An owl walks into a bar, and hops up on a stool. “Pull me a Guiness,” he says.
The bartender is a bit confused because he never had a talking animal in his bar before, but the owl has a little drawstring purse around his neck and puts the money down on the bar. So the bartender pulls him his Guiness, and as he’s handing it to the fellow, he notices that the owl has one wing in a splint, dried blood on his chest and missing feathers.
“Looks like something pretty bad happened to you,” says the bartender sympathetically,
“Oh, man, you got that right!” says the owl. “I just left the ER, and lemme tell you, I’m lucky to be alive! I was walking across the road, in the crosswalk just like I was supposed to be, when a car came out of nowhere and hit me!”
The bartender is puzzled, and he asks, “Why were you walking across the road?”
The owl gets angry. “Okay, buddy. I didn’t know this was a racist bar! I’ll just finish my Guiness and leave. I know where I’m not wanted!”
The bartender is taken aback. “Racist? What do you mean , racist! I’m no racist! This isn’t a racist bar!”
“Oh yeah? Like you weren’t about to make a chicken joke?!”
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Originally posted by Sudo
By social credit system do you mean credit report?
They've created a two-tiered society and a pass to enforce it. If you are an obedient citizen who obeys without question every command the government gives, you go on the approved citizen list and get a QR code you have to show as proof to get into businesses and venues. If you're a "non-compliant" citizen exerting your constitutional rights, then you go on the unapproved citizens list, and you are refused the QR code, and therefore banned from a vast number of retail businesses and government facilities, such as hospitals, police stations, doctor offices, malls, bars, concerts, etc.. As long as you are blindly obedient, even to unlawful orders and unlawful decrees and unlawful mandates, you're fine, otherwise, you're an "enemy combatant".
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Originally posted by Concerned_Citizen
Thank you Mr Science
What You Need to Know Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines teach our cells how to make a protein that will trigger an immune response inside our bodies. Like all vaccines, mRNA vaccines benefit people who get vaccinated by giving them protection against diseases like COVID-19 without risking the potentially serious consequences of getting sick. mRNA vaccines are newly available to the public. However, researchers have been studying and working with mRNA vaccines for decades.
You’re woefully misinformed but thanks ☺️
It kills your T cells, moron.
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Originally posted by RIPtotse
JW..why do peoples discharge papers say The only way to not get covid 19 is to avoid coming in contact with it, as there are no current vaccinations?
This is within the past 2 weeks
It's because the mRNA gene therapy isn't a vaccine. Never was. A real vaccine provides protection from transmission and some level of immunity. This doesn't, and never did.
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Asses sent to China and see how they like it there
The New York Times China Keeps 13 Million in Xi’an Under Strict Lockdown Vivian Wang and Joy Dong
China, racing to control one of its worst outbreaks in a single city since the beginning of the pandemic, has put in place a sweeping lockdown and mass testing drives, making clear that the country has no intention of abandoning its “zero Covid” policy.
Even as a growing number of countries turn away from hard lockdowns, believing their economic and human costs to be too great, the Chinese government has continued to implement harsh restrictions.
The city of Xi’an, in northwestern China, recorded 1,117 infections between Dec. 9 and Dec. 29, according to the government. In response, officials locked down the city of 13 million on Dec. 22, closing schools and most businesses and largely barring people from leaving home.
They ordered daily testing for residents of several districts, setting up nearly 12,000 sampling stations and deploying more than 160,000 workers. Other workers were ordered to spray the city with clouds of disinfectant for a “full-scale” deep cleaning.
Officials have attributed the spike in Xi’an to the Delta variant. China has announced only a handful of Omicron cases.
Xi’an is one of the largest Chinese cities to be locked down since the authorities sealed off Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first discovered, in January 2020. It is a popular tourist destination, known as the home of the ancient Terra Cotta Warriors.
Even in a country where abrupt lockdowns and strict epidemic-control rules have become the norm, the severe measures have prompted concern. On social media, residents have complained of having trouble ordering food online. The hashtag “Grocery shopping in Xi’an is hard” has been viewed 300 million times on Weibo, a social media platform. Censors deleted some of those posts, but officials acknowledged on Wednesday that the escalation of restrictions had contributed to logistics and staffing problems.
The number of infections in Xi’an, though high for China, is minuscule compared with caseloads elsewhere. New York City, for example, recorded nearly 40,000 new cases on Wednesday alone. But China, which is virtually the last country still trying to eliminate the virus rather than live with it, has rejected any suggestion of loosening its controls.
