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2022-01-10 at 6:12 PM UTC in What are you doing at the moment
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2022-01-10 at 6:08 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sHmmmmmmmmmmm...it seems that Rump is the dickhead!
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2022-01-10 at 5:41 PM UTC in Woman has sexual fantasies about Quick Mix ReadyInsert picture of that guy bent open holding his gaping asshole open here:
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2022-01-10 at 5:39 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Imagine how stupid the unvaccinated feel lying in their coffins for eternity after listening to fools like Speculum.
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2022-01-10 at 5:35 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2022-01-10 at 5:13 PM UTC in I'm glad Bob Faggot is dead
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2022-01-10 at 5:09 PM UTC in This Is How Bad Rump Fucked Up The Postal Service
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood Pretty sure the president doesn't make direct management positions of government departments how about chewing out the postmaster general instead of some nobody that's banned from twitter you absolute fucking RETARD
Go to Amazon and check if anyone is selling a sense of humor. -
2022-01-10 at 5:06 PM UTC in Lancer rough idle problemThis trick is cheap, easy and worthwhile. Pop the hood in the dark and look to see if you see any sparks from your ignition/spark plug wires going to ground indicating a need to replace the wires. Probably not your problem but an easy check.
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2022-01-10 at 4:56 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2022-01-10 at 3:22 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!The Washington Post
In much of the West, the walls are closing in on anti-vaxxers
Anthony Faiola
In much of the West, the walls are closing in on anti-vaxxers
Republican governors in the United States may be championing the cause of the vaccine resistant and suing to stop mandates imposed by the Biden administration. But elsewhere in the West, the jab-less are increasingly becoming personae non gratae.
The omicron variant is exacting some of the highest infection rates of the pandemic, and the growing frustration of the vaccinated majority in the West against its unvaccinated minority is reaching a tipping point in some countries. Studies suggest omicron causes milder symptoms. Even so, the unvaccinated — at least those without valid medical reasons — are being blamed for overburdening hospitals by putting themselves, and society, at risk.
In Florida, for instance, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a law that barred companies and schools from insisting all their employees be vaccinated. Within the week, Disney halted its vaccine requirement for Walt Disney World workers.
Compare that to the stance of French President Emmanuel Macron, who vowed in less-than-tactful language last week to make the life of the unvaccinated a living hell.
Pushback from his political foes wasn’t enough to derail Macron’s plan to shrink the world of the unvaccinated. By an overwhelming 214-to-93 vote, the French parliament approved his bid to remove a loophole that had allowed the unvaccinated to get around French health restrictions on dining at cafes, riding trains and going to the movies by providing a negative coronavirus test.
Now, it’s take the jab, or sip your champagne at home.
At the same time, the world grew for the vaccinated in France. Self-isolation times for those with full vaccine doses who test positive, Macron’s government said, would drop from 10 days to seven on Monday, and five days with a negative test result.
Macron’s explosive remarks — made ahead of an expected reelection bid in April — assumed a certain calculus: That the perceived selfishness of the unvaccinated had pushed a share of the population to the breaking point.
After critics derided the crude language he deployed as unpresidential, Macron remained unbowed: “When some make from their freedom … a motto, not only do they put others’ lives at risk, but they are also curtailing others’ freedom. That I cannot accept,” he told reporters in Paris on Friday. “When you are a citizen, you must agree to do your civic duty.”
BBC Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield reasoned that Macron was issuing a challenge to political rivals. “Are they with him, doing everything possible to boost the number of vaccinated?” Schofield wrote. “Or are they siding with the minority, the five million instead of the 50 million, and the anti-vaxxers?”
Getting less media play was a similar if more discerningly worded reprimand last week from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He spoke as the province of Quebec moved to bar the unvaccinated from government-run stores selling alcohol or cannabis.
“People are seeing cancer treatments and elective surgeries put off because beds are filled with people who chose not to get vaccinated; they’re frustrated. When people see that we’re in lockdowns, or serious public health restrictions right now because [of] the risk posed to all of us by unvaccinated people, people get angry,” he told reporters.
On the other side of the world, Australia’s prime minister appeared to make the same political determination as Macron — that it pays to ostracize the unvaccinated.
