That is what happens when you play with a natural virus and create a Frankenstein virus. Unfortunately we will continue to see variants of the virus forever. We just have to learn to live with it. That is the choice people like Fauci left us because of their arrogance and their desire to get rid of Trump.
G.O.P. Fights Covid Mandates, Then Blames Biden as Cases Rise
Republicans have fought mask requirements and vaccine mandates for months, but as coronavirus infections again rise, they are blaming the president for failing to end the health crisis.
Republicans treated Covid like a bioweapon. Then it turned against them
Some of the most powerful conservatives in the United States have, since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, chosen to sow disinformation along with mockery and distrust of proven methods of combating the disease, from masks to vaccines to social distancing. Their actions have afflicted the nation as a whole with more disease and death and economic crisis than good leadership aligned with science might have, and, in spite of hundreds of thousands of well-documented deaths and a new surge, they continue. Their malice has become so normal that its real nature is rarely addressed. Call it biological warfare by propaganda.
Call Jared Kushner the spiritual heir of the army besieging the city of Caffa on the Black Sea in 1346, which, according to a contemporaneous account, catapulted plague-infected corpses over the city walls. This is sometimes said to be how the Black Death came to Europe, where it would kill tens of millions of people – a third of the European population – over the next 15 years. A Business Insider article from a year ago noted: “Kushner’s coronavirus team shied away from a national strategy, believing that the virus was hitting Democratic states hardest and that they could blame governors.” An administration more committed to saving lives than scoring points could have contained the pandemic rather than made the US the worst-hit nation in the world. Illnesses and casualties could have been far lower, and we could have been better protected against the Delta variant.
Republican Governors Seem Hell-bent on Letting COVID Spread
Joe Biden called on elected officials to help fight the pandemic or “get out of the way”—but he may need to go further as the delta variant threatens America’s fragile progress.
The United States has entered a maddening new phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Armed with effective vaccines, the country could stay on the positive trajectory it was on for much of the spring and early summer. Instead, the mutated virus is surging across the nation, tearing through unvaccinated populations and forcing those who are vaccinated to contend with public health restrictions, not to mention potential new variants that pose a greater threat than delta, which is still unlikely to cause serious illness in those who’ve been inoculated. Adding to the frustration is the fact that many in the GOP, particularly Republican governors like Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas, seem to be actively working against efforts to quash the pandemic, compelling health officials to fight not just against a deadly virus, but against leaders who appear to have no qualms about sacrificing their constituents to the COVID culture wars.
An understandable sense of exasperation has set in, directed at vaccine holdouts and the Republican politicians contributing to the problem. The feeling isn’t lost on President Joe Biden, who just a couple months ago seemed on the cusp of restoring post-pandemic normalcy. Expressing irritation at recent setbacks, Biden on Tuesday delivered a sharp rebuke to DeSantis and Abbott—whose states account for about a third of new infections in the U.S.—and other politicians who continue to treat the public health crisis as an opportunity to score political points. “What are we doing?” Biden asked in his remarks, referring to rules like one Abbott instituted in Texas that could punish schools that require unvaccinated students to wear masks.
Republicans Double Down on Pro-COVID Stance as Omicron Threatens Winter Surge
Why do everything you can to ensure people don’t get COVID when you can demand the government let them get COVID?
As you’ve probably heard by now, the COVID-19 omicron variant has been detected in more than 30 countries, including the United States, and it’s scaring the hell out of people. That probably has something to do with the fact that the variant that preceded it, delta, fucked shit up this year just as it seemed like a teeny, tiny semblance of normality might be returning to the hellish existence we’ve been living since March 2020, and the idea of the pandemic going on for God knows how much longer seems unimaginable.
While much remains unknown about omicron, scientists say it has mutations that may allow it to spread even quicker than delta. What is known is that public health experts are basically pleading with people who haven’t gotten vaccinated yet to do so, and for people who’ve yet to receive their booster shot to go get it ASAP. That advice is being doled out by individuals who don’t want to see Americans get very ill and possibly die, and with the knowledge that unvaccinated people are 20 times more likely to lose their lives to COVID-19 than their fully vaccinated counterparts, according to recent state research. And, naturally, pro-death Republicans have decided that’s a position that cannot stand.
