your vote was nullified.
strangling the hedge short positions got nullified.
face it folks, we’re just proles with no voice.
You don’t count.
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WHITE HOUSE: Florida should close bars, restaurants, gyms to slow COVID spread
Florida bars, indoor dining, gyms and any other indoor spaces where masks are not worn 100% of the time should be closed down to stop the spread of COVID-19, according to a White House Coronavirus Task Force Report.
The recommendation comes as the state is seeing a slight decrease in new coronavirus cases, test positivity and hospitalizations.
The report, which was officially released on Jan. 17, was just recently made available following a News-Journal public records request to the Florida Department of Health.
The state did not respond to questions about how, if or when the recommendations will be put into effect.
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/01/26/white-house-florida-should-close-bars-restaurants-and-gyms-stop-covid/4263253001/
DeSantis in the crosshairs
I didn’t know the CDC was part of the legislative branch
CDC orders mask mandate for planes and public transportation
The order says it “does not intend to rely primarily on these criminal penalties but instead strongly encourages and anticipates widespread voluntary compliance.”
https://www.axios.com/cdc-mask-mandate-public-transportation-d4a8936c-8f14-454f-83a0-50485dddd436.html
morning y’all
@ eaglesoars:
Here’s the actual order
I looked up the citations. They actually do appear to have that authority under existing transportation and public health laws. That’s why it only covers transportation, because it’s a federally-regulated area.
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Everybody sez they hate lobbyists but everybody needs them
https://www.daybook.com/jobs/DpDoRM8kRH8PgZRof
lobo91 wrote:
blow it up
@ rain of lead:
hi ya!
Mark Cuban has an idea for killing the shorts – and also it looks like Wall Street Bets is close to become a huge distributed fund on its own.
I’m not sure I understand Cuban’s idea. I seem to remember something called rehypothecation from back in the mortgage crisis – and it was extremely dicey. But it’s an interesting read in any case.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mark-cuban-presents-little-trick-creating-mother-all-short-squeezes
This looks interesting. Posted 4 months ago. Looks like the beginning the the GME/reddit short burn. No time to finish reading, but QUITE the story
The intro:
Sup gamblers. Feel bad about missing the gain train on TSLA? Fear not – something much greater and stupider is here.
You know Citadel? The MM that took all our money today? Well now we finally won’t be at the mercy of the MMs. Instead, we’re going to temporarily join forces with the Galactic Empire and hijack the death star.
Our choice of weapon… $GME.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ip6jnv/the_real_greatest_short_burn_of_the_century/
@ lobo91:
Oh yeah. The most recent one is someone named Amanda Ensing and Sephora. Sephora is a HUGE cosmetic/fragrance outlet. Amanda is considered an ‘influencer’ and she did a youtube thing for Sephora.
Then they found out she’s a Trump supporter and canceled her.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/01/30/popular-beauty-influencers-conservative-opinions-appear-to-get-her-dropped-by-sephora-1023325/
@ eaglesoars:
Are you aware of the controversy involving Black Rifle? There are idiots on the right trying to do exactly the same thing in reverse to them, because a search of the FEC database shows that Evan donated $500 to Obama in 2008 (which he claims was the result of losing a bet), and a similar amount to Tulsi Gabbard (which happened at the time she was being squeezed out of the Democrat debates).
Those two donations–made by Evan personally, using his own money–are now being turned into “Black Rifle is a lefty front!”
Fortunately, most people are smarter than that and ignore those fools
Hey,WAIT JUST ONE MINUTE!!
Biden, Democrats prepare to move beyond efforts to woo Republicans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-republicans-bipartisanship/2021/01/29/992c37be-624a-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html
I didn’t get wooed. Did anybody here get wooed?
Didn’t think so
I am new to this trading stuff.
Bought some silver Thursday, just over 18 pounds of it and they took my money but never asked me for a shipping address. It could be they looked up my address from my credit card info.
Maybe the UPS guy will deliver it next week.
lobo91 wrote:
no, I was not.
One question tho? Are you sure it’s ‘idiots on the right’ for real or not just some leftist thugs masquerading as such?
@ eaglesoars:
No, it’s real. Some of the gun bloggers on YouTube are part of it.
