Get A New COVID Vaccine This Fall or Businesses Will Close?

[TrappedinCalifornia]

There will be a new COVID vaccine this fall, but will people get it?

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the next COVID-19 vaccine be targeted at the XBB.1.5 subvariant. That new shot is expected to come out this fall, leading public health experts to urge everyone to get vaccinated again before the possible fall-winter surge in COVID cases, which may coincide with the holidays and the retreat indoors during colder weather...

COVID-19 is still killing hundreds of Americans each week, according to the most recent data available from the CDC, and the unvaccinated are much more likely to be among them. The "bivalent" COVID vaccine booster shot released last fall combined the original vaccine with one targeted at the subvariants that were widespread at the time, Omicron BA.4 and BA.5. But that shot isn?t designed to specifically block XBB.1.5, the Omicron subvariant now most in circulation...

Experts say the government will need to educate the public about the benefits of the next shot and to underscore the seriousness of the risk of COVID...

Because, if you don't get the vaccine, it is you who will be destroying people's livelihoods and the economy... Walgreens is Closing 150 Stores; Everyone Should Worry...

...In its recent third quarter earnings announcement, Walgreens significantly reduced its annual profit guidance, in part because of lower Covid-19 vaccine and testing volumes.

That certainly seems normal since the Biden Administration officially ended the country's national emergency response to the pandemic in April. Though Covid is still very much around, deaths and hospitalization rates have significantly fallen from 2020.

But Walgreens also warned that the economy is perhaps weaker than we assumed. Inflation, combined with reduced government stimulus and the resumption of student loan payments, is prompting consumers to cut spending...

Walgreens has already laid off corporate workers and reduced store hours. In the conference call, Brewer said Walgreens cut hours at 500 stores in the quarter, bringing the total number of stores with fewer hours to 1,100. Yet that figure represents only 12% of the nearly 9,000 stores the company operates in the United States.

In other words, Walgreens has plenty more room to close stores and cut hours.

Moreover, instead of using shareholder cash to expand, the company now talks of "disciplined, returns-based investment" in its core business, "portfolio simplification," and repurchasing shares and boosting the dividend.

All this suggests a retailer that?s looking to hunker down because of the worsening economy. The rest of the industry should take note.

So... Businesses which weren't run efficiently yet took advantage of the "COVID crisis" are now having their chickens come home to roost and are hoping that continuing the 'crisis' or, at least, the 'scare' will allow them some breathing room to retrench?

Ummm...???

[Rodell]

The boost provided by pandemic-type spending for some business was not sustainable - some contraction was inevitable. The rate of growth couldn't be continued indefinitely and some business leaders spent like crazy with their newfound wealth.

This trend was aided by the thirst for ever increasing stock value and short-term focus.

A new level will emerge and then we'll forget all about it.

[OlderThanDirt]

In addition to your covid booster, get your malaria vaccine. Keep pumping your body full of crap. It?s good for the economy.

[TrappedinCalifornia]

The boost provided by pandemic-type spending for some business was not sustainable - some contraction was inevitable. The rate of growth couldn't be continued indefinitely and some business leaders spent like crazy with their newfound wealth.

This trend was aided by the thirst for ever increasing stock value and short-term focus.

A new level will emerge and then we'll forget all about it.

I suspect, in many cases, such is absolutely true. If nothing else, it allowed for the staving off of the inevitable or a postponing of the day of reckoning for many ill-advised actions. For a very few, it offered the ability to 'take advantage' with little concern over the long-term feasibility of that. As you say, it was a short-term focus.

I also suspect that COVID is being used as a scapegoat for the failure of many medium- and long- term policies/plans which were implemented even before COVID was a thing. In fact, many argue that the "doom loop" being faced by many urban areas was simply accelerated by COVID, not caused by it.

This has been the 'scary' part for many, whether they will acknowledge it or not. Periodically, society and the World changes and no one is ever quite sure what the exact sequence of events will be which initiates or propels it. The uncertainty of how things will shake out is what causes the problems up and down society. Simply pointing to 'one thing' as the cause is as naive as pointing to 'one thing' as the potential solution.

You need a match AND a fuse AND explosive element to create a 'bomb' AND you have to have someone put them together AND ignite the match. Simply pointing to one element and focusing the blame on it is a distraction. The question becomes: "What are you being distracted from and why?"

[ibanezfoo]

That scam has run its course. If you inject yourself with that crap now you deserve whatever happens to you. I can’t wait to see those psychopaths swinging from ropes.

[Old4eyes]

I would have thought that there would not be another Covid scare this year, they'd wait until 2024, an election year. But maybe the bosses as the drug companies have ordered another round of shots to boost the bottom line. Business is business.

[MJB]

No one is listening anymore

[ACfixer]

If you inject yourself with that crap now you deserve whatever happens to you.

This precisely.

[Palmaris]

That scam has run its course. If you inject yourself with that crap now you deserve whatever happens to you. I can?t wait to see those psychopaths swinging from ropes.

I am sure not single will be hanging, they still will find idiots to make money.

[TrappedinCalifornia]

...they still will find idiots to make money.

Yep. From May... Think the COVID threat is over? It's not for these people...

Declarations and loosened restrictions aside, for millions of Americans COVID is still a major concern.

Who are they? The many who are immunocompromised, chronically ill, or struggling with long COVID...

As I've long said, it's not about whether the disease was real, but whether it justified all the actions taken, from lockdowns to so-called 'vaccines' to Government power grabs to curtailment of individual rights. It's why so many reacted to calling it 'simply the flu' or only the 'old, sick, and fat' were vulnerable in that, while closely related to the flu, it was unique, with some specific consequences for certain individuals. But, again, did it justify what was done to the population-at-large?

That's the question you have to premise your criticism and 'investigations' on. Did certain actors 'take advantage,' on an uniquely large scale, and to what end(s)?

Are there legitimate concerns for some? Yes.

Are there legitimate concerns of being part of or potentially transmitting it to the 'some?' Yes.

Is there any shortage of 'idiots' who feel or 'fear' they will or could be part of the 'some?' Again, no doubt. But, that's what has provided the leverage of power for the nefarious actors.