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Scottie’s world today
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The US incarcerates more people than any other country. We might want to be careful when throwing around charges of human rights abuses.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The facts change and the people responsible for public policy have to change their advice to match the new circumstances.
Complete projection and trying to hide what they are doing. Remember this is the party that is pushing bills to ban subjects from being taught in schools, banning even talking about LGBTQ+, requiring teachers to wear cameras, out kids to parents, has a media arm called Fox News, and trying to call an insurrection riot legitimate political discourse.
I wondered how long it would take for the right wing cartoonist to pick this up. Took less than a day from when Fox News aired a misleading story on it and the cartoonist drawing what the misinformation is. No the US government is not buying crack pipes. They are funding ways to keep addicts from dying or over dosing along with spreading disease. Beau has a good video on this with some of the things the bill funds. So I expect this to be a big shit storm on the comment section of the radical right cartoons.
The preponderance of evidence indicates that mask wearing reduces transmissibility per contact by reducing transmission of infected respiratory particles in both laboratory and clinical contexts. Public mask wearing is most effective at reducing spread of the virus when compliance is high.
Leffler et al. (29) used a multiple regression approach, including a range of policy interventions and country and population characteristics, to infer the relationship between mask use and SARS-CoV-2 transmission. They found that transmission was 7.5 times higher in countries that did not have a mask mandate or universal mask use, a result similar to that found in an analogous study of fewer countries (30). Another study looked at the difference between US states with mask mandates and those without, and found that the daily growth rate was 2.0 percentage points lower in states with mask mandates, estimating that the mandates had prevented 230,000 to 450,000 COVID-19 cases by May 22, 2020 (31).
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118
We’re not going away from mask mandates because they’re ineffective. We’re going away from them because the will to use them is evaporating.
I don’t have a problem with people who don’t want to wear a mask, however I do have a problem with people going into establishments without a mask demanding service when the owners of those establishments require their employees to wear a mask. House rules, follow the house rules of get out of the house. If you do get sick are you willing to forgo expecting your health insurance company to pay your medical bills since you decided not to take precautions?
^^^Just can’t stop repeating lies…
Has the U.S.-Mexico border been left completely open for anyone to cross?
No. And we’ve been here before.
In March, we rated False a claim that the border “is now open to anyone from anywhere in the world who wishes to enter our country.” In April, we rated False a claim that the U.S. is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.” And in July, we rated Mostly False a claim that Biden “is restricting travel for Americans into Mexico, but is keeping the border wide open for illegal aliens to walk right into our country.”
Here’s what is happening now.
Biden has continued a policy — initiated by former President Donald Trump — to restrict Americans’ travel to Mexico, as a way to fight the spread of COVID-19. On Nov. 26, after omicron was identified in South Africa, Biden banned travel from South Africa and seven other African countries.
Most people trying to cross at the border into the U.S. are being turned away, under a March 2020 order by the Trump administration to curb the spread of COVID-19. The Biden administration is still enforcing that policy, although it’s exempting children who arrive alone, as well as some families.
Encounters at the southern border rose each month since Biden took office through July, before dropping the next two months. The latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures show there were more than 1.7 million encounters during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.
In September, the last month for which data was available, there were 192,001 encounters, 102,673 of which resulted in expulsion.
No policies have been changed that would make the borders more open, said Michelle Mittelstadt, spokesperson for the Migration Policy Institute.
The claim that the U.S.-Mexico border is completely open is False.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/02/gateway-pundit/us-southern-border-completely-open-s-false/
Comment sections I have made comments on today. I wonder how long they will stay up.
https://www.creators.com/read/gary-varvel
https://www.creators.com/read/a.f.-branco/02/22/319815
https://www.creators.com/read/tom-stiglich
https://www.creators.com/read/zack-hill
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And now some for fun
Scottie's Playtime 
What we are witnessing is PRICE GOUGING, NOT INFLATION.
INFLATION is when business owners raise prices commensurate with higher costs to make ends meet.
But when corporations are reporting record all-time profits, raising prices is NOT INFLATION, it is PRICE GOUGING to capitalize on supply chain disruptions caused by a national emergency.
McDonald’s profits soared 59% in 2021, to $7.5 billion.
ExxonMobil reported a $8.9 billion in profits in the FOURTH QUARTER ALONE, while it was jacking up prices to new records.
Numerous other companies jacked up prices while raking in record profits in 2021.
Donald Trump crashed the economy, destroyed the supply chain, blew up international trade relations by imposing ridiculous tariffs that hurt farmers and consumers, mishandled a pandemic that exploded into a worldwide economic crisis and now as Biden is putting people back, restoring consumer confidence, which stimulates demand, but the devastation wrought by Trump on the supply chain is taking longer to undo, especially as anti-science right wing nut jobs continue to undermine recovery from the Trump plague.
If there were a hurricane, tornado, flood or wildfire and vendors were charging $20 for a bottle of water, they would be arrested. We need to see some of the corporate heads who have tripled their profits on the backs of consumers being frog-marched into the Big House.