Why Are Democrats Spreading So Much Covid? Why Do They Hate Grandma?

At The Federalist, questions about whither the left's zeal for Covid-Shaming.

Of the top 10 states (including Washington, D.C.) with the highest COVID-19 infection rate at the moment, seven of them are governed by Democrats.
Unfortunately for CNN and MSNBC, that fact can't be directly traced to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis so they've chosen not to really talk about it, but if they did, they might ask what Democrats are doing so wrong in D.C. (averaging 1,313 new cases each day), New York (32,566), New Jersey (14,028 ), Rhode Island (1,382), Delaware (1,029), Illinois (12,426), and Hawaii (1,361).
What's going on? Why aren't they Following The Science? Are Democrats trying to kill people?
The national media's beloved New York, the place Saint Anthony Fauci once said was doing everything "correctly," has seen a 55 percent increase in hospitalizations as of Monday. D.C. has seen a 94 percent increase.

The Federalist wonders what it will take for the media to notice that blue states, not red, are seeing the biggest surge in covid infections -- perhaps a visit from Ron DeSantis to each blue state will do the job, they suggest.

Recently Karol Markowitz noted that 30% of the entire nation's new covid cases came from a single city -- New York City, media capital of the world.

And yet the media did not seem to notice at all! And certainly did not draw any Moral Lessons from New Yorkers' covid sinfulness.

And just to prove her prophecy correct, the AP skipped reporting on NYC being the source of 30% of the nation's covid cases to focus on what really matters: that Florida, along with nearly every other state, had broken a record for new covid cases.

And I do mean "nearly every other state:" Biden has turned America red, baby.

Matt Welch notes that now that the Blue Tribe is getting covid at rates higher than the Red Tribe, it's time to treat those with covid with compassion instead of contempt.

After recapitulating the Democrats' and media's (but I do repeat myself) constant attacks on "the unvaccinated" as the reason for covid, and the constant suggestions they deserve to die, Welch notes the Democrats and media suddenly softening in tone about those with covid, now that covid is ravaging their own offices.

The pandemic of the unvaccinated framing actively encouraged one of the uglier and least productive societal reactions to COVID-19: Making the mere fact of contracting the virus a morality play falling largely along partisan lines. The whole notion that by "doing everything right," and "following all the rules," you will be righteously spared, unlike those anti-science people this summer down south.
That self-flattering narrative is collapsing, now that (as predicted) a stubbornly seasonal/regional virus has hit media/Democratic centers for a third consecutive winter. "Thousands who 'followed the rules' are about to get covid," ran the headline on a Washington Post "Wellness" column last week. "They shouldn't be ashamed." Lovely sentiment, that.

Oh, isn't that nice. Isn't that so nice.

Now we're to have compassion for the sick.

When the Government-Media Complex tells us to.

And not a moment before.

This is the first time he’s mentioned the “negative impact” of the policies he’s recommended in two years. The only thing that changed is the democrats favorability polls. He needs to go, immediately. https://t.co/A1FVy6q2Fj
— a newsman (@a_newsman) December 29, 2021

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1 First!!!

Posted by: Greyman27 at December 30, 2021 01:05 PM (RKLPC)

2 Yeah.

Posted by: Greyman27 at December 30, 2021 01:05 PM (RKLPC)

3 Moar boosterz!!

Posted by: Doof at December 30, 2021 01:07 PM (mZUr4)

4 Top 10!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 30, 2021 01:07 PM (4olE8)

5 Fauci has a face you just want to beat on with a pillowcase filled with bars of soap.

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2021 01:07 PM (zhZO8)

6 Fauci has a face you just want to beat on with a pillowcase filled with bars of soap.
Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2021 01:07 PM (zhZO

The Ramones have another suggestion...
https://youtu.be/yVDP5M0eTcM

Posted by: Doof at December 30, 2021 01:09 PM (mZUr4)

7 And yet I still can't catch omicron. Worst deadly virus ever.

Posted by: t-bird at December 30, 2021 01:09 PM (9Fwwf)

8 How's that vaccine working for you Tony ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 30, 2021 01:09 PM (TdaKq)

9 Yawn.

High transmission rate, very weak and mild symptoms. Exactly as we knew a month ago.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:09 PM (KZzsI)

10 So much hypocrisy on how Dems handled Covid.

I remember in the absolute hysteria months, NYC still had all of its subways open for business.

But we're going to literally tackle someone jogging on the beach without a mask.

Posted by: Cameroom at December 30, 2021 01:09 PM (3dm+3)

11 Get single-double-triple clotshotted, double-boosted, get sick anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 30, 2021 01:09 PM (II3Gr)

12
Lots of new cases in my county but no deaths.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 30, 2021 01:09 PM (/U27+)

13 And yet I still can't catch omicron. Worst deadly virus ever.
Posted by: t-bird at December 30, 2021 01:09 PM (9Fwwf)

Said to hubs last night I have no idea how I haven't caught this shit with how many times I've been exposed.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:10 PM (Ez6QX)

14 High transmission rate, very weak and mild symptoms. Exactly as we knew a month ago.
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REEEE HERETIC UNBELIEVER YOU MUST ABASE YOURSELF BEFORE THE VIRUS

Posted by: a mild over reaction at December 30, 2021 01:10 PM (cctf/)

15 There's really no way to combat this hysteria.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 30, 2021 01:10 PM (Xrfse)

16 Are they faking these case numbers somewhere?

I don't get why they are jumping up, and why everybody is suddenly getting tested.

Posted by: pj at December 30, 2021 01:10 PM (G1dq6)

17 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:10 PM (Do5/p)

18 All those hysterical asymptomatic idiots waiting in line to be tested.....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 30, 2021 01:10 PM (TdaKq)

19 I believe I saw recently that they changed the "Community Spread" thresholds a couple weeks back to make florida look worse and get that map Red.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (7b8Vr)

20 More tests, more cases. More cases, more crackdowns.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (f8/Bk)

21 Well I'm ill.
Headache, achy all over, got to pee a lot and I'm grumpy. And I just don't care. I'll get better. End of srory.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (axyOa)

22 >>>Said to hubs last night I have no idea how I haven't caught this shit with how many times I've been exposed.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:10 PM (Ez6QX)

Because you probably already have and fought it off without knowing it.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (QYPq3)

23 Now due the numbers for herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, genital warts and The Slims.

I'll wait.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (R/m4+)

24 THis is more appropriate for last post but so funny is worth repeating:

https://tinyurl.com/bdfjebvx

CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" has shed a staggering 75% of its audience since the liberal network experienced a January spike in viewers

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (KZzsI)

25 >>>Matt Welch notes that now that the Blue Tribe is getting covid at rates higher than the Red Tribe, it's time to treat those with covid with compassion instead of contempt.

Case # reporting was always bullshit. It is even more so now, when people are required to test (even though asymptomatic, A/K/A no or minor cold-like symptoms) just to go to a concert or a sports event, cross the border, etc.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (SH2Zi)

26 PSA - Rekieta Law will be interviewing Earl Grey (Kim Potter Defense) at 1PM Central today.

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (zhZO8)

27 Said to hubs last night I have no idea how I haven't caught this shit with how many times I've been exposed.
Posted by: Jordan61
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you probably had it already and didn't notice

Posted by: A modest proposal at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (YkMMI)

28 The whole notion that by "doing everything right," and "following all the rules," you will be righteously spared, unlike those anti-science people this summer down south.

Very dogmatic.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (II3Gr)

29 If the media and the Democrats could let go of the COVID panic, it would help the Democrats political standing immensely. It have to be coordinates across all their outlets, government, education, news, sports, entertainment.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (xqRaG)

30 Because you probably already have and fought it off without knowing it.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (QYPq3)

I thought so but my antibody test was negative. So now I don't know.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (Ez6QX)

31 For the first time since late hubby christened me "creeper" in 1998 I'm considering a new nick. I'm thinking about changing to "PUREBLOOD". I want to take it to them. Somebody once advised "Get in their face!" Sounds like good advice to me.

Posted by: creeper at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (cTCuP)

32 Blue-Flu Hellholes

Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (URNdm)

33 Everything is a morality play for the Left. Except, you know, actual morality.

Posted by: Man of means (by no means) at December 30, 2021 01:13 PM (1Mjr/)

34 "Lessen the severity" reminds me of "created or saved." No way to prove or disprove either.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 30, 2021 01:13 PM (eA1RV)

35 CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" has shed a staggering 75% of its audience since the liberal network experienced a January spike in viewers

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (KZzsI)

The Gorilla Channel gets more interest than that.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:14 PM (SH2Zi)

36 All those hysterical asymptomatic idiots waiting in line to be tested.....
==
most of those people probably had been exposed to somebody who had it, and now they have to get tested to be cleared to go back to work or to a restaurant or whatever. . .

Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at December 30, 2021 01:14 PM (sBJSu)

37 25 Case # reporting was always bullshit. It is even more so now, when people are required to test (even though asymptomatic, A/K/A no or minor cold-like symptoms) just to go to a concert or a sports event, cross the border, etc.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (SH2Zi)

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Chris Cillizza's Christmas present to himself was a big box of covid tests.

People are testing themselves, with or without symptoms, and running to the doctor when they get a positive test. "I'm so sick I needed a test to figure it out. Test me again to make sure!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:14 PM (LvTSG)

38 And just to prove her prophecy correct, the AP skipped reporting on NYC being the source of 30% of the nation's covid cases to focus on what really matters: that Florida, along with nearly every other state, had broken a record for new covid cases.

Pretty much how ESPN - and pretty much all sports news sites - reports each NFL player who "tests positive" for COVID. When it's an unvaxxinated player, they make a point to highlight that. When it's a vaxxinated player, they bury that fact in the article, if they bother to mention it at all.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:14 PM (Do5/p)

39 most of those people probably had been exposed to somebody who had it, and now they have to get tested to be cleared to go back to work or to a restaurant or whatever. . .
Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at December 30, 2021 01:14 PM (sBJSu)

Or they're just hysterical

Posted by: It's me donna at December 30, 2021 01:14 PM (TdaKq)

40 Haven't gotten the Vax. Haven't gotten the wuflu. Think I'll stay the course.

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 01:14 PM (00h1T)

41 I thought so but my antibody test was negative. So now I don't know.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (Ez6QX)

That's good to know.

Time for another breakfast out!

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (SH2Zi)

42 "Thousands who 'followed the rules' are about to get covid,"
_____________

Isn't it odd how the left is such a big proponent of "following the rules" for some things (like forced vaccinations), but not for others (like immigration laws, or the second amendment, to cite just a couple of examples).

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (k4dH2)

43 30 Because you probably already have and fought it off without knowing it.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (QYPq3)

I thought so but my antibody test was negative. So now I don't know.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (Ez6QX)

========

You don't keep antibodies of everything you ever fought floating around in your bloodstream forever. They go away, replicated by T-cells when your body detects a similar infection. If you fought it off last year, you would have a negative antibody test.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (LvTSG)

44 I thought so but my antibody test was negative. So now I don't know.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (Ez6QX)

I've never had chickenpox (which came in handy when I started infusions) despite having been exposed repeatedly as a kid. Some people are just naturally protected from things others are not.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (QYPq3)

45 And you may ask...why has Dr. Fauci never gotten Covid 19?

And the hoi-polloi would probably reply "Because he was vaccinated!!!".
Yet many vaccinated HAVE come down with Covid 19, because there is growing evidence that the innoculations being given also weaken your native immune system.

I would wager that Fauci is taking Ivermectin as a prophylaxis against getting Covid 19. But as they have repeatedly said, Ivermectin does not work.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (tjZg/)

46 "Lessen the severity" reminds me of "created or saved." No way to prove or disprove either.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 30, 2021 01:13 PM (eA1RV)

Like the old turkey loaf in C rations. "Contains turkey and/ or chicken".

Posted by: Diogenes at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (axyOa)

47 I'll get better. End of srory.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (axyOa)

And you'll have real immunity. Congratulations.

Posted by: creeper at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (cTCuP)

48 Stop testing the asymptomatic. It ends tomorrow.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (eA1RV)

49 retty much how ESPN - and pretty much all sports news sites - reports each NFL player who "tests positive" for COVID. When it's an unvaxxinated player, they make a point to highlight that. When it's a vaxxinated player, they bury that fact in the article, if they bother to mention it at all.
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99% of the time its a vaccinated player. Cause that's how many of them are vaxxed.

Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (sBJSu)

50 42 Isn't it odd how the left is such a big proponent of "following the rules" for some things (like forced vaccinations), but not for others (like immigration laws, or the second amendment, to cite just a couple of examples).
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (k4dH2)

========

Question authority. Don't trust anyone over 30.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (LvTSG)

51 Just spitballin' here, but I am willing to bet that nearly all the passengers boarding Florida-based cruise ships are not Florida residents.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (P3gRi)

52 The news used to be fixated on deaths and instead they've shifted to cases. Perceptive, intelligent people will have noticed that shift. That means mask Davidians are not seeing it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (KZzsI)

53 >>Thousands who 'followed the rules' are about to get covid

Well. The Rules were retarded. So.

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (zhZO8)

54 For the first time since late hubby christened me "creeper" in 1998 I'm considering a new nick. I'm thinking about changing to "PUREBLOOD". I want to take it to them. Somebody once advised "Get in their face!" Sounds like good advice to me.

Posted by: creeper at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (cTCuP)

No. I like Creeper.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (SH2Zi)

55 I'll be glad when we never have to see Fauci on any network again. I assume that will happen at some point when he goes to enjoy his underserved huge pension and stock benefits from Big Pharm, unless the Biden cabal makes him the Science Czar and he can bloviate about absolutely everything related to medicine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (k49Sx)

56 who knew that viruses mutated??

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (Ynyl9)

57 "Cases" are meaningless, and also potentially false, depending on the testing protocol. Though bad but consistent metrics do reveal trends, and, well by golly, "surges" in "cases" are exactly what Hope-Simpson seasonality and geography call for right now. Surprise.

"Conservatives" can't help themselves, they absolutely must embrace the disastrously false framework of "cases" and the ability of society to manage or control an already prevalent highly infectious respiratory virus (narrator: can't be done, this was known).

Instead of annihilating the idiotic false framework in its entirety, and push for a return to science and common sense. It's not an academic quibble. It's very much part of how we got here, and how future prospects are darkened.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (OTzUX)

58 Was out and about earlier and am seeing a significant increase in face diapering. Hope y'all can glimpse an end to this madness because I sure can't.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (Xrfse)

59 Masque of the Blue Death baby

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (Hs9QZ)

60 30 Because you probably already have and fought it off without knowing it.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (QYPq3)

I thought so but my antibody test was negative. So now I don't know.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (Ez6QX)

Those are also not considered very accurate either way...

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (exHjb)

61 >>>Fauci has a face you just want to beat on with a pillowcase filled with bars of soap.
Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2021 01:07 PM (zhZO8

Padlocks.

Posted by: Turn Two at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (jPtGI)

62 "Lessen the severity" reminds me of "created or saved." No way to prove or disprove either.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 30, 2021 01:13 PM (eA1RV)

Kinda like Nigel's guitar that was famous for it's sustain.

"I'm not hearing anything."
"You WOULD, though - if it were playing."

https://youtu.be/g7-5io1muSQ

Posted by: Doof at December 30, 2021 01:17 PM (mZUr4)

63 I don't get why they are jumping up, and why everybody is suddenly getting tested.
Posted by: pj at December 30, 2021 01:10 PM (G1dq6)

Non-jabbed are now required to test 1-2 times per week as a condition of continued employment.

Posted by: Emmie at December 30, 2021 01:17 PM (t62xj)

64 58 Was out and about earlier and am seeing a significant increase in face diapering. Hope y'all can glimpse an end to this madness because I sure can't.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (Xrfse)

Neither can I

Posted by: It's me donna at December 30, 2021 01:17 PM (TdaKq)

65 >>Thousands who 'followed the rules' are about to get covid

Nobody has followed the "rules," because they have changed on a dime, without warning, and have been in flux, often contradicting earlier versions of the rules, since the beginning.

Fauci is the poster child of this.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:17 PM (SH2Zi)

66 who knew that viruses mutated??

Everyone who took science classes in high school.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 30, 2021 01:17 PM (Hs9QZ)

67 I think this Omicron deal is going to change everything. Two stories from casa blaster: 16yo daughter had a sore throat and headache and bodyaches. Tested positive for COVID. Was not feeling better after a couple of days, so her mother, a hypochondriac and Munchausen's By Proxy candidate, took her to the ER. She threw up there, and then she says she was miraculously better. No symptoms at all. None. New CDC 5 day rule set her free. (side note - I believe she had COVID in November 2019 - her dr diagnosed it as "mysterious virus" and she has had some undiagnosed and untreated long haul symptoms since. Those are now gone.)

