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From a friend: If you offered me a pair scissors but the scissors couldn't cut paper, I would decline the scissors, but not because I am anti-scissors. But because I'm not really interested in things that don't work or do what they are supposed to do safely. SF hasn't had flu shot in decades for the simple fact that a couple decades ago when I actually gave in and got the shot a couple of years in a row, I had a reaction that I didn't like, so I quit getting the yearly shot. I've been fine since. This is kinda where I place my feelings about the Covid vaccine. A vaccine for something that the CDC is getting ready to inform us we will have to live with from now on and get a new vaccine every year. The insistence and threatened enforcement from local governments for a virus that has such a high survival rate (conveniently ignored in nearly every story that glorifies the amount of "new cases" every day) is not warranted (IMHO). If you had your vaccine - great. Don't worry about me then. #Flubugonsteroids

(IMHO) He saw the writing on the wall (in all capital letters) It's a distraction from "Granny-Gate" and the Dem's efforts to keep him out of the picture for when KH runs in 2024 (since she will already be President by then) If he doesn't go now for being a creep, he'll go later for killing Granny......

https://www.analyzingamerica.org/2021/08/639345/?fbclid=IwAR2qpgtlFvYsmAL9XrhLXX-eEo9t5Pjpw7N78JvsPS0eZ6VYZOoteW0Jlwk Female Inmate Now Pregnant After Women’s Prison Is Forced to Accept Transgender Men By David Rufful - August 9, 2021 At least one female inmate has become pregnant following California’s law that allows men to identify as women and get sent to a women’s prison, according to Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) via Daily Wire. In California, where predominately left-leaning politicians enforce the rules, women’s prisons are forced to accept biological male prisoners claiming to be women without any questions asked — including if they were in prison for violence against women. The Los Angeles Times reported that around 300 male prisoners filed requests to transfer with the state, and only 20 have been processed so far.California has even begun handing out condoms and Plan B to female inmates who were forced to accept sharing a prison with biological men claiming to be transgender. At the time, the WoLF released a statement about what was being handed out in prisons: The statment reads: “Women incarcerated in California’s largest women’s prison are describing the conditions as “a nightmare’s worst nightmare” after the introduction of new pregnancy resources in the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) medical clinics. The new resources are a tacit admission by officials that women should expect to be raped when housed in prison with men, where all sex is considered non-consensual by default within the system.” The statement continues, “New posters recently appeared in medical rooms outlining the options available to “pregnant people” in prison, including prenatal care, abortion, and adoption. The poster also declares that women have the right to “contraceptive counseling and your choice of birth control methods by a licensed health care provider within 60-180 days prior to scheduled release date.” However, the only methods available to incarcerated women to prevent pregnancy are condoms, which appeared shortly after the men, and Plan B emergency contraceptives.” More from Daily Wire: The new resources are a tacit admission by officials that women should expect to be raped when housed in prison with men, where all sex is considered non-consensual by default within the system.” OK - so while SF normally has little sympathy for the incarcerated guilty, this one has me SMH.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/06/biden-mistakenly-says-350m-americans-are-vaccinated/ WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday said that 350 million Americans — more than the entire population of the US — have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in a slip that was quickly seized upon as he departed for his 17th trip to Delaware since taking office. Biden, wearing a tan suit, spoke about the need to continue vaccinating Americans after a surprisingly strong report showed the US economy created 943,000 jobs in July, exceeding expectations and dropping the unemployment rate to 5.4 percent. “You know, we have roughly 350 million people vaccinated in the United States and billions around the world. And virtually no one has died because of that vaccinations [sic],” he said in the White House East Room. “Today, about 400 people will die because of the Delta variant in this country — a tragedy because virtually all of these deaths are preventable if people had gotten vaccinated. But 10 months ago today almost 4,000 people died on that very day from COVID-19 — 4,000 versus 400. That shows how much our vaccination progress has done to protect us from the worst of the new Delta COVID-19 wave.” Biden almost certainly meant to say that about 350 million COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered, as is indicated by CDC data. But those doses were administered to about 193 million people. More than 70 percent of US adults have had at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot. Oh Joe...... The reality of the day is that over 70% of the US adult population has been vaccinated. OVER 70% !! Which was kinda the high-water mark that was being shot at to bring "normalcy" back.....remember.......Well we got there, but nope "we can't get no satisfaction" - keep the masks on now 18 months into "2 weeks to flatten the curve" because that less than 30% of the population out there is causing us all this grief.