Please show proof of sanity!
(Bramhall NY Daily News) pic.twitter.com/V1QoIt97fu— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) October 30, 2021
Before kids ages 5-11 can receive the COVID-19 vaccine, a few steps remain:
• A special advisory panel to the CDC will consider detailed recommendations on Tuesday.
• CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky will give the final order. https://t.co/cubNjRYciW— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2021
A White House official says the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric vaccine program is set to be "at full strength" next week https://t.co/LIERp471Eg
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 2, 2021
November begins with fewer than 50,000 Americans in the hospital with COVID for the first time since July.
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) November 1, 2021
NEW: OSHA has finished developing a rule that compels companies with 100+ employees to require vaccines or regular testing. It also requires employers to provide paid time to workers to get vaccinated and to recover from any side effects. The rule will go into effect in days.
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) November 1, 2021
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While the official estimate suggests ~5+ million people have died of Covid globally, @IHME_UW calculates the estimate at ~12 million by accounting for excess mortality. https://t.co/vLZ5GhdtMr
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 1, 2021
Our modeling of excess deaths suggests the true toll is closer to 17m https://t.co/DngsJU1zi7 https://t.co/goOERDLL0X
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) November 1, 2021
Not quite sure how Bloomberg/Johns Hopkins are doing their tallying, but if I had to guess it would be severe undercounting in Asia and Africa https://t.co/DngsJU1zi7 pic.twitter.com/38etxQNsez
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) November 1, 2021
At 5 million, the recorded death toll from COVID-19 is about equal to the populations of Los Angeles and San Francisco combined.
The staggering figure is likely an undercount due to limited testing and people dying at home without medical attention. https://t.co/aXpOzlPTmx
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2021
China won't give up on its zero-tolerance COVID policy soon – experts https://t.co/313QF7niN8 pic.twitter.com/jiIQMiHYDy
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 2, 2021
… To stop local cases from turning into wider outbreaks, China has developed and continually refined its COVID-fighting arsenal — including mass testing, targeted lockdowns and travel restrictions – even when those anti-COVID measures occasionally disrupted local economies.
“The policy (in China) will remain for a long time,” Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory disease expert who helped formulate China’s COVID strategy in early 2020, told state media.
“How long it will last depends on the virus-control situation worldwide.”
In a major outbreak in July-August, China counted a total of over 1,200 local symptomatic infections. In the latest flare-up, mostly in northern China, some 538 local cases were reported between Oct. 17 and Nov. 1…
China also requires weeks of quarantine for most travellers arriving from abroad.
In contrast, some Asia-Pacific countries are starting to open selectively to fully vaccinated international travellers as they seek to secure a more normal footing for their economies and societies…
The successful containment of clusters and popular support for restricting international travel make it overwhelmingly likely that China will stick to its zero tolerance towards domestic cases for at least another year, Gavekal Dragonomics analyst Ernan Cui said in a note.
“Officials seem to believe that giving up on the zero-tolerance approach would just replace one set of problems with another,” wrote Cui…
The cost of treating COVID patients – on average 20,000 yuan each and sometimes over 1 million yuan for those critically ill – totalled 2.8 billion yuan ($438 million) as of end-June, all paid by the government, state television said in August.
Japan eases COVID-19 border curbs, trails major partners https://t.co/LOOdLa0Xcs pic.twitter.com/eTMnfDDf79
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 2, 2021
Indonesia authorises Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 6-11 https://t.co/UgT2ANhMUP pic.twitter.com/jr0CGSMJuD
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 1, 2021
Thailand opened its gates to fully vaccinated tourists, welcoming the first wave of visitors in 18 months who will not have to quarantine in a hotel https://t.co/sQR5b4SwIR pic.twitter.com/6AmyRWmso7
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 1, 2021
⚡ Russia has confirmed 39,008 Covid-19 infections and a new pandemic record of 1,178 deaths https://t.co/LBJYnLIz56
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 2, 2021
The equivalent in US deaths would be over 300,000; i.e. around a tenth of a percent of the entire national population dying in one month. The actual worst US month was Jan 2021, with 95K, and that was winter and before vaccines.
