OT: The Official COVID/Omicron Variant+ thread

[Clyde_Style]

This article from SI shows a lot more about the Kraziness of Kyrie. It goes beyond the Kareem quotes. Even Enes Kanter comes across as the voice of reason.

https://www.si.com/nba/2021/09/26/unvaccinated-nba-players-clash-with-league-covid-19-protocols

Uh oh, Cap is going to have to finally disavow Jonathan Isaac who has doubts after watching Trump’s Covid press conferences

[HarthorneWingo]

Fck all this shyt. I'm now convinced that we need an Asian President. Male or female, makes no difference. Ronnie Chieng convinced me.

I hereby nominate Moocow ... who expressed interest in the job, as I recall.

Watch on YouTube

[HarthorneWingo]

Insurrectionist Trump "attorney", Sidney Powell, implicates Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in the plot to overturn the election. Alito's involvement should mean he's now apart of the criminal investigation. He's a part of the conspiracy. Bombshell news.

Read on Twitter

?s=20

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/26/sidney-powell-implicates-kevin-mccarthy-steve-scalise-and-justice-alito-in-plot-to-overturn-the-election.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Powell suggested that the plan was for the insurrection to delay certifying the election so that Trump’s lawyers could file a 12th Amendment case to overturn the election.

McCarthy and Scalise were trying to deny Pelosi the ability to file an amicus brief in the case.

Powell said, “There had been inside goings-on in Congress whereby I believe it was Steve Scalise and McCarthy kept her from being an actual party. She wanted to work her way into the case, but somehow that didn’t happen. She got notice when we made our filing. She wanted to file an amicus brief, and then everything broke loose, and she had to speed up reconvening Congress to get the vote going before Justice Alito might issue an injunction.”

Sidney Powell is not a reliable narrator, but her point, if true, is that the purpose of the 1/6 attack on the Capitol was to buy time so that Justice Alito could intervene and block the certification of the election. Thanks to Pelosi for reconvening Congress. That saved us.

Trump and the Republicans were counting on the Supreme Court to overturn the election.

All the pieces of the puzzle are starting to fit together. The 1/6 attack was part of a seditious plot to overturn an election by stopping the certification and allowing the conservative justices on the Supreme Court to toss the election back to the states, which would have handed the presidency to Trump.

Elected Republicans should be facing criminal charges for this plot, and Kevin McCarthy has a whole lot more to answer for than a phone call with Trump on 1/6.

[Pointgod]

Insurrectionist Trump "attorney", Sidney Powell, implicates Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in the plot to overturn the election. Alito's involvement should mean he's now apart of the criminal investigation. He's a part of the conspiracy. Bombshell news.

Read on Twitter

?s=20

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/26/sidney-powell-implicates-kevin-mccarthy-steve-scalise-and-justice-alito-in-plot-to-overturn-the-election.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Powell suggested that the plan was for the insurrection to delay certifying the election so that Trump’s lawyers could file a 12th Amendment case to overturn the election.

McCarthy and Scalise were trying to deny Pelosi the ability to file an amicus brief in the case.

Powell said, “There had been inside goings-on in Congress whereby I believe it was Steve Scalise and McCarthy kept her from being an actual party. She wanted to work her way into the case, but somehow that didn’t happen. She got notice when we made our filing. She wanted to file an amicus brief, and then everything broke loose, and she had to speed up reconvening Congress to get the vote going before Justice Alito might issue an injunction.”

Sidney Powell is not a reliable narrator, but her point, if true, is that the purpose of the 1/6 attack on the Capitol was to buy time so that Justice Alito could intervene and block the certification of the election. Thanks to Pelosi for reconvening Congress. That saved us.

Trump and the Republicans were counting on the Supreme Court to overturn the election.

All the pieces of the puzzle are starting to fit together. The 1/6 attack was part of a seditious plot to overturn an election by stopping the certification and allowing the conservative justices on the Supreme Court to toss the election back to the states, which would have handed the presidency to Trump.

Elected Republicans should be facing criminal charges for this plot, and Kevin McCarthy has a whole lot more to answer for than a phone call with Trump on 1/6.

Sidney Powell is a bit a reliable narrator but how does the Justice Department not investigate this?

[HarthorneWingo]

Insurrectionist Trump "attorney", Sidney Powell, implicates Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in the plot to overturn the election. Alito's involvement should mean he's now apart of the criminal investigation. He's a part of the conspiracy. Bombshell news.

