It looks like the US isn’t going to move their troops out of South Korea any time soon, as many here hope. The US needs South Korea’s help to counter China’s rise in technology. I think the Rokdrop crowd missed their chance while Trump was still in power.
setnaffa
3 years ago
Meanwhile, on planet Earth, governments around the globe are proving the lockdowns and masks are more about controlling people than disease as heavily-masked Japan had a sudden increase of over 26,000% in cases, Florida case numbers tumbled as corrected values were published, and the Texas Tribune was forced to admit the number of children hospitalized was not 5800 in one week but less than 800 over six weeks.
Regardless of who you support, don’t you want them to tell you the truth?
Nothing from any government about Winnie the Flu has been honest.
setnaffa
3 years ago
Meanwhile, I am still receiving conflicting advice from my doctors about getting the so-called “vaccine”…
Tbonety1r_lives
3 years ago
Keep your head buried in the sand and you’ll be a-ok!
“Since July 1, there’s been a 700% increase in the week-over-week average of COVID-19 infections in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The United States was at a low point in new cases in late June, with an average of about 10,000 a day. Today the average is closer to 125,000 a day, he said
“That’s when people in this country became really optimistic. The combination of the delta variant, susceptibility due to relatively low vaccination coverage, some relaxing of our public health measures, these all came together and we’re seeing this wave,” Moss said.
The delta variant is nearly twice as contagious as previous variants and there is some evidence of increased illness severity compared with previous strains in unvaccinated people, CDC epidemiologist Heather Scobie said at Friday’s meeting.
Full vaccinated people infected with the delta variant can spread the virus to others but appear to be infectious for a shorter period of time than unvaccinated people infected with the variant, she said.
In the first 12 days of August, the United States reported more coronavirus cases than it did in all of July, according a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins University data.
That’s 1.33 million cases. At this month’s average rate, the country would report some 3.4 million cases, making it the fourth-worst month of the entire pandemic.
“There’s bad news and there’s less bad news,” is how Andrew Noymer, a professor of population health at the University of California, Irvine, put it.
Because older people, who are at higher risk for severe disease and death, are now highly vaccinated, “100,000 cases today is less dire than 100,000 in December of 2020,” he said.
That means cases are more concentrated in younger people, who are less likely to be vaccinated. Younger people are less likely to become severely ill “but this isn’t a nothing burger,” Noymer said. Hospitalizations are still high.
He looked up the numbers in his county a year ago and there were 722 people hospitalized for COVID-19. This week there are 497 hospitalizations in Orange County.
“We have a vaccine that works wonderfully now,” he said, “so our peak shouldn’t be five-sevenths as big as the previous summer.”
DeathSantis, aka mini-Trump, doing good for Florida!
“Four teachers in one Florida school district died of COVID-19 on nearly the same day that their local school board decided to go against Governor Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates.
The teachers, all within the Broward County Public Schools district, among the nation’s largest, died within a 24-hour span with only one week left before school kicks off, 4CBS Miami reported Friday. They included a teacher at a high school and another at an elementary school, said Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco.
“It’s extremely frightening. I hear this every day, whether in Broward or elsewhere,” Fusco told 4CBS Miami. “We’re the 5th largest union in the country.”
Fusco said that three of the teachers who passed away were unvaccinated.
She is glad that the school board took a different approach to masks on Tuesday, saying, “We got a little bit of relief, keeping mask protocols, hand sanitizer, extra sanitizing.”
Mourning the loss of the teachers, the chair of the Broward County School Board, Rosalind Osgood, said, “I have been on the school board for nine years, and for nine years you get to connect with them,” according to 4CBS Miami. “You love them. They become family.”
DeSantis on Friday appeared to back down a bit in the mask mandate dispute.
On July 30 the Republican lawmaker signed an executive order “ensuring parents’ freedom to choose” whether their child wears a mask. However, some Florida school districts, including Broward and Alachua, have defied this rule and made masks mandatory in school unless the child can provide a doctor’s note as COVID-19 hospitalizations increase in the state.
DeSantis’s office responded by saying the state’s Board of Education could move to withhold salaries from the superintendent or school board members.
But the governor’s office softened its stance on Friday, acknowledging that the state has no control over local employees’ pay.
A DeSantis spokesperson called on “anti-science school board members” to dock their own salaries if the state follows through with financial sanctions against their district.
“Those officials should own their decision—and that means owning the consequences of their decisions rather than demanding students, teachers, and school staff to foot the bill for their potential grandstanding,” Christina Pushaw, the governor’s press secretary, wrote in an email to the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times.
