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In sadder news, at least so it would seem… I don’t have any inside skinny on this, so I’ll just post the letter:

Today’s Gospel is from Matthew 11. God wants us, expects us, to use the rational intellect that He gave us. It’s sort of the whole point of why He created the the universe. If anyone were to try to distract you into thinking you don’t see what you see, that your vision isn’t reliable, or that you should ignore the things that you hear, especially heresy from an antipope, or that you didn’t hear correctly, or that you’re not qualified to do the hearing and the seeing… beware.

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The Dogmatic Definition of Papal Infallibility at Vatican I was one of the most profound gifts of loving protection God has ever given to His Holy Church. Beware ANYONE who dares to call God’s gift a curse, or a mistake.

All of the “Fwanciss is deffinetwee Pope, shut up, Stoopid!” talking head contingent are pounding daily the lie that the dogmatic definition of Papal Infallibility was clearly a huge mistake and that, essentially, the Papacy itself is a giant albatross that MUST be reduced to a meaningless figurehead position and nothing more.  Further, these poor, poor people now argue that to believe in the words of Jesus Christ in the Gospel:

And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. [19] And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven. 

…to believe these words is to commit the mortal sin of IDOLATRY, which they oh-so-cleverly call “papolatry”.  Further, I have seen these Trad Inc grifters and hangars-on declare that the GOSPELS THEMSELVES ARE UNRELIABLE AND THAT THE PETRINE PROMISE RECORDED IN MATTHEW 16 WAS LIKELY A FABRICATION INSERTED BY POWER-HUNGRY MEN – aka St. Peter and St. Matthew working in cahoots, specifically – IN ORDER TO ASSIGN AUTHORITY AND EARTHLY POWER AND JURISDICTION TO PETER AND HIS “SUCCESSORS” WHICH OUR LORD NEVER CONFERRED NOR INTENDED.

Um.  Isn’t this EXACTLY what the schismatic Orthodox, Lutherans, Anglicans and Freemasons have been trying to convince the world of all along?

Isn’t it ODD that NOT ONE of these Trad Inc. “thought leaders” EVER countenanced this thought BEFORE they decided to define their entire Christian identity by militantly embracing an Antipope? Isn’t it strange that these people have literally turned themselves completely inside out trying to avoid admitting that maybe – just maybe – they have been wrong about the identity of the Vicar of Christ, which has now become what can only be described as a blind rage of pride which prevents them from ever, ever, ever, even unto eternal damnation, admitting that maybe, perhaps Barnhardt (and others) have seen and understood something that they, with their UNIVERSITY DEGREES (please, be kind, don’t laugh TOO hard, they actually think university degrees in theology mean something today, and most of them have massive outstanding student loans that they can never repay incentivizing this delusion) have not only missed, but have been beaten over the head with it for going on nine years now? Odd indeed.

But I want to talk about Love, as in Love Himself. I want to talk about how the definition of the Dogma of Papal Infallibility at Vatican I in ARSH 1870 was one of the most gratuitously loving acts that God has wrought in the 2000 year history of His Holy Church.

God, being omniscient, knew everything that satan and his mercenary body on earth, the Freemasons, were going to attempt to do.  God knew that the luciferian plan was to attack and destroy The Church from WITHIN – because attacking from the outside was clearly a non-starter strategy.  The luciferian plot, the entire purpose of the founding of Freemasonry in ARSH 1717, was to usurp the Papacy and install an Antipope who would completely dismantle and destroy The Church Militant FROM WITHIN – FROM THE VATICAN ITSELF, and replace The True Church with a satanic Antichurch without most people even noticing the switch.  In fact, most people would be in favor of what they saw, because the Antichurch would abolish the notion of sin and hell, and ratify every depravity, and make MAN the center and object of worship.

