MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Despite divides, Covid-19 vaccines are now as popular as Christmas trees
By artappraiser on Fri, 09/10/2021 - 4:34am |
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/04/politics/vaccination-rates-united-states-covid/index.html
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by artappraiser on Fri, 09/10/2021 - 4:36am
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/10/2021 - 4:39am
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/10/2021 - 5:42am
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/10/2021 - 4:42am
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/10/2021 - 4:49am
heh, old reply tweet retweeted by Russell L. Honore just a short while ago:
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/10/2021 - 12:52pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/10/2021 - 1:00pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/11/2021 - 1:44am
Today's kindergartners and 1st graders are not going to be allright?
Their neural nets are growing right now...
I'll be dead when they are grownups, so not my problem. Just sayin': I can see the anti-masker point in this particular instance. Is this handicap worth spreading the virus more? I dunno! Again, not my problem...
I've watched the little preschool girl next door grow from nonverbal state since early 2020 and she doesn't interact with anyone except her father, they don't even let her play in the cement backyard, he always accompanies her outside. Sometimes they take her walking to the grocery, and they all wear masks, of course. He directs any talk she has with me through the fence between us, as if she does not know how to talk to other people. When I hear the father and the girl converse, it is clear she is very bright, still, what's going on in that brain?
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 1:43pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/13/2021 - 1:53pm
Seth Abramson:
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 1:04am
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 1:55am
If they're worried about it, they could push for more clinical trials. I've heard that's how drugs get accepted.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 2:14am
Why go to the hospital at all when there is a simple and well publicized solution to this problem.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 5:21pm
That can't work - it was years before Dogvid existed.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 5:28pm
Is not even funny, I am close to trying it and has nothing to do with Covid. I've been trying to get 3 prescriptions from on M.D. filled since Thursday afternoon, with two basically being simple renewals. Following two visits to CVS to speak with angry overworked overwhelmed pharmacist, two long emails from me including new scans of ID's and insurance cards (luckily I snagged the doc's new office email-give it a couple months and I guarantee it will disappear and it will be voice mail only) and seven phone calls to/from assistants, two phone calls to/from alternate pharmacy service and MAYBE, JUST MAYBE I will have 1 or 2 or all 3 of the prescriptions in a couple days.
I can't go on like this. I never was asked if I was willing to manage the fuckups of our health care system as a full-time job.
Those vets who distribute meds on site are especially appealing.
Which makes me wonder: how come we never hear stories about vets having a conflict of interest about what they prescribe, whether meds or tests or procedures, huh? Seriously! Why do we need so many safeguards against such behavior in the practice of medicine on humans but not on animals?
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 7:37pm
Covid 19 on a winning streak: scores 5 anti-vax talk-radio hosts in 5 weeks:
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 7:14pm
A reminder, though, that not all anti-vax conspiracists are white conservatives:
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 12:33pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 2:12am
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 3:30am
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 12:49pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 1:01pm
Don Winslow video trying to hammer Ron de Santis on Covid deaths:
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/16/2021 - 10:05pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 5:33pm
Vaccine thought (just putting this here)
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/18/2021 - 6:46am
People constantly make these bad anologies like they're making some clever gotcha point. In the normal state of affairs fat people aren't coming to hospital in numbers that require triage. But if everytime you brushed up against a fat person you gained 100 pounds with all the subsequent proplems related to it and the hospital were flooded with all these newly fat people triage might be necessary
by ocean-kat on Sat, 09/18/2021 - 4:33pm
I have noted the meme is popular on Twitter the last couple of days. I think it's totally counterproductive because they are using examples that are clueless, basically idiotic (like "overweight" - what's next? those who use too much salt and have hypertension?)
and furthermore don't understand the reality that triage is already an intricate part of our health care system and goes on all the time, every minute every day, especially in the ER. Before covid
I have PERSONAL EXPERIENCE with a close loved one who was deathly ill in the ER of one of the finest hospitals in Manhattan in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of NYC. He actually wanted to leave, they said no you are too ill, BUT the beds were all full upstairs, they wanted to get him in the ICU but he'd have to wait for an opening. They don't send you home if you are deathly ill, they do the best they can, in his case they just set up all the monitors and machine around him in the ER and screens for privacy. And if you have a Code Blue, which he did, actually the ER is the best place to be. 20 people there immediately They tried but he died anyway. NEXT up, triage continues...
Most people do get sent home from the ER! Because: OUR HOSPITALS DO TRIAGE, THEY ALWAYS HAVE! It's just that they don't do it politically, they don't let Tim Pool on Twitter do it. Maybe they should, who knows, maybe that would be better! I am not saying the medical professionals do a great job at it. It's just reality! Our current system is: triage first, then first come, first served.
I get the gist of what the Tim Pool types are trying to say. BUT THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO SAY IT. It just scares all people who might be chronically ill already with something like diabetes to see that idiotic type of talk.No need to get into talk about Nazi social engineering, they deal with the American version all the time, they know all about it.
