New Omicron wave hits Europe: https://www.cityam.com/new-omicron-wave-growing-fast-we-were-wrong-to-think-covid-was-over-and-vaccination-is-not-enough/ . My frustration with the global response to the pandemic also grows. Obviously, when the global COVID virus load is allowed to grow, the risk of more variants grows. And it remains entirely possible that some of those variants will be both more transmissible and more deadly than current variants. We must increase the focus on managing the global virus load.
Medicare could save billions by buying from a Maverick pharmacy: https://www.wsj.com/articles/buying-from-mark-cubans-pharmacy-could-save-medicare-billions-study-says-11655758800 . But why not eliminate the middleman and allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly?
Pfizer buys stake in French vaccines company Valneva: https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-06-20/pfizer-to-buy-8-1-of-capital-of-vaccines-company-valneva .
Financial institutions coming around to the idea that a recession is arriving: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/investment-banks-sounding-recession-alarm-080000887.html .
January 6 hearing Tuesday: Orange Julius takes his treasonous plan to overturn the election to state officials: https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-6-panel-hear-raffensperger-040738533.html . The committee is relentlessly laying out a detailed indictment of OJ’s illegal behavior. This hearing will summarize evidence that the false electors stunt was a concerted effort by OJ’s campaign: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fake-electors-2657534115/ .
One potential advantage of not walking away from the truth is that we will no longer have to hear from this ignorant pig. However, Robert Reich sees the GOP as continuing full steam ahead on the Big Lie: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/robert-b-reich-why-the-january-6-committee-is-failing-to-slow-trumps-attempted-coup/ar-AAYFnSn?li=BBnb7Kz . The phrase is “truth, justice and the American Way”. If truth disappears, so do justice and the American Way.
Texas Republicans, already fact-free, sail off the edge of Sanity World: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-republican-party-adopts-far-right-position-that-homosexuality-is-abnormal/ar-AAYFFkQ?li=BBnb7Kz . Keep shrinking your tent, because you will end as a political force that much sooner. (ff, 6/19/22)
DOJ obtains guilty plea in Colorado death threats case: https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-technology-colorado-denver-cf061ce08b08cff4d0ff168bd16afee2 . It’s too bad the maximum sentence is two years.
Stephen Colbert explains his crew “insurrection” in the US Capitol: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/stephen-colbert-monologue-triumph-arrest-capitol-1235297906/ . Hey, at least you get to see Colbert’s Monday night monologue!
Nuts discovered near Joshua Tree: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sovereign-citizens-arrested-california-deputies-allegedly-find-explosi-rcna34380 . These clowns just won long-term accommodations at taxpayer expense. Their attorney is not going to be able to finesse “prohibited from possessing” the weapons in their possession.