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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Cops arrest Amish man after seizing 25 pounds of weed and cache of arms at his Tennessee home
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • The marijuana, firearms and cash were found at Chris Appleby's home on Denson Road in Northern Lawrence County

  • Appleby was charged with Possession of a Firearm During Commission of a Dangerous Felony, Possession for Resale and two more charges

  • Appleby, 33, was arrested and taken to Lawrence County Jail without incident
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Violations of the Biden 'Mason Jar Home Canning Act' were dropped. Chris' Hopes for upgrading his aging firearms collection however, have been dashed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2021 6:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "...Bogart not thy joint, my brother."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/04/2021 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  He should have been arrested for that hair style .
Posted by: Chris || 11/04/2021 9:17 Comments || Top||

#4 
Upon seeing Appleby, my cat Mocha reacted, he's never wrong.

Posted by: Cheque Shusing4048 || 11/04/2021 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  White Oompa-Loompa
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/04/2021 10:40 Comments || Top||

#7  (1) What I'm seeing is a bad case of "hat hair", which is understandable.
(2) Yeah, but it is really good organic pot.
(3) One of the firearms seized is a flintlock. One is a rolling block single shot.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/04/2021 10:48 Comments || Top||

#8  I have heard that the Amish are actually very good farmers. If they applied their skills to marijuana it'd certainly be very good marijuana.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/04/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Not that that excuses his hair.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/04/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||

#10  Amish do use firearms to protect their livestock.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2021 14:01 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Why the US military doesn't win...
[ZH] U.S. Military Gets Walloped In Exercise

In a recent training exercise in California, British Royal Marines beat their U.S. Marine opponents so soundly that the U.S. Marines asked for a mulligan halfway through the exercise. Afterwards, a Twitter spat about the exercise, between a former U.S. Marine officer and a current U.S. Army officer/planner/"rescue dog mom" exposed some of the rot within the U.S. military. More on that below, but first a quick correction on a previous post.

If you go to the link, be aware that under a bold heading Correcting a chart is some stuff that has nothing to do with the linked article. Editing be difficult...

Twilight In The Desert
As the Daily Mail reported, Exercise Green Dagger ended in a humiliating result for the U.S. Marine Corps:

Royal Marines commandos 'dominated' US troops and forced them into a humiliating surrender just days into a mass training exercise in the Mojave desert, it has been revealed today.

British forces took part in a five-day mock battle at the US Marine Corps' Twentynine Palms base in southern California, one of the largest military training areas in the world, and achieved a decisive victory against their American counterparts.

The Royal Marines, along with allied forces from Canada, the Netherlands and the UAE, destroyed or rendered inoperable nearly every US asset and finished the exercise holding more than 65 per cent of the training area, after beginning with less than 20 per cent. [...]

Seeing no opportunity for victory, American combatants asked for the exercise to be 'reset' halfway through the five-day exercise, having taken significant casualties from British commandos.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/04/2021 08:16 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whatever... Clickbait title. Not the first time I've read of one of these "multinational exercises" where the US troops got walloped. I expect that quite a bit of "diplomacy" is involved with these dog n' pony shows to make the visiting countries leave without being embarrassed.
Posted by: magpie || 11/04/2021 10:04 Comments || Top||

#2  One thing I read about WW2 was that whenever the Marines had a real botched rehearsal, the actual landing was flawless.
Posted by: Whaviling Bourbon9537 || 11/04/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||

#3  I would be curious to know if the Marines were playing the bad guys and using Chinese or Russian tactics against the allies. That sort of thing seems more likely than both sides having a sports like scrimage when they are unlikely to ever actually fight each other.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/04/2021 12:44 Comments || Top||

#4  magpie -- the rules of the exercise are the critical detail.

