kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
Is he trying to let us know that each of the 48 D Senators, 2 I Senators who caucus with the D's, and Harris all have a hand "in" the sock puppet President?
Vaccine
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Where's the "100s of thousands of kids in the hospital" part?
The arrogance from Dr. Fauci never ceases to amaze me. It may very well be that the Senator is a moron. In fact, I quite readily would believe it based on the questions asked. It may very well be that the question was stupid and the information is publicly available (though surprisingly we never get an answer where). But this is conduct unbecoming a civil servant against one of our elected representatives who are entitled to ask stupid questions as part of their watch dog approach. Again, not understanding the Biden politics of this all...why go off message and pivot to election reform and the fillibuster at a time when people are so focused on COVID and then let these two go off the way they did today without throwing them under the bus for what the public (rightfully or wrongfully) consider a covid policy misstep (or disaster, depending on how you want to characterize it based on your political leanings)? I thought the Trump administration was bad at politics qua politics (the actual admin of political policy, managing legislation and elections and messaging it to the public) but this is just horrible horrible stuff. The wheels are off the Biden admin.
The Senator in question repeatedly asked for Fauci's financial disclosure information, and Fauci answered each time that it is a public record, accessible to anyone. At some point in that exchange, the Senator qualified as a moron.
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
This is really starting to get strange. I'm just glad my daughter is through it before we had to contend with this level of stupidity.
I told you I don't really care if he is or he isn't (quite frankly I'd readily believe based on his other questions he is....considering his staff wrote it up too and he's reading it that would make his staff, much like Sotamayor's clerks, idiots too for not prepping their boss properly). The bigger question is why would he say it...it's conduct unbecoming for a civil servant....at a minimum the Biden admin should require him to apologize.
Hah! It's a national thing apparently....supply chain collapse......welcome to the Soviet union people....if Biden thinks people care more about voting rights than this then he is completely off the reservation (and this affects people who don't have kids)....
www.cnbc.com
Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees, supply chain delays collide
Shares of major grocers fell on Tuesday, after Albertsons said omicron has compounded out-of-stocks.
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
Where were the "real journalists" when this happened? Banned from Twitter no doubt.
Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab - but feared debate could hurt ‘international harmony’
Leading British and US scientists thought it was likely that Covid accidentally leaked from a laboratory but were concerned that further debate would harm science in China, emails show.www.yahoo.com
How could this be? Q'anon must be back on the rise, secretly taking over. Mabye JFK Jr. is coming back after all.
what-happened
GOLD
Ahh, I see..yes I inserted hospital where I should have inserted serious conditions. Must have been Freudian slip. I read conditions and subconsiously linked it to hospitals...i mean, the ventilator portion of the quote may have thrown me off. Or maybe she knows people who have ventilators at home.
Hah! It's a national thing apparently....supply chain collapse......welcome to the Soviet union people....if Biden thinks people care more about voting rights than this then he is completely off the reservation (and this affects people who don't have kids)....
Empty grocery shelves return as sick employees, supply chain delays collide
Shares of major grocers fell on Tuesday, after Albertsons said omicron has compounded out-of-stocks.
I went to two stores today (Albertson's and Smart&Final). The shelves were as full as they usually are. The only thing I noticed that they were out of was covid rapid tests.
You also put an 's' on 100, the "many on ventilators" part is true, and the American Academy of Pediatrics is the source for the 100,000 children sick with covid.
Children and COVID-19: State-Level Data Report
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association are collaborating to collect and share all publicly available data from states on child COVID-19 cases.
www.aap.org
It appears that in your zeal to criticize Justice Sotomayor by implying that she exaggerated the numbers you exaggerated what she actually said.
what-happened
GOLD
good catch, and it was in my zeal. someone like her should know better. 100,000 children are NOT in serious condition. Even the AAP wouldn't make a claim like that.You also put an 's' on 100, the "many on ventilators" part is true, and the American Academy of Pediatrics is the source for the 100,000 children sick with covid.
Children and COVID-19: State-Level Data Report
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association are collaborating to collect and share all publicly available data from states on child COVID-19 cases.
It appears that in your zeal to criticize Justice Sotomayor by implying that she exaggerated the numbers you exaggerated what she actually said.
They did say this in the link you didn't read -- " There is an urgent need to collect more age-specific data to assess the severity of illness related to new variants as well as potential longer-term effects."
