Apparently the vaccination against Coronavirus was successful and Covid-19 was controlled in Rio. On the other hand, many people have not had the flu vaccine (including me) and we are now experiencing an influenza epidemic with crowded hospitals and a lot of suffering. The government promised to restart vaccination tomorrow, as they got doses in SĂŁo Paulo and with the federal government.
Oh look, Indianaâs part of the lead pack!
For hospitalizations, Michigan, Ohio, Arizona, Indiana, and Pennsylvania have the highest rates of people hospitalized with COVID-19.
From my senator (who sends me these emails unironically because Iâve written him multiple times about my concern that heâs trying to kill his constituents):
Since you have contacted me regarding important issues in the past, I wanted you to see important information pertaining to the recent vote on the Senate floor on my Congressional Review Act resolution that challenges President Bidenâs tyrannical private sector vaccine mandate.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 9, 2021Braun-led challenge to Biden vaccine mandate passes Senate in bipartisan vote
WASHINGTON â Today, Senator Mike Braunâs formal challenge to President Bidenâs vaccine mandate for private businesses under the Congressional Review Act passed the U.S. Senate by a bipartisan vote.
This challenge was supported by the entire Senate Republican Conference, joined by Democratic Senator Joe Manchin and Senator Jon Tester. Congressman Fred Keller (PA-12) introduced the same resolution in the House of Representatives, which has been cosponsored by every House Republican.
The Congressional Review Act is the official process for Congress to eliminate an Executive Branch rule.
âNo one should be forced to choose between getting a vaccine and losing their job. The bipartisan Senate passage of my challenge to President Bidenâs vaccine mandate on private businesses sends a crystal clear message to the White House: Back off, and stop this crazy federal overreach. Now, following this bipartisan victory in the Senate, we look to the House of Representatives for five Democratic Representatives who will stand up for small business owners and the rights of their constituents against this big government-gone-wild mandate.â
Yuck, heâs vomiting up similar garbage as the my so-called representative, whoâs attempting to up his status to Senate this election cycle. Itâs sickening, vile, beyond disgusting.
The more coverage Jordan Klepper gets, the better.
Oh thatâs going to be a nice change of pace around here. To see folks wearing camo for reasons that donât involve virtue signaling
I know how it may sound, but if people are actively trying to gather even after being told they were exposed means there is something stronger at play here to have people believe they can skirt the rules (aside from privilege), and for a majority of folks who go clubbing the main ingredient is alcohol.
Last night the website of the Ministry of Health was hacked and the attackers deleted all the data related to the vaccination. According to the criminals, more than 50TB of data were copied and then erased. All the stolen data could be used to implement the so called vaccine passport for example.
The website is offline and no one can get information on vaccines.
edit:
I still havenât got the information about the two doses of the vaccine that I took to present at work and tell them I am fully immunized. As the site was hacked, Iâll have to look for the vouchers the nurses gave me. My files are a total messâŠ
Reassuring, but of course way too many will just reject this out of hand.
CNN is hanging out in my neck of the woods today. The reporter on tv this morning said something like they think the hospital is like Starbucks they want to pick their treatment from a menu.
I went to get my flu shot a couple days ago and walked through the grocery store with my wife. We wore two masks and all the employees were wearing masks but a lot of customers were not. I told the wife we have to leave, not because I felt unsafe but because I was getting very angry at these people. Itâs so frustrating. I just want to scream at them but then I would be on Facebook as the frightened sheep. I hate these people.
Stories like the one below get blown off as fake and for the life of me I canât understand why, all they have to do is go to a hospital and see for themselves but they believe the hospitals are lying to get more money.
Why are men more vaccine-hesitant if they are more at risk? Experts argue that traditional masculinity, which makes men less likely to trust science and protect themselves from viruses, may be the cause. âMen who assert that theyâre âcompletely masculineâ are more likely than other men to express skepticism about coronavirus vaccines and are less likely to say that theyâll take the vaccine,â according to a Farleigh Dickinson survey of 6,000 people.
âMany men think that being tough is part of being masculine,â Dan Cassino, the political scientist who led the survey, said in a press release. âThat means not wearing a mask, or getting a vaccine. It means they figure theyâll be tough enough to survive COVID anyway.â
So⊠we have ~triple the case rate since the Halloweâen low point in Ontario 
(2.6 â 7.7 per 100k, doubling in 3 weeks officially, but I make it closer to 2 weeks) and the government has announced, in response, that it will make vaccine passports less easily faked late next month. So, it will be harder to fake a measure that wasnât working in the first place? Looks like 
is doomed againâŠ
As always, Bruce Arthur at the Toronto Star is ahead of the curve. Usually when he writes an urgent column the day after I write my Member of Provincial Parliament (who appears to be little more than the mascot for a Twitter account) we have about a week before Premier Doug Ford cracks and does something he should have done a month earlier.
Holy shit! Thatâs horrible! What the hell is wrong with people?
Mask mandate in NY is back in a few days. Starting on the 13th until January 15th.
âUnless the businesses and venues implement a vaccine requirementâ? Not sure that will cut it with omicron. That anime convention where the earliest community spread cases in NY were detected already DID have a vaccine requirement. Indoor masking in public places should be universally required right now.
Their requirement was a joke. They only required one dose and as long as you got it the same day you entered they considered you vaccinated.
Maybe so, but that Minnesota man that attended the convention and was the first to be detected with the new variant was fully vaccinated and had received a booster weeks before the convention, which suggests that universal masking is still a good idea.
Iâm not disagreeing but at this point no one is going to take a mask mandate seriously. The people that are are the ones who have been vaccinated and even boosted. The people that need to mask ainât gonna do it no matter what the mandate.
It should still be done but the virus seems to be winning.
And my point is that even the fully vaccinated are among the people who need to mask, at least when it comes to omicron.
