COVID-19 Megathread 6: Return of the Omicron

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New thread.

Old thread: https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=370528.0

[Virginiá]

The nation has moved on

Pretty much. Not that it's a good thing, but we've pretty much reached the point where people are no longer willing to give up their social lives for it. Although, and I say this as someone who lives in a staunchly Republican county, people are still wearing masks, even in places they aren't required. So at least all precautions aren't being abandoned.

[Virginiá]

Damn, it's like, I don't know, projection or something

https://twitter.com/dpakman/status/1330998265693802497

Literally incapable of imagining an opposition that doesn't think like you

[Virginiá]

https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/1338246411675119618

I think the issue here is less govt officials getting vaccine first = bad and more that the people Trump has surrounded himself with are so sleazy that it offends the senses to read that this group of political rejects and perennial grifters are getting the vaccines first just because they hitched a ride to the right traveling circus at the right time.

[Virginiá]

Just some cool COVID anime

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Iowa’s House speaker said he can’t make lawmakers wear masks — but he did enforce a ban on jeans

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/04/iowa-mask-jeans-house-speaker/

Iowa House Speaker Pat Grassley (R) has repeatedly pushed back against imposing a mask mandate inside the legislature, saying that he cannot force lawmakers to cover their faces — just as he cannot stop someone from voting on the House floor in their bathing suit.

But when one Democratic lawmaker attempted to speak during a floor debate on Tuesday — not in a bikini or one-piece but in jeans — Grassley called her out for violating the chamber’s dress code.

“You will not be recognized to speak for debate,” he told state Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (D), according to the Des Moines Register. “You can continue to vote from the floor.”

[Virginiá]

and we wonder why people are leaving the hospitality sector in droves

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1438889838112133120