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Bad News Thread
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Yah...grew up there. Lived in Jackson, Mississippi for a while. Some real sweet spots all up and down the southern states.
Still nothing like what I see downtown everyday.
Some under reported news is the skyrocketing violent crime rate.
Wait, what! Jackson? Mississippi?
Saw BB King jam with the house band at an underground spot in the shotgun district. One of the more memorable accidental encounters in my life.
Who knew. Okay......
Read on the Twitter that 1/3 of the military and 40% of California health care workers have refused the vaccine. Anyone have verification? If true that just goes to the boneheadedness of the cdc policy: get your vaccine and continue to lockdown (I think Biden said for a year in the cnn townhall). Given the experimental nature of the vaccine (and inability therefore to mandate), the unpleasant side effects in younger people, and the relative lack of risk in young people, the best way to sell this would be the quickest return to normal possible. Instead we get the new cdc tiers that say no return to normal in schools even after teachers vaccinated.
Email Records Revealed: How Teachers Unions Are Fighting to Keep Virginia Schools Shuttered | National Review
Documents obtained by NR show the unions have engaged in an intense pressure campaign to influence Democratic state lawmakers.
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Fact
Desert Hound
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"Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted?
In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. Testing has been capturing only from 10% to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity."
www.wsj.com
In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. Testing has been capturing only from 10% to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity."
Opinion | We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April
Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news.
www.wsj.com
When I was in the military, we didn't have an option, although some people were excused for certain allergies. The worst day in boot camp was one in each cheek and one in each arm.
On second thought, that wasn't the worst day. The next day was.
you are right, and it's curious that this is being allowed. Certain vaccines are considered a requirement in order to be deployable. Not being deployable eventually leads down the chapter road. Wonder if this vaccine is not being considered a deployment requirement. I will ask some people.
It maybe because it's only Emergency Use authorized. It's the reason hospitals haven't been able to mandate their workers to get it. It's still considered "experimental" so the employer is liable if they force it on someone and they have a side effect.
"Listen up, grunts. We are all going to get in this helicopter headed for a landing zone within range of an enemy position. If any of you don't want to go, just step off to the side there."
Oh how times have changed.
Another boot camp memory -- we were asked to "volunteer" blood donations. Every man went. When we got to the hospital, they let the one guy in the company who wanted to be a corpsman help out - getting him used to the sight of blood, I guess. We had to march over there, but they gave us a bus ride back to the barracks.
IV practice dummy was always fun.
San Francisco schools are unlikely to reopen fully next fall. I'm hearing the same thing about LAUSD.
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One of my foster care brothers was station in Frankfurt Germany. He dealt with Ammo. Well, one night he and his pals were out drinking and well, things got out of hand. MP showed up and my bro punched one of them. Not good to pull that stunt in 88' He got the boot and slept in his car for year and then got his shit together and has found a nice life in Kauai for over 30 years. He was dealt no cards at the poker table when he came to the planet. I would love to share his adoption story and his near death experience he endured before he was born. Espola, this is real life & death and this planet loves life
Thanks for serving btw It looks like a third wave has begun in Scandinavia in Sweden Norway and Finland. Interestingly Norway has been spared the brunt of this until now and even exhausted Sweden is talking California style partial lockdowns. It’s unclear why this is happening when the rest of the world (including Alaska Iceland and Canada) are in decline. Interestingly Sweden’s excess mortality for all 2020 was rather low (8000 or so) and it would have been lower but for their nursing home covid fiasco which was similar to New York. Peru and Brazil are also on the rise. Peru has had the worst of both worlds: prolonged strict lockdowns that have left people starving and strong waves relative to the population.
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