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  On 9/22/2021 at 5:04 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

 

So, this is an interesting anecdotal fact:

A fried of mine has a son in (small, rural, conservative area) high school, who is taking an AP calculus class. I was tutoring him yesterday evening, and we got to talking about students wearing masks in school. According to the son, 6 out 7 students in the AP class wear masks, including him. But in his "normal" level classes, its only 2 or 3 out of 20 or so wearing masks.

I would love to see more statistics on this type of thing from a large number of schools.

 

edit: Son also said most teachers are not wearing masks, but his calculus teacher (old guy who retired and was rehired to teach just a couple of sections) does. Apparently the only teachers wearing masks are the olds.

 

 

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Yeah it's kind of funny how those who are good at math are into vaccines and masking and shit.

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  On 9/22/2021 at 5:04 PM, High Plains Drifter said:
 
So, this is an interesting anecdotal fact:
A fried of mine has a son in (small, rural, conservative area) high school, who is taking an AP calculus class. I was tutoring him yesterday evening, and we got to talking about students wearing masks in school. According to the son, 6 out 7 students in the AP class wear masks, including him. But in his "normal" level classes, its only 2 or 3 out of 20 or so wearing masks.
I would love to see more statistics on this type of thing from a large number of schools.
 
edit: Son also said most teachers are not wearing masks, but his calculus teacher (old guy who retired and was rehired to teach just a couple of sections) does. Apparently the only teachers wearing masks are the olds.
 
 
I've heard that from a lot of parents including one whose kid's covid infection was traced back to a regular level class that was largely unvaccinated.

The mouth breathers breed more mouth breathers.

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  On 9/22/2021 at 10:13 PM, Pescado_Rojo said:

Dude that's the legendary Popeye's guest experience. They must teach it in their management program. 

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Closest Popeye's to me is about 15 miles away, in one of the most unlikely locations for any fast food place (across street from a church, next door to an apartment complex and an elementary school).  It's the only fast food place for at least half a mile radius.  Yet, its service is outstanding.  The same woman has worked behind the counter for 10 years or so.  Manager has been there something like 15 years.  No staff turnover to speak of.  Since Covid, everyplace has staffing problems but this one solitary Popeye's.  I don't know if it's a front for a cartel (holla Breaking Bad), or someone is smuggling dope out the back door, or what.  But it's always clean, service is prompt, and they don't screw up orders.  It's baffling.  

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  On 9/22/2021 at 10:59 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

Closest Popeye's to me is about 15 miles away, in one of the most unlikely locations for any fast food place (across street from a church, next door to an apartment complex and an elementary school).  It's the only fast food place for at least half a mile radius.  Yet, its service is outstanding.  The same woman has worked behind the counter for 10 years or so.  Manager has been there something like 15 years.  No staff turnover to speak of.  Since Covid, everyplace has staffing problems but this one solitary Popeye's.  I don't know if its a front for a cartel (holla Breaking Bad), or someone is smuggling dope out the back door, or what.  But it's always clean, service is prompt, and they don't screw up orders.  It's baffling.  

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They're not serving chicken. They're serving unicorn.

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Mmm, that sounds good...I'll have that.  

living in Chicago and then the South, I wasn't exactly a regular but I'd been to enough Popeye's to know to avoid Popeye's.  Wife and I were driving clear across Kansas to get to MCI to fly home on Christmas Day about 8-10 years ago.  Only thing open on the entire IH-70 is a Popeye's in Junction City/Fort Riley.  She needs lunch.  She says drive-thru is fine.  I tell her, "You're not going through the drive-thru on your first visit to a Popeye's...there's no way in hell they'll get your order right.  We go inside and watch 'em bag it and we can get napkins, condiments, and a straw for you!"  We order inside, it's filthy, everybody's crabby, people waiting around for their order for half an hour.  I didn't even bother ordering in the hopes we'd get outta there faster.  She ordered some simple combo but being her, had to ask 7 questions and make 3 substitutions.  Gets back some convoluted version of her order but I'm already outta the fucking parking lot, we gotta flight to catch. 

