Corona-zona

Here are some pandemic stories on my radar today. Increasing Hospitalizations Among Fully Vaxxed CDC officials are reporting an increase in the number of fully vaccinated people  being admitted to hospitals or going to the emergency room. Fauci said there was a "uptick" that amounted to "a significant proportion, but not the majority by any means.” Unfortunately he didn't give any numbers.  CDC Director Walensky implied that the uptick is mainly in people 65 and older. This is probably a consequence of waning vaccine effectiveness in this age group, which was the first to be jabbed earlier this year. As I noted earlier this week, a published study done in Israel showed that the Pfizer vaccine starts losing effectiveness two months after the second dose. Delta Cousin a Reason for Concern—Or Maybe Not News has been circulating for a few weeks about a variation of the Delta variant that is gaining a foothold. Sometimes referred to as " Delta Plus ," it has b...

  Here are three AZ stories making the news. Supreme Court Upholds Decision Against Ducey Public Illness Laws Yesterday the Arizona Supreme Court confirmed the obvious. They took all of two hours to make and write a decision  upholding a lower court ruling that public illness measures (mainly anti-mask) conceived by the Governor and tacked on to budget bills this summer are unconstitutional.  I mean, even to a non-lawyer like me this was a no-brainer. The constitution plainly says you can't just throw random shit into a bill that, on the surface, is about budgets.  Apparently the legislature has been doing this kind of thing for a long time. So a side benefit of the ruling is that it will put a stop to the practice for non-pandemic issues as well.  It's yet another legal defeat for Attorney General and would-be next governor Mark Brynovich. If he's not even a good lawyer how can he be a good governor? Nursing Students Demand Freedom to be COVIDiots Two nursing ...

  To be honest, I thought (and hoped) I would be running out of things to blog about by now. But damn, interesting/important news just keeps coming.  Here are three brief items for your reading enjoyment. If You Have a Fake Vaccine Card, Don't Do This Dumb blonde, Tik-Toker, and Anti-Vaxxer, and Biden hater @notsamantharose17 thought it would be cool to troll the libs by showing off her fake vaccine card . She proudly did so while lip-synching the song What You Gonna Do About It? Only one problem. Her actual identifying info was plainly shown on the card she was displaying. Oops! A user named @thatdaneshguy (whose hobby is apparently reporting online criminals ) decided what he would do about it is report her to the FBI. Having a fake vaccine card is a felony . YouTube Bans Top Anti-Vaxxers—Too Little Too Late YouTube has  banned top anti-vaxxers like Joseph Mercola and Robert Kennedy Jr. and deleted 30,000 of their videos.  Good move guys, but you should have ...