At Least Two Hundred Doses of the Moderna Vaccine Batch Associated with Higher Than Usual Allergic Reactions Administered to Mendocino County Residents

On Sunday night, the California Department of Public Health issued a recommendation to pause administering Moderna vaccines from lot 41L20A which has been associated with an unusually high number of allergic reactions. Two separate mass vaccination clinics in Mendocino County used the specific Moderna batch CDPH has alerted health officials about.

The County of the Mendocino facilitated one clinic on January 7 held at the Redwood Empire Fair Groups in Ukiah, where 100 doses of the Moderna batch were administered.

A press release released by the County of Mendocino stated that “no adverse reactions occurred” due to the County’s vaccine event. The press released quoted Mendocino County’s Vaccine Coordinator Adrienne Thompson saying, “County Staff will be contacting all 100 individuals that received a vaccine with this lot number to [alert] them of the recall.”

As reported earlier, 100 other Mendocino County residents along the coast were inoculated with the recalled batch on Sunday, January 17, during a mass vaccine event hosted by Adventist Health Mendocino Coast.

Adventist Health’s Public Information Officer Cici Winiger emphasized that “none of the patients who received the Moderna vaccine on the Mendocino Coast have had adverse reactions.”

To assure the safety of patients, Winiger said Adventist Health staff is “reaching out to those patients to checks on their well-being. There have not been any complications or severe reactions reported at this time.”

On Monday morning, initial information garnered from County of Mendocino’s CEO Carmel Angelo, and Vaccine Coordinator Adrienne Thompson stated that the county’s stock of COVID-19 vaccines did not include the recalled Moderna batch. The County of Mendocino issued a press release stating this.

Then, at approximately 9:00 p.m. Monday, the County sent out a corrected press release that revealed the information regarding the January 7 administration of the recalled batch at the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds.

Embedded in the corrected press release was a series of statements that shed light on why information regarding the administration of the Moderna batch in Mendocino County came from multiple entities.

Regarding the tracking of vaccines, the press release asserted that “Mendocino County Public Health is responsible only for vaccine allotments distributed by the State to Public Health.”

The press release explains that various entities in the county (Public Health, Adventist Health, Pharmacies, Indian Health Clinics) receive vaccinations and are responsible to “administer, track, and report all vaccine data to the state.”

Revealing the opaque nature of vaccine distribution oversight, Mendocino County’s Vaccine Coordinator Adrienne Thompson is quoted saying, “Mendocino County does not have access to their vaccine information or their lot numbers. However, these other vaccine providers are continuing to review their Moderna inventory to compare their lot numbers against the state-identified batch in question.”

Based on this information, it is unclear how many total residents of Mendocino County were inoculated with Moderna’s lot 41L20A or whether there are more doses of the batch in Mendocino County

Earlier: Approximately 100 Mendocino Coast Residents Administered Batch of Moderna Vaccines That Has Been Discontinued for Higher Than Usual Allergic Reactions; No Adverse Reactions Reported Locally

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Geist
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Geist
3 years ago

This was the point of Operation Warp Speed, to test vaccines in the field.

Local Farmer
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Local Farmer
3 years ago

No thanks!

Steven
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Steven
3 years ago

Here are the facts about this “Vaccine”. Please be aware people. Many, many people have died.

https://thewallwillfall.org/2021/01/03/covid-vaccines-are-medical-experiments-on-humanity-dr-tom-cowans/

Kym Kemp
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3 years ago
Reply to  Steven

Many many people have not died because of the COVID-19 vaccine. There are some deaths in the elderly in Norway and Germany that may be related to the vaccine. A study is looking at this. And it is concerning of true.

humlocal
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humlocal
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

So when someone dies soon after taking the vaccine it “may” be related? But if someone dies of any cause after they have had a positive PCR test the official cause of death is Covid-19?

“Trust the Science” they said…

Kym Kemp
Admin
3 years ago
Reply to  humlocal

No.
Here’s what the Department of Health and Human services in Alaska says is the way COVID deaths are counted. http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/Epi/id/Pages/COVID-19/deathcounts.aspx
“[I]f an individual died in a car crash also happen to test positive for COVID-19, COVID-19 would not be listed on the death certificate and the death would not be considered a COVID-19 death. This would be a case of dying with a disease. In this case, the death certificate would only list the sequence of conditions associated with the vehicle crash.”

That doesn’t mean there aren’t mistakes made but in general, this is how deaths with COVID as opposed to deaths from COVID are counted.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Other places do other things. https://www.ksby.com/news/coronavirus/health-officials-explain-what-determines-a-covid-19-death “”For instance, if somebody had a car accident because they fainted and they only fainted because they ran a fever of 105 because they had a horrible pneumonia because of COVID, then actually COVID was an underlying condition that caused their death even though they actually died from crashing the car,” Dr. Ansorg explained.”

And without autopsies, which btw I think are are required in NYC in cases where public health is involved and account for some of the images of stacked up bodies in trailer that so horrified the public, it varies from doctor to doctor what ends up on the death certificate.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Kym, that might explain why Alaska has relatively low numbers? Not sure they are the norm.

I think hum local has made a very good point.

How about the deaths here in the u.s?

The timing must all just be coincidental? (E.g.: healthy, yet died within days of jab) 🤔

R-dog
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3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

What if covid19 caused the car crash would it be listed as a 19 death or a car crash or both together

Kym Kemp
Admin
3 years ago
Reply to  R-dog

This is getting more nitpicky than I have the expertise for. But I think if COVID causes the car crash then it would be listed as the cause of death.

However that is going to be a statistically small amount.

RT
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RT
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Why are you then keeping this post up with misleading and fake news?

Kym Kemp
Admin
3 years ago
Reply to  RT

It isn’t misleading…and it isn’t fake.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Wrong Kym.

The commentor linked to an article written by a conspiracy delusionalist who is on medical probation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/fact-check-viral-video-coronavirus-1.5506595

Anti-vax, 5g…..

Why dont we just post some bomb making instructions and call it a cooking chanel?

Kym Kemp
Admin
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

First, I thought she was talking about the article I posted and Matt wrote. If however, we are talking about the first comment in this thread and you want to discuss once again why I believe in free speech and responding with facts not deletion as often as possible, may I refer you to my previous comments ad nauseum to you on the subject. I’m behind as always.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

So you were wrong, it is misleading and false.

It’s written by a discredited 5g conspiracist.

Here he is claiming 5g causes Coronavirus:

https://www.newsweek.com/youtube-video-suggests-5g-internet-causes-coronavirus-people-are-falling-it-1493321

It is Q fodder.

I see you choose the cooking channel option.

It’s the bomb.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Nevermind Kym.

I’m just barking and I don’t need to be.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

To paraphrase the famous confession of Martin Niemöller “First they came for you as I demanded and I cheered. Then they came for me but I was silenced too and could not cheer.”