She's a very patient and forgiving soul (has to be to stay with me)...so she eats the f'd up meal and says, "I'm sure it's because it's Christmas Day...that's probably why things were not going smoothly in there and why they messed up my order."  I just smiled and said, "Bless your Heart."  That was actually a decently run Popeye's.  That's just how they are.  It can be pretty delicious at times though, I'll give 'em that.  I just don't have the patience for that shit. /csb 

Back to Covid-19.  We had a ISD board meeting last night with no incidents.  I haz disappoint.  Even our local nextdoor page is cooling down a bit.  I'm sure this means some sort of secret protest is being mounted as we speak. 

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  On 9/23/2021 at 12:09 AM, staboner said:
damn i could use some popeyes right now. its breakfast this way but ain't nothing wrong with some breakfast chicken. 
Breakfast chicken is best chicken. Even better if served 100 miles off shore whilst trolling.

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  On 9/23/2021 at 12:14 AM, Born to Run said:

Breakfast chicken is best chicken. Even better if served 100 miles off shore whilst trolling.

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Chick-Fil-A taught me that breakfast chicken is best chicken 

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@ouflak

You might have missed the conversation about the sociological implications of the anti-vax Trump portion being the mark in a con. That's their excuse for avoiding it. They can't admit to being wrong to anyone outside their group. It's posited that it is going to need to be leaders in their group to give them a face saving out. A cooler is the term used by the socios. 

It's different for other groups. Black folks aren't the only ones that have been mistreated by the medical community. But, I can't see them being influenced by this

"[The] language you hear throughout Indian country is 'be a good relative,'" Kerry Hawk Lessard, the executive director of Baltimore and Boston-based Urban Indian Health program Native American LifeLines, told PBS. "Do this for the grandmas, do this for the ceremony, do this for the language, because our people are precious....We already lost a lot. We can't afford to lose more."

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/562270-native-americans-continue-to-boast-highest?amp

 

It would be cool if everybody had that same attitude. But, that ain't fucking gonna happen. So, we have to resort to the stick.

Make no mistake, they will find the leverage necessary or you can get sick and possibly die. More people died in Alabama this year than were born. Graveyard don't lie. That fact doesn't give a shit about history, economics, or anything. It's not a myth, an exaggerated claim, or a hoax. We are pushing 700k now. Be reluctant, wait and see, virus don't fucking care. 

If it helps to point at big stupid crackers dying in denial to get someone vaxed then point and laugh after you get the jab. 

I'm becoming more jaded and cynical. Don't wanna be saved? Fine. Don't say we didn't try. Well, you can but nobody gives a damn.

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Posted
  On 9/22/2021 at 2:57 PM, PenelopeWitherspoon said:
This is why I am pissed at BLM.  If they matter, then get out there and pound the pavement doing outreach to counter or stop the spread of misinformation.  So far, people are choosing to be disenfranchised.  This isn’t racism or something they cannot control.


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  On 9/22/2021 at 5:14 PM, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
make it a 3-piece, spicy, and you got a deal


Peace through Popeyes. That’s my platform. For everything.

  On 9/22/2021 at 5:39 PM, DDD Dad said:
Seriously.  If the BLM people truly believe that black lives matter, they should be doing everything in their power to get those black lives vaccinated so they can, in fact, matter.


