— ????? (@AnIllicitWriter) October 15, 2021
President Joe Biden said vaccines for children ages five to 11 are expected to be approved in the U.S. by year-end. Biden said a decision on that authorization by the appropriate authorities was expected in the next few weeks https://t.co/fEAiSs1p2K pic.twitter.com/EK6Mzwa55U
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 15, 2021
FDA panel recommends Moderna booster for people 65 & up as well as adults at high risk of exposure or severe illness. The FDA will will decide on the recommendation in the coming days. The panel recommended Moderna booster at a half dose, 50 micrograms https://t.co/lYh3vBXXfm
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 15, 2021
#VRBPAC voted 19-0 to advise @US_FDA to authorize Moderna's #Covid booster.
Of note: The most persuasive data for boosters comes from Israel, which didn't present Moderna data.
Feels like the adcomms know the booster train has left the station. https://t.co/Kp96ySSXvZ— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 14, 2021
7 day average of covid cases is now 86k per day and falling about 2k per day. That's a good trend line. And note that the trend line was the opposite at this time last fall. Also a potentially good sign.
South continues to have lowest # of cases/100k.https://t.co/TQ1CC7m3pX pic.twitter.com/XwGDtF400c
— Casey Mattox (@CaseyMattox_) October 15, 2021
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"Let’s be clear: Vaccination requirements should not be another issue that divides us."
"The Labor Department is going to soon be issuing an emergency rule for companies with 100 or more employees to implement vaccination requirements in their — among their workforce."— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 14, 2021
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It’s the Economist, so take that into account:
Excellent piece. China can’t keep its borders semi-closed forever, and Covid is not going to disappear abroad. Restrictions say as much about China’s political direction as they do about its health policy. Difficult not to feel cabin fever here. https://t.co/T1LzUIoe5Z
— Alec Ash (@alecash) October 15, 2021
Early in the pandemic, India’s most advanced bioscience innovation hub was tasked with finding a way to locally produce virus test kits. Its work meant a near-tenfold drop in the price, allowing mass testing and better data on India's outbreak. https://t.co/Qjiijk4FGx
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 15, 2021
India is reopening its borders to fully vaccinated foreign tourists traveling on chartered flights starting Friday. Foreign tourists entering India by regular flights would be able to do so after Nov. 15. https://t.co/FevpjjPgbj
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 15, 2021
South Korea said it would lift stringent anti-coronavirus curbs on social gatherings next week, as the country prepares to switch to a 'living with COVID-19' strategy amid rising vaccination levels https://t.co/MCjDszSdfU pic.twitter.com/x0Ca6cTrrp
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 15, 2021
Australia’s most populous state New South Wales says it will end hotel quarantine for vaccinated international travelers on Nov. 1 as the government accelerates the easing of pandemic restrictions. https://t.co/QkvzoIy2kW
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 15, 2021
Sydney to welcome quarantine-free international travel https://t.co/T7YQD4eMVf
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 15, 2021
⚡ Russia on Friday reported new record highs of 32,196 coronavirus cases and 999 fatalities from Covid-19 over the last 24 hourshttps://t.co/hlTJozrRy5
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 15, 2021
Millions from Latin America to the Middle East are waiting for doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine due to manufacturing problems and other issues. One estimate says Russia has exported only 4.8% of the roughly 1 billion doses promised. https://t.co/ahdouoESNd
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 15, 2021
Italy's mandatory COVID health pass for work sees untroubled launch https://t.co/Ms2sXh5268 pic.twitter.com/Z54xV6Gn0i
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 15, 2021
England eases COVID-19 testing rules for most incoming passengers from Oct. 24 https://t.co/pEEmhvvFqv pic.twitter.com/aA6NfZdEze
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 15, 2021
Around 43,000 people may have been wrongly told their Covid PCR test was negative, after being processed by one lab in Wolverhampton, UKhttps://t.co/72sTn15pfA
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) October 15, 2021
U.S. donates 17 million J&J doses to African Union https://t.co/glyVlaJOkx pic.twitter.com/fZAanDjLtr
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 15, 2021
Mexico set to impose visa requirements on Brazilian visitors https://t.co/QjGKizVfBZ pic.twitter.com/eImg5q5F8o
