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The rung openings are square, therefore I'm speculating that the width of the ladder is 18" and the space between rungs is the same. That makes the ladder alone 16.5' at most. He's got the right tree. The large tree to the right looks like it might be a shag bark hickory and the sycamore to the left is too knobby for my climber.

First, a doe with two yearlings came by at 25 yards. I try to keep my shots to 20 yards and under to make recovery a sure thing, and the deer never stopped for more than a moment.

Those three deer were then joined by two more does coming from the other direction and all 5 deer ambled around for about an hour at 50-100 yards from my stand.

About 10 minutes before dark a spike buck was coming in on a path that seemed to be right toward my tree. Unfortunately, he stopped a little over 25 yards out, made a left turn and walked through the exact path that the doe and yearlings had taken earlier.

I probably could have taken him but the light was fading and I lost track of the branches and sticks that were in my shooting lane.

Next time I will select a tree 5 yards closer to that path.

I'm gonna get that booster shot now.

Hope you all get better soon.

BBB, And when you die that percentage will increase, regardless of whatever kills you. The government is still paying hospitals a covid bonus.

There are some reasons behind “The latest stats.” Is someone who got the vaccine in 2020 really “fully vaccinated” anymore? Just as my flu shot from 2020 wont likely protect me from this years variants, the same is true with covid. By far the majority of people we see in the hospital with covid have either been unvaccinated or immunocompromised. And now it seems that we can add some people who were vaccinated in 2020 but no longer have immunity to the newer variants. I care about you guys and enjoy sharing the woods with you. Stay safe.

1 Headline: For the first time, the majority of people dying from COVID-19 in America have been vaccinated.

"We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated," Kaiser Family Foundation Vice President Cynthia Cox, who conducted the analysis, told The Washington Post . People who had been vaccinated or boosted made up 58% of COVID-19 deaths in August, the analysis showed. The rate has been on the rise: 23% of coronavirus deaths were among vaccinated people in September 2021, and the vaccinated made up 42% of deaths in January and February of this year, the Post reported. Research continues to show that people who are vaccinated or boosted have a lower risk of death. The rise in deaths among the vaccinated is the result of three factors, Cox said. They are: A large majority of people in the U.S. have been vaccinated (267 million people in the U.S., the CDC says). People who are at the greatest risk of dying from COVID-19 are more likely to be vaccinated and boosted, such as the elderly. Vaccines lose their effectiveness over time; the virus changes to avoid vaccines; and people need to choose to get boosters to continue to be protected.

The case for the effectiveness of vaccines and boosters versus skipping the shots remains strong. People age 6 months and older who are unvaccinated are six times more likely to die of COVID-19, compared to those who got the primary series of shots, the Post reported. Survival rates were even better with additional booster shots, particularly among older people. "I feel very confident that if people continue to get vaccinated at good numbers, if people get boosted, we can absolutely have a very safe and healthy holiday season," Ashish Jha, White House coronavirus czar, said last week. The number of Americans who have gotten the most recent booster has been increasing ahead of the holidays. CDC data show that 12% of the U.S. population age 5 and older has received a booster. A new study by a team of researchers from Harvard University and Yale University estimates that 94% of the U.S. population has been infected with COVID-19 at least once, leaving just 1 in 20 people who have never had the virus. "Despite these high exposure numbers, there is still substantial population susceptibility to infection with an Omicron variant," the authors wrote. They said that if all states achieved the vaccination levels of Vermont, where 55% of people had at least one booster and 22% got a second one, there would be "an appreciable improvement in population immunity, with greater relative impact for protection against infection vs. severe disease. This additional protection results from both the recovery of immunity lost due to waning and the increased effectiveness of the bivalent booster against Omicron infections." Sources

The Washington Post: "Covid is no longer mainly a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Here's why." CDC: "COVID Data Tracker."

"IMMUNITY"

More "vaccinated" people are contracting and dying of covid today than those who did not get the "shot". That's not immunity.

Just a suggestion, look up "base rate fallacy". It will help explain the number of cases and deaths shifting to the vaccinated population and put it in proper context.

And yes, the covid vaccines are vaccines. What is never mentioned is that the earlier definition of a vaccine was predicated upon the belief that they conferred "sterilizing immunity"; no infections after vaccination. Today we know that's not the case and since you mentioned it this holds true for the polio vaccine.

I received 3 shots and I still got covid a week after my 3rd, that's enough for me. Dr Fauci once said that natural immunity is higher than getting the shot, but it doesn't last forever, and it appears that neither does the shot.

The definition I grew up with for vaccine is much different than what is now being used for the covid shot. How many cases of polio are there in the U.S. today?

"CDC - Thanks to the polio vaccine, dedicated health care professionals, and parents who vaccinate their children on schedule, wild poliovirus has been eliminated in this country for more than 30 years. Since 1979, no cases of polio caused by wild poliovirus have originated in the U.S"

You know I respect your opinions, but I think each of us needs to decide if we want to take yet another shot, of not.

BTW - no additional shots for me in that last year, and no flu, no colds and no covid either.

Stay well!