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/05/remember-biden-said-migrant-surge-would-drop-by-july-didnt-happen/ At a news conference in March, President Joe Biden pooh-poohed surging illegal migration at the southern border as an ordinary, seasonal problem. “It happens every single, solitary year,” he said, and to some extent he was right: Usually, illegal border-crossing rises through the spring and drops off in June and July, as temperatures rise and the trek gets more dangerous. But that isn’t what’s happening this year. Apprehensions at the border have risen every month since April, with a huge spike after Biden took office in January and an even bigger one in February. In May, federal authorities made more than 180,000 arrests at the border, and in June, when we would have typically seen the numbers begin to drop off, arrests topped 188,000. The July total is likely to exceed 210,000, according to a Biden administration federal court filing this week. Federal agents haven’t encountered that many people on the border in a single month in 21 years. So far this fiscal year, more than 1 million people have been arrested at the border, and we’re on pace to break the all-time record, set in 2000. So this isn’t the typical seasonal influx. Will the media so much as remind Biden of his March hand-waving? More important, what’s actually happening? Why are record numbers of people risking a dangerous border crossing in the sweltering heat? The answer is simple: They know Team Biden will let them stay. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki can lie all she wants about how the administration is still enforcing Title 42, the public-health order former President Donald Trump authorized at the outset of the pandemic that allows most migrants to be quickly expelled to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But the truth is, the Biden administration has been quietly gutting Title 42, allowing greater numbers of families and single adults into the country and then releasing them, in some cases without court dates, but simply a notice to contact an immigration court and schedule a hearing at their convenience. Word travels fast from the border, and the more migrants who are released, the more it convinces those in source countries that if you can just get across the Rio Grande, you’ll be released. At this point, it isn’t just impoverished people from Mexico and Central America who are coming, but families and adults from all over the world. Migrants from South America, Asia and Africa are showing up in record numbers up and down the frontier. In the small, South Texas town of Del Rio, middle-class Venezuelans are showing up with passports and cash to pay their own way north. Brazilians are disproportionately crossing in Yuma, Ariz. Border officials have never seen these patterns before, and it suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic hardship it has caused worldwide, are driving an historic wave of illegal immigration. On the border itself, that means large numbers of migrants who have COVID are crossing into the US — and being released. In McAllen, Texas, the epicenter of the crisis, a record 7,000 COVID-positive migrants have been released downtown since February, including more than 1,500 last week. The city’s nonprofit shelter for migrants is overwhelmed, with nearly 2,000 migrants arriving there every day so far in August at a facility that can only house 1,200 people. McAllen’s mayor declared a state of disaster this week and erected tent facilities to house COVID-positive migrants. According to the city, some 87,000 migrants have passed through McAllen so far this year. That’s more than half the entire population of the city. In smaller border towns, COVID-positive migrants are being released without the knowledge of local authorities and sheltered in hotels. Migrants who test positive are supposed to quarantine for two weeks, but there is no mechanism or authority to ensure that they do so once released from federal custody. All of this amounts to a national emergency. Given the draconian measures Biden and other Democrats are contemplating for fighting the Delta variant, you would think the administration would also secure the border. You would think wrong. SF thinks the President's "Meh" moment in March has already been forgotten by the media.......and the level of DOCUMENTED Covid positive migrants being released is amazing considering the "increase in cases" that is being thrown at us every day while the DECREASE IN DEATHS are being ignored......