Read on Twitter

?s=20

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/26/sidney-powell-implicates-kevin-mccarthy-steve-scalise-and-justice-alito-in-plot-to-overturn-the-election.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Powell suggested that the plan was for the insurrection to delay certifying the election so that Trump’s lawyers could file a 12th Amendment case to overturn the election.

McCarthy and Scalise were trying to deny Pelosi the ability to file an amicus brief in the case.

Powell said, “There had been inside goings-on in Congress whereby I believe it was Steve Scalise and McCarthy kept her from being an actual party. She wanted to work her way into the case, but somehow that didn’t happen. She got notice when we made our filing. She wanted to file an amicus brief, and then everything broke loose, and she had to speed up reconvening Congress to get the vote going before Justice Alito might issue an injunction.”

Sidney Powell is not a reliable narrator, but her point, if true, is that the purpose of the 1/6 attack on the Capitol was to buy time so that Justice Alito could intervene and block the certification of the election. Thanks to Pelosi for reconvening Congress. That saved us.

Trump and the Republicans were counting on the Supreme Court to overturn the election.

All the pieces of the puzzle are starting to fit together. The 1/6 attack was part of a seditious plot to overturn an election by stopping the certification and allowing the conservative justices on the Supreme Court to toss the election back to the states, which would have handed the presidency to Trump.

Elected Republicans should be facing criminal charges for this plot, and Kevin McCarthy has a whole lot more to answer for than a phone call with Trump on 1/6.

Sidney Powell is a bit a reliable narrator but how does the Justice Department not investigate this?

Yes, Powell has credibility issues in the past but now her titties are in a ringer. Lying to prosecutors about this will only bring more legal trouble upon herself. But who really knows with these people?

As for Alito, if he knowingly participated in this conspiracy and there is evidence of a criminal intent, then he's fair game. No judge is immune from criminal actions that are committed outside of thei judicial responsibilities.

One thing I will add is that the U.S. Supreme Court is the one court in the country that is NOT bound by the Judicial Rules of Conduct. Look it up. That's a problem in these days. We need to put the clamps on them.

[Clyde_Style]

Insurrectionist Trump "attorney", Sidney Powell, implicates Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in the plot to overturn the election. Alito's involvement should mean he's now apart of the criminal investigation. He's a part of the conspiracy. Bombshell news.

Read on Twitter

?s=20

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/09/26/sidney-powell-implicates-kevin-mccarthy-steve-scalise-and-justice-alito-in-plot-to-overturn-the-election.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Sidney Powell is a bit a reliable narrator but how does the Justice Department not investigate this?

Yes, Powell has credibility issues in the past but now her titties are in a ringer. Lying to prosecutors about this will only bring more legal trouble upon herself. But who really knows with these people?

As for Alito, if he knowingly participated in this conspiracy and there is evidence of a criminal intent, then he's fair game. No judge is immune from criminal actions that are committed outside of thei judicial responsibilities.

One thing I will add is that the U.S. Supreme Court is the one court in the country that is NOT bound by the Judicial Rules of Conduct. Look it up. That's a problem in these days. We need to put the clamps on them.

Keep an eye out for DoJ investigating Kavanaugh and retired Justice Stevens whose son was involved in doling out phony loans to Trump. Stevens stepped down for Kavanaugh who perjured himself to Congress. That whole circle of events are almost surely being examined within the DoJ now in addition to the recently reported lack of follow-up on the thousands of tips on Kavanaugh’s rapey conduct

[HarthorneWingo]

Sidney Powell is a bit a reliable narrator but how does the Justice Department not investigate this?

Yes, Powell has credibility issues in the past but now her titties are in a ringer. Lying to prosecutors about this will only bring more legal trouble upon herself. But who really knows with these people?

As for Alito, if he knowingly participated in this conspiracy and there is evidence of a criminal intent, then he's fair game. No judge is immune from criminal actions that are committed outside of thei judicial responsibilities.

One thing I will add is that the U.S. Supreme Court is the one court in the country that is NOT bound by the Judicial Rules of Conduct. Look it up. That's a problem in these days. We need to put the clamps on them.

