And if he’s testing positive the morning after, then he was most likely already sick when he attended.
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Report from Shanghai:
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I can’t believe there’s people listening to this jumble of words and thinking “yep, these people know what’s really happening!”
What the heck is “Ebola Staphylococcus” supposed to be? Or “E. Coli Marburg”? And why the heck would the deadly-outbreak-causing nanoparticles contain brewer’s yeast?
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Because the cover for the lab is a brewery, natch! And they’re putting said particles in the BEER.
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In the process of trying to find out what the heck they were talking about, I found out about what seems to be the next new thing in the conspiracy circles.
The FDA was recently ordered to release a bunch of documents pertaining to the Pfizer vaccine as part of a FOIA request, including a report of “Adverse Effects of Special Interest”. Which is a list of any reported medical issue that happened a short time after early people received the vaccine, whether it even makes sense for it to be related or not. For some drugs, these have included things like gunshot wounds.
Naturally, the conspiracy folks have immediately latched onto calling it a “list of side effects of the vaccine” and claiming that the FDA was nefariously trying to hide the information. And that’s where the zombies who will bite people thing comes from: one of the reported issues was 1P36 gene deletion, which would be something that would effect people from birth (or very early in pregnancy, even), and couldn’t possibly be caused by the vaccine because it would be impossible for it to delete that one gene throughout your entire genome…
Potentially, if the report were about a recently newborn whose parent had been vaccinated before or during pregnancy (depending on the parent), it might be related. But…
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A few months ago, in the wake of the last big Covid surge, my wife got a job at the local hospital. She’s in charge of the ‘hard cases’ floor. That includes drug addicts, people who are uncooperative with the medics due to mental issues, and the ICU cases.
Local mask mandates were lifted when cases were dropping. I kept wearing mine for awhile, but no one else was, and so for a few weeks I stopped too. I’m still living pandemic-style, with only occasional quick trips to the store, not spending much time in the presence of outsiders. If I’m only going to be in a store for 5 minutes, it doesn’t really matter, right? Well…
A couple weeks ago, my wife mentioned that we’re a ‘red zone’ again. Now she spends most of her time at work calling other hospitals in the region (anywhere within about 6 hours transit time), trying to find any place that has open rooms/beds to take the Covid patients that our local hospital doesn’t have room for. They’re almost all full up, all the hospitals in the nearest 5 states.
Day before yesterday she spent all day calling around and finally found a place, two states away, that could take a patient. But it was too late. He’d been switched to ‘comfort care’, and likely wouldn’t have survived the transport.
Yesterday, she had to spend an entire shift sitting just across from where four kids were pressed up against the glass, crying, coming to terms with the reality that their dad is not coming home. One of the veteran nurses told her “Just look the other way and don’t listen, tune it out. This is how it was all the time when it was really bad.”
I’ve been wearing my mask again now ever since my wife said ‘red zone’. Very few other people are. They don’t see what the medics see and have to deal with all day every day. But it’s still a real thing. People my age, with no other health problems, are still dying from it, every day.
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Journal of the Corona Year — Unmasked
5/14
I started my return journey on Friday the 6th. Almost no one were wearing masks in the stations or on the trains. Perhaps this was because we were now traveling from the west and heading east.
I have no way of gauging the activity of Chicago because Amtrak was 6 hours late. We arrived at 9:00 pm. I had just enough time to get off the Empire Builder and get on the Lakeshore Limited.
From what I could see, there was only one person on the Lake Shore Limited who consistently work a mask other than myself. He was was, very fortunately, sitting next to me. He got off at Croton on Hudson. So he was returning east same as myself.
I arrived back in New York on the 7th. During my week away it seems the city has lost its passion for wearing masks. I feel like I’m seeing significantly fewer of them. Perhaps it’s my imagination.
There is a curious piece of positive news this week. The Broad Street Pret a Manger has at last reopened. I have no idea why it has stayed closed so long considering all the foot traffic that fills the sidewalks of Broad Street.
I went in there on Friday the 13th to get a cup of coffee. Their coffee used to be pretty good. The counter had the same crumbs and greasy fingerprints, preserved and waiting, for the past two years.
The self-serve coffee urns that were removed early in the pandemic are still gone. There was only one person working behind the counter, and he was busy doing all kinds of custom brewing so I went a few doors down to Gregory’s. Gregory’s coffee and his service are both OK. Not impressive but consistently OK.
On my way home a man sat down beside me on the subway. He started sneezing. I don’t know the cause, but I’m glad I was wearing a KN-95 mask.
5/21
The wearing of masks in NY continues to decline. Even on the subway I would estimate only 1/3rd of the riders are wearing them.
This is despite the fact that the NYC Health Commissioner has set the city-wide alert level to “High.” This recommends wearing masks in any public indoor setting or crowded outdoor setting.
But it seems like no one cares anymore. It’s as if we have all arrived at the place Dan Patrick was back in March of 2020.
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I was glad that I still wear a mask, as I had paint on my face yesterday which I didn’t notice until after I’d come back from the store and removed the mask.
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Despite her best efforts, Lisa did finally get Covid a couple of months ago, courtesy of her continuously-infected students. That was before she came down to visit me in Tassie.
On her FB this week:
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As has been completely fucking obvious from the beginning, the “strategy” of deliberate mass infection is not sustainable. Because repeated infection causes lasting damage.
Serious efforts to suppress transmission or eternally repeating mass disabling events. At present, those are the only two options, and China is almost alone in choosing the first option.
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