Australian Open defending men’s champion Novak Djokovic, who is unvaccinated, saw his visa canceled by federal authorities after a dispute over whether he truly qualified for a medical exemption from Australian rules that require vaccinations for visitors. The kerfuffle left the wealthy athlete stuck in a dingy “detention hotel” as he took his case to court, ultimately securing release on Monday. But not before the tennis star had turned into a global lightning rod for the anti-vax movement, and with Australian authorities suggesting they might try to void his visa again.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, my colleagues reported, had initially distanced himself from the dispute over Djokovic’s visa. But with his conservative coalition facing a tougher-than-expected election — and growing public outrage over what Australians saw as a priority pass for an influential athlete — Morrison stepped in.
Despite outrage from Djokovic supporters — led by his father, who likened his son’s persecution to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — and a back and forth over whether Australian officials and local tennis authorities shared some of the blame, a public sense remained that Djokovic was most guilty.
“In a Twitter poll conducted by your humble correspondent, out of about 5000 respondents, only 5 per cent or so think he should be let out of the hotel and allowed to play after all — coincidentally, about the same number of people in this country who are anti-vax nutters,” columnist Peter FitzSimons wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Want to be unvaccinated in Austria? After a February mandate takes effect, that will cost you thousands of dollars in running quarterly fines. As cases spike in Italy — a country with tragic memories of the toll of covid-19 — everyone over 50 must be vaccinated, officials announced last week. If workers over 50 fail to prove they have either been vaccinated or recently recovered from the virus, they face suspension from work starting Feb. 15, Politico reported. This on top of Italy’s strict Green Pass program that already makes life far more complicated for the unvaccinated.
Increasingly, the West is rewarding the vaccinated, while maintaining pandemic-related burdens on the unvaccinated. Belgium last week opted to drop its requirement for fully vaccinated people to self-isolate if they come into contact with an infected person — but the unvaccinated must still isolate for 10 days.
In Germany, lawmakers say a proposed vaccine mandate may take months to pass. In the meantime, the Germans have sharply rolled back access to public spaces for the unvaccinated. Across Europe, the unvaccinated have pushed back against mandates and lockdowns, sometimes violently and arguing government overreach. Last week, the Independent reported, German police were “attacked with bottles, fireworks and one was even bitten” during anti-vaccine mandate protests numbering 35,000 people in cities across the country.
“It is clear that through these measures, they want to exclude us,” one unvaccinated woman who did not give her name told Al Jazeera. “We can sit outside certain places, but it always feels like you don’t have the permission to exist in the same way that those who are vaccinated do.”
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2022-01-10 at 6:06 AM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Make 'em
All
Get
A jab...or pay!
The Hill
How to hold unvaccinated Americans accountable
Opinion by Glenn C. Altschuler, opinion contributor
As the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus spreads across the United States, roughly 15 percent of adults remain unvaccinated. At the greatest risk for severe illness and death, they have already overwhelmed hospitals and intensive care units in many areas of the country, reducing services available to people who have non-COVID-19 related medical issues. Nearly 90 percent of these unvaccinated people indicate they will not change their minds. And a number of governors, most notably Ron DeSantis (R) in Florida and Greg Abbott (R) in Texas, are fighting the Biden administration's vaccine mandates and thwarting vaccination requirements by schools and private employers in their states.
"I think we've sort of run out of options," Anthony Fauci recently declared.
Fauci's frustration is understandable. But there is one way to hold unvaccinated Americans accountable for putting themselves and others at risk: make them pay more for health insurance through surcharges and eliminating paid time off when they are sick while offering financial incentives (including lower deductibles) for fully vaccinated Americans who enroll in wellness programs.
There is ample precedent for doing so. Smoking is exempted from federal laws restricting discrimination in premiums based on health status. Insurance companies can place a surcharge up to 50 percent (subject to limitations imposed by states) for anyone who uses a tobacco product four or more times per week. Carriers rely on the honor system, but misrepresentation constitutes fraud and in some states is a felony. Employers providing health insurance often require routine medical examinations, in which nicotine can be detected through samples of blood and urine.
And many driving infractions result in substantial increases in automobile insurance rates: Driving under the influence (DUI) can raise rate 65.5 percent; refusal to submit to a chemical test, 63.5 percent; reckless driving, 61.1 percent; at-fault accidents resulting in more than $2,000 in damages, 45.2 percent; passing a school bus, 28.4 percent; speeding, 23.8 percent; failure to stop at a red light, 22.6 percent; texting while driving, 21.6 percent; failure to use a seat belt, 5.6 percent.
This fall, some employers began requiring unvaccinated workers to pay more for their health insurance. Delta Air Lines (which, on average, has been paying $50,000 for each COVID-19-related hospital stay) imposes a surcharge of $200 per month for its unvaccinated staff. Delta also limits salary protection for those who miss work to workers who have been vaccinated and have had "breakthrough" infections. Since these policies took effect on Nov. 1, 2021, it's worth noting, the vaccination rate among Delta employees has risen to 94 percent.
