Underoos and Boosters

Posted on July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 by thependulumswings staff

To mask or not to mask? That is but one of the many questions that the CDC must ask, and answer.

Main St. (we have plenty of toilet paper and Clorox Wipes on the shelves) and Wall St. (new highs on major averages nearly weekly) are behaving much differently than last April 2020. Meanwhile, the CDC, WHO, Fauci, and your ever-loving government seem like they can’t get out of the middle of a busy intersection.

They have a few questions to answer. Again, we might add.

In no particular order, we pose more than two handfuls below.

Do masks really help? No, really help?
If they do why aren’t we all wearing them again right now? Why only the hot spots CDC? Why not the other spots before they turn into hot spots as well?
Should we call the vaccines, well, vaccines? Or should we call them therapeutics? When you hear about needing a booster (3rd shot) after a scant few months you have to wonder. When you hear Pfizer’s initial two doses may only have a 40% retention of the antibodies after only four months you have to wonder even more.
How can pro golfer Jon Rahm test positive six weeks ago, go into quarantine, get fully vaccinated, and test positive yet again this past week? If you trust the tests, which is a whole other box of swabs, then Rahm’s results make you wonder why we test and why we get vaccinated.
Where is the “science” or “data” (the two most overused words on the planet in the last 15 months) that compares positive tested adults’ resiliency to reoccurrence v. vaccinated adults?
Why did Biden campaign against the “reckless way” Trump rushed the vaccines to the market and now blame those unvaccinated for the latest wave? Seems like a mixed message. Also, how can the border be wide open during a pandemic?
Why do those that scream that it is a women’s right to choose also scream at the unvaccinated as if they have no right to choose? If your answer is that they are two totally different circumstances, you may be right and you may be wrong at the same time.
Is anyone working on a better vaccine? We assume that private enterprise and capitalism are always doing what the market rewards, but the noise is quite silent around this. Why aren’t people demanding this and holding the Administration’s feet to the fire?
Is big brother actively encouraging pharma to do so? Are they incentivizing it? We give away billions every day. Maybe we could call it infrastructure to speed it along? Maybe we could call it climate change remediation to speed it along?
Where did the flu go? How did we drop from millions of cases in a year to next to none? Ah, was it because of masks, washing hands, and social distancing that it went away? If so, why hasn’t that worked on Covid-19? More contagious you say? Then why are we doing it in the first place then?
Does wearing a mask on your chin help? Does wearing a mask only to cover your mouth help?
Now that we have a Delta variant and a Lambda variant can a third be far off? Should we publicize the future names now as we do for the hurricane season? In today’s world of equality, half need to be male and half female names. And, don’t forget the acceptable pronouns.
Can anyone make Joy (was there ever a worst first name given relative to the person’s disposition?) Behar close that worthless yapper of hers? Yesterday she said that we should begin to “threaten” those who remain unvaccinated. It wasn’t that long ago that individual freedoms were the ever-present battle cry from the left. It still is depending upon the subject. See question seven above.
If you have a child ages 2-12 will you get them vaccinated when the CDC and the FDA say that the shot or shots are safe? Why?
If you have a 3-5-year-old have you bought the mask that Fauci wants your child to wear to preschool? Crayons, Underoos, lunch boxes, and masks.

Questions, we had a few.

This….Is…..CNN

Posted on July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 by thependulumswings staff

CNN is at it again. Haven’t you noticed? That’s understandable if you haven’t yet returned to the gym or been through an airport post-Covid.

Yesterday, treadmill humming along, one of our staff members noticed the dreaded Covid new cases reported box firmly entrenched on the right side of their broadcast all over again. In font normally reserved for DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, the readout showed 17,149 new cases of Covid last week in total and its fast-growing sidekick the Delta variant as the root cause.

The weekly total (17,149) represents a whopping 49% increase week over last week per the second CNN graphic.

“They” say that numbers don’t lie. And, if you take “they” at their word it breaks down as follows. Forty-nine percent sounds explosive. Dog bites man isn’t a story. Man bites dog is.