Mike Glover visited BRCC in Salt Lake City a couple of weeks ago (he lives in the area, and has known Evan for many years), and now people are going after him, too.
@ lobo91:
thanks, I shall pay attention.
right now, tho, I have errands. later.
@ eaglesoars:
wooed?
I didn’t even get kissed
@ eaglesoars:
A couple of examples:
@ lobo91:
they’ll get my black rifle…coffee…when they pry it from my warm, caffeinated fingers!
coldwarrior wrote:
Agreed
Gee…imagine that:
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210126/double-masking-makes-common-sense-fauci-says
Double Masking ‘Makes Common Sense,’ Fauci Says
It must be almost ground hogs day. An asshat pokes his head up and it’s 6 more years of masking.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Triple masking is even better. Paired with 20’ of separation.
right_wing2 wrote:
I have a suggestion for Fauci. Even better than double masking. Double plastic bagging, tied off real secure. Makes sure it’s real virus protection. He should be the first test subject.
@ eaglesoars:
Is this a states rights issue? I recall Trump asking for security at state borders but Rhode Island and New York saying no.
@ lobo91:
Interesting. Seems like a lot of power to give the CDC. It’s pretty comprehensive.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m starting to understand this a little better. It does look like the billion dollar hedge fund are using lots of financial tricks to suck money illegally out of the small investor. Especially when they restrict trading.
@ lobo91:
I agree with Beck that it will come for all of us. Not surprising the babies cry at night when they have bigoted woke parents.
Becks looking good with the white hair do.
darkwords wrote:
There is a lot of buying and selling of things that do not actually exist.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Someone will make a meme out of that is they see your post.
lobo91 wrote:
Do not be sanguine about that. It will only make the people who erect permanent fencing around the capital double down. The problem is ‘Trump’s base’ is unorganized. Trump’s enemies are not. They can be disconnected all they want, they just go to the mattresses and call out troops. Do Not. Forget….
Nancy Pelosi tried to grab the nuclear codes.
I’m willing to bet people at the Pentagon are hitting the scotch. Unfortunately, they’re listening to the CIA pukes.
darkwords wrote:
I don’t think that’s it. I think the point is that they take unreal risks, lose money AND GET BAILED OUT.
There are no consequences for their fuckups. The only financial ‘trick’ is that they get bailed out with OUR money.
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientists-say-theyve-found-achilles-heel-of-cancer-cells-657029
Israeli scientists say they’ve found ‘Achilles’ heel’ of cancer cells
Aneuploidy, the presence of an abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell, not only causes common genetic disorders but is also a hallmark of cancer cells.
@ eaglesoars:
Very good point. I didn’t think they would be working the system like that for a bailout.
I was just out programming the GMRS radio in my SUV to use some of the local repeaters.
Even without them, I’m amazed at the range that thing has. I’ve talked to people over 100 miles away in southeast Arizona.
@ lobo91:
Thanks. I wondered about that, but never looked into it.
Possum wrote:
Just laugh and spit in their faces if they suggest that they can ‘store’ it for you in their ‘safe’ vaults.
Gold gets sold over and over again. Same pile of gold but new sales each time. The sellers show the gold and then suggest for security sake it’s better to leave it in their vaults because you can access it …. anytime.
” How about right now loser?”
An acrquaintance of mine sold the same gold bars as many as 6 times to different people and then left for Australia and boght a mansion in Sydney’s leafy Eastern suburbs overlooking the harbour. He had hell to pay when it all came out but as far as I know is still at the same Sydney address.
Be careful
🙂
This looks really important. An executive order against referring to COVID-19 by where it originated:
Top. Men.
Possum wrote:
No they actually exist but they ‘borrow’ these things for limited amounts of time and use them to place bets that their prices will fall and then they get to keep the difference.
If they fail to make money by making bad guesses they just cry poor (billionaires) and get bailed out, or change the rules half way through the game to ensure they NEVER lose….. except when they do like this time when the small guys got together and got organised.
🙂
lobo91 wrote:
I have not heard of the Samoan flu to which you refer?
🙂
@ lobo91:
Henceforth known as the “Kung Flu Memeorandum.”
