1. Fauci gets paid whether he's right or wrong. He has nothing to lose by being truthful about what he knows.
2. Being a volunteer librarian in a childrens' hospital makes you a hospital worker, but it doesn't qualify you to know anything about virii, or vaccines.

"Why would anybody listen to someone who has a financial stake in the vaccine? (Fauci)"

Where in the world did you read or hear, that Dr. Fauci has any financial stake, in any vaccine?

A couple of questions:

1) Since you stated that you work in healthcare, presumably for the purpose of attempting to establish yourself as a reliable source of information, it is certainly reasonable for us to know exactly what your position is and your education. Please provide both.

2) Questions about the vaccines, both the mRNA based Pfizer and Modern vaccines and the adenovirus virus based J&J vaccine, impacting DNA have been debunked. Do you have a reputable source to suggest otherwise?

...I really think that those that have received the vaccine may, at some time in the future, be weeded out by some virus variant because their natural immune system was compromised by the vaccine, and we'll be left with those healthy folks with a robust immune system that did not need, nor want, the vaccine.[/QUOTE]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣......oh, that was a good one.

Fauci needs to remain relevant. This Administration walks all over the CDC statements. They need to speak with one voice so the public has the knowledge to make the best decisions going forward.

Yes , I agree, and you can see this attitude in action already. At Home Depot yesterday even some employees were without masks.

100% agree.

100% agree. The government is like the IRS......”we are here to help”. Couldn’t be further from the truth.

Since this is an “experimental vaccine “, who knows what good it does, how long it lasts, if you can get Covid after receiving the shot, or if it works at all?? The lab tests failed on rats....they died, so there’s no proof of anything g yet. That’s why millions of Americans are now the “lab rats”.

I'll bet the main stream news does not report about those vaccinated who have gotten it again. I've read many articles that has happened & not just in the US. This is about keeping people scared, out of work & control. Numbers on arms next.

All I know is you people can sure beat a dead horse to death! Fauci is a con man.

Who knows? The scientists that created it, the researchers who are studying it, the CDC and FDA who evaluated the data, and anyone who has taken the time to look at the studies, research, evaluations, and data summaries, that's who knows.

Rats have died? I haven't seen that article/report/study but since I'm not a rat I'm not worried about those events. Now, if there were credible reports of the vaccine causing deaths in large numbers of humans, then I would worry.

Another poster said that he/she "bet the main stream news does not report about those vaccinated who have gotten it again." Actually, every time they list the effectiveness at less than 100% they are reporting that there have been some cases in vaccinated people. That's exactly what 72%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96% all mean, some number of people have become infected after receiving the vaccine.

Why would anyone listen to a person who is a totally wrong spreading completely baseless rumors about a person who has lead the NIAID in the National Institute of Health through both Dem and GOP administrations since 1984, and is considered a world expert on infectious disease and immunoregulation. It scares the Hell out of me when people claim to work in health care, and maybe you do, and might actually be endangering the lives of the patients they see when they are so frighteningly ignorant of how to read the literature and analyze data as you seem to be. The horrible language you use to describe those who have the temerity to believe Fauci and the CDC when is comes to Covid is a huge indictment of your inability to separate your political extremism from facts and you absolutely should not be allowed to interact with any patients until you get serious mental health care or have your meds adjusted.

Show me one damn bit of proof that Fauci has a direct stake in the vaccines, not just that he might own a few shares of stock or that the NIH interacts with pharmaceutical companies, as they always have as part of their job. The vaccines do NOT change your DNA, You are an untrained fool who needs to go back to school if you wrote that and believe that. I expect people who are not versed in how RNA and DNA work to be confused and easily led astray by charlatans but you "work in health care" and attach RN to your screen name. Shame on you. Please tell us where you work so we can report your lack of judgement and lack of education to your employer. And you show a complete lack of compassion for people who disagree with you calling them sheeple, the favorite insult of the farthest of the right wingers in our divided nation.

Maybe you should just get branded.......smh

He sure conned Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Reagan used him as an expert on management of HIV and Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He sure conned all the established organizations and universities that have honored him. All those experts in medicine who rely on his contributions to the science of healing are all being conned by Dr. Fauci. Trump was conned by him when he selected him for his Covid team. Who is Dr. Fauci?

But I'm sure your ability to detect skill in a field is so much better than all these organizations. Who is being conned? Maybe it is you.

I am amazes how many “experts” we have on this list.

I wear a mask and have gotten the vaccine - but - I TOTALLY SUPPORT (repeat - SUPPORT) any business with employees or patrons NOT wearing masks! I wear a mask - BUT I am NOT - repeat NOT - afraid of anyone NOT wearing a mask. I don’t care who has received or not received the vaccine.

