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We can win, but, sadly, it may take widespread violence to do it.
In nearly any other period in history that would be agreeable, but it's been ensured that such an action would be sure to backfire if we tried to return shit to normal by force now. Simple, 100% peaceful protests from people who simply wanted to save their businesses have already been met with extreme hostility from every angle, can you imagine the fucking field day the leftist regime would have if there was a genuine, violent uprising of people who've had enough of this bullshit?

Every possible cog in the machine of this country has worked over the decades to make the public so utterly braindead that they absolutely can get the majority to turn on any instances of others trying to get out of this new normal dystopia (while of course ignoring and even agreeing with the actual carnage being wrought on a daily basis from the left's rioting pets). So we free thinkers are stuck between a rock and a hard place in terms of getting anything to change.
 


Sadly, this is NOT from the Babylon Bee. Certain identifying info removed.

COUNTY'S CASES STILL MUCH TOO HIGH FOR NEXT STAGE OF REOPENING

• State, Moreno say we're making progress, but county data show it's not nearly enough

Led by X and the X Valley, which had 418 cases between them, the County added 536 cases of coronavirus in the last seven days — a number that is far too high for the county to move up a tier on the state's "Blueprint for a Safer Economy."

The Peninsula added just 34 cases over the last seven days,

The average number of cases over the last seven days per 100,000 county residents — an important state benchmark — stands at 15.6 for the whole county, according to the latest health department data. In X, the number is 19.5, and in the Valley, it's 33.1. The Peninsula's 7-day average per 100,000 residents is 3.6.

The county's overall average must be below 7.0 for three straight weeks for us to move from the Purple Tier to the Red Tier on the state's blueprint.

Officially, the state's modified score of cases for the County is 9.0, but that's based on data that's almost two weeks old, and our case numbers have been rising since then. County health director Ed Moreno ("Big Bucks Ed" makes about $345,000/year to fuck with us, never misses a paycheck - JS) has also repeatedly said the county has improving numbers, though his office's data do not show that trend to be happening very quickly. During a recent conference call, Moreno himself declined to predict whether the county would be able to move to the Red Tier by November, and with winter coming, restaurants are worried their outdoor dining spaces will become less and less attractive to customers.




Winter here is a fall, with some rain and the occasional two- or three-day spate of chilly temperatures.

If you haven't read The Grapes of Wrath, believe this winter we are going to get into the situation described at the end of the book. Crops will be growing during the winter, but nothing will be harvested until spring. Normal. Means that thousands of field workers will be unemployed, as usual during that time. Then you add all the hospitality workers who will remain out of their jobs, likely without the big unemployment checks. More thousands unemployed, with families. At the present rate don't see this fuck of a governor lifting his oppressive restrictions for another year. He'll make something up to keep fucking with the people, doesn't care.

Believe things here will reach a crisis this winter. Expect Christmas to be very, very bad. A humanitarian crisis, in supposedly the richest state in the Union. All due to one shiteater's lust for power. No science involved. I try not to think about it. Do my mite by not getting tested. One less case to be used to keep people hungry.

Some PL - have been unemployed at times, for extended periods. Not fun, sure not easy. You don't care about yourself, just your family. And I was lucky, had military pension to help. Going to be many, many people here with little or no income, no more resources.

One outside hope - President Trump is re-elected and immediately ends all these house arrests, by executive order. Everyone goes back to work/school, wear masks. That's all. Trump knows what it's like to run a business, meet payrolls. Many of these governors likely don't have that background, were lawyers or in some sort of government job.

Whenever you think things in CA can't get more fucked up, they do. 🤢
 
One outside hope - President Trump is re-elected and immediately ends all these house arrests, by executive order. Everyone goes back to work/school, wear masks. That's all. Trump knows what it's like to run a business, meet payrolls. Many of these governors likely don't have that background, were lawyers or in some sort of government job.

Whenever you think things in CA can't get more fucked up, they do. 🤢

Not sure he can just force the state lockdowns over. What he can do is declare the federal emergency over, and that would fuck a lot of their little games up. But he can't do that until after the election or WAAAH WAAAH REEE REE he's LITERALLY KILLING GRANDMA!!!
 
Not sure he can just force the state lockdowns over. What he can do is declare the federal emergency over, and that would fuck a lot of their little games up. But he can't do that until after the election or WAAAH WAAAH REEE REE he's LITERALLY KILLING GRANDMA!!!

Yeah, not sure either. Going a bit further, after the election, which I believe Trump will win, can also see him Federalizing the National Guard and having them enter certain riot-torn cities to establish order again.
 
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It really will take some outside force (tax season, violent uprising, take your pick) to put an end to this fucking nonsense, because they've got the perfect formula down to keep this nightmare going perpetually. Keep everyone locked up, give a false sense of hope by opening up, and then shut everything down again the moment there's so much as a single case, which oh yeah, is an inevitability. And thanks to New Normal pozzing being done so effectively and the goalposts having shifted so far across the field, a simple scare article about cases is all it takes.