So. God, knowing this and loving infinitely His Bride, The Church, moved and worked through an infallible Ecumenical Council to provide a 100% rock-solid means of positively identifying the Freemason’s Antipope when the True Pope was usurped and the luciferian imposter was installed. If a man who claims to be the Pope starts spewing lies against the faith – like ratifying divorce and “remarriage”, like denying the Divinity of Christ, like saying the Blessed Virgin was “just a normal girl” who wasn’t born a saint, and doubted God at the foot of the Cross, like denying the existence of hell and openly proclaiming the lie of soul annihilation, like declaring proselytism a sin and explicitly condemning The Great Commission, and LIKE ATTEMPTING TO ABROGATE THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS IN THE VENERABLE RITE OF ST. GREGORY THE GREAT, MADE CANONICAL BY POPE ST. PIUS V – when some chucklehead Jesuit moron with a BUNCH of super-close sodomite “friends” who is also in bed with the New World Order Malthusian oligarchy starts spewing this stuff on a near-daily basis… you might want to pause and ask a question or two.

Folks, it is PRECISELY because we have the declaration of Papal Infallibility in Pastor Aeternus that we can today, even as unlettered laynothing harridans (speaking for myself), look at the situation with Antipope Bergoglio and KNOW beyond ANY DOUBT that THAT piece of human detritus, Jorge Bergoglio, AIN’T THE POPE.

Okay.  So we got that.  The next question is, WHAT HAPPENED? Did anything hinky happen right before this evil apostate luciferian showed up and started calling himself the… Bishop of Rome?

WHY YES! The most completely bizarre thing in the 2000 year history of the papacy occurred DAYS BEFORE.  The reigning Pope, who announced upon his election in no uncertain terms that HE WAS UNDER PRESSURE AND ATTACK AND MIGHT LITERALLY FLEE, proffered a partial resignation of just the ministry of the active governance of the Church, while retaining the Petrine Munus, complete with the Papal White, the Papal Style and Name “His Holiness Pope Benedict”, continuing to reside inside the Vatican, and continuing to confirm the brethren, and continuing to give “MY APOSTOLIC BLESSING”.

Without Vatican I and the dogmatic definition in Pastor Aeternus, we might all be sitting here thinking, “Well, this SEEMS wrong, but we can’t know for sure because there is so little guidance on this contingency. Everything that has been written on this possibility has been highly speculative.”

WELP.  The Divine Providence in His infinite kindness and incomprehensible love made ABSOLUTELY SURE that we could – ALL OF US – know, and know as a matter of DOGMATIC FAITH, what exactly it is that is going on here.  No secret decoder rings needed.  Quite the opposite.  A dogmatic declaration is the exact opposite of any sort of gnostic secrecy because it makes a given article a make-or-break matter of holding the Catholic Faith.

And isn’t that EXACTLY where we are, right now? There is an Antipope that is openly telling people that they MUST embrace lies as truth, and that they MUST be in union with HIM and HIS HERESY in order to be “in The Church”.  Antipope Bergoglio is telling the world that you MUST embrace HIS HERESY and APOSTASY in order to not be a schismatic.  This is a clear violation of the Law of Non-contradiction: Antipope Bergoglio claims to be BOTH the standard of Schism in his person, and SIMULTANEOUSLY he is the vector of schism.  He claims to be simultaneously a thing AND its ontological opposite.

You can parse Pastor Aeternus as fine as you like, but there is absolutely no way to claim that the Law of Non-contradiction vis-a-vis the Pope and Schism in se is NOT clearly within the domain of the Dogma of Papal Infallibility.  NONE.

Finally, I’d like to mention a concept in the same vein as this piece, specifically the simply boundless and infinite love of God for us, but now in the context of TECHNOLOGY.  Yes, technology.  I know most of us look at the modern world and see the horrors of technology around us, such as the ubiquitousness of pornography, the tracking/Mark of the Beast dynamics now emerging in real time, the destruction of economy and community that springs from economy by Chinese slave labor and Amazon, and of course, the near-total control of the media that satan holds, propagandizing and warping reality in the minds of nearly all men today.

But I’d like to argue the other side.  I’d like to postulate that maybe – just maybe – the Holy Ghost inspired men at an absolutely unprecedented pace in all of human history to advance technology for an overarching purpose that trumps all of the temporary negative aspects listed above for a reason.

