Tag: COVID

Three Martini Lunch

Biden Deportation Ban Shot Down, D.C. Statehood Push, Double Masks & Invasive Tests

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Hosted by Greg Corombos, Jim Geraghty

Join Jim and Greg as they welcome a federal judge striking down President Biden’s attempted 100-day moratorium on deportations. They also lay out the many reasons the Democrats’ push for D.C. statehood is a terrible idea. And they have plenty to say about the new push for people to wear two masks and China claiming anal swab COVID tests are more accurate.

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Promoted from the Ricochet Member Feed by Editors Created with Sketch. Chicago: Teachers Won’t Come Back

Giulietta
Giulietta
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Preschool teacher Kirstin Roberts teaches students outside Brentano Elementary Math & Science Academy since it isn’t “safe” inside.
As a former employee of CPS (Chicago Public Schools, for the uninitiated), I have been watching as the saga of the “reopening of schools” has been unfolding here. I still receive all the CPS emails, as well as those from the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). The competing narratives about going back to work have been fascinating and I thought I’d do a little write-up here. Feel free to chime in if you’ve been following and have thoughts about how this is going down…

CPS planned on a hybrid re-opening scheme this fall but the CTU protested that it wasn’t safe so CPS went remote. Throughout that time, CPS provided updates about the HEPA filters they installed in the schools, cleaning procedures, the polling from the community who wanted to return to in-person teaching, etc. All this led to January’s phased re-opening (note: the CTU did not endorse this plan)- on January 4, 5,800 teachers were meant to return to prep for the January 11 start date for pre-kindergarten age children and only 49.7% came back. Some taught remotely, some taught even outside the building in 27°F weather (see the photo above). And the CTU said that teachers who did not want to return had the Union’s full support. CPS and the city said they would face “progressive discipline”- i.e., risk being fired.

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HubWonk S1E40

Intrepid Restauranteurs Endure: Passion for Community, Patrons, and Staff Mean Failure is Not on the Menu

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Hosted by Joe Selvaggi

Host Joe Selvaggi talks with Massachusetts Restaurant Association President and CEO Bob Luz about the devastating effects of the pandemic and lockdowns on restaurants. They discuss the industry’s creative strategy for survival, plans for reaching beyond the crisis, and the many positive improvements for this vital sector that employs 10% of the workforce in the commonwealth.

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Jason Rudert
Jason Rudert
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For those of you who have gotten through it, was there anything that helped you cope, and what kind of alcohol was it? Looking through the medicine cabinet, I see I have a bunch of leftover codeine and codeine + Tylenol. And some benzodiazepines. Any of that any good? Tonic water? That, I have. This […]

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Three Martini Lunch

Declaring China’s Genocide, Biden’s Woke Economy, Curious Stimulus Timing

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Hosted by Greg Corombos, Jim Geraghty

As the Biden administration officially begins, join Jim and Greg as they cheer the U.S. for declaring a Chinese genocide against the Uighurs on President Trump’s final day in office. They also groan as Biden plans an economic policy around issues like race, gender equality and climate change rather than traditional metrics. And they’re surprised to see Democrats predict a COVID relief bill being delayed until March, although given what’s likely to be in it, we’re in no hurry to see much of it become law.

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. 19th Nervous Breakdown (This Week): An Isolation Photo Journal, Round 2

KirkianWanderer
KirkianWanderer
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Guess who ended up in English quarantine again? (For anyone that wasn’t around for the last time this happened, you can read/see the beginning of the saga right here).

Because I chose to visit my parents in Massachusetts for three weeks, I got to have a lovely, ten-day mandatory quarantine alone, in my dorm room/flat. In between all of the fun of completing graduate school applications and getting ready for the start of school on Monday (as well as painting, reading, contemplating escape, practicing harp, working on Hebrew, contemplating escape, workshopping recital routines, boxing practice, and contemplating escape), I took a few minutes each day to make a meme about my experiences in isolation for the PiT, through the medium of Keith Richards. So without further a-due, for your amusement ‘The 14 days of Quarantine: Keef Style, Part 2’:

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The Roth Effect with Carol Roth #78

Breaking Down Trump’s Business Legacy

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Hosted by Carol Roth

Gene Marks, President of the Marks Group PC and writer for outlets like The Guardian and The Hill, joins Carol Roth to discuss the state of small business coming out of 2020 into 2021. Gene and Carol break down Trump’s business legacy and what might be in store in the new administration. Plus, some great tax tips and breaks of which you may not be aware. 

Plus, a “Now You Know” on how to hack getting on the train at Penn Station.

