Essay: Covid-19 vaccine mandates and Muslim immigration. Always look at the bright side of things!
Being a positive and optimistic person, I always look for the good in situations. The darkest clouds can have a silver lining!
Contents
- 1 Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Some very positive developments in the USA.
- 2 Muslim migration to the West. A dark cloud with some silver linings!
- 3 Coronavirus prevention, vaccines, general information and treatments
- 3.1 Masks: Amount of Covid-19 virus exposed during infection and severity of Covid-19
- 3.2 Masks and face shields
- 3.3 Covid vaccines
- 3.4 Pescatarian diet and significantly lower coronavirus infections
- 3.5 Exercise and Covid-19 prevention/mitigation
- 3.6 Long-haul Covid
- 3.7 Coronavirus treatment
- 3.8 Coronavirus: Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc and hydration
- 3.9 Coronavirus and the outdoors
- 3.10 Death and hospitalization rates by age
- 3.11 Lockdowns
- 3.12 Psychological profile of Covid-19 anti-vaxxers
- 4 Coronavirus pandemic forecasts
- 5 A quick piece of unsolicited advice
- 6 Some events are so gloomy it is hard to put a sunny spin on them, but not impossible!
- 7 See also
- 8 References
Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Some very positive developments in the USA.
Speaking as a pro-vaccination person and as a conservative, vaccine mandates give me the best of both worlds.
Namely, the two benefits I receive are:
1) A safer world in terms of avoiding a Covid-19 infection (Notice I said safer world and not 100% sure prevention. See: Coronavirus prevention, Covid-19 vaccines, treatments and general information).
Vaccine mandates are causing European Covid-19 vaccination to rise. That is good news for the USA! See: Vaccine mandates are proving successful in European countries. That may bode well for the US..
2) More Republicans being created due to angry, unvaccinated Democrats abandoning support of the Democratic Party. Thank you, Joe Biden! Biden is less popular with Black voters after Covid-19 vaccine mandate rollout. Biden's net approval rating among key Democratic constituency is down 12 points since his September 9 announcement.[1] 53 percent of Black adults have gotten the vaccine, the lowest share reported of any race or ethnicity.
A quick note to conservative, Republican Donald Trump supporters who are against Covid-19 vaccines: Donald J. Trump launched Operation Warp Speed which helped cause Covid-19 vaccines be developed in a speedy fashion. Put that in your anti Covid-19 vaccine pipes and smoke it!
Donald Trump and Melania Trump were both vaccinated with a Covid-19 vaccine with no apparent catastrophic effects![2]
Serious side effects that could cause a long-term health problem are extremely unlikely following any vaccination, including COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccine monitoring has historically shown that side effects generally happen within six weeks of receiving a vaccine dose.[3] See also: Long haul Covid-19 - Mayo Clinic
"I have right to a lawYEEER!" - the killer Scorpio in the 1971 movie Dirty Harry which featured Clint Eastwood.[6]
Apparently, George Washington's troops didn't have ready access to legal counsel concerning their innoculations or they thought they had weak cases. Or consider this radical thought: His troops thought their responsibility to get vaccinated against smallpox trumped any potential right they had to not get vaccinated.
Donald Trump and Melania Trump were both vaccinated with a Covid-19 vaccine with no apparent catastrophic effects![7]
Serious side effects that could cause a long-term health problem are extremely unlikely following any vaccination, including COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccine monitoring has historically shown that side effects generally happen within six weeks of receiving a vaccine dose.[8] See also: Long haul Covid-19 - Mayo Clinic
For more information, please see: Coronavirus infection prevention, Covid-19 vaccines, treatments and general information
Muslim migration to the West. A dark cloud with some silver linings!
See also: Atheism vs. Islam
Although I am not happy about Muslim immigration to the West, Muslim immigration to fairly nonreligious/irreligious countries provides 6 benefits:
1) Desecularization of nonreligious/irreligious countries. See also: Religion and migration and Religious immigrants to Europe resistant to secularization and Growth of evangelical Christianity in irreligious regions and Future of Christianity
2) More creationists in nonreligious/irreligious countries. See also: Global creationism
3) Muslim immigration to the West generally creates more right-wing supporters due to people being unhappy with Muslim immigration and its often attendant rise in Islamic terrorism.
Professor Eric Kaufmann says about a graph showing the correlation between the projected growth of the Muslim propulation and the rise of right-wing nationalism in a country:
- "Figure 1 shows an important relationship between projected Muslim population share in 2030 and support for the populist right across 16 countries in Western Europe. Having worked with IIASA World Population Program researchers who generated cohort-component projections of Europe’s Muslim population for Pew in 2011, I am confident their projections are the most accurate and rigorous available. I put this together with election and polling data for the main West European populist right parties using the highest vote share or polling result I could find. Note the striking 78 percent correlation (R2 of .61) between projected Muslim share in 2030, a measure of both the level and rate of change of the Muslim population, and the best national result each country’s populist right has attained."[1]
4) More Mediterranean food grocers from the Middle East offering healthy food.