“It is news to almost nobody who reads American Thinker that a political witch hunt is underway. Parties in and out of government are looking for excuses to suppress and destroy voices that oppose the left.

Because AT lacks the ability to monitor comments in real time, and because our position that comments are a forum, not something we publish, is being called into question, we can no longer publish comments.

We take this action with a heavy heart.” https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/why_at_comments_are_disabled_comments.html

Can Kym do real time editing? Do you really think that she can check each comment before letting it post even if she agrees with your personal politics? Even more to the point, do you think she can thumb her nose at Google with impunity if her own opinion disagrees?

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

First. This statement is not my mission:

…looking for excuses to suppress and destroy voices that oppose the left.

I would say I want to suppress obvious mis or disinformation which attacks everybody.

Most of you have incorrectly assumed my desire is to see less of one ‘wing’ of our political spectrum.

Second, I would suggest AT will develop policies because they have the understanding of the importance of it and because they have the resources.

Third, Kym could do a few things.

-Ask a group of volunteers to help be comment watchers or moderators. Teamwork makes the dreamwork.

– She also could simy review the evidence that some may give to decide that the obvious misinformation has no place in her space.

– The other thing she could do is ban me, so you can all have your bliss ice cream.

Troll hunter
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Troll hunter
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Also I know you will want a real name🤣🤣but that also proves nothing. You post your face I’ll post mine. You accept challenge. Other wise your not Brian. Sorry bruh

Bob Cox
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Bob Cox
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

What is dangerous about legally contesting voter fraud? Rep Pelosi Tweeted after the 2016 election that it was rigged and that Trump stole the vote. A 3 month million dollar investigation was launched by the government to determine if Russia hacked voter machines. Presidential election fraud has been contested the last 20 years.

Please let us be free! According to the CDC the US death rate stayed the same from 2019 to 2020. Covid has a 99 percent survival rate. What would make me take a “vaccine” (experimental drug) against a virus that has a 99% survival rate?

The lock down is devastating the developing world. The world wide lockdown has caused millions of deaths. The lock down is doing more harm than Covid 19. The world economy is imploding over a virus that has a 99% survival rate. This isn’t about health. It’s political. It’s immoral.

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  Bob Cox

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-chart-us-death-figures-2020/fact-check-chart-does-not-present-accurate-us-deaths-figure-for-2020-idUSKBN2872MV

1 percent of the US population is more than 3 million people. This is not an acceptable number of unnessisarily dead Americans.

Jeffersonian
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Jeffersonian
3 years ago
Reply to  Bob Cox

Cool, old man. Then you don’t mind if I take that vaccine you’re clearly passing on ,right? I’m younger and am not particularly worried about dying from covid but I don’t want some of it’s after effects and I don’t want to be a carrier. So like yeah, if you’re not gonna drink that pricey and valuable scotch hand it over. I’ll chance allergic reactions, thanks.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

It’s just coincidence? “GOP:
Anti mask.
Anti vaccine.
Anti elections.”

Anyway, if you see through the conspiracy theorists so easily, what on earth makes you think you are so superior that everyone else must be protected from even hearing deviating views lest they be corrupted? It smacks of religious dogma except there’s no religion. Seems like 339B.C. all over again. https://kurtcms.org/corrupting-the-youth/#:~:text=Corrupting%20the%20Youth%20In%20399%20B.C.%2C%20accused%20by,trial%20issued%20a%20death%20penalty%20proposed%20by%20Meletus.

Oh the irony that states “The other thing she could do is ban me, so you can all have your bliss ice cream” while demanding that exact thing.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Election fraud was not a deviating view.

It’s a lie.

Links that have discredited doctors telling you the germ theory is false and 5G gives you Covid are not a political viewpoints.

They are lies.

They’re not innocent either.

Disinformation is meant to destabilize, and destabilized we are.

Ignore it for another 14 years….see how it goes. You ignored it the last 14 years, claiming you never heard of these issues before me addressing them on commentors comments here on RHBB.

Troll hunter
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Troll hunter
3 years ago
Reply to  RT

Trb . You think you know everything and all facts. You only listen to main stream. It really shows. Turn your tv off and get off the internet. You actually lose most your troll battles and don’t even realize it. I like you. You are funny. I read the comments just to see what you say. So you got me on that but leave Kim alone us real people check this site daily for info on our community. Your not as smart as you come off

Straight forward reverse psychology
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Straight forward reverse psychology
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Have you gotten your vax yet Kim?

Prof. Quiz
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Prof. Quiz
3 years ago
Reply to  Steven

Technically it may not really be a vaccine. I’ll stick to vitamin D, C, and some zinc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0DaRqol-CeD5dMBxGKq4rxqccVpq3rxqDr9I-Bo_REH540W4yMkrwIap4&v=gGO3uxsbJck_kaios&feature=youtu.be

Ice
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Ice
3 years ago
Reply to  Steven

Yeah, Cowen gave up his medical license in July and is no longer a doctor after investigations into his theories. Heres his own website where he admits it..

https://fourfoldhealing.com/

Karen Scott
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Karen Scott
3 years ago
Reply to  Ice

Lots of doctors have been forced from their practices for not supporting the elites agenda. Judy Mikovitz, Dr. Shiva etc. etc. That doesn’t mean the information is not correct, it means they were bullied out of their field. The truth has become lies and lies have become the truth and evil reigns and hypocrisy is defiantly running this show. Sad times, this is why I have no political party or social media. I don’t even have a t.v. and just reading this site makes me sick to my stomach.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
Reply to  Karen Scott

Yes. Do you all remember the term “whistleblower”? They were heroes when they blew the whistle on big tobacco, though their sacrifice was immense.

But now Doctors who do the same against trickery/Big Pharm are labeled “discredited, 5G conspiracists” and such by you same peeps that cheered for the former.

Many former “experts” (whistleblowers) have bigger goans than any of us and did and do sacrifice much. Compare that with the talking mouths(accepted “experts”) many of you prefer.

Seems hypocritical.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Karen Scott

All their information is incorrect.

Germ theory is true.
Gravity is real.
Vaccines are safer than viruses.
5g does not cause Covid.
The election was not stolen.

Put the garbage where it belongs.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

“Germ Theory is true”

That’s pretty funny trb. You see the little problem there? 🙄

“Conspiracy Theory is true”

Now?

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

The vast majority of humans do so just fine without your unnecessary directives. In fact most people would just step around crap and go on if you didn’t block the metaphorical sidewalk of conversations by grabbing every passerby by the metaphorical lapels, dragging them over to that particular crap pile and demanding they pay attention to nothing else because it offends you. Your lapel grabbing just makes for people defending that crap pile because your own is so much nastier and they hope to escape both.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

So, problems go away by ignoring them?