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) November 1, 2021
Russian authorities said Monday that doctors were under "extraordinary" strain due to surging coronavirus cases in Europe's worst-hit country, with Moscow shuttered during a nationwide holiday to curb infectionshttps://t.co/Lb4S0ZDhEL
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 2, 2021
Uganda’s schools have been largely shut for more than 77 weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic, the longest disruption in the world, the UN says. With no virtual learning to speak of, education advocates worry about a lost generation of learners. https://t.co/vho9nII5cu
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2021
The Biden administration’s decision to let vaccinated people enter the U.S. by land for nonessential travel starting next week has many Canadians packing up their campers and making reservations at their favorite vacation condos and mobile home parks. https://t.co/IX2ZDXdxbI
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2021
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Our kids have suffered enough because of covid-19, @DrLeanaWen writes.
"Having the vaccine available for all school-aged children will safeguard their health and allow them to return to their pre-pandemic lives." https://t.co/gGAjO5iBYA
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) October 28, 2021
Mild Covid is not linked to long-term cardiac damage, according to a prospective study that shows no evidence of myocarditis. Research was conducted by Dr. James Moon of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London & published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging https://t.co/toyY8UyiQV pic.twitter.com/aXfUNV2kUB
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 1, 2021
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Would love to see research in 15-20 years on whose kids were more likely to hate their parents, those who got their kids vaccinated, or those who refused to get their kids vaccinated. https://t.co/XmY52C3nvj
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 29, 2021
It genuinely sucks that these guys are lying https://t.co/KkvLBkg06g
— zeddy (@Zeddary) October 30, 2021
About 9,000 New York City municipal workers were put on unpaid leave for refusing to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that took effect Monday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said. New York has more than 300,000 city employees. https://t.co/v2sVOnrEWq
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2021
A full 34,966 New York police officers opted to get vaccinated. Here’s the story of the 34 who did not.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) November 1, 2021
Even the NY Post has to report the actual numbers:https://t.co/AL4aMzoAwm
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) November 1, 2021
One month apart. pic.twitter.com/LmtZmqMFkV
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) November 1, 2021
The best part is that Newsmax lady tweeted this gem from an iPhone. pic.twitter.com/QodPTuUZZk
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) November 2, 2021
On The Road – Wag – Chicago Basin 2/5
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
The Monroe County website says 172 new cases yesterday.
Deaths at 1439, up 4 from last week.
Still only 69.6% of eligible residents are fully vaccinated.
The breakdown of cases is pretty evenly spread across
the age ranges of 0 to 59, followed by folks in their 60s.
The 70s, 80s and 90s have relatively fewer cases.
NYSDOH says 180 new cases yesterday.
I’m not seeing signs of COVID slowdown here yet.
Baud
Why wouldn’t Russia experience a winter wave?
rikyrah
Time to fire the unvaxxed and list those jobs. I am sure that there will be no shortage of vaccinated applicants for those jobs?
rikyrah
My sister is House of Moderna. The Wal-Mart where she got her previous two shots won’t have any Extra until next week, due to strong demand. The appointments are already taken. No opportunity for walk-ins this week. This makes me happy, because the clientele of that store is overwhelmingly African-American. My people are getting the shot????
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Greece is spiking. Via Kathimerini English edition, 5449 new cases reported for the 24 hours ending Monday afternoon, a new record, significantly higher than the previous high of 4696 recorded on Saturday. 52 dead in that time span. Hospitals filling up. Positivity rate is at 6.59%.
50-and-overs are eligible for boosters, and they’re talking about expanding that to under-50s. Meanwhile, I tried to get my records from my US-administered Pfizer shots entered into the Greek system and was basically thrown out of the Citizen Services office, with the receptionist telling me that they aren’t doing that (even though they’re set up to record first shots from abroad so they can administer second shots in-country). So unless I luck out and find a more helpful bureaucrat somewhere, I don’t know if or when I’ll be able to get a booster.
Baud
@rikyrah:
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Baud
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
Ugh. I’m heading to Greece soon. Will try to stay away from people.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
My wife is Moderna, and just got the booster yesterday at CVS. Apparently I can get a booster too as she is a cancer patient and considered immune compromised.
GeoWHayduke
@Baud: staying away from people has always been the right answer, now only more so.
Fair Economist
@Baud:This *is* Russia’s winter wave, and it’s extremely bad, so they’ll have a couple months to a year off before the next one.
