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Two confusing questions about Covid-19 boosters, answered

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The big Covid topic on everyone’s minds is boosters.
On Friday morning, the FDA <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/politics/coronavirus-boosters-fda.html">authorized</a> Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna booster shots for all adults ages 18 and up. And later in the day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) followed suit.
The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/19/cdc-advisers-pfizer-moderna-booster-shots-adults/">CDC said</a> that every adult who is at least six months removed from their last shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines can get a booster shot. And it recommended that people over the age of 50 make sure they do so.
The long-awaited decision comes after months in which the boundaries of who can get a booster have been widening. The Biden administration first <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?514148-1/president-biden-remarks-booster-shots">announced</a> its plans to make boosters widely available in August. Since then, we’ve seen the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-shot.html">rollout of boosters</a> to Pfizer and Moderna recipients <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2021/9/24/22691355/covid-booster-shot-cdc-fda-pfizer-approval">over age 65, and those who are 18 or older who are immunocompromised</a> or at high risk of infection. All adult Johnson & Johnson one-dose recipients have also been approved for second shots two months after their first.
The fact is, the federal government has been lagging on this front. Several states have already gotten ahead of the federal government by approving boosters for adults: Colorado, California, New Mexico, and Arkansas, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/16/booster-vaccine-eligibility-states/">among others</a>, have all moved in the last few weeks to declare nearly all adults eligible. And based on anecdotal accounts, even adults not eligible yet have been able to get a booster shot.
That has left people anticipating official federal guidance that anyone who wants a booster can get one — and it has also <a href="https://www.vox.com/22770682/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shots-policy-goal">fostered confusion</a> over what exactly the US’s public health game plan is, and whether getting the booster is the right personal choice for any given person.
Those <a href="https://www.vox.com/22770682/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shots-policy-goal">questions</a> will only loom larger now, with the expanded booster eligibility. Here’s how to help you think through the situation.
Personally, this describes my situation — and I’m getting one.
If you got two shots of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, as I did, you’re already fairly well-protected from severe Covid-19 outcomes. The main thing a booster does is make you less likely to get infected and (mildly) sick — but that’s still good to have.
We have a lot more data on these vaccines than we did when they were first approved. We know that they generally <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/11/science/vaccine-waning-immunity.html">remain very effective against severe illness and death even a year</a> after someone gets two shots. But they do wane in effectiveness against infection. Six months after your second dose, the vaccine is less protective against catching Covid-19 and, perhaps, virus spread.
That’s because antibody levels in the blood decline over time. Experts <a href="https://www.vox.com/22770682/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shots-policy-goal">disagree on how much people should worry about that</a>. Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told me that a healthy, functioning immune system gradually prunes blood antibodies for infections the body hasn’t encountered, and it doesn’t mean you won’t fight off Covid-19 just fine (likely suffering only mild, maybe even unnoticeable illness, if you do catch it).
There’s a fair debate to be had about whether preventing infection, if illness is likely to be mild, is all that important as a public health priority. But even though I won’t get all that sick if I get Covid-19 because I’m fully vaccinated, I prefer not to get it at all. The booster does reduce my risk of becoming infected with Covid-19 — period. For me, that’s sufficient to take a booster, especially given that I didn’t have bad side effects from the first two shots.
This lukewarm recommendation becomes a much stronger one for older adults and others at elevated risk from Covid-19. If your immune system functions less well or you work in a high-risk setting, then a booster shot might be needed just to get your immune system to the level of readiness that other people were at after two shots. That’s well worth it.
And if you got <a href="https://www.vox.com/22770682/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shots-policy-goal">Johnson & Johnson</a>, you should definitely get a booster (which the CDC had already approved) to combat some waning in vaccine efficacy for the one-dose shot.
A lot of Covid-19 questions are complicated, but here’s one thing we can be fairly sure of: Your booster shot, if you choose to get one, is very likely not directly coming at the expense of other people, experts told me.