Anecdotally the only places I had heard of really empty shelves outside of the news was my bro in San Francisco, my uncle in Marin and friend in Washington DC, all of whom tweeted out pictures of the shelves. Our suburb was pretty good until the last few days (some empty shelves but not alot) and the local paper editor sent out some tweets with a picture. So my guess is this is a cascade as individual supply routes begin to collapse, the cities being hit before the suburbs before rural areas, but I don't really have anything to back that up other than a handful of newsstories. I figure I'll have a better idea when I get to the Vallarta tomorrow.
The other possibility is its certain well to do areas heavy with Covidians are hoarding and hunkering down in which case that's another point in the mass hysteria checkbox (is the bottled water going too....we back to full March 2020 in these place???) The other thing which lends weight to this theory is the freeways seem awfully light in Los Angeles right now....if I'm making practice in 20 minutes something is off.
what-happened
GOLD
Yep, certainly agree with that statement. Same same for vaccines and the kiddos.
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
Add another anecdote. Our local WF was less than well-stocked - not anywhere near empty but certain items were completely out - this weekend and had ridiculously long checkout lines. One of the workers indicated many are calling in sick. The store seemed unusually full but that happens when people are standing in line for over half an hour for checkout. Hard to tell if it is a supply issue or a hoarding issue.
It's those damned covidians again (whoever they are).
whatithink
GOLD
I've noticed random things running low in stores and then they are fine and it moves to something else. About a month ago t-paper was low, couldn't get it in CostCo and low in grocery stores, then it was fine. Currently its organic milk for some reason.
Oh yeah, and Flamin hot Cheetos, which is really taking it too far IMO. Thank God they had Takis. Apart from that near disaster, all the stores are well stocked, so not sure where CNBC got their one photo from!
Hüsker Dü
DA
One can only take so much stupidity, especially from someone who knows better but is just playing up to the moron base.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Ministry of Health, it’s time to admit failure
In the end, the truth will always be revealed, and the truth about the coronavirus policy is beginning to be revealed. When the destructive concepts collapse one by one, there is nothing left but to tell the experts who led the management of the pandemic – we told you so.
Two years late, you finally realize that a respiratory virus cannot be defeated and that any such attempt is doomed to fail. You do not admit it, because you have admitted almost no mistake in the last two years, but in retrospect it is clear that you have failed miserably in almost all of your actions, and even the media is already having a hard time covering your shame.
You refused to admit that the infection comes in waves that fade by themselves, despite years of observations and scientific knowledge. You insisted on attributing every decline of a wave solely to your actions, and so through false propaganda “you overcame the plague.” And again you defeated it, and again and again and again.
You refused to admit that mass testing is ineffective, despite your own contingency plans explicitly stating so (“Pandemic Influenza Health System Preparedness Plan, 2007,” p. 26).
You refused to admit that recovery is more protective than a vaccine, despite previous knowledge and observations showing that non-recovered vaccinated people are more likely to be infected than recovered people. You refused to admit that the vaccinated are contagious despite the observations. Based on this, you hoped to achieve herd immunity by vaccination — and you failed in that as well.
You insisted on ignoring the fact that the disease is dozens of times more dangerous for risk groups and older adults, than for young people who are not in risk groups, despite the knowledge that came from China as early as 2020.
You refused to adopt the “Great Barrington Declaration,” signed by more than 60,000 scientists and medical professionals, or other common-sense programs. You chose to ridicule, slander, distort and discredit them. Instead of the right programs and people, you have chosen professionals who lack relevant training for pandemic management (physicists as chief government advisers, veterinarians, security officers, media personnel, and so on).
You have not set up an effective system for reporting side effects from the vaccines and reports on side effects have even been deleted from your Facebook page. Doctors avoid linking side effects to the vaccine, lest you persecute them as you did to some of their colleagues. You have ignored many reports of changes in menstrual intensity and menstrual cycle times. You hid data that allows for objective and proper research (for example, you removed the data on passengers at Ben Gurion Airport). Instead, you chose to publish non-objective articles together with senior Pfizer executives on the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.
Irreversible damage to trust
However, from the heights of your hubris, you have also ignored the fact that in the end the truth will be revealed. And it begins to be revealed. The truth is that you have brought the public’s trust in you to an unprecedented low, and you have eroded your status as a source of authority. The truth is that you have burned hundreds of billions of shekels to no avail – for publishing intimidation, for ineffective tests, for destructive lockdowns and for disrupting the routine of life in the last two years.
You have destroyed the education of our children and their future. You made children feel guilty, scared, smoke, drink, get addicted, drop out, and quarrel, as school principals around the country attest. You have harmed livelihoods, the economy, human rights, mental health and physical health.
