People with cosmetic facial fillers could experience swelling and inflammation with one of the coronavirusvaccines, the FDA advisory committee noted.
According to the committee, several trial participants with fillers have already experineced the side effects. A California-based dermatologist said the reaction was immunological, ABC7 reported on Thursday.
"Your immune system which causes inflammation is revved up when you get a vaccine, that's how it's supposed to work," said Dr. Shirley Chi, who noted the side effects were easily treated by medical personnel.
"So it makes sense that you would see an immune response in certain areas where they see some substance that is not a naturally occurring substance in your body."
She said, however, that the side effects shouldn't stop people from obtaining the vaccine.
"In these cases the patients all had swelling and inflammation in the area that was given the filler," Chi said.
"A couple of the patients had cheek filler six months prior to their vaccine and one patient had lip filler done two days after the vaccine. All were treated with steroids and anti-histamines and all of their reactions resolved."
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine received approval from the FDA on Friday, offering an alternative to one from Pfizer and BioNTech.
The two work "better than we almost dared to hope," NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins told The Associated Press. "Science is working here, science has done something amazing."
Early results of large, still unfinished studies show both vaccines appear safe and strongly protective although Moderna’s is easier to handle since it doesn’t need to be stored at ultra-frozen temperatures.
Has anything like this ever happened to any society, ever? Three out of ten women under the age of 25 consider themselves to be gay or transgender. Five
percent, sure. Maybe even eight percent. But thirty? Will they always
think that? Maybe not, but these are their prime childbearing years. The US fertility rate is at a 35-year low, and there’s no reason to think it will rise. Some
critics blame structural difficulties in the US economy that make it
harder for women to choose to have children, but European nations make
it vastly easier for mothers, and still cannot get their fertility rates
above replacement.
What’s behind this is primarily cultural. We
have become an anti-natalist society. And further, we have become a
society that no longer values the natural family. We see everywhere
disintegration. Yesterday, on the Al Mohler podcast, I talked about
going to a conservative Evangelical college a few years back, and
hearing from professors there that they feared most of their students
would never be able to form stable families, because so many of them had
never seen what that’s like.
And now we have 30 percent of Gen Z
women claiming to be sexually uninterested in men. There is nothing
remotely normal about that number. It is a sign of a deeply decadent
culture — that is, a culture that lacks the wherewithal to survive. The
most important thing that a generation can do is produce the next
generation. No families, no children, no future.
The Flaming Eyeball (henceforth TFE) has a lengthy response. This is from the first part:
I
write this essay as a Zoomer university student. In many ways, I am one
of the most successful of my generation. I got a near-perfect SAT
score, and earned a BS in a STEM degree from a major university in only 3
years. Although I am not an incel, I have had to give a lot of thought
to the question of my generation’s sexuality in the past several years,
because a large fraction of the guys I have met in high school and
college seldom or never went on dates, had sex, or had girlfriends. Many
of them still hung out with girls, but a lot of them never connected
romantically or sexually. All of it seemed very ominous to me: if one
guy can’t get laid, people can write him off as a loser, but if a large
percentage of young men are sexually frustrated to the extent that they
rarely get any attention from women, there is something very odd going
on. So I found myself forced to theorize about what exactly has befallen
us, and what are the roots and implications of mass sexlessness in
America.
Why, overall, do men and women desire one another less?
What
follows is a long, heavily linked analysis in which TFE talks about the
effects of being acculturated by social media, the large, measurable
decline in testosterone, neuroticism, learned helplessness, and the
collapse of religion. I find the last one the most interesting, because
it’s in my wheelhouse. TFE discusses how his generation is filling the
God-shaped hole in their souls with politics — but it’s not a positive
politics, but rather a politics of negation. They are fanatically
against what they hate, not in favor of what they love. And because they
are hysterically intolerant, few who disagree will say anything about
it, because as socially isolated as they already are, they don’t want to
get even moreso by outing themselves as thought criminals.
I hope you’ll read the whole thing, and weight TFE’s argument. He concludes:
To
sum this up, the relationship problems of my generation illustrate two
far greater trends, which will intertwine and play out in various ways
over the course of the next few decades. The first, which played out in
the Mouse Utopia, is that Generation Z on balance is the weakest
generation, having been raised by a micromanaging and decadent society
to be soft and utterly dependent on the system. The second is that they
are thoroughly spiritually bankrupt, atomized, and lonely, leading to
corresponding longings, confusion, and rage which will at minimum
unbalance the system. Rod Dreher is one of the few mainstream thinkers
to ever touch on these issues, and for this is met with consistent
mockery and denial by his commenters that these constitute problems at
all. I have witnessed, in both statistics and personal experience, the
widespread destructive trends of poor mental and physical health,
inability to socialize or pair-bond, and loss of faith and spiritual
values. They are very real, and they have caused and will continue to
cause such tremendous suffering and destruction that unchecked, they
threaten the US’s ability to continue as a nation.