Doubling down on their effectively pro-COVID stance this week, GOP lawmakers have threatened to shut down the government unless Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates are nixed. While it appears as though they will be unsuccessful—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is not in favor of a shutdown—they’ll no doubt remain committed to the cause, i.e. adding to a body count that is more than 785,000 in the United States.
Republicans warned their self-destructive COVID behavior is ‘killing off their voter base’
When COVID-19 was overwhelming New York City hospitals during the 2020 spring, a silly talking point in right-wing media was that residents of red states didn’t need to worry about the pandemic because it only posed a threat to Democratic areas. But COVID-19, just as health experts predicted, found its way to red states in a brutal way. And the current COVID-19 surge is especially severe in red states that have lower vaccination rates. Journalist David Leonhardt, in an article published by the New York Times this week, examines a disturbing pattern: red states where residents are more likely to be anti-vaxxers and more likely to be infected with COVID-19 and die from it.
Leonhardt explains, “A Pew Research Center poll last month found that 86% of Democratic voters had received at least one shot, compared with 60% of Republican voters. The political divide over vaccinations is so large that almost every reliably blue state now has a higher vaccination rate than almost every reliably red state.”
“What distinguishes the U.S. is a conservative party — the Republican Party — that has grown hostile to science and empirical evidence in recent decades,” Leonhardt observes. “A conservative media complex, including Fox News, Sinclair Broadcast Group and various online outlets, echoes and amplifies this hostility. Trump took the conspiratorial thinking to a new level, but he did not create it.”
Epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding, in a Twitter thread posted over the weekend, argues that Republicans are “killing off” their own voters by promoting anti-vaxxer and anti-masker views.
Republican governors are fighting against measures to slow or stop the spread of the virus, then complain that the federal government (Biden Admin.) is not doing enough to supply their states with medicines to cure those that are dying from the virus.
Since their discovery in the early 90s, cannabinoid receptors have been popular in scientific circles. Today we know that they function primarily as maintenance channels for perpetuating the physiological equilibrium of the body (homeostasis).
Also, it is safe to say that the endocannabinoid system acts as the chief regulating officer of the human body. Problems within this system can cause diseases, such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, or anxiety.
The relationship between marijuana and the brain is defined by the effects of the substance on cannabinoid receptors. According to research, there are two primary receptors in the endocannabinoid system — CB1 and CB2. They are highly prevalent in both the central and peripheral nervous systems.
When weed smoke is inhaled, it takes just a few minutes for THC to reach the brain and bind with said receptors. THC has a strong affinity for both CB1 and CB2. Meaning, it influences the whole body.
By attaching itself to the receptors, THC decreases the brain’s inhibitory neurotransmission. In other words, it enhances CNS excitation and creates new pathways that connect different brain structures.
Marco156: Please explain to us how things would be different and better if the Trumpublicans (or even a Republican) administration were in office. We’re waiting….
Daeder over 2 years ago
^ And he knows being a traitor to one’s people!
Patjade over 2 years ago
As long as we have those who are unvaccinated, there will be breeding grounds for variants, some of which are resistant to the current vaccines.
I guess Varvel also rages against the Flu because you have to get a shot each year.
PraiseofFolly over 2 years ago
What the Unvaccinated may see “on the far side of the mirror” —
M.C. Escher: “Eye” 1946
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.47948.html
William Bednar Premium Member over 2 years ago
Like the label says: “Wash, Rinse, Repeat”.
2AndFour over 2 years ago
That is what happens when you play with a natural virus and create a Frankenstein virus. Unfortunately we will continue to see variants of the virus forever. We just have to learn to live with it. That is the choice people like Fauci left us because of their arrogance and their desire to get rid of Trump.
b.john71 over 2 years ago
go get em Varvel,wind up the woke trolls. Laugh all the way to the bank.
