Almost all of the COVID-19 talk in Guilford County in recent weeks has been about mask mandates and the shortage of testing options.
However, county health officials are continuing to press ahead on the county’s effort to convince those who’ve held off on getting vaccinated to get the shots – since county officials want everyone eligible to get vaccinated.
Late in 2020, there was a massive effort to get those people off the fence and onto the vaccinated list, and, in recent months, it’s looked more and more as though most of the remaining holdouts are simply not going to get vaccinated no matter what.
But that won’t stop the county from trying.
Certainly, in the New Year, when it comes to the number of vaccinated in Guilford County, it’s seemed as though the needle was stuck – pun intended.
According to the county’s COVID-19 information dashboard, for people five years of age and older in Guilford County, currently, 67 percent have been vaccinated to some extent, and just over half – 53 percent – are “fully vaccinated.”
Guilford County Health Director Dr. Iulia Vann said the county is working very hard to reach those 47 percent who haven’t been fully vaccinated, as well as those who have not been vaccinated at all.
“We’re trying our best to continue to do those outreach processes and opportunities,” Vann said.
She said that last week the county sent out mass notification text messages letting people know of a new opportunity for getting vaccinated. The county has just opened up a new vaccination site at Piedmont Hall at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex.
“We continue to put information on our social media pages,” Vann said, adding that every time she has a chance to put the word out through the local media, she does that as well.
She said the county’s mobile vaccination unit is also getting a whole lot of use. Vann said a lot of community organizations and faith-based organizations have been filling out forms to request a mobile vaccination clinic at their location.
“So, the mobile unit continues to stay really busy with those community clinics out there,” the health director said.
According to Vann, she and other health staff along with other county officials have been brainstorming to come up with “every idea we can” to get the word out that people should get vaccinated – along with the message that the county is making it easy by opening new clinics and offering its mobile unit.
If you don’t know how and where to get a vaccine or boster by now you would have the be deaf and dumb. I wish they would put this much effort into getting home testing supplies out and available.
Oh really don’t you know that all black and minorities have great difficulty getting vaccine’s tests and voter ID Oh my what a world we live in but when you go to a grocery store it’s obvious there’s no difficulty in going down and signing up for the card with the American Eagle for free groceries on it
Why on earth would any sentient being acquiesce to being injected with an unproven chemical cocktail, okayed for Emergency Use Only (EUA), which is clearly not effective in preventing contraction, or stopping transmission of the disease, for which the makers have been uniquely granted blanket legal immunity – even from gross negligence – and which is already displaying side-effects of huge concern?
More of the same misinformation from Austin.
mRNA vaccines have been in development and tested for over 15 years and have been given to over a billion people world wide with effectively no serious impacts. (don’t toss out your ignorant view of FAERs)
The amount of mutations in omicron have circumvented the vaccine’s ability to stop transmission but it is well established that unvaccinated make up the majority of those still suffering the more serious illness from the virus (even though omicron is significantly less dangerous of a virus).
Good news is that the high transmission will most likely get us to herd immunity so hopeful that each coming mutation is less and less impactful. So likely ok to not get vaccinated this late in the game but that doesn’t justify the continued misinformation.
There is no misinformation in my question – just facts.
Why don’t you try answering it?
Your comment is deceptive and misleading in so many ways that it brings into question your motives. For one thing, mRNA has indeed been in development for years, and tested for years – on animals. It has never undergone the normal rigorous human testing required of any new human drug. It has short circuited the required process out of political expediency and pure greed.
So these experimental chemicals have received Emergency Use Authorization so they can be injected into millions of Americans, and their manufacturers have been given 100% legal immunity from any recourse for these poisons, including gross negligence.
What kind of fool would allow themselves to be injected with such toxins, when the Chinese Disease has a 99.9% survival rate? [Unless you’re ancient and have one foot in the grave].
A fool like you, I suppose.
Other people think for themselves.
Not only has it been tested on people, it has been used in other vaccines (Ebola for example) for use in public. The only difference with this vaccine is the wide range of the global population and yes the speed that it was both developed AND tested.
Is that why 63% of Covid deaths in Ireland were “fully vaccinated”?
[ HPSC reported 2021/12/13 for the period 2021/6/27 – 2021/12/13]
The fact that omicron has evaded the jab is no surprise. There are four genera of coronaviruses and of those there are seven known coronaviruses that infect humans. These viruses mutate so fast that heretofore there has been no effective vaccines for the so called ” common cold”. There is little doubt that the omicron will evolve again, becoming possibly more infectious but less virulent. Even now, some omicron “sufferers” barely know they have it. It’s becoming ubiquitous, yet too many of our politicians want to sustain the fear and mandate masks and jabs that don’t work and are, in many vase, deadly. The latest VAERS shows over 21,000 have died from the jab. I don’t think I want to roll the doce with a gene therapy injection for what might be nothing worse than a case of the sniffles.