If that were true….why do always respond to me with the same rhetoric?

And why has the extreme-delusional-conspiracy-movement grown to be so powerful that they held the US Presidency for 4 years?

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Interesting analogy Geist. I am definitely interested in pointing out the bs. No forcing needed. You choose to read these comments and post quite a bit yourself.

I’m not offended. In fact the need to be defensive and angry seems more like what I posit offends you.

It’s not personal. And should be fine to have differing views and discuss.

trb, the reason I responded to you in the above comment was just to point out the hypocrisy.

You can’t have it both ways. (like conspiracy theories, germ theory has not been proven)

Cy Anse
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Cy Anse
3 years ago
Reply to  Steven

Those aren’t “facts”, they are pseudo-science at best. Much of that has already been debunked repeatedly.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
Reply to  Cy Anse

I like how you put “facts” in quotes.

Debunked by whom cy?

The NYT? Washington Post? Big Pharm? (all the same)

Got logic ?
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Got logic ?
3 years ago

“Alter them of the recall.”

Fitting slip. There’s another typo but I just can’t anymore.

Kym Kemp
Admin
3 years ago
Reply to  Got logic ?

fixed

HOJ in Training
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HOJ in Training
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

What’s the reason for the ” ‘s ” after Public Health in the 1st line?

Kym Kemp
Admin
3 years ago

fixed.

Cowabunga
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Cowabunga
3 years ago

Many of the potentially affected already eat shellfish.

Xingu
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Xingu
3 years ago

“Dad, what is science?”
“I don’t know son, we are republicans”

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Xingu
The Real Brian
Guest
The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

For the last 16 days now, the public schedules issued by his White House have read as follows:

“President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings.”

For a week before that, it read:

“During the Holiday season, President Trump will continue to work tirelessly for the American People. His schedule includes many meetings and calls.” 

Guess what he did the other 3 years and 50 weeks

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Mostly the same but including responding to unfounded conspiracy theories of the left like allegations Russian control and making decisions only to benefit his hotels.

Xingu
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Xingu
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Golf is high on his list ☺

The Real Brian
Guest
The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Anti truth.

Bob Cox
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Bob Cox
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Masks increase infection. I don’t want a dirty cloth pressed up against my mouth for 8 hours a day. That’s a good way to get sick.

The “vaccine’ is an experimental drug. Covid has a 99% survival rate? Why take a tainted drug rushed out to the entire world? The “vaccine” will need “updated” by the end of the year and every year forward?

Presidential election fraud has been contested for the last 20 years. Rep Pelosi tweeted after the 2016 election that it was rigged and the vote was stole for Trump. There was a multi million dollar government investigation into Russia hacking voter machines. There are four volume reports detailing sourced election fraud in the 2020 presidential race. The mainstream medium admits election fraud, just not “widespread” or enough to make a difference.

Pro human party
Free speech, free from medical tyranny, free to work and live, fair and free elections, a true representative democratic republic that would not ever silence political opposition.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Bob Cox

You could carry some extra and wash them. Any germs caught by a mask are 90% from you in the first place. It’s too late when the mask catches them to worry over it. And doing something about that is totally in your control.

Littlefoot
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Littlefoot
3 years ago
Reply to  Xingu

Questioning the goals of large corporations who have been convicted of federal crimes in the past is not anti-science. I think anti-science is blindly injecting something without knowing what it is or how it works. Can you name EVERY ingredient in the vaccine, tell me why it needs to be in there and tell me the possible side effect of each one? No? Why not? If you like science you should know these things.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Littlefoot

I consume restaurant food too and I have have great doubts about the cleanliness of them. I can’t name every ingredient they use but I still, with some discretion, take it in.

It is clear that historically high infant, child and aged deaths have been reduced with vaccination availability. And that rates of deaths as reaction to vaccinations have not occurred even when errors were made. Do I exercise some discretion in getting them? Yes but that discretion applies to taking that fact into consideration too. Life is full to overflowing with unknowns. But I know that getting sick from certain things is a much greater risk. I judge the risk from vaccines preventing illness I fear to be less by far even if I can’t tell you every ingredients meaning.

That does not mean I would not want more clarity but I will not mistake your fears as clarity. If you want to push for more investigation, I could go with that. But not wholesale paranoia.

4Trinity
Guest
4Trinity
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

“It is clear that historically high infant, child and aged deaths have been reduced with vaccination availability.” ~ Big Pharma

That’s a pretty vague statement but I don’t think [much of] Africa would agree. Now polio from vaccines is far more prevalent than the wild strain. Oops.

And that’s just Africa.

binbearda4
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binbearda4
3 years ago

“Mommy, what’s normal”?

“Just a setting on the dryer sweetheart.”

Eyeball Kid
Guest
Eyeball Kid
3 years ago

The mark of the educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and stood on the top of it, but in his admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men on the top of them, and that, though their views of the landscape may be different from his, they are nonetheless legitimate. – E.J. Pratt

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago

Well, things are ‘bout to get better w “Honduras Joe” Biden getting ready to take over. Biden, screwing Americans over for 47 years. Show up at the border with a pound of heroin and your golden!

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Maybe. Even likely. But at least wait until he actually does something before complaining about him. That was a large part of the ugliness of the liberal when Trump was elected. They engaged in pre-emptive abuse, pre inaugural self fulfilling prophecy that was 99% based on what their own fears and no amount of discussion could move them into reality.

I like stars
Guest
I like stars
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Don’t forget The Big Guy always gets at least 10%.

Karen😁
Guest
Karen😁
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

You’re

😂😂😂😂😂

labratlife
Guest
labratlife
3 years ago

Be a lab rat if you want to basically!
Not sure what’s difficult about the concept of there being no long term studies?
Libs first on this one! Step on up!

HotCoffee
Guest
HotCoffee
3 years ago

[Quote]

Joe Biden is going to appoint Mr. Monsanto, Tom Vilsack, as his Secretary of Agriculture. Tommy boy held that post under Obama.

The Organic Consumers Association writes [1] (see also [2], [3], [4]): “If, like us, you dream of an organic, regenerative food system led by independent family farmers, then news that Joe Biden has asked Tom Vilsack to return to his Obama Era post as Secretary of Agriculture should be a real cause for concern.”

“…when you look behind the curtains to see what Vilsack was really doing at USDA from 2009 through 2017, it’s not pretty.”

“He pushed through a corporate agribusiness agenda that began with his approval of more new genetically modified crops than any other Secretary, culminated in his shepherding of a bill to kill GMO labels through Congress, and included his racist firing of African American land trust hero Shirley Sherrod and his distortion of data to conceal decades of discrimination against black farmers. Between 2006 and 2016, the USDA [US Dept. of Agriculture] was six times more likely to foreclose on a black farmer than a white farmer.”

