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2021-08-11 at 4:24 PM UTC
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2021-08-11 at 4:35 PM UTC
Originally posted by BetterThanYou You can immediately tell the intelligence of a person when they use terms like 'globalists'
Nobody is losing their civil liberties. Vaccines have always been required i
you can also immediately tell the intelligence of a person when it start spewing terms like "vaccine" to refer to the chemical concoctions that are supposedly, alledgedly able to provide immunities to mild diseases like covid 19.
everyone literated and informed knew those chemical concoctions arent vaccines.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-11 at 4:41 PM UTC
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2021-08-11 at 4:44 PM UTC
Originally posted by BetterThanYou Yeah you are
There is no such thing as 'globalists'. Just like there's no such thing as "Nationalists" or "Anti-fa" or "Racists"
If you are talking about a group, name that group. Name the people. Don't give me some bullshit boogeyman term that doesn't realistically mean anything. Give me specific situations, specific events, show proof.
ANTIFA is a group. Just because you are decentralized doesn't make you not a group. I guess that means "Islamic terrorists" don't exist either. Point to a specific group, name the people.
oh wait you can't because they operate in small cells independent of centralized leadership.
https://refusefascism.org
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2021-08-11 at 4:49 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-11 at 6:19 PM UTCWhy don't we just have a knife fight at the Goodfellow, Halls Ferry Roundabout on Friday at midnight?
Some peoples children. smdh
I didn't like the workhouse the day I was there. I much preferred working at the old City Jail back when it was at 124 So. 14th St.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-11 at 7:09 PM UTCProlly the only thanks you’ll get from me..just cuz u from the town
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2021-08-11 at 7:14 PM UTCI ran HVAC service all over the town. North, south, city, west.
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2021-08-11 at 7:31 PM UTCI’m near Spanlake
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2021-08-11 at 8:27 PM UTCMaking
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The Washington Post
Opinions | Ron DeSantis’s dumb attempt at smart sanctions
Daniel Drezner
Ordinarily the hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts tries to focus on U.S. foreign policy and international relations. The politics of federalism are beyond my area of expertise. However, when governors and their press secretaries start talking like foreign policy wonks, it means we have arrived at my punditry comfort zone.
Consider Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s quixotic attempt to ban mask mandates in his state. On Monday, the governor’s office released a statement explaining how it would respond to any schools superintendent who defied DeSantis’s edict. It said, in part, that “it would be the goal of the State Board of Education to narrowly tailor any financial consequences to the offense committed. For example, the State Board of Education could move to withhold the salary of the district superintendent or school board members.”
On Tuesday, my Washington Post colleague Greg Sargent chronicled how this has already escalated in Alachua County, where the superintendent has decided to go ahead with the mask mandate and the state commissioner of education responding with a plan to dock the county a sum equivalent to the salaries of the superintendent and the board of education.
This has prompted some hue and cry, which led to Christina Pushaw, DeSantis’s press secretary, offering up the analogy of targeted sanctions on her personal Twitter account:
Think of it like targeted sanctions, you say? Okay! Welcome to my sandbox, Ron DeSantis and staff! I know something about this topic, and might I suggest to Pushaw that if she really wants to ride with this analogy, I doubt it will end well for the governor.
To be fair, there are valid reasons DeSantis might think targeted sanctions would work. They are likelier to yield concessions if the demand is well-defined and the targeted actor feels the pain. These sanctions would appear to meet those criteria. Whatever one thinks of DeSantis’s demands, they are well-defined. The economic pain is also real; as Sargent notes in his column, this puts school superintendents in a terrible position.
That said, it’s noteworthy that multiple counties have indicated that they will proceed with mask mandates. It suggests that the targeted sanctions are working about as well as the Trump administration’s ham-handed efforts at economic statecraft.
A few things can undercut targeted sanctions, and it would appear that the DeSantis administration had not considered these contingencies. The first problem comes when target leaders experience a “rally round the flag” phenomenon in response to sanctions. That appears to be happening in Florida. Vaccinated Americans’ anger toward the unvaccinated continues to climb, and that appears to extend to Florida’s parents of school-age children, which means they will probably back up their local school officials.
The National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar notes, “With coronavirus cases now at all-time highs in the state and the Delta strain potentially having a greater impact on children, [DeSantis is] pressing his luck … [he] is overreaching if he thinks that preventing COVID hot spots from requiring masks in schools will be popular with Florida swing voters.”