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 15, 2021
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First U.S. 'mix & match' Covid booster data are in. Researchers urge caution, but a clearer picture has started to emerge. The greatest immune response was among those who had a Johnson & Johnson 1-dose 1st shot followed by a Pfizer or Moderna https://t.co/fCrlaIZPJ5 pic.twitter.com/v8NnTxdD4g
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 14, 2021
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– blood clots are rife
– complete remodeling of the blood system in lungs
– death of alveoli — no "trees" means no oxygen & suffocation
– breakdown of the linings of capillaries, so that they leak
Don't kid yourselves: #COVID19 is a terrible, awful disease.— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 14, 2021
1/?As SARS-CoV-2 becomes endemic — more widespread & perpetually around — reinfections will be more common. This study suggests reinfections could occur as early as 3 months after initial infection. Another reason why vaccination, which provides better protection, is important? pic.twitter.com/fBsd2DNumb
— Dr. Ali Nouri (@AliNouriPhD) October 10, 2021
3/But getting vaccinated increases protection: in this CDC study, being vaccinated was associated with 2X more protection against reinfection compared to the unvaccinated. Besides vaccination, distancing, indoor ventilation & masks continue to be critical.https://t.co/kIR4AlIwal
— Dr. Ali Nouri (@AliNouriPhD) October 10, 2021
Risk of dangerous blood clots linked to moderate COVID-19; high-dose blood thinner can prevent clots https://t.co/Ay9VdyUA5x pic.twitter.com/CJgHcncp3b
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 12, 2021
Newly discovered bat viruses give hints to Covid’s origins. Coronaviruses discovered in Laotian bats are surprisingly adept at infecting human cells, showing that such deadly features can indeed evolve outside of a lab https://t.co/LZxRxdVIlI
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 15, 2021
Jumping the species barrier: How the hunt for a deadly virus shaped the search for coronavirus’s origins. The discovery of Nipah virus took 8 months & the animals that harbored it—bats—passed it to pigs, which infected humans https://t.co/hSKowroUUN
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 15, 2021
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Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge. https://t.co/FtZGE0W6Nh
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 14, 2021
Once again, upside-down reporting.
"In one of the world's scientific centers, more than 99% of workers – trades, clerical, and scientific – are getting vaccinated. A few malcontents are suing." https://t.co/9xu9BnMc3Z
— Cheryl Rofer (@CherylRofer) October 14, 2021
Parents sue Wisconsin schools after their children catch covid-19: “Recklessly exposing the public” https://t.co/4mAWqcBxtF
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 12, 2021
I miss the days when "deeply polarized" meant "evenly split" instead of this nonsense where you pretend the 80% of Americans who support vaccinations is equal to the 20% who don't. https://t.co/p8EpoI5YHA
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) October 12, 2021
i fucking love it https://t.co/PZfdeLUDRN
— Jean-Michel Connard ? (@torriangray) October 15, 2021
Ali did a commercial promoting vaccines in NYC. So no we wouldnt “turn” on him. https://t.co/NZHtPshlkt pic.twitter.com/5pdq5EwNAB
— supreme bey (@trellodelagetto) October 13, 2021
There are cave drawings & ancient pottery from India that prove it’s a symbol wishing people good luck avoiding anti-mandatory mRNA vaccines. https://t.co/TNGHAsrePO
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 13, 2021
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
The Monroe County web site says 292 new cases yesterday, NYSDOH says 287 new cases.
Sure doesn’t look like the worst is over yet around here.
These are the kind of numbers we had in November 2020.
YY_Sima Qian
On 10/14 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
At Fujian Province 42 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 61 active domestic confirmed cases.
At Heilongjiang Province 17 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 12 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Erenhot in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region did not report any new positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city, a worker at a logistics park
At Yili Prefecture in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region 1 domestic confirmed case recovered & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the prefecture (both at Cocodala).
At Yunnan Province there currently are 4 domestic asymptomatic cases remaining t, all at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture.
At Henan Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed cases remaining, all at Shangqiu.
