JUST IN—The “Caveman” Peter Francis Stager (from Arkansas) is charged with violently beating a Metropolitan Police officer unconscious on the footsteps of the US Capitol in broad daylight. #CapitolRiot
3) Best of all— they also captured the man who threw a fire extinguisher 🧯 at police. The irony is that he is a firefighter 👨🚒. Can’t make this stuff up.
6) We need to take heed from people who have witnessed Hilter’s fascism such as Austrian 🇦🇹 Americans @Schwarzenegger and @andreafeigl1 whose families saw Hilter’s legacy first hand.
7) Andrea’s 🇦🇹 great grandfather secretly fought Hilter’s Nazi regime & smuggled many Jews to safety as an aircraft engineer. He was thrown into a concentration camp.
@andreafeigl1 knows a few things about Nazi history—Jan 6th was downright fascist.
BREAKING—alt-right insurrectionist who stormed the Capitol **while #COVID19 positive** has been arrested by the FBI near Houston. Tim Gionet aka “Baked Alaska” live streamed for 27 minutes from inside the Capitol & falsely identified himself as media.
2) Gionet faces charges of violent and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Los Angeles situation here is dire. Ambulances circle for hours, unable to find ERs that can accept patients. Hospitals running out of O2. ICU capacity at zero. Patients lie in hallways & tents. National Guard has arrived to manage the flood of bodies. 😢 statnews.com/2021/01/15/los…
TROUBLESOME—The new variants that each have the tricky antibody-evading E484k mutation are what worries me.
➡️This Science piece summarizes what I’ve been warning last 2 weeks w/ the new South Africa 🇿🇦 B1135 variant & new Brazil 🇧🇷 P1 variant. #COVID19 sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/n…
2) indeed, @jbloom_lab showed that E484K also reduced the potency of convalescent sera from some donors 10-fold—although he is quick to add this does not necessarily mean the mutation would cause people’s immunity to the new strain to drop 10-fold.
3) To be clear, 🇿🇦 and 🇧🇷 variants evolved independently. But P.1 adds to the concerns because it appears to have hit on a similar constellation of mutations and has emerged in a place with a high level of immunity.
2) To be clear, we did have a reserve, but that was depleted by Dec. but Alex Azar promised to send more vaccines from reserve this week... except there was none anymore. Nobody knows how they could just make up a falsehood on such a reserve if there was none anymore!
“Operation Warp Speed has asked us to start shipping second doses only **recently**. As a result, we have on hand all the 2nd doses of previous shipments to US.”
📍Operation Warp Speed leaders waited more than two months to approve a plan to distribute and administer Covid-19 vaccines proposed by U.S. health officials leaving states with little time to implement a mass-vaccination campaign amid #COVID19 surge.
2) “State and local officials had been clamoring for months for help preparing for the largest vaccination program in U.S. history when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a playbook in September to guide them.
3) “CDC had wanted to start helping states plan in June how to get people vaccinated. But OWS rebuffed plan for distributing vaccines. They adopted similar plan in August only after exploring other options—then held release of CDC’s playbook for 2 weeks for additional clearance
BREAKING—The window-breacher of the Capitol siege has been arrested—a Proudboy member named Dominic ‘Spazzo’ Pezzola. He has been sought by FBI for a long time—FBI say his group had stated that they “would have killed Mike Pence if given the chance”.
2) Pezzola also encouraged rioters after smashing the glass protecting the west side of the building.