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2021-11-27 -Great Cultural Revolution
'It's coming': New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declares state of emergency in response to new Covid variant Omicron: Halts elective surgeries in hospitals with limited capacity as Biden bans travel from eight African countries
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • NY Gov Kathy Hochul on Friday declared a 'disaster state' due to COVID levels being at a rate not seen in the state since April 2020

  • She stressed that the new variant Omicron has not yet been found in the US, but experts believe it is only a matter of time

  • Hochul announced that hospitals have the option of canceling elective surgeries, if they become dangerously overwhelmed, to free up staff and facilities

  • Her move was in response to the new COVID variant Omicron, which begun in Botswana and is spreading rapidly in South Africa

  • It has now been found in Hong Kong, Israel and Belgium, with about 100 confirmed cases worldwide

  • Experts do not yet know if Omicron is more transmissible or more dangerous, but they fear it could be more resistant to vaccines or immunity

  • President Joe Biden earlier Friday banned travel from South Africa and seven other countries in the region, following in the footsteps of the UK, Israel and the EU
Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 Permanent panic and government control.

Big Brother is watching you.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-11-27 01:00||   2021-11-27 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Andrew in a skirt?
Posted by Tyranysaurus Ulomolet3546 2021-11-27 03:14||   2021-11-27 03:14|| Front Page Top

#3 The con men in power. Big and bold they have a power hold and you dare not appose them.
Posted by Dale 2021-11-27 03:49||   2021-11-27 03:49|| Front Page Top

#4 President Joe Biden earlier Friday banned travel from South Africa and seven other countries in the region, following in the footsteps of the UK, Israel and the EU

Wait.... isn't that... Racist?
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-11-27 06:12||   2021-11-27 06:12|| Front Page Top

#5 New York declares a State of $$$$ Emergency $$$$. Troops ordered to assist Michigan. How far are we from Martial Law and FEMA region military governance ?

If one or two states are under lockdown and are unable to hold elections, the electoral process must surely be suspended until this menace is brought under control.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-27 06:58||   2021-11-27 06:58|| Front Page Top

#6 

NYC, a city of about 9 Million has had 5,785 Covid-19 cases in last week and 26 claimed deaths.

Current odds of infection are about 0.0642 of 1%.

Current Odds of Dying IF infected are about 0.4494 of 1%


So Declare A Panic and Lockdown.
BTW: Did you stop International flights into NYC?
What screening steps are being taken at the Airports?



Posted by NN2N1 2021-11-27 07:36||   2021-11-27 07:36|| Front Page Top

#7 They missed a letter in the alphabet. Wonder why? /rhet question
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-11-27 07:50||   2021-11-27 07:50|| Front Page Top

#8 The point of the fable of "The boy who cried wolf," was not that there was no wolf, but rather, when the wolf actually came, nobody believed it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-27 08:34||   2021-11-27 08:34|| Front Page Top

#9 To secure entry into the US, South African travelers should declare themselves "migrants" and enter through Del Rio TX (with appropriate contributions to the Biden Crime Family of course). Problem solved.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-27 09:02||   2021-11-27 09:02|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Migrate from a people's utopian paradise, governed by Wakandan tribal leaders? You must be joking.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-27 09:07||   2021-11-27 09:07|| Front Page Top

#11 What happened to the bullshit variant? Or the Gnu variant?

Booga booga!
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-11-27 10:13||   2021-11-27 10:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes, next up, the Fizzbin variant...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-27 10:18||   2021-11-27 10:18|| Front Page Top

#13 President Joe Biden earlier Friday banned travel from South Africa and seven other countries in the region,

Rayyycccist, just like the Bad Orange Man? Something you won't hear from Dems and the MSM
Posted by Frank G 2021-11-27 10:30||   2021-11-27 10:30|| Front Page Top

#14 So this is the worst thing since ... the Delta variant?
Posted by Bobby 2021-11-27 10:39||   2021-11-27 10:39|| Front Page Top

#15 White House just announced UAW members will be exempt from vaccine mandate. Just like illegal aliens. So, it's a really big crisis, you know...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-27 10:54||   2021-11-27 10:54|| Front Page Top

#16 M., because union auto workers don't get Covid?
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-11-27 11:19||   2021-11-27 11:19|| Front Page Top

#17 One thing about viral epidemics, the viruses strongly tend to get less lethal the more contagious they are. We are even seeing that with COVID-19. I anticipate the pandemic will burn out when COVID-19 is as common as the common cold. The media will cover that up as long as they can get away with it.
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-11-27 12:18||   2021-11-27 12:18|| Front Page Top

#18 Ebola may be an exception to #17. However it kills so fast that simple isolation of the sick works, unlike the case with COVID.
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-11-27 12:19||   2021-11-27 12:19|| Front Page Top

#19 Stock market tanked yesterday, not because investors fear Omicron, but because they fear this type of reaction from the politicians.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-27 12:38||   2021-11-27 12:38|| Front Page Top

#20  President Joe Biden earlier Friday banned travel from South Africa and seven other countries in the region,

Rayciss, yes. Xenophobic too. And, yes, Biden ranted and raved about OrangeMan doing the same thing except that OrangeMan did it to China. That was the real no no.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-11-27 12:42||   2021-11-27 12:42|| Front Page Top

#21 The αντιλαϊκός Variant.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-11-27 13:24||   2021-11-27 13:24|| Front Page Top

#22 The Comicon Variant.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-11-27 13:56||   2021-11-27 13:56|| Front Page Top

#23 Can't wait.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-11-27 14:05||   2021-11-27 14:05|| Front Page Top

#24 With the continuation of this irrational, unconstitutional behavior by the dictatorial butthead governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, my only response is
Which Shape Of Butt Plug Is The Best For You ?

Answer - may it irritate you, as much as you irritate us, in your ear or rear.



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Posted by Clorong Angavise8868 2021-11-27 15:01||   2021-11-27 15:01|| Front Page Top

#25 Someone needs to ask if Gender Re-assignment is an elective procedure.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-11-27 16:50||   2021-11-27 16:50|| Front Page Top

#26 swksvoIFF, of course it isn't. It is vital, life saving, life affirming surgery.
/sarcasm
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-11-27 16:56||   2021-11-27 16:56|| Front Page Top

#27 In keeping with the....travel theme, at #24, excellent caboose.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-27 17:02||   2021-11-27 17:02|| Front Page Top

#28 first two weeks of Nov, South Africa averaged about 300 new infections a day.

Today, Nov 27 there were over 3000 new infections.

Fatality response is typically a week or two or three after infection so we won't have that for a while.
Posted by Lord Garth 2021-11-27 18:26||   2021-11-27 18:26|| Front Page Top

#29 #27 In keeping with the....travel theme, at #24, excellent caboose.

Thank you Mr.B, I've been a railman for years, and as you know the caboose was where railmen were given R&R on the long freight journey on the rails.

Unfortunately, the cabooses were retired some years ago, by about 2002.
However, the caboose still lives in our dreams.

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The Australian Caboose As seen from the Northern Hemisphere


Posted by Clorong Angavise8868  2021-11-27 21:40||   2021-11-27 21:40|| Front Page Top

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