Keep an eye out for DoJ investigating Kavanaugh and retired Justice Stevens whose son was involved in doling out phony loans to Trump. Stevens stepped down for Kavanaugh who perjured himself to Congress. That whole circle of events are almost surely being examined within the DoJ now in addition to the recently reported lack of follow-up on the thousands of tips on Kavanaugh’s rapey conduct

Not Stevens. Justice Kennedy. True, but at least Kennedy's gone ... tho replaced with Mr. Beery and then Comey Barrett. Alito is still there and therefore a real and present danger (as is Kavanaugh, of course). I remember Alito when he was on the 3d Circuit Court of Appeals which includes PA, NJ, and Delaware and was with working for the City of Philadelphia. He was a prick then too.

Yeah, I have no doubt that the "investigation" during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing was a fraud. Anyone involved in that conspiracy needs their tush on the hot seat.

[Clyde_Style]

Yes, Powell has credibility issues in the past but now her titties are in a ringer. Lying to prosecutors about this will only bring more legal trouble upon herself. But who really knows with these people?

As for Alito, if he knowingly participated in this conspiracy and there is evidence of a criminal intent, then he's fair game. No judge is immune from criminal actions that are committed outside of thei judicial responsibilities.

One thing I will add is that the U.S. Supreme Court is the one court in the country that is NOT bound by the Judicial Rules of Conduct. Look it up. That's a problem in these days. We need to put the clamps on them.

Keep an eye out for DoJ investigating Kavanaugh and retired Justice Stevens whose son was involved in doling out phony loans to Trump. Stevens stepped down for Kavanaugh who perjured himself to Congress. That whole circle of events are almost surely being examined within the DoJ now in addition to the recently reported lack of follow-up on the thousands of tips on Kavanaugh’s rapey conduct

Not Stevens. Justice Kennedy. True, but at least Kennedy's gone ... tho replaced with Mr. Beery and then Comey Barrett. Alito is still there and therefore a real and present danger (as is Kavanaugh, of course). I remember Alito when he was on the 3d Circuit Court of Appeals which includes PA, NJ, and Delaware and was with working for the City of Philadelphia. He was a prick then too.

Yeah, I have no doubt that the "investigation" during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing was a fraud. Anyone involved in that conspiracy needs their tush on the hot seat.

You’re right I meant Kennedy.

We def have not heard the last word on them and Mr. I Like Beer

[Capn'O]

This is more of a Covid thread post...

Read on Twitter

Read on Twitter

It's pretty clear to me that most "do your own research" folks watched something like "Plandemic" and bought into it full bore. Conflicting info then becomes part of the conspiracy.

[N8isScofield]

This is more of a Covid thread post...

Read on Twitter

Read on Twitter

It's pretty clear to me that most "do your own research" folks watched something like "Plandemic" and bought into it full bore. Conflicting info then becomes part of the conspiracy.

The thing that I dislike is the inability of people to accept the consequences of their behavior. They want to shirk a civic duty but they don't want to be judged for it. They want to violate the social contract but they still want to reap its benefits. These are the same people who go to court to make sure a baker can discriminate against gay people but they don't think a private business should be able to protect itself from them spreading a plague. It's just so ridiculous. It feels like shame has completely gone out the window and there's almost a glee in people being stupid and irresponsible. Being part of a group of dummies is now some sort of act of rugged individualism in their eyes. I honestly don't see how society survives this new brazen abandonment of social norms because you have a group of people that either truly can't recognize or truly doesn't care that their behavior is prolonging the pandemic that they seem to have the hardest time coping with.

[stuporman]

I'm not fooled by the 'do my own research' crowd and their cry of being 'independent thinkers' as nothing more than them just using it as a justification ploy to mindlessly regurgitate the conspiratorial theories they heard from extreme fringe elements in the alternative opinion mill online or the partisan networks.

There is nothing independent about their thinking and the research amounts to reading or viewing stuff on social media like youtube, facebook and twitter. All this 'free thinking' is coming from some of the most authoritarian conformist people prone to believing things with little to no evidence.

[HarthorneWingo]

I'm not fooled by the 'do my own research' crowd and their cry of being 'independent thinkers' as nothing more than them just using it as a justification ploy to mindlessly regurgitate the conspiratorial theories they heard from extreme fringe elements in the alternative opinion mill online or the partisan networks.

There is nothing independent about their thinking and the research amounts to reading or viewing stuff on social media like youtube, facebook and twitter. All this 'free thinking' is coming from some of the most authoritarian conformist people prone to believing things with little to no evidence.

