From: slider@anashram.com

Covid boosters will be offered to all over-50s and those at greatest risk
of the disease as part of the “toolbox” of measures for controlling coronavirus over the autumn and winter following guidance from the government’s vaccine advisers.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said a third
dose of vaccine would top up the immunity in those whose protection had
likely waned since they completed their first round of shots earlier in
the year.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/14/covid-boosters-offered-to-all-uk-over-50s-jcvi-watchdog-confirms

Prof Jonathan Van Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, said the UK’s vaccination programme had so far prevented an estimated 24m Covid infections and 112,000 deaths but warned “this pandemic is still active”.

“We know that this winter could quite possibly be bumpy at times and we
know that other respiratory viruses such as flu and RSV [respiratory
syncytial virus] are highly likely to make their returns. With all of that
in mind the mantra, if you like, is to stay on top of things,” he said.

“We want to live our lives as normally as possible from now on, and want a normal winter life, and a high uptake of the booster programme will give
us a much increased chance of doing that,” he added.

Data from the UK suggests that protection provided by two shots of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines wanes within six months, although it is unclear what impact this has on cases of severe disease.

Researchers on the Zoe Covid study at King’s College London recorded falls
in protection after two shots of Pfizer vaccine from 88% at one month to
74% at five to six months, and from 77% at one month to 67% at four to
five months for the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Further data from Public Health England shows that in fully vaccinated
people aged 65 and over, protection against hospitalisation fell from more
than 90% to a little under 90% over five months. The concern is that
protection falls further in the winter when cases are likely to be rising.


The JCVI recommended that all over-50s, frontline health and social care workers, and at-risk groups receive a booster of the Pfizer jab regardless
of the vaccine they received first time around, to be given at least six
months after their second dose. While the advisers stated a preference for
the Pfizer shot, an alternative is a half dose of the Moderna vaccine –
the amount Moderna is proposing for boosters in its applications to
European and US regulators.

The UK rollout of Covid vaccines started with the nine priority groups including elderly people, the clinically extremely vulnerable and health
and social care workers in December last year, and immunity in these
people is expected to have waned the most.

Under the JCVI guidance, boosters will be offered to the same nine
priority groups, working down the groups in order as before. The under-50s
may not need booster shots as younger people tend to produce stronger
immune responses, but the JCVI is to conduct more work on the question.

The prime minister, Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson to confirm Covid booster jabs for over-50s in UK
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Interim advice from the JCVI in June urged the NHS to prepare for a
booster programme starting as soon as this month, but ministers were keen
to receive the advisers’ final recommendation before going ahead. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved
the Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines for use as boosters.

The JCVI in turn was awaiting data from a number of major studies
including the UK’s Cov-Boost study, which assessed the extra protection afforded by third doses of several different vaccines.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the vaccines minister, Nadhim Zahawi, said the government had accepted the final advice of the JCVI and
that Covid boosters would be given at the same time as flu shots where possible.

“This is probably the last piece of jigsaw to allow us to transition this virus from pandemic to endemic and I hope by next year we’ll be in a
position to deal with this virus with an annual inoculation programme as
we do with flu,” he said.

The move follows an announcement on Monday from the UK’s chief medical officers recommending Covid vaccines for all 12- to 15-year-olds, a
decision reached after reviewing the broader impact of such vaccinations
on children’s health and education. While the risk from Covid is very low
in the age group, some children do get ill, and widespread vaccinations
are expected to reduce transmission and the number of school outbreaks
that disrupt education.

The rollout of boosters has proved a controversial issue given that many
other countries have not yet had sufficient supplies to vaccinate their
most vulnerable. An expert review published in the Lancet on Monday by an international group of scientists, including some at the World Health Organization and the US Food and Drug Administration, found that, even for
the Delta variant, vaccine efficacy against severe Covid is so high that booster doses for the general population are not appropriate at this stage.

“Of course, as public health people, we take a very strong view that it is important that the whole world has access to vaccine and until everyone
has access to them none of us are fully safe,” said Van Tam. “By the same token, the job given to us is to define what is best for the UK and that
is what the JCVI has done.”

### - here we go: determined to avoid any further lockdowns here they's starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel now with 6-month booster-shot cocktails for everyone over 50??

then what... mix & match shots of 'different' vaccines every 3 months
maybe?

followed by: WHICH vaccine shall we give everyone THIS month??

the sad/obvious fact being, that ALL their measures to date obviously
ain't working!?

meanwhile, they're running out of qualified lorry drivers here to deliver
food to all the shops nationwide so many of them are off sick or in
isolation, even to considering releasing people from jail on license just
to help fill the delivery-driver gap!

hey chris, you used to be a truck driver? so maybe you gonna find yer'self drafted again at some point mate, this time to drive food delivery trucks around heh, wont THAT be nice eh? ;)

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From: intraphase@gmail.com

It's about time you got frustrated and decided to FIGHT BACK.
Your my canary in the coal mine Brian, when you figure it out the tide has turned.
The right and left must unite to fight the tyranny and authoritarian elite controllers.
The militias of right and left are already coordinating here. Your way behind the curve.
I spend so little time thinking about other people it never occurred to me you were gay.
I don't really care about details like that. Glenn Greenwald is my favorite investigative journalist.
I really don't think about stuff like that. You need to unplug from Groupspeak and reclaim your outsider POV.