Because, moron, VIRUSES MUTATE, as we’ve seen with this bug THREE times in 2 years. You get enough people INCUBATING the bug, every new hosts presents a new environment for the virus to ‘adapt’ to, forcing yet more mutations. We’ve been luck in that Omnicron became 70 X more infectious instead of 70 X more fatal. Sooner or later, a mutation will evolve
Maybe YOU don’t mind being a human Petri dish for the next generation of global killer microbes, but most people who understand personal hygiene would rather not if given a choice. I’ve had 3 jabs – no side effects. 5 BILLION doses of the vaccine have been administered globally so far with fewer than .02% life threatening side effects reported. You already get 7 mandatory vaccines in order to attend public school, what .3 ml more? If you don’t believe in vaccination, stay away of civil society and enjoy your pestilent life.
So I’m a moron, am I? You are certainly an unpleasant little jerk.
Let’s just seal with your first sentence, Einstein. The Coronavirus is indeed mutating. As millions have been vaccinated the virus tries to mutate in ways that cause it to evade the vaccine. That is how Omicron developed. Large scale “vaccination” is causing a doomsday scenario in which vaccine resistant strains will develop, and we have no idea how virulent they will be. YOU and your gullible sheep are creating this problem.
The rest of your comment is just rudeness and bile, so I think I’ll reciprocate.
Little fascists like you enabled the rise of National Socialism. You dare to force a chemical cocktail into other people, against their will, and you claim the moral high ground in a breathtaking display of smugness.
Bravo, Austin!!
Thanks, Tom!
Leftists must be faced down and shown to be fools. The sad thing is that logic makes no difference to them. A normal person would suffer cognitive dissonance, and re-examine their beliefs.
But Leftists are not normal.
Awwwww, Austin got triggered by facts again. So sad. Fact is that unvaccinated make up the majority (over 80%) of those with serious illness in hospitals today. Thankfully the percentage of people having serious illness is declining as omicron is far less likely to cause either serious illness or death. (This is of course offset to a large degree by ease of transmission that has caused a major spike in infection rate)
… and “Chris” is triggered by anything I say.
I suppose I ought to be flattered, but being the object of a child’s fixation and infatuation is of no interest to me.
If he really wanted to debate, he’d try to actually answer the question I posed, wouldn’t he?
So the socialist fish who wants the government to be our caretaker from cradle to grave with everything free and no responsibility from anyone for anything but the government they are here to help You know that’s true don’t you. Join chris and pick up your ticket to Russia Comrade
You state a lie (that we want government to be our caretaker etc…) because you lake any actual intelligent response to ideas different than your narrow selfish point of view. I hear there are some teas you can drink that help cognitive ability. Give it try.
See chris did I upset you poor libtard. An opinion is not a lie just an opinion
The funny thing in all this, is that the socialism pushing leftists think that when socialism/communism is implemented, they’re going to sit around all day, smoking pot and playing video games. They don’t realize that their butts will be working in the fields to gather food for their rulers, or they’ll be put to death as those in charge won’t tolerate useless members of society.
Be sure to read this tuna and chris
Uhhhh, no.
Not yesterday, not today, not tomorrow, not next week, next month or next year.
Show us a proven live vaccine and we’ll ponder on it. The current “vaccines” are a hell no!
Recent UK study shows repeated boosters cripple immune response:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/repeat-booster-shots-risk-overloading-immune-system-ema-says
‘Recent UK study shows repeated boosters cripple immune response’ And can we say, ‘Myocarditis’? Little has been reported on this–linking it mostly with adolescents, young boys in particular, yet it & related heart issues have arisen from the vaccine–oh, they’re ‘rare’, of course, & downplayed by the media, etc., so why worry?
Perhaps my experience will give one pause–my 45 year-old daughter passed away suddenly in October; about six years ago, she was diagnosed with Myocarditis–it appeared after a viral infection–she had been treated quite successfully by her cardiologist & to all appearances was doing just fine–yet in one day, symptoms suddenly began to appear & before we could get to the ER, she was gone. Had she had the vaccine? Nope, but was being forced to take it if she went back to her workplace instead of working from home. I urge parents–anyone, actually–to think, REALLY THINK–before you take this risk, especially with your children. The payoff is NOT worth it!
I’ve been reading what you’re reading. Amazing isn’t it???
You’re right, “Just Sayin”. The boosters and the original mRNA jabs both eviscerate the immune system, slowly but surely. So if it takes them a few years to wipe out your body’s immune system, you then catch the flu and die, they can claim it was nothing to do with the injection you got 3 years before. It’s called plausible deniability. And anyway, they got their ‘bought & paid for’ politicians like Joe Biden to grant them legal immunity anyway.
That is a bit ingenuous how you state “it will cripple immune response”. They article states what is apparently common knowledge about vaccines. They lose effect after multiple applications. This is not a surprise or a shock. Kind of a nonissue at this point for two reasons…1) Omicron is far weaker than the original variant so there is hope we are nearing the end of covid-19 as a dangerous virus 2) if the mutations continue, the current vaccine become less and less effective so will require a new vaccine specifically targeted to the new mutation should one be warranted.
But thank you for how misinformation is done. You take a very basic article and make it seem scarier than it is by framing it outside of the actual scope of information provided.
