Pardon me while I stare at it for a coupla hours….
ghostsniperOctober 6, 2023, 8:11 AM
I’ll never understand people that abandon their pets, nor do I want to.
I’ll remind you that Gerard didn’t abandon Olive.
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A bulldog named Buttercup and a bunny called Coconut are among the 1,200 pets reported missing after the devastating wildfire that wiped out the town of Lahaina, Hawaii, in early August.
Their families, many of whom are still in the process of gaining access to their scorched properties, are in a desperate search to find them.
“We did have to run from the fire, and Bandit freaked out and ran out of my arms when I opened the door. I couldn’t run for her,” fire survivor Paula Newman, who lost her cat, told KITV.
The Humane Society wasn’t allowed into the area until Aug. 26, about 18 days after the fire leveled Lahaina, killing at least 98 people. “Knowing there were lost, scared, and injured animals we couldn’t get to was frustrating and heartbreaking,” Lisa Labrecque, Maui Humane Society’s CEO, said in an open letter to the community on Sept. 5. Now, the agency is working to trap and treat an estimated 500 cats living in the ruins of the burn zone.
“The fire cats have suffered severe trauma and require a quiet and carefully monitored environment to recover,” Labrecque said in a news release Thursday. “It’s our priority to ensure that they have adequate veterinary care, daily enrichment, and humane housing as we wait for possible reunifications with their owners.” The society is already caring for 431 cats, 94 dogs and 74 other animals, and has had to open an annex to house them all.
Labrecque said staff and volunteers have treated animals for smoke inhalation, dehydration, burns ranging from mild to severe and other injuries. While cats and dogs and a few rabbits are the most common among the missing pets listed on the Maui Humane Society’s website, there’s also a cockatiel named Cheddar and two turtles.
One of them is named Onipa’a, which in Hawaiian means “steadfast” or “determined,” much like many of the Lahaina survivors. The society is already caring for 431 cats, 94 dogs and 74 other animals, and has had to open an annex to house them all. Labrecque said staff and volunteers have treated animals for smoke inhalation, dehydration, burns ranging from mild to severe and other injuries.
While cats and dogs and a few rabbits are the most common among the missing pets listed on the Maui Humane Society’s website, there’s also a cockatiel named Cheddar and two turtles. One of them is named Onipa’a, which in Hawaiian means “steadfast” or “determined,” much like many of the Lahaina survivors.
“Everything’s gone, but your pets are your ‘ohana. That’s all that’s important,” survivor Chris Borges told KITV, using the Hawaiian word for “family.’ Her aptly named Chihauha was found running around in a cemetery a month after Lahaina burned. “I’m just very lucky that Lucky survived,” Borges said. “I think he stayed alive knowing how much I loved him.”
“The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers”
If the GOP house majority chooses Trump for speaker he will be second in line to the Presidency.
Then they impeach Biden and the ho and Trump becomes President and moves back into the White House.
By the standards of political parties, Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. He’s the only leader they’ve got, TBH. He’d be a terror in the House, and I’d pay good money to see that happen: make him speaker of the house. Dear God in Heaven: make Trump the speaker, until he wins POTUS. I know the VP presides over the joint body when they read the electoral votes, but the speaker is there and takes the VP’s place on pee breaks and whatnot.
Hillar(it)y is calling for the deprograming of MAGAites. If they actually do that, put me in that camp with the pretty Australian Covid lady. Make it so we can’t leave the fenced in cabana…
Make it so Bill has to cohab with Hillary for the next four years in an enclosed space.
Please put Mitch McConnell, and Lindsay Graham in one small apartment together, and put CCTV in it. Also put Lauren Boebert and MTG in the same duplex.
Overheard from an FBI agent who went to an ANTIFA riot: “have you seen any white supremacists around here”?
Welcome to full tilt, end-stage, peak-level corruption, America.
ghostsniperOctober 6, 2023, 11:06 AM
Casey sed: “Hillar(it)y is calling for the deprograming of MAGAites.”
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As much as I can’t stand that criminal I can’t consider that a malicious kick.
It was more like he was guiding/coercing the mutt to get in the ride.
Is there a better way?
Sure, and it starts, as ALL dog training should start, with properly using the leash.
