PANIC! PANIC! PANIC!

First confirmed U.S. case of Omicron variant detected in California

Less than a week after it was first detected in South Africa, U.S. health officials said Wednesday that the country’s first case of the new Omicron coronavirus variant has been confirmed in California.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, announced the news at a White House press briefing.

“The California and San Francisco departments of public health and the CDC have confirmed that a recent case of COVID-19 among an individual in California was caused by Omicron variant,” Fauci said.

The individual was a fully-vaccinated traveler who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22 and tested positive on Nov. 29, Fauci said. The person, who has not been publicly identified, is self-quarantining and experiencing mild symptoms, which Fauci said “appear to be improving.” Contact tracing has been conducted, Fauci added, and all of their close contacts have tested negative so far.

“We knew that it was just a matter of time,” he said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that the state’s “large-scale testing and early detection systems” uncovered the case, adding: “We should assume that it’s in other states as well.”

He only hurts us because he is just so worried about us.

 

What led these women to where they believe this is an effective form of protest, that this is what will change people’s minds, that a bunch of unfuckables are taking medications they don’t need–and therefore obtained illegally–and almost certainly brought across state lines. Or they are just sugar pills, making the “protest” even more hollow and stupid.

Also, they should get that little redheaded boy inside, I think he has leukemia.

Jeffrey Epstein looms over the gleefully offensive horror movie The Scary Of Sixty-First

Two young women move into an impossibly available Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, only to discover that it was once utilized by (dum dum dum) the dead child-trafficking mogul Jeffrey Epstein. That’s the grotesquely button-pressing premise of The Scary Of Sixty-First, the bold but uneven debut feature from actor-podcaster-director Dasha Nekrasova. This is clearly a film with no interest in making friends—a proud provocation made in the sturdy spirit of ’70s exploitation movies. Nekrasova borrows from the best, courting comparisons to more highbrow pictures like Eyes Wide Shut and The Tenant. But she clearly started with an aim to get a rise out of people, and working backwards from there resulted in some slapdash storytelling.

The movie feels on brand for Nekrasova, who cohosts the “dirtbag leftist” Red Scare podcast, where the r-word flies freely and Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones shows up for giggles and photo ops. Though being winkingly offensive for the lolz is a phase many blessedly grow out of after high school, Nekrasova has turned it into a shtick. In theory, it could be a fantastic fit for horror.

You had me at “gleefully offensive” but lost me at “podcast.”

 

via wikipedia

“Panic” drew negative reaction from critics who construed Morrissey’s lyrics to have a racist connotation. Paolo Hewitt in the NME wrote, “If Morrissey wants to have a go at Radio 1 and Steve Wright, then fine [but] when he starts using words like disco and DJ, with all the attendant imagery that brings up for what is a predominantly white audience, he is being imprecise and offensive.” Fletcher says that the lack of any explicit indication the song was about radio meant “Panic” “could be construed as reviving the racist and homophobic ‘Disco Sucks’ campaign of late 1970s America.”
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Marr, in particular, was incensed by the article and in a 1987 NME interview threatened to “kick the living shit” out of the writer if he met him, such was his anger at the article’s slant. He also countered that “disco music” could not be simply equated with “black music”, saying, “To those who took offence at the ‘burn down the disco’ line […] I’d say please show me the black members of New Order!”