The Thin Black Duke
Proud Trumpster and Anti-Vaxxer Kristy Swanson is hospitalized with Covid.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 5,071 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, tfor a cumulative reported total of 2,481,339 cases. It also reports 63 deaths as of midnight, for an adjusted cumulative total of 28,975 deaths – 1.17% of the cumulative reported total, 1.20% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.96.
498 confirmed cases are in ICU, 207 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 5,372 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,385,432 patients recovered – 96.1% of the cumulative reported total.
Five new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,781 clusters. 404 clusters are currently active; 5,377 clusters are now inactive.
5,056 new cases today are local infections. 15 new cases today are imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 108,031 doses of vaccine on 1st November: 9,216 first doses, 55,354 second doses, and 43,461 booster doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 50,184,201 doses administered: 25,494,783 first doses, 24,508,552 second doses, and 351,114 booster doses. 78.0% of the population have received their first dose, while 75.0% are now fully vaccinated.
eclare
@rikyrah: Very good! I hope your sister continues to feel better.
MagdaInBlack
Pretty disappointed I’m not glow in the dark from Luciferase, but I have a 3rd dose of Moderna scheduled for November 19, so maybe that will do the trick.
YY_Sima Qian
On 11/1 China reported 54 new domestic confirmed (5 previously asymptomatic) & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases. 4 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 161 active domestic confirmed cases in the region.
At Xi’an in Shaanxi Province there currently are 13 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. There currently are 34 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Gansu Province reported 8 new domestic confirmed cases (all mild). There currently are 113 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Hebei Province reported 8 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 20 active confirmed cases in the province.
Hunan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Zunyi in Guizhou Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 2 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
Beijing Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (mild), a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine since 10/22. There currently are 31 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 1 community remains at High Risk & 1 community is currently at Medium Risk.
Rizhao in Shandong Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases (all previously asymptomatic). There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed & 6 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 residential compound is currently at Medium Risk.
Zigong in Sichuan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city.
Qinghai Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases (1 mild & 1 moderate). There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
At Tianmen in Hubei Province there currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases (1 mild & 1 moderate) in the city.
Heilongjiang Province reported 27 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 109 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Jiangxi Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases (both previously asymptomatic). There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city.
Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed & 30 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the prefecture.
At Henan Province there currently are 5 active domestic confirmed cases remaining, all at Shangqiu.
Imported Cases
On 11/1, China reported 17 new imported confirmed cases (4 previously asymptomatic), 13 imported asymptomatic cases, 2 imported suspect cases:
Overall in China, 28 confirmed cases recovered (24 imported), 10 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (9 imported) & 9 were reclassified as confirmed cases (5 imported), & 5,667 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 912 active confirmed cases in the country (379 imported), 35 in serious condition (2 imported), 392 active asymptomatic cases (351 imported), 5 suspect cases (all imported). 38,660 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 10/31, 2,279.442M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 5.37M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 11/1 Hong Kong reported 2 new positive case, both imported.
Elizabelle
@The Thin Black Duke: No sympathy. I hope Satan calls her home.
debbie
Once again, the police unions are their usual feckless selves.
Mary G
Orange County had 906 new cases on the weekend and hospitalizations remain about the same. The schools reported one new case for last week.
I was convinced that my new heater unit was not working, so I bought a thermometer and set the heat at 82 degrees before I went to bed at midnight. I woke up broiling so it does work, but now I can’t find the thermometer. It is so quiet that my aging ears don’t hear a thing, and I expect the whooshing and metal snapping the wall heater used to provide.
JWR
@The Thin Black Duke:
Trying hard not to laugh. F*cking Plague Rat.
Also, NPR just did a bit on
thea slowdown in garbage pickup in New York, owing, they said, to the vaccine mandate. (Sorry, but I’m not seeing a link yet.)Nicole
My son’s pediatrician is betting on final approval coming through and sent out an email yesterday to sign up for vaccination appointments. If all goes well with the CDC today, kiddo gets his first dose Friday evening. I’m so happy!
lowtechcyclist
@The Thin Black Duke:
What was that verse that people like her ‘prayed’ for Obama? Ah yes, Psalm 109:8: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” Same to you, Kristy, same to you.
Yay!!!!