“But, Biden doesn’t care about any of this. Vilsack is Biden’s buddy and that’s all that matters to him. As the American Prospect reports, Vilsack has had ‘a decades-long relationship with Joe Biden, going back to when he endorsed him for president while mayor of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in 1988’.”

“Vilsack has remained very loyal to Biden. In the last year, he gave Biden more than $8,000 in campaign contributions (excluding money from his wife or to Democratic Party committees).”

“This support didn’t just get him a job in the cabinet, he wrote Biden’s campaign platform on agriculture issues, stuffing it full of false solutions like corn ethanol and methane digesters run on factory farm dairy waste.”

“We need a USDA Secretary of Agriculture who will be a hero, steering our food and farming system toward a brighter, regenerative future—not a Secretary who will continue to be a pawn for the same corporate interests that are causing, and profiting from, the mess we are in.”

Good luck with that dream under Biden.

Let’s go further. Here’s a piece I wrote during the Obama years—you know, when we were all living in paradise—about the president’s GMO program.

Keep in mind that Biden’s new secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, was on board every step of the way, with Obama. Vilsack was enabler, expert, political operative, cheerleader—

MEET MONSANTO’S MAN IN WASHINGTON, BARACK OBAMA

Obama? A warrior against corporations on behalf of the people? It’s long past the time for ripping that false mask away.

During his 2008 campaign for president, Barack Obama transmitted signals that he understood the GMO/Roundup issue. Several key anti-GMO activists were impressed. They thought Obama, once in the White House, would listen to their concerns and act on them.

These activists weren’t just reading tea leaves. On the campaign trail, Obama said: “Let folks know when their food is genetically modified, because Americans have a right to know what they’re buying.”

Making the distinction between GMO and non-GMO was certainly an indication that Obama, unlike the FDA and USDA, saw there was an important line to draw in the sand.

Beyond that, Obama was promising a new era of transparency in government. He was adamant in assuring that, if elected, his administration wouldn’t do business “the old way.” He would be “responsive to people’s needs.”

Then came the reality.

After the election, people who had been working to label GMO food and warn the public of its huge dangers were shocked to the core. They saw Obama had been pulling a bait and switch.

After the 2008 election, Obama filled key posts with Monsanto people, in federal agencies that wield tremendous force in food issues, the USDA and the FDA:

At the USDA, as the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto Danforth Center.

As deputy commissioner of the FDA, the new food-safety-issues czar, the infamous Michael Taylor, former vice-president for public policy for Monsanto. Taylor had been instrumental in getting approval for Monsanto’s genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.

As commissioner of the USDA, Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack. Vilsack had set up a national group, the Governors’ Biotechnology Partnership, and had been given a Governor of the Year Award by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, whose members include Monsanto.

As the new Agriculture Trade Representative, who would push GMOs for export, Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist.

As the new counsel for the USDA, Ramona Romero, who had been corporate counsel for another biotech giant, DuPont.

As the new head of the USAID, Rajiv Shah, who had previously worked in key positions for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of GMO agriculture research.

We should also remember that Obama’s secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, once worked for the Rose law firm. That firm was counsel to Monsanto.

Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court. Kagan, as federal solicitor general, had previously argued for Monsanto in the Monsanto v. Geertson seed case before the Supreme Court.

The deck was stacked. Obama hadn’t simply made honest mistakes. Obama hadn’t just failed to exercise proper oversight in selecting appointees. He wasn’t just experiencing a failure of short-term memory. He was staking out territory on behalf of Monsanto and other GMO corporate giants.

And now let us look at what key Obama appointees have wrought for their true bosses. Let’s see what GMO crops have walked through the open door of the Obama presidency.

Monsanto GMO alfalfa.

Monsanto GMO sugar beets.

Monsanto GMO Bt soybean.

Coming soon: Monsanto’s GMO sweet corn.

Syngenta GMO corn for ethanol.

Syngenta GMO stacked corn.

Pioneer GMO soybean.

Syngenta GMO Bt cotton.

Bayer GMO cotton.

ATryn, an anti-clotting agent from the milk of transgenic goats.

A GMO papaya strain.

And perhaps, soon, genetically engineered salmon and apples.

This is an extraordinary parade. It, in fact, makes Barack Obama the most GMO-dedicated politician in America.

You don’t attain that position through errors or oversights. Obama was, all along, a stealth operative on behalf of Monsanto, biotech, GMOs, and corporate control of the future of agriculture.

From this perspective, Michelle Obama’s campaign for gardens and clean, organic, nutritious food is nothing more than a diversion, a cover story floated to obscure what her husband has actually been doing.

Nor is it coincidental that two of the Obama’s biggest supporters, Bill Gates and George Soros, purchased 900,000 and 500,000 shares of Monsanto, respectively, in 2010.

We are talking about a president who presented himself, and was believed by many to be, an extraordinary departure from politics as usual.

Not only was that a wrong assessment, Obama was lying all along. He was, and he still is, Monsanto’s man in Washington.

To those people who fight for GMO labeling and the outlawing of GMO crops, and against the decimation of the food supply and the destruction of human health, but still believe Obama is a beacon in bleak times:

Wake up.

—end of 2014 article—

Well, well. Tom Vilsack is back. Biden is about to betray the Left on a key issue.

Dear Lefties: Are you going to sit still for this?

[End Quote]

Sorry it’s long but it’s relevant.

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3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

You have a delusion that issues are more important than identity with liberals. Yup. The poisonous strangle hold on corporate agriculture bureaucracy will continue while social issues take the stage. Much as the CDC was diverted from public health to focus on social justice. Will we have a catastrophe in agriculture like the failures in US public health when it became important? While the government focuses on appearances of reparative justice. Appearance is everything in politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/14/vilsack-usda-black-farmers/

You’ll also have to give librals enough time to wind down their abuse of Trump before they all move on abusing someone else.

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3 years ago
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Meanwhile Gates is buying up AG land as fast as he can and once polluted will take how long to recover, if ever.

Yet your points are correct. I do care more about issues.

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3 years ago
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Good points HotCoffee. For those of you who wanted desperately for the ball to be passed, I understand.

But let’s not overlook the potential for a huge rise in environmental destruction.

If that gets too out of control, I can’t see how “social issues” will even really matter.

Slippery slope.

Geist
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3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Maybe you could just link it next time?

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3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Are you implying that Republicans support regenerative and/or organic farming? Laughable.

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3 years ago
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I’m republican – mostly by accident a the moment – and refuse to buy GMO products as much as possible, only used Round up once in sheer desperation and garden organically, written my Congressman objecting to GMO pesticide resistant products, voted for Prop 37, etc. So go ahead. Laugh. But know that you are laughing at your own delusions.

The Real Brian
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3 years ago
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It seems the illusion might be yours, respectfully.

