It was either lab or zoonotic, but when a lab has been experimenting with bat viruses in Wuhan, where it is known to have originated, which is most likely?
They will NOT accept the truth about Covid. My oldest friend (since I was 8) sat across from me at lunch and said "No one is dying, it's lies". Hubs works as a customer liaison at our local hospital. There were beds in the hallways, cafeteria and anywhere they could fit them. Her response was that if you went into the hospital with Covid and you died from a heart attack, you didn't die from Covid. And that the hospitals were just after that sweet Fed money. She STILL believes that. Go figure.
I am 68 years old and I have never had covid. I followed every recommendation given by the CDC, got vaccinated, and that is why. Not because of any "natural immunity." My older daughter has had covid twice, while my younger daughter has never had it - and they both work for the same company and in the same department. My point is that making statements about people getting covid 5 times while saying at the same time that people have "natural immunity" is brainless babbling. The idiots are in charge in Trumpistan, so it's foolish to engage with them on this.
Trump's long delay in ordering vaccine research and development killed people in huge numbers. He also refused to order mask mandates and ordered workers to report to their jobs even if they were ill. Now that there's a lunatic running HHS, our next pandemic will likely kill millions. Claiming that the danger is over is foolish.
People who have a rigid, ignorant outlook experience learning (and any other kind of change) as traumatic, and they quickly become infuriated with the agents of change.
We do not have “natural immunity” to it. Of course we don't. And the talking anal orifice absolutely proved that when he claimed that people were getting Covid-19 5 times. If they're getting it that many times they don't have immunity to it.
But we were lied to at the start of Covid-19.
Those lies killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Those lies were told by DONALD J TRUMP.
And that one, indisputable fact should be pointed out to these mutated sperm cells every time they start spewing out their sewage.
I remember that in April, 2020 he claimed covid was "going away" and that everybody should go to church on Easter Sunday. And of course, the "drink bleach or shine a light inside the body" crap, and he publicly announced that he was taking Hydroxychloroquine to prevent covid, then got sick with it. When Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed in the SC, Trump hosted a superspreader event at the WH and also held a rally despite the danger.
My brother in law babbled to me over the weekend that he'd listened to the whole RFKJr hearing and it was "nothing like the soundbites" in the news. He highlighted RFKJr saying that the people he fired at the CDC were working other jobs at pharmaceutical companies. I immediately looked at him and said, "BS!" I work for a vendor supplying the US government. In order to do so, we have to take training on conflicts of interest. This includes taking jobs with the government. IT IS NOT ALLOWED. On the other side, the government employees working with us are not allowed to also take a paycheck from us. IT IS NOT ALLOWED. A crafty employee might be able to get away with it for some period of time, but not dozens of CDC employees. It's certainly not endemic.
When your favorite overpriced granola cosmetics company (they have a great rose oil line) turns out to be evil Nazis from hell: WELEDA. Guardian:
“The natural cosmetics company Weleda supplied a skin cream to the Dachau concentration camp that went on to be used for human testing, resulting in the agonising deaths of prisoners, a historian specialising in Nazi Germany has claimed.
Weleda, founded 104 years ago and known worldwide for its holistic remedies, sourced large quantities of medicinal herbs during the Nazi era from an agricultural plantation overseen by the SS in Dachau, southern Germany, according to a major report by Anne Sudrow commissioned by the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site.”
Amanda Marcotte on why RFK Jr will not be fired by Trump . . .
'Being able to publicly call a bona fide Kennedy by their familial nickname is, for someone as narcissistic as Trump, a substance with heroin-levels of addictiveness. . . .
'For someone so status-obsessed, collecting a Kennedy is a very big deal. Trump doesn’t hide his fixation on the Kennedys, who have achieved the quasi-royal status Trump desperately wants his family to have. It’s almost certainly why he’s made abusing the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts a major priority for his new administration. The Kennedy Center is a symbol of the family’s reputation for being classy, cultured and widely beloved — all qualities that Trump will never have, no matter how much fake gold he plasters all over the Oval Office. . . . His obsession comes down to envy, which also appears on that narcissist checklist, and is one of Trump’s dominant personality traits, along with sadism, cowardice and racism. . . .
'There’s no strategy here. Trump just likes being able to ring a Kennedy on the phone and call him “Bobby.”'
"Poland says it shot down Russian drones that violated its airspace during attack on Ukraine
The Polish military accused Moscow of an "act of aggression" early Wednesday. The incident marked a first for a NATO member state since the Kremlin invaded its neighbor."
I remember having a pretty nice dream where people were outside talking and I went on the balcony to tell them to quiet down, but there were 2 Japanese exchange students eating spaghetti it there—I asked who told them they could be on my balcony and they said (former coworker).
