Oops: Big COVID Outbreak From Gridiron Club Dinner

There are all the people who screeched at people for refusing to be OK with masking and lockdowns and such, who were in favor of government tyranny

After Gridiron Dinner, a covid outbreak among Washington A-list guests

More than a dozen guests who attended Saturday night’s Gridiron Club dinner – including two Cabinet members, two members of Congress and a top aide to Vice President Harris – have since tested positive for coronavirus, sending ripples of anxiety through a city on the cusp of restarting its traditional social whirl after a two-year pause.

A-list guests were asked to show proof of vaccination but not negative tests, and many mingled freely without masks at the dinner at the downtown Renaissance Washington Hotel.

But by Wednesday, Reps. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., and Joaquin Castro, D-Texas and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo had announced they had tested positive. They were soon followed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who requested a test Wednesday afternoon after learning he may have been exposed – and discovered that he, too, carried the virus. Thus far, none have reported serious illness.

Jamal Simmons, the communications director for Vice President Harris, said later Wednesday he, too, had tested positive and is now isolating at home. But since he had been in close contact with Harris, she would also be consulting with a physician, her press secretary said.

Not that wearing a mask really would have made much difference, but, these are the Elites, so, even if masking was required, only the servants would have been required to wear one.

The Washington Post has learned of about a half-dozen journalists as well as members of the White House and National Security Council staffs who said they tested positive after the event. Their names are being withheld because they have not announced their status publicly.

Oops.

Among those in attendance were Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert and Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Who wants to be they had no masks on? Oh, wait, what’s this?

The dinner was supposed to reflect a return to normalcy after being canceled the past two years because of the pandemic. Few guests wore masks or observed social distancing, according to people in attendance. Only the serving staff was consistently masked throughout the evening. While organizers asked attendees to show their vaccination cards at the door, there was no requirement to be tested.

Who’s surprised that the peons were forced to mask up?

Oh, and

(The Hill) The COVID-19 outbreak hitting official Washington has reached Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, announced Pelosi’s diagnosis in a statement, saying the Speaker is showing no symptoms associated with the virus.

“After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic. The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided,” Hammill also wrote in a tweet.

“The Speaker will quarantine consistent with CDC guidance, and encourages everyone to get vaccinated, boosted and test regularly,” he said.

Pelosi was at the White House on Wednesday alongside President Biden for the signing of a Postal Service reform bill.

Oops.

Look, I wish them all well, hope their symptoms are mild, but, really, they’ve preached at us, whined, screeched, and, yet, put themselves in position to get Chinese coronavirus.

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UN Tells Us One Thing Everyone (Else) Can Do For ‘Climate Change’

The same people yammering are the ones who take lots and lots of fossil fueled trips

ONE EVERYDAY ACTION COULD HELP COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE, UN REPORT REVEALS

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases a new report every few years. And each time the world takes a deep breath — the news isn’t easy to digest.

It is if you’re not a part of a doomsday climate cult

This week, the IPCC released the third part of its Sixth Assessment Report on the state of the climate crisis. The first section was released in August and the second this past March. The newest portion, entitled “Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change”, reviews more than 18,000 scientific climate change papers and offers a grim outlook on the future of the world under global warming, but only if we fail to take immediate action to slash rising greenhouse gas emissions — the driving cause of climate change.

Climate solutions, as the report highlights, are abundant and becoming cheaper by the day, including renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and batteries for electric vehicles. But perhaps the most surprising solution the report highlights is something billions of humans do every single day: taking a walk. (snip)

According to Urge-Vorsatz, out of the 60 behavioral and lifestyle changes that the report authors analyzed, the most impactful action was “switching to walking and cycling and using electrified transport.”

You know, just like they did back in the 1400’s. The richer folks had horses. I have another idea: they can mind their own f’ing business, and, if they want to walk, walk. Stop trying to run people’s lives.

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If All You See…

…is wonderful coffee which will be destroyed by ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on baseball’s Opening Day.

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Yahoo News: It’s Curious That Only 52% Of Dems Oppose Florida’s Parental Rights Bill

Of course their West Coast correspondent would find this curious, since Democrats on the left coast are bat guano insane

Curious

According to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, more than three-quarters of Republicans (76%) support Florida’s controversial new “Don’t Say Gay” measure, which seeks to silence any discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in public elementary school classrooms by allowing parents to sue if they believe teachers have broached those subjects.