The Christian Chuck Norris wrote in his article entitled Chuck Norris asks, 'What would Jesus eat?':
| “ | In his excellent book “What Would Jesus Eat?” Dr. Don Colbert does a great job of explaining what the Master would have eaten and drank during his day.
Colbert told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “I thought I’d go back to the training manual – the Bible – and see what Jesus ate. Lo and behold, Jesus ate the healthiest diet ever developed, the Mediterranean diet.”[9] |
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See also: The Bible and health
5) More belly dancers in the West dancing to rhythmic music. See also: Rhythmic Muslims vs. atheist wet blankets
And much to the dismay of white, male, atheist nerds, not a single atheistic culture is well known for its rhythmic music and belly dancing.
See: Rhythmic Muslims vs. atheist wet blankets
Please notice that in the picture above, there is at least one balding, white male. Yet, there is a complete lack of slim, belly dancers dancing to rhythmic music. See also: Atheist meetings are humdrum
With the above in mind, does this video feature an atheist man with a robust mustache at an atheists' meeting? It certainly does not appear to! Click HERE to see the video and decide for yourself!
Bonus question: Including PZ Myers, how many atheist nerds are in the picture above?
6) Fewer/zero gay pride parades in Dearborn, Michigan. Per capita, Dearborn has the highest percentage of Muslims.[12] Many Arab-Americans from conservative backgrounds struggle with coming out publicly as a homosexual or promoting homosexuality. In Dearborn, Michigan the population is 40% Arab and includes many first generation Americans. See also: Atheism vs. Islam
The Bible's prohibition against homosexuality predated knowledge about the many diseases and disorders associated with homosexuality, and thus showed scientific wisdom prescient for its time. See: Homosexuality and health and Bible scientific foreknowledge
A wide variety of intestinal parasites have been recovered from the stools of homosexuals.[13]
See: Homosexuality and parasites and Gay bowel syndrome
See also: Coronavirus prevention, Covid-19 vaccines, general information and treatments
- A recent study by the University of Chicago last week showed people with vitamin D deficiency were almost twice as likely to test positive for the virus¹⁶ as those with healthy levels.[2]
- Coronavirus prevention - Advice from Spain (mix of good/bad advice)
- Ozone's Effectiveness in Killing SARS Coronavirus Leads to Theory on COVID-19 (30 seconds exposure to ozone)
Effectiveness of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine:
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 39 to 96 percent effective against Delta. Even though vaccines offer different ranges of protection, real-world evaluations show they still provide robust protection against hospitalization at 60 to 95 percent. However, according to the latest studyTrusted Source released by the CDC, unvaccinated people are over 10 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than vaccinated people. Unvaccinated people are also 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than vaccinated people, the study found. Israeli data has also suggested that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine’s effectiveness against infection dipped to as low as 39 percent between June and July, down from the previous 64 percent. These findings conflicted with U.K. data that found it to be 88 percent effective against symptomatic infection caused by Delta.[3]
"For the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, researchers looked at data on more than one million individuals in Israel between July 30 and August 22—shortly after the country began offering booster doses to those over the age of 60.
How much worse will the 'delta surge' get? Watch these 7 factors. They found that, among people who had received a booster dose at least 12 days earlier, the rates of new infection were 11 times lower than among people who hadn't received a booster. The rate of severe Covid-19 was almost 20 times lower.
However, the researchers acknowledged the data showed only a short-term benefit to booster doses. "We cannot tell at this point what will happen in the long run," Micha Mandel, a professor of statistics and data science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said.
Additionally, FDA on Wednesday released data that Pfizer had submitted to the agency, also collected in Israel.
It showed that, in absence of booster shots, the efficacy of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine drops by about 6% every two months after the second dose is administered. According to Pfizer, that drop is "due to waning of vaccine immune responses" rather than the delta variant. A booster dose, however, restored protection against infection to 95%. The data was collected from July 1 to Aug. 30, when the delta variant was prevalent in Israel.[4]
Covid-19 hospital admissions and maintaining proper weight/BMI:
Studies of overweight/obesity on covid-19 hospital and ICU admissions suggest a 2- to 5-fold increased risk for the obese. That makes a normal BMI about a 65-85% effective “vaccine” against severe infection - one that keeps people out of the hospital from a variety of diseases, including the flu, and probably the next pandemic virus.[5]
Masks: Amount of Covid-19 virus exposed during infection and severity of Covid-19
"A recent Lancet study¹⁰ found that the amount of virus present when a patient was tested did predict how likely patients were to die. Some research shows that wearing masks and keeping away from other people reduces the amount of virus they are exposed to. There may indeed be a link between physical distancing and the amount of virulum one is subjected to as, not unlike radiation – another invisible enemy – Dose, Distance, and Duration affect the amount of inoculation.