15yo daughter works in fast food. Two coworkers tested positive, a third who she spent more time with has a sore throat, so he is getting tested. She calls out of work because she doesn't know her status and the earliest test we could find around here was Jan 10. They don't want her to call out because she is not positive and they probably have 3 out already and she is a hard worker too. She doesn't want to go without a test - so they send her a location to get tested today so she can work tomorrow.

Posted by: blaster at December 30, 2021 01:17 PM (mbFEM)

68 No. I like Creeper.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (SH2Zi)

The lady working the front desk at the hotel in TX was like, who are you people? Creeper, Berserker...what kind of names are those?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (Ez6QX)

69 I'm wondering how big of a crew was deemed necessary, at the CDC and at taxpayer expense, to create a big fucking red map of the United States?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (r0ADi)

70 All those hysterical asymptomatic idiots waiting in line to be tested.....
==
most of those people probably had been exposed to somebody who had it, and now they have to get tested to be cleared to go back to work............
Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at December 30, 2021 01:14 PM (sBJSu)

Work. Bwaaaaahahahahaha!

Jobs are for suckers.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (jsU0d)

71 With these rates so high; why aren't we hearing about hospitalizations and deaths?

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (00h1T)

72 Neither can I

Posted by: It's me donna at December 30, 2021 01:17 PM (TdaKq)

I see a slight uptick in masking, but very slight from near zero.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (SH2Zi)

73 Whoever is running Joetato's twitter feed ended the year on a high comedic note:

President Biden
@POTUS

United States government official
We're ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (KZzsI)

74 That's good to know. Time for another breakfast out!
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (SH2Zi)

Deal!

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (Ez6QX)

75 66 who knew that viruses mutated??

Everyone who took science classes in high school.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 30, 2021 01:17 PM (Hs9QZ)

There's the problem... HS Science promotes numerous sexes

Posted by: It's me donna at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (TdaKq)

76 Willingly, or NPCmatically, stand in line for hours to get tested -- I don't feel tardy to produce the super abundance of 'cases'. Has this newest drive to get tested been portrayed as another 'right thing to do'?

Doomed for lack of any common sense.

Posted by: micky at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (3byMq)

77 The lady working the front desk at the hotel in TX was like, who are you people? Creeper, Berserker...what kind of names are those?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (Ez6QX)

haha

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 30, 2021 01:19 PM (M+Lyo)

78 No. I like Creeper.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (SH2Zi)

Well, okay. And thank you. I'll just have to keep explaining that the nick comes from a 486 on dialup and there's nothing sinister about it.

Posted by: creeper at December 30, 2021 01:19 PM (cTCuP)

79 "Lessen the severity" reminds me of "created or saved." No way to prove or disprove either.
==
99+% survival. With or without a shot or shots. but lets everybody FREAK OUT and fire, and cancel anyone who doesn't kneel before the virus.

Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at December 30, 2021 01:19 PM (sBJSu)

