CDC Changes Quarantine Rules from 10 Days to 5 Days -- As Fauci Admits It's About Economics

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just dropped adjusted quarantine guidelines for COVID-19 and vaccinated individuals. This is after an outcry from the airline industry that the guidelines and the surge in Omicron variant cases were causing staffing shortages.

Quoting AP:

U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in keeping with growing evidence that people with the coronavirus are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop.

Is this based on "The Science"?

Nah, son. It's based on what everything the government does -- politics, and appeasing powerful interests. Such as the airline industry.

The thing about cutting the requirements down to 10 days to five days is that it might make scientific sense, but I'm curious as to why they are only discovering this now, after going on almost two years of all this? Why didn't they apply this before? It would seem it should have already been apparent. They say it's that the decision is based on keeping things open because of the sheer number of people testing positive with Omicron.
Dr. Anthony Fauci made it clear on CNN that the move was at least in part political and economic, "to keep society running."

"The reason is that with the sheer volume of new cases that we are having and that we expect to continue with Omicron, one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out," Dr. Anthony Fauci explains why CDC changed Covid isolation guidelines. pic.twitter.com/g48XwcDdJh
-- The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) December 27, 2021

Now I don't object to the change -- but I am going to underline that this decision, like the recommendation to close schools, was made not based on "The Science" but by the request of powerful lobbies. The airline industries wanted this; the teachers unions demanded schools be closed.

Though I bet "The Science" is much, much stronger in supporting this latest change.

But still, that isn't why the decision was made. The science has been clear since May 2020 that children have low risk from covid and transmit covid at very, very low rates but we've kept schools closed, and kept kids masked, because the Democrats' key labor constituency and donor group the teachers union demanded we punish kids to make teachers feel Important and Respected.

And it's probably been clear for a long, long while that 10 days quarantine was excessive and unnecessary.

The reason for the change, then? Not science -- complaints from industry.

Barely anything in the past two years of the pandemic has been done because of science. It's all politics. And dirty, crude, base-stroking politics at that.

The Left is aghast that Fauci admitted that "The Science" is really The Politics:

My god he just out and said it aloud https://t.co/e6hZdyDzos
— Katelyn Burns (@transscribe) December 28, 2021

Posted by: Ace at 12:03 PM

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1 !

Posted by: Martin Riggs at December 28, 2021 12:04 PM (18UdP)

2 Off Sock!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 28, 2021 12:04 PM (18UdP)

3 Morning, Ace! I'll go get 'em.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at December 28, 2021 12:05 PM (18UdP)

4 Fauci hasn't been about "the science" since he was toilet-trained.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at December 28, 2021 12:05 PM (z/nZY)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

6 bright and early Ace is the best Ace.

Posted by: Scott_T at December 28, 2021 12:06 PM (2waQ7)

7 These people are just throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks.

Ignore them.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 28, 2021 12:06 PM (w9H27)

8 Fauci.

Italian for loose/liquified stool.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

9 Someone must have cornered this little jackwad and jerk his chaing a bit.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 28, 2021 12:07 PM (axyOa)

10 They're so focused on number of cases and saying nothing about severity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:07 PM (KZzsI)

11 It's all bullshit, you mean

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:07 PM (V6f9+)

12 Cost benefit analysis?

What do you think this is? A government agency?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:07 PM (LvTSG)

13 Damn, man.

Warn a fella when you're gonna post Jm. J Acosta talking.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)

14 Jilted Lover of Science, Anthony Fauci.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (YZdjV)

15 The reason for the change, then? Not science -- complaints from industry.

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Remember, progressives are fans of the common man against powerful interests.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (LvTSG)

16 I think Fauci's days as the "Sciencer in Chief" are numbered.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (BFigT)

17 They've known since early on that you weren't contagious after 4 days.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

18 I think that a lot of this has to do with BBB dying. Afghanistan and BBB were supposed to be two major accomplishments of the Biden admin, and both have turned into major failures. COVID was the third accomplishment, and between the hysteria over the omicron variant and the upcoming SCOTUS cases, I think that the admin wants to try and disengage itself so that they don't have another loss on their record. Hence why Biden did the 180 to pass it off to the governors.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (wmDcS)

19 You could see the writing on the wall when the NFL and NBA suddenly decided to change their protocols. The financial pain is there.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (EpDzw)

20 Haven't you ever heard of political science?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (ZLI7S)

21 This means that it's time to double down on the vaccine mandates!

Glory to New York City!

Posted by: The Woke Left! at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (I2/tG)

22 They're so focused on number of cases and saying nothing about severity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Because the number is scary. The severity, not so much.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (uXonU)

23 I think that the admin wants to try and disengage itself so that they don't have another loss on their record. Hence why Biden did the 180 to pass it off to the governors.

They're going to declare victory this spring with parades and TV shows and retrospectives and so on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (KZzsI)

24 What is truly frightening is that people are still getting sick and being hospitalized with and because of COVID. It is obviously not the scourge it's been made out to be. But. It is real and some people get really REALLY sick.

But, because of the politics of it all, we have to fucking idea what the actual numbers are.

And because of the politics, we don't have research into effective treatments.

It's criminal.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (II5RE)

25 >>Hence why Biden did the 180 to pass it off to the governors.

I think they have given up on the Senate and are grasping at the State House races and the Governorships.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (YZdjV)

26 18 I think that a lot of this has to do with BBB dying. Afghanistan and BBB were supposed to be two major accomplishments of the Biden admin, and both have turned into major failures. COVID was the third accomplishment, and between the hysteria over the omicron variant and the upcoming SCOTUS cases, I think that the admin wants to try and disengage itself so that they don't have another loss on their record. Hence why Biden did the 180 to pass it off to the governors.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (wmDcS)

==========

"We will be the adults in the room who will shut down covid, not the country."
-2020

"You fucked up! You trusted us!"
-Late 2021

Recipe for electoral domination, this is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (LvTSG)

27 That last tweet isn't upset that it's just about politics - the Left is pissed about it because they think it's about corporate profits. In other words, the government (Fauci) isn't being authoritarian enough.

Never assume the Left has had a moment of clarity.

Posted by: McLurkerson at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (wNDOJ)

28 Oh, if you are triple jabbed and catch Omicron, you can go about your merry way.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (EpDzw)

29 They're so pathetic. The new CDC Media Statement (Dec 27th) says, concerning the change in recommended time of isolation:

"The change is motivated by science demonstrating that the majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs early in the course of illness, generally in the 1-2 days prior to onset of symptoms and the 2-3 days after."

By science, y'all.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/
2021/s1227-isolation-quarantine-guidance.html

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 12:10 PM (SSiCQ)

30 I submit the MOST welcome change will be when they dump this whole sorry mess (never mind the justification) and things go back to normal.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 28, 2021 12:10 PM (KATBx)

31 I'm telling you: they have to explain covid away next year so all these asswipes can run for re-election

CO gov Jared Penis recently declared the 'covid emergency is over'

expect more like this in an election year

Posted by: DB at December 28, 2021 12:10 PM (0KxNW)

32 As has been said, this entire thing was a scam and Op and as antithetical to Science, Medicine, Reason and Logic as can be imagined.

And evil, let's not forget evil.

Intentionally so and with great malice and hatred for not just Orange Hitler but for most of humanity.

No one can say with a straight face that what's going on in Australia is done from a place of love for their fellow countrymen.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 28, 2021 12:10 PM (JI7zT)

33 Shut up and do what we tell you.

Posted by: Rachel Maddow at December 28, 2021 12:10 PM (DiE0p)

34 This new thread thing is getting contagious.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 28, 2021 12:10 PM (1t5dY)

35 23 They're going to declare victory this spring with parades and TV shows and retrospectives and so on.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (KZzsI)

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"No!!! Don't take this away from me! It has provided my life meaning for two years! I don't know what else to do! I gots no place else to go!"
-Karen McCookingSherryMom

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:10 PM (LvTSG)

36
Don't quarantine at all for omicron. Let it run rampant and burn out in a sudden blaze of glory.

I just had it and it was traumatically annoying. Like really annoying for 48 hours. Alright it was kinda annoying. A little bit.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 28, 2021 12:11 PM (dQvv7)

37 They're going to declare victory this spring with parades and TV shows and retrospectives and so on.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (KZzsI)

State of the Union. He needs some accomplishment to brag about, and "We contained COVID and now it's up to the states" is about the best he'll be able to do.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:11 PM (wmDcS)

38 or, in other words, one more thing we were right about all along, while enduring daily abuse for it.

at this point, what does it matter ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (IJMH4) at December 28, 2021 12:11 PM (IJMH4)

39 20 Haven't you ever heard of political science?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (ZLI7S)

And science fiction.

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 12:11 PM (SSiCQ)

40 12 Cost benefit analysis?

Glenn Greenwald making this case a while back.
Rumble link
https://tinyurl.com/bdznhr5r

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 28, 2021 12:11 PM (DB16e)

41 The Left is aghast that Fauci admitted that "The Science" is really The Politics

Fauci belongs in jail AFTER he is fired.

Posted by: Vic at December 28, 2021 12:11 PM (mpXpK)

42 Fauci had never done anything other than hand out govt. grants. He's not a scientist or even an experienced doctor.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 28, 2021 12:11 PM (Y5qcH)

43 >>No one can say with a straight face that what's going on in Australia is done from a place of love for their fellow countrymen.

Why even bring up a purely fictitious place, like Australia, when we have Canada sitting right on out head?

Might as well complain about the Covid Policies in Lilliput.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 12:12 PM (YZdjV)

44 May Fauci give a full accounting of his sins, apologize profusely, and face the consequences of his criminal actions.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 28, 2021 12:12 PM (fs1hN)

45 And because of the politics, we don't have research into effective treatments.

It's criminal.
Posted by: nurse ratched

We KNOW treatments. We're not allowed to use them. THAT'S what's criminal.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:12 PM (uXonU)

46 I could have, and should have lied when I got the Covids.

I feel sorry for those who get a five day clock instead of a 10 day clock.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 12:12 PM (r2Iho)

47 It's not just the airlines - the whole supply chain will collapse if you make everyone quarantine for ten days because they were close to someone with the equivalent of a bad cold.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 28, 2021 12:12 PM (I2/tG)

48 I think they have given up on the Senate and are grasping at the State House races and the Governorships.
Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (YZdjV)

I think at this point it's about stopping the bleeding. Hence why I expect the FBI to go full stasi and raid GOP candidates and right-wing groups next October. They'll try to scare away moderates by pumping up the "insurrection" narrative.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:12 PM (wmDcS)

49 I don't care what the old garden gnome says, MASK UP MFers!!!

Posted by: Faded Raiderette at December 28, 2021 12:12 PM (L9P9s)

50 36 Don't quarantine at all for omicron. Let it run rampant and burn out in a sudden blaze of glory.

I just had it and it was traumatically annoying. Like really annoying for 48 hours. Alright it was kinda annoying. A little bit.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 28, 2021 12:11 PM (dQvv7)

Did you survive?

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (SSiCQ)

51 Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:11 PM

but they are stupid and will brag about Shitghanistan exit.

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (DB16e)

52 Oh too much money.

Pushes big gov button.

Too little $, which is perfect.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (TqQz+)

53 It's also a coordinated shift to back away from the whole topic of Covid. They know Omicron is going to end the whole thing pretty fast so it's best to start forgetting their policies didn't do shit. They even have the beltway bootlickers starting to put out articles explaining how after a second look, Covid really isn't all that terrible, no need for any extreme measures.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (4thlk)

54 We're back to "normal" for certain values of normal.

It was only a matter of time. We live in a soup of disease in a way. Trillions of organisms trying to eke out a living off each other.

No living being is free from feeding off another in some way.

parasitism is one of the oldest means of an organism acquiring sustenance. It's more easily digested, compact and all placed nicely in a single package for ingesting now or taking away for later.

Anyone who doesn't understand and recognize this is living in a dream world and in for a very rude awakening one day.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (6R0HD)

55 48 I think at this point it's about stopping the bleeding. Hence why I expect the FBI to go full stasi and raid GOP candidates and right-wing groups next October. They'll try to scare away moderates by pumping up the "insurrection" narrative.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:12 PM (wmDcS)

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They will definitely do this.

And the GOPe will go along with it.

It will piss off a whole lot of people, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (LvTSG)

56 May Fauci give a full accounting of his sins, apologize profusely, and

Be executed. Toot sweet.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (uXonU)

57 This new thread thing is getting contagious.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

My wide-ranging asymptomatic case appears to be very contagious, among my family at least.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (mD/uy)

58 but they are stupid and will brag about Shitghanistan exit.
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (DB16e)

They'll try to polish that turd but it's not going so well. Everyone knows that it was a clusterfuck.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (wmDcS)

59 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (arJlL)

60 20 Haven't you ever heard of political science?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (ZLI7S)

It's the allocation of scarce resources. Now do you want to go with the grande or venti size? Whip or no whipped cream?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:14 PM (V6f9+)

61 Just wait until the government provides everyone with free daily Covid tests!

The false positives alone will shut down the economy, on top of the asymptomatic cases!

Posted by: Covid Karens Everywhere! at December 28, 2021 12:14 PM (I2/tG)

62 "The reason is that with the sheer volume of new cases that we are having and that we expect to continue with Omicron, one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out," Dr. Anthony Fauci explains why CDC changed Covid isolation guidelines.
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So you did a cost/benefit analysis on aggressive and disruptive measures to contain Omicron, and found that they are not worth pursuing.

Two questions CNN *should* have asked, but didn't and never will:
1. Was this kind of cost/benefit analysis - or any kind - performed at any point prior to this, whether in the initial outbreak or later during that outbreak, or with the Delta variant?
2. Given this admission that at least some COVID response measures are generally deleterious and too expensive to be justified, have you reassessed any of the existing COVID response measures for cost/benefit tradeoffs and will your organization be recommending a stand-down on any other existing measure?

Those questions would be polite, neutral, incisive, non-inflammatory, reasonable and informative. It will never happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:14 PM (DU+/6)

63 37 They're going to declare victory this spring with parades and TV shows and retrospectives and so on.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:09 PM (KZzsI)
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And if something bad happens it's the States fault.
Biden gave states the responsibility yesterday.
That was some kind of tell.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 28, 2021 12:15 PM (m+yM6)

64 I'm starting up a new charity if anyone is interested. It's called Acronyms for Assholes.

Giant BODs for all of them then they can DIAF and GTH to enjoy the GBCoS.

It's the season of giving.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2021 12:15 PM (ybfiw)

65 I just had it and it was traumatically annoying. Like really annoying for 48 hours. Alright it was kinda annoying. A little bit.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's

Did you survive?
Posted by: m

Dibs on Traitor Joe's shit!

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:15 PM (uXonU)

66 They have shifted responsibility for coof to the states, but if there is economic collapse, that goes on brandon. So cutting back to 5 days gives high cases to blame on red state governors, and minimal economic impact.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 28, 2021 12:15 PM (Xk9pL)

67 Eventually, when they can no longer milk the Covid panic porn and lockdowns for sufficient political advantage, they will declare it over, that it is important to limit the impact on people/children, etc., and that this is consistent with The Science. And it will be completely memory-holed that they led the lockdowns for two years and insisted the entire time that The Science was on their side.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at December 28, 2021 12:15 PM (H/wdc)

68 18 I think that a lot of this has to do with BBB dying. Afghanistan and BBB were supposed to be two major accomplishments of the Biden admin, and both have turned into major failures. COVID was the third accomplishment, and between the hysteria over the omicron variant and the upcoming SCOTUS cases, I think that the admin wants to try and disengage itself so that they don't have another loss on their record.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (wmDcS)

I think they were using "covid scare" to (irrationally) unite the country around Whatever Big Spending Thing We Want. Fail.

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 12:15 PM (SSiCQ)

69 Yep, I called this yesterday. Too much of a coincidence that flights are being cancelled left and right since last weekend, and then the new quarantine guidelines got announced yesterday.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2021 12:15 PM (Ez6QX)

70 it's best to start forgetting their policies didn't do shit

Hi there!

Posted by: The NYPD, Arresting Unvaccinated People At Burger King! at December 28, 2021 12:15 PM (I2/tG)

71 At least Germany has improved over the past 75 years -- German court rules officials must protect disabled people if hospitals end up having to triage patients in the Pandemic.