https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/we-must-hear-from-this-man-devine/ On the 17th floor of a non-descript Manhattan office building, opposite Hudson Yards, part of the deadliest coverup in human history was hatched last year, alleges a devastating congressional report into the origins of Covid-19 There, on the corner of 34th street and 10th Avenue, is the headquarters of EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit devoted to “Wildlife Conservation”, whose big-noting, British-born founder, Peter Daszak, somehow wound up at the center of a pandemic that has killed millions of people around the world. The House Foreign Affairs Committee Republican minority report, released this week, found “strong evidence that suggests Daszak is the public face of a CCP [Chinese Communist Party] disinformation campaign designed to suppress public discussion about a potential lab leak. “Daszak attempted to hide his close association with [China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology] while he referred to anyone in the scientific community who said a lab leak should be investigated as promoting a ‘conspiracy theory’.” What an irony, considering this is the very same Daszak whose word was treated as gospel by Facebook when it censored any mention that the virus leaked from the Chinese lab he part funded that was conducting Frankenstein “gain of function” research on bat viruses. Talk about a conflict of interest. Daszak, 55, has studiously avoided answering questions asked by Congress about what happened in Wuhan. While EcoHealth didn’t do research, the government agencies which funded it — the NIH, the Department of Defense, USAID — relied on Daszak to procure disease samples in foreign countries, said a former colleague of Daszak. “The process of collecting disease samples requires having all the necessary contacts in the foreign country, the politics aligned in that country, and the money,” according to the ex-colleague. In other words, the money was for access to Chinese viruses, Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIAID director, and leaders of the NIH, always had final approval authority on grants and contracts. Daszak was working hand in glove with Fauci, our top expert directing the nation’s response to the pandemic. Together, they wilfully misled us about the origin of the virus. They were willing to run the Chinese line and defend the Wuhan Institute this past year, even after the State Department confirmed that military research was being conducted there. Daszak’s orchestration of the shameful Lancet letter in February 2020, “debunking” the lab leak hypothesis as a “conspiracy theory” is highlighted in the congressional report. It quotes from emails which “show Daszak’s effort to organize a large group of scientists to sign onto a statement that he personally drafted,” taking care that EcoHealth alliance was not linked to the letter. “We’ll… put it out in a way that doesn’t link it back to our collaboration,” he wrote in one of the emails The Lancet declared at the time that the authors had “no competing interest,” despite the fact Daszak organized the letter on behalf of the Chinese researchers “who he funded and with whom he collaborated”, said the congressional report. It is a scandal which the once prestigious medical journal has never properly acknowledged. It just quietly, four months later, added an update suggesting Daszak might have ”competing interests” Daszak and his Chinese collaborators engaged in “bullying other scientists who questioned whether the virus could have leaked from a lab; misleading the world about how a virus can be modified without leaving a trace; and, in many, instances directly lying about the nature of the research they were conducting, as well as the low-level safety protocols they were using for that research,” said the congressional report. He appeared to spend much of last year isolating in the affluent arcadia of Rockland County in his million-dollar two-storey gabled white clapboard, nestled between a country club and the forests of the Ramapo Mountains. But someone disturbed his peace last August, when the FBI reportedly paid him a call after he reported receiving an envelope in the mail containing white powder. The following day Daszak got physical with a News 12 cameraman filming outside his house. The footage which aired that night showed a strenuous tussle for the camera and an angry Daszak can be heard saying “Go away”. Ever since, Daszak has successfully evaded scrutiny. At last, the finger of blame is pointing directly at him, from Congress. But this was a GOP-only report. Democrats refused to use their majority powers to issue subpoenas and compel Daszak to give evidence. There’s no excuse for that. The origin of the pandemic should be a bipartisan issue. If we don’t know what happened in Wuhan in 2019, how can we avoid a repeat performance? Naw - it's just a conspiracy theory.....