Mercy Health, whose 7,000 employees work in hospitals and clinics in Wisconsin and Illinois, has introduced a "risk pool fee"; $60 per week is deducted from the wages of workers who have not been vaccinated. After the policy was announced in September, vaccination rates rose from 70 percent to 91 percent.
As omicron rages, health care workers are exhausted, frustrated and disheartened. In a sentiment shared by many of her colleagues, Sarah Rauner, a chief nurse practitioner in Troy, Mich., declared, "So much of what we see on a daily basis is preventable." A few days before Christmas, Sue Wolfe, a nurse in Madison, Wis., wondered why unvaccinated people "did this, why are they doing this to me. ... This is my second 16-hour shift this week. Came in at 2 o'clock in the morning and it's now 7 at night. I got my 20-minute break. It gets hard. I am 61 years old and I am doing this." Wolfe pleads with the unvaccinated to get vaccinated: "Do it for the people that you care about, that perhaps are susceptible to getting really sick because of the virus that you're carrying."
Last summer, an exasperated Gov. Kay Ivey (R) in Alabama told reporters, "Folks are supposed to have common sense. But it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, the regular folks. It's the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down."
Two-thirds of Americans now say they are angry at the unvaccinated.
Two years into a pandemic that has claimed more than 800,000 lives, blaming and shaming are unlikely to persuade the vast majority of those remaining to take a safe and effective vaccine, for themselves, people they care about, or strangers they encounter in grocery stores or restaurants.
But if the unvaccinated can't be reached through their hearts or minds, we can - and should - require them to pay at least some of the financial costs they are forcing the rest of us to bear. -
2022-01-10 at 5:58 AM UTC in This Is How Bad Rump Fucked Up The Postal ServiceINSIDER
A World War II soldier's letter to his mother from 1945 has just been delivered to his surviving widow, 76 years after sending it
ydzhanova@businessinsider.com (Yelena Dzhanova)
A letter from a 22-year-old Army sergeant written in 1945 was finally delivered — 76 years later.
The letter was intended for the mother of Sgt. John Gonsalves, but USPS tracked down his widow and sent it to her instead.
Reading the letter made her feel "like he came back to me," Angelina Gonsalves said.
A letter from a World War II soldier written in 1945 has just been just delivered — 76 years later.
The letter, written by 22-year-old Army sergeant John Gonsalves, was supposed to be delivered from Germany to his mother in Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1945 according to Boston 25 News, a Fox affiliate.
Only toward the end of 2020 was the letter finally delivered. It suddenly appeared at a United States Postal Service facility in Pittsburgh for processing and distribution, Boston 25 News reported.
The mother has since died, but the USPS tracked down the next of kin for Gonsalves, delivering the letter to Angelina, his widow.
The two met five years after he had sent off the letter. Receiving and reading the letter was "amazing" and surprising to Angelina, she told Boston 25 News.
In the letter, Gonsalves updated his mother on his health, saying he was doing okay and wished for better food.
"Dear, Mom. Received another letter from you today and was happy to hear that everything is okay," he wrote in the letter from central Germany. "As for myself, I'm fine and getting along okay. But as far as the food it's pretty lousy most of the time."
Gonsalves died in 2015 at the age of 92, the New York Times reported. In addition to the letter, USPS attached a note expressing condolences for Angelina's loss. The couple had been married for 61 years and had five children together.
"We are uncertain where this letter has been for the past seven-plus decades, but it arrived at our facility approximately six weeks ago," the letter says, according to Boston 25 News. "Due to the age and significance to your family history… delivering this letter was of utmost importance to us."
Reading the letter made Angelina feel "like he came back to me," she said in an interview with Boston 25 News.
"Imagine that! Seventy-six years!" Angelina said. "I just I couldn't believe it. And then just his handwriting and everything. It was just so amazing." -
2022-01-10 at 5:48 AM UTC in James Webb Telescope To Launch Tomorrow---To Infinity And Beyond!After decades of planning, NASA's $10 billion space telescope has 'taken its final form'
Mike Snider, USA TODAY
All systems are go for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which has deployed its full gold-plated, sunflower-shaped mirror display.
Now, the $10 billion successor to the Hubble telescope has five months of alignment and calibration procedures before it is expected to start sending images back to Earth, the space agency said.
