Aug 30, 2021

Today's Tweet



It's not only about what's happening to the patients.

"I have COVID blood on my scrubs"
"I have COVID urine on my pants"

Today's Jan6 Stuff

Glenn Kirschner explains the upcoming trial of insurrectionist Aaron Mostofsky:

Today's Daddy State Thing

...is just a variation on the old White Supremacy thing, which of course is almost always at the root of all the racist shit that's been going on in USAmerica Inc for 400 years.

"Power-mad outa-control black man kills innocent patriotic white girl."

Joy Reid and Mary Trump:


Here's a rundown on the film that started it all - including a mention of the first ever Cute Cat video.

Note - the ugly side of American populism has been there forever, and sometimes it manifests itself in cynical efforts to manipulate public opinion by way of products and services available on new media platforms.

COVID-19 Update

35 states reported no numbers for yesterday, which made it impossible for Worldometer to tally it all up, so the 7 Day Averages stop at 08-29.

For what it's worth;






A Calif. elementary school teacher took off her mask for a read-aloud. Within days, half her class was positive for delta.

A CDC-funded simulation projects that without masking or testing, more than 75 percent of children could be infected within three months.


The Marin County, Calif., elementary school had been conscientious about following covid-19 protocols. Masks were required indoors, desks were spaced six feet apart, and the students kept socially distant. But the delta variant found an opening anyway.

On May 19, one teacher, who was not vaccinated against the coronavirus, began feeling fatigued and had some nasal congestion. She dismissed it as allergies and powered through. While she was usually masked, she made an exception for story time so she could read to the class.

By the time she learned she was positive for the coronavirus two days later, half her class of 24 had been infected — nearly all of them in the two rows closest to her desk — and the outbreak had spread to other classes, siblings and parents, including some who were fully vaccinated.


Overheard

Albrecht Dürer

The four horsemen of the apocalypse are still on their way, but they're extra pissed off because now their horses all have worms.

Aug 29, 2021

Today's Tweet



Just to be clear

COVID-19 Update

Just gonna throw this one out there:

And move on with this at WaPo:

Florida judge rules DeSantis administration cannot restrict school districts’ mask mandates

A Florida judge ruled Friday that Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration overstepped its authority in restricting school districts from enacting mask mandates after parents sued officials amid a surge in coronavirus infections.

Judge John C. Cooper of Florida’s 2nd Circuit sided with parents from six Florida counties who challenged DeSantis (R) and state education officials in court this week, arguing that the governor’s order infringes on classroom safety guaranteed by the state’s constitution.

In a milestone decision in the heated debate about mask mandates in Florida, Cooper declared that the state cannot require districts to offer voluntary mandates over “the preservation of general welfare,” comparing the masking issue to the difference between the right to drink alcohol and the criminality of drunken driving.

“We don’t have a right to go into a crowded theater and yell fire because we decided it’s our right to do that,” he said.

The injunction is expected to go into effect as early as next week and will bar the Education Department from punishing school districts for not complying with a Health Department rule requiring those with mask mandates to offer an opt-out option. The ruling came after DeSantis ordered state policy revised to allow parents to choose whether they want their children to wear masks.

The injunction is not against DeSantis himself, the judge specified, but rather the enforcement of rules that stemmed from his order. The decision could be overturned by an appeals court or differ from the outcomes of other lawsuits moving through courts. DeSantis previously vowed to appeal if his administration lost.


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The most ardent of the anti-mask / anti-vax butt heads - the ones who're more than a little willing to deny science and shit on anyone asking them to play for the team once in a while instead of always (and only) for themselves - those are the folks telling us they'll take their chances and go it alone, only to come charging up to the hospital demanding the best possible care when they're about to drop dead because of a disease they keep telling us is not all that bad.

They are also the the ones who complain the loudest about wasting time and effort and taxpayer dollars on the sick and the needy.

Their hypocrisy and their blind foolishness are unbounded. Although, there may be some glimmer of hope that they retain a tiny modicum of self-awareness in that they're acknowledging when they're sick - and that they need help - but it's like they're still too embarrassed and too proudly macho to admit they may have been wrong this whole fucking time, so it all manifests itself in their grasping at straws - ie: fish tank cleaner to get the hydroxychloroquine they thought might help a year ago, and now the livestock de-wormer (Ivermectin) that apparently some of them are eating right out of the tube and ending up at the local ER (with symptoms like the flaming shits and precision-target-vomiting a bloody discharge), only to be told that all the beds are taken by their fellow un-vaxxed idiots so they'll just have to hang loose out here in the parking lot for a while.

This will have to improve by several orders of magnitude in order to qualify as a royal cluster fuck.

BTW, there are stories coming out now about the bills people are getting from their care-givers - bills that are running into the high 6 figures and beyond.

Casey Gray's first bill was for $3.4 million.
Hospital discounts brought his bill down to $900,000.
Welcome to a lifetime of probable COVID-related health problems,
and to the deprivations of economic slavery, right here in
   USAmerica, Inc 
Meanwhile...






Aug 28, 2021

Today's Reddit


I'm extremely glad there's no place near me where I might be tempted to try this - because I can resist anything but temptation.

Fun Fact


The average person will spend
seven years of their life lying in bed,
trying to fall asleep -
which is three years longer 
than the Confederacy lasted.

Today's Tweet



Casler knows some shit