Imported Cases
On 10/14, China reported 10 new imported confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic), 25 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:
Overall in China, 84 confirmed cases recovered (23 imported), 16 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (14 imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases, & 1,278 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 556 active confirmed cases in the country (476 imported), none in serious condition, 376 active asymptomatic cases (366 imported), 2 suspect cases (both imported). 21,644 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 10/14, 2,227.334M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 1.83M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 10/15 Hong Kong reported 9 new positive cases, all imported (from Canada, Egypt, Russia, India & the Philippines; 6 had been fully vaccinated).
MagdaInBlack
I’m glad to see that Wisconsin lawsuit make the WaPo. About 2 weeks ago I sent Watergirl something about that lawsuit and the Minocqua Brewing Co PAC.
( They also have some interesting beer, if you’re a beer drinker)
NotMax
Locally,
YY_Sima Qian
It is not surprising that foreigners in China are getting cabin fever, if they leave the country (to visit home, business travel or leisure travel ), it is a huge hassle to try to come back. However, I do not get any sense of discontent from Chinese people. If anything, they are quite glad that there is such a tough barrier against transmission from abroad. Such articles in western media are translated and posted on Chinese new aggregators, subjected to derision & ridicule.
I do not understand the narrative that strict controls at the border is somehow indicative of the CCP regime turning toward autarky. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are heading overseas again to commence/resume their studies, as destination countries start to open borders. Taiwan is still maintain tough border restrictions, and New Zealand & Australia have not opened, yet.
Baud
@YY_Sima Qian:
Western (or at least U.S.) media doesn’t even cover the West very well.
sab
@YY_Sima Qian: My sister is married to a Chinese national. I must say that his parents’ life in a Chinese nursing home this past year and a half has certainly been easier and safer than my dad’s life in a nursing home in Ohio.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 7,420 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 2,377,033 cases. It also reports 88 new deaths as of midnight, for a cumulative total of 27,681 deaths – 1.17% of the cumulative reported total, 1.22% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt remains at 0.88.
635 confirmed cases are in ICU, 282 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 11,413 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,251,758 patients recovered – 94.7% of the cumulative reported total.
13 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,654 clusters. 721 clusters are currently active; 4,933 clusters are now inactive.
7,403 new cases today are local infections. 17 new cases today are imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 206,418 doses of vaccine on 14th October: 40,491 first doses and 162,656 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 46,458,672 doses administered: 24,663,184 first doses and 21,907,522 second doses. 75.5% of the population have received their first dose, while 67.1% are now fully vaccinated.
MomSense
Reading those Garrett tweets, it sounds like COVID is EBOLA in your lungs.
tom
Given the amount of damage COVID-19 does to lungs, the idea of the “natural immunity” folks that you just let COVID-19 run through the population to reach herd immunity is just nuts.
New Deal democrat
Nationwide in the US, the downtrend in cases has resumed, with only a few States – VT, NH, MI, and CO – in uptrends. About a dozen more are flat or in very slight downtrends, most notably NY, NM, and PA. In the Northeast, West, and South, new cases average 250 per million daily, with the Midwest being higher at 350 per million. These numbers, while almost 50% below the Delta peak, are as high as or higher then the regions’ worst numbers at the peak of the spring and summer 2020 outbreaks.
In short: trend is good, no sign of a winter wave beginning yet, but absolute levels still very bad.
satby
@tom: it was always nuts, and espoused by people who were positive that it wouldn’t affect them badly even if they got it because of their innately superior genes (as white conservatives).
YY_Sima Qian
@Baud: The Economist article is actually pretty good, captures well the nuance & the complex & sometimes contradictory forces at play. However, most people in the West reading the article will not internalize the nuance, but instead continue to hold fast to the simple narratives.
rikyrah
5-11 yes??????
rikyrah
Got House of Moderna people in my family.
???????? About the booster
rikyrah
@YY_Sima Qian:
I wouldn’t let Americans in PERIOD.
Countries need to protect themselves ?
rikyrah
@tom:
It was always crazy, but this was cemented when they thought that COVID was affecting THOSE PEOPLE ??
rikyrah
@tom:
I do blame the MSM, because they never showed what winding up in the hospital with COVID REALLY LOOKED LIKE.