When a mutt is old enough to be away from it’s mammy it is time to get it used to the leash.
The short end of the leash should always be held in the handlers left hand and the dog should be on the handlers left side. The balance (take up slack) of the leash should be in the handlers right hand.
Every.Single.Time.
That way it imbeds in the mutt’s and handler’s memory banks.
Until that is instilled nothing else matters.
Regardless if the mutt is a 5lb shits-who? in a Manhattan loft or a 180lb great dane on a 1000 acre ranch in WY there will come a time (take it to the vet or groomer) when the mutt must be controlled for it’s own safety and that of everyone around it, and that is where proper leash training is paramount.
What a sad state of affairs the, supposedly, most powerful person on the planet can’t control a 40 lb mutt. Anybody got footage of Nixon scooting Checkers with his foot?
AnneOctober 6, 2023, 9:32 PM
I am glad to hear you say that you don’t believe that to be a kick. It is as you described it.
ghostsniperOctober 7, 2023, 3:51 AM
Disappointing headline.
How is it possible for this to happen in this day and age?
Ya know, it’s probably true about those global leaders that want to cull the world population and especially the US. Stupid people cause misery to others and as long as they steal air will continue to do so. It’s hard to feel empathy for stupid people.
4M Americans have gotten latest COVID shot — on par with last fall’s vaccine rollout
October 5, 2023, 4:45 PM
More than 4 million Americans have been vaccinated with the newest COVID shot as of Thursday, according to the latest government data, putting the uptake about equal to that of the COVID vaccine rolled out in October of last year.
While vaccination rates remaining on par with last year’s rollout is positive news for public health experts, the shot has reached fewer than 2% of Americans.
There are about 8 million more shots on hand for distribution, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, and in total 12 million shots have been shipped to pharmacies, doctors offices and clinics over the last few weeks.
Public health officials rubber stamped the latest COVID shot in September, matching the shot to the currently-circulating strain of the virus and recommending it for everyone 6 months and older.
It’s the first time that the COVID vaccine distribution has shifted over to the commercial market as opposed to the government, which purchased and distributed COVID vaccines while the country was in an emergency phase of the pandemic.
“COVID-19 vaccine distribution, which has shifted to the private market, is a lot different than it was last year when the government was distributing them,” a Health and Human Services Department spokesperson said.
The transition from government-run logistics to a medley of private insurance companies working with pharmacy chains, doctors offices and public health centers has resulted in a bumpy rollout, at times riddled with confusion about the cost of the vaccines, which are intended to be free, and challenges in getting appointments, particularly for children.
Insurance companies are supposed to cover the cost of COVID vaccines, per a law enacted by Congress, and anyone without insurance should have access to free vaccines through a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-run program.
Pediatric vaccines have also been slower to become available than adult vaccines. According to CDC Director Mandy Cohen, manufacturers distributed adult doses of the shot first, but pediatric doses are following suit.
“Manufacturers and distributors were getting out the adult vaccines first. So that was what was shipping in the first number of days,” Cohen said last week. “The supply is filling out, and make sure that you’re calling ahead to your pediatrician or your pharmacy to see if the vaccine is available, and if not, check back again.”
Insurance companies, pharmacies and the government have said they’ve addressed any initial issues with the rollout and continue to monitor for ways to improve access.
“Certainly we’re aware of what consumers have experienced, these unexpected issues of point of service,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday. “And so, this is certainly a top priority for this administration.”
But public health officials warn that access issues during the initial rollout could deter people from getting their shots. According to Walgreens, the busiest weeks for COVID-19 immunizations historically have been the first four weeks after a vaccine becomes available.
And there has historically been a waning interest in COVID shots — just 17% of Americans, or 56.5 million people, received the booster shot that was rolled out last fall, according to data released by the CDC in May. That’s compared to nearly 70% of Americans, or 231.6 million people, who got vaccinated with the first COVID series.
There is also less data surrounding vaccinations — as well as COVID cases — because states are no longer required to report data with the same timeliness or consistency as they were during the public health emergency, which ended in May.
The data that is available, however, shows that hospitalizations rose over the summer and hit a peak in mid-September. Hospital admissions have decreased by about 3% since last week.
