Look hard enough and you will find some good news this final week of 2021: two new studies suggest that Omicron infections more often result in mild illness, compared with previous variants of the coronavirus, offering hope that the current surge may not be quite as catastrophic as feared.
President Joe Biden acknowledged how we all feel: Americans are tired, worried, and frustrated about this seemingly never-ending pandemic. And he explained for the majority who are fully vaccinated and have planned or already received the booster shot “you have much, much less reason to worry. You have a high degree of protection against severe illness…We should all be concerned about Omicron but not panicked. ”
But what struck out most to us was when he told the unvaccinated that “it’s your patriotic duty” to get the free vaccine as they “have an obligation to yourselves, to your family, and, quite frankly…to your country.”
While cases are rising, research shows that hospitalizations are overwhelmingly of those unvaccinated. This is causing another wave that is stressing our frontline hero nurses and doctors again as well as causing hospitals across the U.S. to be overrun.
The bogus argument about “medical personal choice” is easily deflated by pointing out among those prominently preaching this viewpoint have themselves received the booster—starting with Donald Trump. We note with gratitude his recent willingness to promote the vaccine as being safe and pushing back on those who have campaign against it.
The frustration you hear in people’s voices is a result of the patchwork rules and enforcement for public health protocols. Private employers and businesses are too often forced into an adversarial role with patrons because there is no unanimity from state to state, county to county, and city to city.
We applaud the requirements in Newark and New York that anyone entering a restaurant must be vaccinated. Now those looking to enjoy a meal with family and friends can do so without worry that they will get severely sick.
As we start the New Year, we believe the time has come for adjustments of how to deal with COVID with an eye to rewarding those who have done everything the right way—getting the vaccine and the booster shot, getting tested and wearing a mask.
Going forward, being vaccinated should be the price to pay for admission to be part of our society. As Rep. Tom Malinowski said it perfectly to us recently, “We could use a dose of personal freedom mixed with personal responsibility.”
That includes means testing when it comes to government support. If you lose your job or become sick because of your personal choice to not use a safe vaccine that works, you should not receive any type of financial support from the government.
Some would say this is too harsh. We disagree because we have means testing for government programs—such as having to look for work when you are unemployed—already.
Plus, private companies have started enacting these policies. Kroger recently informed employees it will no longer provide two weeks of paid emergency leave for unvaccinated employees who contract COVID-19 and will add a $50 monthly surcharge to company health plans for unvaccinated managers and other nonunion employees effective Jan. 1, 2022.
This is not Spring of 2020 again. We have vaccines, we have proven behaviors that lessen the chance of spread and it appears over-the-counter medicines will be available sooner rather than later.
But the waves of this insidious virus will not stop unless we follow the historical roadmap that has stomped out viruses that have previously posed a public health crisis—getting vaccinated. If you choose not to, the majority of Americans have the right to restrict your freedoms to ensure our own health.
Why stop at the unvaccinated? People who smoke and people with heart conditions that continue to eat poorly and not exercise should also “assume ALL the risks” and not burden society. In fact anyone that isn’t living a healthy lifestyle should be included. They should all be shunned for not living by your standards. If you don’t get your annual flu shot, you shouldn’t recieve any medical treatment when you get the flu. We should mandate everyone take a genetic test so we can surcharge the people who will be taxing our medical community. If they don’t want to pay then eliminate them from participating in society.
By the way, if unvaccinated should cover all their own medical costs then shouldn’t they be exempt from paying taxes for the “free vaccines” and all of the government covid related expenses. Maybe it can be called the unvaxxed exemption on next year’s taxes.
It’s about time that sensible members of the media take a stand and say it’s time penalize those who refuse to participate in making our society safer. We also need to start standing up to irresponsible members of the media who spread lies and half-truths about the vaccine and COVID.
Your ignorance is what is allowing this situation to continue. You are part of the problem.
As with other ailments early diagnosis and treatment is key … so early treatment with hydroxy, ivermectin, antibody therapy anyone?