"Two weeks after launch, @NASAWebb has hit its next biggest milestone: the mirrors have completed deployment and the next-generation telescope has taken its final form," NASA announced Saturday.
The news marked the completion of a "remarkable feat," Gregory Robinson, NASA's Webb program director, said in a statement.
"The successful completion of all of the Webb Space Telescope’s deployments is historic,” he said. "This is the first time a NASA-led mission has ever attempted to complete a complex sequence to unfold an observatory in space."
Launched on Christmas Day from South America, the Webb telescope is traveling nearly 1 million miles from Earth.
The telescope's ground team at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore remotely deployed the first side panel of the 21-foot primary mirror on Friday after more than a week of other operations, NASA said. The riskiest operation, the unfurling of the telescope's tennis-court-size sunshield, was completed earlier in the week.
Next, the mirror's 18 hexagonal gold-coated segments will be moved to focus the telescope's optics, an operation that will take several months, the space agency said. NASA expects the telescope to send its first images this summer. In the meantime, Webb's travels will lead it to its destination in about two weeks.
Named after former NASA administrator James E. Webb, who oversaw the agency from 1961 to 1968, the Webb telescope is about 100 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope. Scientists hope Webb can capture light streaming from stars and galaxies as far back as 13.7 billion years ago.
Work on the telescope began 25 years ago. The Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency assisted NASA on the project.
Webb's primary mirror deployment, likely the last major update on the telescope in the coming weeks, was followed enthusiastically on YouTube, Twitter and NASA's website.
As the right side mirror panel snapped into place, you could hear and see NASA flight controllers applauding on the agency's video feed.
The space drama added up to "a remarkable engineering achievement that 99 percent of the world will not appreciate," tweeted Eric Berger, senior space editor for the tech website Ars Technica.
Mary Cerimele, an engineering consultant and NASA Johnson Space Center retiree, tweeted that the deployment was a "momentous achievement" and said NASA, "through engineering, continues to deliver science to all humanity." -
2022-01-10 at 5:39 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sThe Independent
‘We simply did not win the election for the presidency’: GOP senator says no evidence for Trump claims
John Bowden
A Republican senator who broke publicly with former President Donald Trump amid the latter’s false claims about the 2020 election worked on Sunday to reiterate that the former president lost to Joe Biden fairly.
As the nation focused its attention on the one-year anniversary of the attack on the US Capitol, senator Mike Rounds joined ABC’s This Week to dismiss the falsehoods that Mr Trump and his loyalists within the GOP continue to spread about his defeat.
"We simply did not win the election, as Republicans, for the presidency,” Mr Rounds said on Sunday.
He then warned that Mr Trump’s falsehoods only sought to undermine his own supporters’ confidence in US elections, while Democrats and independents who do not believe him continue to vote and participate in the system as normal.
“f we simply look back and tell our people don't vote because there's cheating going on, then we're going to put ourselves in a huge disadvantage,” said the senator. “[L]et's focus on what it takes to win those elections. We can do that. But we have to let people know that they can – they can believe and they can have confidence that those elections are fair."
Mr Rounds issued a statement just after the riot at the Capitol in January stating that while he had kept an “open mind” when listening to objections to the Electoral College votes of individual states which were targeted by the Trump campaign with allegations of fraud, he had found no reason to support those objections before the Senate given that Mr Trump’s supporters had failed to provide any conclusive evidence of fraud.
At the time, he denounced those who were objecting to the Electoral College vote counts anyway as violating the spirit of US democracy.
“Absent overwhelming evidence of constitutional violations in an election process, objecting to the Electoral College vote count is dangerous and unwise. It flies in the face of our Founding Fathers, who intended individual states to operate their own election processes and entrusted the adjudication of election disputes to the courts,” he said in January.
Mr Rounds repeated on Sunday during his interview with ABC News that he had listened to the supposed evidence of widespread election fraud put forth by Mr Trump’s allies, and had not been convinced.
"While there were some irregularities, there were none of the irregularities which would have risen to the point where they would have changed the vote outcome in a single state," he said.
Those comments echo the statements made by top federal officials appointed by Mr Trump himself, including former Secretary of State William Barr, who in the days after the 2020 election sought to publicly rebuke the claims of vote manipulation spread by the former president’s supporters.