The government also relaunched its free COVID test resource, COVIDTests.Gov, about two weeks ago, predicting a fall and winter rise in cases once again.
So far, 45 million tests have been ordered and over 10 million tests delivered, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Officials expect they’ll continue to have ample inventory to meet demand, a spokesperson for the department said.
ghostsniperOctober 7, 2023, 6:43 AM
9:40 am EST, Sat 07 Oct 2023
Just got another one of those “messages” on my phone.
Is this going to be a regular thing now?
AnneOctober 7, 2023, 7:20 AM
In MT we have a government (MT) warning system that sounds an alarm on your cell phone. What is the alarm you may ask? Any time an Indian woman cannot find her child, and she believes some person has kidnapped her baby, we all get screeched to death with three long beeps. Then there is a voice announcement describing the child and the approximate location where the kidnapping occurred! I have been told that that service is also available to any mother in the state. After much complaining we now have the option to disconnect from this service, which of course makes you feel very bad because you don’t want to help find a missing baby. Do you have such a system in your state?
Yeah, we have it here in CA. I’m seldom affected. I don’t have a smart phone, just a flipper I sometimes use like a walkie-talkie. I don’t carry it around. Even so, once in a while I’ll get “amber alerts.”
The covid vax thing is terrifying. Those of us who pay attention to dissident news, and information are few and far between. Most of the nation goes no farther than TV or Facebarf. They know what they are told to know, and do what they are told to do. Try talking to them, and they’ll look at you like you’re nuts. They tighten the face mask, and get in line for next poke. I’m seeing lots of mask-a-boobs here in So Cal. I never figured one of the benefits of old age would be not being around to see how it all turns out, but here we are.
@jwm About 15 years ago I heard Thomas Sowell say he was glad he was as old as he was because he wouldn’t be around to see how things turned out. He’s 93 now and still commenting on the state of things.
ghostsniperOctober 7, 2023, 9:54 AM
Once again, US politicians have fucked EVERYBODY over.
They’re gonna make the whole world burn.
If it comes to that, with my last breaths, I will strangle the shit out of as many politicians as possible before I cross over.
Lots more at the link at the bottom if you can deal with it.
There would be no news here if Vladimir Putin did not proceed to a further explanation of what changes in nuclear policy are now being prepared with respect to one of the few remaining set of “handrails” that were established in past decades to prevent an all-out nuclear arms race between the super powers: the test ban treaty.
As he explained, this treaty was concluded long ago between the United States and Russia. It was both signed and ratified by Russia. However, the United States only signed it and never ratified it. Now some in the Russian military are demanding that testing be restarted and the treaty becomes inconvenient. They want to conduct tests to be sure that new cutting-edge strategic weapons systems like the very heavy ICBM Sarmat or the global range Burevestnik cruise missile which Russia is about to make the mainstays of its nuclear missile forces actually will deliver the punch as intended. Moreover, Russia assumes that the very same question has been advanced in the United States by its armed forces, which are not de jure restrained by a treaty which the country did not ratify. For all of these reasons, Vladimir Putin is about to put before the Duma a bill to revoke Russia’s ratification of the test ban treaty. Washington was put on notice yesterday: we are on the cusp of an unrestrained nuclear arms race in which Russia presently has a vast lead in delivery systems.
Did any of our mass media notice? Apparently after a delay, they did: Bloomberg posted a video on the subject on their youtube account late very early in the morning yesterday; NBC did the same in the afternoon.
Would have been interesting to see Tucker and Putin.
Casey KlahnOctober 7, 2023, 4:11 PM
I have serious doubts about Russia’s nuke forces. They SUK at maintenance, and that is a high maintenance weapon right there.
On world news fronts today, Russian ally Hamas opened a second front in support of Russia in Israel, killing Jews for sport. Ask your self what strategic value does that have for Russia? Hardly any in it’s war with Ukraine, but grabbing at straws is a noticeable tactic on their part. I mean: Bakhmut? Kharkov region?
Russia has little use for a nuclear exchange, but they do seem to like shooting civilians via proxy terrorists.
