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Today at a Glance:
Name-clearing hearing for ex-Fire Chief Stephen Cox: The resumption of a name-clearing hearing for fired Flagler Beach Fire Chief Stephen Cox is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. at Flagler Beach City Hall, 105 South 2nd Street, Flagler Beach. The hearing, which is open to the public, began on July 1. See: “Name-Clearing Hearing for Fired Flagler Beach Fire Chief Cox Exposes Deep Divisions And Lack Of Documentation.”
Town Center Developer v. Palm Coast Mediation: A closed-door mediation session is scheduled for 9 a.m. at Palm Coast City Hall between Palm Coast Holdings, the developer of Town Center, and the city’s attorneys in the lawsuit the developer filed against the city in 2025, alleging that the city has breached its contract to ensure services for Town center. See: “Town Center Developer Sues Palm Coast, Accusing City of Breaking Promise on Water and Sewer Capacity.” Should mediation fail to lead to a settlement, docket sounding, the last step before trial, is scheduled for Nov. 3, 2026.
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Byblos: If I could have Edith Wharton’s babies, I would, though she justifiably would never have so much as my florid breath. “The Moving Finger” is a 1901 story about loss and the attempted recovery of the departed. It begins with one of Wharton’s superb lines: “The news of Mrs. Grancy’s death came to me with the shock of an immense blunder—one of fate’s most irretrievable acts of vandalism.” Mrs. Grancy was young. She was the second wife of Ralph Grancy. It was a happy marriage. “Some human happiness is a landlocked lake; but the Grancys’ was an open sea, stretching a buoyant and illimitable surface to the voyaging interests of life.” She’d left him a portrait of hers, but its youthful brilliance oppressed him after five years–not because he resented it, but because he had aged, and he felt he was deceiving her by letting the difference persist. So he has his friend Claydon, the painter who authored the portrait, age Mrs. Grancy. Claydon does so reluctantly. The narrator is incensed that he would have done it at all, but Ralph insists: the aged portrait makes him happier: “If he felt her presence it was evidently as an enveloping medium, the moral atmosphere in which he breathed. I had never before known how completely the dead may survive.” We all do what we can to cope with the death of a friend, a spouse, a parent. We think computer-assisted aging technology is of our time. Wharton shows us how and presumptuous we can be. Life is not just physical. It is mostly memory (were we really alive in the human, sentient, conscious sense, when we were infants? When we were in the womb? Isn’t it Locke who said that life begins with memory?) Grancy found a different way of communing with his wife, to his friend’s (the narrator) horror: “I stood speechless, my gaze travelling from his worn grief- beaten features to the painted face above. It was not furrowed like his; but a veil of years seemed to have descended on it. The bright hair had lost its elasticity, the cheek its clearness, the brow its light: the whole woman had waned.” Then it was Grancy’s turn to die. Claydon claims the portrait. Claydon restores the portrait to its original youthfulness, which again horrifies the narrator, though here we find out that the painter had been in love with Mrs. Grancy all along, and this was his way finally to possess her. “How could I?” he retorted. “How could I not? Doesn’t she belong to me now?” Memory, like time, is not something any of us can control or entirely possess. We are how we are perceived, how we are remembered, so much more than how we have really lived. It reminds me of a line from such an entirely different book and century that I read this morning, by the French 18th century pornographer Godard de Beauchamps: “No matter what we do to clearly know the truth, we will never see it except through a veil.”
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“Well-when he came home and sent for me to change the picture it was like asking me to commit murder. He wanted me to make an old woman of her-of her who had been so divinely, unchangeably young! As if any man who really loved a woman would ask her to sacrifice her youth and beauty for his sake! At first I told him I couldn’t do it-but afterward, when he left me alone with the picture, something queer happened. I suppose it was because I was always so confoundedly fond of Grancy that it went against me to refuse what he asked. Anyhow, as I sat looking up at her, she seemed to say, ‘I’m not yours but his, and I want you to make me what he wishes.’ And so I did it. I could have cut my hand off when the work was done-I daresay he told you I never would go back and look at it. He thought I was too busy-he never understood.