The concern stems from the fact that many people in the US will be getting their third shot when about <a href="https://www.vox.com/22759707/covid-19-vaccine-gap-covax-rich-poor-countries-boosters">half of the world hasn’t had even one shot</a>. That’s not just an injustice and a humanitarian wrong, it’s also strategically foolish: <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22598415/covid-vaccinate-world-virus-variant-delta-lambda">Virus variants can develop more easily</a> when Covid-19 cases are high, and vaccines are the most effective way to lower them.
If skipping a booster would get that shot to someone in a poor country instead, I’d prefer to do that.
But that’s not really how vaccine allocation works. Many months <a href="https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-announce-agreement-us-government-600">ago,</a> the US placed orders with Moderna and Pfizer for millions of doses of their vaccines. Other countries and international organizations did the same.
Those orders, experts told me, are being fulfilled in the order they were placed — so if Moderna is committed to delivering 20 million doses to the US first, then 10 million to France next, that’s the order they will send them. And if the US orders additional doses now in response to increased demand from booster-getters like us, that request will be at the back of the queue.
Not getting your booster won’t get that shot to people in other countries who need them more. What might help, Amanda Glassman, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, told me, is queue-swapping: the US formally ceding its place in line to other countries that need it more or to <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22440986/covax-challenges-covid-19-vaccines-global-inequity">Covax, the international alliance to vaccinate the world</a>.
<a href="https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/donate-doses-now">Unicef has called on the US and other rich countries to do just that.</a> The US also could — and should — donate excess doses (it has donated roughly <a href="https://www.vox.com/22759707/covid-19-vaccine-gap-covax-rich-poor-countries-boosters">200 million of them</a> so far), but it’s unclear how demand for boosters this fall and winter will affect the odds of new donations of excess doses in the future; the US plans to fulfill its remaining unfulfilled pledges of <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2021/09/22/biden-raise-world-vaccine-pledge-more-than-1-1-billion-doses/5803965001/">donating more than a billion doses</a> through <a href="https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/tracking-u-s-covid-19-vaccine-donations/">purchase orders for Covax currently in the queue</a>.
If you’re frustrated, like I am, that millions of vaccines are going unused in the US while they’re badly needed elsewhere, you should absolutely push for the US to give up its place in line. But skipping a booster shot won’t change how many doses Moderna or Pfizer will deliver to the US before they move on to the next country on their list.
And within the US, we have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/16/us-throws-out-millions-doses-covid-vaccine-world-shortages">plenty of supply of mRNA vaccines</a> at this point — so getting a booster isn’t taking one from your neighbors either.
The confusion surrounding boosters is in some ways an outgrowth of messy communications from the public health establishment. It likely explains the markedly different response to boosters than to the initial wave of vaccines.
Conversations about boosters have been tinged with ambivalence and uncertainty. In the early days when the vaccines first started rolling out to the larger population, my family and friends drove for hours to land our Covid-19 vaccines. I hate long car rides, but I spent the whole time actively excited. There’s a bit less of that feeling this time (but don’t tell that to our 5-year-old, who was so inspired she declared she’ll invent an immortality shot when she grows up).
“We’ve miscommunicated this,” Offit told me. He argues that the adults dying of Covid-19 are <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html">almost all people who are unvaccinated</a> or those at much-elevated risk, and the back-and-forth on boosters for healthy people has ended up leaving people confused. Many people who are already very safe from serious infection or death have ended up with the impression they’re at risk, while people who actually are at risk — largely those who are unvaccinated — have ended up with the impression the vaccines don’t really help.
And after a year in which much messaging emphasized resource scarcity — that we <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/clear-your-patients-confusion-about-which-masks-work-best">shouldn’t wear N-95 masks lest we take them from doctors and nurses,</a> that we shouldn’t <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/06/964139633/is-it-ever-ok-to-jump-ahead-in-the-vaccine-line">skip our place in the initial vaccine line</a> lest we get a vaccine someone else needed more — there’s been little effort to answer people who wonder, reasonably, if getting a booster takes one from someone who needs it more.
The FDA and CDC announcements on expanding booster eligibility should hopefully clarify some of the confusion out there. And the science on booster shots will continue to evolve — as we learn more, it should inform our public policies and individual decision-making.
In the meantime, it’s okay to go ahead and grab a booster to increase your protection. The earlier doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are still protective against severe disease and hospitalization, but an added coat of armor — especially since there is little vaccine scarcity in the US — can only help.
Update, November 19, 6:15 pm: This story was updated to reflect news of the CDC approving expanded booster shot eligibility, after FDA approval earlier in the day.
 
