Salt Box news 09/08/20

This should be it for a while

Sometimes I hate that there’s a salt box for everything. Michael K Williams as Omar, brilliantly done by @mightypigeon_art #saltboxart #baltimoresaltbox pic.twitter.com/PjW2VZgVp6
— Juliet Ames (@thebrokenplate) September 7, 2021

The video isn’t updated (you know bc there’s real news to report) but salt box as ring box was on the news! https://t.co/xd8lXfWwmQ
— Juliet Ames (@thebrokenplate) September 4, 2021

Woke to an email letting me know that someone proposed with a salt box and she said YES! Melting my cold icy heart. #saltboxlove #baltimoresaltbox #saltboxart pic.twitter.com/zqZYjzfvw4
— Juliet Ames (@thebrokenplate) September 3, 2021

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New Salt Box Alert 🚨 A rare summer salt box to celebrate Salt Box Summer at @CharmCityMead Find this box and you may find a little gift inside. #saltboxart #baltimore #saltboxsummer pic.twitter.com/4iRWJtH19P
— Juliet Ames (@thebrokenplate) June 12, 2021

Now at Towson Wine, The Wine Source and Frazier’s! pic.twitter.com/uaAw6aXmzX
— Juliet Ames (@thebrokenplate) June 4, 2021

Extremely exciting news in Salt Box land! 🚨 Some of you may know that a goal of mine is to have a beer label inspired by my art. Well, dreams coming true over here! I’m excited to announce that @charmcitymead is releasing Salt Box Summer a refreshing mead cider mix! pic.twitter.com/Za7GiXLqkz
— Juliet Ames (@thebrokenplate) June 3, 2021

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More on Florida’s terrible Covid policies

83% of Florida Republicans still approve of DeSantis. I guess they’re ok with all of the deaths and hospitalizations. They’re willing to die to prevent Biden from looking good by ending the pandemic,

Florida (right) now accounting for about 21 percent of all reported U.S. (left) covid deaths: pic.twitter.com/iVPKOhCE61
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 6, 2021

Florida has 6% of country’s population and 25% of country’s daily COVID-19 deaths. @RemoveRon
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) September 6, 2021

In Florida, new COVID-19 cases have dipped among adults but not for people under 20 https://t.co/LU2hrsMYNF
— Larry Cooper (@coopah) September 4, 2021

“FIFTEEN staff members in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools District have died from COVID-19 in the past TEN days.”

[emphasis mine because I am yelling]https://t.co/FeCyBJUHAI
— Leta McCollough Seletzky, JD (@LaSeletzky) September 4, 2021

A woman died of Covid, and as her family was planning the funeral, her mother was also struck down. An aunt took over arrangements for the double funeral, only to die of Covid herself 2 weeks afterward.

244 die in Florida over Covid every day on average. https://t.co/STiBipkpwM
— Mahir Zeynalov (@MahirZeynalov) September 4, 2021

A Floridian is dying every 4 minutes from COVID-19
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) September 4, 2021

What has gone so terribly wrong in Florida? pic.twitter.com/2J2itvWXUA
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) September 4, 2021

This week saw even some “conservative [Florida] counties that backed … Trump … defying DeSantis and instituting their own [school mask] mandates.” 1/ #FlaPol #DeathSantis ⁦@RonDeSantisFL⁩ 1/ https://t.co/HF1sPYkxTo
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) September 4, 2021

COVID continues to rage in Florida and @GovRonDeSantis is on the casehttps://t.co/fsmFdjE9zu pic.twitter.com/maUiHEq4g4
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 4, 2021

https://t.co/whZ3bE9RqH
— Nikki Fried (@NikkiFried) September 3, 2021

Florida withholds funds from two school districts requiring masks — despite court decision against state ban on mandates https://t.co/2sxcLb2zGK
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 31, 2021

⚠️BREAKING—Pediatric #COVID19 hospitalizations surging in Florida, now ~4x previous levels. New analysis from our team of HHS hospitalization data shows that as pediatric hospitalizations surge, adult hospitalizations are slowing, but remain at record high. Figure by @wkdragon88 pic.twitter.com/tg8xBVbh6U
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) September 2, 2021

Florida changed its COVID-19 death data just as surge began | Miami Herald https://t.co/BktOrHLhD6
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 31, 2021

An average of 11 people in FL have died of covid every single hour for the past two weeks. https://t.co/nwI6oJtWJ2
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 30, 2021

“@GovRonDeSantis is willing to subject his constituents to this life and death gauntlet… He’s willing to watch the deaths mount and morgues fill past capacity for his own personal and political gain.” — LP co-founder @ReedGalen https://t.co/D9nw8vDYg0
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 29, 2021

Horror in Florida:

14 portable refrigerated morgues are headed to Central Florida to help beleaguered hospitals store bodies.