I postulate that we have the ability to communicate with almost anyone on the planet in real time, the ability to record and disseminate information at the speed of light, precisely so that the Freemasons’ luciferian Antipope – Antipope Bergoglio – COULD NOT HIDE BEHIND THE VATICAN WALLS, could not hide behind the speed of information dissemination being limited to the speed of a horse or a sailing ship.

I think that we have this technology coupled with the dogmatic declaration of Papal Infallibility so that lucifer and his minions would have every bit of their hamfisted plot circling the globe being observed, hashed out and discussed, with every papal document and the whole of Canon Law available in every language, by unlettered lay nothing harridans who carry a baby television around in their pocket which gives them instant, unfettered access to all of it – down to Antipope Bergoglio’s raging tantrums as he eats his lunch, down to his physical assault of a Chinese woman begging for help for the Church in China, down to his ordering a demonic Pachamama talisman to be placed on the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the offertory of the Mass, thus desecrating the Basilica.  IT’S ALL RECORDED. EVERYONE CAN SEE IT.  Many will see it and ignore it.  Pride.  Greed. Cowardice.  BUT, whoever the Divine Providence wants to see it will see it. And it is the technology that makes that possible, whether one lives in the Center of Rome, or in a Van Down By the River.

Never forget what Our Lord said to satan when satan declared his intent to destroy the Church, as overheard by Pope Leo XIII in ARSH 1884:

GO AHEAD AND TRY.

If you know Who God Is, and you believe it, those words are just about the most edifying possible.  I AM Omniscient and Omnipotent, and I am saying to you: go ahead and try, because I will utterly crush and humiliate you, and manifest My Power and My Love.  GO AHEAD AND TRY, AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.

The truth of the Bergoglian Antipapacy and the awesomeness of God can be appreciated AS IT IS HAPPENING.  It’s not necessary for centuries to pass before anyone can appreciate what is happening RIGHT NOW TO US. What a tragedy that so many people are not only missing out, but being scandalized and even apostatizing, when they should be, in a certain sense, enjoying being able to see and even participate in this Holy War – even if only, for now, through a baby television that you carry in your pocket. Savor these days, friends.  Savor these days. And DON’T squander the opportunity that you have been given to know, love and serve God in this world, so that you may be happy with Him forever in the next.

I hope this helps.

Our Lady of Copacabana, slayer of the Pachamama demon, pray for us.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us, on your Holy Church in eclipse, and on Pope Benedict XVI your Vicar on Earth whether he likes it or not.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 4, ARSH 2021 by Ann Barnhardt.

