Pandemic of testing. Never been tested myself, but who are these people lining up to be tested without symptoms? I would think that a covid testing center would be the last place that I would want to be, lol.
The testing is all part of this IMHO. If they don't get us with one of the pieces of the compliance puzzle they will try to get us with another. That's why I have said NO to *all* of it from the beginning. No mask. No test. No distancing. No lock down. No No No. It amazes me that so many people will go get tested for something they don't have symptoms for so they can go home and be terrified. It's one thing to be screened for cancer. But tested for a cold, flu or any type of respiratory virus before having symptoms? Those things are almost never-ending and we would always find ourselves testing positive for something eventually. It's absolute madness and amazing that so many just can't see it.
The data may be made public now, but the mathematical certainty that asymptomatic testing for acute viral respiratory disease would result in almost all false negatives has been known for decades, via Bayes Theorem. My simplified restatement of Bayes Theorem is that when something is likely and you test for it, then a positive result is likely true, but if something is unlikely (e.g., COVID disease in the face of no signs or symptoms and a "positive" test result based on bizarrely high PCR cycle thresholds), then a positive result is likely to be a false positive. Those of us who are familiar with these concepts were calling these test results mostly falsely positive well over a year ago. It's unconscionable that so many others, also familiar with the concepts, did not do so and even pretended that these results were true positives requiring actions such as quarantine and injection.
That along with the fear mongering that you can get it twice. I did my own test my whole family had it in April except one daughter who was not home , in July she got sick (a bad cold essentially) and was positive we all 6 lived as normal with her , no isolation no quarantine not one of the 5 of us were re infected and she shares a room with her sister. So please nothing we have been fed is true.
That these “test” have nothing to do with a disease was obvious for everyone with a bit of science background, even for the inventor. But after a year most of them have been silenced by social media pressures. What a crazy time. How can we get out of that loop?
Because so many first string football players are now testing positive and disrupting the schedule and upcoming playoff season, the geniuses that run the NFL have decided that the best solution to their little epidemic crisis is that they won't test vaccinated players if they are asymptomatic.
There’s a testing center near me so I monitor it frequently- in the past few days the lines have been out the door again- it’s winter in Chicago- so not fun. The lines are directly proportional to the media hysteria.
There's one here in Dunedin NZ too. It's completely empty. But right next to the University which is currently empty of students. I hope that it comes down by mid February (when the students come back) because it's an evil looking thing.
Oh, so sorry Rich that you have such a deranged idiot for a prime minister!!! We were in Dunedin in 2019 when the mosque shooting happened and I knew she was a nut-job when she donned a hijab. I am so sorry for what you all are enduring there. You have a beautiful country and I get to enjoy seeing one place we visited when I view the Cornell Ornithology Birdcam site at the Royal Albatross colony. It was a birding trip w/a college group we tagged along with and my memories are fuzzy b/c I came down with the flu 2 days before we flew out and was in survival mode for most of the trip. BUT, I recognize the albatross colony coastal area b/c it was at the end of the trip!
I was just discussing that event with my daughter today. In retrospect, I'm about 99% sure that whole thing was a gov't set-up in preparation for what's going on right now.
Tbh, I don't know enough about the dynamics in NZ to make any kind of connection to the plandemic. But you can look at the increase in shootings in the US and believe it's part of a plan to take all the guns.
The only busy time here seemed to be the reopening of schools. Then the website said that 'cases' were positive tests, so a kid testing positive 5 times in row are 5 cases. That is when I abandoned that web site. From this map it seems I am in a fairly decent place. Kids have been in school all but 4 weeks in spring last year, and then they let the school year take a little longer so they did not miss anything. No masks. Just like there is nothing. Very few maskers here. Bigger town is worse.
They tried to reinstitute a mask mandate here in the fall. It didn't last. Less than half complied and those that didn't weren't hassled. Just fizzled out.
Civil disobedience works. We have mask mandates in our county right now. I haven't worn one anywhere in months. No one says a damn thing. They don't even look at me crossly anymore. Even the True Believers have given up policing their customers.
yeah..... I just keep my mouth shut now. Your mom is just innocently following your sister. My very own relatives here in US, and also my cousins in UK and Austria are fully vaxxed to the maxx.
