Ah, the Wieners circle!
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Look, they’ve been closed for a year due to the pandemic and using the time to remodel the store. Then this sensitive gentleman has to go and fuck with it when they’re finally reopened. Asshole.
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This is one where I really, really want to rant about the hundreds of thousands of Omicron deaths, but the truth is, we actually did get lucky. There was no guarantee that it would be less lethal than Delta, that was just dumb luck. And there is no assurance that the next one (and there will be a next one) will be as accommodating. We got very very lucky, and I do not anticipate our luck holding. But I guess we are going to find out. Keeping my masking habits up, for myself and mine, though.
Edit for type bad
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(21)00305-0/fulltext
Another one for the pile to read.
Abstract says, basically: get a BioNtech/Pfizer booster if you had a Sinovac shot.
Something which baffled me:
Crowdfunded in north Cyprus.
Wait, what?
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This is, to be fair, a depressing read. The approaching idiocracy is closer than it appears.
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the hundreds of thousands of Omicron deaths
We’ve had just over 2000 deaths since Dec 1 in Ontario 
(we hit almost exactly 10k on that date). Much of that will be Delta, of course, but the big pickup corresponds to Omicron. We’ll have killed as roughly as many people by the end of this wave as with previous ones.
The wastewater signal has flatlined at about 10 times the Dec 1 level, hospitalizations are down to about 4 times, ICU down to about 3 times Dec 1. Case rates, even with reduced testing, are high, positivity over 10%. We’re expecting a pickup in hospitalization rates after the Jan 31 re-opening… should see that next week if it happens.
It doesn’t feel that lucky, but I agree it could have been/could be yet worse.
And yeah, what might that psychopathic stochastic process we call “Mother Nature” have in store for us yet? 
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I’d argue sociopathic, not only does “Mother Nature” give zero fucks about who you are, it also gives zero fucks about where or what you are.
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is on me at my place for the debate when all this is over … “Revisiting the Gaia Hypothesis After COVID: Earth as Psychopathic, Sociopathic or Just Plain Cranky”.
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I read, in the local news, that he threw a snowball first, sure, but then came back with a brick, which is what broke the door.
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And let’s not forget the classic:
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Here’s what I don’t understand: these truckers are either employees or independent contractors. The companies that hire them – and often lease them the truck itself – want their cargo moved from Point A to Point B. Any trucker who does not 100% own their own truck and/or is currently working for any company – which is the vast majority – are stealing from their employers by doing this.
Are all of the trucking company managers so deeply down the MAGAt/Q rabbit hole that they’re willing to sacrifice millions of dollars in shipping contracts?
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Excellent question, because I have to suspect that even if they were that deep, sacrificing significant profits and potentially losing contracts over this is probably not sensible. Of course, this is MAGAt shit we are talking about.
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Even independent contractors usually own the rig, but not the trailer. That’s either the property of the shipper or it’s leased. Definitely theft.
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Yeah, sorry, I used to be a commercial lender, so I was using ‘truck’ to mean the rig part! Should have made that clear.
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Your post is absolutely on point, though. They are dragging their trailers around to make it easier to block traffic and harder to tow them off, and the trailers aren’t theirs.
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It appears the truckers blocking traffic is a small group of Canadians. Those appear to be independent truckers mostly using just the truck.
Those blockages on the Canadian side are causing havoc on two of the largest if not the largest points of entry from Canada.
The trucks on the American side do not appear to be intentional blockages. When they manged to shut down Detroit it caused all that truck traffic to divert to the Blue Water bridge.
That bridge has just two dedicated lanes for trucks and they are short staffed. So the photos from those freeways is just collateral traffic jams trying to get their loads into Canada.
What happens in a few weeks if they organize a convoy to DC is anyone’s guess.
But like mentioned, my guess is those will be independents with empty trucks and or trailers.
My prediction is it doesn’t get of the ground.
This morning the line into Canada was moving along better. Cars were getting through with minor waits.
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Has anyone put together a good/convincing explainer yet of what these truckers think they’re accomplishing, or why they doing it? Sorry if I’ve missed one upthread.
I saw a couple minutes of a video with Russell Brand applauding them, but that was all it took to see that his argument in favor is simplistic bullshit.
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