Vaccinated Account For Majority Of Wuhan Flu Deaths

By William Teach November 25, 2022 – 7:00 am

Obviously, some caveats need be mentioned, such as not having vaccines really through 2020, and it took a while to get a large chunk vaccinated in 2021

Vaccinated Americans a majority of COVID deaths for first time in August: analysis

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus were at least partially vaccinated, according to a new analysis of federal and state data.

The waning efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and increasingly contagious strains of the virus being spread to elderly and immunocompromised people have resulted in more deaths among those who have taken at least one vaccine dose, a Washington Post analysis published Wednesday finds.

“Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted,” the Post reported.

The paper described a “troubling trend” as the share of deaths of people who were vaccinated has been “steadily rising” over the past year.

So, the vaccines and boosters aren’t working that well?

“In September 2021, vaccinated people made up just 23 percent of coronavirus fatalities. In January and February this year, it was up to 42 percent,” the Washington Post’s Fenit Nirappil and Dan Keating wrote.

Huh. How many had pre-existing conditions, and how many didn’t? How many did it keep from getting bad covid? Meanwhile

Piss off. They don’t even know what men and women are. And here’s Forbes

Gee, with Covid-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and influenza cases on the rise, what would be a simple way to protect yourself and other people? How about that thing that rhymes with simple ask, meaning wear a face mask? Well, the hashtags #MaskUp and #BringBackMasks have been trending on Twitter with health professionals, scientists, and others urging everyone to wear face masks.

Piss off. You want to wear one, wear one. Stop trying to force everyone else into your cult, especially when I see a goodly chunk of you maskers pulling down below your nose.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 24, 2022 – 1:04 pm

…is a representation of a holiday bad for ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on holding them all accountable.

Still white tops.

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Bummer: Wild Turkeys Could Be In Danger From Climate Apocalypse

By William Teach November 24, 2022 – 8:28 am

The members of the climate cult really just can’t help doing this stuff

Can wild turkeys survive climate change?

How long does it take to cook a wild turkey? It depends who you ask.

A chef will suggest popping that bird in the oven for about two hours. Scientists, on the other hand, say it could be decades before North American turkeys are climatologically cooked.

“We know climate change will impact all of our game bird species,” Tim Lyons, an upland game researcher with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, told me for this story.

“What we don’t know is what these habitats are going to look like in 40 to 60 years,” he said. “We should probably be thinking about that now instead of waiting until something happens.”

The same people cannot accurately give us a 10 day forecast but will be able to predict Doom in 40-60 years. Their climate models do not really even work while looking at the past.

Is climate change coming for Thanksgiving turkeys?

Across the nation this year, an almost record-breaking 49 million wild and domestic birds either died as a result of the virus or were killed to limit spread, including more than 8 million turkeys, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

There’s evidence that climate change could increase avian flu’s transmission in the future. So as the planet continues to warm, outbreaks of this severity might become more common.

Sigh.

How to talk about politics with family this Thanksgiving

My post on this would be one word after the headline: don’t. Maybe 6 more: change the subject if brought up. And “don’t try and start fights.”

Your Thanksgiving dinner is a climate killer

Here’s some food for thought: Americans will waste more than 305 million pounds of food this Thanksgiving, or nearly one pound per person nationwide.

That’s according to the nonprofit ReFED, which estimates the production of this year’s never-eaten turkey legs, gravy-smothered potatoes and stuffing scraps will add over a million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere — a heavy toll for a single holiday.

Food waste remains one of the major drivers of climate change worldwide, representing around 8% of annual global emissions, according to the United Nations. “If we rank greenhouse gas emissions by country, food loss and waste would be the third largest country, behind the U.S. and before India and Russia,” said Jackie Suggitt, director of capital, innovation and engagement at ReFED, an organization that combats food waste. “It definitely is a massive piece of the puzzle.”

