^^^^^^^
That is awesomely funny right there.

Jim

Thank you all for your well wishes for my mom.

For erj_pilot: What percentage would be out sick with COVID if ZERO were vaccinated? Or if they let the un-injected keep working? Probably less.

"Turbulence Hits United Air As 3,000 Fully Vaccinated Employees Infected With COVID"

Airlines have canceled more than 20,000 flights since Christmas Eve as coronavirus outbreaks among workers disrupt schedules across the US.

United Airlines Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby described in an internal memo to workers on Tuesday that the rapidly spreading omicron variant of COVID-19 has resulted in thousands of its workers calling out sick, forcing the airline to reduce its near-term flight schedule.

"In one day alone at Newark, nearly one-third of our workforce called out sick," Kirby wrote. "To those who are out sick or isolating, we wish you a speedy recovery."

He said approximately 3,000 of its workers are currently infected. That figure represents about 3.5% of its 85,000 employees.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covi...oyees-infected-covid

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Originally posted by chellim1:
For erj_pilot:
"Turbulence Hits United Air As 3,000 Fully Vaccinated Employees Infected With COVID"

Yup! And the CEO is spinning this faster than a runaway gyro...

I'm not posting this as any part of a conspiracy theory. It's just that this cause of death seems strange. Given the way COVID impacted Italy.

European parliament president David Sassoli dies aged 65

Italian Democrat had been due to step down next week under power-sharing deal with European People’s party

9 hours ago


David Sassoli died on Tuesday after being admitted to hospital in December David Sassoli, president of the European parliament, has died at the age of 65. He was admitted to hospital in his native Italy on December 26 after a “dysfunction of his immune system”, his spokesperson said, and passed away at 1.15am on Tuesday morning.

The Italian Democrat was elected in 2019 and was due to step down next week under a power-sharing deal with the centre-right European People’s party that divided the five-year presidential term between two parliamentary groupings.

Politicians across the political spectrum paid tribute to the former journalist and centre-left MEP.

Ursula von der Leyen, the centre-right president of the European Commission, wrote on Twitter in Italian: “I am deeply saddened by the death of a great European and Italian.

“Sassoli was a passionate journalist, an extraordinary president of the European parliament and above all a dear friend.

“My thoughts go out to his family. Rest in peace, dear David.”

Frans Timmermans, European Commission vice-president, wrote: “David Sassoli, EP president and dear friend, has died. I’m at a loss for words. His kindness was an inspiration to all who knew him. My heartfelt sympathies to his family and all his loved ones. Addio amico mio.”

The European parliament is the only directly elected EU body but its powers are dwarfed by those of the commission, which proposes most legislation, and the council of member states who have the final say. MEPs amend legislation, however, and have a role in setting the budget and approving top appointments.

Sassoli continued to demand a greater role for the parliament and succeeded in getting a budget increase for its priorities such as vaccines for developing countries and the new European public prosecutor’s office.

The parliament has also pushed the bloc towards ambitious climate targets and generally supports a greater role for Brussels in developing areas such as justice, health and defence.

Sassoli recently launched legal action against the commission for failing to halt funding to Poland for alleged breaches of judges’ independence.

Sassoli beat Sergei Stanishev, a former Bulgarian prime minister, and several other candidates to the job. He is likely to be succeeded by Roberta Metsola, a Maltese MEP selected by the EPP as its candidate for president.

“I am heartbroken. Europe has lost a leader, I have a lost a friend, democracy has lost a champion,” she wrote on Twitter. “David Sassoli dedicated his life to making the world a better, fairer place.”

Mario Draghi, Italy’s prime minister, expressed his condolences in a written statement, saying Sassoli was “a man of the institutions, a profound pro-European”, whose untimely and sudden was “shocking”.

Born in Florence in 1956, Sassoli joined Italian national broadcaster RAI in 1992. He became a household name presenting the main evening news and was the broadcaster’s deputy director.

He entered politics in 2009, joining the Democratic party, formed from the two principal parties of the left. He was elected to the European parliament the same year.

During the coronavirus pandemic, he developed hybrid sessions with remote voting and temporarily scrapped the monthly commute for sessions in Strasbourg.

Sassoli is survived by his wife Alessandra, and two children.

Link...

Have you noticed?
The message is changing rapidly. But... "Learn to live with the virus"?
Yeah, by mandating quarterly booster shots and instituting vaccine passports? Maybe they will back off...

You think they'll give the tens of thousands of people their jobs back who refused the mandates? Not on your life. And its still happening. RIGHT NOW TODAY thousands of people are being handed a pink slip because they refuse the clot shot.

'Urgent Reset Needed': Democratic Insiders Come Forward To Admit Biden Admin Has 'Gone Backwards' On COVID Policy

Approximately half a dozen former health policymakers - including members of Biden's transition team - have come forward to declare that the Biden administration's Covid-19 policy has gone off the rails and needs an 'urgent strategy reset.'

President Joe Biden is urging schools to stay open, but there’s a widespread Covid testing shortage.

He calls it the “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” but that’s only confused boosted Americans home sick with the omicron variant.