–From Edith Wharton’s “The Moving Finger” (1901).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Sorry guys, as you can guess, Im not a Fauci fan. I lost too many friends. Masks work? No they don’t….The Americans were hoodwinked. Every American child got a 1/2 ass education as many cities shut down schools, because of this man. Children in the big cities are still trying to catch up. These kids can do math & read at much lower level. If Biden thought FAUCI was the greatest thing since sliced bread, why did he need to pardon him?
We need answers, we deserve the real truth….Is that too much to ask for?
Pierre Tristam says
Welcome back Dennis.
Laurel says
The United States of America has turned into one, huge episode of the Twilight Zone.Wait for the commercials to take a breath. I wonder what the Gods are thinking.
Jim Hood says
Pierre: Notice his writing… He has cleaned up the grammar and spelling. Congrats Dennis!
There are those in High School who took Science and succeeded in life. Then there are those who . . .
Pierre Tristam says
Just to be clear, I did not mean my welcome back ironically, and I prefer Dennis as Dennis, whether he cleans up his grammar or not.
The dude says
If masks don’t work, I guess they are unnecessary in surgery.
You are not the first fool to claim the vax killed someone, nor will you be the last.
As always with the MAGA conspiracists, rubes and dullards, not one single shred of evidence or proof will be offered, just useless hyperbole and right wing talking points.
MAGA morons are laser focused on unproven, mythical events from 6 years ago like “stolen elections”, mRNA vaccines, and current wars of choice that make them all happy in the pants, while ignoring real dangers like global warming, ongoing efforts to implement 24/7 surveillance, and rogue AI’s that have been proven to drive up our energy costs and escape into the wild.
Why are MAGA morons so stuck in the past?
Ken says
I guess they are unnecessary in surgery.=okay I HAVE NEVER DONE ANY SERGERYS so why should i wear a MASK you MASKHOLE ?
mRNA vaccines= yea we will tell you what is in it IN 75 YEARS okay sounds safe LMAO AT YOU !!
ignoring real dangers like global warming, =unproven, mythical event !! true that ? LMAO AT YOU !!
you make a GREAT PARROT !!!keep up the good fight LMAO AT THE DUDE
Laurel says
What the hell was that?
Sherry says
@ The Dude. . . as usual, you are most certainly “Right On”! Thank You!
Skibum says
Dennis, no surprise you’re not a fan of Dr. Fauci since you seem to be an adherent of all things conspiratorial and a maga loyalist. I guess you are going to be glued to the TV when RFK Jr’s new cooking show episodes air, huh? Maybe you will end up wandering out in the underbrush afterward to try your luck catching your own dinner after he shows how to bake a delectable armadillo… yum!
All the while, the now retired Dr. Fauci remains true to his medical and scientific roots, his ethical core and moral compass after his many decades of compassionate, dedicated service to the American public. Masks don’t work??? Ask any, and I mean ANY experienced medical worker you choose in any hospital or doctor’s office about that conspiracy theory… I dare you! There is a damn good reason why masks are STILL readily available to anyone who wishes to put one on when walking through the entrance doors of hospitals, and why all surgeons gear up with masks, gloves, etc. in operating rooms. If they didn’t work, and if other necessary protective attire were not essential protective wear, surgeons and other medical staff would be seen operating on patients in t-shirts, cargo shorts and open toed sandals.
But YOU go ahead… keep carefully stepping forward while looking for that edge of the earth idiots are proclaiming will cause all of us to fall off into oblivion. Good luck.
Ken says
Skibum says I would tell you good luck but I truly think you have drank way to much fool-aid !!! truly sad!
Mark Webb says
Please check out a Yale study on overall death rates during covid.
They saw a 78% increase with right leaning folks.
You know, like the no madk, open schools and no vaccine group.
No surprise.
Sherry says
Thank You Mark and Right On!
The death rate for the “UN- Vaccinated” was, by far, HIGHER that for those who were smart enough to follow Dr. Fauchi’s advice and get vaccinated! Yet, somehow that FACT eludes the Fox brainwashed, MagaCult members. Oh, that’s right. . . they believe only what Fuhrer trump says. Maga. . . the NO facts needed or heeded cult!