Food waste is a problem, but, it’s environmental, not ‘climate change’. The cultists have to drag everything under their banner. And there are many, many, many more Credentialed Media articles. Because they’re nuts.

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Happy Thanksgiving! (sticky for day)

By William Teach November 24, 2022 – 7:57 am

A Happy Thanksgiving to all. I hope you enjoy your day with your family and friends, and I thank you all for popping by this little blog.

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It’s Thanksgiving, Which Means Liberals Are Losing Their Minds, Wanting To End The Holiday

By William Teach November 24, 2022 – 7:00 am

For people who say they always look at the bright side of things, they sure are miserable and always try and look at the worst possible thing, then make it worse

The true story behind Thanksgiving is a bloody one, and some people say it’s time to cancel the holiday

Thanksgiving in the US is traditionally a time for family and food.

American schoolchildren typically learn that the tradition dates back to the Pilgrims, who helped establish Plymouth Colony in 1620 in what is now Massachusetts.

As the story goes, friendly Native Americans taught the struggling colonists how to survive in what the Europeans called the New World. Then everyone got together to celebrate with a feast in 1621.

Thanksgiving 2022 would mark the 401st anniversary of that “first” American Thanksgiving. But, in reality, Thanksgiving feasts predate Plymouth, and the peace celebrated that day was tenuous.

The real story behind the holiday is so dark, in fact, that some people are rethinking how they celebrate the holiday, or whether they should at all.

This Insider bit of moonbattery delves into good things and bad things that happened, forgetting that that’s life. That’s history for the U.S. and all other nations. These nuts will always focus on the Bad, so

The focus on racial justice in the US has some people saying that reevaluating the meaning and celebration of Thanksgiving is long overdue.

Teachers, professors, and Native Americans told The New York Times in 2020 that they were rethinking the holiday that has marginalized the US’s violence and cruelty against Native Americans, giving it names like “Takesgiving” and “The Thanksgiving Massacre.”

Well, if the liberal moonbats do not want to celebrate, then go hide. Quit whining. Leave the rest of us alone. But, no, they want to force their Beliefs on everyone else in their attempt to Cancel Thanksgiving, which is a day to gather together with friends and family and give thanks.

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Bummer: Local Temps Could Rise For Years After Solar Engineering

By William Teach November 23, 2022 – 3:00 pm

This definitely is not any sort of scam, totally science

Solar geoengineering might work, but local temperatures could keep rising for years

Imagine a future where, despite efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly, parts of the world have become unbearably hot. Some governments might decide to “geoengineer” the planet by spraying substances into the upper atmosphere to form fine reflective aerosols – a process known as stratospheric aerosol injection.

Theoretically, those tiny particles would reflect a little more sunlight back to space, dampening the effects of global warming. Some people envision it having the effect of a volcanic eruption, like Mount Pinatubo in 1991, which cooled the planet by about half a degree Celsius on average for many months. However, like that eruption, the effects could vary widely across the surface of the globe.

How quickly might you expect to notice your local temperatures falling? One year? Five years? Ten years?

And how much will you pay in taxes for this? And what could be other unexpected issues?

What if your local temperatures seem to be going up?

As it turns out, that is exactly what could happen. While modeling studies show that stratospheric aerosol injection could stop global temperatures from increasing further, our research shows that temperatures locally or regionally might continue to increase over the following few years. This insight is essential for the general public and policymakers to understand so that climate policies are evaluated fairly and interpreted based on the best available science.

So, kinda like everything else the climate cult says to do. They never seem to be able to tell us what the results will be and when. In this case, things will continue to get hotter?

In an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Sept. 27, 2022, we explore how the effectiveness of stratospheric aerosol injection could be hidden by the natural variability of Earth’s climate.

Oh, so natural variability will mess with the cult’s solar engineering to reduce Mankind’s temperature increase? Huh.

And these same people cannot even tell the difference between men and women anymore.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 23, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a field perfect for solar panels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on Disney planning to go more Woke.

