If the omicron variant continues to spread across Tennessee, hospitals may soon turn to a strategy that once felt unthinkable: Letting infected employees stay on the job. Hospitals across the state could ask doctors and nurses who are infected with coronavirus but still well enough to keep working to continue to treat patients.

To be clear, this strategy is a desperate one. It has been recommended as a “last resort” by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and recently employed by some embattled hospitals in California and Rhode Island.

In Tennessee, where hospital staff are in short supply, multiple hospitals have considered allowing infected but asymptomatic employees to keep working, said Andrea Turner, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Hospital Association.

This week in COVID-19: Hospitals may let infected employees keep working (tennessean.com)

In the search for the perfect COVID purity, the health systems went stupid to the point of almost uselessness. The problem is people are still getting sick from the regular stuff, but there is nobody to take up the slack because they were sent away. “Infected but asymptomatic” simply means they caught the bug and belong to the almost 99% of those who either are immune to the bug or their bodies took care of it. They are in other words, healthy individuals capable of doing work and take care of others, but in the search of the COVID purity (part and parcel of the COVID theater of Horror), were set aside as impure, but now are desperately needed.

I hope when this shit ends, the lesson learned is how fucked up the approach to fighting a sickness was done and how to never do it again. And I firmly believe that the final count of those who dies from other infirmities but could not be treated or prevented, will be tenfold the number of those who died from the Chink Flu.

And that head should roll high and far for it. And that is not a figure of speech.

'It looked like a Third World country': California Governor Gavin Newsom visited railway tracks in east Los Angeles littered with thousands of open and damaged packages looted from freight trains pic.twitter.com/8dR8qU4S1X

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 21, 2022

The far Left Democrat Governor of California, a state with a super-majority far Left Democrat legislature, and filled with far Left Democrat prosecutors, wants to know why gangs of organized criminals are robbing trains and making California look like many other “third world countries” run by Leftists/Socialists, e.g., Cuba, Venezuela, etc.

Clearly it’s not his fault.  He was only the Lieutenant Governor in 2014 when California passed Propositions 47.

He’s going to get to the bottom of this, which means finding a Republican to scapegoat and publicly sacrifice.

Yesterday I published a post I don’t think this Dem Oklahoma State Rep gets it so I made some meme to explain it to him.

In it I included this meme:

The responses to his Tweet were almost universally the same.

Today we have a follow-up.

Let me get this out of the way: obviously I’m not moving forward with this bill as written. I’m glad many of you understood the idea but it clearly needs work. So to actual constituents of mine like @realmartypeercy who requested that I go back to the drawing board, I hear you.

— Forrest Bennett (@ForrestBennett) January 22, 2022

I’ll own this: I should’ve been more thoughtful & thorough in crafting this bill in the first place. It’s clear there are many unintended consequences, both from the language & design. I appreciate folks like @CrownAndJoke & @kendallybrown, among others, for pointing them out.

— Forrest Bennett (@ForrestBennett) January 22, 2022

I understand how the language in my message and bill both hurt the cause instead of helping it, and I apologize for not being more thoughtful. Thanks again to everyone who genuinely engaged with me in an effort to make better policy.

— Forrest Bennett (@ForrestBennett) January 22, 2022

Here is the takeaway:

The Left has absolutely no idea what Conservatives actually believe and instead believe Conservatives are the bullshit strawmen they make them out to be.  The Left then projects the worst aspect of their side onto the Conservatives.  They do this because the Leftist bubble is so thick and their echo chamber is so loud that reality rarely penetrates it.

In this case the Left’s mantra is that the Right wants to ban abortion because the Right hates women and wants to control them.

This bill also assumes that Conservative men are like Leftist men when it comes to sexual morals, i.e., easy sex and hookup culture.

This bill was supposed to scare Conservatives, i.e., “you’ll be financially responsible for the women you knock up when you sleep around.”