I assume meaning they can't leave the handicapped to die in the ER if they're not triple-vaxxed.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (UHVv4)

72 May Fauci give a full accounting of his sins, apologize profusely, and

Be executed. Toot sweet.
Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (uXonU)

And his family needs to pay for the bullet

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (eGTCV)

73 My quarantine has been a solid 0 days for 2 years.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (OalnH)

74 Initial Lie: The Science
Modified Limited Hangout: The Economics
The Truth: The Politics

Posted by: Lrrr at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (3HWf6)

75 Shut up and do what we tell you.
Posted by: Rachel Maddow at December 28, 2021 12:10 PM (DiE0p)

Oh, go eat a rotten box you hideous manfaced cow.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

76 Happy 4th day of Christmas, Horde!

Who brought the calling birds?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (bSTJu)

77 Why even bring up a purely fictitious place, like Australia, when we have Canada sitting right on out head?

Might as well complain about the Covid Policies in Lilliput.
Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 12:12 PM (YZdjV)

Are you going to sit there and deny the semi-existence of Kylie Minogue?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (V6f9+)

78 I was diagnosed with Kung Flu on 12/14/2021. I received antibodies on 12/15/2021 because I'm over 29 with underlying heat issues - type 2 (barely) and heart stint. I didn't start felling any better until 12/24/2021. For me, it was a really bad flu - high fever, body aches, hurling, etc.

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (gmo/4)

79 Of course passing responsibility off to the states (governors) means the heat is off Washington.

It also means states that toe the unsaid federal line will do well and those that don't, won't regardless of the number of cases. Florida better pray there are no serious hurricanes this season and Texas better pray they don't have a repeat of last winter. Neither state will get shit from this administration because they didn't follow orders.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (BFigT)

80
My wife, who religiously takes zinc and a daily glass of red wine, and was in the same crowded super market where I picked it up and she had a bit of a runny nose. Which she found annoying.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (dQvv7)

81 The UK only has 400 patients total admitted "with"
Covid. Of 8000 total admissions.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (Xk9pL)

82 "I don't know why you bother treating old people, just put them on a cot in the hallway until they die!"
--Scandanavian countries

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (KZzsI)

83 Yep, I called this yesterday. Too much of a coincidence that flights are being cancelled left and right since last weekend, and then the new quarantine guidelines got announced yesterday.
Posted by: Jordan61

9000 flights x'd yesterday.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (uXonU)

84 65 I just had it and it was traumatically annoying. Like really annoying for 48 hours. Alright it was kinda annoying. A little bit.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's

Did you survive?
Posted by: m

Dibs on Traitor Joe's shit!
Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:15 PM (uXonU)

Subtle!

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (SSiCQ)

85 Good news except...

Top U.S. infectious diseases expert says country should consider vaxx mandate for domestic air travel.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (UHVv4)

86 Fauci should have been fired the second he admitted he first lied about masks so they would have enough for medical personnel. You CANNOT have a functional Democracy when the Government and its officials flat out LIE to the Electorate, even if it is 'for their own good'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (oHd/0)

87 Who brought the calling birds?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (bSTJu)

British prostitutes?

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (gmo/4)

88 I agree with the building consensus in this thread that it appears that the powers that be seem to be looking for the exit ramp on their over-reaction to Covid. What I can't figure out is if they are truly going to end the vaccination push or if they will continue to push and punish non-compliance.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (fs1hN)

89 79 Of course passing responsibility off to the states (governors) means the heat is off Washington.

It also means states that toe the unsaid federal line will do well and those that don't, won't regardless of the number of cases. Florida better pray there are no serious hurricanes this season and Texas better pray they don't have a repeat of last winter. Neither state will get shit from this administration because they didn't follow orders.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (BFigT)

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I do not believe for one second that the left, which has been conditioned for 100 years to look to the federal government as the source of all of solutions in the nation, will suddenly stop insisting that Biden "DO SOMETHING!" because he said so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (LvTSG)

90 COVID was the third accomplishment, and between the hysteria over the omicron variant and the upcoming SCOTUS cases, I think that the admin wants to try and disengage itself so that they don't have another loss on their record.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:08 PM (wmDcS)
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I think there's a battle being waged within the State/Party/Media Complex over this issue. There are clearly big chunks of the Complex that are in "COVID is over" mode, but it is clearly not uniform. The last week has been downright schizophrenic. It was less than a week between Brandon's "Dark Winter of COVID" address and his "no Federal solution it's on the states" statement. The Press is going two directions on this, too. They're fighting it out internally, but the battle is leaking out into the public square.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (DU+/6)

91 I have a runny nose, but tested negative for the fauci wutang lung aids this morning.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (Xk9pL)

92 @43

>>Might as well complain about the Covid Policies in Lilliput.

Candida, with their beady little eyes and flapping heads all full of lies, hasn't yet descended to BioMedical Concentration, err, Happy Fun Camps, that Australia is implementing.

The bottom line is a great a evil was perpetrated here and demands a terrible retribution.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (JI7zT)

93 For me, it was a really bad flu - high fever, body aches, hurling, etc.

There are still different strains out there and as always your metabolism affects how you are affected.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (KZzsI)

94 As always follow the money.

Who benefited from the 'Rona? Big Tech. Who fought like hell to keep the hysteria going and cancel anyone who went against the hysteria? Big Tech.

Then of course add in Pharma which is making a killing from all of this.

That's what it was all about. Money. Like always.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (OalnH)

95 Who brought the calling birds?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (bSTJu)

British prostitutes?
Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (gmo/4)

I'm down with ornithology....to the Tilted Kilt!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (V6f9+)

96 Be executed. Toot sweet.
Posted by: rickb223

And his family needs to pay for the bullet
Posted by: N.L. Urker

Don't forget his wife is head of the org that decided the ethics of much of this bs for years (including the beagle torture, among others).

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (mD/uy)

97 Maybe my mixed blood is protective. I came from a man and a woman who married, and loved each other very much.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 28, 2021 12:19 PM (u82oZ)

98
State of the Union. He needs some accomplishment to brag about, and "We contained COVID and now it's up to the states" is about the best he'll be able to do.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:11 PM (wmDcS)

It will be the shortest SotU in modern history. They can't keep him lucid enough for more than 12 minutes, max.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

99 Fauci should have been fired the second he admitted he first lied about masks so they would have enough for medical personnel.

"I gave up the whole 'you're fired' thing when I got elected"
--President Trump

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:19 PM (KZzsI)

100 Oh, go eat a rotten box you hideous manfaced cow.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
Just don't go after my meal ticket, bitch.

Posted by: Huma! at December 28, 2021 12:19 PM (DU+/6)

101 I just had it and it was traumatically annoying. Like really annoying for 48 hours. Alright it was kinda annoying. A little bit.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's

Did you survive?
Posted by: m

Dibs on Traitor Joe's shit!

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:15 PM

I hope you like the sound of chains rattling around in the dark while you try to sleep.

Posted by: Zombie Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 28, 2021 12:19 PM (dQvv7)

102 He blinded me with $cience

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 28, 2021 12:20 PM (63Dwl)

103 Only 5 days in Happy Camp? How are you supposed to get quainted in a barely a week?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 28, 2021 12:20 PM (zxf3w)

104 Tonypete

Put Fauci and his unethical wife on the list.

Fauci is up to 5.7 million dead due to his policies.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 28, 2021 12:20 PM (u82oZ)

105 29 Oh, they use the word "science" a second time in the new CDC Media Statement (Dec 27th):

"Both updates come as the Omicron variant continues to spread throughout the U.S. and reflects the current science on when and for how long a person is maximally infectious."

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/
2021/s1227-isolation-quarantine-guidance.html

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 12:20 PM (SSiCQ)

106
I'm down with ornithology....to the Tilted Kilt!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (V6f9+)

We don't have those round these parts anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

107 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (bSTJu)

I had the French Hens but the Lords a Leaping stomped all over them.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 12:20 PM (6R0HD)

108 While I would like to see him get hit by a bus, that would just expedite his trip to Heaven.

This man has done more damage to the planet than anyone in recent history. How many people dead because of his gain-of-function plans? Millions? More?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 28, 2021 12:20 PM (XSRBF)

109 Just think how popular Biden would be if they had declared Covid over and opened everything up as soon as he took office. That is what he promised. Then he proceeded to f us over. Hence, 38% approval.
Now it's too late. Everyone knows this administration is a complete fraud, that the economy is fucked if they keep this up and they have created a movement of parents and patriots who can;t wait to vote them out of office.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 28, 2021 12:21 PM (Y+l9t)

110 I think there's a battle being waged within the State/Party/Media Complex over this issue. There are clearly big chunks of the Complex that are in "COVID is over" mode, but it is clearly not uniform. The last week has been downright schizophrenic. It was less than a week between Brandon's "Dark Winter of COVID" address and his "no Federal solution it's on the states" statement. The Press is going two directions on this, too. They're fighting it out internally, but the battle is leaking out into the public square.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (DU+/6)

It's the bureaucrats versus the elected officials. They were on the same side for the longest time, but as you start to see more and more pushback dem pols at the state level are looking for exits because they don't want to go into another election with this ongoing. Both sides have allies in the media.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:21 PM (wmDcS)

111 "Who knew you couldn't trust the security of a shoddily-constructed Chinese lab with almost no protocols to prevent leaks?? Not me!"
--Fauchi

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:21 PM (KZzsI)

112 109 Just think how popular Biden would be if they had declared Covid over and opened everything up as soon as he took office. That is what he promised. Then he proceeded to f us over. Hence, 38% approval.
Now it's too late. Everyone knows this administration is a complete fraud, that the economy is fucked if they keep this up and they have created a movement of parents and patriots who can;t wait to vote them out of office.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 28, 2021 12:21 PM (Y+l9t)

==========

He tried last summer.

He even had a mission accomplished speech.

The base didn't let him follow through.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:22 PM (LvTSG)

113 "I don't know why you bother treating old people, just put them on a cot in the hallway until they die!"
--Scandanavian countries

Yeah. You don't need to feed them or nothin'.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 12:22 PM (6R0HD)

114 Just think how popular Biden would be if they had declared Covid over and opened everything up as soon as he took office. That is what he promised.

Well for two years now its been that meme of a guy sweating over pushing one of two buttons:
1) end Covid panic and be a hero
2) Continue having absolute power

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:22 PM (KZzsI)

115 State of the union? Which union am I talking to? SEIU? NEA?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 28, 2021 12:22 PM (Xk9pL)

116 It's the bureaucrats versus the elected officials. They were on the same side for the longest time, but as you start to see more and more pushback dem pols at the state level are looking for exits because they don't want to go into another election with this ongoing. Both sides have allies in the media.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:21 PM (wmDcS)
++++
I wonder if it is that simple. It would be nice if it is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:22 PM (DU+/6)

117 It's all been bullshit from the beginning, yet Dr. Fascist acts like he's throwing us a bone. Fuck that guy.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 28, 2021 12:22 PM (II3Gr)

118 Science ? I do not think that word means what you think it means...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 28, 2021 12:22 PM (TdaKq)

119 Just think how popular Biden would be if they had declared Covid over and opened everything up as soon as he took office. That is what he promised. Then he proceeded to f us over

I expected them to do just that. I was genuinely surprised that they let this go for another whole year.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:22 PM (wmDcS)

120 Has there ever been another bureaucrat granted as much power as Fauci?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (eGTCV)

121 : Wyatt Earp

700,000 for his AIDS Policies, and 5.0 or so million worldwide for his GOF research and poor policy.

But your DA and mayor have killed more with their policy choices in your fair city than COVID.

Please stay safe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (u82oZ)

122 Maybe even Fauci can see the wind gage and knows their time is running out

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (zxf3w)

123 This man has done more damage to the planet than anyone in recent history. How many people dead because of his gain-of-function plans? Millions? More?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 28, 2021 12:20 PM (XSRBF)

He had help.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (V6f9+)

124 Florida better pray there are no serious hurricanes this season and Texas better pray they don't have a repeat of last winter. Neither state will get shit from this administration because they didn't follow orders.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (BFigT)

Neither of those States would get sh*t from this administration regardless of COVID.

Posted by: Vic at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (mpXpK)

125 >>> My wife, who religiously takes zinc and a daily glass of red wine, and was in the same crowded super market where I picked it up and she had a bit of a runny nose. Which she found annoying.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (dQvv7)

I've taken vit D along with zinc for more than a year. Also K and some C. I take flonase and certizine during allergy season. I haven't been sick that entire time even with everyone around me getting sick. I've never been a vitamin/mineral taker. But this has convinced me. I've probably had the longest period of not being sick in many many years.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (ybfiw)

126 What I can't figure out is if they are truly going to end the vaccination push or if they will continue to push and punish non-compliance.

The problem is that they've convinced their masked, triplevaxxed base that they are the Good People, and that other people are the Bad People who are scum and deserve to be liquidated.

Hatred is a hell of a drug, and it's not so easy to make your followers go cold turkey.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (I2/tG)

127 At least Germany has improved over the past 75 years -- German court rules officials must protect disabled people if hospitals end up having to triage patients in the Pandemic.

I assume meaning they can't leave the handicapped to die in the ER if they're not triple-vaxxed.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 28, 2021 12:16 PM (UHVv4)

That just means like Cuomo and the blue states, you just move them to die somewhere else.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (eoQWY)

128 No one is pointing out that these a-hole fired the first responders, Doctors and Nurses that help the infected and have all along with no vaccine?!?!?! They also have the highest incidence of deaths after the elderly.

Posted by: joseph w dagostino at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (aHmN0)

129 N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods

Himmler. Beria.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (u82oZ)

130 113 "I don't know why you bother treating old people, just put them on a cot in the hallway until they die!"
--Scandanavian countries

Eskimos ship them out on ice floes...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (TdaKq)

131 Mor*cough*ning.

Posted by: Robert at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (1Yy3c)

132 Why is FJB always in his pretend WH with the green screen when he gives these pronouncements? It's creepy.

Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (gmo/4)

133 119 Just think how popular Biden would be if they had declared Covid over and opened everything up as soon as he took office. That is what he promised. Then he proceeded to f us over

I expected them to do just that. I was genuinely surprised that they let this go for another whole year.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:22 PM (wmDcS)

========

A lot of us did because we understand basic politics. They didn't because they thought they held supreme power forever and their base is literally broken and won't let go.

If Leftist Twitter screams incoherently, Democratic politicians and media personalities jump to attention and just start screaming in similar sounds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

134 Florida better pray there are no serious hurricanes this season and Texas better pray they don't have a repeat of last winter. Neither state will get shit from this administration because they didn't follow orders.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

They won't get help regardless. They're red states.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (uXonU)

135 Thing of your typical 40-something upper middle class white single/divorced woman. Empty life, no hopes of ever meeting a man. Wine and cats. Then Covid comes along. It gives her purpose, she has a mission....to save the world from the disease.

She is not going to let go of that any time soon. She will be screaming at people in Costco about masks for years to come.

Unfortunately.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (OalnH)

136 Florida better pray there are no serious hurricanes this season and Texas better pray they don't have a repeat of last winter. Neither state will get shit from this administration because they didn't follow orders.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (BFigT)

Hence DeSantis' creation of his own state guard to avoid getting Katrina'd.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (eoQWY)

137 N.L.Lurker maybe, just maybe Edgar Hoover

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (zxf3w)

138 I've taken vit D along with zinc for more than a year. Also K and some C.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (ybfiw)

I take all that stuff and I STILL got a cold last month. I was pissed.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (Ez6QX)

139 hey- maybe science has emanations and penumbras, just like the 'constitution'

Posted by: DB at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (0KxNW)

140 Why is FJB always in his pretend WH with the green screen when he gives these pronouncements? It's creepy.

Covers up the hospital room he's usually in

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (KZzsI)

141 >>> Florida better pray there are no serious hurricanes this season and Texas better pray they don't have a repeat of last winter. Neither state will get shit from this administration because they didn't follow orders.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (BFigT)

Neither of those States would get sh*t from this administration regardless of COVID.
Posted by: Vic at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (mpXpK)

The fedgov needs the states far more than the states need the fedgov. If they don't believe that then I invite them to mess around and see.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (ybfiw)

142 132 Why is FJB always in his pretend WH with the green screen when he gives these pronouncements? It's creepy.
Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (gmo/4)

What if a presstitute were to ask that question?

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (SSiCQ)

143 The Fauch didn't come up with this crap all by his lonesome. Squeeze him till he pops.

Oops. Forgot who/what's in charge.

