The AstraZeneca's vaccine, developed by Oxford, has been approved in some Commonwealth countries and is expected to be blessed in Europe shortly. Its trials were a mess but the open issue was efficacy, not safety.
One suggestion was that the FDA should act as if this is an emergency, trust the Brits, and approve the vaccine. I like that idea! Sadly, AstraZeneca is having production issues, so they probably couldn't provide much relief to the US in the near term.
Silly TM. Rona is over. Biden is in charge now so we don't have to pretend anymore.
Posted by: Porchlight | January 26, 2021 at 11:08 AM
India is pumping out tens of millions of AstraZeneca doses and countering China by giving millions to other countries in the region.
China has shipped a lousy 1.5 million doses to The Philippines.
Xi was busy blowing kumbaya smoke up the Davos crowd's collective asses while his fighter planes were harassing Taiwan.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | January 26, 2021 at 11:13 AM
Willowed
https://mobile.twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1354064243746869249
Posted by: Narciso | January 26, 2021 at 11:15 AM
Porch any feedback
Posted by: Narciso | January 26, 2021 at 11:16 AM
Cinchona is the raw source of hcq available on three continents but theres no money in non patent therapeutics.
Posted by: Narciso | January 26, 2021 at 11:21 AM
TM, it matters little what vaccines are available. Biden’s top down approach, led by 48th in the nation Palm, will fail to deliver any.
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2021 at 11:24 AM
Well there is that
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/22/heres-the-full-list-of-every-lie-joe-biden-has-told-as-president/#.YBA8M9tGzPg.facebook
Posted by: Narciso | January 26, 2021 at 11:25 AM
So were an armed camp out of the hunger games, a cuban regime agent is overseeing foggy bottom, theres a digital bloc committee on beta test, we need more of that moderation.
Posted by: Narciso | January 26, 2021 at 11:31 AM
Virginia court says don’t do it again... three months after the election. No penalties.. No recount. Not even a concerned memo to a personnel file. Just cya bullshit by a judge.
Unpossible. Dudley Doright with an eyepatch, Dan Crenshaw, promised that after he rescues Little Nell Cheney from us eeeeevil conservatives he will fix all of this.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 26, 2021 at 11:35 AM
We don't need a vaccine. We can just wear 7 masks for the rest of our lives, which won't be long.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 26, 2021 at 11:44 AM
The Virginia Board of Elections rule allowing officials to count ballots that arrived without a postmark up to three days after the election was illegal, a state judge ruled.
Virginia Circuit Court Judge William Eldridge ruled the state’s late mail-in ballot law violated state statute and permanently banned the law in future Virginia elections, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) announced Monday. PILF sued the state’s board of elections in October on behalf of Thomas Reed, a Frederick County, Virginia election official.
https://publicinterestlegal.org/blog/virginia-abandons-policy-to-accept-late-ballots-without-postmarks/
Posted by: Neo | January 26, 2021 at 11:46 AM
Wasn't there a story yesterday about the Brits having a nasal spray that prevents infection? About ready for sale they said.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2021 at 11:49 AM
Silly me. I forgot that the masks, and how many, are simply a device to track submission to the State.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2021 at 11:51 AM
The appalachian hikers scribe
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-and-the-failure-of-the-expert-class-11611341116?st=7glcm39y9seerc7&reflink=article_imessage_share
Posted by: Narciso | January 26, 2021 at 11:53 AM
Any time I go into a building with a mask on, it makes my glasses fog up because exhaled air seems to rise and go up my face and behind my glasses. Doesn't matter if it's a cloth mask or the disposable ones.
I can only imagine 2 masks. I probably would be stumbling around blindly within seconds.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | January 26, 2021 at 11:55 AM
Given his penchant for unboggling govt actions from the NYC ice skating rink on,, smart folks would put Trump in charge of vaccine distribution .
Posted by: clarice | January 26, 2021 at 12:09 PM
Bo Snerdley
@BoSnerdley
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Godiva closing all US stores after drop in visits due to COVID-19 https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/535872-godiva-closing-all-us-stores-after-drop-in-visits-due-to-covid#.YBBJ4oMsqHs.twitter
>><> Thank you China.
