These are pediatricians practicing at a local hospital. Obviously, these are violent protests and the protesters should be arrested, but they won’t be, for a variety of reasons. The first reason is that they’re white. I assume the other reasons include the demonstrated inability of the police to stage a moderate response to a protest, as well as the hospital’s desire to avoid bad publicity. And did I mention that the protesters are white?
The same goes for the loud anti-mask mobs at school board meetings. They should be escorted out by security as soon as they yell over everyone, but they aren’t. Instead, meetings are being cut short.
Ignoring these people will not make them go away. Protestors at BLM marches go there prepared to be arrested. I’ll bet you that most of these people go to these protests with the same attitude as the 1/6 protesters, who are shocked when they receive consequences. Of course, the consequences that the 1/6 protesters have received so far pale in comparison to the average of 27 months that BLM protesters received. But at least being arrested and booked might deter some of these loudmouths. Our teachers and healthcare workers deserve it.
sab
They won’t be arrested because the police unions are on their side.
Tony Jay
Sounds like someone in Congress with subpoena powers and a thirst for justice should start an investigation into sentencing disparities where 1st Amendment protest issues are concerned.
Make them aware that questions are being asked, attention paid and receipts kept. Just because this shit keeps on happening it doesn’t mean it should be allowed to keep on happening without public debate. Make the system own its biases.
YMMV
ellie
Sweet and tender hooligan!
MattF
And… the theory that getting COVID is ‘just as good’ as getting vaccinated is not true.
rikyrah
Beginning
Middle
End
of story
Joe Falco
I wonder what the Vinn diagram of these hospital protestors overlap with the people that protest outside abortion clinics look like? A perfect circle?
rikyrah
I will bite.
Why THE PHUCK are they protesting at a HOSPITAL?
rikyrah
This is a serious question.
With the word out that Moderna is giving twice the antibodies of Pfizer.
Can we get the booster with Moderna, if we were originally vaccinated with Pfizer?
lowtechcyclist
And anyone who makes implied threats should be charged and booked. Like if they show everyone the addresses of, say, the board of ed members, and promise to protest outside their houses with guns if they vote the wrong way.
I’m totally fed up with this shit of RWNJs making life hell for everyone they disagree with, and nothing being done about it. I never thought I’d use these words, but I want my country back, dammit. I refuse to let borderline (mostly, so far) violent nutjobs take it from me.
@rikyrah:
All too true.
cain
My fiancee is a school teacher who is actually working on the materials that teachers will be using to teach students. The school district is 75% non-white. That doesnt stop these idiots in showing up.
Yesterday, my girl had to leave early because of a plan protest for a board meeting that is virtual. :eyeroll: And apparently proud boys are showing up because we learned that antifa was showing up too, so now we have this stupid ass battle to protest when all the members are attending virtually.
I wish antifa would not show up because it gives these people a heightened platform to spew their bile.
Anyways, she lit out of there at 3:30pm especially when security showed up and started locking doors and closing the binds.
ETA: oh myyyy – #10! That’s a first I think!
sab
@rikyrah: Our hospital had doctors and nurses protesting the new vax mandate. 70% vaxed and 30% nutz.
ETtheLibrarian
My mother lives in New Orleans in one of the independent living facilities that does have more intensive care. She is having to leave for at least month. Don’t know if that is the city saying that or the facility, luckily she has options and is going to Mississippi for that time.
Roger Moore
@rikyrah:
I don’t think there’s a serious problem with getting a booster with a different vaccine than the one you got your initial vaccination with. Of course it hasn’t been tested the same way getting a booster of the same shot has, so that will probably not be the recommendation. That said, antibodies aren’t everything! You really need to look at cellular immunity (T- and B-cells) to get the full picture; it’s very important for viral immune response.
cain
@Tony Jay:
Word. But I also think that it will feed right wing anger even further. I wonder if we keep doing it that the grift starts going down because these people will run out of money to give.
Kay
Biden Administration is taking the same approach. It’s smart. If a ban on mask mandates means students with disablities can’t attend in person, that’s not equal treatment.
In addition, students with disabilities were harmed most by the school closures, so they’ll use that too.
cain
@sab: Fire their ass!! The virus is showing who all can be trusted. Let them wave their freak flag so that we can identify them.
dr. bloor
Tate Reeves would be happy to welcome you to Mississippi. No one is afraid of anything there.
Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix
@cain: Part of the reason for this protest is medical workers who are going to be fired when they show up unvaccinated. The hospital isn’t the place to protest, though — this is a state mandate.
