Many coworkers who had the vaccinations missed time at work due to symptoms - nearly half of my coworkers, about 1/3 of my wife's coworkers.  The consensus was that it took about 8-12 hours for symptoms to be noticed, they tended to last about 36 hours, so people with symptoms usually felt better after two days.  (My wife's team works 4-day weeks in a hospital, and their vaccinations were scheduled by their department - so more of them were sick on their own time.  My team is not direct-patient-care, and is spread over 8 states in 4 time zones, so we got "leftover" vaccination slots whenever they were available.  I was offered slots on Sundays and Mondays.)

Whatever happens this is the conversation we should be having.

Romney and Cotton Propose Minimum Wage Hike

February 23, 2021 at 11:47 am EST By Taegan Goddard 19 Comments

Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) are proposing to raise the federal minimum wage to $10, but only if businesses are required to use the internet-based E-Verify system designed to prevent employers from hiring undocumented workers, USA Today reports.

"Although the measure which was unveiled Tuesday morning is unlikely to go far in a Democratic Congress pushing for a $15 minimum wage, the bill from Romney and Cotton represents the most serious Republican proposal yet on an issue that has emerged as a key priority for progressive leaders."

Imagine the worst happens and it's 10.  Imagine what it would mean for all those people.

Police drop charge against Black teen who was walking on Plano street during snowstorm

There should have been no charges to drop. Walking home from work while black gets you arrested now? In Plano, TX. The Chief of Police's statement is pure BS.

From HuffPo article. "Drain backed his officers, stating that at the time of the arrest they didn't know Reese's age, where he worked or where he lived."

Pure unadulterated BS. The kid literally pointed to his house and said I'm going home. I live right there. Watch the body cam. This was a confrontation completely instigated by the cops. The kid said he was fine, he didn't their help and was headed home from work. End of conversation. But no, not in the good ol USA. We got to exercise our authoriteh.

Hawley asked the former Sgt at Arms and the former Chief of the Capitol Police, who were relieved of their duties, if they were complicit as has been reported to have been said by General Honore.who Speaker Pelosi has appointed to investigate the insurrectionist event.  Both said no--not complicit.  Hawley proclaimed, see not complicit.  General Honore is not fit, he concluded, to investigate anything.

I've seen all the series except Ratched.  It's a good group but it might be Ozark.

also

"I didn't vote to overturn an election. And I will not be lectured by people who did about partisanship."

-- Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) in a confrontation with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during today's House Oversight Committee hearing.

Of all Trumps crimes politicizing masks is the the most stupidly cruel.    And I would like to say a word for Chopped Liver.  On Trumps best day he does not deserve to be compared to Chopped Liver.

Also Corona virus is not the most dangerous virus going around.  That would be stupidity.

"By the thousands, U.S. service members are refusing or putting off the Covid-19 vaccine as frustrated commanders scramble to knock down internet rumors and find the right pitch that will persuade troops to get the shot," the AP reports.

"Some Army units are seeing as few as one-third agree to the vaccine."

Supposedly they thaw enough shots to cover all their appointments for the day, but some appointments don't show up and instead of just throwing the vaccines in the garbage they give it to whoever shows up.

"Drug companies planned to tell lawmakers Tuesday that they project a major increase in vaccine deliveries that will result in 140 million more doses over the next five weeks, saying they have solved manufacturing challenges and are in a position to overcome scarcity that has hampered the nation's fight against the coronavirus," the Washington Post reports.

IMO it's one of the best things ever on TV

Two TV gems, The Knick and Banshee, are finally on HBO Max this weekend

"After much prayer and reflection, Bonnie and I have decided that we will not enter the race for US senate in 2022".

And, unmentioned was, in the interim, a golf outing and dinner at Mar a Lago with the "former guy".  It is not known if Bonnie joined the festivities.

Senate Democrats are readying to pass President Biden's infrastructure package through the budget reconciliation process, a recognition they're unlikely to get much Republican support for a potential $2 trillion package.

Why it matters: The current $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus package, the first of the Democrats' three potential chances to use reconciliation, could be the easiest.

The Manhattan District Attorney's office has now obtained former President Donald Trump's tax returns and related records, CNN reports.

The records include "millions of pages of documents."

Jeralyn: "I was shocked that 293 people left Denver on one plane to go to Hawaii this weekend. What were they thinking?"

Many of those passengers were probably thinking the same thing, when United Flt. 1176's starboard engine cowling failed and broke off from the aircraft a few minutes after takeoff from DEN. (Correction: the passenger load was 239, not 293.) The B-777 aircraft safely returned to DEN, and the FAA ordered all airlines to ground that model until they can be inspected.

The only airliner mishap I've ever experienced was at Sacramento Int'l Airport in 2004, when the Hawaiian B-767 I was on struck a flock of Canada geese on our early morning takeoff roll down the runway in the fog. We could hear the birds loudly strike the port-side wing, and the pilot immediately throttled back and braked hard.

Our aircraft was towed back to the terminal, and a preliminary inspection by Boeing engineers who were flown down from Seattle subsequently determined six hours later that the plane should be grounded pending further inspection.

So while some of us were rebooked on flights to L.A. to make connecting flights to Honolulu, I was one of the lucky 50 passengers who were put on a motorcoach and bussed 100 miles down to San Francisco Int'l Airport to catch a late evening flight. I finally got home nearly 17 hours late but hey, it really could've been worse.

"Former President Trump's actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty."