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Important points:
1. 128 brick-and-mortar stores closing in US due to drop in in-person sales
2. They will release no further details, including number of jobs ost
3. They will keep stores open in Europe, the Middle East, and China
Posted by: MissMarple2 | January 26, 2021 at 12:11 PM
Very sharp ape:
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=392317
Posted by: Narciso | January 26, 2021 at 12:20 PM
2 masks. Perhaps the GUBMINT could come up with ONE that does the job.
Posted by: GUS | January 26, 2021 at 12:26 PM
Just a symbol, Gus. And two is twice the symbol.
Had he thought of it, Hitler might have made Hasidic Jews wear two yellow starts, and just everyday Jews only the one.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2021 at 12:29 PM
This leads to “overcrowding under COVID rules” so all felons go free. Urban murder rate can still go up... approach Mexico levels.
@cnbc
BREAKING: Biden to order DOJ to end private prison contracts as part of racial equity push
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2021 at 12:35 PM
MM2. Godiva's loss is to the peoples benefit. The people will take over the 128 stores, and finally, everyone will be able to enjoy the taste of the peoples chocolate.
Posted by: Davod | January 26, 2021 at 12:38 PM
Tough approach to China, sure. He’ll break all the China he can find by throwing it people that upset Xi.
@WSJ
Antony Blinken was confirmed as U.S. secretary of state in a 78-22 Senate vote, after offering assurances he would preserve a tough approach to China
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2021 at 01:04 PM
What do private prisons have to do with “racial equity”?
Posted by: Jane | January 26, 2021 at 01:04 PM
Nice try.
The British socialiate also says her Consitutional rights were violated by being indicted by a grand jury that was drawn from a pool that did not have enough Blacks and Hispanics.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/26/ghislaine-maxwell-seeks-jeffrey-epstein-sex-case-dismissal.html
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2021 at 01:06 PM
Space tourism gets a start... it helps to be a rich leftist.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/26/axiom-space-unveils-ax-1-crew-for-fully-private-spacex-mission-to-iss.html
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2021 at 01:10 PM
"The Office of the Former President" - that's a world class troll, right there.
Removing one of the most prominent Dem presidents in history, Andy Jackson, from the $20 bill and replacing him with a gun totin ' Republican, Harriet Tubman - that's a world class own
goaltroll, right there.Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | January 26, 2021 at 01:12 PM
This is a better account of the filibuster battle.
https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-wins-filibuster-battle-primary-pressure-builds-chuck-schumer-1564352
Posted by: jim nj | January 26, 2021 at 01:25 PM
Fink wants people in equity funds, not individual stocks. ESG helps him (apparently) as will whoever Xiden puts in charge of the CFPB. If a few institutions control all the corporations, they can bundle their power with the government and strip American savings for China (while they keep a percentage).
Corporate / government bundles... makes we want to eat spaghetti for some reason.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chart-explains-larry-fink-green-agenda
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2021 at 01:30 PM
All that’s missing is that light, Ghillarducci touch.
Posted by: Melinda | January 26, 2021 at 01:34 PM
Ooops. Fiber line cut in Brooklyn, takes out east coast internet.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/remote-workers-robinhoodrs-routed-critical-internet-services-suffer-major-east-coast-outage
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2021 at 01:35 PM
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 26, 2021 at 01:40 PM
Henry, and the more corporations are owned by Funds of Funds, they are owned less by little old ladies who attend S'holder meetings and vote.
Among the downside of that is that the folks running the funds, and the folks running the corporations can conspire to agree that all executives such as themselves deserve to be paid gazillions per year no matter what.
After THAT, then of course on to your point that they can all be woke together.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2021 at 01:41 PM
New thread.
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2021 at 01:45 PM
OL, pension funds (controlled by woke politicians) already vote woke execs into power.
Posted by: henry | January 26, 2021 at 01:46 PM
Digest this, then go on to delinquent Mortgage Payments. After THAT, move over to commercial and retail markets...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/nearly-20percent-of-renters-in-america-are-behind-on-their-payments.html
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 26, 2021 at 01:48 PM
That ZH piece ignored the real camel's nose that Fink owns, it's the Aladdin system. $25-30T AUM.
Posted by: Melinda | January 26, 2021 at 01:48 PM
Susan Rice is rich, and criminal. And bLACK.
Posted by: GUS | January 26, 2021 at 01:48 PM
Link to new:
https://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2021/01/languishing-in-twitter-jail-and-pondering-algorithms-run-wild.html
Posted by: Account Deleted | January 26, 2021 at 03:07 PM