* * * Putting People At Risk WORKING FOR AN AIRLINE IS RISKY AND EXHAUSTING Read story here VIRUS HAS KILLED 1 OF EVERY 500 AMERICANS Read story here UNVACCINATED PEOPLE PUT OTHERS AT RISK Read story here * * * No Room in the Hospital HOSPITAL BED SHORTAGES ARE COSTING LIVES THAT C[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Coronavirus’
September 23rd, 2021 - 2:44 pm § in Health
“Mama, I don’t want to die”
She’s dead. Two weeks ago, she was a healthy 20-year-old daycare teacher. Now, she’s another Covid-19 statistic in Idaho. “Idaho continues to set record highs with 686 hospitalized COVID-19 patients as of September 18, 180 of them in intensive care unit beds and 112 on ventilators,[...]
The stupid stuff Trumpers believe
Better skip the salad dressing at your next outing in a no-masks-allowed restaurant. The government is sneaking vaccine into it. At least, that’s what rightwing conspiracy-mongers like Mike Flynn are saying now. Allow me to let you in on a closely-guarded liberal secret. If we’re going t[...]
This time Biden is wrong
The White House opposes a provision that Republicans added to a defense bill which would require honorable discharges for troops who refuse to get the Covid-19 vaccination. (See story here.) A dishonorable discharge elevates vaccine refusal to the status of a crime. It does more than disqualify a pe[...]
September 22nd, 2021 - 3:56 pm § in Health
PHOTOGRAPHY: Advertising
It’s not a real funeral home, but a stunt by an advertising agency. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
September 22nd, 2021 - 3:33 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
Reinstate this doctor
No good deed shall go unpunished. So it was with Dr. Hasan Gokal (photo, left), supervisor of a Houston vaccination site, who rounded up 10 people and gave them shots instead of throwing away vaccine from opened and partly used vials. He even got permission first from a superior at the public health[...]
Who’s responsible for the Covid-19 mess we’re in?
Covid-19 has savaged America. Our country’s death rate is 40 times that of Australia, China, Hong Kong, Korea, New Zealand and Taiwan. Here: Over 2,000 per million of population. There: Under 50 per million. Why? They have common sense; we have Republicans. “Many lives would have been sa[...]
September 22nd, 2021 - 12:45 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Eric T. to keynote anti-vax confab
“Eric Trump is booked as keynote speaker next month at a conference organized by two major purveyors of vaccine disinformation that will feature leading personalities in the anti-vaccine and QAnon conspiracy theory movements,” Huffington Post reported on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 (read[...]
Kicked out for wearing masks
The owner of Hang Time Sports Grill & Bar in Dallas, who only wants to be known as “Tom,” doesn’t like masks. To him it’s political; he thinks masks are “ridiculous.” So part of his restaurant’s dress code is that no masks are allowed, and he says itR[...]
Darwin award #09202021
Kristen Lowery, 40, of Escalon, California, was dead-set against masks and vaccinations. Her motto: “Unmasked, unmuzzled, unvaccinated.” She leaves behind four children and a family is begging for GoFundMe donations to bury her. Read story here. Her story is far from unique. There should[...]