LA Times: Let’s Bring On The COVID Cracksdowns!

By William Teach July 30, 2021 – 10:30 am

I was going to do something else, but, there is too much Bat Soup Virus news, let’s start with the LA Times editorial board, which fails to say whether the LA Times is requiring employees to be vaccinated or be fired

Editorial: Bring on the crackdown. The unvaccinated must be held accountable

The Delta variant is spreading rapidly in California and nationwide, but happily so are crackdowns by public and private employers aimed at limiting the ability of their unvaccinated workers to infect others with COVID-19.

On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced new rules requiring vaccination or regular testing and masking for the 246,000 state government employees; the rules will apply as well to workers at both private and public healthcare and long-term care facilities. Similar workforce rules have popped up around the nation, including in the city of Los Angeles.

On Thursday, President Biden said civilian federal workers and on-site contractors, too, would need to receive COVID-19 vaccination or submit to regular testing and other infection-control restrictions to remain on the job. Meanwhile, Google, Facebook and a number of other tech companies say they will require employees to be vaccinated in order to return to their desks when their offices eventually reopen.

Hooray. It’s time the stubbornly unvaccinated are held to account for their part in the resurgence of COVID-19.

Is anyone surprised that a progressive organization would push government power and tyranny? If this is all on the unvaccinated, then why

US surgeon general recommends fully vaccinated people wear masks outdoors to protect the unvaccinated

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is recommending that fully vaccinated individuals wear face masks outdoors to protect the unvaccinated. Murthy made the suggestion during an appearance on MSNBC, where he said fully vaccinated individuals wearing masks indoors and outdoors was an “extra step” of protection to unvaccinated people.

Look, if you do not want to get vaccinated, that’s on you. Your choice, regardless of how you came to it.

Gov. Cooper asks NC agencies, private businesses to make unvaccinated workers wear a mask

Gov. Roy Cooper is asking for state government agencies and private businesses to have unvaccinated workers wear a mask and be tested for COVID-19 as the delta variant rages in North Carolina.

Though COVID-19 cases are rising quickly, he did not issue a statewide mandate for people to wear masks.

“Don’t wait until we run out of hospital beds. Don’t wait until skyrocketing numbers threaten to shut businesses or cancel sports. Don’t wait until you infect somebody you love,” Cooper said while pleading for unvaccinated people to get the shot.

A new executive order from Cooper directs state government cabinet agencies to verify whether their employees are vaccinated. Unvaccinated employees will be tested at least once a week and be required to wear a mask.

Even suggestions can like this can influence private companies to comply. They just don’t want to deal with the problems of harrassment from government and Credentialed Media outlets, because you know if the news gets wind of a company refusing to Comply, they’ll slap them up on TV.

And, they’re already ready for when the Delta variant of China Flu burns out

Another coronavirus variant has reached Florida. Here’s what you need to know.

A coronavirus variant discovered in Colombia is showing up among patients in South Florida, increasing infections and putting health officials on alert as calls grow louder for unvaccinated individuals to get inoculated.

Carlos Migoya, CEO of Jackson Health System, told WPLG in Miami earlier this week that the B.1.621 variant has accounted for about 10% of coronavirus patients, trailing behind delta, the now dominant variant in the United States that’s been ravaging the nation’s unvaccinated, and the gamma variant. B.1.621 has yet to receive a Greek-letter designation as more prominent variants have.

One professor thinks the China Flu will become endemic, meaning it will be around forever. And the Progressives (nice Fascists) will continue to use it to empower government.

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Say, How Many People Are Being Killed Because You Took A Fossil Fueled Trip?

By William Teach July 30, 2021 – 8:11 am

What else is a doomsday cult to do but prognosticate more doom?

A Carbon Calculation: How Many Deaths Do Emissions Cause?

What is the cost of our carbon footprint — not just in dollars, but in lives?

According to a paper published on Thursday, it is soberingly high, and perhaps high enough to help shift attitudes about how much we should spend on fighting climate change.

The new paper, published in the journal Nature Communications, draws on multiple areas of research to find out how many future lives will be lost as a result of rising temperatures if humanity keeps producing greenhouse gas emissions at high rates — and how many lives could be saved by cutting those emissions.

Most of the deaths will occur in regions that tend to be hotter and poorer than the United States. These areas are typically less responsible for global emissions but more heavily affected by the resulting climate disasters.

Why not tell us how many are being killed right now due to a slight 1.5F increase in the global temperature over the last 170 years? Why not tell us how all those scientists involved in the paper have made their own lives carbon neutral?

