Abbott plans ongoing murder of Texans: https://thegrio.com/2021/08/17/texas-fema-mortuary-trailers-covid-19-surge/ . This disgusting competition between Abbott and DeMentis needs to end. The Taliban want all women to wear hijabs. They are doing more to mask their population from COVID than these two idiot governors. The Tokyo Olympics has closed. In the GOP, the Idiot Olympics is now an ongoing way of life – and death.
Abbott tests positive for COVID: https://news.yahoo.com/texas-gov-greg-abbott-who-opposes-vaccine-and-mask-mandates-tests-positive-for-covid-19-211349823.html . WSJ: More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-gov-greg-abbott-tests-positive-for-covid-19-11629235324 . What goes around comes around.
Florida skeptics come around to vaccination during surge: https://apnews.com/article/health-religion-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-7d2010935c177ccf5b479bf372553604 . Sadly, as predicted, the virus has to hit close to home for some of the brainwashed to change their minds.
Florida surge will continue: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-levels-of-covid-19-detected-in-wastewater-show-the-central-florida-surge-isnt-slowing-down-officials-say/ar-AANqjrr?li=BBnb7Kz / .
Meanwhile, DeMentis’ minions push to endanger children: https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida-school-mask-mandates-draw-sanctions-from-state-board-of-education-11629245032 .
Louisiana surge overwhelming medical capacity: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/louisiana-is-approaching-a-major-failure-of-its-healthcare-system-as-hospitals-get-dangerously-close-to-capacity/ar-AANqPVj?li=BBnb7Kz .
Ditto for Alabama: https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/hospitals-in-alabama-overwhelmed-with-covid-patients-118878277774 .
Georgia schools close two weeks after opening due to COVID surge: https://news.yahoo.com/entire-georgia-school-district-shut-164153995.html . This was so obvious and predictable. More: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210816/covid-outbreaks-shut-dwon-schools-georgia-south-carolina .
New Mexico will reimpose indoor mask mandate: https://www.krqe.com/health/coronavirus-new-mexico/governor-state-health-officials-to-hold-covid-19-news-conference/ .
WSJ: COVID breakthrough cases are still rare: https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-delta-surges-covid-19-breakthrough-cases-remain-uncommon-11629199800 .
Alaska Airlines loses 3 unvaccinated employees to COVID: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/three-alaska-airlines-employees-die-of-covid-as-leadership-moves-toward-vaccination-mandate/ . Company leadership is moving toward a vaccination mandate for employees.
Southwest Airlines loses vaccinated flight attendant to COVID: https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/coronavirus-fully-vaccinated-southwest-flight-attendant-dies-covid-19/W3DQP4XR2JGIVFBEZKFAHI7JLY/ .
Research on COVID aerosols: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-coronavirus-aerosol-droplets-airborne-evolution .
Chicago pharmacist faces major prison time for selling blank vaccination cards: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3145402/coronavirus-us-pharmacist-tangtang-zhao-arrested . Broadcasting your crime in print online is never a good idea.
WSJ: North Carolina still doesn’t outlaw child marriages: https://www.wsj.com/articles/north-carolina-lawmakers-vote-to-raise-legal-age-of-marriage-to-16-11629239030 . This tightening is progress, in some perverted sense.
The Afghanistan evacuation: https://news.yahoo.com/kabul-airport-secure-taliban-pentagon-evacuation-flights-180638067.html . So, 5,000 to 9,000 daily over 14 days is 70,000 to 126,000. This suggests the 100,000 evacuees estimate is in the ballpark. If c 130’s are used for all evacuations, even though 800 were crammed on yesterday’s flight, a load of 300 per flight seems more realistic: https://www.aviation24.be/airports/kabul-hamid-karzai-airport-kbl/800-people-said-to-be-evacuated-from-kabul-on-a-single-u-s-c-17-cargo-plane/ . See also: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/aero/documents/C-130J/C130JPocketGuide.pdf . That requires 3,300 flights in the next 14 days, or an average of about 240 per day.
The flight (to Qatar) is 2 hours each way, so allowing time for loading and unloading, and refueling and crew changes, assume it takes 6 hours to complete a round trip. Then one plane can make 6 trips a day, and a minimum of 40 planes are needed.
But 240 flights per day mean 10 per hour. Also, it is hard to imagine how 100,000 arrivals can be accommodated in Qatar. So there are probably multiple destinations (Ramstein in Germany seems likely). There are about 11,000 Americans being evacuated, so assume a similar number of persons from Allied countries: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/15-000-americans-remain-afghanistan-after-taliban-takeover-n1277033 . The remainder, about 80,000, would then be Afghanis. Most of these people are in hiding. Even with Taliban cooperation, the logistics of getting 100,000 people to the airport, processed, and loaded onto planes seem undoable. We will see.
WSJ: Dollars withheld from Afghanistan: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-halted-dollar-shipments-to-afghanistan-to-keep-cash-out-of-talibans-hands-11629233621 .
New York AG wants NRA shut down: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/nras-unabated-corruption-justifies-shutting-it-down-new-york-says-2021-08-17/ .
The shortcomings of lockdown as your only plan: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-single-covid-19-case-in-new-zealand-has-sparked-another-full-national-lockdown-we-need-to-again-go-hard-and-early-the-prime-minister-said/ar-AANpzSS?li=BBnb7Kz . More: WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-zealand-orders-lockdown-after-first-covid-19-case-in-six-months-11629193896 . Once again, every country on Earth has failed to properly follow basic public health guidance. The obvious reason that multiple strategies are used (quarantines, vaccination, contact tracing and testing, and so on) is that this is more effective than following just one technique. WSJ: South American vaccination rates catching up to US: https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-covid-19-vaccination-push-latin-american-nations-are-catching-up-to-the-u-s-11629192601. This shows how damaging the US anti-vaxxers are to the rest of us. We have vaccine resistance more than vaccine hesitancy.