How about you have to carry a bell everywhere you go calling "UNCLEAN ... UNCLEAN ..."

Just incase you know anyone who's "vaccine hesitant" ...

Yes, Covid Penis Is a Thing
Some men say Covid-19 is hitting them below the belt
Wudan Yan

When Steven Bell caught Covid-19 this spring, he was surprised that he didn’t have a fever. Rather, it felt like a bad sinus infection. Soon, he lost his sense of smell, and went on to develop insomnia. He felt like the virus was also affecting his circulation, and would swing his arms in circles to keep the blood flowing. Then, more bafflingly, when he and his wife were intimate, he couldn’t get an erection. “It was frustrating and infuriating for me, because I knew it wasn’t working the way it should,” said Bell, a 49-year-old from Phoenix, AZ. “My ego wouldn’t accept that I was performing like an 80-year-old in the bedroom.”

Some men who have survived Covid-19 say that the virus may have impacted their ability to get or maintain an erection. That tracks with the idea that Covid-19 is a vascular disease, which Elemental senior writer Dana Smith explained at length in May, as blood flow is important for getting or maintaining an erection. Erectile dysfunction can occur at any age — and becomes more common as men get older — and may affect up to a third of all men. In the context of Covid-19, men as young as 39 have been documented to experience erectile dysfunction as ...

117 employees sue Houston Methodist hospital for requiring COVID-19 vaccine
So far, 99% of the hospital's 26,000 employees have been vaccinated.
Marlene Lenthang

Over 100 employees have joined a lawsuit against Houston Methodist hospital in Texas for requiring all employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

The network, which oversees eight hospitals and has more than 26,000 employees, gave workers a deadline of June 7 to get the vaccine. If not, staffers risk suspension and termination, according to the lawsuit.

As a result, 117 employees have joined a lawsuit filed Friday in Montgomery County that alleges the hospital is "illegally requiring its employees to be injected with an experimental vaccine as a condition of employment."

The lawsuit cited that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its first emergency use authorization for COVID-19 in December 2020, but the vaccines are awaiting full FDA approval and licensing, which will likely take months for the agency to review additional data.

The complaint cited that forcing employees to get the vaccine violates Nuremberg Code, a medical ethics code which ...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/117-employees ... d=77977011

The GOP Goes to War With Business. This Time, It’s Over Vaccination.
Vaccination mandates are the new political battleground. And cruise lines, of all things, are caught in the middle.
James Surowiecki

One of the most important stories in American politics right now is the growing fissure between Republicans and big business, which historically was the constituency that Republican politicians, at least, were most invested in protecting. The tension between the GOP and big corporations arose because of the emergence of what’s sometimes called “woke capitalism,” with companies taking positions at odds with Republicans on issues like LGBTQ rights, abortion, and, most recently, voting rights. But now that tension is being aggravated by a new issue: Covid vaccination requirements.

Even as widespread vaccination has helped bring down Covid infection, hospitalization, and death rates across the country, vaccines have — like seemingly everything else these days — become a partisan issue, with a surprisingly high percentage of GOP voters saying they either definitely will not get the vaccine or are still hesitant to do so. And while most high-profile GOP politicians (far-right outliers like Marjorie Taylor Greene aside) describe themselves as pro-vaccine, they’ve seized on an opposition to vaccine mandates as a way to cater to vaccine skeptics.

Texas senator Ted Cruz, for instance, plans to introduce a No Vaccine Passport Act, which would prohibit not only the government from requiring people to get vaccinated, but would also ban businesses from requiring employees to be vaccinated or customers from having to show proof of vaccination. And the office of Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who recently signed a law banning businesses from imposing vaccination requirements of any kind on employees or customers, has said that if cruise lines attempt to require their customers to show proof of vaccination, it could cost them millions of dollars in fines.

What’s fascinating about these legislative initiatives — which have been mimicked in other Republican-controlled states — is that even though the GOP is putatively a pro-business party, they’re utterly indifferent to the rights and needs of businesses. Republicans often complain about ...

https://surowiecki.medium.com/the-gop-g ... 8cad74be9e

From the article

Cruise lines (and other businesses) can simply avoid Florida.

