"The first month of Russia’s barbaric campaign to conquer Ukraine and the Ukrainians’ inspiring resistance has reminded Americans of a fact that has gotten obscured in recent years: It’s crucial that the United States maintain an overwhelmingly strong national defense and stay prepared to lead on the world stage."

These are words from a flaming liberal who hated hated hated anything Trump.

Now suddenly he wants a strong defense and leadership...

edit:  sorry - I forgot to give credit to the putz who wrote those words.... Jeff Robbins

11 March 2022 Boston Herald has an article about the change in definition and one result is that the maskachusetts covid death count drops over by about 3700.

"Currently, the COVID death definition includes anyone who has COVID listed as a cause of death on their death certificate — and any individual who has had a COVID diagnosis within 60 days but does not have COVID listed as a cause of death on their death certificate. [emphasis mine]  The updated definition will reduce this time frame from 60 days to 30 days [emphasis mine] for individuals without a COVID diagnosis on their death certificate."

Isn't that amazing...  Die within 30 days of having a covid diagonisis and it will still be counted as a covid death.

Perfectly putrid data.


Also noteworthy:  “Prior to the CSTE (Council of State and Territorial Epide- miologists) definition, states did not have a nationally recommended defini- tion for COVID-19 deaths and, as such, have been using a variety of processes and definitions to count their deaths."


GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO GIGO 

hmmmmmmm

Pretty much everytime I see a picture of high school sports in the sports page, the players are wearing a mask...... over their chin, sometimes even covering the mouth, but never covering nose and mouth.

What a joke...

The maskachusetts state house was the last holdout (closed to the public due to covid).  ... it'll reopen 22 Feb 2022.

weeeeeeee, things must be getting better, eh?

According to the CDC, during the 2018-2019 flu season, there were about 34 million cases of the flu and almost 500,000 hospitalizations because of the flu.  (about 1.44% of the cases)

Using the data from the mass.gov page regarding covid-19, in maskachusetts there have been about 58,000 "confirmed" cases of covid-19 in the past 2 weeks.  Yesterday there were current 571 people in the hospital because of covid-19.  (what is hard to determine is the length of hospital stay in order to compare these numbers with the CDC numbers for the flu.)

Looks like the covid-19 numbers are approaching what we previously experienced with the flu...  who would have thought?

grabbed it before it went bye-bye  https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/another-f-35-lost-1-24.136414/page-2#post-3206505

quoted from POA:

"As the F-35C pilot neared the USS Vinson, he “called the ball,” but also said he was experiencing sudden and intense chest pain, as if “someone hit me with a baseball bat.” The Landing Signal Operator aboard the USS Vinson noticed at once that the F-35 was above glideslope and would miss the wires. He ordered the pilot to “wave off” just as the pilot’s crackled voice said on the radio, “F###ing vaccine.” The pilot had barely enough strength to eject safely, though several boatswain’s mates on the flight deck were injured when the plane struck the deck.

The pilot was recovered and taken to medical, where a physician determined he had suffered an acute case of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, a common and potentially deadly side effect of Covid-19 vaccinations. The USS Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-Class carrier, has a fully functional medical ward on its 2nd deck, complete with diagnostic equipment, including CRT and MRI scanners, found in contemporary hospitals.
Cause of that F35 plane crash could be a “booster” severe adverse event, 72 hours post injection. "