 
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The smart political argument behind the satire Such a Fun Age

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Kiley Reid’s <a href="https://go.skimresources.com/?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbooks%2Fsuch-a-fun-age%2F9780525541905&xcust=VoxSuchaFunAge111921" has-subtag="true" data-cdata='{"rewritten_url":"https://go.skimresources.com?id=66960X1516588\u0026xs=1\u0026url=https://bookshop.org/books/such-a-fun-age/9780525541905\u0026xcust=___vx__p_22554153__m_m-placeholder__s_s-placeholder__t_w__c_c-placeholder__r_r-placeholder__d_d-placeholder","subtag_max_length":50,"subtag_delim_length":3,"subtag_key":"xcust","subtag_data":{"id":"66960X1516588","xs":"1","url":"https://bookshop.org/books/such-a-fun-age/9780525541905","xcust":"___vx__p_22554153__m_m-placeholder__s_s-placeholder__t_w__c_c-placeholder__r_r-placeholder__d_d-placeholder"},"encode_subtag":false}'>Such a Fun Age</a>, the Vox Book Club’s pick for November, takes place in a very specific age indeed. It’s 2015, the lead-up to the 2016 election. President Barack Obama is in office, Hillary Clinton is expected to be the next president, and pundits are given to smugly declaring America to be post-racist and post-sexist.
As Such a Fun Age shows, that was never truly the case. This novel is a satire of polite liberal prejudices, and how they flourish beneath a veneer of colorblind civility.
Such a Fun Age concerns 25-year-old Emira. She’s Black, a recent college grad, and struggling to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. Her 26th birthday is approaching, which means she’s about to get kicked off her parents’ health insurance, so she’s got a ticking clock on this problem.
But all Emira really likes doing is hanging out with Briar, her 3-year-old white babysitting charge. Emira has tried to imagine getting a permanent nannying position with another family so she can get her own health care, but it’s not children in the abstract she likes: it’s Briar specifically, who is smart and deadpan funny and never stops asking questions.
What Emira likes less is Briar’s mother, Alix. And it’s with Alix that Reid’s satire gets most pointed.
Alix exists as an all-too realistic parody of Lean In white feminism. She’s a sort of proto-influencer who built her brand in the ’00s by writing handwritten letters to companies asking for free products, receiving them, and then blogging about the result. Now, she’s an Instagrammer who runs a coaching business teaching women how to ask for what they want — so long as they are nice, upper-middle-class women who ask politely, respectfully, and on expensive stationery. Her signature hashtag is #LetHerSpeak.
The tell that Alix’s interest in letting women speak is phony comes early on, when we enter her point of view and learn what she thinks of Briar. Alix is viscerally annoyed by Briar’s voice, which is “loud and hoarse” and “consumed everything in its path.” Briar seems more unruly to Alix than other children her age, less respectable in her curiosity and desires. So though Alix is happy to use Briar as a prop — breastfeeding her from the stage during an event in order to leverage a viral moment, positioning herself as the icon of the modern mom who has it all — she prefers not to pay too much attention to Briar on a day-to-day basis. That’s why she hires Emira.
And Alix finds herself fascinated by Emira, much more than she is fascinated by Briar. She wants Emira to use her youth and Blackness and beauty to validate Alix, to affirm that since Alix has a close Black friend and her favorite shoes are from Payless, she’s still cool. She wants, also, to “save” Emira from herself, to teach her how to polish her self-presentation and redo her résumé and start writing handwritten cover letters on beautiful creamy stationery.
Emira isn’t particularly interested in any of that, though. She mostly just wants health care, and she wants to be thought of as a human rather than as a prop in white people’s performances of progressivism. That’s why her closest relationship is with Briar, who loves her with a deep and specific gravity. It’s also why she doesn’t care for Alix, who treats her as a trophy — and why she’s more than a little wary of her own white boyfriend, Kelley.
