Posted a couple of pictures with a message on FB. Kind of expecting some unfriending to come.

 Yet these will lecture the unvaccinated about their "unhealthy choice" not to get vaccinated.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/uk-scientists-warn-covid-will-likely-resemble-common-cold-next-spring

At this point in the pandemic, most readers have probably heard that COVID will likely remain endemic in the human population, like the cold or the flu.

And as we prepare for the second flu season (in the northern hemisphere, at least), more scientists (and, increasingly, politicians) are realizing that they're going to need to embrace a change in messaging - messaging that, at one time, might have left them vulnerable to accusations of being an "anti-vaxxer".

We're of course referring to the notion that COVID will stick around and become a regular illness, like the flu or the common cold.



Australia has finally acknowledged that its government's commitment to "ZeroCOVID" simply didn't make sense, and abandoned it. In the US, the vast majority of people who haven't been vaccinated probably wouldn't get the jab if you offered to pay them (which, incidentally, New York City and several other states and cities have tried to do).

Fortunately, as humanity's resistance to the virus grows, the danger that COVID poses should continue to wane. A pair of scientists discussed this phenomenon in a recent story with Sky News. Both suggested that, by Springtime, COVID could be like a "cold or mild flu" for most people.

hared a slightly more optimistic take, claiming COVID will become like the common cold by next Spring.

Professor Sir John Bell, religious professor of medicine at Oxford University, said the virus could resemble the common cold by spring next year as people's immunity to the virus is boosted by both vaccines AND natural exposure.

He added the country "is over the worst" and things "should be fine" once winter has passed, adding that there was continued exposure to the virus even in people who are vaccinated.

Bell's comments followed a similar remark from Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, one of the UK's most high-profile figures who helped develop the Astra-Zeneca jab. Gilbert said a few days ago that there's evidence that the population is developing greater immunity levels as time goes on and more are infected and vaccinated. She also played down fears about another new hyper-virulent variant.

Asked about Gilbert's comment, John said: "If you look at the trajectory we're on, we're a lot better off than we were six months ago."

At the very least, the pressure on the yuan will abate.

"So the pressure on the NHS is largely abated. If you look at the deaths from COVID, they tend to be very elderly people, and it's not entirely clear it was COVID that caused all those deaths.

"So I think we're over the worst of it now and I think what will happen is, there will be quite a lot of background exposure to Delta," he added, saying the case numbers are quite high but those who have had two vaccines and are infected will still lead to stronger herd immunity".

Speaking at a Royal Society of Medicine webinar on Wednesday, Dame Gilbert said the most sensible scenario for COVID is that it will mutate to become less deadly for humans, making it more like the flu or cold, possibly by next year.

"We normally see that viruses become less virulent as they circulate more easily and there is no reason to think we will have a more virulent version of Sars-CoV-2," Dame Sarah said.

"It's just a question of how long it's going to take to get there and what measures we're going to have to take to manage it in the meantime."

In both cases, their remarks were a reactions a statement from England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty, who said this week that all children who had not been vaccinated would likely end up getting COVID. Most available data would suggest this is unlikely.

I agree with you that both parties are responsible. I also agree defaulting isn’t the answer. Unfortunately I don’t think there is an answer. What it would take to fix this would be a much smaller government with much less spending regardless of what you do with taxes, at a point in time where much of the public is clambering for more and more freebies. Free college, free childcare, more regulation of every aspect of our lives requiring more and more government employees to administer, and the obligations of social security and medicare due to an aging population are ballooning. It’s a runaway train but there’s not enough public will to stop it, and the politicians only care about their next election, not the long term consequences. We’ve been kicking the can down the road for decades and it might be way too late to stop this train wreck.

  This is fixable, we just don't have any of the DC Uniparty willing to do it except for a minor few.

  Start with foreign aid.  Cut it all off.  It's a boondoggle that has gone on way too long.

 Start cutting out all the bullshit grants.  W don't need transgender studies in Pakistan, we don't need to study a swamp frog in Guatemala.   Stop subsidizing AmTrack and a host of other mismanaged government programs.

 Cut back on funding MIC projects that never produce anything that is used or works.  That's billions within itself.

 Scrap the current tax code and go to a flat tax.  Get the lower 50% of wage earners who pay zero in federal income tax to start paying.  Stop IRS welfare programs.

  Remove government agencies that are already replicated in the state level.  We don't need an EPA, a DOE and many of these other useless agencies when the states are already doing it themselves.

 I could go on for pages.

(Ivermectin doesn't do a damn thing, sorry)

 You keep saying that ignoring the evidence that says differently.

 This is a major reason you have zero credibility as a  scientist.  You choose ideology over science.  You follow "the science" rather than being objective.