Hot Take: People Should Take A More Nuanced View On Why Blacks And Latinos Have Low Vaccination Rates

By William Teach October 10, 2021 – 9:07 am

See, it’s not OK that whites, Asians and other non-black and Latinos might be vaccine hesitant. They just have no excuses. For blacks and Latinos, though, yeah, they have Excuses. Is there nothing these lunatics can’t turn into raaaaacism? They just don’t want to Blamestorm those groups for low vaccination rate, they don’t want to shame them, unlike with whites and others

US Black and Latino communities often have low vaccination rates – but blaming vaccine hesitancy misses the mark

By early July 2021, nearly two-thirds of all U.S. residents 12 years and older had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine; 55% were fully vaccinated. But uptake varies drastically by region – and it is lower on average among non-white people.

Many blame the relatively lower vaccination rates in communities of color on “vaccine hesitancy.” But this label overlooks persistent barriers to access and lumps together the varied reasons people have for refraining from vaccination. It also places all the responsibility for getting vaccinated on individuals. Ultimately, homogenizing peoples’ reasons for not getting vaccinated diverts attention away from social factors that research shows play a critical role in health status and outcomes.

As medical anthropologists, we take a more nuanced view. Working together as lead site investigators for CommuniVax, a national initiative to improve vaccine equity, we and our teams in Alabama, California and Idaho, along with CommuniVax teams elsewhere in the nation, have documented a variety of stances toward vaccination that simply can’t be cast as “hesitant.”

People of color have long suffered an array of health inequities. Accordingly, due to a combination of factors, these communities have experienced higher hospitalization due to COVID-19, higher disease severity upon admission, higher chances for being placed on breathing support and progression to the intensive care unit, and higher rates of death.

What the heck is a medical anthropologist? The Stanford Department of Anthropology terms it “Medical anthropology is the study of how health and illness are shaped, experienced, and understood in light of global, historical, and political forces.” A few other colleges are similar, and, this is apparently not in the medical field. Perhaps when the term started being used in 1963 it was something real. Now it simply sounds like more SJW/virtue signaling mule fritters.

And that mule fritters is simply a way to excuse Certain People from being shamed, lambasted, and/or simply cajoled into getting the Chinese coronavirus vaccine, like they do with Everyone Else.

However, vaccine uptake is far from universal in these communities. This is in part due to access issues that go beyond the well documented challenges of transportation, internet access and skills gaps, and a lack of information on how to get vaccinated. For example, some CommuniVax participants had heard of non-resident white people usurping doses that were meant for communities of color. African American participants, in particular, reported feeling that the Johnson & Johnson vaccines promoted in their communities were the least safe and effective.

So, they’re saying these people are too dumb, poor, and lazy to be able to travel not that far to get the vaccine, along with finding out about it? Isn’t that rather racist/bigoted?

Our participant testimony shows that many unvaccinated people are not “vaccine hesitant” but rather “vaccine impeded.” And exclusion can happen not just in a physical sense; providers’ attitudes towards vaccines matter too.

Another segment of unvaccinated people obscured by the “hesitant” label are the “vaccine indifferent.” For various reasons, they remain relatively untouched by the pandemic: COVID-19 just isn’t on their radar. This might include people who are self-employed or working under the table, people living in rural and remote places, and those whose children are not in the public school system.

Oh, good grief. These people. “Vaccine impeded.” “Vaccine indifferent.” It’s always something, and they spend the rest of the long screed providing Excuses, and really, no ideas to solve what they testified is real. I remember back when I started in the work field after college, a boss said “if you’re complaining without offering solutions, you’re whining.” These people are whining while also social justice warrioring and Excuse Making.

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Climate Scam Today: Sinema Climate Funding Cuts, Pelosi Meets With Pope

By William Teach October 9, 2021 – 3:00 pm

If Sinema thought she was in trouble with the moonbats in her party now, wait till she finds out how the climate cult reacts

Kyrsten Sinema Wants to Cut $100 Billion in Proposed Climate Funds, Sources Say

climate change joke

Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who began her political career with the Green Party and who has voiced alarm over the warming planet, wants to cut at least $100 billion from climate programs in major legislation pending on Capitol Hill, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Sinema is one of two centrist Democrats in the Senate whose votes are crucial to passing two bills that together would comprise President Biden’s legislative agenda: a $1 trillion infrastructure bill and a separate $3.5 trillion budget bill.

