Can I Uncover My Eyes yet?

Shit ain’t over YET. There are 73 days until President-elect Biden and VP-elect Harris are inaugurated.

Still, America’s biggest, most incompetent loser has been shit-canned. He’ll return to the biz sector for more of his specialty – failure with a side of bankruptcy (AKA GRANDE insuccesso)

The Tangerine Treasonweasel will go down in history as THE WORST, most unpopular (at least with the non-insane set) prez ever. He’s lost the popular vote TWICE, been impeached and is the first one-term president since George the First, 28 years ago.

The only thing keeping him afloat these past four years has been the complicit and culpable Fascist Party (previously known as the Republican or Republi/Fascist Party).

Unsurprisingly, Orange Idiot Satan refuses to concede but…

The legitimacy of Biden’s win is undeniable, given that it follows the most heavily and transparently monitored election in modern history.  Trump’s charges of voter fraud carry a burden of proof that ordinarily he can get around. His everyday lies are not cross-examined. They just persist, with some of us knowing that they’re lies, and the rest of the country either pretending otherwise or actually believing them. This time, however, he needs to furnish actual proof in order to continue being president, and he can’t. (source)

Hilariously, 45’s lawyer’s big presser in Philly was NOT at the lux Four Seasons Hotel but at a landscaping company north east of the city, conveniently located next door to a porn shop and across the street from a crematorium. Whatever blustering bullshit the Renfield in Chief, Ghouliani, and his crew spewed was utterly obliterated by this not-ready-for-prime-time, pricelessly stupid cock-up.

Ya know, all I really wanna know is this – when do we get the taco trucks on every corner?

It’s still not safe for me, for a lot of us in the immunocompromised set, to be anywhere near possible COVID carrying strangers. I would have LOVED to be dancing in the streets yesterday with other masked revelers but, sadly, no can do. 

Here in the U.S., we had 126,156 fresh cases of Trump’s Disease and 1,013 deaths yesterday alone. Massachusetts was home to 2,302 of those new cases. (stats, as uszh, from the NY Times COVID map page)

Biden’s already putting together a task force WITH actual bona fide  scientists! Three co-chairs will lead. They include

• Vivek Murthy, MD, MPH, former U.S. Surgeon General under Obama
• David Kessler, M.D., J.D., former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner from 1990 to 1997
• Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Yale University
  

Other members of the task force include:

• Celine Gounder, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York University
• Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD, Obama White House aide and current Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania
• Julie Morita, MD, Executive Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and former Chicago commissioner of health (source)
  

Nothing’s set in stone yet but an announcement, confirming these participants and such, may come as soon as tomorrow.

A safe, effective, real vaccine is still, at this point, on track for early next year. Who’ll get it first? Most likely healthcare workers, care-home residents (duh) and olds.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that even an effective Covid-19 vaccine won't replace the need for other public health measures, such as wearing a mask, social distancing and washing hands. (source)

*sigh*