But yet these same people will do a laundry list of dangerous activities with complete ignorance. Now all of a sudden they’ve become doctors of epidemiology and public health while they gorge on Taco Bell and down it a Big Gulp Mountain Dew.

[duetta]

Why Athletes Need to Lead the Drive to Vaccinate

We Have a Duty to Use Our Platform to Save Lives

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
20 hr ago
44
19

A couple years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world the way the Chicxulub meteor collided with the Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out 75 percent of plant and animal life, including dinosaurs. If it were up to those contemporary dinosaurs refusing to get vaccines or denying the seriousness of the global pandemic, we’d lumber toward extinction like the previous custodians of the Earth.

Despite my decades of fighting the kind of voluntary ignorance that allows racism to still have such a stranglehold on our country, I’ve maintained a cautious optimism about people. I believe when given the opportunity most want to do the right thing. But that optimism has been greatly tested these past few months as I see so many people refusing to protect their families, their communities, and their country.

Let’s start with these facts: 4.55 million people in the world have died from COVID-19, 688,000 of them in the U.S. To put it in perspective, US deaths from COVID-19 are more than twice that of US military deaths in World War II. And it keeps growing by about 7,500 deaths every day. So far, more than 42 million Americans have been diagnosed with COVID-19, with about 120,000 more new cases each day.

COVID-19 has changed how we live, how we work, how we play, how we interact with family and friends. It has pummeled the economy with daily body blows, some of them below the belt.

And yet, we rise.

We rise because we have the intellectual ability to learn from the past and we have the instinctual drive to protect our children and preserve humanity. The world has faced the cruelty of pandemics in the past: the 14th Century’s Black Plague killed between 75 and 200 million people, the Spanish Flu killed between 17 and 100 million people, and so on. Each time we study, we analyze, we devise solutions. We do this through science. And each time, science has to fight the ignorance of the people it is trying to save as vigorously as it fights the diseases killing them. It’s like diving into the lake to save a drowning man who refuses to take off his ankle weights. Worse, he’s holding onto his children while he’s sinking.

And yet, we rise. We rise because we refuse to let that man drown, even if it’s his fault. Even if he wants to. Because, as poet John Donne said, “No man is an island entire of itself; every man/is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” We are all interconnected—our fates are interwoven.

Which is why it’s so shocking and disappointing to see so many people, especially people of color, treat the vaccination like it’s just a matter of personal preference, like ordering no onions on your burger at a drive-thru. While I can understand the vaccine hesitancy of those who have been historically marginalized and even abused by the health care system, enough scientific documentation has been given to the public to set that past behind us for now. Yes, we should never forget. Those experiences should sharpen our critical thinking to not accept things blindly. But it doesn’t mean we reject things blindly. The drowning man doesn’t ask if a racist made the life preserver keeping him afloat, only that it works to save his life.

Athletes and other celebrities have a public platform to help alleviate this crisis and to save lives. To not take on that responsibility harms the sports and entertainment industries, the community, and the country. Those who claim they need to do “more research” are simply announcing they have done no research, because the overwhelming consensus of immunologists and other medical experts is that the vaccine is effective and safe. And will prevent the unnecessary deaths of thousands. As I’ve said before, this position only perpetuates the stereotype of the dumb jock who’s only in sports for the money. It dehumanizes the victims as nothing more than political fodder.

The anti-expert stance that anti-vaxxers take reveals the fuzziest of thinking. Everyone expects scientists to solve all of our main problems: global warming, cancer, Alzheimer’s, etc. Unless these same experts tell us we have to actually do something to help fix the problems. Then we stop trusting them. But I assure you that when an athlete has a broken leg or heart attack or their child is in an accident, they don’t say to the doctors, “Don’t do anything until I do more research.” They beg the medical experts to help.

The dark reality is that those who promote hesitancy and “more research” have blood on their hands. Worse, the kind of conspiracy theories and pseudoscience pundits spread is the kind of selective “science” that white people used to justify enslaving Black people. Drapetomania was a malady coined by a doctor in 1851: slaves ran away because of their smaller brains and blood vessels combined with their natural tendencies toward indolence and barbarism. This theory lasted for a hundred years. Many other “scientific” ideas about Black inferiority have been spread throughout America’s history and are still popular today. Racism, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-LGBTQ+ all thrive in the addled minds of flat-Earth thinking. For Black athletes or entertainers to give this same anti-vax pseudo-science any oxygen is to allow the other crackpot theories to co-exist that justify marginalizing others.