"The number of deaths right now is unprecedented."

COVID is unquestionably the "precipitating event."https://t.co/rqGOzf9eOe
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 29, 2021

A radiation oncologist in Florida says his hospital is so overwhelmed with COVID patients that he was forced to turn away a cancer patient who needed to be transferred there — something he has never had to do in 60 years of treating patients.
https://t.co/oJca71OjVK
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) August 28, 2021

The uneducated and unvaccinated led by the unethical and the uncaring…and it leads to a lonely, miserable death.

COVID unit at Tallahassee hospital: The curtain between life, death https://t.co/6cidIo5qCR
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 28, 2021

The unexpected and unwelcome coronavirus surge now unfolding in the United States has hit hardest in states that were slow to embrace vaccines.

So what's going on in Florida? https://t.co/rUDYzFphgg
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 28, 2021

Covers: Diving Duck Blues

Sleepy John Estes recorded “Diving Duck Blues” in 1929.

Covers: Everybody Oughta Make a Change

“Everybody Oughta Make a Change”; this is my third post today of songs by the great Sleepy John Estes. His version was released in 1939.

Fake vaccine cards

Why pay for a fake vaccine card when you can get the vaccine for free? The Trump cult would rather die than let Biden look good by ending the pandemic.

An Instagram user who went by “AntiVaxMomma” sold hundreds of fake covid vaccine cards, prosecutors say https://t.co/EtFSnapZyM
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 1, 2021

24-year-old Chloe Mrozak from Illinois was arrested after allegedly using this fake #COVID19 vaccine card to enter Hawaii and avoid travel restrictions — it says “Maderna” instead of “Moderna” @KITV4 pic.twitter.com/1EWp3eG3OR
— Tom George (@TheTomGeorge) September 1, 2021

Miami Beach couple arrested in Hawaii after allegedly using fake vaccination cards for themselves and their two children #BecauseMiami: https://t.co/obyJ3JZMO4 pic.twitter.com/TCnXsS21vh
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) August 19, 2021

It’s insane how the people buying fake vaccination cards are literally the same people who complain about undocumented immigrants using fake documents.
— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) August 9, 2021

Here's why officials are urging the public against making, selling or encouraging fake Covid-19 vaccination printouts
• Legal consequences could be steep
• Fakers could lose their job or be thrown off campus
• It could endanger themselves and others https://t.co/KeK5LAtDd9
— CNN (@CNN) May 8, 2021

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So, there's no real way to verify a vaccine card.

Pro-Trump, QAnon, and anti-vaxx forums figured this out, then came up with a guide on how to make hi-res fakes.

Some even remind people keep the handwriting messy, emulating a tired nurse.https://t.co/G9y2IBJwQU pic.twitter.com/pISuSDH0JR
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 29, 2021

A research firm has continued to monitor the dark web for fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine cards and recently noticed an increase in the number of vendors. https://t.co/MlERoE0EuG
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) September 10, 2021

Republican Supreme Court’s terrible eviction ruling

They only support presidential power when a Republican is president.

In its callous opinion, the conservative majority ignored the millions of Americans who now face eviction. https://t.co/b7XFv99wWc
— Slate (@Slate) August 27, 2021

When you tell someone facing eviction that they should “just get a job,” remember that a full time, minimum wage worker can afford rent in ZERO states in America.

ZERO.

We can’t let 11 million households be evicted in the midst of a pandemic. Congress must act. Now.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) August 27, 2021

The 6 Republican SCOTUS appointees (including 3 from Trump-McConnell) just threw out Biden's eviction moratorium, clearing the way for landlords to push tenants onto the street.