DTOctober 8, 2023, 3:33 PM
I suspect FJB did more to help Hummus than Russia did. Taliban weaponization and $6B or so to Iran? They want a war somewhere – they don’t care where and Ukraine isn’t working out.
AnneOctober 8, 2023, 7:42 AM
I know several here are former members of the military. I come here to ask for an informed explanation of “intelligence failure”. This is an explanation we are hearing repeatedly with regard to the Hamas invasion of Israel. The world press is reporting that Israeli military “intelligence” failed. Would you please explain the process or the standard by which the world’s most intelligent military can fail in this way. This is a sincere question. We are not talking about long distances. We are not talking about areas so isolated that the information takes days to get through. What are they saying exactly? I don’t understand and this is a sincere question.
ghostsniperOctober 8, 2023, 8:18 AM
gobbledy gook
ground clutter
passin’ the buk
outright media/gov’t fabrications/lies
more stupid shit that can’t be proven one way or the other
but rest assured, the american taxpayer will bear the financial responsibility
In brief, Intell has two components: gathering, and analyzing. Gathering is sexy, and mundane at the same time. Analysis is a science, with tables and rules and measurements, but in the end it’s a silly wild ass guess. Which is especially evident when you get it wrong.
Hamas did not come out of nowhere yesterday. The day before yesterday they were still a bunch of cutthroat arabs armed to the gills and talking shit nonstop – one day’s the same as the next. Imagine a paraglider club with a hundred aircraft and loving the sport one day, and then one day raising the Jolly Roger and turning all ships toward Israel as planned. Yes they used deception and surprise, and it goes down as one of the great security failures in Israeli history.
Today I expect two things in the news: Israel blamed for casulaties, and Trumo blamed for the war. That’s bullshit and everybody knows it.
It is my opinion that there was no intel failure, but, it will give a justifiable excuse for what will happen next. The Israeli intelligence apparatus is second to none. When the dust has settled and the final count is in you will know that this was planned and executed with laser precision and a thorn in Israels side will have fallen by the wayside–unless a third party steps in and ups the ante.
ghostsniperOctober 8, 2023, 10:10 AM
The arms used in israel were the arms left in afghanistan by the us.
Payback, 22 years later.
Why are my neighbors dancing in the street?
ghostsniperOctober 8, 2023, 1:20 PM
In case you hadn’t seen it yet.
And now she says the Quiet part outloud.
You want concentration camps for 50% of the nation?
I’ve despised her for 30 years and will never be satisfied until she is brought to justice.
It is my opinion that there was no intel failure, but, it will give a justifiable excuse for what will happen next. The Israeli intelligence apparatus is second to none. When the dust has settled and the final count is in you will know that this was planned and executed with laser precision and a thorn in Israels side will have fallen by the wayside–unless a third party steps in and ups the ante.
“When we see the few truth-tellers who are the stars of their organizations jettisoned – Tucker Carlson from Fox News, Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone, Glenn Greenwald from The Intercept, James O’Keefe from Project Veritas… we must face the fact that there is an organized conspiracy to suppress truth.” — Paul Craig Roberts
John A. FlemingOctober 8, 2023, 8:35 PM
No “intelligence failure” needed. The USA is weakened by flushing all our munitions down the Ukie toilet, by the complete failure of executive leadership, by the emptied SPR, by near-open favoring of the Palestinian and Iranian side, by near-open hostility to the Israel nation, by our near-ruinous deficit spending. We are rapidly becoming a paper tiger.
The Israelis are weakened and riveted by the internal conflict over their debate over the gentle reining-in of the out-of-control judiciary, something we in the USA will have to face soon enough. This ruinous debate demoralizes their government. Without leadership, the bureaucrats founder and flounder, lose their mission focus and sit on their ***.
Now is as good a time as any to strike. The enemies of the USA and it allies are playing their own international version of Cloward-Piven, challenging the punch-drunk and feebled FedGov with one disaster after another. They are supported covertly by our own would-be USA tyrants waiting in the wings for their own moment to add more pushes to topple the Constitution and our Republic.
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
Green Pants Interior by Klahn
Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
Comments on this entry are closed.
Now THAT is my kinda pitcher!
Pardon me while I stare at it for a coupla hours….
I’ll never understand people that abandon their pets, nor do I want to.