https://holycross-olog.vermontcatholic.org/five-first-saturdays-devotion

• The following is an explanation of the conditions contained in Our Lady’s request at Fatima, Portugal regarding the Communion of reparation on the on the first Saturday of the month for five consecutive months.
• The promise made by Our Lady to Lucia on July 13th, 1917, that there would be a future manifestation concerning the practice of the Five First Saturdays, was fulfilled on December 10th, 1925. Lucia was then a Postulant Sister in the Dorothean Convent at Tuy, Spain. On this occasion Our Lady appeared together with the Child Jesus, Who spoke first to Lucia:“Have compassion on the Heart of your Most Holy Mother, covered with thorns which ungrateful men place therein at every moment, while there is no one who does an act of reparation to withdraw them for her.”
• Our Lady then addressed Lucia as follows:“Behold, my daughter, my Heart encircled with thorns, with which ungrateful men pierce It at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. Give me consolation, you, at least; and make known on my behalf that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all who on the First Saturday of five consecutive months confess their sins, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the purpose of making reparation to my Immaculate Heart.”
• WHY FIVE SATURDAYS?It is sometimes asked why Our Lady asked for Communions of reparation on five first Saturdays, instead of some other number. Our Blessed Lord answered that question when He appeared to Sr. Lucia May 29, 1930. He explained that it was because of five kinds of offenses and blasphemies against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, namely: blasphemies against her Immaculate Conception, against her perpetual virginity, against the divine and spiritual maternity of Mary, blasphemies involving the rejection and dishonoring of her images, and the neglect of implanting in the hearts of children a knowledge and love of this Immaculate Mother.
• The spirit of reparation is a loving desire to make reparation to and console the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Our Mother. It considers the offenses which the Immaculate Heart of Mary now receives from those who reject her maternal intervention and despise her prerogatives. One should make this intention before carrying out Our Lady’s requests. A renewal of the actual intention at the time is best. 
• 1. ConfessionOn February 15, 1926 the Child Jesus alone came to visit Sr. Lucia and asked if the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was being propagated. Sr. Lucia spoke of a difficulty some people have in confessing on the first Saturday, and asked if they might be allowed eight days in order to fulfill Our Lady’s requests. Jesus answered: “Yes, even more time still, as long as they receive Me in the state of grace and have the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
  Confession: Repentance and Conversion: In order to fulfill this requirement in a truly worthy manner, we must look beyond the mere formality of going to confession at the appointed time, to a heartfelt spirit of repentance and lasting sorrow for our sins. This spirit of penance should pervade our entire life, in such a manner that it compels us to walk always in the path of that amendment of life for which Our Lady asked. In all true devotion to Our Lady — and devotion to her Immaculate Heart is the perfect expression of this true devotion — there must always be an effective repentance, that is, the returning of our hearts to Christ Our Savior. For all of us (sinners all), it is a call to conversion to the path of grace and submission to God’s holy Will. Even for those souls who already habitually live in the grace of God, true devotion to Our Lady impels them more and more to travel the pathway to holiness, by striving to purge themselves daily of all that is not of God. And it is this true devotion, based as it is on heartfelt repentance and conversion, that creates in them a truly authentic spirit of the Christian apostolate — the desire to lead others along the same path to the Heart of God.
  If one cannot go to confession the first Saturday of the month, one can go within eight days. Even one’s monthly confession would be sufficient, which would need the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
• 2.Receive Holy Communion
• 3.Devout Recitation of the Rosary with Meditation“Keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary.”
  
• The question is often asked: Does the meditation while reciting the Rosary fulfill this condition, or is there required an additional fifteen minutes of meditation? That an additional 15 minutes of meditation is required was recently confirmed by Sr. Lucia of Fatima. It is clear too from a statement by the first Bishop of Fatima.The last entry in the chronology of Fatima, published in the official Calendar of the Sanctuary for the year of 1940, and signed by Dom Jose Correia da Silva, the first Bishop of Fatima, gave a summary of Our Lady’s requests concerning the Five First Saturdays. From that official statement in the Calendar of the Sanctuary, we read the Bishop’s enumeration of the various items that pertain to the devotion of the five Saturdays:It consists in going to Confession, receiving Communion, reciting five decades of the Rosary and meditating for a quarter of an hour on the mysteries of the Rosary on the first Saturday of five consecutive months. The Confession may be made during the eight days preceding or following the first Saturday of each month, provided that Holy Communion be received in the state of grace. Should one forget to form the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, it may be formed at the next Confession, occasion to go to confession being taken at the first opportunity.The meditation embraces one or more mysteries; it may even include all, taken together or separately, according to individual attraction or devotion; but it is preferable to meditate on one mystery each month.Speaking of the requirement of “keeping me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary,” Bishop da Silva’s comment that “it is preferable to meditate on one mystery each month” could apply only to an extra fifteen minutes, for each decade of the Rosary must have its own particular meditation.
  Like the Rosary, this meditation may be made any time or place during the first Saturday. Yet again, like the Rosary, a very fitting time and place would be in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament before or after Mass. The question has been asked: “Would an extra Rosary, which would require about fifteen minutes, fulfill this request? It would seem, if fruitfully meditated, that it would. Or again, the time could be spent reading meditatively on one of the fifteen mysteries, which is a form of mental prayer that involves reading with frequent pauses to reflect on the matter read.
• 4.With the intention of making reparation.All of the conditions mentioned above – in numbers 1 to 3 – should be fulfilled with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On the occasion of the visit of the Child Jesus to Sr. Lucia (Feb. 16, 1926), she asked: “My Jesus, what about those who forget to make the intention?” Jesus answered: “They can do so at their next confession, taking advantage of their first opportunity to go to Confession.”The above are the minimum requirements for fulfilling the conditions of Our Lady’s promise to obtain for us “at the hour of death the graces necessary for salvation.” Yet, these Communions of reparati on, as has been pointed out, are only a portion of the devotion of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. These few pages are meant to help bring about a frame of mind and heart that will make us aware of the need of reparation all through the month, and not just on the first Saturday. 
• The Promises attached to the Five First Saturdays Devotion.
• 1. Salvation of our own soulTo all those who, on the First Saturday of five consecutive months … fulfill all the conditions requested, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necessary for the salvation of their soul. This little devotion practised with a good heart, is then enough to procure infallibly for us – ex opere operato so to speak – as with the sacraments – the grace of final perseverance, of eternal salvation! And this promise is without any exclusion, limitation, restriction. To all who ….. I promise. Heaven for eternity for five Holy Communions!
• 2. Salvation of sinnersSo numerous are the souls which the justice of God condemns for sins committed against Me that I come to ask for reparation. Sacrifice yourself for this intention and pray. (Our Lady to Sister Lucy at Tuy, June 13,1929.) In consideration of this little devotion, They (Jesus and Mary) wish to give the grace of pardon to souls who have had the misfortune of offending the Immaculate Heart of Mary, wrote Sister Lucy in a letter of May, 1930.
• 3. Peace in the worldWhether the world has war or peace depends on the practice of this devotion, along with the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is why I desire its propagation so ardently, especially because this is also the will of our dear Mother in Heaven. Sister Lucy, March 19,1939.