While Alix is an obvious villain, a cringey tryhard who might as well be the living embodiment of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHotXbGZiFY">A White Woman’s Instagram</a>, Kelley is a more ambiguous character. We never get inside his head, as we do with Alix, but we can see from the outside that he’s self-confident and genuinely pretty cool, someone easy to like.
But Kelley also, Emira notes with some surprise, seems to only date Black women and have Black friends. He drops the n-word in casual conversation, hard r and all. When Emira talks about racism, he seems very eager to prove that he “gets it,” but she isn’t at all sure that he does. He seems to savor his outrage over her situation in a way she keeps thinking is maybe a little off-putting.
Kelley and Alix, we eventually learn, have a history. It’s left them resentful of each other — and also eager to use Emira as a pawn in the contest Alix mentally labels Which One of Us Is Actually More Racist?
And so Such a Fine Age winds up with Emira, now extricated from both Alix and Kelley, thinking not of them but of Briar. Briar was the only person Emira could be sure genuinely loved her in her whole time as a babysitter — but Emira fears that stuck alone with her neglectful mother and all the privileges of whiteness, Briar, too, will come to outsource her emotional labor to someone she can hire. In the world of liberal racism, the problem isn’t hate so much as it is unthinking and callous fetishism.
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<li>Let’s talk about that Thanksgiving scene! Alix and Kelley first recognize each other when Alix invites Emira and her boyfriend over for her Thanksgiving party, for which she has decorated with ironic tacky pumpkins and turkeys. Did Thanksgiving strike you as a good time for all these secrets to come out? What about the class politics of Kelley taking Alix’s ironic decor seriously?</li>
<li>Emira winds up as the administrative assistant to a regional director of the US Census Bureau, and from there gets an unspecified promotion. What do you think of Emira winding up in an office dedicated to observing and chronicling demographic shifts in this novel dedicated to satirizing different social demographics? Does it square to you with the ideas Emira is interested in through the rest of Such a Fun Age?</li>
<li>Alix is probably the richest character in this novel — awful and cringey, sure, but also compelling in her sheer desperate striving. I often found myself enjoying her despite myself, on the principle that the most interesting character is usually the one who wants things with the most energy, and Alix wants with all her shallow heart. How did you feel about her?</li>
<li>While Alix gets to be entertainingly awful, Emira’s job in this book is to put up with a lot, until she doesn’t. How does that change the way you engage with both of them? With Emira playing defense for so much of the book, what are the qualities that make you latch onto her as a protagonist — or not?</li>
<li>Kelley’s a deeply ambiguous character, and we never fully find out what his deal is, in part to make the final misdirect land. How did you end up thinking about him by the end of the novel?</li>
<li>The whole book is built around a video of Emira facing down a racist security guard at a grocery store who has accused her of kidnapping Briar. Emira considers the video humiliating and badly wants to keep it from getting out, but Alix and Kelley both think she should leak it. How do you think about that conflict? Why does Emira want to keep anyone from ever seeing the video, and why are Alix and Kelley so eager to make a fuss over it? Does this story change the way you think about our national pastime of dissecting videos of everyday racism all over social media?</li>
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vox The smart political argument behind the satire Such a Fun Age

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The Fact That So Many Americans Hate Rittenhouse And Sympathize With Those He Shot Reveals One Thing: America Is Becoming A Nation Of Trash

