A poster (unconmfirmed) on a local FB thread reports 126 new covid admissions here last week. “At Wake Forest last week Mom went on for emergency surgery (not covid) and incubated patients were filing the hallways. HALLWAYS. let that sink in.”
Yes, we’re all a bit stir crazy, but that’s what exercising outdoors and streaming TV are for.
Via epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding, nearly one in ten concert-goers who attended a recent the Boardmasters music festival in Newquay, England two weeks ago have contracted the Delta variant of Covid-19:
A senior official working on pandemic response in the south-west of England said many of the infections among young people in the region had been identified as coming directly from the festival in Newquay, which now has the highest rate of infection in England at more than 2,000 per 100,000 people.
The source told i: “It was traced because they can identify where it came from by genetic changes in the code.”
Whatever they believe, it ain’t over.
I stopped counting dead ministers 15 months ago after my count hit 50. It ain’t over. But the pods have “done their research.”
Death before dishonor. Pistols at dawn with the Delta variant. Our lunatics are defiant and threatening violence if nature won’t surrender.
They won’t acknowledge that in elections, sometimes you lose. They don’t even bother using the word democracy Vizzini-like anymore. Democracy means heads they win, tails you lose. Or they go to guns.
It’s their way or they are victims of government tyranny. Unless government sees things their way, of course.
“If you don’t care about the rest of us – why should we are about you?” asked Jonathan Capehart. These people “mewling about their freedom” are the kinds that believe in laying down their lives for freedom in the abstract, just not to protect themselves, their families, and their neighbors from a deadly enemy if they can’t shoot it.