You slandered colleagues who did not surrender to you, you turned the people against each other, divided society and polarized the discourse. You branded, without any scientific basis, people who chose not to get vaccinated as enemies of the public and as spreaders of disease. You promote, in an unprecedented way, a draconian policy of discrimination, denial of rights and selection of people, including children, for their medical choice. A selection that lacks any epidemiological justification.
When you compare the destructive policies you are pursuing with the sane policies of some other countries — you can clearly see that the destruction you have caused has only added victims beyond the vulnerable to the virus. The economy you ruined, the unemployed you caused, and the children whose education you destroyed — are the surplus victims as a result of your own actions only.
There is currently no medical emergency, but you have been cultivating such a condition for two years now because of lust for power, budgets and control. The only emergency now is that you still set policies and hold huge budgets for propaganda and consciousness engineering instead of directing them to strengthen the health care system.
This emergency must stop!
In the end, the truth will always be revealed, and the truth about the coronavirus policy is beginning to be revealed. When the destructive concepts collapse one by one, there is nothing left but to tell the experts who led the management of the pandemic – we told you so.
Two years late, you finally realize that a respiratory virus cannot be defeated and that any such attempt is doomed to fail. You do not admit it, because you have admitted almost no mistake in the last two years, but in retrospect it is clear that you have failed miserably in almost all of your actions, and even the media is already having a hard time covering your shame.
You refused to admit that the infection comes in waves that fade by themselves, despite years of observations and scientific knowledge. You insisted on attributing every decline of a wave solely to your actions, and so through false propaganda “you overcame the plague.” And again you defeated it, and again and again and again.
You refused to admit that mass testing is ineffective, despite your own contingency plans explicitly stating so (“Pandemic Influenza Health System Preparedness Plan, 2007,” p. 26).
You refused to admit that recovery is more protective than a vaccine, despite previous knowledge and observations showing that non-recovered vaccinated people are more likely to be infected than recovered people. You refused to admit that the vaccinated are contagious despite the observations. Based on this, you hoped to achieve herd immunity by vaccination — and you failed in that as well.
You insisted on ignoring the fact that the disease is dozens of times more dangerous for risk groups and older adults, than for young people who are not in risk groups, despite the knowledge that came from China as early as 2020.
You refused to adopt the “Great Barrington Declaration,” signed by more than 60,000 scientists and medical professionals, or other common-sense programs. You chose to ridicule, slander, distort and discredit them. Instead of the right programs and people, you have chosen professionals who lack relevant training for pandemic management (physicists as chief government advisers, veterinarians, security officers, media personnel, and so on).
You have not set up an effective system for reporting side effects from the vaccines and reports on side effects have even been deleted from your Facebook page. Doctors avoid linking side effects to the vaccine, lest you persecute them as you did to some of their colleagues. You have ignored many reports of changes in menstrual intensity and menstrual cycle times. You hid data that allows for objective and proper research (for example, you removed the data on passengers at Ben Gurion Airport). Instead, you chose to publish non-objective articles together with senior Pfizer executives on the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.
Irreversible damage to trust
However, from the heights of your hubris, you have also ignored the fact that in the end the truth will be revealed. And it begins to be revealed. The truth is that you have brought the public’s trust in you to an unprecedented low, and you have eroded your status as a source of authority. The truth is that you have burned hundreds of billions of shekels to no avail – for publishing intimidation, for ineffective tests, for destructive lockdowns and for disrupting the routine of life in the last two years.
You have destroyed the education of our children and their future. You made children feel guilty, scared, smoke, drink, get addicted, drop out, and quarrel, as school principals around the country attest. You have harmed livelihoods, the economy, human rights, mental health and physical health.
You slandered colleagues who did not surrender to you, you turned the people against each other, divided society and polarized the discourse. You branded, without any scientific basis, people who chose not to get vaccinated as enemies of the public and as spreaders of disease. You promote, in an unprecedented way, a draconian policy of discrimination, denial of rights and selection of people, including children, for their medical choice. A selection that lacks any epidemiological justification.
When you compare the destructive policies you are pursuing with the sane policies of some other countries — you can clearly see that the destruction you have caused has only added victims beyond the vulnerable to the virus. The economy you ruined, the unemployed you caused, and the children whose education you destroyed — are the surplus victims as a result of your own actions only.
There is currently no medical emergency, but you have been cultivating such a condition for two years now because of lust for power, budgets and control. The only emergency now is that you still set policies and hold huge budgets for propaganda and consciousness engineering instead of directing them to strengthen the health care system.
This emergency must stop!