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Eric Schmitt (r) lays an egg

24 Tuesday Aug 2021

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Again.

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Today:

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
If you’ve been vaccinated and want to put on 6 masks outside by yourself or want your kids to wear a mask all day long — go for it — this is America, but stop using government to force other people to wear masks. #NoMaskMandates
1:29 PM · Aug 24, 2021

Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

Some of the responses:

Here is a third version: If you don’t smoke and don’t want your children to smoke — go for it — this is America, but stop using government to force other people where they can and can’t smoke.

Here is another version: If you’re sober and want to drive — go for it — this is America, but stop using government to force other people to drive sober.

Spend an hour in my sister’s shoes as an ICU nurse right now. See how much “freedom” Missourians have when they’re intubated. See how much “freedom” a heart attack or car accident patient has when they can’t get treatment because the ICU is full. Their blood is on your hands.

Anyone who doesn’t want their kids to wear a mask in school can home school then. The immaturity around simply wearing a mask is baffling and the ones who refuse to wear one are the reason the mandates are even necessary to begin with but they just don’t get it.

Why don’t you try to help?

Yeah government – stop forcing me to wear a seatbelt or have a license to drive a car! Stop forcing me to pay taxes! Stop forcing me to obey any rules I don’t like! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA I’m a special snowflake and I shouldn’t have to do anything I don’t want to!

Government has a role in ensuring the health and welfare of its citizens. (Speed limits, helmet laws, shirt and shoes in restaurants.) A mask should be a simple gesture but our society has become too selfish and local communities can and should step in for the greater good.

personal responsibility doesn’t work in public health emergencies. When your choices affect other people, especially when your choices can take someone else’s lives, it is not just the right, but the duty of government to take action.

Ok. My drivers license says I need to wear corrective lenses while I drive (for the safety of others), but fuck that. It violates my freedom!

Seat belts? Red lights? Childhood vaccinations? Where does this triumph of the selfish individual end? This is just cheap political pandering.

This is the price for living in a society. Living in a community. If you have no interest in humans don’t live in a society Eric.

Looking forward to your battle to free Cheesecake Factory grill cooks from the big government tyranny that requires them to wear ahoes and pants while preparing your dinner. Get big government out of our restaurants! Cooks have a right to fly their sweaty balls free

We wouldn’t have to if the GOP’s theory of personal responsibility actually resulted in people exercising their personal responsibility to protect my child. But they won’t. And neither will you apparently.

Freedom without responsibility is adolescence. It’s time to grow up.

This is political theater and you know it.

Just wait for the headline in Variety.

You have that personal freedoms until they infringe on others, when you go out unvaccinated and unmask you are a risk to others. We as a society mandate many things, from childhood vaccinations to seatbelts in the car. Join society and stop being selfish.

This is just political theatre. One last ditch attempt to save your career.

The show should close at intermission.

You don’t believe this. You’re better than this.

Apparently not.

Own goal

24 Tuesday Aug 2021

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It’s a habit.

Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

This morning, from Josh Hawley, floundering on social media:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
[….]
Here’s his plea from court. To you Antifa clowns out there, we’re not going to let you get away with this any more
[….]
10:02 AM · Aug 24, 2021

Some of the responses:

Why is your home address listed as Virgina and not MISSOURI?

Virginia? It’s the whole damn address. House number. Street name

He may as well drawn a directional map for Twitter

Look man, I know you don’t like law and order but it’s really dumb to tweet out your address like this if you’re trying to stop people from calling out a dumbass in person

You can put your home address out there if you want, but I’m still not sending you a Christmas card.

Can you please provide a picture of his Antifa membership card because I think he was just a guy that disagreed with you.

Also, Vienna, is that a Missouri town?

It’s pronounced differently in Missouri. I spent a week there one day.

So you live in Virginia?

Best,

Your MISSOURI Constituent

Hmm…never realized the abbreviation for Missouri was “VA.” How about that?

Weird. Your home address is for Virginia? I thought you represented my state of Missouri. You should probably just give up your seat to someone that actually lives here.

And:

Danny Stark @dstark86
My senator tweeted out his address and I’d love to go protest outside his home but we don’t live in the same state
12:17 PM · Aug 24, 2021

There’s that.

We are all doomed

23 Monday Aug 2021

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This morning:

Dennis Newberry – Mayor of Lake Ozark
A dear friend of mine [….] is in a Central MO hospital with Covid. [….] is the owner of [….] MO. I have known him for over 30 years. He keeps his boat at a marina here in Lake Ozark. As a hail merry pass I have procured some “ivermectin” for him and will be driving it to him today. Please pray for cooperation from his caregivers and Hospital admin to allow his loved ones and friends to step in and assist with his life. If we do nothing his life will surely be taken from his 18 year old son, his family and friends. I need your prayers and comments to attempt to gain favor with the powers to be. Thank you!

