Some Covid-19 thoughts
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UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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Fauci: Such a serious situation... we must have fascism
No offense to any sicilians on the board, but this thought hadn't occurred to me before. Fauci is a Sicilian from Bensonhurst. Bensonhurst was kind of a hotspot of mafia activity. Fauci was born in 1940. The mafia didn't really give up on machine gun toting organized crime until Tony was 25 or so. At which point, to be fair, he was probably in medical school learning how to patch up Vinny next time he got shot. The game ended before poor Tony had shot anyone. Now he can shoot everyone, in the arm.
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Anti-vaccine lawmakers are calling for Maine Gov. Janet Mills' execution, claiming she's a Nazi doctor who violated the Nuremberg Code when she implemented a Covid vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.
Republican lawmakers are trying to capture the anger and energy of the anti-vaccination movement as the party prepares for the midterms.
Sampson claimed Mills’ mandate was a government ploy to illegally test “experimental” COVID vaccines on unwitting citizens. She described Mills as the “reincarnation” of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who performed deadly medical experiments on Jewish people in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
https://mainebeacon.com/gop-lawmakers-headline-conspiracy-laden-vaccin
e-mandate-protest/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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lol
For a party that has been calling non-Nazi-like behavior Nazi-like behavior for at least the last five years, you guys and gals really can't spot actual Nazi-like behavior.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick reveals roots of Texas COVID surge: Black people.
Dan Patrick went on national TV and blamed Texas’ surging COVID hospitalizations and deaths on Black people. His comments to Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday started off OK, admitting that “most of the numbers are with the unvaccinated.” But then he shifted blame away from Republicans — who hold all statewide offices, have actively blocked COVID precautions and have done very little to encourage vaccinations — and pointed the finger at Black Texans who hadn’t gotten their shots and the local Democrats they tend to vote for. “The biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated,” he said. Not so much. It’s true that the vaccination rate of Black Americans lags — about 44 percent among eligible Texans compared with 53 percent for white people. But there are roughly three times as many white Texans as Black Texans who are eligible for the vaccine and may not have received it. And it somehow slipped Patrick’s mind that Black folks have reasons besides rabid partisanship to be cautious. A history of medical abuse and unethical experimentation on Black people comes to mind. We’re glad Patrick is pushing local leaders to improve vaccination rates in Black communities. If only he’d had such inclusive priorities in January. When Dallas County officials tried to prioritize vaccines at one location for Black and Latino neighborhoods that were being hardest hit by the pandemic, Texas officials threatened to slash their vaccine allocation if the didn’t scrap the plan.
The bad thing about cable news, though, is that you can’t slither away from idiotic commentary like you can on Twitter by blaming you were hacked or the victim of a clever parody account.
School district officials in the little hamlet just east of Dallas have come up with a clever way to thwart Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on local mask requirements — within the bounds of the law. While other districts have directly violated Abbott’s ban and sued him, the Paris ISD board of trustees simply added masks to its official dress code arguing that it could “be used to mitigate communicable health issues” because the part of the Texas education code that enables such codes wasn’t subject to the governor’s order banning certain COVID precautions.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Thumbs-Dan
-Patrick-reveals-roots-of-Texas-COVID-16401964.php
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In May, Greg Locke, the right-wing evangelical head pastor of Tennessee’s Baptist Global Vision Bible Church, told a cheering congregation that “elites” were trying to push an unsafe vaccine on the public while injecting themselves with sugar water. “I know some of you, like, ‘My goodness! What am I gonna—my boss told me that if I don’t get the vaccination that I’m gonna lose my job,’” he said. “I can write you a religious exemption, and we will sue their stinkin’ pants off!”
Locke is certainly not the only faith leader promoting anti-vax objections in the guise of religious concerns. A pastor in Riverside County, California, told his congregation in the spring that the vaccine was “unclean” and directed them to a downloadable form Christians could use to claim religious exemptions.
More at https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/08/covid-vaccines-religious-exem
ptions.html
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Trump's Covid politics are everywhere
Former President Donald Trump still towers over the GOP, and he's set to appear Saturday at an Alabama rally. Ambitious Republicans eyeing future White House bids are increasingly emulating his brand of confrontational, fact-challenged politics on Covid.
Look no further than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. As the number of new coronavirus cases in his state soars, DeSantis is taking a page directly from Trump's playbook -- betting that an aggressive campaign against mandatory mask-wearing in schools will make him a GOP star nationwide as the party's 2024 presidential primary comes into view.
"It is very important that we say unequivocally no to lockdowns, no to school closures, no to restrictions and no to mandates," DeSantis told the crowd at a conservative state policy conference in Utah on Wednesday.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem too. She's used early trips to Iowa and to conservative political gatherings to take implicit jabs at DeSantis, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who mandated masks and closed some businesses during the pandemic.
"We've got Republican governors across this country pretending they didn't shut down their states; that they didn't close their regions; that they didn't mandate masks," Noem said at the Conservative Political Action Conference gathering in Dallas last month.
"Now, I'm not picking fights with Republican governors. All I'm saying is that we need leaders with grit. That their first instinct is the right instinct."
Noem even bragged that South Dakota hadn't ordered a "single business" to close. "We didn't mandate. We trusted our people, and it told them that personal responsibility was the best answer," she said.
And Abbott. The second-term governor, who tested positive for the virus this week, has played to his party's base and blocked health mandates intended to slow the pandemic's spread ahead of a reelection bid next year and a potential presidential run in 2024.
"Too many Texans have been sidelined from employment opportunities. Too many small business owners have struggled to pay their bills. This must end. It is now time to open Texas 100%," Abbott said as he lifted the state's mask mandate in March and allowed businesses to open at 100% capacity despite warnings from public health officials.
Removing mandates, he added, "does not end personal responsibility and caring for your family members, friends and others in your community. People and businesses don't need the state telling them how to operate."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/21/politics/what-matters-august-20/index.h
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Originally posted by second:
Trump's Covid politics are everywhere
This isn't "Trump's" politics.
This is just people sick of your bullshit.
Fuck your vaccine. Fuck your mask mandates. Fuck you.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Originally posted by second:
It’s true that the vaccination rate of Black Americans lags — about 44 percent among eligible Texans compared with 53 percent for white people.
Well that's a huge lie right there.
No chance in hell that 44 percent of black people are vaccinated in any state that isn't Democrat ran. You'd be hard pressed to find that in a Democrat ran state.
They're not buying your bullshit either.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Entire Texas town essentially closes due to Covid-19 cases
From the front lawn of her friend's house, Vicky Zapata went live on Facebook recently and burst into tears, praying.
"We ask you God, that you heal our town, Father, from this disease," Zapata said in the livestream.
Inside the house, looking out through the glass front door, was her friend Carla Balderas, who was quarantined due to Covid-19, along with her 9-year-old son Reinaldo. Missing was Carla's husband Sammy. He was in the local hospital, fighting coronavirus.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/entire-texas-town-essentially-closes
-due-to-covid-19-cases/ar-AAND8jP?ocid=msedgntp
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It looks like Pfizer won the bidding war for FDA approval.
Nothing on earth that can't be bought, it appears.
Good luck, whoever they ultimately send to my house to give me the shot.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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