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The fun is back and it’s just as whacky looney as it was 4 years ago.
The mighty cornholio is at it again. It has apparently evaded all the stabbies of experimental chemical goo that about 80% of the population took, worked around imbeciles who adorned their faces with a diaper, found other avenues to hang out, kind of lonely and all, when morons distanced themselves six feet from each other, and now is back and on a terror.
Tennessee And Alabama Close Two Schools Due To Reported Resurgence In Covid Cases – via winepressnews.com
the following report is by the Daily Mail (excerpts):
Alabama and Tennessee announced the closure of two schools — affecting more than a thousand children — just days into the new academic year, with officials saying the virus had forced them to shut and carry out a ‘deep clean.’
Why on earth these clowns think they can defeat the elusive cornholio with a ‘deep clean’ is deeply laughable. No human efforts have extinguished this killer. It lives, it breathes, it has a mind of its own. It can even hibernate for a time, and then wake up and come back. A deep clean? Child’s play to the cornholio.
At one of the schools, children had to abandon their desks and revert to remote learning for two days — a move reminiscent of the early days of Covid.
The closures — both in Republican states — came despite a mountain of evidence suggesting they hamper children’s learning, social interactions and ability to develop natural immunity to common infections.
Hats off to these brave SCHOOL officials, disregarding all the evidence that showed past efforts of shutting down the schools created all sorts of havoc for the children. Being school officials, they know that this time, the same efforts used before that failed, will somehow magically be effective this time.
Johnson-Abernathy-Graetz (JAB) high school in Montgomery, Alabama, which has 1,500 students in grades 9 through 12, made the decision to switch to virtual classes just four days into its new academic year after 15 teachers caught Covid. There was no data on how many students were infected.
Staff and children were told to stay home on Wednesday, August 14 and Thursday, August 15 and attend lessons via remote learning while a deep clean was conducted in the school buildings.
The school has now re-opened with masks and disinfection wipes available in every classroom. Masks have not been made mandatory.
At Stigall Elementary, part of the Humboldt school system in western Tennessee, a one-day closure was announced just a week into the new term amid an ‘uptick’ in cases.
The 246 students through first grade had to stay home on Tuesday, August 13 as their school was cleaned, with parents forced to either skip work or hire a babysitter.
A spokesperson for the school did not reveal how many staff or children had tested positive, only saying they had recorded an ‘uptick.’ (emphasis added)
Brilliance! Sheer brilliance. Don’t divulge whether it was one or a thousand and one who tested positive. It keeps everyone in the dark and very, very afraid.
Jessica Williamson, a mother of a first grader at the school, told FOX13: ‘Everyone is like, “Covid is back, Covid is back.”
‘Those are little kids. They’re most prone to put things in their mouths, to touch each other, to just share germs.’
Teachers will now also be required to wipe down desks and desktop surfaces with disinfectant every time students move from class to class.
Masks have not been made mandatory, and no other pandemic-era policies — like social distancing — have been brought back.
Covid cases have increased across the US in recent weeks, thought to be driven by summer travel and gatherings.
Eighteen percent of swabs were positive for the virus in the week to August 17, the latest available — up 40 percent from a month earlier.
Well, when you continue to test your snot for the cornholio with a PCR test…that bit of plastic can find about anything in anybody.
The late Kary Mullis (who died in August 2019 right before covid-19 was declared) invented PCR to amplify DNA for study; he was very upset that it was being used to diagnose viral (HIV) infection. Mullis was adamant, as is evident in this clip, that it is not a diagnostic tool and not meant for testing, since “it doesn’t tell you that you’re sick and it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with really was going to hurt you or anything like that.” In fact, Mullis said, with PCR you can find almost anything in anybody.
But hey! This truth gets in the way of dainty bullshit beliefs. We can’t have it dancing around in people’s mind….because Covid is back, baby!
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Dispatches from the Asylum 