In case anyone wants to know the given reason behind the censures: "The party censured Ducey over his decision to impose emergency rules during the pandemic that the GOP said "restrict personal liberties and force compliance to unconstitutional edicts." McCain, who endorsed President Joe Biden, "has supported globalist policies and candidates" and "condemned President Trump for his criticism of her husband and erroneously placed behaviors over actual presidential results." Flake has "condemned the Republican Party, rejected populism, and rejected the interests of the American people over globalist interests." The party suggested Flake join the Democrats."

@george-k said in The day we let Covid-19 spin out of control: @kluurs said in The day we let Covid-19 spin out of control: @george-k said in The day we let Covid-19 spin out of control: The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines brings with it the risk of a new wave of asymptomatic infections. The two vaccines authorized by the Food and Drug Administration have been proven to prevent illness, but not asymptomatic infection. Even after vaccination, the coronavirus may still temporarily take up residence in the lining of the respiratory tract, making it possible to infect others. Interesting Yes. And suppose that the virus finds safe harbor in your maxillary sinus, and you don't get sick. You'll test positive, and presumably, be infectious. If you have no symptoms, you might not get tested. You might just continue to go about the community spreading the virus.

@loki said in Back to voter suppression: “VoteRiders estimated that up to 25 million voting-age Americans lacked a government-issued photo ID.” Yeah, I call BS on that. I watched a video one time of a right wing activist asking blacks on the street about their ID and how difficult it was to vote and they all were, well, basically insulted. Every one of them had ID of some form. I realize this could be a slanted presentation but seriously, it is not difficult to get ID and it would be a great idea to require the Federal or State gov'ts to provide free ID for voting an all other ID purposes.

@taiwan_girl Maybe Hope and Change is available.

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@jon-nyc said in No ICU beds left in Mississippi?: @loki said in No ICU beds left in Mississippi?: Notice how ICU bed shortage stories just collapsed. Do a coke news search on ‘ICU capacity’. I see lots of stories on NoCal and Texas in the last 24 hours. First thing as saw. Multiple articles. Liked the title of this one the most as ending lockdown is suddenly important. https://sfist.com/2021/01/24/bay-area-icu-capacity-swings-to-23-4-could-lockdown-end-soon/

I need to see a similar solution for teh katz.

It’s unclear why the health agency waited over a year to release the new directive Prior to the CCP virus pandemic, for individuals to be considered a case, they must test positive and show clinical signs and symptoms. But to be counted as a CCP virus case, only a positive PCR test is required. And no matter how many times an individual is tested, each positive test is counted as a separate case. The WHO is now advising that a positive PCR test that does “not correspond with the clinical presentation” should be verified by taking “a new specimen” and retesting it. Well....

Nope.

Hopefully not, but so far responses in defense of Taiwan have been good. This weekend, a US aircraft carrier group entered the South China Sea. Now I realize this probably was planned earlier, but it could have been canceled and was not. Statement from the US NSA this weekend said that the commitment to Taiwan was “rock solid” and that the US looks forward to increased “ties” with Taiwan. Of course, talk is cheap so actions in the future are the real test.

@lufins-dad so, are you say to eliminate the National gas tax?

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How tragic. I’m so sorry.

Yes, he was always a conservative. That's why I posted originally that he probably voted third party in 2016. But his business is rhetoric and social viability, so hating Trump is the obvious move.

@taiwan_girl It’s an unknowable question, basically a variant of the ‘hard problem of consciousness’. I once made the point to my son that his red and my red could be different and we’d never know. It made him a bit agitated to think about.

Wow!!!