Florida is experiencing the highest rate of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S. According to data from the CovKid project, which uses COVID-19 hospitalization numbers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as of August 7, Florida is reporting 8.1 children hospitalized with COVID-19 per 100,000 residents.
Thank you, Amy! (Trump must be fuming about now LOL)
Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett struck a surprising blow against those seeking to defy COVID vaccine mandates on Thursday when she dismissed a challenge to a college’s mandate without comment.
“Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett struck a surprising blow against those seeking to defy COVID vaccine mandates on Thursday when she dismissed a challenge to a college’s mandate without comment.”
Why would anybody fume? That is fully in keeping with the conservative view of state’s rights.
The power to make this decision does not, and should not, go to the federal government.
While the outcome may or may not agree with the minor political fetishes of the left and right on this specific issue, the decision supports and reinforces limitations of federal government overreach.
This is only a blow to conservatives in the minds of shallow-thinking libtards… which is all of them… except the predators using libtardism as a tool or a weapon.
ChickenHead
3 years ago
“Florida is experiencing the highest rate of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S.”
Oooooh… not the children.
It’s all bullshit and everyone knows it… presumably even you.
We have even done this before.
Cuomo was the savior as he put the infected into rest homes and had record cases even while cooking the numbers past the point of believability while DeSantis was some sort of villain because he managed to pull off freedom AND better covid management despite a higher risk population demographic.
Yeah I know you don’t give a fuck. As long as you’re not infected, safe in your high-rise apt and we know you never venture outside. You send your wife out to do the shopping. Sad.
Tbonety1r_lives
3 years ago
Chickendick, as long as you hide out in Korea behind your wife’s apron, you have no right to comment on what goes on in the US. You’re better off worrying about LT Davis 😉 Trump is gone, FOREVER. He won’t be coming back in August, November, January, or anytime in the next few years. Keep dreaming though LOL. Loser.
ChickenHead
3 years ago
Oh dear. Is that all you got?
liz
3 years ago
Recently read about a woman’s father who died of covid after the vaccine.
I understand the vaccines aren’t perfect, and in an immunocompromised person in particular this will happen….but the corresponding article mentioned the affliction would have been worse without the vaccine. Truly?!?
To summarize:
“I was vaccinated and I got covid”
TPTB: Hey if you weren’t vaccinated it would have been worse!
“I was under lockdown and I got covid”
TPTB: Hey if you weren’t in lockdown it would have been worse!
“I was in a mask and got covid”
TPTB: Hey if you weren’t in a mask it would have been worse!
“My dad died of covid and he was vaccinated”
TPTB: Hey if he weren’t vaccinated it would have been worse!
I don’t know about you folks, but this all makes me super excited about what the future might hold for us.
setnaffa
3 years ago
From the internet: “Mark Milley is furiously paging through his dog-eared copy of Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility looking for a solution to Afghanistan”
setnaffa
3 years ago
Speaking again of Winnie’s Lung Pox, cas e’s are up more than 20x normal after President Obama’s no-mask moshpit of a birthday party. And since the guests came in private jets from all over, the infection has undoubtedly spread more than can be checked.
I would hesitate to call Barry a super-spreader, given his penchant for momjeans and girl’s bicycles; but his party was a bigger terrorist attack than January 6th…
And don’t get me started on private jets used by dolts complaining about climate change…
ChickenHead
3 years ago
“Hey if you weren’t it would have been worse!”
There is an easy response to this.
When someone says this, I do something inappropriate… put my finger in my nose and touch them or say “n166er n166er n166er”.
“What?”
“I’m protecting you from covid.”
“What?”
“You aren’t dying of covid, are you?”
“What?”
“Just imagine how bad your situation would be if I wasn’t looking out for you.”
“What?”
“I’m here for you. You know that.”
I suspect this interaction doesn’t really lead to any enlightenment or even thoughtfulness on their part. But I find it amusing at the expense of the bootlickers and fücktards thinking they can comply their way to freedom.
I don’t see them as fully human, so they exist only as playthings to abuse or tools the be exploited.
To think that we could create a multiethnic democracy that was a champion of religious tolerance and women’s rights in Afghanistan was folly from the start.
Flyingsword
3 years ago
the false story about the so called 4 teachers in FL that died. They don’t tell you school hasn’t even started yet. Also notice you see them named or pictures anywhere, screams propaganda.
setnaffa
3 years ago
Yes, GI, you are correct.
And, Flyingsword, if four teachers died anywhere, they probably died from the diabetes, not the covid…
Flyingsword
3 years ago
Set, died with China virus, not from it. But that doesn’t fit the narrative.
