Jeff Stahler for January 09, 2022

Apparently they’re going to mail them out. Via DeJoy’s super-efficient US Postal Service. What could possibly go wrong?

I think she better off staying in Oz

Does the tin man belong to the GQP?

And that leaves Tin Man with . . . ? Oh yeah, and get yourself a mask, too, Dorothy. A test kit doesn’t protect.

Is there a shortage of pregnancy test kits? Oh, I got confused. Sorry !

I just gotta have a test kit. Please, please, can I have a test kit? How did I ever manage before there were no test kits to bitch about?

How does one get a test kit?

It is nice to have them. I will use mine if I have reason to believe that I have been exposed. I am pretty much a hermit who works from home, goes to the store on off-hours and double-mask when I do. We’ve gone back to curbside pickup and take-out.

No, I do not think this is a plot by the radical left socialists to gain control over my life. It’s just numbers. One in five people in my area have Covid and four in 10 are unvaccinated. I don’t like those odds. I’m 72 years old and didn’t get to live this long by taking risks I don’t have to. If I want to live another three decades, I’ll keep stacking the odds in my favor.

A tisket a tasket,

A test kit in my basket,

Got my shots and booster too,

Don’t wanna get Covid, how ’bout you?

No one will receive them…

Tinman said he has an ax to grind with the CDC.

A sickness with a fatality rate of < 1% for people younger than 50 has the elderly posters running scared.

Run. Hide. Grovel. They will never confuse “Baby Boomer” retirees with “The Greatest Generation”.

There is but one thing of real value – cultivate truth and justice and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men. Marcus Aurelius.

Spain reports more Covid reinfections in one fortnight than rest of pandemic

Researchers attribute 20,890 cases – compared with 17,140 documented up to 22 December – to spread of Omicron variant

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/09/spain-reports-more-covid-reinfections-in-one-fortnight-than-rest-of-pandemic

Covid: Omicron overwhelms hospitals in early hit cities across US

Overwhelmed hospitals, short-staffed schools, and disrupted city services are among Omicron’s symptoms for American cities – and experts say this could be just the beginning

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/covid-omicron-hospital-latest-figures-us-b1989587.html

If you think its bad now rumor is the next covid variant plays the accordion.

…a little WD-40 please!

UK COVID-19 death toll exceeds 150,000 after Omicron surge

https://www.rawstory.com/uk-19-toll-exceeds-150000-after-omicron-surge/

A vaccine. Oh, right. We already have that. It’s like the ruby slippers, Dorothy. You’ve always had the power….

Up to 1 million rapid test kits sat unused in Florida warehouse

Up to 1 million COVID-19 test kits were left to expire inside a Florida warehouse amid a nationwide shortage triggered by a winter surge of coronavirus cases.

At a news conference held by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Kevin Guthrie, the director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, confirmed the stockpile of kits, manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, sat unused.

“We had between 800,000 and a million test kits, Abbott rapid test kits, in our warehouse that did expire,” Guthrie told reporters, adding that they were rendered ineffective sometime “before December 26 to December 30.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/1-million-rapid-test-kits-033800043.html

Republicans don’t give a crap about the lives of Americans.

Gorsuch unmasked? Argues that COVID is no big deal, flu kills 100s of 1000s of people every year

Justice Gorsuch drew a lot of attention and raised eyebrows today, for two reasons —

He did not wear a mask to court, when other justices and attending reporters and attorneys did.

He falsely argued that “the flu kills hundreds of thousands of people every year” as a way to downplay COVID.

These two actions drew scathing reactions from luminaries around the nation and rightfully so.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/7/2073383/-Gorsuch-unmasked-Argues-that-COVID-is-no-big-deal-flu-kills-100s-of-1000s-of-people-every-year?utm_campaign=trending

The Supremes need to stop getting their medical info from lying Fox. Republicans are deadly stupid morons.