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International, Technology, U.S.

U.S. Border Wall milestones of 2020

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During the decades of sporadic wall construction it should be noted that both Republican and Democrat politicians supported it.    The first wall section was built by the United States between 1909 and 1911.  Mexico built a wall section in 1918.  The walls were extended in the 1920s and in the 1940s.  President George H.W. Bush (senior) began new wall construction in the 1990s.  President Bill Clinton expanded funding for wall construction, in fact one book says it was under Clinton that wall construction became more focused in an attempt to stop drug and human smuggling.  President George W. Bush (junior) began new wall construction supposedly at the behest of California politicians.   President Barack Obama supposedly declared wall construction complete in 2011, yet quietly (secretly?) built an additional 128-miles (206-km) of wall.   In 2017, President Donald Trump officially restarted wall construction.  I predict President elect Joe Biden will not halt border wall construction.

Video, trench being dug for construction of wall near Columbus, New Mexico, April 2020:

Video, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) explaining why the U.S. needs a wall, June 2020:

 

Near El Paso, Texas, August 2020.

Video showing that wall construction continued at night in the South Pacific Border District, Arizona, September 2020:

Video, wall construction South Pacific Border District, California, September 2020:

Border wall slowly stretches across the desert near Columbus, New Mexico, October 2020.

Wall construction over mountains on the Barry M. Goldwater Range aboard Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, October 2020.

New wall completed near Tucson, Arizona, 02NOV2020.

17DEC2020, Tucson 10/28 Border Barrier near Nogales, Arizona.

21DEC2020, the final section of Yuma 10/27 Border Barrier is installed, in Arizona.

Operation CoViD-19, March 2020: BORDER GUARDS

New War on Drugs: U.S. BORDER PATROL PROMOTES TRUMP’S WALL!

Influenza

Going Viral: Flu hell hits India, yet Canada declares the Flu is dead then imposes lockdown!

Here’s a incomplete list of links to news media reports on the latest virus shenanigans:

While some countries are reporting miraculously low flu infection rates, investors are being told the Influenza Market is actually going to make “huge profits” into 2022!

Investors are even being told that the Influenza Vaccine Market is going to experience huge demands all the way through 2026!

Highly sensitive heart muscle proteins increases chances of death from flu infection.

On top of the CoViD vaccine being rushed to U.S. military personnel in Europe, the U.S. Department of Defense reveals there was a lack of flu vaccines in October 2020 and is now scrambling to get the flu shots out!  (gee, and flu infection rates are way down?)

European Food Safety Authority report says 561 H5N1 and H5N8 cases were found between August-December 2020 in 16 European countries.

Hundreds of thousands of poultry culled in Europe

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AUSTRALIA: Brisbane begins three day lockdown 

BRAZIL: Second human in state of Parana confirmed infected with H1N2 (swine flu)

CANADA:  British Columbia claims CoViD has killed more people than the past ten years of flu seasons!

Quebec claims only four confirmed flu cases this season, halts vaccinations!

Quebec tightens lockdown!

Horse in Alberta infected with influenza

CHINA: Drugs to treat H1N1 being tested

COLOMBIA:  Bogota begins new lockdown

INDIA:  Tens of thousands of poultry being wasted due to massive outbreak of H5N8 (bird flu) 

It’s a waste to kill and dump poultry over H5N8, because as long as you cook the eggs/meat you can still eat it!

Dakshina Kannada district reporting that H5N8 is killing crows

Greater Chennai declares H5N8 state of disaster, warns of yeast like symptoms!

ISRAEL:  Begins third lockdown of entire country

JAPAN: Tokyo metro area goes into second lockdown

NETHERLANDS: Highly pathogenic bird flu strains identified

NEW ZEALAND: Scientific study says drinking milk can prevent influenza? 

UNITED KINGDOM:  Ambulance waiting times “off the scale”

Brits are locked down yet movie production companies are allowed to keep filming?

UNITED STATES:  Florida;  Rabid Otter Bites Orlando Woman

Georgia; Nineteenth rabies case confirmed for White County

Maryland;At the beginning of the Northern Hemisphere’s flu season, the United States Naval Academy conducted what was called a influenza vaccination exercise, where actual flu shots were given.

Minnesota; Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato reporting extreme improvement in flu infections, only one case!