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Seriously, these idiots must get together for drinks and then come up with absurd new ideas to see what they can get people to accept.
Double mask this you old fraud!
somebody got a clue
Pentagon halts plan to give COVID vaccine to alleged 9/11 mastermind, Gitmo detainees
https://nypost.com/2021/01/30/pentagon-halts-plan-to-give-covid-19-vaccine-to-gitmo-prisoners/
Peter Navarro on Judge Jeannine: Trump should have fired Barr 2 mos ago he’s Biden’s first AG. We had about 30 EOs we couldn’t get thru DOJ
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Irwin Mainway was decades ahead of his time.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Gvm9EdKJREk/UJFFEfRfAmI/AAAAAAAADFg/x_RtP8wDCFM/s400/SNL+Mainway+mask.jpg
https://twitter.com/DannyDeraney/status/1354525815396986881
covid admissions are way down across the system.
fyi
@ coldwarrior:
Nationally, new COVID cases per day, 7-day average: Down 40%. From NYT:
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1355856791804981255
CDC: Only 6% of COVID deaths currently recorded have COVID-19 as the leading cause of death
Flu/Pneumonia was listed as a co-morbidity on 153,620 deaths
Hypertension listed on 69,492 deaths
Diabetes on 54,928 deaths
& Alzheimers on 52,091 deaths
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1355721815977582594
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm
I’m just wondering about executive orders and Adam Smith….
Jonah Goldberg on Media Buzz is saying there is a vast right wing cancel culture. Trump tried to have me fired from Fox and NR. But when Howie Kurtz drills him = ‘tweets’
Biden will sign more EOs on Tues re immigration.
Don’t bother to vote. We live in a monarchy
Ditching the GOP is a bad idea born of justifiable frustration, and we need to stop being emotional and start being ruthless in our campaign to retake this country from these liberal establishment aspiring fascists. A third party is not the way. It is a bad idea, one that is technically impractical and which is strategically inept. It will lead to disaster. And the Democrats know it, which is why they love this third party palaver. The only thing that makes the tooting likes of Eric Swalwell coo in delight harder than some mediocre Chi Com honeypot is the thought of us conservatives committing ritual suicide by splitting our half of the country in two because some of the 50 percent of Americans in our camp are insufferable sissies.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/01/28/stop-the-third-party-insanity-n2583768?281
there are a lot of dots to connect – but this is why I am loving Marjorie Taylor Greene. She is a total distraction. Let them focus on her. She’s a nut case, let them use her as a target. They may or may not take her down, but it will require a lot of their energy. In the meantime….
Nancy Pelosi tried to grab the nuclear codes.
Definitely worth watching:
@ lobo91:
I’m 6 minutes in. How much do you want to be that if somebody – say Peter Doocy/Chanel Rion asked Jen Sackofsomething about these people she would have absolutely no idea and at the very least would say ‘circle back’?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/miracle-23-americans-tested-positive-flu-last-week-compared-14657-cases-reported-last-year-time/
i’ve had 0 cases, nor have i seen one and i get the lab result the instant it is resulted. usually at this time of year we are swamped with flu.
conclusions? hard to say yet
coldwarrior wrote:
really?
@ eaglesoars:
i find the data hard to beleive, but…i’m not seeing any positive cases at all across 3 hospitals since the start of flu season. if the data are true…IF… then it appears that the efforts to mitigate the spread of wuhan had a great deal to do with the very low flu numbers.
eaglesoars wrote:
How much do you want to bet that if he did get an answer, his bosses at FNC wouldn’t allow it to be aired?
eaglesoars wrote:
You bet it would
That’s the Democrats wet dream. Have their Republican opposition split their forces and begin to compete in-house.
The best idea strategically for the Republicans is to clean house and kick the RINOs to the curb. They have been a 40 year infestation and need to be cleaned out and their representatives primaries into oblivion. Getting the (R) forces organised and fighting fit is definitely the way to go.
NEVER split one’s forces. Concentration of maximum political power on key states and Democrat positions that are ‘dodgy’ will pay dividends.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Einstein /sarc
I’m not saying covid is not real. I’m saying it’s a farce
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
This stuff has been circulating. Credible or no?
https://youtu.be/DlfvfMgGDEg
There’s a longer version, runs about an hour, but I’m not gonna watch it.