Another major way to stymie targeted sanctions is if a “black knight” steps in to assist the sanctioned actor. And, hey, what do you know, it looks like the Biden administration is interested in playing that part. At least that was the message from White House press secretary Jen Psaki:
It is very much an open question whether the Biden administration has the legal authority to rescue individual school districts in Florida. But the signal that President Biden is sending to the actors facing the sanction threat is quite clear, and it blunts the effect of DeSantis’s sanctions.
So, to sum up: DeSantis’s attempt at smart sanctions will not yield much in the way of concessions and is likely to anger a fair number of Floridians. It is possible that these actions will motivate DeSantis’s base as well, but, at best, this ends as well as the myriad other examples of U.S. targeted sanctions — which is to say, poorly. -
2021-08-11 at 8:28 PM UTC
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2021-08-11 at 8:41 PM UTCI was just giving her a complimentary surprise vaccination
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2021-08-11 at 9:09 PM UTCMaking
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GOPers
All go down in defeat because of their policies
The Washington Post
Republicans risk becoming face of delta surge as key GOP governors oppose anti-covid measures
Felicia Sonmez, Hannah Knowles
In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott has banned local governments from implementing mask requirements even as he pleads for emergency medical help in combating a surge in coronavirus cases from the delta variant. In South Dakota, Gov. Kristi L. Noem welcomed hundreds of thousands of revelers to the Sturgis motorcycle rally that last year bore characteristics of a superspreader event for the virus.
And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis is waging war on school districts seeking to defy his executive order prohibiting mask mandates for students — while the state sees its rates of hospitalization from covid surge past the worst levels of 2020.
The three Republican governors — all frequently mentioned as potential presidential candidates in 2024 — are at the vanguard of GOP resistance to public-health mandates aimed at stemming the tide of the delta variant, which has caused a new spike in coronavirus cases as the country attempts to reopen schools, restaurants and other businesses.
They and other national and local GOP officials cast their opposition to such measures as an effort to protect personal choice. But some fear the party is on track to make itself the face of the delta variant — endangering fellow Americans while also risking severe political damage in the long term.
“They’re making a political bet on the lives of the people they serve,” said former Republican National Committee chairman Michael S. Steele, who has been sharply critical of former president Donald Trump and has formed an exploratory committee for a potential 2022 Maryland gubernatorial bid. “The party leadership has gone so far out on this limb that there they stand with a saw in their hand and they’re sawing it off.”
DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw defended the governor’s actions, calling him “pro-vaccine but anti-mandate.”
“Protecting individual rights is the cornerstone of conservatism,” Pushaw said in a statement. “If a business or any level of government is infringing upon individual rights … then it is indeed conservative for a leader to step in and ensure individual rights are protected.”
In recent days, however, other Republicans such as Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and pollster Frank Luntz have urged their party’s governors to let schools and localities decide for themselves whether to mandate face masks or vaccines.
“Whenever politicians mess with public health, usually it doesn’t work out well for public health. And ultimately, it doesn’t work out for the politician, because public health suffers, and the American people want public health,” Cassidy, who is also a physician, said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
At the same time, Cassidy’s Senate colleagues, Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), are sharply denouncing health mandates. Cruz and another Senate Republican, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, on Monday introduced two bills that would ban mask and vaccine mandates.
Polling shows a deep partisan divide on the issues of mask use and vaccination, a factor that may help explain some GOP elected officials’ staunch opposition to mandates.
In a recent Monmouth University poll, 85 percent of Democrats said they support bringing back masking and social distancing guidelines, while just 24 percent of Republicans said the same. The survey was conducted before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced their revised guidelines late last month urging face coverings indoors in virus hot spots.
Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to be vaccinated against covid-19, as well. According to a Washington Post-Schar School poll released earlier this month, 90 percent of Democrats say they have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, compared with 54 percent of Republicans.
Vaccination mandates for government workers or nursing home staff have overwhelmingly come from Democrat-led states, though in liberal Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan (R) recently joined Virginia in ordering state workers to get vaccinated or face regular virus testing.
