From the NY Post:

Nurse placed on leave for bragging on TikTok she doesn’t wear a mask

An Oregon nurse is placed on administrative leave after she posted a TikTok video shunning basic COVID-19 measures.

The since-deleted post from user @Loveiskind05 showed the nurse wearing scrubs and a stethoscope, with the caption, “When my coworkers find out I still travel, don’t wear a mask when I’m out and let my kids have play dates.” A “duet” of the original TikTok remains online.

Users apparently identified the nurse and then alerted her employer, Salem Health.

In a Facebook post Saturday, the hospital thanked community members for reaching out and announced that she had been “placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.”

So in her private, off duty, hours she chooses to live a normal life.

The internet rated her out to her employer for punishment.

As far as I can tell, none of these medical professionals have been identified or put on leave.

You can waste PPE to dance like a stripper on a piece of hospital equipment, wasting time on duty practicing your choreography, but as long as you don’t say you go outside without our mask on it’s copacetic.

We are no longer the United States of America, a Constitutional republic.

We are now America’s largest banana republic, and should adopt a name befitting that dishonor.

The Democratic People’s Republic of the United States.

Forty-seven percent (47%) say it’s likely that Democrats stole votes or destroyed pro-Trump ballots in several states to ensure that Biden would win, but 50% disagree. This includes 36% who say it’s Very Likely and 41% who consider it Not At All Likely… https://t.co/kRgR2bxCxZ pic.twitter.com/5HcZHRac0p

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) November 19, 2020

Huge: “How likely is it that Democrats stole votes or destroyed pro-Trump ballots in several states to ensure that Biden would win?”

Democrats – 30% – 20% say Very Likely (VL)
Unaffiliated – 39% – 29% say VL
Republicans – 75% – 61% say VL
All Voters – 47% – 36% say VL https://t.co/NMDryxyLzq pic.twitter.com/EblRuV2AXY

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) November 20, 2020

So within the margin of error of polling, this country is split down the middle where half thinks our most recent election is fraudulent and the other half doesn’t.

This is the banana republic Rubicon.

Why vote in a fraudulent election.

Why be peaceful if you assume the system has conspired against you to deny you your rights.

The radical anti-Trumpers were willing to burn down the country to get Trump.

They succeeded.

Earlier, I brought you the news that the Supreme Court struck down New York’s cap on attendance at places of worship.

From that decision, NBC News published this:

In Covid-19 regulations case, Sotomayor dissent claps back at Supreme Court majority

I fucking hate the phrase clap-back.

According to Merriam-Webster:

Not to be confused with a garden-variety diss, a clapback is deemed by most as a targeted, often viciously acute comeback intended to place someone in much-needed check.

AOC is the “clap back queen” because she’s snarky on Twitter.  Generally with factually innacruate statemnts that are as deep and well thought out as a puddle of piss on a men’s room floor.  But that’s modern politics for you.  It’s not the legislation you pass, it’s the likes you get on Twitter that matter.

I’m not sure how Sotomayor’s dissent claps back at Supreme Court majority, because what I read was pure bullshit.

“Free religious exercise is one of our most treasured and jealously guarded constitutional rights. States may not discriminate against religious institutions, even when faced with a crisis as deadly as this one,” she wrote. “But those restrictions are not at stake today.”

“Justices of this Court play a deadly game in second guessing the expert judgment of health officials about the environments in which a contagious virus, now infecting a million Americans each week, spreads most easily.”

The Court’s ruling, she noted, “will only exacerbate the Nation’s suffering.”

Sotomayor’s dissent can be viewed as a strong clapback to the Court’s conservative majority; in a footnote, she mentioned that “ironically” the plaintiff diocese is no longer subject to Cuomo’s numerical caps on attendance, “due to the success of New York’s public health measures.”

What she is saying here is that if the experts – who have been consistently worng on everything – tell her it’s necessary to totally restrict our rights to save lives, she’ll side with the experts over our rights.

Moreover, the ends justify the means, and while there is no evidence that stopping church attendence had any effect on curbing the spread of the virus, since the nubers did go down, the restriction on rights was worth it.