80 Because you probably already have and fought it off without knowing it.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (QYPq3)
~~~~~

Yep.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 30, 2021 01:20 PM (0TVNF)

81 I smell the end of this com-chin nightmare and Ghislaine. I wonder how long it will take her to start chirping or choking.

Posted by: sidney at December 30, 2021 01:20 PM (LJJah)

82 by the way, I thought that "they" had caught on that most of us understood that "cases" really meant nothing, so they decided to instead us "infection"

just like another field of experts dropped 'global warming" for "climate change"

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 30, 2021 01:20 PM (Ynyl9)

83 With these rates so high; why aren't we hearing about hospitalizations and deaths?

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (00h1T)

Harder to game those numbers. Not impossible. But the reintroduction of the flu, the reduction of the term from 10 to 5 days, and other indicators appear to me to mean that the dems want this to be over out of political necessity.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:20 PM (SH2Zi)

84 After J.K. Rowling Takes Lead in Guardian's "Person of the Year" Poll Deactivated

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Well, you can't have a nonperson named "Person of the Year".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 01:20 PM (FVME7)

85 Posted by: creeper at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (cTCuP)

No. I like Creeper.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (SH2Zi)

Ditto. Use pureblood as a subtitle, but it's going to sound awfully 2021 in a few months. Besides, everybody in your ~~concentration~~ Happy Social Distancing Fun Camp(TM) will have that in common with you.

Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 30, 2021 01:20 PM (wAnMi)

86 T cells and B cells are the memory of the immune system and retain information about past infections. Antibodies wax during infection and wane after their job is done.

There are specific tests for T cell memory but it is expensive.

Adaptive has a specific T cell test that detects Covid 19 past infections. Emergency authorized by FDA.

Background, https://tinyurl.com/264dzmw8

Posted by: whig at December 30, 2021 01:20 PM (9hXN1)

87 @58: "Was out and about earlier and am seeing a significant increase in face diapering. Hope y'all can glimpse an end to this madness because I sure can't."

I went maskless at Walgreens in Minneapolis when I got my booster on Tuesday. I was the only one in the whole store at first, but I noticed a couple of people waiting in line at the pharmacy counter took theirs off after seeing me, and they realized I wasn't leaving or being kicked out anytime soon.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:20 PM (+WWsf)

88 I posted this in yesterday's ONT and it is worth posting again in this thread:

I don't know if this had already been posted but according to Aaron Rodgers, the NFL has been quietly getting their players Ivermectin to treat them whenever they showed any signs of the Chairman Xi flu:

https://tinyurl.com/2w9tacjn

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 30, 2021 01:20 PM (xxG/v)

89 77 The lady working the front desk at the hotel in TX was like, who are you people? Creeper, Berserker...what kind of names are those?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (Ez6QX)

LOL! The highlight of last years TXMoMe was walking up to Berserker and Jordan in front of the hotel and inquiring, "Are you Morons?"

Posted by: creeper at December 30, 2021 01:21 PM (cTCuP)

90 Yes; People who are not jabbed have to be tested every week. My husband has been but he's been off for the holidays so he won't have to be tested again until next Tuesday. I don't know what they do if there are no more tests readily available.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2021 01:21 PM (k49Sx)

91 The lady working the front desk at the hotel in TX was like, who are you people? Creeper, Berserker...what kind of names are those?
Posted by: Jordan61
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LOL!

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:21 PM (kMPrp)

92 The lady working the front desk at the hotel in TX was like, who are you people? Creeper, Berserker...what kind of names are those?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (Ez6QX)

haha

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 30, 2021 01:19 PM (M+Lyo)

lol We're morons, miss.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:21 PM (SH2Zi)

93 @34: "'Lessen the severity' reminds me of 'created or saved.' No way to prove or disprove either."

Yes! Very good comparison.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:21 PM (+WWsf)

94 The lady working the front desk at the hotel in TX was like, who are you people? Creeper, Berserker...what kind of names are those?
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (Ez6QX)

haha
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 30, 2021 01:19 PM (M+Lyo)

Good thing Masterbatin Pete wasnt there

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (M+Lyo)

95 Oh, isn't that nice. Isn't that so nice. Now we're to have compassion for the sick. When the Government-Media Complex tells us to. And not a moment before.

So, wait... the narrative is no longer "I hope all the dirty unvaxxed getting COVID all die!" Let me guess, that's still relevant, but if you're vaxxed and get COVID (which they said could not happen), we're supposed to have compassion.

Funny, I don't take lessons about the sanctity of human life from people who celebrate mass murder of babies in the womb. I won't wish anyone dead who has been hoping for me to die over the past 22 months, but I sure as shit am not going to give a damn if any of them do happen to die.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (Do5/p)

96 re 76: same people who are afraid to stand in line to vote. Maybe we can do free tests for the next variant for anyone who shows up to vote on election day.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (Ynyl9)

97 Continued - 15yo daughter is negative on the test so she will be working.

But they scared everyone with this stuff. And lots of people are going to get it vaxxed, boosted, and pureblood - AND BE FINE! But if a bunch of people get it, a bunch of people are going to be in contact and are going to want tests - that the Biden administration decided not to rush production because they wanted to remove testing as an alternative to vaccination. So all of those people waiting for tests would have to quarantine for 10 days under the old guideline. Think about the fast food restaurant - everyone there would be under quarantine for 10 days waiting for tests. So they reduced the guidance to 5 days.

Because SCIENCE!

Posted by: blaster at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (mbFEM)

98 If the media and the Democrats could let go of the COVID panic, it would help the Democrats political standing immensely. It have to be coordinates across all their outlets, government, education, news, sports, entertainment.

When the enemy is making a mistake - say nothing - if they knew it was a mistake they wouldn't be making it.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (ZEHVO)

99 Thankfully I don't get out much so I do not have to deal with the mask insanity. I hate those things. Reminds me, I need to wash my one cloth mask since I used it a bunch before Christmas.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (KZzsI)

100 I see a slight uptick in masking, but very slight from near zero.

Glad to hear it. Wish that were the case where I'm at.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (Xrfse)

101 Covid saved them from 4 more years of Trjmp, it's their Demi-God now, their life blood. They live, breath and worship Covid and they don't want it to ever go away.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (yKYHx)

102 90-Not everybody, I mean, but school bus drivers have to be tested.,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (k49Sx)

103 Stop testing the asymptomatic. It ends tomorrow.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (eA1RV)

I've said that again and again about the pro sports leagues.

Looks like they're going slowly that way.

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (00h1T)

104 Full quote: Dr. Fauci: "There is the danger that there will be so many people who are being isolated who are asymptomatic for the full ten days, that you could have a major negative impact on our ability to keep society running. So the decision was made of saying let's get that cut in half."

TL;DR: Who the f*ck is gonna weed my garden? Tell the peasants five days.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (7+6YJ)

105 "I would wager that Fauci is taking Ivermectin as a prophylaxis against getting Covid 19. But as they have repeatedly said, Ivermectin does not work."

If he has arthritis, he might already have a prescription for hydroxychloroquine. My father in law does, and has not gotten Covid in spite of my mother in law giving it to the rest of the family last Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (9D0Tv)

106 71 With these rates so high; why aren't we hearing about hospitalizations and deaths?
Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (00h1T)

You are, but they aren't as sexy - VA is on its way to hitting the same hospitalization peak it hit last Jan (if trends continue)...deaths will probably match (but hopefully be lower - that trend is still 2-3 weeks of records to ctach up to)...but cases will be much higher.

So, it's true that it's less lethal, but with more contagion, we'll probably see matched hospitalization and death numbers as last winter...

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (exHjb)

107 I noticed a couple of people waiting in line at the pharmacy counter took theirs off after seeing me, and they realized I wasn't leaving or being kicked out anytime soon.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:20 PM (+WWsf)

Yep. Just do it. If they want to kick you out, let them, and shop elsewhere.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (SH2Zi)

108 Good thing Masterbatin Pete wasn't there

Desk Clerk: So what name should I put down?

Masturbatin' Pete: Um... Pete. Just Pete.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

109 Well time to get moving, albeit slowly as my joints ache, so I can get another PCR test to see if I have the Wuhan Flu.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 30, 2021 01:23 PM (Hs9QZ)

110 Well, okay. And thank you. I'll just have to keep explaining that the nick comes from a 486 on dialup and there's nothing sinister about it.
Posted by: creeper at December 30, 2021 01:19 PM (cTCuP)

...

Good lord. Are you still loading the longcat gif in a background tab?

Posted by: TexasDan at December 30, 2021 01:23 PM (z9npv)

111 93 @34: "'Lessen the severity' reminds me of 'created or saved.' No way to prove or disprove either."

Yes! Very good comparison.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:21 PM (+WWsf)

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I imagine that this is something that you could actually figure out with the right experiment. A large study across a large population that tracks infections and symptoms in control and vaccine groups that documents a lot of health history from each participant in order to create a data set that could indicate the relative efficacy of a vaccine's effect on the severity of symptoms.

Has this experiment been carried out, or did every experiment get canceled when control groups were forced to get vaccinated?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:23 PM (LvTSG)

112 The highlight of last years TXMoMe was walking up to Berserker and Jordan in front of the hotel and inquiring, "Are you Morons?"
Posted by: creeper
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Also, Rancher Bob's neighbor came over to tell him someone put up a Moron sign on his property.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:23 PM (kMPrp)

113 New Pig Rules in California May Take Bacon Off the Table

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No! No! We've got to keep the Californians in California!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 01:23 PM (FVME7)

114 The Marine Corp has not approved a single Chi-Com Wu-Flu clot shot religious exemption request, out of over 3,000 requests submitted. Non-vaxxed officers and senior NCOs are reporting that they're being told flat out that its a political decision and they will be crushed. Denials are being issued so fast its hard to believe those in charge are even reviewing the requests. It's a purge.

Still no word from my agency, which might be a good thing at this point.

Posted by: Greyman27 at December 30, 2021 01:23 PM (RKLPC)

115 I never understood the pandemic of the unvaxxed bit. I mean the vaxxed brag about not having anything to do with the unvaxxed so how were they supposed to spread it amongst the vaxxed?

But then pshaw here I am talking rationally about stuff when it's the left/Democrats that are at the heart of it all. Those people are kookoo baby and I don't mean maybe. They should get turned away from hospitals for regular diseases. At least until they go see a psychiatrist and get a letter saying that they're on meds and that they are taking them and that they're much calmer now. Really.

Those are the people who need a Doctors letter to be let out amongst normal people.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 01:24 PM (6R0HD)

116 " covid is ravaging their own offices."

I read that as "orifices" but let's hope it's both.

Posted by: f'd at December 30, 2021 01:24 PM (Tnijr)

117 "Use pureblood as a subtitle"

Oh, I like that, Clutchx. Thanks much.

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 01:24 PM (cTCuP)

118 52 The news used to be fixated on deaths and instead they've shifted to cases. Perceptive, intelligent people will have noticed that shift. That means mask Davidians are not seeing it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (KZzsI)
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This. The shift speaks volumes. The MSM just wants clicks or eyeballs, and obviously they consider the number of deaths not to be efficacious for that purpose.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:24 PM (Zu/Cc)

119 LOL! The highlight of last years TXMoMe was walking up to Berserker and Jordan in front of the hotel and inquiring, "Are you Morons?"
Posted by: creeper at December 30, 2021 01:21 PM (cTCuP)

I just said that to Berserker the other day!

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:24 PM (Ez6QX)

120 Do not question the COVID Articles of Faith! High Priest Fauci has spoken! Send forth the Inquisition!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 30, 2021 01:24 PM (II3Gr)

121 >>Yep. Just do it. If they want to kick you out, let them, and shop elsewhere.

This has been my approach all along.
If they ask me to mask up I tell them I am willing to go, but I am never coming back to spend my monies. Ever.

They usually rush to get my order filled and take my money.

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2021 01:24 PM (zhZO8)

122 My God-daughter has Covid. She is vaxxed and boosted. Five other people in the house with her over Christmas, none vaccinated, none have it. That includes an elderly woman and a fatty.

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 30, 2021 01:24 PM (AD3JT)

123 With these rates so high; why aren't we hearing about hospitalizations and deaths?
Posted by: TC

Hospitalizations and death.

There, you heard about it. Is it real? Does it matter?

It's going to be a long, cold, dark winter for the un-vaccinated. I heard that from the President.
Is it real? Does it matter?

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (tjZg/)

124 I think this Omicron deal is going to change everything. Two stories from casa blaster: 16yo daughter had a sore throat and headache and bodyaches. Tested positive for COVID. Was not feeling better after a couple of days, so her mother, a hypochondriac and Munchausen's By Proxy candidate, took her to the ER. She threw up there, and then she says she was miraculously better. No symptoms at all. None. New CDC 5 day rule set her free. (side note - I believe she had COVID in November 2019 - her dr diagnosed it as "mysterious virus" and she has had some undiagnosed and untreated long haul symptoms since. Those are now gone.)

15yo daughter works in fast food. Two coworkers
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Agree. Everyone is going to get it all at once and it is going to freak everyone out. Jan Feb. However, it won't be as bad, most people will stay home. Most people will do well and have big good immunity thereafter. So the schools will close again for at least a few weeks. Look for the announcements next week.

Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (3rBCD)

125 President Biden
@POTUS

United States government official
We're ending 2021 with what one analyst who we paid a lot of money to and is also coincidentally married to one of our senior staffers described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years.

FIFY Brandon!

Posted by: blaster at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (mbFEM)

126 So much hypocrisy on how Dems handled Covid.
Posted by: Cameroom

It's an evergreen headline. Just replace "covid" with anything else.

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (P1f+c)

127 98 If the media and the Democrats could let go of the COVID panic, it would help the Democrats political standing immensely. It have to be coordinates across all their outlets, government, education, news, sports, entertainment.

=========

There's a significant portion of the public, especially the Democratic base, that are addicted to the panic. It has nothing to do with the virus itself, just the idea of being safe from the virus through being constantly on edge and panicky.

Turning away from covid panic could actually hurt Democrats with their base more than declaring victory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (LvTSG)

128 There are specific tests for T cell memory but it is expensive.

Adaptive has a specific T cell test that detects Covid 19 past infections. Emergency authorized by FDA.

Background, https://tinyurl.com/264dzmw8
Posted by: whig at December 30, 2021 01:20 PM (9hXN1)

$159, that's not so bad.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (Ez6QX)

129 >>" covid is ravaging their own offices."

>I read that as "orifices"

Restless Anus Synrome is a real thing.

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (zhZO8)

130 30% of the entire nation's new covid cases came from a single city -- New York City, media capital of the world.

well yeah, they've made themselves an Island of the Superspreaders with their vaxx passport policy.

vaxxees are contagion vectors without even realizing it

Posted by: kallisto at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (DJFLF)

131 When the enemy is making a mistake - say nothing - if they knew it was a mistake they wouldn't be making it.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (ZEHVO)
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I don't think they can help themselves. They're addicted to the panic.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (xqRaG)

132 got to pee a lot and I'm grumpy.
Posted by: Diogenes

Is this a change from your *normal* or are you just stating your current and typical production and attitude?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (QR5m0)

133 C'mon guys, we're all gonna die. Happy New Year.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (8Sqzu)

134 Any chance we can popularize the term "infective invective" to describe the contempt the left previously held for Covid patients?

Posted by: cayleygraph2015 at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (BHIzA)

135 Also, Rancher Bob's neighbor came over to tell him someone put up a Moron sign on his property.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:23 PM (kMPrp)

That was a hoot. The neighbor was sure someone had put that sign up maliciously and he thought Bob needed to take it down.

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (cTCuP)

136 Remember kids: The more we resist and say no, the more desperate they become.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (4olE8)

137 New Pig Rules in California May Take Bacon Off the Table

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No! No! We've got to keep the Californians in California!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 01:23 PM (FVME7)
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"A day without forcing people to do something - or forbidding from doing something - is like a day without sunshine." - California Democrat politicians

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (Zu/Cc)

138 A blast from the past for you at bottom. A clip of Nancy Pelosi in March 2020 telling us that the three most important parts of the COVID Relief Bill she was pushing are, "testing, testing, testing." (go to 1:44 in the clip.) She goes on to say that only adequate testing can show the way to a science-based way to beat COVID. It's infuriating to hear this oldie from the Party of Science and now watch Joe fumble the testing ball.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8z2mzc

Posted by: Gref at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (AMIL/)

139
I like non-GMO* better then Pureblood.

* GMO = genetically modified organism

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (dQvv7)

140 So at a MoMee do you wear nametags with your nick on them or just wing it and hope people remember? Because I am terrible with names to begin with and would never get anything right.

Which really is the story of my life.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (KZzsI)

141 The Marine Corp has not approved a single Chi-Com Wu-Flu clot shot religious exemption request, out of over 3,000 requests submitted. Non-vaxxed officers and senior NCOs are reporting that they're being told flat out that its a political decision and they will be crushed. Denials are being issued so fast its hard to believe those in charge are even reviewing the requests. It's a purge.
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Not just the Marines.

None of the branches have approved any religious exemptions.

And yes, it's a purge, and it will be stepped up bigly in January.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (kMPrp)

142 most of those people probably had been exposed to somebody who had it, and now they have to get tested to be cleared to go back to work or to a restaurant or whatever. . .

Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at December 30, 2021 01:14 PM

Yep, mandatory testing for all pro and college sports leagues. Mandatory testing for grammar schools and high schools. Mandatory weekly testing for my large company starting January 5th if they stick to their original policy they put out prior to Thanksgiving requiring everyone granted a medical or religious exemption to submit to weekly testing (even if 100% working from home, as I have been since March 2020). And on and on and on.

If they stop testing anyone but the symptomatic, this "pandemic" would end tomorrow. And even with the symptomatic, send out treatment kits with the testing kits, like they have been doing in India for over a year.

They won't do that, because they never want this to end. A patient cured is a customer lost. A country cured is a Plandemic lost.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (Do5/p)

143 Joe has done it! He's broken through!

Biden's Approval Rating Now 'Lower Than Kamala Harris'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (FVME7)

144 11 Get single-double-triple clotshotted, double-boosted,

If you add the word "skinny", it could be a SBUX concoction

Posted by: kallisto at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (DJFLF)

145 No one elected that nasty little shit. Get rid of him

Posted by: The Great Negro at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (YTBIQ)

146 Congratulations masterminds, half, maybe more of the country are certifiable lunatics and COVID hypochondriacs and shut-ins.

Whoever said this fever madness was going to break in February may want to re-think that assessment.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 30, 2021 01:27 PM (v+ImO)

147 @71; "With these rates so high; why aren't we hearing about hospitalizations and deaths?"

General hospital intakes numbers are up significantly last two weeks, but medical admins are being cagey about overall ICU numbers which are likely flat or barely up.

Death count is up too, but in line with seasonal variance, and down significantly as a percentage of hospitalizations compared to last year.

