Wuhan Coronavirus

[megman]

Israeli research: People with asthma 30% less likely to contract COVID-19

People with asthma could be as much as 30% less likely to contract the coronavirus, according to Israeli research that was accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
“COVID-19 susceptibility in bronchial asthma,” which is slated to be published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology this month and which The Jerusalem Post reviewed, shows that contrary to what has been assumed by many medical professionals up until now, people with bronchial asthma are less likely to get COVID-19.

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/is ... -19-650672

[FSchmertz]

Dr Scott Atlas, Chumpy's wackjob COVID adviser, resigns.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/94037604 ... mp-resigns

[Biker]

]Democrat Lockdowns Exempt Hollywood, Destroy Small Businesses

Why does Hollywood get a pass on lockdowns from Cuomo and Newsom? Follow the money.

Before Thanksgiving, Los Angeles imposed a curfew and, in a shocking oversight, asked Hollywood to follow it. While the entertainment industry isn't as big a part of the local economy as it would like you to think, its producers, directors, and stars provide a disproportionate share of the capital that the Democrats politicians who run the place use to get elected to higher office.

After ordering Hollywood to restrict filming to the same curfew as other businesses, a few hours later the order was withdrawn followed by a final plea to film shoots to “to voluntarily limit and/or avoid activities likely to invite a negative community response" which could "jeopardize community confidence in our ability to operate safely."

As if allowing movie studios to shoot around the clock while shutting down small businesses might "invite a negative community response" or raise questions about the corrupt system.

The film permit office now claims that “the State of California has viewed workers supporting the film, television and commercial production industry… as essential for the state’s critical infrastructure.”

What role does shooting movies play in the “critical infrastructure” of California? Money.

Not for the economy. In that regard, the entertainment industry is much less crucial than many of the industries that had been shut down by the lockdowns. With unemployment claims topping 8 million and California Democrat leaders fighting to eliminate freelance workers, that’s a drop in the bucket. If the crews in question were working in restaurants, they wouldn’t matter.

But the critical infrastructure that Hollywood funds is the political ambitions of the Democrats.

During the gubernatorial race, Hollywood poured millions into Newsom’s campaign, and celebrity fundraising helped put Garcetti into the mayor’s office. The Democrat with the biggest haul of industry cash usually wins. Your local pizza shop isn’t going to compete with that.

If only there were some sort of industry dedicated to exposing social injustice using art.

While restaurants spent a fortune prepping to meet the new regulations, only to be shut down anyway, the entertainment industry goes into a new lockdown with nothing to worry about.

All of this is happening under the watch of Muntu Davis, LA’s top health officer who was picked in the wake of the Black Lives Matter race riots to implement “equity”. Equity is now the top value at LA County's Department of Public Health which declares that it seeks to "ensure just systems, policies and practices". That means giving Disney a pass, but shutting down cafes.

This is what social justice lockdowns look like. Not just in LA, but across the country.

"New York City's economy is in a downturn, but film production has been a bright spot," a New York Times article chirps. Even while Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio targeted Chassidic Jews, ranting about weddings and synagogues, the entertainment industry and its allied media were exempted, and the accompanying rules were bent and broken.

Even while Democrat leaders were lecturing about the dangers of church and synagogue services, the Video Music Awards went on and celebrities were allowed to dodge curfew.

Since no election could go forward without Saturday Night Live, the high school talent show staffed by unfunny social justice activists, with occasional celebrity cameos, went forward, along with a live studio audience. Cuomo and De Blasio, not to mention the media, decided not to notice that SNL was flouting the rules by paying audience members so they counted as crew.

Having a live audience of Manhattanites to laugh when you howl insults at President Trump is an essential activity in New York. Unlike irresponsible, non-essential stuff like religious services.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/1 ... reenfield/

[Biker]

New York is seriously running stings and fining bars for not serving enough food

by Jarrett Dieterle & Shoshana Weissmann | November 30, 2020 01:41 PM

No one likes to be told to eat their veggies, and that goes double during a pandemic. So it’s downright crazy that the New York government is allowing the State Liquor Authority to aggressively enforce rules that require drinking establishments to serve food with alcoholic beverages they sell during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Perhaps not surprisingly, this has led to some ridiculous situations. For example, Pint Sized (a Saratoga Springs craft beer bar) was hit with an expected $1,500 fine for failing to serve what regulators deemed was enough veggies per pint of beer. Pint Sized was attempting to comply with New York’s rule by offering simple bowls of canned vegetables, beans, or chili to each customer.