Then there’s this “fact check.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/new-plandemic-video-peddles-misinformation-conspiracies/
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, that’s all well and good because he knows the RINO’s are going to continue in power in the GOP and that those of us with principals must support the party at all costs. Splitting the party is bad, however, going after specific targets during primaries needs to be the aim of the Patriot sub-party within the Republican party. We can’t take all the offices from the RINO’s, but if we are strategic in targeting specific weak-kneed RINO’s, we might stand a chance of getting a few more Republicans with a pair and a backbone into office.
/After all, Soros didn’t take all the Secretary of State offices at once.
@ AZfederalist:
Due to the way the election laws are set up, it would take decades to get a third party to the point where it was even relevant. The only parties with guaranteed ballot access in most states are the Republicans and Democrats. Anyone else has to obtain tens of thousands of signatures in each individual state just to get on the ballot.
@ AZfederalist:
We need to give people reasons to support patriot Republicans over the Romney/McCain wing of the party.
lobo91 wrote:
… and by that time it will be too late. Much as I would like to see a viable third party, it’s not feasible at this time.
right_wing2 wrote:
Yep.
@ AZfederalist:
Maybe someone will find a way to gamestop the GoP elite. Make it too expensive for Romney to exist in politics.
I had an interesting conversation with a friend in the airlines. He mentioned there is a lot of military air traffic on the eastern seaboard and around Gitmo and XPL. Not sure what to make of that.
Troops are still in DC I noticed. LOL
AZfederalist wrote:
local, local, local
It’s not even at the state level in most places, it’s local. You would not believe how insular the R party is in Virginia. I swear, they still look back to whether or not any of you ancestors fought for the Confederacy before they’ll talk to you. Unless, of course, you happen to belong to one of the sociallly ‘protected’ groups. Which is anything but straight/white. None of my ancestors fought in the Civil War (wrong ages) but as soon as I say “My granny’s house on Opelousas Ave” all the doors open.
If you put a red hair wig on Mark Zuckerberg, he looks like Jen Psaki.
@ eaglesoars:
Jen Psaki looks like Peppermint Patty
@ lobo91:
That occurred to me also. Peppermint Patty was better looking.
lobo91 wrote:
OMG, she does!
Here – our idiot rulers
Harris: West Virginia will see jobs through ‘reclaiming abandoned land mines’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/harris-says-west-virginia-must-reclaim-abandoned-land-mines
eaglesoars wrote:
LOL. It works.
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/zuckerberg-psaki.png
Gamestop. Been reading up on this and it is ironic that company’s name applies to the busting of hedge funds and the federal reserve printing money to prop up assets.
Bill gates purchased 250,000 acres of farmland recently. Heh.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielshapiro/2021/01/14/americas-biggest-owner-of-farmland-is-now-bill-gates-bezos-turner/
Go long with tangible assets.
I dunno, might wanna try reading the Constitution or something
Opinion: Guns are white supremacy’s deadliest weapon. We must disarm hate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/guns-are-white-supremacys-deadliest-weapon-we-must-disarm-hate/2021/01/31/f1786786-6249-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html
Bunk X wrote:
It’s not just credible, we’ve KNOWN this, I’ve posted stuff here about it. The lead researcher at Wuhan worked here, I forget her name but I think it was at NIH.
Can you imagine living like this? Looking for people to punish for wrong think?
Biden White House Sign Language Interpreter Slammed for ‘Far Right’ Ties
Heather Mewshaw, who Psaki introduced on Monday as “today’s interpreter, Heather,” also appears to manage a group of ASL interpreters who provide sign language accompaniments to right-wing videos.
.
.
More than 3,500 people have signed a petition to have Mewshaw banned from interpreting for the White House. Some indicated they intended to report her.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2021/01/31/biden-white-house-sign-language-interpreter-slammed-far-right-ties
Bunk X wrote:
Don’t know if you watch Steve Hilton but he’s done an entire report on it
The dots are connecting: The evidence is overwhelmingly showing Covid pandemic was due to Dr. Fauci funding genetic modification of coronavirus in the Wuhan lab.
https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1356121008630063104
This was my Mia this morning.