Ken says
looks like YOUR Dr. Fauchi’s advice and get vaccinated! JUST PLEADED THE FIFTH 111 times THERES YOUR SCIENCE !!!! LMAO AT YOU SHERRY !!
Sherry says
Everybody now. . . to the tune of “Rawhide”. . .
Trollin! Trollin! Trollin! Maga Lies a Rollin! Keep those TROLLS a Kissin’ trump’s ASS! LOL! LOL! LOL!
Jim says
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country.”
Et al: Think for a few moments about what the future will bring for your own children’s Science education. How many of those kids are so dedicated to that field that they will dedicate their lives to saving others?
Whose child among us will be the next Director of Infectious Diseases? Who among us will end up in the ‘trash heap of life’ because of their harsh criticism of Science?
How shameful that there are even more ill-informed, because they know even less.
Bob says
I saw the whole interview. He had a full pardon by Biden. He could have answered the questions. He chose not to do so. Ask yourself why. Does he have something to hide? Something else bothered me. No democrat asked him a question. They just wanted to extol all his virtues. That probably fed his ego more
Laurel says
Biden gave him a full pardon, not because he was found guilty of any criminal offense, which he wasn’t, but because Biden knew these clowns would go after him as a scapegoat, which they did. There is no evidence of wrong doing, but Renner, Paul, et al know that maga has no use for evidence or facts.
Fauci knew not to answer questions, which were flat out nasty, because anything he said would be twisted. If you know of anything Fauci had “to hide,” go right ahead and explain, with searchable facts.
Fauci could not back such Trump foolishness as horse dewormer, injected bleach, or somehow getting light into the body to kill COVID. He refused to agree to Trump’s comment about how the virus would be gone by Easter. Trump was embarrassed, and took this as a personal insult, and lack of loyalty, and has made Fauci a maga target ever since.
Ask yourself “is this normal”?
Skibum says
Rand Paul is such a hypocrite and nothing but a maga stooge. He rails against Dr. Fauci, knowing full well that his vitriol against one of America’s most experienced and knowledgeable medical experts is all lies and complete bullshit, but he carries on anyway, having threatened to imprison the 85-year old retired doctor simply because Dr. Fauci was in the position he was and advocated strongly for the COVID vaccine that saved the lives of so many people around the world and here in the U.S.
Yes, Paul is so histrionic in his opposition to the COVID vaccine… but he himself voluntarily received the initial vaccination and multiple booster shots in order to protect himself. But you wouldn’t know that because he has tried exceedingly hard to hide the fact that he chose to get vaccinated. But it wouldn’t fit with his alternative facts, trying to excoriate Dr. Fauci for the horrendous “crime” of being this nation’s chief medical spokesperson and promoter of COVID vaccinations and it’s efficacy and safety.
And while Paul lies to everyone about him being totally against the COVID vaccine, having said in the past multiple times that he believed getting infected with the coronavirus and obtaining natural immunity was safer for Americans, he continues to hide the fact that, in secret, he never really believed his own nonsense because he ensured his own safety against the potentially deadly virus. In 2002 during the pandemic, Paul attended an event that required anyone in attendance who was not wearing a mask to be vaccinated and show proof prior to attending that they had received the COVID vaccine. Paul sent in his RSVP with the required proof of vaccination, and the chef at the event, a man by the name of Joe Gera, has now publicly called out Paul as a COVID conspiracist and liar, revealing the fact that event staff reviewed the documented proof along with Paul’s RSVP that allowed him to attend unmasked only because he indeed had been vaccinated multiple times with the COVID vaccine.
American public health officials and the vast majority of medical experts urged the highest level of caution and safety during the pandemic precisely because the only other pandemic in U.S. history that resulted in a huge number of deaths that they could pull historical information from and learn what to do and what NOT to do, was the influenza pandemic in 1918. That pandemic had a mortality rate of more than 50 million deaths worldwide. Here in the U.S., millions were infected and hundreds of thousands died, many of them children. Since so many children had become infected and helped spread the virus in that pandemic, it was an easy decision for public health officials to order schools closed initially, and later after reopening them, to mandate precautionary measure like mandatory masks, limiting the number of students in each classroom, and spacing out people in public to provide that extra measure of prevention in public spaces.