Last month, Ms. Sinema told The Arizona Republic, “We know that a changing climate costs Arizonans. And right now, we have the opportunity to pass smart policies to address it — looking forward to that.” In her 2018 run for the Senate, Ms. Sinema was endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters. And she has expressed an interest in using the spending bill to enact a tax or fee on carbon dioxide pollution, which experts say could be among the most effective ways to mitigate global warming.

But Ms. Sinema’s demand to cut spending on climate provisions in the budget bill could force Democrats to cut or shrink programs designed to help poor communities adapt to climate change as well as to help companies adjust as the economy transitions away from fossil fuels to clean energy.

Warmists are upset over not being able to essentially provide bribe money to “the poor” while keeping those same people poor, making them beholden to the Democratic Party.

But, wait

A spokesman for Ms. Sinema, John LaBombard, forcefully denied that Ms. Sinema requested the cuts. “Neither Senator Sinema nor our office have requested or demanded such cuts, nor have we even heard of any such demands,” he wrote in an email.

The people familiar with her request, who asked to speak anonymously because they were not authorized to speak on the record, said that she had asked for a cut to the climate program as part of a larger effort by Democrats to hunt for ways to lower the price tag of the broader spending legislation. Mr. Biden had initially envisioned a spending package of about $3.5 trillion, but Democrats are now trying to cut that to $2 trillion, in order to win support from Ms. Sinema and Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, without whose votes the measure will not pass.

So, LaBombard, on the record, says this is a load of mule fritters. Anonymous people say it did happen. Who’s telling truth? It doesn’t matter, because the point here is to get more people incensed at Sinema, to put more pressure on her, which will mean more unhinged protesters coming after her. Which is what the screed writer, Coral Davenport, a major doomsday climate cult writer, wants. Which could backfire.

Pelosi and Pope Francis meet amid push for action on climate change

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Pope Francis met Saturday, the same day the pontiff gave a speech calling on lawmakers in countries around the world to act on climate change.

“His Holiness’s encyclical Laudato Si’ is a powerful challenge to the global community to act decisively on the climate crisis with special attention to the most vulnerable communities,” Pelosi, a practicing Catholic, said in a statement released Saturday.

“I expressed the gratitude of those working on climate action in the Congress for the immense moral clarity and urgency that His Holiness continues to bring to the climate crisis, and how we continue to cherish his address to the Joint Session of Congress in 2015,” she added.

Francis on Saturday called for leaders to take action on climate change and put aside “narrow” partisan politics.

Let me get this straight, the Pope took a long fossil fueled flight to complain to Pelosi, who calls herself a Catholic despite her extreme belief in abortion on demand? And the Pope says nothing about that? Catholics, you’re religion is being destroyed from the inside.

If Democrats want climate legislation so badly, why not attempt to pass it on its own? Let’s debate their plans in full. Let’s see them answer questions.

Sunday update: the article made it seem as if the Pope came to see Pelosi. It’s actually the reverse, Pelosi took a long fossil fueled flight to Italy (for which she certainly charged the American people). Which, from an abortion on demand standpoint, is even worse, with the Pope inviting a huge believe in what the Pope calls murder to visit him.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 9, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on a chief Cleric in Pakistan saying what’s the ultimate goal of Islam.

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Where’s Biden’s Vaccine Mandate?

By William Teach October 9, 2021 – 10:30 am

People are starting to wonder where and when

When will President Joe Biden announce vaccine mandate rules for businesses?

President Joe Biden stumped for his national vaccine mandate at a speaking engagement in Chicago on Thursday but offered no further information on when the plan, that’s set to impact 100 million U.S. workers, will go into effect.

Biden said the U.S. Department of Labor continues to work on the new rules which will be released “soon” but said the announcement itself has already spurred some large U.S. companies to launch their own in-house mandates ahead of the new federal rules.

“When I announced the first requirement, that encouraged businesses to feel they can come in and demand the same thing of their own employees,” Biden said. “More people are getting vaccinated, more lives are being saved.”

