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1st January 2021, 12:49 AM | #281 |
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1st January 2021, 12:51 AM | #282 |
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Pfizer is project to make 20 Billion from the vaccine. I don't begrudge them this money if the vaccne works.
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1st January 2021, 08:40 AM | #283 |
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago |
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1st January 2021, 12:48 PM | #284 |
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Video of NYE party in Mar-A-Lago during a deadly pandemic. Present, and singing along to "Play That Funky Music White Boy" is D Trump Jr. R Giuliani is also dancing.
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1st January 2021, 01:08 PM | #285 |
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Yes!
In the paper today they had an article Tennessee Outlines Vaccination Plan. According to this chart I could qualify for phase 1b. I've got the morbidly obese down pat, I just need one more high risk condition. I haven't talked to my doctor in ages, maybe he has an idea. P. S. Wait, what? Tennessee has a Department of Health? |
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1st January 2021, 01:10 PM | #286 |
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago |
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1st January 2021, 01:51 PM | #287 |
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I see Mitt Romney is blasting the Trump administration for failing to develop a vaccine distribution plan.
I didn't vote for Mitt, but I always thought he was a decent fellow. I just hope our President-Elect is working hard to fix the problem. He can't do anything official until January 20, but I hope he is ready to hit the ground running on day 1, or at least on day 2. (We should probably give him at least one day to enjoy the job. The next four years it gets harder.) |
1st January 2021, 03:09 PM | #288 |
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It's ******* unbelievable that they haven't released his name. Maybe with the holidays reporters are stretched thin, but there is absolutely no reason not to release his name. This is kind of "the principle" of the thing for me. No, for the world at large his name doesn't matter, but really if the government is going to take the step of arresting and incarcerating someone that person needs to be formally acknowledged and publicly identified. Just not releasing the name is a bad precedent - as is reporters accepting this situation. FOIA!
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1st January 2021, 03:09 PM | #289 |
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1st January 2021, 05:35 PM | #292 |
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Some States are very slow to inoculate recipients despite successful and very large scale distribution of vaccines by the Federal Government. They will get it done! |
1st January 2021, 06:55 PM | #293 |
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1st January 2021, 07:12 PM | #294 |
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1st January 2021, 07:36 PM | #295 |
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I wonder why they even admitted it. Are they trying to mitigate domestic damage? Did they have a surge of public-health sanity?
My conservative family members have hushed up about thinking the virus is some kind if hoax. More people they know are getting sick? My aunt and uncle came down with it, and she was complaining to me earlier this year that it was overblown, docs were padding the numbers or something. It didn't just go away like a miracle, that's pretty obvious. I didn't tell my brother across town that mom's physical therapist tested positive on Wednesday. She last saw him (therapist) 10 days ago and the isolation protocols only call for 10 days. But when security came to take our temperatures today they said we had to call resident services about the sign on our door and they don't open till Monday. So I'm in a plague house, which wouldn't bother me except that I really, really want to use the gym and don't want to get the evil eye. I also noticed that both resident services and security personnel came in pairs. I'm wondering if there is some legal reason for that, because otherwise you're just increasing risk of exposure. |
1st January 2021, 07:50 PM | #296 |
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I feel like the reporter should have pushed a little harder for his name, but I don't really blame law enforcement for not wanting to release it. Reading the story as an editor that jumped out at me. I think the holiday probably meant everyone was short-staffed. No time to take it up the food chain.
Typically on a holiday many news organizations would have one cop reporter covering every jurisdiction. This apparent crime is so bizarre that I can see officials playing it safe going into a long holiday weekend. What on earth was this guy thinking? |
1st January 2021, 08:32 PM | #297 |
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I read a story in a Rochester (NY) local news site, but in their national news section. About a seven-year-old Utah girl who was infected with Covid-19 (unbeknownst to her family because she was asymptomatic), and then probably as a result developed Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, or MIS-C. According to the Center for Disease Control, "Many children with MIS-C had the virus that causes COVID-19, or had been around someone with COVID-19." The girl became critically ill and had to be hospitalized in a Utah ICU for several days. She recovered but suffered swelling of her heart. Doctors are not sure how this will play out but for now the girl is restricted from any physical activity. Meanwhile her father, Andrew Maurer, told an interviewer:
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1st January 2021, 08:49 PM | #298 |
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I agree, and yet I am even more inclined to blame the people in leadership positions who peddled that nonsense, and continue to do so.
That doesn't mean i give a pass to those who simply accept the decrees of leaders, but I am more inclined to blame the shepherd than the sheep. |
1st January 2021, 08:50 PM | #299 |
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I'm pretty sure that arrests are public record, at least where adults are concerned. I assume that this is a temporary state of affairs. The name will be released in time.
