Biaggi's a newbie NY State Senator, young liberal, a little like AOC in that she won her seat against the machinations of ye olde Dem machine

sounding more and more like the South Africa variant is a real strong bastard:

Cuomo starting to look more and more like DeSantis every day, just lies better:

It was like pulling teeth: On Tish James’ nursing home report and Gov. Cuomo playing games with the truth

By BILL HAMMOND @ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |JAN 29, 2021 AT 5:00 AM

The most shocking thing about state Attorney General Letitia James’ report on the coronavirus pandemic in New York nursing homes is what it did not contain: a definitive count of how many thousands of residents have died of COVID. Apparently, not even the highest-ranking legal official in the state was able to pry that elusive number out of the Cuomo administration’s clutches.

The report estimates that the true toll could be 50% higher than what the state Department of Health admits. But it makes no mention of the fact that DOH had a more complete tally that it was refusing to share with the public.

Late yesterday, after James’ report was published, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker finally changed his story. He acknowledged a nursing-home death toll of 12,743. That’s about 4,000 higher than his department previously acknowledged, which is almost one-and-half times the death toll on 9/11 [....]

Edit to add, NYC's elected public advocate on it:

(yes, in NYC we elect a Public Advocate to advocate for citizens against their own bureaucratic machine government, nice tell about who they work for, ey?)

Peru's in covid chaos:

Biden team using the word "mess" but it really is a frigging nightmare, I thought they were going to be truthful, not truthy

throw in a week or more lost now where no one in like a third of the U.S. will get any of the few shots left because of this major major major snowstorm.

We still may see massive death if the variants really get going why we are dwadling worldwide. WHAT A JOKE all the time wasted on arguing about encouraging reluctant minorities and anti-vaxxers. THERE'S A GAZILLION PEOPLE like me allover who desperately want to be vaccinated and can't get near a vaccination. Worry about the reluctant ones later! Let enough die or have relatives that never recover, they'll come around...just like with polio

The straw that broke the camel's back--time for all New York staters, including me, to stop being in denial and admit that we have it no better than those under Desantis in Florida, that no matter the truth here about who is incompetent and who is not, we do not have a functional state government and we did not have one as to the covid crisis or any biological crisis. Many people lied, many people died, and it continues--we have a vaccination plan that's barely functioning, while other states are doing a much better job vaccinating despite a shortage:

Chilling trend: A longer, deadlier pandemic “It may take four to five years before we finally see the end of the pandemic and the start of a post-COVID normal"

By Sam Baker @ Axios.com, Feb. 1

Mutated versions of the coronavirus threaten to prolong the pandemic, perhaps for years — killing more people and deepening the global economic crisis in the process.

The big picture: The U.S. and the world are in a race to control the virus before these variants can gain a bigger foothold. But many experts say they already expect things to get worse before they get better. And that also means an end to the pandemic may be getting further away.

• “It may take four to five years before we finally see the end of the pandemic and the start of a post-COVID normal,” Singapore’s education minister said last week, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Where it stands: "There are essentially two separate COVID-19 epidemics," Dutch officials said recently, referring to the original strain of COVID-19 and the burgeoning threat from mutated versions of the virus.

• There’s light at the end of the tunnel for the first epidemic. Although the virus is still spreading uncontrolled across the U.S. and much of the world, cases and [....]

ironic that one has to suggest prescriptions to the Senator with the M.D.