Nebraska; Lancaster County reporting unusually low number of flu infections

New York;  Rabid raccoon reported in Town of German Flatts

 Wild raccoon attacks pet dog on walk; dog later tests positive for rabies; 4 humans exposed

Oregon; First dual infection of CoViD and influenza confirmed in Lane County

Texas;  Rabies-positive case reported in Cherokee County

Fox in Meadowlakes attack tests positive for rabies

CoViD Shenanigans, 05JAN2021:  YET ANOTHER NEW VERSION OF THE VIRUS! IDAHO INFECTIONS DROP! THAILAND ROUNDING UP TOURISTS!

Vaccine Fail, 07JAN2021: PEOPLE ARE NOW DYING FROM THE COVID SHOT! WHY NOT THE FLU VACCINE?

Going Viral: OPERATION WARP SPEED PROVES LEFTIST-LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA WRONG!

Back in February 2020 I warned; FORGET CORONAVIRUS, BIRD FLU ABOUT TO GET GENOCIDAL!

Back in January 2020 I reported that deaths from influenza still far outpaced CoViD-19, so it’s interesting that now health officials are claiming there is almost no flu this season!

Epidemic Burst Fade-Out: NEW FLU KILLING DOGS AND CATS! BLAME METRO-SEXUAL AREAS?

Influenza

Vaccine Fail: People are now dying from the CoViD shot! Why not the Flu vaccine?

List of links to news reports/scientific studies about vaccine oddities, as of 07JAN2021:

More healthcare workers in European Union and United States doubt the safety of CoViD vaccines!

Scientists monitor yet another coronavirus mutation (this time in Brazil) that could make vaccines useless!
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Israel decides to vaccinate 100 people who are considered high risk for allergic reaction to CoViD shot!

Japan’s Prime Minister went around his own health ministry for vaccine

Portuguese nurse dies two days after getting CoViD shot!

U.S. doctor begins hemorrhaging after getting CoViD vaccine, dies three weeks later!

Covid-19 Vaccines Have Triggered Severe Allergic Reactions in 29 People in U.S. to Date
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Boston doctor ‘scared to death’ by allergic reaction to vaccine

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Don’t blame Trump, Florida’s old people face long lines and a haphazard state registration system to get Covid-19 vaccines

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Florida old folks home caught calling people on the phone and asking for donations in exchange for getting CoViD shots that are meant  for the nursing home patients/residents!

Don’t blame Trump, De Blasio on the hook for failing to deliver COVID-19 vaccine to NYPD

North Carolina doctor with severe allergies says avoid the CoViD shot!

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Don’t blame Trump, South Carolina puts the responsibility on healthcare workers, saying all Phase1A healthcare workers must schedule their own vaccinations!

South Carolina’s National Guard already getting their shots.

Vaccine Fail, 05JAN2021: ALIEN INTERVENTION AND WHY ARE EVEN MORE HEALTHCARE WORKERS REFUSING THE SHOT?

Medical report from 2003, Smallpox Vaccine: Contraindications, Administration, and Adverse Reactions

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Suomalaiset Leopardit ja Sisu Pasi ja CV9030 ja MTLB ja 2S1 ja BMP-2 ja AMoS

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Despite Finland being an officially ‘non-aligned’ country, it still allows, and even takes part in, NATO wargames on its soil (which borders Russia).

Suomalaiset Leopardit ja Sisu Pasi ja CV9030 ja MTLB ja 2S1 ja BMP-2 ja AMoS=Finnish Leopard and Sisu Pasi and CV9030 and MTLB and 2S1 and BMP-2 and AMoS.

U.S. Marines and U.K. Royal Marines watch a demonstration of the Leopard bridgelayer, 07MAY2019. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Scott Jenkins.

Finnish German-made Leopard 2L bridge laying tank, demonstrating for U.S. Marines, and U.K. Royal Marines, during NATO’s Exercise Arrow in May 2019.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Scott Jenkins, 07MAY2019.

It is a German Leopard 2 chassis with a Finnish designed bridge system. Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo.

USMC LAVs try out the Finnish bridge. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Scott Jenkins, 07MAY2019.

BMP-2MD on the Pojankangas Training Area near Kankaanpaa, Finland, 15MAY2019. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant LaShic Patterson.

Soviet era BMP-2, modernized to BMP-2MD.  NATO’s Arrow 19.

BMP-2MD on the Pojankangas Training Area near Kankaanpaa, Finland, 15MAY2019. USA photo by Sergeant LaShic Patterson.

BMP-2MD on the Pojankangas Training Area near Kankaanpaa, Finland, 15MAY2019. USA photo by Sergeant LaShic Patterson.

USA photo by Sergeant LaShic Patterson, 17MAY2019.

Supposedly neutral Finland also takes part in NATO wargames in other countries.

