From Reuters:

Chinese cities using anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections

No, wait, let me really drive this home.

Chinese cities using anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections

Some Chinese cities are using samples taken from the anus to detect potential COVID-19 infections as China steps up screening to make sure no potential carrier of the new coronavirus is missed amid regional outbreaks and ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays.

A throat swab on a 52-year-old man in Weinan, a city in northern Shaanxi province, showed negative result after the person showed symptoms such as coughing and appetite loss, a city official said on Wednesday, but he tested positive using nose and anal swabs.

We went from “don’t wear a mask” to “you should wear at least two masks at the same time” in less than a year.

If they come to the conclusion that the false-negative rate for anal swabs is lower than that of other fast COVID tests, you know they are going to mandate anal swabs.

Do you have any idea how far they have to jam that swab up your nose to do a test?

Here’s a hint:

Now picture that, IN YOUR BUTTHOLE!

Remember when I posted this joke last year?

It came true.  I fucking called it.

“Getting vaccinated does not say you have a free pass to travel,” said Dr. Fauci. “Nor does it say you have a free pass to put aside all the public health measures that we talk about all the time.”

“You can get some degree of protection that isn’t durable 10 days to 14 days after the first dose, but you can’t rely on that,” said Dr. Fauci. “The maximum immunity begins about 10 days to two weeks and beyond following the second dose. That goes for anyone, regardless of whether you want to travel or not.”

Fauci: Getting Vaccinated Is ‘Not A Free Pass’ To Travel

I figured once the vaccine started to roll, they would have issues with people trying to get back to a semblance of normal sans mask and restrictions. And of course, the Powers That Be cannot allow that to happen because having over 300 million people dancing by strings is too much power to relinquish.

Politically, COVID-19 will be an incurable disease that will force us to change our ways forever and we must follow without question the directives given to us from D.C. or suffer the consequences. After all, you really don’t want to kill Grandma with your irresponsible behaviors such as going to a restaurant or getting a haircut or just walk around without a mask, do you?

The (political) Science is settled.

I saw this and I shook my head. The irony is just too much.

Beaten with a cane 77 times Lord knows the damage that caused to his body.  People have been known to dies because of punishment like that.

But at least he was wearing his mask and was safe from the really-really deadly Kung-Flu.

I guess COVID Theater is worldwide and equally stupid.

Do you remember this lady?

Palm Beach County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay on Tuesday blasted Gov. Ron DeSantis for giving Publix so much priority over the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine in the county.
McKinlay criticized the governor’s decision, saying it severely limits the county’s ability to vaccinate significant portions of the population who don’t live close to a Publix, all while the COVID-19 vaccine supply remains so limited.

Commissioner is ‘absolutely disgusted’ by DeSantis’ decision to prioritize Publix for vaccine rollout

Evil DeSantis! We knows da better than him! Gimme the vials!

But Karma had visited Palm Beach county already.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — More than a thousand doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were spoiled last week in Palm Beach County after the Health Care District said a refrigerator was unintentionally turned off.

Health Care District of Palm Beach County spoils 1,160 doses of COVID-19 vaccine

And I won’t go schadenfreude simply because over a thousand people will have to do without because county government morons do not have enough brain to breathe without instructions and supervision.

Go to Publix, order one of their subs and get vaccinated. The other place probably does not have the bathrooms in working condition.

https://twitter.com/elianasrubin/status/1354955908770500619

Yes. Biden needs to do this.  It’s absolutely necessary.

I can’t wait for millions of American women to fill out paperwork for “health care for people who bleed.”

It will probably be very technical.

We’ll be “menstruating persons” and “non-menstruating persons.”  Women will be utterly dehumanized and reduced to a bodily function.

That is going to engender so much good will towards Biden I can feel it now.

David Hogg hasn’t been in the spotlight for a little bit so decided to be his usual self again.

They can put up all the fencing around the capitol the real threats of @mtgreenee and @laurenboebert will still be inside until @GOPLeader takes a stand.

— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) January 28, 2021

This is a disgusting smear that is gone on too long.  The Left accusing Republicans of trying to murder Democrats or being a physical threat to Democrats is way beyond the pale of anything we’ve seen before.

This is what they say before they mass oust/arrest Republicans.

“We had to use force because they were a physical  threat to us.”

Boebert replied:

David, please. We all saw how tough you were when questioned face to face.

Give your keyboard a rest, child. https://t.co/DDnpmkyfIS

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) January 28, 2021

That’s it.  That was her response.

Hogg got on TV and called Republicans and NRA members child murderers with blood on their faces.

He also said this about another Republican representative:

“Sorry I was a little more worried about [Marjorie Taylor Greene] not shooting my friends and staff with her concealed gun she was threatening us with than responding to your evil twin,” the gun violence survivor said. “It’s a little thing called deescalation you probably haven’t heard of it.”

He accused a Republican Congresswoman of threatening him with her CCW pistol.

Boebert told him to give the keyboard a rest.

Well… everyone exploded.

Democrat Jason Crow, who represents Colorado’s 6th district, tweeted: “In my experience, those who haven’t experienced the trauma of mass shootings usually talk the toughest. But the tough talk and bullying of survivors is the ultimate sign of weakness.”

That’s probably why Hogg talks so tough, he wasn’t there.

But Boebert by any measure didn’t bully a survivor.

But Crow is a Democrat so of course he’d take that position.

What us scarry is this:

This is quite possibly one of the most deplorable moments on social media by a sitting elected official. A gun toting, insurrectionist enabler, talking down to a school shooting survivor. No. @laurenboebert Not today. Not ever. Resign. #AccountabilityBeforeUnity #Republicans https://t.co/pS2CzdKa3r

— Olivia of Troye (@OliviaTroye) January 29, 2021

Troye is a Republican and was an advisor to VP Pence.

Hogg accused a Republican Congresswoman of threatening to murder Congressional Democrat colleagues, the Congresswoman tells Hogg to give the keyboard a rest, and that makes the Congresswoman the badguy in the eyes of one of Pence’s advisors?

Are you fucking me?

Mark my words, this is a coordinated effort to establish the narrative that elected Republicans are an actual violent threat who cannot be trusted and must be removed by force to save the lives of elected Democrats.

John Kerry, a man with a private plane and a private yacht, both which burn more fuel in an hour than the average middle class driver burns in a week and a giant mansion that consumes several times the heating and cooling energy of an average middle class house, can’t understand why oil workers with unique and valuable skills making an average of $98K per year are not happy to be laid off for the empty promise that some unspecified time in the future they will be retrained to do jobs that pay substantially less money.

Maybe it will finally dawn on him when laid off oil workers who can’t feed their families l, watching the solar panels they were promised they would make actually be made in China by a company that got federal subsidies to make solar panels but got an exemption to outsource production to China because the owners are buddies with Kerry, decide to weld steel plate to some old bulldozers and drive them through Kerry’s Martha’s Vinyard mansion.