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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/10/28/vaccine-mandate-air-force/
12,000 Air Force Personnel, Including Elite Pilots, Have Rejected Vax
Order As Tuesday Deadline Looms...



https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/10/28/humanity-sleepwalking-towards-medical-apartheid-we-need-honest-debate-before-its-too-late/
https://twitter.com/NototyrannyNOW/status/1452806986974654465
Humanity Is Sleepwalking Towards Medical Apartheid...
The tragic state of affairs, justified by a disease with a better than
99 percent survival rate, cannot continue indefinitely...
Even as scientific studies show that vaccines alone cannot extricate
humanity from the Covid-19 crisis, governments are rushing headlong
towards the creation of a ‘vaccinated economy’ without any
consideration for the consequences. It’s time for an injection of
sanity and informed democratic debate...
When a reporter asked New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about
the possibility of the Pacific island nation being fragmented into two
distinct classes of citizens – the vaccinated and unvaccinated – Arden
didn’t miss a beat as she responded with her trademark Cheshire grin,
“That is what it is. So yep. Yep.”..
Noam Chomsky says the "right response" to The Unvaccinated is "to
insist that they be isolated" from society https://t.co/T34V7anDGI
pic.twitter.com/1bBzURPeEi
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 2, 2021
In a delightful document entitled the Roadmap – which comes off a bit
like a Mad Max sequel – Andrews, who apparently moonlights as a PhD
when he’s not pretending to be a leader, postulates that “there will
come a time when Victorians who choose not to get vaccinated will be
left behind…” as Australians begin “transitioning to a ‘vaccinated
economy’ in this state, and ensure we have the right systems in
place.”
Fines of up to $90,000 or two years jail await those breaking the
rules, which Daniel Andrews described as a win for accountability.
@msanto92 #9News pic.twitter.com/TYz1t2hUN8
— 9News Melbourne (@9NewsMelb) October 26, 2021
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/south-dakota-gov-noem-signs-order-to-protect-state-employees-from-bidens-vaccine-mandate_4075264.html
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed an executive order this week to
“protect” state employees against President Joe Biden’s COVID-19
vaccine mandate by allowing them to easily obtain medical and
religious exemptions.
    “South Dakota is fighting back against the heavy hand of @JoeBiden
& his Administration,” the Republican governor announced on Twitter.
“Today I signed an Executive Order to protect state employees, & those
w/ federal contracts who are being forced to get vaccinated against
their wishes. The order protects medical & religious exemptions for
these workers.”
    “Additionally, I am working w/ legislators on addressing other
areas. I have always said the decision to get vaccinated should be a
personal choice-not a mandate from Joe Biden, Fauci or your boss,” she
added...






Latest Lancet Study Exposes Limits Of Vaccines At Preventing COVID Infection

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/issue/current
https://www.scribd.com/document/535734554/s-1473309921006484

The Lancet has just released another study comparing the efficacy of
COVID vaccines to the efficacy of protection provided by previous
COVID infections. Their conclusion: while vaccines lower the risk of
infections with the delta variant within households, those who are
fully vaccinated are still vulnerable to a 'breakthrough' infection if
somebody they live with gets infected.

What's more, people who have been vaccinated against COVID can be
equally as infectious as the unvaccinated, the study showed.

The new study, which was published Thursday in the Lancet, the British
medical journal that published some of the earliest research on COVID,
is one of few to use detailed infection data from actual examples of
household transmission, and it showed that - as we noted above - the
viral loads of both vaccinated and unvaccinated patients infected with
COVID are "broadly similar".

The study involved 621 people in the UK with mild COVID infections,
identified via the UK's contact-tracing system.

The data showed that vaccination status doesn't make a whole lot of
difference in the ability to pass COVID on to others.

Roughly 25% of vaccinated household members subsequently tested
positive for the virus after close contact with a fellow household
member with a confirmed case of COVID. That's compared with 38% of
infection for people who haven't been vaccinated.

These data show that the delta variant has a "greater capability for
breaching the vaccine's defenses when compared with predecessors.

"Our findings show that vaccination alone is not enough to prevent
people from being infected with the Delta variant and spreading it in
household settings," said Professor Ajit Lalvani of Imperial College
London, the co-leader of the study.

The study's author said the lower transmission rates between
vaccinated patients is just another reason to get the jab - although
not a particularly compelling one.

    "The ongoing transmission we are seeing between vaccinated people
makes it essential for unvaccinated people to get vaccinated to
protect themselves from acquiring infection and severe Covid-19,
especially as more people will be spending time inside in close
proximity during the winter months," he said.

The study also underlines the importance of the vulnerable to get
booster shots, since it also shows that vaccine immunity wanes with
time.

    "We found that susceptibility to infection increased already
within a few months after the second vaccine dose – so those eligible
for Covid-19 booster shots should get them promptly," the professor
said.

Following a summary of its findings, the Lancet wrote the
"interpretation" of the study: "Vaccination reduces the risk of delta
variant infection and accelerates viral clearance. Nonetheless, fully
vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral
load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit
infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated
contacts. Host–virus interactions early in infection may shape the
entire viral trajectory."












Noem said the move was necessary to ensure that employees aren’t
forced to get COVID-19 vaccinations under  Biden’s initiative, which
covers not only people directly paid by federal contracts but also
anyone who works to support them.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem addresses the Conservative Political
Action Conference held in the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Fla., on Feb.
27, 2021. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

State lawmakers have said South Dakotans are being denied medical and
religious exemptions from feds and have called for a special session
to stop it.

Noem spokesman Jordan Overturf said Noem’s exemptions are “explicit
and offer a clear path” for state workers to opt-out of the shots.

In a press release from Noem’s office, the governor said that
employees who wish to receive a medical exemption from the vaccine
mandate need a note from a doctor stating that the COVID-19
vaccination is too risky for health reasons.

Workers who wish to be exempted for religious reasons must fill out a
form from the Bureau of Human Resources that states that they “dissent
and object to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds, which
includes moral, ethical, and philosophical beliefs or principles.”

“Due to established precedent, this Executive Order does not apply to
service members with the South Dakota National Guard who must meet
federal readiness responsibilities for deployment,” the release adds.

It also states that Noem will work during next year’s legislative
session with South Dakota lawmakers to make these “protections” for
state employees permanent, and “to extend similar health and religious
liberty protections” to employees of private businesses who adopted
mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies.

The governor earlier criticized proposals by Republican lawmakers to
ban vaccine mandates as “not conservative” because they’re telling
businesses what to do and how to treat their employees. This order,
spokesman Overturf said, is about upholding rights already included in
the Constitution.

“She has repeatedly said private businesses should offer medical and
religious exemptions for COVID vaccine mandates,” Overturf said.

Noem earlier said on Twitter that the state will “l stand up to defend
freedom,” referring to the president’s vaccine mandates.

“@JoeBiden see you in court,” she wrote in September, later adding
that her legal team is prepared to stand up to the Biden
administration’s mandates.