19 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

It certainly does, which is why employees in constant contact with the public were given the choice - work vaccinated, or don't work unvaccinated.

 

I keep my distance and don't breathe on anybody, you're safe from my imaginary shedding.

Most employees are superfluous, useless eaters.  And they complain too much.

They needed to be culled.

Enter….clot shots.

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

It's the severity that counts, not the vaccination status. That ship has already sailed.

 

Calling me dishonest when you display the empathy of a scorpion, that's rich.

vaccination status matters

keep your distance and don’t breathe on me

better yet, stay home or wear a mask 😷…or two

9 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

 

Yep… We don't deserve to live. Never forget what they said and condoned.

 

My sister told me I should be denied any medical care since I’m one of the filthy, abhorrent unvaccinated.

Unbelievable what these all these brownshirts condoned.

4 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Jerk

Thanks 😊 

Wouldn’t you be better served in the health forum discussing one of your many ailments?

Reading this forum has got to be bad for your health.

18 minutes ago, bruceluigi said:

I know a few expats who bought thinking they’d make money, but it didn’t always work out.

It’s probably very very rare that a foreigner makes money on real estate here as an end user.
 

Never listen to the douchebags who can’t even do basic math.   They’re probably Agents.

And I say this as a condo owner.

It’s a good thing that California has the FAIR plan for fire insurance. 😅

Roach gave rare insight into the dire finances of the FAIR Plan, which does not routinely make financial information public unlike counterparts in other states. The FAIR Plan has a $200 million surplus and $2.5 billion in reinsurance, which is a type of insurance for insurers, to pay claims after a catastrophic wildfire.

But Roach warned the program could face $6 billion in claims if the state experienced a wildfire as damaging as the 2018 Camp Fire, which destroyed 18,000 buildings and killed 85 people. When the FAIR Plan drained its reserves, it would have to impose assessments, potentially of up to $3.3 billion.

“We’re like one bad fire away from complete insolvency,” Assemblymember Jim Wood, a Democrat from northern California, said to Roach. “If this were on Wall Street, I’m not sure you could get away with this.”

https://www.eenews.net/articles/californias-insurer-of-last-resort-is-a-ticking-time-bomb/
 

BOOM!

On 1/9/2025 at 11:22 PM, NickyLouie said:

This is why it happened 

 

 

 

And then there is the mayor.  The head of department of water and power.  Heads of department of transportation. Head of the department of public social services.  Head of the Department of Public health.

I’m seeing a pattern here.

1 hour ago, riclag said:

Newsoms economy is the 5th largest in the world.Surly he could of run water from the Pacific Ocean to nearby fire riddled areas.Santa Anna winds ,dry brush  and The Ocean have been around for ages.

https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-economy/#:~:text=In 2023%2C California's gross domestic,China%2C Germany%2C and Japan.

And that economy can provide unemployment benefits, family leave benefits and all other kinds of benefits for undocumented (a.k.a. Illegal) immigrants.

“We provide benefits and resources for California workers. Disability Insurance (DI) and Paid Family Leave (PFL) benefits provide partial pay when you need time off work for your own disability or family leave.

If you are an undocumented worker in California, you can apply for DI and PFL benefits, even if you do not have a Social Security number (SSN).

It doesn’t matter what your citizenship or immigration status is; DI and PFL benefits will not affect your path to citizenship. Your information will be kept confidential.”

https://edd.ca.gov/en/disability/undocumented_workers/
 

California becomes first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants
 

“In 2015, undocumented children were able to join Medi-Cal under a bill signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law an expansion of full-scope Medi-Cal access for young adults ages 19 through 25, regardless of citizenship or immigration status. Access was then further expanded to allow older adults aged 50 and olderto receive full benefits, also regardless of immigration status.

The final expansion going into effect Jan. 1 will make approximately 700,000 undocumented residents between ages 26 and 49 eligible for full coverage, according to California State Sen. María Elena Durazo.“

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/california-1st-state-offer-health-insurance-undocumented-immigrants/story?id=105986377
 

Ya think they’ll ever pay that money back?  
 

Nope.

7 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Unfortunately, California has to care for a lot of homeless and mentally ill people who are from out of state.  These people flock to California because services are not available in their home states.

Hilarious.

I’m guessing you haven’t been to California and seen the homeless.

And to say that they are flocking to California for social services is absolutely ridiculous….no….it’s just plain dishonest.  

11 minutes ago, Stiddle Mump said:

Why are so many compromised that much that they can't break ranks?

Debt (mortgage/car/etc) + family financial obligations (children, health insurance) that eat up 90% of their take home pay.

How do you replace a physician’s/politicians income?

52 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Eventually, all the owners of those ultra expensive homes in Pacific Palisades are going to need to get a rebuild permit from the California Coastal Commission. Watch their eruption when one after another they're denied.

The damage estimates from all the fires in the region seem to be quite low.

Last update (a couple hours ago) is that the two largest fires (Palisades/Eaton) are still 0% contained.

The satellite image of the Eaton fire is horrific.

9 minutes ago, bradiston said:

Haha. I was on a keto diet for 18 months. Lost 15 kgs.

I leveled up with the Lion Diet.   Keto on steroids.

1 minute ago, rattlesnake said:

 

So logically, going forward, you will refrain from saying that being an epidemiologist is a legitimacy criterion in your eyes, as it is not.