AND, they have never shown a lot of information on those living with long term COVID
JPL
This is not a swastika. Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes. sad
Cermet
Drowning in one’s own lung fluids and failure to get oxygen via slow but increasing suffocation – is certainly a horrible way to die; literally waterboarding taken to extreme. That this is the kill method of covid (so rare but still 1.6% overall) is insane to consider as a viable option path for immunity. Somehow, certainly, for cheney the senior of torture fame, it would be a poetic manner for him to finally end his hideous existence but no way for any human to die.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@JPL: Let me guess: seeing the similarities to the swastika proves that we’re the real Nazis, right? *spit
lowtechcyclist
@MagdaInBlack:
I’m glad to hear about it – would love to see a whole bunch more of these lawsuits. The threat of losing lots of money might concern them more than the anti-maskers who flood the school board meetings.
sab
@rikyrah: Some of them did. Connie Schultz for example. She had high school friend die in hospital after his wife had to discuss over the telephone whether to amputate his limbs destroyed by covid gangrene.
YY_Sima Qian
@rikyrah: Well, I do hope China loosens up more in the coming year. Both my parents and I are US citizens. I would like my parents to be able to see their granddaughter within the next year. They have not seen her since my dad evacuated from Wuhan (& my mom following shortly after from Nanjing) at the beginning of the pandemic.
On the other hand, I am very glad that we’ve essentially had freedom of movement & socialization since the initial lock down. If reopen too early & too quickly (both the borders & the internal response), the resulting wave (even in a highly vaccinated population) will stress China’s health care system.
sab
@rikyrah: There are a lot of Americans married to Chinese. So break these families up, like N Korea has done?
MomSense
@rikyrah:
Exactly. They thought it would just kill black and brown people and they were rooting for it to do just that. TFG’s administration actively tried to facilitate the virus killing black and brown people. Kushner’s thugs were stealing ventilators and PPE from blue states!
We’ve had reports of enough of those covidiots screaming at ICU nurses and doctors that their skin color was supposed to protect them that we know what we recognized all along was true. Their fucking racism blinded them to science and reason. If it kills them – fuckem.
rikyrah
@JPL:
Saw that shyt ?
lowtechcyclist
@JPL: They say “This is clearly an anti-mandatory vaccination graphic.” Well, it’s that too, but that doesn’t make it any less a swastika. Because vaccine mandates are just like the Holocaust, which I’m sure was the message they were trying to convey. That’s still a pretty hideous message
ETA: I think we’re back in horseshoe territory, where the people comparing others to Nazis in ways like this are in bed with the actual neo-Nazis.
MomSense
@JPL:
I bet Walker’s brain is riddled with CTE.
rikyrah
@sab:
I feel for the families. Maybe put them in extra long quarantine.
But, countries need to protect themselves.
I don’t think that it is unreasonable for countries to look at case and vaccination rate and go, no, you can’t come.
Should China exclude the 85% vaccinated Portugal?
Nope.
But, the United States?
Absolutely.
rikyrah
@sab:
I read that ??
But, for the most part, MSM has been lousy about reporting concerning COVID
YY_Sima Qian
@sab: Yeah, I am only aware of a single outbreak in a nursing community in China through course of the pandemic, at Wuhan during the 1st wave. Of course, nursing homes are relative rare in China, most old people live w/ their children, or alone but near their children.
Matt McIrvin
@tom: The last one of these I ran into on Twitter was insisting that “the science” said it was better to just catch COVID and then rely on unspecified new miracle treatments to save you than to get vaccinated, and that “my friend’s alarmism” was going to kill more people from RSV because COVID control measures ruined everyone’s “basal immunity”.
They seem to be leaning heavily into every bit of news about post-infection treatment as the antivaxxer-approved way to deal with COVID, as if getting all this is going to be easy peasy.
Dealing with this stuff is like trying to nail jelly to the wall. They’ve got some different bullshit line every week.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
One must be seriously clueless to become a reporter I think. The CCP wouldn’t be going nuts like this if the number of deaths that tinny.
sab
@rikyrah: Block fully vaccinated people with vaccine cards and negative covid tests just because of their nationality? Surely you don’t mean that? ( I assume you don’t, but that is what you are saying.)