They just closed my kid's private school (Long Island) not because of "cases" in school, but because of RISK of "cases" due to Nassau County numbers! It's the two weeks to stop the spread argument, again. I won't miss this place once we move!
Too bad the democrats in congress, all double vaxxed and some even triple, are now themselves coming down with Covid. Will they likely switch parties?? Or at least not go to one for awhile?
I decided last year that these NYT maps are a load of crap. Testing more than actual illness. Then I decided to only look at the map showing deaths. Then I decided those were also a load of crap, as those numbers are also overblown. Life is better not viewing these maps every morning. Fear-mongering up the wazoo, in my opinion.
That sounds like a great personal policy! I know people who are glued to the daily so-called death and/or case count. The monsters behind the scenes did an incredible job of propagandizing people so thoroughly that they got addicted to the fear response and now can't stop getting that "rush". Without it, they are like an addict trying to quit using.
I live in the West Palm area, and I can verify we are flooded at this time of year with people from the NE. But most are living their lives mask free as they should be. Right now I’m At my 2nd big concert of the weekend, mask free, as I sit and wait for it start.
What's tragic is testing doesn't work, and that's what they've based the entire plandemic hoax upon. Still pushing it, and people still believe in 'testing'.
Yep. It's been clear since April 2020 the virus was far too widespread to stop, and we should restrict testing to people who are actually sick. But that doesn't sell hundreds of millions of tests.......
I've decided I'm going to start asking those I know if they are going to wear a face diaper (may even use that term!) for the rest of their lives? When they answer, "Of course, there's STILL COVID!" I'm going to point out that there will ALWAYS be covid; it's endemic, everyone's going to get it eventually, so get over it. I will want to add: and stop being a stupid, complying sheep!
Sadly I'm sure the lesson our 'leaders' have learned is that we ALSO need to test everybody all the time for flu and count anybody with a tiny bit of flu virus in them when they die (or a month before) as a flu death.
This is a map of Covidian activity - people who line up for their false positive pcr tests and vaxxed people who get sick. Normal people who get colds or flu just stay home and get over it (preferably with a pot of hot tea, a good book and a cat or two on the couch). Normal people don't appear on these statistics.
I see I'm in a "hot spot" - Massachusetts. Report from the ground here is lots of healthy people out and about without much mask wearing at all. The Covidians must mostly be huddled at home or trying to get into the e.r. The rest of us haven't noticed they're missing.
I’m in buffalo for Christmas. Home Depot and lowes almost no masks. Wegmans, yuppies and progressives all masked. My local fruit market, no masks. In the county with my neighbor farms, not a damn mask in sight. Love the country folk. ❤️
I agree. City people are so dependent on "the system" - it is the only reality they have. I'm on Cape Cod, which isn't what many people would think of as rural, but it kind of is in many ways, certainly far more so than Boston is. My daily life is very grounded in the natural world, even if most of my work is in the cybersphere.
New York Legislation Provides for Indefinite Detention of Unvaccinated at Governor’s Whim | National Pulse
In the next legislative session beginning January 5th, 2022, the New York Senate and Assembly could vote on a bill that would grant permissions to remove and detain cases, contacts, carriers, or anyone suspected of presenting a “significant threat to public health” and remove them from public life on an indefinite basis.
The bill gives the Governor of New York, his or her delegates – including but not limited to the commissioner and heads of local health departments – the right to remove and detain any individuals or groups of people through issuing a single order. The orders only have to include the individual’s name(s) or “reasonably specific descriptions of the individuals or groups.”
It goes on to state that the bill will “require an individual who has been exposed to or infected by a contagious disease to complete an appropriate, prescribed course of treatment, preventive medication or vaccination,” essentially giving the government the right to detain anyone they want and forcibly vaccinate them.
As the language of the bill refers to individuals or groups who “potentially” pose a threat, the bill is a preemptive strike against anyone the the department believes has the capacity to “pose a threat in the future, such as those refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination.
The bill has received an overwhelmingly negative response on the NY Senate website. Commenters have stated that, “…This is un-American. It reminiscent of the Soviet Union locking up political opponents on the basis that they were ‘mentally unstable’…”
Gee, once again Australia leads the way - or at least one state does. The recently passed "Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management)" bill in Victoria (Australia) used very similar wording, with similar powers. Oh, and they also can throw you in jail (or issue huge fines) for protesting.
