#4 Earlier this year when the investigating was launched, several of my friends wanted Cuomo to resign, but I wanted him to hold off until the pandemic was better under control in NY state. Despite the fact that the Delta variant is causing the number of covid cases and hospitalizations to rise, I think the lieutenant governor could now step in and handle the pandemic by taking over where Cuomo leaves off. I don't know much about Kathleen Hochul, but I gather the general consensus is that she is a competent, fair-minded person. I hope. Fingers crossed.

Cuomo will likely resign and then NY will have its first female governor.

Video of famous last words from DeSantis:

Turns out it was too soon to take a Victory lap.

Is the Pope Catholic?

#12 From the Mayo Clinic link:

Natural infection

Herd immunity can be reached when enough people in the population have recovered from a disease and have developed protective antibodies against future infection.

However, there are some major problems with relying on community infection to create herd immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19:

Reinfection. It's not clear how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19. Even if you have antibodies, it's possible that you could get COVID-19 again.

Health impact. Experts estimate that in the U.S., 70% of the population--more than 200 million people--would have to recover from COVID-19 to halt the pandemic. This number of infections could lead to serious complications and millions of deaths, especially among older people and those who have existing health conditions. The health care system could quickly become overwhelmed.

IOW, herd immunity isn't the panacea you portray it to be.

I was thinking of the impeachment managers presenting their case and Trump's two lawyers saying a lot of stupid ------.

POSTED BY FSUKNOWIT AT 2021-07-22 10:14 PM

"Last February WAS the 2nd impeachment. Schumer chickened out on holding a trial."
I thought there was a trial?:

At the conclusion of the trial, the Senate voted 57"43 to convict Trump of inciting insurrection, falling 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority required by the Constitution, and Trump was therefore acquitted. Seven Republican senators joined all Democratic and independent senators in voting to convict Trump, the largest bipartisan vote for an impeachment conviction of a U.S. president.

Nursing home COVID infections are rising

While absolute numbers still low, they are up 3X over past month and highest since March

And we need a national strategy to prevent more suffering in this very vulnerable population

Why are they rising and what can we do?

"The only and best shot we had was to impeach him back in February, which, if successful, would have kept him from running in 2024."

You wanted Democrats to impeach him a third time, after he was out of office, and you believe that would have resulted in a different outcome than the first two impeachments?

You think that the DoJ or the Manhattan DA is going to file charges against ------- for tax evasion or some insurance fraud?

How about the NY AG, Letitia James? I won't be surprised if she goes after Trump.

From another source in case you can't read the NYT's:

"What we're seeing is very much what the data from the vaccines showed us: You can still get COVID, potentially. But if you do get it, it's not severe at all," Day said.

Day also told ABC7 News that at least 99% of the cases at UCSF were traced back to community spread, but that hospital officials are still investigating and conducting contact tracing.

On May 1 @CDCgov stopped tracking breakthrough infections unless hospitalized. That was a mistake then, but with the increased risk posed by Delta, it's more serious. Complete tracking needs to be reinstated, w/ demographics, PCR Ct results, samples for neutralizing antibodies...

And sequencing as much as possible to determine further evolution of Microbe. We need to know ASAP whether and in whom boosters would be needed. Haven't we had enough of flying blind in this country?

MFA:

The best way to stop coronavirus deaths and severe illness is to roll out vaccines quickly. However, the researchers concluded that the chance a vaccine-resistant strain will emerge is highest in a scenario that combines three conditions: First, a large portion of a population is vaccinated, but not everyone. Second, there's a lot of virus circulating. And third, no measures are in place to curb potential viral transmission from vaccinated people. Sound familiar?

Before the rise of Delta, which is now responsible for more than 80% of US coronavirus cases, that situation wasn't a concern because research suggested vaccinated people weren't likely to transmit other versions of the virus. But according to a CDC study released Friday, vaccinated people may transmit the Delta variant just as easily as the unvaccinated.

The CNN article you posted tells the same story. That's the difference between "hesitant" and "resistant."
Get it?

Here's an updated article that basically says the same thing:

If Barr was pressured by Trump the way Rosen and Donoghue were, what was his obligation? He resigned, but should he have told someone the reason why--the FBI, relevant Congressional committees, the Gang of Four?

The unvaccinated fall into two groups, the vaccine hesitant and the vaccine resistant:

As coronavirus cases rise across the United States, the fight against the pandemic is focused on an estimated 93 million people who are eligible for shots but have chosen not to get them. These are the Americans who are most vulnerable to serious illness from the highly contagious Delta variant and most likely to carry the virus, spreading it further.