And then I was on the back of someone’s motorcycle and we were speeding along but reindeer kept jumping at us.
But then I woke myself up crying out’no!’ And it woke up the husband. I couldn’t get back to sleep so here I am.
I found em at the goodwill ^.^ One of the ones in FBurg are right by a pretty nice college so all the name brand shit ends up there. Sometimes with tags still on em!
I love me a quilted bag, and it has a long enough strap I can wear it like a satchel cross my chest
The pink one is a bit big, but the blue one does not really fit my tablet for when I am reading on the tablet instead of an actual book. So I switch between em depending on what I am reading XD
You need a giant version of the dome they put over your plate at fancy restaurants—the kind where the waiter whisks it off with “voila “! Then you could dome him and his breakfast!
With this drain/flooding problem, I'm going from full-on narcolepsy one moment to stark full-on eyes wide open wakefulness the next. And my brain is misfiring something fierce. I'm struggling to stay functional until I can make all of the phonecalls I need to make to arrange for having major plumbing work done and getting insurance online and/or financing etc. etc. I'm fucking overwhelmed. At least my kitchen drain is capped so I'm not worried about it flooding. I was having outright panic episodes whenever I heard a noise that sounded like the kitchen drain was starting to back up. I couldn't sleep or function for shit for the past two days. But I've actually been this way over the past five years of this problem recurring. It makes me crazy. And having neighbors who I can't communicate with and won't cooperate makes me want to go all ICE on them to send them the fuck back to Mexico--knowing that being that way is completely wrong. I hate feeling so fucking broken all the time. I don't know how to be myself anymore.
Sorry, I'm venting because it makes me feel just a tiny bit better knowing that somebody might be hearing me.
My sewer line backed up twice last year, then maintenance flooded my unit with sewage by trying to flush the toilet several times instead of clearing the line. It was overwhelming and a miracle I did not drink. Several days, if not weeks, to remove contaminated items and clean. Be *really easy* with yourself coping. Sewer is traumatic in a way that water isn’t. Don’t try to save anything contaminated, because it will always stink. Just replace. Sorry you are going through this.
At least it's the kitchen drain line and not the shitter drain. And it does not back up onto my shitter drain. So there's that. Of course it's not backing up at all since my plumber capped the kitchen sink drain. Now my upstairs neighbors will flood instead. Not that I feel great about that, and I hope my ceiling does not get fucked up by flooding up there. Thank dog for insurance.
I used to be the upstairs neighbor. A friend lived downstairs. He was a HVAC contractor. He offered to plumb in a washing machine for me. That was risky for him, using a dry vent for the waste line, but it worked flawlessly.
I'm glad I'm in a single story house now, stairs suck in my decrepitude.
It was either lab or zoonotic, but when a lab has been experimenting with bat viruses in Wuhan, where it is known to have originated, which is most likely?
Who cares. This is irrelevant.
They will NOT accept the truth about Covid. My oldest friend (since I was 8) sat across from me at lunch and said "No one is dying, it's lies". Hubs works as a customer liaison at our local hospital. There were beds in the hallways, cafeteria and anywhere they could fit them. Her response was that if you went into the hospital with Covid and you died from a heart attack, you didn't die from Covid. And that the hospitals were just after that sweet Fed money. She STILL believes that. Go figure.
I am 68 years old and I have never had covid. I followed every recommendation given by the CDC, got vaccinated, and that is why. Not because of any "natural immunity." My older daughter has had covid twice, while my younger daughter has never had it - and they both work for the same company and in the same department. My point is that making statements about people getting covid 5 times while saying at the same time that people have "natural immunity" is brainless babbling. The idiots are in charge in Trumpistan, so it's foolish to engage with them on this.
Trump's long delay in ordering vaccine research and development killed people in huge numbers. He also refused to order mask mandates and ordered workers to report to their jobs even if they were ill. Now that there's a lunatic running HHS, our next pandemic will likely kill millions. Claiming that the danger is over is foolish.
People who have a rigid, ignorant outlook experience learning (and any other kind of change) as traumatic, and they quickly become infuriated with the agents of change.
We do not have “natural immunity” to it. Of course we don't. And the talking anal orifice absolutely proved that when he claimed that people were getting Covid-19 5 times. If they're getting it that many times they don't have immunity to it.
But we were lied to at the start of Covid-19.
Those lies killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Those lies were told by DONALD J TRUMP.
And that one, indisputable fact should be pointed out to these mutated sperm cells every time they start spewing out their sewage.