The lockdown comes as Beijing is set to host the Winter Olympics in February amid escalating geopolitical tensions between China and the West. And the Chinese Communist Party is eager to ensure that the Games go smoothly.
Officials elsewhere in China have adopted extreme measures to control the virus, too. In the southern region of Guangxi, the police on Tuesday paraded four people accused of violating epidemic restrictions through the streets, with boards displaying their photos and names. The practice was quickly denounced by state-run media outlets, which noted that such public shaming is illegal in China.
You lockdown nutjobs would be a perfect fit in China.
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The New York Times U.S. Coronavirus Cases Set New Records Ron DePasquale
The U.S. record for daily coronavirus cases has been broken, as two highly contagious variants — Delta and Omicron — have converged to disrupt holiday travel and gatherings, deplete hospital staffs and plunge the United States into another long winter.
As a third year of the pandemic loomed, the seven-day average of U.S. cases topped 267,000 on Tuesday, according to a New York Times database. The milestone was marked after a year that has whipsawed Americans from a relaxation of rules in the spring to a Delta-driven summer wave to another surge that accelerated with astonishing speed as Omicron emerged after Thanksgiving.
The record came only a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reduced the number of days that infected Americans should remain isolated to five days from 10. The C.D.C. changed course as Omicron’s rapid spread has worsened a labor shortage, upending the hospitality, medical and travel industries, among others. The agency did not recommend rapid testing before people left isolation, and experts warned that that omission risked seeding new cases and heaping even more pressure on already overburdened health systems.
The previous U.S. daily cases record was set on Jan. 11, when the seven-day average was 251,232. That was during a catastrophic winter that was far worse than this moment, when over 62 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated. And early evidence, including some hopeful reports from South Africa, suggests that Omicron causes milder symptoms than other variants, with vaccinations and boosters helping prevent serious illness and death.
Hospitalizations have been rising, averaging more than 71,000 a day, but remain far below peak levels. While deaths have also been increasing, the daily average of 1,243 is a fraction of the record 3,342 reported on Jan. 26.
Nevertheless, Omicron has a considerably easier time than Delta infecting vaccinated people. The coming cascade of patients threatens to overwhelm hospitals just as health care workers themselves are increasingly infected.
A sizable number of patients remain infected with the deadlier Delta variant. On Tuesday, the C.D.C. reported that Omicron cases made up a significantly lower percentage of the overall U.S. caseload than was expected, at roughly 59 percent. And for the week ending Dec. 18, the agency revised down its estimate of 73 percent to about 23 percent, meaning Delta remained dominant until this week.
Omicron is undoubtedly becoming the dominant variant, and that could be good news: A new laboratory study carried out by South African scientists showed that people who had recovered from an infection with the variant might be able to fend off later infections from Delta.
Records are also being broken in Europe, but so far, the leaders of Britain, France, Spain and some other countries have resisted imposing harsh new restrictions amid calls from some who argue that it is time to accept that the virus is endemic and that countries should move away from lockdowns. These nations, confronted with Covid fatigue, are betting for now that high vaccine and booster coverage, along with earlier restrictions still in place, will be enough to keep the coronavirus manageable.
The United States has also taken a similar path, as President Biden has repeatedly said that the era of lockdowns is over and promised to increase testing, double down on vaccination campaigns and prop up hospitals. But public health experts have warned that the measures will not be sufficient to prevent soaring infections and hospitalizations over the next few weeks. And demand for tests has exploded while manufacturers are scrambling to increase production and distribution.
Testing is central to New York City’s plan to keep the largest U.S. school district open in the new year. The city announced on Tuesday that it would eliminate its policy of quarantining entire classrooms exposed to the coronavirus, and would instead use a ramped-up testing program to allow students who test negative and do not have symptoms to remain in school.
Omicron is hitting the Mid-Atlantic States especially hard. Washington, Maryland and Virginia all broke records on Monday for daily case counts.
“D.C. is a marker for what we’re likely to see in much of the rest of the country,” said Neil J. Sehgal, an assistant professor of health policy at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health. “A tidal wave in Omicron cases is likely to flood much of the country in the next month.”
Oh, nooos!! A common cold! Everyone lock everything down and let's destroy the country!
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If the first jab worked, you wouldn't need a second jab. If the second jab worked, you wouldn't need a third jab. Good old common sense and logic doesn't need a source.
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