But Dennis and others can close their ears and eyes to reality, they can deny factual information and believe lies, nonsense and complete bullshit if they so choose. It will not change the facts, nor will it diminish the excellence and the dedication and the extreme efforts by Dr. Fauci and many other very distinguished medical professionals to safeguard Americans’ public health and to continue their research in order to find cures for some of the most virulent infectious diseases.
Dennis C Rathasm says
My ears aren’t closed, I wear hearing aids. And my eyes see fine! They saw Fauci net worth doubling to $27.5 million since his retirement! Amazing!
Skibum says
Dennis, you and other unpatriotic nitwits are making Dr. Fauci the present day equivalent to all of those Vietnam veterans who were drafted and sent to Nam, then when those who survived finally were able to come home, were vilified, cursed at, spit on, et. and never received the due they deserved for their service to this nation, for the horrors they had to witness, and for being patriotic Americans. Those members of our armed forces were not the ones who started the Vietnam war, many didn’t agree with the politics or support another foreign war, but they did their duty.
Dr. Fauci and the larger scientific and medical community were the tip of the iceberg, trying their level best with the information they had, to protect as many American lives as possible in the midst of a deadly pandemic that was spreading out of control around the world. He… and they… are NOT to blame! They should be revered as the heroes they all are, for the ambitious timeline of the vaccine trials and ultimately the approved vaccines and other in-patient treatments of those hospitalized that were developed and put to use that saved many, many lives. Only unpatriotic cult apologists will continue to vilify true American heroes, and that is unconscionable!
Ed P says
Hello Skibum,
So where did the virus originate?
Wet markets existed in China for thousands of years.
Wuhan lab protocols were weak and they were working on bats. WHO cares if they admit to gain of function. Bat viruses were them.
Hmmmm,..
Skibum says
Quit distracting with your backwards looking, want to place blame question when you know that even the best medical experts cannot with 100% certainty say where the virus originated. China government officials were not cooperating and were not transparent with the world’s health organizations and medical officials. So the main focus and all of the money and resources were targeted at keeping people safe and eradicating the threat.
Donald Trump openly mocked Joe Biden at their fall 2020 Presidential debate for wearing a mask and social distancing. Then, a day later it was revealed that Trump himself had acquired Covid. By his own admission, he was in serious trouble. He fit the profile, being overweight and of advanced age, for potentially severe complications. Did he turn to the usual quacks like Dr. Oz, RFK, Jr., Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Phil, Rand Paul or any of the other “Covid is no big deal” idiots to help him? Did he take horse medicine, shine a light up his butt, or inject bleach to cure himself?
Of course not! He turned to Dr. Fauci and other qualified scientists and doctors who pumped him full of proven anti-viral medicines that were not fully available to ordinary Americans at the time. Trump got special treatment. These doctors saved his life. They did it using qualified science. He praised them. He gave them medals.
Trump was also one of the first to receive the Covid vaccine when it was made available. His friends, family, and most of the maga Republican politicians took the shot too… many of them quietly, without advocating the same for everyday Americans.
And for that, the thanks Dr. Fauci and the others who worked tirelessly to reduce the spread of Covid and help tame the pandemic get is the maga cult threatening their lives and pushing conspiracy theories to this day. Rand Paul (another vaccine taker) threatened multiple times to see Dr. Fauci put in jail! Hypocrites, all of them.
Shame on those who still participate in this nonsensical demonizing of science and Dr. Fauci. The vast majority of Americans know and acknowledge the truth regarding the hard work and dedication by medical science professionals who saved countless lives during the COVID pandemic. We mourn the innocent lives lost, even those who should have listened to sound medical advice to get vaccinated but chose not to vaccinate themselves and/or their children due to falsifications and conspiracy theories of the maga cultists. Their leader in the WH made Dr. Fauci, a renowned epidemiologist, his scapegoat simply because Dr. Fauci refused to sanction and pass on BAD and unproven medical advice that would have harmed people.
For me and many millions of others, Dr. Fauci will always be one of America’s heroes!
Ed P says
Hello Skibum,
And yet, we don’t know the origination.
