Coronavirus

[Vrede too]

Bummer.

I hear that Glasgow is lovely in November.

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... Psaki did not accompany Biden on his trip abroad to Rome this weekend for the Group of 20 summit and next Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday for a U.N. climate summit....

"Winters are cool and overcast ..."

Nov:
Average high (°F) 48.9
Average low (°F) 39.2
Average rainfall (inches) 4.98
Average rainy days (≥ 1.0 mm) 16
Mean monthly sunshine hours 54 (<2/day)

[GoCubsGo]

Ah, I'd suffer a little Glasgow to get me some Roma!

Besides, you'd get to play Find the Pope in the Pizza!

[Ulysses]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... ate-agenda

President Biden wants to change the world’s view of U.S. leadership on climate at this week’s COP26 summit in Glasgow, but uncertainties linger whether he can credibly claim a leading role on the issue.

Biden is expected to tout the U.S.’s climate progress and how the nation is returning to global climate negotiations after former President Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement.

But a major climate program was recently stripped from Biden’s “Build Back Better” legislative agenda amid opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and the fate of another is up in the air.

“The stakes are extremely high,” said Liz Perera, the Sierra Club’s climate policy director. “We need to convince the world that we are serious about our commitments, even with our congressional challenges, but then the world needs to also convince — especially India and China — our Congress that they are also serious.”

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[Vrede too]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... ate-agenda

Coronavirus relevance?

[GoCubsGo]

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... ate-agenda

Coronavirus relevance?

[Vrede too]

A zoo's three 'beloved' snow leopards die of covid-19

The three big cats delighted visitors to the Nebraska zoo for years - pouncing on pumpkins during Halloween, preening for pictures and lounging on rocks in their enclosure.

The Lincoln Children's Zoo has described the snow leopards as silly, bubbly and handsome. They were one of the zoo's main attractions, delivering a dose of mountain majesty to the Great Plains....

In a statement in October, the zoo said the infected animals were being treated with steroids and antibiotics, but it did not say whether they had been vaccinated. Zoetis, a former Pfizer subsidiary based in New Jersey, has provided an animal-specific coronavirus vaccine to zoos across the country....

Since April 2020, when a tiger tested positive for the coronavirus at the Bronx Zoo, dozens of animals in captivity in the United States have become infected. This month, the Denver Zoo reported the world's first two coronavirus cases in hyenas, and the St. Louis Zoo found eight positive cases among its big cats, including in two snow leopards.

Snow leopards have also been infected at the Louisville Zoo and the San Diego Zoo, where 9-year-old Ramil began having a cough and a runny nose in July. Abroad, the virus has killed a lion in India and two tiger cubs in Pakistan.

Alex Herman, vice president of veterinary services at the Oakland Zoo in California, where big cats are getting vaccinated, told The Washington Post last month that it is important to get animals the shots to help slow the spread among all species.

"Humans are being devastated around the world. Animals are being devastated by it as well," she said. "It's one health."

I wonder if cows, goats, sheep, etc. are getting covid-19 and whether they're being treated with ivermectin.

[Vrede too]

Ah, I'd suffer a little Glasgow to get me some Roma! ...

Life has tradeoffs.

Good news: Hilton Head graduate will be getting two semesters of free tuition as a randomized prize for submitting proof of vaccination to the university.
Bad News: The two semesters are at Clemson.

(we miss you, 1 FAT CAN)

[Ulysses]

Ah, I'd suffer a little Glasgow to get me some Roma!

Besides, you'd get to play Find the Pope in the Pizza!

[GoCubsGo]

Smart people suck.

[Vrede too]

Smart people suck.

I would worry about the pi variant, but it sounds like what one would find at the local diner.

Silver's first tweet was Aug 4.

So you jinxed us? Nice.

Dammit, Nate.

Just bring this out whenever they say you're bad at predictions

What have you done!!!

Oopsilon

[Vrede too]

Smart people suck.

Omicron surge? Sounds like a SciFi title, doesn't it? Omicron booster coming? Will this become a biannual ritual?

[Vrede too]

UPDATE 2-Courts block two Biden administration COVID vaccine mandates

United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty appointed by Dolt .45.
United States District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove appointed by Shrub.

[Leo Lyons]

Marcus Lamb, head of Christian network Daystar who has been a vocal opponent of the coronavirus vaccine, has died of COVID-19

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/marcu ... li=BBnb7Kz

"About a week before Lamb's death, his son, Jonathan, said on a Nov. 23 broadcast that he believed his dad's illness was a "spiritual attack from the enemy" in order to "take down" his dad."
Damn them spiritual attacks" anyway.
Seems I recall them same spirits were blamed for attempting to take down the past presidency.

[Ulysses]

Some do say the Lord works in mysterious ways...

[Vrede too]

Marcus Lamb, head of Christian network Daystar who has been a vocal opponent of the coronavirus vaccine, has died of COVID-19

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/marcu ... li=BBnb7Kz

"About a week before Lamb's death, his son, Jonathan, said on a Nov. 23 broadcast that he believed his dad's illness was a "spiritual attack from the enemy" in order to "take down" his dad."
Damn them spiritual attacks" anyway.
Seems I recall them same spirits were blamed for attempting to take down the past presidency.

Further discussion:
viewtopic.php?p=150133#p150133
Pretty cool that we independently highlighted the exact same quote. Great minds . . .

[neoplacebo]

Marcus Lamb, head of Christian network Daystar who has been a vocal opponent of the coronavirus vaccine, has died of COVID-19

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/marcu ... li=BBnb7Kz

"About a week before Lamb's death, his son, Jonathan, said on a Nov. 23 broadcast that he believed his dad's illness was a "spiritual attack from the enemy" in order to "take down" his dad."
Damn them spiritual attacks" anyway.
Seems I recall them same spirits were blamed for attempting to take down the past presidency.

Hell, the son was right. Just for the wrong reason. It's plain as fuck that dad's faith was just not strong enough. Or even worse, his faith was false. What trump would call "fake faith" or "FINO" (faith in name only). It's the worst goddamn kind and has misled untold thousands. Or we could just get down to the nut of this thing.....Lambs die in order that wolves might live.

[GoCubsGo]

Or we could just get down to the nut of this thing.....Lambs die in order that wolves might live.

I'm stealing that.

[neoplacebo]

Or we could just get down to the nut of this thing.....Lambs die in order that wolves might live.

I'm stealing that.

Be my guest. I have no idea if Winston Churchill or Whistler's mother said that before. It just seemed the sort of thing to say to a misguided Jesus user and dead fuckstone.

[Vrede too]

Hell, the son was right. Just for the wrong reason. It's plain as fuck that dad's faith was just not strong enough. Or even worse, his faith was false. What trump would call "fake faith" or "FINO" (faith in name only). It's the worst goddamn kind and has misled untold thousands. Or we could just get down to the nut of this thing.....Lambs die in order that wolves might live.

Jesus died in order that false prophets, fake pastors, blasphemous pols and greedy televangelists might live.

[neoplacebo]

Hell, the son was right. Just for the wrong reason. It's plain as fuck that dad's faith was just not strong enough. Or even worse, his faith was false. What trump would call "fake faith" or "FINO" (faith in name only). It's the worst goddamn kind and has misled untold thousands. Or we could just get down to the nut of this thing.....Lambs die in order that wolves might live.

Jesus died in order that false prophets, fake pastors, blasphemous pols and greedy televangelists might live.

Yeah, but it's really weird that they want Jesus to come back so they can kill him again and blame someone else for it. It's been the schtick they cling to when all else fails. God wants you to get Covid at least twice, buy a gun, and practice hate three times a week.