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Articles from the February 7, 2022 edition


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  • That Vaccinated Coworker is Not Even 10% Less Likely to Give You Covid than an Unvaxxed Coworker

    Alyssa Erdley, News with Attitude|Feb 7, 2022
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    February 3, 2022 - Vaccines to protect against Covid-19 became available to the general public in April, 2021. Since than over 7 million residents of Los Angeles County have taken the full dose of some form of the vaccine. The initial promise was a protection of 95% or greater from infection by Covid-19. We thought it would be interesting to see how that promise has panned out and what the true effectiveness is in instituting vaccine mandates that exclude unvaccinated individuals or require them...

  • How are Social Security Benefits Taxed?

    Rusty Gleer, Association of Mature American Citizens|Feb 7, 2022

    Ask Rusty – Will My Social Security Benefits Ever Be Non-Taxable? Dear Rusty: If we take our Social Security at our full retirement age (66 years and 6 months for both of us) and we both continue to work, what are the income tax consequences? Is there an age at which we can still work and draw Social Security without tax consequences on our benefits? Signed: Overtaxed Couple Dear Overtaxed Couple: Regardless of when you claim your Social Security benefits, whether those benefits are subject t...

  • Ferrer Is Unable to Justify Vaccine Mandates at Media Briefing - Almost 2/3 New Cases This Week Among the Vaccinated

    Alyssa Erdley, News with Attitude|Feb 7, 2022
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    February 3, 2022 - When asked if there was a public health justification for vaccine mandates, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health, did not even try to answer the question. "The vaccines work," she said. "They provide the most protection we can get." This is not a reason to impose mandates, even if what she meant was that vaccines work to protect against death. The only justification for a vaccine mandate is if it reduces infection. They do not, as data from the Los...

  • Immortality- which is its greatest virtue, conviction or surrender?

    Alita Arose, Observer Staff Writer|Feb 7, 2022
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    Mysteries, fascinations, and obsessions about immortality have played rhythmic harmonics throughout humanity's history. These enigmas and larger than life inquiries have begun religions, wars, and spectacular works of art. While these questions open portals and birth worlds within worlds, some qualities of answers are only accessible through subversive undertakings. Peering into the makeup of archetypes which engage a dynamic dance with immortality, flavorful exhalations of the varying worlds...

  • Downtown Ambassador Program is Not Saving the Promenade, Which Largely Belongs to Homeless Vagrants Now

    Alyssa Erdley, Observer Staff|Feb 7, 2022
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    February 2, 2022 - Squalid conditions downtown and on the Third Street Promenade appear to be causing much of the vacancies in retail spaces visible there today. The downtown and Promenade area were already ailing before the lockdowns of 2020, with an increasing presence of vagrants who appeared to need drug rehabilitation or mental health services. But once the Covid-19 lockdowns closed all retail businesses that weren't labeled essential and after the riot on May 31, 2020, the situation...

  • Sutton kicks off 2022 in style with the launch of Muses in West Hollywood

    Preity Upala, Observer Staff Writer|Feb 7, 2022

    West Hollywood, CA January 26, 2022 - Tinseltown getting back to normalcy in 2022 as Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Sutton Stracke hosted an exclusive invite only in-person event at her West Hollywood boutique SUTTON. Sutton held the event to showcase her partnership with Susan Rockefeller and her MUSES CBD Product Line which will be sold at SUTTON. Susan Rockefeller is an award-winning artist, entrepreneur and conversationalist who is also the Editor-in-Chief of Musings. Musings is a...

  • Eerie photos of Khloe Kardashian Trending on Twitter. What's up with those hands, Khloe?

    Sarah Storkin, Observer Staff Writer|Feb 7, 2022

    "Betrayl rarely comes from your enemies," says Khloe Kardashian, in a tweet where the social influencer is getting into an automobile. Her face is reflected off the ceiling in one image. Except well, her face looks quite different than the "real face in the image." This is seemingly a thinlly veiled reference to her relationship to Tristan Thompson. But why is her face reflected on the roof of her vehicle, different than her face as it appears in the photo? Once again, the Kardashian's excel at...

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