As early as February 2020, senior advisers to then-President Donald Trump privately warned of
the American governmentâsDonald Dorkâsâcritical mistakesânarcissistic assholiness in the looming face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
FTFthem.
I donât understand why anyone anywhere who doesnât trust medical science even the least little bit would go into the medical field, no matter what their job may be.
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Note that Chinaâs emergency surge situation is still much better than status quo normality in the US or Europe.
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So, 1 in 8 people in the US have had COVID. 1 in 500 have died from it.
Your chances of dying from COVID are 1 in 62 if you are unvaccinated and almost none if you are vaccinated.
AND here in TN, we are number one in the nation on new COVID cases.
It is so hard here to see the posts from the right-wing anti-vax crowd asking for prayers for their loved ones and then when they do die, the donât mention COVID in the obits. Itâs a weird form of denial they are engaging in, a kind of mass psychosis.
Hospitals are full and people with non-COVID issues are beng turned away from routine surgeries.
Meanwhile, in ThailandâŠ
Now, those are some green cars! And we all know about the virtues of pink and green, donât we?
Addendum - best quote: âThailand went through political turmoil for many years, and a great flood in 2011, but business was never this terrible.â
Yank his license! Please!!!
âneedle rapeâ??
for fuckâs sake!
My friend down there who had a heart attack a few weeks ago, and had to wait to be seen, is doing well now, but the cardiologist that she was supposed to follow up with has now died.
And some businesses now admitting the real reason they donât have enough employees is not because âthey donât want to workâ, but because theyâve lost some to covid and others canât deal with the anti-maskers anymore.
Lots of ripple effects.
Footage obtained by NBC New York shows an intense scuffle outside Carmineâs Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side on Thursday evening. The three tourists, who are from Texas, are alleged to have begun repeatedly punching the 22-year-old host after she asked them to show proof they were vaccinated against COVID-19 before entering the restaurant, in accordance with local regulations.
Texas, do not bring your evil here.
I think the loss of so many people as a population is hard for us to comprehend emotionally. Only in the employment are we feeling it at some gut level.
Though I did hear an interesting theory from a TikTokker who said anecdotally that those companies saying how hard it is to get employees are making potential new hires jump through a lot of hoops. She said that the skeleton crews are more profitable for the businesses, but to get the employees to do it, they have to feign that they canât find new employees. Seemed reasonable to me. It could be a mix of things.
What do we take away from all this? For one, not that vaccines or making them compulsory are part of some master plan for a fascist takeover. Besides the Nazisâ relaxation of vaccine mandates, more than fifty years passed between the imperial vaccination law of 1874 and the end of German democracy, and Germanyâs compulsory vaccination program was patently not used by the Nazis to take over the country.
The talk of vaccine mandates as fascism is a function of the dumbed-down way Nazism and its legacy are used in political discourse. The Right will happily point to Hitlerâs support for birth control and abortion, or the Nazisâ use of public-works programs, business regulation, and social welfare policies, to argue doing anything similar now will lead to totalitarianism; then theyâll be silent on the Nazisâ militarism, mass surveillance, union-busting, and clampdowns on civil liberties, because they enthusiastically pursue and support those policies in the United States. At the same time that GOP-controlled states around the country have weakened public-health powers in the name of securing individual rights and preventing government overreach, those same states have passed or are trying to pass laws criminalizing Americansâ right to protestor to criticize a foreign ally.