Posted by: klaftern at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (taPSh)

144 Mor*cough*ning.
Posted by: Robert at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (1Yy3c)

*douses Robert with Lysol*

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (Ez6QX)

145 They were going to vaxx everyone a d declare victory by the 4th of July. Then china unleashed Delta on India in retaliation for Kashmir.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (Xk9pL)

146 The bottom line is a great a evil was perpetrated here and demands a terrible retribution.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (JI7zT)

Good luck with that pal with half the country about to become deathly ill and many will die, a lot will be crippled and the rest will be chronically sick for the rest of their shortened lives.

Meanwhile the purebloods will have to go into hiding because they will get blamed. In every incidence of mass hysteria there is always a scape goat or two. to relieve the stress.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (6R0HD)

147 One thing about the school closures that I don't understand, did the schools still get paid per student "attending". Because if so, that would go a long ways toward building up the schools' cash reserves if they got the same Federal income, without having the expenses of students physically in class.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (Z3lhA)

148 I expected them to do just that. I was genuinely surprised that they let this go for another whole year.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:22 PM (wmDcS)
++++
I think they had the groundwork in place to do it. Shortly after the idiot usurper was sworn in, the WHO changed their testing guidelines to something sensible (only symptomatic tests with diagnostic confirmation are considered true positives) and the rates began to decline as expected. As TJM points out, the scuttlebutt is that they had a victory lap planned. Something went wrong.

Whether it was the Karens in the base, or the press, or the governors and bureaucrats and other power players being unwilling to relinquish control, or the corporate players, or something else - well, I have no idea. But I have started to think that they *wanted* to do "COVID is over" stuff 6-8 months ago but for some reason were unable to do so. With the failure of the rest of the agenda, they now have to force the issue. They're out of political capital now and have to get a win.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (DU+/6)

149 Hubris Update: My error in the other thread.

||A bird flu outbreak in northern Israel that killed over 5,200 cranes and forced the culling of half a million chickens is not yet under control, an expert said on Monday.

The disaster is expected to threaten Israel's supply of eggs. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's government is trying to import them from other countries."||

It's still from China I'd say in my own defence.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 28, 2021 12:26 PM (UHVv4)

150 Just think how popular Biden would be if they had declared Covid over and opened everything up as soon as he took office. That is what he promised. Then he proceeded to f us over

I expected them to do just that. I was genuinely surprised that they let this go for another whole year.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:22 PM (wmDcS)

Dems hate freedom more than Covid

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 12:26 PM (eoQWY)

151 Why is FJB always in his pretend WH with the green screen when he gives these pronouncements? It's creepy.
Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (gmo/4)

Getting people used to it so no one will notice when they replace him with a Deep Fake simulation.

Posted by: Robert at December 28, 2021 12:26 PM (1Yy3c)

152 Why is FJB always in his pretend WH with the green screen when he gives these pronouncements? It's creepy.
Posted by: Archer at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (gmo/4)

Everything about this fucker is fake. He's a lie. He's been a lie his entire career.

Thanks, Delaware. Assholes.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

153 135 Thing of your typical 40-something upper middle class white single/divorced woman. Empty life, no hopes of ever meeting a man. Wine and cats. Then Covid comes along. It gives her purpose, she has a mission....to save the world from the disease.

She is not going to let go of that any time soon. She will be screaming at people in Costco about masks for years to come.

Unfortunately.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (OalnH)

At least the ones who do it on airplanes might get arrested.

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 12:26 PM (SSiCQ)

154 147 One thing about the school closures that I don't understand, did the schools still get paid per student "attending". Because if so, that would go a long ways toward building up the schools' cash reserves if they got the same Federal income, without having the expenses of students physically in class.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (Z3lhA)

Idk, did they lower your property taxes?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 28, 2021 12:26 PM (Y5qcH)

155 Good news coming out of South Africa. A study by researchers suggests that omicron provides powerful immunity against infection particularly against the most dangerous Delta variant.

It's almost like the world is rediscovering how natural immunity works all over again.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 28, 2021 12:26 PM (ZLI7S)

156 Then Covid comes along. It gives her purpose, she has a mission....to save the world from the disease.

And, if they are clever, that's the angle they will take: "you did it! Your watchful efforts to mask up, your vaccinations, your sacrifice with the quarantines, it all was the GREATEST GENERATION AGAIN defeating an awful foe! You, Karen, are a hero that saved the world! Now you can rest from the awful battle, because WE WON because of YOU!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:27 PM (KZzsI)

157 Archer because the "Real" president is in the Oval Office?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 28, 2021 12:27 PM (zxf3w)

158
When I say my wife religiously takes a glass of wine daily, I mean when I place the full glass in front of her she always says, 'Thank God.'

Posted by: Zombie Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 28, 2021 12:27 PM (dQvv7)

159 I think the green screen is for a couple reasons:

1) Larger room for teleprompters and aides to keep Biden on track.

2) Gets people used to the idea of not seeing him in the actual oval office, so we don't know where he's actually being recorded.

3) Allows them greater control over who has access to Biden, so fewer chances of word getting out about his deterioration.

4) Allows them to prerecord certain speeches when Biden is lucid, rather than risking an actual live speech.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:27 PM (wmDcS)

160 148 With the failure of the rest of the agenda, they now have to force the issue. They're out of political capital now and have to get a win.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (DU+/6)

==========

They spent a lot insulting Joe Manchin.

Really, Biden's administration will probably go down as the worst administration in at least a hundred years. Even progressive historians will shit on him because he got nothing passed in Congress, their sole real measure for how successful a president is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

161 One thing about the school closures that I don't understand, did the schools still get paid per student "attending". Because if so, that would go a long ways toward building up the schools' cash reserves if they got the same Federal income, without having the expenses of students physically in class.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (Z3lhA)
++++
The replaced those expenses with things like laptops and meal deliveries. Any surplus was, I am sure, devoted to lobbying. I doubt there's a single school system that posted lower expenses.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:27 PM (DU+/6)

162 I envision statues to tik tok dancing nurses and the mom with masked up kids. I see feature films about a woman who tirelessly fought the battle against Covid while being abused and attacked by hateful MAGA hatted non-vaxed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:28 PM (KZzsI)

163 @118

>>Science ? I do not think that word means what you think it means...

In January of 2020 we smelled a rat, by February of 2020, we started piecing everything together by May/June of 2020, most people knew the score and that this whole thing was a Deep State/Globalist political Op.

It's looks like it's achieved as much as it can and now it's becoming a massive liability and has destabilized, economics, politics, culture, the civil society, etc.

And as others have said, they are trying to figure out how to end it.

Basically, it's going to be a Chinese Fire Drill all the way to the end.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 28, 2021 12:28 PM (JI7zT)

164 >>> I take all that stuff and I STILL got a cold last month. I was pissed.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2021 12:24 PM (Ez6QX)

Also if I don't take allergy medicine I'll get a sinus infection that follows the allergy. But still, if a cold wants you bad enough, I guess there's only so much you can do.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2021 12:28 PM (ybfiw)

165 " at least in part political and economic, "to keep society running."

yeah, it is political since it served specific political interests (BigTech online shopping, BigBox store allowed open, Teachers, Airlines) ... but at the same time Fauci still thinks "keeping society running" is not part of the "scientific equation".

Great Harm was done by shutdowns, and they needed a much more valid reason for such draconian damages. But to the degree they killed small business, isolated political revolt against the coup, shut down religious gatherings pre-election, ... the real agenda emerges as an attack on American Liberty ... probably planned for years, actually. (just listen to the oligarchs at Davos or other places)

Posted by: illiniwek at December 28, 2021 12:28 PM (Cus5s)

166 I-80, the main highway going east out of San Francisco, has been closed due to snow in the Sierras for a couple of days now, and there is no estimate on when it will reopen. The Lake Tahoe area is absolutely paralyzed.

I wonder how many snow plow drivers were fired for not getting the vax?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 28, 2021 12:28 PM (I2/tG)

167 Zombie Traitor Joe's Military Surplus

LOL. Taking notes here.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 28, 2021 12:28 PM (u82oZ)

168 *douses Robert with Lysol*
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (Ez6QX)

Hey! I took a shower this morning. I should smell like...like...*checks soap*...like an Icy Blast of Irish Spring.

Posted by: Robert at December 28, 2021 12:28 PM (1Yy3c)

169 Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:27 PM (wmDcS)

Everything you said there is probably true... And Frightening

Posted by: It's me donna at December 28, 2021 12:28 PM (TdaKq)

170 No one is pointing out that these a-hole fired the first responders, Doctors and Nurses that help the infected and have all along with no vaccine?!?!?! They also have the highest incidence of deaths after the elderly.
Posted by: joseph w dagostino at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (aHmN0)

Show that they knew just how dangerous Covid was.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 12:29 PM (eoQWY)

171 One thing about the school closures that I don't understand, did the schools still get paid per student "attending". Because if so, that would go a long ways toward building up the schools' cash reserves if they got the same Federal income, without having the expenses of students physically in class.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (Z3lhA)

Not really. The schools still have many of the same expenditures. There might be some savings from reduced utility costs, etc., but those are a small portion of expenditures compared to teacher salaries, bond repayments, etc.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:29 PM (wmDcS)

172 The ARC of History!

The Left: We can do without those unbelievers in our cant.

Reality: Bend over, Leftists.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 28, 2021 12:29 PM (u82oZ)

173 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (DU+/6)

Jan 6 really really really scared the bejeebus out of them. And they (Pelosi) got really really really mad.

Decided to make the whole country pay.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 12:30 PM (6R0HD)

174 4) Allows them to prerecord certain speeches when Biden is lucid, rather than risking an actual live speech.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:27 PM (wmDcS)
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5) Allows them to control the environment to help contain the sundowning problems by making him think it's daytime.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:30 PM (DU+/6)

175 Robert

If your travels ever take you near Manhattan, Kansas, let me know. I'll buy dinner.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 28, 2021 12:30 PM (u82oZ)

176 but those are a small portion of expenditures compared to teacher salaries, bond repayments, etc.

*nods* --Assistant vice principal of diversity and inclusion in office with 3 secretaries.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:30 PM (KZzsI)

177 I envision statues to tik tok dancing nurses and the mom with masked up kids. I see feature films about a woman who tirelessly fought the battle against Covid while being abused and attacked by hateful MAGA hatted non-vaxed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:28 PM (KZzsI)

Good thing leftists have forgotten how to write a movie or show people will watch for long.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 12:30 PM (eoQWY)

178 Since when do we quarantine for the common cold?
Oh right, since Fauci became King of the Gnomes.

Posted by: wth at December 28, 2021 12:30 PM (v0R5T)

179
Mor*cough*ning.
Posted by: Robert at December 28, 2021 12:23 PM (1Yy3c)

*douses Robert with Lysol*

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM

He's probably allergic to all the cat dander from the Art Thread.

Posted by: Zombie Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 28, 2021 12:30 PM (dQvv7)

180 155 "Good news coming out of South Africa. A study by researchers suggests that omicron provides powerful immunity against infection particularly against the most dangerous Delta variant. It's almost like the world is rediscovering how natural immunity works all over again."
Posted by: JackStraw at December 28, 2021 12:26 PM (ZLI7S)

I think I saw a couple more from some European countries. That's why the shift in narrative from the administration and beltway mouthpieces, it's over.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 28, 2021 12:31 PM (4thlk)

181 Best thing about AGW: 90% less Delaware. It's a start.

Posted by: klaftern at December 28, 2021 12:31 PM (taPSh)

182 @148

>>Whether it was the Karens in the base, or the press, or the governors and bureaucrats and other power players being unwilling to relinquish control, or the corporate players, or something else.

It probably something as simple as they got drunk on the power and became power mad, and once things get going you end up being Bunny in Platoon and wanting to do the whole f***ing village.

Except it wasn't a village, it's the whole Western World.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 28, 2021 12:31 PM (JI7zT)

183 9000 flights x'd yesterday.
Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (uXonU)

I took a picture of the Arrival/Departure board yesterday as I was leaving. Haven't seen that much red (cancelled) and yellow (delayed) since last year.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2021 12:31 PM (Ez6QX)

184 >>>700,000 for his AIDS Policies, and 5.0 or so million worldwide for his GOF research and poor policy.

But your DA and mayor have killed more with their policy choices in your fair city than COVID.

Please stay safe.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Truer words were never spoken. 550 murders as of last night. And thanks. I always keep my head on a swivel.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 28, 2021 12:31 PM (XSRBF)

185 Irish Spring.
Posted by: Robert at December 28, 2021 12:28 PM (1Yy3c)

Irish spring is about 60 years old. I remember when they sent sample bars all over the country when it came out.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 12:31 PM (6R0HD)

186 Good thing leftists have forgotten how to write a movie or show people will watch for long.

Rotten Tomatoes: Paid critics: 125%!!!!1!! Audience: 1%

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:31 PM (KZzsI)

187 Oldcat

The Leftist artists, actors and musicians have been among the hardest hit by lockdowns.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 28, 2021 12:31 PM (u82oZ)

188 Well, as we all know, you can't spell "SCIENCE" without two $$'s.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:32 PM (Q3oNv)

189 The Leftist artists, actors and musicians have been among the hardest hit by lockdowns.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 28, 2021 12:31 PM (u82oZ)
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And I hope the end of the lockdowns and other bullshit does not result in a revitalization of the entertainment industry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:32 PM (DU+/6)

190 Going to be a lot harder to try and justify mass mail in cheating if the virus is starting to disappear.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 28, 2021 12:32 PM (ZLI7S)

191 "Covid" Soy 'worship word'!

You will not speak it!

Posted by: chef soy williams, chef, son of chef at December 28, 2021 12:32 PM (UHVv4)

192 Just saw an article on MSN that the Pentagon is fighting back against the GOPs stance on Vax Mandates.

uh.. what GOP stance? There are a couple of Repub politicians making some noise, but most are good little herd critters.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 12:32 PM (oHd/0)

193 Crony fascism goes both ways. The government 'hints' that business should do such-and-such, and business requests changes to medical science guidelines.

Posted by: t-bird at December 28, 2021 12:32 PM (vOGqy)

194 >>>Florida better pray there are no serious hurricanes this season and Texas better pray they don't have a repeat of last winter. Neither state will get shit from this administration because they didn't follow orders.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2021 12:17 PM (BFigT)
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Florida's gone through many hurricanes without federal assistance and Texas didn't received any assistance from the Fed regarding the freeze.

Remember Katrina and all the help the Fed gave Mississippi, the state that was actually slammed by the hurricane? Nah

Posted by: Braenyard at December 28, 2021 12:33 PM (m+yM6)

195 Hay Fauci, every job is "essential" to the person who does it, asshole.

Posted by: wth at December 28, 2021 12:33 PM (v0R5T)

196 A study by researchers suggests that omicron provides powerful immunity against infection particularly against the most dangerous Delta variant.

They also declared water to be wet and the sky to be blue.

The best thing that could happen is for everyone healthy to get the Xi variant, and lock out all other Wuhan Flu variants from then on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:33 PM (KZzsI)

197 And I hope the end of the lockdowns and other bullshit does not result in a revitalization of the entertainment industry.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:32 PM (DU+/6)

The industry hasn't been entertaining in years

Posted by: It's me donna at December 28, 2021 12:33 PM (TdaKq)

198 189 And I hope the end of the lockdowns and other bullshit does not result in a revitalization of the entertainment industry.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:32 PM (DU+/6)

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Spider-Man just crossed the $1 billion mark after less than two weeks in theaters. That's a fair amount of profit to throw at Disney+ shows that are primarily woke-a-thons.

It's going to come back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:33 PM (LvTSG)

199 Good news coming out of South Africa.
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They bless the rains down there??

Posted by: Toto at December 28, 2021 12:33 PM (UHVv4)

200 Joe Biden really has no power to declare Covid over. He can say it. But having whipped up a significant part of the country into an irrational panic, they've lost control. Problem with basing public policy on irrationality and fear-mongering is that you can't reason people out of it because you didn't reason them into it. If Biden et al. want to end this, they'd be better off trying to convince the media to carry their water (instead of more panic porn) and use media like Twitter to heap scorn on those who continue to worry. Peer pressure would be a lot more effective than data.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 28, 2021 12:34 PM (QU5/8)

201 But ace the "science" is even more basic and cuts off this whole discussion much earlier.

There is no conceivable reason for any "quarantine" for a prevalent (possibly already endemic) highly infectious virus with an IFR less than that of flu for most of the population.