And the reset makes sense; once an exercise passes the point of being able to teach you anything, why waste time playing it out to the conclusion? Reset, try again, and learn something new.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/04/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||

#5  And that article is trash. It's mostly obsessing over Twitter garbage, rather than giving any deeper information about the exercise.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/04/2021 13:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Visiting 'blue teams' very seldom won at the National Training Center against the home team OPFOR. You learn through failure. In addition, the OPFOR was doing this several times a year, while the visitors wouldn't go through it but once every three years at most. Train, Train, Train. Meanwhile, the personnel in those visiting teams usually rotated to new assignments in those three year, but they took their experience with them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2021 13:54 Comments || Top||

#7  ....NTC lessons learned were synthesized into various publications and After Action Reports were archived at the Center for Army Lessons Learned.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2021 13:58 Comments || Top||


Outrage as live AUTOPSY is carried out on WW2 veteran, 98, who died of COVID
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] David Saunders, 98, of New Orleans, Louisiana died of COVID-19. As per his wishes, family gave Saunders' body to science for medical research

  • But his widow Elsie, 92, was shocked to learn he was dissected in front of live audience, and told DailyMail.com she's now considering legal action

  • People paid up to $500 per ticket to see live autopsy in Portland hotel on Oct 17

  • Event staged by Death Science, an 'educational platform' for 'forensic science'

  • It was promoted on a titillating 'Oddities and Curiosities' website

  • Organizers claim that family agreed that corpse would be donated for research, but didn't say whether Elsie knew it would be a pay-per-view event

  • Similar event was scheduled to take place on Halloween in Seattle

  • Due to the backlash, however, the Seattle event was cancelled

  • Death Science paid at least $10,000 for the cadaver from a private company

  • Med Ed Labs claims that it did not know body would be used for live event



Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  People paid up to $500 per ticket to see live autopsy in Portland hotel*

Of course. Excise these disgusting freaks from our Republic, already

* a live audience, including B(r)anch COVIDians streaming it remotely in between anime episodes
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/04/2021 7:56 Comments || Top||


Climate change will cause corn, wheat and soybeans crops to go haywire by 2030, DECADES sooner than expected, damning NASA study says
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Oh dear. I’m sure I would be in full-blown hysterics if I had the energy for such things.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


#2  The Boston Globe - getting it completely wrong for over six decades!
Posted by: Raj || 11/04/2021 0:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Higher CO2 increases crop yields and reduces water losses during transpiration.
Posted by: Hupusolet Smith5796 || 11/04/2021 1:58 Comments || Top||

#4  What Dr. Norman Borlaug accomplished with the Green Revolution is repeatable...
Posted by: magpie || 11/04/2021 4:03 Comments || Top||

#5  What is NASA doing outside their space 'silo'?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/04/2021 4:10 Comments || Top||

#6  And when nothing changes? Will they admit they had it wrong?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/04/2021 5:13 Comments || Top||

#7 
Surprise yet another 10 year warning..

We're going die prediction UNLESS... .

How missed prediction have doomsayers missed in the last 50 years alone?

Should we expect to see Al Gore and others out making another few $Million$ each spewing more hype for $$$$?

Despite ALL of their "We're gonna die in 10 years, UNLESS ..." snake oil speeches and promises failing to happen?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/04/2021 6:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Ah yes, the 'vapors'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/04/2021 8:14 Comments || Top||

#9  The Scientist who cried "Climate"!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/04/2021 8:48 Comments || Top||

#10  Dont know about you but I'm gonna stock up on whiskey
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/04/2021 9:08 Comments || Top||

#11  I know not what others will do,
but as for me,
give me tonic and

Posted by: Woozle Crereting3248 || 11/04/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#12  Oh bullshit.

Who reads these bullshit articles and then votes for any politician stupid enough to be spouting these lies?
Posted by: Crusader || 11/04/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#13  And when nothing changes? Will they admit they had it wrong?

Everything's always changing. They just have to plant the seeds so that you interpret the drunkard's walk as the End Of The World.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/04/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#14  They even admit that more CO2 will increase crop yields, but they will be overcome by other negative factors, like, I suppose, mental depression over the inevitable boiling off of the oceans.
Posted by: KBK || 11/04/2021 11:29 Comments || Top||

#15  And when nothing changes? Will they admit they had it wrong?