However, I would expect some crisis "at or beyond capacity" stories to begin bubbling up after New Years when people are back at work and paying attention to news again.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:27 PM (+WWsf)

148 I don't think they can help themselves. They're addicted to the panic.
Posted by: zmdavid at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (xqRaG)
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Yep. Democrats: " _______ is the moral equivalent of war!"

They love that kind of hysteria.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:27 PM (Zu/Cc)

149 The Soviets purged their military ranks and in spite of all the German screw ups, the Krauts still almost took Moscow.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 30, 2021 01:27 PM (Hs9QZ)

150 I see a slight uptick in masking, but very slight from near zero.

Glad to hear it. Wish that were the case where I'm at.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (Xrfse)

I have noticed a slight uptick around here, going to stores. Either the very young, or the very old, or very "hispanic".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 30, 2021 01:27 PM (P3gRi)

151 Turning away from covid panic could actually hurt Democrats with their base more than declaring victory.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM (LvTSG)
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They are indeed addicted to the panic, but nothing will split them from their base. Their candidate could drop puppies in a blender on live TV and they'd still support him.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 30, 2021 01:27 PM (xqRaG)

152 I'm shocked that during a huge travel season areas with huge travel are also seeing tons of tests... since they are required to travel.

Shocked I tell YOU!

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 30, 2021 01:27 PM (53oGX)

153 There's a significant portion of the public, especially the Democratic base, that are addicted to the panic. It has nothing to do with the virus itself, just the idea of being safe from the virus through being constantly on edge and panicky.

Turning away from covid panic could actually hurt Democrats with their base more than declaring victory.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I call it the Psychological Sunk Cost Fallacy.

They've all invested so much, they can't pull out now. Or ever.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (OssQ4)

154 15yo daughter works in fast food.[/]

Good lord no wonder it looks like Bugsy Malone when you go into one of those places.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (KZzsI)

155 143 Joe has done it! He's broken through!

Biden's Approval Rating Now 'Lower Than Kamala Harris'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (FVME7)
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Go, Joe, go!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (Zu/Cc)

156 It's infuriating to hear this oldie from the Party of Science and now watch Joe fumble the testing ball.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8z2mzc
Posted by: Gref at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (AMIL/)

He did not fumble it. He intentionally grounded it.

Posted by: blaster at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (mbFEM)

157 So at a MoMee do you wear nametags with your nick on them or just wing it and hope people remember? Because I am terrible with names to begin with and would never get anything right.

Which really is the story of my life.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (KZzsI)

We have nametags.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (Ez6QX)

158 I have to wonder how much this surge in new cases is an artifact of an increase in testing. How many of these cases have no, or only mild, symptoms? "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." - FDR.

Posted by: Nemo at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (S6ArX)

159 I'll stick with my apple flavored horse paste thank you.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (GYllL)

160 Somewhat related: Coastal city tech start-up carpetbagger announce move to icky Florida:

@haridigresses
This is such a cliche, but we're moving to Miami.
I know there's plenty to be apprehensive about. Worse politics (from our perspective), its own superficiality, weather issues, critters, guns. . . but lots to love about food, warmth, service industry, vibrancy. . .

https://tinyurl.com/3ex7spsh (replies are good)

Here's a thought: Instead of announcing how you want to change icky Florida, how about you live in the California Hellhole city you created? (This guy bragged about donating to the Bail Project then whined about crime)

Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (URNdm)

161 136 Remember kids: The more we resist and say no, the more desperate they become.
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Oh my, what to do?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (8Sqzu)

162 And yes, it's a purge, and it will be stepped up bigly in January.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (kMPrp)

...

I have a feeling this is eventually going to turn into the for want of a horseshoe situation. But it's a lot of horseshoes.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (z9npv)

163 "Home of the Fee, Land of the Slave"

Enjoy servitude, these fucking spineless weasels, everwhere it seems.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 30, 2021 01:29 PM (K3Cm5)

164
General hospital intakes numbers are up significantly last two weeks, but medical admins are being cagey about overall ICU numbers which are likely flat or barely up.

Death count is up too, but in line with seasonal variance, and down significantly as a percentage of hospitalizations compared to last year.

However, I would expect some crisis "at or beyond capacity" stories to begin bubbling up after New Years when people are back at work and paying attention to news again.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:27 PM (+WWsf)

VA's are always public - Northam didn't do practically anything right, but he was the 1st blue gov to realize you ust keep things open and let folks decide - CRT/teachers/Afghan lost the election for him, not the Covid response...https://www .vhha.com/communications /virginia-hospital-covid-19-data-dashboard/

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 01:29 PM (exHjb)

165 The Soviets purged their military ranks and in spite of all the German screw ups, the Krauts still almost took Moscow.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Anna, our military is running on fumes now.

And God help us if Russia and China do more than just saber-rattling.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:29 PM (kMPrp)

166 I think the sudden shift in the narrative is a sign that they're getting ready to push Biden out to pasture. "We've done all that we can, and save the US from the evil Trump admin, but now we just have to endure this" will be the message because they don't want to go into a Harris admin with COVID still an issue.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 30, 2021 01:29 PM (wmDcS)

167 141
Hard to feel sorry for those being purged, really. What the hell are they doing there in the first place? Theyre working for fucking tyrants

Posted by: The Great Negro at December 30, 2021 01:29 PM (YTBIQ)

168 >>So at a MoMee do you wear nametags with your nick on them

Just my bedazzled Crocs.

Literally. Just.

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2021 01:29 PM (zhZO8)

169 Evergreen - Remy: You want people to die!

https://youtu.be/eXWhbUUE4ko

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:29 PM (KZzsI)

170 2 typos, 1 post - ahh!
ust = just
him = his party

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (exHjb)

171 So at a MoMee do you wear nametags with your nick on them or just wing it and hope people remember? Because I am terrible with names to begin with and would never get anything right.

Which really is the story of my life.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (KZzsI)

We have nametags.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (Ez6QX)

Jah, I always bring some shirt stickers for folks to use.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (V6f9+)

172 You really can't blame the COVIDIOTS for their addiction to the hoax. It has provided most of them with more excitement than they've seen in the past ten years.

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (cTCuP)

173 It's almost like the two clowns, McConnell and McCarthy should call a press conference and call BS on all of this new deadly case nonsense.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (GYllL)

174 We have nametags.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (Ez6QX)

When I come to the MoMe, I'm not gonna wear a name tag and see if people can guess who I am by my natural retarded demeanor.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (7+6YJ)

175 Biden administration decided not to rush production because they wanted to remove testing as an alternative to vaccination. So all of those people waiting for tests would have to quarantine for 10 days under the old guideline. Think about the fast food restaurant - everyone there would be under quarantine for 10 days waiting for tests. So they reduced the guidance to 5 days.

Because SCIENCE!

Posted by: blaster at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM

They are setting up a final showdown with Covid. Everybody gets Omicron now, vaxxed or not, and it's over, for better or worse. They don't realize that's what they are doing, and that's why it's probably the right thing to do.

Posted by: Man of means (by no means) at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (1Mjr/)

176 23 Now due the numbers for herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, genital warts and The Slims.

I'll wait.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 30, 2021 01:11 PM (R/m4+)

Welcome to The Villages, America's Friendliest Home Town

Posted by: Fox2! at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (qyH+l)

177 Also, Rancher Bob's neighbor came over to tell him someone put up a Moron sign on his property.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:23 PM (kMPrp)

lol, to hear him explain that.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (SH2Zi)

178 SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM

Heard similar news about the AF, but not the other two branches. It will be DOD-wide, you are correct. Meanwhile, its decimating many of our SOCOM units, the fittest and healthiest service members there are.

Posted by: Greyman27 at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (RKLPC)

179 The highlight of last years TXMoMe was walking up to Berserker and Jordan in front of the hotel and inquiring, "Are you Morons?"
Posted by: creeper
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I rate this comment as "true".

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (DnWKq)

180 Good lord no wonder it looks like Bugsy Malone when you go into one of those places.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (KZzsI)

She looks older but, yeah, her coworkers do not.

My Dunkin Donuts has a sign on the door that they are hiring. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

Posted by: blaster at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (mbFEM)

181 @83: "... other indicators appear to me to mean that the dems want this to be over out of political necessity."

Political necessity born out of dutifully double and triple vaxxed deep blue city worrywarts suddenly testing positive and not knowing how to deal with the anxiety and shame.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (+WWsf)

182 So at a MoMee do you wear nametags with your nick on them or just wing it and hope people remember? Because I am terrible with names to begin with and would never get anything right.

Which really is the story of my life.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM

My fear - and why I backed out of going to Michigan MoMe a couple years ago - is that I will walk up and everyone will smile and say 'hi!' and then I'll reveal my nic and the smiles will immediately vanish and people mutter "oh, you're *that* guy..."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (Do5/p)

183 Branch Covidians?

Who coined that?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 30, 2021 01:31 PM (Hs9QZ)

184 I guess this is as good a place as any:

Here's a JAMA study regarding fully vaxxed who are hospitalized.

SPOILER: 1% of vaxxed patients studied had serious outcomes, including death, whereas 2% of unvaxxed had similar outcomes.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9y7ch6

Posted by: kallisto at December 30, 2021 01:31 PM (DJFLF)

185 Related stolen stuff:
The CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) withdraws use of the PCR test for COVID and finally admits what I have been saying for two years .. the test can not differentiate between the flu and COVID virus.

After December 31, 2021, the CDC will withdraw emergency use authorization of the PCR test for COVID-19 testing.

Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR, said many years ago that the PCR should not be used to diagnose infectious diseases, "It does not tell you that you are sick."

Convenient.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 30, 2021 01:31 PM (coYBh)

186 151 They are indeed addicted to the panic, but nothing will split them from their base. Their candidate could drop puppies in a blender on live TV and they'd still support him.
Posted by: zmdavid at December 30, 2021 01:27 PM (xqRaG)

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We're not talking about "so and so is a hypocrite to the progressive cause," or anything. This is attacking people's sense of safety. It's essentially a pocketbook issue at this point. Covid safety is like inflation for some.

Also, it has a lot more to do with things than just a general election. Far left challengers who want to shut down the country forever until covid-0 could unseat some relatively safe moderates in primary races, leading to an increase in competitive races Democrats face next year.

They're in a bind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:31 PM (LvTSG)

187 My fear - and why I backed out of going to Michigan MoMe a couple years ago - is that I will walk up and everyone will smile and say 'hi!' and then I'll reveal my nic and the smiles will immediately vanish and people mutter "oh, you're *that* guy..."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (Do5/p)

Trust me, that won't happen.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:31 PM (Ez6QX)

188 Joe has done it! He's broken through!
Biden's Approval Rating Now 'Lower Than Kamala Harris'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Go, Joe, go!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

I did that!

Posted by: Joe Biden....President Meat Puppet at December 30, 2021 01:31 PM (tjZg/)

189 In February 2020, I caught a nasty cold, fever, coughing...the works. I thought later in March, hey maybe it was Covid.

In April I had the anti-body test - it came back positive for the anti-bodies, but at the lowest end of the scale. Everyone I talked to, friends or family, all said "Oh, you didn't have Covid, it would have shown a lot of anti-bodies! You need to get vaxx'd, asap!"

I tried to explain about fading anti-bodies and T-cell memory but finally Mrs. Boswell put her foot down - get vaxx'd or else...

I have been everywhere since then - LA, NYC, Antigua, Florida...grocery stores, bars, restaurants, hardware stores, and crowded train stations - never caught a thing - was just at the grocery store yesterday. I doubt I'll ever get OMG-a-con or anything else.

Posted by: Boswell at December 30, 2021 01:32 PM (5iUNf)

190 @84: "Well, you can't have a nonperson named 'Person of the Year'."

It does create an opportunity for some semi-rational liberal group to give her a "Bigot of the Year" award in jest though.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:32 PM (+WWsf)

191 New Pig Rules in California May Take Bacon Off the Table

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No! No! We've got to keep the Californians in California!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 01:23 PM (FVME7)

Yup, next week we'll see just how many farms there are that meet the new regulations. Time to stock up on chops and ribs. Of course, this means that prices on beef and chicken are going to go up even more. If this doesn't prompt more LatinX people to vote red, I'm not sure what will.

My local taqueria will no doubt stop selling their delish tacos al pastor, and carnitas. Also have to wonder about the local BBQ joints - considering 80% of what they sell is pork ribs or sausages. And what about the sausage manufacturers? I guess they'll have to move out of state.

CA: Shoplifting up to $1k in merchandise is ok. Shitting on the street is ok. Shooting up on the street is ok. Breaking into people's cars is ok. Beating old Asian people is ok. Burning down a racist's house is ok.

DROP THAT RIB AND BACK AWAY FROM THE BABY RAY'S SAUCE NOW!

Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 30, 2021 01:32 PM (wAnMi)

192 All U.S. military branches have begun disciplinary actions and/or discharges for service members who have refused to get the mandated coronavirus vaccine, with as many as 20,000 unvaxxed personnel at risk of being removed from service.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=121126

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:32 PM (kMPrp)

193 Here's a thought: Instead of announcing how you want to change icky Florida, how about you live in the California Hellhole city you created? (This guy bragged about donating to the Bail Project then whined about crime)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (URNdm)

...

He could have moved to icky Houston and kept the crime. 150 people killed this year by capital murder suspects out on bail.

People who know they are going to jail for life or perhaps execution are given free time to do what they will--they can't make the outcome worse, so the restraint of the law (which was already not enough to stay their hand) now has truly zero meaning to them.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 30, 2021 01:32 PM (z9npv)

194 Forgot to put it back in the nic.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 01:32 PM (G0Xte)

195 SMH yep. Demoralization

And the PRC and Russia really don't need to sabre rattle, just get their proxies active.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 30, 2021 01:32 PM (Hs9QZ)

196 "If the media and the Democrats could let go of the COVID panic, it would help the Democrats political standing immensely. It have to be coordinates across all their outlets, government, education, news, sports, entertainment."

Ain't happening. Fear and hate attract attention, which means clicks, which means advertisers' dollars. As Marshall McLuhan said many years ago, "Television news is bad in order to sell the good news of advertising." The only rational response is to turn it off.

Posted by: Nemo at December 30, 2021 01:32 PM (S6ArX)

197 166 I think the sudden shift in the narrative is a sign that they're getting ready to push Biden out to pasture. "We've done all that we can, and save the US from the evil Trump admin, but now we just have to endure this" will be the message because they don't want to go into a Harris admin with COVID still an issue.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 30, 2021 01:29 PM (wmDcS)

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How do you willingly get Biden to resign?

It's already known that he molested his daughter. How much more do they have on him that will get him to give up the most powerful position in government?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:32 PM (LvTSG)

198 My fear - and why I backed out of going to Michigan MoMe a couple years ago - is that I will walk up and everyone will smile and say 'hi!' and then I'll reveal my nic and the smiles will immediately vanish and people mutter "oh, you're *that* guy..."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (Do5/p)
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Dude - they put up with *me*...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 30, 2021 01:33 PM (DnWKq)

199 @haridigresses
This is such a cliche, but we're moving to Miami.
I know there's plenty to be apprehensive about. Worse politics (from our perspective), its own superficiality, weather issues, critters, guns. . . but lots to love about food, warmth, service industry, vibrancy. . .

https://tinyurl.com/3ex7spsh (replies are good)

Here's a thought: Instead of announcing how you want to change icky Florida, how about you live in the California Hellhole city you created? (This guy bragged about donating to the Bail Project then whined about crime)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (URNdm)
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Here's the original article: https://tinyurl.com/y3fx69mf

Obviously Gupta learned f-all from SF.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:33 PM (Zu/Cc)

200 They've all invested so much, they can't pull out now. Or ever.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 30, 2021 01:28 PM (OssQ4)

Coincidentally that's also how I got three kids..

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 30, 2021 01:33 PM (53oGX)

201 I have to wonder how much this surge in new cases is an artifact of an increase in testing.

Yeah I suspect that plays a major role. If they had nation-blanketing tests on the common cold, how many would test positive despite not having much if any in the way of symptoms?

I mean, back when the cold existed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:33 PM (KZzsI)

202 I would put "kurt" on my nametag to see the reaction.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 01:33 PM (bKdTl)

203 The Soviets purged their military ranks and in spite of all the German screw ups, the Krauts still almost took Moscow.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 30, 2021 01:27 PM (Hs9QZ)

If the Germans had a competent commander they would have taken Moscow.

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 01:33 PM (00h1T)

204 Just an alert. A new poster in the previous thread (Post 390) seems to be using real names in connection with people in their town whom they are accusing of being pedophiles. Post should probably be yanked.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2021 01:34 PM (k49Sx)

205 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM (Do5/p)

The use of a rapid test to drive policy is fucking insane. You are absolutely correct...stop testing the asymptomatic.

Although I love how hard it has hit woke sports!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2021 01:34 PM (EFVbm)

206 How do you willingly get Biden to resign?

It's already known that he molested his daughter. How much more do they have on him that will get him to give up the most powerful position in government?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:32 PM (LvTSG)

I don't think he will...and what Democratic party member wants to actually vote their own standard bearer out (which they'd be required to do under the 25th)?

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 01:34 PM (exHjb)

207 My Dunkin Donuts has a sign on the door that they are hiring. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

Posted by: blaster at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (mbFEM)

That was normal back in the 70's. Every fast food joint was run by High School kids.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 30, 2021 01:34 PM (oHd/0)

208 I would put "kurt" on my nametag to see the reaction.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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lol

You looking to be a target?

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:34 PM (kMPrp)

209
President Biden
@POTUS

United States government official
We're ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Mister Biden is the greatest president of all time!

Posted by: That one analyst at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (63Dwl)

210 >>Here's the original article: https://tinyurl.com/y3fx69mf

Obviously Gupta learned f-all from SF.

Thanks! Love how Ravi the San Francisco tech incubator refers to himself as a "wandering Midwesterner." Please.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (URNdm)

211 Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR, said many years ago that the PCR should not be used to diagnose infectious diseases, "It does not tell you that you are sick."