God is so good to us, loves us so much. He desires for us to draw closer to Him, to learn about Him and His ways, to know Him as a PERSON. The creator of the universe has a yearning for your heart… He wants you to unite yours with His, and to make reparation to His Sacred Heart for the countless offenses of men. Are you really going to turn that down?

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EPISTLE Eph. 3:8-12, 14-19
Brethren: To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things, so that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith–that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

GRADUAL Ps. 24:8-9
The Lord is kind and just, therefore He shows even the erring the way.
V. He guides the humble in justice, He teaches the meek His way.

Alleluia, alleluia! V. Matt. 11:29
Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your souls. Alleluia!

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“And He [Christ] showed me that it was His great desire of being loved by men and of withdrawing them from the path of ruin that made Him want to manifest His Heart to men, with all the treasures of love, of mercy, of grace, of sanctification and salvation which it contains, in order that those who desire to render Him and procure Him all the honour and love possible might themselves be abundantly enriched with those divine treasures of which His heart is the source.”

— from Revelations of Our Lord to St. Mary Margaret Alacoque

Obedience has limits, even regarding legitimate authority. But here we are talking of illegitimate authority, toward which unjust acts are owed DISOBEDIENCE. God gave you a rational intellect to sort these things out. “Go and relate to John what you have heard and seen.”

Start here: https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021/12/02/on-dr-pepper-and-universal-infallibility/

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Disobedience to Laws Enacted Contrary to Reason Is ‘Effectual Barrier’ Against Tyranny

December 1, 2021 Edward Pentin

“The highest duty is to respect authority, and obediently to submit to just law; and by this the members of a community are effectually protected from the wrongdoing of evil men. Lawful power is from God, and “he that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God” {Rom. 13:2); wherefore, obedience is greatly ennobled when subjected to an authority which is the most just and supreme of all.

But where the power to command is wanting, or where a law is enacted contrary to reason, or to the eternal law, or to some ordinance of God, obedience is unlawful, lest, while obeying man, we become disobedient to God.

Thus, an effectual barrier being opposed to tyranny, the authority in the State will not have all its own way, but the interests and rights of all will be safeguarded—the rights of individuals, of domestic society and of all the members of the commonwealth; all being free to live according to law and right reason; and in this, as We have shown, true liberty really consists.”

From Pope Leo XIII’s 1888 encyclical Libertas Praestantissimum.

https://edwardpentin.co.uk/disobedience-to-laws-enacted-contrary-to-reason-is-effectual-barrier-against-tyranny/

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Francis Plans Bloodbath: Roman Rite Communities Will Be FORCED Into Novus Ordo

Michael Charlier writes on Summorum-Pontificum.de (30 November) that measures will be announced before the end of 2021 to force all Roman Rite communities into the Novus Ordo.

