Developers are Crabgrass : Delta variant. Unvaccinated folks are populating hospital ICUs and respirators. Vaccinated incidences of Covid infection after full protocol have been happening, infrequently, and with less severe symptoms. The evidence is clear.

Saturday, July 24, 2021

Delta variant. Unvaccinated folks are populating hospital ICUs and respirators. Vaccinated incidences of Covid infection after full protocol have been happening, infrequently, and with less severe symptoms. The evidence is clear.

Websearch = breakthrough cases covid-19.

Guardian report, "It’s too late’: US doctor says dying patients begging for Covid vaccine -- At least 99% of those in US who died of Covid in the last six months had not been vaccinated, says CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky "

Guardian, "Fox News backs Covid vaccination – a pity no one told Tucker Carlson."

Guardian, " ‘Heart-wrenching’: inside a hospital grappling with Delta and vaccine hesitancy"

Doth protest too much? Or facts being as facts are? Maskless unvaxxed gambling, is it better than losing some money at the casino? Is it a bigger thrill?

DWT - mention of a political angle:

David Frum ended his Atlantic column, Vaccinated America Has Had Enough, this morning with a question: "Will Blue America ever decide it’s had enough of being put medically at risk by people and places whose bills it pays? Check yourself: Have you?" I have-- and long ago. That's why I cheer whenever any of them threaten secession. How much better off would the United States be without them! Build that wall!
Frum: "In the United States, this pandemic could’ve been over by now, and certainly would’ve been by Labor Day. If the pace of vaccination through the summer had been anything like the pace in April and May, the country would be nearing herd immunity. With most adults immunized, new and more infectious coronavirus variants would have nowhere to spread. Life could return nearly to normal. Experts list many reasons for the vaccine slump, but one big reason stands out: vaccine resistance among conservative, evangelical, and rural Americans. Pro-Trump America has decided that vaccine refusal is a statement of identity and a test of loyalty. In April, people in counties that Joe Biden won in 2020 were two points more likely to be fully vaccinated than people in counties that Donald Trump won: 22.8 percent were fully vaccinated in Biden counties; 20.6 percent were fully vaccinated in Trump counties. By early July, the vaccination gap had widened to almost 12 points: 46.7 percent were fully vaccinated in Biden counties, 35 percent in Trump counties. When pollsters ask about vaccine intentions, they record a 30-point gap: 88 percent of Democrats, but only 54 percent of Republicans, want to be vaccinated as soon as possible. All told, Trump support predicts a state’s vaccine refusal better than average income or education level.

Is it Schadenfreude from DWT's Howie Klein, with his post titled, "The Patheticness Of The GOP Is Almost The Only Thing Democrats Have Going For Them?"

Seemingly casting scorn all around.

Politically. But at DWT, also, geographically as well as politically -

Tonight's meme shows a very fitting form that statues for COVID could take but I have an additional idea: How about a statue of an awkward leaning 370 lb. orange freak with a basket full of virus spores in one tiny hand while the other tiny hand is depicted casting the virus spores into the air! There could be a nice plaque commemorating the hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths caused by the Orange Menace To Society, his administration, his party and his supporters in the media. The irony of how Trump will end up having more deaths on his hands than Sherman and Grant will be surely missed by all.

Overlapping Venn Diagrams. Said in a more embellished manner.

________UPDATE________

That is not all DWT has to say about their perceived overlapping of Venn Diagrams - something said with perhaps a bit of venom in mind while hitting the post's typing keys -

