Posted on 01/14/2022 5:54:07 AM PST by Kaslin
The nation is in the middle of a pandemic that is becoming endemic as the omicron variant lessens serious cases. This past week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that a Kaiser Permanente study in Southern California found omicron has a 91% reduction in the risk of death compared to the delta variant. It has a 74% reduction in intensive care unit admissions and a 53% reduction in symptomatic hospitalization. No one in the country with the omicron variant is on a mechanical ventilator.
This is all good news. But as omicron spreads, small businesses have had to close due to lack of workers. The supply chain issues have gotten worse. A record number of ships are backed up at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Teachers unions are staging walkouts. Schools are closing, some because of the unions and some because they lack staff. Grocery store shelves are bare. Inflation is on the rise.
Both the consumer price index and industrial prices are seeing massive inflation. The prices consumers pay are up 7%, and when consumers shop they find limited supplies of goods. Sports drinks, paper products, chicken, milk, bread and other staples are often now in short supply. People have returned to making multiple trips to multiple grocery stores to find goods.
When consumers come forward, progressives attack. CNN ran a story on a family in Texas complaining about the price of milk they buy for their large family. Progressives accused the family of lying about the cost and being indecent for having so many children, some of whom were foster children. The other day, CBS's morning news program featured an elderly man who claimed orange juice prices had gone from five dollars to 10 and his store had only one variety. Progressives criticized him on social media.
Adding to all the frustration, some Democrat-led areas of the country are requiring proof of vaccination -- and, in some cases, identification to match the vaccine card -- to enter restaurants, gyms, bars and other places. The governments are forcing the businesses themselves to enforce the rule, putting employees in difficult spots. In some cases, employees are quitting, contributing to a worker shortage. Vaccine mandates are no longer even fully protective from the omicron variant. People who have received both the double doses of the vaccines and the booster are still getting sick and spreading the virus. But some workers are losing their jobs because they will not get vaccinated.
The Democrats' response shows they have lost the plot in the present situation. Instead of trying to fix these issues, get more COVID-19 tests out and improve port and supply chain efficiencies, the Democrats are demanding a voting reform package in the United States Senate that prohibits requiring photo ID to vote even as Democrats demand it to eat. The president is pouring his energies not into fighting resurgent crime or opening schools or fixing the supply chain issues. He flew to Georgia to accuse his critics of being racists. Anyone who opposes his agenda is a racist on the side of George Wallace and Jefferson Davis.
Those racists include Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, both of whom refuse to scrap the Senate filibuster rule to advance Biden's cause. On top of that, the latest Quinnipiac poll shows only 33% of Americans approve of Biden's performance, which suggests the president thinks two-thirds of Americans are racist. Biden's Quinnipiac job approval rating is lower than former President Donald Trump's ever fell.
Another tidbit of good news …. biden was made a liar by omicron. Now I don’t care who you are …. That’s funny right thar
“God’s light came into the world, but people preferred the darkness more than the light, for their deeds were dark and evil”.
Amazing to me there is no PPP or other rescue plan for American workers and small businesses. In the peak of 2020 there were about 200,000 cases a day. With Omicron we’re running 800,000 cases a day give or take.
I am hopeful it will be brief and pass without serious illness or death, but it is taking a toll on communities. 18 months ago congress was shoveling cash to keep small business afloat. Today, they are rambling on about Senate rules and voting issues for November and electric cars while the American people are struggling.
The Democrats are clearly not the party of the people. They are the party for themselves.
It is because inflation is much worse than 7%. The shelves are empty because the price is not high enough yet. A similar thing happens when you have wage and price controls. You get a shortage of products because the producers can't afford to produce at the current price.
Joe never had Mojo. He’s a dufus.
IMO, 3 interesting things came out of this mess:
Parents found out EXACTLY what the teacher’s unions were NOT teaching their kids & what crap they WERE teaching the kids.
The bungled supply chain forced many to finally realize where their items & food come from & HOW it gets to their selling store.
The cabal of Fauci/Gates/China/ & others who wish to kill millions so they can be rich might be found out by the whole world.
YES! It took all of 3 weeks for his "winter of death" whopper to completely collapse. Un-freaking-believable. And he expects to move the needle with his "Jim Crow" whopper this week? Trump's strength was that he always dealt squarely with reality (his opponents were reduced to criticizing him on style). Biden is dealing solely in fantasy.
Creepy Uncle Joe has surrendered to the progressive wing of his party, and is now actively demonizing the GOP and refuses to even try to work with them.
He promised to be the anti-Trump, but he has failed miserably and his poll numbers reflect it.
...prohibits requiring photo ID to vote even as Democrats demand it to eat.
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Good way of putting it.
Democrats are focused on the Voting Rights bill because if they get that through, they’ll win every election. All the other problems are short term.
Go to this site and check your Covid vaccination batch #’s to see, just the reported problems. Only about 20% of the problems were reported.
https://www.howbadismybatch.com/
Enter one batch # at a time and then clear it for the second.
Your Covid vaccination card has the batch #’s.
If your batch # had a lot of serious problems, let us know what batch #’s!:
“Joe never had Mojo. He’s a dufus.”
Well, I have had more Joe than I can stand.
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