The Post-Partisan Emporium

Clearly Reality is Not Enough for these MORONS! Enjoy... ******* The Case for Wearing Masks Forever A ragtag coalition of public-health activists believe that America’s pandemic restrictions are too lax—and they say they have the science to prove it. By Emma Green December 28, 2022 L ast December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it was shortening the recommended isolation period for those with covid-19 to five days. Getting exposed to the virus no longer meant that people needed to quarantine, either, as long as they were fully vaccinated and wore a mask. It was a big moment, and it occurred just as the Omicron variant was surging. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a professor of urban policy and health at the New School, was livid. Fullilove, who is Black, has spent her career studying epidemics: first aids, then crack, then multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. She has seen how disease can ravage cities, especially in Black and working-class communities. From the

Uncomfortable Residents of Meat Thing don't ask me, i just live in here Chris Bray The  Wall Street Journal ,  describing  people who died in Buffalo during the recent blizzard: On Friday afternoon, Abdul Sharifu left his house in Buffalo, N.Y., to go to the market to buy milk for his two young children. He hadn’t gotten far when his car got stuck in one of the deadliest blizzards in the history of the city.  Mr. Sharifu, a 26-year-old refugee from Congo, sat in his Toyota RAV4 with a dwindling supply of gas in his tank and called a friend to explain his plight, said Erieckson Kiza, a leader in the Congolese community. Mr. Sharifu, clad only in a thin tracksuit, told the friend he feared he would freeze when his gas ran out and the heat cut off. Waiting at home for his return was his wife who was nine months pregnant…. Anndel Nicole Taylor, 22, was driving home from her job as an assistant at a nursing home Friday afternoon when her 2004 Nissan Altima got stuck in the snow, said he

File under "Idiocracy"... NYC Electric Garbage Truck Plans Hit Wall After Trucks "Conked Out" Plowing Snow After Just Four Hours By  Tyler Durden Zero Hedge In a move that absolutely  nobody  could have seen coming, New York City is scrapping its brilliant idea for electric garbage trucks after finding out the truck simply “aren’t powerful enough to plow snow”. The pipe dream of converting the city’s 6,000 garbage trucks from gas to electric in order to try and limit carbon emissions (because there’s no  other  problems that need to be dealt with in New York City right now) is “clashing with the limits of electric-powered vehicles,” Gothamist  wrote this week . The city’s current trucks run on diesel and can be fitted with plows in the winter. Despite the shortcomings, the city Department of Sanitation’ has already ordered seven electric rear loader garbage trucks, custom-made by Mack, the report says. Those trucks cost an astonishing $523,000 each and are to be del