Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Hannibal]

The nasally valley girl chick who has been testifying in Michigan has it too.

[lineygoblue]

Jon is definitely a radical, but he's a radical I'd trust with my last dollar.

[Dr. Strangelove]

AA gonna buy himself a corvette with all that cocoa merchant money !!!!!

UP! UP! UP! $$$$$$$$

[Hannibal]

Allright which one of you is this?

Does it worke?

[Hannibal]

"Fiffteen days to flatten the curve"

WHO Envoy: Life Won’t Return to Normal For at Least 2 Years

The WHO’s special envoy for the global COVID-19 response says that despite the arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine, normal life won’t resume for at least two years.

Dr David Nabarro suggested that social distancing and masks were something that would have to continue as a way of “treating this virus with respect.”

“This will mean face masks and physical distancing otherwise the virus does keep on surging. The reality is it will be some months before we can dispense with these precautions,” he said.

When asked when things would return to normal, Nabarro suggested that this wouldn’t occur until the end of 2022 at the earliest.

“I hate making predictions, but let’s just consider it in the big picture. None of us will be safe until the whole world is safe,” remarked Nabarro.

The WHO’s special envoy for the global COVID-19 response says that despite the arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine, normal life won’t resume for at least two years.

Dr David Nabarro suggested that social distancing and masks were something that would have to continue as a way of “treating this virus with respect.”

“This will mean face masks and physical distancing otherwise the virus does keep on surging. The reality is it will be some months before we can dispense with these precautions,” he said.

When asked when things would return to normal, Nabarro suggested that this wouldn’t occur until the end of 2022 at the earliest.

“I hate making predictions, but let’s just consider it in the big picture. None of us will be safe until the whole world is safe,” remarked Nabarro.

“Big patches of normality are coming up soon, but not everyone will be vaccinated for at least a couple of years. So normal life as we know it is a couple of years away for the world,” he added.

As we have previously highlighted, two years may seem a naive target for a return to normality given that some prominent figures have said the world will never get back to what it was pre-COVID.

“Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal,” wrote World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab.

“The short response is: never. Nothing will ever return to the ‘broken’ sense of normalcy that prevailed prior to the crisis because the coronavirus pandemic marks a fundamental inflection point in our global trajectory,” he added.

In addition to Schwab, a senior U.S. Army official said that mask wearing and social distancing will become permanent, while CNN’s international security editor Nick Paton Walsh asserted that the mandatory wearing of masks will become “permanent,” “just part of life,” and that the public would need to “come to terms with it.”

[CGVT]

10 months into " when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero"

[Jeff Buchanan]

The problem for the WHO, has been since the beginning the publicly articulated assumption that at some point the world must attain eradication of SARS-CoV-2. That implies a global condition where there is zero risk of infection. That is based mostly on their experience with SARS and Ebola- two recent viruses that neared but never achieved pandemic status and, instead, were for all intent and purpose, eradicated. Before that we had Polio, TB, Mumps and Measels, Malaria - all with records or eradication. So, sure, eradication of SARS-CoV2 would be nice but we're entering a new phase of human existence where control with an acceptable risk of viral infection is attainable. Eradication is not. That's a huge shift in thinking. We've seen it with HIV - control the spread, treat the disease - AIDS - that comes from it but it won't be eradicated. This is not hard to understand. There are glimmers of hope that we are beginning to understadn this ...... outside the WHO.

TBF, it's not the role of the WHO to do cost benefit analysis. Governments should be doing that and globally, we're getting there. I've read plenty of papers in the last month where it's apparent that economists and PH scientists, strange bedfellows if there ever was, are coming to a consensus that risk/cost/benefit assessments, when considering mitigation measures, are critical if humans are going to move into a period of sustaining themselves through agricultural and economic expansion. Both of these endeavors need to be profitable to succeed. The WHO will never embrace that reality so, continue to see them taking unrealistic positions like this.