NOPE!
She’s sound asleep in her blanket den
https://twitter.com/humorandanimals/status/1355956542353399809
Asshole
Adam Kinzinger launches anti-Trump PAC, accusing Jim Jordan and others of being ‘political terrorists’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-rep-kinzinger-super-pac-trump-jordan-terrorists
In the 1950s, the FBI used to boast that whenever the Communist Party or one of its front groups met, a majority of attendees were undercover FBI agents. The FBI already knew that the Communists were the enemy. Its infiltrators were there to disrupt and discredit them. Alas, today’s FBI places red-state conservatives in the same category once occupied by the Reds.
The FBI’s increasing preference for political action over bona fide investigations is part of its overall decadence—laziness, incompetence, and eagerness to integrate with the ruling class.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/31/how-our-oligarchy-crushes-terrorism/
It’s Anthony Codvilla, so read it
Bought $5 of Bitcoin and Ethereum and Litecoin via paypal. 50 cent transaction fee. Thought I need to get on the roller coaster.
@ darkwords:
they let you do fractionals?
@ eaglesoars:
yes i own .00031 of a bitcoin
@ darkwords:
You a PLAYUH!
eaglesoars wrote:
Thanks for that. So much chaff to sift through, I’ve not been keeping up.
The counter argument that Alexander Higgens presents (at about 08:40 – that the virus occurred naturally) is laughable.
darkwords wrote:
lol. Don’t tell Possum. He’ll be envious.
LOL this stock market thingy is like playing a bloody video game.
I was glad when the market closed at 4pm ET
🙂
@ Possum:
Oh hi.
Bunk X wrote:
Hi! I am busy trying to invest today’s profit into a Canadian weed farm but the Internet here has gone silly. Oh well….
@ Possum:
You’re way ahead of me. I’m busy trying figure out how to get paid for generating inane memes.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2021/02/01/jan-jan-jan/
This is the Los Angeles school district’s website.
https://achieve.lausd.net/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=62012&dataid=102085&FileName=ALLBLMWOAwed.pdf
@ eaglesoars:
William Dorsey Swann was not the first “queer American hero.” Baron von Steuben was.
Gad Saad
@GadSaad
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6h
My morning progressive ritual of Noble Cleansing:
1) Atone for living on stolen lands
2) Atone for being white-presenting
3) Burn any of my remaining books authored by white males
4) Put up a BLM sign outside my home
5) Read up all sources on Critical Race Theory
6) Fight against patriarchal capitalism by wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt
7) Find a mentor of color who can guide me even though I’m a war refugee from the Middle East
8) Take estrogen shots to reduce my toxic masculinity
9) Teach my son that the future is female
10) Reject the scientific method as the only way of knowing
11) Celebrate the epistemological liberation that comes from infusing all sciences with feminist epistemology
@ Possum:
To corner the silver market you need a couple of six shooters and a ten galloon hat.
Bunk X wrote:
I could not possibly care less
eaglesoars wrote:
Nor I. Point is that the LAUSD don’t know history.
darkwords wrote:
Going to sell my SLV tomorrow. There is something fishy about it. If it holds overnight I will have made $500.
Well, that’s odd. Fidelity locked my out of my account ‘for security reasons’. I have to call an 800 number. Tomorrow.
Well, sorry to bore everyone and I will stop now but this stock market thing is bullshit..
Started with a few thousand dollars on Friday and if nothing changes drastically overnight and I cash out tomorrow at 9:30am ET when market opens I will have made…..
One month rent.
( yeah I know I will have to pay tax on it )
@ eaglesoars:
Odd. I don’t know of any safe way for a conservative to buy stocks anymore. It’s probably just an activity flag. But the progressives have no boundaries. Eventually they will come after peoples bank accounts like bullies.
There is some AI out there no giving us a social credit score and letting the big players access it. That’s how they will market correct gamestops.
@ Possum:
Let’s see if you make more than that. I did read that Silver has a run on it.
I gave stocks up long ago. I just need to maintain some financial knowledge though. The short squeeze surprised me.
I interview tomorrow for an existing customer sales position. Basically selling upgrades to our current customers. Hourly pay is less, but you get commission. I want to find out what the required performance would be, but they say average commission is 4000 a month.