"Vulnerable" or higher-risk people may want to isolate; people may want to "quarantine" away from such people - those are rational but still low-return responses. But all people "testing positive" quarantining never made sense and still doesn't.

"The Science" has been totally abandoned from the outset, and almost the entire population - including many "skeptics" and "anti-vax" people, still operate on the unscientific assumptions that are the foundation of everything since March 2020.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 28, 2021 12:34 PM (OTzUX)

202 Spider-Man just crossed the $1 billion mark after less than two weeks in theaters. That's a fair amount of profit to throw at Disney+ shows that are primarily woke-a-thons.

It's going to come back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:33 PM (LvTSG)
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It has also been the only success story. The industry won't vanish, but I want it to get increasingly poorer. Time will tell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:34 PM (DU+/6)

203 This man has done more damage to the planet than anyone in recent history. How many people dead because of his gain-of-function plans? Millions? More?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 28, 2021 12:20 PM (XSRBF)

These people don't see that as damage, but as a benefit. Unless the deaths start getting too close to them.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 12:34 PM (eoQWY)

204
It's almost like the world is rediscovering how natural immunity works all over again.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 28, 2021 12:26 PM (ZLI7S)

I knew we were fucked when they started saying 'herd immunity' wasn't possible without 75% of Americans being vaccinated.

That's not how this works......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

205 Going to be a lot harder to try and justify mass mail in cheating if the virus is starting to disappear.

That's why they flipped to "save our democracy" instead of "its unsafe to vote in person" a few months ago.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:34 PM (KZzsI)

206 NOTES FROM THE GULAG

I am an invisible man.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:34 PM (Q3oNv)

207
Going to be a lot harder to try and justify mass mail in cheating if the virus is starting to disappear.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 28, 2021 12:32 PM

That's why they're going to try to steamroll HR1 in the coming months.

Posted by: Zombie Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (dQvv7)

208 Fauci was asked the following rhetorical question.

"If you were to disappear off the face of the earth, would anyone look for you?"

And when he realized the answer was no, he decided he should try to be a little less annoying.

Posted by: JB1000 at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (Lnkex)

209 >>They bless the rains down there??

I miss them.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (ZLI7S)

210 The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just dropped adjusted quarantine guidelines for COVID-19 and vaccinated individuals. This is after an outcry from the airline industry that the guidelines and the surge in Omicron variant cases were causing staffing shortages.

FALSE: The Omniscient, omnipotent CEO and BoD of all the airlines fired all of their non-GMO employees which means it would be impossible for the remaining crew to get the Wuhan Death Miasma.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (+LCoQ)

211 NOTES FROM THE GULAG

I am an invisible man.
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:34 PM (Q3oNv)

I saw your Memoirs....they weren't great.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (V6f9+)

212 But your DA and mayor have killed more with their policy choices in your fair city than COVID.

Please stay safe.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
.......

Wear your hands. Wash a mask.

Posted by: wth at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (v0R5T)

213 This brunette office accessory is just glad to be back at work after her state rolled back a bunch of the COVID response measures:
https://is.gd/rBIs2Q

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (DU+/6)

214 155 "Good news coming out of South Africa. A study by researchers suggests that omicron provides powerful immunity against infection particularly against the most dangerous Delta variant. It's almost like the world is rediscovering how natural immunity works all over again."
Posted by: JackStraw at December 28, 2021 12:26 PM (ZLI7S)

Yup, following the same pattern as every other pandemic... almost like there is a PLAN or something.

Fact is, our Faith was tested, and we did not show Faith, only Hubris.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 12:36 PM (oHd/0)

215 Spider-Man just crossed the $1 billion mark after less than two weeks in theaters

The problem with that is it detonates every excuse everyone gave for how the previous three films barely made money. I'm not convinced Eternals actually ever did, for that matter.

Marvel Zombies are unreachable, but everyone else has to see the distinction between Shang Chi, Eternals, Black Widow and Spidey.

And honestly Spider-Man doesn't feel like it meshes all that well with the MCU anyway. I mean they try really hard with all the cameos and such but its a different tone and feel.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:36 PM (KZzsI)

216 So far they are doing Sundowner teleprompter videos in early afternoon, but sooner or later will make them look like night or evening while they still are made in early afternoon.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 28, 2021 12:36 PM (zxf3w)

217 It's become a cliche to say Wokeness is a religion but can we just all agree that it's not merely a religion but the worst religion mankind has ever devised?

Because it's so stupid but powerful.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:36 PM (Q3oNv)

218 Hallmark Christmas movie:

Big city single mom flees to the country with her 2 kids. She gets stuck in a lodge after a snowstorm with a racist bigoted MAGA man. She slowly falls in love with him as she reforms him in the ways of social justice and BLM. By the end of the movie he declares himself genderqueer nonbinary with they/them/xir pronouns and moves to the city with their partner.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 28, 2021 12:37 PM (Xk9pL)

219 215 And honestly Spider-Man doesn't feel like it meshes all that well with the MCU anyway. I mean they try really hard with all the cameos and such but its a different tone and feel.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:36 PM (KZzsI)

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I assume it tries to be fun, unlike Eternals which tried to be boring (of which I saw about 30 minutes).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

220 Remember this for next time: we've got lockdowns and mask mandates and vaccinations and all sorts of measures in place to (ostensibly) stop the spread of coronaviruses.

...and that's when Omicron began sweeping the world.

Posted by: t-bird at December 28, 2021 12:37 PM (l0Lgi)

221 Fauci was asked the following rhetorical question.

"If you were to disappear off the face of the earth, would anyone look for you?"
........

I might wonder why anyone would steal my garden gnome.

Posted by: wth at December 28, 2021 12:37 PM (v0R5T)

222 I think the answer is pretty simple. The people in charge are bat shit crazy. They are all Karens. I mean, they think Global Warming is man made. They think masks work. They think fossil fuels need to be eliminated and the wind and solar can charge the electric grid. They think there are multiple genders, that you can choose which gender you are with no regard for biology. Need I go on?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 28, 2021 12:38 PM (Y+l9t)

223 208 Fauci was asked the following rhetorical question.

"If you were to disappear off the face of the earth, would anyone look for you?"

And when he realized the answer was no, he decided he should try to be a little less annoying.
Posted by: JB1000 at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (Lnkex)

Come on Man, we'd miss him!

Posted by: Big Pharma CEOs at December 28, 2021 12:38 PM (oHd/0)

224 4. Allows them to prerecord certain speeches when Biden is lucid, rather than risking an actual live speech.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2021 12:27 PM (wmDcS)

5. No official White House log entry requirements.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 28, 2021 12:38 PM (j7VPE)

225 200 Joe Biden really has no power to declare Covid over. But
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Cancel restrictions and take covid off/out of the news cycle and it's gone.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 28, 2021 12:38 PM (m+yM6)

226 It's become a cliche to say Wokeness is a religion but can we just all agree that it's not merely a religion but the worst religion mankind has ever devised?

Because it's so stupid but powerful.
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:36 PM (Q3oNv)

allah, laughing, spreads his wings.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

227 Move along people, nothing to see here.

Posted by: Officer Barbrady at December 28, 2021 12:38 PM (I8FKK)

228 May Fauci give a full accounting of his sins, apologize profusely, and
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Be executed. Toot sweet.
Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:13 PM (uXonU)

When it serves their purpose, Fauci will be thrown under the bus, and the real perpetrators will walk away, unscathed.

They always do.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 12:39 PM (r2Iho)

229 Eternals cost around $200 million to make and got a box office of $401,177,300 worldwide, which means it eked out a profit, assuming streaming did okay. But a very small one, the kind of "profit" Hollywood considers a failure and does not make sequels to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:39 PM (KZzsI)

230 My son's a bonafide scientist, works in a quasi-gain of function lab, is a Trump supporter but ... he defends Fauce every time. The tribal instinct kicks in: scientists gotta stick together.

Here's my problem: Fauci long ago proved to have left science behind.

THE END

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:39 PM (Q3oNv)

231 229 Eternals cost around $200 million to make and got a box office of $401,177,300 worldwide, which means it eked out a profit, assuming streaming did okay. But a very small one, the kind of "profit" Hollywood considers a failure and does not make sequels to.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:39 PM (KZzsI)

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Marketing was probably about $200 million, and theaters take 40% of ticket sales on average.

It's in the red.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

232 This brunette office accessory is just glad to be back at work after her state rolled back a bunch of the COVID response measures:
https://is.gd/rBIs2Q
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (DU+/6)

I predict she'll go far

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:40 PM (V6f9+)

233 If Biden et al. want to end this, they'd be better off trying to convince the media to carry their water (instead of more panic porn) and use media like Twitter to heap scorn on those who continue to worry. Peer pressure would be a lot more effective than data.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 28, 2021 12:34 PM (QU5/

The media that they rely on is dying, and those in it who can hide the fact that they are zealots are getting fewer and fewer. Some CNN shows have dropped 80 pct in just one year and they weren't good before that. And those that do watch that are mostly those already in the bag.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 12:40 PM (eoQWY)

234 7 These people are just throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 28, 2021 12:06 PM (w9H27)

And there you have a perfect recap of the past two years.

Posted by: creeper at December 28, 2021 12:40 PM (cTCuP)

235 Here's my problem: Fauci long ago proved to have left science behind.

THE END
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:39 PM (Q3oNv)
++++
"Doctor Fauci is a pure scientist."
-- Shit my company's COVID consultant MD actually said on a conference call

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:40 PM (DU+/6)

236 I thought Fauci was just protecting his stock portfolio...

Posted by: scrood at December 28, 2021 12:40 PM (kg8yZ)

237 Need I go on?

No, you're right. I mean there are a few wholly mercenary monsters who don't believe any of that crap but almost all of them do. Its a matter of religious dogma.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:40 PM (KZzsI)

238 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:39 PM (KZzsI)

Now add in advertising and promotion costs...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 12:41 PM (oHd/0)

239 Can't leave a Fauci thread without saying I can't wait until he is burning in Hell

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 28, 2021 12:41 PM (zxf3w)

240 "... allah, laughing, spreads his wings."

You talking 'bout AllahPundit? Cause he's stupid.

But then, I guess that's your point.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:41 PM (Q3oNv)

241 Fed Protected Provocateur, Ex-Marine and former president of the largest chapter of far-right anti government militia group the Oath Keepers,
Ray Epps, an 'FBI plant sent to incite Jan 6 riot'.

Epps, at the center of a conspiracy theory alleging the FBI secretly encouraged Donald Trump supporters to storm the Capitol Building on January 6 has been located and pictured for the first time by DailyMail.com.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 28, 2021 12:41 PM (m+yM6)

242 virus is starting to disappear.

Galilee Bird flu!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 28, 2021 12:41 PM (9S4Oi)

243 >>>These people don't see that as damage, but as a benefit. Unless the deaths start getting too close to them.

Posted by: Oldcat

Correct. It's like the movie Kingsman. The elites want to eliminate the undesirables and leave the elites to run the world.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 28, 2021 12:41 PM (XSRBF)

244 "Doctor Fauci is a pure scientist."

As opposed to all those impure ones, evidently.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:41 PM (KZzsI)

245 Meanwhile really good movies, if bleak and horrifying, like Nightmare Alley are bombing.

I think Spiderman is going to be an anomaly. But I'm also very much over Marvel and DC, so few fucks grow around here anymore.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:41 PM (V6f9+)

246 Fact is, our Faith was tested, and we did not show Faith, only Hubris.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 12:36 PM (oHd/0)

Speak for others. I was very scared and started praying more than I've ever done. And it's still not over as he can EO the bureaucracy to change the rules on a whole lot of stuff that will affect the citizens and be completely legit. Meanwhile corporate will roll out mandates of either or both kinds along with an app to make it easier to keep track. Not all will do it. Just enough to make things annoying.

Meanwhile our supply lines are still effed up and if more people start to die or can't work then those trains and trucks won't be rolling often enough.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 12:42 PM (6R0HD)

247 Yeah, wake me when any of these major woke enterprises files for bankruptcy. The endless pre-obituaries are beginning to sound a lot more like conservative wishcasting than anything else.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 28, 2021 12:42 PM (QU5/8)

248 This administration, merely by coming into existence/taking power, accomplished more than every Dem administration going back to LBJ.

Ending/erasing the disruption (multi-faceted) that was Trump was 98.7% of the importance of the election. Mission accomplished. Just some odds/ends to clean up on the trade and tariff side, where they've been too scared to move, yet.

For those interested in policies, results, reality, and not the boring sports of "politics", this crew has been wildly successful. Take any actually important policy area - the things that elections and governance are actually about - and find "failure".

Posted by: rhomboid at December 28, 2021 12:42 PM (OTzUX)

249
Basically, it's going to be a Chinese Fire Drill all the way to the end.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Not a drill. It's real Chinese Fire.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 28, 2021 12:42 PM (63Dwl)

250 This brunette office accessory is just glad to be back at work after her state rolled back a bunch of the COVID response measures:
https://is.gd/rBIs2Q
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (DU+/6)

Getting an "access denied" response.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 12:42 PM (r2Iho)

251 One thing about the school closures that I don't understand, did the schools still get paid per student "attending". Because if so, that would go a long ways toward building up the schools' cash reserves if they got the same Federal income, without having the expenses of students physically in class.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Lack of needed to spend on transportation was a yuge cash cow also. Oh yeah, the districts still were paid.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2021 12:42 PM (mD/uy)

252 >>You talking 'bout AllahPundit? Cause he's stupid.

>But then, I guess that's your point.

Sabbath Lyrics.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 12:43 PM (YZdjV)

253 245 Meanwhile really good movies, if bleak and horrifying, like Nightmare Alley are bombing.

I think Spiderman is going to be an anomaly. But I'm also very much over Marvel and DC, so few fucks grow around here anymore.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:41 PM (V6f9+)

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Nightmare Alley and movies like The Last Duel are designed for older audiences who seem to be one of the groups most terrified of covid and refuse to go to theaters because of it.

For a while now, the theatrical experience is going to be just a roller coaster, even moreso than it has been over recent years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

254 "Gain of function" is a crime against humanity and anyone involved in the practice should be launched to the sun.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

255 It's in the red.

Like I said, depends on the streaming, which I am doubtful was very much. Disney has hit a wall for subscriptions and isn't growing much any more, and how many people were willing to pay 40 bucks to watch Eternals??

And while they have not reported on it, there's a serious ala carte problem for them. People sign on to Disney to watch, say, Mandalorian, then dump it until the next season. Its too easy with streaming to do that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:43 PM (KZzsI)

256 244 "Doctor Fauci is a pure scientist."

As opposed to all those impure ones, evidently.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:41 PM (KZzsI)

You can now buy a Tshirt that says:

We no longer Identify as UnVaxxed

We now call ourselves PUREBLOODs.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 12:43 PM (oHd/0)

257 >>Epps, at the center of a conspiracy theory alleging the FBI secretly encouraged Donald Trump supporters to storm the Capitol Building on January 6 has been located and pictured for the first time by DailyMail.com.

Guy lives just north of Phoenix. Even I know this.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 12:44 PM (YZdjV)

258 OMG.. Have you seen the video of the NYPD throwing a little boy out of a restaurant in NY because he wasn't vaxed ? he looked about 6 years old... Scared the shit out of the little boy...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 28, 2021 12:44 PM (TdaKq)

259 "No!!! Don't take this away from me! It has provided my life meaning for two years! I don't know what else to do! I gots no place else to go!"
-Karen McCookingSherryMom

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:10 PM

Don't worry, we have set the precedent on how the world should react in a pandemic. We have plenty more pandemics to unleash in the future whenever we need to go to the next phase of The Great Reset.

Posted by: WEF elites at December 28, 2021 12:44 PM (Do5/p)

260 I think Spiderman is going to be an anomaly.

I agree. I still hold to my guess of last year: theaters will turn into special showing houses that have big time movies that keep them open, and barely anyone going to the other stuff that comes out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:44 PM (KZzsI)

261
Sabbath Lyrics.
Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 12:43 PM (YZdjV)

That and the evil, pedophilic murderous cult known as islham.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

262 Have seven grandkids, 8 and under. They were all here over Christmas, laughing, running, screaming ... maskless. I'm hoping they will remember good old grandpa was not like their teachers and the people in stores, etc. As Heck Tate said at the end of "To Kill a Mockingbird," "I might not be much, Mr. Finch, but I'm still sheriff of Maycomb County and Bob Ewell fell on his knife."

