Over a thousand dead from Covid yesterday and the President gives us rhetoric!
We went over a thousand new Covid deaths yesterday. This is something nobody ever expected to report again. Oh, and in case you are wondering only 8 of those came from the land of the boogiemen (Florida). In fact, three of the top five death states are run by Democrats.
My, oh my, how false narratives fall apart so quickly.
For consideration, California reported 99 deaths yesterday and Illinois reported 38 (a couple of home town examples). Both those states appear on their way "up" as well. I guess anyone living in either of those states should start pointing fingers at themselves rather than whatever or whoever they have been pointing at.
Why has this problem been getting worse, rather than better? Well it's clear that the focus has been on finger pointing and blame, rather than solving the problem. Moreover, the finger pointing and blame is being based on political calculation rather than facts. The focus from the Administration has been on the erroneous concept that this is a problem with Republicans and conservatives not being vaccinated due to disinformation.
Their efforts to get more people vaccinated is to rely on pushing social media and others to censor and control the flow of information on Covid and the vaccine, in order to prevent more anti-vaxxers from spreading their lies. The problem is that there is literally no empirical data to back up the claim that the major blocs of Americans not being vaccinated are conservative conspiracy theorists.
The actual medical numbers from everyone keeping track suggests that resistance to the vaccine is coming from the younger generations and blacks. This is to the point where White baby boomers are well over 80% vaccinated, while blacks between 19-30 are 70% unvaccinated. How does banning Twitter accounts solve that?
The fact is that it doesn't.
Now I have not made up my mind here as to whether the Biden administration is dumb enough to believe their own rhetoric, or that they believe that they can actually use Covid deaths politically to blame their opponents. Either way, the numbers won't lie and eventually the growing number of Covid deaths will look like a United State issue (not a partisan Florida one as has been argued).
Last time I checked the buck stopped with the President. That would be Biden, not Trump.
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read the attached email from a nurse, another group with vaccine hesitancy
Alex Berenson
From a nurse at a kids hospital in California where 70 NICU nurses are ready to walk…
And an employee at a small system in Maryland that has a relatively high vax rate and is still anticipating chaos.
Pro tip: if you need to get sick, do it before the mandates hit Oct. 1.
A lot of vaccine hesitancy is locked in at this point
and can't blame them
so much politics, so little science
Oops
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1427675598231588871
goes with above, an eye opening read
The right-wing channel Fox News, whose top personalities have for months assailed the concept of vaccine passports and argued that asking about vaccine status amounts to a major intrusion of privacy, told employees this week that they must disclose their vaccination status to the company,”
It's quite simple really. He's an imbecile.
“I’m getting sick and tired of hearing about morality, our moral obligation,” Joe Biden said in 1975. “There’s a point where you are incapable of meeting moral obligations that exist worldwide.” At the time, he was arguing against U.S. aid to Cambodia. But he could just as easily have said the same about his decision this year to end the American presence in Afghanistan, a catastrophic mistake that has led to a Taliban takeover, undermined our national interest, and morally stained Biden’s presidency.
It is the latest blunder in a foreign-policy record filled with them.
In 1975, Biden opposed giving aid to the South Vietnamese government during its war against the North, ensuring the victory of a brutal regime and causing a mass exodus of refugees.
In 1991, Biden opposed the Gulf War, one of the most successful military campaigns in American history. Not only did he later regret his congressional vote, but in 1998, he criticized George H. W. Bush for not deposing Saddam Hussein, calling that decision a “fundamental mistake.”
In 2003, Biden supported the Iraq War—another congressional vote he later regretted.
In 2007, he opposed President George W. Bush’s new counterinsurgency strategy and surge in troops in Iraq, calling it a “tragic mistake.” In fact, the surge led to stunning progress, including dramatic drops in civilian deaths and sectarian violence.
In December 2011, President Barack Obama and Vice President Biden withdrew America’s much-scaled-down troop presence in Iraq; the former had declared Iraq to be “sovereign, stable, and self-reliant,” and the latter had predicted that Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.” Their decision sent Iraq spiraling into sectarian violence and civil war, allowing Iran to expand its influence and opening the way for the rise of the jihadist group ISIS.