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My Patience
https://twitter.com/i/status/1436352364655648769

Aussi Nazi
https://youtu.be/P2lCXs1ct2g


What The Right Needs Now Is The Courage To Fight Even If It Costs Us
All of a sudden, the conservative project is not a conservative one, so much as a counter-revolutionary one.
Mollie Hemingway
By Mollie Hemingway
September 14, 2021

This is the text of the Bradley Prize acceptance speech the author gave on Sept. 13.

My brother skipped a grade, so he was small for his age when three other junior high school boys stole something from him and roughed him up one Friday after school.

My dad asked my despairing brother how he felt about it. He said he was angry and wanted to get his property back.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/14/what-the-right-needs-now-is-the-courage-to-fight-even-if-it-costs-us/

Dad explained that if he didn’t handle it, the bullies would never stop. He had my brother describe the boys and asked if he thought he could take on the biggest one.

That weekend, dad and a neighbor taught my brother some moves and strategy. After the first period on Monday, my brother confronted his attacker and won the ensuing fight.

Today, everyday Americans are being bullied by a hard-left minority that unfortunately has taken over and controls most of the agenda-setting institutions in our country. As someone who works in the media space, I know what it is like to be a lonely
voice taking on many of these powerful people.

I learned several things from my brother’s improbable victory.

First off, as Pat Buchanan wrote, “Courage is contagious, Defiance can lead to a recovery of will.” It is inspiring to see someone who chooses to risk his well-being for a higher good.

We live in a time when people act like stating one’s sexual preferences or whatever pronouns they’re using this week is courageous. I prefer David Azerrad’s definition that courage is the “Bold and principled defiance of the lies of the age.”

The conservative establishment, its politicians, and its media, don’t lack ideas or people. But too many of its leaders do lack determination and endurance and fearlessness. The people can tell. As it is said, “Men don’t follow titles, they follow
courage.”

The conservative movement in D.C. has too often been engaged in insincere opposition to progressivism’s march through America’s institutions, both public and private. It has seemed mostly interested in negotiating terms of surrender or managing
defeat than preserving the republic. It has stood athwart history impotently suggesting that progressives slow down. Michael Malice has therefore derided conservatism as just “Progressivism with a speed limit.” Institutional conservatism and its
alleged leaders have too frequently accepted the propaganda press’s treatment of conservatives as second-class citizens.

For conservatism to mean anything now, it has to be about rejecting this rigged system. Don’t just say “stop.” Our duty is to not to say “stop” but then bend the knee in cowardice when the mob comes. That brings even more harm to our more
vulnerable neighbors and does nothing to prevent the destruction of the country.

It’s not comfortable for conservatives who value order and civility to even think or speak this way. But the fact is that many Americans are alienated from and no longer feel at home in their own country. The moral climate has been degraded as the left
has taken over every single one of the powerful institutions in the country and is actively pushing people to lead a life of godlessness, barrenness, selfishness, gluttony, and addiction to outrage and dopamine.

All of a sudden, the conservative project is not a conservative one, so much as a counter-revolutionary one.

Unfortunately, anyone who dares take on the broken and corrupt political and media complex is teed up for absolute destruction. As lesser men cower in the face of the risk, the cost of standing up to the system becomes steeper and steeper. While you will
not be locked up for saying the truth, yet, you will be demonized, stigmatized, deplatformed. You may lose your job.

The end result is America’s ability to get the course correction it desperately needs gets delayed. And at some point, if more people don’t stand up and fight hard, the nation is going to die.

Having said that, we must inoculate ourselves against excessive, if fashionable, pessimism. The truth may not prevail. But until then, there’s a heartwarming amount of defiance left in this country.

Also guard against mindless hopefulness. Hope is a virtue, but it can be a bit of a vice if it’s an unwarranted faith that everything will work out in this world or for this country.

Before he was executed for his opposition to Adolf Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in one of his letters from prison about people who had “hilaritas,” which he described as “optimism about one’s own work, as boldness,
willingness to defy the world and popular opinion, as the firm conviction that they are doing the world GOOD with their work, even if the world isn’t pleased with it.”

Let us have high-spirited confidence and faith in our positions. John Adams was right that “our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Abraham Lincoln was right to sacrifice everything for the sake of government of by and for the people. These truths remain important, which is why so many powerful people are fighting to keep it from being shared.

It’s not enough, though, that someone fights. The fight must be smart and tactical. While we are clearly entering an era where dissidents will be required, there’s no value in secular martyrdom or being just another victim of the regime. The fight
must be supplemented by prudence and strategy. Be bold and defiant, but we must also know where to aim our fire.

On the other hand, figuring out where to aim our fire is not that difficult right now. It brings to mind a quote from legendary Marine Chesty Puller: “They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us
29:1. They can’t get away from us now!”

It’s a target-rich environment. Now go out and pick one.

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