In fact the lockdown/open/lockdown pattern ensures a never-ending supply of "spikes" to maintain that fear. If the virus was treated as any regular flu, not only would nobody have noticed much of a difference beyond a slightly worse than normal season of coofs, but cases would've dropped off like a rock a LONG long time ago as it would've gone through the population much faster. All these lockdowns really do is just make that process take twice as long. It's become so widespread that we're all going to get it at some point, all the masks and house arrests in the world ain't gonna stop that outcome. So not only have we destroyed the fabric of normal society and allowed authoritarian rule to spring up everywhere for nothing, but we've also considerably stretched out the period of time Corona-Chan is at her strongest.
 
Sadly, this is NOT from the Babylon Bee. Certain identifying info removed.

COUNTY'S CASES STILL MUCH TOO HIGH FOR NEXT STAGE OF REOPENING

• State, Moreno say we're making progress, but county data show it's not nearly enough

Led by X and the X Valley, which had 418 cases between them, the County added 536 cases of coronavirus in the last seven days — a number that is far too high for the county to move up a tier on the state's "Blueprint for a Safer Economy."

The Peninsula added just 34 cases over the last seven days,

The average number of cases over the last seven days per 100,000 county residents — an important state benchmark — stands at 15.6 for the whole county, according to the latest health department data. In X, the number is 19.5, and in the Valley, it's 33.1. The Peninsula's 7-day average per 100,000 residents is 3.6.

The county's overall average must be below 7.0 for three straight weeks for us to move from the Purple Tier to the Red Tier on the state's blueprint.

Officially, the state's modified score of cases for the County is 9.0, but that's based on data that's almost two weeks old, and our case numbers have been rising since then. County health director Ed Moreno ("Big Bucks Ed" makes about $345,000/year to fuck with us, never misses a paycheck - JS) has also repeatedly said the county has improving numbers, though his office's data do not show that trend to be happening very quickly. During a recent conference call, Moreno himself declined to predict whether the county would be able to move to the Red Tier by November, and with winter coming, restaurants are worried their outdoor dining spaces will become less and less attractive to customers.




Winter here is a fall, with some rain and the occasional two- or three-day spate of chilly temperatures.

If you haven't read The Grapes of Wrath, believe this winter we are going to get into the situation described at the end of the book. Crops will be growing during the winter, but nothing will be harvested until spring. Normal. Means that thousands of field workers will be unemployed, as usual during that time. Then you add all the hospitality workers who will remain out of their jobs, likely without the big unemployment checks. More thousands unemployed, with families. At the present rate don't see this fuck of a governor lifting his oppressive restrictions for another year. He'll make something up to keep fucking with the people, doesn't care.

Believe things here will reach a crisis this winter. Expect Christmas to be very, very bad. A humanitarian crisis, in supposedly the richest state in the Union. All due to one shiteater's lust for power. No science involved. I try not to think about it. Do my mite by not getting tested. One less case to be used to keep people hungry.

Some PL - have been unemployed at times, for extended periods. Not fun, sure not easy. You don't care about yourself, just your family. And I was lucky, had military pension to help. Going to be many, many people here with little or no income, no more resources.

One outside hope - President Trump is re-elected and immediately ends all these house arrests, by executive order. Everyone goes back to work/school, wear masks. That's all. Trump knows what it's like to run a business, meet payrolls. Many of these governors likely don't have that background, were lawyers or in some sort of government job.

Whenever you think things in CA can't get more fucked up, they do. 🤢

You have another outside hope. Pennsylvania was just rescued by a Federal Judge who wrote an astonishingly strong ruling ending the Governors lockdowns as violations of the 1st and 14th Amendments. The State is Appealing, and will almost certainly be curb stomped. The rulings thus written are of broad enough legal weight to be dragged in and used before the 9th Circuit.
 
I found a better article on DeWine and Husted being booed out in Vandalia. Sounds like Trump was suprised by it, which I assume means that DeWine's people were blowing smoke up his ass about how popular this all is. I kind of feel sorry for Husted, he doesn't seem that bad for Ohio politics and word is DeWine isn't seeking reelection in 2022 and the plan was for DeWine to lay the ground work for Husted to be the next Governor. His support for DeWine may be because he has to play ball, but it may have cost him his future political career in the state.

And as a quick note, Ohio's positivity rate was down to 3.1% as of yesterday. The numbers keep dropping, and DeWine gets stricter.
I voted for DeWine and sure as fuck wasn't going to vote for him again after this summer. Just as well he doesn't run.
 