Here’s a link to TFE’s whole post. Again,
I hope you’ll consider his argument seriously. It seemed plausible to
me, but I am a Gen Xer who has little interaction with Gen Z. What I
thought about when I finished it is how I felt when I finished
archaeologist Bryan Ward-Perkins’s 2005 book The Fall Of Rome.
In it, Ward-Perkins, who teaches at Oxford, discusses the material
collapse of Roman civilization when the state fell. He documents that
the knowledge of how to do basic things required for the continuation of
civilization disappeared; some of these things (like, say, how to build
a roof) did not return for centuries. The things Ward-Perkins talks
about are skills you wouldn’t think people would forget. But that’s not
how it works, shockingly. I think it’s entirely possible that we are
losing the skills for how to reproduce. I’m not talking about “how to
have sex,” but I’m talking about the human skills needed to form
families and perform the basic task of every human generation: produce
the next one.
So, Gen Z readers: Is TFE’s post an accurate
description of life as you know it among your generation? I put the
question to my son Matt, who is a 21-year-old college student. He
responded skeptically:
I
fail to understand why these people have to blame some amorphous evil
Marxist soyboy ray for all this when the explanation is simple: most
peoples’ lives consist of being plugged into a screen, driving, and
sleeping. Like my roommate last year — desperately trying to work out
why no girls are interested in him when he has no life outside his
computer. This is what it means to be alienated from the world by the
horrible suburbanized existence we’ve made for ourselves. Amateur
endocrinology doesn’t enter into it. We could all be chiseled muscle
hunks and just as miserable as we were before.
Hmm. I think that he and TFE are actually closer than he realizes.
Rush Limbaugh during his final broadcast of the year on Dec. 23, 2020. (Video screenshot courtesy RushLimbaugh.com)
Article by Joe Kovacs in World Net Daily
Stunning admission from Limbaugh: 'Part of me feels like I have failed'
'There are Americans who are willing, eagerly voting to lose their freedom'
PALM BEACH, Florida -- He's the most-listened-to person in the
history of American radio, a best-selling author and a recipient of the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, but broadcasting legend Rush Limbaugh
admits he sometimes feels like a major failure politically.
"There's a large part of me that feels like I have failed in such a major way, in a political sense," Limbaugh said Wednesday during his final broadcast of 2020.
"I've had 30 years here to try to convince people, to try to persuade
people, to try to encourage people to think -- critically think -- on
their own, to realize the difference between conservatism and
liberalism, the difference between the Republican Party and the Democrat
Party as it relates to conservative versus liberal."
"There's still far more people than should be voting for Democrats,
voting for the left. I chalk it up in part to having failed to convince
people, persuade people of the truth," he said.
"It's a very thin line here because, look, I'm not trying to evoke
any sympathy from anybody. But it just ... There's a part of me just
continually amazed that the Democrat Party that the left gets even 30%
of any vote. But then I have to grab myself and say, 'Rush, you're
missing reality. The reality is the lifelong meaning of the D next to
somebody's name, the unions that they have constant support from, the
money and so forth.'
"I understand all this. It's just that I've had my opportunities to
get into people's minds. I've had the opportunity to influence the way
people think about these things. ... There's so many things that I look
at that I don't understand. If I'm successful here because of A, B, C,
and D, then how in the world is my side losing, especially after these
four years?"
Limbaugh then proffered an answer to that question himself.
"What do we have these last four years? We had nothing but full-fledged,
all-out character assassination of our guy -- and all of us. No need to
recount it all: The Russian collusion hoax, the coup, all of that. It
never ended. But then again, we countered it every day. We blew it up.
We told everybody it's a bumbling of hooey, it's a bunch of lies. And
yet there are smart people who believe it that I have been unable to
reach, that I have been unable to change their minds."
Throughout his Wednesday broadcast, callers informed Limbaugh of how
important and inspiring he's been to them for the more than three
decades he's been on the air, and the host acknowledged their
sentiments.
