🗞*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY* 🗞<\/strong><\/p>\n🔥 Uh-oh! According to a new USA Today survey, Joe Biden\u2019s approval rating is in the dumpster. He\u2019s somehow managed to score a pathetic 38% approval rating. A ham sandwich could score 38%. Actually, a ham sandwich might be a better option at this point. Anyway, it gets worse. Independents said that Biden\u2019s done a worse job than they thought he would, by a 7 to 1 margin.<\/p>\n
It still gets worse. Somehow Kamala Harris managed to score even lower. Her approval rating is down to 28%. I\u2019m not sure ANY vice president has ever scored so low. Ever. Is it the cackling?<\/p>\n
It gets even worse. Forty-six percent (46%) of those surveyed said that if the congressional elections were held now, they\u2019d vote for the Republican candidate, while only 38% said they\u2019d vote democrat.<\/p>\n
I have a feeling with these mandates, those numbers are going to fall even lower. Maybe democrats will make a course correction? On the other hand, maybe not.<\/p>\n
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👨⚖️ Biden filed his reply brief in the Fifth Circuit case staying his OSHA Mandate. It was pretty weak. Basically, he argued that, hey, nobody\u2019s getting fired till December, so don\u2019t enjoin us now. It didn\u2019t take on the merits at all, or even try to argue that the jab mandate was constitutional.<\/p>\n
But don\u2019t worry! The least-popular president in history \u201cencouraged\u201d private businesses to get on with it anyway. Pay no attention to that court behind the curtain! Jabs away!<\/p>\n
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🔥 The Democratic Governor\u2019s Association is reading the tea leaves, and it announced that it\u2019s not going to waste money on the governor\u2019s race in Florida this year. In the last two gubernatorial election cycles, the DGA spent more than $15 million in Florida. Politico called the DGA\u2019s stinginess a \u201csetback\u201d for democrat candidates in Florida. Politico might be on to something.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do think, and I can\u2019t stress this enough, the DGA is playing mostly defense this year, and that\u2019s a monumental change,\u201d said Jonathan Ducote, a Democrat consultant.<\/p>\n
A monumental change. What on Earth could have caused this? The experts are baffled.<\/p>\n
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🔥 New York City\u2019s new mayor-elect Eric Adams announced Sunday that he wants to end school mask mandates, and called himself \u201cconservative\u201d on public safety. \u201cIf we can find a safe way to do it, I look forward to getting rid of the mask,\u201d Adams told CNN\u2019s State of the Union on Sunday morning. \u201cPart of the socialization of a child is that smile.\u201d<\/p>\n
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💉 Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced legislation last week to stop the federal government and public schools from mandating injections for kids. The proposed bill would ban any entity at the federal, state and local level that receives federal funding from requiring the shots for minors. It\u2019s going nowhere, of course. I mean, Biden would sign it if they slid it in front of him, but they\u2019ll never let Biden near the bill with a pen, even if it could get past the dems in congress.<\/p>\n
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🔥 It\u2019s now day twelve (12) since Gavin Newsom was last seen, although Covid rates are spiking, cargo ships are piling up offshore, and wildfires are burning all over the state. On November 7, Newsom\u2019s wife Jennifer tweeted ambiguously that \u201cWhen someone cancels something, maybe they\u2019re just in the office working; maybe in their free time they\u2019re at home with their family, at their kids\u2019 sports matches, or dining out with their wife.\u201d That\u2019s a lot of maybe. She offered a bunch of possibles but, since she obviously KNOWS where the governor is, it\u2019s weird that she didn\u2019t just say, \u201che\u2019s fine.\u201d See what I\u2019m saying?<\/p>\n
Anyway, Jennifer deleted that tweet yesterday. So.<\/p>\n
I know what you\u2019re thinking. Please stop. It has NOTHING to do with the fact that Newsom disappeared right after getting his booster shot on October 27. How could it? Safe and effective.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s probably just on a bender or something. You know how it is with these high-pressure type-A folks.<\/p>\n