It turned out that customers were understandably unable to keep up with all the bowls of food landing on their tables. The bar’s staff started to feel guilty about food waste, with good reason given the struggles of food banks during the pandemic, and elected to cut back portions to one bowl of food per table of customers. When undercover agents from the State Liquor Authority ordered brews at Pint Sized and received an insufficient amount of food alongside their drinks, the agency fined the bar.

Although Pint Sized was able to defray the cost of the fine by selling tongue-in-cheek T-shirts to its loyal customers (never underestimate American innovation when it comes to booze), the episode demonstrates the extent to which New York’s COVID-19 approach to food and drink businesses is out of touch and damaging.

In fact, among the many grim pandemic-related statistics, some of the most depressing involve our beloved food and drink establishments. One out of every four jobs lost during the pandemic has been from a restaurant, and other similar businesses, including breweries, distilleries, and wineries have been equally hurt. Despite this brutal reality, it appears that government regulators are determined to make the suffering even worse simply because they can.

Early on in the pandemic, New York imposed bizarrely specific guidance that required restaurants to serve alcoholic beverages only with food, and then went on to clarify that the foods needed to be “substantial enough” to meet that requirement. At first, numerous bars began selling so-called “Cuomo chips,” which was a coy reference to New York’s governor, along with a simple way for those establishments to attempt to comply with the rule. State Liquor Authority regulators were not enthused, however, and informed the bars that chips and nuts did not count — although cheese and crackers, as well as chips and salsa, were apparently OK.

While you could be forgiven for not buying the State Liquor Authority’s argument that a government-mandated bowl of beans is a vital backstop against a deadly virus, the insincerity of the government’s position became even more apparent after it took more than six weeks to actually issue a fine to Pint Sized, despite the supposedly urgent health concerns of too little food.

Unfortunately, New York’s food requirement is not unique. Other states have implemented similar rules, leading to absurd experiences such as beer gardens in Philadelphia selling a single boiled egg alongside a beer and California regulators going into painstaking detail about whether salad counts as food or not.

These food requirement rules trace their heritage back to a Prohibition Era mentality in which alcohol was deemed too dangerous to consume without copious amounts of food present. In fact, New York itself used an early version of a food requirement as far back as the late 1800s to attempt to eradicate immigrant-owned saloons from dotting the cityscape. Like their modern-day restaurant descendants, saloons also attempted clever workarounds such as leaving a recycled and uneaten sandwich on the table for a few seconds after each drink order before taking it back to the kitchen for the next order.

In the midst of a contagious pandemic, it’s understandable that governments would be eager to implement rules to protect the populace. Unfortunately, rather than using more sensible approaches (such as spending more resources ensuring social distancing protocols are followed or allowing restaurants to sell to-go cocktails permanently), New York officials are doubling down on ridiculous ones.

In the meantime, struggling and well-meaning small businesses such as Pint Sized will be forced to bear the cost. And an unconscionable amount of food will be needlessly wasted.

[Evil.Fkn.Mean,Nasty]

Dr Scott Atlas, Chumpy's wackjob COVID adviser, resigns.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/94037604 ... mp-resigns

Interesting. But the virus has never been worse! We need you to guide us!

[CaptQuint]

After swingers convention held in New Orleans, 41 test positive for coronavirus, organizer says

https://www.nola.com/news/article_59c7a ... 48c1c.html

[Evil.Fkn.Mean,Nasty]

Holy shit, you guys buried 2500+ citizens today alone.

And you havnt hit the Thanksgiving bubble yet!

There was 2977 people killed on 911. How significant will that be?

[CaptQuint]

Arizona reports record 10,322 new coronavirus cases

https://ktar.com/story/3723090/arizona- ... re-deaths/

[FSchmertz]

As expected, the CDC panel decided that the vaccine(s) will be given to health care workers and long term care/assisted living folks first.

Called category 1A?

[Stapes]

As expected, the CDC panel decided that the vaccine(s) will be given to health care workers and long term care/assisted living folks first.

Called category 1A?

Good to know who will get his vaccine soon

[Charliesheen]

Meh. Let the handwringers jump to the head of the line. It gives them purpose to otherwise empty existencii.

[Stapes]

Meh. Let the handwringers jump to the head of the line. It gives them purpose to otherwise empty existencii.

Frontline workers and senior citizens are hand wringers? Do you ever stop sounding stupid?

[Biker]

Meh. Let the handwringers jump to the head of the line. It gives them purpose to otherwise empty existencii.

Frontline workers and senior citizens are hand wringers? Do you ever stop sounding stupid?

If only the northeast governors respected the vulnerabilities of senior citizens

[Stapes]

Meh. Let the handwringers jump to the head of the line. It gives them purpose to otherwise empty existencii.