Cruise lines yes. Not so sure about airlines.

But I don't think cruise lines have a choice - they either insist that all passengers be vaccinated or they avoid those places that require all arriving passengers to be vaccinated.

And you can imagine the lawsuits if passengers on a particular cruise ship start coming down with COVID because they obeyed DeSantis' idiotic ruling.

And you can imagine the lawsuits if passengers on a particular cruise ship start coming down with COVID because they obeyed DeSantis' idiotic ruling.


Aren't there already laws protecting companies from Covid related infestations.

Worth listening to

Blair has 'no sympathy' for people who refuse vaccine

Tony Blair spoke to Andrew Marr about his views on vaccinations and vaccine passports.

The former prime minister said those who are eligible and able to get the vaccine should get it, but stopped short of saying that vaccines should be mandatory.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-57374684

Ex-Wisconsin pharmacist gets prison for ruining vaccine
A former pharmacist in Wisconsin who purposefully ruined more than 500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine has been sentenced to three years in prison
The Associated Press

A former pharmacist in Wisconsin who purposefully ruined more than 500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday.

Steven Brandenburg, 46, of Grafton, pleaded guilty in February to two felony counts of attempting to tamper with a consumer product. He had admitted to intentionally removing the doses manufactured by Moderna from a refrigerator for hours at Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, located just north of Milwaukee.

In a statement before receiving his sentence, Brandenburg said he felt “great shame” and accepted responsibility for his actions. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported he apologized to his co-workers, family and the community.

Aurora destroyed most of the tampered doses, but not before 57 people received inoculations from the supply. Those doses are believed to have still been effective, but weeks of uncertainty created a storm of anger, anxiety and anguish among the recipients, according to court documents.

Prosecutors asked for a sentence of three years and five months. Brandenburg faced a maximum penalty of 10 years of imprisonment at $250,000 in fines for each felony count.

Brandenburg is an admitted conspiracy theorist who believes he is a prophet and vaccines are a product of the devil. He also professed a belief that the Earth is flat and the 9/11 terrorist attacks were faked.

Brandenburg also secretly substituted saline for flu vaccine that he was mandated to receive and persuaded several co-workers to secretly swap saline for their flu vaccine as well, according to court filings.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory ... e-78154307

D.C., Md. hospitals will require employees to get vaccinated against covid-19
Rachel Chason

The vast majority of hospitals in the District and Maryland will soon start requiring employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, officials announced Wednesday, wading into politically fraught territory that in other parts of the country has led to protests and at least one lawsuit.

Leaders of hospitals and hospital associations said the decision was made to protect patients and staff members, citing the efficacy of the vaccine and noting its minimal side effects. Individual hospitals will establish their own timelines by which employees must be vaccinated, and some say they have no immediate plans to terminate employees who do not comply — instead, they will be required to undergo regular coronavirus testing.

Jacqueline D. Bowens, the president of the D.C. Hospital Association, said the decision to require vaccinations was not ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc ... story.html

I received my first COVID jab May 5, 2021 at 11:12 AM. My proof of vaccination (certificate) was in my e-mail box at 11:15 AM... 3 minutes later. My 2nd jab is early August but will likely be moved up in the next few days.

#1114
They won't be making wedding cakes for gay couples, either. Funny how that works, eh?

Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated
By CARLA K. JOHNSON and MIKE STOBBE

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine.

An Associated Press analysis of available government data from May shows that “breakthrough” infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 853,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. That’s about 0.1%.

And only about 150 of the more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May were in fully vaccinated people. That translates to about 0.8%, or five deaths per day on average.

The AP analyzed figures provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC itself has not estimated what percentage of hospitalizations and deaths are in fully vaccinated people, citing limitations in the data.

Among them: Only about ...

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus- ... 54f5d5e187

Unless you happen to be one of them, it's also not bad in the great scheme of things.

To fully vaccinate children against Covid-19 by the time school starts, many parents must act now
Elizabeth Cohen

While it's a bit of a bummer to think about going back to school before it's even the Fourth of July, in many parts of the country, if you want your child to be immunized against Covid-19 by the time classes start, you need to act fast.