Shutdowns were disastrous, school aged individuals were almost bullet proof and a solo walk on the beach posed zero danger. Church services were suspended and individuals were required to show their vaccination cards. Small businesses and people’s lives destroyed. People died abandoned.
Too many deaths, too many lives unnecessarily affected and too many missteps occurred not to tell the truth.
Fauci will take the truth to his grave so sycophants like you will pass along his folklore image.
His diary is proof in his own words of his small man syndrome and narcissism.
Taking the 5th 111 times even with a full pardon back to 2014 reveals something other then Rand Paul’s rabid search for the truth.
Maybe your summary isn’t correct, can you at the very least acknowledge that possibility?
Skibum says
I will acknowledge no such thing because there are reams of documented, verified proof that has and will continue to back up Dr. Fauci’s research, his decision making, and his past public statements, as well as what the CDC, other ethical medical and scientific experts and state governors did to protect the American public health. Those efforts, whether you supported them or not, were completely justified based on the very real, deadly threat from the coronavirus once it started infecting people and spreading at a rapid pace within the U.S. Facts matter, and those plain and simple facts stand in stark contrast to the conspiracy laden maga cult talking points and outright lies from the convicted felon liar-in-chief and his bent knee supporters who are more interested in revisionist history efforts regarding the pandemic just like they have been trying to revise history about the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol where more than 114 law enforcement officers were beaten and suffered injuries while protecting members of Congress and VP Pence from the maga rioters who were shouting “HANG MIKE PENCE!” during their failed attempt to stop the certification of the election of Joe Biden, who DID IN FACT win that presidential election… no matter how many times the orange menace lies, and lies, and lies, and lies some more about a supposed stolen election that he LOST.
Your opinions, no matter how absurd, will NEVER replace facts, or the truth of what is now an indelible part of American history.
Ed P says
Hello Skibum,
Find and read his Jan, Feb, and March 2020 diary pages.
He says that the wet market was unlikely but could have been an amplifier.
His private thoughts.
He publicly pivoted to just the opposite, not a lab leak but a wet market event. Why?
He, better than anyone other than the Chinese, knows the origin.
Maybe his unspoken fear that it was a bio lab leak lead him to the missteps I mentioned above.
Fear is a powerful motivator.
Follow your own recommendations to Dennis.
Your strident resistance “amplifies” your own unwillingness to explore all theories.
Sherry says
Huge Thank You Skibum! An excellent comment!
Laurel says
Bob: The Republicans are bringing back any amount of shit that worked for them in the past, which is why they keep bringing up the past, which is chock full of bs. These are more desperate attempts to rile up the magas. Don’t be fooled!
Dr. Fauci has 50 years of helping people with virus infections. He served seven Presidents, and won two Presidential awards, including one from Trump.
Trump demonized Fauci when Fauci refused to back the Trump lies. The magas fell in line, as they always do.
If I were to pick someone to believe and back, Fauci v Trump, it would be Fauci hands down.
Trump will never come close to the man Fauci is, and can never provide the help that Fauci provided to the world.
Sherry says
Dr. Fauci, An American Hero! Who was hauled up before Congress for no other reason than for trump’s Maga guttersnipes to “TRY” to intimidate a man that likely saved hundreds of thousands of lives! GOOD on him that he refused to answer any of their absolutely stupid ass questions! Dr. Fauci made them all look like the complete trump sycophant/ conspiracy theory idiot zealots that they are!
The Democrats had no questions because they mostly still live in fact based reality, where there is absolutely no need to chase “conspiracy theories” without one shred of evidence.
Regarding Dr. Fauci’s financial situation. . . well, he filed a detailed disclosure. I guess Fox/ The NY Post/Newsmax has “Conspiracy Theories” about that too. . . anything to try and do Trump’s retribution against those that refuse to kiss trump’s ass!
I know Maga cult members hate facts because they see the “Truth” derived from such things as detrimental to their deity. . . lord trump! Therefore, here is some information regarding Dr. Fauci well deserved financial success. . . unlike trump, there’s simply nothing nefarious!
Dr. Fauci, Sources of Post-Retirement Growth
Book Advance and Royalties: He secured a major deal for his memoir, On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service, with a Penguin Random House subsidiary for an estimated $5 million, which later became a bestseller.