“The Constitution does not forbid States from responding to public health crises through regulations that treat religious institutions equally or more favorably than comparable secular institutions,” wrote Sotomayor, “particularly when these regulations save lives.”

That was the heart of the case.

Essential businesses were restricted to 50% capcatiy, so a Target big-box retailer could have 500 people in it at a time.

But a Church or Synagogue was limited to 10, no matter the square footing.

That is clearly disperate and unfair treatment of a religious insitution.

If a health crisis requires a 50% capcapity reduction, that must be equally applied.

Here is where this line of thinking ultiatley leads.

North Korea Executed Coronavirus Rule-Breaker, Says South Korean Intelligence

North Korea is taking increasingly harsh measures to stop the coronavirus from entering the country, including executing an official in August who violated anti-virus rules, South Korean intelligence officials told lawmakers on Friday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “has been expressing emotional excess, anger and signs of stress, and increasingly giving unreasonable orders,” Ha told reporters.

So if the experts agree your rights are null and void because of a health crisis and the ends justify the means, if Fauci decided that lockdown violators should be shot, bagged, tagged, and their bodies incinerated to stop the spread of a virus with a 99.97% survival rate, your right to life doesn’t matter if the spread is curbed.

Don’t forget how the Left has been screaming that poeple who violate mask orders shoud be denied medical care and left to die for breaking the rules.

The obvious next step will be along the lines of “if you violate the rules, you are putting someone else’s life at risk (‘killing grandma’), ergo it’s justified to kill you to prevent that.”

Sotamayor and the other justices that dissented have made it pretty clear that when the experts say that lockdown violators should be shot on sight, they will say that is Constitutional.

TAMARAC. FLA. (WSVN) – An elderly homeowner in Tamarac said he called authorities when he discovered a man was trying to break into his home, but deputies did not stop the would-be intruder’s efforts, prompting an investigation into their response.

Elderly Tamarac homeowner targeted in attempted break-in criticizes BSO deputies’ response

BSO seems to still have an issue with calls or it is simply following other departments and deputies are trying NOT to end up the target of political animals who would come after them for arresting a suspect.

The surveillance video shows Johnson trying to bust down Norkunas’ front door, slamming into it and repeatedly tugging on the handle.
“I yelled at him, ‘Go away!’ I put on the lights, and usually crooks, they run away,” said Norkunas.
But the homeowner said this crook. did not leave.
“Then he started kicking the door, and then I had a handgun, and I pointed it at him through the glass, and I said, ‘Go, go!’” said Norkunas.

Two lessons here: First, “common knowledge” seems to be an excuse for “I read some stuff in the internet and it validates my feelings so it must be true.”  You will be lucky enough to be dealt the asshole criminal who is not afraid of lights or other “passive deterrents.” Have back up plans.

Second: A gun is not an amulet. Hard core criminals or the totally drugged up are not going to react in horror like movie vampires at the presence of the cross and run away. Again, your luck indicates you will get the one who does not care if you wave a gun and promises to shoot. If you feel you need to draw a gun, again have a plan to use that weapon in legitimate self-defense.

Norkunas said what frustrated him the most about the situation was that Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies never approached the man at his door.
“If the sheriff had come, if only the blue and white lights had come, and the sirens, I think maybe he would have run,” he said.

Again with the ” common knowledge” magical thinking. And that is demonstrated later in the same article:

According to neighbors, Johnson eventually walked down the road and turned himself in to deputies.

I guess he was not that scared of white and blue lights after all, was he?

If you place your self-defense in the hands of others, rest assured you expectation of prompt response could very well be deadly disappointing.

This is such a Florida man News item. 

But wait! There is more!

The shot penetrated the teen’s leg and impacted Pierce’s leg, WKMG reported. Family members attended to her before paramedics arrived and took her to the hospital.

At least Karma paid a little visit to the genius with the gun. And as for the cause of death of the deceased, it falls in the Playing Stupid Games category.

Today is the last official day of Hurricane Season 2020.

Have one to celebrate…OK, more than one. After a year like we are having, we surely deserve our poison of choice.