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:45 PM (Q3oNv)

263 Meanwhile our supply lines are still effed up and if more people start to die or can't work then those trains and trucks won't be rolling often enough.
Posted by: jakee308

My house is halfway built. Trust me, worried about the supply chain is an understatement.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:45 PM (uXonU)

264 This brunette office accessory is just glad to be back at work after her state rolled back a bunch of the COVID response measures:
https://is.gd/rBIs2Q
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM

I would definitely like to barely know her.

Posted by: Zombie Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 28, 2021 12:45 PM (dQvv7)

265 254 "Gain of function" is a crime against humanity and anyone involved in the practice should be launched to the sun.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

Especially as they gave that technology to an enemy Nation... teaching them Bio Warfare Technology.

Pure Treason.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 12:45 PM (oHd/0)

266 137 N.L.Lurker maybe, just maybe Edgar Hoover
Posted by: Skip's Phone
__________

My thought too. Only Hoover didn't have the body count, and he was much more humble and likeable.

Posted by: Furious George at December 28, 2021 12:45 PM (9vQJW)

267 255 It's in the red.
Like I said, depends on the streaming, which I am doubtful was very much. Disney has hit a wall for subscriptions and isn't growing much any more, and how many people were willing to pay 40 bucks to watch Eternals??
And while they have not reported on it, there's a serious ala carte problem for them. People sign on to Disney to watch, say, Mandalorian, then dump it until the next season. Its too easy with streaming to do that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:43 PM (KZzsI)

========

Churn is a huge problem in streaming right now. People sign up for a month and cancel after they've caught up.

But the bigger problem is an accounting one. How much of a streaming revenue stream do you attribute to specific projects? They have viewing numbers they will never make public, but the more expensive stuff they put on there while the subscription numbers plateau it's just a whole bunch of dollars looking for a smaller slice of the subs pie.

Streaming cannot support this kind of product.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:45 PM (LvTSG)

268 257 >>Epps, at the center of a conspiracy theory alleging the FBI secretly encouraged Donald Trump supporters to storm the Capitol Building on January 6 has been located and pictured for the first time by DailyMail.com.

Guy lives just north of Phoenix. Even I know this.
Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 12:44 PM (YZdjV)

Question is why wasn't he arrested... There is lots of video of him with a bullhorn telling the crowd to storm the Capital.... We know the answer

Posted by: It's me donna at December 28, 2021 12:46 PM (TdaKq)

269 pictured for the first time by DailyMail.com.

I thought there were plenty of photos and videos of someone reportedly to be Epps at the Mall in DC, at the rally, and the capitol.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2021 12:46 PM (BFigT)

270 How come it always seems to leave the CDC as a "recommendation" and enter some aspect of my life as a "requirement?"

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 28, 2021 12:46 PM (jYQlA)

271 My son's a bonafide scientist, works in a quasi-gain of function lab, is a Trump supporter but ... he defends Fauce every time. The tribal instinct kicks in: scientists gotta stick together.

You may need to prove to him that you aren't recording a Project Veritas exposé

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 28, 2021 12:46 PM (+LCoQ)

272 This brunette office accessory is just glad to be back at work after her state rolled back a bunch of the COVID response measures:
https://is.gd/rBIs2Q
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (DU+/6)
........

Whoa. Can I get one of those at Staples?

Posted by: wth at December 28, 2021 12:47 PM (v0R5T)

273 >>> "No!!! Don't take this away from me! It has provided my life meaning for two years! I don't know what else to do! I gots no place else to go!"
-Karen McCookingSherryMom

leftists will always need something or someone they can 'fight'

Posted by: DB at December 28, 2021 12:47 PM (0KxNW)

274 If we were a serious nation Fauci, Bill Gates and others would stand trial.

This has NEVER been about health. Just pure power and a push towards the great reset.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 12:47 PM (9eRH/)

275 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:44 PM (KZzsI)

50 years ago, my area had 5 movie theatres.

Now, with 3 times the population, we have ONE (one just closed last week).

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 12:47 PM (oHd/0)

276 We no longer Identify as UnVaxxed

We now call ourselves PUREBLOODs.
Posted by: Romeo13

Pureblood or non-GMO.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:47 PM (uXonU)

277 Yeah, wake me when any of these major woke enterprises files for bankruptcy. The endless pre-obituaries are beginning to sound a lot more like conservative wishcasting than anything else.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 28, 2021 12:42 PM (QU5/

Not how it works these days. Instead you get put up for sale (like, say CNN) to another conglomerate who might start selling the office furniture away or merge you into something else. The true test is who listens to you any more. Newspapers are dead - even the NYT has virtually no influence. Cable is dying. They aren't have a lot of luck outcompeting others on freer platforms, and using monopoly power to force away competition just forces your opposition to work harder while avoiding your infastructure bloat.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 12:48 PM (eoQWY)

278 Netflix seems to have figured out that it doesn't really matter what they put on their site, as long as people keep watching. Does a specific product make money? Who cares, as long as overall you get paid.

Only a real stinker like Cowboy Beebop gets canceled.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:48 PM (KZzsI)

279 We KNOW treatments. We're not allowed to use them. THAT'S what's criminal.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:12 PM

Yep, we have known about HCQ since last summer. India used it for the original SARS-CoV-2/COVID to great success in their country. Then when delta came around and HCQ was proving unsuccessful, they changed to Ivermectin to great success. Even handed out at-home treatment kits to all their citizens. And Japan started using Ivermectin this past summer.

Every western nation in the world has known of successful treatments for the past 18 months. They have all deliberately banned them from usage. THAT is the crime. I would say it's evil.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 28, 2021 12:48 PM (Do5/p)

280 Was originally fourteen day quarantine ... based on some China-based study/report with ~100 cases. But if you looked at the original report it was something like 90% of cases had a 5 day or less incubation period, ~95% at 7 days or less, with a couple of likely outliers (likely they missed the actual exposure event) at 10 days or so. But CDC tacked on an extra four days "to be safe." I've seen some early stuff that had Omicron looking to be more like 95% within 3 days.

Posted by: Match Checksout at December 28, 2021 12:48 PM (dYe5S)

281 This brunette office accessory is just glad to be back at work after her state rolled back a bunch of the COVID response measures:
https://is.gd/rBIs2Q
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Whoa. Can I get one of those at Staples?
Posted by: wth

That was easy.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (uXonU)

282 Churn is a huge problem in streaming right now. People sign up for a month and cancel after they've caught up.

But the bigger problem is an accounting one. How much of a streaming revenue stream do you attribute to specific projects? They have viewing numbers they will never make public, but the more expensive stuff they put on there while the subscription numbers plateau it's just a whole bunch of dollars looking for a smaller slice of the subs pie. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:45 PM (LvTSG)
++++
Churn is a major problem and it always will be. Streaming is not like cable. Streaming is mercenary. You have to have a constant pipeline of new stuff people *want* in order to keep the subscription. If you're depending on the library, your subscriber isn't go to stay put for more than three months. And even with a steady stream of new stuff, the culture has shifted. The water cooler is less of a thing. We see some phenomena like this (Tiger King comes to mind), but it has way less power. Even with a good pipeline, people can just wait until there are several things they want to watch and subscribe for another 1-3 months.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (DU+/6)

283 Doctor Fauci is a pure scientist."

Dr. Fauci is an administrator. He has not doctored or scientisted in decades.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (Xk9pL)

284 Pureblood or non-GMO.
Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 28, 2021 12:47 PM (uXonU)

Nice.

Though there was a time when I wouldn't mind being genetically designed, ala Gattaca

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (V6f9+)

285 If we were a serious nation Fauci, Bill Gates and others would stand trial.

This has NEVER been about health. Just pure power and a push towards the great reset.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 12:47 PM (9eRH/)

Unless I'm mistaken, it seems Gates has gotten awfully quiet lately. Not sure if the wife leaving him has anything to do with that, and if so, how.

Musk on the other hand, has doubled down on mouthing off about things that feed red meat to the so-called conservatives.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (r2Iho)

286 As TJM points out, the scuttlebutt is that they had a victory lap planned. Something went wrong.

I think it's what I've been saying. they're realizing that the inflationary environment they've caused is way, way out of their control.

they needed to arrest any economic velocity as much as possible to TRY to rein it in

probably only long enough to get themselves in a place to weather the coming torrent

and now I guess they can't keep things tamped down much longer so they're like "welp! that's it! hang on to your butts everyone!"

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (j9HX3)

287 Someone has to gag fauci.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (Irn0L)

288 A lot of the broken people emboldened by the covids are going to be really sad and angry when it's taken away from them. Lashing out and suicides will be on the rise.

Eggs, omelets... whatever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2021 12:50 PM (BFigT)

289 Though there was a time when I wouldn't mind being genetically designed, ala Gattaca
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (V6f9+)

Yeah, but genetically engineered by the GOVERNMENT?

uh... no...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 12:50 PM (oHd/0)

290 Someone has to gag fauci.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (Irn0L)

Submerge him to the bottom of the ocean and kick him out of the sub without a suit.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:51 PM (Zz0t1)

291 I think Spiderman is going to be an anomaly.

I agree. I still hold to my guess of last year: theaters will turn into special showing houses that have big time movies that keep them open, and barely anyone going to the other stuff that comes out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:44 PM (KZzsI)

Much like Joker was before that. The Woke forces in the main entertainment industry will make it harder and harder to make films that aren't intentionally trying to drive away a majority of their potential customers. Movie making was hard enough when they weren't starting out behind the 8 ball.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 12:51 PM (eoQWY)

292 Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (r2Iho)

Gates is still jabbering. Musk, while saying some good things is, seemingly, a transhumanist.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 12:51 PM (9eRH/)

293 This brunette office accessory is just glad to be back at work after her state rolled back a bunch of the COVID response measures:
https://is.gd/rBIs2Q
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM

She's young and cute, but her face is too orangey.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (4I/2K)

294 Netflix seems to have figured out that it doesn't really matter what they put on their site, as long as people keep watching. Does a specific product make money? Who cares, as long as overall you get paid.

Only a real stinker like Cowboy Beebop gets canceled.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:48 PM (KZzsI)

Netflix is the new cable. You'll pay for it because you do, and they'll keep churning out crap, because they do, and you'll keep paying no matter how much they raise the price, until a certain tipping point.

At which time they'll change the game again, and we'll all start over.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (r2Iho)

295 At this point the medical industry is the problem, not the solution.

Posted by: Brad at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (hRGgF)

296 "Now I don't object to the change -- but I am going to underline that this decision, like the recommendation to close schools, was made not based on "The Science" but by the request of powerful lobbies. The airline industries wanted this; the teachers unions demanded schools be closed."

Speaking of teachers unions, they got NYS to cancel January's Regents examinations, for the second year in a row. I guess they don't want parents knowing what they already suspect: distance learning hasn't worked for public school students, and the Regents scores would prove this.

https://is.gd/My1HGe

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (mdjgu)

297 >A lot of the broken people emboldened by the covids are going to be really sad and angry when it's taken away from them.

they will still wear their masks like talismans

Posted by: DB at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (0KxNW)

298 283 this was Didier Raoult's point when he called Fauci a "television bird"

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (ONvIw)

299 This has NEVER been about health. Just pure power and a push towards the great reset.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 12:47 PM (9eRH/)

Do you think they will ever give the scam up?

Posted by: creeper at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (cTCuP)

300 Churn is a major problem and it always will be. Streaming is not like cable. Streaming is mercenary. You have to have a constant pipeline of new stuff people *want* in order to keep the subscription. If you're depending on the library, your subscriber isn't go to stay put for more than three months. And even with a steady stream of new stuff, the culture has shifted. The water cooler is less of a thing. We see some phenomena like this (Tiger King comes to mind), but it has way less power. Even with a good pipeline, people can just wait until there are several things they want to watch and subscribe for another 1-3 months.

***

The other problem is that the licensed material (movies, mostly) jumps from platform to platform. What you signed up to watch on Prime this month might be on Hulu next and Netflix after that.

Posted by: Pat at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (DXPhz)

301 Someone has to gag fauci.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (Irn0L)
.........

Acosta's dick is not big enough.

Posted by: wth at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (v0R5T)

302 282
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (DU+/6)

=========

You know that Disney walked in convinced that they would dominate forever because of their library.

They're still second fiddle to Netflix, though, and their growth just keeps slowing. They're not declining yet, but they're not hitting growth projections even in the middle of a period where everyone is spending more time at home than ever.

And...they realized they couldn't just put everything on the channel. After Mulan they thought they could. The premium option made them a shitload of money they didn't have to share with theaters. By September they had gone back to purely theatrical releases with Shang-Chi which they called an "experiment" in theatrical distribution. And they haven't gone back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

303 She's young and cute, but her face is too orangey.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (4I/2K)

So... wait... OrangeGirlBad?

WHUT?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (oHd/0)

304 Prediction: At some point in the near future as the Omicron plays out and the supposed justification for the stringent policies vanishes that Fauci will make a statement to that effect and include the phrase, "As I've been saying all along..."

Posted by: Muldoon at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (m45I2)

305 Japan is not seeing much delta or OMGicron. It is a mystery, I tell ya. No way it is IVM, though. No way. Nosiree. It must be the masks.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (Xk9pL)

306 Posted by: creeper at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (cTCuP)

Depends. If the right people get into positions of power, then I think there is a big change. The people need to push back and not comply as well.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (9eRH/)

307 The left fully supports government's dictates, and Fauci's tyranny, so I'm sure they're 100% cool with this. What's DU saying?

"The CDC no longer cares about spread of COViD

5 days instead of 10 means more people out spreading the virus. I get my booster shot in the morning but that isn't the point. I do not want this virus in my body and I am not going to allow it. The CDC and government could try to help me with that. I guess I just have to treat everyone as if they are spreading it.

I don't care about getting asymptomatic healthcare workers or airline workers back to their jobs. People can wait for the next flight, people can wait for their non emergency appointment or surgery. As a society we can tell them the world doesn't revolve around your desire to be served at the snap of your fingers."

That last part I bolded is nice...get us ready for glorious socialist rationing!

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (JCZqz)

308 301. But mine is!

Posted by: Lia Williams girl swimmer at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (ONvIw)

309 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (Xk9pL)

Mask up forever!

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 12:54 PM (9eRH/)

310 So... wait... OrangeGirlBad?

Posted by: Romeo13

A sharp spanking is called for!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2021 12:54 PM (mD/uy)

311 Japan is not seeing much delta or OMGicron. It is a mystery, I tell ya. No way it is IVM, though. No way. Nosiree. It must be the masks.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (Xk9pL)

Trump's biggest mistake. Operation Warp Speed.

Just push the medicines that WORKED. We all go home.

They've had Coronaviruses for DECADES and there is no vaccine. Just treat the sick and shove the vaccine up your ass.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

312 The cure for crazy liberalism is humiliation therapy

Posted by: CN at December 28, 2021 12:55 PM (ONvIw)

313 304 Prediction: At some point in the near future as the Omicron plays out and the supposed justification for the stringent policies vanishes that Fauci will make a statement to that effect and include the phrase, "As I've been saying all along..."
Posted by: Muldoon at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (m45I2)

That's some crystal ball you have there.

Posted by: creeper at December 28, 2021 12:55 PM (cTCuP)

314 300 The other problem is that the licensed material (movies, mostly) jumps from platform to platform. What you signed up to watch on Prime this month might be on Hulu next and Netflix after that.
Posted by: Pat at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (DXPhz)

==========

This is why Netflix started making their own stuff. They were the first streaming platform to produce their own material.

They wanted their own library that they didn't have to rely on companies like Disney or Warner Brothers, who were always antagonistic against Netflix even while working with them, for content.

This is why Apple, before even launching Apple+, announced a $1 billion investment in content.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:55 PM (LvTSG)

315 "You can take my mask when you pry it from my cold, asymptomatic face!"

Posted by: Muldoon at December 28, 2021 12:55 PM (m45I2)

316 Japan is not seeing much delta or OMGicron. It is a mystery, I tell ya. No way it is IVM, though. No way. Nosiree. It must be the masks.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (Xk9pL)

Fuck. Even the shithole that is Mexico is giving IVM to it's people.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)

317 Irish spring is about 60 years old. I remember when they sent sample bars all over the country when it came out.

--

I can still see the knife cutting the bar long ways. And the pretty chick that obviously came with your soap..."and I like it too!"

