1- "..the Heat only had 10 players available because of injuries and one COVID-19 case and the Bulls were down to 11 because of a larger COVID outbreak within the team."
2- "Chicago coach Billy Donovan said Saturday, “We’ve got a lot of guys sitting at home with no symptoms right now.”
Maybe COVID isn't the problem. Maybe thinking crappy vaccines stop COVID is the problem. Maybe testing nonstop is the problem.
3- "Wing Caleb Martin is also asymptomatic, Spoelstra indicated, and will likely have to sit out until Dec. 21, even though he and every one of his teammates has their booster shots, in addition to being fully vaccinated."
Boosters @NBA virtually mandated didn't move the dial.
4- "Miami underwent a round of testing before its 118-92 rout of the Bulls at FTX Arena, then another round after the game. The Heat plans to go through one more round of testing Sunday before it leaves for Cleveland to begin the week-long trip."
Here's the problem.
5- "There’s still not a ton of information about how effective the vaccines are at curbing transmission.."
Remember when Fauci said the vaccines were a "dead end" for the viurs? Good times.
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2- “Two more Labour MPs – Emma Hardy and Feryal Clark – are isolating, while two Tory MPs – Darren Henry and Dean Russell – also revealed they would be missing the debate and votes because they had tested positive. The SNP’s Douglas Chapman is also isolating.”
All is well.
3- “With so many absences, Peter Grant, an SNP MP, raised concerns about MPs continuing to crowd together through the lobbies in the House of Commons on Wednesday.”
1- "..his job approval rating lagging across a range of major issues, including new lows for his handling of crime, gun violence and the economic recovery, a new ABC/Ipsos poll finds."
Not to mention one foreign policy disaster & more in the queue (cont).
2- "As the White House confronts rising and widespread concern about inflation, Americans are especially negative on how the Biden administration is managing this issue."
In part because they see the contempt @PressSec has for the plebs. She is a disaster.
3- "More than two-thirds of Americans (69%) disapprove of how Biden is handling inflation (only 28% approve) while more than half (57%) disapprove of his handling of the economic recovery."
"Blue America, by contrast, has taken Covid seriously. Fewer than 10 percent of Democratic voters have not received a vaccine shot. Political liberals also tend to be comfortable wearing masks to reduce the spread of the Covid virus."
2- There is a difference between taking COVID seriously & vaccine skepticism.
@DLeonhardt and his ilk can't even see this, much less acknowledge it; even as the call for more & more boosters borders on comical.
3- Mask skepticism is another case of following data that shows no value in stopping transmission.
If anyone believes differetly, refute the hundreds of graphs @ianmSC publishes every month showing transmission unfazed time & again by mask mandates. I'll wait.
2- We'd be managing it better because Scott Atlas would be leading the response + Fauci would be fired, but nothing was going to make these vaccines stop transmission.
Overall, with COVID we'd probably be fairly close to where we are now, because virus is gonna virus.
3- We wouldn't have the dumb vaccine mandates, but the Left / Media would be screaming that POTUS isn't doing enough & it would be hard to counter politically with "virus is gonna virus".
2- “The Islanders are riding an eight-game losing streak, have been outscored 32-7 over that stretch and are last in the Metropolitan Division at 5-10-2.”
So basically COVID whacked their entire season.
3- “New York began the season with 13 straight road games..”
Welp, there was a recipe for COVID if there ever is one.