 

The criterion is being an epidemiologist who says what you want to hear.

Exactly.

More than a few times, I have googled the “MD” that he puts forth in some BS pro vaccine article, only to find a complete embarrassment of a doctor with a degree from some Cracker Jack Caribbean island medical school of last resort or another comparable institution.

And they’re usually fat too.

Never trust a fat doctor.

18 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Hulscher is another discredited COVID anti-vax quack with a history of spreading documented COVID misinformation, who now appears to be working for a foundation headed by another prolific anti-vax misinfo peddler, Peter McCullough, as shown below.

 

Example #1 re Hulscher:

 

 

...

An article published by the website The Blaze in late January 2024 claimed that a study published in the journal Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety showed the risk of COVID-19 vaccination outweighed its benefits.

...

The study in Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety was authored by computational biologist Jessica Rose, masters student Nicolas Hulscher, and cardiologist Peter McCullough.

 

Both Rose and McCullough have previously spread vaccine misinformation. Hulscher, according to his LinkedIn profile, is a masters student in epidemiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Notably, Hulscher and McCullough co-authored a preprint that claimed 76% of deaths in vaccinated people were due to COVID-19 vaccines. Health Feedback covered the preprint’s questionable methods and conclusions here. [emphasis added]

 

https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/claim-myocarditis-covid-vaccines-carries-serious-risk-death-flawed-study/

 

 

Hulscher's current LinkedIn profile says he's working now, not surprisingly, for a foundation founded by McCullough:

 

 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicolas-hulscher-mph-3683b1274_how-and-why-do-certain-injectable-products-activity-7262860978151673856-PjqD

 

Example #2 re Hulscher:

 

Hulscher, McCullough and several others in their anti-vax misinfo peddling clan also collaborated on a bogus research paper claiming they did a review of published research reports on sudden death autopsies and found many of them were caused by COVID vaccines. Unfortunately for the authors, those determinations that THEY made contradicted what many of the actual studies they reviewed found, which was for the most part that COVID vaccines were NOT to blame.

 

That and other problems with their paper led to the journal where it was published ultimately withdrawing the paper, as shown below:

 

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073824001968?via%3Dihub

 

 

The following fact check report details the travails of Hulscher and McCullough's bogus journal article, including the following:

 

 

"As others have pointed out before, there’s reason to suspect that the authors may have been biased in their determinations. All three adjudicators, including Dr. Peter McCullough, are well known for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. Dr. William Makis, a Canadian radiologist, has previously claimed, without evidence, that 80 Canadian doctors died from COVID-19 vaccines. The only pathologist, Dr. Roger Hodkinson, incorrectly claimed in 2020 that COVID-19 was a “hoax” and “just a bad flu.”

 

Hodkinson and McCullough, along with five other authors, are also affiliated with and have a financial interest in The Wellness Company, a supplement and telehealth company that sells unproven treatments, including for purported protection against vaccines. [emphasis added]

 

Perhaps most tellingly, the scientists who conducted many of the autopsy studies came to opposite conclusions than the review authors. Of the 240 cases, for example, 105 come from a single paper in Colombia, whose authors found “[n]o relation between the cause of death and vaccination.”  Similarly, the review authors counted 24 of 28 autopsies from a study from Singapore as vaccine-related, even though the original authors identified “no definite causative relationship” to mRNA vaccines."

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/07/flawed-autopsy-review-revives-unsupported-claims-of-covid-19-vaccine-harm-censorship/

 

Then last November, the anti-vax group of authors managed to get the paper published again in an online journal headed and overseen by various anti-vaxers, including McCullough.

 

As the above fact check recounts:

 

"Update, Nov. 19: On Nov. 17, the autopsy review that sparked these initial claims and that was later withdrawn from its journal was republished online, renewing claims of censorship and the incorrect idea that the COVID-19 vaccines “are causing large numbers of deaths.” The republication outlet, Science, Public Health Policy and the Law, says it is a peer-reviewed journal, but it is not indexed on PubMed. The editor-in-chief is James Lyons-Weiler, a well–known spreader of vaccine misinformation. Other board members, including one author of the republished paper [McCullough], are also known spreaders of vaccine misinformation."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lyons-Weiler#Controversies

 

 

Translation:

Anybody, no matter their education, their exemplary performance in their careers, awards won, etc.  if they have ever gone against the Covid narrative they are forever relegated to the ranks of discredited hacks.

Because some fact checker said so.

26 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Yes. I run out of crayon for floccinaucinihilipilification, which applies to your posts.

I’ll bet you won a spelling bee once.

Just now, Lacessit said:

Here's a word for you. Coprophagocyte. I promise it's in the dictionary too.

Ooooh….is that one of those five dollar words?  Can you write it all with one crayon?

38 minutes ago, Stiddle Mump said:

TBH Lacessit, i don't blame you for leaving the thread. Along with a couple of others, you are hard left on the Vaccine issue. I'm far right. The middle ground is for those who are undecided.

 

Red's thread is really for those on the fence; who could go one way or t'other, if they need to make a choice. I trust the postings, from both sides, have helped them for the future.

Every person who stomps their feet and says “I’m done with you!!” ultimately comes back.

After their blood pressure goes down.

They’re gluttons for punishment, in addition to food.