Louisiana's Democratic Governor Orders State to
Return to Indoor Masking
Posted By: Dreadnought, 8/2/2021 10:43:15 PM
Ahead of Louisiana expecting its worst day of COVID-19 hospitalizations yet, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards will be bringing the state back under a mask mandate until at least September 1. During a Monday afternoon press conference, Edwards, a Democratic governor in a deep red state, told reporters that the situation in the state is the worst it’s ever been. “This is bad. And it’s not this bad anywhere else in the country today,” Edwards said. “This is having an adverse impact on people’s lives today. And the least we can do is put a mask on. It is not an onerous burden.”
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Joe Biden never misses an opportunity to politicize any issue, including the relatively benign Delta Indian variant of Covid. Today, Biden tried to blame Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis–coincidentally, both Republicans–for the Indian variant’s inevitable spread:
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Republican leaders in Florida and Texas – home to roughly a third of all new U.S. COVID-19 cases – to follow public health guidelines on the pandemic or “get out of the way” as the country struggles to contain the rapid spread of the disease’s Delta variant.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has opposed strict COVID-19 restrictions. On Friday, he issued an order blocking
Not even the USA winning the gold for all-around gymnastics lifted the ratings for the 2020 Woke Olympics anywhere close to respectable territory.
“NBC said Friday that Thursday’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Summer Olympics averaged a 10.8 rating and 19.5 million viewers across all of its platforms, down 43% in ratings and 41% in viewership from the comparable night of the Rio Games in 2016 (18.9, 33.0M),” Sports Media Watch reported. “Versus the most recent Olympics, the Pyeongchang Winter Games three years ago, ratings fell 5% and viewership 1% from an 11.4 and 19.3 million.”
“So far, all seven nights of the Olympics have averaged 20 million or fewer viewers
The White House press corps continued into Tuesday its strategy to turn their guns toward Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) as, over the course of a press briefing and presidential press conference, numerous reporters urged President Biden and Press Secretary Jen Psaki to declare that DeSantis and fellow Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) were sickening their own citizens with the coronavirus due to their refusal to reimplement restrictions.
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Missouri governor Mike Parson announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Mark McCloskey and Patricia McCloskey, the armed St. Louis couple who confronted Black Lives Matter protesters outside their mansion last year.
The Republican governor pardoned the pair on Friday. Mark McCloskey pleaded guilty in June to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and was fined $750, while Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was fined $2,000.
“Mark McCloskey has publicly stated that if he were involved in the same situation, he would have the exact same conduct,” said Joel Schwartz, the McCloskeys’ lawyer. “He believes that the pardon vindicates that conduct.”
As the charges were misdemeanors
The White House points its finger at Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi points it right back to the Biden administration. Progressives blame the CDC. The one point on which everyone agrees is that the collapse of the eviction moratorium is “a mess,” as CBS reporter Weijia Jang notes in this update: Not only are Democrats in disarray over this flop, the infighting between their caucuses has broken out into the open. Progressives lashed out at Joe Biden all day yesterday for not ordering the CDC to take steps that the Supreme Court had already precluded:
Tensions escalated sharply Monday between liberal Democrats and President Biden
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Well, yes. Even to a layman, that was clear. The problem with the Provincetown study and later the studies from Wisconsin and Singapore is that the samples were self-selecting. Instead of taking a random sample of the vaccinated population and assessing who was infected, who was symptomatic, and who had a high viral load capable of infecting others, they looked at vaccinated people who sought testing on their own initiative. (Or, in the Singapore case, actually needed hospital care.) Vaxxed people who feel the need to get tested are likely to do so because they have symptoms, but people with symptoms may have higher viral loads
NIH director forced to clarify statement that parents
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should wear masks around unvaccinated children 8 replies
National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins was forced to backtrack after saying parents should wear masks at home if they have unvaccinated children.
"Let me clarify the masking message that I garbled on this morning [at CNN]," Collins wrote in a tweet Tuesday afternoon. "Vaccinated parents who live in communities with high COVID transmission rates should mask when out in public indoor settings to minimize risks to their unvaccinated kids. No need to mask at home."
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in Violation of Law, New York AG Report Finds 28 replies
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“Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law,” James told reporters. Cuomo and the Executive Chamber cultivated a “toxic” workplace
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The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team quest for Olympic gold ended Monday when it lost 1-0 to Canada in the semifinal.
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In Its Tracks’ if Everyone Wears
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‘I’ll Represent the Oppressed People’: Gwen Berry
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U.S. Olympics hammer thrower Gwen Berry now says that she will protest against the United States on the medal stand to “represent the oppressed peoples” if she medals this week.
Berry raised eyebrows by refusing to stand at attention for the national anthem during the U.S. Olympic Trials in June when she won the bronze in the hammer throw. But until this weekend, Berry would not say if she intended to mount any protests if she medals at the Games in Tokyo. On Sunday, Berry put to rest any questions about her intentions.
During an interview after she made it through the qualifying round in Tokyo,
Mexico bars US from returning many migrant
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Official Says “Everyone Agrees” That
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Kathy Griffin reveals she has lung cancer,
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