"I've got people saying, 'No, you haven't failed. Trump's victory was
a triumph of you and your show and conservatism. You put Trump over the
top. You can't think that.' Well, I do in ... Look, folks. I told you,
it's a tough thing to understand because in the broad scheme of things
who can deny that what's happened to me has been overwhelming
successful? I'm not doing that.
"But I've had all of these years to get to people, to explain the
wonders, the beauties of freedom and liberty and how that is
conservatism. And yet despite all that, there are Americans who are
willing, eagerly voting to lose their freedom, to give it over to
politicians that want to control 'em who don't care about 'em. I wonder,
'How did I miss 'em. How did I not reach 'em?'"
Limbaugh, who continues to fight a fierce battle against lung cancer, also noted how grateful he was to just to be on the air.
"I wasn't expected to be alive today," he said. "I wasn't expected to
make it to October and then to November and then to December -- and yet
here I am. Today I've got some problems, but I'm feeling pretty good
today. God's with me today. God knows how important this program is to
me today, and I'm feeling natural in terms of energy, normal in terms of
energy, and I'm feeling entirely capable of doing it today. I have been
blessed."
Limbaugh closed his show by thanking his audience, while reminding them at some point he'll no longer to be able to anchor his program.
"I know so many people think this program has changed their lives for
the better. You have no idea what you all have meant to me and my
family. The day's gonna come, folks, where I'm not gonna be able to do
this. I don't know when that is. I want to be able to do it for as long
as I want to do it.
"I want to, but the day will come where I'm not going to be able to,
and I want you to understand that even when the day comes, I'd like to
be here. 'Cause I have this sense of needing to constantly show my
appreciation for all that you have done and meant to me. So I hope you
all have a great Christmas, a great new year, and I hope that the things
that are in store for all of us in the coming year are certainly better
than what we have endured in 2020."
It should be no surprise as 2020 comes to an end that corporate media covered a horrific year as horrifically as expected. From its laudatory coverage of the presidential impeachment it encouraged to the blatant gaslighting about this year’s riotous protests, the nation’s least accountable institution performed as usual, only escalating its protection of Democrats and leftism, and shameless manipulation of the facts while demanding total power to determine them.
Here are 20 top mortifying moments of the media in 2020.
20: Iranian Terrorist Was A War Hero
The Trump administration rang in the pre-pandemic new year with the execution of Iranian Revolutionary Guard terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani, or, as legacy media described him, a “war hero.”
Soleimani had recently orchestrated attacks on U.S. military bases in Iraq, killing at least one American contractor in December. The Iranian terrorist had also been behind bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, according to administration officials who said this played no small role in the decision to take Soleimani out.
American media however, infected by Trump Derangement Syndrome in a debilitating condition that only grew worse as the following months marked this year among most challenging of the 21st century, refrained from celebrating Soleimani’s demise. Instead, the media lionized the Iranian general as a Middle Eastern hero while spiking fears of World War III begun by a mad man in the White House.
19: Media Celebrates Impeachment
While the novel Wuhan coronavirus brewed in China preceding a global pandemic that would bring the world to its knees, Democrats and the media entered the new year on the cusp of achieving the top item on their policy agenda since 2016: the impeachment of President Donald Trump, for any reason at all.
When the final vote was held in February, exonerating the president following the four-year stunt, corporate outlets nevertheless fawned over the process they promoted that distracted the federal government from preparing for the disease in overseas later crippling the nation.
“There’s a sacramental quality to this. There’s a ritual,” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews lamented. “There’s also something sort of this excommunication aspect to this thing.”
“Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over,” the post on Twitter wrote, which Williams promoted on the national network unironically while interviewing a New York Times editor who called it accurate.
“It’s an incredible way of putting it,” Williams said.
“It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true, it’s disturbing,” Gay responded.
17: Downplays COVID Before Attacking President For Doing It
Just before legacy outlets spent the rest of the election whipping hysteria over President Trump’s comments downplaying the severity of the novel Chinese coronavirus, corporate media elites were doing the same thing.
“Coronavirus is not going to cause a major issue in the United States,” one guest said on CBS.
Meanwhile, commentators on CNN frequently compared the coronavirus to the seasonal flu.
Yet, at the launch of the general election season after Labor Day, legacy outlets reported on Watergate journalist Bob Woodward’s book release. The book revealed statements from the president downplaying the viral threat, which media then treated as the biggest scandal to plague the Trump White House in the final weeks to November. The “bombshell” reporting book published in September, however, revealed no sentiments the president not already issued directly to reporters in the White House press briefing room.