Älvdalen training grounds, Sweden, 27OCT2018. Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo by Sergeant Alec Orko.

Washing a Sisu/Patria (Sisu was a Cold War era name for the company now called Patria) Pasi XA-203 prior to the short road-march to neighboring Norway for NATO’s Trident Juncture, October 2018.

Washing off the Sweden, before heading to Norway. Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo by Sergeant Alec Orko, 27OCT2018.

Video, painting your Patria Pasi for Winter ops, 2018:

Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo by Ville Multanen, 29OCT2018.

Going skiing.  A Patria Pasi during NATO’s Trident Juncture, October 2018.

Finnish MTLBs during Arrow 18, in Pohjankangas Training Area, Finland, 18MAY2018. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Averi Coppa.

Soviet era MTLBs during Arrow 18, May 2018.

CV90-30FIN

Video of Swedish made CV9030 FIN, during NATO’s Saber Strike 2017 in Estonia:

USA photo by Specialist Elliott Banks, 06MAY2017.

Leopard 2A4, NATO’s Arrow 17 wargames, May 2017.

Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo.

Soviet era 2S1 self propelled artillery gun, the Finns call it the 122 PSH 74.  They are former East German 2S1s, purchased in 1992 and 1994.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Elliott Banks, 05MAY2017.

122 PSH 74 (2S1), NATO’s Arrow 17 wargames, May 2017.

Slow-mo video, German-made Leopard 2A4s, one with Israeli made mine-plow, Niinisalo Training Area in 2016:

Photo by Sergeant Tatum Vayavananda, 11JUN2015.

Sisu Pasi, carrying British troops, ‘invades’ Sweden during NATO’s BALTOPS during Summer 2015.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Armando A. Schwier-Morales, 08JUN2015.

Twin barreled 120mm gunned AMoS (Advanced Mortar System) ‘invades’ Latvia during NATO’s Saber Strike during Summer 2015.

Ukraine Crisis: February 2014 (NATO backed coup) to present.

Vehicle I-D: GEORGIAN T-72 & BMP

HOW TO BUILD A 1:1 SCALE U.S. ARMY ‘FAKE NEWS’ BMP-2

IDAHO’S 1:1 SCALE FAKE NEWS RUSSIAN RADAR TANK

Soviet era tanks in use by NATO: POLAND

Soviet era tanks in use by NATO: BULGARIAN T-72

Soviet era tanks in use by NATO: SLOVENIAN M84

Vehicle I-D: UKRAINIAN ARMOR

Technology

World War Two, Cold War & Beyond: The many lives of LST-786

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Clicking/tapping on the pics make them bigger.

Landing Ship Tank (LST) 786 was born in 1944, in Pennsylvania, and operated by the U.S. Coast Guard to support actions against Imperial Japan, in the Pacific Ocean during World War Two.

This is just one of thousands of pages of LST-786’s War Dairy stored in the National Archives.   LST-786 was part of the LST-542 class of landing ships.

LST-786 was decommissioned and placed in reserve in 1946, Columbia River Group, Oregon.  In 1955, LST-786 was named USS Garrett County (Maryland).

Recommissioning acceptance trials, San Francisco, California.  LST-786 was recommissioned in 1966, for action in Viet Nam.  Garrett County was one of four World War Two LSTs recommissioned for action as riverine mother ships.

Now Patrol Craft Tender AGP-786 at Guam, on its way to Viet Nam.  Garrett County arrived on-station in March 1967.

On the Co Chien River, Viet Nam, in June 1968.  Serving as a Patrol Boat River(PBR)/Seawolf (USN Huey gunship) mother ship, officially known as a Game Warden ship.

AGP-786 on the Mekong Delta, Viet Nam, Autumn 1968

UH-1B Seawolf (Huey gunship) on the deck of AGP-786, Mekong Delta, 1969.

Despite that supposedly/officially LST-786 became AGP-786 for the Viet Nam conflict, this log book title page shows the USS Garrett County was still being referred to as LST-786 in April 1969.

In 1971, AGP-786 was given to the Republic of Viet Nam (South Viet Nam) and became Republic of Viet Nam Ship (RVNS) HQ-801 Can Tho.

In 1975, South Viet Nam was overrun by North Viet Nam.  The crew of HQ-801 fled to Philippines, where the old ship became Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas (BRP) Kalinga Apayao LT-516.

LT-516 seen at A.G.& P. Shipyard, Bauan, Batangas, in 1988.

A photo taken in 2006 (posted on Shipspotting.com).   It was decommissioned in 2010 and supposedly scrapped in 2012.  However, the List of decommissioned ships of the Philippine Navy says 516 was“partially beached at Naval Base Cavite”.