According to Obama’s memoir A Promised Land, Biden had advised the former president to take more time before launching the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Ten years ago, Biden said in an interview that “the Taliban per se is not our enemy.” He added, “If, in fact, the Taliban is able to collapse the existing government, which is cooperating with us in keeping the bad guys from being able to do damage to us, then that becomes a problem for us.”
Indeed.
In his 2014 memoir, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, Robert Gates, who served as the secretary of defense under George W. Bush and Obama, said that Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
So is there a unifying theory of why Biden is so consistently wrong on major foreign-policy matters? Does he misunderstand something about the world, or possess some set of instincts that don’t serve him well?
Perhaps the place to begin is by recognizing that Biden has never been an impressive strategic thinker.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/biden-afghanistan-record/619799/
New cases are emerging at their highest rates since winter as the Delta variant sweeps across the country and Americans come to terms with the fact that Covid is not going away any time soon.
Every state has had its progress derailed by Delta, but the effects have been especially severe in the South. Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi have shattered past known case records and seen hospitals overwhelmed.
Hospitalizations nationwide now exceed every previous peak except last winter’s. More than 700 deaths are being reported each day, on average, a figure that has more than doubled since the start of August. Deaths have so far remained far below past records, but can lag case data by weeks.
The pace of vaccination has increased only slightly, to about 700,000 doses a day, even as the daily case rate has soared. About 51 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated. Vaccines provide protection from the Delta variant, especially against severe disease and death.
Some of the areas hit hardest early in the summer have started to see case numbers level off or even fall. The outlook is improving in the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas, in the Las Vegas area and around Jacksonville, Fla.
Rural areas in the Pacific Northwest have seen especially sharp rises in cases. Oregon recently set a weekly case record and reimposed an indoor mask mandate.
Cases are rising in the Upper Midwest and Northeast, but remain far lower than the figures seen in other regions. On a per capita basis, the counties that include Miami and Tampa, Fla., are averaging more than six times as many cases each day.
Carol Keehan, the former head of the Catholic Health Association, who has worked closely with Biden for years, echoes those sentiments. “He’s very clear about justice,” she told NPR. “When Joe Biden talks about faith, he talks very much about things like the Gospel of Matthew—‘what you’ve done to the least of my brother, you’ve done to me.’”
Just don’t tell that to the girls, women, and other frightened souls in Afghanistan who, thanks to a decision made by Joseph R. Biden Jr., are about to enter the gates of hell.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/biden-afghanistan-record/619799/
In other news, Glenn Beck's Nazarene Fund raised just short of $10 MILLION just yesterday, towards a $20 MILLION goal, to extract American citizens from Shithole-istan.
All while Austin and Milley sit around jerking off to the racist huckster 'gospel' of Henry Rogers X.
Per 100,000
Mississippi › 3,526 118
+91%
cases trajectory last two weeks
Florida › 24,517 114
+38%
cases trajectory last two weeks
Louisiana › 5,215 112
+20%
cases trajectory last two weeks
Alabama › 3,728 76
+42%
cases trajectory last two weeks
Arkansas › 2,103 70
Flat
cases trajectory last two weeks
South Carolina › 3,523 68
+63%
cases trajectory last two weeks
Tennessee › 4,456 65
+78%
cases trajectory last two weeks
Kentucky › 2,897 65
+85%
cases trajectory last two weeks
Georgia › 6,905 65
+76%
cases trajectory last two weeks
Alaska › 415 57
+49%
Alky plagiarism source - The NY Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
Why go to the CDC site when you can go to a site with a leftist hack filter in place?
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) announced Tuesday that schools that require masks won’t be eligible for a $163 million school grant program providing $1,800 per student. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) last week floated a similar idea — though his would have deprived school officials of their actual salaries — before backing off it.