@dr. bloor: I was thinking about polishing up my tiny violin for her, but then I remembered that he could walk into that building she’s protesting in front of and get a free, possibly life-saving shot.
randy khan
From the first linked article (and, yes, all the protestors are white):
Yeah, that’s the choice – get the shot or lose your job because not getting the shot endangers other people.
And, bearing in mind that what he’s dead set on is that he shouldn’t get an extremely safe vaccine that in addition to protecting the patients and other staff at the hospital will protect him and his family from a deadly disease, I’m not sure it really qualifies as a conviction.
Benw
Man I was taught that Louis Pasteur was a hero, but all along he was playing the (very) long game to kill us all!
germy
@rikyrah:
Here’s what one pharm chain says:
I’m very interested in getting a booster shot. I’m waiting on the CDC’s opinion on mixing or matching.
germy
Yarrow
Reminder that some of these protesters may be actors. See this thread for lots of examples. Who’s paying for these people to show up at all these protests?
Matt McIrvin
@MattF: The discourse on prior infection vs. vaccination is just absolute whiplash–we had several days of that Israeli preprint making the rounds saying the exact opposite. Science by Twitter is tiring!
Snarki, child of Loki
Re: vaccines: collect the whole set!
For the MAGAts, they should inject the whole set: Bleach, Lysol, Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, colloidal silver, KCN-flavored Kool Aide.
Matt McIrvin
@Yarrow: I recall a lot of discussion of whether this meant some specific agent was hiring all these actors to be astroturf protesters, or whether it’s just an indication that it’s common for a particular type of histrionic borderline personality to present as an unemployed actor. People who lived in Southern California seemed prone to think it was #2.
Matt McIrvin
@MattF: …note, though, this study doesn’t say whether these people would have seroconverted if vaccinated. It’s possible some of them might be people for whom the vaccine doesn’t work either. On the other hand, the dependence on viral load does suggest that a vaccine should be more effective than a mild infection.
Yarrow
@Matt McIrvin: There’s no reason it can’t be both. There are some screenshots of Craigslist ads for actors to show up at various rallies, so some of it is acting. There could be individual people who are actors showing up on their own and not getting paid.
It’s worth following the money to find out who is paying these “crisis actors,” a phrase rightwing people threw around a lot several years ago. It’s always projection with them, so that’s a good clue.
The Moar You Know
@MattF: That’s been known since the first cases started cropping up more than a year ago, where people were getting sick with the same variant two, three times. Some of them far sicker the second time around. I assume nobody’s survived four.
Just like with kids getting it and being a huge vector for spreading it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad the CDC has finally figured it out, but I do wish they’d get this done a bit faster.
dlwchico
@rikyrah: https://anewscafe.com/2021/08/25/redding/redding-nurse-frustrated-by-unvaccinated-colleagues-wholl-lie-to-get-around-state-mandates/
Ken
@dlwchico:
Redding Nurse Frustrated by Unvaccinated Colleagues Who’ll Lie to Get Around State Mandates
— #NotTheOnion
randy khan
@The Moar You Know:
Ironically, one of the tweets that seems to have finally gotten Alex Berenson suspended from Twitter was about a study that concluded (among other things) that people who had suffered through COVID would benefit from being vaccinated. He obviously omitted that bit because it was counter to his false narrative.
catclub
@Snarki, child of Loki:
I saw whut you done there
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@sab: first post throwing it down with authority
catclub
@The Moar You Know: also the reports that long covid patients who get MUCH better after vaccination needs more play.
Matt McIrvin
@catclub: I wouldn’t oversell that–it’s a minority of long COVID patients. It’s possible that “long COVID” is several distinct things.
Yarrow
@Matt McIrvin: Even people who don’t have obvious “long covid” symptoms can turn out to have heart or lung issues once they are examined.
Shakti
@Joe Falco: We collectively decided to normalize harassment when it’s right wing protest. We let people “protest” outside of abortion clinics and funerals (Westboro Church). We let people “open carry protest” during a time of mass shootings. We let Tucker Carlson run his fucking mouth about calling CPS when you see kids wearing masks. And then we’re all surprised that doctors, patients and teachers are harassed for wearing masks during a pandemic. We live in the stupidest timeline.
We normalized compromising with RWNJ when it came to most vulnerable parts of the coalition. It’s endless incrementalism even when we have a goddamn majority. Even when we had a filibuster proof majority.