They're counting on you to forget by then.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/04/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||

#16  After all, they have the memory hole.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/04/2021 12:33 Comments || Top||

#17  Wouldn't a drastic drop in crop yields mean starvation and death and a return to balance with Gaia? If they believed this stuff I doubt they'd say anything.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/04/2021 12:47 Comments || Top||

#18  My money's on the Yellowstone Caldera exploding. Although we might be waiting awhile.
Posted by: Matt || 11/04/2021 16:22 Comments || Top||

#19  The current optimised yield grain plants are all hybrids picked for local growing conditions.
If the local conditions change, they'll plant different hybrid varieties. Seriously. It's kinda like changing light bulb wattages til you find the right one. They're already marketing this stuff.
I wouldn't expect a journalist to research any of this.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/04/2021 16:44 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Heads up, and short trailer of the upcoming documentary 'THE PILGRIMS'
[Providence Forum] Just in time for Thanksgiving 2021, which was first celebrated exactly 400 years ago in 1621, here’s a new documentary telling the true story of the Pilgrims. In their own words, they came "for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith."

This documentary, THE PILGRIMS, celebrates the journey of a small group of outcasts in their quest for religious freedom. Guests in this particular episode include: Dennis Prager, Alveda King, Paul Jehle, Leo Martin, Rod Gragg, Bill Federer, and William Wrestling Brewster, the great-grandson (by 9x) of the defacto Pilgrim Pastor, Elder Brewster. This special was produced by Dr. Jerry Newcombe and is a presentation of the Providence Forum.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2021 08:51 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I never understood why we learned all about the Pilgrims in early school but never about Jamestown, which is where the Pilgrims were originally headed.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/04/2021 11:12 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess I was likely -- my parents took me to both Jamestown and Roanoke.

But not Plymouth...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/04/2021 13:46 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Ethiopian PM AbiyAhmed pledges to bury his government’s enemies “with our blood”
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Better with their blood. Really.
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "our" means "yours"
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/04/2021 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  THEIR blood Abi, THEIR blood.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/04/2021 11:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I think I'm understanding one of the problems with Ethiopia.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/04/2021 18:58 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
ICC launches investigation against Venezuela over crimes against humanity
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies


China-Japan-Koreas
United States military “absolutely” has the ability to defend Taiwan if called on to do so, Milley says
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1 

Remember to Defend does not mean Win.

The extreme logistics alone make a long term defense (6+ months) or a limited Ground war impossible to win.

Besides I don't care who is in the White House.
What idiot is dumb enough to go to war already
$20++ Trillion in debt?

Plus with country that's military is close to 3x's it size.

A country that makes most of what we buy and is the sole source, or the largest producer of most USA medications and medical supplies.


???????????
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/04/2021 5:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Our soldiers are Lions led by Donkeys
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/04/2021 6:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Thank you General MacArthur on your efforts to prepare the Philippines against outside threats. (/sarc - see)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2021 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  US Marines Training Elite Taiwanese Troops At Base In Guam
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Ability and Will are entirely different things... Afghanistan, S. Vietnam and examples of 'ability' without 'will'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/04/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#6  "Regis, I'd like to phone a friend."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/04/2021 12:14 Comments || Top||

#7  After this guy squandered his credibility in Afghanistan and several times even before then, these words from him about Taiwan are not comforting.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/04/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||

#8  It'd be a lot more comforting if he resigned.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/04/2021 12:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Would that be as convincingly as you 'defended' Kabul?
Posted by: Cesare || 11/04/2021 12:48 Comments || Top||

#10  The extreme logistics alone make a long term defense (6+ months)

For the memory leaked:
The setup for Kuwait (Desert Shield) was 6mos.
Repelling Iraq (Desert Storm) was 6 weeks of airstrikes and one week of ground advance.