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World Leaders Pushing For Chinese Coronavirus Passports

By William Teach November 23, 2022 – 10:30 am

COVID is mostly over. It’s been shown, scientifically and medically, that the COVID vaccines mostly do not prevent people from getting COVID. At best, they simply keep any contagion from getting really bad. At worse, well

  • Allergic Reactions Including Anaphylaxis
  • Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (blood clots)
  • Guillain-Barré Syndrome
  • Myocarditis and pericarditis

The CDC says these are rare. But, they keep happening. They can also cause long COVID-like symptoms. The problem here is that the vaccines were emergency use and did not go through extensive testing. I’m still not against them, if a version was raging that they could help stop me from getting bad COVID, I’d get another booster. But, the current variants are evading the vaccines and boosters. So, of course

World Leaders Sign Declaration to Introduce COVID Vaccine Passports

At this year’s G20 Summit in Indonesia, the twenty participating world leaders signed a declaration to introduce vaccine passports for their respective jurisdictions, with the stated intention of creating a global verification system to facilitate safe international travel. (snip)

In a statement, the leaders affirmed their respective countries’ support of the World Health Organization mRNA Vaccine Technology Transfer hub, which aims to build capacity in low- and middle-income countries to produce mRNA vaccines.

The leaders said they welcome joint production and research of vaccines and acknowledge the importance of shared technical standards and verification methods.

They also agreed to a globalised ‘vaccination passport’.

This shouldn’t cause any problems for the working/poor and middle classes, right?

While the details are scant at this stage, the statement says this will be done under the framework of the International Health Regulations to “facilitate seamless international travel, interoperability, and recognizing digital solutions and non-digital solutions, including proof of vaccinations.”

Indonesia’s Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that a Digital Health Certificate using World Health Organization standards would be introduced during the next World Health Assembly in Geneva, in May next year.

“If you have been vaccinated or tested properly, you can move around. So for the next pandemic, instead of stopping the movement of people 100%, you can still provide some movement of the people,” Mr Sadikin said.

Is this for the current Wuhan Flu pandemic, or control of the next pandemic (probably caused by the Chinese screwing around with viruses with lax security measures)?

So, it’s somewhat alarming that governments – and of those belonging to the G20, the majority represent democracies – would consider introducing a passport that, since it was first mooted by individual countries, been widely condemned as medical discrimination as well as a violation of privacy with serious ethical implications.

Of more concern are reports that the vaccine won’t just apply to Covid vaccinations, but also to any vaccination that WHO recommends is required for international travel.

Some it makes sense, mostly done on a country by country basis. There’s a long list of vaccinations required to enter the U.S., including polio, hepatitis A and B, mumps, and so much more. And they still require a COVID vaccination. A world-wide vax passport for COVID sounds like a massive overreach.

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NY Times And Climate Nuts Upset That UK Government Will Hold The Crazies Accountable

By William Teach November 23, 2022 – 7:15 am

In a modern, polite society we have rules. People are responsible for following those rules. Sure, some rules are dumb, some make no sense, some are idiotic, some are really unenforceable. Others, like, say, not defacing other people’s property and not blocking the streets, causing emergency vehicles like ambulances and firetrucks to not be able to get through, are rules that make sense. The climate nuts are upset they will be held accountable

As Climate Protests Get Bolder, British Police Strike Back With New Powers

When environmental protesters recently stopped traffic on the M25 freeway that circles London, one journalist, Charlotte Lynch, was standing on a bridge above reporting on the latest of the group’s disruptive demonstrations for her radio station, LBC.

But not for long. Ms. Lynch was swiftly handcuffed, searched and arrested after being questioned by two police officers about how she knew that the demonstration was taking place.

Ms. Lynch said that she had shown a press card carried by journalists in Britain to identify themselves to the police, and explained that she had learned about where the protest would be held from social media. Nonetheless, she was held for five hours at a police station, where her DNA was collected and fingerprints were taken.

