COVID rules are for serfs, not celebrities

Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of the Vice President, and actress Julia Garner pose on the Met Gala in front of a coterie of masked staffers (Getty)

“…Amid the ridiculous outfits at the Met Gala last night, between the faux-socialist in her absurd ‘Tax the Rich’ dress and whatever that was that Kim Kardashian was attempting, stood a row of servants, masked.

The celebrities, of course, were not. If there’s one thing we have collectively learned during the 18 months of this pandemic is that the rules don’t apply to the rich and famous…”

Entitlement times pomposity equals ridiculous.

Fashion Notes: Kamala Harris’ Stepdaughter Ella Emhoff Channels Menstrual Cycle at Met Gala

I shouldn’t pick on this confused girl. She puts herself out there for comment, so here is mine: trim your eyebrows, shave, and get a professional makeup artist to help you. Your stepmother can afford it. Your menstrual cycle should not be a topic for public discussion or inform your interpretation of beauty. It is a private affair and should remain so. Your parents should spend more time with you to help you understand these things as you grow up. Get those sparkly things off your face. They are not pretty. You could be pretty, but you’ll have to try harder. I think they should make a special episode of “What Not To Wear” with this girl as the contestant. Clinton Kelly and Stacy London, where are you?

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By vaccinating the unvaccinated, increasing our testing and masking, and protecting the vaccinated, we can end this pandemic. That’s exactly what we are committed to doing.

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 12, 2021

This is the inconsistency in the administration’s argument for everyone to get vaccinated.

If you get vaccinated, why do you still need to wear a mask, why do you still need to get tested, why do you still need to “fear” the unvaccinated, why do you care if the unvaccinated get vaccinated?

They think you are too stupid to recognize the inconsistency. In reality, they are too stupid to recognize the inconsistency. It is called bad government.

AOC Unironically Wears ‘Tax the Rich’ Gown to Bougie Met Gala

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Who wore it better? pic.twitter.com/IHQkmEn0as

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) September 13, 2021

Stephen Kruiser – “…No hearts or minds are going to change about getting vaccinated while a bunch of lying lunatics are running the asylum. It’s rough business when there is a public health crisis this massive and doctors who should be healing people are meeting with the marketing folk to figure out the best way to make crap up to be more “scary.”…”

Study Suggests COVID Hospitalization Numbers Could Be Grossly Misleading

“…Many of us have been skeptical about official COVID figures for over a year now. Today, as COVID hospitalization rates are being cited regularly to justify drastic (and unconstitutional) COVID countermeasures, The Atlantic points us to a study from Harvard Medical School, Tufts Medical Center, and the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System that suggests official COVID hospitalization rates are overstating reality by a factor of two…

…Last year, it was widely suspected that COVID death counts were inflated because hospitals were financially incentivized to assume a COVID-19 diagnosis and patients who died with COVID but not from COVID were possibly all counted as COVID deaths. In Florida, a fatal motorcycle accident was listed as a COVID-19 death. An investigation has shown other deaths were falsely attributed to the coronavirus in the state as well. In Washington state, gunshot victims were listed as COVID-19 deaths. Now it seems that hospitalization rates, which are contributing to the increased panic about COVID, may also be inflated…

…A leaked Zoom call between doctors and marketing staff at Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center in North Carolina has gone viral. It shows staff plotting to “scare” the public with inflated COVID numbers. “I guess my feeling at this point and time is maybe we need to be completely a little bit more scary [sic] to the public,” says Dr. Mary Rudyk, who served as the former chief of medical staff. “There are many people still hospitalized that we are considering post-covid but we’re not counting in those numbers, so how do we include those post-covid people in the numbers of the patients we have in the hospital?”

“We’re calling them recovered now,” replies an unidentified staff member. “From our standpoint, we would still consider them a COVID patient because they’re still healing. We can talk offline on how we run it up to marketing.”

“I think we have to be more blunt, we have to be more forceful,” says Rudyk.

“If you don’t get vaccinated you know you’re gonna die. Let’s just be really blunt to these people,” she continues, scoffing at vaccine-hesitant people…”

Biden has staffed his administration with pale, bureaucratic mediocrities.

Big chill for climate doom: Arctic Sea ice is expanding

In addition, the Arctic sea melt this summer was the lowest in 15 years, and the expanse of Antarctic sea is well above average.

Insane disinformation propagated by Dr. Leana Wen on national TV. Her and other agencies actions are leading to increasing deaths – she and they are literally citing a FRAUDULENT paper to support their lies as proven in this review https://t.co/PUCPGqTIk2 pic.twitter.com/oKMA37X7e9

— Pierre Kory, MD MPA (@PierreKory) September 11, 2021

Absolutely brutal pic.twitter.com/RvZXl3KqC2

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) August 15, 2021

https://twitter.com/CarrieQThinks/status/1437213005020753920

https://twitter.com/Rachael_wv/status/1436352364655648769

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Highlights:

• • Biden, in December 2020: When asked if he wanted “vaccines to be mandatory,” Biden responded: “No, I don’t think it should be mandatory. I wouldn’t demand it be mandatory.”
  • Dr. Rochelle Walensky, CDC Director, in May 2021: When asked if the admin was “counting on businesses to do vaccine mandates,” Walensky responded: “We’re not counting on vaccine mandates at all. It may very well be that local businesses, local jurisdictions will work toward vaccine mandates. That is going to be locally driven and not federally driven.”
  • Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General, in July 2021: When asked if the admin wanted private companies to follow the admin’s lead of making federal workers get vaccinated, Murthy responded: “And those are decisions the federal government is not going to make. It is going to be institutions that make them.”
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIAID Director, in August 2021: “You’re not going to see a central mandate coming from the federal government, but you’re going to see more universities, colleges, places of business, who once they get the cover of an officially approved vaccine, they’re going to start mandating vaccines.”
  • Jen Psaki, in July 2021: When asked if federal government should “step in and issue mandates,” Psaki responded in-part: “…that’s not the role of the federal government; that is the role that institutions, private-sector entities, and others may take.”
  • Fauci, in August 2020: When asked if he would “support a nationwide mandate of a COVID vaccine once it comes out,” responded: “No, definitely not. You don’t want to mandate and try to force anyone to take the vaccine, we’ve never done that. You can mandate for certain groups of people, like healthcare workers, but for the general population you can’t. Now here at our own hospital, at the NIH, we get influenza vaccines and if you refuse for no good reason other than you just don’t want to take it. Then we don’t allow you to see patients on the wards during influenza season. So, that’s a mandate. But, we don’t want to be mandating from the federal government to the general population, it would be unenforceable and inappropriate.”
  • Walensky, in July 2021: In clarifying remarks that she gave during an interview, Walensky tweeted: “To clarify: There will be no nationwide mandate. I was referring to mandates by private institutions and portions of the federal government. There will be no federal mandate.”

About 8 posts down page you can watch Fauci’s comments on mandates today 9/13/21 and see if that squares with what he said in August 2020 and August 2021.

In my opinion Fauci should be relieved of his duties in the government and investigated for his actions relating to funding research at the Chinese Wuhan Lab.

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