And the administration hasn’t changed its guidance to urge high-filtration masks despite calls from the medical community, while recent isolation guidance has only added to the uncertainty. -NBC News

Indeed, current policy now seems to be a shoot-from-the-hip combination of bad kneejerk policy based on early pandemic response and deadlier strains (primarily affecting the elderly and those with multiple comorbidities, as CDC Director Rochelle Walensky recently admitted) - and new policy which doubles down on vaccination against a new strain despite its far more mild presentation and vaccine evasion.

Meanwhile, the administration's last desperate argument for getting vaccinated 'to avoid serious illness or death' has been very clearly rendered moot by Omicron.

And now this:



https://t.co/yUI78HzChT?amp=1

According to the former health policymakers, the Biden administration could 'rapidly lose credibility with the public.'

"Biden was elected president, in large part, based on a message of ‘I’m competent, I’m capable, I will tell you the truth and I will get a handle on Covid in a way my predecessor could not and refused to do," according to former Obama Health and Human Services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius.

"I do think it's about competence and capability and telling the truth and using all of the tools that are at the president's disposal," she added.


Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
Yes, the media and the CDC waited until midterms under the Biden administration to acknowledge that vaccines don’t stop the spread, cloth masks don’t work, lockdowns harm children, and not all deaths with covid are deaths from covid — but the timing is a coincidence I assure you

You know it's bad when this lady turns on Biden...

She told NBC News: "In terms of the communication and the trust in the CDC, it feels like we have gone backwards."

Omicron fumble

Two years of conditioning people to avoid Covid like the plague has now resulted in mass disruptions throughout the entire global economy. So when the hyper-virulent Omicron strain seemingly appeared out of nowhere (*cough*) at just the right moment to beat back Delta, the response has been to hunker for dear life despite the Omicron experience being akin to a moderately bad cold for most people (and for others, they don't even know they've had it).

the rapid spread of the variant has created a level of disruption in many Americans’ lives not seen since the early days of the pandemic. Staffing shortages have forced schools and businesses to close and have led to absences in police and fire departments with large numbers of sick first-responders. Airlines have canceled thousands of flights because of staffing shortages, transit systems have shut down bus and subway routes, and the surge in cases has once again crippled the cruise industry.

The demand for testing has overwhelmed the country’s capacity in places that are hardest hit, creating long lines and delaying results for days.

At-home tests are still in short supply, and the administration was widely criticized last month for what appeared to be confusing recommendations for those infected as cases soared. -NBC News

According to the health experts, the Biden admin recommends preparing Americans to simply accept Covid as part of life, while trying to keep people out of the hospital by promoting vaccinations (heaven forbid they tell people to lose weight and eat healthy).

"There’s agreement that the messaging has to be better and that it would be important to be simpler for people and more targeted towards what people need and action guided," said Ezekiel Emanuel, a key member of Biden’s transition team and a former health policy adviser to the Obama administration (and the brother of Rahm Emanuel and the real life "Ari" from Entourage).

"I think we just need a clear message so people know what the ‘to do’ is."

Incompetence

In yet another example of empty promises, Biden committed to sending 500 million free at-home Covid tests to Americans (and now he's making insurance companies pay for it) - yet it will take months for them to be able to procure and distribute that many tests. On Monday, the administration announced that insurance companies and group health plans would be responsible for the cost beginning Jan. 15.

"There has to be an admission at the federal level [about] what is not going well now and frankly, we have a testing mess," said Sebelius. "While I think the president stepped up in the beginning to purchase the test kits and get them to people, even mail them to people, we're late to this game for a whole variety of reasons. The United States has not done well on testing since March of 2020. That's a problem and I think it needs to be said out loud that it’s a problem because that's what a lot of people are experiencing every day."

On the political front, Biden could be better off acknowledging the virus is here to stay, despite his repeated promises as a candidate that he would “shut down the virus,” said Paul Maslin, a Democratic pollster. -NBC News

"Is Covid ever going to be the great success Biden or his people or any Democrats had hoped it would be? The answer’s no," said Maslin. "He’s lost the opportunity of making it a great success."

https://www.zerohedge.com/covi...n-has-gone-backwards

This madness needs to end

Are there no goddamn public school teachers that aren’t totally insane or just stupid AF? It’s almost like it’s a job requirement with these people!

It's 24° in Fairfax, Virginia and teachers are forcing kids to sit outside for story time because this will keep them from getting sick, I guess

I read today that Lori Lightfoot made a deal with the union for teachers to go back to work. It didn’t mention what the teachers got in the deal. But clearly they aren’t really concerned about the virus.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chi...to-classes-wednesday

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Originally posted by frayedends:
It didn’t mention what the teachers got in the deal.

Probably a fat sack of really good weed.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by frayedends:
It didn’t mention what the teachers got in the deal.

Probably a fat sack of really good weed.

Well that's probably as effective as the vaccine...

Should've fired every last one of them.

Hard to believe:

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Originally posted by parabellum:

Hard to believe:

The video clip did not say where to sign up for the study.

wood ya look at that....

Can't think of anything more frustrating than dying with an unrequited hard on...

I firmly believe they are on to something.

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Originally posted by sigalert:
I firmly believe they are on to something.

LOL !!! I see what you did there God Bless !!!

Who makes Viagra?

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Originally posted by HayesGreener:
Can't think of anything more frustrating than dying with an unrequited hard on...

dying being unable to have an unrequited hard on...

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
Who makes Viagra?

That stiffie is brought to by Pfizer.

Well isn’t that just swell