R. Daniel Bressler, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, calculated that adding about a quarter of the output of a coal-fired power plant, or roughly a million metric tons of carbon dioxide, to the atmosphere on top of 2020 levels for just one year will cause 226 deaths globally.

Will this be like how they attributed lots of deaths to COVID that really weren’t? What happens if this doesn’t happen? How can they prove any of this?

The new paper builds on the work of William Nordhaus, a Nobel laureate who first determined what is known as the “social cost of carbon” — an economic tool for measuring the climate-related damage to the planet caused by each extra ton of carbon emissions. The concept has been a crucial part of policy debates over the expense of fighting climate change, because it is used to calculate the cost-benefit analysis required when agencies propose environmental rules. The higher the social cost of carbon, the easier it is to justify the costs of action.

And therein is the point, to create scenarios of Doom which can used to push through legislation, rules, and regulations which empower Government over the citizens, often with the citizens simply giving up their money, freedom, and choice voluntarily.

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Republicans Defy Queen Nancy By Having Fun Without Masks In Hallways

By William Teach July 30, 2021 – 7:56 am

This has made many Democrats very upset. They want Mask Theater to continue

Republican Staffers Defy Pelosi: Maskless ‘Beer’ Pong, Cigars in Capitol Hallway

Republican staffers defied Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday evening by playing beer pong (with water) in a Capitol office hallway, smoking cigars, and socializing — without masks, courting arrest by Capitol Police.

As Breitbart News reported Thursday, Pelosi ordered Capitol Police to arrest any staff and visitors who refused to comply with new mask mandates, which she imposed earlier in the week, regardless of vaccination status. She ordered the Capitol Police to report members of Congress who refused to comply to the House Sergeant at Arms for disciplinary action.

In response, several GOP members of Congress defied Pelosi’s orders by allowing staff to work without masks, or remotely.

But young Capitol Hill staffers had another idea: they brought out drinks, inflated a rubber duck, and let the good times roll.

The elected Republicans should join in next time. Or, hey, how about refusing to go on to the House floor for votes? Pelosi and her Comrades wouldn’t be able to complain, what with all their support of the Texas Fleebaggers, who are still in D.C. BTW, Fritschner is the comms chief for Rep Don Beyer (D-Va), who went on a serious whine streak

I do not work in a fraternity house. I don’t know why these people felt the need to do this here, but it is terrible and horrifying that displays of decadent apathy are all these people can summon at a time when people are getting sick and dying.

Didn’t they tell us to get back to our lives? People are always sick and dying.

Two other things: 1) There is *no* chance these people will clean this up. They will leave it for the custodial staff. 2) There are Dem offices on that hall too, with staffers who have to walk through this go home. Aerosolized virus can remain in the air for up to 3 hours.

And wearing a mask wouldn’t do squat to stop Covid if it stays in the air that long. The entire thread is a massive whinefest.

Meanwhile

Are there any reporters who want to stake out Pelosi’s office, get photos of her and her staff not wearing masks?

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Hot Take: The Hot Tokyo Olympics Is A Barometer Or Something

By William Teach July 29, 2021 – 3:00 pm

The average July temperature for Tokyo is 85F, which means there are going to be hotter days and cooler days. That’s how you get an average. Today through next Friday: 81, 84, 90, 88, 88, 91, 88, 91, 93. Kinda what you expect in Tokyo, a city in a warm climate during the summer with a monster sized urban heat island/land use effect. But, no, this is your fault for that cheeseburger in June

ANALYSIS-In fast-warming world, Tokyo is barometer for future Olympics

The muggy heat swaddling Tokyo may be a forerunner of Olympic life to come, experts say, urging a rethink to make the world’s oldest sporting spectacular fit for a fast-warming planet.

The Olympics kicked off in the Japanese capital last week after a year-long delay due to the pandemic, with organisers banning spectators from venues and enforcing a slew of measures to keep the coronavirus at bay.

While worries over COVID-19 have overshadowed other concerns, Japan’s heat and humidity – where temperatures can exceed 35 degrees Celsius (95°F) – also show how future Games will need to grapple with extremes as climate change bites.

“Tokyo 2020 will serve as a model for future hotter Olympics and other summer sporting competitions,” said Yuri Hosokawa, an expert on sport and heat risks at Japan’s Waseda University.

Sherman Potter Bull Cookies

You knew that the Cult of Climastrology was going to take advantage of holding the summer Olympics in, get this, the summer.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 29, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a bridge rotting from too much carbon pollution produced rain and humidity, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on a very strange self defense story.