You seem to think you belong to a functioning, morally wealthy party.

I think it’s quite obvious that that is false now.

The party is tattered, splintered and broken by it’s (and your) ignorance as to what they’ve been becoming to be under Trump.

I left it the Republican party in 2017.

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I like stars
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Does a morally wealthy political party exist?

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
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That is a fair question.

There is less wealthy and more wealthy.

It’s an objective observation that one currently is much less wealthy than the other, and the reasons are clear.

It’s not a bias to say that, it’s an obvious observation of the 2018 and 2020 election results, and the fallout of a post-Trump Republican party.

I would have said this was the case before the Capital siege, but it is ever the more obvious now that the Republican party has broken itself in more ways than one.

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3 years ago
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Wishful thinking. Admittedly Republicans flounder in a world of internet crusaders. They certainly do not succeed in rabble rousing to the extent Democrats do. But in truth those that do tend to accumulate more than those that don’t, and, while they may lag in the spitfest rhetoric that is liberal politics, those who do are the saviors of those who can’t do. You can’t eat Democrat rhetoric nor live in it. You can only go to school in it.

The AOCs,TRBs and Geists of the world might complain about Doers and even persuade voters at times but they do it on the Doers’ equipment, fly on the Doers’ planes, drive in the Doers’ automobiles, heat their homes with the Doers’ utilities and will always be beholden to the Doers. It can only be hoped that the political fantasists liberals do not manage to drive all the Doers to other places and leave the country to fail except as an ever diminishing market.

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3 years ago
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I have my own company and I would bet you it has made more of a splash in this Country than whatever you did.

My work was covered by international media, thank you.

Buh bye.

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3 years ago
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👍

Most of my Republican friends(of which I am not) are very organic. And many of them may not experience the food shortages that no doubt are coming.

Most of my Democrat friends(of which I am not) are very organic. “… ”

Hard workers….all of them. (gardeners, farmers, stock-raisers)

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3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

I don’t equate superior morality with poverty either. There are immoral rich people and immoral poor people. Leaping from the idea that a party philosophy that believe most people are better served by enterprise (which not surprisingly leads to more wealth) to assuming it must be obtained by evil intentions is like saying that doctors are immoral because they prescribe drugs that could become an addiction so they can sell more drugs. In truth some doctors are evil and greedy but good luck with thinking you are so moral you won’t ever need them. By your thinking, Bill Gates must be the second most evil person in the world even if he’s a Democrat.

Now for sheer evil- what about a party that thinks it is moral to take the fruits of others’s labor to give it to those who don’t labor just because the non-laborers want it. And in doing so huge amount tend to adhere to their own sticky fingers? They may not be as rich but they are certainly less moral.

Although moderation is more appealing to me- I much prefer the party that has a live and let live attitude to my own labor as I have more faith in my abilities of take care myself than faith that others taking control will equally care for me. Death before nursing home!

Littlefoot
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3 years ago
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Fact: Most food produced in America is not organic.

Fact: Most farmers are Republican.

End of discussion.

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3 years ago
Reply to  Littlefoot

Prove that most farmers are Republicans. End of discussion does not mean that the most assured stupidity get to declare victory and go home.

What you probably mean is that most food is not organic as there is less money to be made in organic. Which is true because there are already too many humans living for organic methods to feed them. And the Republicans tend to be more interested in successful businesses. On the other hand, Democrats tend to be more interested in farming other’s success than producing it themselves. But living off other people’s taxes is sadly not recognized as farming in the modern world. For assudely if tax farms were recognized, Democrats would be the highest percentage of farmers.

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3 years ago
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Littlefoot, most “farmers” owe huge amounts of money to banks or have lost their farms. How do you think the Gatesies can buy so much of it up(on the cheap)?

Fact is Big Ag owns or will soon own the majority of “farms” in America. Not Dems or Reps.

And I’m not sure Big Ag really cares which.

(remember “sharecroppers”?)

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3 years ago
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So many words

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3 years ago

Um, maybe our Sheriffs have been duped?

Concerns about the penetration of far-right elements into the military and law enforcement have become acute in the last decade with the emergence of militias like the Oath Keepers, which was founded on the principle of recruiting police and military. Oath Keepers pledge to disobey orders on the job which they deem contradict the Constitution.

The militias’ success secretly infiltrating police departments contributed to the emergence of new far-right associations that openly recruit law enforcement, like the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers of America.

Founded in 2011 by former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, the group promotes the notion – contrary to the Constitution – that the federal government authorities should be subordinated to local law enforcement. It has more than 500 sheriffs nationwide. Just over half are currently in office.

https://www.politicalresearch.org/2019/06/10/how-a-right-wing-network-mobilized-sheriffs-departments

The map shows the Emerald Sheriffs as being a part of this.

If so, I’m getting a cancel itch.

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3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Conspiracy theorists logic. Maybe so much outpouring of hate towards both American conservatives and American police simply made them find common cause.

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3 years ago
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Meili Criezis, who studies white supremacist radicalization at the Global Network on Extremism & Technology, part of a nonprofit organization that works to prevent extrimists from using online platforms, said she noticed explicit recruiting by white supremacist militias of what she called “normie,” or previously nonradical, Trump supporters on Telegram after Parler’s demise.

“In white supremacist and neo-Nazi Telegram groups, discussions have centered around strategies to infiltrate pro-Trump chats and ‘red pill’ what they have termed as ‘Parler refugees’ with carefully constructed narratives and propaganda,” Criezis wrote in a recent report. (“Red pill,” in this sense, means to radicalize online users with far right-wing views.)

Criezis said militia groups were “really ready for this flood of new users” onto services like Telegram, where they had built audiences of tens of thousands of users before the Jan. 6 Capitol assault.

“I’ve seen some Trump supporters kind of fumbling onto Telegram not knowing how to use it exactly, and it was really concerning, because it’s such a huge recruitment pool,” Criezis said.

One extremist group on Telegram even created a “red-pilling guide,” which included directions to “strike up friendly conversations with individuals followed by a pre-constructed message” through private messages. The guide tells recruiters to identify with potential targets for radicalization over their support for Trump and shared fear of impending threats, before demoralizing the target into believing the solution is violence.

Criezis said the radicalization process often starts in larger militia spaces on Telegram, like one of two groups run by the far-right extremist group Proud Boys “where pretty much anyone is allowed in.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/increasingly-militant-parler-refugees-anxious-qanon-adherents-prep-doomsday-n1254775

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3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Sounds like you’ve found a dragon’s lair. Are you headed to Telegram to do some slaying?

If you’re targeting extremists, remember to look everywhere, not just to your right. Keep an eye on the mirror too. Sometimes there can be an extremist there too.

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3 years ago
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https://kymkemp.com/2020/03/19/humboldt-county-will-issue-order-directing-people-to-shelter-at-home-starting-at-midnight/#comment-1006976

Read an old thread to see how wrong you were then – when quipping at my analysis.