And there was no opposition either. Presented one day, given the Governor General's imprint the next day. No discussion in Parliament, no public submission.
Yeah, there was never any hesitation. Daughter, SIL, 2 1/2 yr old granddaughter. They are what life is worth living for. First, though, it’s a week+ in Virginia - son DIL, 1yr old granddaughter.
I live in PR so I can’t just jump in a car and make a road trip to see them whenever I want. So nothing within my control will stay this granddad from seeing his kids & grands. *Nothing*.
I am seriously thinking about skipping Christmas services this year. Why? Not because I am afraid of the virus itself, but I do not want to go through the hassle of having to deal with work should I find out that someone in my congregation tested positive. If I were retired that would be another thing because then I wouldn't have to answer to anyone else. But I know that the minute I answer "yes" on the checkpoint questionnaire "Have you knowingly been in contact with an infected person in the last 14 days" I will have to go down to HR, get tested, get harassed about not being vaxxed and possibly have to stay home without pay. Don't want to do that. There are already enough stupid people out there who WILL NOT STAY HOME WHEN THEY ARE SICK that I really don't want to louse up my life right now. We had a case RIGHT AT WORK last week of someone coming in sick, I mean coughing, sneezing, the whole ball of string, but because they passed the temperature test they were allowed in. Well guess what they were diagnosed with several days later? It's a joke. The protocol in such cases is to inform those employees who worked closely with that person that they have been exposed so they need to be tested/quarantined, but this was not done in this case. Only the informing part. Nobody else was told to be tested or stay home.
>> >> But I know that the minute I answer "yes" on the checkpoint questionnaire "Have you knowingly been in contact with an infected person in the last 14 days" I will have to go down to HR, get tested, get harassed about not being vaxxed and possibly have to stay home without pay. Don't want to do that.
Here's a CRAZY, INSANE idea.
You could answer "no" on the questionnaire and go about your fucking business.
Why are you willingly telling people information you don't have to tell them that will be used against you?
"Turn the other cheek" does not translate to "bend over," even in the ancient Greek.
The NFL are figuring out that less testing is the solution to this crisis. Will others follow?
"Faced with a surge of nearly 100 positive coronavirus tests in recent days – the vast majority of them occurring among players who were healthy enough to practice and play – the NFL and NFL Players Association announced on Saturday that vaccinated and asymptomatic players will be tested less frequently."
I don't know for sure that this is it, but Maryland Dept of Health servers were down for several days last week. I believe it was associated with the widespread AWS outages on the Eastern Seaboard. They weren't taking or updating any metrics and their dashboard was down.
Confusing. Maine has deep red "hot spot" in rural conservative Maine. But that same area is light yellow-orange on the "per capita" map. I would think the "hot spot" cases per 100,000 color would match the "per capita" color.
Iowan here, we are pretty much living our lives normally. Kids are and have been in school without masks. Christmas activities are going along normally. Vaccinations have leveled off. Many of us haven’t gotten vaccinated. If Joe would just leave us alone we’d be happy!
That map *appears* to give information about "cases". The trouble is that "cases" are very often conflated with positive "tests", and it's possible to test positive for months after recovery - as long as antibody count stays high. And the vaccines produce tons of antibodies, and keep doing so for months, so those people are going to have a positive "test" as well. And that's all dependent on the cycle count used - above 34 cycles, and it's over 90% false positives.
So this map doesn't tell anything about how many people are actually infectious, and can pass the disease, so it's absolutely useless for any real risk assessment - and that's the way it's been since the outset, just another pack of statistical lies, useless to assess risk, quite useful in spreading fear and herding people into taking a "vaccine" which is now proven to be unsafe and of no efficacy in stopping spread.
Yes. Notice that CA with a current 16/100,000 rate averaged across 40 million people, only Imperial County keeps that number that high. We have a statewide mask mandate now from the CEH (Chief Executive Hairgel) and threats to vaxx our kids as a prereq to cash-in our tax contributions, because of basically one county. Please do not notice the demography of Imperial County. DO NOT do it. They will call you names for noticing. You have been warned.
