New 1 Day Covid Tests for Returning to USA
This just in. Now it no longer matters if one is vaccinated or non vaccinated to return to the USA. All must get the One Calendar Day Covid test (schnelltest is ok).
CDC website recently changed to read:
What You Need to Know.
If you plan to travel internationally, you will need to get a COVID-19 viral test (regardless of vaccination status or citizenship) no more than 1 day before you travel by air into the United States. You must show your negative result to the airline before you board your flight.
If you recently recovered from COVID-19, you may instead travel with documentation of recovery from COVID-19 (I. E, your positive COVID-19 viral test result on a sample taken no more than 90 days before the flight's departure from a foreign country and a letter from a licensed healthcare provider or a public health official stating that you were cleared to travel).
Listen to the scientists LMFAO!
[URL]https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062133v1[/URL]
Findings Our model for Sweden shows that, under conservative epidemiological parameter estimates, the current Swedish public-health strategy will result in a peak intensive-care load in May that exceeds pre-pandemic capacity by over 40-fold, with a median mortality of 96,000 (95% CI 52,000 to 183,000). The most stringent public-health measures examined are predicted to reduce mortality by approximately three-fold. Intensive-care load at the peak could be reduced by over two-fold with a shorter period at peak pandemic capacity.
Where I Live, No One Cares About COVID
[URL]https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/where-i-live-no-one-cares-about-covid/620958/[/URL]
Jason from 90-Day Fiance Dies from Covid
I do not watch the show other than a few clips on YT. Most of the guys on this show remind me of hardcore mongers: [URL]https://deadline.com/2021/12/jason-hitch-dies-90-day-fiance-contestant-covid-1234891918/[/URL].
Germany Ordering Omicron Vaccine
German government is ordering 80 million Omicron specific vaccines while the USA headed is stating that the old vaccines are still good if taken in three doses. And the USA CDC now states do not take the Johnson vaccine due to myocarditis risks and instead take three doses of the mRNA vaccines.
Refugees are an Ameican Problem
The USA, which should be obliterated, is the main cause of refuges from its policies of rape, plunder and pillage. The USA created the Nazi state of Ukraine (Victoria Nuland: fuck the EU).
Pity Mexico, so far from God, so near to the United States.
Mr Cane: You are American, human shit in short.
[QUOTE=TheCane;2643855]That's an interesting claim! After all, when travel was open the lines to apply for a USA visa sure weren't getting any shorter LOL! And if you can't get a visa, then sneak in. Thank God we have two oceans on either side of us. Otherwise, it would be us getting swamped with refugees and not Europe. And speaking of refugees, notice how Germany and the UK are the desired destinations while guess which nation is known for treating refugees with disdain, disrespect, and discrimination, and therefore to be passed through as soon as possible? That would be none other than you guessed it. [B]France![/B]. By the way, the quality of your responses proves you have been studying at the Shoetroll School. I advise that you transfer to a more reputable institution of learning immediately Evo.[/QUOTE]
TLDR. Eliminating three legions was a fluke
[QUOTE=PedroMorales;2644130]You do know the Germans kicked the shit out of the Romans, eliminating entire legions, right?.[/QUOTE]First, half of the Roman Imperial Army was of Germanic origin (mercenary, auxiliary forces called Foederati). Arminius was a Roman citizen of Germanic origin, who acted as a "trusted" advisor to Varus, the commander of the three Roman legions. Arminius fabricated a story about a revolt that needed to be urgently put down, and advised Varus to move his force through a narrow, unknown route via a swampy forest. Unbeknownst to Varus, Arminius had been conspiring with chieftains from various Germanic tribes, and had orchestrated the ambush.
Second, a few years later, several legions led by Germanicus returned to Germania to retaliate. The Germanic tribes responsible for the treachery were hunted down like dogs. These later campaigns proved that the Romans, had they chosen to do so, could have easily pushed the Germanic tribes beyond the Elbe River.
Third, the Romans realised that they had already expanded their empire to their natural limits. The cost of conquering and administering Germania would be more than what they could possibly take in from tax revenues (cold, forested, inhospitable). As such, the Romans decided to stop their expansion at the Rhine.
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From the time of the rediscovery of Roman sources in the 15th century, the Battles of the Teutoburg Forest have been seen as a pivotal event resulting in the end of Roman expansion into northern Europe. This theory became prevalent in the 19th century, and formed an integral part of the mythology of German nationalism.