I have so many of these “I told you so” moments ready to dish on you…..do you have ONE?

Come back at me again.

Enjoy your day.

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3 years ago
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You’ll have explain what in that article is a reasonable “I told you so?” If you have an idea that is irrational, you can’t claim “I told you so” just because it proves impossible. No one in the US could be jailed because they left their homes. Thank goodness. For the Chinese-No summer of protests over racism for them. No bother over vote counting counting either. No uncontrolled internet rabble either despite your alleging Trump would never leave office. You just don’t get credit for believing that the US should emulate PRC when you are yourself a person most like what China’s government will not tolerate. In fact no version of China’s lockdown ever occurred in the US much less lasted for 45 days.

China is still in the throws of containing their virus. Their current economy is based on selling to the rest of the world what the rest of the world was too short sighted, too interested in social justice and frankly too lazy to make for themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/world/asia/china-covid-lockdown.html

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3 years ago
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In fact having been dragged back into looking at that, I call “I told you so.” “Third these isolation orders are like hitting a pause button, not a reset, and certainly are not going to keep most people from being infected sooner or later. This will be long and continuing haul until a successful vaccine is developed which will likely have a few twists along the way. Panic prevents intelligent action and causes more damage that would happen with rational decisions were made.” And “And that reality should weigh with the US’s policies. Not self damaging hysteria causing the Phyrric victory that political agenda wants to dictate. Yes, the lack of testing is a failure here but it is not so critical that we are totally blind. We know where people are getting sick and can use that to have a good idea of what the future holds. But only if we keep our heads and not panic.” And to TRB “I demand understanding of arithmetic and statistics. But I predict that will not be increased because I demand it. I know it’s not all about me. I just wish you would stop making it all about you. You predict nothing that any other sensible person could not see yet think that makes your other ideas invincible.”

But that would be like TRB’s. Of course it was true and people like the TRB would ensure failure of community action just as much as anyone refusing to acknowledge the virus’s impact. It is as inevitable as a landslide that already started. All anyone can do is get out of the way of falling rocks and be amazed at those who think It is important to take credit for mentioning the obvious.

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3 years ago
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I was fighting tooth and nail to make points and you attack me now as you did then, but now you say it was obvious and correct, and unneccessary, yet we still have an entire “masks are more dangerous than the virus” crowd here.

You have no idea how large the problem is from the view within your bubble.

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3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Guest,

The article was about SIP orders, not a Chinese lockdown. For you to ascert that I even hinted at the 2 being similar is disingenuous at best.

I was comparing the time the Chinese had had a lockdown to our new ‘orders’, and included the tax deadline extension as further proof.

We didn’t have proper testing for the first 3-4 months, at least, of Covid’s US introduction.

Our death rate picked up this year, and as you and I have agreed, more details and facts will be known post-pandemic.

Also as we’ve agreed, most pandemics tolls are undercounted while in the midst of them.

I will admit that I thought we would be hit harder and faster, but I also linked to studies that showed we saved 200,000 in CA by issuing SIP orders quickly…you know, less people in restaurants basically.

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No Joke
3 years ago
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I doubt the accuracy of that map merely because it shows very few “members” in the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana, which seem like they should be hotbeds for this.

The Real Brian
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3 years ago
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That’s an interesting observation.

Without speculating as to why, I saw there was a 2020 update:

https://www.politicalresearch.org/2020/09/14/mapping-far-right-and-anti-immigrant-movement-alignment-county-sheriffs

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3 years ago
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Give it a rest. All you ever do is look for boogiemen under the bed and encourage people to go find them. If this fiasco of misuse of the justice system doesn’t scare you https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/15/arkansas-riot-release-459807, then you are looking under the wrong beds. Boogiemen co exist but they are on the court benches and in the courts.

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3 years ago

And just like that, liberals are pro constitution, pro vaccine and anti riots. That was a quick 180, I bet they right their course in a hurry though…

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3 years ago
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No Mike, it’s just that a lot of Republicans saw how far off they were last week from the Constitution and are having an epiphimous moment.

In fact, I hear very little from any media about property damage, similar to BLM complaints.

The complaints about the Capital are more of a physically-try-to-take-this-election-from-the-USA type of nature, or, they came-to-kill-Pence-&-Pelosi type thing.

Is there anyone even counting dollars right now on property damage like they do the black BLM thugs?

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3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

No Mike, it’s just that a lot of Republicans saw how far off they were last week from the Constitution and are having an epiphimous moment.

In fact, I hear very little from any media about property damage amounts at the Capital, dissimilar to reporting and RHBB comments on BLM events .

The complaints about the Capital are more of a physically-try-to-take-this-election-from-the-USA type of nature, or, they came-to-kill-Pence-&-Pelosi type thing.

To start with.

Is there anyone even counting dollars right now on property damage at the Capital like they do the black BLM thugs?

If ‘liberals’ (you mean democrats) just became the Constitution party, it’s not what they won the entire Government and new States with over the last 2 years.

People smelled Trumps bullshit far and wide, and far beyond typical politicians bullshit.

And again, it’s not the Democratic party in shambles due to criticizing Trump, it’s the Republican party in shambles due to supporting.

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3 years ago
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I like how when any blm incident got out of control you were quick to say that that wasn’t the movement it’s was always a small percent that caused the problem. But some how your ok with using the capitol riot as a prime example of all republicans. Try applying logic evenly for once. Just once. The reason you aren’t hearing about the dollar damage is that it was government property so they’ll still be trying to figure out how to charge 22 million for pelosis podium for months to come. And I will literally bet you my life that when Biden proposes his semi auto ban you’ll switch back to the constitution as a “living document” if you recall my only problem with the blm movement is they didn’t storm the capitol and tear it down. There’s 1,000s of reason to storm that building and tear it down, trumps a stupid one, but Blm overflowed onto private citizens instead of keeping their focus on the government. And as far as GOP being anti election, you literally have no ground to stand in Mr. notmypotus for four years.hell trumps a idiot but he accepted the results four years quicker than you have

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3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Mike, if it is the bridge to our common ground, than let me say the Capital riots don’t represent every Republican.

I’ve been very supportive of all Republicans that took stands against the Trumpism; Lincoln Project & Mitt have been mentioned by me more than most commentors here.

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3 years ago
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Good point Mike. The “storming” of the capital very much hurt trump from the get-go.

You see us “conspiracy quacks” always ask the stupidest questions. Like: Who DID it benefit?

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3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

What utter nonsense. You support the opposition when it opposes your opposition.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
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Not sure what the “utter nonsense” refers to guest. Sarcasm?

That it didn’t hurt trump?

Seems pretty clear to me without lifting a finger but I suppose we could work on the details…..