Wow, the entire state of Maryland is DEAD!! hahahaha
if you zoom in, I am living in that little L shaped county on the West side of very Northern Virginia. L for Loudoun County. The masking is overwhelmingly in use here. Only unmasked are the latinos doing the road work and building a new addition to my father's fancy community Ashby Ponds. . Look at that tippie point of WV, that is right ding darn NW of us. Pretty grim. Must be all of those people wearing the dirty masks
Maryland trusted Jeff Bezos, which was probably a poor life choice. MDH's data stream intakes and dashboards are all hosted on AWS and they were hosed by the widespread outages on the Eastern seaboard last week.
Pandemic of democrats.
excuse me miss rose, but would that make them "pandemocrats"?
Which is different than pandem o’cats
I like that a lot
GROAN :)
😉 😉 (wink, wink)
that 'c' makes it an euphemism
😹 Or pandemocants?
Perfect
You mean "Purrfect" don't you?
Yes! 🤭
Best laugh I’ve had today!
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Except CA
When will the research be published re the efficacy of masks ?
Maybe at the same time as the efficacy of the vaccine.
Maybe the same time the data will be published with the numbers of people dying from COVID not COVID & other underlying diseases.
Pandemic of testing. Never been tested myself, but who are these people lining up to be tested without symptoms? I would think that a covid testing center would be the last place that I would want to be, lol.
The testing is all part of this IMHO. If they don't get us with one of the pieces of the compliance puzzle they will try to get us with another. That's why I have said NO to *all* of it from the beginning. No mask. No test. No distancing. No lock down. No No No. It amazes me that so many people will go get tested for something they don't have symptoms for so they can go home and be terrified. It's one thing to be screened for cancer. But tested for a cold, flu or any type of respiratory virus before having symptoms? Those things are almost never-ending and we would always find ourselves testing positive for something eventually. It's absolute madness and amazing that so many just can't see it.
And apparently data shows now 97 percent of positive tests done on asymptomatic people are false positives.
The data may be made public now, but the mathematical certainty that asymptomatic testing for acute viral respiratory disease would result in almost all false negatives has been known for decades, via Bayes Theorem. My simplified restatement of Bayes Theorem is that when something is likely and you test for it, then a positive result is likely true, but if something is unlikely (e.g., COVID disease in the face of no signs or symptoms and a "positive" test result based on bizarrely high PCR cycle thresholds), then a positive result is likely to be a false positive. Those of us who are familiar with these concepts were calling these test results mostly falsely positive well over a year ago. It's unconscionable that so many others, also familiar with the concepts, did not do so and even pretended that these results were true positives requiring actions such as quarantine and injection.
That along with the fear mongering that you can get it twice. I did my own test my whole family had it in April except one daughter who was not home , in July she got sick (a bad cold essentially) and was positive we all 6 lived as normal with her , no isolation no quarantine not one of the 5 of us were re infected and she shares a room with her sister. So please nothing we have been fed is true.
That these “test” have nothing to do with a disease was obvious for everyone with a bit of science background, even for the inventor. But after a year most of them have been silenced by social media pressures. What a crazy time. How can we get out of that loop?
Doctors were once taught that in medical school. Before pharma turned every human condition into a disease.
Because so many first string football players are now testing positive and disrupting the schedule and upcoming playoff season, the geniuses that run the NFL have decided that the best solution to their little epidemic crisis is that they won't test vaccinated players if they are asymptomatic.
Testing without symptoms is like a participation trophy.
100%!!! Exactly how I feel.
Also a lot of money is being made with the incessant testing. $55-100 a pop.
The US government needs more of our money.
Preaching to the choir, Rob! Preaching to the choir.
brainwashed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLDpZ8daIVM
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There’s a testing center near me so I monitor it frequently- in the past few days the lines have been out the door again- it’s winter in Chicago- so not fun. The lines are directly proportional to the media hysteria.
"The lines are directly proportional to the media hysteria."
I think there is definitely something to this. The media is truly a huge black hole into which IQ and good judgement get sucked.
Where does Covid come from? All the experts have repeatedly told us......you get Covid from your TV.
