Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Tales from Idaho...
"Kay Craig, a physical therapist, has worked for St. Luke's Health System for more than 28 years. When St. Luke's announced they would require all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, she was first in line to fill out a religious exemption."
"I was just kind of skeptical. I didn't want to wear the mask, I didn't want to get vaccinated," Craig said. "I just called on God, and I wanted to walk with him and be obedient. So when the mandate came out, I was again being told what to do and I really didn't feel like God was saying to get it. He said, 'Just wait.'"
"I didn't believe them when they said it was 98% or 96% unvaccinated and through my own research, it truly is," she said. "I looked in the ICU today and it's 27-year-olds, it's 33-year-olds, it's 60-year-olds. I had another good friend and her brother-in-law died at 40."
"At this point, Craig decided she had seen enough and received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine."



"As misinformation about the coronavirus, the vaccine and other treatments spread around the state and country, medical professionals are concerned about how they're able to perform their job. At the same time, a growing concern for their safety and security is becoming a problem.
"It's really disheartening," said Dr. Ashley Carvahlo, a physician working in the Treasure Valley. "We're not doing anything in our own interests, we're doing everything in the patients' interest."
"She believes the high emotions are what lead to one family member telling her, "I have a lot of ways to get people to do something, and they're all sitting in my gun safe at home."
"I wasn't nervous for my safety. I was more concerned for the patient at that time because he was in such distress, he was really struggling to breathe, he was very sick," Carvalho said. "I wasn't able to provide the care I needed to give him because of his family."

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/weekly-idaho-covid-highlights-headlines-september-30/277-4038957e-7789-4046-8e0e-9104f287dff2

For a quick departure from the covid hell in Idaho, here's a quick update on how the similarly minded are handling it in South Dakota:
"Even as the numbers continue to rise in the state, vaccination percentages remain at a standstill."
https://www.blackhillsfox.com/2021/10/01/covid-numbers-friday-south-dakota/

"Jury trials will be paused again in North Idaho due to rising COVID-19 cases."
"The order states counties within a public health district where Idaho’s crisis standards of care are activated should pause jury trials and grand jury proceedings."
"Those standards mean health facilities may have to ration care because of high demand."
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/dec/01/rising-covid-cases-pause-jury-trials-in-north-idah/
Meanwhile, in Utah, the covid cases keep coming!  "Utah health officials confirmed 2,297 new COVID-19 cases and 17 additional deaths on Wednesday."
"The rolling, seven-day average for new cases is 1,204 per day, and the positive rate of those tested is 14.3%,"
https://www.ksl.com/article/50295579/utah-confirms-2297-new-covid-19-cases-17-deaths-wednesday
Not to be outdone, South Dakota is contributing their share: "A rising active case count, measuring newly reported cases against new recoveries, indicates the virus is spreading in the state,"
https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/newsmd/coronavirus/7306217-In-South-Dakota-active-COVID-19-cases-rebound-6-deaths-reported
The red states just keeping on taking one for the team!

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Fake Rod, 

  Florida, which you were getting hysterical about a couple of months ago, now has the lowest infection rate.  

Your cherry picking ain't cutting it.  

The infection rates go up and down, so you're weekly reports mean nothing.  

As Greg said perfectly awhile back, when it gets cold and people are heading indoors, the states with the colder climates will see their infection rates rise, just as the article above indicates.

Vermont has the highest vaccination rate and yet their numbers are going way up.  

Why?  Put your thinking cap on.  Oh wait, I almost forgot, your brain doesn't work so well.  

Its cold in Vermont.  

Oh Itch Richie:
"COVID-19 Data Misrepresented by Florida Governor"
"Data from the Centers for Disease Control and other independent public health experts suggest that Florida’s total death toll from the pandemic is actually understated. Experts noted that Governor DeSantis’ administration has used a COVID-19 infection rate that gives “more weight to negative test” results, and thus skews the results. Governor DeSantis has used the skewed rate to justify reopening schools and businesses."
https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/covid-19-data-misrepresented-florida-governor

Idaho, home of the anti masker anti vaccer party, and a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, has the following proclamation: "Idaho public health leaders have activated “crisis standards of care” meaning healthcare being rationed for the state’s northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle. As a result, "residents that they may not get the care they would normally expect if they need to be hospitalized." "The move came as the state’s confirmed coronavirus cases rocketed in recent weeks." "Governor Brad Little, a Republican, called the move to limit care “an unprecedented and unwanted point in the history of our state” "The state health agency cited “a severe shortage of staffing and available beds in the northern area of the state caused by a massive increase in patients with Covid-19 who require hospitalization”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/08/idaho-crisis-standards-of-care-covid-coronavirus
We have an effective vaccine but, as we've seen time after time, Trumptoids won't take it...

Welcome back, Jim!

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Just for your education, It was January 6th, not 8th, and Benedict Arnold was a Decorated General as well.

Then again you've never been much of a history buff, have you Jim?

Like I said, IF these reports are true, the possibly treasonous General should be in Leavenworth.

And since the BIG part of the story is about this guy Milley?

Yeah, I'll focus on him.  

He's the nutjob, asserting that Trump is going to NUKE China??

What a mental case this Milley must be. 

My nephew and the members of his squadron think Milley should resign in disgrace.  

Talking about history, Nixon's secretary of defense did the same thing as Milley when he feared Nixon would nuke Vietnam while he was running around drunk crazy in the WH talking to pictures on the wall. In Trump's case, he's not drunk, he's just batshit crazy...

View the Forbes analysis posted yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kub1jzGrM8s

This was MAGA media's and Richie's vaunted probe into the probe, "the investigation into the investigation." Faux news was promoting it all over their shows. The gist: those investigators were gonna get it up the kazoo.
So what did it actually find? One lawyer got caught lying in one email and got 12 months probation for falsifying a document surveilling former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. The latter was reportedly considered too stupid by Russian intel agents to be of much use to them. The second "find" is that a lawyer has been alleged to have lied to the FBI about whom he had worked for. The lawyer denies the charge.
Wow! Now that's an investigation into the investigation...

Originally Posted by Steven Moore

"Not that I'm saying that he incited January 6th. No wait, yes I am."

Donald Trump has been acquitted of a single impeachment charge that he incited a mob to storm the US Capitol.Donald Trump has been acquitted of a single impeachment charge that he incited a mob to storm the US Capital

And many who participated in the insurrection state it was Trump who incited them. He was righteously impeached by the House for doing so...