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3 years ago
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You support the opposition when it opposes your opposition.

Then it wouldn’t be the opposition I’m supporting, if that is the case. We’re all Americans here.

You’re the one with the anti-lib rhetoric, I can dish on Trump and solute a good Republican like Romney or talk with reason to Mike (or others) anytime.

I think you’ve really just been projecting for 2 years.

I’m honored that I have been your biggest recipient of your givings….well Kym might be #1 but I hope I’m a close 2nd.

🌹to a new day

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3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Conservatives prefer traditional interpretations, even if they perpetuate problems. Liberals prefer change, even if it creates problems. Used to be they were good for each other, making liberals more careful and conservatives more risk taking. Now that their souls have been bared by all this awful “free speech”- really just emoional spew- on the internet and we have learned to hate, they will not be capable of moderating each others defects. Only exacerbate them. Such is the effect of information on those who only know what they feel.

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3 years ago
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You in March 2019:

Of course it serious. It’s just not the Armageddon the liberals want it to be… At least until after the election.

https://kymkemp.com/2020/03/19/humboldt-county-will-issue-order-directing-people-to-shelter-at-home-starting-at-midnight/#comment-1006246

Me in March 2019;

Sooner we attack this than the less time we will have to deal with it. The longer it persists -the longer and harder the measures will be to counter it.

https://kymkemp.com/2020/03/19/humboldt-county-will-issue-order-directing-people-to-shelter-at-home-starting-at-midnight/#comment-1005953

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3 years ago
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Your whole quote was- “Unfortunately we have a fair amount of FOX viewers in our Emerald Triangle.

Undoubtedly their lax attitude regarding the virus will not help our community.

Sooner we attack this than the less time we will have to deal with it. The longer it persists -the longer and harder the measures will be to counter it.

I was the only person in Weaverville yesterday wearing latex gloves at Post Office, gas station and grocery store.

Though I was happy to see the Holiday employees were all gloved up too.

Most of Trinitys permanent residents are at risk.

The wave of death may be undeniable for all, even in our communities, in a few weeks.”

In reality- at least most people’s if not your own- it’s almost a year later; there’s been no “death wave”, (maybe a death ripple), few outside of food handlers and hospital employees wear gloves anymore, it’s been a long time and the restrictions are less then they were not more, and the death rate keeps going down as treatments improve. You can’t take credit for a prognostication of a cataclysm that still is not manifest after months of being wrong, wrong, wrong and latch on the small part that wasn’t clearly absolutely wrong only because it was so nonspecific , to justify yourself. And to ignore the damage that such fear mongering has done in the interim b which to overreact and regulate then overreact to the overreaction, then repeat for a whole year. Why is that so important to you?!! You are the embodyment of that novel of perpetually unsettled idiots “He Knew He Was Right” by Trollope. Which should have been called “Everybody knew they were wrong and should have let it go.”

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3 years ago
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The death rate is going down? The US just had the highest number of COVID-19 deaths ever less than a week ago.

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3 years ago
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Ah…death rate not actual deaths. We have more cases but a smaller percentage of them are dying. I misunderstood. I was thinking actual deaths going down. They are still at nearly their highest numbers. Today I think was the second highest ever with about 4300 people dying.

Thanks for clarifying that I had misunderstood.

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3 years ago

“…federal government authorities should be subordinated to local law enforcement.”

That sounds like Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s position when Immigration and Customs Enforcement used federal officers to protect their facility.

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3 years ago

A Final Word on the Latest Honduras Migrant Caravan

https://cis.org/Bensman/Final-Word-Latest-Honduras-Migrant-Caravan-Probably

If you don’t care about Guatemala or Mexico’s laws why would you care about ours?

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3 years ago
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You’re not concerned that we’re losing 3-4000 citizens a day to corona virus, but 6000 poor, huddled Hondurans three thousand miles away has you shitting your pants.

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3 years ago
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Again Geist? We suddenly went from “3-4k per week” to “3-4k per day?”

Wow. Even the cdc wouldn’t agree with you there.

Trickery.

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3 years ago
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The CDC and all reputable media do agree that 3-4000 people a day are currently dying of COVID. We just had a steep drop but the rolling seven day average was 3400ish on the 14th. But, today, it is just under 3100.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

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3 years ago
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What do you know about worldometers Kym?

Where do they get their numbers?

Think I’ll stick with The CDC for now:

“All deaths involving covid 19, week ending 1/02/2021: 5,004” (“involving”)

Are you suggesting now that it has risen to 25k-28k per week? Or are you talking globally?

How would they know that so soon? For example, according to the cdc, so far for the week ending 1/16/2021, the deaths “involving covid” are listed at 786. For the week.

But that’s obviously because of a lag. Yet worldometer has no lag?

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3 years ago
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I wonder if Kym has a running count on how many times she has banned this one notorious troll, who continues to come back as new names, in efforts to sell misinformation or waste the time of well intentioned commentors…..

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3 years ago
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Much fewer by far than you keep saying. And a lot of what you term “misinformation” is simply a difference in opinion.

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3 years ago
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I have a question for both of you. Was Trump’s Inauguration crowd bigger than Obama’s?

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3 years ago
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My question for you is why do you think that matters? Oh for the days before Obama was inaugurated when we (at least most of us) had the happy delusion that the race of the individual who was elected mattered less than the love and respect that they had for their own country. We thought we had found a way to some level of harmony.

But the time Obama left office, it had become clear that too many government officials and the press had decided that a country so attractive to foreigners for centuries was really a filthy entity that needed nothing so much as a good whipping. The power they got was abused and lead to a backlash called “America First”. Now that has created new level of hate from those who spent the all their focus on downing their own country. That is one too many levels down. Optimism can’t be recovered- it’s down to out hating and violence. Yours as much as any you object to. The post election high will not last and you will find all the old differences have only been exacerbated. Win or lose has little meaning anymore- the war itself has become self sustaining.

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3 years ago
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I think it matters because half the country thinks Trump lied and about a third think the number there is a matter of opinion. (And apparently at least one person would rather avoid the question by attacking the person who left office four years ago.)

And through all that I have to walk a line so that the comment section doesn’t become part of the amplification of false facts and instead helps the numerous individuals in our community feel heard enough to not fear being shut down for contributing their ideas.

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3 years ago
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That was a very long response to simple question.

And you didn’t even answer the question.

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3 years ago
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Kym. I’m not even sure what point you are trying to make. What does Trump have to do with TRB’s constant paranoia that one evil person exists to troll her and her alone. That everyone who disagrees with her is that same one person. Trump lied about what? TRB’s troll fixation? Would it even matter if he had? And yes, for some reason- I think personal history- you so blind that there is no reasonable discussion to be had. We never get past the irrelevances and spew to talk about issues. It’s always personal. You’d carry you agenda into a funeral. But that’s on you not me.