If he actually knew any Conservatives he’d know that Conservatives are anti-hookup culture and pro-marriage.  That isn’t a talking point, that’s real.

But he doesn’t actually know any Conservatives or understand what we think so made up a bill that attacked his strawman idea of Conservatives, and when we reacted with completely support if his bill, he had to pull it before it was passed overwhelmingly by the Oklahoma House.

This is a microcosm of politics in America.

If you want to understand why there is no more compromise and why I say we need a national divorce, it’s because their side doesn’t operate in reality but an echo chamber filled with Conservative strawmen.

IMHO hands down the best live album ever recorded sound wise. And the music ain’t half bad 🙂

The latest Quinnipiac poll show Biden has an approval rating of 33% and only 28% over voters want him to run for reelection.

Who are these people?

Who is the Biden support demographic?

Jen Psaki just told us.

Psaki on voting rights bills failing: "My advice to everyone out there who's frustrated, sad, angry, pissed off, feel those emotions, go to a kickboxing class, have a margarita, do whatever you need to do this weekend, and then wake up on Monday morning, we gotta keep fighting." pic.twitter.com/WkW4dJz0PB

— The Recount (@therecount) January 21, 2022

Rich bored white women from the cities and suburbs with disposable income and a penchant for day drinking.

He’s the wine mom president.

We mourn Mr. Loaf's passing.

In the end, he finally let us know what that one thing was that he wouldn't do for love:

Get vaccinated.https://t.co/lt00aFX616

— Gene Wu (@GeneforTexas) January 21, 2022

Generally I like the NY Post but not official cause of death has been released.

And to be fair Meatloaf was a 74 year old fat guy known to have had a heart problem and a long history of drug use, all the hallmarks of a legendary Rockstar of the 70’s and 80’s.

So there is no guarantee that even multiple vaccinations would have done anything for a man who had literally all the co-morbidities for fatal COVID.

Nevertheless, this Covidian has to dance on a man’s grave for being a heretic to the religion of Covid Fear and Compliance.

These people are utter garbage.

I underestimated the greedy stupidity of Secretary of Raytheon Stonks Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Leaving Americans in Afghanistan Mark Milley.

In President Eisenhower’s farewell address in 1961 he said:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Austin and Milley are the physical embodiment of that.

So whats the latest news about our foreign policy?

Psaki cleans up Biden's ridiculous statement on allowing a small incursion into Ukraine: "If any Russian military forces move across the Ukrainian border, that's a renewed invasion, and it will be met with a swift, severe, & united response from the United States and our Allies."

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) January 19, 2022

BREAKING: State Department orders families of U.S. embassy personnel in Ukraine to begin evacuating the country as soon as Monday: U.S. officials

— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) January 22, 2022

Oh great…

Russia has nuclear tipped hypersonic missiles that can totally evade our missile defense systems.

We do not have equivalent weapons.  We spent two decades shooting medieval goat fuckers in the desert, we abandoned our development of strategic weapons.

(Probably because our top strategic enemy is China and the Chinese have successfully purchased our political class who would never sign off on developing weapons to use against their cash cow.)

So now we’re picking a fight with a nation with missile technology superior to ours, with a military that doesn’t teach its soldiers Critical Race Theory or list their preferred pronouns, over some country in Eastern Europe that happened to have been at the heart of a corruption scandal involving bribing the crackhead son of the current president.

Anyone else get the feeling we’re getting close to playing Fallout IRL Edition just so that a lot of corrupt assholes can keep lining their pockets?

Maybe my tinfoil hat is too tight but we could have squeezed Russia’s balls hard by blocking their pipeline to Germany and selling natural gas from Texas to Germany cheap.

But that doesn’t pump Raytheon Stonks.

We’re only six months out from having the Taliban step on our dicks and these guys are now playing chicken with the Ruskies.

Remember when Obama said “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.”

We about to find out just how bad he can fuck things up.