Polls of such ideas suggest that however popular vaccine mandates might be — and however much people might have soured on mask mandates — the support simply isn’t there, or anywhere close to there. Opposition to withholding funds over mask mandates might actually be more unifying than any other proposal involving mandates. The Axios-Ipsos poll this week showed that fully 77 percent of Americans opposed withholding funding from school districts or local governments that require masks, as DeSantis proposed and Ducey is now pursuing.
The other state in which a governor’s decisions on mandates are playing out in real time is California. There, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is facing a recall election, and he has been among the most forceful governors in the country on vaccine mandates, requiring either them or weekly tests for teachers.
It’s too simple to say that whether he’s recalled next month is a referendum on this policy — given the dynamics of a highly unusual recall election — but his push for vaccine mandates while his political future is in the balance suggests he believes this is a popular idea. He comes from a state in which at least 54 percent of people are fully vaccinated, according to Washington Post tracking, while would-be Republican successors are promising to repeal vaccine and mask mandates.
Trump’s M.O. throughout basically the entirety of his presidency was to focus on his base, even if the things he was pursuing were broadly unpopular. This has created an emboldened and passionate GOP base, but it’s also created a situation in which Republicans — whether ambitious ones like DeSantis or simply those trying to respond to their supporters — feel pressure to play to that base. To have a seat at the table in the national GOP right now is to oppose vaccine mandates — which appear pretty strongly popular, and not just in the YouGov poll — and not just fight mask mandates — which many Americans oppose — but to push the envelope in the fight against them.
The problem is that there is little evidence that the broader American public is clamoring for that envelope to be pushed, nor does it oppose targeted vaccine mandates.
None of that means Americans will necessarily write off GOP politicians who support these policies. But it does reinforce the gamble at play: the brief base high followed by the unknown reaction from the broader public, which seems to be on quite a different page.
In other words: the Trump playbook that didn’t seem to work terribly well.
Doctor Will Only See Vaccinated Patients
An Alabama doctor told his patients he will no longer see them if they are not vaccinated against Covid-19, AL.com reports.
Said Dr. Jason Valentine: “If they asked why, I told them COVID is a miserable way to die and I can’t watch them die like that.”
U.S. Jobless Claims Fall to Pandemic Low
“Jobless claims fell to a pandemic low of 348,000 last week, suggesting the labor market continues to heal even as the Delta variant causes uncertainty,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Demonstrations Against Taliban Spread
August 19, 2021 at 8:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Protesters
took to the streets to rally against Taliban rule for the second day on Thursday, this time marching in Kabul, including near the presidential palace,” the New York Times reports.
“At one demonstration in the city, about 200 people had gathered before the Taliban broke it up violently.”
This infuriates me.
Fox News Orders Staff to Disclose Vaccination Status
“The right-wing channel Fox News, whose top personalities have for months assailed the concept of vaccine passports and argued that asking about vaccine status amounts to a major intrusion of privacy, told employees this week that they must disclose their vaccination status to the company,” CNN reports.
The right-wing channel Fox News, whose top personalities have for months assailed the concept of vaccine passports and argued that asking about vaccine status amounts to a major intrusion of privacy, told employees this week that they must disclose their vaccination status to the company,
So Roger...
Are you saying that the Blacks and young Americans who are not getting vaccinated are listening to Fox News?
Or are you trying to keep up the lie that those unvaccinated are not actually the ones that the CDC and other medical agencies keeping track say that they are?
On a per capita basis, the counties that include Miami and Tampa, Fla., are averaging more than six times as many cases each day.
Correct... as these include a large number of what race of person?
See a pattern yet?
Anonymous JamesNewLeaf's Fucking Daddy said...
This infuriates me.
Fox News Orders Staff to Disclose Vaccination Status
Don't let it bother you. Fox News - with the exception of Tucker Carlson - capitulated to the left on election night 2020. This is just part of a natural progression.
The Murdoch kids running the show are card-carrying liberals. The joke is on those who still watch and take them seriously.
“At one demonstration in the city, about 200 people had gathered before the Taliban broke it up violently.”
Well that is one way to do it.
I see the alky is joining me in "honoring" the accused pederast "pastor" james boswell of normal illinois
welcome roger
ROFLMFAO !!!
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