Month: June 2022

DeSantis Reverses, Allows Orders Of Vaccine For Kids

DeSantis Reverses, Allows Orders Of Vaccine For Kids

I am not willing to tolerate anymore that the vaccines are not safe or shouldn’t be given.   Yes a year or two ago when they were new then OK the misinformation could sway people.    That time has passed.   The vaccines are used, they are vetted.   If you think conspiracy theories are real, then you have a fucken problem.   I simply am not willing to entertain the legitimacy of stupid.   Hugs

McClatchy reports:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is now allowing healthcare providers — including pediatricians and children’s hospitals — to order COVID-19 vaccines from a federal program for children between six months and 5 years old, a reversal from earlier this week when providers were prevented from pre-ordering doses.

The DeSantis administration is pushing back aggressively against the notion that its position has changed, with a spokesperson from the Florida Department of Health telling McClatchy that it never planned on preventing private healthcare providers from ordering doses.

Read the full article.

Ragnar_Lothbrok • 2 hours ago

A man of his convictions!

That seem to change every few minutes

Dwight Williamson • 2 hours ago

I just got an email clarifying their position from the Florida Department of Health and denying they had ever opposed vaccination. What a bum and a liar!

I would like to explain something happening with me.

Hello Playtime viewers, thank you so much for being here.  I want to tell you something that is going on with me and hope it helps you understand why sometimes lately it is more than my pain levels that is causing me to go to bed and why I am not able to quickly answer comments.   

Right up front it seems my pancreas is not producing insulin at any real sufficient amount anymore.  The pills I have taken for years do not really work anymore.   This is not due to diet, but due to the fact that to help me be able to calm the back muscle spasms and to handle the damage to my spine I have to take heavy steroid injections.  Oh yes if I could get out and weight lift and exercise, I would be so ripped.  

At the risk of irritating those that worry I share too much about my own life let me tell you about my day and the blood sugar issue I endured.  

I got up with Ron, we try to get up together, since there is no way we can go to bed together.   Yes, it is silly but it means something to us, and we try to do it.  We started our day.   I am trying hard to restrict my caloric intake, I have a very sit on my ass lifestyle, I do not need a lot of calories.   Plus groceries are expensive.   Ron likes to push food on me, because he is a loving spouse.   

Fast forward to lunch, he had breakfast, I did not.  I took my blood sugar and it was low so the insulin required was only 4 units.    He made me a salad which I try to have at least once a day often twice, my salad is lettuce, mushrooms, carrot shavings, crotons, and if we have them hardboiled egg white parts.  (side note if I get hungry for breakfast I try to have three or four hard boiled eggs with nothing else, this diet has reduced my waist and belly size amazingly) he made me one roast beef with white cheddar cheese & mustard sandwich.      Don’t worry, this will become more important in a few minutes.   I promise.    So after I ate that I was still hungry so Ron made me another sandwich.  Then craving salt, I had the last few crumbs of Lays chips we had in the house (we decided not to have them as Ron is the same with chips that I am with sweets, if they are in the house we will eat them no matter how bad for us so now we don’t have them in the house) 

We both went for a nap, we both get tired after eating and normally take a nap in the early afternoon.  I think it is more an excuse to lay down with each other than sleep but we do it most days.    But I couldn’t sleep.   So I got up, but as I got hotter and hotter, my thoughts got more confused.   When Ron got up I complained to him how hot I was and that I was struggling to think.   He knew something was wrong and told me it was not that hot in the house.   He had me take my blood sugar and yes it was very high.  This was hours after lunch.   He had me take more insulin to cover it.   I was up in the 400 territory.   I took the insulin he told me and within ten minutes I felt better and could think more clearly.   It seems my pancreas is not producing insulin even with my pill medication.   My endocrinologist was worried about this because of the steroids I need.   He tells me that pills wont lower blood sugar if you are taking steroids.  That is why he put me on insulin along with my pills.   It seems that as the steroids increase the pills have less effect.  I think I will soon have to go on a regiment of insulin that at I worry is going to be very expensive.     So that is my day.   Earlier I was foggy in my thinking, now at 6 PM I feel clear headed.  Ron has so much mental degradation in his family he is terrified of it, and I admit when my thoughts get foggy due to blood sugar it is scary for me.  One of the things I love most is my ability to reason, but when my blood sugar is out of whack it is like walking through waist high water and trying to run.   You cannot do it well.   Any way I just wanted to keep you grand viewers what is going on with me.    Hugs