This really is an easy one. 100X more black lives will be saved by a good vaccine rate than most any other measure. It’s for everyone, but to the extent that black people are behind, any community advocacy group should be working to close the gap.
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Data: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/

Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity
Nambi Ndugga Follow @nambinjn on Twitter , Latoya Hill Follow @hill_latoya on Twitter , and Samantha Artiga Follow @SArtiga2 on Twitter
Published: Sep 22, 2021

 

  • As of this week, 77% of the adult population in the United States have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
    • While this progress represents a marked achievement in vaccinations that has led to steep declines in COVID-19 cases and deaths, vaccination coverage—and the protections provided by it—remains uneven across the country.
    • With the continued spread of the more transmissible Delta variant, cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are rising, largely among unvaccinated people.
    • While white adults accounted for the largest share (60%) of unvaccinated adults,
    • Black and Hispanic people remain less likely than their White counterparts to have received a vaccine, leaving them at increased risk, particularly as the variant spreads.
    • However, the data show that these disparities are narrowing over time, particularly for Hispanic people.
  • The CDC reports demographic characteristics, including race/ethnicity, of people receiving COVID-19 vaccinations at the national level.
    • As of September 21, 2021, CDC reported that race/ethnicity was known for 59% of people who had received at least one dose of the vaccine.
    • Among this group, nearly two thirds were White (60%), 10% were Black, 17% were Hispanic, 6% were Asian, 1% were American Indian or Alaska Native, and <1% were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, while 5% reported multiple or other race.
    • However, CDC data also show that recent vaccinations are reaching larger shares of Hispanic, and Black populations compared to overall vaccinations.
    • Among vaccines administered in the past 14 days, 23% have gone to Hispanic people and 14% to Black people (Figure 1).
    • These recent patterns suggest a narrowing of racial gaps in vaccinations at the national level, particularly for Hispanic and Black people, who account for a larger share of recent vaccinations compared to their share of the total population (23% vs. 17% and 14% vs. 12%, respectively).
    • While these data provide helpful insights at a national level, to date, CDC is not publicly reporting state-level data on the racial/ethnic composition of people vaccinated.

 

Other factors affecting vaccination rates (county level (no TX, NM or CO in May 2021)): https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/vaccination-is-local-covid-19-vaccination-rates-vary-by-county-and-key-characteristics/

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Wife and I are headed to Los Alamos tomorrow for a long weekend.  The county level data for NM is really bizarre.

At least 1 dose of vaccine:

Los Alamos County: 94.9%

Taos County 92.1%

Rio Arriba County (just north of Los Alamos): 92.9%

Santa Fe: 90.5%

McKinley County (Gallup, big Navajo res) 101.9% (?!?)

Lincoln County (Ruidoso, Trumpville, full of west Texans): 65.5%

Torrance County (Albq suburb): 47.9%

Catron County (BFE): 48%

Roosevelt (Portales): 43.4%

 

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  On 9/23/2021 at 2:20 AM, Beau Vine said:

Wife and I are headed to Los Alamos tomorrow for a long weekend.  The county level data for NM is really bizarre.

At least 1 dose of vaccine:

Los Alamos County: 94.9%

Taos County 92.1%

Rio Arriba County (just north of Los Alamos): 92.9%

Santa Fe: 90.5%

McKinley County (Gallup, big Navajo res) 101.9% (?!?)

Lincoln County (Ruidoso, Trumpville, full of west Texans): 65.5%

Torrance County (Albq suburb): 47.9%

Catron County (BFE): 48%

Roosevelt (Portales): 43.4%

 

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 Native Americans are well vaccinated. It's the least the U.S. can do.

Los Alamos reminds me of Boulder, Colorado. Heavy science demographic and the income and quality of life that rewards such thinking. 

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  On 9/23/2021 at 2:20 AM, Beau Vine said:

Wife and I are headed to Los Alamos tomorrow for a long weekend.  The county level data for NM is really bizarre.

At least 1 dose of vaccine:

Los Alamos County: 94.9%

Taos County 92.1%

Rio Arriba County (just north of Los Alamos): 92.9%

Santa Fe: 90.5%

McKinley County (Gallup, big Navajo res) 101.9% (?!?)