I remember that in April, 2020 he claimed covid was "going away" and that everybody should go to church on Easter Sunday. And of course, the "drink bleach or shine a light inside the body" crap, and he publicly announced that he was taking Hydroxychloroquine to prevent covid, then got sick with it. When Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed in the SC, Trump hosted a superspreader event at the WH and also held a rally despite the danger.
It's all about handing the keys to American health care over to Big Supplement.
My brother in law babbled to me over the weekend that he'd listened to the whole RFKJr hearing and it was "nothing like the soundbites" in the news. He highlighted RFKJr saying that the people he fired at the CDC were working other jobs at pharmaceutical companies. I immediately looked at him and said, "BS!" I work for a vendor supplying the US government. In order to do so, we have to take training on conflicts of interest. This includes taking jobs with the government. IT IS NOT ALLOWED. On the other side, the government employees working with us are not allowed to also take a paycheck from us. IT IS NOT ALLOWED. A crafty employee might be able to get away with it for some period of time, but not dozens of CDC employees. It's certainly not endemic.
Peace President
Hegseth Makes Dramatic Visit To US Carrier Off Venezuela, Tells Marines It’s ‘Not Training Exercise’
Democrat Senator John Fetterman Slams His Own Party for Embracing Socialism: ‘You Are Morons’
Fetterman has become MAGAtized.
I’m always flabbergasted when a seemingly normal person starts spouting right wing talking points.
We should embrace fascism instead!
Alex Jones makes the case for the Trump Nobel Peace Prize:
Israel Bombs Qatar, Killing Leadership Of Hamas After Trump Admin Lured Them To Peace Conference!
When your favorite overpriced granola cosmetics company (they have a great rose oil line) turns out to be evil Nazis from hell: WELEDA. Guardian:
“The natural cosmetics company Weleda supplied a skin cream to the Dachau concentration camp that went on to be used for human testing, resulting in the agonising deaths of prisoners, a historian specialising in Nazi Germany has claimed.
Weleda, founded 104 years ago and known worldwide for its holistic remedies, sourced large quantities of medicinal herbs during the Nazi era from an agricultural plantation overseen by the SS in Dachau, southern Germany, according to a major report by Anne Sudrow commissioned by the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/weleda-allegedly-supplied-cream-used-on-prisoners-in-dachau-by-ss-doctor
Amanda Marcotte on why RFK Jr will not be fired by Trump . . .
'Being able to publicly call a bona fide Kennedy by their familial nickname is, for someone as narcissistic as Trump, a substance with heroin-levels of addictiveness. . . .
'For someone so status-obsessed, collecting a Kennedy is a very big deal. Trump doesn’t hide his fixation on the Kennedys, who have achieved the quasi-royal status Trump desperately wants his family to have. It’s almost certainly why he’s made abusing the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts a major priority for his new administration. The Kennedy Center is a symbol of the family’s reputation for being classy, cultured and widely beloved — all qualities that Trump will never have, no matter how much fake gold he plasters all over the Oval Office. . . . His obsession comes down to envy, which also appears on that narcissist checklist, and is one of Trump’s dominant personality traits, along with sadism, cowardice and racism. . . .
'There’s no strategy here. Trump just likes being able to ring a Kennedy on the phone and call him “Bobby.”'
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/10/the-real-reason-trump-will-never-fire-rfk-jr/
And the Rose Garden
It’s so true!
He’s always trying to push Melania as a Jackie figure too.
Tacky O
If he really wanted a part of the Kennedy legacy, he shouldn't have ducked.
Ooo, good one! 💀
I had a brief moment where I thought it was too dark to write, what with all the "Good mornings!" and green boxes and such.
I'd go with a simpler explination: like the last occupation, having someone like that lets him Blame Them for when shit goes tits up
It wasn't me! It was my appointee!!!
Never mind he appointed them. The press will be sure to point out, when the time comes, how Bobbie Brain Worm was a Life Long Democrat
He has an entire administration full of potential bus undercarriage inspectors.
I guess Putin is invading Poland now, because Trump won’t do shit.
"Poland says it shot down Russian drones that violated its airspace during attack on Ukraine
The Polish military accused Moscow of an "act of aggression" early Wednesday. The incident marked a first for a NATO member state since the Kremlin invaded its neighbor."
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/poland-engages-russian-drones-airspace-first-time-rcna230251
Poland is always the goal.
Definitely testing the waters
Because he had so much success with his last adventure?
Scary shit.
I honestly wasn't sure it had even happened because we weren't getting any reporting
Then, of course, the Polish PM invoked NATO Article 4 today
And we still didn't get any reporting, because Donald, and Hic!seth
And then Charlie Kirk got shot
😵😖
I'm off to work, with palpitations. Trying to remain calm.