Convenient.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 30, 2021 01:31 PM (coYBh)

Kary Mullis loathed Dr. Fauci long before any of this nonsense. He was a HUGE critic. He was also as nuts as he was intelligent, but honest. If you have never gone down the Kary Mullis rabbit hole, you are missing out.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (QYPq3)

212 If the US had competent commanders they would have nuked Moscow and Berlin.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (K3Cm5)

213 OH "people who followed all the rules" are getting covid so we have to have compassion but we certainly can't mention that this means that "all the rules" seem to be as helpful as tits on a boar, cuz that might imply that choosing to think for oneself and reject rules that you decide are stupid and worthless is fine.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (3cGpq)

214 Check out the malignant narcissism on Anthony Fauci in this interview with Hugh Hewitt.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxb3x73

Despite what Sinister Fauci says, his persona and past is THE reason I believe the vaccine is meant to harm people.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (sI15f)

215 I thought so but my antibody test was negative. So now I don't know.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (Ez6QX)

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You don't keep antibodies of everything you ever fought floating around in your bloodstream forever. They go away, replicated by T-cells when your body detects a similar infection. If you fought it off last year, you would have a negative antibody test.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:15 PM (LvTSG)
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This ^^^ is exactly true. There is a test to see if you have memory T-cells but you need a script for it.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (0TVNF)

216 I would put "kurt" on my nametag to see the reaction.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 01:33 PM (bKdTl)

Lol.

I'm getting a mask made with "Hello My Name is Boulder" printed on it to wear.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (7+6YJ)

217 "It's almost like the two clowns, McConnell and McCarthy should call a press conference and call BS on all of this new deadly case nonsense."

It's easy to forget that there even is an "opposition" party in the US, or that there are any adults at all, apart from a handful of governors, mayors, sheriffs, and county supervisors. At no point in this entire catastrophe has there been anything close to a coherent, intelligent take-down of the absurdly unscientific garbage underlying *all* of the "response".

But the electorate that produced, and tolerates, this situation is what it is. And it is the problem.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (OTzUX)

218 Uh oh. Now there's an F-35 variant!

A New F-35 Stealth Fighter "Variant" Is Coming Soon: What We Know

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (FVME7)

219 The weekend is coming, the weekend is coming!

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (yKYHx)

220
In my county we're seeing 'new cases' at a rate four times that of a month ago. Deaths at 1.1% over the week before.

Local hospital parking lot with room for 1,000 cars standing room only during the day, maybe 50 cars in the wee hours.

I'm pretty sure I picked it up last week and it's pretty much annoying, while the wife is fine. But she's religiously taking zinc, D3, and a glass of wine with dinner. I tend to slack on the supplements. Unless beer is considered a supplement.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 30, 2021 01:36 PM (dQvv7)

221 My Dunkin Donuts has a sign on the door that they are hiring. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

Posted by: blaster at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (mbFEM)

...

Did they have someone standing by the sign to help the high school students sound out the words?

Posted by: TexasDan at December 30, 2021 01:36 PM (z9npv)

222 You really can't blame the COVIDIOTS for their addiction to the hoax. It has provided most of them with more excitement than they've seen in the past ten years.

It is an ugly combination of fear and people feeling like their lives mean something because they are FIGHTING THE ENEMY. They feel like they're the next Greatest Generation battling an evil force Just Like In The Movies and they are the Chosen Ones who will Make A Difference.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:36 PM (KZzsI)

223 106 71 With these rates so high; why aren't we hearing about hospitalizations and deaths?
Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 01:18 PM (00h1T)

You are, but they aren't as sexy - VA is on its way to hitting the same hospitalization peak it hit last Jan (if trends continue)...deaths will probably match (but hopefully be lower - that trend is still 2-3 weeks of records to ctach up to)...but cases will be much higher.

So, it's true that it's less lethal, but with more contagion, we'll probably see matched hospitalization and death numbers as last winter...

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 01:22 PM (exHjb)

"Deaths from COVID" will very likely spike even though the Omicron variant is (supposedly) milder. Because more people who die of causes other than COVID will test positive post-mortem. More COVID cases means there will be more people dying WITH COVID. Which is counted as a COVID death as we here know, but is not told to the COVIDiot brigades. Ugh.

Posted by: Gref at December 30, 2021 01:36 PM (AMIL/)

224 How do you willingly get Biden to resign?

It's already known that he molested his daughter. How much more do they have on him that will get him to give up the most powerful position in government?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:32 PM (LvTSG)

The press will suddenly take an interest in Ashley Biden's diary. State and local prosecutors will suddenly take an interest in Hunter Biden's laptop.

Biden can spend his twilight years in comfort, receiving praise from the left for his short presidency, or he can fight, and eventually be utterly humiliated.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 30, 2021 01:36 PM (wmDcS)

225 Turning away from covid panic could actually hurt Democrats with their base more than declaring victory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:25 PM

Probably because the left likes all these COVID policies as a way to punish conservatives. They don't mind obeying their masters wearing their masks and getting their jabs, because it's a small price to pay (right now) for being able to deny all those who don't comply from having freedom.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:36 PM (Do5/p)

226
"Hey, it's the Closet Gnome! HeyTony, want to be a rotisserie chicken like last time?"

-The Boys in the Bathhouse, 1987

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 30, 2021 01:37 PM (2iDSr)

227 Is Covid really still a thing? I'm only 1/2 joking. I know it's a thing in the MSM and on KarentTwitter. But in real life..... it really isn't anymore. Even in blue areas.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 01:37 PM (OalnH)

228 I don't know if this had already been posted but according to Aaron Rodgers, the NFL has been quietly getting their players Ivermectin to treat them whenever they showed any signs of the Chairman Xi flu:
* * *

They'd be foolish not to. The Indian government and WHO handed out boxes of cheap covid meds (Vit D, zinc, ivermectin, etc.) in Uttar Pradesh, and virtually wiped out covid there -- despite that state, which has hundreds of millions of mainly poor Indians, having a very low vaccination rate.

Ivermectin and the other things work, but you have to take them early. If you wait until you're having trouble breathing, it's too late. There have been studies elsewhere that have shown this too.

If our government had handed out the $3 "magic boxes" here a couple of years ago, it probably would have saved thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of American lives.

Instead, they told people to wear masks, painted arrows on store floors, and told people not to go to the hospital until they were having trouble breathing.

The response to this thing was completely insane, and caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and trillions of dollars in economic damage.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 30, 2021 01:37 PM (k4dH2)

229 >>> "Thousands who 'followed the rules' are about to get covid,"

I did neither.

Posted by: fluffy; pureblood at December 30, 2021 01:37 PM (UnQlg)

230 @29: "If the media and the Democrats could let go of the COVID panic ..."

Except COVID panic is too deeply ingrained in the intersectional woke progressive religion to be discarded from the top down. The true believers, and their friends and family by extensions, won't let go of the daily masking and distancing rituals anytime soon because it gives their lives more meaning.

They might dial down the aggressive Karen type behavior against others in public, but voluntary masks and angry stares aren't going away anytime soon.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:37 PM (+WWsf)

231 >>My Dunkin Donuts has a sign on the door that they are hiring. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

My son has worked at BK and then Chipotle while in HS.
His college-aged cousin, sadly an uber-Lefty raised in Boston area, cringed at the suggestion she get a similar job last summer. Some kids think they're above entry-level work.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 01:37 PM (URNdm)

232 We're at the point in the scam where the principals are starting to make for the exits and the mark is scratching their head over what they just heard and are about to ask another pertinent question but everyone's at the exits or already gone.

We'll see a tapering of Walensky first cause she's burned out. She's not that great a liar.

Fauci is in the business for this opportunity. He had a tiny taste back during the AIDS deal and he's never lost it and wanted more. Trouble is the nets will start having more sane and normal people on as they see that their ratings dip even farther these days when tony's on. Remember when the Creepy Porn Lawyer started to fade and then next thing we know he's being indicted.
Now Tony is due for a couple investigations by the IG and they're quiet about it for reasons so we won't hear about it till it's over and they're sending Tony home while they do some other investigations and take testimony. But no they won't fire fire him.

Note they're already making headlines out of how much he'll get when he retires. That's gonna piss off a few people in the FedGov.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 01:37 PM (6R0HD)

233 VA's are always public - Northam didn't do practically anything right, but he was the 1st blue gov to realize you ust keep things open and let folks decide - CRT/teachers/Afghan lost the election for him, not the Covid response...https://www .vhha.com/communications /virginia-hospital-covid-19-data-dashboard/
Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 01:29 PM (exHjb)

Kinda. Northam could not run for re-election so McAuliffe was back up.

But the school situation began with the school boards not listening on school closures. After they got all Karen-y on that, they felt empowered to transgenderize and CRT the kids, too.

Posted by: blaster at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (mbFEM)

234 get vaxx'd or else...

what was the ultimatum?

Posted by: kallisto at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (DJFLF)

235 224 The press will suddenly take an interest in Ashley Biden's diary. State and local prosecutors will suddenly take an interest in Hunter Biden's laptop.

Biden can spend his twilight years in comfort, receiving praise from the left for his short presidency, or he can fight, and eventually be utterly humiliated.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 30, 2021 01:36 PM (wmDcS)

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But the press isn't monolithic, as we're seeing with the attempt to declare victory over covid.

It would erupt in a giant Democratic civil war fought in the press.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (LvTSG)

236 I'm just a myth.

Posted by: Cold and Flu Season at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (+S1Fy)

237 I'll reveal my nic and the smiles will immediately vanish and people mutter "oh, you're *that* guy..."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (Do5/p)

Followed by lots of 'ette hugs. It's awful.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (SH2Zi)

238 The use of a rapid test to drive policy is fucking insane. You are absolutely correct...stop testing the asymptomatic.

You sniffed something that might be covid - or just the flu. We have no idea if your body fought it off or not.

Posted by: PCR test results at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (NB7Tx)

239 FJB is a rapist and a child molester. These are facts. Democrats don't care. The only thing they care about is power.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (bKdTl)

240 Language in the '22 Defense Auth Act states that vaxx refusers can only be discharged under Honorable or General. Guess we'll see if the military remembers who they work for.

Posted by: Greyman27 at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (RKLPC)

241 Here's a JAMA study regarding fully vaxxed who are hospitalized.

SPOILER: 1% of vaxxed patients studied had serious outcomes, including death, whereas 2% of unvaxxed had similar outcomes.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9y7ch6
Posted by: kallisto at December 30, 2021 01:31 PM (DJFLF)

Depending on the size of the study, and the way the numbers are crunched, that could mean exactly no significant difference. 1.499% rounds down to 1%, 1.501 rounds up to 2%.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 30, 2021 01:39 PM (P3gRi)

242 I'm getting a mask made with "Hello My Name is Boulder" printed on it to wear.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (7+6YJ)

Boulder is a friend of mine. I believe he has reconsidered his position, although I didn't ask last time I saw him. But he wasn't wearing a mask and accepted a hug.

Can we extend grace if he decides to come back to the comments, please? If we knew him a little better, I think we would understand his reaction better.

Posted by: Emmie at December 30, 2021 01:39 PM (t62xj)

243 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (Do5/p)

I'd feel privileged to meet you Shelton. Too bad I never leave my house.

Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 01:39 PM (8yiy6)

244 Did they have someone standing by the sign to help the high school students sound out the words?
Posted by: TexasDan at December 30, 2021 01:36 PM (z9npv)

That is the first step of the application....

Posted by: blaster at December 30, 2021 01:39 PM (mbFEM)

245 They intend to kill us all

Medical Licensing Authority Requesting Files of Patients Prescribed Ivermectin, Doctor Says

https://bityl.co/AIB0

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 30, 2021 01:39 PM (yQpMk)

246 If the Germans had a competent commander they would have taken Moscow.
Posted by: TC

They had some excellent field generals, and some excellent tactics employed to reach objectives. And the Soviets made repeated stupid mistakes and allowed large formations to get encircled repeatedly. But they (the Germans) were at the END of their supply lines, and were getting conflicting strategic direction from the top of the German Command. They had also been in the field, campaigning since June 22, and many soldiers and officers were frankly exhausted. Staff officers serving directly under Hitler in Berlin were given conflicting directions, as to the progress of the war on the Eastern Front.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (tjZg/)

247 >>Is Covid really still a thing? I'm only 1/2 joking. I know it's a thing in the MSM and on KarentTwitter. But in real life. . . it really isn't anymore. Even in blue areas.

Yes. My mom was in the hospital for two weeks earlier this month, and they were dealing with huge breakouts within the hospital. Made visits difficult, only allowed one visitor per day, masks, hand sanitizer all the other precautions.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (URNdm)

248 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2021 01:34 PM (k49Sx)

Thank you.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (EFVbm)

249 Language in the '22 Defense Auth Act states that vaxx refusers can only be discharged under Honorable or General. Guess we'll see if the military remembers who they work for.
Posted by: Greyman27 at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (RKLPC)

That was more or less the policy anyway, so not sure what the language accomplished

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (Irn0L)

250 DM article yesterday, Queensland had 2,222 new cases and none in the ICU.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (ZgB9e)

251 > And yes, it's a purge, and it will be stepped up bigly in January.

In some regards, I can't help but wonder if this the Lord's way of protecting His own from the second horseman. Send them home, and let those who take the mark fight instead.

Posted by: me at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (9p+wn)

252 The Almighty does have a wonderful sense of humor and timing, even of it involves a cold virus.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (N2of/)

253 Thanks! Love how Ravi the San Francisco tech incubator refers to himself as a "wandering Midwesterner." Please.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (URNdm)
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Maybe he meant the midwestern part of India.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (Zu/Cc)

254 >>> I'll stick with my apple flavored horse paste thank you.

>apple flavored? Luxury! When I was deworming my horses, I'd have to jam my fist with the syringe into the back of the horse's mouth and squirt the paste onto the back of his tongue or he'd spit it out.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (r0ADi)

255 But he wasn't wearing a mask and accepted a hug.

Posted by: Emmie at December 30, 2021 01:39 PM (t62xj)

Can confirm.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (Ez6QX)

256 Disclose.tv
at_disclosetv

NEW - CDC quietly revised their guidance: Exit after 5-day isolation not only when you are "asymptomatic," but also when your "symptoms are resolving."

"symptoms are resolving" is stated as being "24 hours without a fever"

https://bit.ly/3eElsY1

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (Do5/p)

257 @111: "I imagine that this is something that you could actually figure out with the right experiment."

Agreed, JamesMad, but such a wide study with even more complex data just makes it easier for some people to hack their way to preferred conclusions, and wave their hands around while most people's eyes glaze over.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (+WWsf)

258 Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 30, 2021 01:37 PM (k4dH2)

Its very instructive that the 'Medical guidelines' for illegals caught at the border do NOT include the Vaxx...

but DO include Ivermectin... supposedly for 'parasites'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (oHd/0)

259 United States government official
We're ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years.

Strongest inflation, strongest gas prices, strongest decline in consumer confidence...

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (bKdTl)

260
"Emergency rooms are being flooded with COVID cases" --- that is, clogged by asymptomatic, self-absorbed cowards who demand that a worthless test be administered to them, so they can relax.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (2iDSr)

261 Posted by: Emmie at December 30, 2021 01:39 PM (t62xj)

.....

I'm glad his eyes are open.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (7+6YJ)

262 257 Agreed, JamesMad, but such a wide study with even more complex data just makes it easier for some people to hack their way to preferred conclusions, and wave their hands around while most people's eyes glaze over.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (+WWsf)

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True. Just saying it probably could be done.

And I think there was an effort to figure it out earlier this year that the experimenters sabotaged by forcing their control groups to get vaccinated.

Just,...so weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (LvTSG)

263 187 My fear - and why I backed out of going to Michigan MoMe a couple years ago - is that I will walk up and everyone will smile and say 'hi!' and then I'll reveal my nic and the smiles will immediately vanish and people mutter "oh, you're *that* guy..."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (Do5/p)

Clyde, honey...we're ALL *that* guy.

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (cTCuP)

264 Kinda. Northam could not run for re-election so McAuliffe was back up.

But the school situation began with the school boards not listening on school closures. After they got all Karen-y on that, they felt empowered to transgenderize and CRT the kids, too.
Posted by: blaster at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (mbFEM)

Yeah, I fixed my errors in a later post...

My sleep score was lousy last night and it seems sleep and my typing go hand in hand!

PS - That might also be a psychosomatic effect, but dang if wearing the Halo watch for my heart rate doesn't have me also look at the sleep score it automatically computes every night...and yes, I regret giving Amazon everything, but the spouse and I picked one company to sell our souls to (with phones and tablets and now the watch), and that's Amazon b/c they are in VA vs Apple, who is not. Might as well get something out of our stolen data...

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (exHjb)

265 This ^^^ is exactly true. There is a test to see if you have memory T-cells but you need a script for it.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM (0TVNF)

Whig put up a link to Adaptive Biotech that will prescribe one. I might do that.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (Ez6QX)

266 Followed by lots of 'ette hugs. It's awful.

I don't drink, I don't have a gun, and I can't eat a lot of things so going out would be challenging, but the hugs would make up for it all.

Maybe some day a meetup will be closer to where I am. But over time I have found that I have developed some kind of social anxiety where given a chance to meet new people or interact I'd rather just go to bed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (KZzsI)

267 144 11 Get single-double-triple clotshotted, double-boosted,

If you add the word "skinny", it could be a SBUX concoction
Posted by: kallisto at December 30, 2021 01:26 PM

Veinte soy no-foam skinny single-double-triple clotshotted double boosted latte

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (II3Gr)

268 Language in the '22 Defense Auth Act states that vaxx refusers can only be discharged under Honorable or General. Guess we'll see if the military remembers who they work for.
Posted by: Greyman27 at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (RKLPC)

And with a General you lose your GI Bill...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 30, 2021 01:42 PM (oHd/0)

269 Posted by: creeper at December 30, 2021 01:12 PM (cTCuP)

Just add it to your nic when appropriate.

Posted by: GnuBreed, PureBlood at December 30, 2021 01:42 PM (F0YaR)

270 correct...stop testing the asymptomatic.

BUT I WANNA BE INNA CLUB!!

Posted by: Mr Man Bun at December 30, 2021 01:42 PM (ObFlJ)

271 Language in the '22 Defense Auth Act states that vaxx refusers can only be discharged under Honorable or General. Guess we'll see if the military remembers who they work for.
Posted by: Greyman27 at December 30, 2021 01:38 PM (RKLPC)

Not the citizens.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 01:42 PM (G0Xte)

272 I just got back from Sam's and Wally World. Holy shit.

Between the vast sea of walking face masks, the Walmart employee yelling, "Sir!! Sir!!" at me whilst waving a box of face masks in the air as I entered, about a third of of the shelves being empty, and the multiple theft-deterrent alarms going off simultaneously in the vicinity of the pharmacy, the phrase, "waking Kafka-esque nightmare" couldn't help but pop into my brain and persist. Never have I wanted to leave a Walmart so badly. If I manage to avoid drinking myself to death in 2022 then it'll be a minor miracle.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 30, 2021 01:42 PM (DTX3h)