Herd Immunity-- A Beautiful Thing

Poster by Chip Proser

There were 10 states where Trump got over 2 million votes in the 2020 election, only 4 of which he won. This isn't about percentages; this is about raw numbers of Trump voters. And if Generalisimo COVID was looking for strategic places to easily infect, he might look for concentrations of Trump voters, the least likely demographic to be vaccinated. These are the states where the most people voted for Trump, along with the 14 day change in the number of new cases and hospitalizations:
California: 6,006,429 (up 213% and 58%)
Texas: 5,890,347 (up 162% and 57%)
Florida: 5,668,731 (up 227% and 95%)
Pennsylvania: 3,377,674 (up 158% and down 4%)
New York: 3,244,798 (up 192% and 9%)
Ohio: 3,154,834 (up 141% and 17%)
North Carolina- 2,758,775 (up 180% and 30%)
Michigan- 2,649,852 (up 136% and 3%)
Georgia: 2,461,854 (up 220% and 64%)
Illinois: 2,446,891 (up 143% and 26%)
How do we know these are Trumpists getting sick? We don't know for sure but when we look at the correlation between the counties with the most Trumpists and the case loads, it becomes impossible to deny. These are the worst-hit counties per capita in each of these states-- along with the percentage of voters who were stupid enough to try to reelect Trump in 2020:
Lassen County, CA- 1 in 5 people infected (74.5% Trump)
Childress County, TX- 1 in 5 people infected (85.3% Trump)
Lafayette County, FL- 1 in 5 people infected (85.5% Trump)
Forest County, PA- 1 in 5 people infected (71.1% Trump)
Suffolk County, NY- 1 in 7 people infected (49.4% Trump)
Pickaway County, OH- 1 in 7 people infected (72.7% Trump)
Hyde County, NC- 1 in 7 people infected (56.9% Trump)
Luce County, MI- 1 in 5 people infected (70.1% Trump)
Bacon County, GA- 1 in 7 people infected (86.1% Trump)
Cass County, IL- 1 in 6 people infected (68.2% Trump)
No one in the media wants to point out that it's the moron Trumpists who are bringing the pandemic back to America. If they don't have the brains to protect themselves, their families and their communities from a virus, how can anyone actually believe they have the brains to vote? The Associated Press reported on how horrible things are getting without once pointing out the correlation between Trump voters and COVID cases, which have tripled nationally in the last two weeks "amid an onslaught of vaccine misinformation that is straining hospitals, exhausting doctors and pushing clergy into the fray."

Arguably, a bit of Schadenfreude went into that op-ed/report.

From Women's March - 10-2-2021 - imagery speaks

Image is cropped from one of a series of Buzzfeed images. Click the image to access the Buzzfeed coverage of that march. This was a major event in Washington, D.C., and it happened mid-way after Trump had been fired by voters in the 2020 election, and before the one approaching. To assert as MN GOP politicians have that abortion is not an issue is an insensitive fiction concocted in some smoke filled GOP backroom. Do not let a GOP intent to deceive misleed your vote. The issue IS ON THE BALLOT. Women deserve dominion over their bodies, we all deserve privacy in our lifetime decision making.

Cracker fear and loathing toward Critical Race Theory has its precedent.

The precedent - Integration dodging intent behind segregated "non-profit" private schools, after the Brown decision was issued. Leading a twisted mind, Paul Weyrich, to issue-monger.

Politico in 2014 posted the true history of the ginned up propagandized opposition to abortion among the nation's hordes of Evangelicals as the "Weyrich solution" to energize the base. Leading to grave mischief. Evangel-Jesus-jockeys, with fellow travelers, (many of whom are surveyed as not as worked up about Roe as Alito would want you to falsely believe). Some, "foaming-at-the-mouth" rabid, however -

This is for you, Gipper and crowd.

Click that Wikipedia image, get THE STORY (and a link to the enlarged image, copyright info and all). GET: Online info leading into a new year via some pre-1947 new "old thoughts." New to many first time voters - this cycle. Not the thoughts, but the history. A history not to be found in Gipper speech transcripts, nor the Gipper's presidential library papers. Hello, Joe, Dem Party history, so pay attention. Pre-Clinton, Pre-Obama, but Dem party new-old nostalgia. Good old ways. Show the guts to walk that talk.

War Crime - Crime Against Humanity - Today, Now.

Let's go Brandon?

Yes, it relates to a NASCAR event, NASCAR attendees making a statement. But given how fifteen bucks got disappeared, and now Build Back Inconsequentially is pending, shouldn't we all chant? Trust whoever you care to, but wouldn't you like to see trust earned? Actions speak louder than words, while inaction when action is needed speaks loudest? Truthfully so? Pharma prices if anything have gone upward since Trump left while Manchin's daughter's a part of it via her grotesque EpiPen market manipulation and price gouging (a/k/a contract, combination, conspiracy in restraint of trade to gain market segment monopolization). Who might they want to fool? Biden's Justice Department appearing to not be looking at EpiPen under antitrust criminal law? Student debt relief is an aim of many, yet Biden has made no move to be helpful. Never mind Medicare for All sidetracked - Not even cosmetic change is being made to Obama's Romneycare? Taking progressives for a buggy ride? DC redux? Money talks? A Congress of old owned lackeys? Let's go Brandon?

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MYOGA - Make Yacht Owners Gain Again

A RIGHT - not a privilege - EVERYBODY'S RIGHT - no limits

JOE BIDEN DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL. That is because Biden's billionaires want to keep every last one of the people beholden, manageable that way, willing to compromise and to worry about the next paycheck and the mortgage, rather than worrying abstractly over the grossly unfair distribution of wealth and power in our nation. Reform of that situation is needed. HOWEVER, with the Biden White House team, we must wait for HOPE and CHANGE. He owes, as a career politician now a millionaire himself, after NOT ever biting a feeding hand. We need Bernie.

