Three members of the Texas House Democratic Caucus who are temporarily staying in Washington after leaving the Lone Star State this past week to block passage of a new Republican-backed elections law have tested positive for COVID-19, two people familiar with the situation told CBS News. The three members of the delegation have all been vaccinated against COVID-19 but tested positive with rapid tests, the people said. One of the members tested positive Friday night and the two others on Saturday.
Of course, some outside of the mainstream media find this rather amusing.
In today’s episode of “you can’t make this stuff up,” three Texas House Democrats who fled their state to stall a voter integrity bill have tested positive for COVID. Because all three are vaccinated, it’s likely they caught the Delta variant, given its propensity to cause break-through cases.
So many Democratic talking points are destroyed here? Is it Karma that Democrats have been demanding that any new increase in Covid cases is solely an unvaccinated issue, only to have three of their own vaccinated members catch it?
Is it Karma that these Democrats left the state, not bothering to social distance (while complaining publicly about others who do not) and now all of them are probably sweating the next few days and the next few tests?
Certainly if these Democrats had not made the politically futile move to leave the state, they would have probably not have contracted the virus. It turns out that this trip might be more costly than just money here, as the health of these Democrats is now in question.
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Redstate Redstate.
They find it funny.
Kama is a good word for it. Some pundit said this is the worst political publicity stunt in US history.
It will be fun to see the three stooges defend this after creaming their btitches over it.
They find it funny.
Because it is.
I posted earlier about how close to 50% of Englands new Covid cases are coming from previously vaccinated people. And this
HMS Queen Elizabeth: Covid outbreak on Navy flagship
An outbreak of Covid-19 has been confirmed on the Royal Navy's flagship, HMS Queen Elizabeth.
The BBC has been told there have been around 100 cases on the aircraft carrier, which is part way through a world tour.
Several other warships in the fleet accompanying it are also affected.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said all crew on the deployment had received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine and the outbreak was being managed.
HMS Queen Elizabeth is about a quarter of the way through a 28-week deployment leading the Carrier Strike Group (CSG).
full story:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57830617.amp
science:
this can't be happening
More interesting is that Sleepy Joe is helping the Cubans.
More than 1 million people in Cuba per day are using an anti-censorship tool supported by the U.S. government to evade government blackouts of social media such as Facebook.
This might help them get rid of the Castro family regime.
Good to see no deaths reported there
except maybe for a media and political narrative
Roger Amick said...
More interesting is that Sleepy Joe is helping the Cubans.
More than 1 million people in Cuba per day are using an anti-censorship tool supported by the U.S. government to evade government blackouts of social media such as Facebook.
You sure diverted from this topic to one you already brought up this morning but
Isn't sleep Joe on a vacation?
You know the US government is reading peoples posts and Facebook is banning them or removing their posts based on the governments recommendations
We used to call that Fascism but now the state media just ignores
Kind of like issues with the vaccine and correlations to age and race. There definitely is a risk/reward that the government is trying to hide
Joe Biden's America
Didn't the Obama/Biden administration love Castro?
answer - yes
One of the first things I watched on TV was John Lewis being beaten by police officers as he crossed the bridge in 1965. President Biden has honored his life.
Bloody Sunday. https://youtu.be/jSVNPHi4MQc
didn't the government say the outbreaks were something like 98.5 % with unvaccinated people ?
FAKE NEWS ?
FAKE SCIENCE ?
no wonder they want to control "information"
1984
Ministry of "Truth"
Joe Biden's America
More interesting is that Sleepy Joe is helping the Cubans.
I find nothing interesting about what Biden does about Cuba.
But I do find it interesting that your obsession with Covid being just an "unvaccinated" issue had just been destroyed. Destroyed in horrifyingly ironic fashion that also exposes your complete stupidity in defending what has become a trip that is now in S.S. Minnow category in terms of disaster and subsequent dysfunctionality.
Admit that the Texas Democrats have crashed and burned and gain a little credibility, Rog.
Roger Amick said...
One of the first things I watched on TV was John Lewis being beaten by police officers
I remember you earlier saying you had watched the Nixon/Kennedy debates
Did your parents take away your TV rights for 5 years
And why are you so bat-shit determined to not answer CHT's questions and keep posting totally irrelevant information
About yourself
Maybe we should all just be a good bit concerned that there may be strains of the disease that will bring about more "breakthrough" cases -- cases where people who were vaccinated still get a mutated, more virulent form of the virus. As it now stands, comparatively few vaccinated people are coming down with Covid, and when vaccinated people do get it, they often neither have to go to the hospital not do they die.
