From Jeff Childers

Uh-oh. More bad news for boosters. The New York Times ran an article yesterday headlined, “Covid News: Israeli Study Says Second Booster Protects Against Omicron Infection But Wanes Fast.” Gosh. Will these jabs ever catch a break?

So how fast does does the protection wane? The Times said “the booster’s effectiveness against infection in particular wanes after just four weeks and almost disappears after eight weeks.” Hahahaha! Boosters every 30 days! Wheee! It’s just a good-old normal vaccine, isn’t it?

The NYT reported that the findings, published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggest that “additional boosters are likely to provide fleeting protection against Omicron infections in older recipients.” Fleeting protection.

“For confirmed infection, a fourth dose appeared to provide only short-term protection and a modest absolute benefit,” the researchers confirmed in the study. A MODEST absolute benefit. Modest AND fleeting.

Monday evening, I was in CVS walking around the store with a pharmacist to find some sunburn treatment since I overdid it last weekend and now whenever I lie on my back it makes me thrash around like a gaffed salmon. During the five minutes I was cruising the store, two elderly ladies separately approached the pharmacist to interrupt my conversation without apology and ask if they could get their fourth boosters. Honestly, they seemed like addicts needing a fix. The bored pharmacist told them both to go make an appointment on the website.

The FDA’s vaccine advisory panel meets today to debate whether a fourth booster will be recommended, or something. Apparently boosters aren’t flying off the shelves for some reason. In an article about today’s meeting, the New York Times observed that “the booster campaign has stalled, with about half of eligible U.S. adults still not boosted as of Monday, according to the C.D.C..” Weird. I wonder why.

The Times guesses — through a cherry-picked expert — that removal of all the psyops tools like mandatory masks, social distancing, and “emergency” messaging is to blame. Maybe. But the Times overlooked the hypodermic elephant in the treatment room, which was even suggested by its OTHER article: that boosters don’t work. How about THAT reason? Crickets.

In worse news for boosters, Republicans in Congress say they will not approve another aid package that would be used to pay doctors to give out the jabs, unless the White House finds a way to pay for it. No more printing money, in other words. Get ready for a lot of grifters to act panicked at the thought of financially de-boosting booster programs.

Anyway, the FDA’s outside expert vaccine panel — now about as useless as a screen door on a submarine — was supposed to meet today to talk about recommending fourth boosters. But the FDA already beat them to the punch LAST Wednesday, going ahead and approving fourth boosters for adults over 50 — WITHOUT advice from its panel. SO weird. Maybe the panel will retroactively approve the decision? It’s called a rubber something. Stamp, I think.

? It’s not just here in the U.S., either. British media ran an article yesterday headlined, “Covid Booster: More Than 8 Million People Reject Offer Of Vaccine Despite Record Infection Rate.” This is so bizarre; why are people rejecting the safe and effective jabs? Are they prejudiced against them? It is racism?

The story notes in its subhead that, in Britain, “More people in the UK are infected with Covid-19 than at any time since the start of the pandemic.” And yet, they STILL don’t want the boosters. Odd.

According to the article, the overall daily vaccination rate in the UK has now fallen to its lowest level since the start of the pandemic, at around 34,000 jabs a day, of which fewer than half are boosters.