The Omicron variant is extremely contagious, and the data show lots of people are getting it (graph below, sourced here). If you’re vaccinated and boosted, the worst you’ll probably experience is something like a “bad cold.” If you’re not, well, you were warned. Return [...]
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December 30th, 2021 - 3:05 pm § in Health
Omicron is causing a stunning spike in U.S. Covid-19 cases
Klassic Karen (video)
Yeah, I know — You Tube is littered with videos of anti-maskers getting dragged off planes by the police. But this little actress deserves an Academy Award nomination. I especially like the cop’s line, “She’s been chirping the whole time.” Also, I feel sorry for the boy[...]
The dumbest anti-vax argument
A federal judge shot down Oklahoma GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt’s attempt to enjoin the Pentagon from imposing its vaccine mandate on his state’s National Guard troops. The judge ruled the Defense Department’s vaccination protocols “must and do” apply not just to active duty pe[...]
Yes, Fox hosts are awful
Any other network would fire Jesse Waters (photo, left) for his recent speech to a rightwing group, but not Fox. Speaking to a partisan crowd about Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the federal infectious diseases agency, he said, “Now you’re going for the kill shot. The kill shot with an a[...]
December 28th, 2021 - 1:54 pm § in Health
How to claim federal Covid-19 death benefits
No longer breathing? If you’re dead, and Covid killed you, here’s how to claim funeral reimbursement. THE FEDERAL GOV’T WILL PAY YOUR LOVED ONES UP TO $9,000 TO GET RID OF YOU. Read details here You should’ve gotten vaccinated when the getting was good. Too freakin’ [...]
December 27th, 2021 - 10:26 pm § in Health
Covid cases don’t tell the whole story
The Hill says, “For nearly two years, Americans have looked carefully at coronavirus case numbers in the country and in their local states and towns to judge the risk of the disease.” (See story here.) Actually, I haven’t done that. I looked at what Covid-19 does to people, then qu[...]
Florida chalks up 3 cruise ship outbreaks in a week
There’s another Covid-19 outbreak on a South Florida-based cruise ship “for the third time this week,” as Florida’s case count “hit its highest level since the start of the pandemic,” ABC News reported on Friday, December 24, 2021 (story here). Florida Gov. Ron De[...]
Psychologist: “America is not well”
The capitalist system demands that you work, come hell or high water. But “for a moment in early 2020, it seemed like we might get a break from capitalism,” a Vox article says (read it here). It continues, “A novel coronavirus was sweeping the globe, and leaders and experts recomme[...]
Why Trump deserved to lose
“The Trump administration engaged in ‘deliberate efforts’ to undermine the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic for political purposes, a congressional report released [on] Friday,” December 17, 2021, says (read story here). While the report was put out by a House subcom[...]
December 16th, 2021 - 8:34 pm § in Health
Omicron is coming!
Alert! Incoming! Omicron spreading “explosively fast,” U.S. faces January surge Story here Current vaccines are less effective against Omicron (boosters help), and transmission is very hard to stop, but while masks and social distancing won’t fully stop its spread, they̵[...]