Its the job of economic realists in the free world outside of brutally repressive authoritarian regimes to push back against recommendations that come from public heath agencies that suggest wide spread shuttering. We know this works to control spread in small, Island countries, to lesser degrees in large landmass/populous countries unless you are the Chicoms. No thanks. Even then, that approach is not sustainable or do the benefits outweigh the costs of that approach. The PRC knows that but will never admit it. Its much easier to jail or shoot citizens that break isolation or quarantine.

For now, we just have to look at stuff like Hanni posted, recognize where its coming from and push back in responsible ways against it. That includes rejecting big brother government and the relegation of individual choice to government control. That doesn't mean flaunting or disregarding reasonable mitigation measures as it is proven beyond any doubt that human behavior,taking responsibility for your own protection and respecting the safety of others, is the biggest factor in containing this thing. Even then, there will be crazies on both sides of the debate and Jon can attest to that. Restrictions on socializing have to be reasonable if compliance is to be obtained. So do restrictions on businesses for the same reason. We're never going to be free from the threat of novel and occasionally deadly viruses going forward. We can live with them but not if we allow the predictable destruction of living itself by those that think they need to impose their controls on our lives so that eradication can be obtained and that there is zero risk of becoming infected and dying. The creep toward governments asserting ever increasing control of our lives may be a bigger risk than the virus itself

[Dr. Strangelove]

These three RINOs won't break state law and attempt to overturn the election the way the President wants

[Mike]

It’s almost like he’s trying to sabotage the Senate races.

[Hannibal]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...up/ar-BB1bI46C

A new Gallup survey found Americans' reporting of their own mental health at the lowest level the pollster has ever recorded.

Mental health ratings sink to new low: Gallup The survey found 76 percent of Americans give their mental health positive marks, down 9 points from last year. The pollster has surveyed Americans on their mental and emotional wellbeing since 2001. The percentage that rank it as good to excellent had never dipped below 81 percent until 2020.

Gallup found 34 percent of Americans call their mental health "excellent" compared to 42 percent who called it "good," 18 percent who called it "fair" and 5 percent who called it "poor." The percentage of those calling it "excellent" is also the lowest Gallup has ever recorded.

The poll comes both during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and on the heels of the 2020 presidential election.

Gallup found several demographics' percentage of respondents calling their mental health "excellent" fell by double digits in the last year, including Republicans, independents, women and people who attend religious services less than once a week. The least movement in mental wellbeing was among unmarried people, older adults, white adults, Democrats and people who attend religious services frequently.

The survey found women, Democrats, young adults, unmarried people and people who seldom or never attend religious services had the lowest percentage of "excellent" ratings. Despite the steep overall decline, this finding is consistent with past years, according to Gallup.

Americans were also less likely with age to rank their mental health as "excellent." Thirty-seven percent of those 18-29 called it excellent, compared to 32 percent of those 30-49, 27 percent of those 50-64 and 18 percent of those over 65.

Pollsters surveyed 1,018 American adults from Nov. 5 to 19, including 70 percent cellphone users and 30 percent landline users. The survey has a 4-point margin of error.

And that is without a winter shut indoors.

[Hannibal]

The hot new videogame is Cyberpunk 2077.

In the game you can play as a man or a woman. But you can't be transgender. The "preferred pronoun" community is outraged. If you buy the game, you owe $70 of reparations.

*Honk Honk*

[Hannibal]

The game is getting sky high reviews from most outlets. One of the outliers is Gamespot.com, which gave the game a mediocre 7/10 score. They were offended by the sexualized transgender imagery without being able to play as an actual transgender character.

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[Hannibal]

California has instituted Draconian lockdowns to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

This is the state that recently decriminalized the spread of AIDS.

Welcome to Clownworld.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Weird factoids demonstrating how the Democratic Party has gotten increasingly concentrated in urban areas and grown in popularity among the upper middle class.

Among counties that contain at least one Whole Foods, Biden won 85% of them. That's only 202 counties total, but those counties make up over just half of the total US electorate.

Biden, in fact, will win the fewest number of counties ever by the successful candidate (at least since there has been 50 states) despite winning the popular vote by more than 7M

[Mike]

Noted. So if the number of "Whole Foods counties" dips for the D candidate in 2024, we can assume it's due to massive voter fraud.