ChuckNorrisActionJeans

I would add that on the other side, it's not entirely clear that even kids who seem to recover smoothly from Covid don't have long-term, not immediately-apparent effects. They've found "ground glass" lung tissue damage even in asymptomatic cases, then there's the heart inflammation and related issues that sometimes occur. My 14-yr old niece got some shitty genetics and was born with a hole in her heart and also has high blood pressure even though she's super-active and not overweight. She got Covid and I guess I'm the only one in the family who seemed at all concerned about long-term issues ...and they have her running track.... just saying, the balancing seems clear to me that even kids are better off with these proven vaccine mechanisms than risking Covid.

Accurate Twitter reply: Tucker always looks like a toddler watching his parents fuck

for some reason this announcer thing and his apology reminds me of that commercial about not becoming your old parents -- where they're in the home improvement store and the dudes can't stop themselves from commenting on the person with blue hair .... "we all see it...don't need to say it... BLUE!!!" ..except instead of "blue" they can't stop themselves from "black" but worse actually

Coincidence? Looking at this fat bloviating grease machine makes me think he smells like green eggs and ham

Well, people aren't showing up for the Rolling Stones tickets. The HEB my wife was at was saying that they have to solicit people in the store at the end of the day to get one so they don't have to throw out the vaccines for the no-shows. I'm actually going to test this theory out today at my HEB. When I got my first shot at HEB, which was damned lucky to find in Austin, there were only a few people in the time slot and the girl ahead of me had to change her mind because *derp* "I has a work trip scheduled and I didn't know when the follow up shot would be" so she was begging the pharmacist to reschedule her 2nd shot or make it be in Houston where she would be. He's like nah doesn't work that way, so she declined her shot, which went into an employee's arm.

I don't know the law in that jurisdiction but usually the cause of death can be more than one thing and still lead to a murder conviction....the issue in such case would be, would he have died but for the action of the officer. Don't know about y'all, but I think Floyd just woulda up and died on his own that day without the dude kneeling on his neck for minutes so that he couldn't breathe as he was begging for his life and saying repeatedly that he couldn't breathe.....

what's the protocol for HEB? The confirmation email just say hey show up at this date and time. Do I traipse in the store like normal and go the pharmacy? Are the slots truly one person per time slot? It says to avoid overcrowding and extended wait time, don't arrive more than 30 minutes ahead of appointment time.

yeah this is going to be a huge fucking problem for me. I can't imagine this is real.....the fallout would be huge. But everything shitty that I couldn't imagine has been going forward, so not betting against it.

It's pretty amazing that a year into this, we still have to have this conversation about masks being a community mitigation measure, rather than a personal freedom issue based on personal protection. It's almost as if some people are intentionally not listening to the facts.

I actually just managed to get an HEB appt at my own neighborhood store (affectionately known as the "gimp" HEB) Very stoked.

Does JohnnySack have a mental or emotional disorder? I just received more than 12 neg reps from him in short order, going back from posts of mine from more than half a year ago. Some of those posts were commiserating about the loss of a loved one or pet. Seems stable

I hear you and though I haven't had the experience you've had, I also feel like I'm just barely hanging on. I'm so sorry for your loss. And I agree wholeheartedly with your analogy. Similarly, I've felt for a while now that Texans are in an abusive, domestic violence type relationship with the elected leadership. Some love the drama, don't really understand the damage, and keep going back for more, some are under a Stockholm Syndrome type delusion, and many more are just desperate to escape but can't.

If there's any one lesson to take from the Trump Administration, it's that obstruction works. Especially now that the R's are so entrenched in team play and so advantaged by the systems they exploit. And they weren't particularly savvy or organized about it. It's just that our institutions are not equipped to stand up to that level of blatant stonewalling.

So more transmissible variants are starting down the road to becoming dominant strains and experts have advised to double-mask in more high-risk situations. Abbott: Hurr durrr must be time to UNMASK

He essentially just canceled our spring break trip, because we are not going to any fun public places when there will be maskless fucking goons everywhere taking their "freedom" legs out for a spin. He also just consigned my extremely high-risk dad who only now got the first shot to more time being homebound. Heckuva job, Greggie

That'd put her at 93% I'd say.

Why does she look like a little person, even has a disproportionately large head

So tankless exterior water heater seems like a fucking bad idea. Anyone else out for hot water for who knows how many weeks? Tech came by and said it's just the inlet t- pipe that's cracked, but getting that part will take longer than getting a whole new unit. At several thousand $, a new unit doesn't even meet the deductible, so guess it'll be cold showers and no dishwasher for what will seem like forever. FML

I'm really sorry, Brisket. I've been through this with four cats. It's much better to let them go in a humane, controlled way than to wait too long and have them go in a traumatic way. Do you have a vet that can do it at your home? We had the best vet who would come out on short notice and we felt much better about the whole thing that way. As in still truly sad, but also relieved. You've given Shiny Cat a lot of care and a good long life, and a loving end is the best, last gift you all can give him.

Someone please tell me not to believe this article...can't take much more doom and gloom. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/covid-19-variant-found-in-uk-spreads-like-wildfire-british-experts-fear-what-will-happen-if-us-won-t-lock-down/ar-BB1dPZgc excerpts: Simon Clarke, a professor in cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, said there is an emerging body of evidence suggesting that the B.1.1.7 variant is not only more contagious but also more lethal, a possibility initially raised by British scientists. He said there is anecdotal evidence from hospitals, not confirmed by studies, that the B.1.1.7 variant could harm more younger people. He cautioned it was too early to drawn firm conclusions. He expressed concern about how the United States would deal with B.1.1.7 if, as expected,it becomes entrenched as the dominant variant by the spring. "U.S. coronavirus waves have been based on slower-moving variants," Clarke said. "If a faster-moving one such as B.1.1.7 starts to take off, then you are going to have yourself a problem if you're not prepared to do a strict, broad-based national lockdown," Clarke said, noting that the United States doesn't seem willing to do this. ... Pagel cautioned that if the variant first detected in Britain is allowed to circulate too freely in the USA, it could lead to an even more aggressive variation that could evade vaccines or better target younger people. She said that cases of an older variant could fall rapidly enough that it might look like everything was OK even while a new variant spread. "Effectively, you have two epidemics going on at the same time where one is shrinking, and one is growing," she said. "That's exactly what happened in the U.K. and seems likely for the U.S."

God Hawley is projecting so hard in that interview that he might have a hernia. He's also adopted Tucker's feigned outrage look, complete with an aura of stupefied constipation.

JFC. And Austin water now says we're going to go without water for several more days.

...and one of the "three amigos" neck deep in Ukraine shit, for whom accountability never came. Party of personal responsibility

DRIP

This fuck will ensure we don't get any break from Trumpism whatsofuckingever and Trump will stay in the game https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-donald-trump-senate-house-without-you-1569096 Senator Lindsey Graham has said he will ask former president Donald Trump to lend his political weight to the Republicans' quest to take back the House and the Senate in 2022. The South Carolina lawmaker said that after the impeachment process, he would meet Trump to try to persuade him that the former president holds the key to the GOP's future electoral chances. "I'm going to try and convince him that we can't get there without you, but you can't keep the Trump movement going without the GOP united," he told reporters, according to Politico.