Florida State Seminoles

[DooKSucks]

We have two staff members who have contracted covid for a second time. Both fell ill early on in March 2020. Both tested negative multiple times before returning. Both are now out and testing positive.

[innocentbystander]

interesting

Well I hope everything goes well for them and they pull through a second time.

[eCat]

Gottlied, former FDA head I believe, and someone who people apparently pay attention to when it comes to this sort of thing is saying its possible that up to 1m Americans daily are being infected with the Delta variant and the symptoms are so mild they aren't overwhelming the health care system.

At that pace , assuming there is residual antibodies to prevent re-occurrence , then America should be burned out in a couple of months.

They are thinking that is a possibility in the UK right now.

[Tree]

Hundreds of Alabama coal miners striking at Blackrock this week and not a single mainstream news outlet covers it. Labor is a bread and butter issue for the left. Where the hell is CNN, MSNBC, etc?

[innocentbystander]

Hundreds of Alabama coal miners striking at Blackrock this week and not a single mainstream news outlet covers it. Labor is a bread and butter issue for the left. Where the hell is CNN, MSNBC, etc?

CNN took a poll of the miners and found out that they all voted to Make America Great Again. So CNN said, "fuck 'em."

[sardis]

They’re all probably white straight males that are raping the environment with their job. That’s the enemy of the left. Have you been living under a rock or something?

[innocentbystander]

Exactly sardis.

Come on Tree, where have you been since 1990, laying under a tree? The left does not give a flying fuck if coal miners live or die. They stopped caring about them decades ago. They just don't care if these people die. You already know that. HRC made that abundantly clear in 2016 when the unemployed coal miner asked her what is he supposed to do and she didn't have an answer for him.



That was the last time a democrat running for POTUS ever let anyone ask them a question before an election.

Yes tree, labor used to be a big component of the left. It no longer is. Now the largest component of the left are people who don't (and never will) work. The left is building its base around voters who think work is for chumps or (if you are going to work) sit in an office somewhere and spend all your time on Social Justice Warrior projects OR on educating our children with CRT. That is why the left is so adamant about student loan forgiveness since the SJW's and Academics, they are NEVER going to pay off their loans and the people who don't work, they don't pay any income taxes so they don't give a fuck if the US taxpayer is forced to make good on all those student loans.

[innocentbystander]

Untold truth about illegal immigration



Its horrible. But what I like about this youtube is the precise details/information that is provided. So it fills in all the empty spaces to fully understand what is happening. The part about the pepper spray is pretty chilling.

And yet if anyone on the left sees this, their first thought would be (if they believe Candice) well then, we simply can't have any immigration laws or any border patrol. Just let everyone in.

That is why there is no possible compromise here.

[Jungle Rat]

Good for Susan Sarandon. I agree with her.

[Tree]

You missed the point entirely, IB. The left has traditionally been about labor first. There is nothing in the mainstream media that is even a little left of center anymore.

[innocentbystander]

If the media is not a little left of center, then what are they? What do you think they are?

[Jungle Rat]

Media

[eCat]

I wish more updates were like this and not agenda driven

[Jungle Rat]

Agreed.

Trust Science. Live

[innocentbystander]

Trust science. Live. I am sooooooo happy you said that rat. You are agreeing with my ex-wife. She'll be really happy to hear that you feel that way even if you alienate the left by trusting science.

When the vaccinated, with their pipsqueak immunity, stop browbeating the already-infected, I’ll believe this is something other than a cult.

Why is the only proof of virtue — I mean, “Trusting the Science"™ — a vaccination card and not a positive COVID test? Why don’t sports teams, concert halls and foreign countries accept proof of prior infection the same way they accept proof of vaccination?

Nope. Your prior infection is no good here! We are accepting ONLY vaccination cards.

Whatever that impulse is based on, it’s not “science.”

Despite earlier reports showing that antibodies declined rapidly after infection, in May of this year, scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, released a study showing that “robust” antibodies were still present at least 11 months after infection. (France accepts proof of prior infection not older than six months. If they trust the science, they’ll soon be accepting prior infection for a year.)

That is science. You can trust it.

Then in June, the Cleveland Clinic produced a gigantic, perfectly controlled study finding that people who’d already had COVID received no benefit from vaccination.