Just because the British police went a bit far (they sure went way too far during COVID) …. of course, their freedom of press laws are not the same as in the U.S., and she was arrested for conspiracy to create a public nuisance….means little in terms of cracking down on the lunatics

As environmentalists and climate change activists ratchet up their protests in Britain — employing tactics that disrupt everyday life — the authorities are responding in kind with robust actions that have raised concerns that long-enshrined freedoms are being eroded.

Determined to crack down on the demonstrators, the government is giving the police new powers to tackle groups that have brought busy highways to a standstill, delayed infrastructure projects by tunneling beneath them, thrown soup at artwork and deflated the tires of SUVs.

“What I’m seeing now is, I think, a sort of spiral — I’d almost say a radicalization,” said Adam Wagner, a civil liberties lawyer and author. “I think there’s a hardening on both sides — the police and the protesters — both of the actions and the reactions. I can see that dynamic and I’m pretty worried about it.”

“The police are being asked to get involved far too much in things that should be between citizens trying to convince other citizens about their point of view in public, which is what protest is about,” he said.

So, it’s cool if other citizens beat the crap out of the protesters blocking the streets, trains, throwing blood and paint on their property, and so forth?

The government wants to go even further, citing the financial effect of the demonstrations. Protests against Britain’s HS2 high-speed railway line, for example, have cost it an added 122 million pounds, or about $145 million, a figure that is expected to rise to £200 million, according to the project’s management.

Legislation making its way through Parliament would set jail sentences of up to six months or unlimited fines for protesters accused of “locking on” to people, objects or buildings. Tunneling under infrastructure — another favored tactic of demonstrators — would carry a maximum penalty of up to three years in prison under the bill. And the police would gain news powers to stop and search people for materials that could be used for a “protest related” offense.

Just make it legal to beat the snot out of the protesters. Throw blood and paint on them. You can bet the NY Times, and the other news outlets sympathizing with the climate crazies, would feel different if it was their people and property being attacked.

The harder police line comes as activists in Britain have become increasingly willing to disrupt daily life, inspired by arguments like those made in “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” an influential book by Andreas Malm. They say the climate movement needs to escalate its tactics to call attention to the dangers of a warming planet.

If that’s your inspiration, well, yeah, you’re no longer part of polite society, and deserve to be arrested. It’s no longer free speech or peaceable protest.

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Wait, What: Senator Marshall Introduces Resolution To Block Illegals With Taxpayer Benefits From Getting Citizenship

By William Teach November 23, 2022 – 7:00 am

So, all the other illegals can get citizenship?

From the link

Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall recently introduced a resolution that would block citizenship for illegal immigrants dependent on taxpayer-funded benefits.

The resolution was first obtained by the Daily Caller and focuses on a new DHS rule that would cut the number of benefits immigrants can use that would be held against them when applying for permanent residency in the United States.

In 2019, the Trump administration defined any immigrant who had received one or more designated public benefits for more than 12 months within a 36-month period as a “public charge.” Section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) renders a noncitizen inadmissible if they are “likely at any time to become a public charge,” DHS’s website states.

The Trump administration included food stamps, housing vouchers and Medicaid as benefits that would disqualify an immigrant from receiving a green card. Under DHS’s new rule, only the receipt of cash benefits or long-term institutional care could lead to a public charge finding.

Not sure what a Resolution will do. First, Democrats will spike it, so, it will never pass. Second, Why not submit actual legislation that blocks illegals from getting citizenship if they use public benefits? Beyond that, why are we giving illegal aliens/those showing up at the border demanding asylum (which most do not qualify for) any benefits? If a person is going through the legal, authorized naturalization process, they cannot be on any benefits system. They have to provide for themselves. If someone is here illegally and can’t take care of themselves, deport them. Hell, deport them if they can take care of themselves.

A resolution is just not serious. It is an expression of the collective sentiment. Republicans need to get serious.

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