This video epitomizes the declining mental state of Joe Biden, who takes his mask off to address the room and then hands it to Justice Breyer as if it's his, who then puts it in his pocket

 Here.

The generation of Neil Young rebelled against everything that was right and this one won't rebel against anything that's wrong

Meanwhile Willie Nelson trended on Twitter the other day, which just loves that old "hippie" along with the likes of Neil Young.

Not this Willie, though, who was kinda slow on the uptake. Just ask the IRS.

The Beatles was kangs when Willie was still in overalls in 1965 and broke up when Willie was still doing covers of Joni Mitchell in 1970.

 

Neil Young threatened to ditch Spotify over Joe Rogan because Rogan believes in free speech. And Spotify said: "OK. See ya."

 

I'm still laughing.

 

Charlie Brown didn't kill himself

18.2 million US breakthrough cases through January 26th, 700k per day

 

Health authorities are not telling the truth about the vaccines and severe outcomes: Breakthrough deaths in Massachusetts have been at least 38%

NBC Boston, Aug 10, 2021:

106 Fully Vaccinated People Have Died From COVID in Mass.  

One hundred and six people who had been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus died from the disease in Massachusetts by the end of July, according to the state Department of Public Health.

As of Jan 15, 2022 mass.gov reports a total of 1,224 confirmed breakthrough deaths. 

Subtract 106 deaths through the end of July 2021 and you get 1,118 breakthrough deaths from then through Jan 15, 2022.

There have been 2,909 confirmed and suspected COVID-19 deaths in Massachusetts from Jul 31, 2021 to Jan 15, 2022.

That means at least 38.43% of the COVID deaths in Massachusetts have been breakthrough deaths between Jul 31, 2021 and Jan 15, 2022.

LOL, CNBC story on Omicron in the UK avoids the word "breakthrough" like the plague

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/26/more-than-two-thirds-of-omicron-cases-are-reinfections-study-suggests.html

Yeah, let's talk about reinfections, or maybe about what they all had most in common for breakfast, anything but the elephant standing in every living room.

Bunch of boobs.

The UK has 6 million new cases in the last two months even though 

"Almost 85% of the country’s eligible population — those over the age of 12 — is fully vaccinated against Covid, while 64% have received a booster shot."

17 million breakthrough cases in the US through Jan 24th

 

Now that AXIOS finally got its shit together and updated its map for Omicron prevalence, let's check in on variants in Michigan

Delta still dominates in Michigan, as it does in about 12 other states, mostly in the high plains and upper mid-west.

Omicron now dominates in about 14 states, mostly in the south and west.

No other variants register in Michigan on the maps at Axios, nor anywhere else, Jimmy.

Omicron is displacing Delta in America. That's the story.

India Variant, aka Delta

Omicron Variant, from South Africa

Housing affordability turned down again in 2020 as housing prices climbed ever higher and incomes fell

The key to joining the middle class has always been the full-time job, without which you cannot afford a house.

The rich have taken away the keys.

Nemesis comes for old soldiers Tom Brady, 44, and Aaron Rodgers, 38

 Both quarterbacks were defeated in the NFL divisional playoffs by field goals in the closing seconds of their respective contests.

Pure poetry.

In Massachusetts breakthrough deaths must represent a shocking 25.5% of confirmed deaths since March 7, 2021

Cumulative confirmed deaths since the beginning of the pandemic: 20,884

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-response-reporting

Breakthrough deaths: 1,224 (5.86% of confirmed deaths to date)

https://www.mass.gov/doc/weekly-report-covid-19-cases-in-vaccinated-individuals-january-18-2022/download

Cumulative confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic: 1,418,149

Breakthrough cases: 348,510 (24.57% of confirmed cases to date)

Breakthrough hospitalizations: 5,437 (0.38% of all confirmed cases to date; cumulative hospitalization data is not available from Massachusetts)

Presenting the data this way, however, leads to mixing the breakthrough data with the data from the first year of the pandemic when there were no vaccines through which to break.

We have to subtract the first year data to see what is really going on since vaccinations began and were characteristic of the second year.