There are photos taken in 2011 showing the ship, listing, at Naval Station Sangley Point, aka Naval Base Cavite. 

Operation CoViD-19: USN QUARANTINE SHIPS

LHD-6 USS Bonhomme Richard: INTO THE STEEL INFERNO!

U.S. NAVY KEEPS OLD U.S. ARMY BOAT-TRUCK AFLOAT

Climate Change: GHOST SHIPS WASHING ASHORE ON SECLUDED NAVY BASE!

Influenza

CoViD Shenanigans: Yet another new version of the Virus! Idaho infections drop! Thailand rounding up tourists!

Here’s a incomplete list of links to news media reports on the latest CoViD shenanigans:

Indian athletes in trouble for violating Australia’s CoViD lockdown!

Province of Alberta will punish politicians for traveling outside of Canada during pandemic!

Colombia’s CoViD lockdown resulted in skyrocketing violent crime!

German police raid/shutdown church for lack of mask wearing!

Germany claims lockdowns helped it achieve its 2020 pollution reduction goals!

Coronavirus puts Honduras’ coffee harvest in jeopardy

India’s lockdown has killed the economy of one of its popular island vacation destinations

Lebanon goes into lockdown, blamed on end of year holiday gatherings!

Mexicans who need oxygen in trouble because hospitals are buying up oxygen for CoViD patients, creating a blackmarket with skyrocketing prices threatening poor people who need bottled oxygen to live!

Nigeria reports new version of CoViD-19, “distantly different” from the new strains in U.K. and South Africa!

Did hundreds of British tourists escape CoViD quarantine in Switzerland?

Thailand puts five provinces in total lockdown, nobody can leave or enter!

100 tourists forcefully evicted from a vacation island off Thailand!

Governor of U.S. state of Florida threatens hospitals who don’t use CoViD vaccinations!

A health district in the U.S. state of Idaho reports a surprise drop in CoViD infections, despite end of year holiday gatherings and no vaccinations!

A major hospital in Idaho resumes admitting children due to crashing cases of CoViD infections, despite end of year holiday gatherings and no vaccinations!

A second health district in the U.S. state of Idaho also reports a three month low in infections, despite end of year holiday gatherings and no vaccinations!

Zimbabwe returns to lockdown

CoViD Shenanigans: NOVEL CoViD-19 VIRUS RENDERS NEW VACCINES USELESS?

From September 2011: COMMON DISEASE KILLING CHILDREN IN VIETNAM, 42,000 INFECTED

From July 2011: DENGUE FEVER SPREADING AROUND THE WORLD

Influenza

Vaccine Fail: Alien intervention and Why are even more healthcare workers refusing the shot?

List of links to news reports/scientific studies about vaccine oddities, as of 05JAN2021:

In November 2020, The Science Advisory Board revealed that CoViD-19 could become immune to any vaccine and even evolve “….from a vaccinated host…”

The Coordinator of the Africa Task Force of the Vatican Covid-19 Commission warns that CoViD vaccination disparity will only divide the world even more

France’s go-slow coronavirus vaccination strategy backfires

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Vaccine fails to halt Germany’s lockdown, actually extended

Israel bars Palestinians from getting vaccine?

Israel vaccinates a million against COVID in less than two weeks
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Vaccine fails to stop Scotland from going into lockdown
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COVID vaccines “might not” work as well on new South African strain, scientists warn
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Arizona Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Michael Matkin.

More than 650 Arizona National Guardsmen continue to assist at vaccination sites, testing locations and food banks throughout Arizona.
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So many people in one Florida city want to be vaccinated that the city’s website crashes, phone lines jammed!
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California Dentists cleared to give COVID vaccine
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Business/Economics, Technology

Winglets, or Once again NASA saves the Private Sector!

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In another fine example that the capitalist country of United States spends taxpayer money to help-out private sector corporations; between 1979 and 1980, NASA used a KC-135 to special-test the use of winglets in reducing drag and thus reducing fuel consumption.  The study led to the use of winglets on commercial aircraft.

The winglets were developed by NASA’s Richard Whitcomb, who discovered through wind-tunnel testing that winglets could actually produce forward thrust.  Whitcomb is also credited with developing the supercritical wing, also used by commercial airliners (F-8 SUPER-CRITICAL-CRUSADER, FATHER OF MODERN AIRLINER WING DESIGN).

Silent NASA video:

The winglets used by NASA were much bigger than the winglets being used by the commercial sector.