“Chris” never fails to prompt a chuckle, does he? His remarks are laughable enough, but he adds to the hilarity with his solecisms.
You’re “a bit ingenuous” yourself Chrissy! Lol.
And buy a dictionary. Or grow a brain.
Why in the heck are they even still pretending…
I don’t know why so many pretend that vaccine and masks don’t work. Odd world we live in that science is so distrusted.
Most of us who haven’t been jabbed are not “on the fence” and don’t need to be reminded that the county wants us to get chemicals injected into us, for our own good, of course. If we use the CDC’S definition, that 47 percent who are not vaxxed will increase every time Phizer and the CDC decide we need another booster shot. Those who were “fully vaccinated” before the latest booster will be considered unvaccinated if they don’t take another dose of a dangerous drug that will neither keep them from getting Covid nor from spreading Covid. The truth is that the “vaccine” is not a vaccine, the “experts” aren’t experts, and the “science” isn’t science.
The government has already tired of trying to bribe us to get jabbed, and is now engaged in coercion. “If you don’t get jabbed, we will force your employer to fire you.” When the government resorts to coercion, there is good reason to be suspicious and resist. Oh, wait, the government has NEVER lied to us . . .
Have you never heard “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”
With a 100% vaccination rate, we would still be seeing high infection rates and mask mandates.
Not “NO!”, but “HELL NO!”
The harder they try to push these injections, the harder we well resist. You can threaten us with our jobs, and being societal outcasts, but that won’t change the way we think.
There have been major red flags surrounding this entire pandemic, and especially this past year with these vaccines. I don’t know what Chris has been smoking, but these mRNA vaccines have NEVER been approved. They have been working on them and trying to get them approved for years and years, but they have never passed clinical trials, and the only way they could get EUA passes, was to completely and totally ignore the fact that as of April 2020, the DOD/DARPA knew that HCQ and Ivermectin were suitable treatments for COVID.
All the side effects from these injections have been ignored by the government and the press. They’ve gone as far as making up new “facts” to explain the sudden deaths and collapses of international athletes, blaming the rise in myocarditis and other heart related problems, as well as the massive rise in blood clots and clot related injuries on global warming, of all things. Several months ago, they even started media and advertising campaigns to make it sound like young children having heart problems like myocarditis is a common thing.
Ask yourself, honestly, before last year, how often did you hear the word “myocarditis”? How about Bells Palsy?
The pharmaceutical companies are making money hand over fist with these shots, and there are too many members of Congress who own stock in these same pharmaceutical companies. MAJOR RED FLAG there.
In 2020, as part of the scare campaign against the sheep of the world, they just stopped testing for influenza, and blamed everyone’s being sick and dying on COVID. Turns out that roughly the same number of people around the world died from COVID as every other year what die from the flu. Now the flu has resurfaced, miraculously, and they’ve even come up with a new scare tactic – flu-rona. Give. Me. A. Break!
The double standards were unthinkable. Again, the government and the media were quick to call things like Trump rallies “super-spreader events”, while the massive arson riots in the wake of a drug addled criminal dying from a fentynal overdose, were OK, and deemed “peaceful protests”.
If the vaccines were so damn helpful, why would Biden, in the midst of his authoritarian rage, exempt members of Congress, the US Postal service, the FDA and the CDC from being forced to vaccinate?
So many people spent 4-5 years calling Donald Trump a tyrant and a dictator, calling him “Hitler” and a Nazi. Imagine the outrage if he stood up at that podium on live TV and told us all how “his patience was wearing thin” and that he was going to mandate vaccinations for everyone. Biden does it, and everyone is OK with it. They can’t bend over fast enough. Companies can’t draw up the paperwork fast enough to tell their employees how they’ll be placed on unpaid leave if they don’t submit to the vaccine.
Laugh at this if you want, but we, the unvaccinated, are the modern day Jews of Nazi America. The media propaganda to turn the masses against us is off the charts. If people would learn and understand history, they would see the parallels with what happened 80 years ago, and what’s going on today. Before the Jewish people were loaded up on trains and sent to the concentration camps, the German people were brainwashed into hating the Jews. The left is supposed to be oh so tolerant and so compassionate, but they won’t hesitate to tell you how anti-vaxxers should be imprisoned or put to death.
When my office decides that everyone is going to start working in the office again, there’s talk of segregating all the unvaccinated people into a separate work space away from everyone else, even though our vaccination status is supposed to be a secret. That is, if they don’t fire us first. All this, even though we’ve been working from home, successfully and productively for two years.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – I’d rather be injected with COVID than with whatever is in these vaccines.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven. Leave me alone and let me live my life the way that I see fit. You live your life the way you want. You want to be part of some f’ed up social/medical experiment? Go right ahead, it’s your life.
“the unvaccinated, are the modern day Jews of Nazi America” This! This right here is why I call you nutters.
And chris I still fly the Stars and Bars
Like I really care what you call me, or why.
Any smart person who has been paying attention can see the virus is simply a Trojan Horse for a global surveillance society.
Luckily for the globalists there aren’t that many smart people.