The clinic had tested its 52,238 employees throughout 2020. At one point or another, 2,579 tested positive. By mid-December, 46% of the recovered COVID patients had taken the vaccine, but more than half (54%) had not.

Five months later, none of the previously infected had been re-infected — including the 1,359 who did not take the vaccine. (Among clinic employees who were vaccinated, but not previously infected, 15 got COVID.)

The authors concluded: “Our study … provid[es] direct evidence that vaccination does not add protection to those who were previously infected.”

That is ALSO science. I trust it.

Great news, right?

NO! This was terrible news for the vaccination Karens! Their position is: Everyone must get the vaccine. Even if you live alone on a mountaintop and eat leaves and beetles to survive, even if you’re a burbling infant, even if you’ve had COVID, YOU MUST GET THE VACCINATION!

In short order, the Cleveland Clinic was bullied into submission. The authors of the report issued what sounded like a retraction, but, on closer examination, was just a lot of airy nonsense.

E.g.: “This is still a new virus and more research is needed. …”

Duh. Same for the studies showing how fantastic the COVID vaccines are.

“It is important to keep in mind that this study was conducted in a population that was younger and healthier than the general population. …”

This study SUCKS. It only applies to the entire working-age population of the U.S.!

“In addition, we do not know how long the immune system will protect itself against re-infection after COVID-19. …”

Ditto for the vaccine.

“It is safe to receive the COVID-19 vaccine even if you have previously tested positive …”

Presumably, it’s also “safe” to use Gwyneth Paltrow’s healing crystals if you have previously tested positive. The question is: Do you need to?

“ … and we recommend all those who are eligible receive it.”

Perhaps, someday, there will be a study establishing that the previously infected should get the vaccine, but your study didn’t, Cleveland Clinic. Everyone knows you’re only telling the previously infected to get vaccinated so the loons will leave you alone.

All of that is politics. All of it.

[Jungle Rat]

Dude. I'm not reading all that Ann Coulter shit. I don't even know who that is. I don't need to. I don't let others opinion bother me. Either their an idiot or not. I'll decide.

[Jungle Rat]

by JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press

Saturday, July 31st

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Republicans’ partisan review of the 2020 election results got off to a rocky start when their contractors broke rules for counting ballots and election experts warned the work was dangerous for democracy.


When the auditors stopped the counting and returned the ballots this week, it hadn't gotten better. In the last week alone, the only audit leader with substantial election experience was locked out of the building, went on the radio to say he was quitting, then reversed course hours later. The review's Twitter accounts were suspended for breaking the rules. A conservative Republican senator withdrew her support, calling the process “botched.” And the lead auditor confirmed what was long suspected: that his work was almost entirely paid for by supporters of Donald Trump who were active in the former president’s movement to spread false narratives of fraud.


All this came nearly 100 days into a process that was supposed to take “about 60 days," according to the Senate Republicans who launched it. And it's not over yet. Contractors are now producing a report on the findings that could take weeks or more to write.

The turmoil casts even more doubt on the conclusions of what backers describe as a “forensic audit" but what experts and critics say is a deeply flawed, partisan process.

“Not even a shred of being salvaged at this point,” said Sen. Paul Boyer, the first Republican state senator to publicly come out against the audit in May. “They’ve botched it at so many points along the way that it's irrecoverable.”

Boyer's opposition became less lonely last weekend when another Republican, Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, one of the Legislature's strongest advocates for stricter voting laws, agreed that “the Trump audit” was “botched.” Along with all 14 Democrats, a majority of the Senate, which commissioned the audit, is now against it.

“I wanted to review our election processes and see what, if anything, could be improved,” Ugenti-Rita wrote on Twitter. “Sadly, it's now become clear that the audit has been botched.”

The review includes a hand count of ballots, the analysis of voter data and a review of ballot-counting machines. It's being led by Cyber Ninjas, a software security consultant with no election experience before Trump began trying to overturn the 2020 results. Its owner, Doug Logan, has supported the movement to spread false conspiracies about the vote count in battleground states.