Lincoln County (Ruidoso, Trumpville, full of west Texans): 65.5%

Torrance County (Albq suburb): 47.9%

Catron County (BFE): 48%

Roosevelt (Portales): 43.4%

 

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Here's a map of the region from NYTimes showing the percentage of the eligible population (12+ years) that is fully vaccinated. The NM numbers don't really surprise me as Eastern NM is for all intents and purposes West Texas, culturally speaking (West of the Pecos is a different flavor).

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Dat Austin-San Antonio corridor doe.

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Brian Williams' reaction this well-known freak-out is simply sublime.

Edit: It's the second tweet below.

 

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/idaho-covid-crisis-standards-care?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc

 

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Ashley Carvalho was a few hours into her night shift as a doctor in a Boise, Idaho, hospital earlier this month when she got a text from her fiancé asking how she was doing.

She thought about the COVID-19 patient, a man in his 40s, whose condition had deteriorated within an hour of her starting work that night. She thought of the conversation she’d had to have with his young family about switching to comfort care and then his death soon after.

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She thought about the second person with COVID who'd died shortly after that, as well as the other patients filling up all 14 beds in the intensive care unit — all with the same disease, all unvaccinated — who required her attention.

She thought of the abuse she’d received from one man’s angry family members, who had berated her for not treating him with ivermectin, a deworming drug falsely promoted as a cure in conspiracy circles but that the FDA has warned against using in COVID patients. She thought of how police had to remove the man’s family after his son-in-law told her, “If you don’t do this, I have a lot of ways to get people to do something, and they’re all sitting in my gun safe at home.”

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Her eyes welling with tears, she took a selfie and sent it to her fiancé: “It’s going like this,” she wrote.

Like other medical workers in her state, Carvalho is exhausted and exasperated. Idaho currently has the lowest vaccination rate in the country, and the number of vaccine doses administered hasn’t been climbing significantly — but infections have. As of Saturday, there were 686 patients hospitalized in the state with COVID, 180 of them in ICUs. That’s hundreds more than what flooded hospitals during the previous surge in December 2020, before safe and effective vaccines were widely available.

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  On 9/23/2021 at 9:00 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/idaho-covid-crisis-standards-care?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc

 

 

 

 

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Hey at least GRUHorn got paid his 50 rubles an hour! That’s almost a buck an hour! Spreading disinformation is pretty cheap. 

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  On 9/23/2021 at 9:16 PM, Bama Chick said:

Just got my third shot booster!

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I’m all antibody up for my Harry Styles concert next week.

I’ve been waiting for this for 18 months. Everyone has to be vaxxed or negative test within 48 hours of the show and masks must be worn.

Part of me feels like a hypocrite but gotdamnit I’ve done the right thing and then some. I deserve this.

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Going to my first indoor show (Emo's) on Sunday.  I've been to COTA and 3Ten, which basically opens onto the street, but this will be my first truly enclosed venture.  Glad I have 3 shots and natural antibodies on top of it.  

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  On 9/23/2021 at 9:16 PM, Bama Chick said:

Part of me feels like a hypocrite but gotdamnit I’ve done the right thing and then some. I deserve this.

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Why would you feel like a hypocrite? That's crazy talk.  Nobody doing the right thing should feel bad about acting like a social human. 

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After I posted that Buzzfeed article, I left work for the day.  On the way home, I'm thinking about the article, and it occurred to me (and I'm probably far from the only person to have this thought).

We as a society are thisclose to having someone deranged over the treatment (or death) of a loved one from Covid at a hospital, and just coming back and opening fire on whoever happens to be standing in the way.  I guess I'm so jaded that I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet, to be honest.   

 

 

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Eh I know it’s not rational.

It’s a mixture of guilt and feeling hypocritical that I’ve been begging other folks to do the right thing.

But I’m going and I’m going to dance my ass off.

I’ve got front row pit tickets and a super cute outfit. Harry better be ready.