More recently some scholars questioned this interpretation, advancing a number of reasons why the Rhine was a practical boundary for the Roman Empire, and more suitable than any other river in Germania. Logistically, armies on the Rhine could be supplied from the Mediterranean via the Rhone, Saone and Mosel, with a brief stretch of portage. Armies on the Elbe, on the other hand, would have to have been supplied either by extensive overland routes or ships travelling the hazardous Atlantic seas. Economically, the Rhine was already supporting towns and sizeable villages at the time of the Gallic conquest. [b]Northern Germania was far less developed, possessed fewer villages, and had little food surplus and thus a far lesser capacity for tribute.[/b] Thus the Rhine was both significantly more accessible from Rome and better suited to supply sizeable garrisons than the regions beyond. There were also practical reasons to fall back from the limits of Augustus' expansionism in this region. [b]The Romans were mostly interested in conquering areas that had a high degree of self-sufficiency which could provide a tax base for them to extract from. Most of Germania Magna did not have the higher level of urbanism at this time as in comparison with some Celtic Gallic settlements, which were in many ways already integrated into the Roman trade network in the case of southern Gaul. In a cost/benefit analysis, the prestige to be gained by conquering more territory was outweighed by the lack of financial benefits accorded to conquest.[/b]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest
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Some Countries Requiring Mandatory Wristband
A new trend stated in Saint Lucia (island in Caribbean) which upon landing at the airport all people are given a wristband which must be worn the entire stay and cannot be taken off. One color for vaccinated and one color for non vaccinated.
Covid certificate Austria
Drinking the internet at [URL]https://gruenerpass.gv.at/en/geimpft/[/URL].
From 3 January 2022, a vaccination certificate for a single dose of the Janssen vaccine is no longer valid.
New Covid Variant Detected in France
[URL]https://www.yahoo.com/news/covid-variant-ihu-46-mutations-031400156.html[/URL]
Belgium Putting Covid Scofflaws in Jail
Belgium is sentencing people at the Brussels airport for fake covid tests to 6 months to 12 months in jail. This is similar in scheme to Switzerland where it holds people for ransom. According to the article, they first demand 750 euros and then use the jail sentence if the ransom is not paid.
[URL]https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/200459/travellers-with-fake-pcr-tests-at-brussels-airport-get-to-up-to-one-year-in-prison[/URL]
'We have gone backwards': Covid confusion snarls Biden White House. NBC
[URL]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-have-gone-backwards-covid-confusion-snarls-biden-white-house/ar-AASDUum[/URL]
Model in Cyrpus Dies of Vaccine
The news reports a brain hemorrhage in a model in Cyprus due to taking covid vaccine.
Omicron = non issue, open it up.
Data continues to support that all of the Omicron talk is much ado about nothing. Cases in UK has peaked and is coming down. Hospital admissions only went up to half of their peak compared to this time last year despite case numbers being triple last year's peak. ICU admissions have actually declined as Omicron has not led to serious illness in a well vaccinated population. Deaths barely budged and likely only due to killing off the last bit of the unvaccinated high risk population. Similar patterns are seen in South Africa.
[URL] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-08-19..latest&uniformYAxis=0&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Cases%2C+hospital+admissions%2C+ICU+patients%2C+and+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=GBR~ZAF[/URL]
I suspect Germany to follow the same pattern as the UK if not do even better. If government officials weren't such boneheads, curfews, migration limitations, and business restrictions would be kept minimum or done away with altogether. Sadly, they err on the side of overly cautious.
The United States however, having an inferior primary health system but what I believe a superior acute hospital care system has seen a higher increase in general and ICU admissions but without a rise in deaths.
The big question is, while governments are slow to react to developing situations, when will it be evident to them to lighten the restrictions? My opinion is that enough is enough, no more imposition. If by the end of February, there is not significant liberation in Europe, I would support mob rioting to force government official hands.
Is it time to rip off the band aid?
So, how fast will Omicron tear through Deutschland? And how soon should we be purchasing those flights across the pond for the aftermath? I am not a business traveler and I consider myself a lamb to the slaughter when it comes to booking flights across the pond. Anyone have thoughts or advice on point at this juncture?