But the headlines didn’t follow until September, when it all of a sudden became a media-manufactured scandal.
“Trump Admits Downplaying the Virus Knowing It Was “Deadly Stuff,'” titled a front-page piece in the New York Times. “Trump Acknowledges He Intentionally Downplayed Coronavirus Threat,” followed the Washington Post cover.
16: Flip Flop On COVID, Raise Hysteria to Promote Lockdowns
Almost right on cue, the media changed its tune on COVID once the president did. As Trump pulled the levers of the federal government to encourage states to reopen and get kidsback in school, outlets escalated their hysterics over the coronavirus as promising to wipe out the entire country.
When Trump encouraged Americans not to let COVID “dominate your life,” as he recovered from his own infection, the media was triggered into a frenzy.
“This is so disrespectful, I’m not even sure I can speak about this,” CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta said.
By the year’s end, hundreds of thousands of more children have dropped out of school than have died from COVID as teachers unions and Democrats target school closures with made-up science.
As Americans took to the streets to demand their freedom, elite on-air media personalities sitting comfortably in their offices raking in generous paychecks derided the protestors as “ugly,” “extreme,” and “dangerous.”
“I don’t understand what is wrong with people,” CNN’s Don Lemon said in prime time. “Stay at home.”
Of course it’s hard to understand protests over losing employment when your celebrity-estimated net worth stands at $12 million.
14: Violent Protests As Peaceful
After vilifying protestors advocating for a cause they didn’t like, the woke media began righteously lionizing militant riots for social justice as “peaceful” demonstrations for progress.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi’s May episode standing in front of grand inferno calling the surrounding riot “mostly a protest” is emblematic of the entire corporate coverage afforded to the explosion of political violence sweeping the nation this summer.
In August, CNN aired an early-morning chryon featuring their correspondent in Kenosha, Wisconsin unironically spelling out a phrase that had become a meme to define the network’s riot coverage.
There are practically endless examples of media malfeasance on the summer social justice riots to choose from, but CNN’s Chris Cuomo’s entire dismissal of Velshi in front of a burning building and calling the events a “protest” may best sum up the media’s attitude towards the epidemic of unrest.
13: Bubba Wallace Hoax
In June, controversy ensued following news of a “noose” hanging from NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage. Wallace is credited as one of the most successful black racers in the sport’s history and the only black driver currently in the league’s top tier.
A subsequent FBI investigation featuring 15 agents concluded the “hate crime noose” had actually been a garage pull rope. Further, the FBI found the rope had been there since October 2019, and Wallace’s team was only assigned to the garage just days before this summer’s race.
Mere allegations of a hate crime didn’t stop the media from amplifying a hoax hate crime to promote their narrative, though, while characterizing NASCAR as a relic sport of white supremacy. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell declared the unsubstantiated “noose” a “horrifyingly, racist incident,” which it would have been if it were actually a noose.
Former ESPN anchor Jemele Hill, who now writes for The Atlantic, called the “noose” a “disgusting reminder of who this sport is for.” Considering last year’s stories about the Covington high school kids and actor Jussie Smollett, this kind of media conduct is becoming a routine trend.
12: Kobe Bryant Gaffe
MSNBC Sunday anchor Alison Morris mixed up the words “Los Angeles Lakers” with “knicks” before correcting herself from what could have sounded like the N-word when reporting on basketball legend Kobe Bryant’s early and unfortunate death. Morris later apologized, claiming that she stuttered on air.
11: Media Claims Trump Preparing To Enact Martial Law
The same entities charging Trump with amplifying conspiracies saw no end in manufacturing their own claiming the president was preparing to enact martial law to secure the November election.
“Is there anybody, having watched Donald Trump over the past three and a half years, who doesn’t think that Donald Trump would try to employ martial law?” asked one MSNBC guest.
10: Blow Up Mount Rushmore
As left-wing media led the 21st century woke revolution redefining the nation as an irredeemably racist society built by white supremacists for white supremacists on “stolen land,” the national monument at Mount Rushmore became a target.
The assault on the monument and the nation’s history provoked a presidential visit over Independence Day weekend. Trump’s trip heightened scrutiny of the American masterpiece. Leftist reporters derided the visit as paying homage to “slave holders” because two of the men enshrined on the South Dakota memorial owned slaves.
Despite Trump’s speech celebrating the country’s civil rights heroes, The New York Times still declared the patriotic address “dark” and “divisive.” Other outlets followed suit.