1BlackLivesMatter Premium Member over 2 years ago
letsgobrandon
Ontman over 2 years ago
Todays the day the teddy trolls have their picnic.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
G.O.P. Fights Covid Mandates, Then Blames Biden as Cases Rise
Republicans have fought mask requirements and vaccine mandates for months, but as coronavirus infections again rise, they are blaming the president for failing to end the health crisis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/us/politics/republicans-biden-coronavirus.html
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Republicans treated Covid like a bioweapon. Then it turned against them
Some of the most powerful conservatives in the United States have, since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, chosen to sow disinformation along with mockery and distrust of proven methods of combating the disease, from masks to vaccines to social distancing. Their actions have afflicted the nation as a whole with more disease and death and economic crisis than good leadership aligned with science might have, and, in spite of hundreds of thousands of well-documented deaths and a new surge, they continue. Their malice has become so normal that its real nature is rarely addressed. Call it biological warfare by propaganda.
Call Jared Kushner the spiritual heir of the army besieging the city of Caffa on the Black Sea in 1346, which, according to a contemporaneous account, catapulted plague-infected corpses over the city walls. This is sometimes said to be how the Black Death came to Europe, where it would kill tens of millions of people – a third of the European population – over the next 15 years. A Business Insider article from a year ago noted: “Kushner’s coronavirus team shied away from a national strategy, believing that the virus was hitting Democratic states hardest and that they could blame governors.” An administration more committed to saving lives than scoring points could have contained the pandemic rather than made the US the worst-hit nation in the world. Illnesses and casualties could have been far lower, and we could have been better protected against the Delta variant.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/07/republicans-treated-covid-like-bioweapon-turned-against-them
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Republican Governors Seem Hell-bent on Letting COVID Spread
Joe Biden called on elected officials to help fight the pandemic or “get out of the way”—but he may need to go further as the delta variant threatens America’s fragile progress.
The United States has entered a maddening new phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Armed with effective vaccines, the country could stay on the positive trajectory it was on for much of the spring and early summer. Instead, the mutated virus is surging across the nation, tearing through unvaccinated populations and forcing those who are vaccinated to contend with public health restrictions, not to mention potential new variants that pose a greater threat than delta, which is still unlikely to cause serious illness in those who’ve been inoculated. Adding to the frustration is the fact that many in the GOP, particularly Republican governors like Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas, seem to be actively working against efforts to quash the pandemic, compelling health officials to fight not just against a deadly virus, but against leaders who appear to have no qualms about sacrificing their constituents to the COVID culture wars.
An understandable sense of exasperation has set in, directed at vaccine holdouts and the Republican politicians contributing to the problem. The feeling isn’t lost on President Joe Biden, who just a couple months ago seemed on the cusp of restoring post-pandemic normalcy. Expressing irritation at recent setbacks, Biden on Tuesday delivered a sharp rebuke to DeSantis and Abbott—whose states account for about a third of new infections in the U.S.—and other politicians who continue to treat the public health crisis as an opportunity to score political points. “What are we doing?” Biden asked in his remarks, referring to rules like one Abbott instituted in Texas that could punish schools that require unvaccinated students to wear masks.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/republican-governors-seem
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Republicans Double Down on Pro-COVID Stance as Omicron Threatens Winter Surge
Why do everything you can to ensure people don’t get COVID when you can demand the government let them get COVID?
As you’ve probably heard by now, the COVID-19 omicron variant has been detected in more than 30 countries, including the United States, and it’s scaring the hell out of people. That probably has something to do with the fact that the variant that preceded it, delta, fucked shit up this year just as it seemed like a teeny, tiny semblance of normality might be returning to the hellish existence we’ve been living since March 2020, and the idea of the pandemic going on for God knows how much longer seems unimaginable.
While much remains unknown about omicron, scientists say it has mutations that may allow it to spread even quicker than delta. What is known is that public health experts are basically pleading with people who haven’t gotten vaccinated yet to do so, and for people who’ve yet to receive their booster shot to go get it ASAP. That advice is being doled out by individuals who don’t want to see Americans get very ill and possibly die, and with the knowledge that unvaccinated people are 20 times more likely to lose their lives to COVID-19 than their fully vaccinated counterparts, according to recent state research. And, naturally, pro-death Republicans have decided that’s a position that cannot stand.