On Wednesday night, Logan ended months of silence about who was paying him when he said a whopping $5.7 million had been contributed by political groups run by prominent Trump supporters including Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, Patrick Byrne and correspondents from One America News Network. The figure dwarfs the $150,000 to be paid by the Senate.

Logan has said he was approaching the review objectively and his own views are irrelevant. Still, Logan appeared in “The Deep Rig,” a conspiratorial film claiming the election was stolen from Trump. The filmmakers were given access to restricted areas of the ballot-counting operation, including the secure area where ballots were stored.

The review's integrity took another hit when former Secretary of State Ken Bennett, a Republican whose experience in elections lent credibility to the operation, found himself locked out of the building where the audit was underway because he'd given outside election experts data without authorization, he said.

Bennett told a conservative talk-radio host that he was quitting because he was expected to rubber-stamp the findings. Later the same day, he said he was not quitting after all. Senate President Karen Fann, a Republican, agreed Bennett “will have full access to all audit work spaces, procedures, and data.”

When the Cyber Ninjas’ hand count of ballots didn’t match the county’s official tally, a third count was ordered, this time using paper-counting machines to tally the number of ballots but not the winning candidates. The findings have not been released.

Meanwhile, the timeline for a final report, most recently expected in late July, has continued slipping.

Supporters of the effort blame stonewalling by Maricopa County. The county's Republican leaders refuse to cooperate, saying “competent auditors” have everything they would need to fully review the vote count.

“It is unfortunate that the county has been recalcitrant,” Republican Sen. Warren Petersen, chair of the Judiciary Committee that issued subpoenas, said recently. “That doesn’t breed trust. It slows things down.

Twitter this week suspended audit-related accounts, including the Arizona review's official account and several others seeking similar reviews in other states. A Twitter spokesperson said the accounts were suspended “for violating the Twitter rules on platform manipulation and spam.”

The U.S. Justice Department has weighed in, warning any state that is looking to conduct an Arizona-style review that they will need to follow federal law that requires officials to retain and preserve election records, including ballot and ballot materials, for 22 months.

Earlier, Justice Department officials had alerted Arizona officials of the federal requirement. At this point, the Justice Department has not taken any public action beyond the letter. A Justice Department spokesperson this week declined to comment further.

“It’s being purported as though this effort is going to build confidence in our elections, when we know that that is not the motivation behind any of this,” said Tammy Patrick, a senior adviser at the Democracy Fund and a former Maricopa County elections official. “Because if that was the case, then they would tell the truth.”

The operation got off to a rocky start on day one. A journalist pointed out that workers were using blue pens in violation of a fundamental rule of election administration. Blue and black pens are strictly prohibited near ballots because those are the colors voters are told to use, creating the potential for workers to manipulate the count.

Days later, a former Republican state lawmaker who lost his reelection bid — and who would have been a Trump elector to the Electoral College had Trump won — was among the workers counting ballots. The auditors chased conspiracy theories, for a time shining ultraviolet lights to look for watermarks on ballots and taking high-resolution photographs to look for evidence, such as bamboo fibers in the paper, that fraudulent ballots from Asia were slipped into the stack.

“The audit process and its eventual results may be utilized to undermine popular confidence in our electoral system nationwide, thereby enabling the disenfranchisement of millions of Americans,” said Ralph Neas, a civil rights attorney and advocate who wrote a report on the audit's flaws for The Century Foundation. “These are existential threats to our democracy and they have to be stopped in their tracks.”

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[10ac]

I'm not reading all that shit!

[eCat]

Trump Republicans and African Americans share a common mistrust of their government

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about partisan vaccine resistance — according to a recent Economist/YouGov poll, 29 percent of Republicans say they won’t get vaccinated, compared to 4 percent of Democrats — but that doesn’t tell the whole story. In mid-June, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, when parents of children ages 12 and older (the youngest group authorized for vaccination) were asked by Kaiser Family if they would get their children vaccinated, 18 percent said they would wait and see, 10 percent said they would if required and 25 percent said “definitely not.” As FiveThirtyEight’s Geoffrey Skelley explains, “Unvaccinated Americans tend to be younger” and “more likely to be a person of color. The situation we’re in is not just because of politics but also because of access to the vaccine and broader skepticism of the health care system.”

[Jungle Rat]

I'm not reading all that shit!

Exactly