MomSense
I have stopped caring and I just tell them I don’t care what they think. My only goal is to protect myself, my family, and friends from disease carriers and they can argue with someone who gives a shit about their idiot opinions. I’m not that person.
They get on the commuter bus and take their masks off. All the regulars on the bus know that I will say something so they tell me if I don’t notice. Sometimes the anti maskers complain to the bus drivers that I said something to them and the bus drivers tell them they are lucky I did because they would make them get off the bus.
I’m that bitch IRL.
sab
@rikyrah: I agree with you completely on MSM in general. If they can’t film it and show it then it didn’t happen. And the print guys seem to just report on each others twitter feeds.
Baud
@MomSense:
?
sab
@MomSense: Bless you for being that bitch IRL.
ETA I have had opportunities to be like you but I failed and felt bad about it afterwards.
MomSense
@sab:
Try it. It’s liberating.
sab
@MomSense: I am on the autism spectrum. I don’t have good sense in confrontations.
NYCMT
My cousin settled down with her husband in the Cleveland suburbs after they graduated from college and my aunt and uncle purchased a second home near their daughter when my cousin had her children. My aunt survived ovarian cancer in the mid-90s and my uncle is obese, diabetic, and octogenarian, and my cousin’s younger son brought home coronavirus last week from the wide open heedless precautionless Cleveland suburb public schools and my boosterless aunt is seriously ill with breakthrough covid (she was vaccinated with the Moderna RNA vaccine in January).
We spoke last night and she compared the bone cracking pain, throbbing headaches, nausea, utter fatigue, and agony to the cis- platinum and carboplatin-taxol chemotherapy courses she suffered at Sloan Kettering in 1994.
Taken4Granite
@JPL: Perhaps Walker is trying to claim artistic license in the way Rene Magritte did. But Walker doesn’t get that pass. Tobacco pipes do not come with the load of connotations that the swastika does, so the image Walker is promoting is intentionally offensive, not thought-provoking like Magritte’s painting.
mrmoshpotato
What? No yelling of “Tyranny!” like stupid, selfish, plague rat brats?
Betty
@NYCMT: My family is now seeing break through cases for those who were vaccinated early. Watching carefully.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: We should all be that person.
mrmoshpotato
@NYCMT: Sorry to hear your aunt is suffering from a breakthrough case. We’re all pulling for her.
Fair Economist
@New Deal democrat: What worries me is the ongoing and constant high infection rates in the UK- now going back up, AGAIN, in spite of high vax rates. I’m starting to think the stable endemic infection rate without public health measures (which the psychotic Tory government is avoiding) may be staggeringly high. And while the outstanding vax rates among the elderly in the UK has held down death rates from what they were, they are still high enough to be a major health problem.
grandmaBear
@Betty: I live in a household of 5, with my son and DIL who are in jobs that can’t be done from home and two kids under 12 who are in school. We adults were all vaxxed as early as possible but have had 4 scares in the last 6 weeks (one of which was a mild breakthrough case). The school now has mandatory masks but didn’t initially, however they now have much better protocols and proved free rapid tests to any child with symptoms. Still, availability of tests is a problem for us adults, and it’s all hugely disruptive. I suspect the number of cases would be much higher here (near Dayton) if tests were more available delta’s symptoms for breakthrough cases.
ETA that’s ‘provide free rapid tests’
RSA
Yeah, it’s a ridiculous defense. It’s obviously a swastika. The odd thing, I think, is that X-ing out the swastika would have probably produced less of an outcry—it would be seen as less offensive and more just stupid.
The much more on-target “NO 45” logo has such a design.
smith
I’ve been hoping to see suits like the ones in WI for a while now. The extreme warping of the sense of community responsibility brought on by the era of Malignant Republicans has somehow obscured the fact that large swathes of our country no longer feel obligated to protect children. Why do we require children to spend five days a week in a dangerous environment? Why do the people charged with protecting them shrink from making those environments safe just because inadequate people are throwing tantrums? We might as well be sending our kids to go work in coal mines.
One fact that has not received nearly enough attention is the high infection rate among kids with the advent of the delta variant. The CDC shows infections per capita by age group over time. The age groups with the highest per capita infection rates at the peak of the delta wave were 12-15 year olds and 16-17 year olds. This is the only time since the start of the pandemic that kids were anywhere near being the most infected.