The U.S. Air Force’s -135 family of aircraft are not modified Boeing 707s!!!   It’s amazing to me that even aviation periodicals will refer to the -135 as having evolved from the 707.  Both the -135 and the 707 evolved from the earlier prototype 367-80 (first flight 1954), the -135 (first flight 1956) was actually created before the 707 (first flight 1957).  The -135, also known as the Boeing 717, is smaller than the 707 and structurally there is nothing similar about the two aircraft (like the fuselages having totally different cross sections, the 707 being taller and wider), the major components cannot be interchanged.

Some confusion can be blamed on Boeing itself, as the manufacturer offered militarized 707s to other countries’ air forces, such as Iran (which got both 707s and 747s converted for use as airborne fuelers).  Boeing’s militarized 707 production continued into the 1990s, they are nothing like the -135.

 

KC-135:   BATS & BEARS, OH MY!

Bare Metal: NASA TRUCKS saving the trucking industry

Technology

Vehicle I-D: NASA’s DC-8 climate warrior

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The former Douglas airliner is a -72 model, and can stay airborne for 12 hours and has an operational speed between 3-hundred and 5-hundred knots (345-575mph, 555-926kph).

The research flights are made as low as 5-hundred feet (152 meters) and as high as 42-thousand feet (12-thousand-801 meters or 12.80 kilometers).

DC-8-72 on the ground in Chile after an 11 hours flight to study ocean ice, October 2009.

The information that came with this pic stated the DC-8 was being used to test alternative fuels in California, January 2009.

The DC-8-72 uses a plethora of electronic equipment for remote sensing scientific studies in archeology, ecology, geography, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, volcanology, atmospheric chemistry, soil science and biology.  The name of the organization/university conducting the study is sometimes painted on the forward section of the fuselage, underneath the Dryden Flight Research Center name.

Preparations for Operation Ice Bridge, Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility, California, late 2009.  The cart full of computers is part of a Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, waiting to be installed on the DC-8.

Inside the DC-8 Airborne Laboratory, being configured for Operation Ice Bridge, 2009.

DC-8 on approach to Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility, November 2008.

From November 1999 to March 2000, the DC-8-72 joined a NASA U-2 (aka ER-2) for SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE), in Sweden.

In 2019, IDAHO, KANSAS, UTAH were HOME BASES FOR NASA’S DC-8 FIREX-AQ! (also has videos of climate sniffing ops over Germany and Korea)

For more info visit NASA’s official DC-8 website

NASA ‘CLIMATE SPY PLANE’ PROVES CALIFORNIA’S STRICT ANTI-POLLUTION LAWS ARE A JOKE!

Influenza

Vaccine Fail: Why are healthcare workers refusing to take the shot, and what’s the connection between Llama’s and CoViD?

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List of links to news reports/scientific studies about vaccine oddities, as of 02JAN2021:

Can employers demand proof of COVID-19 vaccinations?

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Video warning about fake vaccine scams:

Can pregnant women get the CoViD shot?

Rabies vaccine marketing research warns that government funding for CoViD vaccines is delaying potential government purchases of rabies vaccines, at a time when rabies infections are increasing!

Study to see if MMR vaccine could work against CoViD discovers that mumps and CoViD create similar antibody response!

An auto-immune disease, usually in the form of a body rash, can occur after getting an MMR shot!

High-dose influenza vaccine shows no additional benefit for heart disease patients
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Did an Australian politician fake getting a flu shot?

China Grants Approval to First Coronavirus Vaccine, Will Vaccinate Citizens for Free
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Finland reports adverse vaccine reactions 

India OKs AstraZeneca and locally-made COVID-19 vaccines

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At least 240 Israelis infected after getting vaccinations!

A second Israeli dies hours after getting vaccinated!

Mexican doctor hospitalized after getting CoViD shot!

United Kingdom allows CoViD vaccines of different types to be mixed!

Large Numbers Of Health Care And Frontline Workers Are Refusing Covid-19 Vaccine
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Drive-thru vaccination site operated by Arizona National Guard, in Sun City. Arizona Army National Guard Photo by Specialist Thurman Snyder, 28DEC2020.

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Idaho health officials say general public most likely won’t get vaccine until May 2021
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Massachusetts grad student, parent suing over flu vaccine requirement
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A Licensed Practical Nurse receives the CoViD-19 vaccination at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Vineland. New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs photo by Mark C. Olsen, 05JAN2021.

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Vaccine Fail, 01JAN2021: 20-MILLION DOSES DELIVERED BY OPERATION WARP SPEED! WHY ARE U.S. STATES FAILING TO PASS IT ON?