Widespread support for the law among Republicans is not surprising given that it was Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, who championed it and Florida’s Republican Legislature that passed it.

What may be more unexpected is that the new survey of 1,618 U.S. adults, which was conducted from March 31 to April 4, found that nearly a quarter of Democrats (24%) also think it should be “illegal” for “teachers or other school personnel to discuss sexual orientation or gender identity when teaching children in kindergarten through grade three,” despite weeks of objections and outrage from party leaders and activists.

At the same time, another 24% of Democrats say they’re “not sure” how they feel — leaving only about half (52%) in explicit opposition.

Now ask actual parents, not just randos, how they feel about teachers getting that involved with the private lives of their children. Discussing adult sexual topics. Pushing their children to adopt alternative sexual lives. Things that could haunt them in further life. Hiding this from the parents. None of this is the job of teachers. They were hired to teach specific subjects. If they aren’t capable of doing that, they should be fired.

It also explains why Democrats may struggle to respond. Overall, just 27% of Americans say discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity should be “legal” in K-3 classrooms — while nearly half (49% for sexual orientation, 48% for gender identity) say they should be “illegal.”

If the teachers want to discuss it with their own kids in their own homes, have at it. School is for learning, not indoctrinating into far, far left insanity. Let’s not forget that the gender confused tend to have much higher rates of mental illness and suicidal thoughts. Looking at Libs of Tiktok, that mental illness from them and their advocates is on full display

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1511739344062750726

That, in turn, will allow offended parents to drag the school district to court — a threat that critics fear might dissuade teachers and students from even acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ characters, historical figures, friends and family members.

“Cash-strapped school districts can’t afford to test the bounds of a law like this,” Brandon Wolf of the LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Florida recently told the Washington Post, citing reports that some schools in the state have started to peel off rainbow safe-space stickers from windows. “It’s the chilling effect that is a natural implication of this legislation.”

There’s a time and place for everything. In schools is not it. Why would a math teacher need to bring up their LGBTQ friends and family during class? F’ing teach math.

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Court Blocks Pa. Gov Wolf’s Carbon Emission (scam) Rule

This is why Warmists usually try and avoid going to court: because they tend to lose

Pa. Court Blocks Gov. Tom Wolf’s Carbon Emissions Plan

A Pennsylvania court on Tuesday blocked the centerpiece of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to fight climate change, the latest challenge to the Democrat’s effort to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy.

Commonwealth Court, in a one-line unsigned order, said it will not allow the official publication of the regulation “pending further order of the court.”

The regulation would require fossil fuel-fired power plants to pay a price for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit starting July 1 in a state that has long been one of the nation’s biggest polluters and power producers.

The regulation was to be published on Saturday. But the court sided with leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature, who just a day earlier had failed in their final legislative attempt to block the regulation.

Wolf’s administration said Tuesday night only that it was reviewing the order and is “committed to ensuring that this regulatory process continues to move forward.”

Republican lawmakers in the nation’s No. 2 natural gas state and its No. 3 coal-mining state contend that the regulation is an illegal use of regulatory authority. They say legislative approval is required to force power plants to buy hundreds of millions of dollars in credits annually that the state could then spend on clean energy or energy efficiency programs.

It is up for the legislative branch of each state to make these determinations, not for the governor to single handedly decide the way he/she will force everyone to act, to slap on taxes. Governor’s are not kings, they enforce the laws as passed by the general assemblies. Not make it up because they feel like.

The GOP GA missed an opportunity to attempt to pass legislation which restricts the travel and use of fossil fuels by the governor and his staff. Make him practice what he preaches.

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Texas Governor Promises To Bus Illegals To D.C.

The two questions here are “will he do it?” And “will he also drop them off in Delaware near Joe’s fancy pants house?”

Texas Governor Orders Buses to Transport Released Migrants to D.C.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced orders Wednesday for state officials to charter buses to transport migrants to Washington, D.C. in response to the Biden Administration’s plans to end the Title 42 coronavirus protection protocol and begin large-scale mass releases.