Many large school systems -- including Atlanta, Fort Myers, Florida, Flagstaff, Arizona, and the entire state of Hawaii -- start school in the first two weeks of August.

It takes five weeks to be fully vaccinated with Pfizer's vaccine, the only one authorized for adolescents ages 12 to 17. That means, for example, Atlanta students need to get their first shot by July 1 to be fully immunized by the first day of school on August 5.

"Get them vaccinated. Vaccine provides, without a doubt, the best protection against Covid, and we want our schools to be safe and we want our children to go back to school," said Dr. William Schaffner, a longtime vaccine adviser to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We have two grandchildren in that age group, and they have been vaccinated, so do not only as I say, but do as my family has done."

Pfizer's vaccine is given in ...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/28/heal ... index.html

And if you're someplace where school starts in September the first jab has be be given by early August ....

Millions of Americans view being anti-vaccination as a part of their social identity
A poll finds more than a fifth of Americans always or sometimes self-identify with the anti-vaccine movement
By MATTHEW ROZSA

In a new paper published for the journal Politics, Groups, and Identities, researchers found that 22 percent of Americans actively identify themselves as anti-vaccination, with 14 percent saying they are "sometimes" part of the movement and 8 percent saying this is "always" the case.

These self-described anti-vaxxers "embrace" the label of anti-vaxxer "as a form of social identity," the authors write.

"We also find that people who score highly on our [anti-vaxx social identification] measure tend to be less trusting of scientific experts and more individualistic," they noted.

The study is a stark reminder that vaccine-hostile attitudes are not a fringe view, but are possessed by a substantial portion of the US population, many of whom have come to consider the label a formative part of their identity. As daily COVID-19 vaccination rates have begun to decline, the cohort of self-identified anti-vaccination Americans are contributing to the delayed ...

https://www.salon.com/2021/06/08/millio ... tity-poll/

Maryland says 100 percent of COVID-19 deaths last month were among unvaccinated
BY PETER SULLIVAN

All COVID-19 deaths in Maryland last month were among unvaccinated people, the state said on Tuesday.

“June 2021 data: 100% of COVID-19 deaths in Maryland occurred in people who were unvaccinated,” tweeted Michael Ricci, communications director for Gov. Larry Hogan (R).

Ricci also said that 95 percent of new COVID-19 cases were in unvaccinated people and 93 percent of new coronavirus hospitalizations consisted of individuals who have not received the vaccine.

Experts say that the new COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the United States are largely avoidable now that vaccines are widely available.

Anthony Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, said Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press" that on a national level, 99.2 percent of coronavirus deaths in June were among unvaccinated individuals, compared to just 0.8 percent among those who were vaccinated.

“No vaccine is perfect,” Fauci told NBC News host Chuck Todd. “But when you talk about the avoidability of hospitalization and death, Chuck, it's really sad and tragic that ...

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5 ... were-among

W.Va. governor: 'If you're not vaccinated, you're part of the problem'
BY LEXI LONAS

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) pleaded with his residents to get vaccinated against the coronavirus on Tuesday as the highly contagious delta variant continues to spread across the U.S.

"If you're out there in West Virginia, and you're not vaccinated today, what's the downside?" Justice said during a press conference.

"If all of us were vaccinated, do you not believe that less people would die? If you're not vaccinated, you're part of the problem rather than part of the solution,” he added.

The governor specifically mentioned young people in the press conference, stating they aren’t aware of the consequences when they choose not to get vaccinated.

"The young people out there are the ones that are dragging their feet," Justice said. "The sun is shining, they're out of school, all is good in the world and everything, yet they don't really realize that they could be the transmitters that could be passing this on to someone that's going to die."

Only 56 percent of the state’s residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine, while more than ...

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5 ... art-of-the

'Call out Fox News!' Mitch McConnell shredded after saying he's 'perplexed' about why GOP voters refuse vaccines
Bob Brigham

The politicization of coronavirus vaccines in America has created a correlation between vaccination rates and whether or not a state voted for Joe Biden or Donald Trump.