273 Of course we should treat them with compassion Ace, they don't deserve to get COVID, not like us unwashed heathen.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 30, 2021 01:42 PM (BJKQV)

274 Boulder is a friend of mine. I believe he has reconsidered his position, although I didn't ask last time I saw him. But he wasn't wearing a mask and accepted a hug.

Can we extend grace if he decides to come back to the comments, please? If we knew him a little better, I think we would understand his reaction better.
Posted by: Emmie at December 30, 2021 01:39 PM (t62xj)

That's good to hear. I genuinely liked him the times we met.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (x8Wzq)

275 Is Covid really still a thing? I'm only 1/2 joking. I know it's a thing in the MSM and on KarentTwitter. But in real life..... it really isn't anymore. Even in blue areas.
Posted by: Joe XiDen
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I wonder the same thing.

I live in a red county in southern IL, and no one is wearing masks, and the hospital nearby, the parking lot is nearly empty.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (kMPrp)

276 And with a General you lose your GI Bill...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 30, 2021 01:42 PM (oHd/0)

Yes.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (Irn0L)

277 183 Branch Covidians?

Who coined that?

I first heard it used by author Michael Z. Williamson.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (4olE8)

278 But over time I have found that I have developed some kind of social anxiety where given a chance to meet new people or interact I'd rather just go to bed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (KZzsI)

Wait, that's not normal?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (UuD2k)

279 get vaxx'd or else...

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Get vaxx'd or get axed!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (FVME7)

280 United States government official
We're ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

"When asked to elaborate on his analysis that this is the strongest first-year economic track record of any President, the Bobo the Drunken Hobo Clown said, "Hey kid, I just read the cue cards...now where's my value-rite vodka you fuckers promised?"

Posted by: Boswell at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (5iUNf)

281 247 >>Is Covid really still a thing? ...
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Yes. My mom was in the hospital for two weeks earlier this month, ...
Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (URNdm)
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A lady, under 45yo, died from covid a couple of weeks ago.

Is it possible that all three variations are floating around?

Posted by: Braenyard at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (ZgB9e)

282 Twatter was basking in the death of Madden, he represented everything they hated.

Same with Don Cherry.

Posted by: Archer at December 30, 2021 01:44 PM (gmo/4)

283 Can we extend grace if he decides to come back to the comments, please? If we knew him a little better, I think we would understand his reaction better.
Posted by: Emmie
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Well said.

Glad that he's doing okay.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:44 PM (kMPrp)

284 If our government had handed out the $3 "magic boxes" here a couple of years ago, it probably would have saved thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of American lives.

Instead, they told people to wear masks, painted arrows on store floors, and told people not to go to the hospital until they were having trouble breathing.

The response to this thing was completely insane, and caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and trillions of dollars in economic damage.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden

HCQ and Zinc (or Quercetin and Zinc) work early in the infection stage. If you reach the "pneumonia" stage, then the don't work very well.
Ivermectin has proven effective in all stages (unless you are almost or literally fatally ill) as it is effective in disrupting enzyme pathways to reproduction by the virus.
But the CDC has determined it doesn't work, so yes, more unnecessary deaths.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 30, 2021 01:44 PM (tjZg/)

285 Twatter was basking in the death of Madden, he represented everything they hated.

What kind of monster hates John Madden???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:45 PM (KZzsI)

286 @175: "They are setting up a final showdown with Covid. Everybody gets Omicron now, vaxxed or not, and it's over, for better or worse. They don't realize that's what they are doing, and that's why it's probably the right thing to do."

I think some of the string pullers do realize that's what's gonna happen, but they're pissed off it's happening so soon, rather than spring of '23 or '25.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:45 PM (+WWsf)

287 (zFJt+),
BANNED, means never coming back.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 30, 2021 01:45 PM (ZgB9e)

288 >>>A lady, under 45yo, died from covid a couple of weeks ago.

Is it possible that all three variations are floating around?
Posted by: Braenyard at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (ZgB9e)

Not likely to have anything to do with variant, but underlying comorbidities. Speaking from exprience.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 01:45 PM (QYPq3)

289 who demand that a worthless test be administered to them, so they can relax.

Who demand that a worthless test be administered to them over and over until it comes up positive.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 30, 2021 01:45 PM (CX3cf)

290 but DO include Ivermectin... supposedly for 'parasites'.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 30, 2021 01:40 PM (oHd/0)
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My irony meter just blew up. They're treating parasites for ... parasites?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (Zu/Cc)

291 Btw, those two NYT charts do NOT show NYC (actually they use state of NY) with a quarter of the country's new cases. ~200k vs 5k, country vs state.

Something is off there. MY bet is the NYT purposely fucked up.

Posted by: GnuBreed, PureBlood at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (F0YaR)

292 Actually, I suspect that the refusal to approve any religious exemptions will be the downfall of the policy in court. Strict compliance with a ridiculous order is often a technique perfected by bureaucracy to get that order overturned.

RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act) applies to all federal government actions including DoD and requires strict scrutiny. Rejecting all claims indicates that any promises of exemptions are phony which pretty much indicates that a religious animus exists if any other exemptions are approved.

Posted by: whig at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (9hXN1)

293 166 I think the sudden shift in the narrative is a sign that they're getting ready to push Biden out to pasture. "We've done all that we can, and save the US from the evil Trump admin, but now we just have to endure this" will be the message because they don't want to go into a Harris admin with COVID still an issue.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 30, 2021 01:29 PM (wmDcS)

What date is Harris eligible to take over and still be elected twice? That's the date they want.

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (53oGX)

294 With all the lies from so-called leaders and the media, it's understandable that people wonder what the truth is anymore.

Yes, covid is a thing, but beyond that...

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (kMPrp)

295 What's that red area floating off the coast of North Carolina?

Posted by: Flyover at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (Rbu5d)

296 Little old lady was mutilated last night.

COVID of London.

Posted by: Archer at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (gmo/4)

297
Posted by: Splato at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (zFJt+)

Oh, goody. Another glowy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (k49Sx)

298 A lady, under 45yo, died from covid a couple of weeks ago.

Is it possible that all three variations are floating around?
Posted by: Braenyard at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (ZgB9e)

Yes...and there's actually more than 3 if you look at CDC charts (but the extra types are miniscule in number so not tracked separately - heck, now it Delta, Omicron, and other and other has a few types)...

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (exHjb)

299 This is why a movie like Die Hard continues to ring so hellaciously.

The entire basis of the plot is that local and federal authorities mount a less than useless response to a crisis, and in fact play right into the crisis' hands. And as a bonus, their attitude, arrogance and conceit are 100% inverse to their fecklessness.

Add to it a sell your soul for ratings portrayal of the news media and I don't know what it means but you've got a pretty timeless message and it's here to stay.

Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (8yiy6)

300 >>Twatter was basking in the death of Madden, he represented everything they hated.

Twitter is the day room of Belleview.

Posted by: Boswell at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (5iUNf)

301 If you have never gone down the Kary Mullis rabbit hole, you are missing out.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 01:35 PM

Yeah...he was brilliant and nuts. Supposedly he discovered PCR while driving through the Anderson Valley in Northern California, tripping his brains out.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2021 01:47 PM (EFVbm)

302 I would bet a lot of the Twitter warriors don't have a clue who Madden is/was. They just saw a joyful white guy and REEEEEEE.

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 30, 2021 01:47 PM (AD3JT)

303 283 Twatter was basking in the death of Madden, he represented everything they hated.

Same with Don Cherry.
Posted by: Archer

They were successful and admired. Nothing changes that. Twitter isn't real life. It's digital bathroom wall in a binary dive bar.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 30, 2021 01:47 PM (ifUkZ)

304 Is it possible that all three variations are floating around?

Its not just possible but certain. The older variants are fewer and dying out but still around. Someone could catch "alpha" assuming there is such a beast out there.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:47 PM (KZzsI)

305 286 Twatter was basking in the death of Madden, he represented everything they hated.

What kind of monster hates John Madden???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:45 PM (KZzsI)
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Some people are truly sick. And not with Covid.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:47 PM (Zu/Cc)

306 Madden hatred is a really weird pose.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 30, 2021 01:47 PM (QU5/8)

307 >>>But over time I have found that I have developed some kind of social anxiety where given a chance to meet new people or interact I'd rather just go to bed.

>Years ago, we called this nipple anxiety and while you may be scarred for life, the PTSD is treatable.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2021 01:47 PM (r0ADi)

308 They're in a bind.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:31 PM (LvTSG)

And they're way behind, lookin' for a soul to steal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 30, 2021 01:48 PM (P3gRi)

309 From my personal experience most lefties love having lots of rules and laws in large part because they never intend to obey them. They know how to run their own lives, they are educated and smart. The rules are for the rubes.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 30, 2021 01:48 PM (BJKQV)

310 Shall we play 'Who Will be the Scapegoat'?

I guess it's always Trump, somehow.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 30, 2021 01:48 PM (H8QX8)

311 They had some excellent field generals, and some excellent tactics

If any of those generals were calling the shots instead of the crazy guy it might have gone a different way.

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 01:48 PM (00h1T)

312 What date is Harris eligible to take over and still be elected twice? That's the date they want.

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (53oGX)

It's over a year away. January 21, 2023.

Posted by: Gref at December 30, 2021 01:48 PM (AMIL/)

313 I would put "kurt" on my nametag to see the reaction.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Hopefully you're a 6-foot-4 MMA fighter IRL.

Mostly for the immediate "oh shit" reaction from all the folks who treat kurt as he deserves.

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2021 01:48 PM (P1f+c)

314 Splato, seek professional help.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (KZzsI)

315 @189: "I doubt I'll ever get OMG-a-con or anything else."

You'll almost definitely get it, and probably even help spread it, but you won't notice it 'cause it'll be a bug on the windshield of your immune system, and most people you possibly infect won't notice either.

In other words, herd immunity.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (+WWsf)

316 >>>Yeah...he was brilliant and nuts. Supposedly he discovered PCR while driving through the Anderson Valley in Northern California, tripping his brains out.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2021 01:47 PM (EFVbm)

And it annoyed the heck outta his girlfriend. Pulled over to the side of the road to write it down in the pouring rain... or something like that.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (QYPq3)

317 HCQ and Zinc (or Quercetin and Zinc) work early in the infection stage. If you reach the "pneumonia" stage, then the don't work very well.
Ivermectin has proven effective in all stages (unless you are almost or literally fatally ill) as it is effective in disrupting enzyme pathways to reproduction by the virus.
But the CDC has determined it doesn't work, so yes, more unnecessary deaths.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...
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I get a little congestion in the chest, immediately it's Quercetin and Zinc, once a day. and 1k vit C twice a day/

Posted by: Braenyard at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (ZgB9e)

318 Posted by: Splato at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (zFJt+)

Oh, goody. Another glowy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (k49Sx)

Complete with RayBans and jorts.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (x8Wzq)

319 It is an ugly combination of fear and people feeling like their lives mean something because they are FIGHTING THE ENEMY. They feel like they're the next Greatest Generation battling an evil force Just Like In The Movies and they are the Chosen Ones who will Make A Difference.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:36 PM

It's a case of the message in Fight Club. This probably describes wokeness movement as well.

"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War' a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (Do5/p)

320 What date is Harris eligible to take over and still be elected twice? That's the date they want.
Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (53oGX)
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Harris is running neck and neck in popularity with genital herpes. I doubt very much she could get elected in her own right. Not even once, much less twice. Dominion would really have to put in some serious overtime.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (Zu/Cc)

321 Turns out Rogan's podcast today wasn't with Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA vax as had been rumored, but rather with John Abramson, MD, who has written:

"Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It":

https://tinyurl.com/Rogan-Abramson

Posted by: Sharkman at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (N2of/)

322 >>When I was deworming my horses, I'd have to jam my fist with the syringe into the back of the horse

They Fist Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy (1973)

Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2021 01:50 PM (zhZO8)

323 We've been hosting two wuflu refugees since right after Christmas (MIL and nephew). Their household had an outbreak and everyone was quaranting in separate rooms. Pretty miserable. It was a pain in the ass to get them tested before bringing them in, and $$$.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 30, 2021 01:50 PM (uhPTO)

324 Posted by: Splato at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (zFJt+)

You have a healthy glow about you..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 30, 2021 01:50 PM (yQpMk)

325 If a mom demands antibiotics for her childs sore throat, i have to prescribe antibiotics, despite study after study which shows actual harm and no benefit. If I don't, i get written up by the patient advocate and a stern talking to by my boss about customer service.

If a patient requests IVM for covid, i can not prescribe it despite studies showing benefit in early treatment and no harm. If I do, I get investigated by the state medical board and threats of losing my license. They are forcing people to buy and self dose the livestock form.

This isn't medicine. This isn't helping people. Yet, when I complain to my like minded boss, who has a chance of changing things, he shrugs.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 01:51 PM (bKdTl)

326 What date is Harris eligible to take over and still be elected twice? That's the date they want.
Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (53oGX)

No, they'll give her three years and then mount a primary challenger. Harris is awful, but Biden is such a disaster that they have to change something. A new Harris admin would allow them to shift focus, ideally to the Jan 6 "insurrection."

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 30, 2021 01:51 PM (wmDcS)

327 Ugh. Sorry beatnik. My last Wallys experience was much better. Twas at the edge of a county that has gone back to mask mandates but I decided "I'm going see what happens if I just leave it off" Probably half to 2/3s were masked but no one said boo to me.

But when I went to a Safeway in a deep blue county the mask up sign was prominently displayed and I didn't see a single unmasked shopper so I cravenly put my token paper (surgical) mask on. Thank goodness that was my trip to clean out my office, as my exemption means I will remain WFH no matter what they decide for the sheeple so I have very little reason to return to the paranoid county now.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 01:51 PM (3cGpq)

328 I don't drink, I don't have a gun, and I can't eat a lot of things so going out would be challenging, but the hugs would make up for it all.

Maybe some day a meetup will be closer to where I am. But over time I have found that I have developed some kind of social anxiety where given a chance to meet new people or interact I'd rather just go to bed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (KZzsI)

We've had two in the three in the last four years in Central WA, right on the border. First year, I got to meet Mr. and Mrs OM, who brought lawn darts, and my kid promptly proved why the lawyers got rid of them. And Nurse made my kid cry. It was great. Hopefully, it will grow into something larger.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:51 PM (SH2Zi)

329 284 Can we extend grace if he decides to come back to the comments, please? If we knew him a little better, I think we would understand his reaction better.

Posted by: Emmie

And not to beleaguer the topic, but I never really had a problem with Boulder. Never a cross word.

But I did observe that he would hop in and scold the group on numerous occasions about masking and such before dropping off the map.

So I was just having a bit of fun with that.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 30, 2021 01:51 PM (7+6YJ)

330 We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

And its gotten worse since then. Almost every kid is raised and taught in school that they are special, they are chosen, they are the hero in their story and that they already know all that they need to know, just need to be shaped to see things correctly (with a hard left atheist worldview).

And they know none of that is true, deep down.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:52 PM (KZzsI)

331 If any of those generals were calling the shots instead of the crazy guy it might have gone a different way.
Posted by: TC

That was the premise of Alan Clarke, who wrote "Barbarossa", a history of the German campaign in the East.
After the initial invasion campaign of 1941 bogged down, a lot of those Generals were relieved.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 30, 2021 01:52 PM (tjZg/)

332 whig at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM

Excellent insight. Hadn't looked at that angle. Thanks much.

Posted by: Greyman27 at December 30, 2021 01:52 PM (RKLPC)

333 >>>They Fist Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy (1973)Yikes! Now I have PTSD.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 30, 2021 01:52 PM (r0ADi)

334 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (Do5/p)

This has always resonated very deeply with me.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 30, 2021 01:52 PM (II3Gr)

335
Hopefully you're a 6-foot-4 MMA fighter IRL.

The exact opposite.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 01:52 PM (bKdTl)

336 I get a little congestion in the chest, immediately it's Quercetin and Zinc, once a day. and 1k vit C twice a day/
Posted by: Braenyard at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (ZgB9e)

It's my opinion that Vitamin C is overrated. Some recent studies show that it can be a double-edged sword.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 30, 2021 01:52 PM (H8QX8)

337 Twitter is the day room of Belleview.
Posted by: Boswell at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (5iUNf)

Twitter has engineered to exploit the worst of humanity, ego and mental illness for cash.

The Bible tells us not to seek the approval of man, but of God.

And if the sorry state of a system completely powered by "likes" does not hail this wisdom, then I don't know what does.

Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 01:52 PM (8yiy6)

338 307 Madden hatred is a really weird pose.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 30, 2021 01:47 PM (QU5/

Maybe for a lot of these people the more beloved the individual the better it makes them feel about themselves to find fault. Like "Everyone loves that guy, and I'm better than him! People should love me!" Or maybe they just can't stand that someone made something of themselves. Or maybe they're just pathetic Marxists who want to tear down everything good in America.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 30, 2021 01:53 PM (BJKQV)

339 Splato, seek professional help.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (KZzsI)

Glowie Splato's are like beer - they come in packs of six.

Let's just wait here for Spumato, Sluto, Spuncko, Harplato, and Grouchato.

Posted by: Boswell at December 30, 2021 01:53 PM (5iUNf)

340 What date is Harris eligible to take over and still be elected twice? That's the date they want.

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines

2022 election more or less. 22nd Amendment specifies two years or less.

Posted by: whig at December 30, 2021 01:53 PM (9hXN1)

341 64 58 Was out and about earlier and am seeing a significant increase in face diapering. Hope y'all can glimpse an end to this madness because I sure can't.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 30, 2021 01:16 PM (Xrfse)

Neither can I
Posted by: It's me donna at December 30, 2021 01:17 PM (TdaKq)

I'm seeing more face diapers around, too. What's interesting to me, though, are the eyes above the mask. Lifeless.

Posted by: Flyover at December 30, 2021 01:53 PM (Rbu5d)

342 >>They were successful and admired. Nothing changes that. Twitter isn't real life. It's digital bathroom wall in a binary dive bar.

Twitter Trending is where the masses get the latest object for their Two Minutes of Hate. Seriously. It's Pavlovian.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 30, 2021 01:53 PM (URNdm)

343 It's my opinion that Vitamin C is overrated. Some recent studies show that it can be a double-edged sword.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 30, 2021 01:52 PM (H8QX

