How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Innula Zenovka]

It's a wonderful interview

Grandfather late for Covid vaccine wins American hearts with ‘peak British’ interview

A pensioner who asked to be one of the first people to be vaccinated against Covid-19 because he wanted to hug his grandchildren has become a symbol of Britishness after appearing on American television.Martin Kenyon, 91, charmed audiences with his matter-of-fact response to CNN’s excitable reporter

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link because paywall

Later he was interviewed outside his home by Piers Morgan in the Good Morning Britain studio. He asked the presenter: “Who are you?”

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Later he was interviewed outside his home by Piers Morgan in the Good Morning Britain studio. He asked the presenter: “Who are you?”

That right there makes him a hero

 

[Sovereignty]

Not everyone is sad to be missing the holidays with family this year

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

 

[Free]

EDIT: Apparently, she deleted the above tweet.



Here's a copy of the original tweet.

 

[Free]

Here's your tracking microchip injection conspiracy theory.

Some States Balk After C.D.C. Asks for Personal Data of Those Vaccinated – Hometown UPDATES

The Trump administration is requiring states to submit personal information of people vaccinated against Covid-19 — including names, birth dates, ethnicities and addresses, raising alarms among state officials who fear that a federal vaccine registry could be misused.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is instructing states to sign so-called data use agreements that commit them for the first time to sharing personal information in existing registries with the federal government. Some states, such as New York, are pushing back, either refusing to sign or signing while refusing to share the information.

Administration officials say that the information will not be shared with other federal agencies and that it is “critically necessary” for several reasons: to ensure that people who move across state lines receive their follow-up doses; to track adverse reactions and address safety issues; and to assess the effectiveness of the vaccine among different demographic groups.

At a briefing with a small group of reporters on Monday, officials from Operation Warp Speed, the government’s vaccine initiative, defended the plan. They said all but a handful of states had signed data agreements, and the rest would sign by the end of the week, though it is not clear how many states will submit personal information.

“There is no social security number being asked for; there is no driver’s license number,” said Deacon Maddox, who runs the operation’s data and analysis system. “The only number I would say that is asked is the date of birth.”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Rudy Giuliani leaves hospital after receiving same drug cocktail as Trump

Trump lawyer: ‘The minute I took the cocktail I felt 100% better’Giuliani, 76, was admitted to hospital in Washington on Monday

www.theguardian.com

“If it wasn’t me, I wouldn’t have been put in a hospital, frankly,” Giuliani told WABC New York. “Sometimes when you’re a celebrity, they’re worried if something happens to you they’re going to examine it more carefully, and do everything right.”

Quite a thing being famous -- priority medical treatment, and they let you grab them by the pussy!

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Free]

*facepalm*

CDC’s Redfield told staff to delete email, official tells House watchdog

The instruction was revealed during an investigation into the Trump administration’s political interference at the public health agency.

www.politico.com

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield instructed staff to delete an email from a Trump political appointee seeking control over the agency’s scientific reports on the pandemic, a senior CDC official told congressional investigators this week.

Redfield’s apparent instruction was revealed in a Monday closed-door interview with the House subcommittee probing the White House's coronavirus response, which includes the Trump administration’s interference at the federal public health agency. It came following an Aug. 8 email sent by Paul Alexander, who was then the scientific adviser to Health and Human Services spokesperson Michael Caputo, aiming to water down the CDC’s famed Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports to align with President Donald Trump’s efforts to downplay the virus.

 

[bubblesort]

They need Saxsquach masks! Seriously, this guy's mask is better than theirs.

 

[Rose Karuna]

They need Saxsquach masks! Seriously, this guy's mask is better than theirs.

OMG Saxsquach is awesome!

 

[Rose Karuna]

I loved the different perspectives on cooking and eating in this article. I also was very sad reading about people who were struggling to put food on the table and how they were managing.

How We Ate Our Way Through 2020

No degree of social and economic upheaval could shake our unrelenting need to eat.

www.buzzfeednews.com

 

[Kalel]

Actually more of an Avalanche of people losing thier homes as soon as the eviction moratorium expires and others taking advantage of the situation but whos goona say that outloud?