This is a big Biden deal, because, other than the anti-vaxxers (and screw them!), the most under-vaxxed group has been the working poor who couldn’t risk missing a couple days’ work and losing a couple days’ pay due to bad side effects from the shot. I hope the Administration makes it clear to employers that they’ll be going out of their way to enforce this rule.
debbie
@lowtechcyclist:
My employer fits in that category and will be very glad for this cover. They’ve been trying to make it as hard as possible to remain unvaccinated, including an extra charge on their health insurance and requiring them to pay for their own (frequent) testing.
lowtechcyclist
@Nicole:
And I’m happy for you and your son! It makes all the difference in the world, knowing your loved ones are protected from this horrible plague.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Nicole: I’m so happy for you and your kid! What a relief.
New Deal democrat
The Delta decline is over. US cases up 4000/day from one week ago . Census regions Northeast and South still show a decline, but West and Midwest increasing.
Increasing trend States: NJ, AL, CA, NV, AZ, CO, NM, ND, SD, MI, MN, IA, and NE. Also slight increases in NY, RI, IN, and WI.
Some States still show declines: AK, VT, NH, PA, CT, WV, KY, DE, NC, SC, AR, FL, GA, MT, OK, TX, and WY.
The declines are almost all in the warmest States + those with the most recent outbreaks. The increases are with few exceptions in the colder States.
The winter wave has almost certainly begun. I don’t think it will be as bad as last year or Delta, but we’ll see.
On the plus side, deaths are down 35% from the Delta peak into the middle of the “normal” range for this pandemic.
JMG
We leave for France tomorrow evening for a 10-day trip, first Paris, then a week with our daughter in her new home town of Bordeaux. We are Pfizer-boostered and have received our French carte sanitaires, the health passes that allow you in restaurants, museums, etc. We have to find where we kept our surgical masks we bought early in the pandemic before we got washable artificial stretchy cloth masks. Air France and French trains and public transit require the former. I am not exactly looking forward to a sleepless night wearing a mask in an aluminum tube full of strangers, but France is worth it.
Nicole
@lowtechcyclist:
So true. My kid caught a plain old cold last month and I was sick to my stomach with fear when I picked him up from school, and so relieved when it turned out to not be Covid. I know we’re not going to eliminate Covid, but I look forward to it being no more severe for the vast majority of people than a plain old cold.
PST
@The Thin Black Duke: Weird coincidence. I haven’t thought of Kristy Swanson in years, and then just yesterday a disreputable friend described a brief, romantic encounter with her in the basement of the old Stanley’s Kitchen & Grill on Lincoln Avenue when he was a bartender there.
rikyrah
@Nicole:
Yeah
You will feel so relieved
rikyrah
@The Thin Black Duke:
What’s for breakfast?
O. Felix Culpa
@rikyrah: LOL.
The Thin Black Duke
@Elizabelle: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Cermet
@PST: So what you are saying is, she likely has a lot of miles on her chasie.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Still plenty of unvaccinated out there.
Lapassionara
@JMG: France is worth it. I have a trip booked for January. How did you get your pass sanitaire before you traveled?
evodevo
@JMG: Yes, yes it is…our favorite region is the Perigord…Sarlat, etc. Stayed in Beynac one night and loved it…
Nicole
@JMG: France IS worth it! And in my purely anecdotal experience, flying international is much more mask-friendly than flying domestic. We had a very peaceful overnight flight on Icelandair last month. Have a fantastic trip!
dmsilev
@MagdaInBlack:
You need to sign up for a 5G contract with AT&T for that to work. Deal with the Devil, you know.
Nicole
Re: Kristy Swanson- I saw on Twitter yesterday someone said they wanted to tweet get well soon wishes to her but she had blocked them previously after they called her, “Rough Draft Buffy.”
Robert Sneddon
@MagdaInBlack:
The luciferase thing is probably based on a Chinese Whispers memory of some bio research programme a couple of decades back. Luciferase was used at one time as a tagging agent for cell research since it could be detected in Petri dishes using a blacklight revealing cell division products etc. The technology for cell research has moved on and doping with luciferase was never that precise a method of tracking intra-cellular processes, never mind the biological effects and waste products.
Tony Jay
@Nicole:
Oh, burn.
“Into every generation a slayer is born… but sometimes it doesn’t exactly work out first time.”