Some even suggest, speculatively, that frequent small inoculations generate low-level immunisation and that this could be the reason why some people are less sick, even asymptomatic. Whether this confers a lesser quality immunity still remains to be proven."[6]
Masks and face shields
Anthony Fauci endorses the wearing of masks in public places. However, unlike the president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, he lacks the machismo to ask people to also wear face shields in public. See: Anthony Fauci vs. Rodrigo Duterte
Please notice that Donald Trump is wearing the red power tie, while Anthony Fauci is wearing the more subdued purple tie.
Donald Trump clearly has more machismo in this picture - despite Fauci trying to compensate by using hand gestures.
- SARS-CoV-2: eye protection might be the missing key, The Lancet, May 1, 2021
Infection Control Today: "Wearing a surgical mask along with a face shield affords health care professionals only statistically insignificant better protection against aerosolized particles than wearing a surgical mask alone, according a study in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC)"[14]
Wayne State University, School of Medicine News:
| “ | Studies conducted by Wayne State University School of Medicine physician-researchers indicate that the use of plastic face shields with surgical masks provides the best protection against COVID-19 infection, but combining the two made little difference over the use of masks alone...
“This simulation indicates that surgical masks worn by all are more likely to provide significant protection to uninfected participants in indoor conversations,” Dr. Chopra said. “The role of the face shields in preventing transmission is not supported, and if transmission via the eyes is felt to be a significant factor, such as with health care workers and dentists and dental technicians, goggles might provide better protection than a face shield.”[15] |
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SONOVIA WASHABLE, ANTIBACTERIAL, ANTIVIRAL REUSABLE FACE MASK
Covid vaccines
Post vaccination:
In New York City, the unvaccinated have a rate of getting Covid-19 that is 5 times higher.[7]
Concerns about Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, but lacking in replicated results:
- Let's Stop Pretending About the Covid-19 Vaccines, Real Clear Science
- Ultra-Vaxxed Israel’s Crisis Is a Dire Warning to America, Daily Beast, 8-2021
- A grim warning from Israel: Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta, Science, August 16, 2021
- Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing A Dramatic Surge In New COVID Cases. Here's Why, NPR
Booster shot availability for Pfizer vaccine
Pfizer booster shot efficacy
"Add this to the long list of reasons to adopt a plant-based or pescatarian diet: New research has found that what you eat — and what you don’t — may lower your odds of developing moderate to severe COVID-19 infection. The study, which was published June 7 in the online journal BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health, is the first to report an association between dietary patterns and the severity of COVID-19."[8] (BMJ is the British Medical Journal).
After analyzing the survey data, researchers found that respondents who followed a plant-based diet had a 73 percent lower risk of developing moderate to severe COVID-19; for those who followed a pescatarian diet, the risk was 59 percent lower. “We also found that those who followed low carbohydrate/high protein diets had greater odds of moderate to severe COVID-19 compared with those who followed a plant-based diet,” says Sara Seidelmann, MD, an internal medicine doctor at Stamford Health in Stamford, Connecticut, and a coauthor of the study.[9]
Exercise and Covid-19 prevention/mitigation
"People in the least-active group, who almost never exercised, wound up hospitalized because of Covid at twice the rate of people in the most-active group, and were subsequently about two-and-a-half times more likely to die. Even compared to people in the somewhat-active group, they were hospitalized about 20 percent more often and were about 30 percent more likely to die."[10]
Long-haul Covid
While older people and those with compromised immune systems are more likely to become long-haulers, the condition has also been seen in people who had mild cases and those who had never gone to the hospital for COVID-19 treatment.
