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With the emergence of the Omicron variant, the federal government has "paused" distribution of Regeneron, since it doesn't work as well against Omicron. But there's still a lot of delta out there (it's 99% of cases here in Indiana) and some places are running out of monoclonal antibodies, and the federal government is actively preventing states from getting them . In the US, call 211 if you're a candidate for monoclonal antibodies (COVID positive, mild to moderate symptoms within ten days of onset, and at high risk for progression of the illness). They might still have some where you live. If you're ivermectin-curious, now is the time to order some since many hospitals and pharmacists are actively preventing patients from getting it even when it's prescribed. I'm not a medical professional, and I don't know for a fact that it works on COVID. But there's little else available for early treatment, it does have anti-viral properties in the lab...

  Photo taken by my cousin at the Cleveland Botanical Garden Glasshouse .  I'm back from a wonderful Christmas in Cleveland, where my cousins and I watched movies, went to the botanical gardens and had lunch a restaurant in Little Italy . The botanical gardens had wreaths, gingerbread houses, table settings and Christmas trees created by dozens of different garden societies and individuals vying for first place. The glass house was full of butterflies and tropical plants--some of them arranged to look like Christmas trees, like the one in the picture. Outside, white statice was still in bloom and I could even smell some of the herbs. I saw roses (dormant) that I hadn't seen since I moved away from Denver: alba semi-plena, Marchesa Bocella and Salet. Hmm...maybe these could do well in Indianapolis.  Oddly, most people were wearing masks outside in the gardens even though COVID has little to no spread outdoors, and cloth masks don't stop aerosol particles. At the two Wendy...

CNN's Leana Wen, their in-house panic peddler and forced vaccination fanatic, said yesterday that "cloth masks are little more than face decorations." She recommended three-ply surgical masks instead, along with an elaborate purifying ritual for being around other people at Christmas.  . @DrLeanaWen : "Don't wear a cloth mask. Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations. There's no place for them in light of Omicron." pic.twitter.com/Kpoj18sxdi — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 21, 2021 Let me explain why cloth masks are face decorations since Wen didn't: aerosols readily go through and around the masks . COVID is spread by aerosols. However, that makes surgical masks face decorations as well, since aerosols go through and around them, too. Watch in the video below (link here ): What to wear on your face? Aly Art shows you how to find your best shade of red lipstick (link here ). Wear it proudly--be beautiful AND smart!

The lies, mistakes and total nonsense just keep on coming from the experts and the media. Here's a roundup of what I've seen today without even searching for it. CDC Director Denies Myocarditis in 5-11 Year Olds who Took COVID Vaccines CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told ABC News on December 10 , "We haven't seen anything yet [in 5-11 year olds]. We have an incredibly robust vaccine safety system, and so if [problems] were there, we would find it."  Yet in a CDC repor t, a slide dated the same day noted 14 reports of myocarditis in that age group, eight of which were followed up on and "met CDC working case definition for myocarditis." (By the way, I wasn't able to find this report even with a highly tailored Google search. Qwant.com turned it up.) Follow-up is in progress for other five reports, and one is under review. Click image to enlarge. "No problems." Source : Adverse events among children ages 5–11 years after COVID-19 vaccination:...

Regeneron/Ronapreve Call 211 (in the US) I've heard anecdotes from people who had a hard time getting an appointment for monoclonal antibodies. A city councilor here in Indianapolis recently had to be persistent and get a friend's doctor to intervene to get an appointment an hour's drive away . The news station he talked to advises readers to call 211 (in the US) to find the nearest facility that can treat you. If you're in Florida, you can just go to a Regeneron center . In Europe, it's called Ronapreve and different conditions apply for receiving treatment. Monoclonal antibodies are for COVID-positive patients with mild to moderate symptoms who are at high risk of progression of the illness. They need to be administered within ten days of onset of symptoms. They can also be administered to people who are at high risk of catching COVID. Again--different conditions might apply outside the US. Efficacy Against Omicron? Regeneron says its monoclonal antibodies have ...

Cardiologist Peter McCullough talks about vaccine-induced myocarditis with biologist Bret Weinstein. I've transcribed highlights and found links to back up Dr. McCullough's statements. I had a hard time confirming his statements about background rates vs. VAERS reports (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System): myocarditis/pericarditis reports for the US total 4,242 according to openvaers.com (accessed today); they total 19,039 if you include "nondomestic" (foreign) reports. However, the CDC's own report  on slide 8 shows rates of myocarditis many times above the background rate for young men and boys. In fairness, though--almost all of these sources were difficult to find.  Link to the video is  here .  Our vaccine program would have been shut down in February for excess mortality in America--it would have been very similar to the swine flu vaccine in 1976. Our tolerance for new biologics and death is five cases gets a black box [warning] , 50 cases, it's off...

Here's the latest status of the federal vaccine mandate lawsuits: OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) requirement for companies of 100 or more employees to be vaccinated test frequently, from the Daily Wire : The U.S. Appeals Court for the Sixth Circuit ruled late on Friday that Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration can resume enforcing a vaccine mandate on companies with 100 or more employees. The Daily Wire  and dozens of other businesses filed an appeal to the Supreme Court to block the mandate. The CMS requirement for  Medicare and Medicaid   certified providers such as  hospitals, long-term care facilities, home-health agencies, and hospices is on in some states and off in the rest .  It is enjoined in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and ...