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Baud: Good luck! Don’t forget to register your travel info (travel.gov.gr). You can also check the COVID map of Greece in English (https://covid19.gov.gr/covid-map-en/). The US Embassy’s site also has a good COVID info page for travelers (https://gr.usembassy.gov/covid-19-information/).
Hope it goes well! And if you need more assistance while you’re here, I’m right across the street from the Athens Hilton, about three blocks from the US Embassy.
JMG
@Lapassionara: We sent the French government documentation of our airline tickets, our passports and our vaccination cards. I didn’t do it, my wife and my daughter combined did so, but it was pretty painless as far as they were concerned.
Glidwrith
@Robert Sneddon: We still use it in some cell-based assays, but most glow-in-the-dark work (for the general audience) is GFP or Green Fluorescent Protein. Originally from bioluminescent jellyfish, we’ve got a whole array of green, yellow, red and blue to play with. If you go looking, you can find bunches of pix of rats, mice, cats, dogs and fish glowing green.
Miss Bianca
@The Thin Black Duke: Was disappointed to see that Rough Draft Buffy (as some wag had christened her) was yet another B-list celebrity coming out with asshole anti-vax nonsense. Someone else can pray for her
@Nicole: Oh, maybe it was you who pointed that one out the other night. Have to admit I laughed, even tho’ I loved the Buffy movie and considered it canon to the point where I initially refused to watch the TV series. More fool me!
Matt McIrvin
The COVID situation in northeast MA is still frustratingly static; stats from NH are still frustratingly incomplete, to the point that I wonder if they’ve just decided to stop reporting county stats regularly (and it’s created an illusion of the pandemic ending there). Hoping that boosters and child vaccinations will help break the jam by bringing that R value down just a tad.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: The NH decline is largely bogus, caused by reporting anomalies. Who knows what’s really going on there at the moment. I can say that hardly anyone wears masks in Rockingham County.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah:
I cried when I read that.
VOR
My local clinic contacted me to schedule my COVID-19 booster. Very pleasant surprise. Made an appointment about 3 weeks out at the same site where I got my first two shots.
Steeplejack
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
Can you play dumb and get a shot as if it’s your first one?
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Steeplejack: Well, in theory, except I’m not sure what shot I’d be getting, and I’d be harassed to get the second shot in three or four weeks’ time, and I don’t know what that would do for me, and I also don’t know how the system deals with people who got their first shot but skipped their appointment for the second shot.
So … I’d rather not take chances.
Steeplejack
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
Okay, better bureaucrat it is, then. Good luck!
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 2,010 new COVID-19 cases reported today. The test positivity rate is 13.5%. There is a data reporting issue with one of the big RT-PCR test labs so these numbers may not be complete. There were 26 new deaths reported but note that Register Offices are generally closed at weekends. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 63, down five from yesterday while hospitalisations are 932, up one from yesterday.
There were about 3,500 non-booster vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Monday) with about 45% of these being first vaccinations. 92.1% of 16+ adults are now vaccinated with their first dose and 85.9% are fully vaccinated. 75.5% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination and 54.5% of 12-15 year olds have now received their first vaccination.
There were over 22,000 booster vaccinations carried out yesterday in Scotland with a total of about 730,000 boosters carried out to date.
New Deal democrat
@Matt McIrvin: Yeah, it seems like they just stopped counting for most of the week. But I wanted to go just ”by the numbers” without cherry-picking, so I kept it in.
smith
The Illinois legislature just voted to severely limit religious and conscience exemptions from the vaccine mandate. I’ve been told that the Feds also intend to make religious exemptions very hard to get. Glad to see we still have politicians willing to stand up to the Goobers.
Ruckus
I wonder if the anti-vaxers would get the shot if you charged them $50 per, on the premise that nothing good is free, everything costs money?
The government could set up a dummy company to make and distribute a new conservative vaccine and charge $50 for each shot. Make money, them vaccinated, a twofer!
Matt McIrvin
@Ruckus: I’ve seen some people argue that they’re suspicious for that reason–that it’s free and nothing in life is free, so there must be some sinister hidden agenda. But I suspect that if you charged they’d just switch to complaining about the price. They’re reasoning backwards from not wanting the vaccine.
J R in WV
@MagdaInBlack:
I’m House Moderna, and I was promised a small but prehensile tail — WAHH~!~
I wanted that tail so bad, and it isn’t here yet after all three doses~!!~