Long-haul Covid and vaccination
Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist, also at Washington University, is studying the effects of Covid-19 vaccination on the risk of long Covid-19. His research, which is not yet finished, looks at information on more than 5 million veterans within a Department of Veterans Affairs database, including 200,000 who were diagnosed with Covid-19. "Of the people who get vaccinated and end up with a breakthrough infection, their risk of coming back to the clinic with some long Covid manifestation is very, very small," Al-Aly said.[11]
A small study from Israel published recently found apparent long COVID-19 in several health workers with breakthrough infections. They developed mild symptoms including cough, fatigue and weakness that persisted for at least six weeks.[12]
Studies have emerged in recent weeks indicating that vaccinated individuals are at risk of “long COVID” — a series of conditions associated with infection such as fatigue, shortness of breath and loss of smell that can last for weeks or months — even if they are largely protected from severe illness and death, Fauci said. “We already know that people who get breakthrough infections and don’t go on to get advanced disease requiring hospitalization, they too are susceptible to long COVID,” Fauci said. “You’re not exempt from long COVID if you get a breakthrough infection.” -McClatchy[13]
Case for waiting for a booster shot that was designed with ADE in mind
- "Antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) of infection is a safety concern for vaccine strategies... However, in the case of the Delta variant, neutralizing antibodies have a decreased affinity for the spike protein, whereas facilitating antibodies display a strikingly increased affinity. Thus, ADE may be a concern for people receiving vaccines based on the original Wuhan strain spike sequence (either mRNA or viral vectors). Under these circumstances, second generation vaccines with spike protein formulations lacking structurally-conserved ADE-related epitopes should be considered."
See also: Vladimir Zelenko's coronavirus treatment
- How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes, Science
- Taking too much zinc, Vitamin C.[16]
"With such large crowds, by now, you could possibly expect to see an increase in the number of registered coronavirus infections - but that has not been the case so far.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), COVID-19 symptoms may appear two to 14 days after exposure to the virus.
"The evidence suggests that although still significant, the risk of transmission of the virus in open spaces is much less than in indoor areas", said Amir Khan, a doctor and senior lecturer at the University of Leeds and the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom.
Khan added that "fresh air dilutes the virus to a degree that transmission is much less". Furthermore, "there is also some evidence, albeit small, that direct exposure to sunlight kills the virus quickly".
"Furthermore, she notes, "being outdoors certainly reduces the risk of transmission, by 20- to 500-fold according to some estimates."[17]
Death and hospitalization rates by age
- Death and hospitalization rates by age.[18]
Lockdowns
Psychological profile of Covid-19 anti-vaxxers
Intelligence: "A Daily News analysis of vaccination data and IQ averages in each state reveals that five of the 10 states with the lowest IQs are also among the 10 states with the lowest rates of fully vaccinated adults. And half of the 10 smartest states rank among the 10 most vaccinated ones."[19]
Inability to perform risk/benefit analysis: A 2020 study by Texas Tech University concluded that some people find vaccines risky because “they overestimate the likelihood of negative events, particularly those that are rare.”[20]
- Here’s What the Next Six Months of the Pandemic Will Bring, Bloomberg News, 9/2021
- "Even if 100% of people got vaccinated, that would not bring the effective reproductive number under 1. Hence, other mitigation measures are needed, such as masking."[21]
A quick piece of unsolicited advice
Some events are so gloomy it is hard to put a sunny spin on them, but not impossible!
Looking at the bright side of things
God-fearing urban farmers in Washington, D.C. received rain for their plants when it rained on the Reason Rally.
Arrogant atheists were humbled as they were shown to be powerless at stopping the Almighty from raining on their rally!
See also
Humor:
References
- ↑ Biden Is Less Popular With Black Voters After Vaccine Mandate Rollout
- ↑ Former President Donald Trump tells Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine, calls it a ‘true miracle’
- ↑ Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines
- ↑ You Know Who Else Opposed Vaccine Mandates? Hitler.
- ↑ General George Washington Ordered Smallpox Inoculations for All Troops
- ↑ Dirty Harry (1971)
- ↑ Former President Donald Trump tells Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine, calls it a ‘true miracle’
- ↑ Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines
- ↑ Chuck Norris asks, 'What would Jesus eat?': Discovers Christ ate 'healthiest diet ever developed' by Chuck Norris, Published: 03/29/2013 at 9:59 PM
- ↑ Khan, Razib (November 18, 2010). "Gene expression; Sex differences in global atheism, part N". Discover magazine website.
- Carter, Stephen L. (March 27, 2015). "The atheism gap". BloombergView.
- Atheism and Feminism, Oxford University Press blog
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Myers, P.Z. (June 29, 2010). "The woman problem". Pharyngula [blog].
- ↑ Population of Michigan Cities, Villages, Townships, and Remainders of Townships. www.michigan.gov.
- ↑ Gay men bowel syndrome: A report of parasitic infection in homosexual patients, Med. J. Malaysia Vol. 40 No. 4 1985
- ↑ Face Shields Called Flawed Protection Against Pathogens
- ↑ Plastic face shields add little protection to face masks, study finds
- ↑ The Human Body: God's Masterpiece
- ↑ The Enigmatic Human Brain by Wallace G. Smith
- ↑ The Most Complex Structure, Creation Moments