WaterGirl
@MattF: Wow.
Redshift
On the positive side, the school board scream-fests in nearby Loudoun County, VA over critical race theory and trans inclusion, which got a lot of news coverage, appear to have failed completely. There are some indications they sparked more Democratic than GOP enthusiasm for this year’s elections, which was transparently the reason why astroturf groups were organizing them, though of course we won’t know for sure until November.
Joe Falco
@Shakti:
We don’t have a filibuster-proof majority, but your point is taken about the incrementalism of right-wing protest.
rikyrah
@sab:
Vax Mandate
Oh well.
Let their azzes get fired, then.
rikyrah
@cain:
come sit by me.
debbie
@rikyrah:
It’s not recommended, from what I’ve read.
rikyrah
@dr. bloor:
And?
So?
Get a new job.
It’s so obvious. They are not used to CONSEQUENCES FOR THEIR ACTIONS.
You all big and bad.
Accept the CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR ACTIONS.
NotMax
FYI. Just saying no to parishioners looking for get out of vaccination free “religious exemption” cards.
rikyrah
@germy:
And NO ARRESTS?
lowtechcyclist
@dr. bloor:
I’ve held a number of jobs since I got out of college, and pretty much every employer has required some things of me that I’ve been less than happy with. I’m sure that’s true of pretty much everyone.
It’s up to each person, what issues they regard as so important that they must absolutely take a stand, and what things aren’t worth sacrificing a job over.
If that’s the hill this particular idiot wants to die on (well, sacrifice his and his family’s livelihood on), that’s fine with me. I’d say he’s choosing a pretty stupid issue to elevate to that level, but it’s his and his family’s lives, not mine.
James E Powell
The difficulties with the loud and violent right-wingers are made worse by the fact that the press/media & the police love them
Have we learned what euphemism the press/media are going to use for brazenly racists assholes for the midterms?
germy
@rikyrah:
Cops are gentle in certain situations.
Mike in NC
Enjoyed seeing video of a couple dozen entitled white people at an anti-mask/anti-vax rally in Old Town Alexandria, VA yesterday. Some cops were nearby and they didn’t even get out of their cars. We used to dine out in Old Town quite often but are happy to be far away from those idiots.
Redshift
@Yarrow: There’s also a lot of activity where the speakers are real wingnuts who are riled up by Fox and Facebook groups, but the organizing and financing are done by right-wing organizations. (The leaders of some of the local DC-area groups are longtime Republican operatives. They do live here, but they’re not just random parents.) Also there are cases of the same people spew the same talking points in multiple districts, so even if they’re unpaid, they’re not “concerned parents” speaking where they live.
Back in the Tea Party days, a guy I knew joined the local group when they were claiming to be a nonpartisan group concerned about deficits, so they didn’t kick him out for being a Democrat. One of the things he noticed was that they talked about organizing bus trips to protests and various other activities, but they never talked about fundraising or how they were going to pay for any of it, which is a constant concern for real grassroots groups. It’s a weird kind of hybrid that continues to this day; they weren’t completely astroturf, because they really did want to be active, but you can bet if they ever wanted to advocate for something the Koch brothers didn’t agree with, the money and the group would have dried up real quick.
VOR
@cain: That is the one good thing resulting from TFG. They used to use dogwhistles so it was hard to reliably identify extremists. Now they use foghorns like wearing MAGA gear or flying Confederate flags while they self-identify. Subtle is no longer operative.
Shakti
@Joe Falco: Should’ve specified the time that we did. :-/
I know it was for about 72 days back in 2009-10; Sen. Ted Kennedy RIP. And yes, it was very brief. But those RWNJ work for years to advance their agenda and get so much done in the same amount of time.
We are really bad at taking physical human frailty into account with our leaders and really bad at forcing strategic retirements when it comes to lifetime appointments or Senate seats in “safe for now” states.
NotMax
@James E Powell
Can we take it as a given that dusting off “compassionate conservatism” ain’t gonna fly?
//
WereBear
@MattF: While that is so… they will also refuse to believe it…
Kent
First day back at school here in Camas WA. I think our school district is basically getting things right.
We shall see how the school year plays out. I am relieved beyond belief that I’m not teaching in Texas anymore.
Cacti
The appropriate way to remove a fascist from an assembly is to throw them out the door head first.
Tony Jay
Good. Wouldn’t everyone much rather see these rage-monkeys sent into a froth by a genuine, systematic attack on their pampered, peach-fuzzed privilege than whatever button-punching delusion the Wingnutosphere dials up on the Wheel of Delusion?