My sister who does contact tracing in a small mostly rural county in WI tells me they’ve had two teenagers die of covid recently. The school board, in response to belligerent protests, decided to not require masks, to cut school nurses out of the chain of reports when a case is identified, and to drastically shorten required quarantine periods. The current infection rate there is 66.8 per 100K and the vaccination rate is only 45.6% with one shot. Where are the people to protect the kids who really, truly could die from going to school?
Fair Economist
@NYCMT: Bone breaking pain would make me suspect clotting trouble. Any way for your aunt to be medically evaluated for anticoagulants? I myself took aspirin when I had it on general principles although I’m not aware of any hard evidence it’s strong enough to help. But better than nothing, I figured.
Anoniminous
@YY_Sima Qian:
Thank you for your reports.
Cermet
@Fair Economist: There was a paper on this subject by a NY emergency room physician on patients he saw; all patients (438) on low dose aspirin avoided the ICU, unlike (similar age) those not on such therapy. Not a double blind (so, take with a gain of salt; remember, they were taking this before they got ill) but certainly indicates aspirin (low dose) might work. I am NOT saying its certain this works and NO ONE should take aspirin above normal dosing levels/freq. and only if they can take it safely.
New Deal democrat
@Fair Economist:
Yes, the UK is definitely the exception to the “Delta burns through the dry tinder fast” rule, although there are some similarities to the heavily vaccinated Northeastern States in the US, where Delta never got that bad, but on the other hand is not receding much, either. Also, hardly an expert on the UK, but my impression is that the Tory government keeps loosening more and more restrictions, which gives Delta access to more and more victims.
Aaron Rodgers Mustache
@MomSense: calling it that just encourages jon stewart’s intentional bioweaponized lableak nonsense.
Aaron Rodgers Mustache
@JPL: in herschel’s defense, the man is a selfadmitted invalid who should be nowhere near the levers of power. or an automobile. or a coffeemaker. or a rotary phone.
based on his concussive history, memory care should be his home, not the us senate.
Aaron Rodgers Mustache
@MomSense: oh my god, he admitted it.
rikyrah
@MomSense:
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HAH A
Ruckus
@Matt McIrvin:
They have to keep coming up with bullshit, that’s their entire political landscape – bullshit. Conservatism is good for about maybe 1% of the population and those are the very wealthy. And that’s not actually good for them, because it destroys the country they live in and in the long run even their money won’t help them. We’ve never seen this on the scale that we are now but this makes things altogether worse that it’s happening now, a time of larger populations than ever, with far more people suffering at the expense of a relatively few.
I wish that the news media would explain things like the $3.5 trillion bill in the context of the overall government spending and the over all economy, so that their could be no doubt that it actually is not all that big a number given that it is over 10 yrs and the actual budget of this country. If we didn’t spend it on stupid shit like a wall that falls down in a mild breeze because it’s crap, and how much did that cost?
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: The UK reminds me a little of a less extreme case of Florida: Florida’s vaccination rate is medium overall and quite high in some of the areas that had bad outbreaks, but the government there is actively hostile to any kind of public-health intervention beyond asking people to get vaccinated, and aggressively treating people who already have COVID.
Major Major Major Major
“Oh you support something? How do you feel when it works as intended? Checkmate, libtard!”
Matt McIrvin
@Major Major Major Major: I would feel bad about excluding people on the basis of some status that is difficult, expensive or impossible to obtain, or obnoxious to people for reasons that are not completely foolish. But vaccination is not that.
Major Major Major Major
@Matt McIrvin: Yeah like I also support excluding people for not wearing pants.
JAFD
1 – Like that updated ‘snake flag’. Is it available on T-shirt ?
2 – re Cermet’s post at #54: Am on ‘blood thinners’ since my heart attack, been ordered ‘only acetaminophen for pain relief, no asprin or naproxin’. Want to recheck that with doctor after gout attack of past week.
3 – Got Moderna shots back in Jan and Feb, will probably get booster as soon as available. Anybody think that ain’t a good idea ?
Have great weekend, everyone, and stay well !