You may want to clarify Muda. A weak minded individual or mental midget may think you are agreeing with Ms. Warren, not the actual story you linked that is quite the opposite.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9860535/Bostons-acting-Mayor-Kim-Janey-compares-vaccine-passports-slave-papers-birtherism.html Boston’s acting Mayor Kim Janey likened vaccine passports to the papers that newly-freed slaves had to carry around after the civil war as she dismissed the idea of implementing them in her city. Janey - who became the first black woman to serve as mayor in the city when her predecessor was tapped to be US Secretary of Labor earlier this year - made the comments on Tuesday after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that indoor businesses will soon have to require customers to show proof of vaccination or otherwise turn them away. Janey acknowledged the importance of encouraging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 but said that requiring proof harkened back to a 'long history in this country of people needing to show their papers'. 'Whether we're talking about this from the standpoint of ... during slavery, post-slavery, as recent as what our immigrant population has to go through here,' Janey said. She seemed to compare vaccine passports to freedom papers, documentation showing that a black person was free of bondage and allowed to travel as they please before the end of slavery in the United States. 'We heard Trump with the birth certificate nonsense,' Janey added, referencing when Donald Trump in 2012 offered $5million to charity if President Barack Obama released his college and passport applications. During Barack Obama's presidency, Donald Trump was a leading proponent of the 'birther' theory, at one point offering $5million to a charity of Obama's choice if the president showed his papers Janey said she wants residents to have 'every opportunity' to get vaccinated, but that she was concerned the passports would be 'difficult to enforce' for businesses and would place an undue burden on certain communities, she told WCVB. 'Here we want to make sure we're not doing anything that would further create a barrier for residents of Boston or disproportionally impact BIPOC communities.' On Tuesday, Mayor de Blasio announced a 'first-in-the-nation' plan that will require customers to show proof of vaccination for indoor dining, performances and gyms starting August 16. 'If you want to participate in our society fully, you've got to get vaccinated. It's time,' de Blasio said. During her comments on Tuesday, Janey also alluded to Arizona's SB 1070 law, a 2010 law signed by then-Governor Jan Brewer that was widely known as the 'show me your papers' bill. The law, parts of which were eventually struck down by the US Supreme Court, faced fierce backlash and constitutional challenges after it was accused of empowering local law enforcement to stop immigrants and ask for their documentation regardless of legal status. 'These hurdles should not be excuses, but we must consider our shared history as we work to ensure an equitable public health and economic recovery,' Janey clarified in a statement later on Tuesday. The sheer lunacy of the left during this mess is amazing to witness. While I am in agreement with her on the NY/DeBlasio thing, she had to bring DJT into the argument over "Obama & birtherism". In the middle of all of this there are over 1 million (so far this year) "catch & release" illegal immigrants in the US and the left is still wondering how and/or why Covid isn't going away but actually spreading since the US has hit 70% vaccinated.......Amazing..... But again -lest we forget - Covid DID cure the flu!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/03/delta-plus-coronavirus-variant-explained/ South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Tuesday that it had recorded at least two cases of the new coronavirus delta-plus variant, which some experts believe to be more transmissible than the original delta variant that was first detected in India and has since thwarted plans for returning to life before the pandemic. But what do we know about “delta plus,” yet another new variant causing alarm among governments and health officials? First identified in Europe in March, the variant is also known as B. 1.617.2.1 or AY.1. It has been detected in several countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States and India. Last month, experts in India labeled the variant one of concern and warned that it appeared to be more transmissible than most. Citing studies, the country’s health ministry said that the variant has the ability to bind more easily to lung cells and could be