Extremist Pastor Claims Patriot Front Are Secretly Antifa Even Though At Least One Of Them Attends His Church

Extremist Pastor Claims Patriot Front Are Secretly Antifa Even Though At Least One Of Them Attends His Church

What really scares me beyond the violent ideas and seemingly in love with that violence this guy is, I have some people I really care about in this region of the country.  To those in this region of the country please be safe, and know I care about you.   Hugs

Religion News Service reports:

Shortly after 31 members of a white nationalist group were arrested in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, over the weekend, pastor and former Washington state lawmaker Matt Shea claimed on Facebook the men were members of antifa, or anti-fascist demonstrators.

“This attempted ambush from antifa was thwarted,” said Shea, who has previously espoused Christian nationalism and has suggested replacing the existing U.S. government with a form of theocracy. Not only was Shea’s antifa claim untrue, at least one of the arrested men attended Shea’s own church within the last year.

Read the full article. Watch the clip.

Shea last appeared on JMG in March 2022 when he was involved in a suspicious attempt to “rescue” Ukrainian children.

He first earned national headlines in 2019 when leaked chats showed his violent fantasies about executing non-Christians and when it was learned that he had participated in militia drills to train young men for “biblical warfare.”

Shea advocates for the creation of a 51st US state based on “biblical law.” He has also said that all American men who fail to avow allegiance to Jesus should be executed.

He was expelled by the Washington state Republican caucus but refused to resign even after the feds found that he had “participated in an act of domestic terrorism against the United States” by helping plan the armed takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016.

He did not seek reelection in 2020 and is now the pastor of Covenant Christian Church in Spokane.

 

Rex • a day ago

So, if Democrats win an election there’s voter fraud and it’s a stolen election.
If Republicans win, it’s all fair and legal.
If rioters get caught it’s Antifa.
If rioters get away with it they’re patriots.

worstcultever Rebecca Gardner • a day ago

I’m with ya

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Yves R. Mektin • a day ago

His infatuation with training young men and that bit about “rescuing Ukrainian children” sets off all kinds of alarms. Check this one’s crawlspace and his hard drive.

teeveedub 🇺🇦 • a day ago

If “antifa” had a fraction of the power that the RWNJs think they have, TFG would never have set foot in the White House.

Uncle Mark’s ugly face returns • a day ago

He first earned national headlines in 2019 when leaked chats showed his violent fantasies about executing non-Christians and when it was learned that he had participated in militia drills to train young men for “biblical warfare.”

Gawd’s gentle people, ladies & gentlemen.

Jonathan • a day ago

This guy kills me, the personification of a man not only smaller in stature but frankly, an 11 year old could beat his ass.

He’s such a nothing little pussy with all of these fantasies of killing everyone because he believes incredibly stupid nonsense and we don’t.

I hope he talks shit to the wrong person and they end him

Gavin Newsom joined Truth Social. His first post is BRILLIANT…

Let’s talk about MLK and black people wanting more….

DeSantis says Florida is ‘affirmatively against’ Covid-19 vaccines for young kids

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/16/desantis-covid-vaccine-florida-kids-fda-00040191

This is both irresponsible and will lead to child deaths, plus promote more Covid virus among the public and it makes no sense.  Parents with sick infants and children.   Sorry deniers, the science is settled and the data shows the vaccines are safe and effective.   The people who DeathSantis is playing to are a dying breed, really dying.   I am getting less and less willing to entertain those who deny the data and science simply because Tucker or Hannity say it is not true.  I am getting tired of the outright lying by the right wing media.   Florida is the only state, the only state think on that, that did not pre order the vaccines for this age group.   Even every other red state preordered the vaccines.  I want to be very clear that DeathSantis lies that young kids do not get Covid, many do and many die, and those that do not die have lifelong health issues.   This is just a flat out lie dooming so many kids it should be illegal.   They talk about not letting kids read books because it may harm them, but the real harm is sicknesses they could be protected from that they won’t be because of this bullshit.     Hugs

 Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday railed against providing Covid-19 vaccines to young children, saying Florida will not provide state programs to administer vaccinations for toddlers or infants.