There's one here in Dunedin NZ too. It's completely empty. But right next to the University which is currently empty of students. I hope that it comes down by mid February (when the students come back) because it's an evil looking thing.
Oh, so sorry Rich that you have such a deranged idiot for a prime minister!!! We were in Dunedin in 2019 when the mosque shooting happened and I knew she was a nut-job when she donned a hijab. I am so sorry for what you all are enduring there. You have a beautiful country and I get to enjoy seeing one place we visited when I view the Cornell Ornithology Birdcam site at the Royal Albatross colony. It was a birding trip w/a college group we tagged along with and my memories are fuzzy b/c I came down with the flu 2 days before we flew out and was in survival mode for most of the trip. BUT, I recognize the albatross colony coastal area b/c it was at the end of the trip!
I was just discussing that event with my daughter today. In retrospect, I'm about 99% sure that whole thing was a gov't set-up in preparation for what's going on right now.
Tbh, I don't know enough about the dynamics in NZ to make any kind of connection to the plandemic. But you can look at the increase in shootings in the US and believe it's part of a plan to take all the guns.
I know 2 people who had no symptoms and got tested simply because they bought into the asymptomatic paranoia.
Some of my family members did for fun. And it was free. They had such a good time. 🤦♀️ Covidiots.
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The only busy time here seemed to be the reopening of schools. Then the website said that 'cases' were positive tests, so a kid testing positive 5 times in row are 5 cases. That is when I abandoned that web site. From this map it seems I am in a fairly decent place. Kids have been in school all but 4 weeks in spring last year, and then they let the school year take a little longer so they did not miss anything. No masks. Just like there is nothing. Very few maskers here. Bigger town is worse.
They tried to reinstitute a mask mandate here in the fall. It didn't last. Less than half complied and those that didn't weren't hassled. Just fizzled out.
Civil disobedience works. We have mask mandates in our county right now. I haven't worn one anywhere in months. No one says a damn thing. They don't even look at me crossly anymore. Even the True Believers have given up policing their customers.
If you catch Covid while double masking, do you qualify as having Covid twice?
Are all the news cameras and reporters on scene in your town to find out what you all are doing right?
No??? Hmmm, I wonder why not? 🤣
People being tested for work, maybe? But the fully-vaxxed don’t have to be tested, do they? Hmmmmm…
You would think 🤔
At this point even being able to tell someone they are acting insane is a victory in itself. We need to keep doing this.
yeah..... I just keep my mouth shut now. Your mom is just innocently following your sister. My very own relatives here in US, and also my cousins in UK and Austria are fully vaxxed to the maxx.
They just closed my kid's private school (Long Island) not because of "cases" in school, but because of RISK of "cases" due to Nassau County numbers! It's the two weeks to stop the spread argument, again. I won't miss this place once we move!
Soon you could be arrested because you may be a risk without being infected.
Soon??? No. They already do it in Australia.
And they plan to do it here, starting in NY, not even trying to sugarcoat it: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/a416
Maybe we could use this against the Democrats. They’re infected with and transmitting insanity.
Too bad the democrats in congress, all double vaxxed and some even triple, are now themselves coming down with Covid. Will they likely switch parties?? Or at least not go to one for awhile?
This is legit insanity
Thx for the info. I am so pissed off I won’t sleep tonight. A travesty.
There appears to be a correlation between Covid infection and Biden voters.
Weird how the numbers shifted EXACTLY how the seasonality theorists said that it would -- and EXACTLY WHEN we said that it would.
https://inumero.substack.com/p/are-trump-voters-dying-from-covid
I decided last year that these NYT maps are a load of crap. Testing more than actual illness. Then I decided to only look at the map showing deaths. Then I decided those were also a load of crap, as those numbers are also overblown. Life is better not viewing these maps every morning. Fear-mongering up the wazoo, in my opinion.
That sounds like a great personal policy! I know people who are glued to the daily so-called death and/or case count. The monsters behind the scenes did an incredible job of propagandizing people so thoroughly that they got addicted to the fear response and now can't stop getting that "rush". Without it, they are like an addict trying to quit using.
It’s all overblown. The rapid tests are notoriously unreliable so people will often do both tests. Wonder which results are reported????
Gooooood question !!!