We just spent the last seven months in Italy where mask wearing, now even outdoors, is mandatory. If one isn’t vaccinated, that’s fine, but- you can’t get in a restaurant, ride a bus, take a train or do other things that might put you – unvaccinated- in a crowd and in harms way. We know folks who are vaccinated still get Covid but they don’t take up hospital beds and usually survive. Th unvaccinated are dying. The tight regulations are meant to save lives not punish. I shudder at coming back to NJ where people even refuse to wear a mask. It pains me that our government hasn’t established a mask mandate. This is an airborne disease- be considerate of others – keep your neighbors safe – wear a mask.
You’re a moron. People who are triple vaxxed are getting Covid. So let’s penalise the unvaxxed for not protecting the vaxxed who still get the virus even though they have the vax. Third base…
no worse than a cold? Tell that to the 800K people who are dead from this virus in the last two years.
Mass hypnosis and mass stupidity and fake pcr tests are what are perpetuating this fraud worldwide but you bandwagon riders are ridiculously STUPID and should not procreate~
Have another toke!
Big Pharma Profits! Merry Christmas 🎁 where are the rapid tests Biden promised🤔
The following statement that you made in your article is false.
“Now those looking to enjoy a meal with family and friends can do so without worry that they will get severely sick.”
You are spreading false information. You can, in fact, still contract COVID whether you have the vaccine or not. My co-worker is vaccinated and tested positive, and has moderate symptoms. We worked together last week, before he was positive of course. I am unvaccinated, and 5 days later no symptoms. I have quarantined over the Christmas holiday, even though my entire family is vaccinated, just to be safe.
So getting the vaccine does not change the fact that you CAN GET SICK, and it does not change the fact that you will still be afraid to get sick.
What’s next? Round up all the unvaccinated and put them into camps? This is nothing but a power play on the part of politicians with a willing press promoting fear. When everyone wakes up and realizes it we will be much better off.
Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin both don’t work and are dangerous. Monoclonal antibodies still work — only one of the three has been shown to work on Omicron, and that medication is in desperately short supply for the next few months. Paxlovid is the best of the antiviral treatments.
Simply saying; The U.S. Gone MAD!! AND; The 0nly winner’s are Pfizer & the 0ther Pharma’s!! Heard about NOVAVAX, Lately!!//
Simply saying; The U.S. Gone MAD!! AND; The 0nly winner’s are Pfizer & the 0ther Pharma’s!! Heard about NOVAVAX, Lately!!//
I had a “mild” breakthrough case, and IT was worse than a cold.
I was vaccinated and had a breakthrough case. It was “mild” but awful. Without the vaccine, I’d be dead. And posting your little trumpy rant twice doesn’t make you twice as right.
Wow – the whataboutism on the right in many of these comments is mindblowing. Go ahead, do your thing, but when you get sick call a politician; that’s who you seem to be listening to. Me, I’m out of this ping-pong match. One can’t argue with a closed mind, althoiugh I’m sure some here would think that mind is mine. You’re welcome to do so. It doesn’t make you right..
The world has benefitted from vaccine prevention since the 1600’s. They are not perfect but they are proven to be overwhelmingly beneficial. I am surprised and disappointed at the resistance to them that has developed.
First (or 2nd) how much does the hospitalization cost and who pays, nothing is free. With insurance it still cost.
Lets start with a cash bond say $50,000. Bond $250,000. dont what a vaccine fine pay up$$.
Dont like that go to a leporid colony, oh take the smokers with you.
Dirk, please read this about the fallout from overcrowded hospitals, filled with unvaccinated COVID patients:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-iowa-man-died-sepsis-waited-15-days-hospital-bed-covid-unvaccinated-patients-20211228-tzmhzi6rvvdjrb2iphsayjfqou-story.html
Don’t forget that a true vaccine prevents you from getting the illness, prevents you from passing it on and works on virtually everyone without complications. This is not a traditional vaccine, so your logic doesn’t apply.
No, vaccines are not necessarily designed to prevent all infections. Rather, they are designed to prevent severe disease requiring hospitalization and death. You don’t understand the definition of a vaccine.