Governor Abbott ordered the Texas Division of Emergency Management to prepare to use buses to transport migrants released by the Biden administration to Washington, D.C.

“To help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigration who are being dropped off by the Biden administration, Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington, D.C.,” Governor Abbott said during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon in Weslaco, Texas. The governor said the first drop off location will be the U.S. Capitol steps in the nation’s capital.

“We are taking them to the United States Capitol where the Biden administration will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border,” the governor added. The governor signed the letter to TDEM Chief Nim Kid ordering the action.

Will it happen? If it does, will Los Federales attempt to interfere with interstate travel? Abbott should consider sending the buses right to the White House, followed by Delaware. Perhaps San Francisco, right where Pelosi’s house is, then to New York, near Chuck Schumer’s home. See how they like having all the illegals released in their own high-toned fancy-pants neighborhoods. Give the illegals some cheap tents so they stick around.

Texas Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) told Fox News on Wednesday that the administration is anticipating approximately a half-million migrants to cross the border in the weeks following the end of Title 42.

“They’re talking about 500,000 in the next five weeks,” McCaul told Fox News. “That would be 100,000 people per week coming into the country. We don’t know who they are.”

We don’t. We don’t know what diseases they are bringing from Central and South America, along with other parts of the world. Along with a high rate of COVID.

Ending Title 42 Is Biden’s Most Unpopular Move Yet

A majority of registered voters (56%) oppose the decision to remove the border controls implemented by the Trump administration, the largest backlash against a Biden administration policy among dozens tracked by Morning Consult since January 2021.

While 60% of Democratic voters support the move, just 31% of independents and 8% of Republicans feel similarly.

After D.C., make sure the drop-off places are uber-Democrat voting cities.

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Your Fault: Climate Crisis (scam) Could Maybe Possibly Lead To More Food Poisoning

If only you’d send your fossil fueled vehicle to the dump and buy and EV. Tut, tut

Climate change can lead to more food poisoning

We may not be able to stop food being contaminated, but computer models

could help us predict where the next big risk might be. Contaminated food kills more than 420,000 people every year. Now, scientists are turning to predictive computer modelling to help us be better prepared for it.

Food contamination can happen at almost every level from farm to fork. Contamination can spread from bacteria entering animal feeds, by being in contact with dust or animal faeces, through infections transferred during slaughter and food processing, or from inappropriate storage.

Climate change has created extreme and rapid changes in air and water temperatures, impacted the frequency and intensity of rain, and amplified humidity, altering the production of food with grave consequences.

While it’s difficult to predict the direct links due to the range of factors involved, changes in the environment have allowed more possibilities of transmission between animals and humans. Extreme weather events like floods and droughts can contaminate soil, water and animal feeds with chemicals from sewage and run-offs from industrial and agricultural land containing toxins and pesticides.

So, they do not actually know, they’re just guessing using computer models which give them the answers they want, which lead to scaremongering, just as they want.

Contamination can also be caused by close interaction between domestic and wild animals in wet markets or when farms overlap with forests, causing spill-over events. Bushmeat is also a well-established source for food-borne zoonotic diseases such as Ebola.

See? Climate doom caused COVID!

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If All You See…

…is a horrible, evil, no good fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on the “EU Commission Triggers Financial Sanctions Against Hungary for Electing Wrong Candidate”

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FDA To Meet With “Experts” On Vaccine Booster Strategy

I’m perfectly fine with getting the vaccine. I did it early, before we actually knew it was more like taking the flu shot, meaning the chances of getting COVID were actually much, much lower than portrayed. But, you most likely wouldn’t suffer the severe consequences of COVID. So, I took the booster. I even considered another booster, which would be this month. But, hey, remember when some said we’d be taking constant boosters and they were called conspiracy theorists?

FDA, health experts to meet, discuss COVID-19 booster strategy

The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and a panel of health experts will meet Wednesday to discuss the future of COVID-19 boosters in the U.S. and emerging variants of the virus.

The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will host the all-day meeting with the health experts to discuss questions and concerns regarding vaccinations and the virus.

They will address concerns about the practicality of getting additional doses of the vaccines every few months and look into how frequently they should change the composition of the vaccine based on variants and their dominance, according to briefing documents released by the FDA.

