Bay Area hospital won’t receive COVID vaccine after teachers given doses before frontliners, elderly

“…On Thursday, teachers and staff at Los Gatos Union School District received a tantalizing offer in their emails: a COVID-19 vaccine ahead of schedule.

According to investigative news outlet San Jose Spotlight, Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Gatos offered district Superintendent Paul Johnson and staff the vaccine as a “gesture” of kindness after the district raised funds for a program to provide frontline workers meals.

“The COO of the hospital says we can access the appointments … and has cleared [Los Gatos schools] staff to sign up under the healthcare buttons,” the email from Johnson to district staff obtained by Spotlight read. Educators are part of Phase 1B in California and Santa Clara County, behind frontline staff, nursing home residents and those 65 and older.

Teachers, per the email, were told to impersonate health care workers despite the threat of perjury — with the approval of COO Gary Purushotham — in order to obtain access to the vaccine. “Remember to register under healthcare initially,” Johnson’s note read. He declined to comment to SFGATE.

Schools in the district are closed for in-person learning.

Now, Santa Clara County is withholding vaccines from the hospital after the offer was extended and an estimated 65 doses were offered to district teachers and staffers…”

Gov. Newsom expected to lift regional coronavirus stay-at-home orders Monday

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The data is too complex to release to the public. Gov. Newsom thinks we are too stupid to understand. Keeps information from us for own good.

Las Vegas-area district moves to partially reopen schools amid surge in student suicides

Bad government. Bad decisions.

Chicago Teachers Union Votes To Refuse In-Person Teaching, Will Not Show For Work

Chicago is a Democrat city up and down the political system. It represents a comprehensive failure to properly govern. It is a disaster.

Speaking of greater and greater candor, here's yet another authoritarian discussion on MSNBC with Joe Scarborough and Ken Dilanian discussing the need — which Dilanian says many Dems believe — for a new War on Terror on US soil:

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— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 22, 2021

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TULSI GABBARD ON DEMS’ TERROR LAW: ‘We Don’t Have to Guess About Where This Goes or How This Ends.’

New Evidence Implicates FBI Higher-Ups in Dishonesty of Anti-Trump Lawyer

“…For the past year, defenders of the FBI have consistently downplayed the significance of an FBI staff lawyer falsifying evidence in the government’s investigation into Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia. They argue Kevin Clinesmith’s crime of altering a CIA document to obscure the fact that former Trump campaign aide Carter Page worked for U.S., not Russian, intelligence was a rare lapse in judgment by an overworked bureaucrat. It was not, his apologists say, part of any broader conspiracy to conceal exculpatory information from surveillance court judges, who never learned of Page’s history with the CIA before approving FBI warrants to wiretap him as a suspected Russian agent.

But such explanations are challenged by new revelations from court papers filed in the case, which some civil libertarians call the most egregious violation and abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) since it was enacted more than 40 years ago.

The little-noticed documents, which include never-before-seen exhibits, were submitted by Special Counsel John Durham and lawyers for Page, who has been granted time to address the court as a victim when it sentences Clinesmith Jan. 29 as part of a plea agreement. Page and his attorneys argue that the FBI obtained his electronic communications, both written and oral, based on fraudulent warrants in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. He is suing Clinesmith and the FBI for $75 million in damages.

The court filings reveal, among other things, that Clinesmith knew much earlier than has been reported about Page’s cooperation with the U.S. government, and was not alone in knowing that he had provided information on the Russians to the CIA — or in covering up that knowledge.

Several officials within his tightly compartmentalized chain-of-command — including former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, his counselor Lisa Page and counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok — learned of Page’s role with the CIA before they first sought to wiretap him during the 2016 presidential campaign. The CIA had confirmed his role two months earlier in an August 2016 memo it sent to the FBI. And Page’s status as a CIA contact had been documented in the FBI’s own electronic files going back to 2009.

Yet they all withheld this critical information attesting to Page’s loyalty from the spy court…”

WHO probe into COVID origins taps scientist who funneled NIH grants to suspect Wuhan lab

Chicago restaurants and bars reopen one week after Biden takes office

Imagine that.

A GUARDSMAN AT THE CAPITOL

“…My guard unit was called up last [week] to help secure the Capitol and has been providing security since [January 16]. In 48 hours of on-duty security I have not seen a single protester — only one drunk guy who cussed my 2nd platoon (which raised morale for a good two hours – soldiers like and respect fluent profanity).

Last night I saw probably 2000 riot-prepared soldiers unload from buses and enter the perimeter. This level of military involvement surpasses overreaction, skips past overkill, and pegs “insane.” Whoever ordered this response is completely out of touch with reality.

Twenty thousand is a difficult number to explain. It’s especially strange how it’s a much larger number, relatively, than in 7 A.D. when Varian lost about that many in the Teutoburg forest. But 20,000 troops is three times as many as I deployed to Kuwait with in 2019 for a rotation there, and that seemed huge.

The cost of having these troops in the District of Columbia for one week, including all the movement, food, hotel rooms, and medical probably runs over $100 million. It is just another data point that indicates the people running the country are not living in the same reality as the rest of us.

And now (I wrote my first draft several days ago) there is word that “some National Guard units” will remain in DC through MARCH to “guard the senate.” To guard the Senate? For THREE MONTHS?

May I just say, if you had any respect for the FBI or any belief that it was not a fully partisan organization, you were completely wrong. If there was any “credible intelligence” that there was enough of a threat to require 20,000 national guard troops at the Capitol this past week, then the FBI is completely failing. The fact that the alleged credible evidence was clearly inaccurate tells me that I should not ever trust the FBI with anything I would give a 19-year-old soldier…”

It’s a secret: California keeps key virus data from public

“…California Gov. Gavin Newsom has from the start said his coronavirus policy decisions would be driven by data shared with the public to provide maximum transparency.

But with the state starting to emerge from its worst surge, his administration won’t disclose key information that will help determine when his latest stay-at-home order is lifted.

State health officials said they rely on a very complex set of measurements that would confuse and potentially mislead the public if they were made public…”

Disney blocks children from watching ‘racist’ Peter Pan

We live in the age of stupid.

Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg defends Biden's elimination of Keystone pipeline jobs, saying those workers need to get “different ones”pic.twitter.com/T56f7aKp8D

— Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) January 21, 2021

The decision to stop the project is a terrible decision. In response to a direct question about jobs lost, Buttigieg mumbles rambling platitudes about climate change and green jobs. They have not thought through the consequences of their decision because they don’t care. The decision is an ideological decision divorced from facts on the ground, economic concerns, or what is best for the country. The decision fulfills some kind of green ritual sacrifice. I don’t know how else to interpret it.

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— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) January 23, 2021

It is almost as if the Democrats will cut off their nose to spite their face when it comes to preferred green pieties. These decisions which effect thousands of jobs, a major economic sector, income for multiple states, American international competitiveness, and international oil and gas prices seem completely divorced from the normal business analyses on which such decisions should be based. These are not hard-boiled, rational decisions. These are faith-based type decisions rooted in the secular religion of climate. Decisions based on the flaccid, academic, unproven, pseudo-science of global warming and the vain belief that man can change the earth’s climate by painting asphalt white, or not building a pipeline, or not drilling for oil. It is soft, confused reasoning that can’t stand even surficial probing as the questioning of Buttigieg shows. 

Decisions like this will soon have a significant depressing effect on American and global economies and new business development.

Nothing says, “This was a perfectly normal election, and now it’s time to come together as a united nation,” like having your swearing-in behind 12-foot-high razor wire surrounded by 25,000 troops whose loyalty you doubt.