Paid Speaking Engagements: He participated in multiple high-profile, paid speaking events and university engagements, including a role as a distinguished professor at Georgetown University.
Government Pension: He receives a federal retirement pension estimated at over $350,000 annually, marking one of the largest civilian federal pensions.
Prior Wealth and Investments: Even before retiring, his household net worth had grown during the COVID-19 pandemic due to high government salaries, investment portfolio gains, and major awards (such as a $1 million prize from the Dan David Foundation).
Ed P says
Hello Sherry,
To reference one of your past sources used for the truth, as well as your love for polls.
YouGov shows that only 37% of Americans hold a favorable opinion.
And anyone who reads his diary will see why.
His currency is being devalued daily.
History will view him through a very polarized lens, and probably not an American Hero.
Sherry says
This Video Describes You Perfectly. . . watch it again and again. . . you really need it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eexbPn5u8uo
Ed P says
Hello Sherri,
A few thoughts.
So you believe Lucas Bean is a valid reference source?
Where do you find this crap?
Nothing he’s says was anything other than his own opinion.
Not one factual thing that proved anything.
Here’s a few facts.
1.Cloth and paper masks mandates were ineffective against COVID for many reasons. Primarily because people didn’t wear them correctly and they were incorrectly fitted.
2. 6 foot distancing was not based on a clinical trial or hard prospective data.
3. Young healthy school age children were almost bullet proof from Covid death.
4. Natural immunity was certainly as good as the vaccine in healthy individuals without compromised immune systems.
5. The vaccine never prevent getting or giving the virus.
6. The complete overreach of governments shutting down commerce was useless in slowing the spread nor did it save lives.
7. More lives were “destroyed” by the experts advice and their actions than the body count of the virus.
So, no the video doesn’t describe me or anyone else who doesn’t parrot what these so called “experts” forced upon us.
Why can YOU and the entire LEFT question everything from the right, but any conservative with a brain cell was shut down, deplatformed, and even arrested for questioning the Covid experts. Common sense was suspended.
They were wrong about so much and yet even today YOU continue to accept the narrative and deny the truth.
Laurel says
If you pay attention of any of Lucus Bean’s videos, you would see that he uses professional references, not just his opinion. But you don’t mention that.
Who is he?
https://www.lucasbean.com/
Sherry says
Although Dr. Fauci enjoyed an average 70%+ approval rating “during” the pandemic, it’s very interesting how this recent poll analysis actually points out how Maga Republicans opinions are formed from trump’s demented retribution edicts rather than “Scientific” Facts and Expertise:
Majority Still Holds Favorable View of Anthony Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the unofficial face of the U.S.’s Covid-19 response, has retained a positive reputation with a majority of Americans, despite persistent controversy over whether or not he was truthful with the public during the pandemic.
4,600 people, about 53.5% said they held a “mostly” or “somewhat” favorable view of the former head of the federal National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
About 41.5% said they held a “mostly” or “somewhat” unfavorable view of Fauci, while 4.8% said they were unsure or had no opinion.
Responses were deeply divided along political party lines, with 87.5% of self-identified Democrats holding a “mostly” or “somewhat” favorable view of Fauci, while 89.6% of self-identified Republicans professed a “mostly” or “somewhat” unfavorable view.
Independent voters were more divided on the issue, with 58% saying they had a favorable opinion of Fauci, while 35.9% said their view was unfavorable.
Republican Dave says
Why MAGA is Obsessed with Dr. Fauci
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eexbPn5u8uo
Sherry says
OK Maga. . . Listen Up, I dare you to “LOOK in THE Fu#$%^& MIRROR” , and “Look Honestly at Yourselves”! I DARE YOU to look at the video posted by Republican Dave above! If you do not, you are nothing but a COWARD!!!
Sherry says
A HUGE “Thank You” Republican Dave! A video that explains so much!
Unfortunately, it’s likely that the Maga Cult Members who could really, really benefit the most by some introspection will not even look at it. . . and, at themselves.
Laurel says
Maga’s 20-20 hindsight vision doesn’t fly…as usual.
