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Friday, November 26, 2021

Attention Antivaxxers! Omicron is Coming For You!

If you care at all, read this Washington Post article about the latest, very frightening variant.

Please keep doing what you're doing to kill yourselves.  Keep protesting, refusing the vaccine, not wearing a mask, and ignoring the safety of others.   

Hopefully, your continued stupidity and your lack of concern will act as a fire break, to keep the Omicron variant and its mutations from attacking the rest of us.

p.s.  This morning, a doctor on CNN referred to you as "the unbothered unvaccinated" - a perfect choice of words.

Thursday, November 25, 2021

COVID Protests? You Bet Your Life.

Read Eugene Robinson's Washington Post column titled  "As some protest life-saving vaccines, the covid threat marches on", as well as the reader comments.  Here's a small excerpt:

"At least we have proof that ignorant, self-destructive stubbornness is not a uniquely American trait: Witness the big and raucous weekend protests in Europe, Australia and elsewhere against coronavirus vaccine mandates that are intended to do nothing more sinister than save those protesters’ lives.

Anti-vaccination zealots here and abroad who demand their 'freedom' have it exactly backward. The vaccines can free us from this plague, if we will let them. The unchecked virus offers only tyranny."

I'm sick of these people. Today was our second COVID Thanksgiving. I definitely don't want a third.

Monday, November 22, 2021

"Vaccinated, Cured, or Dead"

"Berlin:  Most Germans will be 'vaccinated, cured or dead' from Covid-19 in a few months, Health Minister Jens Spahn warned Monday as he urged more citizens to get jabbed."

They ought to turn that line into a billboard or TV ad, although from the riots and  protests in Europe, it doesn't look like people even care any more.

I dread what the statistics in our country will look like 2 weeks after Thanksgiving.

Time For a Lethal Injection

Whatever happens to the evil driver who deliberately and cold-bloodedly killed and injured the Waukesha paraders, it won't be severe enough. He may not be a terrorist, but he sure behaved like one, as you can see from this list of similar incidents in which a vehicle was used as a weapon.

Here's a tribute to the Dancing Grannies, several of whom were killed. I hope their families will get justice.

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

The BBC News Theme Song + 50 Drums = Millions for Charity

I watch the BBC News just to hear the catchy theme music, but I've never heard it this way before! This enjoyable story came from my Washington Post newsletter. 

"LONDON — During England’s first coronavirus lockdown, weatherman Owain Wyn Evans ended a forecast by jumping onto his at-home drum kit to accompany the widely recognized BBC News theme to end his broadcast. 'When they said try working from home I didn’t realise they’d expect me to do the music too,' the BBC weatherman wrote in an April 2020 tweet featuring a clip that has since been viewed more than 6 million times.
The viral moment resonated with many around the world adjusting to working from home and wondering when life would return to normal.
This weekend, Evans took his original performance to the next level — playing the drums for 24 hours on live television to raise money for charity. The highlight of the 'drumathon,' which began Friday, was his rendition of the BBC News theme song — which got the help of a 50-person ensemble of professionals and amateurs.
The drumathon raised 2.7 million pounds ($3.6 million) for BBC Children in Need, a charity that funds projects or organizations that support vulnerable children."

Here's the link to that great rendition. Turn up your speakers and enjoy.

Friday, November 12, 2021

Just When You Thought You'd Heard Everything About Antivaxxers...

This takes the cake. I saw this NBC News article by way of today's New York Times Coronavirus newsletter.  You have to read it to believe it.

"Covid vaccine holdouts are caving to mandates — then scrambling to 'undo' their shots. As mandates spread, anti-vaccine groups have been trafficking in pseudoscience treatments meant to remove or counteract the vaccines. Experts say it's like trying to  'unring a bell.'"

"In a TikTok video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej outlined the ingredients for a bath she said will 'detox the vaxx' for people who have given into Covid-19 vaccine mandates.

The ingredients in the bath are mostly not harmful, although the supposed benefits attached to them are entirely fictional. Baking soda and epsom salts, she falsely claims, will provide a 'radiation detox' to remove radiation Madej falsely believes is activated by the vaccine.  Bentonite clay will add a 'major pull of poison,' she says, based on a mistaken idea in anti-vaccine communities that toxins can be removed from the body with certain therapies. 

Then, she recommends adding in one cup of borax, a cleaning agent that’s been banned as a food additive by the Food and Drug Administration, to 'take nanotechnologies out of you.'
In reality, in addition to being potentially harmful as a skin and eye irritant, a borax 'detox bath'  will not remove the effects of the Covid vaccine from your body."

Well, at least she didn't tell them to bathe in lye or acid (too bad).  The continued ignorance and vaccine defiance just amaze me.

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Sunday, November 07, 2021

This Would Make Our Oil Crisis Worse

I saw this  headline at Red State and thought that if Biden doesn't say no to this idea, then he truly is a saboteur: Biden Considers Killing Another US Pipeline as Oil Crisis Continues.

"As reported by Daily Wire, the Biden administration is reportedly gathering data on a Michigan-based pipeline that delivers oil from western Canada across Wisconsin, the Great Lakes, and Michigan, and into Ontario.

Citing a report from subscription-based Politico Pro, Daily Wire said the administration has not yet made a final decision about the pipeline, which comes after the Canadian government invoked an old international treaty to stop the state of Michigan from shutting down the pipeline. Via Politico Pro:

Revoking the permits for the [Line 5] pipeline that delivers oil from western Canada across Wisconsin, the Great Lakes and Michigan and into Ontario, would please environmentalists who have urged the White House to block fossil fuel infrastructure, but it would aggravate a rift with Canada and could exacerbate a spike in energy prices […].

Killing a pipeline while U.S. gasoline prices are the highest in years could be political poison for Biden, who has seen his approval rating crash in recent months."

We better hope he says no. But if he actually goes through with it, even the liberal apologists would be hard pressed to excuse away this destructive decision.

Wednesday, November 03, 2021

Payback Time for 10 Months of Disastrous Policy

Washington Post headline of the day 

Reeling Democrats see threat to House and Senate control as Republicans crack their 2020 coalition

COVID Death Toll: 5 Million and Counting

FIVE MILLION dead. The horror keeps growing, and the apathetic and anti-vaccine attitudes keep going.

From the AP:  "Together, the United States, the European Union, Britain and Brazil — all upper-middle- or high-income countries — account for one-eighth of the world’s population but nearly half of all reported deaths. The U.S. alone has recorded over 745,000 lives lost, more than any other nation.

'This is a defining moment in our lifetime,' said Dr. Albert Ko, an infectious disease specialist at the Yale School of Public Health. 'What do we have to do to protect ourselves so we don’t get to another 5 million?'

The death toll, as tallied by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the populations of Los Angeles and San Francisco combined. It rivals the number of people killed in battles among nations since 1950, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Globally, COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and stroke."