July 16, 2021: Pandemic of the Unvaccinated

 

7/16/21: Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the CDC, warns that cases of coronavirus are

up 70% in a week, deaths are up 26%, and hospitals are facing a surge in patients needing care.

 

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“This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” 

Rochelle Walensky, Director of the CDC

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“This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,”  she says. She explains that 97% of the people entering hospitals in the United States with COVID-19 are unvaccinated. On July 15, CDC reports 39,014 new cases. This rapid rise is similar to September 2020, when we were headed straight into the jaws of the worst six months of the pandemic. 

For the day, 285 new deaths were reported. That brought the toll for the first half of July to 2,887.

 

Speaking for the medical profession, in general, Dr. Mark Rosenberg, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, likens the situation to a war, with the soldiers of medicine battle-weary and worn down. “I really think of it as a war and how long can you stay on the front line,” he says. “And how many times do you want to go back for another tour of duty. Eventually you just don’t want to do it.” 

In Springfield, Missouri and Jacksonville, Florida, hospitals have been overwhelmed again. In Jacksonville, discussions are ongoing about setting up tents in hospital parking lots to handle the overflow of newly infected (unvaccinated) patients. Chad Nielsen, director of infection prevention at one facility, explains that during the first three waves of the pandemic hospitals pushed back all kinds of other surgeries – and had just begun to bring back patients who had delayed care. Now his hospital is discussing canceling procedures again.

 

“To be telling someone, ‘Sorry, we have to delay your hip surgery or your procedure because we have too many COVID patients who are largely unvaccinated,’ it is just not what we signed up to do in health care,” he said.

 

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YOU MAY HAVE HEARD Rejected-President Trump talk about voter fraud in Arizona. It was massive. It was historic. Joe Biden got 15 million extra votes in the state that he didn’t deserve.

 

Even cacti voted for Joe Biden!

 

Having heard Loser Donald’s incessant whining, the Associated Press set out to find all the fraudulent voters in that state.

 

County election officials, the AP found, have so far identified 182 possible cases out of three million votes cast.

 

Of those, four cases have led to charges.

 

FOUR.

 

So, a Numbskull Award goes to Loser Don, greatest political crybaby in American history, rated forty-first best president in a recent survey by historians.

 

(There have been zero convictions.)

January 15 & 18, 2022: Imaginary Voter Fraud and the Return of JFK

1/15/22: Donald J. Trump traveled to Arizona today to hold a rally, and lay out his vision for America. 

Ha, ha. Nope. He wanted to howl about how he got cheated out of gazillions of votes in 2020 and how he should still be president. Sadly, evidence continues not to pile up. Pima County announced the same day that 151 cases of possible voter fraud had been examined and zero prosecutions would be in order. Many of the voters involved were confused about lost ballots, potentially stolen mail, and the like. Looking only at cases that required more extensive review, 23 involved registered Republicans, 15 registered Democrats, and 13 registered as unaffiliated/other.

Ms. Babbitt died because she believed Trump when he said the election was stolen.

 

As for that fat guy, who used to play a lot of golf while president, Loser Donald told his fans at the rally that the F.B.I. was behind the January 6 attack – not the same chumps sitting in the audience – who believed his lies for four years. He also showed his love for law enforcement (remember when he said 99.9 percent of cops were great people) by blasting the officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the attack on Capitol Hill. "I watched this guy being interviewed,” Trump grumbled, “they wanted to protect him so they wanted to keep him. He couldn’t get on television fast enough. The guy who shot Ashli Babbitt for no reason.”

 

He called the officer an “out-of-control dope” and a “disgrace,” but did not mention the eleven rioters (all Trump fans) charged with seditious conspiracy earlier this week. Those eleven were all talking about touching off civil war in the wake of the November 2020 election.

 

Lt. Michael Byrd, a 28-year veteran of the Capitol Police, revealed his identity in an August interview on NBC.

 

Trump was on a nutjob roll, warning his audience that in New York State white people were being sent to the back of the line, when it came to COVID-19 treatments. Not that they were refusing to get in line at all.

 

Because, you know, if you get a vaccinated you might become magnetized, or you could take horse de-worming medicine, instead, or don’t worry this virus is no worse than the flu, or masks are really “muzzles,” and when President Biden says we should all get shots, he’s really treating anti-vaxxers like Jews during the Holocaust.

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1/18/22: Oh, yay! The more guns we have in America the safer we are. The evidence is everywhere!! 

I jest, of course. 

TSA announces that in 2021, a record number of guns (86% of them loaded) were intercepted at airport baggage checks. And let’s all imagine just a few of the on-flight altercations involving masks having ended up with gunfire being exchanged onboard our flights. 

Yay, guns.

 

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And, yay, QAnon. According to sharp-eyed conspiracy nuts, the real Donald J. Trump did not show up for his first rally of 2022 in Arizona, this past weekend. According to various “reports,” the speaker who showed up was a body double. (We are assuming a dumpy-looking body double.) Or, it might have been John F. Kennedy in a Donald Trump costume. 

For that matter, it could have been Bigfoot in a Trump costume. Who the hell could ever be sure? 

Speaking of nonsense, Ex-President Blubber told his fans, yet again, that the 2020 election was stolen from him. 

By Bigfoot, perhaps. 

We should note, of course, that if JFK showed up in any costume, he had to be doing quite well, since he would have to be 105 years old.