I remember having a pretty nice dream where people were outside talking and I went on the balcony to tell them to quiet down, but there were 2 Japanese exchange students eating spaghetti it there—I asked who told them they could be on my balcony and they said (former coworker).
And then I was on the back of someone’s motorcycle and we were speeding along but reindeer kept jumping at us.
But then I woke myself up crying out’no!’ And it woke up the husband. I couldn’t get back to sleep so here I am.
Morning, all!
This is because you didn't let Rudolph join in any reindeer games, isn't it.
Good morning! Sorry you had to wake up that way :(
https://substack.com/@wonkjen/note/c-154339484?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=3rfyy
How my morning is going. How my morning is always going
I have the same Vera Bradley bag! I love the colors.
I found em at the goodwill ^.^ One of the ones in FBurg are right by a pretty nice college so all the name brand shit ends up there. Sometimes with tags still on em!
I love me a quilted bag, and it has a long enough strap I can wear it like a satchel cross my chest
The pink one is a bit big, but the blue one does not really fit my tablet for when I am reading on the tablet instead of an actual book. So I switch between em depending on what I am reading XD
Yeah, that one is more like a duffel, but I have so much to carry to and from school, and it fits two laptops, which is great.
Carry them all at once, like Elsbeth on the TV machine!
<3
Took me a second to see what was going on, lol the wall of bags.
She is VERY determined to also eat his breakfast. Do you see how I have to feed him on my table on a porcelain plate no less?
Batcat is living the Bruce Wayne life for sure
You need a giant version of the dome they put over your plate at fancy restaurants—the kind where the waiter whisks it off with “voila “! Then you could dome him and his breakfast!
If Guardians Of Breakfast was a TV show, I'd watch it. Part of the Marvel Universe?
yes, but no dumb Chris. Make it one of the less dumb ones
I'd go for Thor guarding my bfast. He can help scramble eggs with Mjölnir.
mmmmmm naked Chris Helmsworth
you know, I still do not know if that movie was actually good, or bad. Because who cares
So starstruck, you don't even know his name.
And for that, I salute you.
Sure, let's call it starstruck and not mild porno for middle aged women
My ex really likes Chris Helmsworth. But that was after she became my exgf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAHnXnU7RMI
Nathan!!
With this drain/flooding problem, I'm going from full-on narcolepsy one moment to stark full-on eyes wide open wakefulness the next. And my brain is misfiring something fierce. I'm struggling to stay functional until I can make all of the phonecalls I need to make to arrange for having major plumbing work done and getting insurance online and/or financing etc. etc. I'm fucking overwhelmed. At least my kitchen drain is capped so I'm not worried about it flooding. I was having outright panic episodes whenever I heard a noise that sounded like the kitchen drain was starting to back up. I couldn't sleep or function for shit for the past two days. But I've actually been this way over the past five years of this problem recurring. It makes me crazy. And having neighbors who I can't communicate with and won't cooperate makes me want to go all ICE on them to send them the fuck back to Mexico--knowing that being that way is completely wrong. I hate feeling so fucking broken all the time. I don't know how to be myself anymore.
Sorry, I'm venting because it makes me feel just a tiny bit better knowing that somebody might be hearing me.
That sounds incredibly overwhelming. I hope that it is resolved soon and you are able to get some restorative rest. Gentle internet hugs.
Thanks!
Oh Hammy! I’m sorry!
This also too shall pass.
My sewer line backed up twice last year, then maintenance flooded my unit with sewage by trying to flush the toilet several times instead of clearing the line. It was overwhelming and a miracle I did not drink. Several days, if not weeks, to remove contaminated items and clean. Be *really easy* with yourself coping. Sewer is traumatic in a way that water isn’t. Don’t try to save anything contaminated, because it will always stink. Just replace. Sorry you are going through this.
At least it's the kitchen drain line and not the shitter drain. And it does not back up onto my shitter drain. So there's that. Of course it's not backing up at all since my plumber capped the kitchen sink drain. Now my upstairs neighbors will flood instead. Not that I feel great about that, and I hope my ceiling does not get fucked up by flooding up there. Thank dog for insurance.
I used to be the upstairs neighbor. A friend lived downstairs. He was a HVAC contractor. He offered to plumb in a washing machine for me. That was risky for him, using a dry vent for the waste line, but it worked flawlessly.
I'm glad I'm in a single story house now, stairs suck in my decrepitude.
Good luck squaring that shit away.
Thanks!
Mine backed up out of the tub drain and the toilet seal…nightmare
Oh, that's the shit that nightmares are made of. Literally.
It really was
We hear you. We listen.
:hugs:
Sounds very overwhelming, Hammy. I hope it gets sorted right fast for you