Mississippi law bans COVID vaccine mandates: https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-mississippi-tate-reeves-2708e160f69a69629ff8e9d442dff009 . America’s Third World has spoken …
Shanghai COVID surge continues: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/24/china/beijing-covid-outbreak-lockdown-fears-intl-hnk/index.html . Note that cases went back above 20,000 on Saturday. As to the Zero COVID policy, I had a boss about 35 years ago, a former longshoreman, who would have described this as “pissing up a rope”. In other words, the futility of China’s policy is obvious to everyone.
Shanghai seals residents in buildings struck by COVID: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-04-23/shanghai-blockades-covid-hit-buildings-fuelling-fresh-outcry .
WSJ: More evidence Shanghai COVID surge is out of control and underreported: https://www.wsj.com/articles/shanghai-nursing-home-covid-deaths-11650641053 . Meanwhile, most Chinese have no idea how bad things are in Shanghai: https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-shanghai-is-going-through-is-news-to-many-in-the-rest-of-china-11650687277 .
Russia reverses course, attempts to storm Mariupol steel plant: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-europe-moscow-07659d866eb9496caf00842c3a90f36c . Apparently, Putin’s televised order two days ago to simply close off the plant was just a phony photo-op to be fed to the Russian people.
WSJ: Russia executed civilians in Bucha: https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-turned-a-bucha-building-into-an-execution-site-and-underground-prison-11650715201 . Putin missed the mark in his rationale for the war. There are now Nazis in Ukraine – they are Russian troops.
Ukraine claims it destroyed a Russian command post in Kherson, killing two generals: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/top-kyiv-official-says-ukraine-has-destroyed-a-russian-command-post-in-kherson/ar-AAWvSpm?li=BBnb7Kz . This was the first area Russia mostly subdued in the south. So if true, this is an impressive counterattack.
WSJ: Russia stops publishing economic data: https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-blocks-economic-data-hiding-effect-of-western-sanctions-11650677765 . However, we’ll figure this out without published data.
“We Build the Wall” fraud admitted as 2 go to prison while Bannon goes free: https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-business-donald-trump-b0b6d7ec4d4f71f75213e8e63a4785f3 . So how are there any GOP voters left?
January 6 committee wants Meadows to testify: https://www.wsj.com/articles/jan-6-committee-seeks-to-force-mark-meadows-testimony-11650687691 .