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Three Martini Lunch

Another Vaccine Success, Capitol Police Casualty, Kamala’s Racial Politics

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Hosted by Greg Corombos, Jim Geraghty

Join Jim and Greg as they welcome the good news that the Pfizer vaccine successfully fights off the recently discovered coronavirus mutations. They also mourn the death of a U.S. Capitol Police officer and discuss the scrutiny the USCP will undergo after Wednesday’s riots and the chief’s resignation. Finally, they slam Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for immediately framing the police response as evidence of a race-based two-tiered justice system.

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Walk-Ins Welcome w/ Bridget Phetasy #110

Adrienne Iapalucci is Living the Life of A Cancelled Person Explicit

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Hosted by Bridget Phetasy

Adrienne Iapalucci is a stand-up comic, podcast host, and Bridget’s “spirit human.” She and Bridget discuss how their dysfunctional childhoods are probably what led them to stand-up in the first place and what keeps them grinding long after most normal people would quit. They talk addiction, the stand-up scene in NYC vs LA, their shared belief that things will always get worse, and why they both default to dark comedy the darker things get. Adrienne tells stories about working for a collections agency, Bridget shares how she learned the lesson you should never read someone else’s journal the hard way. They discuss how comedy has changed in today’s political climate and wonder if it’s better to achieve massive success with the wealth that comes with it only to watch it all slip away, or to live a moderately successful life being able to do what you love, but never “making it.” Stream or buy Adrienne’s latest album Baby Skeletons.

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kvh14
kvh14
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I have been trying to do some basic calculations regarding actual COVID infections and am surprised there are few websites attempting to track this number as a matter of routine. To be sure, you can find articles stating the actual infection rate is 3-10 times higher than the confirmed infection rate, but most sites focus […]

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Despair Is a Choice

Keith Lowery
Keith Lowery
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He knew all the arguments for despair, and would not listen to them. – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Eva Cassidy was 33 years old and at the height of her creative powers when she was struck down by melanoma in 1996. At the time of her death, she was largely unknown outside the Washington D.C. area. But after her death, someone in the U.K. happened to play Eva’s recording of Somewhere Over The Rainbow on the radio and the result was that her self-recorded “Songbird” album zoomed to the top of the U.K. music charts. Only after she was gone did the world start to recognize her artistic beauty.

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Politicians Aren’t Smart Enough to Run Your Life

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis
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Opening the 117th Congress today, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver ended the opening prayer with the traditional “Amen” and then, so as to be inclusive added the nonsensical word “Awomen” as if “Amen” is somehow a gendered term. While my etymology is rusty, “Amen” comes from Hebrew, and passed through Greek and Latin before English usage and it means “so be it” or “as it is.” It has nothing to do with male or female, and “awomen” is a made-up word meant to placate the unthinking woke among us.

It is one such example, and there are countless more, of how utterly foolish and incompetent politicians are. The year 2020, henceforth “The Year That Shall Not Be Named”, was rife with examples of why we need to stop believing politicians are in any way suited to tell us how to run our lives. Here are just a few, both from this infant year and The Year That Shall Not Be Named”:

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Three Martini Lunch

2020 Martini Awards Part 6: Person of the Year, Turncoat of the Year, Predictions

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Hosted by Greg Corombos, Jim Geraghty

Happy New Year! Jim and Greg conclude the Three Martini Lunch Award season by announcing their choices for person of the year and turncoat of the year. They also make very different predictions about 2021.

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. My Covid Adventure

Seawriter
Seawriter
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In early December, I got Covid – the Wuhan Flu, ChiCom Fever. This is the disease that has California and New York locked down. The one that has us cowering in fear. (That’s not a joke. I have several otherwise-sane friends, who are locking themselves in the house, venturing out only when they have to. Two are MENSA members.)

What was it like? Are you ready?

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. You Can’t Handle the Truth, or Numbers

Doug Watt
Doug Watt
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People are impressed by numbers, especially large numbers. Paraphrasing a quote attributed to Josef Stalin illustrates the large number quandary; One man’s death is a tragedy, millions of deaths are a merely a statistic.

Numbers can be manipulated for political purposes. When someone has driven to an empty school parking lot at 0230 hours and commits suicide by shooting themselves in the head there will be an advocacy group that will list that death as a school shooting. That death is a tragedy, but it should not be used to make the number of school shootings appear greater than they are.

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DJ EJ
DJ EJ
25 9
 

Even before sufficient data on who is the most vulnerable to the virus was known (certainly by this past summer), encouragement to engage in regular exercise, commit to better nutrition, and proactively work to strengthen one’s immune system (get daily sunshine when possible and use over the counter vitamin and mineral supplements) should have accompanied […]

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