If you think about it, California is at a political standstill. If the lieutenant governor signs anything, it will be an admission that something is wrong with Newsom. They have to explain why the governor can\u2019t sign for it to be legal. And they can\u2019t have that. So, absolutely nothing will happen while he\u2019s out of pocket. A reprieve for beleaguered Californians. Thanks, boosters! Oops. I mean, \u201cthanks, cause of mysterious coincidental gubernatorial absence!\u201d<\/p>\n
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💉 Haha, suckers! The NBA announced yesterday that players who took the J&J shot will be treated as unvaccinated unless they get the booster. J&J-injected players who aren\u2019t boosted will now have to be tested before every game, just like uninjected people. Same thing for Pfizer\/Moderna jabbers starting six months after injection. Thanks for being part of the solution! Enjoy your spike proteins!<\/p>\n
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💊 Last month, Nebraska\u2019s Attorney General Doug Peterson issued a legal opinion that healthcare providers can legally prescribe ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid. In the opinion, AG Peterson noted the reprehensible Lancet study \u2014 later retracted \u2014 finding that hydroxychloroquine increased risks of heart attack. \u201cThe Lancet\u2019s own editor-in-chief admitted that the paper was a \u2018fabrication,\u2019 a \u2018monumental fraud\u2019 and a \u2018shocking example of research misconduct\u2019 in the middle of a global health emergency,\u201d Peterson wrote.<\/p>\n
In his legal opinion, Peterson concluded that evidence showed ivermectin was strikingly effective in preventing and treating Covid-19, and side effects were mostly minor and transient. \u201cThus, the UCA does not preclude physicians from considering ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID,\u201d Peterson wrote.<\/p>\n
So.<\/p>\n
The opinion arose from a request for clarification by the Nebraska Department of Health. Maybe somebody should send the same letter that prompted AG Peterson\u2019s opinion to Florida AG Ashley Moody.<\/p>\n
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💉 In Ghent, Belgium, the majority of patients at University Hospital are now injected breakthrough cases. And, ALL of the ICU patients are fully injected. So weird.<\/p>\n
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🔥 Parallel systems! Pano Kanelas, the former president of St. John\u2019s College in Annapolis, has left his post to start a new university in Austin. The announcement says that the traditional university model is broken, and the new college will be dedicated to \u201cthe relentless pursuit of truth.\u201d The professors include luminaries such as Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, Heather Heying, Joe Lonsdale, Arthur Brooks, Kathleen Stock, Dorian Abbot and Peter Boghossian. Here\u2019s a link to the website: [The University of Austin (UATX)](https:\/\/www.uaustin.org).<\/p>\n
📊 *COVID IN FLORIDA AND ALACHUA COUNTY* 📊<\/strong><\/p>\nFlorida\u2019s Covid numbers are crashing. Check this out:<\/p>\n
📉 Our R0 \u2014 the measure of whether Covid is growing or shrinking in the state \u2014 fell again to 0.53. Anything under 1.0 says it\u2019s shrinking. So.<\/p>\n
📉 Patients in Florida\u2019s hospitals fell dramatically from 2,139 to 1,577. That\u2019s an average of only 23 folks per county.<\/p>\n
📉 The positivity ratio continued dropping, from 3.0% to 2.6% \u2014 the false positive rate. Alachua County\u2019s is down to 2.0% \u2014 below the FPR.<\/p>\n
📉 Cases per 100,000 are now at only 50, down from 58 the week before. In Alachua County, the rate is even lower \u2014 38 per 100K.<\/p>\n
📉 Total positive tests (\u2018cases\u2019) are down again, from 12,880 to 11,069.<\/p>\n
📉 And best of all, Covid-related deaths are down a LOT from 56 the week prior to 39 this last week. That\u2019s a drop of almost 70% in one week.<\/p>\n
This is HUGE news. We have a lot to celebrate.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll see you caffeine addicts back here tomorrow for more C&C.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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