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2021 12:55 PM (sVtYq)

318 Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (r2Iho)

Gates is still jabbering. Musk, while saying some good things is, seemingly, a transhumanist.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 12:51 PM (9eRH/)

I'm not sure where Gates is jabbering, he doesn't show up anywhere I look. All of these guys seem to share the one common trait, which is a belief in nothing greater than themselves. And they're smart enough to know how to say and not say the things that get them maximum credit, wherever they seek it. Right now Musk is doing the common man grift.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 12:55 PM (r2Iho)

319 I think they were using "covid scare" to (irrationally) unite the country around Whatever Big Spending Thing We Want. Fail.

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 12:15 PM

They have never had a need to unite the country. All they had to do was unite the Deep State operators. They (surprisingly) failed at that. If taken at face value that everything we know is actually true, Joe Manchin was the reason for the failure. They apparently were the vote of one man in the federal government away from getting everything they wanted. That's terrifying.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 28, 2021 12:55 PM (Do5/p)

320 Just treat the sick and shove the vaccine up your ass.
Posted by: Sponge

Don't give them ideas Sponge.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (mD/uy)

321 Netflix seems to have figured out that it doesn't really matter what they put on their site, as long as people keep watching. Does a specific product make money? Who cares, as long as overall you get paid.

Only a real stinker like Cowboy Beebop gets canceled.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 12:48 PM (KZzsI)

Streamers are self cancelling huge chunks of their back catalog because it is 'problematic'. This is not conducive for success.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (eoQWY)

322 You know that Disney walked in convinced that they would dominate forever because of their library. ... By September they had gone back to purely theatrical releases with Shang-Chi which they called an "experiment" in theatrical distribution. And they haven't gone back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (LvTSG)
+++++
Yup, and that library was also a big factor in their purchase of Fox. They wanted the library and they wanted exclusivity for their own platform. Well, they got it. And Disney+ did gangbusters growth before stalling out.

Which is to be expected. Growth is easy at the beginning. But the library is not all-powerful, and while it might get people to walk through the door, it won't keep them on the estate. Eventually you watch what you want, or you binge and burn out. And then you'll cancel and come back in 6-12 months to watch some more of whatever it is. But why pay in the meantime? You don't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (DU+/6)

323 >The cure for crazy liberalism is humiliation therapy

Don't I know.

Posted by: Patricia Cornwall at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (m/Gc2)

324 September they had gone back to purely theatrical releases with Shang-Chi which they called an "experiment" in theatrical distribution. And they haven't gone back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

They are going back to the theatrical model because of the Scarlett Johansen lawsuit. If studios don't want to cut actors in on the streaming revenue, they will have trouble getting A-List actors to sign on.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (mdjgu)

325 316 I think that means we are the shithole

Posted by: CN at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (ONvIw)

326 "Trump's biggest mistake. Operation Warp Speed."

Nope. The vaccine has kept many alive. You need to check the stats cause it's obvious. Trump's biggest mistake was in his hirings.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (Q3oNv)

327 I do not want this virus in my body and I am not going to allow it.

ok bitch what planet do you think you will be able to move to?

because this virus is gonna be in ALL of our bodies by the end of next year, maybe a tad beyond that but it will be part of us

just as we are part of this biome, you poor deluded nut job.

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (j9HX3)

328
Don't give them ideas Sponge.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (mD/uy)

You're right. They'd enjoy that too much.

My bad......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

329 Just how dumbed-down, machine-like, and corporate most of "medicine" has become was dramatically illustrated the past 2 years. Many key features that characterized medicine throughout the modern era, especially pragmatic empiricism, simply gone - not just gone, but demonized and policed into the shadows. Thus the utterly mundane and normal phenomenon of doctors doing no-risk experimentation in the face of urgent need - trying different things and letting experience guide them, as was normal in the "art" portion of the science and art of medicine, seems to have vanished.

Management doesn't approve. State board might review your license. All kinds of blackballing potential hangs over you. Ridiculous. And not a passing thing - a revelation of degradation that's systemic.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 28, 2021 12:57 PM (OTzUX)

330 US Congress passes Islamophobia bill. More science.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 28, 2021 12:57 PM (GYllL)

331 How come Fauci is still the face of the government response? The CDC has already lost "control" of the disease and the people who should be speaking are the healers and actual physicians.

There is no more control for the CDC to be had. You lost that in April 2020, Fauci.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 28, 2021 12:57 PM (J7wri)

332 Trump's biggest mistake. Operation Warp Speed.

Just push the medicines that WORKED. We all go home.

They've had Coronaviruses for DECADES and there is no vaccine. Just treat the sick and shove the vaccine up your ass.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

Why, it's almost as if they've known all along Trump's biggest weakness was he's such a ninny about germs.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (r2Iho)

333 >>>I agree. I still hold to my guess of last year: theaters will turn into special showing houses that have big time movies that keep them open, and barely anyone going to the other stuff that comes out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I can't get past the girl. I'd probably watch the new films - for free - but the love interest is a horrible actress. I heard Michael Keaton was great in the first one though.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (XSRBF)

334 168 *douses Robert with Lysol*
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (Ez6QX)

Hey! I took a shower this morning. I should smell like...like...*checks soap*...like an Icy Blast of Irish Spring.
Posted by: Robert at December 28, 2021 12:28 PM (1Yy3c)

Is your smeller working?

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (SSiCQ)

335 I don't care about getting asymptomatic healthcare workers or airline workers back to their jobs. People can wait for the next flight, people can wait for their non emergency appointment or surgery. As a society we can tell them the world doesn't revolve around your desire to be served at the snap of your fingers."

That last part I bolded is nice...get us ready for glorious socialist rationing!
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (JCZqz)

People can do X, but have an interruption in their caramel latte supply and it will be riot time in the cities.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (eoQWY)

336 >>US Congress passes Islamophobia bill.

Fuck Islam and Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (YZdjV)

337 If taken at face value that everything we know is actually true, Joe Manchin was the reason for the failure. They apparently were the vote of one man in the federal government away from getting everything they wanted. That's terrifying.

no it wasn't JUST him Clyde but they did present it that way

and it was the VA vote result

that was the thing I think

that woke them up

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (j9HX3)

338 If they allow treatments, the EUA ends. They will continue to push for children being vaxxed because once they get on the list of required shots for school, they will have immunity from lawsuits for injury. That's what they're going for now.

I'm surprised they put out that faux ivermectin pill. But then it doesn't seem to do much good so maybe the other treatments have to be more effective than the vaxx being EUAed.

We have built a bureaucracy for medicine that neither protects anyone's health from the drug manufacturers or gets them low in price so anyone can get treated. We have the highest medicine costs in the world and the drugs are all the same.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (6R0HD)

339 322 Yup, and that library was also a big factor in their purchase of Fox. They wanted the library and they wanted exclusivity for their own platform. Well, they got it. And Disney+ did gangbusters growth before stalling out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (DU+/6)

=========

The frustrating thing about this for me is that Disney doesn't actually care about the Fox library. Like...at all.

They only coveted it so they could mine it for IP for new movies and shows, like the new sequel to Home Alone or the Alien series they're producing.

In terms of the actual library? They're letting it languish. No releases of old titles on streaming services or physical media. It's kind of pissing me off while I'm going through John Ford's filmography, so much of which went out through Fox.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (LvTSG)

340 Yeah, but genetically engineered by the GOVERNMENT?

uh... no...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 12:50 PM (oHd/0)

Brave New World, minus the sex and drugs. No thanks.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (II3Gr)

341 Trump's biggest mistake. Operation Warp Speed.

Just push the medicines that WORKED. We all go home.

They've had Coronaviruses for DECADES and there is no vaccine. Just treat the sick and shove the vaccine up your ass.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

This is what drove me to abandon Trump. There was only one man who stood a chance of stopping the endless COVID hoax and he never even tried.

Posted by: creeper at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (cTCuP)

342 "Prediction: At some point in the near future as the Omicron plays out and the supposed justification for the stringent policies vanishes that Fauci will make a statement to that effect and include the phrase, "As I've been saying all along...""
Posted by: Muldoon at December 28, 2021 12:53 PM (m45I2)

I would replace Fauci with Biden. They can and will muzzle Fauci pretty soon.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (4thlk)

343 Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

I have been hard on Trump for his recent comments via the vax but to be fair he was up against a wall.

He tried going therapeutics but everyone fucking lost it and demonized all of it. He was a pussy for worrying about optics, or dumb for listening to those who said not to fire Fauci and bring in Atlas fully. He also figured the vax was gonna normalize life again. I get some of the decisions he made.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (9eRH/)

344 Someone has to gag fauci.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (Irn0L)

I have an axe handle. He can gag on that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (V6f9+)

345 320 Just treat the sick and shove the vaccine up your ass.
Posted by: Sponge

First you had my curiosity. Now you have my attention.

Posted by: Pete Buttegieg at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (J7wri)

346 >>>just as we are part of this biome, you poor deluded nut job.

Posted by: Black Orchid

Everyone in my division is vaxxed. We were forced. Last week, five of my coworkers tested positive. You're getting it, vaxxed or not vaxxed, and most of us will get through it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (XSRBF)

347 There's another T-shirt with "Don't call me 'Unvaxxed'. My name is Mrs Doubtpfizer!"

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (UHVv4)

348
Nope. The vaccine has kept many alive. You need to check the stats cause it's obvious. Trump's biggest mistake was in his hirings.
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (Q3oNv)

Uh.....you do know the virus has a 99+% survival rate, right?

The majority that died were already sick or dying. Go look up, if you can get an actual number, how many the vaccines have killed.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

349 one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out

But you told us it was a highly contagious deadly disease! But you don't want too many people out?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (coYBh)

350 So, owing the media copy and building your own library, be it movies, shows, or books, turns out to be the consumer's friend. Yeah. Old ways.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (4I/2K)

351 324 They are going back to the theatrical model because of the Scarlett Johansen lawsuit. If studios don't want to cut actors in on the streaming revenue, they will have trouble getting A-List actors to sign on.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (mdjgu)

==========

Meh.

I doubt that was a big factor.

It's just a question of writing all contracts going forward to account for it, and I imagine ScarJo's contract did actually contain provisions for the release, just not at the level she wanted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (LvTSG)

352
They've had Coronaviruses for DECADES and there is no vaccine.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 12:54 PM

For at least a decade they tried to create a vaccine and they ran up against the same wall - VAED or vaccine-associated enhanced disease in animal studies. So guess what step got eliminated in Operation Ward Speed?

Posted by: Zombie Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (dQvv7)

353 "You need to check the stats cause it's obvious."

Huh?

Unaware of any stats indicating change in trajectory of the virus and its mutations, or of any impact on case fatality rate (that's the specific stat regarding "saving lives"), due to the "vaccines".

Some sort of reference, if not actual links, would be great here.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (OTzUX)

354 Question is why wasn't he arrested... There is lots of video of him with a bullhorn telling the crowd to storm the Capital.... We know the answer

Posted by: It's me donna

Guess what, he can be subpoenaed for trials for Jan 6 defendants. If he takes the fifth, then prosecution has problems.

Posted by: whig at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (9hXN1)

355 US Congress passes Islamophobia bill. More science.
Posted by: Capital Eff at December 28, 2021 12:57 PM (GYllL)

How 2019 of them. Yawn.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (eoQWY)

356 The Atlanta Constitution, a typical liberal rag as you can imagine, says that only 4 dead people were found by State investigators to have voted in 2020, not the 5000 that Trump claimed - so that myth has been debunked!

Except, as you dig deeper into the story - the newspaper leaves out the usual inconvenient facts: who? Who did the investigation (turns out, you guessed it, the crooked SOS Ratburgerface). How? How was the investigation done? What sample size, which counties? No answer. When? No answer...What? What was the reason they did the investigation? I suspect it was just so this liberal paper could say just what it did - har har! No dead people voted! Except, these few...but. No more questions, please!

Posted by: Boswell at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (5iUNf)

357 Why, it's almost as if they've known all along Trump's biggest weakness was he's such a ninny about germs.

yeah they really went for it didn't they!

and took a WHOLE lot of regular people down with him, and didn't sweat that even a tiny bit

I think the journalist that just died made some waves tho

and Jean-Marc Vallee just also died from vaccine effects - that will wake up a bunch more Elites

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (j9HX3)

358 OT: I can not believe Blaise Cupich, Cardinal of Chicago, is an SOB -- South Omaha Boy. Stomping on the traditional Latin mass is just not something a born and raised SOB would do. The XO is as traditional as they come. He attends the Latin mass every Sunday and holiday at a South Omaha Catholic Church. He even does the no meat on Friday thing. And I know damn well and good he's not the only one. Cupich has lost his frigging mind. Probably spent too much time chatting with Frankie.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- bitterly clinging to the deplorable life '70s style! at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (N86eO)

359 Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (Q3oNv)

Lolwat

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (9eRH/)

360 Oh God that Twatter thread is gold. I rarely follow through to read threads (no Twatter account) but I'm glad I read this one. The left has lost control of their Karens, and now they're coming home to roost. Some of the comments include gems like comparing a quarantine reduction from 10 days to 5 days being the same as "Arbeit Macht Frei," others saying that all business should be in service of "The People," calling the CDC the Center for Disease Capitulation, etc. and blaming it all on Biden and Fauci and the rest of the proggy gang. It's wonderful and joyous. They are trying to rein in their Karens, but the Karens are having none of it.

The lefties thought they'd trained their savage beast to attack only us, but now they've discovered themselves to be less Mao and Stalin, and more Siegfried and Roy.

It is delicious.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (lNHqD)

361 So, if you feel crappy on Friday, then test positive on Monday, you have finished your quarantine period before you even started???

Posted by: DaveK at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (n8vVY)

362 Someone has to gag fauci.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2021 12:49 PM (Irn0L)

I have an axe handle. He can gag on that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (V6f9+)

Nothing beats a nice piece of hickory.

Posted by: Preacher at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (4I/2K)

363 311. His biggest mistake, and probably most people's, is not realizing how deeply obamunism penetrated once reliable institutions in this country. He is a false messianic figure .

Posted by: CN at December 28, 2021 01:01 PM (ONvIw)

364 This is what drove me to abandon Trump. There was only one man who stood a chance of stopping the endless COVID hoax and he never even tried.

In fact, he just recently triple downed on boosters.
Yeah, I won't be voting for him again.

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

365 US Congress passes Islamophobia bill.

Fuck Islam and Fuck Joe Biden.
Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (YZdjV)

Great. Now you can never say anything bad about those cuunts in the squad........

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

366 The vaccine has kept many alive. You need to check the stats cause it's obvious.
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (Q3oNv)

Stats? What stats? Oh, you mean the government's stats?

Those stats?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 01:01 PM (r2Iho)

367 Everyone in my division is vaxxed. We were forced. Last week, five of my coworkers tested positive. You're getting it, vaxxed or not vaxxed, and most of us will get through it.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (XSRBF)

"tested postive"...I read your blog. Reckon they just wanted a day off. Like Wally from Dilbert says, you only get so many asymptomatic diseases that let you skip work.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 01:01 PM (V6f9+)

368 Sponge, I hate to say it but you're an idiot. The 99+% survival rate doesn't measure success in reducing deaths. I checked the data the other day (to see if Walensky was lying) and it seems clear that a vaccinated person has an 18-20 times greater chance of surviving than an unvaccinated person. Are there risks to the vaccine? Yep. But they are far less than those of being unvaccinated.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 01:02 PM (Q3oNv)

369 Posted by: CN at December 28, 2021 01:01 PM (ONvIw)

Bet you dollars to donuts those institutions were already fucked. Just accelerated by Obama.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 01:02 PM (9eRH/)

370 "tested postive"...I read your blog. Reckon they just wanted a day off. Like Wally from Dilbert says, you only get so many asymptomatic diseases that let you skip work.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 01:01 PM (V6f9+)

I used to be more Alice but I got wiser and became more Wally.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 28, 2021 01:03 PM (II3Gr)

371 They apparently were the vote of one man in the federal government away from getting everything they wanted. That's terrifying.

--

What terrifies me is that it's not gone. Their goals never die. They will not stop, and certainly not be denied because of one man (it wasn't one man, btw). They will regroup. And if they lose Congress in '22, as they so rightly deserve, I wouldn't be surprised for the GOP to resurrect it in some fashion and create a nice "compromise" for this illegitimate "president" to sign.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2021 01:03 PM (sVtYq)

372 Question is why wasn't he arrested... There is lots of video of him with a bullhorn telling the crowd to storm the Capital.... We know the answer

Posted by: It's me donna

Guess what, he can be subpoenaed for trials for Jan 6 defendants. If he takes the fifth, then prosecution has problems.
Posted by: whig at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (9hXN1)

Dead men tell no tales.

