Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Sure Why Not
The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach – not just for coronavirus, but all diseases – amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers, according to an internal report and agency emails obtained by the Tennessean. If the health department must issue any information about vaccines, staff are instructed to strip the agency logo off the documents.
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It's very trendy to blame powerless activists for bad messaging - can't blame the people in power for anything! - but the Manchin-and-Sinema show steps on any possible good messaging!
Drought
Nothing is certain and predictions about the future are hard, and, again, above my pay grade, but "major US city with crippling drought" seems like a pretty likely event sometime in the near to medium future!
Long Covid
But I Thought The Robots Were Already Here
They are neato! But we had years of the "supermarket checkout self-scanners and Elon Musk's bullshit promises mean that there won't even be shitty Amazon warehouse jobs soon!" discourse. The end of jobs!
And, uh, no.
Monday, July 12, 2021
Sanctions
WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday appeared likely to reprimand Sidney Powell, a former campaign lawyer for Donald Trump, and other attorneys over a lawsuit they filed in Michigan seeking to overturn Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory.Not as if she'll get the death penalty.
Party Like It's 2003
With Republican-backed voting bills moving rapidly through a special session of the state Legislature, Texas Democrats are planning to make a break for it — again.At least 58 Democratic members of the state House of Representatives are expected to bolt from Austin on Monday in an effort to block the measures from advancing, a source familiar with the plans told NBC News. The unusual move, akin to what Democrats did in 2003, would paralyze the chamber, stopping business until the lawmakers return to town or the session ends.
Herd Culling
Delta
Maybe hospitalization/death rates among vaccinated populations will remain low enough that there is no need to panic, but nothing wrong with a bit of extra mask wearing.
Marked
The ultimate cancel culture, amirite? AMIRITE??? Ah, well, welcome to Meet the Press, insurrectionists! Glad to have you back. Ho ho ho you didn't really mean it when you said I was the enemy of the people, did you?
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Unreality
The Bush administration really was as ridiculous, but nobody who mattered noticed at the time.
Working Class
Practically every UK politician (Labour, anyway) claims to have "working class roots" which generally means their grandfather owned a factory and was not the 7th Earl of whereever.
I think the US equivalent, in Congress anyway, is being the heir to the family car dealership empire and claiming your summer job "sweeping up" means you have deep hard work experience.