You need what you need. You don't get anything from taking extra.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 30, 2021 01:54 PM (UuD2k)

344 We've had two in the three in the last four years in Central WA, right on the border.

Unfortunately that's too far for me to realistically travel. Plus: bed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:54 PM (KZzsI)

345 And its gotten worse since then. Almost every kid is raised and taught in school that they are special, they are chosen, they are the hero in their story
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"You're unique! Just like everybody else!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:54 PM (Zu/Cc)

346 Twitter is a flower that smells bad.

- Spock

Posted by: Archer at December 30, 2021 01:54 PM (gmo/4)

347 The Bible tells us not to seek the approval of man, but of God.
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Amen.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:54 PM (kMPrp)

348 When I first saw that red map I thought: Wow, it's going to be tsunami of a red wave in 2022.
Then I realized it was the CDC transmission map.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 30, 2021 01:54 PM (NpAcC)

349 It has nothing to do with the virus itself, just the idea of being safe from the virus through being constantly on edge and panicky.

What kind of life is that?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 30, 2021 01:54 PM (Xrfse)

350 But I did observe that he would hop in and scold the group on numerous occasions about masking and such before dropping off the map.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 30, 2021 01:51 PM (7+6YJ)

When he came in the day after the election and said something to the effect of, "at least now we'll have an administration that'll take covid seriously" I saw red. Still pisses me off when I think about it. But I was nice to him when I met him, and would continue to be so if he came back.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (Ez6QX)

351 Did the Glowie post get nuked?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (ifUkZ)

352 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (2JoB8)

353 What date is Harris eligible to take over and still be elected twice? That's the date they want.
Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (53oGX)
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Halfway - Jan 21, 2023.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (xqRaG)

354 I would put "kurt" on my nametag to see the reaction.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

You don't have to put another name on your name tag. People asking about how you achieved "cat ass trophys" or whether you yourself are a "cat ass trophy" and what that means would break the ice and keep the conversation going for some time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (k49Sx)

355 @294: 'What date is Harris eligible to take over and still be elected twice? That's the date they want."

January 21, 2023.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (+WWsf)

356
I swear, every single time I see or hear this fuckin' greaseball midget, I immediately think of Floyd Ferris.

Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (hQ23g)

357 What's that red area floating off the coast of North Carolina?
Posted by: Flyover

D.C.? It's about the right shape.

Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (P1f+c)

358 Let's just wait here for Spumato, Sluto, Spuncko, Harplato, and Grouchato.

And the false ette Clamato

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (KZzsI)

359 If our government had handed out the $3 "magic boxes" here a couple of years ago, it probably would have saved thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of American lives. ... The response to this thing was completely insane, and caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and trillions of dollars in economic damage.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 30, 2021 01:37 PM

Yep, and Trump could have gone that route. Could have announced that he was copying what they were doing in India and putting together at-home treatment kits for every single American. Putting it in the CARES Act as a condition of his signing the legislation. He already knew that HCQ worked, since he suggested it early on in April 2020 I think.

Then, Biden Administration people could have made that one of their first orders of business upon getting into the White House. Could have looked like heroes coming up with the kits, blamed all the deaths on Trump and guaranteed their re-election in 2022 and 2024. The fact they didn't do that means they are either that stupid to not think of it or that evil to know about it and still not do it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (Do5/p)

360 Hopefully you're a 6-foot-4 MMA fighter IRL.

The exact opposite.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 01:52 PM (bKdTl)

4 foot 6?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 01:56 PM (G0Xte)

361 320 What date is Harris eligible to take over and still be elected twice? That's the date they want.
Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 30, 2021 01:46 PM (53oGX)
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Harris is running neck and neck in popularity with genital herpes. I doubt very much she could get elected in her own right. Not even once, much less twice. Dominion would really have to put in some serious overtime.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:49 PM (Zu/Cc)

You have to wonder how much of her rich husband's money Harris is paying to top-notch doctors for their predictions about how long Joe can pretend to do the job. I also wonder if she and/or the DNC have access to Joe's detailed medical records. If not, it's not due to failing to try to get them.

Posted by: Gref at December 30, 2021 01:56 PM (AMIL/)

362 CDC says to avoid cruise ships regardless of vaccine status

I've been saying this since I was in the Navy. The ocean wants to kill you, it's stupid to go to sea for a vacation.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 30, 2021 01:56 PM (UuD2k)

363 I'm seeing more face diapers around, too. What's interesting to me, though, are the eyes above the mask. Lifeless.

Posted by: Flyover at December 30, 2021 01:53 PM (Rbu5d)

Lifeless, like doll eyes. Then they roll back white and the high pitched screaming starts. I'll never wear a lifejacket again.

Posted by: Archer at December 30, 2021 01:56 PM (gmo/4)

364 Yet, when I complain to my like minded boss, who has a chance of changing things, he shrugs.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 01:51 PM (bKdTl)

something about good men doing nothing.....

Posted by: 29Victor at December 30, 2021 01:56 PM (BJKQV)

365 Yet, when I complain to my like minded boss, who has a chance of changing things, he shrugs.

people generally don't want to rock the boat. Too much at stake, especially in your boss's position.

That's why the doctors and medical professionals who are taking a stand FOR their patients during this protracted nightmare...are the true heroes.

And not even necessarily for their patients, but for the truth.

Posted by: kallisto at December 30, 2021 01:56 PM (DJFLF)

366 And the false ette Clamato
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (KZzsI)

heh

Posted by: Boswell at December 30, 2021 01:56 PM (5iUNf)

367 >>>We've had two in the three in the last four years in Central WA

Ugh. More coffee. We've had three in the last four years in Central WA.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:57 PM (SH2Zi)

368 That was the premise of Alan Clarke, who wrote "Barbarossa", a history of the German campaign in the East.
After the initial invasion campaign of 1941 bogged down, a lot of those Generals were relieved.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 30, 2021 01:52

Thanks, got the book on order.

Posted by: TC at December 30, 2021 01:57 PM (00h1T)

369 So I was just having a bit of fun with that.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 30, 2021 01:51 PM (7+6YJ[/o]

Yes, I feel I know you well enough to know you meant no harm.

Posted by: Emmie at December 30, 2021 01:57 PM (t62xj)

370 167 141
Hard to feel sorry for those being purged, really. What the hell are they doing there in the first place? Theyre working for fucking tyrants
Posted by: The Great Negro

You seem nice. How about you go fuck yourself.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 30, 2021 01:57 PM (U2p+3)

371 Best part of a Fauciism: "...so a decision was made."
Passive tense = the obfuscation of diktat.
Fing tyrant.

Posted by: Zek at December 30, 2021 01:57 PM (OzNIz)

372 That Biden tweet about the economy?

I went there and looked at the replies. Most are laughing,but the ones that took it seriously all have their hand out. "Free health care! Pay for my college! Give me money!" It's almost comical.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:58 PM (KZzsI)

373 The Ho couldn't get elected if Dominion did all the voting

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 30, 2021 01:58 PM (2JoB8)

374 So guess what! I told my boss I have a cough and she told me to get a covid test and and $30 later I am certified cootie free!

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 30, 2021 01:58 PM (lCui1)

375 This story of a professor's wife's $92,000 student loan debt will bring a tear to your eye.

https://bit.ly/3z9wgHf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 01:58 PM (FVME7)

376 357 What's that red area floating off the coast of North Carolina?
Posted by: Flyover

D.C.? It's about the right shape.
Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (P1f+c)

Yep, just blown up bigger and shown twice because it's more important.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 30, 2021 01:58 PM (UuD2k)

377 I've been saying this since I was in the Navy. The ocean wants to kill you, it's stupid to go to sea for a vacation.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
___

Dad was in the Navy for 23 years.

He feels the same way.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:58 PM (kMPrp)

378 349 It has nothing to do with the virus itself, just the idea of being safe from the virus through being constantly on edge and panicky.

What kind of life is that?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 30, 2021 01:54 PM (Xrfse)

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One in which you're constantly going to the priests of your religion for absolution, which they deny you because you'll never be safe.

It really does seem miserable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 01:58 PM (LvTSG)

379 I live in a red county in southern IL, and no one is wearing masks, and the hospital nearby, the parking lot is nearly empty.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:43 PM (kMPrp)

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I live in a red county as well, but in a blue city inside it. And even here, surrounded by ultra lefties, masks are a rare sight. Bars and restaurants are packed every weekend, just like they have been since last summer.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 01:59 PM (OalnH)

380 You seem nice. How about you go fuck yourself.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 30, 2021 01:57 PM (U2p+3)

Boom

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 30, 2021 01:59 PM (53oGX)

381 Morons are sweethearts. Nobody should be nervous about attending a MoMe. You're automatically family.

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 02:00 PM (cTCuP)

382 You can't spell Two Minute Hater without Twitter

Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:00 PM (8yiy6)

383 nurse!

The trolls and glowies seem to be out in force today.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 02:00 PM (kMPrp)

384 And the "pureblood" bullshit.

Knock it off. You're not "taking it to the man". "The man" doesn't read
This blog.

Instead you're being divisive and dickish to the very people agree with. And you're acting like nazis trying to wear
Your fucking yellow star.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 30, 2021 02:00 PM (U2p+3)

385 I saw red. Still pisses me off when I think about it. But I was nice to him when I met him, and would continue to be so if he came back.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (Ez6QX)

I never saw it; I won't post-judge him, or anyone else, and everyone deserves a little grace here. They ran a giant psyop on the country, and it is understandable that people might have some low points. Welcome back.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 02:00 PM (SH2Zi)

386 Eh. I've been on two cruises. I had fun both times.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 02:00 PM (OalnH)

387 It really does seem miserable.

Yes, it does. Problem is that their misery is often contagious.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 30, 2021 02:00 PM (Xrfse)

388 377 I've been saying this since I was in the Navy. The ocean wants to kill you, it's stupid to go to sea for a vacation.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
___

Dad was in the Navy for 23 years.

He feels the same way.
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:58 PM (kMPrp)

I say the same about Helos... they are all trying to crash.

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 30, 2021 02:01 PM (53oGX)

389 I am very slow on the uptake when it comes to figuring out nics. It was a long while before I finally got "Ben Had" and "Cat Ass Trophy." There's another really obvious one that I finally got the other day for the first time: "Common Tater."

I feel pretty stupid about it. Mostly because I should.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 30, 2021 02:01 PM (QU5/8)

390 Yep, and Trump could have gone that route. Could have announced that he was copying what they were doing in India and putting together at-home treatment kits for every single American. Putting it in the CARES Act as a condition of his signing the legislation. He already knew that HCQ worked, since he suggested it early on in April 2020 I think.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:55 PM (Do5/p)

He got chased off the therapeutic alternative route by the media. He finally hired Scott Atlas and could have given him a high-profile platform to supplant Fauci, but strangely just ditched him. He never really got it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 30, 2021 02:01 PM (H8QX8)

391 F*ck Fauci

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 30, 2021 02:02 PM (TNyrE)

392
I really don't get the cruise ship thing. I guess it's why I can't be a TrueCon.

But, seriously... why not just pick out a cool, all-inclusive resort, and get a nice hotel room right on the beach, with a view of the ocean? It's the same thing, except much, much better.

Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 30, 2021 02:02 PM (hQ23g)

393 The dead Uncle Ted called:
Rules? There are no rules in a ka-nife fight!

Posted by: klaftern at December 30, 2021 02:02 PM (taPSh)

394 Dad was in the Navy for 23 years.

He feels the same way.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 30, 2021 01:58 PM (kMPrp)

I was under for mumbledy years. It's nice to see the top side sometimes.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 02:02 PM (SH2Zi)

395 Moby on 279. Don't rec. the nic and they're spouting a non sequitur.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 02:02 PM (6R0HD)

396 Unless I REALLY wanted to support a sib or future spouse I'll never get on a cruise ship. I'm not comfortable in big crowds and I'm not a water person at all. Just watching Ace's linked video of the perfect wave on last night's cafe gave me a mild shudder.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (3cGpq)

397 I guess it is because Dems in the halls of power have greater access to fake vaccine documentation

That, or they never read and understood the meaning behind Poe's The Masque of the Red Death

Posted by: Kindltot at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (ZMraq)

398 "He got chased off the therapeutic alternative route by the media"

For a guy who supposedly saw the MSM as the enemy, he sure did a lot of what the MSM told him to do.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (OalnH)

399 The left's religion is like the worst exaggeration of Roman Catholic guilt without any method of expiation or atonement.

There's a weird part of human psychology that likes feeling guilty or being told they are doing wrong. I have talked to many pastors and they all agree that the most beloved and well-received sermons they do are the ones about sin or how people are doing stuff wrong. Lots of law, less gospel.

The left seems to really hook into that: you're doing terrible things and need to stop, but never ever lose the stain of guilt or have a way out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (KZzsI)

400 392
I really don't get the cruise ship thing. I guess it's why I can't be a TrueCon.

But, seriously... why not just pick out a cool, all-inclusive resort, and get a nice hotel room right on the beach, with a view of the ocean? It's the same thing, except much, much better.
Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 30, 2021 02:02 PM (hQ23g)

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You go places on the cruise, like getting to Jamaica and the Bahamas and Mexico all from your hotel room.

Just don't do it during hurricane season.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (LvTSG)

401 I am very slow on the uptake when it comes to figuring out nics. It was a long while before I finally got "Ben Had" and "Cat Ass Trophy." There's another really obvious one that I finally got the other day for the first time: "Common Tater."

I feel pretty stupid about it. Mostly because I should.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 30, 2021 02:01 PM (QU5/

Oh shit I finally got Cat Ass Trophy

Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (8yiy6)

402 321 Turns out Rogan's podcast today wasn't with Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA vax as had been rumored, but rather with John Abramson, MD, who has written:

sorry I wasn't clear before - they are TAPING it today

it will be broadcast in a few days

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 30, 2021 02:04 PM (j9HX3)

403 Case numbers don't mean much. Rates do. Florida is third largest state in population, so their totals will look high.

Posted by: Javems at December 30, 2021 02:04 PM (nLUlH)

404 Oh shit I finally got Cat Ass Trophy
Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (8yiy6)

LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 02:04 PM (Ez6QX)

405 121 >>Yep. Just do it. If they want to kick you out, let them, and shop elsewhere.

This has been my approach all along.
If they ask me to mask up I tell them I am willing to go, but I am never coming back to spend my monies. Ever.
They usually rush to get my order filled and take my money.
Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2021 01:24 PM (zhZO

I've done that as well.
"oK, You do realize that if I walk out that door, I will never come back in to spend money in your store, right?"
"Bye"

Posted by: Flyover at December 30, 2021 02:04 PM (Rbu5d)

406 I'm somewhat surprised some over-the-top Karen hasn't tried to pin the increase of NYC cases on Giuliani.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (TNyrE)

407 @399: "The left's religion is like the worst exaggeration of Roman Catholic guilt without any method of expiation or atonement."

Plus confession must now be public!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (+WWsf)

408 378 349 It has nothing to do with the virus itself, just the idea of being safe from the virus through being constantly on edge and panicky.

What kind of life is that?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 30, 2021 01:54 PM (Xrfse)

So, there are different genetic deletion types of my chronic leukemia - except in rare cases, almost all of the diagnosed start with a watch and wait period before treatment...I have the worst type and am unlikely to avoid treatment for a long time (especially at my age), but there are very mild types that never need treatment. Even in that group, when they get typing the indicates this likely result, many eventually demand treatment within a few months b/c they can't watch and wait and do nothing and live...they'd rather have the large side effects from the treatments (which can include afib, liver and kidney issues, and yes, death) b/c they need something to say they'll be okay before they are willing to live.

It seems to be a very natural human nature response that many folks have of "must do something, even if it might actually be worse to do"...

Posted by: Nova local at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (exHjb)

409 The left are really despicable and horrible people. PERIOD.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (iDcra)

410 I think the cruise thing is less about the ocean than about being on a huge floating palace that exists only to serve your desires with lots of friends or like-minded people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (KZzsI)

411 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 30, 2021 02:01 PM (QU5/

Well, you're not as slow as I am I just now figured out what "Cat ass trophy" and "Common Tater" were.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (k49Sx)

412 But, seriously... why not just pick out a cool, all-inclusive resort, and get a nice hotel room right on the beach, with a view of the ocean? It's the same thing, except much, much better.
Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 30, 2021 02:02 PM (hQ23g)

____

Everyone has different likes. Some people like going to Disneyworld. I'd rather self castrate than do that. There's no right or wrong way to vacation. Do whatever you like.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (OalnH)

413 The Federalist wonders what it will take for the media to notice that blue states, not red, are seeing the biggest surge in covid infections

If they ever do decide to "notice" it will billed as something virtuous. A consequence of their "rich and diverse community" which all you backwater rubes are not sophisticated enough to fathom.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (SnMiE)

414 407 @399: "The left's religion is like the worst exaggeration of Roman Catholic guilt without any method of expiation or atonement."

Plus confession must now be public!
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (+WWsf)

=======

"Also, you're not forgiven. You must do penance forever, and you'll never find absolution. Now, give us your money."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (LvTSG)

415 Oh shit I finally got Cat Ass Trophy
Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (8yiy6)

LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 02:04 PM (Ez6QX)

Paging NaCly Dog.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (SH2Zi)

416 This story of a professor's wife's $92,000 student loan debt will bring a tear to your eye.

https://bit.ly/3z9wgHf
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 01:58 PM (FVME7)
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To get a Ph.D. in education. I'm not laughing. Honest. Well, maybe a little.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 02:06 PM (Zu/Cc)

417 "Common Tater"
-----------

"Calm Mentor" was another good one along the same lines....

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at December 30, 2021 02:06 PM (7b8Vr)

418 Uh...I didn't get Ben Had until just now.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 30, 2021 02:06 PM (z9npv)

419 Chris Hayes cuts to the heart of the matter.

MSNBC: Fox News Only Covering Theft Because They Hate Black People

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 30, 2021 02:06 PM (FVME7)

420 Oh shit I finally got Cat Ass Trophy

One of the MANY puns in the first Xanth book by Piers Anthony has a scene where the character discovers a grand plaque upon which has been mounted the golden rear end of a cat.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (KZzsI)

421 403 Case numbers don't mean much. Rates do. Florida is third largest state in population, so their totals will look high.
Posted by: Javems at December 30, 2021 02:04 PM (nLUlH)

___

Oh you and your math and logic. Shut up. DeathSantis is killing 10s of millions of people daily!!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (OalnH)

422 398 "He got chased off the therapeutic alternative route by the media"

For a guy who supposedly saw the MSM as the enemy, he sure did a lot of what the MSM told him to do.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (OalnH)

Or had bad, really bad, advisors.