Salt a little discomfort into their anger comfort-blankie. They wanted a ‘culture war’ to seize the heights of society, make them pay the price for being so shit at it.
They’re terrible people. They deserve it.
FelonyGovt
One positive- many otherwise apathetic California Democrats are incandescently angry at all the vaccine and mask protest bullshit, and I’m hopeful that will get them to vote against this idiot recall.
Kent
@NotMax: My school district doesn’t have an approved religious exemption form. At least not yet. So if you want an exemption right now you go to HR and they give you a blank piece of paper in which you have to explain your religious exemptions in your own words. No bullshit photocopied “exemption ticket” from some bullshit church you don’t attend is accepted. And the head of HR is no bullshit. She is liable to grill you about your statements before deciding whether or not to approve it.
Also if you are unvaccinated you have rigorous testing requirements and if you are exposed due to close contact to a student who tests positive you have mandatory quarantine for 5-days which you have to use up your sick leave for. Vaccinated teachers don’t have the quarantine requirement unless they actually test positive.
Cacti
When the US and UK had nascent fascist movements in the 1930s, take a look at how they were dealt with by concerned citizens at the time.
It wasn’t by gentle appeals to their reason and humanity.
wenchacha
@Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix:
@germy: I think here in WNY, there has been research into mix-and-match vaxxing. I’m on a local FB group, and one or two mentioned they were in studies.
Redshift
@Shakti:
No, we didn’t. There has been plenty of litigation over these through the years, and a lot of where we are now is because the right got judges appointed who decided that screaming in your face is protected free speech and not harassment. It sucks, but it definitely didn’t happen because the wingnuts on the ground kept pushing and everyone else just let it go.
Ken
@Kent: “Write a 5000-word essay explaining your religious objections to vaccination, with references to the sources of your doctrine.” I like it, very much in the educational mode.
Ian R
@lowtechcyclist: It’s like he somehow doesn’t realize that it is a choice. He can choose to be either a plague rat or employed. He simply can’t choose to be both.
Another Scott
[old man yells at clouds] Is there some reason why it is seemingly impossible for these Tweets to include location and/or time and date information about the BREAKING NEWS that we’re supposed to drop everything to click on?? [old man yells at clouds]
We’re a big country. Giant distributions have very long tails.
I’m sorry they are going through this. Yes, it is unacceptable. But Florida Man Bites Dog stories should not dominate our discourse. There are always kooks out there and I don’t have the mental space for them right now, so no click from me.
My $0.02. YMMV.
Cheers,
Scott.
Citizen Alan
@lowtechcyclist:
Why the hell does a hospital need a dedicated locksmith?
Jeffro
@Redshift: I guarantee you that’s why they knocked off the public anti-CRT stuff (at least here in VA)…it was starting to get our side mobilized. They’ve gone ‘stealth’, messaging only to their base about it.
Jeffro
@Kent:
LOVE this
Just Chuck
IOW, grifting their base over it.
cain
@rikyrah: ???
rikyrah
@Kent:
They should.
There is no reason why every High School in America shouldn’t be up and running. Both staff and students should have been mandatory vaccination.
And, I also believe 12,13 (7th and 8th graders) – mandatory vaxx too.
bluefoot
@rikyrah: The label will be to get a booster of the same brand that you got before. However, some real world data suggests you may get better protection by getting a different booster. Clinical trials with mixed vaccination would have to be run for it to be on the label for the vaccines. Or perhaps a lot of retrospective data submitted.
SiubhanDuinne
O/T: Does anyone know what time President Biden is scheduled to address the nation on Afghanistan? I have a terrible idea it’s going to happen at the same time as my Zoom class on “The Origins of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Maybe I’m not very good at navigating the whitehouse.gov site, but I’m not finding anything about it.
kindness
I work at a Kaiser hospital here in California. About once a week these nuts line the sidewalk in front of the facility and put on their passion play. They don’t physically interact thankfully. No throwing things. No kicking. Just bullhorns and yelling and really stupid protest signs. You’d think this would be mostly the anti-vax crowd doing this protesting but they aren’t them. The people that do it out here (and they do every single hospital in the area) are right wing nut jobs. They also have the stolen election yahoos and really sadly far too many police cars pass them and honk in support of these nuts. The cops…..they aren’t always my friends.
cain
@Tony Jay: I think we should accelerate and bring as many issues for them to be scared as much as possible – overwhelm the right wing noise machine. That’s what they’ve been doing to us for the past 4 years.