However, here is another way of looking at 17,149 new cases. If you divide the cases into the population in America that we can count (approx 330 mil) your abacas will soon show that it’s about 1 new case for every 20,000 people living on American soil. Numbers, even small ones, don’t lie.

Then the story took a turn. Instead of blaming Trump for his poor leadership during the pandemic (he’s no longer in office in case you’ve been away for a bit), the announcers took turns slamming Republicans and Independents for being far less vaccinated than Democrats. It’s not Biden’s fault now, but it was Trump’s fault then.

But, the funny/sad/confusing/outrageous thing is that the World Health Organization is recommending that all vaccinated adults continue to wear a face mask to minimize the spread. Hmm.

This all may be news to you as CNN’s ratings, low v. MSNBC and FOX for years, have fallen even further post-election.

For example, 8 pm EST host Chis Cuomo garners only 15% of the three cable news networks’ total viewership. You remember Cuomo. He is the self-aggrandizing guy who emerged from his own basement to hug his family on live TV when he had heroically fought off the virus last year. Fifteen percent viewership is an even deeper basement to climb out of.

But never let facts get in the way of a good narrative. Enter Dr. Fauci, everyone’s favorite disease specialist. Yesterday, the good doctor went on national tv and highly recommended that all children unvaccinated, but over the age of two, should wear a mask. Two. Good luck.

Fauci is 80 years old. He may not remember how active two-year-olds were 78 years ago. Or, today.

With no vaccine approval for ages 2-12 yet, doesn’t this set up well (if you like the narrative) or poorly(if you don’t) for a back-to-school fiasco?

If a teacher’s union or three refused to reenter the classrooms this fall Biden and Co. could fully support them and blame those lousy unvaccinated Republicans.

CNN likely is prepping the story now.

If you’re working out or flying you might even see it.

Knock, Knock. Who’s There?

Posted on July 7, 2021 by thependulumswings staff

Police Chief Martin Brody, played quite well by accomplished actor Roy Scheider, warned us in Jaws way back on July 4th, 1975 that it might not be safe to go back in the water yet. And, he was right.

Now, as fireworks were lighting up America from coast to coast, the Delta variant swam ashore. Is it the next great white, or is it just a piece of the Covid wave?

The percentages indicate that it’s rapidly becoming a bigger part of the problem, but the overall problem isn’t becoming bigger. At least, it isn’t yet.

The Delta strain is even infecting vaccinated individuals at a rate that seems headed to the “troublesome” quadrant. What to do?

Another accomplished actor Joe Biden, er, Mr. President, and his team are pushing the (take your pick-Moderna, Pfizer, or J and J) vaccine. It’s the only bullet in the shark gun, isn’t it?

Or, we could wear a mask again. The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending that vaccinated individuals do just that because of the Delta noise. But, is anyone listening?

What about social distancing? If six feet was good, twelve feet should be better.

Biden meanwhile is doubling down. He said Tuesday that he would be sending officials out to knock on people’s doors across America to pressure them to take the coronavirus vaccine. “Now we need to go community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, and often times door by door – literally knocking on doors to get help to the remaining people,” Biden said during his speech about coronavirus.

“Get help to the remaining people,” sounds so empathetic, doesn’t it? Or, pathetic?

So, we should get the vaccine that doesn’t work on the Delta variant, and wear a mask that didn’t stop the virus the first time? Got it. No wonder, for the most part, that America is ignoring this and swimming in the supposedly infested waters of gyms, planes, hotels, bars, and restaurants.

Before you know it some imbecile like NY Mayor Bill de Blasio will recommend that we wear two masks all over again.

The government is always trying to help, aren’t they? Or, they are at least trying to control, aren’t they? Or, they are at least wanting to have that power, aren’t they?

You wonder if the US Postal Service could kick in too. They’re already going door to door daily.

In fact, they even deliver the mail down into the Grand Canyon via pack mule three times a week. True story.

The government helps the mail carrier business every year or two by giving them tens of billions of dollars (they’ve been insolvent for decades) to continue to go door to door.

It’s an ongoing public service that’s as beneficial as a knock on your door vaccine reminder (or coercion).

Did you know that most shark attacks occur in three feet of water or less? A government public service announcement said it was so.