Bernie ran for President. Who cares?

Bernie Sanders early 2019 crowds from before the Democratic Party oligarchs did him in, Clyburn, Bloomberg, Biden - the usual suspects. What resonated with those crowds - a candidate for justice and fairness, finally and for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DRwz0cAt0 Joe Biden could have a Lincolnian legacy, if he cuts and runs from the big donor class he has so far courted, makes his platform the heart of that speech and delivers on the promises. If there is the will, there is the way.

More meddlesome in U.S. of A. politics. More money spent over Russians? Does that compute?

click here for image source plus NYTimes coverage.

Will there be blowback? There seems to be a disproportionate sense to DC's media-mania focus. Russians seem to make better theater, while Israelis generate movement on a scale Putin could only dream of? Essays and books could be written . . . However, in 2012 Romney and Bibi preceded Donald and Vlad mischief, in attempted outsider bias of U.S. national elections. Donald never visited Vlad in Russia. Romney did visit and schmooze Bibi, in Israel. "Double standard?" Go figure.

Doug Wardlow's police pal, Bob Kroll.

POLICE ENDORSED has to have a meaning, a context, and a discernible personality. G.R.Anderson writing over a decade ago, in a CityPages item, puts in a context, Bob Kroll, further fleshed out, here. It behooves the public to know who the supporters of a politician are, (photo above), since that reflects on the politician. "Rule of Law" must have a meaning to Kroll, one which few would share. Why is Mainstream Media not asking about POLICE ENDORSED, a Wardlow tout point?

IN ADDITION: In this image, isn't it Bob Kroll standing to the right hand of friend Wardlow? Looks like him. Paired Ellison haters? Anti-Muslim cohorts? How far back does the pairing go? And how has the pairing grown over time or evolved, from what start? Is there some Dobson joinder? The press should inquire.

Douglas Gary Wardlow did not merely throw the first stone . . .

He unleashed an ADF salvo, earning his ADF paycheck. Read about it, here, here and here. Outlawyered on appeal, Wardlow now apparently has no ADF paycheck. Others for ADF are pressing on. ADF appears to be a win-or-go-home team. James Dobson's team, so walk the line. Whatever you think you want, trust me, you do not want James Dobson anywhere near our attorney general office. A Berniecrat is the other choice, and is a good choice because Bernie's policies are the only future the Democratic Party has whether they accept that or not. Aimee Stephens is as human as I am, as human as Wardlow and Dobson and Hillstrom and Pelikan, the latter two seeming to have gone silent. Ms. Stevens should not be bedeviled in this Twenty-first Century. She merely wanted to be herself, do her job, and get her share. That is what each of us wants for ourselves. Evolution of politics is overdue. Ellison got piled on; is getting piled on. Click the above image.

Sell 'em Prosperity Gospel and feed 'em beans. Some never catch on.

What is Prosperity Gospel? It is: Channeling the mind of a brick into GOP and related dogma. Read this Minnesota story. Click the image to read its fine print. (image source: Bluestem Prairie) The image shows a part of the "mind" of a 30 yr. and still-going Prosperity Gospel faithful attendee. A Dev Crabgrass post fleshes things out. Islamaphobia is but one dimension of a larger "GOP base" stupidity. Stupidity you can bank on. HINT: Follow links in items linked here. Questions will get answered. And --- There's more -

DINO NEWS: Democrats in Name Only; they exist as a problem.

a DINO with an up-top money slot

This link. Al Franken in the linked WashTimes item is quoted:
“There are a lot of Minnesotans who are Franken-Trump voters. You have to go and talk to them, and you have to listen. That’s what we need to do. We need to listen.”
Al knows the score better. Al knows Sanders-Franken voter numbers dwarf that Trump-Franken segment, as to where Al needs to pay most attention, "to listen."

Al, in no uncertain terms, should be telling Tom Perez and the beltway money-bunnies of a new fresh smell in the air. Recognizing (in kind wording) one DINO foundation-family's drift, now, into irrelevancy is far from admitting what's relevant and moving full speed to the Bernie side of the force.

Dinosaurs, DINO ways and means, must and will be extinct (can you say "Primary Joe Manchin and Clair McCaskill"). As Al in the item says; listen. Hear Bernie sounding like a giant asteroid strike upon a DINO status quo. Indeed, primary the poster DINO-bunny of artful misdirection and status quo actions, Cory Booker. Gain attention from that, successful or not. Ideally, send Cory to work with Eric Cantor on Wall Street, where his heart is.