resistant to therapies used to treat the infection.Union science and technology minister Jitendra Singh announced Friday that up to 70 cases of the delta-plus variant were detected in genome sequencing as of July 23, Hindustan Times reported. How India has weathered the devastation of the delta variant and how it has named the delta-plus variant as one of concern should place public health leaders on notice, said James E.K. Hildreth, president and chief executive of Meharry Medical College. “We’ve got to be more willing to consider observations made in other countries dealing with [the coronavirus],” he said, noting that the relative of the highly contagious delta variant is concerning. “Again, we saw what happen with delta in India and how quickly it spread … Why would we think the delta-plus variant would be different?” The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium has since said that the delta-plus variant is unlikely to be more transmissible than the delta variant and trends have yet to emerge, according to Hindustan Times. The variant was listed as one of concern by the international health agency, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it will continue to evaluate its independent classification. However, Melita Vujnovic, World Health Organization representative to Russia, said last month that face coverings and vaccinations will be needed to fight the latest variant. Last month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Europe was still “on thin ice” and expressed caution that authorities across the continent should remain “cautiously optimistic.” “We must remain watchful, new variants in particular, notably the delta variant, mean we must be cautious,” she said during her last government statement. In the United Kingdom, where more than 72 percent of adults have been fully vaccinated, the delta variant has accounted for nearly all new infections, even though coronavirus cases overall are on the decline. At least 39 confirmed cases of the delta-plus variant have been found in the country, along with six probable ones, according to a July briefing from Public Health England. The virus has not appeared to have gained intense traction on British soil, said Colin Angus, a public health policy modeler and analyst in England. The “plus” of the variant’s name refers to its K417N spike protein mutation, which was also found in some substrains of the alpha variant — the dominant strain in the country before the delta variant — but the substrains never got a foothold, he explained. “To date, there is no clear evidence that it conveys enough of a benefit to the virus to allow it to dominate the original delta variant,” he said. “So although it is clearly here, there is no obvious sign that it has gained a foothold over existing variants of the virus.” Angus also noted that delta-plus cases have primarily been in younger people but that preliminary data has shown that antibodies from vaccinated people are still effective against the variant. “This was in a very small sample,” he said of the data. “We need more evidence to get a clear picture about any possible advantage against vaccines that delta plus may have, but the fact that we haven’t seen it clearly outcompete delta despite having been found in several countries with high vaccination rates, suggests that any advantage can only be very small.” Richard Novak, head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at University of Illinois Health, said it is too soon to say how the delta-plus variant could evade vaccines or whether it is more infectious than the original. He noted that the variant is alarming, as it is related to the more contagious delta variant and coming at a time when breakthrough cases are popping up among the vaccinated. “This is just a process of natural selection and selecting viruses that are more contagious. All viruses want to do is reproduce themselves. The ones that do become the dominant virus,” he said. “We’re going to see other variants. It’s on a continuum. The variants are likely to get more efficient as time goes on.” The variant and the others that the CDC is monitoring greatly underscore the need for ramped-up vaccination efforts, Hildreth said, pointing out the large swaths of the population who are still unvaccinated and minority communities with underlying health conditions that make them more susceptible to variants. “The virus is not going to wait around for us to get our act together,” he said. “We’re in danger of something that’s going to set us back.” Is anyone else NOT surprised? The "Delta Plus" variant......That's gonna be worse than the Delta, that's already worse than the original.....(but it's really not).....