If individual athletes can’t muster the courage to do the right thing, then the NBA and every other league governing body must step in and mandate vaccinations for players, coaches, and staff in order to protect the team, the fans, and the community. Players are free to choose not to get vaccinated, but they should have the courage of their moral convictions to sit out the season, sustained in the righteousness of their choice. They’ve already proven they are not team players.

John Donne also wrote that “any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.” We must all step up to help each other, not just because it’s practical for our survival, but because it’s a shared value that enriches us. Isaac Hayes high-fives Donne’s sentiment in “Theme from Shaft” when he says, “Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about?”

That’s why we rise.

https://kareem.substack.com/p/why-athletes-need-to-lead-the-drive?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cta

[Barcs]

This is more of a Covid thread post...

Read on Twitter

Read on Twitter

It's pretty clear to me that most "do your own research" folks watched something like "Plandemic" and bought into it full bore. Conflicting info then becomes part of the conspiracy.

This is dead on accurate. These people are hiding behind their decision as if it is a "personal choice" and then won't give any reasons for it because they know they will look paranoid and delusional. This is what happens when you bring people up in a racist, uber religious society where embracing fantasy is championed and real science is denied.

[Barcs]

This is more of a Covid thread post...

It's pretty clear to me that most "do your own research" folks watched something like "Plandemic" and bought into it full bore. Conflicting info then becomes part of the conspiracy.

The thing that I dislike is the inability of people to accept the consequences of their behavior. They want to shirk a civic duty but they don't want to be judged for it. They want to violate the social contract but they still want to reap its benefits. These are the same people who go to court to make sure a baker can discriminate against gay people but they don't think a private business should be able to protect itself from them spreading a plague. It's just so ridiculous. It feels like shame has completely gone out the window and there's almost a glee in people being stupid and irresponsible. Being part of a group of dummies is now some sort of act of rugged individualism in their eyes. I honestly don't see how society survives this new brazen abandonment of social norms because you have a group of people that either truly can't recognize or truly doesn't care that their behavior is prolonging the pandemic that they seem to have the hardest time coping with.

The problem is people think personal opinion and ALT facts are the equivalent of real facts or just as valid. They aren't. These are the same people that say the earth is flat, claim the moon landing was fake, claim evolution is fake, claim the pandemic is a hoax, and claim vaccines are harmful, yet at the same time embrace a religion that is complete fantasy. There is no intellectual honesty here, just personal beliefs and selfishness. There is a reason they aren't commenting. It's because they have no brains and know people will find out. The only "personal choice" here is the choice between science / protecting people, and being selfish / living in fantasy land.

[Barcs]

It's not a political issue... except that it clearly is.

Cultism is the bigger issue here and it has amplified numerous problems we have had over the past decade. COVID is the just the latest in a long list of problems that have been made worse because of that.

[HarthorneWingo]

Why Athletes Need to Lead the Drive to Vaccinate

We Have a Duty to Use Our Platform to Save Lives

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
20 hr ago
44
19

A couple years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world the way the Chicxulub meteor collided with the Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out 75 percent of plant and animal life, including dinosaurs. If it were up to those contemporary dinosaurs refusing to get vaccines or denying the seriousness of the global pandemic, we’d lumber toward extinction like the previous custodians of the Earth.

Despite my decades of fighting the kind of voluntary ignorance that allows racism to still have such a stranglehold on our country, I’ve maintained a cautious optimism about people. I believe when given the opportunity most want to do the right thing. But that optimism has been greatly tested these past few months as I see so many people refusing to protect their families, their communities, and their country.

Let’s start with these facts: 4.55 million people in the world have died from COVID-19, 688,000 of them in the U.S. To put it in perspective, US deaths from COVID-19 are more than twice that of US military deaths in World War II. And it keeps growing by about 7,500 deaths every day. So far, more than 42 million Americans have been diagnosed with COVID-19, with about 120,000 more new cases each day.

COVID-19 has changed how we live, how we work, how we play, how we interact with family and friends. It has pummeled the economy with daily body blows, some of them below the belt.

And yet, we rise.