Make these assholes spend as much money on organizing as possible – eventually they’ll all lose it and their leash carriers will lose control of them and hopefully bite them.
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
I love you so much.
germy
@SiubhanDuinne:
The origins of Rock ‘n Roll?
Fats Domino told an interviewer in the mid-1950s that he’d been playing it for twenty years.
germy
@SiubhanDuinne:
One of my favorite commenters.
Tony Jay
@cain:
Big tick for all of that.
Yarrow
@SiubhanDuinne: PBS website says 1:30 p.m. eastern.
germy
@Yarrow:
So 2:15 then.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
Thanks!
Yarrow
@germy: 4:20.
@SiubhanDuinne: Yw
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
ROFL!!
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
ROFLMAO!!
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
For a pre-Boomer, I am appallingly ignorant of the music that shaped my cohort. Trying to remedy that.
germy
@SiubhanDuinne:
It should be an interesting class
Lots of different music forms contributed to the origins of R&R.
Which is why I’m always amazed when I encounter R&E purists.
Shakti
@Redshift: And I’m bad at writing because I switched between two different wes without specifying.
We, “collectively we” is America, inclusive of everyone from RWNJ to mushy moderate/centrists (for varying values of centrism) to left wingers. Includes low-info, and the apolitical who don’t vote and/or organize for reasons of apathy.
We, “coalition we”, is Democrats and the independents who vote for Democrats the majority of the time.
“Coalition we” didn’t push back hard enough. “Collective we” is the audience for “how to have Thanksgiving dinner without politics! Politics shouldn’t divide us.” — if that makes sense.
Y’know, “coalition we” trying to maintain “collective we” when a whole sector of “collective we” doesn’t see us as part of America and never did feels like long term emotional abuse.
debbie
@Yarrow:
Just heard it was now scheduled for 2:45 pm.
germy
@debbie:
He likes being prepared before he speaks. I admire that.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
Alas, it hasn’t been as interesting or insightful as I had hoped. But today’s the final class in this course, and I feel obliged to see it through.
Fair Economist
@Matt McIrvin:
It’s not #2, because an astonishing number of RW nutjobs come from *one particular* talent agency, Explore Talent, as documented by Nicole Elan.
Including:
Lauren Boebert
Melissa Carone
Candace Owen
Scott Presler
Tomi Lahren
Steeplejack (phone)
@SiubhanDuinne:
I believe it’s at 1:30.
Jackie
@SiubhanDuinne: 2:45 ET.
frosty
@SiubhanDuinne: Sounds like a great class. Please report back. I’ve always figured it was when country intersected with R&B and for me the two who incorporated it in their own music were Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry.I hadn’t heard that Fats Domino quote before. Interesting. Jump Blues and R&B were definitely close to R&R before the 50s.
ETA: I see now the class is almost over. I’d still like to hear what you learned. Maybe send something to WG for the front page on a slow news day (hah!)?
James E Powell
@NotMax:
How about epidemiologically anxious?
James E Powell
@frosty:
I spent a great deal of time during the lockdown arguing with total strangers about music generally and rock & roll history specifically. It was great good fun.
Whenever you put your finger on a particular moment in the history rock & roll and say, here is where this thing started, some one else points to an earlier song and says, this is where that one came from and you keep going until you get to the eras before recorded music, then it all becomes a blur.
germy
@James E Powell:
Pretty much. People have always wanted to dance and groove to fast percussive music.
The only difference are the technological advances in amplification.
Another Scott
@SiubhanDuinne: https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
lists the upcoming live events, with links, from the White House.
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
Antonius
Maybe every time this happens, the 911 call should mention the mob of young black man trying to storm the hospital. “Did I say ‘young and black’? I meant ‘old and white’.”
MattF
Speaking of Twitter-immunology, here’s a thread that clarifies some things. The conclusion seems to be ‘so far, so good, but we need more data’.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Someone else may have answered this, but just in case.
It was originally set for 1:30 Eastern time, but the time is now set for:
2:45 Eastern
I have a post with the live feed set to go up at 2:30 Eastern.
Kathleen
@Yarrow: I saw that thread at Christopher Meloni’s TL.
StringOnAStick
I’ve read that many of the in demand medical staff who are vax refusers are quitting to go make bigger bucks at facilities that are paying the premium rates for out of state nurses and other staff. So, if you live in an area with overwhelmed hospitals thanks to the unvaccinated, you have a higher chance to bring cared for by a nurse who is an antivax nutjob that is getting paid significantly more than the local vaccinated staff. This should work out well.