Posted by: Captain Jack Sparrow at December 28, 2021 01:03 PM (4I/2K)

373 Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 01:02 PM (Q3oNv)

This is a lie. But get your infinite shots bro.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 01:03 PM (9eRH/)

374 In terms of the actual library? They're letting it languish. No releases of old titles on streaming services or physical media. It's kind of pissing me off while I'm going through John Ford's filmography, so much of which went out through Fox.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM (LvTSG)

Disney kept its old videos alive in the DVD age by rationing the supply to the max. This is fine, but I don't think this works as well in he more segmented popular market for adults. They aren't going to jump on the Lion King and watch it 10000 times in a row for a year like kids will.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 01:03 PM (eoQWY)

375 Getting an "access denied" response.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 12:42 PM (r2Iho)

It wasn't a particularly good one. The girl was cute but she's rolling up her skirt to show you that yes-she does indeed have thighs and she wears the hosiery that clips on. No doubt it got her some money on her Tik Tok account-which is the main thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2021 01:03 PM (KBCaU)

376 Stats? What stats? Oh, you mean the government's stats
Those stats?

I consult "Our World in Data." You should check it out. It's an unbelievable resource,

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 01:03 PM (Q3oNv)

377 one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out

But you told us it was a highly contagious deadly disease! But you don't want too many people out?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 28, 2021 12:59 PM (coYBh)

Fauci has been talking out of both sides of his mouth since Day One. Remember "Masks don't work?"

Posted by: JoeF. at December 28, 2021 01:04 PM (mR6Gs)

378 Sponge, I hate to say it but you're an idiot. The 99+% survival rate doesn't measure success in reducing deaths. I checked the data the other day (to see if Walensky was lying) and it seems clear that a vaccinated person has an 18-20 times greater chance of surviving than an unvaccinated person. Are there risks to the vaccine? Yep. But they are far less than those of being unvaccinated.
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 01:02 PM (Q3oNv)

Heh. That number was debunked a while ago, but you keep fuckin' that chicken.

There's a reason we had less deaths BEFORE the vaccine, dipshit.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

379 I used to be more Alice but I got wiser and became more Wally.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 28, 2021 01:03 PM (II3Gr)

That is a kind of wisdom...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 28, 2021 01:04 PM (V6f9+)

380 Trump's biggest mistake. Operation Warp Speed.

Operation Warp Speed, I believe, was to force the Deep State to work at warp speed, and it broke their plan. Everyone can see the scam now.

Posted by: t-bird at December 28, 2021 01:04 PM (pbStR)

381 The more that Trump's detractors hate him, the more that I love him.

Posted by: Weasel at December 28, 2021 01:04 PM (wFH5b)

382 Trump was right when he said being anti-vax plays right into the Left's hands. And I see it here on display in big colors.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 01:04 PM (Q3oNv)

383 Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Bro. They were not FULLY vaxxed. Missed their booster.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 01:04 PM (9eRH/)

384 This is what drove me to abandon Trump. There was only one man who stood a chance of stopping the endless COVID hoax and he never even tried.

it was his achilles heel

nobody is perfect

I'd love to see him actually for once say "ok. they got me. I fucked this up. dammit"

but he won't. he has TWO heels, apparently

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 28, 2021 01:05 PM (j9HX3)

385 It's an unbelievable resource,
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 01:03 PM (Q3oNv)

I'm sure it is.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 01:05 PM (r2Iho)

386 Hey, Sponge, gotta go eat lunch.

Enjoy your world.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 01:05 PM (Q3oNv)

387 Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 01:04 PM (Q3oNv)

You are not bright.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2021 01:05 PM (9eRH/)

388 The left has lost control of their Karens, and now they're coming home to roost. Some of the comments include gems like comparing a quarantine reduction from 10 days to 5 days being the same as "Arbeit Macht Frei," others saying that all business should be in service of "The People," calling the CDC the Center for Disease Capitulation, etc. and blaming it all on Biden and Fauci and the rest of the proggy gang. It's wonderful and joyous. They are trying to rein in their Karens, but the Karens are having none of it.

--

What...are you telling me they don't believe in The Science(tm) after all?

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2021 01:06 PM (sVtYq)

389 The vaccine has kept many alive. You need to check the stats cause it's obvious.
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (Q3oNv)

You don't seem to know how medicine works. Vaccines keep you from catching the disease. Treatments try and keep you alive through that.

Claiming that shaking your juju shrunken head and claiming it would have been way worse is witchdoctoring not medicine.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 01:06 PM (eoQWY)

390 >> I checked the data the other day (to see if Walensky was lying) and it seems clear that a vaccinated person has an 18-20 times greater chance of surviving than an unvaccinated person. Are there risks to the vaccine? Yep. But they are far less than those of being unvaccinated.

If you want to talk about it, do it with accuracy.

A Person doesn't mean shit.

An 18 Year Old Person, A 40 Year Old Person, A 60+ Year Old Person...

Those are the examples you should use. And when doing so, the risks of a non-vaccine become a lot greater than the threat of the disease.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 01:06 PM (YZdjV)

391 Visiting a friend who has Netflix, he scrolled and scrolled with virtually NOTHING of any interest.

We settled on Ozark which is a well done presentation of decadent hopelessness.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 28, 2021 01:06 PM (m+yM6)

392 212 But your DA and mayor have killed more with their policy choices in your fair city than COVID.

Please stay safe.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
.......

Wear your hands. Wash a mask.
Posted by: wth at December 28, 2021 12:35 PM (v0R5T)

; )

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 01:06 PM (SSiCQ)

393 Posted by: rhomboid at December 28, 2021 12:57 PM (OTzUX)

Once the FedGov created a health plan for older people and children we were headed towards this.

Doctors are not adjunct Federal Agents. You cannot be guaranteed you right to privileged speech with your Dr. If they did this to lawyers people would hit the roof. Drs are now REQUIRED to report people for a whole bunch of stuff. And they are required to report things they THINK are happening or been done.

And now we find out that they're not interested in giving you advice and treatment to get you to be healthy or regain your health. They're there to fill in the boxes so that their group can get paid. All we've become are Federal health dollar filtration units. Because the FedGov keeps the fees low, they have to run people thru their practice like an assembly line. You spend at most 10 minutes with your Dr. and most of that time they are filling out the visit form.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 01:06 PM (6R0HD)

394 >>>"tested postive"...I read your blog. Reckon they just wanted a day off. Like Wally from Dilbert says, you only get so many asymptomatic diseases that let you skip work.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

I fought tooth and nail when I caught it. We had Plexiglas dividers and I said I'd wear a mask. I was denied. The virus allows scumbags to claim they tested positive, but can say, oh false positive. It's ridiculous.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 28, 2021 01:06 PM (XSRBF)

395 >>Trump was right when he said being anti-vax plays right into the Left's hands. And I see it here on display in big colors.

Sure it does, Sport.

Don't choke on your Hot Pocket.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (YZdjV)

396 "Every western nation in the world has known of successful treatments for the past 18 months. They have all deliberately banned them from usage. THAT is the crime. I would say it's evil."

That woman cop that pulled her gun instead of Taser (on a dangerous bad guy escaping) ... guilty of manslaughter.

Fauci/Birx and the Gang killed a half million or more with their lies and actions to prevent treatment. Further terrible policy cost untold more lives by shutting down churches and other societal supports ... which are still being broken and threatened.

For those against American Liberty, they see Fauci as a hero. Same with all the global warming lies, NASA changing their old data/charts to manufacture a little warming ... pretty incredible such Big Lies are being forced so hard.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (Cus5s)

397 Doctors are NOW adjunct Federal Agents.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (6R0HD)

398 --

What...are you telling me they don't believe in The Science(tm) after all?
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2021 01:06 PM (sVtYq)

They can pick and choose what 'science' to believe, but they can not bear to give up their fear and grievance mentality.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (eoQWY)

399 389 The vaccine has kept many alive. You need to check the stats cause it's obvious.
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (Q3oNv)

You don't seem to know how medicine works. Vaccines keep you from catching the disease. Treatments try and keep you alive through that.

Claiming that shaking your juju shrunken head and claiming it would have been way worse is witchdoctoring not medicine.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 01:06 PM (eoQWY)

Confounded data. It's still a type of data, I suppose.

Posted by: Roy at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (Ti+Tv)

400 A Person doesn't mean shit.

An 18 Year Old Person, A 40 Year Old Person, A 60+ Year Old Person...

correct

many "unvaxxed" are thus b/c they are so frail and/or so elderly they are not candidates even for these awful forced-upon-everyone shots.

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (j9HX3)

401 It's wonderful and joyous. They are trying to rein in their Karens, but the Karens are having none of it.

---

I'm reminded of Kevin Bacon in Animal House -

"ALL IS WELL!! ALL IS WELL!!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (mD/uy)

402 360 It's wonderful and joyous. They are trying to rein in their Karens, but the Karens are having none of it.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM

The suburban wine-moms legitimately think the disease is deadly, and they're on a crusade against right-wing monsters to save lives. They've had the sweet crack/dopamine hit of social media praise for their efforts for 20 months...they'll never stop of their own accord.

Posted by: Grimmy at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (JCZqz)

403 382 Trump was right when he said being anti-vax plays right into the Left's hands. And I see it here on display in big colors.
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 01:04 PM (Q3oNv)

Next up? Anti Vax means you are a Russian Bot!

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (oHd/0)

404 This is what drove me to abandon Trump. There was only one man who stood a chance of stopping the endless COVID hoax and he never even tried.

Instead, he gave the Communists all of the money, tools and legal arguments to permanently end this Constitutional Republic.

Ironically, Trump is the death of Freedom and Liberty. All; every bit of it, happened under his watch.

He spent the trillions of dollars to give the sociopaths leverage and power. He did absolutely nothing to stop the riots and insurrection. And he made damned sure that the Communists would have the Kill Shot to implement their Malthusian depopulation schemes.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (+LCoQ)

405 It wasn't a particularly good one. The girl was cute but she's rolling up her skirt to show you that yes-she does indeed have thighs and she wears the hosiery that clips on. No doubt it got her some money on her Tik Tok account-which is the main thing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2021 01:03 PM (KBCaU)

I like looking at pretty women, and usually when I'm on this here webzine, I don't have the chance to do so. But thought I'd try this one time... I guess either my VPN or some other security measure kept me, so yeah, one more pretty woman I won't see. Oh well.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 01:08 PM (r2Iho)

406 Except, as you dig deeper into the story - the newspaper leaves out the usual inconvenient facts: who? Who did the investigation (turns out, you guessed it, the crooked SOS Ratburgerface). How? How was the investigation done? What sample size, which counties? No answer. When? No answer...What? What was the reason they did the investigation? I suspect it was just so this liberal paper could say just what it did - har har! No dead people voted! Except, these few...but. No more questions, please!

Posted by: Boswell

Boswell,
It is easier to create and obscure floaters--that is voter registrations of fictitious people registered to common places. Thus you get nonsensical birthdates, etc. That is where you get loads of people registered to one common address. You also vote in the names of real people that have moved, duplicate votes in two or more states, etc. Then there is vote buying via harvesting--pay people to give you their ballot to vote. Dead individual fraud is more easy to prove so is more seldomly used.

Posted by: whig at December 28, 2021 01:08 PM (9hXN1)

407 147 One thing about the school closures that I don't understand, did the schools still get paid per student "attending". Because if so, that would go a long ways toward building up the schools' cash reserves if they got the same Federal income, without having the expenses of students physically in class.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM (Z3lhA)

___

Teachers got paid the same. Still had to pay property taxes on the buildings even if they were empty. Still had to maintain the buildings, etc.

So no, the funding didn't change because the outlays didn't change.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 28, 2021 01:08 PM (OalnH)

408 Confounded data. It's still a type of data, I suppose.

welp Roy with this pet bug it seems like all we get is confounded data!

I wonder why that is.

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 28, 2021 01:08 PM (j9HX3)

409 Hey, Sponge, gotta go eat lunch.

Enjoy your world.
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 01:05 PM (Q3oNv)

I do. Every day. Thanks for the well wishes.

Enjoy your meal.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

410 bleep.

just started snowing here.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (IJMH4) at December 28, 2021 01:09 PM (IJMH4)

411 The suburban wine-moms legitimately think the disease is deadly,

Grimmy they can't NOT think that

it would kill them

what has been done to their kids

they will NEVER accept the truth

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 28, 2021 01:09 PM (j9HX3)

412 Huh. National Review is not giving me their deeply discounted normal spam rate as an enticement to sign up - but they *are* informing me that 2022 will be "the year of the patriot."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 01:10 PM (DU+/6)

413 397 Doctors are NOW adjunct Federal Agents.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (6R0HD)

I've been trying to figure out how the Government has the power to decide which religious exemptions are OK, and which are not.

Isn't that the very definition of placing one set of religious beliefs over another?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 01:10 PM (oHd/0)

414 My answer to the Joe Mannix question about "what happened to the 2021 victory lap?" is first Delta, then the vaccines didn't stop infection or transmission, and then Omnicron. Agree wholeheartedly with the idea a new front has opened in the war between the pols and the Deep State. I'm thinking it's 50/50 that COVID tests will still be recommended at Christmas 2022.

Posted by: Christopher B at December 28, 2021 01:10 PM (f7J9k)

415 MaxMBJ doesn't seem you understand the import of your earlier claim. Stats have to show, in the real world, not some "study", that "vaccination" has reduced mortality below what it would have otherwise been.

Just setting up that comparison in a valid way is quite a challenge, given the circumstances.

But looking at the macro numbers, one has to find a clear departure from an expected path, or a path experienced by some similar population (in this case, a form of influenza, this means age and Hope-Simpson adjusted). Not aware of any, any more than for all the other "interventions" - masks, lockdowns, distancing, quarantines.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 28, 2021 01:10 PM (OTzUX)

416 I've been trying to figure out how the Government has the power to decide which religious exemptions are OK, and which are not.

Isn't that the very definition of placing one set of religious beliefs over another?
Posted by: Romeo13

Noticed that did 'ya?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2021 01:11 PM (mD/uy)

417 >>>Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 28, 2021 01:07 PM (+LCoQ)

I see you're still enrolled in the concussion protocol

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 28, 2021 01:11 PM (QYPq3)

418 >>>Now the 51-year-old ex-Raiders cheerleader, Playboy model and "Baywatch" actress turned jet-setting realtor is facing federal assault charges after allegedly hitting an 80-year-old potty mouth on an hour-long flight from Tampa to Atlanta on Dec. 23.

Posted by: DB at December 28, 2021 01:11 PM (0KxNW)

419 I've been trying to figure out how the Government has the power to decide which religious exemptions are OK, and which are not.

Isn't that the very definition of placing one set of religious beliefs over another?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2021 01:10 PM (oHd/0)
++++
Yup. It's flatly illegal for them to make a value judgement on your exemption demand, You sincerely believe something or you don't, and they have to take it at face value. Depending on whether you're the government or a private company, religious tests are illegal either under the First Amendment or under the Civil Rights Act. Federal contractors are ambiguous, but both might directly apply.

Not that they care.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 01:11 PM (DU+/6)

420 412 Huh. National Review is not giving me their deeply discounted normal spam rate as an enticement to sign up - but they *are* informing me that 2022 will be "the year of the patriot."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 01:10 PM (DU+/6)

Patriot meaning one who has received multiple clot shots and boosters, I assume.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 28, 2021 01:12 PM (II3Gr)

421 The suburban wine-moms legitimately think the disease is deadly,

This keeps their small minds busy and not, how you say, worry, about The Paulo's diseases.

Posted by: The Paulo at December 28, 2021 01:12 PM (GYllL)

422 A year ago, exactly a year ago, I spent the first ten days of December 'isolated' in a hotel out of state, had my Five Days of Covid, aches pains 104deg fever, still managed mile or two hikes. Then upon return to California fourteen days 'isolated' in a hotel a mile from my house - state paranoia, family paranoia, I still came home to walk the dogs when no one else was here.

I have had my three shots of Moderna, two plus booster, every one of them had more immediate aftereffects (okay, not quite the fever) than the virus itself. I've spent six days really incapacitated by the shots vs four-and-change somewhat incapacitated by OG Wuflu.