A convenient date to choose for the end of the first year is March 7, 2021, when The Covid Tracking Project ceased its pandemic data gathering efforts. That data helpfully included cumulative hospitalization numbers. And fewer than 10% of Massachusetts residents had been fully vaccinated by that date.

In the first year of the pandemic through March 7, 2021, Massachusetts had 16,085 confirmed deaths, 559,083 confirmed cases, and 19,713 ever hospitalized for COVID.  

The hospitalization rate in the first year was therefore 3.525% of confirmed cases, slightly higher than the national rate in the first year of the pandemic at 3.06%.

This means in year two to date since March 7, 2021 there have been only 4,799 additional confirmed deaths, but 859,066 additional confirmed cases and approximately 30,282 additional hospitalizations (I used the first year hospitalization rate of 3.525% as a proxy for this, which I grant is only an educated guess).

From those baseline figures from the second year of the pandemic to date, we get the following rates for breakthroughs since March 7, 2021 using the breakthrough data Massachusetts helpfully reports unlike most states:

Breakthrough deaths: 25.50%

Breakthrough cases: 40.56%

Breakthrough hospitalizations: ~17.95%.

In Massachusetts, the proportion of serious outcomes for vaccinated  people is much higher than people realize. This is certainly true for deaths.

15.4 million US breakthrough cases in January 2022 with 10 days left to count in the month

 

Crazed libertarian can't stand other people, but can't do anything about it, so what's new?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here:

"It's just gone on too long, nobody cares anymore," Maher said. "I don't want to live in your mask paranoid world anymore. You go out it's silly now: you have to have a mask, you have a booster, they scan your head. Like you're a cashier and I'm a bunch of bananas. I'm not bananas, you are."

COVID-19 booster shots have done nothing to stop the spread in the world's most boostered places

 

Africa, still barely 10% fully vaccinated, continues to show the strong seasonality pattern of COVID-19

 Deaths per million have consistently peaked in August and January in Africa to date.

Virus gonna virus.

66% of children hospitalized for COVID-19 have a comorbidity, mostly obesity

 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/21/kids-covid-hospitalizations-hit-pandemic-high-worrying-doctors-and-parents-.html

14.6 million US breakthrough cases in the first twenty days of January, Zeke

 

LOL, now that there are MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF THEM, Ms. Lyndon Haviland wants the term "breakthrough cases" banned, and lies like a rug about what Fauci said

 

At TheHill, where else?

Let's stop saying 'breakthrough cases' — it isn't helping

When the vaccine was introduced, Dr. Anthony Fauci and others said it would offer the public a strong layer of protection against COVID-19. They sought to manage expectations by saying it would lower the possibility of getting the virus, but that, like all vaccines, it wouldn’t guarantee immunity. They tried to make it clear that infection was still possible, and that the vaccine would still do its job by drastically lowering the chance of severe illness, hospitalization and death. All of this has proven true.

By trumpeting the term “breakthrough cases,” public health authorities are spreading the impression that these infections are novel, unique and unanticipated by the scientific community. In fact, the vaccine was designed precisely with this likelihood in mind, and it is working exactly as intended. 

Yeah, right. That's why Fauci said on at least three separate occasions before Delta hit that vaccination levels hitting 50% of population would prevent additional case surges like we saw in April 2021. He was sure after that that the steep declines in cases we saw nationally were a sign that the vaccines were working.

And then along came the July 4th, Provincetown, incident, proving vaccines didn't stop the spread, and Delta, proving him even more horribly wrong. 

The shift to "it prevents serious illness, hospitalization and death" was . . . a shift!

But even that hasn't been true. Mass vaccination has not reduced either cases or deaths Jul-Dec 2021 compared with Jul-Dec 2020.

These people are just awful, deplorable even, because they keep touting a vaccine which isn't a true vaccine, and because of it vaccinated people have been running around spreading serious illness, hospitalization and death.

Words have meaning. Censoring them won't stop the death toll.

13.868 million breakthrough cases in the US in the first 19 days of January 2022, Jack

 

You don't say . . .

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