I have things to do so you’ll have the last words. I suspect those will be “Trump lied” as if whether he did or didn’t wasn’t immaterial.

The Real Brian
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3 years ago
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Trump lied.

4Trinity
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3 years ago
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“And through all that I have to walk a line so that the comment section doesn’t become part of the amplification of false facts and instead helps the numerous individuals in our community feel heard enough to not fear being shut down for contributing their ideas.”

This is definitely tricky and I very much appreciate your role in allowing freedom of speech (obviously, to a degree). Thanks.

I don’t know much about presidential inauguration crowds but a prez that didn’t lie…..rare bird. Carter?

Notorious trb? Already?

Fwiw, I have never posted in these comment sections ever before as anyone other than the handle I currently use.

The Real Brian
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3 years ago
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‘5g causing Covid’ is not a difference of opinion.

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3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Don’t just cherry pick in order to belittle. That just creates more hate. No one should have an interest in wasting time figuring out if your bad interpretations are right or wrong. The result would be the same- that You are outraged and think everyone else who is not equally outraged must be wrong. Few think that matters at all.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Then you cherry pick:

1)Germ theory: false

2)Vaccines are to control people

3) Agenda 21

4) anti-semitism

5) Covid is fake

6) masks are more dangerous than Covid

7)Democrats are satan worshipping pedophiles.

8)Birtherism

If you didn’t know about any of this stuff last year, why should I wager you know enough to debate about vigorously with me?

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3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

TRB No I don’t pick at all. That’s the point. Not whether it is right or wrong but whether your obsessing it is hugely damaging. Much more than its existence ever could be.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

I convinced the FBI about right wing extremism from RHBB.

I’m fucking awesome like that.

Thanks for recognizing my powers.

Poking Tiger crouching conservative.
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Poking Tiger crouching conservative.
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Self emolation that burns everyone else.

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

You’re worried about 6000 poor, huddled refugees 3000 miles away when we’re losing 3000+ citizens a day to covid here at home?

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3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

There are things over which there is little human control. But the government shooting itself in the collective feet of its citizens is very much under human control.
Why do you not worry about the strain uncontrolled illegal immigration puts on the value of labor, the overwheming of demands on housing and health care created by decreasing availability, the transfer of manufacturing to other countries or any of the inhuman ethics that has become confuses with empathy of those who make huge money out of cheap labor and, if balked in their free wheeling greed, just use their money to buy favorable legislation from people who also no longer care about their fellow citizen’s well being? And to rub salt into the citizens’ wounds, squeeze their ever shrinking livings to fund massive virtue signalling regulations and blaming them if they dare complain about being made to pay for getting screwed over? Must be living off the government…

It’s not just “6000” poor, huddled Hondurans that are a concern- it’s the continued adding to the 11 million illegal imigrants here already that have created a loss in respect for the law, a disrespect for citizenship,a suppressing of wages, a shift of the economy to service industries and apparently an huge increase people who bite the hands that feed them while simultaneously blaming the hands for getting bit and demanding more.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
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Maybe 3000/week Geist. A big maybe.

6% of that is…?

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

If a non-english-speaking, 3rd-world migrant can take your job, maybe its time for some vocational training or some collective bargaining.

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

Geist,

You don’t think any have covid?
You think we have jobs for them with everyone shut down?
Or you just like adding more homeless on our streets?

Geist
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Geist
3 years ago
Reply to  HotCoffee

Don’t act like you babies weren’t shitting your pants over migrant caravans well before covid.

Paul
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Paul
3 years ago

Hey…..Look at the bright side of things guys. The stupid ones will take the vaccine and we won’t have to worry anymore 🙂 Problem solved!! Thanks Bill Gates!!!

What I know so far...
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What I know so far...
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul

Nice you consider yoself super smart by doing nothing. Such a sacrifice! Ummm. Sooo. Back to the article… This only mentions Mendo, buut… This is the same batch that Humboldt has too. So what I have heard is that scheduled vaccines here have been held up too. I was to get in line for one, Weds. or Thurs. and never got a call back…

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago

So long as it’s still a “choice” Paul.

It may become VERY hard to get by in the future without your “papers”.

The idea of which many are salivating over.

Straight forward reverse psychology
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Straight forward reverse psychology
3 years ago

Kim, you gonna take the vaccine?

Kym Kemp
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3 years ago

Yes

Wake up sheep.
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Wake up sheep.
3 years ago

All you people are so stupied. First of all it takes 10 to 20 years to make a vaccine you can find this info on vaccine.org. . And human trailes. So how do we have one in 7 months. . There using people on the street as dipggies . Lets not for get the fact that vaccine compens were grated immunties from liyabelte in the 1980s the bill was graded. . Best part is not one doc. Or person who made the vaccine will tell you whats in it .let that sink in. Look up all the trails on corna vaccines. And take a good look at the out come. Bet not one person from the bill gates foundation. Or him self or his wife will take the vaccine. Hmm sort of odd hun.

Geist
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3 years ago
Reply to  Wake up sheep.

Wow, that’s a fun comment to try to read aloud!

Trump’s Operation Warp Speed is what allowed manufacturers to skip normal testing procedures and test in the field, as well as protecting them from liability. The incoming Biden admisistration has revealed there was NO plan for vaccine distribution at the federal level at all, so ALL Operation Warp Speed amounts to is a gift to the pharmaceutical industry.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
Reply to  Geist

Yep. As does whatever the current plan is called. Diff prez, same gift.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago

@ Kym

Do you know any way to go through a series of your articles by time?

For instance, if I wanted look through articled of Feb 2020, is there anyway to do it besides going hundreds of pages (clicks) back in ‘top stories’?

Kym Kemp
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3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Brian, scroll to the bottom of the front page where the footer is in green, find Archives, and select month. Once there the articles appear in reverse order ie January 31, 2016 comes before January 30, 2016 etc.

Tip: Scroll to the bottom of the first page of results. Choose the >> to go to first day of the month.

Kym Kemp
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3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Second tip: Go any page of results after the first page, and the url of the page will look something like this https://kymkemp.com/2020/09/page/2/ You can change the page number to say 15 if you know the article you want is roughly halfway through the month. Or say change to 35 if it is near the beginning. This allows for faster navigation.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I should’ve figured that out by now.

Luckily, I never went page by page for comment digging before, but I’m at a point where my other method isn’t bringing me the results I want. So this will save me a bunch of time if I get into chronological digs.

Thanks.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago

This is pfizer, not moderna so maybe we should consider ourselves lucky?

Sounds like a real honest, wholesome, trustworthy company. I’d put my life in their hands.

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/pfizer

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3 years ago
Reply to  4Trinity

Don’t trust them. Who cares.

4Trinity
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4Trinity
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

How many “guest” (s) are there?