JamesNewLeaf said...
As it now stands, comparatively few vaccinated people are coming down with Covid
If you call nearly 50% in England "few"
and who knows what the real number is in America ?
You sure can't trust our reporting anymore
At least I don't.
And last I saw something like 18 % of Americans trusted the news anymore
Obviously you and political_lire are in that 18 %
But not most Americans
correction:
The United States ranks last in media trust — at 29% — among 92,000 news consumers surveyed in 46 countries, a report released Wednesday found. That’s worse than Poland, worse than the Philippines, worse than Peru. (Finland leads at 65%.)
https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2021/us-ranks-last-among-46-countries-in-trust-in-media-reuters-institute-report-finds/
Maybe we should all just be a good bit concerned that there may be strains of the disease that will bring about more "breakthrough" cases -- cases where people who were vaccinated still get a mutated, more virulent form of the virus. As it now stands, comparatively few vaccinated people are coming down with Covid, and when vaccinated people do get it, they often neither have to go to the hospital not do they die.
I tend to remember, Reverend... that you determined that issues with Covid were all about the President of the United States.
Can we count on you to continue to blame this President if the Covid crisis goes south again?
Or does your intellectual honesty suffer from liberal hypocrisy?
Something really odd is going on:
In Europe we are seeing surges at many places where most of the population has already been vaccinated.
At the same time, the 15 least vaccinated countries don‘t seem to face any problem.
At some point, denying this problem will get painful.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1415989536933490688.html
puzzling
science ?
💉L.A. County fully 😷 up.
No Science . Just Do It.
With all the new cases what is Joe doing?
Vaccinated, meaning;
treat with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease; inoculate."
"vaccinated people do get it" James
Oh, hell. Oh well, epic fail.
Critical Race Theory Is Racist, and We Should Say So
All of this is only worth mentioning because Stanley recently co-authored a deeply deceptive op-ed in The New York Times with David French, Kmele Foster, and Thomas Chatterton Williams that argues against new state laws banning the teaching of critical race theory in public schools. Such laws, the authors claim, are “un-American” and pose a danger to liberal education.
But the real danger to liberal education are the tenets of critical race theory, which include pernicious and deeply un-American ideas such as race essentialism, collective guilt, and support for government discrimination based on race. Despite what adherents of critical race theory claim, it doesn’t just involve the teaching of American history in a straightforward, unapologetic way. It is rather a system of indoctrination into a set of beliefs that are antithetical not only to American ideals of individual rights and equal protection under the law, but to the philosophy of natural law from which these ideals emerge.
Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute has done more than anyone to expose the many ways this toxic ideology has wormed its way into our public schools, often in the form of books and teaching materials for young children that promote fundamentally racist ideas — including a book now being recommended in more than two dozen school districts that suggests being white is a deal with the devil.
Among the left, these sorts of educational materials and curricula are considered “anti-racist,” a vague notion, popularized by so-called public intellectuals like Ibram X. Kendi. They say it’s not enough to maintain equality under the law; we must achieve equity, or equality of outcomes, even if it means discriminating on the basis of race.
So when elite academics like Stanley denounce natural law as “white Christian Nationalism,” what they mean is that it’s better to have a system of government and education in which all people are not treated equally regardless of their race. They think it would be more just to categorize people based on race and erect a system of state-sanctioned discrimination. They think a society and a civilization based on the idea that every human being has unalienable rights, intrinsic to them as human beings, is somehow offensive to their notions of social justice.
They also think you’re too stupid to see all of this for what it is: racist garbage.
John is the Political Editor at The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter.
Academia
The big lie exposed
The allegation harkens back to the debunked “Sharpiegate” conspiracy theory that arose in the days after the election. Election experts say bleed-through doesn’t affect the vote count because bubbles on one side of a ballot don’t align with those on the other. Ballots that can’t be read are flagged and duplicated by a bipartisan team.
Arizona’s election procedures manual says only that ballots “must be printed with black ink on white paper of sufficient thickness to prevent the printing from being discernible on the reverse side the ballot.” Maricopa County uses 80 pound Votesecur paper from Rolland, which is among the papers approved by Dominion Voting Systems, which makes the county’s tabulation equipment, said Fields Moseley, a county spokesman.
Logan did not provide any evidence that alignment problems affected the vote count and said the issue needs more analysis.