>To think that we could create a multiethnic democracy that was a champion of religious tolerance and women’s rights in Afghanistan was folly from the start.
South Korea the lone example of success that the Americans thought would easily copy onto others.
setnaffa
3 years ago
Flyingsword, agreed.
CH, the Clintons already sucked the blood out of Hispaniola, no sense wasting any Democrat sympathy for those wretched victims of every bureaucracy on earth.
Besides, too much scrutiny for the Big Man to get his 10 percent.
ChickenHead
3 years ago
Ah yes…
“If only we could throw off the oppression of the racist white man and their evil culture, we could be free and prosperous!”
Haiti, Liberia, and Zimbabwe slink off without making eye contact.
South Africa looks around and starts to follow them.
A guest
3 years ago
I mistakenly thought this may be a forum/blog to read about and discuss issues related to Korea; turns out most commenters are either more interested in spreading the big lie that the election was stolen, are quick to insult anyone who disagrees with their personal narrative, or they copy and paste useless links and info.
Lots of bitterness and bickering.
setnaffa
3 years ago
Well then, “a guest”, it appears you fit right in. Bring your own seasonally-appropriate food and beverages, leave the vulgarity to the Chinese ‘bots, and talk to us of Korea!
I personally miss the shopping outside Osan AB; my wife is from Seoul, and in an open thread no topics are normally off-limits.
ChickenHead
3 years ago
“turns out most commenters are either more interested in spreading the big lie that the election was stolen,”
That was hella elegant… slipping in your opinion disguised as an indignant scolding of others for voicing their opinion.
But we can talk about Korea like you want.
Did you know Korea is a rather small country when compared to others?
It’s kinda the Your Weenus of nations.
A guest
3 years ago
I was stationed there for 3 years and loved it. The food, the women, the local scenery. God I miss that chicken and sweet/sour pork or chicken. The “Chinese” restaurants in the US suck.
setnaffa
3 years ago
Dallas and Houston have pretty decent Korean restaurants…
johnhenry
3 years ago
Austin, too. And there’s a rather large Korean store in Austin for you to get just about anything you’re missing from Kora.
United States deepens its reliance on its supply chain with South Korea.
reuters.com/business/top-us-south-korean-trade-officials-discuss-supply-chain-resiliency-efforts-ustr-2021-08-13/
It looks like the US isn’t going to move their troops out of South Korea any time soon, as many here hope. The US needs South Korea’s help to counter China’s rise in technology. I think the Rokdrop crowd missed their chance while Trump was still in power.
Meanwhile, on planet Earth, governments around the globe are proving the lockdowns and masks are more about controlling people than disease as heavily-masked Japan had a sudden increase of over 26,000% in cases, Florida case numbers tumbled as corrected values were published, and the Texas Tribune was forced to admit the number of children hospitalized was not 5800 in one week but less than 800 over six weeks.
Regardless of who you support, don’t you want them to tell you the truth?
Nothing from any government about Winnie the Flu has been honest.
Meanwhile, I am still receiving conflicting advice from my doctors about getting the so-called “vaccine”…
Keep your head buried in the sand and you’ll be a-ok!
“Since July 1, there’s been a 700% increase in the week-over-week average of COVID-19 infections in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The United States was at a low point in new cases in late June, with an average of about 10,000 a day. Today the average is closer to 125,000 a day, he said
“That’s when people in this country became really optimistic. The combination of the delta variant, susceptibility due to relatively low vaccination coverage, some relaxing of our public health measures, these all came together and we’re seeing this wave,” Moss said.
The delta variant is nearly twice as contagious as previous variants and there is some evidence of increased illness severity compared with previous strains in unvaccinated people, CDC epidemiologist Heather Scobie said at Friday’s meeting.
Full vaccinated people infected with the delta variant can spread the virus to others but appear to be infectious for a shorter period of time than unvaccinated people infected with the variant, she said.
In the first 12 days of August, the United States reported more coronavirus cases than it did in all of July, according a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins University data.
That’s 1.33 million cases. At this month’s average rate, the country would report some 3.4 million cases, making it the fourth-worst month of the entire pandemic.
“There’s bad news and there’s less bad news,” is how Andrew Noymer, a professor of population health at the University of California, Irvine, put it.
Because older people, who are at higher risk for severe disease and death, are now highly vaccinated, “100,000 cases today is less dire than 100,000 in December of 2020,” he said.
That means cases are more concentrated in younger people, who are less likely to be vaccinated. Younger people are less likely to become severely ill “but this isn’t a nothing burger,” Noymer said. Hospitalizations are still high.