I’ll remind you that Gerard didn’t abandon Olive.
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A bulldog named Buttercup and a bunny called Coconut are among the 1,200 pets reported missing after the devastating wildfire that wiped out the town of Lahaina, Hawaii, in early August.
Their families, many of whom are still in the process of gaining access to their scorched properties, are in a desperate search to find them.
“We did have to run from the fire, and Bandit freaked out and ran out of my arms when I opened the door. I couldn’t run for her,” fire survivor Paula Newman, who lost her cat, told KITV.
The Humane Society wasn’t allowed into the area until Aug. 26, about 18 days after the fire leveled Lahaina, killing at least 98 people. “Knowing there were lost, scared, and injured animals we couldn’t get to was frustrating and heartbreaking,” Lisa Labrecque, Maui Humane Society’s CEO, said in an open letter to the community on Sept. 5. Now, the agency is working to trap and treat an estimated 500 cats living in the ruins of the burn zone.
“The fire cats have suffered severe trauma and require a quiet and carefully monitored environment to recover,” Labrecque said in a news release Thursday. “It’s our priority to ensure that they have adequate veterinary care, daily enrichment, and humane housing as we wait for possible reunifications with their owners.” The society is already caring for 431 cats, 94 dogs and 74 other animals, and has had to open an annex to house them all.
Labrecque said staff and volunteers have treated animals for smoke inhalation, dehydration, burns ranging from mild to severe and other injuries. While cats and dogs and a few rabbits are the most common among the missing pets listed on the Maui Humane Society’s website, there’s also a cockatiel named Cheddar and two turtles.
One of them is named Onipa’a, which in Hawaiian means “steadfast” or “determined,” much like many of the Lahaina survivors. The society is already caring for 431 cats, 94 dogs and 74 other animals, and has had to open an annex to house them all. Labrecque said staff and volunteers have treated animals for smoke inhalation, dehydration, burns ranging from mild to severe and other injuries.
While cats and dogs and a few rabbits are the most common among the missing pets listed on the Maui Humane Society’s website, there’s also a cockatiel named Cheddar and two turtles. One of them is named Onipa’a, which in Hawaiian means “steadfast” or “determined,” much like many of the Lahaina survivors.
“Everything’s gone, but your pets are your ‘ohana. That’s all that’s important,” survivor Chris Borges told KITV, using the Hawaiian word for “family.’ Her aptly named Chihauha was found running around in a cemetery a month after Lahaina burned. “I’m just very lucky that Lucky survived,” Borges said. “I think he stayed alive knowing how much I loved him.”
https://weather.com/pets/news/2023-10-02-maui-wildfire-missing-pets-lahaina-hawaii
It’s the time of the season.
Remember?
What’s your name?
Hoosier daddy?
Is he rich, is he rich like me?
Has he taken, any time, to show you what you need to live?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzpPy9hJYA8&t=161s
Just rare enough to bring up fresh memories
Your happy thought (illusion?) for the day.
“The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers”
If the GOP house majority chooses Trump for speaker he will be second in line to the Presidency.
Then they impeach Biden and the ho and Trump becomes President and moves back into the White House.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/comes-the-dancing-skeleton/
By the standards of political parties, Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. He’s the only leader they’ve got, TBH. He’d be a terror in the House, and I’d pay good money to see that happen: make him speaker of the house. Dear God in Heaven: make Trump the speaker, until he wins POTUS. I know the VP presides over the joint body when they read the electoral votes, but the speaker is there and takes the VP’s place on pee breaks and whatnot.
Hillar(it)y is calling for the deprograming of MAGAites. If they actually do that, put me in that camp with the pretty Australian Covid lady. Make it so we can’t leave the fenced in cabana…
Make it so Bill has to cohab with Hillary for the next four years in an enclosed space.
Please put Mitch McConnell, and Lindsay Graham in one small apartment together, and put CCTV in it. Also put Lauren Boebert and MTG in the same duplex.
Overheard from an FBI agent who went to an ANTIFA riot: “have you seen any white supremacists around here”?
Welcome to full tilt, end-stage, peak-level corruption, America.
Casey sed: “Hillar(it)y is calling for the deprograming of MAGAites.”