I still look at Ohmybod or whatever the current variant is as probably God's Vaccine. We'll see. But it sure as hell isn't worth panic. None of it really was. I'm not young, I'm arguably immunocompromised by an indolent cancer, I'm kinda on the lower fringe of the people Cuomo was killing. Live your life.

Posted by: JEM at December 28, 2021 01:12 PM (8erNz)

423 412 Huh. National Review is not giving me their deeply discounted normal spam rate as an enticement to sign up - but they *are* informing me that 2022 will be "the year of the patriot."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 01:10 PM (DU+/6)

=========

When all those Trump-endorsed Freshman House Republicans walk into the Capitol Building and start being all uncouth, they're gonna bring out those wagging fingers like never before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 01:12 PM (LvTSG)

424 after allegedly hitting an 80-year-old potty mouth on an hour-long flight from Tampa to Atlanta on Dec. 23.
Posted by: DB

I wish I could claim - 'And that potty-mouth was me."

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2021 01:12 PM (mD/uy)

425 People can argue all day long about the efficacy or helpfulness of this vax, but I don't see the point of getting 2 shots and a booster when even the govt says you can still get the virus and transmit it when the data show 99%+ recovery rate and vax adverse reactions are greater than 1%. Simple math for the under 70 crowd says skip the shot.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 28, 2021 01:13 PM (coYBh)

426 418 >>>Now the 51-year-old ex-Raiders cheerleader, Playboy model and "Baywatch" actress turned jet-setting realtor is facing federal assault charges after allegedly hitting an 80-year-old potty mouth on an hour-long flight from Tampa to Atlanta on Dec. 23.
Posted by: DB at December 28, 2021 01:11 PM (0KxNW)

She'll be starring in "Orange is the New Black - Redux"

Posted by: Roy at December 28, 2021 01:13 PM (Ti+Tv)

427 When all those Trump-endorsed Freshman House Republicans walk into the Capitol Building and start being all uncouth, they're gonna bring out those wagging fingers like never before.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 01:12 PM (LvTSG)
++++
That'll be in 2023, which will usher in the New Era of Cooperation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 01:13 PM (DU+/6)

428 Now the 51-year-old ex-Raiders cheerleader, Playboy model and "Baywatch" actress turned jet-setting realtor is facing federal assault charges after allegedly hitting an 80-year-old potty mouth on an hour-long flight from Tampa to Atlanta on Dec. 23.
Posted by: DB at December 28, 2021 01:11 PM (0KxNW)

HE'S the potty mouth? Really?

Fuck, I hate the media.......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 28, 2021 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)

429 I thought Braynard, working with just a small team for a week or so, and only public records, found 11K+ illegal votes counted in GA - dead, minors, people shown by the change-of-address database (created for this specific purpose, BTW) to be out of GA. They did this in few weeks.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 28, 2021 01:13 PM (OTzUX)

430 Because President Cruz or President Rubio wouldn't have let this happen. Just see all they've done on Capitol Hill to fight this!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 28, 2021 01:14 PM (UHVv4)

431 427 When all those Trump-endorsed Freshman House Republicans walk into the Capitol Building and start being all uncouth, they're gonna bring out those wagging fingers like never before.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 01:12 PM (LvTSG)
++++
That'll be in 2023, which will usher in the New Era of Cooperation.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2021 01:13 PM (DU+/6)

========

Bring us back some of that old time bipartisanship that got us the Patriot Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, and TARP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 01:14 PM (LvTSG)

432 A thought: The junta might be backing off from the Wuflu because they have something much more destructive running up to the 2022 election.

Won't be a disease but something else. The destruction will make 2020 and 2021 look like the good ol' days.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 28, 2021 01:14 PM (Fs5vw)

433 I'd love to see him actually for once say "ok. they got me. I fucked this up. dammit"

but he won't. he has TWO heels, apparently

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 28, 2021 01:05 PM (j9HX3)

Exactly. I think that's actually the only chance he stands of winning in 2024. People know who was in the White House when the COVID hoax was started. Trump needs to own screwing it up. His ego won't let him.

Posted by: creeper at December 28, 2021 01:14 PM (cTCuP)

434 >>Now the 51-year-old ex-Raiders cheerleader, Playboy model

To the Google Machine!

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2021 01:14 PM (YZdjV)

435 421 The suburban wine-moms legitimately think the disease is deadly,

This keeps their small minds busy and not, how you say, worry, about The Paulo's diseases.
Posted by: The Paulo

Okay, Paolo, you can have Santa Monica, I want Ojai.

First time my wife and I spent a little time there, we looked at each other and said, 'Stepford'.

Posted by: JEM at December 28, 2021 01:15 PM (8erNz)

436 nood

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 28, 2021 01:16 PM (UHVv4)

437 Betcha that's not the first guy she's slugged.
Daddy issues.

Posted by: torabora at December 28, 2021 01:16 PM (CfqpN)

438 Nood Karen

Posted by: Squid at December 28, 2021 01:16 PM (Wgk+t)

439 I checked the data the other day (to see if Walensky was lying) and it seems clear that a vaccinated person has an 18-20 times greater chance of surviving than an unvaccinated person.

I'm going to call Bull Shit on you. That statistic has never been true, not even close.

First of all, what variants? What age demo? What comords? Did any receive any early treatment?

Any fool who says "I checked the data (in a univariant way) and came up with a binary response" knows absolutely nothing about analyzing data and should be kept out of the room where actual data scientists work.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 28, 2021 01:16 PM (+LCoQ)

440 >To the Google Machine!

Posted by: garrett

make us proud

Posted by: DB at December 28, 2021 01:16 PM (0KxNW)

441 147 One thing about the school closures that I don't understand, did the schools still get paid per student "attending". Because if so, that would go a long ways toward building up the schools' cash reserves if they got the same Federal income, without having the expenses of students physically in class.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM

Lol...oh, that's precious. Of course we all got paid, through the taxes of the remaining workers our lock downs didn't crush. Or debt! Ben Franklin left out education system appropriations from his "Death and Taxes" quite.

Posted by: School Boards, Teachers Unions, and Dem politicians at December 28, 2021 01:17 PM (JCZqz)

442 People can argue all day long about the efficacy or helpfulness of this vax, but I don't see the point of getting 2 shots and a booster when even the govt says you can still get the virus and transmit it when the data show 99%+ recovery rate and vax adverse reactions are greater than 1%. Simple math for the under 70 crowd says skip the shot.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 28, 2021 01:13 PM (coYBh)

Hate to make the comparison, as has been done many times before, but this really is a religion to many. Get baptized, and you will be saved. You say you've not gotten baptized, and you won't? Why, you science denier you, just look at all these baptized people who have lived! The stats are obvious!

Who's stats? Why, our stats, of course.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 01:17 PM (r2Iho)

443 I'm curious about how the regulars here feel about The Gateway Pundit.

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 28, 2021 01:17 PM (jYQlA)

444 Long ago I had an adventure with the daughter of the mayor of Ojai.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 28, 2021 01:17 PM (OTzUX)

445 You cannot be guaranteed you right to privileged speech with your Dr. If they did this to lawyers people would hit the roof. Drs are now REQUIRED to report people for a whole bunch of stuff. And they are required to report things they THINK are happening or been done.

posted by jakee308

That is not quite correct, it gets complicated other than psychotherapist patient privileges. In criminal trials, circuits are split on doctor patient privilege per se but often apply other rules of evidence to exclude it (relevance for example). Civil cases involving federal questions are different than diversity cases. In diversity cases, many states have such privileges, on federal questions, it is complicated like in criminal matters.

Posted by: whig at December 28, 2021 01:18 PM (9hXN1)

446 Hate to make the comparison, as has been done many times before, but this really is a religion to many. Get baptized, and you will be saved. You say you've not gotten baptized, and you won't? Why, you snce denier you, just look at all these baptized people who have lived! The stats are obvious!

Who's stats? Why, our stats, of course.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 28, 2021 01:17 PM (r2Iho)

Another inconvenient fact is that those who die when getting a vax shot are counted as 'unvaccinated' - even the 25th booster.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 28, 2021 01:19 PM (eoQWY)

447 Candida, with their beady little eyes and flapping heads all full of lies, hasn't yet descended to BioMedical Concentration, err, Happy Fun Camps, that Australia is implementing.

The bottom line is a great a evil was perpetrated here and demands a terrible retribution.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 28, 2021 12:18 PM (JI7zT)

Our worthless leaders may be looking for a way out, too, Several provinces have stopped reporting vaxx status of those hospitalized with the Coof. That, right there, is pretty much an admission that they know the vaxx is worthless at preventing the Moronic variant. And Alberta Health Services has begun begging personnel who were fired or quit due to vax mandates to "please come back".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 28, 2021 01:19 PM (P3gRi)

448 411 The suburban wine-moms legitimately think the disease is deadly, Grimmy they can't NOT think that
it would kill them what has been done to their kids

they will NEVER accept the truth

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 28, 2021 01:09 PM (j9HX3)
--------------------

A 32 year old woman at our church died from covid week before last. She had no complicating issues.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 28, 2021 01:19 PM (m+yM6)

449 Dead individual fraud is more easy to prove so is more seldomly used.
Posted by: whig at December 28, 2021 01:08 PM (9hXN1)

Thanks Whig - this is sounds about right. But there is no reason for the Atlanta Constitution to exclude typical newspaper reporter info, leaving more questions than answers. There is simply no way to decern whether what they are reporting is as meaningful as they try to suggest - that Trump's a liar. That seems to be the purpose here, but they fail to convince.

You are more convincing just in that one sentence than they were in 5 paragraphs.

Posted by: Boswell at December 28, 2021 01:19 PM (5iUNf)

450 >>Now the 51-year-old ex-Raiders cheerleader, Playboy model

I wouldn't hit that crazy even with Liz Cheney's dick.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 28, 2021 01:19 PM (GYllL)

451 HE'S the potty mouth? Really?

Fuck, I hate the media.......
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami

They're Aesop's scorpion. They have developed into a creature that does what it does by nature.

Posted by: JEM at December 28, 2021 01:20 PM (8erNz)

452 411
Those kids are lucky their Wine Moms didnt abort them.
They dont make Moms like they used to

Posted by: The Great Negro at December 28, 2021 01:20 PM (YTBIQ)

453 Good luck with that pal with half the country about to become deathly ill and many will die, a lot will be crippled and the rest will be chronically sick for the rest of their shortened lives.

Meanwhile the purebloods will have to go into hiding because they will get blamed. In every incidence of mass hysteria there is always a scape goat or two. to relieve the stress.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 12:25 PM

Yep. All those "vaccines" we forced on the world? Immune-system-weakening drugs. Which means lots and lots of sick people for decades going forward. Which means lots and lots of $$$ for us and more ways to control the masses. Not to mention all the children and teens who are scarred for life from the lockdowns.

Great Reset is going just as planned.

Posted by: WEF elites at December 28, 2021 01:21 PM (Do5/p)

454 450 >>Now the 51-year-old ex-Raiders cheerleader, Playboy model

I wouldn't hit that crazy even with Liz Cheney's dick.
Posted by: Capital Eff

Two beers and you'd be in a $400 hotel room munching on her.

Posted by: JEM at December 28, 2021 01:21 PM (8erNz)

455 The other problem is that the licensed material (movies, mostly) jumps from platform to platform.

Yeah its a real problem, because you can never tell what or where something is that you might want to see. And if you get some exclusive thing like Disney+, the content is so limited you wonder why you're paying. They have all the more modern stuff, a tiny portion of their old stuff, and a tinier shred of the gigantic amount of things they bought to set up Disney+. Properties from other companies they purchased. You get maybe .01% of their catalog available.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 01:22 PM (KZzsI)

456 444 Long ago I had an adventure with the daughter of the mayor of Ojai.
Posted by: rhomboid

Had you remained silent, the evidence you are about to introduce would not have been compelled...

Posted by: JEM at December 28, 2021 01:25 PM (8erNz)

457 I'm curious about how the regulars here feel about The Gateway Pundit.

like Newsmax, they're too busy trying to be first to be right, and mess up a lot.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2021 01:26 PM (KZzsI)

458 Your privileged speech is lost because the Dr. is filling out that form which can be seen by anyone who can come up with an excuse to see it or hack it.

Those forms are the equivalent of a Drs. Case Notes but in a computer readable form for putting into a database. You can't opt out of this system. You can't be guaranteed who will or will not see this information. I'm not talking about a lawsuit or a crime. I'm talking about other people knowing personal information about your health and treatment.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 28, 2021 01:29 PM (6R0HD)

459 A bird flu outbreak in northern Israel that killed over 5,200 cranes and forced the culling of half a million chickens is not yet under control, an expert said on Monday.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 28, 2021 12:26 PM (UHVv4)

It's going to to have a big impact on large building construction, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 28, 2021 01:29 PM (P3gRi)

460 "like Newsmax, they're too busy trying to be first to be right, and mess up a lot."

Thanks. Well stated.

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 28, 2021 01:32 PM (jYQlA)

461 It's going to come back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 28, 2021 12:33 PM (LvTSG)

They'll have to do it without my dollars. You want to spoon-feed the commies, carry on.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 28, 2021 01:35 PM (P3gRi)

462 Crane crisis culls construction in Caesarea.

Posted by: Just sayin' at December 28, 2021 01:35 PM (jYQlA)

463 The problem is you can't walk your way back from Crazy Town without passing through Common Sense.

And at that point you got some 'splainin to do.

Posted by: Zek at December 28, 2021 01:42 PM (w/5KC)

464 Okay, back from lunch. Just checked to see if I'm still getting hammered. Check. Here's my general response.

Throwing out "99% survival rate" is pretty worthless. Since many of you believe -- as do I -- that pretty much everyone's going to get covid in some form or another before this is all said and done, let's apply that 1% death rate to the general US population. That's over 3 million people.

Hm. That's a lotta people. Furthermore, if I'm in a room of 100 people and I'm told one of us will die in the next twenty minutes, I'm a trifle nervous. But then someone says, "But if you take this shot in the arm" it will only be 1 in 20 of these such rooms" I'm taking the shot.

Period.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 01:42 PM (Q3oNv)

465 And does everyone recall how the medical community came up with "Long Covid" when everyone realized that almost no one not already deathly ill was dying of the 'Vid?

Another invisible, undefinable, unstudyable enemy. In other words, the perfect foil. They used this one to argue for "super immunity! (TM)" for the already infected, as in: welp you just don't want to risk that Loooong Covid now do you??

I'm sure they'll roll this one out again for Omicron.

Posted by: Zek at December 28, 2021 01:46 PM (w/5KC)

466 361 So, if you feel crappy on Friday, then test positive on Monday, you have finished your quarantine period before you even started???
Posted by: DaveK at December 28, 2021 01:00 PM (n8vVY)

hmm

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 01:52 PM (SSiCQ)

467 Nope. The vaccine has kept many alive. You need to check the stats cause it's obvious. Trump's biggest mistake was in his hirings.
Posted by: MaxMBJ at December 28, 2021 12:56 PM (Q3oNv)

And how many have died from the vaxx itself? And of those it "kept alive", how many would have survived the Coof anyway? A disease that that has an IFR of only about 1%

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 28, 2021 01:52 PM (P3gRi)

468 no it wasn't JUST him Clyde but they did present it that way and it was the VA vote result that was the thing I think that woke them up

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 28, 2021 12:58 PM

Goes along with the Michael P Ramirez cartoon from today: https://bit.ly/3Hm3WnE

Teacher: Today's Lesson: Joe Manchin. One person stopping the Build Back Better Plan is fundamentally undemocratic!!! - AOC
Student 1 to Teacher: Actually, 51 Senators oppose that bill. That constitutes a majority
Student 2 to Teacher: Are you in Special Ed?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 28, 2021 02:17 PM (Do5/p)

469 And how many have died from the vaxx itself? And of those it "kept alive", how many would have survived the Coof anyway? A disease that that has an IFR of only about 1%

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 28, 2021 01:52 PM

And how many "kept alive" from the vax now have weakened immune systems for the rest of their lives, making them succeptible to die from future COVID variants and every other illness out there. And how many will be dropping dead within the next 5 years of vaxxine-induced myocarditis.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 28, 2021 02:19 PM (Do5/p)

470 I just wish he would Go Away and take that idiot Kaepernick with him to the Gobi Desert

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 28, 2021 06:25 PM (FLiOE)

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