Who wrote these words:

"I work as an RN. I don’t know anyone in my profession willing to take the vaccine. ... What’s the point if you still have to wear a face diaper"

What nurse refers to her mask as a face diaper? Does she refuse to wear a mask when she enters a room of a cancer patient whose immune system is compromised? Does she refuse to wear a "face diaper" in an OR? Is this a person with the calm demeanor you'd want in your health care provider? Is her experience that no nurses have been willing to take the Covid vaccine at all an accurate representation of the nursing profession which her post is trying to tell you it is?

Let's examine that question. Do nurses nearly 100% reject Covid vaccines? My SIL is a nurse, got the vaccine, two of my daughters are nurses, both got the vaccine. A KFF poll reported 2 weeks ago based on interviews from Feb 11 to Mar 7, that "seven in ten (68%) of those responsible for patient diagnosis and treatment like a doctor or a nurse report receiving a COVID-19 vaccine," I am sure that the number is higher now as more vaccines have been administered. "The unvaccinated group of frontline health care workers includes some who either have their vaccination scheduled (3%) or plan to get vaccinated but haven’t scheduled it yet (15%)."

So obviously the RN who wrote that gem doesn't represent her colleagues or fairly state the acceptance rate of vaccination of nurses. Don't listen to her [dms4rn] when she overgeneralizes or offers far out opinions as if she is authoritative on the subject.

All bow to the great blue ash— knower of all medical knowledge on earth. Beat that horse!!

Actually it is on the front page EVERY DAY of The Daily Sun. The bottom FOURTH of the entire front page...every day. EVERY day......titled each day; Coronavirus, What's happening with Vaccination Efforts.

I don't understand your experience. If in April 2020 you have a test showing you had antibodies to Covid possibly related to your illness in Jan 2020 then in April 2020 you had your answer. You likely had Covid. Why would you have had any further tests done? If you had Covid antibodies in April 2020 you would have them still in May and June and July etc for some time. Unless you were in a study to determine duration of antibodies there was no clinical reason to test you or any other members of your family that also had antibodies. There also was no reason to be doing nasal swabs on you unless you had new Covid symptoms or had a need to be tested for travel or contact tracing.

I also don't understand the last sentence... "if I have an actual positive Covid test" I thought you wrote you had already had 12 positive tests, were those actual tests?

"spreading completely baseless rumors about a person who has lead the NIAID in the National Institute of Health through both Dem and GOP administrations since 1984, and is considered a world expert on infectious disease and immunoregulation."


It's obvious as to the primary impetus behind the criticism and denigration of Dr. Fauci and it has nothing to do with his credentials or expertise - which are impeccable.

Do you really believe that? It is NOT TRUE that the mRNA vaccines interact with DNA. It says so, right here......

Myths and Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines | CDC

You working in health care means nothing to me if you buy into these damn conspiracy theories.

If the grandparents were fully immune after vaccination, then it was NOT the grandparents that spread Covid. Fully vaccinated people have been found NOT to spread the virus because viral load is too low.

I don't and haven't seen anyone on here commenting on how efficient any of the past and present flu vaccines have/are. Go ahead and tell me how much more dangerous COVID is in comparison, so the flu doesnt' matter to you. You can analyze the COVID vaccines all you want, but the FACT is that it is one of the best vaccines so far. No one worries about the THOUSANDS of flu related deaths per year.
Here's some points for you:
COVID deaths are down
Each COVID test is being counted as a new infection, therefore we should not be even counting them; instead we should rely on hospitalizations (loosely) and deaths by COVID (also being counted loosely).
CDC says that once we are vaccinated we won't pass it on to anyone else. Hey, I didn't make that up, they did.
There is absolutely no legitimate reason for wearing a mask after you are vaccinated. If you wish to wear one, because you are ugly, I will endorse the idea.
Consider this: Do you REALLY wish to wear a mask for the rest of your lives? Because there will NEVER, ever be a day in your future where there is not some danger of contagion.
Just because some political hacks tell you to wear a mask to be "patriot" are you going to believe their word? Or, are you intelligent enough to smell BS when someone is serving it to you?
I agree that masks have an element of protection. Not much, but probably as much as sneezing on your shirt sleeve. But, I do not see these worn out and used over and over again homemade masks as being much help. But, they can be a cause of you getting it when you might not have been infected if you had not worn the same mask over and over again.

Wear you masks, wash your hands, and maintain your distance....and be good little gov drones. Some of us are going to live, while many are going to die of high blood pressure from isolation, loneliness, hysteria and panic. Some of you are going to be miserable as you are being dragged, clawing and screaming to your grave. You go ahead and live your long and miserable lives, while the rest of us live dangerously by socializing (oh my) and not wearing our masks after being vaccinated. Please DO stay home, because the roads in The Villages are way too busy with bad drivers. I enjoy getting into a restaurant without standing in line. I might have a shorter life than you (maybe or maybe not) but at least I am going to enjoy what I have left....probably 20+ years. You may live as long, but hiding in your basement like H.G. Wells "Morlocks" is not going to make very many envious of you, that's for sure.
How many on here hid under your desks during an air raid drill, thinking that you would survive a nuclear attack?