DeSantis, speaking at a press conference in Miami, said that Covid-19 vaccines have not gone through enough testing and clinical trials to determine that they are effective and added that kids are least likely to suffer serious health consequences from Covid.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Mayo Clinic have emphasized that the Covid-19 vaccine is safe and has urged the public to get the shot to protect against the virus and prevent serious symptoms.

 
 

“I would say we are affirmatively against the Covid vaccine for young kids,” DeSantis said. “These are the people who have zero risk of getting anything.”

Florida is the only state in the nation not to order fresh doses of the vaccine for children ahead of Wednesday’s decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to allow two Covid vaccines to be administered to children under 5 years old. The approval fast tracks the vaccine for distribution and kids could start receiving shots as soon as Tuesday.

DeSantis told reporters that the FDA board made its decision to pacify parent’s fears about the virus.

“To do an emergency-use authorization for a six month old or a one year old simply to placate anxiety, that’s not the standard when you’re doing this,” DeSantis said, adding those fears were stoked by the media.

The Florida Department of Health, which is overseen by DeSantis’ office, issued a statement Wednesday saying it did not place an order with the federal government for the vaccine doses because it did not advise that all children become vaccinated.

The state Department of Health is headed by state Surgeon General Joe Ladapo, who is an outspoken critic of the vaccine. He previously said he opposes the use of the vaccine on young kids and has questioned the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.

DeSantis on Thursday also stressed that the state’s decision not to seek help from the federal government to distribute doses earmarked for kids does not mean the state has banned use of the vaccine.

“You are free to choose — that’s not the issue,” he said.

Uncle Mark’s ugly face returns  a day ago

Let’s not forget that DeSantis gets a lot of money from the same outfit that makes Remdesivir. His benefactors/contributors don’t make as much money, if people are already immunized.

Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • a day ago

The Polio. flu, Hepatitis, Varicella, MMR & DTaP vaccines are just as safe and effective as the covid vaccine according to the data that have been made available to Florida and to everyone else.

zhera • a day ago

“These are the people who have zero risk of getting anything.”

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

John Conley zhera • a day ago

There is a cemetery at Black Diamond Mines (now a park) in the East Bay (California). It was used by miners and their families around 1875-1900. It’s heartbreaking to see many of the headstones with the names of many young children from the same family. They died at very early ages, from diphtheria, pertussis, rubella and many other diseases that are now preventable, thanks to vaccines.

Hospitals Are Sharing Sensitive Info With Facebook

Hospitals Are Sharing Sensitive Info With Facebook

Ars Technica reports:

A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments—and sending it to Facebook.

The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the tracker, called the Meta Pixel, sending Facebook a packet of data whenever a person clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment.

Read the full article.

There’s much more. So creepy.

Thailand edges closer to legalizing same-sex unions in wake of country’s first pride parade

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-16/thailand-inches-closer-to-expanding-lgbtq-rights/101156796

APN Thailand Pride Parade

Thai politicians have passed four different bills on same-sex unions, in what appears to be a step towards Thailand becoming the second territory in Asia to legalise same-gender marriages.

 

Thailand has one of Asia’s most open and visible LGBTQ+ communities, adding to its image of tolerance and attraction as a liberal holiday destination for foreign tourists.

Earlier this month, thousands of members of Thailand’s LGBTQ+ community raised rainbow flags in the country’s first official parade celebrating pride month and supporting gender equality.

But activists say Thai laws and institutions are yet to reflect changing social attitudes, and still discriminate against LGBTQ+ people and same-sex couples.

The four draft laws approved on Wednesday each seek to provide same-sex partners with almost the same legal rights as heterosexual couples.

The cabinet endorsed two last week that would create a same-sex civil partnership law. Another civil partnership bill from the Democrat Party was also approved.

A more liberal equal marriage bill from the opposition Move Forward party also passed, despite efforts by government whips to vote it down. That draft seeks to replace gendered terms in existing laws and make marriage applicable to all people.

“This is a very good sign,” Chumaporn “Waddao” Taengkliang, of the Rainbow Coalition for Marriage Equality, said in reference to the approval of the bills.

“There should be the same standard for all genders, whether it’s a civil union or marriage.”

Activists call for legal amendments

The Constitutional Court last year ruled Thailand’s current marriage law, which only recognises heterosexual couples, was constitutional, but recommended legislation be expanded to ensure rights of other genders.

