October 2022 – Scary Yankee Chick

Memes

Memes 10-30-22

October 30, 2022October 30, 2022 by Ruth

Links 10/24/22

October 24, 2022October 24, 2022 1 Comment by Ruth

Ethical Skeptic on twitter: rate of infection V vs un-V, CDC may be hiding cancer deaths in the covid numbers, I haven’t checked his numbers.

Pregnancy complications spiked during the pandemic

I feel like I’m repeating myself, but apparently this is a novel concept for some people. When you stop exposing your immune system to things it stops working right.

Also, apparently when you terrify people into not leaving their houses they don’t exercise correctly and BMI increases, which also increases various risk factors for immune malfunction.

Social Security offices still dealing with the aftermath of covid closure

Pfizer exec admits vax was never tested on preventing transmission. Meanwhile, here’s an article from 12/21 where Twitter says that saying that will get you censored.

Paxlovid may cause clots

1 in 500 children given the covid vax require hospitalization

Biden Admin extends Covid Emergency through Jan

Meanwhile CA plans the end of the emergency.

Fauci must testify about covid censorship

ERRMIGAWD!!! We’re all GONNA DIE (again). Actually, “nightmare covid variant” would make an awesome band name….Oh wait, now its a TRIPLEDEMIC!!!! (*sigh*)

Also, apparently the .GOV didn’t actually learn anything from this whole mess

While the media insists on telling us that hospitals and ERs were overwhelmed by covid, records show otherwise.

Meanwhile: hospital kills down syndrome teenager who’s covid positive

Gov paid media to make fun of people who were reluctant to get the vax.

Pushback on Fordham U’s vax policy

Harvard announces booster requirement.

Finland says 2nd boosters make no difference for working age peoples

Nordic study of vax vs myocarditis

For the under 70 age group, the IFR of covid in 2020 was under 0.1%

ACT scores drop to lowest in 30 years

Turns out that if you actually TEACH MATH, and tutor the students who need it, you can raise your math scores. Who’da guessed??

Australia admits that closing schools wasn’t a good idea, also, if you die from the shot they’ll cover your funeral

Alberta Canada premier apologizes for covid response

I thought video games caused violence, but apparently its actually heart attacks (rlly?? thats right up there with saying global warming is causing heart attacks)

A historic look at vaccines and the associated sicknesses (I didn’t check the numbers)

USDA opens People’s Gardens initiative to nationwide

“It had taken “10 months, thousands of dollars of fees, a retired (Air Force) officer familiar with bureaucracies, a pro-bono lawyer, two senators” and articles in the Review-Journal, Scott Hoffman said. “With all of that, Benny’s two parents are still in Pakistan, praying to be rescued before they will be deported and killed,” he said.”

Dumbass causes his own accident

The Railroad strike might be back on.

Resistance training and mortality

Press gets ahold of military records of sexual assault of a public figure, releases them, public figure not amused

Dolly Parton will be sending children under the age of 5 in CA free books

Med Students recite woke pledge during ceremony.

Its Rolling Stone, so take it with a grain of salt

Viking textiles

Social Credit in the UK

Ancient flood might have been real (gosh, really? Even I knew that)

I know there are good cops out there, but every time this sort of thing happens it makes it harder and harder to see them.

Drought is seriously affecting CA crops

Dutch plan to force buyout of farms from the farmers who refuse to comply

Butter shortage?

Adderall shortage

Diaper Crisis (totally the fault of the pro-life movement don’tcha know)

Mosque collapses in Indonesia

Baltimore high school senior with a GPA of 0 .13 (no, I did not misplace that decimal point) ranks 62 out of 120 students in his class.

Gov reclassifies what classifies as contractor vs employee

Images from James Web Telescope might screw with theories

Canadian police at a USA gunshow

Europeans turn to wood heat in hopes of staving off the cold this winter.

National Grid planning on 3hr blackouts in the UK

New England (USA) looking at rolling blackouts this winter

Gov/media admit that they’re trying to buy voters by releasing more oil from the reserves

Italian rules for 2022 on how you can heat your house

A guide to strike anywhere matches

Alternative to gmail

Signal Messaging removing SMS support from its Android app

Canada bans the buying, selling, or transferring of ownership of handguns

The boys feminism left behind

People are overdosing on wasp spray.

Communications cable to Shetland island cut

FDA recommends pulling drug from the market

Tufts shut down pediatric dept this past summer.

Well, if this is how they’re spending their budget for homeless shelters, no wonder they can’t afford it

Gut bacteria and rheumatoid arthritis

Female highschool volleyball player injured in game, all other schools in the district promptly refuse to play against the team that caused the injury. Turns out that the player who spiked the ball is a biological male playing on the girls team.

Vermont suspends father who’s daughte r objected to biological male in the girl’s lockroom

Hospital denies life saving surgery to woman who wanted all female care team (specifically because she objected to a male in drag who looked in on an appt).