Did any of us see the magas come running to save people from dying? No, they continue to deflect the ignorance of Trump, and blame the scientist with absurdities like taking the fifth a hundred times, forgetting, conveniently Trump taking the fifth, what was it…four or five hundred times? Such short, little memory spans.
They now point out the Fauci ego, ignoring the narcissism of Trump that goes beyond anything we’ve ever seen!
The hypocrisy is stunning.
Fine. Take your horse dewormer and be happy. Did it save Grandpa? Did injected bleach save Grandma? Right?
Geez people, get real.
Ed P says
Hello Laurel,
It’s not about 20/20 hindsight but preventing the next pandemic.
Understanding the source is paramount.
Dr Robert Redfield Jr is a virologist and former director of the Centers for Disease Control. He’s was a special advisor for COVID.
He is on record this week that his belief – 100% sure, but can’t prove, the virus came from the lab.
He wants to shut down all gain of function research because it’s just too dangerous.
He says scientific community recently changed the definition of gain of function in order to continue catastrophic research, even today.
He believes China will never tell the truth nor will Dr Fauci for the following reasons.
If China admitted the leak, the world would want over 25 trillion in reparations. Fauci’s admission would do 2 things, tie the United States to that reparation demand because he was indeed funding the lab and destroy his hero legacy he is trying to hold onto.
Redfield is not what you referred to as tin foil hat conspirator.
Laurel says
No, understanding the source is not “paramount” as the next source could be something else entirely, coming from somewhere else as well. COVID 19 came out fast and new. Medical professionals had to deal with the unknown as fast as they could. Trump said it was one woman on a plane, and it was under control, and would be gone by Easter. Remember?
Our daughter had previously bought us a safety kit, before any knowledge of COVID. She intended it to stay on the shelf for cuts, bites, etc.. It actually had a couple of masks inside. When COVID first broke out, the streets of Palm Coast were empty! I remember wearing a mask in Publix, and a woman came up to me, with terror in her eyes, asking where I got it, and how she could get one. Point being, no one freakin’ knew what was going on, and the public, in general, was just learning what a “pandemic” was.
That followed were the anti-vaxers. I don’t give a damn if someone doesn’t want to get vaccinated. I don’t give a damn if they don’t want to wear a mask. These same people have claimed that it’s just old people and people with compromised immune systems, therefore “so what?” Bill Maher idiotically, publicly criticizes people for wearing them to this day. I know of a person who is fighting leukemia. So what, right? Mayo Clinic still provides masks at its entrances. I will believe them over some ridiculous politician, or comedian any day.
Since the far right has a short memory span, they seem to forget people were dying in tents in hospital parking lots, and bodies were placed in refrigerator trucks, while Trump talked about horse de-wormer pills, injecting bleach and suggesting getting light inside the body. I don’t see you complaining about a lack of common sense there.
ARE…YOU…KIDDING…ME?
So now, with hindsight, Dr. Fauci is Trump’s distraction and scapegoat, seven years later. You, and Paul, and the maga try to justify the unjustifiable. Put the scientist in jail, but let the felon go. Let child predators remain free. Let the grifters steal. Flood the zone, as Steve Bannon says.
Good v. evil. Which side is which? Is it hard to follow?
There is no excuse, and I mean, no excuse for this bullshit.
Ed P says
Hello Laurel,
Gain of function is why. A lab created pandemic can be prevented by not weaponizing a virus.
Simple.
Don’t you have any curiosity or concern if other deadly viruses possibly came out of a lab?
Sherry says
Speaking of POLLS. . . This one from “The Hill” with over 600 responses says 50% is AGAINST holding Dr. Fauci in contempt of congress:
Do you approve or disapprove of the Senate committee’s vote to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for his refusal to answer questions at a recent hearing?
Disapprove
59%
Approve
35%
Neutral
3%
Other / No opinion
3%
Based on 602 responses
Ed P says
Hello Sherry,
The Hill did not commission or publish a formal tracking poll asking about “caucus approval “ of the Anthony Fauci contempt vote.
You referenced an informal random opt-in reader poll widgets embedded at the bottom of WKRP (mews5) cross publish article with The Hill.
Just priceless.