All from the 'safe' haven of Saudi Arabia.
I don't see it happening with a coalition of Philippines, Japan, Vietnam and South Korea.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 12:58 Comments || Top||

#11  "We're here to pick pronouns and check privilege...and we're all out of privilege."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/04/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Must have gotten in a military surplus of umbrellas and skateboards.
Posted by: Slappy || 11/04/2021 20:55 Comments || Top||


China suffers its most widespread Covid-19 outbreak since Wuhan with 19 provinces seeing new cases
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • More than 600 locally-transmitted cases found in 19 of China's 31 provinces

  • The number of locally-transmitted cases have spiked to a near three-month high

  • Chinese government has said there is a 'serious' new outbreak of Delta variant
Shafaq News adds:
More provinces in China are fighting Covid-19 than at any time since the deadly pathogen first emerged in Wuhan in 2019.

The highly-infectious delta variant is hurtling across the country despite the increasingly aggressive measures that local officials have enacted in a bid to thwart it. Local infections have been found in 19 of 31 provinces in the world's second-largest economy.

China reported 93 new local cases on Wednesday, and 11 asymptomatic infections. Three more provinces detected cases: central Chongqing and Henan, and Jiangsu on the eastern coast.

Officials in China say they are committed to maintaining a so-called Covid Zero approach despite the flare-ups that are coming faster, spreading further and evading many of the measures that previously controlled it. The severe responses needed to eradicate the delta variant have led several other countries with zero-tolerance practices, including Singapore and Australia, to shift focus and instead rely on high vaccination rates to live with the virus as endemic.

Beijing reported nine infections on Wednesday, including one that was earlier reported as asymptomatic. The capital city's total case count in the current wave now stands at 38, the highest since a pre-delta outbreak last January and February.

Government officials quarantined kids in two schools after a teacher was found to be infected. Another 16 were shut since their staff members might have been present at the vaccination venue where the infected teacher recently received a booster shot.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1 
YET !!! We read "Official" Reports ...

We know China has a population of 1,446,766,516 (1.446 B)

"Officially" China is #118 in the world, for "reported" Covid-19 cases.
for the last 2 weeks (822 cases)

China based on its "Official" Reports, over the last 7 days, is only #195th out of 203 nations in the world for reported cases per million at a "claimed" 0.4 per million.

China is #196th of 203 nations for deaths per million based on "officially" reported cases.

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CHINA REPORTS

Copied then ran thru Google Translator
Note: about 3 more pages of the translation not shown


On November 3rd, from 0:24 a.m., 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps reported 104 new confirmed cases.
.........

So my question is:

Is China Lying? Or China telling the truth and the Covid-19 is a DNA designed Racially/Genetically attack Virus?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/04/2021 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Meanwhile in Sweden...
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2021 8:18 Comments || Top||

#3  As someone said before,
the impact of 5 million world deaths on China's population is negligible.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 13:03 Comments || Top||

#4  ..unless it would be the party leadership
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2021 14:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Or leading dissidents.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/04/2021 15:47 Comments || Top||

#6  So my question is:

Is China Lying?


Yes. I seem to recall electricity use statistics from early in 2021 that strongly suggested they were cremating lots of bodies.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2021 20:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Friend in a DC ICU told us they had not seen a single Chinese admitted be cause of the wuhan flu. Had forgot about this until now.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/04/2021 22:55 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Two sentenced to prison on charges of human trafficking
[SHAFAQ] Nineveh Criminal Court issued a ten-year prison sentence against the former director of the real estate registration Department and his assistants for forging a property belonging to the djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
Municipality.

The Media Center of the Supreme Judicial Council explained in a statement that the defendants were involved in registering real estate No. 124 in the Southern Nineveh District, which belongs to the Mosul Municipality, in the name of al-Hadbaa Cooperative Society, which is a fake register that does not exist in the official records.

It added that the court issued its ruling based on legal evidence.