9: Chris Matthews Can't Tell Black Men Apart
In February, then-MSNBC prime-time host of “Hardball” Chris Matthews mistook Republican Sen. Tim Scott for Jaime Harrison, another South Carolina African-American politician running to oust Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
“Jaime, I see you standing next to the guy you’re gonna beat right there, maybe,” Matthews said.
8: Everything Chris Cuomo
From staging a fake re-emergence from his basement following his infection with the novel Wuhan virus to promoting his New York governor brother in prime time with silly gimmicks and indignantly demanding someone just show him the First Amendment, CNN’s Chris Cuomo became the poster child for CNN bias in 2020.
7: Mika Throws Temper Tantrum
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski underwent an on-air meltdown in August after President Trump mocked his Democratic opponent’s proposal for a federal mask mandate.
Brzezinski alluded to the idea Trump might kill her at one point.
“You can be sure that you will never see me on Fifth Avenue, ever ever, because he has said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. I believe him,” Brzezinski said in an apparent audition for Bravo programming following queens with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
6: Trump Weaponizing Postal Service to Steal Election
In August, Democrats spun a new conspiracy following the failure of the Russia hoax to indict President Trump. This time, he was baselessly accused of manipulating the U.S. Postal Service to secure re-election.
Former President Barack Obama said Trump was “undermining the Postal Service in the run-up to the election that’s going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump was out to “sabotage the election” through the Postal Service to “disenfranchise voters.”
The media characteristically followed the party line.
“Trump: Clearly I’m Screwing With The Post Office To Sabotage The Election,” headlined Vanity Fair. Vice and New York Magazine issued similar headlines.
Of course none of what Democrats and their allies in the media alleged actually happened. No voters were denied their right to vote because of sweeping last-minute changes implemented to curb Democratic turnout. To the contrary, it was Democrats in key swing states who initiated last-minute rule changes that increased voting error margins, to their own benefit in November.
5: Pack The Court
After President Trump cemented his legacy with the appointment and confirmation of three conservative Supreme Court justices with Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s successful admission in October, Democrats and their allies in the media followed suit.
“The only way that we restore fairness is for Congress to pass an act expanding the court,” said the Huffington Post’s Jill Filipovic.
4: Biden Bus
In the final days of the election, videos surfaced of vehicles decked out in Trump memorabilia apparently harassing a Biden campaign bus in Texas. Corporate outlets were quick condemn an altercation that occurred between two opposing vehicles as an “ambush,” only for local police to clarify the at-fault vehicle belonged to a Biden-Harris staffer.
MSNBC continued to peddle the lie anyway.
“I guess I wonder where all of the voices are to condemn taking political partisanship and political speech to 70 miles an hour on the highways,” said MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace.
3: Media Gushes Over Biden
Former Vice President Joe Biden went through the entire election as the least scrutinized presidential candidate of a major party in decades, answering less than half as many questions as President Donald Trump by Axios’ count in October. Many of the questions the Democratic nominee did get, however, were thinly disguised attacks on Trump.
“President Trump says offensive things, he never apologizes for it. Is there a double-standard here?” asked CNN’s Dana Bash.
“When you hear these remarks, ‘suckers,’ ‘losers,’ what does it tell you about President Trump’s soul?” one reporter asked in reference to an anonymously sourced story alleging the comments published by The Atlantic in September.
2: Media Dismiss Hunter Biden Stories
Among the most consequential follies of the 2020 Trump-era media was its dismissal of credible reporting on President-elect Joe Biden’s potentially criminal family business ventures.
After spending years seeking to indict President Trump as an agent of the Kremlin government, the media went silent on stories implicating Joe Biden in his son’s overseas business dealings while exposing a laundry list of lies peddled by the Democratic candidate on the campaign trail.
Taxpayer-funded NPR said it wasn’t worth the editors’ time.
CBS’s Lesley Stahl denied to nearly 17 million viewers on “60 Minutes” that Joe Biden was under any scandal at all.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour self-righteously declared herself a journalist while gasping in astonishment at the idea that she conduct journalism.
Read a run-down of the most embarrassing Hunter Biden coverups here.
1: Media Weeps Over Biden Victory
To the media, Trump had been the unhinged comic book villain on a course of destruction. It’s no surprise, then, that following Biden’s triumphant victory with their collective support, on-air commentators began to weep at Biden’s claims of victory.
Government-funded PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor offered a preview of the kind of hard-hitting journalism to look forward to under the next four years of a Biden-Harris administration by comparing Biden’s cabinet picks to “The Avengers.”