I hear that the CDC is ramping up with propaganda to "suggest" wearing your masks during flu season. They know that this COVID thing will only last so long. Good luck.

Sorry but "they said" does not equate to Proof.

Even at 8 years old we all knew that ducking under that little wooden desk was a cruel joke.

Lots of errors and strangeness.

Why the anti-science sales pitch? Too much Qanon in someone's media habits?

The world and society are interconnected. We do NOT live on the frontier anymore.

Correct, so the poster was wrong. Also there is doubt that those who contracted it had gone through the necessary 2 weeks after the second dose for max immunity.

In Florida, the problem is undercounted CV cases and hospitalizations, not overcounted cases.

Nice to know that some people have evolved to the "beyond shaming" higher level. And nice to know that government is such a boogie-man - the great Greek and Roman civilizations must have been mis-evolvements of the society of their times - as ours is in modern times. And it MUST be true that there is a whole Pandemic of "stupid" going around!

There is no truth or helpful information there?????

It is my understanding that, even having had the 'shots', you can still transmit the virus, if you are not diligent about washing hands, if you get a "cold', etc. You can even get Covid, BUT, if you do, your case will be milder... SO, if that is the case, YES, you can transmit, either by having 'dirty' hands, clothes,etc...OR having the virus (very mild case), and don't realize it. SO, having already having both. I can't WAIT to see my grandkids after 15+ months, BUT, here in TV, I will wear a mask, wash hands frequently, maintain social distancing when around others that I don't know. BUT, I will be going out and about!!

You did click on the links didn't you?

Please tell me what would constitute proof that you would accept? Would the original drug testing of the vaccines showing breakthrough cases be proof? Would first person news reports from people who were immunized and got Covid later be proof? Would articles in the world's most important journals like the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Jama be proof? What are you willing to read with a slightly open mind that would convince you that it really is true, completely unequivocally true that people can complete their vaccines plus two weeks and still get Covid ?

If you tell me that nothing will change your mind about the topic while I find that sad that someone could be so closed minded and unwilling to learn from evidence that a belief they held was wrong, I can accept that there are such people in the world and move on.

Proof?

Another wrong statement by you. You did make that up. Why don't you link to sources when you write? Because then it would be so much easier for people to fact check your false statements, or the occasional true one.

Here is what the CDC on its website says about vaccinated people being able to pass it on.
Is that clear enough for you? It does not say that people cannot spread Covid. It says the data is not yet available to make a determination. That's how science works. You collect data before you announce a conclusion. Then you continue to monitor the situation as new data may alter the conclusion. It may even change the advise 180 degrees. But as of April 2, yesterday, the CDC has made absolutely no statement that vaccinated persons cannot spread Covid.

No this is not the reason. There is no vaccine that is 100% effective. The Covid vaccines in various research shows an approximate rate of 90% effective. That means out of 100 people about 10 are not going to be protected by the vaccine. What makes a vaccine protect all people is when everyone is vaccinated even if you are in the 10 that the vaccine does not work for no one around you will have the illness and therefore you don't get it. Even though today everyone for the most part gets vaccinated for the measles. But you will hear from time to time of outbreaks of measles caused by there being some who don't get the vaccine and spread it to some for whom the vaccine is not effective. Everyone vaccinated or not needs to continue to wear a mask!!! Wash hands!!! until the virus is under control.

I agree, you SHOULD still have antibodies. But remember, last Spring the "party line" was "we don't know how long the antibodies will last..."

I also had Civid last year. It was very early March...

Didn't even know I had it. I had a low grade fever (99.6°-99.7°) for 36 hours, along with some body aches and chills. No significant cough.

Turns out (thru back tracking), I caught it from a patient, who subsequently died when he refused to go to the ER as I instructed him to do...

I wanted a covid test, but at the time (early March, 2020) I didn't qualify for one...

When the antibody test became available (a few months later), I had blood drawn and low and behold, I was positive for the antibodies.

I had a repeat test in September, then again in November, while doing blood work for another issue (they were still going with "We don't know how long the antibodies will last"). I was positive both times...

I was going to wait on getting the vaccine (so not to take it from someone who really needed it), but after consulting with MY Dr, and doing the research, we decided I should get it, since I was a health care worker (and under 65). First shot (Moderna), was right after the New Year and the 2nd one, 4 weeks later...

My wife was finally able to register (she's not yet 65, either) and is getting the J&J tomorrow... Our main residence is in MD, and the distribution here has been god-awful!

Oh, and she caught Covid from me, back in March of last year and her last antibody test was in December (still positive)...

I wear a mask all day in the office, when requested to by stores, or when in a big crowd. I always have one in my pocket...

Is it a PITA? Yup! Is it the end of the world? Nope! Do I think some of it is overkill? Most certainly...

Spot on! Control of the masses. What will come next, once this mechanism has outlived its usefulness...