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08-04-2021, 05:21 PM
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08-04-2021, 05:56 PM
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this was a lot of work for democrats to get segregation back...
the biggest downside of this will be less videos of fights in dennys and popeyes online.
it may be worth it! here's why:
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08-04-2021, 05:57 PM
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Transmission amongst humans in the western world, yes.
Does that mean that the flu is eradicated? Unfortunately, no. There are influenza reservoirs in animals too. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640312/.
Does that mean that the flu is eradicated? Unfortunately, no. There are influenza reservoirs in animals too. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640312/.
Walensky said right... while vaccinated, you can still get it, you can still spread it (same viral load as someone that is unvaxxed), so then what is the logistical/pragmatic reason to administer this experimental, unapproved, treatment to those who will statistically have little to no effect on them, e.g. similar outcome to a really bad cold/flu (again, statistically?). Wouldn't we want to balance the risk of hospitalization/death with the risk of injecting a new technology? <------- why not this? Instead, we're trying to make it so that kids <15 years old to get this thing injected - where ~5x more kids died of the flu 2017 than kids in 2020?
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08-04-2021, 06:00 PM
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The number for kids <12 is statistically ZERO. The number for kids 12-18 was also statistically ZERO (there were a LOT of 9's on the survival rate). Things didn't go lower than 99.9% until you got into your 40's I think. It's been a while since I reviewed the "then" easily viewable data.
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08-04-2021, 06:27 PM
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Right, if you broke it down to comorbidities, age, etc... the numbers get even more drastic. What was it last year? only 6% of deaths (~30k) were of people that were not old old or had any comorbidities?
The number for kids <12 is statistically ZERO. The number for kids 12-18 was also statistically ZERO (there were a LOT of 9's on the survival rate). Things didn't go lower than 99.9% until you got into your 40's I think. It's been a while since I reviewed the "then" easily viewable data.
The number for kids <12 is statistically ZERO. The number for kids 12-18 was also statistically ZERO (there were a LOT of 9's on the survival rate). Things didn't go lower than 99.9% until you got into your 40's I think. It's been a while since I reviewed the "then" easily viewable data.
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08-04-2021, 07:01 PM
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For the record, I don’t claim to be a good person
I find it hard to really care much about this COVID crap, except to the extent that it affects me and my family and friends.
Up here in the Northeast US, vaccine availability has been so widespread and easy, I think it’s safe to say that anyone who isn’t vaccinated has consciously decided that they don’t want it. Everyone in my family is vaccinated, mostly to minimize trouble in travel through the various American Peoples’ Republics out there.
If the unvaccinated are right, and the vaccine is just a macguffin, good for them. On Sunday, the head of NIH said that masks are necessary(although admittedly ineffective) to protect the unvaccinated.
I have a hard time accepting that it’s my job to protect people from something when they don’t want my, or anyone else’s, protection from it. That sounds suspiciously like something the military has come to regret.
If they’re wrong and not being vaccinated ends up killing them, well that was their choice and Mr Darwin would approve of them improving the gene pool.
Up here in the Northeast US, vaccine availability has been so widespread and easy, I think it’s safe to say that anyone who isn’t vaccinated has consciously decided that they don’t want it. Everyone in my family is vaccinated, mostly to minimize trouble in travel through the various American Peoples’ Republics out there.
If the unvaccinated are right, and the vaccine is just a macguffin, good for them. On Sunday, the head of NIH said that masks are necessary(although admittedly ineffective) to protect the unvaccinated.
I have a hard time accepting that it’s my job to protect people from something when they don’t want my, or anyone else’s, protection from it. That sounds suspiciously like something the military has come to regret.
If they’re wrong and not being vaccinated ends up killing them, well that was their choice and Mr Darwin would approve of them improving the gene pool.
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08-04-2021, 10:08 PM
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There's one thing that throws me off alot about covid. How the hell did they manage to get the average leftist to be soooooooooo worried about it? Most of the "problems" leftists claim to want to solve would be helped along by the deaths of the people the people that covid generally kills. Wealth hording, boomer policy, health costs, redistribution of wealth, housing shortage, etc would all be helped by old people dying earlier.
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08-05-2021, 12:08 AM
There's one thing that throws me off alot about covid. How the hell did they manage to get the average leftist to be soooooooooo worried about it? Most of the "problems" leftists claim to want to solve would be helped along by the deaths of the people the people that covid generally kills. Wealth hording, boomer policy, health costs, redistribution of wealth, housing shortage, etc would all be helped by old people dying earlier.
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08-05-2021, 07:50 AM
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There's one thing that throws me off alot about covid. How the hell did they manage to get the average leftist to be soooooooooo worried about it? Most of the "problems" leftists claim to want to solve would be helped along by the deaths of the people the people that covid generally kills. Wealth hording, boomer policy, health costs, redistribution of wealth, housing shortage, etc would all be helped by old people dying earlier.
My problem is I'm a little too young--just a little--to retire again, but I'm too old to go looking for another job if I have to get vaccinated to keep the job I have.
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08-05-2021, 08:04 AM
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If you want to pinpoint the exact moment that Covid became a political touchstone, that was it.
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08-05-2021, 08:13 AM
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This is making a nation-wide assumption. During the "pandemic", our entire business park worked without masks, save my neighbor's shop, as he was going through chemo. Then we need to factor in the non-efficacy of t-shirt masks, which is nothing short of comedy "masq"uerading as science. Even the CDC said so (again) this past weekend.
- To maximize protection from the Delta variant and prevent possibly spreading it to others, wear a mask indoors in public if you are in an area of substantial or high transmission.
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