Please read:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/16/booster-debate-covid-vaccine-not-meant-to-prevent-infection-symptoms.html
“The bogus argument about “medical personal choice” jsut happenz to be the law of the land. Given that the US has ratified the Geneva Convention, the laws continained in it are the controlling law of the United States (and every other country which has ratified this nearly universally ratified treaty).
Assuming that it is important to you, Rep. Malinowski, President BIden, Dr. Fauci and others, your option is to remove the United States from the Geneva Convention. Absent that, every person in the US has the Right of Informed Consent if they assert it properly.
You may recall that the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, conducted by the US after the better-known Nuremberg Trials, were also known as “The Doctors’ Trials” – resulted in not only the imprisionment of a large number of Nazi doctors, but the execution of 13 of them.
Their crime? Depriving their victims of their Right of Informed Consent.
Clearly, it made sense to the Nazis and the German people to persecute those seen as unacceptable to them but it was, in fact, an unthinkably horrible crime against humanity, morality, and decency.
No amount of pro-jab propaganda can justify doing the same to those deemed “unfit” by virtue of their exercise of the Right of Informed Consent.
The so-called vaccines are STILL in poorly controlled, badly designed and fraudulently reported-out “Clinical Trials” and have vast medical and reproductive advderse event numbers associated with their use.
Punishing people who choose to use their bodies differently is illegal, imoral and ill advised.
Fervor is no substitute for freedom.
Screeds are no substitue for science.
And, to quote the wise and prescient statement of Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Deceased), “Informed Consent is the defining issue of the 21st Century.”
So it is.
I know where I stand:
Which side are you on?
Rima E LaiboMD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
http://www.OpenSourceTruth.com
Telegram/OpenSourceTruth
PS: That right can be properly asserted through the use of the Advance Vaccine Directive Card which you can easily search for online. REL
It is not sensible to advocate for the abolition of the universal right of Informed Consent. Those who support this “opinion” by North Jersey News are aiding and abetting a crime against humanity. I stand on the rock of the Nuremburg Code and demand respect for my basic human rights. Your fear does not negate that.
Only idiots still believe that number.
Yes they do. Me and about 53 of my unvaccinated friends who all had covid in the last two months can tell you that. CNN is lying to you.
So you are trying to peddle the quack colloidal silver cure “Doctor”? I believe televangelist Jim baker was already issued a cease and desist order for doing the same thing.
Ralph, the Nuremburg Code does not apply to vaccine mandates.
I suggest you read this to correct your misunderstanding of the Nuremburg Code’s applicability to vaccine mandates:
https://theconversation.com/covid-vaccines-dont-violate-the-nuremberg-code-heres-how-to-convince-the-doubters-171217
Dr. Laibow, please read the following. You have misunderstood the applicability of the Nuremberg Code of informed consent to COVID vaccines:
https://theconversation.com/covid-vaccines-dont-violate-the-nuremberg-code-heres-how-to-convince-the-doubters-171217
Life insurance companies charge more for smokers now.
Seems the Justice Dept is taking action against Rima.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/district-court-orders-new-jersey-defendants-stop-distributing-unapproved-nano-silver-products
I’m amazed that the insurance companies have not yet begun to impose an “unvaccinated penalty” on those who choose to not get the vaccine. We should all be supportive of not allowing government to take away our rights; enforcing a vaccine should not be a governmental mandate per se.
However, private insurance companies should move forward with imposing an extra insurance premium — similar to the tobacco premium — on those insured that choose to not get the vaccine. That is simply a business decision that is based on risk, which is central to how insurance works.
Further, I would suggest that citizens with private insurance write their insurance companies and demand that they apply an unvaccinated premium starting in 2022. Why should those of us who have been vaccinated and boosted – presenting less of a risk of serious illness by ourselves and to others — have to endure higher community-rated premiums that factor in all costs of intensive Covid care to those who choose not to be vaccinated?
I suspect that the good doctor will shortly be losing her medical license, now that the Justice Department has found her to be a fraudster.