Right. I’ve given up on ‘transparency’ (meaning, ‘honesty’).
Pandemia covers this we’ll just finished that part
“…up the wazoo…” I don’t care what kind of bad mood I’m in, when I hear that phrase I can’t help but crack up !
Good thing too…cuz I need extra laughs these days 🤪
You may be just a kitten, but you are a kitten with a sharp eye and sarcastic wit.
Meow 👍
I live in the West Palm area, and I can verify we are flooded at this time of year with people from the NE. But most are living their lives mask free as they should be. Right now I’m At my 2nd big concert of the weekend, mask free, as I sit and wait for it start.
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What's tragic is testing doesn't work, and that's what they've based the entire plandemic hoax upon. Still pushing it, and people still believe in 'testing'.
Yep. It's been clear since April 2020 the virus was far too widespread to stop, and we should restrict testing to people who are actually sick. But that doesn't sell hundreds of millions of tests.......
Fauci and gates own a testing company. The rich get richer….
I've decided I'm going to start asking those I know if they are going to wear a face diaper (may even use that term!) for the rest of their lives? When they answer, "Of course, there's STILL COVID!" I'm going to point out that there will ALWAYS be covid; it's endemic, everyone's going to get it eventually, so get over it. I will want to add: and stop being a stupid, complying sheep!
I say "filthy face diaper", but do what feels right. ;)
Love it! But only if my diplomatic husband is not with me at the time.🙄
Just like the cold and flu every year.
Sadly I'm sure the lesson our 'leaders' have learned is that we ALSO need to test everybody all the time for flu and count anybody with a tiny bit of flu virus in them when they die (or a month before) as a flu death.
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Yes even when you are not showing any symptoms but heavens, you were around someone who had a sniffle!
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This is a map of Covidian activity - people who line up for their false positive pcr tests and vaxxed people who get sick. Normal people who get colds or flu just stay home and get over it (preferably with a pot of hot tea, a good book and a cat or two on the couch). Normal people don't appear on these statistics.
I see I'm in a "hot spot" - Massachusetts. Report from the ground here is lots of healthy people out and about without much mask wearing at all. The Covidians must mostly be huddled at home or trying to get into the e.r. The rest of us haven't noticed they're missing.
I’m in buffalo for Christmas. Home Depot and lowes almost no masks. Wegmans, yuppies and progressives all masked. My local fruit market, no masks. In the county with my neighbor farms, not a damn mask in sight. Love the country folk. ❤️
I agree. City people are so dependent on "the system" - it is the only reality they have. I'm on Cape Cod, which isn't what many people would think of as rural, but it kind of is in many ways, certainly far more so than Boston is. My daily life is very grounded in the natural world, even if most of my work is in the cybersphere.
What is a Wegman?
They’re going too need bigger jails.
New York Legislation Provides for Indefinite Detention of Unvaccinated at Governor’s Whim | National Pulse
In the next legislative session beginning January 5th, 2022, the New York Senate and Assembly could vote on a bill that would grant permissions to remove and detain cases, contacts, carriers, or anyone suspected of presenting a “significant threat to public health” and remove them from public life on an indefinite basis.
The bill gives the Governor of New York, his or her delegates – including but not limited to the commissioner and heads of local health departments – the right to remove and detain any individuals or groups of people through issuing a single order. The orders only have to include the individual’s name(s) or “reasonably specific descriptions of the individuals or groups.”
It goes on to state that the bill will “require an individual who has been exposed to or infected by a contagious disease to complete an appropriate, prescribed course of treatment, preventive medication or vaccination,” essentially giving the government the right to detain anyone they want and forcibly vaccinate them.
As the language of the bill refers to individuals or groups who “potentially” pose a threat, the bill is a preemptive strike against anyone the the department believes has the capacity to “pose a threat in the future, such as those refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination.
The bill has received an overwhelmingly negative response on the NY Senate website. Commenters have stated that, “…This is un-American. It reminiscent of the Soviet Union locking up political opponents on the basis that they were ‘mentally unstable’…”
❗️Please take a minute to vote ‘Nay’ on the bill (you don’t have to live in NY to vote or comment): https://www.nysenate.gov//legislation/bills/2021/A416
Read more🗞 National Pulse, NY Senate Bill
Hat tip🤠 Shamus McCrintey
Who introduced this piece of communist dung? Or let me rephrase that. Who is the communist dung that introduced this?