Mitch now:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday he would "absolutely" support former President Donald Trump if he became the GOP presidential nominee in 2024

Former Speaker John Boehner has been drinking red wine and smoking cigarettes while recording the audio version of his memoir.John Boehner has been going off script while recording the audio version of his new memoir, using expletives and asides not in the book -- such as the former Republican House speaker saying, 'Oh, and Ted Cruz, go f*ck yourself,

It's not Roland Emmerichs worst movie.  That would be 2012 but it's some pretty silly stuff.

But there was one central idea that is not silly at all.  It's something environmentalists have been warning about for decades.  

so why would we be surprised in the age of Trump and Covid that it's actually happening.

An influential current system in the Atlantic Ocean, which plays a vital role in redistributing heat throughout our planet's climate system, is now moving more slowly than it has in at least 1,600 years. That's the conclusion of a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience from some of the world's leading experts in this field.

Scientists believe that part of this slowing is directly related to our warming climate, as melting ice alters the balance in northern waters. Its impact may be seen in storms, heat waves and sea-level rise. And it bolsters concerns that if humans are not able to limit warming, the system could eventually reach a tipping point, throwing global climate patterns into disarray.

John Durham, the federal prosecutor who Attorney General William Barr assigned to investigate possible criminal wrongdoing in Robert Mueller's Russia probe, announced he was resigning.

A sitting member of Congress appeared at a white nationalist convention Friday night, marking new GOP support for the racist movement. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) spoke in Orlando, Florida, at the America First Political Action conference, a far-right event meant to mimic the establishment Republican Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

After Gosar's speech, AFPAC organizer Nick Fuentes, who marched in the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville and was outside the Capitol with his supporters during the Jan. 6 riot, took the podium that warned that "white people are done being bullied." Fuentes praised the fatal riot as "awesome," describing it as "light-hearted mischief." He also mocked Gosar's colleague, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), for needing a wheelchair, saying Cawthorn couldn't "stand up" for his constituents.

"`I'm gonna take a stand?'" Fuentes said. "How? How are you gonna do that?"

Her ranting and victimhood appeared to be based on some anecdotal impressions, or "from the school", I.e., from some parents.  And, lots of whataboutism. Lou Dobbs and Don Lemon/Rachel Maddow the same just different ends of the spectrum.  Maher timidly pushed back as false equivalency, Dobbs living in a alternate reality. Kelly said she was not sure of that.  Bill was too ill-informed or lazy to do more. Not even that one side and not the other engaged in a violent attempt to overthrow democracy.

Maher continues his disdain and impatience with COVID public health measures.  This disservice seems to be based on his restriction and monetary loss from not having his stand-up performances around the country.

According to USA Today, Trump will say Biden has had "the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history."

"White House officials have said neither they nor Biden plan to comment much on Trump's speech because they expect to be busy working."

I'm not sure I ever heard of this.  Maybe I did but I never saw it.  It turned up on one of Slings "odd" channels.  It's one of my favorite things about Sling.  Several channels that show completely off the map or forgotten stuff.

I love this was shot in 3D   3D sometimes make me sick to my stomach but I would like to see it.

it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen

What a gift Werner Herzog offers with "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," an inside look at the astonishing Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc -- and in 3-D too. In southern France, about 400 miles from Paris, the limestone cave contains a wealth of early paintings, perhaps from as long ago as 32,000 years. Here, amid gleaming stalactites and stalagmites and a carpet of animal bones, beautiful images of horses gallop on walls alongside bison and a ghostly menagerie of cave lions, cave bears and woolly mammoths. Multiple red palm prints of an early artist adorn one wall, as if to announce the birth of the first auteur.

Surely there were other, previous artists -- those who first picked up a bit of charcoal, say, and scraped it on a stone -- but the Chauvet paintings are among the earliest known. The cave was discovered in December 1994 by three French cavers, Jean-Marie Chauvet, Éliette Brunel Deschamps and Christian Hillaire. Following an air current coming from the cliff, they dug and crawled their way into the cave, which had been sealed tight for some 20,000 years. After finally making their way to an enormous chamber, Ms. Deschamps held up her lamp and, seeing an image of a mammoth, cried out, "They were here," a glorious moment of discovery that closed the distance between our lost human past and our present.

Still, the dullness of the first two hours is meant to ground the outlandishness of the last two and it largely works. Frank and Sawyer's respective stories are poignant and muted enough that when tawdry aspects like Marshall's interest in castration -- again tied to his repressed homosexuality -- come into play, the conversation is disturbing, but less driven by shock value than you might fear. While bits and pieces that the media latched onto after the suicides are touched on and maybe explained, Tweel doesn't wallow, and there will absolutely be details you'll want to learn more about that are either ignored or glossed over.

So Graham starts talking about lists.

"The moderate Alaska Republican's vote is `fluid' at the moment, said Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-SD). Murkowski met with Tanden on Monday and said she has more follow-up questions, and Thune said Murkowski also has bigger concerns about her home state of Alaska."

I would guess your calculation would assume even distribution nation wide.  That is far from what is happening.  Everyone I know, in other places including this blog, is getting shots.   People way younger than 69 and healthy.

This area, and many others, is not getting the supply that more populated areas are getting.  

I talked to two pharmacies yesterday.   They both said another month and a half of "70 and above" then they will let me know.

I just called again about teachers.  She said yes, it will mean delay for me.

Also, about the possible mass vaccination sites.

but if you scroll down to the line graph of "new cases per day"

You can gather indoors with unvaccinated people from one other household, e.g., visiting with relatives who all live together, without masks, unless any of those people or anyone they live with has an increased risk for severe illness from Covid.

If you have been around someone who has Covid-19, you do not need to stay away from others or get tested unless you have symptoms.