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December 30, 2021

Number of reported covid cases today shatters old record. Almost a half a million cases

465,000 cases today. Previous was in the low 300,000s. Good thing this latest strain seems to be less dangerous.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

December 28, 2021

'Don't Look Up' Is Basically About How Collectively Stupid Society Is

‘Don’t Look Up’ Is Basically About How Collectively Stupid Society Is
BY MUSTAFA GATOLLARI
DEC. 27 2021, PUBLISHED 1:11 A.M. ET

You can never really underestimate a human being's capacity for stupidity and blatant willingness to completely ignore evidence. Adam McKay's latest Netflix feature, Don't Look Up, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Timothee Chalamet, Cate Blanchett, and Tyler Perry is basically about this very real human phenomenon. And there are a lot of folks who think it might also be about COVID.

Is 'Don't Look Up' about COVID?
In terms of the film's plot, no. Don't Look Up is about a team of scientists who have discovered that a huge comet is on a collision course with planet Earth and all of the trouble these folks go through to warn the world, though they have hard data acquired through lifetimes of research to back their claims up. When they attempt to alert humanity of the problem, they're met with mockery and mobilization of different political leaders and parties who use the kerfuffle surrounding the event to further their own agendas.

In the movie, Jennifer Lawrence plays astronomer Kate Dibiasky, who discovers a massive comet while working with Dr. Randall Mindy. At first, they're stoked to make such a glorious scientific find, but then they realize that the comet is probably going to hit the planet that we're living on (Earth, in case you missed that day in school) and kill us all.

Link to article: https://www.distractify.com/p/is-dont-look-up-about-covid?utm_source=dfy&utm_medium=facebook%20&fbclid=IwAR3_a3Udfbd6fheo2GkKCYJJRg7k9fcXCl11_mvixx0tbF7ZBuhLiU1o_U0



December 28, 2021

Just got to thinking about people who didn't stay in and spread Covid early on

I know this is mostly a different strain now but when you think about how one person can infect several people and those several people infect several people and so on and so on. It's possible some idiots may have killed thousands if not tens of thousands of people and will never know it. Sure, some people taking precautions spread it as well, but that is different from people who were reckless.

December 28, 2021

Live: Second Confederate Time Capsule Opened Now

They are about an hour into this so you might want to click on earlier parts of the video:


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