However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
Wasit Criminal Court issued two six-years prison sentences against two convicts, and a fine of ten million dinars on charges of human trafficking.

The center also stated in a second statement that the convicts were involved in such acts after they went from the city of Essaouira to Duhok governorate to sell human organs, as the first sold one of his kidneys for eight million five hundred thousand dinars, while the second convict lured a person to donate his kidneys.
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Science & Technology
Creepy zombie fungus turns insects into NECROPHILES: Parasite eats female flies from the inside out before concocting a powerful aphrodisiac, encouraging males to have sex with the corpse
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 08:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This struck me as a metaphor for blue city collapse.
Who's to say it's origin isn't organic.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ I was struck by the resemblance to Academe...
Posted by: magpie || 11/04/2021 10:13 Comments || Top||

#3  That too.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#4  genus musca progressivata
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/04/2021 12:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Another one of Fauci's Funnies?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/04/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

#6 
Musca tua ibi aperta est, ut plerique populares, comedunt et mortuos suffragantur
Posted by: Angusons Wholuter8419 || 11/04/2021 12:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Dr. F funded research?
Posted by: Large Gonque3470 || 11/04/2021 15:59 Comments || Top||


Something Really Strange Is Happening At Hospitals All Over America
Any chance hospital emergency rooms would not be overflowing if the hospitals had enough staff?
[ZeroHedge] In a year that has been filled with so many mysteries already, I have another very odd one to share with you. Emergency rooms are filled to overflowing all over America, and nobody can seem to explain why this is happening. Right now, the number of new COVID cases in the United States each day is less than half of what it was just a couple of months ago. That is really good news, and many believe that this is a sign that the pandemic is fading. Let us hope that is true. With less people catching the virus, you would think that would mean that our emergency rooms should be emptying out, but the opposite is actually happening. All across the country, emergency rooms are absolutely packed, and in many cases we are seeing seriously ill patients being cared for in the hallways because all of the ER rooms are already full.
HOSPITAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR INDIGENT PEOPLE
[snip]

If the number of COVID cases was starting to spike again, it would make sense for emergency rooms to be overflowing. But at this particular hospital in Michigan, we are being told that some of the main things that are being treated include "abdominal pain", "respiratory problems", "blood clots" and "heart conditions"...
Posted by: Angstrom || 11/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least in my area, the unsaid fact is that enough nursing staff have walked off the job due to vaccine dictates that entire floors and wards are shut down. You will not read this in the MSM, of course.
Posted by: Nero || 11/04/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Silence, Peasant!
You are most obstreperous
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/04/2021 1:27 Comments || Top||

#3  One large hospital close to me downsized over the summer, decreasing its bed capacity by 20%. A few months later the local paper mentioned it was having problems with its ER filled to overflowing and EMS having to wait many hours simply to transfer their patients into a hospital gurney. The local paper did not mention the drastic decrease in bed capacity at this particular hospital a few months earlier...
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/04/2021 2:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Worldometers "Serious/Critical" has fallen every day since early August. What do you think?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/04/2021 4:03 Comments || Top||

#5  "obstreperous" Good one there. Hard to use at times. Well at our area hospital long waits. Many leave and travel to another hospital 20 miles away in a different state and receive in and out treatment very efficiently. Now we are in flu season the fun has just begun. liberal states vs red states I can see a difference as if orchestrated.
Posted by: Dale || 11/04/2021 4:07 Comments || Top||

#6 

Besides the possible (likely) VAX related issues.

Remember since the Socialcrat Junta took control in Jan. 21, they have welcomed about 2.1 MILLION more Illegals into the USA. Which are also using our ER's and hospitals.

How is that possible?
They are Illegally here and without Health Ins.?

Remember back under the 1990's Hillary☺ Clinton Admin the Democrats passed a Mandatory Emergency Medical Care Law.

