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We’re in for an infection-filled holiday season: Will leaders step up?
The hill ^ | 11/24/2022 | STEVEN FINDLAY

Posted on 11/24/2022 5:23:13 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

By all accounts, the risk of another winter surge of COVID-19 in the U.S. is high. And this time coronavirus is on the prowl alongside two pals — influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). In some areas, hospitals are already overwhelmed.

Just how severe this “tripledemic” is going to be is unclear. But what is very clear is that a pandemic-weary public isn’t taking the threat seriously enough. Shockingly, neither is government. Biden administration officials have expressed concerns for months, but there’s been no loud alarm bells, so far. That includes at a White House briefing on Tuesday where officials barely mentioned the triple threat as they sought to jumpstart efforts to get more people boosted with the new bivalent COVID-19 vaccine. To date, about 12 percent of those eligible have gotten the new booster.

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To: Impala64ssa

Masks make it easy to spot liberals in a crowd.


21 posted on 11/24/2022 5:48:56 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: maddog55

Exactly..then can all go F themselves.
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Exactly. People didn’t all go around in a freaking panic when polio, smallpox, measles, mumps and rubella roamed the planet.


22 posted on 11/24/2022 5:56:04 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: canuck_conservative

“For the unvaccinated, this will be a winter of severe illness and death, as they clog up our hospitals.”
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Actually the vaxxed are getting sicker than the unvaxxed.


23 posted on 11/24/2022 6:06:42 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My vaxxed and boosted wife just had a moderate case of covid a few weeks ago. And she’s been much sicker since getting vaxxed. Between that and flying a round trip between Alaska and Arizona very recently I did not get covid. And I never took the needle. I did have an extremely mild case of covid back in June while she was out of state. But I got over that very quickly. The government and its CDC and Big Pharma lackeys can take their fear mongering and shove it.


24 posted on 11/24/2022 6:12:53 PM PST by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My sentiments exactly.

I can’t believe they’re trying this again.


25 posted on 11/24/2022 6:15:01 PM PST by livius
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sheesh, you’d think this was the first year ever where there were two or three forms of the creeping crud making the rounds.

It’s really not all that uncommon.


26 posted on 11/24/2022 6:23:25 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh, just stop already.


27 posted on 11/24/2022 6:27:20 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The public has justifiably lost trust in the medical establishment because it intentionally withheld safe, effective treatments, lied and said there were no such treatments, used the lethal “Covid protocol’ etc.


28 posted on 11/24/2022 6:29:28 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Baldwin77

Only 77% of the new dead are the vaxed ones. So go get vaxed right now and be in the majority.


29 posted on 11/24/2022 6:29:38 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: rxh4n1

” What areas? The writer should name them and the hospitals.”

We had long waits (~45 min) to get a room for patients we transported to hospitals in Dallas Fort Worth area a few weeks back. Things are better this week.


30 posted on 11/24/2022 6:37:03 PM PST by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thank God I’m in Florida.


31 posted on 11/24/2022 6:38:26 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m still waiting for the Winter of Death predicted by the White House turnip this time last year.


32 posted on 11/24/2022 6:40:15 PM PST by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: rxh4n1
I sometimes work in a small hosp. We are NOT busy at all....

Sure we;ve seen some flu and RSV patients...But not real sick,

And RSV been around for years....Nothing new.

33 posted on 11/24/2022 6:45:52 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: oldasrocks

265+ Million Americans vaxxed already. That is more than 77% of Americans.


34 posted on 11/24/2022 6:50:49 PM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: Antihero101607

“Besides, I (as well as many others) don’t want leaders. I just want to be represented within the confines of Articles I-IV of our charter of government, my rights protected, and otherwise left alone. I don’t want leaders. I don’t want a state sugar daddy. I don’t want a benevolent dictator, god emperor, any any of that crap. I don’t want to be ruled over by unelected billionaires, or an establishment of politicos and incompetent bureaucrats/technocrats.”

^— This. Besides, any of these government bureaucrats and officials are supposed to be our public servants, with the emphasis on servants.


35 posted on 11/24/2022 6:59:46 PM PST by Jay W
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! (again)


36 posted on 11/24/2022 7:02:04 PM PST by GaryCrow
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To: PeterPrinciple

I’m not wearing that eff’n mask again.


37 posted on 11/24/2022 7:03:09 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: ChicagoConservative27
But what is very clear is that a pandemic-weary public isn’t taking the threat seriously enough.

Apparently, large number of the public DON'T think it is clear. Using phrases like "what is very clear" is a substitute for evidence or a compelling argument.

I could get COVID. I could die from it. Same with cancer. Same with heart disease. I can do things that would reduce my likelihood of any of these happening soon. I choose not to. That doesn't mean I don't take them seriously, it means I weighed the likelihood of the reduction of risk compared to the alternatives and have decided to stay the course.
38 posted on 11/24/2022 7:06:10 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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Isn’t President Fauci stepping down?


39 posted on 11/24/2022 7:14:21 PM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
But what is very clear is that a pandemic-weary public isn’t taking the threat seriously enough.

Maybe the people are telling the government to F off.

40 posted on 11/24/2022 7:14:38 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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