By Theodore Shoebat
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Last night I did a video on how the fact that so many Americans sympathize with Joseph Rosenbaum, the child molester who Rittenhouse shot, tells us how the US is becoming a nation of trash:
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source <a href="https://shoebat.com/2021/11/19/the-fact-that-so-many-americans-hate-rittenhouse-and-sympathize-with-those-he-shot-reveals-one-thing-america-is-becoming-a-nation-of-trash/">https://shoebat.com/2021/11/19/the-fact-that-so-many-americans-hate-rittenhouse-and-sympathize-with-those-he-shot-reveals-one-thing-america-is-becoming-a-nation-of-trash/</a>

armageddon The Fact That So Many Americans Hate Rittenhouse And Sympathize With Those He Shot Reveals One Thing: America Is Becoming A Nation Of Trash

By Theodore Shoebat Last night I did a video on how the fact that so many Americans sympathize with Joseph Rosenbaum, the child molester ...

Now That Rittenhouse Has Been Found Innocent, People Are Getting Ready For Left-wing Riots

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Protestors outside the courthouse in Kenosha where the verdict was made
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By Theodore Shoebat
Rittenhouse was just found innocent, on all counts. Justice has been served. The mob lost this time. But, the mob does not stop for its anger is ever lingering in the atmosphere of rage. It is for the reason of this reality that the National Guard has been standing ready for Left-wing rioting exploding against the Rittenhouse verdict. Just two days ago, the New York Times <a href="https://archive.md/K5xql#selection-513.0-517.185">reported</a>:
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Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin activated about 500 members of his state’s National Guard ahead of the verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial in Kenosha. Officials said the troops would be placed on standby outside the city but would be ready to help if requested by local law enforcement.
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The riots in Kenosha began with misinformation about the killing of Jacob Blake by police officers. The officers were trying to arrest Blake as a response to a 911 call by a woman who was allegedly raped by Blake and who was now telling police that Blake was at her home. The officers were aware that Blake had an open warrant out for his arrest for sexual assault. According to the New York Post:
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Blake, 29, was forbidden from going to the Kenosha home of his alleged victim from the May 3 incident, and police were dispatched Sunday following a 911 call saying he was there.
The responding officers were aware he had an open warrant for felony sexual assault, according to dispatch records and the Kenosha Professional Police Association, which released a statement on the incident on Friday.
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The sexual assault charge was dropped in November of 2020, but only because the alleged victim was responsive to prosecutors (which doesn’t it didn’t happen). The reality is that there were many calls to police because of domestic issues, and officer Sheskey, the one who shot and killed Blake, saw Blake putting a child in a vehicle and heard a woman say, “He’s got my kid. He’s got my keys”. Sheskey shot Blake as he was entering the vehicle because he feared that either Blake was going to kidnap the child or he was going to use a knife against him and the other officers. A knife was indeed recovered from the driver-side front floorboard of the car Blake was leaning into when he was shot in the back. This officer was a hero who killed a low life and a scoundrel. What happened to Blake was just like any other body cam police video of an officer killing a suspect who is holding a knife or attempting to use a weapon against cops. Here is a video of Allan George being shot in the back by cops in Colorado who were trying to arrest him on charges of child pornography (George was armed with a pistol and was definitely dangerous):
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It is very common for cops to shoot people who are armed with knives. There is a legion of videos:
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Since there are so many videos of cops shooting people with knives, what made the Blake story so special? Its because, optics wise, it really does appear that Blake is being shot while just walking into his car. You can’t see the knife, and so the narrative behind the video can be manipulated by media outlets to make it seem that officers just murdered an innocent black man as he was entering his vehicle. But it was quickly understood that Blake had a knife, and yet the disinformation did not stop, and this is what ultimately influenced the riots. What was the purpose of this? And why push the Blake story in the midst of the tensity that was already there because of the George Floyd case? Its almost like they want the chaos.
 