Remember, if you own an Android or IOS phone, this shit is now built into the OS, it just needs an approved app (or a hacker that figures out the API) to access the data. Supposedly if your phone has connected to a cellphone tower in the past 6 months, it auto-installed. Mine installed during an Android "Security Update" without my permission, consent, nor any way to opt out or disable the functionality.
 
Remember, if you own an Android or IOS phone, this shit is now built into the OS, it just needs an approved app (or a hacker that figures out the API) to access the data. Supposedly if your phone has connected to a cellphone tower in the past 6 months, it auto-installed. Mine installed during an Android "Security Update" without my permission, consent, nor any way to opt out or disable the functionality.

In iOS, it is built into the OS, but you supposedly have to turn it on in the settings. Have left mine off, but who knows if that switch is functional or a pacifier to make people feel like they have a choice.
 
oh boi i can't wait for the contact tracer for white supremacy, imagine a black van parking by you, you getting kidnapped and taken to a reeducation camp because you spent 15 min with a stranger who browsed 4chan
But on the bright side you get paid time off for being sick with white supremacy since it's a major public health crisis and all, right?
 
Remember, if you own an Android or IOS phone, this shit is now built into the OS, it just needs an approved app (or a hacker that figures out the API) to access the data. Supposedly if your phone has connected to a cellphone tower in the past 6 months, it auto-installed. Mine installed during an Android "Security Update" without my permission, consent, nor any way to opt out or disable the functionality.
In iOS, it is built into the OS, but you supposedly have to turn it on in the settings. Have left mine off, but who knows if that switch is functional or a pacifier to make people feel like they have a choice.
And everyone is always bewildered when I tell them I don't have a smartphone.
 
County Public (or should I say Pubic) Health officials have furthered their guidance to the public due to increased cases. These czars are now requiring: 1. any 18-22 yr. old to "avoid gatherings of any size," 2. individuals at certain addresses listed in the order to stay-at-home, and 3. all uni students must cooperate with all mandates and investigations including those conducted by contact tracers.

Pretty frightening that they can order certain people at certain addresses to stay-at-home. (Even those these are mostly fraternities and sororities or so they say.)

The sun is going down, friends.

 
Covid-19 may have become more contagious as it has mutated, the largest genetic study carried out in the US into the virus has suggested, as scientists warn it could be adapting to interventions such as mask-wearing and social distancing.
One variant of the novel coronavirus is now one of the most dominant in America, accounting for 99.9 per cent of cases in one area studied.
The paper concluded that a mutation that changes the structure of the “spike protein” on the surface of the virus may be driving the outsized spread of that particular strain.
Researchers have been sequencing the genomes of the coronavirus at Houston Methodist, one of the largest hospitals in Texas, since early March, when the virus first appeared in the city. To date, they have documented 5,085 sequences.
In the first wave of the outbreak in Houston around March, some 71 per cent of the viruses were characterised by the mutation, which originated in China and is known as D614G.
By the second wave, which began in May and is ongoing, the D614G mutation leaped to 99.9 per cent prevalence.
A tiny tweak in the spike protein of the dominant variant switches an amino acid from aspartic acid to glycine. The new mutation appears to be outdistancing all of its competitors. The graphic below explains more.

The researchers, who include some from the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin, found that people infected with this strain had higher "loads" of virus in their upper respiratory tracts, which allows a virus to spread more effectively.
One of the authors offered that D614G has been increasingly dominant in Houston and other areas because it is better adapted to spreading among humans.
Their paper, published on Wednesday by preprint server MedRxiv, however, did not find that it was more deadly.
A similar study published in the UK had similar results, finding that D614G was increasing in frequency at “an alarming rate” and had rapidly become the dominant Covid-19 lineage in Europe and had then taken hold in the US, Canada and Australia.
By failing to control the spread in the US - which has the highest number of cases in the world - the virus has been given more opportunity to mutate in a shorter amount of time.

David Morens, a virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told the Washington Post the findings point to the possibility that the virus has become more transmissible and that this “may have implications for our ability to control it”.
Mr Morens cautioned that it was only one study that had not yet been peer-reviewed and “you don’t want to over-interpret what this means”. But the virus, he said, could potentially be responding - through mutations - to such interventions as hand-washing and social distancing.
“Wearing masks, washing our hands, all those things are barriers to transmissibility, or contagion, but as the virus becomes more contagious it statistically is better at getting around those barriers,” said Mr Morens, senior adviser to Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of NIAID.
As a rule, the more genetic diversity a virus has the more prepared it is to evolve away from future treatments and vaccines.
Other virologists downplayed the importance of the study, saying much is still unknown about the various mutations of the virus and how virulent they are.
Studying mutations in detail, however, could be important for controlling the pandemic. It might help to pre-empt the most worrying of mutations - those that could help the virus to evade immune systems, vaccines or antibody therapies.
 
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