By spocko, on October 25th, 2021%
My niece works at a hospital. The day that they announced on the intercom that every employee had to get a vaccine or would be terminated, she said a cheer went up that could be heard throughout all the corridors.
Don’t feel bad about cheering when one of these crackpots gets sacked. It’s only human to want to survive.
sandyhh, Oct 24 Crooks & Liars
I love to hear stories like this. It more accurately expresses how the vast majority of the public feels toward anti-vaxxers than what you see in the media. In Eric Boehlert‘s excellent newsletter Press Run titled, Sorry Chuck Todd, America is not hopelessly “divided” over Covid he pointed out that the press continues to push the nonsense 50/50 split narrative about the vaccinations and support of vaccine mandates. We are not. The press uses fuzzy math and headlines that focus on a tiny percentage who are embracing rabbit-hole conspiracies about a vaccine that nearly 200 million Americans have safely taken.
For example, on October 13, 2021 United announced that 99.7% of its 67,000 employees were vaccinated, the 232 who weren’t were going to be fired. Now check out the headline used by Forbes, Newsbreak, Business . . . → Read More: When anti-vaxxers get fired, employees cheer
By spocko, on October 21st, 2021%
The right wing harasses, intimidates and threatens people online. They aren’t going to stop, because it works for them.
When you watch someone screaming and punching a flight attendant when they are asked to wear a mask, it changes what you might do when you see someone not wearing a mask.
When people show up with guns at school board member’s house they aren’t there using their 1st Amendment rights. it’s not a conversation about an issue. It’s a threat. In today’s House hearing on Justice Department oversight AG Merrick Garland was asked to re-edify Jamie Raskin’s colleagues on what the 1st Amendment protects and what it doesn’t protect. He said, “What they are not allowed to do is threaten people with death or serious bodily injury.”
I admire the school board member who spoke out about her death threats, but how many people think, “I’m not going to be on a school board if it means getting death threats & people coming to my house with guns.”?
I’ve noticed that the media is very reluctant to push for any consequences for threatening speech. They get all balled up into questions of, “What is free speech?” and . . . → Read More: Death threats must die!
By spocko, on October 18th, 2021% 1) RUN NO OTHER PROGRAMS ON THE LAPTOP / DESKTOP WHILST ZOOMING, ESPECIALLY CHROME
Download and USE THE Zoom Desktop app and close Chrome after clicking on the link(Chrome hogs memory even when closed! To fix thisGo to SETTINGSADVANCEDSYSTEM then TURN OFF running background apps when Google Chrome is closed) It should be GREY
2) THOU SHALT NOT USE WIFI
FIND and use a good quality Ethernet cord and run to your ethernet port from your router to your laptop or desktop.Most home WIFI routers suck when it comes to video.
3) START the process of getting connected 30 minutes early. Something WONDERFUL is bound to happen.
And by wonderful I mean terrible. Prepare a 2nd way to communicate with the host via phone, or text, email or message ahead of time to tell them of your problems.
4) Turn your computer off and on again 15 minutes before you start
Especially if you have been using your laptop all day. This resets the memory and other application problems.I say 15 minutes because you will need 5 to start it up and 10 for the new Windows patches to run that you didn’t know were installing. MACS are . . . → Read More: Spocko’s Top 5 Video Meeting Commandments
By spocko, on October 7th, 2021%
Yesterday Stephanie Grisham was on CNN pushing her new book. She said she thought it was a coup. That Trump was fomenting violence. Jake Tapper asked her if she had talked to the 1/6 commission. She said no, but that she would if they, “reached out.”
Grisham thinks Trump was trying to stage a coup. She's ready to say this under oath. She might have hard evidence of that.The 1/6 committee should have her testify under oath against the mobsters she worked with. @BennieGThompson @AdamSchiff pic.twitter.com/UUTj0rXgxT
— Spocko (@spockosbrain) October 7, 2021
Brazilians of books are being written by former Trump staff. They’ll be careful not to incriminate themselves, but they might incriminate others. If they didn’t commit the crime, they might have witnessed others committing them. People like Grisham and Omarosa aren’t experts on the law. They likely witnessed multiple crimes. They might have been told what was happening was legal. Or, they knew it was illegal, and looked the other way hoping the entire admin would never be prosecuted.I think the DOJ, state AGs and various committees investigating the Trump White House should get early copies of the books. Someone should be reading these books . . . → Read More: Send prosecutors advance copies of all Trump-staff books
By spocko, on October 2nd, 2021%
Oct 2, 2020 Trump tweeted he had COVID. When did Sean Conley, Trump’s doctor, know he had COVID?
White House physician Sean Conley gives an update on the condition of US President Donald Trump, on Oct. 3, 2020, at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Screengrab Guardian
Trump tested positive with the Abbott rapid test at least one day before he announced it. At that point Trump should have started quarantine and contact tracing should have started. Did Dr. Conley immediately report the results to the D.C. Department of Health? If he didn’t, that’s a violation of state and federal law. The media can’t know without an investigation.We do know a PCR test was ordered, which typically takes 24 hours. During that time Trump traveled to multiple states. Trump didn’t tell his staff nor the people he was meeting with he had tested positive.
Washington Post Graphic How soon after the results of the positive PCR test came in did Dr. Conley report it to D.C. Department of Health? Did Dr. Conley inform the state health departments in the states Trump was visiting so they could alert the public that a know infected individual would be . . . → Read More: Who knew Trump had COVID & when did they know it?
By spocko, on September 27th, 2021%
On Chris Hayes’ show he discussed how the Republicans are fighting Biden’s vaccine requirements and why.