And therein is a big point: trying to strong-arm companies into implementing their own vaccine mandates prior to the OSHA release, because, for one thing, they know the OSHA rule will face immediate lawsuits. Also, how will OSHA enforce this? There are only so many inspectors, and they should be doing inspections of certain companies, rather than being Vaccine Police.

Earlier Thursday, the New York Times reported that OSHA is continuing to work on standards that pass legal muster nearly a month after Biden announced the mandate plan. That includes a number of rigorous, time-consuming steps, like demonstrating that workers face a grave danger at work and that a rule is necessary to address the danger. The agency is also working through the long list of questions that business groups have sent seeking guidance on the finer points of vaccine mandates. A few of the thorny issues:

  • Will independent contractors count toward the 100-employee threshold?
  • Who will pay for testing? Companies? The government? The unvaccinated?
  • Will vaccine mandates include boosters, if approved?

How about “what of franchised companies?” Because there are many companies which may not have 100 in their corporate office. Or, maybe they do, but the franchised stores (such as fast food places) do not. The rule will surely not be going through the regular rule-making process, which does leave itself open to lawsuits.

The Times report also noted several big employers have imposed mandates since Biden’s announcement, including 3M and Procter & Gamble. Others, like JPMorgan Chase and Walmart, have yet to issue broad requirements. But even after OSHA finalizes its rules, some employers wary of mandates may not act, betting that they won’t be punished because of the agency’s limited enforcement resources or that the standards could get bogged down in court.

Exactly. How many will lose their jobs because they refuse to take a vaccine that essentially still in the testing phase. I’m pro-vaccine, but, I’m anti-mandate. Ask me again in a year or two, when we’ll have a whole lot more data on how the vaccines perform and side effects, at least short term.

Especially when mandates are selective

Friday is the first full day of the Los Angeles County vaccine mandate, where customers must show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test at select businesses, like outdoor venues, bars, wineries and breweries.

While the San Fernando Brewing Company closed before midnight Thursday night, the business is ready to check customers vaccine status before they’re allowed inside today.

“I’m feeling a little picked on, actually, is probably the the best way to put it,” said Vic Chouchanian, owner of San Fernando Brewing Company.

Some are required, others aren’t.

And the People In Charge would rather restrict Americans and cause issues than look towards China which created this who thing.

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Pentagon Has New Plan To Go “Green” Or Something

By William Teach October 9, 2021 – 7:32 am

It was one thing for the military to plan for the effects of a warming world, regardless of causation belief. That’s what they do: plan. Now, though, they are being sucked further into the Cult of Climastrology, and this will damage their core mission, which is to protect the U.S. from foreign enemies

With New Plan, Pentagon Embraces Climate Change Fight

Electric vehicleA new Pentagon strategy calls for the military services and all defense-related organizations — including contractors — to make changes to mitigate potential vulnerabilities from climate change and reduce emissions.

The 32-page report, released Thursday, states that the Defense Department must adapt to a world where military operations, installations and even weapon systems can all be impacted by climate change.

“Climate change is going to be the context of the world that we live in from now on,” Richard Kidd, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for environment and energy resilience, told reporters during a roundtable on Friday. “No entity can opt out of their responsibilities or requirements to take necessary steps in either adaptation or mitigation.”

The strategy lays out five lines of effort, outlining how the Pentagon can incorporate climate change into its future planning and operations.

So, what, worthless electric trucks and tanks? Sailing ships? How will they fly airplanes? Softening the training requirements because of a slight temperature increase?

Perhaps most notably for the defense industry, the department must harden its supply chains to the effects of climate change, the strategy states. One way it can do that is by leveraging its purchasing power to invest in environmentally-friendly technologies like microgrids and power storage systems that can also improve the survivability of the military.

If it’s not helping the mission it’s hurting the mission.

The Pentagon will also seek greater transparency from industry on current levels of greenhouse gas emissions and companies’ plans for reduction.

And forcing contractors to go green. Silly.

The department plans to target places in the supply chain where it can reduce emissions, while also having a positive impact on operations or resiliency, Kidd said. For example, the Defense Department wants to see more domestic production of batteries used in aircraft, on ships or by dismounted troops, which serves a dual purpose of reducing the vulnerability of the US military to supply chain interruptions in the foreign market.