It’s work from home which would be a little tough with all the assorted cats – especially the FIV positive one that lives in my office just because she is so affectionate.
darkwords wrote:
If you have a bank account they probably have a brokerage account.
I am on Wells Fargo.
darkwords wrote:
I probably effed something up when I did the ABB transaction. But they could have sent me an email/text or something, ya know?
right_wing2 wrote:
We love working from home. No commute. No dress wardrobe. Even w/the dogs harassing us every now and then
@ eaglesoars:
The biggest problem would be that little FIV girl. She has to be on your lap or in your arms all the time.
Might be able to put her in the other office if Mrs keeps working at the office.
I need to find out what the expectations are for sales, if commission is one time or recurring things like that. Potential pay is quite a bit more than I’m making now though.
@ eaglesoars:
I wish I could work from home at least part of the week. I honestly only need to be in the facility on two or three days a week. The rest of the time, I could do the same stuff from home that I do in my office, if they’d give me remote access to the system.
The state’s been letting their people who do the same job do it for about 9 months now.
lobo91 wrote:
However locking three in the bathroom and five in the bedroom all night may cause problems working at home.
right_wing2 wrote:
close the door.
@ Possum:
That’s why I said part-time. Most of my job doesn’t involve actual inmate contact. It’s administrative. I can do that just as well on the computer I’m using right now (better, actually, because unlike my POS work computer, this one doesn’t crash if I open 2 spreadsheets at once).
You can’t make this shit up:
Biden’s pick to run unemployment program oversaw $600M in losses to Nigerian fraud scheme
I’m not of fan of Cernovich, but when he’s right……
The only Republicans I see attacking Congresswoman @mtgreenee
are the same beta male fucking losers who lost with McCain and Mitt Romney and tried to lose with Jeb in 2016.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1356384267295592448
My investment in weed and ammo went back up over the weekend. A dollar and 12 cents. Better than the .53 cent loss last week.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
This maret trading thing is pathetic.
My alarm clock is set to 8am CT so I can have a coffee and breakfast before the 9:30am opening of the New York stock exchange.
LOL
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
This market trading thing is pathetic.
My alarm clock is set to 8am CT so I can have a coffee and breakfast before the 9:30am opening of the New York stock exchange.
LOL
about 30 mins ago
AOC just broke into tears on Instagram live and said she’s a survivor of sexual assault, and the Republicans telling her to “just move on” from the attack on the Capitol, in which her life was threatened, are using abusers’ tactics.
https://twitter.com/LEBassett/status/1356424774453518338
I’m out, nite
@ eaglesoars:
She has to be kept separate from the other cats because of FAV. That’s basically feline AIDS.
right_wing2 wrote:
Not transmitted by shared water dish or food or litter box. Just deep bights.
right_wing2 wrote:
Not transmitted by shared water dish or food or litter box. Just deep bights.
@ Possum:
Bites!!!! Fucking predictive text and auto correct.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh good grief!
Was she really threatened? I think not.
Last time I researched this there were 5 different variants of FIV and only vaccines for two of them..
So, I had a talk with Boris and asked him nicely not to bite my other cats.
It has worked so far.
@ Possum:
And in general that is true. Our vet though is concerned about one of our cats who has a condition called hemobartonella, which is a weakened immune system.
When we found her in June 7 years ago I think. She had fleas, worms, ear mites, was dehydrated and anemic. The Emergency Vet said she wouldn’t have made it another hour. Because of the hemobartonella, she had multiple transfusions, including 2 the first week. We just can’t take any chances at all with her.
@ Possum:
I knew there was a vaccine for one a number of years ago, but from what I’ve read you would give a false positive on an FIV test and vets and animal shelters would end up putting the cat down.
right_wing2 wrote:
and that is why if I ever leave the USA then I think I could possibly find “forever” homes for three of my cats, but Boris isn’t going to.
So, he is going to have to get his pet passport and he is going to fly to England with me.
Even planned it. Shortest non stop flight from Houston to North England is Singapore airlines. Eight and a half hours.
Damn cats,,,,,,
right_wing2 wrote:
And while we are on the subject of false positives. When applying for my green card I had to have a full medical exam. One of the tests was a TB test.