Incentives don’t work. Mandates work. These people are behaving like irrational children and therefore what do you do with children? You have to what’s best for children. Now a right winger watching this will say, “Look at that paternalistic, tyrannical person on MSNBC!” But that is the reality in a public health crisis going all the way back to George Washington.
Mehdi Hasan, All In with Chris Hayes 9-20-2021
I’ve developed 6 steps people can take to help make the vaccine mandates happen using the power of social media, existing national corporate HR policies, Federal OSHA reporting methods and local news coverage of the conflict over mandates. 1) Find videos and social media stories of people publicly saying, “I won’t get vaccinated!” Look for them at school board meetings, protests or of people in public places telling others about their intent.2) Alert their employer via email, Facebook and Twitter. Let the company know you will be filing a complaint with *OSHA (I’ll do a piece on the process and issues of contacting OSHA later, but from OSHA.gov/workers. “anyone who knows about a workplace . . . → Read More: How to use social media to help enforce vaccination mandates
By spocko, on September 23rd, 2021% I wrote this in Sept 2020.DeJoy is still the postmaster General! My friend Lisa Graves testified Monday in front of the House Subcommittee on Government Operations Hearing on “Postal Update.” “I am calling on Mr. DeJoy to be fired or resign,” government watchdog Lisa Graves told lawmakers on Monday morning, during a briefing on postal operations before the House Oversight Committee. True North Research, the organization Graves heads, found that DeJoy — who runs a North Carolina shipping firm — had been sued by his brother Dominick for allegedly siphoning money from the trucking company founded by their father. –– Alexander Nazaryan Yahoo News .
A boy like that he’ll cheat his brother. Fire that boy and hire another!
Lisa’s an expert on vetting people and she found out that the Board of Governors missed some doozies. Like this one she uncovered, ( Bloomberg) DeJoy Gave $600,000 to GOP After Postmaster Job Opened Up DeJoy gave President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee more than $600,000 over eight weeks after the opening was announced, Lisa Graves, executive director of True North Research, which investigates the influence of money on public policy, said in written testimony submitted to . . . → Read More: DeJoy was sued by his brother for hiding his mail & millions from him
By spocko, on September 9th, 2021%
I’ll admit it. I’m angry at anti-vaxxers and anti maskers. They are messing up our lives and plans. Yet only their anger is covered by the media? We get stories about how our officials are “frustrated” and “saddened” by their failure to get vaccinated. Where are the stories of our anger toward these “vaccine deniers and right wing loonies”?
What is bizarre to me is that the Anti-maskers are the ones showing rage. What are THEY so angry about? We are the ones whose lives they are f***ing up.I'm having a hard time finding stories of successful prosecutions of these anti-vaxers who threaten violence against others.
— Spocko (@spockosbrain) September 8, 2021
I don’t want to be like the right wing, screaming and threatening those who aren’t wearing masks or getting a vaccine. And I don’t want to inappropriately use the law like they have been doing with their Texas abortion ban. But I’m pissed and I want people punished for the harm they are causing.
What can I do to satisfy my need for an emotional catharsis without becoming a screaming banchee? I’ve been watching Unforgotten, a British murder mystery show about . . . → Read More: How do we get anti-maskers & anti-vaxxers to be logical and save lives?
By spocko, on August 6th, 2021% In Carol Leonnig’s and Philip Rucker’s book “I Alone Can Fix It” they wrote that someone ordered COVID testing to be halted and delayed the day of Trump’s Tulsa rally.
I investigated this and found out that this violated Oklahoma’s public health laws, so I went to their virtual book tours to ask them who gave the orders to halt testing?
Here’s the passage (p. 199)
My friend Nicole Sandler was able to ask Philip Rucker the question.
https://www.spockosbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/Question-on-who-answer-no-medsize-Nicole-Rucker.mp4
The answer? We don’t know. I think that Carol Leonnig knows, but she wasn’t asked the question. And if she does, she might not say because she is protecting her sources.
Based on my conversations and emails with the Oklahoma State Department of Health, Tulsa’s Department of Health and public health experts, it appears that this person(s) violated Oklahoma law.
Halting & delaying testing the day of the rally prevented discovery of others who may be infected. This appears to be a violation of Oklahoma state law, Title 63. Public Health and Safety statutes. Specifically, under §63-6103, The Catastrophic Health Emergency Powers Act,
Someone in the Trump campaign prevented Oklahoma state and local officials from gaining . . . → Read More: Who ordered COVID testing to be halted & delayed the day of Trump’s Tulsa rally?
By spocko, on June 23rd, 2021%
Nearly 900 Secret Service employees tested positive for COVID-19 in one year. So why did the DHS IG reportedly block a proposed inquiry into how the agency handled the threat of COVID-19 to agents protecting high-level officials? https://t.co/QxuwCgADCq
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 23, 2021
I’ve been working on a story on how the Trump Campaign spread COVID-19 with their rallies. There is evidence of actions Trump knowingly took that endangered his staff and Secret Service employees. Public health laws were broken, people got sick & died. I believe there needs to be an investigation by state Attorneys General and prosecution for violations. But… as someone pointed out to me on Twitter:
This is an great point and one that I’ve been thinking about how to solve. Who else can be held responsible for intentionally spreading COVID in addition to Trump?
In the excellent podcasts by Noel Casler, he points out that Trump knows how to avoid responsibility. Casler describes how Trump is ALWAYS one level removed from being held accountable. in Episode 15, 15:40 he talks about how Keith Schiller protected Trump. Then at 19 :03 he explains how Trump hires NYPD guys because . . . → Read More: Who do we hold responsible for infecting 881 Secret Service employees?
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