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Girls Find Dead Body, Steal Jewelry, Post To Social Media

By William Teach July 29, 2021 – 10:30 am

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. And it’s so much easier to play and win these days with social media access

Texas teens find dead man’s body, steal his jewelry and post it all on Snapchat: police

Two Texas teen girls discovered the remains of a 25-year-old man, stole his jewelry and posted video of the macabre act to Snapchat, police say.

The man is believed to have hanged himself in a Medina Valley drainage ditch.

The girls, 17 and 16 years old, face felony charges of theft from a human corpse in connection with the Monday morning incident, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. (snip)

After the girls stumbled onto the body, they called another friend who called 911 at around 8:38 a.m. Monday, according to investigators.

The teens told deputies they were walking to a local gas station and saw something in the drainage ditch. They went closer to take a look and found the victim.

But on Tuesday, investigators said they learned of a video circulating on social media that showed the scene before deputies arrived.

It allegedly showed the 17-year-old taking a gold necklace off the dead man’s chest, according to FOX San Antonio. The video was sent anonymously to Bexar County Sheriff’s deputies.

The 17 year old, Bethany Martin, and an unidentified 16 year old, have been charged with theft from a human corpse. They state they threw out the chain, but kept the pendant, which has been recovered. And they’ve admitted to taking the chain. Which, really, they did not have to say a thing, since they’re on video taking it off the corpse.

(KSAT) The investigator interviewed Martin, who said her friend liked the necklace and pendant around the man’s neck.

She said she removed the jewelry from his body and then removed the medallion from the chain, the affidavit states. She said she gave the medallion to her friend and tossed the necklace into the grass.

The friend, who is not named in this story because she is a juvenile, told deputies that she recorded the incident on Snapchat.

She said she put the medallion on her own golden necklace because it “matched her fashion style,” the affidavit states.

In the past when youngsters did Stupid Things they didn’t provide video proof of their crime. Now they record it for Likes.

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Bummer: Dell Won’t Ship Certain Computers To California, Other Climate Crazy States

By William Teach July 29, 2021 – 8:17 am

Believing in climate doom and wanting to Do Something is all fun and games right up to the point it rears up and smacks you in the face, eh? Climate cultists are super excited to do something in theory, not practice, at least where it affects their own life (via Watts Up With That?)

Dell won’t ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states due to power regulations

unintended consequencesDell is no longer shipping energy-hungry gaming PCs to certain states in America because they demand more energy than local standards allow.

Customers seeking to purchase, for example, an Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 Gaming Desktop from Dell’s website and have it shipped to California are now presented with a message that tells buyers they’re out of luck.

“This product cannot be shipped to the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to power consumption regulations adopted by those states,” the website says. “Any orders placed that are bound for those states will be canceled.”

Dell confirmed to The Register that the California ban was down to power consumption regulations, saying:

Yes, this was driven by the California Energy Commission (CEC) Tier 2 implementation that defined a mandatory energy efficiency standard for PCs – including desktops, AIOs and mobile gaming systems. This was put into effect on July 1, 2021. Select configurations of the Alienware Aurora R10 and R12 were the only impacted systems across Dell and Alienware. (snip)

At the end of 2016, California became the first state to approve energy efficiency limits for computers. At the time, the California Energy Commission (CEC) voted unanimously to adopt tighter appliance energy standards in an effort to meet climate policy goals. According to the 2016 CEC Staff Report, computers and monitors account for about 3 per cent of residential and 7 per cent of commercial energy use in the state.

Certainly, many of those pre-made gaming/high power computers use a heck of a lot more power than your average laptop. But, so what? The people using them are willing to pay for the power in their electric bills. This is their choice. And climate scam regulation will take away choice. You can bet that other manufacturers are looking to do the same. This is what happens when the climate zealots get their legislation passed: unintentional, and intentional, consequences. Computing requires power. The more powerful the computer the more energy needed. How many of the folks who want higher power gaming rigs are also climate cultists? How many now realize that Doing Something does actually negatively affect their lives?

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As CDC Recommends Masking, Sleepy Joe Will Require All Federal Employees To Be Vaccinated

By William Teach July 29, 2021 – 8:02 am

Bringing back mask mandates sure influences people to get vaccinated, right? Remember when we were told we’d get our lives back?

CDC yet to release COVID data behind mask reversal

More than a day after issuing new guidance that vaccinated people should wear masks indoors – recommendations that are likely to affect millions of Americans in the form of private and public mask mandates – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has yet to release the data behind its decision.