State Dept funding drag shows in Ecuador

Mercedes convertible found filled with concrete and buried

Gov restricts usage of chinese processing chips. More. Is it just me or is this VERY atypical for this .GOV?? I’m trying to figure out where the other shoe is going to drop.

Biden might block Twitter purchase

Mythbusters rerun helps free wrongly convicted man

Chainmaille inspired fabric is very very strong

Group of teen girls run their own auto repair shop

Uvalde school district suspends entire police force

3 weeks post hurricane FL has a temporary cause way back up to Sanibel island.

Gosh, its almost like Lawdog had a clue!

Politics

Covid19 vax and bivalent booster added to CDC recommended childhood vax schedule

October 24, 2022October 20, 2022 by Ruth

Title says it all. I’ll add links to this post specific to this.

First up.

NY already has legislation pending to add the covid vax to the mandated list. Please note that NY refuses to acknowledge religious refusal of such, and has a history of refusing medical exemptions with the covid vax.

NH states it has no intention of forcing the Covid vax.

ICANN getting ready to challenge laws requiring it

Links

CDC and ACIP to Discuss adding the Covid Vax to the Childhood Vax schedule

October 20, 2022October 18, 2022 by Ruth

Meeting is Oct 19th

Twitter thread with links

LawDog’s blog

October 18, 2022October 18, 2022 2 Comments by Ruth

I discovered LawDog’s blog years ago. If you’ve not been reading it you need to do so. He tells awesome stories from his childhood and officer of the law days. And he has a good head on his shoulders when it comes to identifying bullshit.

However, its possible, that when you click the link above it may not work. Or that the front page will work, but not the older stuff.

See, when the Nordstream pipeline had its issues LawDog dug up his memories as a child of an oilfield engineer and typed up a couple posts. And they went viral. And then some idiot decided he needed to be punished for it and set bots to blowing up his bandwidth allowance.

I have issues when it comes to letting the idiots win. So when another member of the community pointed out that LawDog’s posts are still available via the WayBack Machine I decided I had to help share the love.

Nordstream

Nordstream II

The wayback machine can be slow to load, so be patient with it. And bookmark LawDog’s blog’s main link while you’re at it. He’ll be back up on Nov 1. He’s worth reading. Don’t let the idiots win, k?

Links

Links 10/9/22

October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 1 Comment by Ruth

Alzheimer’s might not be a brain disease

New drug shows mild promise to slow alzheimer’s progression.

FDA approves ALS treatment

Paypal shuts down acct of parents group

Paypal’s new UA says it will fine users up to $2,500 for “misinformation”. Discovers that “go woke get broke” isn’t just a meme and retracts new UA. Not sure thats going to save them though.

Time to undo the damage done to pain patients

LAUSD schools to get naloxone to combat drug overdoses

Unfinished Ford trucks visible from space

CDC says covid vax status should no longer be used to determine controls

Also that masking in medical settings is no longer required

JAMA Pediatrics twitter thread with links. Basically it turns out that telling pregnant and nursing mothers that getting the vax was safe for their babies was mis-information.

Tufts University requires community members to get new vax booster

Fordham U requires new vax booster, AND proof of vax for infants as young as 6 months

Amherst policy on masking in classrooms

NYPD ordered to reinstate members fired over vax mandate

CA paid (a LOT ) less for covid tests than NY, company owned by Hochel buddy

Germany wants to bring back masks in schools

Study from England: vax may have INCREASED reinfection rate

Twitter thread: fentanyl overdose recorded as covid death

HCQ is good again (turns out it depends on your cholesterol)

Covid (or more correctly, the covid RESPONSE) caused personality changes

NIH gives money for bat corona virus research

Biden calls coast guard swimmer who rescued people during Ian. Coast guard swimmer due to be fired due to vax mandate. (I’d not have been nearly as polite as that dude)

FB lifts ban on posts stating Covid was man-made

CDC required to turn over Covid vax safety data. The numbers aren’t pretty.

Twitter thread: Shanghai quarantine

Twitter thread: Biden admin wanted schools to use extracurriculars to force student vax

30,000 Americans killed by ventilators in April 2020

Mouthwash helps kill covid germs

“This analysis found that there is an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination.”

Twitter thread: NYU fires teacher because students aren’t willing to work in class. Link. Be very carefull choosing your doctors and engineers in the next several years!

CA bans natural gas heaters and furnaces

Charging your electric car at night makes the grid unstable

NYS to adopt CA rule requiring EVs by 2035

Norway wind farm destroyed by….the wind

Battery powered ferry runs out of power

Electric Hummer might take up to 4 days to fully charge

UN agrees to electricity power restrictions and caps due to energy crisis

Average gas prices in LA approaching record highs again

German bakery hit with $330,000 gas bill

Are EVs able to evac ahead of a hurricane?

Biden Admin wants to block offshore drilling completely

EVs and water damage