... by the middle of the Second Century ... there were few Greeks and Romans left. They had destroyed themselves by miscegenation, internecine wars, and that fatuous tolerance with which they permitted themselves to be displaced by their subjects and slaves. ...
-- Revilo P. Oliver, "By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them", Liberty Bell, August 1985
Omicron case counts are shattering all previous COVID-19 records. But the numbers don’t carry the same weight they used to. State and local health departments are preparing to explain that to the public and start reporting more meaningful data on the virus.
The people to whom we waved goodbye in 2021 were not all heroes. Expect no celebratory parades for disgraced Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff orHustler publisher and smut peddler Larry Flynt, but in fairness, Flynt was a brave advocate for First Amendment rights before he was gunned down by a racist extremist in 1978 and left paralyzed for the rest of his life. And “So long” to Prince Philip, 99, the Duke of Edinburgh, who left the monarch of England, Queen Elizabeth II, to endure the antics of her dysfunctional family alone.
The US has added 10 million new cases since mid-December alone, 26 days ago. The previous record for a calendar month was Dec 2020 with 6.4 million.
January 2022 is going to be a breakthrough doozy. We have already 6.9 million cases in the first ten days of January alone.
This is what you get when you oversell an under-tested therapeutic as a vaccine.
These people should all be fired, including anyone who has blamed unvaccinated people for spreading this disease when the CDC has here months ago clearly admitted that vaccinated people are still spreading it.
Hell, they admitted it in July after Provincetown.
Vaccinated people have been spreading COVID all along.
Remember when the hysterical Rachel Maddow proclaimed her faith in the ability of the new vaccines to stop the spread?
The virus stops with every vaccinated person, she said.