The lack of clarity on what exactly the agency is basing its decision on comes as states and cities across the country are working to vaccinate more of their citizens. And it’s making some local officials reluctant to follow the CDC’s advice on nearly universal masking.

“While the CDC issued their guidance yesterday at about 3 p.m., they have not yet released their scientific reports on the data that underlies their recommendation,” New York City Health and Hospitals President and CEO Mitchell Katz said at a Wednesday press conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“I think we owe it to New Yorkers to very carefully, as you say, review that information and understand its implications,” Katz added. “Our focus has to be on getting people vaccinated.”

If even hyper-lefty and Big Controlling Government fan de Blasio is showing reluctance and skepticism, well, things are not going well with masking.

Biden will announce vaccination requirement across federal government on Thursday

President Joe Biden will announce on Thursday a requirement that all federal employees and contractors be vaccinated against Covid-19, or be required to submit to regular testing and mitigation requirements, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

The announcement will come in remarks where Biden is also expected to lay out a series of new steps, including incentives, in an attempt to spur new vaccinations as the Delta variant spreads rapidly throughout the country. It will also follow the decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs to require its frontline health care workers to be vaccinated over the course of the next two months.

So, if a company does business with Los Federales, they will have to comply, as well. But, he won’t require it for the military. Which is already coming out with it’s own mandates.

Furthering the case for vaccine mandates, the administration is taking steps to spell out the legal grounds upon which American entities can require employees to get shots.

Justice Department lawyers have determined that federal law doesn’t prohibit public agencies and private businesses from requiring Covid-19 vaccines, even if the vaccines have only been authorized for emergency use, according to an opinion posted online Monday.

Remember this from early December?

Joe Biden: Covid vaccination in US will not be mandatory

And this from June 10th?

Biden Administration Won’t Require Shots for Federal Workers Returning to Offices

Huh. The Postal Workers union is not happy with the upcoming mandate. Republican Gov Chris Sununu signed of New Hampshire signed into law a bill that blocks vaccine mandates in the Live Free Or Die state. Google and Facebook will require the vaccine for all it’s in-office workers. NY Gov Cuomo, who likes sending old people off to die in nursing homes, will require state employees to get vaccinated or take weekly tests, as will California. Just wondering: aren’t most of the workers in those places Democrats? Why are they hesitant?

We also have Nancy Pelosi playing “hygiene theater” with masks. And

No masks.

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North Carolina Man Charged With Placing Mean Stickers

By William Teach July 28, 2021 – 5:38 pm

Wait, what?

Cary man charged with placing racist stickers at Mexican restaurants. What they said

Bill Of RightsA Cary, NC man has been arrested after police say he placed “I (heart) being white” stickers in and around two Mexican restaurants over the weekend.

John Kantz, 60, has been charged with ethnic intimidation, said Capt. John Reeves, a spokesman for the Cary Police Department.

Stickers were placed on cars outside On the Border on Walnut Street, and in the restroom of Totopos Street Food and Tequila on Kildaire Farm Road, Reeves said.

Both incidents were reported between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. Saturday, according to police reports obtained by The News & Observer.

In a statement Tuesday, On the Border said it was working with law enforcement to “identify the individuals and take appropriate action.”

“We deplore the actions of these individuals and stand in solidarity with all communities of color,” the emailed statement said. “We will never tolerate behavior of this kind and these individuals are no longer welcome in our restaurants.”

Huh what? I can certainly understand the person (and if there are any more “persons of interest”, as further noted, them) being banned at the restaurants. I could even understand a very minor vandalism charge for damaging cars (of course, most of the people who rioted last year were let off scott free. Same with those who damaged the Confederate statues. Regardless of the propriety, and I’ve never been a fan of them. They lost), but, what the heck is “ethnic intimidation? Is that like Wrongthink? I’m pretty darned sure that both the federal Bill of Rights and the NC Constitution (Article 1 Section 14, most specifically) allow freedom of speech. There’s no threat of bodily harm or other harm. Free speech is to protect speech that people do not like/agree with. I think he’s an a-hole for doing this, but, he’s Constitutionally allowed to be an a-hole in this manner.

He was seriously arrested on this minor misdemeanor. For Free Speech.

BTW, I’m against the banner for it’s use of the F word, obscenity and such has no place in public, poor morals, decorum, and propriety. I don’t like it regardless of whether political or not. And, before anyone says it, we’ve seen just as bad, and usally worse, from Trump haters, Bush 43 haters, Cruz haters, etc.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 28, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…are palm trees that will soon grow in Canada due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post noting that the CDC and Biden admin want Americans to mask up, but not illegal aliens.

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