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Watch the words come right out of her nasty criminal mouth yourself:
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2023/10/sadly-there-are-millions-of-americans.html
or here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeS-Bh0Iwh4
The Clinton’s and Biden’s are both crooked as the back half of a broke dick dog.
Footage: Biden kicks his dog.
https://www.libertystorch.info/2023/10/06/abomination/
JWM
As much as I can’t stand that criminal I can’t consider that a malicious kick.
It was more like he was guiding/coercing the mutt to get in the ride.
Is there a better way?
Sure, and it starts, as ALL dog training should start, with properly using the leash.
When a mutt is old enough to be away from it’s mammy it is time to get it used to the leash.
The short end of the leash should always be held in the handlers left hand and the dog should be on the handlers left side. The balance (take up slack) of the leash should be in the handlers right hand.
Every.Single.Time.
That way it imbeds in the mutt’s and handler’s memory banks.
Until that is instilled nothing else matters.
Regardless if the mutt is a 5lb shits-who? in a Manhattan loft or a 180lb great dane on a 1000 acre ranch in WY there will come a time (take it to the vet or groomer) when the mutt must be controlled for it’s own safety and that of everyone around it, and that is where proper leash training is paramount.
What a sad state of affairs the, supposedly, most powerful person on the planet can’t control a 40 lb mutt. Anybody got footage of Nixon scooting Checkers with his foot?
I am glad to hear you say that you don’t believe that to be a kick. It is as you described it.
Disappointing headline.
How is it possible for this to happen in this day and age?
Ya know, it’s probably true about those global leaders that want to cull the world population and especially the US. Stupid people cause misery to others and as long as they steal air will continue to do so. It’s hard to feel empathy for stupid people.
4M Americans have gotten latest COVID shot — on par with last fall’s vaccine rollout
October 5, 2023, 4:45 PM
More than 4 million Americans have been vaccinated with the newest COVID shot as of Thursday, according to the latest government data, putting the uptake about equal to that of the COVID vaccine rolled out in October of last year.
While vaccination rates remaining on par with last year’s rollout is positive news for public health experts, the shot has reached fewer than 2% of Americans.
There are about 8 million more shots on hand for distribution, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, and in total 12 million shots have been shipped to pharmacies, doctors offices and clinics over the last few weeks.
Public health officials rubber stamped the latest COVID shot in September, matching the shot to the currently-circulating strain of the virus and recommending it for everyone 6 months and older.
It’s the first time that the COVID vaccine distribution has shifted over to the commercial market as opposed to the government, which purchased and distributed COVID vaccines while the country was in an emergency phase of the pandemic.
“COVID-19 vaccine distribution, which has shifted to the private market, is a lot different than it was last year when the government was distributing them,” a Health and Human Services Department spokesperson said.
The transition from government-run logistics to a medley of private insurance companies working with pharmacy chains, doctors offices and public health centers has resulted in a bumpy rollout, at times riddled with confusion about the cost of the vaccines, which are intended to be free, and challenges in getting appointments, particularly for children.
Insurance companies are supposed to cover the cost of COVID vaccines, per a law enacted by Congress, and anyone without insurance should have access to free vaccines through a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-run program.
Pediatric vaccines have also been slower to become available than adult vaccines. According to CDC Director Mandy Cohen, manufacturers distributed adult doses of the shot first, but pediatric doses are following suit.
“Manufacturers and distributors were getting out the adult vaccines first. So that was what was shipping in the first number of days,” Cohen said last week. “The supply is filling out, and make sure that you’re calling ahead to your pediatrician or your pharmacy to see if the vaccine is available, and if not, check back again.”
Insurance companies, pharmacies and the government have said they’ve addressed any initial issues with the rollout and continue to monitor for ways to improve access.
“Certainly we’re aware of what consumers have experienced, these unexpected issues of point of service,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday. “And so, this is certainly a top priority for this administration.”
But public health officials warn that access issues during the initial rollout could deter people from getting their shots. According to Walgreens, the busiest weeks for COVID-19 immunizations historically have been the first four weeks after a vaccine becomes available.
