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What was the “science” that led the CDC to suddenly change its quarantine guidance?

Until yesterday, people who tested positive were asked to isolate for 10 days. As of yesterday, people who test positive are asked to isolate for five days and then — if they have no symptoms — to mask up for the next five days if they plan to be around other people.

Hmmmmm…. Former Trump surgeon general advises public to ignore recent CDC guidance

“I love the CDC. Grew up wanting to work there and have been one of their most ardent defenders. I never dreamed the day would come when I would advise people NOT to follow their guidance,” Adams said in a tweet.

Oh Oh! – As the United States cuts isolation time for asymptomatic COVID cases in half, scientists are worried that business is being put above health.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

WTF?

We have a mental health crisis in this country pic.twitter.com/Li7bPWVSBk

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 28, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•WTF?

7 Biggest Woke Box Office Busts of 2021

“Everything woke turns to shit,” former President Donald Trump said this year. Nowhere is this more true than in Hollywood, where the public’s rejection of woke movies can be measured in the tens of millions of dollars that studios are losing at the box office.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•Hollywood

Europe needs to step up to deter Russia in Ukraine

The Ukraine crisis should be a wake-up call for European nations to boost defense spending and finally take seriously France’s calls for European strategic autonomy. And yes, Americans should cheer them on.

Presently, Europe is heavily dependent on decisions made in Washington regarding whether or how to counter the Russian threat, largely because they lack the collective military heft to deal with Russia on their own. Washington, however, has good reason to dither; few have any appetite for a war with Russia, or for “dying for Kyiv.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•Europe, Russia, Ukraine, USA

Why New Yorkers are fleeing to Texas and Florida in droves

He’s no longer in an Empire State of mind.

NYC native Dimitri Voutsinas left the Big Apple for Austin, Texas, in June 2021 — and has no regrets.

“I don’t miss it at all … it felt empty and just a shell of what it was,” said Voutsinas, 37, a chef who had to close his restaurant, Otaku Katsu on the Lower East Side, in October 2020. “Nobody was coming out. Nobody was ordering anymore. It was a disaster.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise"

Should the Late Bishop Tutu Get a Statue?

At a time when the statues of good people who had done bad things are being torn down, the world must reckon with the mixed legacy of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, even in the immediate aftermath of his death.

He was among the world’s most respected figures. His recognizable face—with its ever-present grin—has become a symbol of reconciliation and goodness. But it masks a long history of ugly hatred toward the Jewish people, the Jewish religion and the Jewish state. He not only believed in anti-Semitism, he actively promoted and legitimated Jew-hatred among his many followers and admirers around the world.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•Anti-Semitism and the Left

Russian court orders oldest civil rights group Memorial to shut

Russia’s Supreme Court has ordered the closure of International Memorial, Russia’s oldest human rights group.

Memorial worked to recover the memory of the millions of innocent people executed, imprisoned or persecuted in the Soviet era.

Formally it has been “liquidated” for failing to mark a number of social media posts with its official status as a “foreign agent”.

That designation was given in 2016 for receiving funding from abroad.

But in court, the prosecutor labelled Memorial a “public threat”, accusing the group of being in the pay of the West to focus attention on Soviet crimes instead of highlighting a “glorious past”.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•Russia

Public Safety Minister calls on Twitter Canada to address ‘abusive’ tweet directed at CMA president

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is calling on Twitter Canada to address a tweet sent to Canadian Medical Association president Dr. Katharine Smart, saying the tweet “poses risks to the health and safety of health-care workers.”

His letter, addressed to Twitter Canada’s managing director Paul Burns, is about a tweet sent to Smart on Dec. 22 by an account under the handle “@AsktheBrownDoc1.”

“Are you scared you are next @KatharineSmart?” the tweet reads. “A group of us who can’t stand you have been seeing you and your family for weeks … and already have some great footage … just biding our time for the perfect time!”

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•Twitter, Twitter is Evil

Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny

Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.

The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a “challenge to do”.

“Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” the smart speaker said.

Amazon said it fixed the error as soon as the company became aware of it.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•WTF?

NASCAR Driver Brandon Brown of ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Fame Has Been Canceled Because…Just Because

There’s no rhyme or reason to it. But NASCAR driver Brandon Brown has been canceled and is in jeopardy of not finding sponsors for the upcoming NASCAR circuit.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture"

France shuts mosque in Beauvais for sermons ‘defending jihad’

A mosque in the northern French region of Oise has been closed because of an imam’s radical sermons, said to have “defended jihad”.

The mosque in the town of Beauvais will remain shut for six months, local authorities say.

Oise’s prefect said sermons there called jihadist fighters “heroes” and incited hatred and violence.

France has been carrying out checks on Islamic places of worship suspected of having links to extremism.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Elon Musk criticised after Starlink satellites nearly collide with ChiCom space station

Elon Musk is facing a social media backlash after China complained that its space station was forced to avoid collisions with satellites launched by his Starlink Internet Services project.

The country’s space station had two “close encounters” with Starlink satellites this year, Beijing claimed.

The incidents behind the complaints, lodged with the UN’s space agency, have not yet been independently verified.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", WTF?

Some Men Are Getting Vasectomies To Protest The Texas Abortion Law

A Texas doctor said his practice has seen a nearly 15% increase in vasectomies as men try to push back against the state’s abortion law, The Washington Post (WaP0) reported Sunday.

Koushik Shaw, a doctor who practices at the Austin Urology Institute, told WaPo his practice saw a roughly 15% increase in scheduled vasectomies following the state’s Sept. 1 abortion ban.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•WTF?

NASA hired religious experts to predict how humans may react to aliens, theologian says

Two dozen theologians were hired by NASA to research how humans may react to news that intelligent life exists on other planets, according to one religious scholar who says he was recruited by the agency.

The Rev. Dr. Andrew Davison, of the University of Cambridge, told the Times UK in a recent interview that he was among 23 other theologians in a NASA-sponsored program at the Center for Theological Inquiry at Princeton University from 2016 to 2017.

Davison said he and his colleagues examined how each of the world’s major religions would likely respond if they were made aware of the existence of aliens. His own work focused on the connection between astrobiology and Christian theology.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2021December 28, 2021•0•"UFO's"