I am convinced the antivax and antimask crap is getting big money and political support by the R’s in order to kill the economy and therefore D prospects in the next elections; getting their own people killed is just so much collateral damage and really of no importance to them.
Kent
How many doors with locks on them do you think there are in a typical large hospital? The number would be in the thousands if you include things like storage cabinets.
gvg
@Jeffro:
Well they have to keep a lot of medicines and other sensitive stuff locked up. I suspect every time someone is let go, they have to change locks. It probably varies by position. There is also patients locking themselves in or out…but maybe master keys take care of it. Just guessing.
Big apartment complexes have their own locksmiths.
Kent
I teach at a big public HS. All the locks are keyed with special “do not duplicate locks” that use different blanks than ordinary residential locks. The keys all have serial numbers and when you leave or get fired you have to turn in all your keys and they check them off. If you don’t do that they may charge you to re-core the locks for which you had keys.
Also every single science lab had dozens of cabinets with locks on them not to mention all the teacher desks and filing cabinets where confidential student records are maintained locked up.
Then there are dozens of electronically locking doors that are on various timers, some exterior, some that auto-close during fire alarms and such.
So yes, we have our own locksmiths too. And they stay busy.
Hospitals do a lot more with ID card swipe pads and such as I don’t think nurses and doctors generally carry keys. They have an ID card that allows access to certain areas.
Another Scott
@StringOnAStick: The antivax / antimask stuff is part of the continuing battle by the RWNJs against any government action that prevents the MotUs from doing whatever they want.
AllianceForScience from April 2020:
The press and the public should have learned from the Tea Party fakes in 2009. None of this stuff that we hear about for months on end is spontaneous – someone/some groups are pushing it.
Cui bono?
Cheers,
Scott.
Ken
@gvg: @Kent: Though it’s an interesting security issue, to have all those controlled medications locked up, and have one guy in the building who can open any of those locks. I assume they keep a close eye on him.
Ksmiami
@rikyrah: I believe so. I got my third Moderna so far no side effects
Barr
@Citizen Alan: “Why the hell does a hospital need a dedicated locksmith?”
I was a university security guard once a upon a time. We had a consolidated keybag which 250 keys in it.
And that did *not* include the hospital complex or housing( (dorms, married student housing). On top of that, there were a zillion alarm systems.
Barry
@Kent: “How many doors with locks on them do you think there are in a typical large hospital? The number would be in the thousands if you include things like storage cabinets.”
Or if you just counted room doors. And a vast number of people need keys.
Barry
@Ken: “Though it’s an interesting security issue, to have all those controlled medications locked up, and have one guy in the building who can open any of those locks. I assume they keep a close eye on him.”
That’s got to be an extremely sensitive job.
sab
Ponyo the Pitbull is best girl ever. She likes wrestling, her jaw my arm. She never gets too rough. She hates when I say stop, I am on line or texting. She resents the madcat demon kitten, bur she thinks he is her little brother so she is protective even when he slashes at her. He only weighs six pounds and he is scared.All the other cats are big. My favorite laid back guy is 17 pounds. Laid back but weary of the six pound twerp. They are working it out.
J R in WV
@rikyrah:
When we got our #3 shot last Friday, we were in the chair for our shots and the EMT asked me “Moderna or Pfizer?” and I said Moderna. I coulda said anything. Was very professional, though. Shot was completely painless! Arm is a little tender now…
J R in WV
@Citizen Alan:
Because every unit in the hospital has several locked medical cabinets, including for meds, another for narcotics, so a big teaching hospital might have tens of thousands of locks and keys. If the lock breaks, if the nurses lose a key, or break a key, patient care is hindered until that issue is fixed.
Hospitals have to have huge and comprehensive maintenance shops!!
Richard
@dr. bloor:
Her husband should lose his job. They should not leave the state because we don’t want them here, or as dr. bloor says they can try their chances in Mississippi. I doubt they will do that because there’s a lot of poor black folk living there. Also the summers are brutal, there are mosquitos, and they wouldn’t fit in very well. So dream on.
Chbnna
The Archdiocese of Chicago is requiring the vaccine for all clergy and staff, no religious exemption, the catholic church is not allowing religious exemption! https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/archdiocese-chicago-requires-vaccines-denies-religious-exemptions @NotMax: