The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports:
A severely ill COVID-19 patient flown from Minnesota to Texas during a legal battle over whether his ventilator should be turned off died Saturday.
Scott Quiner, who was unvaccinated, was being kept alive by the machine at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, north of Minneapolis, after contracting COVID-19 in October. His family sued the hospital over a move to disconnect Quiner, and a judge issued a restraining order Jan. 13 blocking Mercy from turning off the machine.
Last weekend, the family flew Quiner to Texas, where he was being treated at a Houston hospital. He died Saturday morning. The family’s story drew national attention as the surge in COVID-19 patients strained hospitals across the country.
The New York Times reports:
On Jan. 12, Ms. Quiner pleaded for a lawyer’s help on the “Stew Peters Show,” a podcast whose host has falsely called coronavirus vaccines “poisonous shots” and given a platform to pandemic conspiracy theories.
She said that aside from her husband’s lungs, his organs were functioning and “there was nothing wrong with his brain.” Only a couple of days earlier, she said, her husband had opened his eyes “and was more alert.”
“I’m thinking, ‘Why are you killing him?’” said Ms. Quiner, whose husband had made her his health care agent in 2017. Under Minnesota law, that means she has the authority to make medical decisions on his behalf if he is unable to himself.
Category: Health / Healthcare / Illness / Vaccines
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: There is much more to life than work, and there should be in our advanced time.
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For the first morning since last Sunday I feel almost normal. I have been sick for a week, Ron thinks we had a version of Covid. I don’t care what the name of the thing is all I know is it put me in my bed. I like my bed but not anywhere that much. But the roundup still got done. Ron said I was crazy and I told him it is an addiction to editorial cartoons. Scottie
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You can’t save democracy with seditious traitors, Christofascists, and white nationalists.
Would you work with bank robbers to protect a bank?
So it’s not the filibuster, it’s the Voting Rights Bill they are against. Unbelievably disgusting.
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/674103618548400129
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/674104099885793280
Republicans can’t defend their policies. Killing the political conversation is their mission.
Republican religion, nor their pro-life gaslight, will ever look to help the poor/vulnerable.
Helping the richest is their zero sum game.
Also, people like Putin create refugees through their military/foreign policy, [see Syria], yet conservatives love Putin.
By creating refugees, conservatives always have a boogeyman to frighten their base.
Conservative policies are about isolation and lonerism. Inclusion is a threat.
We are a society of different people, and that scares people who only value whiteness.
Empathy evolves in stages. Some people will always be stunted at the lower levels. Unfortunately, those at the lower levels can’t experience/see/feel what the people at the higher levels experience. That discrepancy between levels is what defines our current politics.
Under funding schools and education is criminal.
Teachers are long a target of conservative cuts. Teachers are 75% women.
We will never have strong communities until we invest in schools and teachers as core infrastructure. This is the foundation.
https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1485106144855183362?s=20
The biggest threat to a cop is themselves. They make selfish decisions, then claim victimhood.
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Unfortunately, there are Not two sides of the same. The GOP Big Lie is a Fact… and So is their attempt at voter-suppression. The Dem side is a Big Truth, and should be noted as such. At least he has confessed the “Big Lie” to be a lie. That’s progress. His lame attempt to both-sides the dishonesty is no more blameworthy than the snarls of a cornered beast. With apologies to Upton Sinclair, It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his standing within his tribe depends upon his not understanding it. Scottie
Is that not the job of the press secretary? It has been done in every administration I can remember. Often it is a deliberate attempt to get a conversation going in the media or to change the Overton window. I would point out the prior administration went through a lot of press secretaries because they were required by their boss to flat out lie to back up his many lies. Scottie
Other than a small minority of cult like followers no one likes tRump nor wants him to run in 2024. More and more Republicans are openly saying it as tRump’s influence over the base is shrinking. The 2020 presidential election was not about Biden and his polices, but a referendum on tRump. tRump was rejected. He will be rejected by an even larger margin if he runs again. Scottie
The right wing media is desperate to bring Biden down. Think on it, what have the Republicans done they can brag about? They are reduced to lying about supporting bills they voted against. So they hammer on Biden’s poll numbers. It is partly the Biden’s peoples fault, they don’t brag enough on what they have accomplished, unlike the former guy who had to make most things up. Scottie
The distinction is extremely clear to me. If you don’t get it, try being a pregnant female. BEFORE birth, there’s a woman who has bodily autonomy or she’s less than a full human. AFTER birth there are two humans.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: No one loves their health insurance company. They desperately need healthcare and live in a country that insists everyone make a profit for them to get it
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People deserve to have the right of free healthcare. It should be one of the main functions of the government to care for the well being of the people. Oh wait it is but that part is ignore in favor of profit. We need universal expanded Medicare for all
We gave tax cuts to ‘job creators’.
Don’t let the Republicans off the hook. Scottie
Justice Roberts, this shame is on you. Your legacy is that of vengeful racism. You destroyed voting rights for millions. You are the architect of undermining election integrity and global disenfranchisement of non-white voters.
https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1484566399116845062?s=20
Conservative policies are about isolation and lonerism. Inclusion is a threat.
We are a society of different people, and that scares people who only value whiteness.
Republicans have weaponized their fragile snowflake rhetoric to protect their own racism.
‘Don’t hurt my feelings’ is GOP top agenda.
Family values.
Loveless, humorless, moral blanks can survive with ease in conservative politics.
Just to protect whiteness.
https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1484156541351735298?s=20
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Yeah, Lisa! Nothing worse than preventing the country from crumbling into the rubble of a third world nation! Good thing the Obstructionist party is hard at work preventing progress and making sure needless defense contracts keep getting filled! Scottie
Hillary has not even hinted at running. The right loves that they have made her such a boogieman after 30 years of attacks and they can not wait to trot her out to scare their base. It is that simple. No one in the Democratic party has wanted her to run again, it is just the left hoping to gin up outrage in the cult. Republicans had an opportunity to prevent this twice by voting to convict Trump. Republicans can also prevent Trump from running by taking him to task for his lies about voter fraud. They can also stop rigging the system in order to make it harder for people to vote and creating a situation where Republicans can overturn any election results they don’t like. Meanwhile, it is unlikely Hillary will be running since there is a Democrat in the White House. Besides what is the big deal? The Republican Party failed to lock her up, so it looks like she did nothing wrong. Scottie
I am seeing versions of this everywhere. It is very misleading. Democrats do not mind ID, but we are against the Republican ID requirements that make ID’s nearly impossible for some people to get and they accept only certain ID’s they think their voters might have no matter how obscure while denying popular forms of ID’s that Democratic voters might have. Scottie
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Supreme Court denies bid to block restrictive Texas abortion law
Children’s COVID-19 hospitalizations are on the rise
Gun-Loving Karen THREATENS School Board Over Mask Mandate
Hospital Greed To Blame For Nursing Shortage Crisis
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The rich got richer and the people lost their right to vote, so the wealthy got the rest of the money
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Scottie’s world today
Catch up note. I have been sick since Sunday. I thought it was from entertaining on Saturday and staying up far too late. But it is far more than that. Ron had not felt well for more than a week. His symptoms were not as severe as mine are but they were mostly the same. He had gotten over it so we did not worry. I was not feeling well for a few days after Sunday but Wednesday was bad and yesterday was really bad and today is like yesterday. Head full, slight headache, hot sweats, cold periods, fever, extreme nausea, vertigo, really tired, intermittent running nose that we thought that was allergies. Yes we both now think I have Omicron or some version of Covid and that he did also. Wednesday and yesterday spent most of the day in bed. This morning got up early thinking I could do some news stories I had missed, but this is not working. I am going to get as much done before I am forced back to bed. The thing is in Florida it is really hard to get a Covid test and before I would get any result I would be over it. So I will just quarantine at home just in case. ** Took all day with many rest periods, I am now going back to bed. I will try to get to comments tomorrow. ** Scottie
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Rudy driving.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The old white guy cartoonist pretended in the article that went with this cartoon that Biden should do this to protect black people and to increase the wages of black people. Right. Immigration has fallen for the last decade and it has not increased the wages of black people. The real issue is that the brown people coming here do have more children right now than the white people already here. So again the idea of a white majority or white ethnostate is what drives these racist on immigration at the southern border. Scottie
Wright and one other right wing media cartoonist keep trying to push Hillary into the limelight, to force the idea of Hillary running again to rile up their base. They know that for 30 years the right wing media villainize Hillary and the right wing base is in a constant rage about her while the independents are sure she must have done something wrong even though she has never been found guilty of any Republican charge. Hillary has not even suggested she is running nor that she thinks Joe should be replace. Scottie
I think this must be a regional thing. Yes we have a few things that are short like cat food. But mostly it is just one brand name missing with plenty of that item by by a different supplier. Our problem is the costs of stuff. The price of meat is out of this world along with milk which is $5.48 a gallon here. There are other things Ron comes home just all upset over the price of, but we are not yet scrounging for food as Tony Perkins claims due to Biden.