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/18/2021 - 4:38pm
per u & OK: as I noted, just throwing this out there. I didn't think it hard to poke holes in the analogy - but analogies can be used to think, not to offer airtight logic. It's not unusual to have discussions re: how much people are responsible for their own health - do they exercise, do they eat right, do they stay out of dark alleys and not hang around with gang members, do they get regular checkups, did they pony up for the high care insurance...
and then there are other factors - are they genetically inclined towards a type of disease, does their income keep them from affording healthier options, are these physically not available, does their profession keep them from living more soundly, what other injuries or afflictions or responsibilities or psychological issues are mixed into their total human decision tree/baggage? At one point driving with 3 or 4 drinks was no big deal - it took MADD & other activitists to shut that down, though did it go too far or just right or not enough? It did coincide with intrusiveness by police officers - but so did the crack epidemic. (curiously, "crack babies" turned out to be largely fetal alcohol syndrome instead - turns out it's *better* for pregnant mothers to do crack than drink themselves silly (& their babies retarded) - do we owe crack mothers an apology? does anyone really expect that to happen?
When the Ivermectin hoohah storm started, I noted a doctor who was treating prisoners with Covid *BECAUSE THERE'S NO OTHER ACTUAL TREATMENT*. Presumably the doctor was evil for not making sure all prisoners were previously vaccinated (even before vaccines became available, presumably). And that it was the prisoners' fault for not getting vaccinated (even though the majority weren't convicted - only awaiting trial or plea or release). And even though the Pfizer vaccine is turning out to fade within say 5-6 months, it will continually be the stupid people who catch it and die/not die who are the laughing stocks. And when I mentioned that some Ivermectin studies seemed to have gone well, or that Ivermectin was useful for other diseases, left-wingers on social media just assumed I was anti-vaxx and so on (nope, got Pfizer as soon as it was available for me - though sounds like Pfizer has more problems than Moderna - but who would release *that* information early for informed decisions, rather than stomping over the trials data & giving participants boosters to make it impossible to see?]
I'm not saying there's no responsibility, but it's also too easy to take the heartless side - "all these idiots got what they had coming". Yes, many people are idiots. In past times we often tried to protect idiots from their own mistakes - 15-year-olds should not be having babies or overdosing on heroin or going to prison. Of course many people aren't much less idiotic by 21 or 25 or 45 or later. People make bad choices, they're fooled by bad information, and some things (like many details about the pandemic) aren't well known or are confusing. [Fauci was saying to not worry about masks back in March 2020 - how stupid was that? but such is the swaying of our political-health-idiocratical society]
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/20/2021 - 4:03am
Video segment worth watching to get a glimpse of how strong the Trump narrative rules in fictitious Mayberry
How to separate this alternate reality from vaccines and other stuff going on?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iZme-GsKv_g&t=415&feature=youtu.be
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/20/2021 - 9:12pm
Vaccine resistance could be worse
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/21/2021 - 6:14am
What the bloody hell is going on in that area? The report is cryptic to say the least. This part is especially mystifying:
To me it's a great example for BLM in the U.S. of how their plan to have an idyllic society by defunding and then abolishing police and prisons would work out, since the only obvious thing is that police are not in control there. A place where no one can hear your screams if they are not reported clearly.
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/21/2021 - 2:18pm
On a day Virginia has 4000 new cases:
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/20/2021 - 2:45am
Read the story, no one knew they were black before now, they were Texans and until this story everyone presumed they were white yahoos. Furthermore, the three women were accepted because they had proof of vaccination....UNTIL....
Footage Reveals New Details in Tourist Melee at N.Y.C. Restaurant
Three Black women from Texas were arrested, but a lawyer for one called it “mutual combat” after they were called a racial slur.
Sept. 18, 2021 @ NYTimes.com
Black Lives Matter is not only counterproductive, it's getting to the point of asking for ridicule.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/20/2021 - 5:13am
3 Black Karens, can we say that? (I don't see that the black men who showed up - 2 w/o proof of vaccination - were participating in the dispute except 1 to break it up. Though he could pull his pants up a bit...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/20/2021 - 7:24am
Hah, "three black Karens", gets at the heart of it. they may have had black skin but they caused a ruckus just as if they were white yahoos from Texas. The first gut interpretation everyone had is still correct. All the more ridiculous that BLM will be protesting. What they really will be protesting is prejudice against the unvaccinated, no question about it. Any name calling by either side came after the fact.
edit to add, a popular hashtag in Houston: #Ghetto. That actually could signify any color of skin, it's about a culture and behavior.
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/20/2021 - 2:49pm
What he was saying is actually extremely wise, exactly the kind of point a president should be making to the whole country!
I ALWAYS immediately think of this now anytime I see photos of people suffering a natural disaster anywhere around the world: are they vaccinated? why aren't they wearing masks? A pandemic thrives on disaster! The classic example is the 1918 pandemic and WWI:
And hey, looking that up, I also see we have basically passed the number of deaths of the 1918 pandemic!
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/20/2021 - 3:12pm
yup:
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/20/2021 - 4:14pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/21/2021 - 3:09am
He includes you, too, Melbourne tradesmen (doesn't look promising at all!):
Note the protester's banner below says "FREEDOM" just like here, freedom to not get vaccinated oor wear a mask
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/21/2021 - 4:32am
Moderna chief executive sees pandemic over in a year
@ Reuters, Sept. 23, 10:36 am ET
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/23/2021 - 7:12pm
good to know these two opinions:
by artappraiser on Mon, 09/27/2021 - 4:39am