 
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armageddon Now That Rittenhouse Has Been Found Innocent, People Are Getting Ready For Left-wing Riots

Protestors outside the courthouse in Kenosha where the verdict was made By Theodore Shoebat Rittenhouse was just found innocent, on all ...

The Case for Vaccine Passports Has Been Demolished

The Spectator has published an article citing official data from Public Health England, which states that for the over 30’s, “the rates of Covid infection per 100,000 are now higher among the vaxxed than the unvaxxed.”
Well, this is awkward.
The <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-absurd-theatre-of-vaccine-passports#">article</a>, written by Lionel Shriver, is titled ‘The absurd theatre of vaccine passports’.
It points out that according to official data, vaccines only offer about 17 per cent protection for the over-fifties.
“As I observed then, this would mean the vaxxed and unvaxxed pose a comparable danger to each other,” writes Shriver. “All Covid apartheid schemes are therefore insensible.”
She then clearly explains how the official data undermines the entire argument behind vaccine passports, which ban the unvaccinated from entering innumerable venues.
“Fresher information has fortified this conclusion of the summer. In every age group over 30 in the UK, the rates of Covid infection per 100,000 are now higher among the vaxxed than the unvaxxed. Indeed, in the cohorts aged between 40 and 79, infection rates among the vaccinated are more than twice as high as among the unvaccinated. PHE’s fruitlessly rechristened body, the UK Health Security Agency, frantically clarifies that the data ‘should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness’, a caveat which I include for the sake of accuracy. But the differences in the infection rates are drastic enough for you to draw your own conclusions.”
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Shriver then summarizes how that data demolishes the reason for implementing vaccine passport schemes.
“Gatekeeping of pleasure palaces promotes the wrong impression — statistically, the lie — that the unvaccinated riff-raff exiled to the pavement pose a far graver threat of communicable disease than the diners in the nearby banquette who, like you, have righteously got the shot. In truth, the double-jabbed airline passenger in 24A can be just as risky a seat-mate as the great unwashed banished from the flight.”
Meanwhile, the Times <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-in-scotland-john-swinney-urged-to-scrap-vaccine-passports-7dp6chl8d">reports</a> the results of another study which “found the double-jabbed are just as likely to pass on Covid-19 as unvaccinated people.”
After Public Health England published the data, government bureaucrats begin to panic that people would use it to suggest vaccines were not that effective.
Office for Statistics Regulation director Ed Humpherson <a href="https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/09/awkward-meltdown-at-the-uk-health-security-agency-over-data-showing-infection-rate-higher-in-vaccinated-than-unvaccinated/">called</a> an urgent meeting with U.K. Health Security Agency during which he worried about the data having “the potential to mislead.”
“We noted that these data have been used to argue that vaccines are ineffective,” Humpherson subsequently wrote.
Isn’t it strange how the government and associated regulatory bodies appear to be afraid of raw data?
If the vaccines are as effective as they tell us, why would they be worried?
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Watch: Police Confront Demonstrators as Lockdown Protests in Netherlands Turn Violent