Bullshit! What about the money for the defense department? Tax cuts for the wealthy never get cost checked. But anything helping the people or taking care of the decaying nation needs is called tax and spend liberalism. The people are not buying the misleading talking point anymore. Scottie
While Biden was not articulate in how he put it, he was right. We know Putin has special operations people in Ukraine. He has troops out of uniform helping the separatist. Biden did not want to get in to a war over those handfuls of Russian troops. However he has made it clear that if Putin tries to take any more of Ukrainian territory they will pay a huge price in retaliation. Scottie
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Bosses have trained the worker to kiss their asses, time to break the training
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https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1483936527835140098?s=20
https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1483871129420939268?s=20
Racism in roots above
Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilization. A sweeping report assessing the state of the natural world found that humans are having an “unprecedented” and devastating effect on global biodiversity, with about 1 million animal and plant species now threatened with extinction. Scottie
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And yet the US is the only thing stopping Putin from invading so far. You don’t see Putin wanting talks with other countries, just the US. Scottie
A new study released Wednesday found no big exodus of people leaving California for other states during the COVID pandemic. But California is still losing population to domestic migration, because fewer people than usual are moving in from other parts of the United States. One of the top reasons people are leaving is housing prices. However the satisfaction rate is higher in California than most red states. Scottie
What the right wing hates is that main stream media is reporting the reality of Covid and the truth about the medical treatments / precautions. They have to try to vilify Dr. Fauci because he disputes their lies. As the mainstream media tells people the Covid truth the right wing media has to try to vilify them over this subject. This one was so stupid I did not even bother to leave a comment on the site. Scottie
The right wing is always trying to slam Biden with being inarticulate. Apparently they have forgotten their two favorite guys Bush Jr and tRump. Neither could speak in full sentences. Scottie
Yeah, giving all citizens a the right to votes is too radical for Goodwyn. A.G. is happy that the repubs are blocking radical things like lifting children out of poverty and making it easier for the lesser people to vote. Protecting voting rights and trying to pass a sorely needed infrastructure bill is NOT A RADICAL AGENDA!!!
Attacking the capitol and trying to overturn an election is a “racial agenda”. Scottie
Seriously? This is now how desperate Steve Kelley has become? This is how low he has to stoop when he can find nothing connected to reality?
As soon as I see someone throw out the name, “George Soros,” I know we are truly in the la-la-la cult extremist wacko zone. George Soros a Marxist?
George Soros came to the U.S. at age 15 as a Holocaust survivor with NOTHING and became a multi-billionaire INVESTMENT CAPITALIST. He comes as close as anything to representing a self-made CAPITALIST success story. He played your game and beat you at it.
Soros’ real crime? He had the NERVE to remember where he came from and seek to retain a system that helps those with less advantage, so as a result, this most successful INVESTMENT CAPITALIST gets labelled as a communist.
The difference between George Soros and the Koch brothers, Walton heirs, Mercer heirs, Mitt R-money, DeVos family, Steve Forbes, Bush family, and of course Donald Trump and his kids is that NONE OF THEM got rich by working hard — they inherited everything from Daddy.
SOROS is the only TRUE CAPITALIST among them. The rich elite TrumpubliCONs, who support tax giveaways for the few richest elites and massive corporate welfare, want SOCIALISM FOR THE RICH, and brutal market capitalism for everyone else.
If you support corporate Republican socialists and spit in the face of a true SELF-MADE CAPITALIST, then YOU ARE THE MARXIST. Scottie
The tennis player was not seeking asylum, which by US laws and by treaties is not only allowed but not a crime. So yes they should be given a hearing date which according to the FBI 91% do make it to. Scottie
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Scottie's Playtime 
This is BS propaganda. Abortions after gestational age of 21 weeks are extremely rare (<1%). They are fundamentally illegal unless medically necessary. The vast majority of those abortions are when the fetus is no longer viable. Overturning RvW most likely will not even ban these types of abortions more than they are now.
That fetus abandoned in the trash was most likely a baby that the mother had to conceal because she didn’t know what else to do. This is often caused by the stigma created by families about pregnancy outside of marriage by young women incapable of taking care of the child. It speaks to the fact that American society does less to encourage a mother to keep her child by supporting both the mother and child (the infamous “welfare mother” stigma). It’s so much easier for conservatives to punish the mother for getting an abortion and forcing her to carry the baby’s to terms and then abandon both mother and child. Scottie