He looked up the numbers in his county a year ago and there were 722 people hospitalized for COVID-19. This week there are 497 hospitalizations in Orange County.
“We have a vaccine that works wonderfully now,” he said, “so our peak shouldn’t be five-sevenths as big as the previous summer.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-covid-cases-in-us-soar-700-week-over-week-since-july-1-cdc-says/ar-AANihzE?ocid=msedgntp
DeathSantis, aka mini-Trump, doing good for Florida!
“Four teachers in one Florida school district died of COVID-19 on nearly the same day that their local school board decided to go against Governor Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates.
The teachers, all within the Broward County Public Schools district, among the nation’s largest, died within a 24-hour span with only one week left before school kicks off, 4CBS Miami reported Friday. They included a teacher at a high school and another at an elementary school, said Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco.
“It’s extremely frightening. I hear this every day, whether in Broward or elsewhere,” Fusco told 4CBS Miami. “We’re the 5th largest union in the country.”
Fusco said that three of the teachers who passed away were unvaccinated.
She is glad that the school board took a different approach to masks on Tuesday, saying, “We got a little bit of relief, keeping mask protocols, hand sanitizer, extra sanitizing.”
Mourning the loss of the teachers, the chair of the Broward County School Board, Rosalind Osgood, said, “I have been on the school board for nine years, and for nine years you get to connect with them,” according to 4CBS Miami. “You love them. They become family.”
DeSantis on Friday appeared to back down a bit in the mask mandate dispute.
On July 30 the Republican lawmaker signed an executive order “ensuring parents’ freedom to choose” whether their child wears a mask. However, some Florida school districts, including Broward and Alachua, have defied this rule and made masks mandatory in school unless the child can provide a doctor’s note as COVID-19 hospitalizations increase in the state.
DeSantis’s office responded by saying the state’s Board of Education could move to withhold salaries from the superintendent or school board members.
But the governor’s office softened its stance on Friday, acknowledging that the state has no control over local employees’ pay.
A DeSantis spokesperson called on “anti-science school board members” to dock their own salaries if the state follows through with financial sanctions against their district.
“Those officials should own their decision—and that means owning the consequences of their decisions rather than demanding students, teachers, and school staff to foot the bill for their potential grandstanding,” Christina Pushaw, the governor’s press secretary, wrote in an email to the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times.
Florida is experiencing the highest rate of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S. According to data from the CovKid project, which uses COVID-19 hospitalization numbers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as of August 7, Florida is reporting 8.1 children hospitalized with COVID-19 per 100,000 residents.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/four-teachers-in-school-district-defying-desantis-mask-ban-die-from-covid-on-nearly-same-day/ar-AANhUsQ?ocid=msedgntp
Thank you, Amy! (Trump must be fuming about now LOL)
Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett struck a surprising blow against those seeking to defy COVID vaccine mandates on Thursday when she dismissed a challenge to a college’s mandate without comment.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/amy-coney-barrett-strikes-surprising-killer-blow-against-vaccine-mandate-defiance/ar-AANhbY3?ocid=msedgntp#comments
Enter the angry old white man’s club…3-2-1 LOL
“Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett struck a surprising blow against those seeking to defy COVID vaccine mandates on Thursday when she dismissed a challenge to a college’s mandate without comment.”
Why would anybody fume? That is fully in keeping with the conservative view of state’s rights.
The power to make this decision does not, and should not, go to the federal government.
While the outcome may or may not agree with the minor political fetishes of the left and right on this specific issue, the decision supports and reinforces limitations of federal government overreach.
This is only a blow to conservatives in the minds of shallow-thinking libtards… which is all of them… except the predators using libtardism as a tool or a weapon.
“Florida is experiencing the highest rate of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S.”
Oooooh… not the children.
It’s all bullshit and everyone knows it… presumably even you.
We have even done this before.
Cuomo was the savior as he put the infected into rest homes and had record cases even while cooking the numbers past the point of believability while DeSantis was some sort of villain because he managed to pull off freedom AND better covid management despite a higher risk population demographic.
Meh. Try again. And try harder.
Yeah I know you don’t give a fuck. As long as you’re not infected, safe in your high-rise apt and we know you never venture outside. You send your wife out to do the shopping. Sad.
Chickendick, as long as you hide out in Korea behind your wife’s apron, you have no right to comment on what goes on in the US. You’re better off worrying about LT Davis 😉 Trump is gone, FOREVER. He won’t be coming back in August, November, January, or anytime in the next few years. Keep dreaming though LOL. Loser.
Oh dear. Is that all you got?
Recently read about a woman’s father who died of covid after the vaccine.
