Odds and Ends, 9/4/21

In der news.

Happy Labor Day Weekend.

I do not mean the following to be offensive to anyone but given what people are saying online, I need to be brutally honest.

When full-blooded wops look at, say, Giuliani and Scalise, they think to themselves, "they're one of us." When they look at Bongino, they think "racially mixed" and when they look at Tirico, they think, "Black."

An Italian surname and public pronouncements mean nothing. Broncato has an Italian surname and publicly claims to be Italian (when interviewed by Franzese, he baldly claimed "I'm Sicilian") - conveniently omitting that he is adopted and is of Columbian ethnicity.

Italian paternal heritage isn't enough. Roy Campanella, who somewhat resembled Tirico, had an Italian-American father, but his mother was Black (whether or not anyone described her as white as a kitchen appliance, I do not know).

Some honesty:

Let me start by saying that I am no genealogist. I couldn’t tell you what blood runs through Mike Tirico’s veins, but I can tell you what my grandfather, who also was not a genealogist, would say about Tirico’s claim of being Italian:

“That dark-ass black boy needs to go sit his ass down somewhere in a dark-ass corner until he finds himself.”

I know a black nose when I see one. I have one. It protrudes off my face like a calling card to the ancestors. It is the first noticeable thing that makes it clear at least one of my parents is black. Tirico is black. He is blacker than a Caprice Classic sitting on dubs parked outside a wig/barbecue/fish-fry/church/liquor store. He’s blacker than a Jack and Jill cotillion. He’s blacker than syrup sandwiches. He’s blacker than Slick Rick’s eye patch."

Five more lies from Gab, and the truth:

1. The virus does not spread asymptomatically.

Truth: See this. 

2. We should never test asymptomatic people.

Truth: See # 1.

3. Natural immunity is robust, complete, and durable.

Truth: See this.  

4. COVID-19 is easily treatable with a multi-drug early treatment.

Truth, not so easily treatable.

5. The current vaccines are obsolete, unsafe, and unfit for human use.

Truth: See this.   

GAB IS OPENLY LYING TO YOU ABOUT THE ISRAELI DATA, See this:

Objectives

The mRNA coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines have shown high effectiveness in the prevention of symptomatic COVID-19, hospitalization, severe disease and death. Nevertheless, a minority of vaccinated individuals might become infected and experience significant morbidity. Characteristics of vaccine breakthrough infections have not been studied. We sought to portray the population of Israeli patients, who were hospitalized with COVID-19 despite full vaccination.

Methods

A retrospective multicentre cohort study of 17 hospitals included patients fully vaccinated with Pfizer/BioNTech's BNT162b2 vaccine who developed COVID-19 more than 7 days after the second vaccine dose and required hospitalization. The risk for poor outcome, defined as a composite of mechanical ventilation or death, was assessed.

Results

A total of 152 patients were included, accounting for half of hospitalized fully vaccinated patients in Israel. Poor outcome was noted in 38 patients and mortality rate reached 22% (34/152). Notably, the cohort was characterized by a high rate of co-morbidities predisposing to severe COVID-19, including hypertension (108; 71%), diabetes (73; 48%), congestive heart failure (41; 27%), chronic kidney and lung diseases (37; 24% each), dementia (29; 19%) and cancer (36; 24%), and only six (4%) had no co-morbidities. Sixty (40%) of the patients were immunocompromised. Higher viral load was associated with a significant risk for poor outcome. Risk also appeared higher in patients receiving anti-CD20 treatment and in patients with low titres of anti-Spike IgG, but these differences did not reach statistical significance.

Conclusions

We found that severe COVID-19 infection, associated with a high mortality rate, might develop in a minority of fully vaccinated individuals with multiple co-morbidities. Our patients had a higher rate of co-morbidities and immunosuppression compared with previously reported non-vaccinated hospitalized individuals with COVID-19. Further characterization of this vulnerable population may help to develop guidance to augment their protection, either by continued social distancing, or by additional active or passive vaccinations.

See this.

"There's been talk," Loff began, "about Scutari. Some of the guys have been questioning his race. He's Italian, and there's some who don't think he should be with us. His complexion is dark, and he's got a rather big nose." 

Mathews chuckled over that. Of all the people in the group at this point, Scutari was about the only one on whom Mathews felt he could totally depend. 

"Well, the reason I brought it up, Bob," Loff went on, "is that I'm Italian. I want to know where we stand on this. Am I the next one they'll talk about?" 

"Don't worry about a thing, Ken," Bob replied. "You're one of my most loyal friends and I have absolute trust in you. And Mr. Black, he's my right arm."

But, remember, if you say that there is an ethnic affirmative action policy in Der Movement, you are “insane” and a “paranoid piece of crap.”