It turns out, though, that this is not a single set of Americans, but in many ways two.

In one group are those who say they are adamant in their refusal of the coronavirus vaccines; they include a mix of people but tend to be disproportionately white, rural, evangelical Christian and politically conservative, surveys show.

In the other are those who say they are open to getting a shot but have been putting it off or want to wait and see before making a decision; they are a broad range of people, but tend to be a more diverse and urban group, including many younger people, Black and Latino Americans, and Democrats.

With cases surging and hospitalizations rising, health officials are making progress in inoculating this second group, who surveys suggest account for less than half of all unvaccinated adults in the United States.

The problem is the same surveys show that the group firmly opposed to the vaccines outnumbers those willing to be swayed. And unless the nation finds a way to persuade the unwavering, escaping the virus's grip will be a long way off, because they make up as much as 20 percent of the adult population.

"Y'all are blinded by your obsession."

It's a good bet that Trump put the same kind of pressure on Barr that he put on Donoghue. It could explain his resignation so close to the end of Trump's term:

Bill Barr Quit. What Finally Spooked Him?

The attorney general's sudden departure raises alarms about what Trump might do next.

What's the January surprise Barr wants no part of?

Another option is that Barr realizes that Trump plans to continue challenging the election outcome. Barr has been willing to tolerate Trump's arguments thus far, even if he himself has refused to say that Justice has evidence of meaningful fraud. Yet the prospect of increasingly wild claims of conspiracy and an inauguration without Trump in attendance might perhaps be enough for Barr to prefer to be out of town--and out of the administration--for the next few weeks.

What Trump does next, however, might give us a hint about what spooked the man who misled the public about Robert Mueller's investigation; appointed a special counsel to investigate the investigators of Trump-Russia collusion; and spread false claims about election fraud before the vote. It would have to be pretty bad.

"What a loser site."

What does that make you for posting here so much? According to your user page, you made 19 posts yesterday:

"I had threads on the back page with over 140 comments - never got promoted. What a loser site."

That's probably because the article you linked to was over 2 months old and a substantial number of the comments in the thread were made by you:

14 out of 26 posts by the OP... those are ------ thread fluffing numbers.

#27 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2021-07-19 08:14 PM

If this blatant abuse of power is allowed to stand and spread to other states, bye-bye US democracy. Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema, I hope you are paying attention and will step up and do the right thing.

FTA:

A letter obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows two dozen state senators support a performance review of Fulton elections chief Richard Barron. The letter was written Tuesday, the very same day a front-page AJC story examined the prospect of a takeover of elections in Fulton, home to a tenth of all Georgians.

As written into Senate Bill 202, the State Election Board can replace a county's election board following a performance review/audit/investigation. Then, a temporary superintendent would enjoy full managerial authority of how the county counts votes and staffs polling places.

Also:

Fulton elections takeover would make history

Experts say Georgia Republicans' request to audit the elections of Democrat-heavy Fulton County is a historical first in the national story of partisanship invading elections management.

NY did that earlier, and now they are going to offer the $100 pay out that Biden suggested :

Governor Cuomo Announces New 'Vax & Scratch' Program Providing Lottery Tickets for Prizes Up to $5 Million

Individuals Vaccinated at One of 10 State Mass Vaccination Sites Will Receive a Free $20 NYS Lottery Scratch-off Ticket

FTA:

Various local officials say they have received reports that the group is visiting residents' homes and questioning how the homeowner voted and who they voted for. The questioning comes as county officials weigh whether to comply with a "forensic audit" of the 2020 election spearheaded by state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin County.

"There is an intimidation factor, and that's what their intent is," said Chad Baker, chair of the Democratic Party of York County. "The timing of this doesn't seem suspect given the recent request of the audit by Sen. Mastriano."

Breakthroughs are now likely very common, but we can't know because they stopped testing and counting moderate to asymptomatic cases in the vaccinated group as there are too many to test!
Why not collect valuable data, unless it's politically dangerous. Science should demand for it and not enough scientists are.

That's not why the CDC stopped testing. They stopped testing on May 1st before the Delta variant had reached the US in any significant way. They should be testing, however, and some scientists/doctors are saying so:

CDC needs to start tracking all Covid breakthrough infections, Gottlieb says

The CDC stopped tracking every breakthrough case in the U.S. on May 1, focusing just on those that result in hospitalization or death, a move physicians and scientists are increasingly criticizing.