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  On 9/23/2021 at 10:03 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

After I posted that Buzzfeed article, I left work for the day.  On the way home, I'm thinking about the article, and it occurred to me (and I'm probably far from the only person to have this thought).

We as a society are thisclose to having someone deranged over the treatment (or death) of a loved one from Covid at a hospital, and just coming back and opening fire on whoever happens to be standing in the way.  I guess I'm so jaded that I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet, to be honest.   

 

 

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This is the United States. We've been *thisclose* for decades.

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  On 9/23/2021 at 9:09 PM, Brisketexan said:
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We are such a shit species.

Nah. We just have shitty people who are prone to violence because they are stupid and have been manipulated to thinking this is acceptable behavior.

Is the person who threatened the nurse in jail and now denied access to all firearms?

This is the fun part about kids. When they are young you get to watch them find joy in the simplest stuff we have long forgotten about.
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  On 9/23/2021 at 10:21 PM, pacman said:
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manny diaz?  fucking sucked as a d.c. for us, is continuing to utterly destroy miami's program, and i had no idea that he was actively trying to turn florida into a sub-saharan african state that is going to need global intervention for health crisis.

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  On 9/23/2021 at 10:23 PM, Bookman said:
This is the United States. We've been *thisclose* for decades.

Hell we left this close behind a long time ago. But hey more guns and less regulation for all.
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  On 9/23/2021 at 10:03 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

After I posted that Buzzfeed article, I left work for the day.  On the way home, I'm thinking about the article, and it occurred to me (and I'm probably far from the only person to have this thought).

We as a society are thisclose to having someone deranged over the treatment (or death) of a loved one from Covid at a hospital, and just coming back and opening fire on whoever happens to be standing in the way.  I guess I'm so jaded that I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet, to be honest.   

 

 

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I keep waiting for this to happen in California. It's hard to overstate the anger and resentment emanating from the rural parts of the state. Now that the recall has been defeated they see the socialist takeover of the state to be a fait accompli. Just take the most vile, hate-filled GQP folks you can think of, then stick them in CA and imagine what would happen.

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  On 9/23/2021 at 10:36 PM, Foosters said:

I keep waiting for this to happen in California. It's hard to overstate the anger and resentment emanating from the rural parts of the state. Now that the recall has been defeated they see the socialist takeover of the state to be a fait accompli. Just take the most vile, hate-filled GQP folks you can think of, then stick them in CA and imagine what would happen.

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The rural parts of California have been getting overruled by the California cities for many decades now. What are the okies wearing oakleys gonna do? Ride up there in jet skies with pitchforks?

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  On 9/23/2021 at 10:03 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

After I posted that Buzzfeed article, I left work for the day.  On the way home, I'm thinking about the article, and it occurred to me (and I'm probably far from the only person to have this thought).

We as a society are thisclose to having someone deranged over the treatment (or death) of a loved one from Covid at a hospital, and just coming back and opening fire on whoever happens to be standing in the way.  I guess I'm so jaded that I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet, to be honest.   

 

 

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The fact that it hasn't happened yet makes me think there's some sort of glitch in this simulation.  It absolutely should have happened by now.

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  On 9/23/2021 at 10:50 PM, JimmyJames said:

The rural parts of California have been getting overruled by the California cities for many decades now. What are the okies wearing oakleys gonna do? Ride up there in jet skies with pitchforks?

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Remember the Whitmire kidnap and murder plot? 

Something like that. Or bombing gov buildings, or targeting figures on the left. Hopefully they'll just all move to Texas and complete the state's race to the bottom.

But you know better than to compare today's current climate with what has been happening in the past.

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  On 9/23/2021 at 9:19 PM, Biff Tannen said:
Going to my first indoor show (Emo's) on Sunday.  I've been to COTA and 3Ten, which basically opens onto the street, but this will be my first truly enclosed venture.  Glad I have 3 shots and natural antibodies on top of it.  

We declined a last minute invite to floor seats the Eagles concert at the AA Center earlier this week.


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