Gee, once again Australia leads the way - or at least one state does. The recently passed "Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management)" bill in Victoria (Australia) used very similar wording, with similar powers. Oh, and they also can throw you in jail (or issue huge fines) for protesting.
Same here in NZ, in fact we've already had that shitty law for a year.
And there was no opposition either. Presented one day, given the Governor General's imprint the next day. No discussion in Parliament, no public submission.
Just voted "nay" so I hope it counts!
Done
I live in maryland where we eradicated covid 2 weeks ago.
Watching the Packers / Ravens game now. How can people watch this and still scared to be out in public? The narrative is collapsing.
All Fall … SEC games jam-packed with partying fans ! Fauci said they would be super-spreaders….where are those reports?… 🦗 crickets
This woman is watching…
Aaron Rogers is the new Tom Brady… vaxx-free !
Hey I read the New Yorker and I am a real birthing person. I don’t read it for the cartoons (no humor) but just to see how far the left has fallen.
Looks like there's a correlation with high 'vaccination' rates. New Mexico, Nebraska, NorthEast, elderly in Miami
That's really weird, I thought the NYT said that Trump voting areas in particular were dropping like flies.
Shurely this was not some sort of dreaded "misinformation"?
We all died and there was no one left to report data, you see.
I'm knee-deep in the corpses of my neighbors as I type this.
Every one of them said "if only I'd gotten the vaccine" as their last words.
You'll just have to take my word for it.
Great. My destiny is to visit family in seacoast NH/southern Maine the first week of January...
But Maine is the hottest on the map right now. Our patience is wearing thin and they are costing all of us.
Go and enjoy your family. Don’t let false fear ruin your life.
Yeah, there was never any hesitation. Daughter, SIL, 2 1/2 yr old granddaughter. They are what life is worth living for. First, though, it’s a week+ in Virginia - son DIL, 1yr old granddaughter.
I live in PR so I can’t just jump in a car and make a road trip to see them whenever I want. So nothing within my control will stay this granddad from seeing his kids & grands. *Nothing*.
Sen Olympia Snow is a second cousin... blow her some raspberries when you hit Maine for me?
Surprise! Seasonality continues to trump anything we do......
I am seriously thinking about skipping Christmas services this year. Why? Not because I am afraid of the virus itself, but I do not want to go through the hassle of having to deal with work should I find out that someone in my congregation tested positive. If I were retired that would be another thing because then I wouldn't have to answer to anyone else. But I know that the minute I answer "yes" on the checkpoint questionnaire "Have you knowingly been in contact with an infected person in the last 14 days" I will have to go down to HR, get tested, get harassed about not being vaxxed and possibly have to stay home without pay. Don't want to do that. There are already enough stupid people out there who WILL NOT STAY HOME WHEN THEY ARE SICK that I really don't want to louse up my life right now. We had a case RIGHT AT WORK last week of someone coming in sick, I mean coughing, sneezing, the whole ball of string, but because they passed the temperature test they were allowed in. Well guess what they were diagnosed with several days later? It's a joke. The protocol in such cases is to inform those employees who worked closely with that person that they have been exposed so they need to be tested/quarantined, but this was not done in this case. Only the informing part. Nobody else was told to be tested or stay home.
>> >> But I know that the minute I answer "yes" on the checkpoint questionnaire "Have you knowingly been in contact with an infected person in the last 14 days" I will have to go down to HR, get tested, get harassed about not being vaxxed and possibly have to stay home without pay. Don't want to do that.
Here's a CRAZY, INSANE idea.
You could answer "no" on the questionnaire and go about your fucking business.
Why are you willingly telling people information you don't have to tell them that will be used against you?
"Turn the other cheek" does not translate to "bend over," even in the ancient Greek.
Umm...I'm not sure...but I think you are looking at this more like a dog than a cat. I love dogs, but they are not as clever as cats.
Leave your phone at home, go to church, and answer NO. Don't play their game.
The NFL are figuring out that less testing is the solution to this crisis. Will others follow?
