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2021-12-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
TSA has screened two million airport passengers for the last three days in a row – double the 2020 figures – as Americans jet off for Christmas despite surging levels of COVID Omicron variant
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-19 18:51||   2021-12-19 18:51|| Front Page Top

#2 The SantaCon surge: Covid cases in Manhattan QUADRUPLE in the six days since notorious costumed bar crawl and New York state reports a record 22,478 positive tests
Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-19 19:06||   2021-12-19 19:06|| Front Page Top

#3 In other words, it's now endemic. Not a pandemic.
F--king idiots... can't even grasp basic evolutionary biology
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-20 01:57||   2021-12-20 01:57|| Front Page Top

#4 A team of researchers at Hong Kong University’s faculty of medicine found omicron replicates 70 times faster in human airways, but infection in the lungs appears less severe.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-20 02:39||   2021-12-20 02:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Can these f--king idiots try, just TRU, to get this basic equation through their heads:
More infectious
Less lethal
= ENDEMIC
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-20 02:42||   2021-12-20 02:42|| Front Page Top

#6 
Simple Answer:
America is not buying into the O-strain lies.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-12-20 05:24||   2021-12-20 05:24|| Front Page Top

#7 The scam has burned down. Now, if they want to make "Do what we say or die" stick, they'll have to move from passive to active methods.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-20 06:37||   2021-12-20 06:37|| Front Page Top

#8 
A little extra data to chew on?
Check out NORMAL PLUS COVID DEATH RATES

Note: This article is a year old and the current figures further discredit the DC Panic BS data.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-12-20 06:44||   2021-12-20 06:44|| Front Page Top

#9 As long as Biden allows unchecked border crossings I have a hard time believing the danger of covid.
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-12-20 08:45||   2021-12-20 08:45|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Yes, there certainly does appear to be a disconnect.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-20 09:07||   2021-12-20 09:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Peter Hitchens last week:

...we have entered a new stage of the revolution which has been transforming this country, for the past 60 years, into a multicultural, Green, post-Christian, sexually liberated and egalitarian state in which only one opinion is, in reality, allowed.

Covid, quite unexpectedly, has provided the pretext for so much of what they have long wanted: surveillance, social control, the driving of dissent to the margins of life.

For, if dissent can be portrayed as actually dangerous to the health of the people, then why should the people put up with it?
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-20 10:34||   2021-12-20 10:34|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Well, that's a nice doomsday screed. Yes, I am sure the self-anointed Progressives watching MSLSD are all in favor of executing the un-vaccinated. Problem is, an equal number of us are not buying the hysterics and don't care. We might even be the sorts who will help the "enemies of the people" get through their days and earn livings.

We might even be the sort who subvert things in other ways.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-20 10:43||   2021-12-20 10:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Freud got it right. A new religious cult:

"If you wish to expel religion from our European civilization you can only do it through another system of doctrines, and from the outset this would take over all the psychological characteristics of [religious cults], the same sanctity, rigidity, and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought in self-defence."
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-20 10:52||   2021-12-20 10:52|| Front Page Top

#14 Unfortunately, while they were building the New Cathedral, attention spans went to zilch.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-20 10:55||   2021-12-20 10:55|| Front Page Top

#15 N'inquietez-vous... We'll always have Disney
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-20 11:00||   2021-12-20 11:00|| Front Page Top

#16 Not everyone is a True Believer™ on Twitter 24/7 burnishing their Woke credentials. The smash and grab mobs aren't. The rappers stabbing and shooting each other aren't. The kids shooting each other in Chiraq are not listening to Rachel Madcow or AOC. They are purely atavistic and the people who imagine they are harnessing them are in for a nasty surprise. Everyone else knows better and stands out of the way.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-20 11:03||   2021-12-20 11:03|| Front Page Top

#17 The problem is that this particular virulent strain is taking a very long time to perish with the host and thus die out.

COVID took about 18 months; this social pathogen that reappeared in 6 B.F. (= 6 years Before The Year of Our Floyd) may take 18 years. We're only 6 years in.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-20 11:09||   2021-12-20 11:09|| Front Page Top

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Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-20 11:52||   2021-12-20 11:52|| Front Page Top

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