Some of the comments:

When I first started reading your post I thought it was satire. If you’re serious, when you get to the hospital with your Ivermevtin check your friend out and treat him at home. Save the hospital bed for the patients that are going to let the medical professionals treat them.

“A dear friend of mine is in hospital where he is being treated by medical professionals with decades of education and experience between them. But I’m going to try and give him horse deworming meds because some guy on the internet said it was a good idea.”
If Americans had been like you in 1775, my people would still be running your country because you’d have been convinced that running into musket fire was a cure for pimples.

I thought this was a joke. This was not a joke. Holy hell and “hail ‘merry!’” Bring on the farm animal meds for the unvaccinated fools around the county.

He should be transferred immediately to Lake Ozark veterinary. Call and get him transported right away.

Let me push all the actual trained and board certified physicians that spent 10+ years in school for this exact thing out of the way to administer a drug proven not to work. Way to go mayor. You are an embarrassment to Missouri.

I really hope that your friend pulls through and feel for his family.
But no matter what any of our beliefs or disagreements are, it seems like a very odd choice to post this publicly on your elected official page, instead of your personal.
Your post even had a warning attached to it.
By sharing this, you’re publicly condoning a treatment that isn’t approved, and that most doctors consider to be ineffective and dangerous.
I think many of us are also wondering, how you got a prescription med to give to another person? What doctor or vet did such a thing with no examination or anything?
I hope that at the very least the medicine is given to the man’s doctors and the administration of it is left up to them.
I also assume that this friend did not get the vaccine or it seems like you would have mentioned it. So if you’re going to publicly share the information that you’ve gotten an unapproved/possibly dangerous medication to give to someone else, it would be helpful to also let those people know if his level of illness is perhaps due to his not having the vaccine, or in spite of having it.
My guess is that if it were the latter, you’d have said as much.
That’s the information that would be an appropriate PSA for the people of your city. Not the whole “If you’ve got friends in high places you can get things others can’t get, even if it’s not approved. And PS I’m totally condoning this med regardless of scientists and healthcare professionals saying it’s dangerous.”
This is just a crazy thing for a mayor to post.

On the downside you’re committing a felony. But on the positive he at least won’t die of worms.

Do you help with surgeries too? I’m envisioning you showin’ up at your Great Aunt Lucy’s gallbladder surgery with one of your steak knives and some screencaps from YouTube.

Killing my friends and then being sued by his family to own the libs

All the people claiming your doctor supports this treatment: post their name and office phone number, so we can call and verify. I don’t believe any of you.

Y’all don’t know me, and have no reason to trust me, but I humbly ask you all to not give your friends and family animal medicine for treatment. Please don’t do this.

“A realtor-turned-mayor took it upon himself to obtain a drug that is indicated to treat heartworm in large farm animals to give to a guy who was severely ill due to COVID-19, after warnings from the FDA, WHO, and local emergency medicine physicians are urging the public to refrain from taking this medication, as it is causing hundreds of hospitalizations across the US.”
Turn the car around, man. You’re not even driving in your own lane.

Welcome to Missouri.

Previously:

Meanwhile, this is Missouri (July 5, 2021)

If you want to be treated with leeches and bleeding you’re going to have to invent time travel or find someone on the Internets (July 26, 2021)

FDA grants full approval of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine

23 Monday Aug 2021

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No more excuses.

This morning, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration:

FDA NEWS RELEASE

FDA Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine
Approval Signifies Key Achievement for Public Health

For Immediate Release:
August 23, 2021

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals.

“The FDA’s approval of this vaccine is a milestone as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. While this and other vaccines have met the FDA’s rigorous, scientific standards for emergency use authorization, as the first FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine, the public can be very confident that this vaccine meets the high standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality the FDA requires of an approved product,” said Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, M.D. “While millions of people have already safely received COVID-19 vaccines, we recognize that for some, the FDA approval of a vaccine may now instill additional confidence to get vaccinated. Today’s milestone puts us one step closer to altering the course of this pandemic in the U.S.”

Since Dec. 11, 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine has been available under EUA in individuals 16 years of age and older, and the authorization was expanded to include those 12 through 15 years of age on May 10, 2021. EUAs can be used by the FDA during public health emergencies to provide access to medical products that may be effective in preventing, diagnosing, or treating a disease, provided that the FDA determines that the known and potential benefits of a product, when used to prevent, diagnose, or treat the disease, outweigh the known and potential risks of the product.

FDA-approved vaccines undergo the agency’s standard process for reviewing the quality, safety and effectiveness of medical products. For all vaccines, the FDA evaluates data and information included in the manufacturer’s submission of a biologics license application (BLA). A BLA is a comprehensive document that is submitted to the agency providing very specific requirements. For Comirnaty, the BLA builds on the extensive data and information previously submitted that supported the EUA, such as preclinical and clinical data and information, as well as details of the manufacturing process, vaccine testing results to ensure vaccine quality, and inspections of the sites where the vaccine is made. The agency conducts its own analyses of the information in the BLA to make sure the vaccine is safe and effective and meets the FDA’s standards for approval.

