Category: Covid19
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“Welcome To Potemkin’s! I’m Chimera, I’ll Be Your Server”
I’ll meet Mayor Frey halfway. He’s supposed to be Minneapolis’s top cheerleader. It’s part of his job to blow smoke up the world’s collective nethers about the city. So when he went on social media after about a week of his bizarrely illogical and unscientific vaccine mandate to say everything was hunky dory: …it wasn’t…
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Science Evolves
Exhibit 1: Now, the CDC is saying openlly… …things that got people suspended from social media, and ostracized by Big Karen, six short months ago. Science!
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#Resist
A group of restauranteurs and bar owners are taking the Frey regime to court over the city’s bizarre, unscientific vaxx mandate: Plaintiffs in the complaint filed in Hennepin County Fourth Judicial Court Thursday include Bright Red Group, LLC (owners of Smack Shack), 90’s Minneapolis, LLC (The Gay 90’s), PJ. Hafiz Club Management, Inc. (Sneaky Pete’s), Urban entertainment,…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Only The Right Kind Of Compliance!
A friend of the blog emails: Rise Bagel Company has decided to not have to make a choice of who they serve. They are now closed to indoor dining, open for take out. Their business, their choice. All customers treated equally. Shouldn’t be any controversy. But, yet there is- people who like the vaccine mandate…
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I’m Old Enough To Remember…
…when saying this sort of thing would get you a 12 hour time-out on Twitter. “Science changes!” Yep. It changes into things that used to get you ostracized. See: Galileo.
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Panicky Elites, Resilient Normies
“Government is all the things we do together – stupidly and ineffectively”. Government is ponderous and brittle. People, when acting in enlightened self-interest, usually make the right call. My favorite example: before 9/11, the official guidance for people in skyscraper offices in case of a major emergency was to wait for official instructions. The powers…
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Your Papers
Declan Leary, on Muriel Bowser’s vaccine mandate in the District of Columbia – which isn’t all that different from the ones going into “effect” in Minneapolis and Saint Paul It is all the more concerning given the precedent we risk setting if we tolerate the vaccine mandates. As a number of conservatives have warned repeatedly…
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Science-y!
Dear Saint Paul bars and restaurants, I get it. You’re between a rock and a hard place. Many of you know how stupid the mayor’s vaccine mandate is – someone who got the Pfizer vaccine a year ago can come into your establishment, hacking their brains out and contagious as can be, while someone with…
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Crisis
When I was a kid, working at small-town radio stations in North Dakota, my favorite part of the job was working during tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings. Which seems counterintuitive, perhaps – but there was something about the crackle and buzz of imporance, of purpose, in the air; the increasingly urgent National Weather service bulletins,…
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Inhuman
Remember in the 1980s, when some “conservative” fundies rejoiced at the deaths of AIDS patients. It was a pretty depraved stance. Everyone knows that. Someone tell the fairly irredeemable LA Times drone Michael Hiltzik – who has reprised that particular bit of human depravity by declaring “Mocking some anti-vaxxers’ deaths is necessary“. Helpfully, he adds…
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Dear Hostage-Takers – And Hostages
To: Mayors Carter and FreyFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Your Hostages Mayors, You just announced your new and, if I may be frank, moronic Covid restrictions: Let’s make sure we’re clear here. I had the OG Covid, way back in 2020. Back before it got easy to catch and less virulent. I’ve donated convalescent plasma.…
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Nurse Shortage
Joe Doakes from Como parks emails:Joe Doakes from Como parks emails: Hospitals are bringing in foreigners to do the nursing work Americans won’t do. The article implies the reason for the nursing shortage is that American nurses are tired from working so hard taking care of Covid patients. They’re quitting in exhaustion. Apparently, they will…
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Continuum Of Sanity
If we consider the notion of “sanity“ as a continuum, with “very very sane“ on one end, and “not sane at all“ on the left, it’s pretty fair that our systems Covid fear mongering has driven this particular mother (and teacher) to the “left“ end of the scale: An arrest warrant has been issued for…
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Compare And Contrast
Scene 1: Fall, 2020. Us: “Eventually, Covid is going to be endemic. We’ll never eliminate it. Masks are public health theater. Shutdowns will make things worse. Vaccines are great news, but let’s be cautious about the claims. We need to protect the vulnerable, and learn to live with it. Eventually, between herd immunity and mutation, …
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Supply Chain
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is the first worthwhile analysis of supply chain disruptions I’ve found. It’s worthwhile because it doesn’t focus on one tree (ships in port) but on the whole forest of supply chain issues, particularly the consequences of the abrupt shift in consumption due to Covid regulations. It’s another example…
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Science!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: “SCIENCE! CNN finally admits cloth mask don’t stop Covid!” The late stages of this pandemic have seen, and will see more, of what used to be as accepted as heresy by Big Karen quietly being proclaimed as gospel. There’s been a steady stream: it’s not spread by surface contact;…
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I’m Pretty Convinced…
…that Covid provides a disturbing proportion of our society with a reason to wake up in the morning; “enforcing the misery” gives their lives whatever meaning it has. Which brings us to this: First, kudos to the guy, who learned the important lesson: when a woman, no matter how wrong, no matter how impaired, no…
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Overwhelmed
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Liberals claim Minnesota hospitals are being overwhelmed with Covid patients. I have questions about that. This Minnesota Department of Health chart says we only have about 1,000 total ICU beds in the state. What happened to the 3,000 Governor Walz said we had available on 72 hours’ notice, when…
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Acceptable
SCENE: Mitch BERG is paying his tab at a Korean restaurant. As his card is running, Avery LIBRELLE walks in. Waiting for his card, BERG desperately tries to make himself as small as possible. But it doesn’t work. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh, shiiiiiiiiitake mushrooms made the perfect kimchi for the Galbi, and how the hey,…
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What A Difference A Year Makes
Campaign Time: “Trump has no plan for Coronavirus!” Not quite campaign time: “We have no plan for Coronavirus“.
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Debased
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: There is no proof that Ivermectin does anything for Covid. None at all. And when I say ‘none,’ I mean there is some, more than we’re prepared to admit, so we simply deny any proof exists. That’s not proof, that’s just anecdotal gossipy rumor. That’s not proof either. Everybody…
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The New Normal
Colorado’s Democrat governor has basically declared the pandemic – or at least, state government’s heavy-handed response to it – over. Is it because they’re listening to the science, accepting that Covid is a highly mutable virus that will be with us pretty much forever (in forms that are more contagious and less lethal over time)?…
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The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: A restaurant owner in Albert Lea has been convicted of violating Walz’ Executive Order to close. The judge gave her 90 days in jail. A restaurant owner in Lynd (near Marshall) had her restaurant license yanked by the Minnesota Department of Health because she stayed open in defiance of…
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Evolution
Theory: As mutation-prone viruses evolve, natural selection favors strains that are more contagious, and less lethal to their hosts. It’s basic natural selection. Dead hosts = viruses that reproduce less,. Evidence? While it’s early, there have so far been no confirmed deaths attributed to Omicron, according to those Anti-Vaxxer tools, the WHO and the Guardian.…
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“Gosh, Why Do People Distrust Our Public Health Messaging?”
Uh, because they routinely lie to you, and we know it, but they keep on trying to deny it? Whistle blown on Bloomington public health director, lying to school parents about the effectiveness of masks: Emphasis added: At an August 2 “Return to School” webinar on the district’s proposed COVID plan, Kelley urged parents to…