Frontline workers and senior citizens are hand wringers? Do you ever stop sounding stupid?

If only the northeast governors respected the vulnerabilities of senior citizens

You dont even make sense anymore.

[Animal]

Meh. Let the handwringers jump to the head of the line. It gives them purpose to otherwise empty existencii.

Frontline workers and senior citizens are hand wringers? Do you ever stop sounding stupid?

If only the northeast governors respected the vulnerabilities of senior citizens

You dont even make sense anymore.

If you had your head only half way out of Cuomo's ass, you would see all the murder he perpetrated on the elderly in his state.

[Burn1dwn]

Meh. Let the handwringers jump to the head of the line. It gives them purpose to otherwise empty existencii.

Frontline workers and senior citizens are hand wringers? Do you ever stop sounding stupid?

If only the northeast governors respected the vulnerabilities of senior citizens

You dont even make sense anymore.

If you had your head only half way out of Cuomo's ass, you would see all the murder he perpetrated on the elderly in his state.

Yeah but just imagine how smart Cuomo would have looked if the virus ended up not being as contagious or as dangerous to seniors that it ended up being. He was freeing up all kinds of hospital beds....

On a serious note how was mixing infected patients with Seniors even an option? It such a bad take and such a unbelievably bad idea that Cuomo should have thought he was getting pranked when it was pitched.

[QillerDaemon]

You righties gave Al Gore such shit about an "I invented the Internet" comment he never actually said.
So we'll happily slap Trump with shit over a well-documented comment like this. Just one of many.

Tell me you dont really think that he meant that he literally worked on or invented the vaccines himself, right?

You understand that that clearly means his administration got vaccines in record time, right?

[Biker]

You righties gave Al Gore such shit about an "I invented the Internet" comment he never actually said.
So we'll happily slap Trump with shit over a well-documented comment like this. Just one of many.

Tell me you dont really think that he meant that he literally worked on or invented the vaccines himself, right?

You understand that that clearly means his administration got vaccines in record time, right?

"I can see Russia from my house" says hi

[Antknot]

You righties gave Al Gore such shit about an "I invented the Internet" comment he never actually said.
So we'll happily slap Trump with shit over a well-documented comment like this. Just one of many.

Tell me you dont really think that he meant that he literally worked on or invented the vaccines himself, right?

You understand that that clearly means his administration got vaccines in record time, right?

"I can see Russia from my house" says hi

You do know that was Tina Fey in a SNL skit.

[AnalHamster]

you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska

What she actually said. The SNL version is funnier, but basically the same thing.

[Biker]

You righties gave Al Gore such shit about an "I invented the Internet" comment he never actually said.
So we'll happily slap Trump with shit over a well-documented comment like this. Just one of many.

Tell me you dont really think that he meant that he literally worked on or invented the vaccines himself, right?

You understand that that clearly means his administration got vaccines in record time, right?

"I can see Russia from my house" says hi

You do know that was Tina Fey in a SNL skit.

Ummmmm, thats my point

[Wut]

Meh. Let the handwringers jump to the head of the line. It gives them purpose to otherwise empty existencii.

Frontline workers and senior citizens are hand wringers? Do you ever stop sounding stupid?

If only the northeast governors respected the vulnerabilities of senior citizens

I understand PA fucked that one up.

[Animal]

don't leave out Michigan.

[Biker]

Meh. Let the handwringers jump to the head of the line. It gives them purpose to otherwise empty existencii.

Frontline workers and senior citizens are hand wringers? Do you ever stop sounding stupid?

If only the northeast governors respected the vulnerabilities of senior citizens

I understand PA fucked that one up.

So did Cuomo, Murphy, Witmer, and the CT guvnah. But you know, they listened to the science and the experts, so theyre immune from criticism

[CaptQuint]

Texas Nursing Homes Have Higher Rates Of COVID-19 Cases, Deaths

https://www.keranews.org/health-science ... ses-deaths

A West Texas Nursing Home Sent Its COVID-Positive Residents Elsewhere. Now Two of Them Are Dead.
Texas allows nursing homes to voluntarily accept COVID-positive patients from hospitals and other nursing homes. But there are no additional safeguards for the people sent there, and some of the facilities have a history of breaking rules.

https://www.texasobserver.org/nursing-h ... id-deaths/

Hundreds of Texas nursing homes violated infection control standards during COVID-19
According to state records, 556 Texas long-term care facilities violated infection control standards at least 1,435 times between early March and mid-August.

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/inves ... ae0a736dfb