Comirnaty contains messenger RNA (mRNA), a kind of genetic material. The mRNA is used by the body to make a mimic of one of the proteins in the virus that causes COVID-19. The result of a person receiving this vaccine is that their immune system will ultimately react defensively to the virus that causes COVID-19. The mRNA in Comirnaty is only present in the body for a short time and is not incorporated into – nor does it alter – an individual’s genetic material. Comirnaty has the same formulation as the EUA vaccine and is administered as a series of two doses, three weeks apart.

“Our scientific and medical experts conducted an incredibly thorough and thoughtful evaluation of this vaccine. We evaluated scientific data and information included in hundreds of thousands of pages, conducted our own analyses of Comirnaty’s safety and effectiveness, and performed a detailed assessment of the manufacturing processes, including inspections of the manufacturing facilities,” said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “We have not lost sight that the COVID-19 public health crisis continues in the U.S. and that the public is counting on safe and effective vaccines. The public and medical community can be confident that although we approved this vaccine expeditiously, it was fully in keeping with our existing high standards for vaccines in the U.S.”

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If you haven’t already done so, get vaccinated.

Wear a damn mask while you’re at it.

This morning in St. Charles County, Missouri

23 Monday Aug 2021

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No surprise.

KMOV @KMOV
St. Charles County parents to send kids to school without face coverings to protest mask policy

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St. Charles County parents to send kids to school without face coverings to protest mask policy
Some parents with students in a St. Charles County school district plan to protest a mask policy on the first day of school.
kmov.com

5:39 AM · Aug 23, 2021

Some of the responses:

Nothing like using their kids as pawn in what shouldn’t be a game.

And not just their kids.

Lost all faith in humanity.

What the??????

Endangering their children to own the libs.

And not just their children.

A comment with a retweet:

Nothing says “I care about my kid” like using them as a po[i]ltical prop, doing everything you can to make them as unsafe as possible, and making them an outcast on day 1 of school. Can we charge these hateful idiots with child endangerment yet?

Eric, it’s who you are now

20 Friday Aug 2021

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Jason Kander (D) [2013 file photo].

Jason Kander @JasonKander
I was once a statewide elected official who aspired to be a United States Senator. It’s no longer what I want, but there was a time when I wanted it badly.

I was even suffering from an undiagnosed, untreated psychological disorder at the time.

Yet I never wanted it this badly.
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11:14 AM · Aug 20, 2021

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Jason Kander @JasonKander
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For context: I know Eric, and I know he doesn’t believe any of this crap.
11:17 AM · Aug 20, 2021

Some of the responses:

Which IMHO it is worse. He’s willing to put people in harm’s way not because he believes something that is false or harmful but because it is the way to win an election. Willing to weaponize this rhetoric for his own gain. Sick

The voters he and other Rs are courting are fed a constant stream of propaganda that is becoming more and more unhinged. Anger that’s been stoked over masks/vaccines/basic public health are rising and will spill over into violence. This shit is wildly irresponsible.

He’s got to out-pander Greitens if he wants to get into the Senate.

Do the ones who know better actually feel no sense of responsibility for highly-likely serious and deadly consequences of their purposeful misdirection?

No. Ths has been another edition of short answers to simple questions.

The fact that he will say this crap and it will actually EARN him votes is then not only dangerous and disgusting, but disingenuous. A little honesty, integrity and love for one’s family and neighbors goes a long way. At least it should.

That’s the scary part. These performative culture war outbursts are getting people killed.

intellectual dishonesty is disqualifying.

And that’s what makes it worse.

And on and on…

Previously:

No civilization (August 20, 2021)

No civilization

20 Friday Aug 2021

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Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Last night:

Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt
No mask mandates. No lockdowns. No vaccine passports.
8:25 PM · Aug 19, 2021

We can all then live in Eric Schmitt’s anti-science libertarian paradise. Wouldn’t that be so much fun?

Some of the responses:

You forgot the conclusion: No end to the pandemic.

Well said return to true freedom besides I can’t breath hear when I’m.forced to wear a dam mask it’s a struggle for me. And I’m forced to ask people to repeat themselves because I can’t hear!! please put yourself in my shoes before you comment.

When you are dead you don’t have to worry about hearing anything.

Eric! Stop it! You’re purging your own voter rolls!

No thinking.

You are wrong. You threaten my life. You threaten the lives of children.
I will support establishments with mask mandates & passports.

No sense.

No Schmitt in the Senate.

No brain cells.

No Brains. Do you see what’s happening in Florida and Texas?

No brains.

You forgot one. No care for other human lives.

There’s more. Some from those who aren’t particularly concerned with humanity.