And while many Republican governors turned to statewide mask mandates during last summer’s Sun Belt surge of the virus, this year is different, as some leaders move to block cities, school districts and companies from making their own mask or vaccine requirements.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) recently said he regrets signing a bill barring local mask mandates as the delta variant fuels a surge and open ICU beds in the state dwindle to single digits. But other GOP governors are not swayed.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) has stuck by the law he signed earlier this summer forbidding schools from mandating masks or proof of vaccination. In South Carolina, where the state budget prohibits school mask mandates, Gov. Henry McMaster (R) this week accused experts and the media of “unnecessarily alarming people” about the virus and emphasized his belief that parents should choose whether their children wear face coverings.
Abbott has asked hospitals to halt non-emergency medical procedures as thousands of covid-19 patients strain wards already struggling with a shortage of nurses. But he kept his order banning local mask and vaccine mandates, despite growing defiance and legal challenges.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins on Tuesday got a temporary restraining order on Abbott’s ban as Dallas city school officials require students and staff to wear masks in campus buildings. “Dallas County Citizens will be irreparably harmed if Judge Jenkins cannot initiate appropriate mitigation strategies,” a civil district court judge wrote. Another temporary restraining order cleared the way Tuesday for San Antonio and Bexar County to mandate masks in schools as well.
Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa on Tuesday accused Abbott of blocking local covid-19 measures for “political reasons because he wants to ensure that he gets elected in his primary, which is controlled primarily by people who are anti-vaccine people and anti-maskers.” Abbott faces multiple conservative challengers including former Texas Republican Party chairman Allen West, who once protested Abbott’s earlier coronavirus restrictions outside the governor’s mansion.
Abbott spokeswoman Renae Eze expressed confidence that the governor’s order would stand.
“Governor Abbott’s resolve to protect the rights and freedoms of all Texans has not wavered,” she said in a statement. “There have been dozens of legal challenges to the Governor’s executive orders — all of which have been upheld in the end.”
Noem has touted her opposition to mask mandates and her decision to give the green light to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, which more than 460,000 people attended last year. As many as 700,000 are expected at this year’s event, which began on Friday.
“It really comes down to what my authority is,” Noem said at the rally Monday. “I don’t believe that governors have the authority to tell people that they have to shut down their businesses and they have to shelter in place and to pass mandates.”
DeSantis, too, has made opposition to covid-19 rules a key part of his political branding. This summer, his political team started selling “Don’t Fauci My Florida” beer koozies and T-shirts as he said that the state had chosen “freedom” over the pandemic precautions advocated by White House chief medical adviser Anthony S. Fauci.
He doubled down as the delta variant pushed covid-19 hospitalizations in Florida to record highs. This week, DeSantis threatened to withhold the pay of school officials who defy his executive order barring campus mask mandates, which criticized the Biden administration for “unscientific and inconsistent recommendations that school-aged children wear masks.” He also vowed to appeal a federal judge’s decision to temporarily block his ban on vaccine passports and allow a cruise company to require immunization against the coronavirus.
The CDC changed its mask guidance last month as new data suggested the vaccinated can in rare cases spread the virus, and as millions of Americans — including children under 12 who are not yet eligible for vaccination — have yet to get their shots.
The White House has been urging all unvaccinated Americans to get the vaccine, warning that as schools reopen, children’s health is particularly at risk. The Biden administration is also examining whether it can direct unused stimulus funds to support educators in Florida who may defy DeSantis’s order against mask mandates in schools.
During a news conference Tuesday, President Biden evoked the image of “little kids — I mean, four or five, six years old, in hospitals on ventilators, and some of them passing.” He criticized Republican governors without naming them, noting that many of the same leaders who have denounced mask mandates as government overreach are now attempting to override the decisions of local school boards in their states.
“I find that totally counterintuitive and, quite frankly, disingenuous,” Biden said.
Some Republicans have sounded a similar note.
“It is a bedrock conservative principle that — whenever possible — decisions should be made at the level of government closest to the people,” said Michael Steel, a longtime Republican strategist who was a top aide to former House speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). “A state-level mandate that overrides local school boards’ decisions seems to contradict that principle.”
Some current and former Republicans said they believe a worsening covid-19 surge could eventually force governors to change course.
“I do think as this begins to take more and more of a toll, the political reality may begin to shift,” said Arkansas state Sen. Jim Hendren (I), a former GOP leader in the state legislature who this year left the party. “We are literally at a crisis.”
At a Tuesday news briefing, Hutchinson — who is Hendren’s uncle — echoed health leaders’ alarm about spiking infections and increasingly young people hospitalized. “I think we’re in worse position, in terms of our ICU beds, than we were in January,” he said.