Spoiler:

We rise because we have the intellectual ability to learn from the past and we have the instinctual drive to protect our children and preserve humanity. The world has faced the cruelty of pandemics in the past: the 14th Century’s Black Plague killed between 75 and 200 million people, the Spanish Flu killed between 17 and 100 million people, and so on. Each time we study, we analyze, we devise solutions. We do this through science. And each time, science has to fight the ignorance of the people it is trying to save as vigorously as it fights the diseases killing them. It’s like diving into the lake to save a drowning man who refuses to take off his ankle weights. Worse, he’s holding onto his children while he’s sinking.

And yet, we rise. We rise because we refuse to let that man drown, even if it’s his fault. Even if he wants to. Because, as poet John Donne said, “No man is an island entire of itself; every man/is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” We are all interconnected—our fates are interwoven.

Which is why it’s so shocking and disappointing to see so many people, especially people of color, treat the vaccination like it’s just a matter of personal preference, like ordering no onions on your burger at a drive-thru. While I can understand the vaccine hesitancy of those who have been historically marginalized and even abused by the health care system, enough scientific documentation has been given to the public to set that past behind us for now. Yes, we should never forget. Those experiences should sharpen our critical thinking to not accept things blindly. But it doesn’t mean we reject things blindly. The drowning man doesn’t ask if a racist made the life preserver keeping him afloat, only that it works to save his life.

Athletes and other celebrities have a public platform to help alleviate this crisis and to save lives. To not take on that responsibility harms the sports and entertainment industries, the community, and the country. Those who claim they need to do “more research” are simply announcing they have done no research, because the overwhelming consensus of immunologists and other medical experts is that the vaccine is effective and safe. And will prevent the unnecessary deaths of thousands. As I’ve said before, this position only perpetuates the stereotype of the dumb jock who’s only in sports for the money. It dehumanizes the victims as nothing more than political fodder.

The anti-expert stance that anti-vaxxers take reveals the fuzziest of thinking. Everyone expects scientists to solve all of our main problems: global warming, cancer, Alzheimer’s, etc. Unless these same experts tell us we have to actually do something to help fix the problems. Then we stop trusting them. But I assure you that when an athlete has a broken leg or heart attack or their child is in an accident, they don’t say to the doctors, “Don’t do anything until I do more research.” They beg the medical experts to help.

The dark reality is that those who promote hesitancy and “more research” have blood on their hands. Worse, the kind of conspiracy theories and pseudoscience pundits spread is the kind of selective “science” that white people used to justify enslaving Black people. Drapetomania was a malady coined by a doctor in 1851: slaves ran away because of their smaller brains and blood vessels combined with their natural tendencies toward indolence and barbarism. This theory lasted for a hundred years. Many other “scientific” ideas about Black inferiority have been spread throughout America’s history and are still popular today. Racism, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-LGBTQ+ all thrive in the addled minds of flat-Earth thinking. For Black athletes or entertainers to give this same anti-vax pseudo-science any oxygen is to allow the other crackpot theories to co-exist that justify marginalizing others.

If individual athletes can’t muster the courage to do the right thing, then the NBA and every other league governing body must step in and mandate vaccinations for players, coaches, and staff in order to protect the team, the fans, and the community. Players are free to choose not to get vaccinated, but they should have the courage of their moral convictions to sit out the season, sustained in the righteousness of their choice. They’ve already proven they are not team players.

John Donne also wrote that “any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.” We must all step up to help each other, not just because it’s practical for our survival, but because it’s a shared value that enriches us. Isaac Hayes high-fives Donne’s sentiment in “Theme from Shaft” when he says, “Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about?”

That’s why we rise.

https://kareem.substack.com/p/why-athletes-need-to-lead-the-drive?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cta

Kareem & Kanter!

Watch on YouTube

[Clyde_Style]

It's not a political issue... except that it clearly is.

Cultism is the bigger issue here and it has amplified numerous problems we have had over the past decade. COVID is the just the latest in a long list of problems that have been made worse because of that.

West Virginia apparently didn’t get the memo that it is darn near impossible to pluck your banjo when you’re on a respirator

[HarthorneWingo]

Alabama using federal COVID funds for new prisons. This country is so fcked up.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-prisons-montgomery-kay-ivey-8a7d30c43f4e61987051368a9604fda9

[HarthorneWingo]

West Virginians finally protesting Joe Manchin at his flotilla over the very popular budget reconciliation bill.

So the protesters got on boats and surrounded Manchin's yacht/houseboat.

It actually looks like about only 5 boats.

Watch on YouTube