Shameful. Urge Breyer to retire. Criticize SCOTUS's loss of credibility. Expand the size of SCOTUS.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 27, 2021

The Supreme Court has blocked President Biden's new eviction moratorium https://t.co/ys65cenCeq
— CNN (@CNN) August 27, 2021

The Supreme Court's conservative majority has so thoroughly ripped up the old rules that now it essentially treats shadow docket cases like normal cases … except there were no oral arguments, no full briefing, just fly-by-night filings and a short, unsigned 10 p.m. order.
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) August 27, 2021

The move now I think is for states and cities to follow Philly’s lead and require landlords to file for rental relief before they can file an eviction https://t.co/RtexRXibpO
— Jordan Weissmann 🗽 (@JHWeissmann) August 27, 2021

The right wing ivermectin nonsense

They’ll take this but won’t take a vaccine. Medicine is totally politicized thanks to the Trump cult.

"The story of how ivermectin slowly worked its way to the top of the priority list for many on the right is a familiar one in this day and age,” @AaronBlake writes. https://t.co/bK9vJpXNdE
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 24, 2021

Lafayette Louisiana ICU Dr. Frank Courmier says some Covid patients families have asked him to treat their loved one with ivermectin. Some have yelled at him, insisting it be done. He won’t do it, because, as he tells them, it’s not an effective COVID19 treatment. Hear him out: pic.twitter.com/ppZgawr10I
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) August 24, 2021

No, you should not ingest ivermectin, a drug to treat parasites in cows and horses. No, it does not prevent or treat COVID-19. This is what health officials are telling people after a spike in poison control calls in Mississippi.https://t.co/1KLhH8cyFY
— NPR (@NPR) August 24, 2021

Ivermectin, a deworming drug, should not be used to treat COVID, health officials say.

“This medication is often used to treat parasitic infections in livestock,” including horses, medical toxicology fellowship director at Northwell Health told @ABC News. https://t.co/B5Xwqh6FBd pic.twitter.com/vEESfUgJBq
— ABC News (@ABC) August 24, 2021

Cartoon for @newcounterpoint #Ivermectin #TrumpRally #horsegirl #yourenotahorse #yourenotacow pic.twitter.com/sFIZICxc06
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) August 24, 2021

The FDA is urging people to stop taking veterinary drugs to treat or prevent Covid-19 after receiving multiple reports of patients who have been hospitalized after "self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses," the FDA says. https://t.co/pQPEJZ7vaz
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 24, 2021

Y'all.

There is no "Big Pharma" conspiracy against ivermectin. Ivermectin is sponsored by Merck. They are "Big Pharma."

They tried to make a COVID vaccine but gave up. Their stock is down. They would love to sell ivermectin as a COVID treatment.

Even they say it doesn't work. pic.twitter.com/mQYZLT8M45
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) August 24, 2021

He was just trying to study COVID treatments. Ivermectin zealots sent hate mail calling him a Nazi. https://t.co/BjrtYfCaFB
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 24, 2021

No wonder Aaron Rodgers couldn't make it through a single game pic.twitter.com/x2LKBMdo2x
— I Smoked Diddy (@BlackKnight10k) February 12, 2024

Who is vaccinated?

The Trump cult is a health hazard for all of us. They are also preventing the country from returning to normal…then they’ll blame Biden. Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick lied about Black people but I am sure he won’t apologize.

Black Americans Lead Whites in Getting Vaccinated By Double Digits in New Poll https://t.co/3iPkcUiJGe
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) August 24, 2021

NBC News Poll – Percent vaccinated by demographic:

Whites 66
Blacks 76

Democrats 88
Independents 60
Republicans 55
Republicans who support Trump over party 46 percent

I'm not saying politics are the only force to people not getting vaccinated, but it's absolutely a big factor.
— The Darkest Timeline Numbersmuncher (@NumbersMuncher) August 24, 2021

Who's been vaccinated? And who hasn't?

Our latest NBC News poll finds a revealing demographic breakdown: https://t.co/bEYUcpFp6U pic.twitter.com/R01V9gtyL3
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) August 24, 2021

Yup. In @KFF polling, 60% of unvaccinated Republicans said taking the vaccine was a bigger risk to their health than catching the disease. Unlikely that persuasion or carrots will move many w/that view: to really raise the vaccine numbers, evidence says Biden/states need mandates https://t.co/zKPwmbpHOU
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 23, 2021

Covers: Come and Get It (Badfinger song)

“Come and Get It” was written by Paul McCartney and recorded by Badfinger for the film The Magic Christian (1969). I haven’t seen the film but the Terry Southern novel it’s based on is very funny.