Now, that is one thing that does make sense. Of course, the extreme-enviros will sue to stop the mining necessary for this, along with protests and blockades.

Maybe one day the military will be able to have electric tanks, but, at this moment, all this stuff is just a distraction from being able to protect the U.S. But, then, the climate cult is primarily made up of Leftists, who have long hated the military, and this is a way to destroy it from the inside. They weren’t able to defund it in the Vietnam era, so, they invade and destroy.

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Where’s Kamala: Blows Of Meeting With Mexican Officials On Border

By William Teach October 9, 2021 – 7:19 am

Didn’t Surrender Joe make Cackling Kamala the sheriff in charge of the border? Which is wide open?

Kamala Harris skips US-Mexico border-security meeting, goes to New Jersey instead

Several top members of the Biden administration were in Mexico City on Friday for a meeting with Mexican officials regarding security along the U.S.-Mexico border. But Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t among them.

Harris, whom President Biden appointed in March to manage the U.S. response to the migrant crisis along the border, went to New Jersey instead.

Attending Friday’s high-level talks in Mexico’s capital were Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.

“Today’s High-Level Security Dialogue marks an important new phase in the US-Mexico security partnership,” Mayorkas tweeted Friday. “We will work together under a new framework to guide our joint efforts, and work toward our shared goals of security and prosperity for our two nations.”

And Kamala?

Harris, meanwhile, traveled to the Garden State, visiting a daycare center at Montclair State University in Little Falls and a vaccination site at Essex County Community College in Newark to promote the Biden administration’s agenda.

The vice president last visited the border in June, spending several hours in El Paso, Texas, while on her way to her home in California. It’s the only time she’s been to the border since taking office.

In fairness, did they really need her for the meeting? On one hand, the optics of her being there involved would have been good. On the other hand, her cackling and inappropriate laughing at random would have been distracting and bad optics. On the third hand, the meeting was pretty much meaningless, because the Biden administration will not do a damned thing about the border regardless.

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Federal Agencies Flag Six Aspects Of American Life At Risk From Climate Doom

By William Teach October 8, 2021 – 3:00 pm

But, you know, if we give them more funding and power they can totally solve this!

6 Aspects of American Life Threatened by Climate Change

Less food. More traffic accidents. Extreme weather hitting nuclear waste sites. Migrants rushing toward the United States, fleeing even worse calamity in their own countries.

Those scenarios, once the stuff of dystopian fiction, are now driving American policymaking. Under orders from President Biden, top officials at every government agency have spent months considering the top climate threats their agencies face, and how to cope with them.

I usually cut the links out of articles, unless they are relevant. That link? It goes to the NY Times piece on Google and Youtube restricting monetization and ads from “climate deniers”. Because they are apparently threats. And, they are. Because they expose the grift, fraud, and scam.

On Thursday, the White House offered a first look at the results, releasing the climate-adaptation plans of 23 agencies, including the departments of Energy, Defense, Agriculture, Homeland Security, Transportation and Commerce. The plans reveal the dangers posed by a warming planet to every aspect of American life, and the difficulty of coping with those threats.

The federal government has attempted this exercise before, during the Obama administration. That work effectively stopped under former President Donald J. Trump, whose disdain for climate science led most agencies to either shelve their planning for climate change or stop talking about it.

“Nearly every service that the government provides will be impacted by climate change sooner or later,” said Jesse Keenan, a professor at Tulane University who focuses on climate adaptation and has advised federal agencies.

The plans released Thursday are brief, many of them fewer than 30 pages. They include core themes: ensuring that new facilities meet tougher construction standards, using less energy and water at existing buildings, better protecting workers against extreme heat, educating staff about climate science, and creating supply chains that are less likely to be disrupted by storms or other shocks.

In other words, more funding, more power, more Governmental Control of everything. And these same people called Trump a Fascist and Authoritarian.

The documents also reflect Mr. Biden’s emphasis on racial equity, looking at the effects of climate change on minority and low-income communities and how agencies can address them. For example, the Department of Health and Human Services said it will focus research grants on the health effects on those communities.

This is not science, it’s politics, and it helps make people even more dependent on the federal government.

