schools saw a 76% decrease in cases since the rule became effective, and a 90% decrease since August. So.

I might also add that Florida is gaining jobs while the rest of the country is losing them. We have now had 17 straight months of private-sector job growth — a rate that is three times the national rate.

🔥 Alabama Governor Kay Ivey entered an executive order late yesterday expressing the state’s position against injection mandates. It stops short of outright banning them, but it does direct all Alabama agencies to refuse to enforce mandates, and directs state agencies to “cooperate to the fullest extent possible” with litigation against the federal mandates. It’s a start.

🔥 Montana’s Attorney General issued a legal guidance yesterday opining that the Biden Federal Contractor mandate does NOT affect existing contracts, only new ones, and so does not actually impose any mandate on federal contractors:

“The Executive Order applies only to new federal contracts, new contract-like instruments, new solicitation for contracts, or renewals of existing federal contracts. By the plain language of the President’s Executive Order, there is no vaccination requirement imposed on existing federal contractors. It does not, and cannot, require federal contractors with existing agreements with the federal government to discriminate against their employees based on vaccination status.”

It’s not the whole answer, but it’s something. Federal contractors have time, in other words, before they have to force injections. Maybe they should hold off a little and see what happens.

Have a wonderful Wednesday, and I’ll see you back here tomorrow for more.

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