Still waiting for it but flu is nonexistent. Which I haven't had either for 15 years or more. Weird but I've never been sick or have taken and meds. Could there be a connection just wondering.

 

Anger as Republican lawmakers who played down pandemic jump vaccine queue

A number of Republican US lawmakers who played down the pandemic and undermined Covid guidelines have faced backlash online for being among the first to receive the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

The first people across the US began receiving the Pfizer Covid candidate last week, after the jab was given final approval by the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use.

As those most vulnerable to the virus across the country began to receive their shots, a number of US lawmakers began getting publicly inoculated with the jab, sharing proof online.

Members of Congress from across the political spectrum, some outside the prioritisation criteria, cut the vaccine queue in an attempt to build public confidence in the jab, eliciting mixed reactions from social media.


However, certain Republican senators who have often downplayed the pandemic in line with messaging from party leader Donald Trump, and have flouted social distancing and mask guidelines, began to receive particular criticism online.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s announcement of his inoculation quickly garnered attention on Twitter, with many pointing out that the senator had recently attended a large Trump rally maskless.

“I know I looked away from the needle. And yes, I know I need a tan. But I am so confident that the #Covid19 vaccine is safe & effective that I decided to take it myself,” the senator posted on Saturday.

The post quickly gathered over 22,000 comments, many of which were critical of Sen Rubio receiving the vaccine, citing his attitude towards the pandemic.

South Carolina Senator and ardent Donald Trump supporter Lindsey Graham also faced the same scrutiny on Twitter after he posted photos of himself receiving the shot.

“Thank God for nurses who help people in need and know how to use a needle. Thank God for those who produced these vaccines,” he wrote.

“If enough of us take it, we will get back to normal lives. Help is on the way.”

Vice-President Mike Pence garnered a similar reaction on Twitter after receiving the vaccine in Washington DC on Friday, with many criticising the administration’s handling of the pandemic.

Some cut in to reiterate the importance of high-profile figures receiving the vaccine, saying that it was “good and important” that the vice-president receive the shot.

The majority of US residents are not expected to receive the vaccine until spring 2021, however, one out of every five Americans (21 per cent) expressed in a recent Ipsos poll that they would choose not to get the vaccine.

Senate leader Mitch McConnell, a 78-year-old survivor of polio, was not lambasted for receiving the shot but instead for his prolonged refusal to agree on a second coronavirus relief bill to provide aid to Americans impacted by the pandemic.

Almost 18 million people have been infected with the novel coronavirus across the US since the outbreak gripped the country in March, leading to the deaths of over 318,000 people.

 

So the new mutation has popped up in Cape Town South Africa.

 

Outrageous!

Healthcare workers first as they have been putting themselves in harm's way.

Thinskin

 

@thinskin
My granddaughter is a Critical Care Physician and she got her first shot today.

Now, you can go back to listening to to the naysayers.

 

I think those of us here over 75 are coming up soon for shots!

 

I am very fortunate that I can work from home to help keep me isolated until I can get the vaccine, but I sure hope those frontline essential workers get theirs as soon as possible to help keep them safe too.

 

I've posted this before but we have been asking people to do things we don't ask of our troops. The most we will leave any of our troops fighting on the front lines is a week or two at the most before they are rotated to the rear for R and R. But doctors nurses, first responders and other essential workers have been fighting COVID every day for 10 months. They damn sure need to get the vaccine first and deserve it,

 

Not only have they worked diligently ,
and been overworked for so long ,
but lost so many colleagues along way .
(including kiwi , like one very recently ,
who had worked in the UK hospital system for 20 years)


That is what the ignorant authorities and thaughtles and selfish people
have helped condemn those people to.

10 months of hell

with no end in sight yet

That is part of what is
so shameful about this whole debacle.

 

I think this is good news for a change.

BioNTech Says New Vaccine for Mutant Coronavirus Strain Would Only Take Weeks

https://www.thedailybeast.com/biont...navirus-strain-would-only-take-weeks?ref=home

 

It is official. No place is safe.

Coronavirus Pandemic Finally Hits Antarctica as 36 Test Positive at Chilean Base

https://www.thedailybeast.com/antar...c-as-36-test-positive-at-chiles-base?ref=home

 

Few less people on this rock we call earth will do us all good. Im all for controlling who can have offspring and euthanasia of the sick and say over 75. Imagine the money that would be saved. Need set limits on income $250k or more to raise families. Need to get rid of all those that are burdens to society. Yep be perfect utopia with Marshall Law. Then we can perfect the great human race from our labs. Burn the millions of bodies to create energy be new green deal. More thought put into this better I'm loving it. NO VACCINES TILL POPULAS DWINDLES.

WAKE UP MOTHER FUCKERS
CLICK CLICK BOOM

 

Rebekah Jones has filed suit against Florida law enforcement to protect whistleblowers and truthtellers.



Thinskin

 

You stupid fuck t/S

 

Erudite again!

I am sure all those dead Floridians with be thrilled the unempathic prick from New Jersey finds it funny!

Why not go bully some small children but be careful because their spelling and other literary skills may embarrass you.

Big mouth small..........brain.

Do you know what I like about you truthless?

Thinskin

 

Going into a 28 day lock down here starting Boxing Day.
Those fucking conservatives hate the country, capitalism, free enterprise everything we stand for.
They want to destroy business and put us all on the dole.

Seriously when a staunch conservative says we gotta shut this down I sit up and take notice.
If this god damn right wing politician keeps doing this he might be the next Prime Minister.
If the Trumpster had followed his play book he would be getting four more years.

 

Naaa, I think is all overblown to put liberals in power, an agreement with china for world dominance,... La Familia Biden will make a fortune

 

Fuckem. They should have lived life while they could , fuck them twice Because they were living in Florida paradise on earth , lucky fuckers .

 

It is quite fortuitous that this new variant of covid-19 that has emerged in the UK has a mutation in one of the three primers for the standard PCR test for the virus which makes it very easy to detect so long as corners are not being cut in terms of the redundancy of the primer set.

If someone is performing the pcr test with only two primers, one of which is in the mutated spike protein then it will register as a negative so that is a concern.

Thinskin