All this over a minimal 1.5F increase in global temperatures since 1850.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 8, 2021 – 10:30 am

…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on forced masking in Florida. I never do this, but, let me highlight a really good point from the piece

We have stated that if you are going to mandate masks for employees, you have provide masks to wear (which the Board does not do for all employees, allowing “face coverings” which are not effective.) You also have to make those safety regulations meaningful. For example, there are many jobs where a hard hat is required, but no one would argue that a “Bob the Builder” “hard hat” should be allowed on a real job site and that it provides the same protection as an OSHA approved helmet.

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Biden Gives A “Let’s Go Brandon” To Those Who Lost Their Jobs Over Vaccine Refusal

By William Teach October 8, 2021 – 10:30 am

That whole #Unity stuff is working great, eh? Meanwhile, Surrender Joe is allowing tens of thousands of unvaccinated “migrants” into the country and allowing them to stay (except Haitians, of course)

‘Look at the bigger story’: Biden dismisses unvaccinated losing their jobs

President Joe Biden took his COVID-19 vaccine requirement policy on the road Thursday, encouraging those concerned about “mass firings” and “hundreds of people losing their jobs” to focus on “the bigger story.”

During a speech at an Illinois construction site, Biden defended the policy but admitted he had been reluctant to introduce a vaccine mandate, saying it was not his “first instinct.”

“Let’s be clear: When you see headlines and reports of mass firings and hundreds of people losing their jobs, look at the bigger story,” he said, seemingly meaning more people in the workforce are now vaccinated.

“The vaccination requirements are tough medicine: unpopular with some, politics for others,” he said. “But they’re life-saving, they’re game-changing for our country.”

This from the guy who said that the vaccines wouldn’t happen for years during the general election campaign. But, hey, screw you folks losing you jobs, especially you folks who were last year’s heroes, the teachers, medical professionals, and first responders.

In the meantime, Biden asked employers on Thursday to act independently of his administration after he toured Clayco’s Elk Grove Village construction site and side meetings with public and private leaders. Clayco, one of the Midwest’s largest construction companies, will begin following Biden’s policy before the OSHA rule is published.

“The unvaccinated also put our economy at risk because people are reluctant to go out,” he said. “Because they’re worried they’re going to get sick. I’ve tried everything in my power to get people vaccinated.”

Polls show that the unvaccinated tend to be a whole lot less concerned than the vaccinated. And this undercuts the notion that the vaccines are meant to protect people from catching COVID. If the unvaccinated want to take the chance, that’s on them. Should I no longer consider the vaccine as protection from getting COVID, just the notion that it might not be as bad?

Anyhow, Joe is helping reinforce making the unvaccinated second class citizens. How soon till they’re required to wear a pin?

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Google, Youtube To Stop Ads And Monetization For “Climate Deniers”

By William Teach October 8, 2021 – 8:15 am

How soon till they simply block all content which conflicts with their doomsday cult beliefs? Google is already suppressing content, dropping it to lower search status

From the link

Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments.

Why it matters: It’s one of the most aggressive measures any major tech platform has taken to combat climate change misinformation.

Details: Google advertisers and publishers, as well as YouTube creators, will be prohibited from making ad revenue off content that contradicts “well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change,” the company’s ads team said in a statement. (snip)

Yes, but: Google often makes changes to its ads policies to reduce misinformation, but this update is notable, given how hard it can be to characterize certain commentary about climate change as denialism or misinformation.

The tech giant says that when evaluating content against the new policy, “we’ll look carefully at the context in which claims are made, differentiating between content that states a false claim as fact, versus content that reports on or discusses that claim.”

This is not based on science, it is based on belief. Nothing else. Google is part of the group that is trying to kill off the climate legislation coming from Democrats. The carbon footprint from Google and Youtube is huge, particularly the latter, with all the streaming, and Youtube trying to replace cable and satellite TV. Consensus is not science. The biggest hit is to those who use Youtube, attempting to make money.

Why it matters: Social media platforms have immense reach, and they’ve come under fire from activists and some lawmakers globally for doing too little to thwart the spread of inaccurate content.

It’s not quite censorship, but, it’s getting close. The point of these companies is to simply allow the flow of information. Denial simply means “disagrees with us.” They really do not like that.

Exactly. And they’re going to enforce their doomsday cult beliefs regardless. Which might make more people wonder what the cult is suppressing.

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