"Faced with a surge of nearly 100 positive coronavirus tests in recent days – the vast majority of them occurring among players who were healthy enough to practice and play – the NFL and NFL Players Association announced on Saturday that vaccinated and asymptomatic players will be tested less frequently."
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/12/18/sanity-prevails-nfl-test-vaccinated-players-less-frequently/
And they’re still complaining about florida. They’re just jealous!
Looks like the east coast snowbirds have come back with the virus.
Not true. They don’t head back till March/April. 😃
When I said “back” I meant here which is Florida. Fortunately They are no where me.
The south will rise again!
Why is there no data for Maryland?
I don't know for sure that this is it, but Maryland Dept of Health servers were down for several days last week. I believe it was associated with the widespread AWS outages on the Eastern Seaboard. They weren't taking or updating any metrics and their dashboard was down.
Confusing. Maine has deep red "hot spot" in rural conservative Maine. But that same area is light yellow-orange on the "per capita" map. I would think the "hot spot" cases per 100,000 color would match the "per capita" color.
miami is a suburb of manhattan.....
What is really weird about that map in Iowa. What are they doing to keep Covid out?
Iowan here, we are pretty much living our lives normally. Kids are and have been in school without masks. Christmas activities are going along normally. Vaccinations have leveled off. Many of us haven’t gotten vaccinated. If Joe would just leave us alone we’d be happy!
Yep Iowa has been great. Amazing Governor. I’m a native Iowan and follow it closely.
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This ISU grad sends greetings to all the wonderful Iowans with sense!
Merry Christmas! We’re sure trying to keep things sane!
Same you you!
Nothing.
💥 BAM !
They're following the Amish protocol. Live life normally.
I'm gonna put a PCR machine in the cold spot, crank it up to 40 cycles, and produce a new hot spot in a couple of days.
That map *appears* to give information about "cases". The trouble is that "cases" are very often conflated with positive "tests", and it's possible to test positive for months after recovery - as long as antibody count stays high. And the vaccines produce tons of antibodies, and keep doing so for months, so those people are going to have a positive "test" as well. And that's all dependent on the cycle count used - above 34 cycles, and it's over 90% false positives.
So this map doesn't tell anything about how many people are actually infectious, and can pass the disease, so it's absolutely useless for any real risk assessment - and that's the way it's been since the outset, just another pack of statistical lies, useless to assess risk, quite useful in spreading fear and herding people into taking a "vaccine" which is now proven to be unsafe and of no efficacy in stopping spread.
Yes. Notice that CA with a current 16/100,000 rate averaged across 40 million people, only Imperial County keeps that number that high. We have a statewide mask mandate now from the CEH (Chief Executive Hairgel) and threats to vaxx our kids as a prereq to cash-in our tax contributions, because of basically one county. Please do not notice the demography of Imperial County. DO NOT do it. They will call you names for noticing. You have been warned.
The ends justify the means, right? This is Obama and alllll of his acolytes
Covidianism. They must continue to mask during this very dark Winter. Perhaps they will be able see visions of Oblamer and touch the hem of his coat
Wow, the entire state of Maryland is DEAD!! hahahaha
if you zoom in, I am living in that little L shaped county on the West side of very Northern Virginia. L for Loudoun County. The masking is overwhelmingly in use here. Only unmasked are the latinos doing the road work and building a new addition to my father's fancy community Ashby Ponds. . Look at that tippie point of WV, that is right ding darn NW of us. Pretty grim. Must be all of those people wearing the dirty masks
Like most of the spoilt elite, they have delegated the move to their underlings, the virus, so that they can stay put.
Has anyone watched the UK booster tv ad, with dreary dipshit Chris Patty and his message "OMG Covid get boosted"?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nja6kj2AzyU
No mention of mild symptoms, just fear and compliance.
Those are some dark red highly vaccinated areas! Must be unvaccinated people on vacation causing it! 🤣
Did Maryland stop trusting science, and that's why it's no longer reporting its covid cases?
Maryland trusted Jeff Bezos, which was probably a poor life choice. MDH's data stream intakes and dashboards are all hosted on AWS and they were hosed by the widespread outages on the Eastern seaboard last week.
Miami/FLaud/WPB have an older population.
Shoo Satan!