And there has historically been a waning interest in COVID shots — just 17% of Americans, or 56.5 million people, received the booster shot that was rolled out last fall, according to data released by the CDC in May. That’s compared to nearly 70% of Americans, or 231.6 million people, who got vaccinated with the first COVID series.
There is also less data surrounding vaccinations — as well as COVID cases — because states are no longer required to report data with the same timeliness or consistency as they were during the public health emergency, which ended in May.
The data that is available, however, shows that hospitalizations rose over the summer and hit a peak in mid-September. Hospital admissions have decreased by about 3% since last week.
The government also relaunched its free COVID test resource, COVIDTests.Gov, about two weeks ago, predicting a fall and winter rise in cases once again.
So far, 45 million tests have been ordered and over 10 million tests delivered, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Officials expect they’ll continue to have ample inventory to meet demand, a spokesperson for the department said.
9:40 am EST, Sat 07 Oct 2023
Just got another one of those “messages” on my phone.
Is this going to be a regular thing now?
In MT we have a government (MT) warning system that sounds an alarm on your cell phone. What is the alarm you may ask? Any time an Indian woman cannot find her child, and she believes some person has kidnapped her baby, we all get screeched to death with three long beeps. Then there is a voice announcement describing the child and the approximate location where the kidnapping occurred! I have been told that that service is also available to any mother in the state. After much complaining we now have the option to disconnect from this service, which of course makes you feel very bad because you don’t want to help find a missing baby. Do you have such a system in your state?
Yeah, we have it here in CA. I’m seldom affected. I don’t have a smart phone, just a flipper I sometimes use like a walkie-talkie. I don’t carry it around. Even so, once in a while I’ll get “amber alerts.”
The covid vax thing is terrifying. Those of us who pay attention to dissident news, and information are few and far between. Most of the nation goes no farther than TV or Facebarf. They know what they are told to know, and do what they are told to do. Try talking to them, and they’ll look at you like you’re nuts. They tighten the face mask, and get in line for next poke. I’m seeing lots of mask-a-boobs here in So Cal. I never figured one of the benefits of old age would be not being around to see how it all turns out, but here we are.
JWM
@jwm About 15 years ago I heard Thomas Sowell say he was glad he was as old as he was because he wouldn’t be around to see how things turned out. He’s 93 now and still commenting on the state of things.
Once again, US politicians have fucked EVERYBODY over.
They’re gonna make the whole world burn.
If it comes to that, with my last breaths, I will strangle the shit out of as many politicians as possible before I cross over.
Lots more at the link at the bottom if you can deal with it.
There would be no news here if Vladimir Putin did not proceed to a further explanation of what changes in nuclear policy are now being prepared with respect to one of the few remaining set of “handrails” that were established in past decades to prevent an all-out nuclear arms race between the super powers: the test ban treaty.
As he explained, this treaty was concluded long ago between the United States and Russia. It was both signed and ratified by Russia. However, the United States only signed it and never ratified it. Now some in the Russian military are demanding that testing be restarted and the treaty becomes inconvenient. They want to conduct tests to be sure that new cutting-edge strategic weapons systems like the very heavy ICBM Sarmat or the global range Burevestnik cruise missile which Russia is about to make the mainstays of its nuclear missile forces actually will deliver the punch as intended. Moreover, Russia assumes that the very same question has been advanced in the United States by its armed forces, which are not de jure restrained by a treaty which the country did not ratify. For all of these reasons, Vladimir Putin is about to put before the Duma a bill to revoke Russia’s ratification of the test ban treaty. Washington was put on notice yesterday: we are on the cusp of an unrestrained nuclear arms race in which Russia presently has a vast lead in delivery systems.
Did any of our mass media notice? Apparently after a delay, they did: Bloomberg posted a video on the subject on their youtube account late very early in the morning yesterday; NBC did the same in the afternoon.
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2023/10/07/vladimir-putin-on-russian-nuclear-doctrine-what-was-new-in-his-qa-at-the-valdai-discussion-club/
Would have been interesting to see Tucker and Putin.
I have serious doubts about Russia’s nuke forces. They SUK at maintenance, and that is a high maintenance weapon right there.