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TRUMP, citing “74,000 mail in ballots received that were never mailed (magically appearing ballots).”
THE FACTS: No, there were no magically appearing ballots. He is alleging that the number of filled-out ballots received in the mail by election officials exceeded the number of people who had asked earlier for mail-in ballots, by 74,000. But that’s not at all what happened.
The claim mischaracterizes reports created for political parties to track who has voted early so they can target their get-out-the-vote efforts.
One report tracks all requests that voters make for early ballots, either by mail or in person, up to 11 days before the election. The other report tracks all ballots received through the day before the election. That leaves a 10-day window during which people who vote in-person but don’t request a mail ballot would appear on one report but not the other.
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TRUMP, claiming “11,000 voters were added to the voter rolls AFTER the election and still voted.”
THE FACTS: There’s nothing untoward about voters rolls growing after Election Day. The rolls are simply updated to reflect people whose provisional ballots are added to the tally after election officials verify that they were eligible to vote.
The allegation that the updated tally was the result of electoral wrongdoing first came from Logan this past week, when he told state lawmakers of “11,326 people that did not show up on the Nov. 7 version of the voter rolls, after votes were cast, but then appeared on the Dec. 4 voter rolls.”
Maricopa County officials said Logan is probably referring to provisional ballots, which are cast by people who do not appear on the voter rolls or don’t have the proper identification on Election Day. They’re only counted if the voter later shows he or she was eligible to vote. To be eligible, such voters must have registered before the deadline.
“These go through a rigorous verification process to make sure that the provisional ballots cast are only counted if the voter is eligible to vote in the election,” Maricopa County officials wrote on Twitter. “This happens after Election Day. Only eligible voters are added to the voter rolls.”
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TRUMP, alleging “all the access logs to the machines were wiped, and the election server was hacked during the election.”
THE FACTS: That flies in the face of the evidence. Maricopa County’s election server is not connected to the internet and independent auditors found no evidence the election server was hacked.
Trump’s hacking allegation refers to the unauthorized download of public data from the county’s voter registration system. That system, which is connected to the internet and broadly accessible to political parties and election workers, is not linked to the election management system, the web of ballot counters, computers and servers that tallies votes.
The election management system is “air gapped,” or kept disconnected from the rest of the county’s computer network and the wider internet. Two firms certified by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to test voting systems found Maricopa County’s machines were not connected to the internet and did not have malicious hardware or software installed.
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TRUMP: “Arizona shows Fraud and Voting Irregularities many times more than would be needed to change the outcome of the Election.”
THE FACTS: Not so. The number of potential fraud cases is far smaller than President Joe Biden’s margin of victory in Arizona.
County election officials identified 182 cases where voting problems were clear enough that they referred them to investigators for further review, according to an Associated Press investigation. So far, only four cases have led to charges, including those identified in a separate state investigation. No one has been convicted. No person’s vote was counted twice.
Biden won Arizona by 10,457 votes out of 3.4 million cast. Of the four cases that have resulted in criminal charges, two involved Democratic voters and two involved Republicans.
Milley saw Trump's post-election behavior as a "Reichstag moment ... The gospel of the Führer."
Scott shouted Seig Heil on January 6th.
Yeah cramps, this Tex infections are really funny especially knowing what a great job desalts is doing with floriduh having 20% of the total new cases!!!! Now that is a gigantic win for stupidity as the red trump state of floriduh lags in vaccinations
COVID-19 cases in Florida soared to close to 46,000 this week, accounting for 20% of all cases in the nation
HEALTH 07/17/2021 12:50 am ET Updated 4 hours ago
‘Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated’: Florida Tallies 20% Of Soaring New COVID-19 Cases In U.S.
“We are going to continue to see preventable cases, hospitalizations and, sadly, deaths among the unvaccinated,” warns CDC director.
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By Mary Papenfuss
COVID-19 cases in Florida soared to close to 46,000 this week, accounting for 20% of all new cases in the nation.
The astonishing number is double the cases of the previous week and four times the cases in mid-June, according to statistics from the Florida Health Department.
The health department also reported 231 new deaths, up from 172 the week ending July 9, according to The Orlando Sentinel.
States with the highest outbreaks now also include Nevada, Missouri and Arkansas, which all have low vaccination rates of about 50% of the population with at least one dose. Arkansas and Missouri are tallying more cases now than they did in the winter. Some rural areas have vaccination rates as low as 20%.
In Florida, 59% of resident have had at least one dose. States with rates of 70% or more are faring much better.
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