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ROME (AP) — American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German company BioNTech pledged Friday to deliver 2 billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to middle- and low-income countries over the next 18 months, amid international calls for more vaccine solidarity.

The companies, which together developed the first vaccine to be authorized for use in the United States and Europe, made the announcement at a global health summit in Rome co-hosted by the European Union’s executive arm and Italy.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said they expect to provide a billion of the doses this year and another billion in 2022.

It was unclear whether the deliveries would take place through the U.N.-backed COVAX program, which aims to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 shots for low-and middle-income countries, or if countries would get the doses at a reduced price directly from the companies.

Bourla said his company last year adopted a three-tiered pricing policy guaranteeing that low-income countries get the shots at cost and to have middle-income nations pay about half the price wealthier nations are charged.

Simple calculation:

• Keep the mask mandate another month and case rates remain low -- politically you've not really changed anything.
• Keep the mask mandate another month and case rates spike (due to whatever reason) -- not your fault; you didn't change policy.
• Remove the mask mandate immediately and case rates remain low -- politically you don't have a payoff.
• Remove the mask mandate immediately and cases spike -- politically you look like you've botched things.

So if you're a politician, you're risk-averse. Especially in a state like CA where (without getting into politics) you're part of the overwhelming majority political party in the state AND that political party isn't the "screw masks; COVID is just the flu" party.

There's a political risk to ending the mask mandate and cases spiking (scenario #4), and no real political benefit to any of the other scenarios. So you avoid the outcome that has the potential to make you look bad.

If you're in a red state, typically #3 and #4 are reversed. If you remove the mandate and nothing bad happens your political supporters hail you as a brave hero. If you remove the mandate and cases spike... Well they were never in favor of the mandate anyway. They'll point to cases spiking somewhere else with a mask mandate [such as CA] and excuse your behavior.

I think the current Governor of Calif might not agree with number 3

considering hes heading toward being fired

Leaders of Iowa school districts cannot require students or staff to wear masks, and Iowa cities and counties cannot impose mask mandates under a law Gov. Kim Reynolds signed early Thursday.

The law went into effect immediately. The signing prompted several Iowa school districts to modify their mask requirements as a result Thursday.

The measure passed the House by a 53-35 vote and passed the Senate by a 29-17 vote in the waning hours of the 2021 legislative session. It was part of a larger education bill that would expand open enrollment in Iowa. Both votes split along party lines.

Reynolds, a Republican, said Wednesday morning, before either chamber passed the legislation, that she would likely be in favor of the measure. She then promptly signed it into law within hours of its passage.

Leaders of Iowa school districts cannot require students or staff to wear masks, and Iowa cities and counties cannot impose mask mandates under a law Gov. Kim Reynolds signed early Thursday.

The law went into effect immediately. The signing prompted several Iowa school districts to modify their mask requirements as a result Thursday.

The measure passed the House by a 53-35 vote and passed the Senate by a 29-17 vote in the waning hours of the 2021 legislative session. It was part of a larger education bill that would expand open enrollment in Iowa. Both votes split along party lines.

Reynolds, a Republican, said Wednesday morning, before either chamber passed the legislation, that she would likely be in favor of the measure. She then promptly signed it into law within hours of its passage.

I think this approach is too inflexible, as there is no local control, and there can be localized flare-ups.

That said, I sit on a nonprofit board that has met by conference call for about 14-months. Yesterday we had our first in-person meeting since the pandemic started. It was nice to see people I have been meeting with for 25-years. We could communicate more effectively, and view documents together. It is nice to reopen, and right now our #s in NE Iowa are low. I am concerned we are reopening too rapidly because our rural Iowa vaccination completed percentage is below 50%. Our #s will rise above 50% as children are now being vaccinated. 

I'm with you on idiot school boards. With governors there's a vetting process (?) but with school boards do you even need to prove you're a parent? During my high school days the district I was attending accidentally elected to the school board a homeless man who was living in his car on school property.

My buddies and I knew who the guy was because we'd go goofing around the football field after hours. After a while we noticed a guy living in his Saturn, parked beneath the bleachers. Months later, still living in his car, we noticed his picture (long hair, unshaven) posted in the hallway along with rest of the current school board members.

Turns out he'd been showing up to meetings for the drinks and donuts. At some point he was nominated for a position (by default?). After election he lasted for a few months until the cops ran the plates of his illegally parked Saturn (beneath the football bleachers) which turned up an outstanding warrant for weapons charges filed by the county to our west. During his guilty plea the judge had a good laugh at his lawyers request for leniency due to his "devotion to the local community." To include illegally holding a spot on the school board.

So...

Fauci 'not convinced' COVID-19 developed naturally | Fox News
Fauci 'not convinced' COVID-19 developed naturally | Fox News


I'm not convinced either.

Not even from the very beginning.

Fauci has lied so much since the start of this thing, he's twisted himself into a pretzel. 

It almost certainly came from a lab and was an accidental leak. It evolved through gain of function research. It wasn't "created" by humans like the bunk conspiracy theories the mainstream media tried to push and then shoot down. No serious person ever said it was created by humans from scratch or taking parts of this and splicing that. And that's not what gain of function research is anyway. They took a naturally occuring virus and turbocharged it's evolution in the lab through exposing it to different types of human cells and tissues.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGWLLDSA3c 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnY2OtnTOcA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLF4DUSXGs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pk0wLN5uuU&t=1s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw0n3HZXLmo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhKlkkc2Eo