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Protesters hit the streets of Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Friday after the government announced new Covid lockdown restrictions set to last another three weeks.
Footage out of the Dutch city shows fires scattered throughout several blocks as hundreds of people took to the streets, with police attempting to quell the violence.
“Police in Rotterdam have fired warning shots, injuring protesters, as riots broke out in central Rotterdam at a demonstration against government plans to restrict access for unvaccinated people to some venues,” <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/the-netherlands-rotterdam-police-open-fire-as-covid-protest-turns-violent?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1637362701" target="_blank">reported</a> the Guardian.
“Local media said gangs of soccer hooligans were involved in the rioting.”
Here was the scene leading up to the chaos:
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Videos showed explosions going off, presumably from fireworks, and also featured police vehicles set on fire. Gunshots can be heard in other videos.
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NOW – Violent protests against Covid-restrictions in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rotterdam?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rotterdam</a>, Netherlands.<a href="https://t.co/xCTyqiy609">pic.twitter.com/xCTyqiy609</a>
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) <a href="https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1461794811846045696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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NOW – Chaos in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rotterdam?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rotterdam</a>. Sounds of explosions and gunfire.<a href="https://t.co/CvNidiLM2x">pic.twitter.com/CvNidiLM2x</a>
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) <a href="https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1461795610504355842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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— Rawit (@RawitRaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/RawitRaw/status/1461795999798681610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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— Dimitri⚔DimitriVistick⬅️Getrr (@DimitriVistick) <a href="https://twitter.com/DimitriVistick/status/1461798267394662407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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This was at the beginning the end😳 <a href="https://t.co/DMvQbqhkdV">pic.twitter.com/DMvQbqhkdV</a>
— Michael (@Mikedemight) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mikedemight/status/1461795793581527045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Kick for the police in Rotterdam <a href="https://t.co/NedcPOUawG">pic.twitter.com/NedcPOUawG</a>
— Wittgenstein (@Kukicat7) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kukicat7/status/1461815304233885700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Police in Rotterdam have confirmed that shots were fired and it is being reported that one protestor is dead but this is as yet unconfirmed. <a href="https://t.co/U64bLKVdwM">pic.twitter.com/U64bLKVdwM</a>
— Wittgenstein (@Kukicat7) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kukicat7/status/1461816623971676165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Nazi police taking revenge on a lone protester in Rotterdam 🤬 <a href="https://t.co/dKeHb4C1Du">pic.twitter.com/dKeHb4C1Du</a>
— Elisa 🇬🇧 (@JustLaElisa17) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustLaElisa17/status/1461831519836721171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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— Erna Schoonderbeek- Heijster (@ErnaSchoonderbe) <a href="https://twitter.com/ErnaSchoonderbe/status/1461785350838403082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
One video circulating on social media showed several demonstrators tending to a fallen protester. A video caption purports there were “unconfirmed reports of protesters being SHOT DEAD by police.”
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It’s kicking off in Rotterdam,
Unconfirmed reports of protesters being SHOT DEAD by police. <a href="https://t.co/xenMgELJwb">pic.twitter.com/xenMgELJwb</a>
— TJ (@TJ0056) <a href="https://twitter.com/TJ0056/status/1461799914321719305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
Here’s what happened just seconds earlier:
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A protester is seen to be shot in the street as tensions intensify in Rotterdam.<a href="https://t.co/w0ybmfa8zW">pic.twitter.com/w0ybmfa8zW</a>
— Lewis Brackpool (@Lewis_Brackpool) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lewis_Brackpool/status/1461814870505136134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
In another video, a protester claims to show off a “Schotwond,” translated to english as a “gunshot wound.”
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Schotwond <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/rotterdam?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#rotterdam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Coolsingel?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Coolsingel</a> <a href="https://t.co/yuNn5hSv14">pic.twitter.com/yuNn5hSv14</a>
— Jaycee ❤️🙏 (@Jayceee73) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jayceee73/status/1461818627783643141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
Here’s another person showing wounds purported to have been inflicted by police:
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“Police admits it shot several people”, according to Dutch newspaper AD.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Coolsingel?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Coolsingel</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rotterdam?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rotterdam</a> <a href="https://t.co/swX1eG0v5w">pic.twitter.com/swX1eG0v5w</a>
— NewsBlog (@newsblogmedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/newsblogmedia/status/1461814946396880897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
According to the Guardian, the new laws would “allow businesses to restrict the country’s coronavirus pass system to people who are fully vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19, which would exclude people who test negative.”
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<a href="https://banned.video/watch?id=6196f971fdc3e6563c861d3a" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Austria Goes Into Full Lockdown for Unvaccinated Citizens</a>
 
 
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news Watch: Police Confront Demonstrators as Lockdown Protests in Netherlands Turn Violent

Protesters hit the streets of Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Friday after the government announced new Covid lockdown restrictions set to last ...