“Freedom”
Via Atrios
But ‘Antifa’ is the “real” domestic terrorist threat…
SMFH
What a ringing endorsement…
they had already been putting people in bubbles before the pandemic, for … some reason
Cause it looks cool?
5 posts were merged into an existing topic: Political fall out from Covid-19 pandemic
Don’t worry folks… there’s another round of tax cuts for the rich in the works to deal with it
I hate headlines like this. Covid relief did not push the debt to this new height, the Trump tax cut did that, combined with the economic disaster caused by Trump’s incompetence. Is there a small but measurable contribution from Covid aid to the people? Maybe, but not much. Is there a contribution from Covid “relief” to multinational conglomerates? Oh hell yes.
And while that number seems astronomical…
10 years of tax brackets the same as 1952 Adjusted for COLwould put us even, and give us M4A, free state college tuition, and puppies.
OK, I threw in the puppies for free.
But we can’t do that! Things were so hard on rich white people in the 50’s! Oh, wait, yeah. Nevermind.
He not gonna have a cytokine storm, he’s gonna have have a cytokine hurricane.
Dying after contracting covid-19 from Trump would be the most on-point coda possible to Chris Christie’s pathetic life.
Damn!
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/amp/comment/one-tiny-lapse-is-all-it-takes-to-catch-covid
Your daily reminder that Boris Johnson is as reprehensible a non-human as Trump, that the UK has as many, if not more, deeply stupid and horrible people in it as the US, and that the Fox “News” template was perfected, and is ascendant in, the British Press.
Why? I was afraid. Irrationally, yes, for everything seemed as safe as it could be. And yet I recoiled at every cough echoing through the galleries. Not everybody wore a mask. Those who didn’t looked pleased with themselves, as if spoiling for a fight. Looking at art is often about frame of mind; it’s why altarpieces look better in churches than galleries. But even though I know each painting at the National like an old friend, I felt as if I was in an alien place—more well-appointed hospital than museum.
Hopefully on the mend.
We managed to get most of our planned filming done. But somewhere, despite my almost neurotic precautions, I caught Covid. One tiny lapse, one passing cough, is all it takes. As I write, I am halfway through my isolation in the spare bedroom. My wife, Ishbel, has saved me with a ready supply of room service, and also, extraordinarily, an actual Covid test. After one especially grim day I feel reasonably well. My Covid advice, should you get it, is to never lie flat, and do nothing even vaguely exerting. My one vice is arguing with Covid denialists on Twitter. With case numbers rising again, it seems fate is against us finishing this series of Britain’s Lost Masterpieces .
I recommend his shows show (different names in UK and US).
I’ve seen a couple articles over the last couple months about the possibility of attenuated live virus vaccines giving the recipient some level of protection from other diseases. The article below is mostly about investigating the BCG tuberculosis and the polio vaccines for this “bonus” in terms of Covid-19 protection, and it also mentions that the FluMist nasal vaccine uses attenuated live virus and therefore might, just maybe, provide some level of Covid-19 protection for some length of time.
So, I have questions. I’ve already gotten my flu jab, so killed virus, not the attenuated live. Should I consider going back in a month or so and pay out of pocket for an additional FluMist vaccine in the hope that it might offer some level of Covid-19 protection? I got an MMR booster a couple months before Covid-19 blew up around here. Could the attenuated live measles component have any protective effect?
I love the idea that getting vaccinated could provide some bonus, off-label benefit.
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I agree it’s less dangerous than most think - Especially if you’re serious about protecting yourself. Though I doubt these numbers.
It’s certainly safer that visiting the White House!