What more could you possibly want to hear about the pandemic, you might be wondering. I had my doubts, too, but I finally ended up buying Pandemia because Alex Berenson's spicy takes have been more entertaining than anything I've read in a long time. I'm glad I got the book. I'm still in the middle of listening to it on my long commute, but I'm recommending it now because the Kindle version is on sale. Get this book! It's informative, it's well-researched, it's engrossing, you'll say, "I remember when that happened!" It has information that even I hadn't come across.  Having covered the pharmaceutical industry long before the pandemic, Berenson was scooping the rest of the media by months in his reporting on the vaccines. He was ultimately banned from Twitter for saying that COVID vaccines didn't prevent infection or transmission--facts repeated yesterday by Anthony Fauci and others a few days ago in the New England Journal of Medic...

Even though there haven't been runs on groceries or other supplies for over a year, some of the shelves are still bare. Nevertheless, I've found most of what I've been looking for: garden shrubs, holiday tea, flavoring, supplements and ivermectin. I'm not affiliated with any of these vendors. Bottlebrush plant ( fothergilla gardenii) Photo from dasfarms at Etsy I'm going to plant the last strip of grass by the sidewalk with native perennials and a few bottlebrush plants next year. I have the perennial seeds--some of them are already stratifying in the refrigerator--but I wanted a few bottlebrush plants, too. It's a North American shrub with fragrant blooms that look like--well, bottle brushes in the spring. The fall color is beautiful. But the dwarf size is hard to find! I finally found some at dasfarms on Etsy, a shop with lots of positive reviews at Dave's Garden . The owner said the mature size depends on soil and water. They'll be going on a south-fa...

Correction to yesterday's post--the five COVID cases mentioned were at the wedding where twelve total people were infected. As far as I know, they have not infected anyone else. My assumption was based on a vaguely worded tweet from a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. A better source is here . 

Some experts have finally gotten the memo that this ISN'T a pandemic of the unvaccinated--by getting COVID themselves. Twelve "super responsible," "risk-averse," triple-jabbed doctors and "health experts" attended a wedding in Wisconsin and caught COVID. They've since infected at least five people, according to the San Francisco Chronicle .  The five people mentioned in the tweet below were at the wedding.  At least five omicron COVID cases detected in Berkeley and Alameda County. They are part of an outbreak involving 12 total cases linked to a wedding held in Wisconsin last weekend. @sfchronicle https://t.co/bcXIN3CSY5 — Aidin Vaziri (@MusicSF) December 4, 2021 It's time to " stop calling this a pandemic of the unvaccinated ," said Dr. Deb Furr Holden, an epidemiologist who thinks she contracted COVID at the wedding.  Two cheers for Dr. Holden for admitting this--I'd give her three if she went a little further: the mandatory v...

As our dear leaders warn about surge upon surge of the coronavirus, wag their fingers at the unmasked, and lecture the unboosted, they're living like it's 2019 after five o'clock.  Less than a month after Finland's prime minister worried about the burden on hospitals , she was caught clubbing after being exposed to COVID . Although the PM is vaccinated, it should be common sense and common knowledge by now that vaccinated people can easily spread COVID. T heir neighbors in Iceland figured this out back in August --" A nd it has come to light that vaccinated individuals can contract it relatively easily and spread infection. Sequencing has shown us that the origin of most domestic infections can be traced to group events such as clubbing in downtown Reykjavík or group trips abroad," said their Chief Epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason. Here in the states, mask/vax fanatics Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden were caught with their masks down. Screen shot from "Democra...

The COVID-19 vaccine mandates are going up in smoke as hospital systems across the country are "pausing" them for employees. The recent injunctions on federal mandates didn't stop private employers from requiring vaccinations, but several major private hospital systems have changed course anyway. The surge in COVID hospitalizations in northern states, along with the shortage of health care workers that has nothing to do with making them get an experimental injection,  might have encouraged the change in their policies. Here in Indiana, the House has drafted bills to officially end our "state of emergency" and outlaw forced COVID vaccinations . Under the bill, employers with a vaccine mandate would have to offer and pay for a testing option.  In DC, Joe Manchin of West Virginia has become the first Democrat senator to support a bill initiated by Indiana's Mike Braun to overturn the OSHA vaccine mandate . Somewhere, I read that West Virginia would be more har...

Photo from Pexels . Worst Surge Ever That's the warning over at  our local Fox affiliate . After quoting doctors warning about surge upon surge and massive ramifications and not enough beds in the city,  the article quotes Dr. Paul Calkins, the Associate Chief Medical Executive at IU Health: “There may be a few people alive that saw the flu kill millions of people in 1918 but other than those people nobody has ever seen anything like this before,” Dr. Calkins said. Oh really. Hospitalizations (both with and because of COVID) are surging, but deaths are not.  From https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/ To be charitable, maybe he's talking about the COVID pandemic in general and he was quoted out of context. But the article, with the headline about the WORST SURGE EVER (referring to Community Health's contingency plans) makes it sound like the pandemic is worse than ever right now . But anybody who goes to the state's coronavirus website can see that's a wild exaggeration....

Denied! Photo from Pexels . The scheme to force vaccinations on health care workers has gotten another injunction, this one covering all the states not covered by a previous injunction. The mandate would have forced health care employers receiving money from Medicare or Medicaid to fire unvaccinated "health care providers, suppliers, owners, employees and others."  Medicare and Medicaid are government programs that help the old, the poor and the very sick receive medical care. Assisted living and nursing homes commonly accept money from the programs, and the mandate would have forced many of them to close their doors for lack of employees.  The injunction "shall remain in effect pending the final resolution of this case, or until further orders from the Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth District, or the United States Supreme Court." In other news, "a US District Court Judge...found that President Joe Biden exceeded his authority by issuing...