On world news fronts today, Russian ally Hamas opened a second front in support of Russia in Israel, killing Jews for sport. Ask your self what strategic value does that have for Russia? Hardly any in it’s war with Ukraine, but grabbing at straws is a noticeable tactic on their part. I mean: Bakhmut? Kharkov region?
Russia has little use for a nuclear exchange, but they do seem to like shooting civilians via proxy terrorists.
I suspect FJB did more to help Hummus than Russia did. Taliban weaponization and $6B or so to Iran? They want a war somewhere – they don’t care where and Ukraine isn’t working out.
I know several here are former members of the military. I come here to ask for an informed explanation of “intelligence failure”. This is an explanation we are hearing repeatedly with regard to the Hamas invasion of Israel. The world press is reporting that Israeli military “intelligence” failed. Would you please explain the process or the standard by which the world’s most intelligent military can fail in this way. This is a sincere question. We are not talking about long distances. We are not talking about areas so isolated that the information takes days to get through. What are they saying exactly? I don’t understand and this is a sincere question.
gobbledy gook
ground clutter
passin’ the buk
outright media/gov’t fabrications/lies
more stupid shit that can’t be proven one way or the other
but rest assured, the american taxpayer will bear the financial responsibility
Anne, see more here:
https://voxday.net/2023/10/08/an-informative-analogy/
In brief, Intell has two components: gathering, and analyzing. Gathering is sexy, and mundane at the same time. Analysis is a science, with tables and rules and measurements, but in the end it’s a silly wild ass guess. Which is especially evident when you get it wrong.
Hamas did not come out of nowhere yesterday. The day before yesterday they were still a bunch of cutthroat arabs armed to the gills and talking shit nonstop – one day’s the same as the next. Imagine a paraglider club with a hundred aircraft and loving the sport one day, and then one day raising the Jolly Roger and turning all ships toward Israel as planned. Yes they used deception and surprise, and it goes down as one of the great security failures in Israeli history.
Today I expect two things in the news: Israel blamed for casulaties, and Trumo blamed for the war. That’s bullshit and everybody knows it.
It is my opinion that there was no intel failure, but, it will give a justifiable excuse for what will happen next. The Israeli intelligence apparatus is second to none. When the dust has settled and the final count is in you will know that this was planned and executed with laser precision and a thorn in Israels side will have fallen by the wayside–unless a third party steps in and ups the ante.
The arms used in israel were the arms left in afghanistan by the us.
Payback, 22 years later.
Why are my neighbors dancing in the street?
In case you hadn’t seen it yet.
And now she says the Quiet part outloud.
You want concentration camps for 50% of the nation?
I’ve despised her for 30 years and will never be satisfied until she is brought to justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dhNJ0MK0BY
It is my opinion that there was no intel failure, but, it will give a justifiable excuse for what will happen next. The Israeli intelligence apparatus is second to none. When the dust has settled and the final count is in you will know that this was planned and executed with laser precision and a thorn in Israels side will have fallen by the wayside–unless a third party steps in and ups the ante.
“When we see the few truth-tellers who are the stars of their organizations jettisoned – Tucker Carlson from Fox News, Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone, Glenn Greenwald from The Intercept, James O’Keefe from Project Veritas… we must face the fact that there is an organized conspiracy to suppress truth.” — Paul Craig Roberts
No “intelligence failure” needed. The USA is weakened by flushing all our munitions down the Ukie toilet, by the complete failure of executive leadership, by the emptied SPR, by near-open favoring of the Palestinian and Iranian side, by near-open hostility to the Israel nation, by our near-ruinous deficit spending. We are rapidly becoming a paper tiger.
The Israelis are weakened and riveted by the internal conflict over their debate over the gentle reining-in of the out-of-control judiciary, something we in the USA will have to face soon enough. This ruinous debate demoralizes their government. Without leadership, the bureaucrats founder and flounder, lose their mission focus and sit on their ***.
Now is as good a time as any to strike. The enemies of the USA and it allies are playing their own international version of Cloward-Piven, challenging the punch-drunk and feebled FedGov with one disaster after another. They are supported covertly by our own would-be USA tyrants waiting in the wings for their own moment to add more pushes to topple the Constitution and our Republic.
Expect more of this crap, and faster, and soon.