December 28, 2021

How awful

A "bias towards vaccinations"?! OMG!


As for therapeutics, well, Fauci IS biased against quack medicines that have been pushed as "therapeutics" like Ivermectin, HCL, etc. (and rightly so)

December 27, 2021

They couldn't wait to throw everybody else off of UI

I sure hope for Joe Manchin's sake that they aren't using the money to buy drugs or go hunting.

December 25, 2021

Trump Rehab?

Is he "Presidential" now or something because he contradicted Candace Owens, one of the top anti-vaxx disinformers, about the vaccines, which he is now accepting some credit for?

December 17, 2021

Lemme just say this:

There are no "non-working" parents!

December 16, 2021

I'm not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt

that being said, I'm much less apocalyptic than some here about their ability to outright steal elections without people noticing and there being a massive outcry- even if they think they have laws that sanction it.

I have a feeling that most Trumpers and other assorted miscreants taking on these positions will not be able to maintain their positions for very long simply because they're bound to show their a**es pretty quick JMHO

December 11, 2021

"The Pandemic of the Vaccinated Is Here" -Rachel Gutman

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/fully-vaccinated-omicron-infections/620953/

Interested in everybody's thought on this. Seems like the author is suggesting that the vaccinated just stopped caring about COVID at some point and that now with Omicron, we're all highly vulnerable again, not just the unvaccinated?

December 7, 2021

2016 wasn't "fair" for HRC

Trump stacking SCOTUS with THREE nominees, including stealing a seat that was supposed to have been Obama's to fill also wasn't "fair".

Trump neglecting and mismanaging COVID here in the US wasn't "fair"

Trump trying to overthrow the legitimately elected government wasn't "fair."

I could go on............

December 5, 2021

"Natural Immunity" "Vaccinated?"

I was listening to a little of Michael Smerconish (yeah, yeah) on CNN yesterday, discussing whether or not we should consider people whom have had COVID as essentially the same as being vaccinated, and thus be spared from vaccination mandates, like an "olive branch" Biden could offer the unvaccinated. He stated that some European countries are already doing this. Has the science been settled on this? Like how effective previous COVID infections are at preventing future re-infections? I thought that the general scientific consensus at the moment is that the most effective way to prevent further COVID infection and potential re-infection is for somebody who has had COVID to ALSO get vaccinated (and just for people to get vaccinated in general)? Relying on just previous COVID infection seems like a cop out to me, and an inffective one at that. It just doesn't seem comparable to me but interested in hearing other people's opinions on this (or some more information).

December 5, 2021

Inquiring minds want to know this as well!

We push policies that would help everybody in the country, including rural voters and get attacked and smeared for them by Republicans and then a lot of rural voters hate us and vote Republican based on the lies and smears. It’s hard to know what else to do. I can’t help but feel that when I read things like this what we are really being asked to do is pander to some of their racist or bigoted beliefs or other views that are harmful to other people or that they just think we should elevate their concerns and priorities over other people’s, which, of course what Republicans are always willing to do, hence why they usually keep winning their votes (unless they actually support Republican “policies” in which case, again, how do we win them over without just becoming Republican-lite ourselves?)

December 4, 2021

Pyrrhic Victory JMHO

Once Roe is overturned and states can go back to banning abortions, then states will have to decide a series of logistical questions that may make them wish they hadn't

1. Who does the state charge? Doctors? Women? Both?
2. What will the penalties be?
3. How will miscarriages be handled?
4. What happens when a highly publicized case of a woman dying whose life would have been saved by an abortion happens and is splashed all over the news and social media?
5. Will they pass additional funding for adoption and foster care services for all of the babies being left at Firehouses and other designated "safe havens"?
6. Will they pass additional funding for pre-natal services and childcare, financial assistance for impoverished families?
7. Will they promote comprehensive sex education to prevent unwanted pregnancies?
8. Will banning abortion in their states make it less of an attractive place for younger, more liberal people to move to their states?

The answer to some of these questions are clearly obvious and some they probably don't even care about (if they're even thinking of them) but it will all come into painful focus if and when Roe is overturned and states ban abortion completely. And this isn't even to mention the potential political fallout. Their anti-choice, anti-birth control, anti-LGBTQ policies are wildly out of step with the overall public. Hell, the Republican Party hasn't won the popular vote for President (and maybe not even overall Congressional vote) since 2004 and they've only managed to hang on through the use of inherently unfair structural advantages. That may even not be enough to contain the political fallout, at leat for the long-term. They are playing with fire and they are going to get burned IMHO.