The committee aims to develop a framework for a long-term booster strategy.

On Tuesday, White House chief medial adviser Anthony Fauci said the National Institutes of Health has already launched a trial to study different kinds of COVID-19 boosters.

They’re going to milk this for all it’s worth, aren’t they? It’s never ending. Well, except for the part where they blame China

Protection against infection offered by fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose wanes quickly, Israeli study finds

A fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine seems to offer short-lived protection against infection overall, but protection against severe illness did not wane for at least several weeks, according to a new study.

The study, published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, looked at the health records of more than 1.25 million vaccinated people in Israel who were 60 or older from January through March 2022, a time when the Omicron coronavirus variant was the dominant strain.

The rate of severe Covid-19 infection in the fourth week after a fourth dose of vaccine was lower than in people who got only three doses by a factor of 3.5.

However, protection against severe illness did not seem to wane in the six weeks after the fourth shot, though the study period wasn’t long enough to determine exactly how long this protection lasts.

So, they aren’t sure about severe illness, but, they barely make a difference on catching COVID. They’ll continue to pimp booster after booster, even though COVID is pretty much waning.

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UN IPCC Has Five Ideas To Save The Planet From Trace Amounts Of CO2

The Cult high poobahs always have ideas, most of which never involve them changing their own behavior, just stuff that affects you

Climate change: IPCC scientists report five ways to save the planet

The dangers of climate change have been well reported for years. But what’s had less attention is how the world could effectively tackle the issue.

Huh? These yahoos have been printing ways the government can make you act for years

Yesterday, UN scientists laid out a plan that they believe could help people avoid the worst impacts of rising temperatures.

The report, by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), essentially calls for a revolution in how we produce energy and power our world.

To avoid very dangerous warming, carbon emissions need to peak within three years, and fall rapidly after that.

Make the UN IPCC Conference On The Parties meeting virtual, to start, reducing the huge number of people who take long, fossil fueled flights, including in private jets. Anyhow, coal is on their hit list, as are all fossil fuels

“I think that’s a very strong message, no new coal power plants. Otherwise, you’re really risking 1.5C,” said Prof Jan Christoph Minx, from the University of Leeds, and an IPCC co-ordinating lead author.

“I think the big message coming from here is we need to end the age of fossil fuel. And we don’t only need to end it, but we need to end it very quickly.”

Notice that jumps from coal all fossil fuels quickly. Strange that no reporter ever asks “say, have you given up your own use of fossil fuels?” Then we get some pie in the sky ideas, things that do not exist, perhaps some unicorns. Oh, and your life

3 – Curbing demand is a secret weapon

One of the big differences with this report from previous releases is that social science features heavily.

This is mainly focussed on the ideas of reducing people’s demand for energy in the areas of shelter, mobility and nutrition.

This covers a multitude of areas – including low carbon diets, food waste, how we build our cities, and how we shift people to more carbon friendly transport options.

In other words, government forcing you to act. And turning you into a pariah, a heretic, if you won’t. Much like we’ve seen with COVID. The BBC article even has the gall to say this is a “fairly painless way to really make an impact.” If it’s so painless, why do so few Warmists do it voluntarily in their own lives?

There’s also the notion of throwing massive amounts of cash at the problem, which means higher taxes and fees for you. And lots and lots of redistribution. Followed by The Rich

That may well be the case, but some IPCC authors believe the rich have other roles to play in helping the world towards net-zero.

“Wealthy individuals contribute disproportionately to higher emissions but they have a high potential for emissions reductions, whilst maintaining high levels of well-being and a decent living standard,” said Prof Patrick Devine-Wright, an IPCC lead author from the University of Exeter.

“I think there are individuals with high socioeconomic status who are capable of reducing their emissions by becoming role models of low carbon lifestyles, by choosing to invest in low carbon businesses and opportunities, and by lobbying for stringent climate policies.”

So, how does that happen? They’ll just do it out of the goodness of their hearts? Most haven’t up to now. Many talk a good game about the dangers of ‘climate change’ doom, advocate for carbon taxes and such, but, they aren’t giving up their big carbon footprints, much like members of the IPCC refuse to practice what they preach. It’s all about government force.

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