Charlier has published accurate reports and predictions in the past. Francis wants to “return” the Roman Rite communities “to the single mode of celebration” of the New Pseudo-Rite, before publishing regulations for Traditionis Custodes.

According to Charlier, papal delegates will be sent to these communities. Unlike commissioners, they won’t replace existing superiors but will be their superiors. Their mandate is “to reconcile” their communities “with the spirit of the Council”.

As a first step, presiding the Eucharist will be ordered to totally replace the celebration of Mass so that these priests can subsequently be integrated into Novus Ordo pastoral work.

The public celebration of Mass, which is still permitted for the time being, will be entrusted only to Novus Ordo priests who are faithful to the failed Council. Roman Rite priests will only be allowed to celebrate Mass internally and in exceptional cases. The administration of the other sacraments will be forbidden.

The papal delegates are not authorised to be flexible and to negotiate with the communities. Rigidity, legalism and refusal of dialogue will reign.

Charlier assumes that the “papal delegates” will succeed in subduing “parts and probably majorities of the leadership of some communities” but not a “large majority” of the members, thus “the communities will break up – which may well be in the spirit of Francis’ strategy.”

Picture: © Joseph Shaw, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsWaoxrhhvia

https://www.gloria.tv/post/cCnpRKVZbAvb6QHZBBNYhUQu7

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-not-going-to-be-good-moderna-ceo-on-what-scientists-are-telling-him-about-the-omicron-coronavirus-variant-11638266621

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Moderna MRNA, -10.12% CEO Stéphane Bancel has left no doubt whether he’s taking a glass half-full or half-empty approach to the emergence of the new omicron coronavirus variant.

He told the Financial Times there’s no world where current vaccines are as effective as they have been against the delta variant. And he suggested the drop-off could be significant.

“I think it’s going to be a material drop. I just don’t know how much because we need to wait for the data. But all the scientists I’ve talked to . . . are like, ‘This is not going to be good’.”

The interview put another scare into financial markets, with futures on the Dow industrials YM00, +0.04% contract losing more than 500 points. “The major vaccine makers have offered timelines of two to six weeks for assessing its vaccine evading capabilities, and in the meantime, travel shutdowns and behaviour modification are a risk as we await anecdotal and statistical evidence of the spread of the virus and its virulence,” said Steen Jakobsen, chief investment officer at Saxo Bank.

Moderna had previously announced that data on the ability of its vaccine to neutralize the omicron variant would be expected within weeks as it works to rapidly advance a booster candidate specifically against the variant.

Product sales from its coronavirus vaccine accounted for $4.81 billion of Moderna’s $4.97 billion in revenue in the third quarter.

Moderna is fresh off $5B in third quarter earnings, and might need new joojoo. – NVP

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(KCTV) — As world health officials turn their concern and attention toward a new coronavirus variant, Moderna’s CEO says he expects “a material drop” in the effectiveness of the company’s vaccine against Omicron.

A Financial Times interview with Chief Executive Stephane Bancel went live Tuesday morning, in which Bancel said, “There is no world, I think, where (the effectiveness) is the same level…we had with Delta.”

Bancel went on, “I think it’s going to be a material drop. I just don’t know how much because we need to wait for the data. But all the scientists I’ve talked to…are like, this is not going to be good.”

“It doesn’t really matter in a sense what the opinion of the vaccine manufacturers,” said Dr. Bob England, former Maricopa and Pima county health director. 

The Omicron variant was discovered last week in South Africa, where scientists have extensive genomic sequencing abilities. The new mutation has been identified by the World Health Organization as a “variant of concern,” and has been detected in South Africa, Australia, Belgium, Botswana, Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, France and Canada.

“There’s lots of mutations and it does raise questions of what’s going on,” said Dr. Ross Goldberg, vice-chair of surgery at Valleywise Health in Phoenix. Goldberg said while these spike protein mutations can seem alarming because there are so many, it’s more about what each one does.

That data is still unclear. “Just because there’s a mutation doesn’t mean they’re all friends. They could actually be competing against one another, so do they eliminate each other with the mutations? We don’t know right now,” said Goldberg.