Quarantine Diaries: Day 335
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Lancet editor says inequality and COVID-19 have converged to create a “syndemic”
Coronavirus Variant Spreading Rapidly Through U.S.
The coronavirus variant that shut down much of the United Kingdom is spreading rapidly across the United States, outcompeting other mutant strains and doubling its prevalence among confirmed infections every week and a half.
The coronavirus vaccines have shattered expectations
Oxford jab offers less S Africa variant protection
Kagan Warns the Supreme Court’s New COVID Decision May Kill People
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
Reddit bought a five-second Super Bowl spot celebrating GameStock
The Single Biggest Threat To Big Oil
Tesla invests $1.5 billion in BTC
Politics:
Does anyone else find it amusing that before Inauguration Day Trumpists were saying that Biden was a pawn of China (I even saw a YouTuber float a story that Biden, once inaugurated, would invite tens of thousands of PLA troops onto U.S. soil) but since Inauguration Day the new talking point is that warmonger Biden’s stance towards China is leading us to a kinetic confrontation? Thank you, Memory Hole!
Top Conservative Lawyer Says Trump Can Stand Trial
One of Washington’s leading conservative constitutional lawyers publicly broke on Sunday with the main Republican argument against convicting former President Donald J. Trump in his impeachment trial, asserting that an ex-president can indeed be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors.
In an opinion piece posted on The Wall Street Journal’s website, the lawyer, Charles J. Cooper, who is closely allied with top Republicans in Congress, dismissed as illogical the claim that it is unconstitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a former president.
Most Say Trump Should Be Convicted
Blinken Unwinds Trump-Era Migration Agreements
GOP registration drop after Capitol attack is part of larger trend
McCarthy told Cheney to apologize after impeachment vote
After Record 2020 Turnout, State Republicans Weigh Making It Harder To Vote
Cry me a river: What Became of Trump’s Election Dead-Enders
In the three months since the election was called for Joe Biden, most of the lawyers and MAGA enthusiasts who decided to play a consequential role in the ex-president’s efforts to overturn the Democratic nominee’s 2020 win (efforts that led directly to the Jan. 6 mob violence), have had their jobs or businesses shredded, their personal lives shaken, or their reputations irrevocably tarnished—all while Trump’s been relaxing and playing his rounds of golf in the Sunshine State. …
Of this band of MAGA allies (which most prominently included people like Rudy Giuliani, Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Jenna Ellis, Cleta Mitchell, John Eastman, and Peter Navarro), arguably none of them has lost more in the time since the election than Mike Lindell.
Republican Congressman Dies from Covid-19
Serendipity:
How the United States Lost to Hackers
Three decades ago, the United States spawned, then cornered, the market for hackers, their tradecraft, and their tools. But over the past decade, its lead has been slipping, and those same hacks have come boomeranging back on us. Yet no one in government has seriously paused to recalibrate the strategy.
America remains the world’s most advanced cyber superpower, but the hard truth, the one intelligence officials do not want to discuss, is that it is also its most targeted and vulnerable. … At this very moment, we are getting hacked from so many sides that it has become virtually impossible to keep track, let alone inform the average American reader who is trying to grasp a largely invisible threat that lives in code, written in language that most of us will never fully understand.
Medical Doctors Underline Potential Risk of iPhone 12 Interference With Pacemakers
Meme credit: CarterEvans2 (source)
Who needs The Walking Dead when we have this? The zombies have learned to type.