If surcharged for being nonvaxxed, I’d want a refund for all the time I did not get covid or use my insurance. if vaxxed, you should pay that same fee,if you get breakthrough case. You are ruining your immune system with these injections. Do some research before you have knee JERK reactions against peoples freedom of choice.
It would be great if that’s how insurance actually worked. Then, at the end of every year, I could say to them I didnt go to the hospital so can I have my premiums refunded?
Diane, you’re letting anger get in the way of logic.
It does work like that with auto insurance when you have NJ Manufacturers. Company doesn’t make payouts, you get a check.
I do a lot to try to keep my health, I don’t just go get a shot and then go on my way. I am very angry that my senior years are being ruined. I’ve paid taxes and worked all my life and for this government of idiots to decide my future (possibly financially) is not the way it should be. Yes I am angry!Every freedom loving American should be angry.
Allstate gives good driving rebates too
Yes they do, as I believe car insurance is based on experience rating, not community rating as health insurance is.
“A person is considered fully vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 infection ≥2 weeks after receipt of the second dose in a 2-dose series (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna)”
source: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/covid-19-vaccines-us.html
“In general, people are considered fully vaccinated: 2 weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series”
source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html
“and unvaccinated <14 days receipt of the first dose of a 2-dose series or 1 dose of the single-dose vaccine or if no vaccination registry data were available"
source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7034e5-H.pdf
majority of vaccine deaths within 14 days, when they are labeled 'unvaccinated'
source: https://openvaers.com/covid-data
what does this mean? It means people are being intentionally murdered with a GENE THERAPY that is falsely being called a "vaccine" (which is completely false, because vaccines confer immunity, this product does no such thing, it merely alleges to 'reduce the most severe symptoms' ..which then makes it a THERAPY, not an IMMUNIZATION. therapies should NOT BE MANDATED, and there are many available options, such as vitamin-c, when speaking about therapies)
These DEAD VACCINATED people are being labelled as "unvaccinted" and then propaganists like the person who write this article then uses these fraudulent and frabricated "data points" to then prove it is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
They have destroyed the control/placebo group by UNBLINDING THEM (giving them injections)..eliminated any ability to gather the long term study data, so it will NEVER EXIST.
Stop health insurance companies from paying costs related to Covid for the uninsured. Let them go broke.
The vaccinated are just as dangerous as you are claiming the unvaccinated are. They can get and pass on the virus.
Applause
Dope. Read the comment on here from Eff Hue and learn something.
Maybe you should try learning about insurance. If you are a “risk” you pay more. Even works with health insurance. if your employer has employees that are nothing but unhealthy people, then the rate for the company is more than one with employees who don’t have all the health problems. Typical trumper.
Youre talking in circles.
No one said shun them; no one said dont provide them care. What was said was to consider imposing a surcharge on their medical insurance if they choose (and that is their right, and I totally defend that right) to not take preventive measures that have been shown to reduce the risk of infection.
And your suggestion about genetic testing is hyperbole. What we are talking about is choices that people make, not genetic make-up.
I work in healthcAre and i know many many people who work in critical care in NJ and NY. Hospital icus are always at or near capacity. There is a huge amount of reserve and flexibility in NJ and NY . There Are now large numbers of spare backup ventilators and hospital capacity. There was only a short period in march – april 2020 when a few hospitals were overwhlemed like Elmhusrt hospita in queens and downstate med center in brooklyn. Otherwise this idea that the hospital ICU system is strained or overwhelmed is
Just not true ans really never has been.
I personally was in communication with people at the valley hospital in ridgewood Nj and hackensack hosp Nj . What you are saying is based on media reports by journalists who either dont know how to properly report accurate stats or have an ideological axe to grind
Youre missing the point, I believe: the issue is that unvaccinated people with Covid are getting sicker than vaccinated people with Covid, they are admitted at a much higher rate than vaccinated people with Covid, and they are using far more hospital resources for their hospitalizations than vaccinated admissions. Those costs are passed on to insurance companies to pay, and they in turn will pass their increased costs (due to increased risk) to those who buy insurance. Why should the premiums of vaccinated people increase at the same rate as those who are unvaccinated and are driving up the costs of care even higher?