Officials including Mr Barr declared the 2020 election the most secure in US history, and subsequent state-level investigations in many jurisdictions across the country where fraud was alleged failed to turn up the significant levels of irregularities that Mr Trump’s campaign insisted had occurred. -
2022-01-09 at 4:56 PM UTC in 15 Anti-Vaxxers Who Died A factual list of people who thought COVID was a hoaxNIS
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2022-01-09 at 4:43 PM UTC in 15 Anti-Vaxxers Who Died A factual list of people who thought COVID was a hoax
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2022-01-09 at 4:41 PM UTC in 15 Anti-Vaxxers Who Died A factual list of people who thought COVID was a hoaxMy work here is done!
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2022-01-09 at 4:39 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Prove it.
Just for once, show your credible evidence.
I didn't think so. -
2022-01-09 at 4:30 PM UTC in 15 Anti-Vaxxers Who Died A factual list of people who thought COVID was a hoaxBeating one's head against a wall of ignorance does get old, doesn't it?
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2022-01-09 at 3:54 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Getting A Rise From Your Covid Treatment?
Newsweek
Tucker Carlson, Fox News Doctor Discuss Viagra as Possible Treatment for COVID
Jason Lemon
Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Dr. Marc Siegel, a medical contributor with the popular cable network, discussed the possibility that Viagra could be a viable treatment for COVID-19, citing an anecdotal example and a study out of Chile.
British tabloids The Sun and The Daily Mail first reported the story of 37-year-old nurse Monica Almeida in the United Kingdom, who was on the verge of death and in a coma after contracting COVID-19 before she was given an experimental treatment that included a large dose of Viagra. While her family had been told to say their goodbyes and she was set to be taken off the ventilator keeping her alive, she recovered and now credits the erectile dysfunction drug for saving her life.
"Well, amazingly there appear to be growing connections between Viagra and treatment for the coronavirus," Carlson said in a segment of his Fox News show on Friday. He cited the story of the nurse in the U.K. and brought on Siegel, who is a professor of medicine at the New York University Langone Medical Center, to discuss the treatment.
"Who thought Viagra would save us from the pandemic?" Carlson asked.
"We're doing further investigations on it now," Siegel said, before recapping Almeida's story. "She was 72 hours away from having her respirator turned off. They gave her a massive dose of Viagra and she woke up. What might the connection be there?"
The doctor explained that he did more research. "A study just published out of Chile, in a journal called Critical Care, found that this patient studied did not go on the respirator who got Viagra. And they actually went out of the hospital sooner."
Siegel went on to explain that Viagra isn't just used for erectile dysfunction, saying it's used for "lung problems" and "improves blood flow to the lungs." He said it treats a range of lung conditions, including pulmonary hypertension and altitude sickness. "It makes something called nitric oxide," he explained, noting that COVID-19 "decreases" this molecule.
"There were several studies around the world that if you inhale that nitric oxide, your lungs did a lot better with COVID. Japan, China, Scandinavia all had studies like this showing a big improvement with nitric oxide—just what Viagra does," Siegel said.
"So, I think this is beginning of something and other studies are going on, and I think this is a potential treatment," the doctor continued.
Ending the segment, Carlson asked: "Is there anything it [Viagra] doesn't cure?"
Almeida told The Sun for an article published on January 2 that the Viagra "saved me." The nurse, who had treated COVID-19 patients, previously received two vaccine doses before she contracted the novel coronavirus.
The Daily Mail reported that she first tested positive on October 31 and was then admitted to the Lincoln County Hospital on November 9. A week later, she was transferred to intensive care. Prior to going into a coma, she agreed to the experimental treatment that included the large viagra dose.
"Within 48 hours it opened up my airwaves and my lungs started to respond," she told The Sun. Almeida said she was set to be removed from the ventilator within three days.
"If you think how the drug works, it expands your blood vessels," said the nurse, a mother of two. "I have asthma and my air sacks needed a little help."
Almeida also stressed to The Sun that the COVID-19 vaccine she received was key to saving her life as well. She was told that she would have died had she not been vaccinated.
"There are people out there saying the vaccine has killed people. I'm not denying there are people who react and get poorly with the vaccine, but when we look at the amount of deaths we have in unvaccinated people, there is a big message there to have your jab," the nurse said, urging everyone to get the life-saving shots.
Notably, while Viagra has not been approved by the U.S Food and Drug Administration to treat COVID-19, other drugs have been granted approval. In October 2020, the antiviral drug Veklury (remdesivir) was approved for treating COVID-19 in adults and pediatrics patients 12 years of age and older. In late December 2021, the FDA also granted emergency use authorization to Pfizer's Paxlovid treatment for COVID-19.
Doctors and scientist have repeatedly explained that vaccination against the novel coronavirus is the best way to prevent severe illness and death.