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/entertainment/offspring-pete-parada-vaccine-trnd/index.html (CNN)Pete Parada says he's been dropped from his band The Offspring and their tour over his refusal to get vaccinated. The drummer posted a lengthy note on his verified Instagram account saying that he had some "unfortunate and difficult news to share." "Given my personal medical history and the side-effect profile of these jabs, my doctor has advised me not to get a shot at this time," his note read. "I caught the virus over a year ago, it was mild for me - so I am confident I'd be able to handle it again, but I'm not so certain I'd survive another post-vaccination round of Guillain-Barre Syndrome which dates back to my childhood and has evolved to be progressively worse over my lifetime." The Delta variant has been spreading rapidly among the those who are not vaccinated and there have been increasing requirements from concert organizers to corporations requiring people to take the vaccine. Parada wrote in his note that "Since I am unable to comply with what is increasingly becoming an industry mandate, it has recently been decided that I am unsafe to be around, in the studio, and on tour." "I mention this because you won't be seeing me at these upcoming shows," he said. "I also want to share my story so that anyone else experiencing the agony and isolation of getting left behind right now knows they're not entirely alone." He also said he has "no negative feelings" toward the band he's been a part of since 2007. "They're doing what they believe is best for them, while I am doing the same," his note read. "Wishing the entire Offspring family all the best as they get back at it!" CNN has reached out to reps for the band for comment. And so it begins. The guy is advised by his physician not to get the vaccine due to medical complications that have plagued him all his life, and now those vaccinated bandmates kick him out. Seems kinda "Vaccist" to me.......

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/03/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-sexual-harassment-report.html New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women and then retaliated against a former employee who complained publicly about his conduct, according to a bombshell report released Tuesday by state Attorney General Letitia James. The monthslong probe concluded that Cuomo “sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law,” James said at a press conference. Her office noted, however, that there were no specific penalties tied to the report. The 165-page report, which comprises interviews with 179 witnesses and a review of tens of thousands of documents, also said that Cuomo’s office was riddled with fear and intimidation and was a hostile work environment for many staffers.08 Cuomo harassed members of his own staff, members of the public and other state employees, one of whom was a state trooper on his protective detail, the report alleges. He engaged in nonconsensual touching, groping, kissing and hugging, and made inappropriate comments toward numerous women, according to the report. It also concluded that the governor’s denials “lack credibility” and were “inconsistent with the weight of the evidence” gathered throughout the probe. A somber but defiant Cuomo strongly denied some of the allegations against him later Tuesday and said that other examples of his alleged misconduct had been mischaracterized or misinterpreted. The findings reveal “a deeply disturbing, yet clear, picture,” James said, describing Cuomo’s office as “a toxic workplace.” The announcement came about two weeks after Cuomo was interviewed by investigators retained by James’ office for the probe. Cuomo was reportedly questioned for 11 hours. Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins reiterated her prior calls for Cuomo to resign. “It should be clear to everyone that he can no longer serve as Governor,” she said in a statement. Mariann Wang, a lawyer for two accusers, Alyssa McGrath and Virginia Limmiatis, said in a statement, “Cuomo’s misogyny and abuse cannot be denied.” “He has been doing this for years, without any repercussions. He should not be in charge of our government and should not be in any position of power over anyone else,” Wang’s statement said. Debra Katz, an attorney for former Cuomo aide Charlotte Bennett, echoed Wang, saying Cuomo and other complicit staff “must resign immediately.” “If he does not, the New York State Assembly must accept the Attorney General’s findings and begin taking the appropriate steps to remove him from office,” Katz said in a statement. The probe into numerous women’s allegations of sexual harassment by Cuomo began in March, after the state’s executive chamber granted James’ request to investigate. Later that same month, dozens of Democratic state lawmakers — including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, with whom Cuomo has long had a fraught relationship — urged the governor to resign. New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, also a Democrat, in mid-March authorized a panel to launch an impeachment investigation into the harassment claims and other allegations of wrongdoing by Cuomo, including whether his staff tried to hide or alter