I understand the vaccines aren’t perfect, and in an immunocompromised person in particular this will happen….but the corresponding article mentioned the affliction would have been worse without the vaccine. Truly?!?
To summarize:
“I was vaccinated and I got covid”
TPTB: Hey if you weren’t vaccinated it would have been worse!
“I was under lockdown and I got covid”
TPTB: Hey if you weren’t in lockdown it would have been worse!
“I was in a mask and got covid”
TPTB: Hey if you weren’t in a mask it would have been worse!
“My dad died of covid and he was vaccinated”
TPTB: Hey if he weren’t vaccinated it would have been worse!
I don’t know about you folks, but this all makes me super excited about what the future might hold for us.
From the internet: “Mark Milley is furiously paging through his dog-eared copy of Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility looking for a solution to Afghanistan”
Speaking again of Winnie’s Lung Pox, cas e’s are up more than 20x normal after President Obama’s no-mask moshpit of a birthday party. And since the guests came in private jets from all over, the infection has undoubtedly spread more than can be checked.
I would hesitate to call Barry a super-spreader, given his penchant for momjeans and girl’s bicycles; but his party was a bigger terrorist attack than January 6th…
And don’t get me started on private jets used by dolts complaining about climate change…
“Hey if you weren’t it would have been worse!”
There is an easy response to this.
When someone says this, I do something inappropriate… put my finger in my nose and touch them or say “n166er n166er n166er”.
“What?”
“I’m protecting you from covid.”
“What?”
“You aren’t dying of covid, are you?”
“What?”
“Just imagine how bad your situation would be if I wasn’t looking out for you.”
“What?”
“I’m here for you. You know that.”
I suspect this interaction doesn’t really lead to any enlightenment or even thoughtfulness on their part. But I find it amusing at the expense of the bootlickers and fücktards thinking they can comply their way to freedom.
I don’t see them as fully human, so they exist only as playthings to abuse or tools the be exploited.
Here is a good read about what is going on in Afghanistan:
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2021-08-14/america-warrior-class-contends-with-abject-failure-afghanistan-project-2554603.html
To think that we could create a multiethnic democracy that was a champion of religious tolerance and women’s rights in Afghanistan was folly from the start.
the false story about the so called 4 teachers in FL that died. They don’t tell you school hasn’t even started yet. Also notice you see them named or pictures anywhere, screams propaganda.
Yes, GI, you are correct.
And, Flyingsword, if four teachers died anywhere, they probably died from the diabetes, not the covid…
Set, died with China virus, not from it. But that doesn’t fit the narrative.
Big 7.2 earthquake in Haiti.
Thousands feared dead.
Damage expected to top 75 dollars.
No concern for Dominican Republic found in media.
>To think that we could create a multiethnic democracy that was a champion of religious tolerance and women’s rights in Afghanistan was folly from the start.
South Korea the lone example of success that the Americans thought would easily copy onto others.
Flyingsword, agreed.
CH, the Clintons already sucked the blood out of Hispaniola, no sense wasting any Democrat sympathy for those wretched victims of every bureaucracy on earth.
Besides, too much scrutiny for the Big Man to get his 10 percent.
Ah yes…
“If only we could throw off the oppression of the racist white man and their evil culture, we could be free and prosperous!”
Haiti, Liberia, and Zimbabwe slink off without making eye contact.
South Africa looks around and starts to follow them.
I mistakenly thought this may be a forum/blog to read about and discuss issues related to Korea; turns out most commenters are either more interested in spreading the big lie that the election was stolen, are quick to insult anyone who disagrees with their personal narrative, or they copy and paste useless links and info.
Lots of bitterness and bickering.
Well then, “a guest”, it appears you fit right in. Bring your own seasonally-appropriate food and beverages, leave the vulgarity to the Chinese ‘bots, and talk to us of Korea!
I personally miss the shopping outside Osan AB; my wife is from Seoul, and in an open thread no topics are normally off-limits.
“turns out most commenters are either more interested in spreading the big lie that the election was stolen,”
That was hella elegant… slipping in your opinion disguised as an indignant scolding of others for voicing their opinion.
But we can talk about Korea like you want.
Did you know Korea is a rather small country when compared to others?
It’s kinda the Your Weenus of nations.
I was stationed there for 3 years and loved it. The food, the women, the local scenery. God I miss that chicken and sweet/sour pork or chicken. The “Chinese” restaurants in the US suck.
Dallas and Houston have pretty decent Korean restaurants…
Austin, too. And there’s a rather large Korean store in Austin for you to get just about anything you’re missing from Kora.