Doubling down on their effectively pro-COVID stance this week, GOP lawmakers have threatened to shut down the government unless Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates are nixed. While it appears as though they will be unsuccessful—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is not in favor of a shutdown—they’ll no doubt remain committed to the cause, i.e. adding to a body count that is more than 785,000 in the United States.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/republicans-vaccine-mandates-covid
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Republicans warned their self-destructive COVID behavior is ‘killing off their voter base’
When COVID-19 was overwhelming New York City hospitals during the 2020 spring, a silly talking point in right-wing media was that residents of red states didn’t need to worry about the pandemic because it only posed a threat to Democratic areas. But COVID-19, just as health experts predicted, found its way to red states in a brutal way. And the current COVID-19 surge is especially severe in red states that have lower vaccination rates. Journalist David Leonhardt, in an article published by the New York Times this week, examines a disturbing pattern: red states where residents are more likely to be anti-vaxxers and more likely to be infected with COVID-19 and die from it.
Leonhardt explains, “A Pew Research Center poll last month found that 86% of Democratic voters had received at least one shot, compared with 60% of Republican voters. The political divide over vaccinations is so large that almost every reliably blue state now has a higher vaccination rate than almost every reliably red state.”
“What distinguishes the U.S. is a conservative party — the Republican Party — that has grown hostile to science and empirical evidence in recent decades,” Leonhardt observes. “A conservative media complex, including Fox News, Sinclair Broadcast Group and various online outlets, echoes and amplifies this hostility. Trump took the conspiratorial thinking to a new level, but he did not create it.”
Epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding, in a Twitter thread posted over the weekend, argues that Republicans are “killing off” their own voters by promoting anti-vaxxer and anti-masker views.
https://www.alternet.org/2021/09/anti-vaxxers-2655186543/
Traitor Republicans are deadly stupid.
walfishj over 2 years ago
I notice that Gary is still alive. I assume that he and his family were vaccinated, cause he’s such a big hypocrite.
Frankfreak over 2 years ago
Republican governors are fighting against measures to slow or stop the spread of the virus, then complain that the federal government (Biden Admin.) is not doing enough to supply their states with medicines to cure those that are dying from the virus.
Stephen Runnels Premium Member over 2 years ago
If anti-vaxxers had just taken the vaccine instead of praising their ignorance, we wouldn’t be on this M.C. Escher rollercoaster.
DrDon1 over 2 years ago
This is how Varvel deals with the reality of viruses … just make a mockery of the whole issue!
jader3rd over 2 years ago
Higher vaccination rate will end it.
Mike Herman over 2 years ago
Down we go.
braindead Premium Member over 2 years ago
“We WANT them infected!”
Ssooooooo much simpler. AND effective. Right, Varvel?
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Since their discovery in the early 90s, cannabinoid receptors have been popular in scientific circles. Today we know that they function primarily as maintenance channels for perpetuating the physiological equilibrium of the body (homeostasis).
Also, it is safe to say that the endocannabinoid system acts as the chief regulating officer of the human body. Problems within this system can cause diseases, such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, or anxiety.
The relationship between marijuana and the brain is defined by the effects of the substance on cannabinoid receptors. According to research, there are two primary receptors in the endocannabinoid system — CB1 and CB2. They are highly prevalent in both the central and peripheral nervous systems.
When weed smoke is inhaled, it takes just a few minutes for THC to reach the brain and bind with said receptors. THC has a strong affinity for both CB1 and CB2. Meaning, it influences the whole body.
By attaching itself to the receptors, THC decreases the brain’s inhibitory neurotransmission. In other words, it enhances CNS excitation and creates new pathways that connect different brain structures.
https://loudcloudhealth.com/resources/marijuana-effects-on-brain/
librarylady59 over 2 years ago
Those pesky variants… if only there were some way to stop the virus from mutating…
casonia2 over 2 years ago
Marco156: Please explain to us how things would be different and better if the Trumpublicans (or even a Republican) administration were in office. We’re waiting….
Rich Douglas over 2 years ago
Perhaps if Trump had not purposely sabotaged the effort to fight the virus at its beginning, we wouldn’t have such horrible outcomes today.
FJB Premium Member over 2 years ago
Brilliant comic, Gary. As for Rad-ish, 7 different posts? Really? Take your meds, man. You’re about to go over the cliff.
dpatrickryan Premium Member over 2 years ago
Butbutbut… it’ll be gone by April! Of 2020! Said YOUR favourite moron, anyway.
stealth694 over 2 years ago
Round and Round the world goes,, Where Covid Stops Nobody Knows!!