data on coronavirus deaths in New York nursing homes. Cuomo has defended himself against all the allegations and has repeatedly rebuffed calls for his resignation, though he has apologized for making some women feel uncomfortable. “I never harassed anyone, I never assaulted anyone, I never abused anyone,” Cuomo said in March. “I’m not going to resign.” In a video statement shared later Tuesday after the report came out, Cuomo said “the facts are much different than what has been portrayed.” “I never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances,” Cuomo said. “I am 63 years old. I’ve lived my entire adult life in public view. That is just not who I am.” Cuomo said that some of his behaviors included in the report, such as cupping a woman’s face in his hands in an embrace, were only ever meant to convey warmth. “I am the same person in public as I am in private,” he said. But “I now understand that there are generational or cultural perspectives that frankly I hadn’t fully appreciated, and I have learned from this,” Cuomo added. He said he had brought in an expert to design a new sexual harassment policy and procedures, and that the whole team, himself included, would be retrained. Cuomo also asserted that “politics and bias are interwoven throughout every aspect of this investigation.” “One would be naive to think otherwise, and New Yorkers are not naive,” he said. President Joe Biden has previously said that Cuomo should resign if the allegations against him are confirmed by the investigation. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki at a briefing later Tuesday said the message from the White House to Cuomo’s accusers is that all women who have “lived through this type of experience” deserve to “be treated with respect and dignity.” “I don’t know that anyone could have watched [James’ press conference] this morning and not found the allegations to be abhorrent— I know I certainly did,” Psaki said. Cuomo still had the backing of multiple New York business leaders going into the release of the report. His reelection campaign raised over $2 million on the backs of the executives, including big donations from real estate executive Stephen Ross and Laurance Rockefeller Jr., a member of the ultrawealthy Rockefeller family. It’s unclear if those executives will still support him going forward. Cuomo has previously suggested that the probe was not being conducted in an independent manner, and members of his staff have noted that James could be a potential future gubernatorial candidate in New York. James at the presser said she was offended by the efforts to undercut and discredit the investigation. “I believe women. And I believe all of these 11 women,” James said. The report reveals that Cuomo’s younger brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, was interviewed by investigators. “During his testimony, Chris Cuomo explained that there was discussion about remedial measures the [Executive] Chamber should take in light of the sexual harassment allegations, but some people had taken the position that ‘they should just wait,’” the report says. The report also says, “According to internal documents and communications obtained during the investigation, it appears that the Governor’s advisors, including Mr. Pollock and Chris Cuomo, counseled him to express contrition after the press published Ms. Bennett’s allegations.” The document also details calls to Democratic county executives made by New York’s Covid-19 vaccine czar, Larry Schwartz, gauging whether they thought the governor should resign. The calls were made at the request of top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa, according to the report. It would appear the fences are closing in on "Handsy Andy" so perhaps next is the "Granny Killer" investigation??????????

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/cdc-study-shows-74percent-of-people-infected-in-massachusetts-covid-outbreak-were-fully-vaccinated.html About three-fourths of people infected in a Massachusetts Covid-19 outbreak were fully vaccinated against the coronavirus with four of them ending up in the hospital, according to new data published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new data, published in the U.S. agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also found that fully vaccinated people who get infected carry as much of the virus in their nose as unvaccinated people, and could spread it to other individuals. “This finding is concerning and was a pivotal discovery leading to CDC’s updated mask recommendation,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a statement. “The masking recommendation was updated to ensure the vaccinated public would not unknowingly transmit virus to others, including their unvaccinated or immunocompromised loved ones.” On Tuesday, the CDC reversed course on its prior guidance and recommended fully vaccinated Americans who live in areas with high Covid infection rates resume wearing face masks indoors. The guidelines cover about two-thirds of the U.S. population, according to a CNBC analysis. While the delta variant continues to hit unvaccinated people the hardest, some vaccinated people could be carrying higher levels of the virus than previously understood and are potentially transmitting