So far in Asia, only Taiwan has legalised same-sex unions.

Thai LGBTQ+ activists have criticised the two government-backed bills, arguing there is no need for a special law for same-sex couples, just amendments to make existing laws more inclusive.

The four bills will be deliberated by a 25-member committee, which will decide whether to send any of those, or a consolidated draft, to the house for two more readings, prior to senate then royal approval.

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Thousands join Thailand first official pride parade.

Florida Papers Blast GOP Hypocrisy On Drag Shows

Florida Papers Blast GOP Hypocrisy On Drag Shows

From the Miami Herald editorial board:

In the same week that the Jan. 6 committee unveiled its findings on the attack against American democracy, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and others were more preoccupied with children attending a drag show in Dallas, Texas.

Republicans used the “parents know best” line to pass the “Don’t say gay” bill, which banned instructions in K-3 public school classrooms about sexual orientation and gender identity. Wouldn’t bringing their child to a drag show qualify as parents exercising that autonomy? Republicans, your hypocrisy is showing.

Read the full editorial.

The same editorial ran in the Orlando Sentinel.

 

Raising_Rlyeh • 5 hours ago • edited

The thing is hypocrisy doesn’t bother them. That would require having a sense of shame. In fact, they love hypocrisy because it demonstrates power. They can say one thing and do another with zero consequences

John T Raising_Rlyeh • 4 hours ago

They are very consistent about one principle: that they should have the power to tell you what to do while you can’t tell them what to do.

Adam Schmidt • 5 hours ago

It all comes back to their basic position of “they get to tell you what to do, you can’t tell them what to do”

Nic Peterson • 4 hours ago

The point of legislation such as we have seen from Floriduh is to provide some cover for christianity Inc. The best way to divert attention from religious people fucking children is for legislators to point fingers at the gay community and now drag queens. There is nothing novel about this as the same play was used in the early seventies by former beauty queen and current whore for christianity Inc, Anita Bryant.

Arkansas “Moms For Liberty” Activist Caught On Tape Musing About “Plowing Down” Local Librarians With Gun

Arkansas “Moms For Liberty” Activist Caught On Tape Musing About “Plowing Down” Local Librarians With Gun

This is what passes as morality from the anti-LGBTQ+ crowd.   Hugs

The Arkansas Times reports:

An audio recording from a recent Moms for Liberty meeting in Cabot captures a group member musing about gunning down a school librarian over tension about what books are appropriate for young readers. The person who captured that audio at a June 9 meeting at Crossroads Cafe in Cabot asked to remain anonymous.

The person said keeping audio records of public meetings is simply their normal practice, but that they decided to share this one because it was disturbing. The person confirmed the voice in the recording belongs to Melissa “Missy” Bosch, the leader of an anti-mask effort in the Cabot School District last year.

Media Matters reports:

In the audio obtained by Media Matters, the chapter’s head of communications and media, Melissa “Missy” Bosch, complained about librarians in the district, saying, “I’m telling you, if I was — any mental issues, they would all be plowed down with a freaking gun by now.”

She was made aware of the recorded audio and took to Facebook falsely claiming it was “illegally recorded” and “illegally spliced.” It wasn’t — Arkansas is a one-party consent state and Media Matters has reviewed the original recording in full.

Bosch also threatened legal action in her post, claiming to know “some fantastic lawyers,” and she said her comments came while she was talking about “making librarians who make 85k a year answer to parents when we ask how sexually explicit books got into the library.”

Media Matters notes that the lawyer Bosch hired for her anti-mask lawsuit also represented…wait for it…Josh Duggar.

https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3989813/embed/embed

https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3989813/embed/embed

 

Elagabalus • 26 minutes ago

In 1976 I was a scared teenager who timidly checked out a book at our local public library entitled “Society and the healthy homosexual” by George Weinberg. It changed my life for the better and I’ll be forever grateful to Mr. Weinberg and also grateful for the fact that I was even able to check that book out in the first place. It was a lifeline that saved me.

MDixon34 • 20 minutes ago • edited

Librarians and drag queens – the right’s new arch enemies. Fucking snowflakes.

Brian Green • 25 minutes ago

If Trump did nothing else, he certainly emboldened the sick, festering, hateful, violent
crazies to expose who they really are…… It’s going to be hard if not impossible to put that genie back in the bottle.