Yet Hendren has little hope that Arkansas legislators will follow Hutchinson’s call to undo the measure. At a Tuesday afternoon committee meeting, Republican lawmakers were talking about banning companies from instituting vaccine requirements, after Walmart and Tyson Foods — both headquartered in Arkansas — mandated vaccines for their employees.
“Right now,” Hendren said, “it’s more a game of defense, of stopping them from making it even worse.” -
2021-08-11 at 9:40 PM UTCMake them
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CNN’s Jim Acosta predicts Fox viewer ‘whiplash’ as vaccine misinformation gives way to science
Theresa Braine, New York Daily News
CNN’s Jim Acosta on Sunday decried Fox News’ vaccine pivoting and mixed messages, saying it was enough to give the network’s viewers “whiplash.”
“Sixteen months into this pandemic, and it’s time for an injection of the truth — and a rejection of the lies about the vaccine,” Acosta said on “CNN Newsroom.” “If you’re watching COVID coverage on Fox News these days you may have come down with a case of whiplash. Some anchors like Tucker Carlson are spreading anti-vax hysteria, while others like Sean Hannity are finally dealing with the reality that vaccines are saving lives.”
“That’s great, except Hannity walked back those comments a few days later, saying he never told anyone to get a vaccine,” Acosta said, segueing into a Brian Kilmeade riff on “Fox & Friends” in which he compared getting vaccinated to cliff diving.
“If you didn’t get a vaccination, that’s your choice,” Kilmeade said on-air, then pointing to his co-anchors to indicate that he and they had all made the choice to get vaxxed. “If you want to go cliff diving this weekend you don’t have to check with me.”
One of his co-anchors pointed out that more than 99% of the people dying from COVID are unvaccinated, and Kilmeade interjected, “It’s their choice.”
The screen returned to Acosta.
“He just said something about cliff diving,” Acosta said. “Cliff diving? If you cliff dive, and you die, YOU die. Just you. You don’t take out the rest of your family.”
This makes Kilmeade’s analogy “a big belly flop,” Acosta continued. “Many of the most alarming spikes in COVID cases around the country are in areas with low vaccination rates. Nearly all of the patients being hospitalized with COVID right now are unvaccinated. That’s right. People who had access to the vaccines, but didn’t get the shot, are now sick. And many of them are dying.”
He pointed out that it’s mostly in Trump-leaning states, “where people choose to get their information from outlets like Fox News. The same network that has been peddling lies about COVID for months, while demonizing this nation’s top scientists.”
That flowed into a clip of Carlson vilifying Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
“That’s so Foxxed up,” Acosta said, after staring dead-eyed at the camera for a couple of seconds. “That Tucker is always Foxing around, isn’t he. That Foxer. He really should talk to his buddy Neil, just down the hallway.”
Enter Neil Cavuto, saying, “I don’t know how productive that is” to vilify Fauci.
You want a scientist at the pandemic helm, “just like you want a pilot flying the plane,” Acosta noted. “Don’t hire the guy who’s watched ‘Red Dawn’ too many times.”
Sixteen months into a “pandemic of misinformation, so many Americans don’t know what to believe any more,” Acosta said. “We’ve been injected with lies about masks, about vaccines and about the virus itself. No wonder we have been a nation divided and dying.”
He showed clips of a man insisting there was no COVID, that it was all a hoax, and another guy who said, “I’m not afraid. The good lord takes care of me. If I die, I die.”
“Hold on — here’s a thought,” Acosta said. “Don’t die! Live! Live!” -
2021-08-11 at 9:44 PM UTCQuiet, spammer.
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2021-08-11 at 11:16 PM UTCAssociation of Myocarditis With BNT162b2 Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccine in a Case Series of Children.
Question What are the findings on cardiac imaging in children with myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination?
Findings In this case series of 15 children who were hospitalized with myocarditis after receipt of the BNT162b2 messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine for 1 to 5 days, boys were most often affected after the second vaccine dose, 3 patients had ventricular systolic dysfunction, and 12 patients had late gadolinium enhancement on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. There was no mortality, and all but 1 patient had normal echocardiogram results on follow-up 1 to 13 days after discharge.
Meaning COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis may have a benign short-term course in children; however, the long-term risks remain unknown
Full story here.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2783052?guestAccessKey=76e27816-102d-48c2-924b-53c21e5a7b53&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=081021The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-11 at 11:17 PM UTCThis is science not politics people.
