Michigan's thumb area, where the worst of Michigan's outbreak is, is red red red red. Now you know why they're getting the worst of COVID.

#2 | Posted by jpw

I saw a segment on a COVID TV special with a virologist from Pfizer. He said with mRNA vaccines they can take copies of new spike shapes and paste them into current vaccines so they recognize new strains instead of staring from scratch, like pasting a cropped picture into PhotoShop.

Methinks we're going to be in this pandemic for a long time because of idiots who won't mask or get vaccines.

#6 | Posted by _Gunslinger

Traffic stops here in Nashville seem to have ground to a halt in the past year due to COVID concerns except for the most flagrant violations. I haven't seen one of the regular speed traps manned since COVID hit, nor have I seen but a couple cars pulled over on the roads.

Our local precinct's captain and lieutenant have been family friends for years and years. They've gotten rid of bad apples with Wyatt Earp Syndrome as soon as they possibly could.

The MI thumb looks to be in huge COVID trouble. Macomb County, the highest rate per 100,000 in the Detroit Metro Area

#1 | Posted by GalaxiePete

Several years ago, I adopted a young dog I'd been fostering for 9 months to a wonderful family in Toronto. Among other things (like being an incredible ball shagger), I'd taught him to offer a paw and shake.

I met them halfway between Nashville and Toronto. A couple of hours later, they sent me the cutest picture taken at immigration on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor.

The Canadian immigration officer had them pull off to the inspection area to check Buddy's vaccination records. They all got out of the car. Buddy sat and offered the immigration guy a paw. Thinking quickly, the immigration officer swore him in as a newly minted Canadian citizen and let them take pictures and video of the 'ceremony.'

"people who voted against the UAW union at VW's TN plant went ahead and created their own union."

VW wanted the Chattanooga plant unionized.

BTW, the polio vaccine only went through a year of clinical trials.

On 2 million children ...

BTW, the polio vaccine only went through a year of clinical trials.

It rid the U.S. of polio.

In fact, HUNDREDS of millions of doses have been administered in the U.S. Severe reactions to COVID vaccines are extremely rare. Some report chills and fever after 2nd dose, but those effects pass within a couple of days and do not require hospitalization.

One wouldn't think dudes in the military would be afraid of a vaccine tens of millions of elderly people have already received.

Most people that have a severe reaction to a drug or vaccine experience it because they're allergic to the preservative. Pfizer and Moderna vaccines do not have a preservative, which is why they're stored in sub-zero temperatures until they're thawed and administered the same day.

Y'all in the military have been vaccinated more than anyone in the U.S. When I did USO shows, I went through 3 rounds of a few vaccines each time without issue.

PS - I've never known Redial to be a jerk. Seems like a decent person who's as disgusted with Republicans as much as we are.

#5 | Posted by danni

He probably mentioned you because you live in Florida and are no fan of DeSantis.

You're a jewel. Anyone who ever attacks you will have to deal with the rest of us :-)

You're not aware of these? Intermittent body aches and fevers for weeks following the vaccine? I personally know more people who went to the ER as a result of the side-effects of the vaccine than I know who went to the ER for COVID.

What specific vaccine are you talking about? Millions have been vaccinated in the U.S. with very few cases of acute side effects. Most of them attributed to other causes that would have happened anyway.

My wife and I have both had both doses of Pfizer without a single side effect, like millions of others.

Have you read they're finding that COVID can not only leave organ or vascular damage, but also psychological effects in 1/3 of the 250,000 patients they followed post-infection?

Man, I didn't know today's military had so many woosies. Sad.

0 WLM protesters showed up in NYC in front of Trump Tower, 1 in Albuquerque, 5 in El Paso. Givin' it to the man!! LOL!!

So, what is HR1 based on???, other than one party rule, that is.

#5 | Posted by MSgt

Voting rights.

If Republicans were confident they'd win election after election they wouldn't make attempt after attempt to limit voting ... but only for the people they don't think will vote for them.

For 30 years, they've been doing everything they can to limit voting, but they continue to receive millions upon millions less votes during national elections than Democrats do because America just isn't that into Republicans, who have no ideas anymore but being naysayers, traitors, and raping the U.S. Treasury for their wealthy constituency.

It must be the new Marine Corps. When I was in, you were government property. I did three WESTPAC's on the USS Midway. Each time I was given a myriad of shots for everything possible. Declining a shot wasn't an option.

#14 | Posted by willowby

It's puzzling why the military doesn't require this vaccination for active duty troops. I did USO tours. We were required to get multiple vaccinations. Three rounds of several shots each.

We rid the world of polio and smallpox ...

with vaccines.

Naysayers said the same things we're hearing now from the right wing.

They were wrong. The results are obvious.

Trump may not be president any more but he still has the knives out.

#8 | Posted by Twinpac

Republicans are pretty upset about Trump's Mar-A-Lago tirade last night.

Republicans not pleased with Trump's fiery Mar-a-Lago speech

The former president went off-script in a roughly 50-minute keynote speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida, ripping into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, even calling him a "dumb son of a bitch." Trump also took aim at former Vice President Mike Pence " saying he was "disappointed" in him for not fighting the certification of the election results in January " as well as Anthony Fauci, who Trump said was "full of crap."

They could move to California then. Blue to Blue. They'd rather go retire in the land of Florida Man.

Ouch.

#23 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Politics has nothing to do with it. People from the Midwest and East Coast have been retiring to Florida in droves since the 1950's.

#23 | Posted by YAV

What was equally funny to me was the description of his 'opening act' for the patrons on the ship, whose average age was 80+: a guy giving a 3 part seminar on corns and bunions LOL

BTW, several years ago, a friend was excited to be going to "South America" as an entertainer on a small cruise ship. He only packed shorts and short sleeved shirts to wear when he wasn't performing.

Turns out it was a cruise down to Tiera Del Fuego, up and down fjords. He had to borrow warm clothing from the crew LOL

Thanks for the explanations

They pulled him over for 'not having a tag.'

Problem is, he'd just bought the SUV and had a temp tag prominently displayed IN THE BACK WINDOW.

Isn't seasonal ice the result of melting freshwater from existing ice shelves and glaciers?

At her ZOOM court hearing:

"Crying and sniffing as she wore a mask, Hunter said the social media frenzy that followed had many people threatening her as friends shunned her and her three children. She said her son was ostracized at school as "the son of the woman who wore the Scarlet Letter," adding her shame and regret will follow her for the rest of her life."

Good! Well earned!

That won't work. Whatever the current generation's equivalent of goth kids are will wear them as a fashion statement.

90% of the anti-mask idiots I saw in the store today were at least in their 40's.