Could also go in the history thread, of course:
Done.
John âWaterboard for Freedomâ Yoo just wrote a shitty Op-Ed on his shitty position that Federal vaccine mandates are unconstitutional. Not linking it because fuck his views.
In this kind of case, archive.org is your friend.
Not only the original article wonât get the views and other metrics it relies for ads, but it is also preserved to remember his shitty position in the future.
From archive.org (not dallas news as the onebox says):
The part they donât really stress there is that he did it at a rally with the DUPâs own Ian Paisley.
Paisley has since claimed it was satire, showing a taste for humour hitherto unsuspected in the grim, dour, nasty, brutish, sorry British, hard-line anti science, ant-trans, anti-gay, misogynistic, racist, anti-democratic Unionist Party.
Schroedingerâs Nazi in full effect. Swann isnât suing Paisley.
Anti-vax Illinois teacher whoâd ranted at school board meetings for months was actually vaccinated
â Koen made news for weeks appearing on shows of local news personalities,
âItâs my body, my choice and Iâm in charge of making my own healthcare decisions,â she told Greg Bishop in a radio interview.â
Which it certainly is. But just as you canât exercise that choice by demanding to have an abortion performed in the check out line at Target or in front of a 1st grade class - you canât demand to be unvaxed and unmasked in public either.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Ahead-of-holidays-COVID-19-increasing-in-New-16599457.php
But a dive into the data shows it is the most populated and dense part of the state â New York Cityâs five boroughs â that is keeping the stateâs overall numbers low. A handful of upstate rural counties are experiencing infection rates that are in some cases eight times what is being experienced in places like the Bronx and Queens.
The counties with the highest percentages of tests coming back positive are also among the counties with the lowest vaccination rates in New York.
Western New Yorkâs Allegany County has a seven-day positivity average of 10.6 percent, the highest of any county in the state. Allegany County also has one of the lowest vaccination rates with 43.9 percent of the population getting at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Behind it are Orleans County in Western New York, at 9.9 percent; Fulton County in the Mohawk Valley, at 9 percent; and Wyoming and Cattaragus counties, the North Countryâs Lewis County and Washington County in the Capital Region seeing between 8 and 9 percent of tests coming back positive as of Saturday. All of those counties have vaccination rates below 54 percent, except for Washington, which has seen 61.1 percent of people getting at least one dose.
Not shocked at all that these dumbasses have reached almost 10 percent around here.
Continuing on that theme a bit thereâs this article from the NYT
Two, red America has probably built up more natural immunity to Covid â from prior infections â than blue America, because the hostility to vaccination and social distancing has caused the virus to spread more widely. A buildup in natural immunity may be one reason that the partisan gap in new Covid cases has shrunk recently.
NYT, please donât spread this natural immunity bullshit.
The rules that go into effect Monday allow air travel from a series of countries from which it has been restricted since the early days of the pandemic â as long as the traveler has proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test. Those crossing land borders from Mexico or Canada will require proof of vaccination but no test.
When Camara last saw Mamadou, her husband, in January 2020, they had no way of knowing that theyâd have to wait 21 months before holding each other again. She lives in Franceâs Alsace region, where she works as a secretary. He is based in New York.
âIt was very hard at the beginning. I cried nearly every night,â she said.
Video calls, text messages, phone conversations kept them connected â but couldnât fill the void of separation.
âI cannot wait,â she said. âBeing with him, his presence, his face, his smile.â
you canât get sick if youâre already dead. so maybe there is something to this natural immunity âideaâ after all
So, folks crossing the border could be infected.
True, but I would assume Mexican tourists have as much to fear from SoCal locals who refuse masking and vaccinesâŚ
Absolutely, the lack of testing in general is a bad idea. Too many vaccinated people believe vaccines prevent them from getting infected. Folks like that completely overlook the problem of spreading the infection to others. That attitude - which leads many of them to run around unmasked - bothers me almost as much as the anti-vaxx/anti-maskers taking advantage of relaxed regulations.
PedWest is a direct shot from the plaza on the Mexico side over to the Plaza of the Americas outlet shopping center in San Ysidro. Mexican consumers are not going to be happy about taking the long way around, and San Ysidro needs the business.
But if youâre crossing from the US into Canada, you still need a negative PCR test from within the last 72 hours. And youâll need to pay for it yourself stateside.
Fox trashes Aaron for lying and spreading vaccine nonsense?
The weird thing is, if youâre day-trip shopping, you can get a test in Canada, go shopping and return within 72 hours. (Theyâre reviewing that requirement.)
In my stupid state of Michigan weâre up to almost 15% positive test results. The wife and I are getting our boosters in the morning. My kid and her husband got their boosters yesterday.
My duaghter and husband have been working from home since this started but once in a while they have a work lunch, she decided to try it a couple weeks ago. The next morning she got the call, oh, by the way, some people in attendance had covid. WTF? Sheâs fine but that evening she took a freind to a play (everyone masked) that person is high risk. I wish people would understand how this all goes downhill exponentially very quickly when people disregard any mitigation at all.