In England we were inoculated against TB as kids so if you look it up I should have tested positive for TB.
I did not.
LOL and anyone who trusts that testing for TB in immigrants is accurate needs to be fired.
TB vaccinations used to be on the arm. So was smallpox. TB scar is about the size of a 10 cent piece. Smallpox is a round bump about a quarter of an inch in diameter. Both fade in time but if you look closely they are there.
In England they switched from giving the TB inoculation in girls from their arm to their upper outside thigh.
Reason was the scar on arm was disfiguring due to the trend to wear arm showing clothing.
How times have changed.
@ Possum:
I remember getting the 4-prong TB test every year in grade school.
Bunk X wrote:
We never got tested. We got vaccinated!
I got the scar to prove it.
Bunk X wrote:
Me too.
I have to get an annual test these days because of my job, but they don’t do it that way anymore. It’s done using a regular needle (although a fairly small one). They just inject a little bubble of whatever it is under your skin. If it’s gone in 2 days, you’re good.
And, for anyone who wonders how the hell we got here in this discussion then it is abut cats, and humans that got vaccinated will sometimes test positive for having a disease they do not. and never had.
@ AZfederalist:
She was demanding that Ted Cruz resign the other day, for trying to have her murdered.
She needs professional help
@ lobo91:
I got vaccinated. Never going to get TB.
But I will always test positive.
@ Possum:
If you’ve had the TB vaccine and test positive, I think there’s a different test they can use.
Not to mention the good old-fashioned chest X-ray. I had to have one of those when I went to Kuwait as a contractor.
lobo91 wrote:
Thankfully when I went to the doctor to get a full, and I mean very full as in $2000 full he knew why I tested positive for TB..
Signed be off without a chest xray and six months of TB meds.
22-tweet thread by a lib at DC on 6 January is, um, dramatic.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1348365375449268226
@ Possum:
The TB vaccine is not commonly given in the US. It’s available, though. They offer it where I work, but I never got it.
They may have to start making it a routine childhood vaccine, though, if Biden gets his way and we basically open up the southern border to anyone who wants to show up.
@ Bunk X:
I actually agree with him there, although I doubt that we have the same “something” in mind for Congress to do. He probably wants them to establish re-education camps for Trump supporters or something.
If they want to actually solve the problem, they can start by ending the impeachment farce. Then there needs to be an actual investigation into how the election was conducted, with real consequences if they find it was rigged.
Of course, neither of those things will happen.
I was a very nice immigrant. I was asked for my vaccination records and of course I could not get them.
I am old, I had chickenpox, mumps, measles, German measles ( now called Rubella for some reason ) and probably other things there was no vaccine for.
As a condition of getting my green card I had to be vaccinated. So I did.
About seven stabbings in my arms and my ass. Then the nurse smiled and said…
” while you are here do you wat a flu shot? it is only $25 ” and I got stabbed once again.
Why am I rambling on you may ask?
Because I am really angry that illegals get into the USA so easy and us legal immigrants have to go through so much and behave ourselves once here.
lobo91 wrote:
it was standard when i was a kid
Possum wrote:
A lot if not most of the hispanic citizens around here don’t want the illegals coming in either. They consider them the equivalent of white trash (or worse).
@ Possum:
So was the smallpox vaccine. They stopped giving that one because it no longer exists outside of a couple of labs. It’s still given to the military, though.
Kids in the US don’t get TB shots because it was basically unheard of in the US until the last few years.
@ Bunk X:
Yup. I live in the state with the highest percentage of Hispanic residents in the entire country. Nobody here is demanding that they open the borders.
@ lobo91:
Whooping cough has made a comeback.
@ Bunk X:
I got that vaccination too! When applying for green card.
eaglesoars wrote:
And people continue to believe this pathological liar why?
Possum wrote:
And that’s what most of us branded as “anti-immigrant” are complaining about too. We want people here, the right way.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
there is a right way…
My Green Card is due for renewal in Feb 2022
Tell me why I should even bother.
Possum wrote:
So you don’t get deported over a traffic ticket. You’re here to do the work that Americans won’t do. At least that’s what we’re being told.
Bunk X wrote:
I don’t work.
I just exist here.