The trigger: work from home policies instituted by companies during the pandemic are now expected to be made permanent.


Employees are already visiting Miami to shop for a permanent home in advance of those announcements, thanks to better weather and lower taxes, he said.

Miami Brokers Say There’s An ‘Avalanche’ Of New Residents Incoming

Miami Real Estate, Construction And Architecture

www.thenextmiami.com

12 pm to 6am isn't going to help much.....

Miami’s enforcement of pandemic curfew starts again this weekend

Miami’s enforcement of pandemic curfew starts again this weekend

www.local10.com

 

[Free]

Newly Sworn-In GOP N.H. House Speaker Dies Of COVID-19, Autopsy Shows

New Hampshire Republicans elected Rep. Dick Hinch as speaker of the House after the GOP took control of the chamber in November. Hinch's death, now known to be of COVID-19, was announced Wednesday.

www.npr.org

Rep. Dick Hinch, a Republican who was elected speaker of the New Hampshire House just one week ago, died of COVID-19 on Wednesday. This comes about a month before the state legislature, the largest in the U.S., is expected to convene for its regularly scheduled annual session.

[...]

Hinch was formally elected House speaker on Dec. 2 at an outdoor session held on an athletic field at the University of New Hampshire because of coronavirus concerns. Earlier that same week, several Republican House members were confirmed to have tested positive for the coronavirus after attending an indoor GOP caucus meeting.

He most likely caught the virus at the outdoor session where he was elected speaker.

 

[Rose Karuna]

This is scary: Coronavirus crippling emergency response agencies: ‘What if you call EMS and nobody comes?’

What many people don't realize is that COVID deaths are in addition to other deaths that occur. So deaths from car accidents, fires, overdoses, suicides, murders, heart disease, cancer, home and workplace accidents are still happening. The system was already on the edge and COVID is beginning to push it over. The same holds true for hospitals and mortuaries and even medical examiners and coroners.

As COVID-19 deaths overwhelm El Paso, inmates drafted to work in morgue

The inmates working in the morgue will earn $2 an hour. They are low-level offenders that are part of the detention facility's trustee program.

www.texastribune.org

In Central Wisconsin, Rising Death Count From COVID-19 Puts Strain On Medical Examiner

www.wpr.org

COVID is insidious because unless it happens to us (or someone in our family) or unless we are in one of the industries what is overwhelmed, we don't see all the ramifications until it's too late.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This is scary: Coronavirus crippling emergency response agencies: ‘What if you call EMS and nobody comes?’

What many people don't realize is that COVID deaths are in addition to other deaths that occur. So deaths from car accidents, fires, overdoses, suicides, murders, heart disease, cancer, home and workplace accidents are still happening. The system was already on the edge and COVID is beginning to push it over. The same holds true for hospitals and mortuaries and even medical examiners and coroners.

As COVID-19 deaths overwhelm El Paso, inmates drafted to work in morgue

The inmates working in the morgue will earn $2 an hour. They are low-level offenders that are part of the detention facility's trustee program.

www.texastribune.org

In Central Wisconsin, Rising Death Count From COVID-19 Puts Strain On Medical Examiner

www.wpr.org

COVID is insidious because unless it happens to us (or someone in our family) or unless we are in one of the industries what is overwhelmed, we don't see all the ramifications until it's too late.

That's been the government's main concern here -- to keep the NHS from being overwhelmed to the extent they don't have enough hospital beds for everyone who needs one, for whatever reason, Covid-19 or something else.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Lengthy piece by one of my favourite curmudgeons (present company excepted, of course) on how Covid-19 has shaken some certainties, or at least changed some assumptions, or how he thinks it has, anyway:

The year of the Great Humbling

Covid-19 has pricked the bubble of human supremacy and revealed our fragility. And the economic destruction means we cannot return to the free-market capitalism that made the pandemic inevitable.

www.newstatesman.com

Evernote link because paywall

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Man. NBC News's homepage right now.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Essence Lumin]

Controlling the world by injecting phones into people's blood was the finale of a very dark and funny comedy in the '60s. Spoiler because it's a spoiler!

Spoiler

The President's Analyst starring James Coburn - 1967. The villainous organization was TPC, The Phone Company