I think, to quadraginta's point, that the family and other interested parties need to at least have some prior warning in a high profile case like this. |
1st January 2021, 09:11 PM | #301 |
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I'm going to second Minoosh here and take it a bit further. Romney's really not what one should call a decent person after the harm he did with Bain Capital. Competent, though, and slightly more principled than most of the rest of the major GOP politicians, however, yes. Sadly, that bar is so close to the ground that pretty much any normal person wouldn't even need to break stride to step over it.
What are the chances that they just happen to be white? If they were black, I'd expect a name and an unflattering mugshot, after all. I might just be particularly peeved at the 63-year old Nashville suicide bomber basically getting an elementary school photo published in the reporting about him, though. Domestic political damage, at least. |
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Here's my more-or-less monthly post comparing the US response to Canada.
As of 31 December 2020, differences in the American response compared with Canada 's have resulted in an estimated 204,000 excess American deaths. The population of the United States is 8.6 times that of Canada. Based on population alone, all other things being equal, one can expect the number of deaths from COVID-19 to be 8.6 times that of Canada. One thing that is decidedly not equal is the extreme outlying numbers in New York State, currently at 1,961 deaths per million population. There's nothing comparable to it in Canada; the worst hit province is Quebec, and their death rate half that of New York's at 964/million. Therefore, in the following table I attempt to even out the numbers by subtracting out New York State's population and deaths, then applying the resulting deaths/million to the entire US population.
Based on this analysis, there are just short of 204,000 excess deaths compared to Canada after evening out the numbers from New York State. In my opinion, a huge number of these are due to the inept response of the Trump administration. Another factor was the push by Trump to get the economy going again in hopes of boosting his re-election chances, and governors willing to follow that advice. And some of it is due to the tendency of Americans to distrust their government. |
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2nd January 2021, 05:31 AM | #303 |
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Dr. Simone Gold tweets
@drsimonegold America’s Frontline Doctors are at the CDC in Atlanta to protest against forcing millions of Americans to take an experimental vaccine for Covid-19, a pathogen with a survival rate of 99.7%. We will fight against any experimental therapy being forced on anyone. I will be speaking at the #StopTheSteal rally in DC on January 6. Learn the facts you need to fight for freedom from forced experimental vaccines, government overreach, and unconstitutional lockdowns. We The People must unite now—join us here: http://WildProtest.com |
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2nd January 2021, 02:26 PM | #306 |
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With all the social distancing, tracing of activities, the number of eyes on the pandemic, the amount of resources expended to monitor Covid-19, wearing of masks and still this new variant is a complete surprise to the World??? It is understood that a virus will morph (usually tames itself so it can survive) but we still hung our collective hopes on a vaccine. We knew this would happen yet this whole mess became a political football. Let's see how this new variant plays out and how it is handled.
Maybe if Fauci would stop mugging for cameras and playing like a Pied Piper to children, we could have been ahead of the game. By the way, can anyone name one thing that Fauci has done that contributed to the defeat of Covid-19? |
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Good point.
It's lucky that's how it works or things like HIV would be deadly as hell and kill half a million people a year. It's also why nobody ever needs a rabies shot in the 21st century - I hear it's about equivalent to a cold these days. You can watch it in real time here, or here. Wow, you must be amazing Fauci fan to think that one bloke can influence the course of a pandemic and defeat it. I reckon even Superman and Batman together would struggle to do that. |
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2nd January 2021, 07:28 PM | #309 |
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This is from the UK, but... it's probably worth poking at as a warning for the US.
Covid wards 'full of children' for first time in pandemic, warn nurses |
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2nd January 2021, 07:55 PM | #311 |
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CNN reporting one more big surge (and we all know one is coming) will cause the US Hospital system to collapse.
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2nd January 2021, 08:53 PM | #313 |
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On November 6th we passed 10 million cases. Tomorrow we'll pass 21 million cases, the number of Americans infected has more than doubled in the past two months.
Remember when president dunce was telling the American public this would all be memory by October. We'd have it in the rear view mirror by then.
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Sad thing is millions of people STILL think COvid is either a Hoax or overblown because Dear Leader tell them so.
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3rd January 2021, 04:58 AM | #315 |
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@ksorbs It’s been almost 10 months, shouldn’t the non-mask wearers be dead? |
3rd January 2021, 06:06 AM | #316 |
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The number of cases and deaths of the China Virus is far exaggerated in the United States because of @CDCgov's ridiculous method of determination compared to other countries, many of whom report, purposely, very inaccurately and low. “When in doubt, call it Covid.” Fake News! The vaccines are being delivered to the states by the Federal Government far faster than they can be administered! |
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It's actually a negative number!
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