Republicans and white evangelicals have been among the groups most likely to resist getting vaccinated.

Where Republicans are getting their information on vaccines is also impacting public perception of getting vaccinated.
Chris Matthews talks to Raw Story: Who would you bet on in 2024, Trump or Kamala?

A recent FiveThirtyEight survey, for instance, found that "Republicans who got their news from OANN or Newsmax were generally more extreme in their beliefs around QAnon and in their refusal to get vaccinated than those who got their news from ...

https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnel ... publicans/

Another article on McConnell's inability to understand why GOP voters don't want to get vaccinated

Mitch McConnell doesn't know the answer to the simplest question in the world
Chris Cillizza

On Thursday, Mitch McConnell was asked about the sluggish Covid-19 vaccination rates among his fellow Kentuckians -- and why he believed it to be the case.
"I'm perplexed by the reluctance of some to get vaccinated, totally perplexed," he said.
Perplexed, eh?

Let me help!

Maybe just maybe -- and I am spitballing here -- the relentless efforts by former President Donald Trump and his Fox News cohorts to question the severity of the coronavirus, scoff at medical guidance on mask-wearing and cast the whole response to -- and vaccination for -- Covid-19 as an issue of freedom as opposed to one of public health might have something to do with it?

Uh yeah.

While Trump has been vaccinated -- and has said he thinks others should get vaccinated too -- he was the only living president not to participate in a public service announcement urging shots in arms, and he spent much of the previous 16 months downplaying the virus and vilifying the health care experts seeking to mitigate the number of dead from it.

Fox News' most-watched primetime show has led the way when it comes to raising questions about whether to get the vaccine. (Sidebar: You should!)

As far back as January, Tucker Carlson has devoted large chunks of his show to highlighting anecdotal evidence of people who had negative experiences with the vaccine -- and casting this all as an issue of freedom.

Here's Carlson from back then:


"In this country, we control our own bodies. They are always telling us that. But no. Suddenly, the rules have changed. On the question of the corona vaccine, our leaders definitely are not pro-choice. Their view is do as you are told and don't complain. No uncomfortable questions. Those are not just suggestions, they are rules and Silicon Valley aims to enforce them."


Carlson's anti-vax rhetoric has only grown more heated since. As CNN's Brian Stelter wrote of Carlson's opening thoughts during a May show:

"The 15-minute monologue began with an on-screen banner that said 'EVERYONE IN AUTHORITY WANTS YOU TO GET YOUR VACCINE,' and it went downhill from
there."

Carlson's guests, too, push this anti-vaccine message. Earlier this week, conservative talking head Charlie Kirk compared colleges and universities requiring the Covid-19 vaccine to an "apartheid-style, open-air hostage situation."

Given all of that, it should come as no surprise at all -- to McConnell or anyone else -- that you can track Covid-19 vaccinations rates by the percentage of the vote Trump won in 2020.

In states he won big --- Idaho, Oklahoma etc. -- vaccinations rates are running well under 50%. Where Trump lost overwhelmingly -- Vermont, Massachusetts -- vaccination rates are some of the highest in the country.

In short: You can literally overlay the 2020 map on the current vaccination map and have an almost-perfect match. Blue states have the most heavily vaccinated populations; red states have the least vaccinated populations.

McConnell knows all of this. And in that same event in Kentucky on Thursday, he let slip that he did.

"To use a sports analogy, we're in the red zone, the last 20 yards before the end zone, but we're not in the end zone yet because there is resistance for various reasons that seem to have gotten caught up in politics," said McConnell.

Yup. Trump, with a major assist from the likes of Carlson and others -- though not all -- at Fox News turned vaccination against a virus that has killed more than 600,000 Americans into a political issue. And no, it didn't have to be this way. The vast majority of Americans get a tetanus shot or an MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine without a word of protest.

Less perplexed now?

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/09/poli ... index.html



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In short: You can literally overlay the 2020 map on the current vaccination map and have an almost-perfect match. Blue states have the most heavily vaccinated populations; red states have the least vaccinated populations.

I'm sure you can overlay that same 2020 map on a map showing education levels and have an equally perfect match.