I think both.

Posted by: Flyover at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (Rbu5d)

423 Oh shit I finally got Cat Ass Trophy
Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (8yiy6)

LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 02:04 PM (Ez6QX)

Paging NaCly Dog.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (SH2Zi)

Where's Ben Roethlisberger when we need him?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (Ez6QX)

424
What kind of monster hates John Madden???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Some were blaming him for concussions.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (63Dwl)

425
I don't even think the resort idea is that cool, TBH. I prefer just visiting real places. Before I had kids in the mix, I also liked visiting third-world shitholes. They're interesting, and they make your regular life *feel* like a vacation.

Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (hQ23g)

426 CDC says to avoid cruise ships regardless of vaccine status

I've been saying this since I was in the Navy. The ocean wants to kill you, it's stupid to go to sea for a vacation.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 30, 2021 01:56 PM (UuD2k)

I'll take my chances. I love the ocean.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (Fs5vw)

427 LOL
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 02:04 PM (Ez6QX)

I love you too sweetie

Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (8yiy6)

428 And Nurse made my kid cry. It was great. Hopefully, it will grow into something larger.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 01:51 PM (SH2Zi)

\sarc
ummmm, was it great that nurse made your kid cry? why would you hope your kid's crying would grow into something bigger?
/sarc
afternoon, everyone

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (IJES/)

429 Uh...I didn't get Ben Had until just now.

Well then I guess YOU'VE BEEN HAD!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (KZzsI)

430 The public service loan forgiveness program, thank you Bush. Where you spend 10 years making minimal payments which don't keep up with the interest accrual, then get told that you missed a payment somewhere in there, or didn't file a form they never said you needed to fill out and leave you deeper in the hole, starting the clock all over again. The federal student loan program is a predatory racket.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 30, 2021 02:08 PM (bKdTl)

431 "So you teach 9th grade? So you need a 10th grade education."

-- Norm MacDonald

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 30, 2021 02:08 PM (OssQ4)

432 I love you too sweetie
Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (8yiy6)

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 02:08 PM (Ez6QX)

433
Chris Hayes cuts to the heart of the matter.

MSNBC: Fox News Only Covering Theft Because They Hate Black People
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

A good leftist assumes that all thieves are black.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 30, 2021 02:08 PM (63Dwl)

434 For a guy who supposedly saw the MSM as the enemy, he sure did a lot of what the MSM told him to do.

Dude has a huge blind spot when it comes to diseases and infections, sadly. He's still hugely promoting the shots.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 02:08 PM (KZzsI)

435 >>>There's no right or wrong way to vacation. Do whatever you like.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (OalnH)

All ABOARD!

Posted by: Lolita Express at December 30, 2021 02:08 PM (QYPq3)

436 425
I don't even think the resort idea is that cool, TBH. I prefer just visiting real places. Before I had kids in the mix, I also liked visiting third-world shitholes. They're interesting, and they make your regular life *feel* like a vacation.
Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (hQ23g)

=========

I've done the real discovery thing. I lived in Italy for a year. I got lost in London for two weeks. I rode all through New Delhi. I've been up into the mountains of Peru.

Sometimes, you want to go and it just be easy with only needing to lug your shit around twice, once when you get on the boat and a second time when you get off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 30, 2021 02:09 PM (LvTSG)

437 Willowed from a couple of thread back:

Glad you are over it. How is your wife doing?
Posted by: IrishEi at December 30, 2021 11:57 AM (0TVNF)

[out food shopping, sorry for the delay]

She's coming along reasonably well, enough so that it was ok for her to go out in public. So far, so good and I appreciate your asking.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (ZSK0i)

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 30, 2021 02:09 PM (ZSK0i)

438 >>>He got chased off the therapeutic alternative route by the media. He finally hired Scott Atlas and could have given him a high-profile platform to supplant Fauci, but strangely just ditched him. He never really got it.

Posted by: Ordinary American
------------------

He got it.
But there are powers and forces even stronger than Trump running this masquerade.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 30, 2021 02:09 PM (ZgB9e)

439 Knock it off. You're not "taking it to the man". "The man" doesn't read
This blog.

Instead you're being divisive and dickish to the very people agree with. And you're acting like nazis trying to wear
Your fucking yellow star.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 30, 2021 02:00 PM (U2p+3)

So you DID take the clot shot. I've been wondering.

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 02:09 PM (cTCuP)

440 You other folks who also didn't get the jokes in the nics make me feel much better.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2021 02:09 PM (k49Sx)

441 Can anyone explain the nic Stu-mick-o-sucks? I'm drawing a blank on that one.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 30, 2021 02:09 PM (eA1RV)

442 talking about how the ocean wants to kill you...sometimes the ocean gets help from humans

TIL (Today I Learned) about this horrible murder that took place on the high seas:

https://tinyurl.com/2p849e4p

The perps cuffed the victims to an anchor, threw the anchor overboard and when there was no longer slack in the line, the two victims -husband and wife - were dragged to the rail of the boat where they tried with all their might to resist the pull of the anchor chain.

Of course they lost the struggle. And the murderer laughed as he saw them disappear under the water.

Posted by: kallisto at December 30, 2021 02:10 PM (DJFLF)

443 Paging NaCly Dog.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 02:05 PM (SH2Zi)

Now now I always used to run the Chemistry category on Jeopardy. Granted I only have like an 8th grade knowledge of it but it all stuck.

Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:10 PM (8yiy6)

444 The power's out. Ugh. And it's raining, so going outside isn't an option. Plus, since the sky's overcast, there's not much natural light.

I suppose this is why I have a few emergency candles...

Posted by: junior at December 30, 2021 02:10 PM (LQM98)

445 422 398 "He got chased off the therapeutic alternative route by the media"

For a guy who supposedly saw the MSM as the enemy, he sure did a lot of what the MSM told him to do.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (OalnH)

Or had bad, really bad, advisors.
I think both.
Posted by: Flyover at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (Rbu5d)

___

Even so, it's excuse after excuse for why he did this or didn't do that. I'm getting so tired of Trump being portrayed as some innocent bystander where his advisors or his cabinet or the MSM or whatever stopped him from making the right decisions. Had he wanted to do something with HCQ, he should have insisted on funding in one of the many stimulus bills. But he didn't. And that is ultimately his decision.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 02:10 PM (OalnH)

446 \sarc
ummmm, was it great that nurse made your kid cry? why would you hope your kid's crying would grow into something bigger?
/sarc
afternoon, everyone

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 30, 2021 02:07 PM (IJES/)

Great all-around. Nurse adores the littles, and I adore pitching her shit about making my overly technocratic and sometimes too dramatic oldest cry about her pencil whipping him in Croquet.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 02:10 PM (SH2Zi)

447 Chris Hayes cuts to the heart of the matter.

MSNBC: Fox News Only Covering Theft Because They Hate Black People

Wow, that's some hot take right there.

But I guess its a logical extension of the legacy media's general policy of NOT covering events because the bad guy is black. They must figure if someone breaks that rule its for the same reason.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 02:10 PM (KZzsI)

448 "You're unique! Just like everybody else!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 01:54 PM

Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your f***ing khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

Posted by: Tyler Durden at December 30, 2021 02:10 PM (Do5/p)

449 To get a Ph.D. in education. I'm not laughing. Honest. Well, maybe a little.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 30, 2021 02:06 PM (Zu/Cc)

...

Education as a field seems by definition to insist upon itself. Touting your Ph.D. in that very field...well, good for you. You got the highest degree available learning all there is to know about learning.

So why do I think you probably don't really know that much?

Posted by: TexasDan at December 30, 2021 02:10 PM (z9npv)

450 @433: "A good leftist assumes that all thieves are black."

Thieves? More like self-reparationists, comrade.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 30, 2021 02:11 PM (+WWsf)

451 Posted by: jakee308 at December 30, 2021 02:02 PM (6R0HD)

Already gone. I'm cranky today.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2021 02:11 PM (EFVbm)

452 And I always thought the nic Calm Mentor-meant that he was, you, know, "Calm" and a "mentor"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 30, 2021 02:11 PM (k49Sx)

453 Nood. CNN being whiney bitches.

Posted by: Bete at December 30, 2021 02:11 PM (Ojki1)

454 For the longest time I thought rhennigantx was pronounced "rennagantex". Don't ask.

Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:12 PM (8yiy6)

455 Unfortunately that's too far for me to realistically travel. Plus: bed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:54 PM (KZzsI)

Maybe in the Spring we can have a small one in Benton County, one of the county parks

Posted by: Kindltot at December 30, 2021 02:12 PM (ZMraq)

456 266...Maybe some day a meetup will be closer to where I am. But over time I have found that I have developed some kind of social anxiety where given a chance to meet new people or interact I'd rather just go to bed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (KZzsI)

I know, I'm the same way, but I've always been that way.
when I DO have to go out socially, I need at least a day to recover.
It's difficult.

Posted by: Flyover at December 30, 2021 02:13 PM (Rbu5d)

457 Everyone I've known to get COVID since the spring had the clot shot.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 30, 2021 02:13 PM (ESjRY)

458 415 Oh shit I finally got Cat Ass Trophy
Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:03 PM (8yiy6)

Heh. Me too

Posted by: Javems at December 30, 2021 02:13 PM (nLUlH)

459 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Center where two masks and one with a picture of Presdent Obama on them. Only 5 of us gotten the virus when Trump was Presdent.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 30, 2021 02:14 PM (otFiP)

460 Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:10 PM (8yiy6)

That was my way of confessing it took me too long on that one, and I should know better.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 02:14 PM (SH2Zi)

461 Morons are sweethearts. Nobody should be nervous about attending a MoMe. You're automatically family.

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 02:00 PM (cTCuP)

Even me?

I'm not a pureblood.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2021 02:14 PM (EFVbm)

462 My fear - and why I backed out of going to Michigan MoMe a couple years ago - is that I will walk up and everyone will smile and say 'hi!' and then I'll reveal my nic and the smiles will immediately vanish and people mutter "oh, you're *that* guy..."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 01:30 PM (Do5/p)

Clyde, honey...we're ALL *that* guy.
Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at December 30, 2021 01:41 PM (cTCuP)

Just hope you don't go to a MoMe and everybody inside are all 30 something guys in MAGA hats, oxford shirts, Bermuda shorts, shiny brown lace-up shoes and black socks. "Hello fellow Moron, what's your nic and IP?"

Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 30, 2021 02:14 PM (wAnMi)

463 Already gone. I'm cranky today.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2021 02:11 PM (EFVbm)

No shit?

When you're feeling better I'm going to send you an email; for Christmas son got me some kind of subscription box for cooks and there are a bunch of weird ingredients in it. I'd be interested to hear if you have any recipe ideas.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 30, 2021 02:15 PM (Ez6QX)

464 I thought it was same Dr who was going to be on Joe Rogan they were talking about on ONT, I have his podcast open on my tablet so looked for it

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 30, 2021 02:15 PM (2JoB8)

465 Some people need to stop demanding that the whole horde validate their choices. Do some serious reflection. If YOU are good with your choice you wouldn't give a damn about folks who think that choice is generally wrong.

If you are on edge because of your choice you can have multiple, very popular white knights telling you the choice if fine, don't worry about it and yet you still snap at folks who say its a bad choice. Just get over it already. Even if you now wonder if it was a wrong decision you can forgive yourself just as god forgives everyone and move forward instead of whinging all the time.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 30, 2021 02:15 PM (3cGpq)

466 New thread people, about Lamestream CJ-ers

Posted by: kallisto at December 30, 2021 02:15 PM (DJFLF)

467 > So you DID take the clot shot. I've been wondering.

Speaking of divisive and dickish.

But at any rate, pureblood is aimed at people who took the vax, not at people who mandate the vax. And, unlike Deplorable or Moron, it isn't mocking the contemptuous by using their word of contempt as a badge of honor. Just stick with unvaxxed, if you want to aim the contempt where it is due.

Posted by: me at December 30, 2021 02:16 PM (9p+wn)

468
I wonder if anger issues is one of the multitude of side effects of the 'vaccine'? So many angry people ready to snap at the slightest deviation from their 'feelings'.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 30, 2021 02:16 PM (dQvv7)

469 Even me?

I'm not a pureblood.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2021 02:14 PM (EFVbm)

How many people hassled you about that in TX?

Posted by: Emmie at December 30, 2021 02:16 PM (t62xj)

470 I'm getting so tired of Trump being portrayed as some innocent bystander where his advisors or his cabinet or the MSM or whatever stopped him from making the right decisions. Had he wanted to do something with HCQ, he should have insisted on funding in one of the many stimulus bills. But he didn't. And that is ultimately his decision.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 30, 2021 02:10 PM (OalnH)

I agree. He was the most powerful man in the world, and he tolerated and was steered around by that ghoulishly fraudulent runt Fauci? Give me a break. He had so many tools at his disposal he either he never used or poorly exploited, namely the bully pulpit--to go to the people as Reagan did. But he always went to the media. I think he's deeply fixated with the media, in courting and jousting with them, to his own detriment.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 30, 2021 02:18 PM (H8QX8)

471 That was my way of confessing it took me too long on that one, and I should know better.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 30, 2021 02:14 PM (SH2Zi)

Ah

Posted by: ... at December 30, 2021 02:19 PM (8yiy6)

472 Well, not Moron. But Deplorable, anyway.

Posted by: me at December 30, 2021 02:19 PM (9p+wn)

473 Some people need to stop demanding that the whole horde validate their choices. Do some serious reflection. If YOU are good with your choice you wouldn't give a damn about folks who think that choice is generally wrong.
==
This. Its a personal medical decision. You made it. You gots your reasons. Leave it at that. Don't take the bait of trolls because there are trolls on either side. People made a decision in a low information environment. Cognitive dissonance is a real thing.

Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at December 30, 2021 02:19 PM (RwID/)

474 469 Even me?

I'm not a pureblood.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 30, 2021 02:14 PM (EFVbm)

How many people hassled you about that in TX?

Posted by: Emmie at December 30, 2021 02:16 PM (t62xj)

No one. He always carried his 16-lb sledge hammer with BAN painted in white on both sides of the head, and in black on both sides of the handle.

Posted by: Gref at December 30, 2021 02:20 PM (AMIL/)

475 I wonder if anger issues is one of the multitude of side effects of the 'vaccine'? So many angry people ready to snap at the slightest deviation from their 'feelings'.
==
As a general rule you should NOT try to reason with someone who is hypoxic. They are not in the mood for it.

Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at December 30, 2021 02:21 PM (3rBCD)

476 Yep, and Trump could have gone that route. Could have announced that he was copying what they were doing in India and putting together at-home treatment kits for every single American. Putting it in the CARES Act as a condition of his signing the legislation. He already knew that HCQ worked, since he suggested it early on in April 2020 I think.
_______________

They didn't start the Uttar Pradesh program until May, 2021, when India was at the height of the Delta surge there.

Trump was already out of office by then.

Just five weeks after they started the "magic box" program (mid June, 2021), they announced that covid cases were down by more than 97% in Uttar Pradesh. By early July, cases were down 99%.

Trump couldn't have copied what India and the WHO did in Uttar Pradesh, but Biden certainly could have. Instead, he and the other government hacks kept insisting the experimental "vaccines" were the only solution.

And here we are.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 30, 2021 02:24 PM (k4dH2)

477 Politicizing the behavior of an out-of-control virus that spreads like fucking wildfire was as retarded and guaranteed to backfire as politicizing the fluctuations of the stock market; but what else would you expect from the Church of the Science-Followers.

Then again, when you control the entire media I guess little things like reality are irrelevant.

Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at December 30, 2021 02:24 PM (0Uf+z)

478 Just hope you don't go to a MoMe and everybody inside are all 30 something guys in MAGA hats, oxford shirts, Bermuda shorts, shiny brown lace-up shoes and black socks. "Hello fellow Moron, what's your nic and IP?"

Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 30, 2021 02:14 PM

Hah! I literaly LOL'd. Literally. So I guess I LLOL'd. Or, to be punctuationally correct, I LL'dOL.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 02:25 PM (Do5/p)

479 They didn't start the Uttar Pradesh program until May, 2021, when India was at the height of the Delta surge there.

Trump was already out of office by then.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 30, 2021 02:24 PM

Ah, thanks for the correction. The last 22+ months seem to all run together for me sometimes. That said, he did know about the (potential?) success of HCQ, since he brought it up early on. I think he also was treated with Ivermectin when he tested positive for COVID in Sept/Oct 2020? I'm not going to blame him for not coming up with the idea, but if they came up with it in India, surely someone in the entire "healthcare" industry here in the USA could have gone "hey, you know what we could do..."

That said, while Trump is off the hook on that, everyone in the D.C. since the India success is not off the hook. Isn't Rand Paul a doctor? Has he proposed this idea at all over the past however many months since the India success has been known?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2021 02:30 PM (Do5/p)

480 I emphasize with vaccinated folks who are getting the covid.

Posted by: Resident Joey at December 30, 2021 02:33 PM (1UDVF)

481 so, we are all going to catch Omicron. So, herd immunity at last. and as they still "ignore" natural immunity, when infections go to zero, What are they going to do/say???

Posted by: government here to save you at December 30, 2021 02:34 PM (lNSu6)

482
Some people think an 'ounce of vaccination' is worth a pound of cure. I'll stick to the old ways of an 'ounce of prevention'. By getting outside in the sunshine, taking supplements, eating healthy, keeping active, and finding joy in life.

The answer to zoonotic type viruses like Covid-19 has always been getting and maintaining a healthy immune system. Some people engage in that activity, some people don't, some people can't.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 30, 2021 02:35 PM (dQvv7)

483 the true killers: they that ignore therapeutics in favor of new $$$$ vaccines (also therapeutics in retrospect). politicians in power and medical establishment (and deep state CDC/NIH bureaucrats)

Posted by: government here to save you at December 30, 2021 02:38 PM (lNSu6)

484 ...I literaly LOL'd. Literally. So I guess I LLOL'd. Or, to be punctuationally correct, I LL'dOL.
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Posted by: mindful webworker - why do you want to kill grammar? at December 30, 2021 02:38 PM (xT+ue)

485 WTF ... ? WHY is there still the constant repetitive drumbeat over the number of new 'Cases!' ... ? 'Cases' are not 'Deaths' - just in case any of the NeueLeft Ignoranti aren't aware that there's a distinction between the two. What this tells me is that they believe their AgitProp campaign has been so successful brainwashing the Average American that they'll willingly accept the false equivalence and - as a result - display the proper 'PANIC!' response when the Trigger Word is spoken.

Remember: "Auschwitz ist nicht von Himmel gefallen."

Posted by: Dr_No at December 30, 2021 02:52 PM (mu5GU)

486 Ace seems to be less concerned with current covid per calit death rate by state than with per capita positive results
Take NY very very high rste of infection but very very low rate of death from covid
Many peoe testing, not many dying 3% of the total population but less than 1% of the daily covix desths which overwhelmingly are among the unvaccinated
Obey Trump Obey ykur Messish get vaccinated get boosted

Posted by: Kurt at December 30, 2021 03:00 PM (+VjxJ)

487 I had someone on FB arguing about Twitter banning Dr. Malone. He said that he was saying children shouldn't be vaccinated for Covid. I pointed out to him that if the person that developed the vaccine says that children shouldn't get it, it might be wise to listen to him, rather than the journalism majors that banned him.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 30, 2021 03:06 PM (5HBd1)

488 Mr Science is now talking about tradeoffs? Do he know in what realm of society decisions such are made?

Politics.

Science informs, and politics decides.

Posted by: Steve O at December 30, 2021 05:42 PM (XaNqP)

489 AP Fake News thats all AP is Fake News just like the NYT,s and CNN as well as the BBC

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 30, 2021 06:18 PM (FLiOE)

490 Just wondering if scumbag Harry Reid had Covid too and they're not admitting it.

Posted by: 370H55V at December 30, 2021 08:09 PM (WusEB)

491 Sister-in-Law sent home from Hospital The hospital fears she has COVID, she was tested, Nope not COVID so they told her to get a Flu Test, well she had to run all over three counties and stand in a line at Walmart every other day to find a COVID test and they are telling her "Ma'am there just are no Flu tests at all."
She is a nurse for a surgery unit.
They told her to not come back to work till she gets one.

Posted by: obsidian at December 31, 2021 01:07 PM (MKS/w)

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