So now all ER's have become free doctors offices for Illegals.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/04/2021 5:54 Comments || Top||

#7  You haven’t seen anything yet. As the not a vaccine begins to do its damage, the situation will get dramatically worse.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 || 11/04/2021 6:02 Comments || Top||

#8  2.1 million illegals PLUS 55,000 unvetted Afghan Muslims... people for whom marriage to near-relations aka cousins is standard, with child rape is a feature, not a bug(gery)

All thanks to Magoo the demented perv and his Lil' Bolshevik cadres.

Nope, ain't seen nothin yet, fellow Peasants
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/04/2021 6:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Huh ... I had the chance to visit the emergency room at Brooke Army Medical Center twice in mid-September, once to bring in my daughter, and several days later for myself. We were both diagnosed with the dread Covid (are fully recovered now, thanks!) and both times, the waiting area was practically empty. We were seen within ten minutes of walking in.
Posted by: Celia Hayes || 11/04/2021 7:37 Comments || Top||

#10  Took my wife to an 'Urgent Care' strip mall clinic for cough and breathing issues. Wanted a Covid test.
Got through the crowd, was told to come back for an appointment in two hours.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 8:10 Comments || Top||

#11  ^^^That's what we're seeing around here, too. Pretty much no waiting times (unless, you know, the staff is on break or something) during the week. Weekends are a bit busier.

Thank you, Sgt. Mom.

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/04/2021 8:13 Comments || Top||


#13  The only time in my life I didn't have to wait a long time at the ER was after being stabbed in the neck. So it don't sound new to me.
Posted by: Chris || 11/04/2021 9:14 Comments || Top||

#14  Is this a good source? We on the anti COVID vax side have been predicting this. Heart conditions, blood clots and lung issues are a side effect of the shot. It would be interesting to see the stats on this.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/04/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#15  CDC reporting from May/21
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||

#16  Counterpoint from Sharyl Aug/21
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/04/2021 10:13 Comments || Top||

#17  One large hospital close to me downsized over the summer, decreasing its bed capacity by 20%.

Liberals have a hard on for becoming "more efficient" by eliminating "excess capacity."
I noticed this in Minnesota during the COVID shutdown. Even though they were screaming about the number of cases, they were reducing the number of ICU beds statewide. The cutbacks were especially severe in rural (i.e. Republican) areas.
Posted by: Whaviling Bourbon9537 || 11/04/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#18  Italy’s suspected covid death tally corrected from 132,161 to 3,783
Posted by: Angstrom || 11/04/2021 11:50 Comments || Top||

#19  ^
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2021 12:17 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Angusons Wholuter8419 || 11/04/2021 12:25 Comments || Top||

#21  Where I live, the ER is overcrowded because illegal aliens treat it as their primary care physician.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/04/2021 12:40 Comments || Top||

#22  Welfare folks around here do too, Abu.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/04/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||

#23  The hospitals in Australia are being overrun. Not from Covid. And no one can explain why.
Alex Berenson 2 hr ago

So said Mark McGowan, the premier of Western Australia - which has almost 3 million people - in an interview with Sky News Australia on Sun., Oct. 31.

Here’s his exact quotation:

Our hospitals are under enormous pressure. This is the same in [the rest of Australia]. This has been something no one has ever seen before, the growth in demand in our hospitals, why it is is hard, hard to know… There is huge numbers of people coming through the door, so we’re doing everything we can to try to manage it.

To be clear, Covid is not causing the hospital crisis in Western Australia. The state has incredibly strict border restrictions, even by Australian standards, and almost no cases.

But - like the rest of Australia - it has very high vaccination rates.

It’s past time to start asking what is going on.

You can see McGowan’s comments for yourself here:

twitter.com/justsee/status/1456215828345475081

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117f82c3-6073-44c7-b895-88ac6ac53d51_750x1334.png



Posted by: Solomon and Company3268 || 11/04/2021 16:03 Comments || Top||

#24  Ah,

being treated include "abdominal pain", "respiratory problems", "blood clots" and "heart conditions".

Vaccine reactions...
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/04/2021 22:47 Comments || Top||



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