it to others, Walensky told reporters on a call Tuesday. She added the variant behaves “uniquely differently from past strains of the virus.” A CDC document that was reviewed by CNBC warned that the delta variant sweeping across the country is as contagious as chickenpox, has a longer transmission window than the original Covid strain and may make older people sicker, even if they’ve been fully vaccinated. Delta, now in at least 132 countries and already the dominant form of the disease in the United States, is more transmissible than the common cold, the 1918 Spanish flu, smallpox, Ebola, MERS and SARS, according to the document. Only measles appears to spread faster than the variant. The data published Friday was based on 469 cases of Covid associated with multiple summer events and large public gatherings held in July in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, which encompasses Cape Cod and is just outside Martha’s Vineyard. The events were held in Provincetown, according to NBC News. Approximately three-quarters, or 74%, of the cases occurred in fully vaccinated people who had completed a two-dose course of the mRNA vaccines or received a single shot of Johnson & Johnson’s. Overall, 274 vaccinated patients with a breakthrough infection were symptomatic, according to the CDC. The most common side effects were cough, headache, sore throat, muscle pain and fever. Among five Covid patients who were hospitalized, four were fully vaccinated, according to the agency. No deaths were reported. Testing identified the delta variant in 90% of specimens from 133 patients. While numerous studies have shown that the vaccines don’t work as well against the delta variant as they did against other strains, health officials say they are still highly effective, especially in protecting against severe illness and death. Roughly 97% of new hospitalizations and 99.5% of deaths in the U.S. are among unvaccinated individuals, U.S. health officials repeated this week. The CDC also said the data has limitations. The agency noted that as population-level vaccination coverage increases, vaccinated persons are likely to represent a larger proportion of Covid cases. Additionally, asymptomatic breakthrough infections might be underrepresented because of detection bias, the agency said. The CDC also said the report is “insufficient” to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the authorized vaccines against Covid, including the delta variant, during this outbreak. Wait a tic......All SF has heard the past weeks is "the unvaccinated" is the cause of the spread.......According to this from CNBC - the vaccinated seem to be the greater source of the spread...... Yeahbut - that was in Massachusetts.....so yeah......

How to cause a revolution - Mess with the public's bacon - see how fast the masses assemble!

Don't forget the reality that has existed for a long time. A virus can be carried by ANYONE, regardless of vaccination or not. The symptoms are experienced greater in ANY unvaccinated group. (ie: flu, strep, etc) It seems everyone has forgotten this after last year. A "case" of COVID is just that. A case. BTW - Here's another thought......

https://nypost.com/2021/07/28/surprise-surprise-the-migrants-bidens-letting-in-arent-reporting-to-the-feds/ Team Biden has released 50,000 illegal immigrants into the country without even giving them a court date. And — surprise, surprise — just 13 percent have reported as required to Immigration and Customs Enforcement on reaching their destinations. Yet the administration continues its catch-and-release policy, with 7,300 migrants in the Rio Grande Valley alone let go without notices to appear in the past week. President Joe Biden restored the old “catch and release” policy of releasing many illegal immigrants while telling them to later check in with the feds — simply hoping they’ll comply to seek permission to work. Oops: Only 6,700 of the 50,000 who arrived between mid-March and mid-July did so, Axios reports, citing Homeland Security data. About 27,000 migrants are still within their 60-day window to report. But 16,000 have let the deadline lapse without contacting ICE. These are people who entered the United States illegally, after all. Why think they’ll start honoring the law once they’ve made it in? Total southern-border apprehensions for the year have already reached 1 million — a number not seen since December 2006 — and show no signs of slowing. It was more than 188,000 for last month alone, the worst June in over two decades. And while Biden’s CDC moves to re-mask America, his administration is releasing tens of thousands of unvaccinated migrants across the country: ICE says 30 percent of illegals in its custody have refused the jab. DHS spokeswoman Meira Bernstein told Axios, “Those who do not report, like anyone who is in our country without legal status, are subject to removal by ICE.” That’s laughable. On his first day in the White House, Biden put a moratorium on deportations, and he just reiterated his push to give all illegal immigrants in the country a pathway to citizenship. SURPRISE? SF thinks the Biden administration's immigration policy is working just as he intended it to.........

I had one.

SF is on a diet, so I feel I can benefit from a smaller bag of chips.